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 Quite often it is outside of one's own immediate perspective which lays the fullest parameters and definitions of freedom and oppression. Obtaining a vantage point uncolored by personal experience and the emotions one has accepted as valid challenges the process of accepting and guiding the growth and evolution of humanity toward a truly universally beneficial result. This is what the U.S. is currently working through as some strive toward greater goals of freedom and some seek to manipulate others in their attempt to secure themselves the only way they know how, through oppression.
Among the U.S. population many differing political views are held. But when the perspectives include the polar opposites of freedom and oppression entering the middle ground, by either side, will be giving way to the other extreme. Getting one side to enter that middle ground can initiate its demise. Recognizing those who seek to oppress can be challenging if one is unsure what oppression actually looks like. Grasping the true form of freedom can be equally confounding. For some these subjects require intense study.
The Sinker mentality is of a mind that is dedicated to the oppression and domination of everything, everyone, and of everywhere. This is attempted to secure the actors in their sense of self and to eliminate a call to responsibility, and is sought as a denial of reality. Overtly the Sinker mentality can be seen in the now fallen USSR. Other examples are North Korea, Communist China, Cuba, and a panoply of suppressive governments throughout history. The Sinker mentality lacks even the slightest right to power instead gropes for its greatest desire in control. The goal of the Sinker mentality is all consuming, and battering its competition with the call for fairness and compromise is merely a ploy. (It is important to note that the counterpart to the Sinker mentality is the Thinker mentality. The Thinker pursues true freedom and is the polar opposite of the Sinker.)
Looking at American politics and the struggle to remain free from intrusion upon the pursuit of life, liberty, and property we find those seeking control of the population and those wanting to remain free. The tools used to obtain this subversion have been many. The most often used are the seemingly benign calls for fairness and compromise. Compromise in Washington D.C. has long meant that the Thinkers must give up on their principles. That is because the inappropriately labelled, "liberal-minded," dogmatically look unfavorably upon compromise. By and large, any announced compromise from the left has been a throw-away issue or something that was easily regained at a later date. The Democrat party, and the far left, in the U.S. is fully dominated by the Sinker mentality. The destructive nature of the far left has never volunteered to true compromise and in recent years (since the late 1980s), we have seen the Democrat party increasingly turn toward the far left. Proof of their Sinker mindset and intransigence is the quickness to which they revert to physical violence and other coercion. When someone is intent on undermining freedom you can hardly afford to compromise with them. We must educate their supporters to change their allegiance from, "something-for-nothing," (which does not work), to, "something-for-something," (i.e. self-awareness, self-dependence, and self-realization).
Viewing American history over the last 100 years we can see the slow creep of a despotism which has come to full-flower in the ObamaCare attempt to corral the population into a repressive structure where life and liberty will be decided upon by a bureaucratic board. But ObamaCare is only the resurfacing of HillaryCare. Remember that? HillaryCare strove to tell people who their doctor was going to be; how the doctors would practice medicine and even where they would practice. What this group seeks is control, pure and simple. How do we discuss ideas with those possessed of an irrational mindset? Destroying the freedoms of America is nothing short of irrational and should not be compromised with. This is the middle ground that will embolden the destructive to their ultimate goal. The reader may wonder what that goal is and could it actually be as destructive as some think. To understand this mindset is to uncover the depths of depravity that is accessible in human nature.
There will not be compromise by the practitioners seeking the destruction of American liberty. Many of those thoughtful, caring, and helpful among us do not want to believe we are in a world war with the purveyors of oppression. But we are. We are not talking about the difference between painting a bridge yellow or painting it green. We are talking about the difference between allowing the bully tactics of "card check" and the supporting of the American tradition of a secret ballot. In the middle of this difference is a population that wants to be left along to pursue their own happenstance (read "happiness"), which is confronted by a mindset determined to punish success, create hopelessness, and placate emotional distress in order to subjugate the helpless. I know these may be viewed as "wild" accusations but the testimony of anti-Amercianism abounds.
The cultivation of disdain for freedom knows not nationality or generational persuasion. The gnawing desire to control others is found deep inside the insecurities of those individuals unwilling or incapable of accepting that people, circumstances, and choices vary widely in life. These are the people who judge others needlessly for decisions that have no impact upon them, other than they are made to "feel" uncomfortable and are unable to dispatch the notion of those inconsequential behaviors. This is the root of the motivation that influences those who seek control over others (and rarely at a cost to themselves). Some may say that their actions are instead a search for wealth or spiritual purity. I contend that money and piety are obsolete to the iron-fisted ruler who acquires control. And the iron fist, as it has been throughout history, is what is pursued here, at this time, and against every core principle of America.
As a point of discussion we ought to make a distinction between "power" and "control." The righteousness denoted in the word, "power," ought not be given to a destructive and malignant mindset that has insidiously wheedled its way into the schools, media, sciences, and governing bodies of the greatest nation ever to be founded upon this planet with its goal of subjugation and its wreaking of hopelessness. No, this mindset is intent on its highest possible station of controlling the population for its obsession of rendering humankind confined, impotent, and unfulfilled. (Control is what is sought when righteous power is impossible to obtain.) They will find themselves failures though the needless suffering in the interim must be made as brief as possible. To this end thoughtful Americans, and indeed thoughtful people around the world, are joining their voices to end this tyrannical venture.
What may we call this behavior and how do we identify it?
I have coined a dichotomy to express this polarity found in human nature, it is, "Thinkers and Sinkers." The ancients that first discussed the prospects of humanity governing itself, who postulated Divinity, and who gave rise to philosophical reasonings of the human condition are our exuberant benefactors and oft sighted, "Thinkers." Those who struggle in the River of Life and who flail and panic, clutching for support from the nearest object (read persons), for rescue, both materially and emotionally, are the shame-ridden, "Sinkers." To this day every person is capable of becoming more completely either of these forms. When the Sinker successfully shouts down the Thinker, as they gain support from the thoughtless, and as they implement their scheme to alleviate their self-perceived shortcomings we find society in the grips of unbridled destruction. In the past, the Thinker adversaries were less of a threat to the oppressive. Hence the Sinker reaction, while still brutal, was less frenzied or fatalistic than we see today. With the emergence of the United States of America and the notion of individual sovereignty a whole new level of threat to the Sinker mindset became manifest. This was the lighting of a slow burning fuse that has set the stage for a global, and imminent, explosion. So now we have a name for those exhibiting the behavior..."Sinkers." Now one might ask, "How can even the least-engaged identify these Sinkers?"
The primary action at the crux of the Sinker mindset is judgment. Judgment is an action that is easy to evidence. From the trifling subterfuge of gossip and specious assertions, to the endless spewing of venomous hatred, there are a multitude of opportunities for self aggrandizement so vital to this course of action. This is an enticing yet corrosive behavior. Enticing because it feeds a base instinct to secure one's own superiority by demeaning another. Corrosive because it is dehumanizing of the actor, stripping away their humility. The identifying markings of the judgmental are some times hard for them to hide, though the more adapt have fooled the public for decades. Part of this obfuscation is made complete by the less-active investigation of these personalities. But because we are all human we all possess the potential to be judgmental. To be the best we can, we must recognize that in ourselves we each are susceptible to proffer thoughtless and base behavior. Beyond injuring ourselves we model inspiration to others, inducing like behavior. This can possibly seal our downward fate.
But because we are descendants of those original Thinkers we have them in our DNA. Regardless of where any of us have come from the soul of humankind is connected to the Divinity capable of uplifting our spirit and providing for the triumph over the arrogant, angry, and cruel Sinker mentality. For us to fully surmount this challenge we must educate and cultivate ourselves. To overcome the Sinker mindset we need to instill, in our hearts, the acceptance and/or neutrality toward non-threatening traditions and perspectives of our fellow human. If we do this we will inspire those who are less inclined toward thoughtless behavior and with a small conversion of borderline Sinkers to borderline Thinkers we can marginalize this insipid and destructive nature. To advance this education I have dissected this thesis of, "Thinkers and Sinkers," in a newly published book that makes the argument of where it comes from, what it seeks, and how to defuse it.
I hope this article will peak interest in the reader to explore this offering more fully. All the information and social networking is available at: ThinkersAndSinkers.com. The ISBN for the book is 9780615450407. An inexpensive pdf download is also available.
I most wholeheartedly appreciate your indulgence and look forward to your thoughts.
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Knowing the difference between; Rights, Necessities, Privileges, and Desires, and from whence they come is to know liberation from manipulation.
"Really??? What does that mean?"
It means if we understand what moves us to action, what supports productive actions, and how we can be undermined, we will dispatch those seeking our spiritual death.
"What does that mean???"
It means there are people who will lie to you to get you to support them both by giving them help and by doing what they want you to do. This is the lesson in, "Thinkers and Sinkers." The people who will lie to you are those influenced by the Sinkers mentality. Their goal is to limit your ability to be happy. They will do this by getting you to believe you deserve more than you do, that there are others who want to take from you (most often productive and happy people), and you've been wronged and are actually morally pure and unquestionably perfect (largely because you support them).
The Total Sinker does not want you to know the difference between Rights, Priviledges, Necessities, and Desires. Critical attention is needed to see the Sinker when they respond to these definitions:
 This concept is what sets the USA apart from other countries in its founding. Because humans have the ability to reason we can understand the concept of "something greater than the self." This leads to understanding Divinity and Natural Law. If these two concepts are discarded it becomes impossible for life to have meaning. Those who discard these ideals do so to deny reality and to shirk responsibilities. Getting others to do the same is a way to undermine a person's sense of fulfillment. This lead to spiritual death.
Rights are accorded humans because of our ability to comprehend greater things. And because we have this capability, generally speaking, there is no authority on earth than can tell a person they must not speak, or peacefully gather, or worship something greater than the self as they please. There are other rights that are obvious to thoughtful people. Among these is the right to property. No one has the authority to take a peaceable person's possessions away from them. The silly will chide that a person should then have the right to an atomic bomb. A reasonable person recognizes that as the silliness which it is. There are borderline items that deserve more serious debate such as assault weapons. We will leave that for another time. But the right to, "bear arms," is recognized as essential not only to protect property but also to keep a potential threat in line. That threat is government.
People do not need government to form a civil society. People can do that on their own. It is because some people do not comport themselves in a civil manner that government becomes useful. But since government does not create rights they do not have the authority to remove them.
Rights are those things that naturally accrue to people simply because they are people and ostensibly capable of higher thought.
Here is a rule of thumb so you can recognize what is a right. Rights do not cost money or effort to have or to recognize. It may cost money and/or effort to participate in activities that are protected as rights but not to have the right to participate. In this these things are different from Necessities.
 These "things" are what is needed to remain alive in a reasonable and natural way. Because we have physical form most of us feel the need to nourish our bodies. Food, for all intents and purposes is a necessity. We necessarily have to eat to remain alive. Air, not speaking to any particular quality of air, but air is also a necessity to life. Not clothing, per say, but in many climes shelter of some sort is a necessity. Clothing is useful for protection from the elements, including fretful neighbors, but there are places on the planet where being naked, and without external shelter, would not cause a person to loose their life. To many companionship is felt to be a necessity. That is an individual circumstance.
All of these necessities require money and/or effort to acquire and to maintain. But speaking to the quality of food, air, shelter, and companionship none of these things are bestowed upon humankind as a right. We may need these things to survive though we may be able to do so within a wide range of quality pertaining to these items. Having access to the higher quality of these items is not a right. Clean air is a subjective determination. Acceptable shelter is a subjective determination. And so it is with food and companionship.
These are things we need to survive but not something someone is required to provide for us. We do not have a right to these things but in a free society we have the privilege of pursuing to the level of our subjective determination.
 Here we find those things that we have access to as an offshoot of the society we live in. As a society develops so too do the privileges that become available. Access to these privileges can also be curtailed or enlarged due to one's behavior and abilities. By definition a privilege is given to an identifiable group. Everyone loves this one; driving a motor vehicle is not a Right, it is a Privilege. With the proper behavior one will retain their driving privilege. Due to improper behavior, or a lose of ability, people can lose their driving privileges. Not being allowed to operate a motor vehicle will not cause someone to lose their life.
Other Privileges persist, formally and informally. Having the trust of another person is not a Right regardless of one's trustworthiness. Being Honored is a Privilege bestowed upon another for countless reasons. Given any allowance by another person or entity when Natural Law does not indicate such allowance reveals a Privilege.
 Here we find all those things people "want." What drives a person to want something is mostly unimportant. The greatest exception to this is when someone wants something with little or no true contemplation as to why they have the want. As long as a person's want does not impinge on the Rights, Necessities, and Privileges of another - a person's wants are for them to have and for them to fulfill. Here again I feel it is important to reassert, without understand of why one wants the possibility of unproductive and even injurious behavior is possible. (Please excuse this digression.)
How a person can ascribe the fulfillment of their Desire as a responsibility of another is unquestionably silly. No one has the Right, Necessity, or Privilege to determine for another person what they must Desire. How and what a person desires is a representation of their heart and mind. What a person desires is personal and without doubt subject to no laws. Having a Desire is a Right, thought that does not make the Desire a Right. More often than not fulfilling a Desire is accomplished through the expending of money and effort. Other than the act of obtaining a goal a Desire may or may not be a Necessity. Depending upon the society a person lives in their Desire may not be attainable and indeed my not be a Privilege available to the person. And again, what a person desires may not be uplifting and productive in the greater scheme of life.
Here is an application of this argument on a currently contentious public matter.
 With the challenges of emotional pitfalls we can now apply the above information to the subject of health care. How can health care possibly be a Right if it cost money to receive health care? How can health care be a Necessity to life when so many live without it? Could it be that health care is more likely a Privilege found in a developed society? Who could possibly not understand the Desire to have good health care? In a free society, how can health care be the responsibility of someone other than the person receiving the care?
Why forced health care?
Some may ask, "Why am I being forced to pay for health care?" This is a good, albeit, a double-edged question. Who has the Right to impose a Desire upon another? (A: No one.) Since health care is a Desire there is no authority, in a free society, that can dictate a person pay, or in other words buy, health care. And why should a person accept being forced into paying for health care when a coercive structure is being put in place that is forcing others to buy the health care for them?
In essence, a mindset has been fostered to accept the idea that personal responsibility is unimportant. This mindset had been promulgated on a variety of subjects, all leading to a goal of solidifying a social structure inline with the mindset. Other than forcing health choices this mindset also advocates euthanasia and suicide. Only a person thinking from within a herd mentality would accept these premises. To learn more about this structure and how to displace this corruptive influence you have to study, "Thinkers and Sinkers."
Good luck with your decision.
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 People with this condition underestimate danger, precarious situations, and imminent emergencies. They can see the danger coming but in their state they will look for comfort in something familiar to create a feeling of normalcy. The danger does not go away. There is actually a better chance the full ramifications associated with the danger will come to be. When people are confronted with concepts that do not match their belief system they can get an uneasy feeling. That's what this condition is identifying. To deal with this uneasiness the person will attach themselves to anything that will relieve this feeling regardless of right and wrong. Denying, and blaming are often used to justify their beliefs which are false.  This condition is found in people who are uninformed or ill-informed and because they do not know this they make bad decisions. Because they do not even know of their poor decisions they think they are smarter than others. Only when they accept their mistakes and learn the truth can they see the errors of their ways. (Read about this in "Thinkers and Sinkers" 33:09)These are each fairly normal occurrences. But now what?People who are effected by these conditions are less-likely to know they are effected.If someone, or an ideology, is tempting to influence you to commit to counterproductive behavior and you are effected by any, or all, of these mental conditions you could easily be lead to an unfortunate life choice from which there may be permanent repercussions (i.e. an unhappy ending). What do you do now? Let me know how quickly you disregard this. Or ask me for more info. |
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The Two Voices |
Consider this offering and before coming to any conclusions explore the complete thesis that is "Thinkers and Sinkers." There are no religious requirements regardless of words used to describe the indescribable concept of our origin. Resisting new ideas can only create friction. Indulge the notions offered in this book to understand greater paradigms that overarch our lives without our knowledge. Through this book you may well come to witness the illusive. The affairs of the world are tangled and to smooth them out like never before we ought to change the debate from one of an “us versus them” to an “us versus ‘it’.”Just like there is the thoughtful voice of the Divine guiding humanity there is a thoughtless and confused voice that speaks to us. This thoughtless influence has gained control over a lot of people and this is the “it†that humanity should be focusing on to right the conditions on earth.We will begin by calling the confused voice the, “Sinker mentality” and the Divine voice the, “Thinker mentality.” This back-and-forth between the two is ancient. We can see it in almost every situation. The woes of this world are created by the Sinker trying to control others. The goal of the Sinker is to return humanity to a state of lacking awareness of self, the Source of our creation, and of personal fulfillment. The main Sinker reasons for doing this are to deny reality and deny responsibility.
The destruction wrought by the Sinker mentality are global and interpersonal.Here is a short, and by no means complete, list of results;the welfare state in America (and elsewhere),the state of education in America (and elsewhere),abortion and all its many off-shoots,human trafficing,drug abuse,domestic violence,affirmative action,reverse discrimination,quotas,racism,reverse racism,income tax,deficit spending,class warfare,management/labor relations,famine,and the list goes on.The confusion that reins in the mind of humankind is understandable yet it is also solvable using Thinker traits. Among these traits are; calm, introspection, reason, thoughtfulness, civility, and many others. Before these solutions can be wide spread we must discuss the Sinker mentality and study its manifestation.The goal of humanity is happiness, expression, and accomplishment. This is why we were created. Overcoming the confusion of the Sinker mentality is the task at hand.
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Since this ideal of personal sovereignty has not taken complete and unassailable hold over the hearts and minds of humankind a structure containing both newer and older belief systems remains. This present paradigm pits the opposing methods in a struggle for dominance. The designation for this paradigm carries many descriptions; liberty and tyranny, optimism and pessimism, and Thinkers and Sinkers. The Thinker donates to the needy, abides by the parameters of nature, and allows others to have their prerogative. The Thinker believes that when pursued with honesty and an open-hearted life plan, prosperity, to an appreciable degree, will follow. The Thinker is willing to adjust to what is outside of their control while influencing what they can for the betterment of themselves and those near to them. The Sinker demands support from others, decries limitations as unfair, and dictates how others must live. The Sinker believes a considerable portion of the population has designs to abuse others, financially, emotionally, and physically. The Sinker is unwilling to allow nature to takes its course and instead imposes artificial ligatures between the prosperous and the potentially prosperous. This paradigm of Thinkers and Sinkers can also be understood in terms of love. With love one rises in this life, lacking love one sinks. The Thinker experiences are of confidence, peace, and possibilities. The Sinker experiences are of doubt, anger, and lack. Everyone has some of both traits. Here are the questions a person might ponder. "How well of a Thinker am I? "How much of a Sinker am I?" Thoughtfulness will lead to a better understanding of this illustration. To disregard this notion without consideration reveals the Sinker, that ego-centric class of agitator who is empty-hearted, wishing to pull everyone down to their depressed level of existence. This is part of human nature yet one we understand so we may rise above it. The Sinker is unwilling or incapable of love and are not the people to have directing public policies. Would you have otherwise?
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Who is the more irrational; someone |
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In some cases, unless one matches the mindset, there is no speaking with a person who is predominately of the Sinker mentality. The spectrum of uplifting and enriching possibilities, in their mind, is limited to impossible and improbable. They can tell you how smart they are. They may even have real accomplishments. Everything else is doomed. They have little or no ability for critical thought. Even though they think they do. Their focus is on what is wrong. "The sky is falling." Conspiracies prey on their idle mind. Desperately they want to be with the in crowd. The irrationality of their thought is blinding them to the positive in life. They think they see it yet suspicion creeps into their mind. In their mind someone or something wants to manipulate them. And they may be right but they never correctly identify the sinister party.
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If a five year old wanted a cookie |
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"Aw, Hell yeah." Maybe not every kid but enough that the world would be pretty screwed up. Think about it. There are many "adults" in positions of authority who are acting like "children". What is the cookie they want? What is the gun they are using? The question here is what is the desire, the cookie, and what is the gun, the forceful and thoughtless manner of gaining that desire.
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The individual is the core. Backing out, level by level,
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Amongst all the variables in this world perspective is the greatest in the ability to produce unique logic and emotions. In the final analysis each of us is more likely a person of logic or emotion. The greatest benefit would be found if each truly understanding their own perspective and that of their counterpart.
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