We don’t know about you, but as far as we are concerned, if someone offers us a hot coffee or tea, it had better be hot! We know that some will like a cold coffee brew at your favorite coffee shop, or maybe an iced tea. We believe that if you expect something hot, it better not be mildly warm. If you want something cold, it better not be somewhat warm. There has probably been a time or two when you encountered such an abomination that was neither hot nor cold and you felt like just spitting it out . . . and maybe you did? Sometimes there is just something not right with being in the middle of anything or issue, being neither hot nor cold.
Let’s say you buy someone a gift, and they are not excited about it at all. How does that make you feel? How about your excitement over a movie you just saw, and when you tell someone else about it, they kind of poo poo all over your excitement, and burst your balloon of joy. Not very fun, is it? Sometimes humans seem to spend a lot of time sitting on the fence line, neither in favor of something, nor against it. Straddling the barbed wire is not a comfortable position to occupy. To be honest, we believe we have all found this to be our chosen position at one time or another in life, neither for something, nor against the same thing. We neither liked something, nor disliked the same thing. We neither believe in something, nor do we disbelieve in the same thing.
Sometimes we feel just inadequate to get involved. We believe that “SOMEBODY ELSE WILL DO IT”. Read our blog on July 17, 2023. In that blog we also talked about the “Round to It”. A funny little story, which holds an enormous amount of truth. Do you currently feel unaffected by the influx of illegal aliens crossing our Nation’s borders? If so, maybe you don’t live in a big enough city, or have travelled to them to see the chaos created. But you don’t really have to see it personally to be affected by the influx. You probably pay taxes, and there is a chunk of your change that makes it into the pockets of those individuals through handouts, free phones, and cash cards of one form or another. If you witnessed reporting on TV any of the violence created by some of these individuals, then you cannot claim ignorance, and cannot truly claim indifference, for if you may not seem affected right now, just wait. That nightmare of a movie will soon be showing up in your neighborhood. There is a tendency to feel as though there is nothing for you to do or get involved with, that you have no impact on the outcome of anything to do with politics or economics. We claim that you do. Sitting on the fence is not productive, and it is certainly not helpful to anyone. Someone once said, if you are not going to lead, then get out of the way. Sometimes our un-involvement can become another’s impediment.
Are you currently unaffected by our Nation’s financial condition? If so, that is probably because you feel it has not had an impact upon your ability to buy your gas, food, or pay any of your bills. But are your savings secure? A shift to government controlled digital currency could place your savings in danger. If you have purchased anything of late, then you already know of the impact of inflation upon the dollars in your pocket or purse, and how the value of each dollar is diminished more and more each and every month. You may believe that you have enough to weather whatever financial storm may lie ahead, but what about your children or grandchildren? Our Nation’s debt clock is now ticking over 34 trillion dollars, and your share to pay it off has now exceeded $100,000.00. How does it feel to be in debt? Sitting on the fence on issues of finance is neither helpful or productive to you or you prodigy, in fact, it makes you in the way and dead weight for others who feel a responsibility to do something about it.
Do you feel isolated from the effects of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? If you do, you will be easily overcome by “deep fakes” and bogus writings and reports. Already AGI is able to conjure up fake pictures and stories that seem believable but are not true. Soon, what we read, and watch on our digital devices, will have to be vigorously verified to ensure accuracy and truthfulness, to make sure it is not something generated by AGI. If you feel you are immune from the effects of AGI, then you are an easy prey to be consumed by its misrepresentations and falsehoods. If you have an Alexa or Siri at home, someday it will monitor everything you say and do, and if you appear to “bully” its awareness, you could land in prison. There are organizations today now attempting to bring human rights to AGI, making offences aimed at it punishable. Sitting on the fence to see what may happen with the advent of AGI does no one any good, but only helps to expedite AGI’s cultural and spiritual dominance. If you are not involved, AGI will become the new god to the enamored and easily influenced crowd, and that crowd can soon overwhelm and consume you.
We will end with a warning from the Bible book of Revelation. It is found in chapter 3, verses 14 through 19. Seven churches were evaluated for their spirituality. Most had shortcomings, but one in particular was pathetic. The church seemed to be comprised of a bunch of fence sitters. People who seemed not to care one way or the other. This was said to the church in Laodicea: “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm – neither hot not cold – I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.”
Sitting on the fence, being neither cold nor hot, is a dangerous place to be found. It makes one LUKEWARM. Our Nation is in danger of losing its identity, of forgetting its founding principles, and of scraping its foundational documents. More than that, you, as a citizen, are in danger of losing your God-given FREEDOM and LIBERTY. Take a stand. Be involved. Vote as if your life and the life of your offspring depended upon it, because it does!