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The Life Cycle of a Nation
This article was originally posted after the Election in 2008 by Dr. Ignatius Piazza .
Our Founding Fathers were collectively the brightest, wealthiest, and most powerful men of their era. They risked everything they had by declaring their independence from what was, at that time, the greatest military and economic power in the world.
Quite frankly, we have not had such intellect, innovation, and “testicular fortitude” at the helm of our country since then, and I believe will never see men of such strong backbone in our government again.
Just over 200 years later, England is a shadow of its past world dominance and the United States has fallen so far away from the country our forefathers created for us that they would shed tears of dismay if they could walk among us today.
History provides a road map of where the US is heading…
Is our demise inevitable?
No, but ONLY if we study the past and make the difficult, yet proper, decisions to prevent history from repeating itself in our country as it has done with every group of people before us, from every culture imaginable.
Consider this:
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. from dependence back into bondage.
So where are we, citizens of the United States, in the historically proven Life Cycle of Nations?
Our latest election only confirms our downward spiral to be someplace on this ladder between step 5 and step 7. I was hoping we could avoid hitting bottom, but the fractured face of the groups in opposition to Obama failed to congeal behind Mitt Romney. Until We-the-People decide who we are and what our priorities are, we are in a free fall back into the kind of bondage that inspired our Founders to Revolt. Be that as it is, we have to find our North Star! We must see through the fog of misconceptions and deliberate deceptions and fan the flames of the FREEDOM that issue only from the hand of God.
Freedom inspires us to follow the dream within us. Freedom motivates us to find our purpose in making a product or providing a service to our fellow man because Freedom allows us to care for one another for real! Freedom is outwardly focused. This Freedom is God’s idea. It’s the Freedom endowed on all mankind that no government on earth can thwart or replace. This is what we must rediscover … and re-value.
flyoverhere said:
I would say we are at #7, ;-(
coffeeandsleeplessnights said:
Reblogged this on A Lot Of Coffee and Sleepless Nights.
Sandi said:
It is my opinion that the election went the way it did not because of the candidates, but because of the American people and the #7 mindset. This is a great post and I’m glad you shared it.
As to our future…? I am very fortunate God let us know the end of the story in advance, so that even when it gets harrowing, we can have faith in the ultimate outcome. It’s just gonna be a mess between here and there.
blogsense-by-barb said:
Absolutely agree, Sandi! The sad & remarkable thing is many believers support the President. I cannot fathom why …really! I do, however, concede that since God has allowed this, we must press in & find His purpose!
Thanks, Sandi!
marriagecoach1 said:
One of your best posts ever kudos
blogsense-by-barb said:
Thanks, John, but it’s not mine! lol Part of it was crossing facebook anonymously & I hate when that happens, so I found the source … From the 2008 election! 🙂 It is even more pronounced now!!!
marriagecoach1 said:
I would consider it an honor if you would consent to read and review my soon to be published book
blogsense-by-barb said:
What’s it about, if I may inquire?
marriagecoach1 said:
It is a marriage and sexual self help book also teaching couples how to stop fighting and instead learning peaceful, collaborative and respectful conflict resolution skills. It is written from a Biblical perspective but contains frank sexual content. Far too many churches teach little girls that sex is bad, dirty and wrong and that “good girls don’t do it.” They never ever teach the sex positive messages from the Bible.
This often negatively conditions women for life from fully embracing their sexuality. The other thing is that according to Kinsey stats, 72% of all married women over thirty have their husbands on a starvation diet of sex once a week or less where the average man needs sexual relief 3-4 times a week.
In defense of women, most men are sol lousy in bed (because of a lack of a “school for sex” to teach them how to give their wives great sex) that most women reduce it down to an item on her to do list because she gets so little out of it and often feels like a used piece of meant.l
My book tries to remedies these societal problems. In addition, kids are the most negatively impacted by divorce and the negative stats for which are literally staggering and represent a majority of our societal problems to day.
We have the highest divorce rate on the planet.
marriagecoach1 said:
On another note, I recently found on Fox that the reason that our side lost is we did not get our people out to vote. The dems had 38% of their base out to vote where we only had 32% out to vote. WE DESERVED TO LOSE AND WE GOT BEATEN FAIR AND SQUARE Shame on us.
blogsense-by-barb said:
And yet … miraculously, several states had 100+ % of registered voters show up! AND in several districts in Ohio, 100% of the turnout voted for the President … AMAZING! Not one Donald Duck, Ron Paul, or Mitt Romney! Romney’s ground game did fail – they relied on some new technology that failed, but that’s not the whole story. It is just sad!