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Tested Truths: Doubt

Tested Truths: Doubt:   Doubt can be a killer, but only if you allow it to be. Beside good intentions, often our road to victory is fraught with doubt. Not that ...

Doubt

  Doubt can be a killer, but only if you allow it to be. Beside good intentions, often our road to victory is fraught with doubt. Not that doubt is always a bad thing, it isn't, but far too often even the noblest of goals is left wanting because of the fear that accompanies doubt. Certainly this is part of the human condition, and is quite natural, especially now, when everything is challenged, and the best of intentions lay in the wake we leave behind us as we travel down the river of life. 

  Certainly doubt serves a good purpose, as it causes questions to arise that must be considered before you act upon your decision, no matter the subject. Imagine if your first inclination was to leap before you looked? Doubt begets questions, and questions are always good. However, the old adage which says that there is no such thing as a dumb question is false, as people often ask dumb questions. But understand that there is a big difference between dumb and ignorance. Questions that are asked by others and yourself that will lead to the correctness of your choice in the pending matter are never dumb when they are asked in complete ignorance. 

  You see, ignorance and innocence are synonymous, because that was how it was with Adam and Eve. Being at first totally innocent, they were also ignorant to the realities that existed beyond their perfect garden. That is of course, until they ate of the Tree of Knowledge. 

  Then, no longer innocent, no longer pure, they instantly became fully aware of the opposite side of life, and now recognized both good and evil. Interestingly, evil didn't exist until they decided to take the wrong advice, and by so doing, attained wisdom yes, but at the cost of bringing the reality of sin and evil into being, and unleashing for the first time the perils of free will.   

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My name is Ed

  A letter to Chuck and Nancy. Hi guys, my name is Ed, and I am a retired working man, carpenter by trade, my dad was a working man before me, he was a truck driver. I was born and raised in New Jersey, as was my father before me, but I have a goodly amount of pure midwestern blood in me also, as I'm as American as you can get. You represent the adult side of the Democratic party, as you are old enough to not only know the truth, but to have lived much of it. Nance, is it so hard to not see past party whatever that party does? What happened to civility? Chuck. What is up with you, have you given yourself over to a movement that would have your integrity in a bag like so many marbles? Man up man and lead! 

  In case you haven't figured it out, I am Mr. Everyday, just a middle class working stiff, and I am why Hillary Clinton lost. I am every man woman and child that this once great party called it's own. It looks very likely that your party is considering a new moniker for the party, Socialist/Democrat. You know, because you are old enough to know, that socialism always leads to tyranny of one kind or another. Lead your party back to a bipartisan middle because that is what the people want.