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Re: Progressive Christian organization goes after Ayn Rand

James Fletcher Baxter — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:31:18 -0000

THE QUESTION AND THE ANSWERQ: "What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that Youvisit him?" Psalm 8:4A: "I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have setbefore you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, thatboth you and your descendants may live." Deuteronomy 30:19Q: "Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man,that you are mindful of him?" Psalm 144:3A: "And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselvesthis day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers servedthat were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, inwhose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."Joshua 24:15Q: "What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, thathe could be righteous?" Job 15:14A: "Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall He teach in the way hechooses." Psalm 25:12Q: "What is man, that You should magnify him, that You should set Your hearton him?" Job 7:17A: "Do not envy the oppressor and choose none of his ways." Proverbs 3:31Q: "What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You takecare of him?" Hebrews 2:6A: "I have chosen the way of truth; your judgments I have laid before me."Psalm 119:30 "Let Your hand become my help, for I have chosen Yourprecepts."Psalm 119:173References:Genesis 3:3,6 Deuteronomy 11:26-28; 30:19 Job 5:23 Isaiah 7:14-15; 13:12;61:1 Amos 7:8 Joel 3:14 Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Psalms 25:12 119:1-176DEDICATION
Sir Isaac Newton
The greatest scientist in human history, a Bible-Believing Christian, an
authority on the Bible's Book of Daniel, committed to individual value and
individual liberty

Re: Progressive Christian organization goes after Ayn Rand

James Fletcher Baxter — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:30:20 -0000

CONTEMPORARY COMMENTS"I should think that if there is one thing that man has learned abouthimself it is that he is a creature of choice." Richard M. Weaver"Man is a being capable of subduing his emotions and impulses; he canrationalize his behavior. He arranges his wishes into a scale, he chooses;in short, he acts. What distinguishes man from beasts is precisely that headjusts his behavior deliberately." Ludwig von Mises"To make any sense of the idea of morality, it must be presumed that thehuman being is responsible for his actions and responsibility cannot beunderstood apart from the presumption of freedom of choice." JohnChamberlain"The advocate of liberty believes that it is complementary of the orderlylaws of cause and effect, of probability and of chance, of which man is notcompletely informed. It is complementary of them because it rests in partupon the faith that each individual is endowed by his Creator with the powerof individual choice." Wendell J. Brown"These examples demonstrate a basic truth -- that human dignity is embodiedin the free choice of individuals." Condoleeza Rice"Our Founding Fathers believed that we live in an ordered universe. Theybelieved themselves to be a part of the universal order of things. Statedanother way, they believed in God. They believed that every man must findhis own place in a world where a place has been made for him. They soughtindependence for their nation but, more importantly, they sought freedom forindividuals to think and act for themselves. They established a republicdedicated to one purpose above all others - the preservation of individualliberty..." Ralph W. Husted"We have the gift of an inner liberty so far-reaching that we can chooseeither to accept or reject the God who gave it to us, and it would seem tofollow that the Author of a liberty so radical wills that we should beequally free in our relationships with other men. Spiritual libertylogically demands conditions of outer and social freedom for itscompletion." Edmund A. Opitz"Above all I see an ability to choose the better from the worse that hasmade possible life's progress." Charles Lindbergh"Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself thealternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exerciseof Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing." ThomasJefferson

Re: Progressive Christian organization goes after Ayn Rand

James Fletcher Baxter — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:25:35 -0000

Only Christianity is truly progressive and innovative. America was founded on the creative nature of human beings: made in the image of the Only GOD - Creatitivity is a choicemaking process. The liberals use it to cover for a recessive mind. All socialism shuts down choice-making - including inverntiveness. Which Nation in the history of the world has been most productive for its people ? Only USA

See http://www.choicemaker.net/

Re: Progressive Christian organization goes after Ayn Rand

James Fletcher Baxter — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:16:54 -0000

Each individual human being possesses a unique, highly developed, andsensitive perception of variety. Thus aware, man is endowed with a naturalcapability for enacting internal mental and external physical selectivity.Quantitative and qualitative choice-making thus lends itself as the superiorbasis of an active intelligence.Human is earth's Choicemaker. His title describes his definitive andtypifying characteristic. Recall that his other features are but vehicles ofexperience intent on the development of perceptive awareness and thefollowing acts of decision and choice. Note that the products of man cannotdefine him for they are the fruit of the discerning choicemaking process andinclude the cognition of self, the utility of experience, the development ofvalue measuring systems and language, and the acculturation ofcivilization.The arts and the sciences of man, as with his habits, customs, andtraditions, are the creative harvest of his perceptive and selective powers.Creativity, the creative process, is a choice-making process. His articles,constructs, and commodities, however marvelous to behold, deserve neitherawe nor idolatry, for man, not his contrivance, is earth's own highest
expression of the creative process.
Human is earth's Choicemaker. The sublime and significant act of choosingis, itself, the Archimedean fulcrum upon which man levers and redirects theforces of cause and effect to an elected level of quality and diversity.Further, it orients him toward a natural environmental opportunity, freedom,and bestows earth's paradigm title, The Choicemaker, on his singular and plural brow.
In the Bible, God's Word has accurately defined the human being as 'the earth creature endowed with the ability to choose.' His natural Rights, therefore, are merely an extension and application of natural human endowments, which all humans - everywhere in the world - possess. Even as goldfish, canaries, and puppy dogs require an environment based on their natural features, so humans require external freedom to fulfill their natural internal abilities of decision, choice, selection, election, and consent. Uniquely, America was founded on this definitive paradigm in human nature. All nations should reject foundational human opinion that teaches otherwise.No one is smarter than their criteria.

Re: Progressive Christian organization goes after Ayn Rand

James Fletcher Baxter — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:14:27 -0000

The message is this: Trust Freedom. Remember, tyrants never learn. Therestriction of Freedom is the limitation of human choice, and choice is thefulcrum-point of the creative process in human affairs. As earth'schoicemaker, it is our human identity on nature's beautiful blue planet andthe natural premise of man's free institutions, environments, and respectfulrelations with one another. Made in the image of our Creator, free menchoose, create, and progress - or die.Free men should not fear the moon-god-crowd oppressor nor choose any of his
ways. Recall with a confident Job and a victorious David, "Know ye not you
are in league with the stones of the field?"
Semper Fidelis Jim BaxterSgt. USMCWW II and Korean Warpoint-man/follower of The Lion of Judah

Re: Progressive Christian organization goes after Ayn Rand

James Fletcher Baxter — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:11:31 -0000

"What is human?" GOD's answer...Keven J. Hasson, President of the Becket Fund, recently stated, "...the American and Soviet systems...offered differing visions of freedom and human nature." The missing element in every human 'solution' is an accurate definition of the creature.In the Bible, God's Word has accurately defined the human being as 'the earth creature endowed with the ability to choose.' His natural Rights, therefore, are merely an extension and application of natural human endowments, which all humans - everywhere in the world - possess. Even as goldfish, canaries, and puppy dogs require an environment based on their natural features, so humans require external freedom to fulfill their natural internal abilities of choice, selection, election, and consent. Uniquely, America was founded on this definitive paradigm in human nature. All nations should reject foundational human opinion that teaches otherwise.Further, God's gift of criteria for choosing between alternatives supplies us with superior standards for successful visionary choice-making. Humans cannot invent (or replace) criteria greater than self, ACLU to the contrary.Defining 'human' accurately is the first step in establishing accurate and successful environments, institutions, and creative relationships for earth's Choicemaker. Middle East governments, and all leaders, would do well to pay attention: nature and nature's Creator speak with an authoritative voice. Psalms 25:12 119:30, 173 Joel 3:14 SelahNo one is smarter than their criteria. Jim Baxter Sgt. USMC WWII & Korean War semper fidelis http://www.choicemaker.net/

Re: Progressive Christian organization goes after Ayn Rand

James Fletcher Baxter — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:07:43 -0000

Both sides are ignoring 'the human paradigm' Earth's Choicemaker Psalm 25:12

The vision of faith in God and His Word is survival equipment for today andthe future. Only the Creator, who made us in His own image, is qualified todefine us accurately."Human is earth's Choicemaker. Psalm 25:12 He is by nature and nature's
God a creature of Choice - and of Criteria. Psalm 119:30,173 His unique anddefinitive characteristic is, and of Right ought to be, the naturalfoundation of his environments, institutions, and respectful relations tohis fellow-man. Thus, he is oriented to a Freedom whose roots are in theOrder of the universe." selah

see http//www.choicemaker.net/

Re: Stossel: My State of the Union address

James Fletcher Baxter — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:52:26 -0000

Human is earth's Choicemaker. His title describes his definitive and
typifying characteristic. Recall that his other features are but vehicles of
experience intent on the development of perceptive awareness and the
following acts of decision and choice. Note that the products of man cannot
define him for they are the fruit of the discerning choicemaking process and
include the cognition of self, the utility of experience, the development of
value measuring systems and language, and the acculturation of
civilization.

The arts and the sciences of man, as with his habits, customs, and
traditions, are the creative harvest of his perceptive and selective powers.
Creativity, the creative process, is a choice-making process. His articles,
constructs, and commodities, however marvelous to behold, deserve neither
awe nor idolatry, for man, not his contrivance, is earth's own highest
expression of the creative process.

Human is earth's Choicemaker. The sublime and significant act of choosing
is, itself, the Archimedean fulcrum upon which man levers and redirects the
forces of cause and effect to an elected level of quality and diversity.
Further, it orients him toward a natural environmental opportunity, freedom,
and bestows earth's paradigm title, The Choicemaker, on his singular and
plural brow.

James Fletcher Baxter

Sam and I had a lot in common. We both resisted evil. After I
got out of the hospital, 'Big Jim' Causey told of driving along
in his police cruiser and hitting a black man in his head
with his pistol. He thought it was funny how the guy sprawled
into the street. When he made this comment we were in a card
game. I didn't say anything, but then he said he was going to
kick the ____ out of Joe Goggins and I had heard enough.

I said, "If you're going to try that, you'll have to go through
me to get to him. I'm willing to give my life for a country
that values each individual. If that isn't true, I don't want
to fight for that country - but, it is true, so I'm not going
to let you rob me of the very good reason I may lose my life
tomorrow or next week. If you attack him, you attack me. I
may lose, but I guarantee I will make it very expensive for
you to get to him. Let me know what you decide."

He got up from our card game and said, "I'll have to think
about it."

I said, "Let me know. I'll be here."

He came back a little later and said, "You're right. I was
wrong." I thanked him for his manliness.

Joe Goggins came to me later and thanked me. He had wet eyes.

+ + +

(7/16/10)
Shortly after the above event, Causey was sent home on a
medical emergency for a family member. On the way, he
made a stop at a Naval medical facility stateside and ran into
my brother, Sgt. Howard "Barney" Baxter, 5th Marines, with
Chosen Reservoir frost-bitten feet. My brother said Causey
told him what had happened, and that it had "changed his life
forever." Never again would he do "the collective thing" of race
abuse. He saw the value of each individual, regardless of race,
station, or gender. He even forgave himself and became a worthy
and honorable U.S. Marine.

Jim Baxter
Sgt. USMC
WWII & Korean War
semper fidelis
pointman/follower of The Lion of Judah

INDIVIDUAL VALUE - Gift of Y'shua JESUS
by James Fletcher Baxter

The Old World method of measuring human value was,
and still is, by the group. Whether tribe, clan,
city-state, color, ethnic, or gender, the Old
World, ancient and modern, measures by the plural
unit. Individuals had and have no value of them-
selves but only as they were and are part of a
collective.

When Y'shua Jesus died on the cross, the veil of
the Temple at the Holy of Holies parted from the
top down. The individual believer in the congrega-
tion had, for the first time, a face-to-face, one-
on-one relation with his Creator. The Creator,
Himself, had validated each individual for the
first time.Thus, the Individual became the corner-
stone for later human value measuring systems:
socio-political, philosophical, religious, educa-
tional, economic, etc., henceforth and forever.
Western Civilization, America, English Law, civil
Rights, the 'democratic' process, etc., all sprang
from that single event. (Greco-Roman 'democracies'
were 95% slave throughout their entire histories.)
Biblical principles are still today the foundation
under Western Civilization and the American way of
life.

Many social systems attempt to borrow ideas of
"democracy" without the basic premise in The Indi-
vidual. Such a system is only superficially and
temporarily 'democratic.' The cornerstone of the
democratic process is The Individual and the
cornerstone of the value of The Individual is
Y'shua Jesus! It is not possible to have one with-
out the other. There is only One Source - there is
no other.

It is additionally interesting to note that all
value measuring systems are based on the single
definitive unit of the system. Ex: Number, Time,
Distance, Weight, Heat, Money, Angle, Volume, etc.

Only humanism makes the abusive error of measuring
human value by the plural unit and attempts to
build social structures, relations, and institu-
tions thereon. Such man-made systems can only be
abusive and oppressive because in reality there
are only individual persons. Groups or collectives
are merely convenient verbalizations about indi-
viduals. They are not reality.

I have yet to see a 'group.' All I have ever seen
are individuals.Have you ever seen a group - or is
it a verbal convenience? Reality is only in the
individual person. And, such a validation never
derived from a human source without the initiative
of the Creator. (The French Rationalists of the
18th Century favored the fruit - but rejected the
branch, tree, and root.)

Today, wherever Y'shua Jesus is rejected, the
group or collective is still the basic way of
measuring human value - or human non-value.

We thank the Lord God for revealing His validation
of each individual person. We thank Him for creat-
ing each person uniquely, in His image, and call-
ing each one to a courageous ascension by Y'shua
Jesus, who said, "I AM the Way..."

Praise the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and
His Son of Man, Y'shua Jesus.

Reference: Exodus 25:30,40 Hebrews 9 Matthew 27:51
Mark 15:38 Luke 23:45 KJV

Jim Baxter
Teacher, 5th Grade - 30 wonderful years!
vincit veritas

pointman/follower of The LION of JUDAH

Re: Debunking Christianity: I Met a Former Mormon Bishop in Canada

James Fletcher Baxter — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:53:08 -0000

"What is human?" GOD's answer...

Keven J. Hasson, President of the Becket Fund, recently stated, "...the American and Soviet systems...offered differing visions of freedom and human nature." The missing element in every human 'solution' is an accurate definition of the creature.

In the Bible, God's Word has accurately defined the human being as 'the earth creature endowed with the ability to choose.' His natural Rights, therefore, are merely an extension and application of natural human endowments, which all humans - everywhere in the world - possess. Even as goldfish, canaries, and puppy dogs require an environment based on their natural features, so humans require external freedom to fulfill their natural internal abilities of choice, selection, election, and consent. Uniquely, America was founded on this definitive paradigm in human nature. All nations should reject foundational human opinion that teaches otherwise.

Further, God's gift of criteria for choosing between alternatives supplies us with superior standards for successful visionary choice-making. Humans cannot invent (or replace) criteria greater than self, ACLU to the contrary.

Defining 'human' accurately is the first step in establishing accurate and successful environments, institutions, and creative relationships for earth's Choicemaker. Middle East governments, and all leaders, would do well to pay attention: nature and nature's Creator speak with an authoritative voice. Psalms 25:12 119:30, 173 Joel 3:14 Selah

No one is smarter than their criteria.

Jim Baxter Sgt. USMC WWII & Korean War semper fidelis

Re: Baptist Seminary Ousts Association for Tolerating Homosexuality

James Fletcher Baxter — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:01:55 -0000

MIND Over glands

The defenders of homosexuality continue the oxymoron
contradiction of attempting to use the mind to justify the
rule of carnal glands.

Thinking Americans still don't give 'a tinkers-dam' what
homosexuals do with their body-parts. An individual or
a society which is by law and tradition committed to the
natural human hierarchy of mind over body will not, however, ever sanction glandular rule over the human mind.

Undisciplined human desire can induce distorted perception.
The disturbed personality or inverted character can be
considered to be cognitively confused. This description is
confirmed in the 1930-40's work of English psychoanalyst
Roger Money-Kyrle, who indicates that it is more accurate to
recognize such a condition as the result of distorted perception.

Neurosis, psychosis, stunting of growth, etc., are all, from
this perspective, cognitive diseases contaminating not only
perception but thinking, learning, remembering, valuing, and
decision-making and choice.

Money-Kyrle affirms that scientific truth is not attained by a
trendy, anti-judgmental fashion, confession of inadequacy,
abdication, or collective majority-vote. There is no excuse for
professional ignorance willfully maintained.

By definition, a standard that is flexible is not a standard at all.
The human mind requires a standard of comparison that is
invariable. A criterion must be greater than the value measured
in order to supply value-meaning in a predictable direction of
survival and progression. The mind thus equipped is enabled
to maintain a natural dominion over the body and its appetites.
The very survival of the body itself, therefore, depends upon this
maintained intellectual authority.

Our posterity cannot respect what it does not perceive, and it
cannot perceive that which has been abandoned or inverted to
an appetite of physical expediency by the equivocal person.

With confidence in the laws of human nature, we can know that
in the clash between carnality and intellect, the 'man of the mind'
will always prevail.

That is nature and GOD's way and intent all along.

No one is smarter than their criteria. selah jfb

I agree with analyst Money-Kyrle: Homosexuality is a distorted
result of distorted perception. I would not accept such a one in
my rifle-squad foxholes in combat.

Jim Baxter
Sgt. USMC
WWII & Korean War

Teacher - 30 years
pointman/follower of The Lion of Judah
Romans 8:6 + + +

Re: The Middle East Christian Onslaught

James Fletcher Baxter — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:52:13 -0000

Abraham never founded a collectivist faith - a man-made religion. His God initiated Judaism and Christianity. Not man-made collective worship of a man-made God who needed a name since he was only one among many Gods. Judaism and Christianity have a God who never gave Himself a name a proper noun - since He is the only God.

He gave his son a name which is above every name: JESUS. selah

semper fidelis
Jim Baxter
Sgt. USMC
WWII &Korean War

Re: 85-Year-Old 'Potato Lady' Running for Office

James Fletcher Baxter — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:32:19 -0000

Few even know what the paradigm definition of human nature is: Earth's Choicemaker. ( A creature of Liberty - requiring Freedom to function best.)

And how about Individual Value, regardless of race, gender, education, or any other grouping. Individuals are the only kind of human. (Groups are merely convenient verbalzations about Individuals.)

The first nation in human history so founded.
Be assured, it won't be the last...

(All of the above is the I.Q. Test that most politicians and their 'leaders' fail daily.)

semper fidelis
Jim Baxter @ 86
Sgt. USMC
WWII & Korean War
...you were worthy.

Re: Meet the Woman Who shouted 'Except Obama!'

James Fletcher Baxter — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:58:44 -0000

Since no one is smarter than their criteria, and Thomas Jefferson and Sir Isaac Newton endorsed standards and precepts from the Bible, what is bad about Christians as Representatives in government?

Is it better to have neutrals and their conceptual mediocrity? No! No one is perfect, but most Believers favor Excellence over mediocrity! selah

Re: Meet the Woman Who shouted 'Except Obama!'

James Fletcher Baxter — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:57:03 -0000

Since no one is smarter than their criteria, and Thomas Jefferson and Sir Isaac Newton endorsed standards and precepts from the Bible, what is bad about Christians as Representatives in government?

Is it better to have neutrals and their conceptual mediocrity? No! No one is perfect, but most Believers favor Excellence over mediocrity! selah

Re: What Will You Stand For? Take the Pledge of Principles

James Fletcher Baxter — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:36:56 -0000

At 86, I have yet to encounter a humanist collectivist socialist whodoesn't have a dominating inferiority complex. Such types unreasonably are attracted to the collective as a solution to a personal sense of unworthiness.

The political Left does utilize such problem-types. The Center/Right does not, since they are Individual-value oriented: not Collective. Politics is merely a device for those who reject the articulate values and priorities of The Constitution.

Re: DISSECTING BENEDICT

James Fletcher Baxter — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:52:30 -0000

When Jesus died on the cross, the veil of the temple that separated the congregants from the Holy of Holies, was torn in two. Prior, only the High Priest had access to the Holy of Holies - and even then only once a year. Matthew 27:51 Mark 15:38 Luke 23:45 God had validated each individual for the first time and given each one personal responsibility for a healthy relationship to God Himself. Such a validation of each individual has never been a part of any man-made system of religion.

Re: About

James Fletcher Baxter — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:42:31 -0000

Human is earth's Choicemaker. The sublime and significant act of choosing
is, itself, the Archimedean fulcrum upon which man levers and redirects the
forces of cause and effect to an elected level of quality and diversity.
Further, it orients him toward a natural environmental opportunity, freedom,
and bestows earth's title, The Choicemaker, on his singular and plural brow.

No one is smarter than their criteria.

http://www.choicemaker.net/

Re: DeMint tries to ban 'permanent politicians'

James Fletcher Baxter — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:21:06 -0000

The Founding principles of our Constitution clearly state that
the powers of government are permanently in the mind and
hand of The People of the United States of America. Thus,
every elected person is a temporary steward of their office
and obligated to serve The American People while in office.

Such elected officials need to be reminded that they do not
own the office. WE, The American People, are the owners and
may give orders to the elected & appointed stewards of the office.

I have yet to hear this important point-of-failure on the part of
those who seek to 'change' our way of life to an historically
failure-oriented system of non-representation of stewardshp
to The People. Why?

Begging compromise won't work with the ignorant! Freedom is
the proper enlargement - not fewer choices for the choicemaker!
Please tell 'em!

semper fidelis
Jim Baxter
Sgt. USMC
WWII & Korean War

pointman/follower of The Lion of Judah

+ + +

Re: AMA opposes military gay policy

James Fletcher Baxter — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:08:24 -0000

MIND Over glands

The defenders of homosexuality continue the oxymoron
contradiction of attempting to use the mind to justify the
rule of carnal glands.

Thinking Americans still don't give 'a tinkers-sham' what
homosexuals do with their body-parts. An individual or
a society which is by law and tradition committed to the
natural human hierarchy of mind over body will not, how-
ever, ever sanction glandular rule over the human mind.

Undisciplined human desire can induce distorted perception.
The disturbed personality or inverted character can be
considered to be cognitively confused. This description is
confirmed by the work of English psychoanalyst Money-
Kyrle, who indicates that it is more accurate to recognize
such a condition as the result of distorted perception.

Money-Kyrle affirms that scientific truth is not attained by a
trendy self-serving fashion, confession of inadequacy,
abdication, or collective majority-vote. There is no excuse for
professional ignorance willfully maintained.

Our posterity cannot respect what it does not perceive, and it
cannot perceive that which has been abandoned or inverted to
an appetite of physical expediency by the equivocal person.

With confidence in the laws of human nature, we can know that
in the clash between carnality and intellect, the 'man of the mind'
will always prevail.

That is nature and GOD's way and intent all along.

"No one is smarter than their criteria." selah jfb

Jim Baxter
Teacher - 30 years
pointman/follower of The Lion of Judah
Santa Maria, CA

semper fidelis
Sgt. USMC
WWII & Korean War

+ + +

Re: The politics of the obvious

James Fletcher Baxter — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:59:38 -0000

HUMANISM's self-chosen disability.....

Deterministic systems, ideological symbols of abdication
by man from his natural role as earth's Choicemaker,
inevitably degenerate into collectivism; the negation of
singularity, they become a conglomerate plural-based
system of measuring human value. Blunting an awareness
of diversity, blurring alternatives, and limiting the
selective creative process, they are self-relegated to
a passive and circular regression.

Tampering with man's selective nature endangers his
survival for it would render him impotent and obsolete
by denying the tools of variety, individuality,
perception, criteria, selectivity, and progress.
Coercive attempts produce revulsion, for such acts
are contrary to an indeterminate nature and nature's
indeterminate off-spring, man the Choicemaker.

Additionally, such rejection of transcendent criteria
self-denies man the vision and foresight essential to
decision-making for survival and progression. He is left,
instead, with the redundant wreckage of expensive hind-
sight, including human institutions characterized by
averages, mediocrity, and regression.

Humanism, mired in the circular and mundane egocentric
predicament, is ill-equipped to produce transcendent
criteria. Evidenced by those who do not perceive
superiority and thus find themselves beset by the shifting
winds of the carnal-ego; i.e., moods, feelings, desires,
appetites, etc., the mind becomes subordinate: a mere
device for excuse-making and rationalizing self-justifica-
tion.

The carnal-ego rejects criteria and self-discipline for such
instruments are tools of the mind and the attitude. The
appetites of the flesh have no need of standards for at the
point of contention standards are perceived as alien, re-
strictive, and inhibiting. Yet, the very survival of our
physical nature itself depends upon a maintained sover-
eignty of the mind and of the spirit.

. Man is thus afforded the
prime tool of the intellect - a Transcendent Standard
by which he may measure values in experience, anticipate
results, and make enlightened and visionary choices.

Only the unique and superior God-man

As long as some choose to abdicate their personal reality
and submit to the delusions of humanism, determinism, and
collectivism, just so long will they be subject and re-
acting only, to be tossed by every impulse emanating from
others. Those who abdicate such reality may, in perfect
justice, find themselves weighed in the balances of their
own choosing.

"No one is smarter than their criteria."

Jim Baxter
semper fidelis
- from "2010 AD: The Season of Generation-Choicemaker"
http://www.choicemaker.net/

Re: The politics of the obvious

James Fletcher Baxter — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:58:51 -0000

HUMANISM's self-chosen disability.....

. Man is thus afforded the
prime tool of the intellect - a Transcendent Standard
by which he may measure values in experience, anticipate
results, and make enlightened and visionary choices.

Only the unique and superior God-man

"No one is smarter than their criteria."

Jim Baxter
semper fidelis
- from "2010 AD: The Season of Generation-Choicemaker"
http://www.choicemaker.net/

Re: Communism cracked open

James Fletcher Baxter — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:50:26 -0000

Carl V. "Sam" Lamb and I served side-by-side as rifle-squad
leaders Fox Company, "Chesty" Puller's 1st Marines, 1st Marine
Division. He wrote a book about our experiences in the Korean
conflict, 1950-1951. He included my remarks about an incident in
which one of our people threatened to punch-out a fellow squad-
leader who had black skin.

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THE LAST PARADE
by Carl V. Lamb Page 296 (1951)

James Fletcher Baxter

He got up from our card game and said, "I'll have to think
about it."

I said, "Let me know. I'll be here."

He came back a little later and said, "You're right. I was
wrong." I thanked him for his manliness.

Joe Goggins came to me later and thanked me. He had wet eyes.

+ + +

(11/11/09)
Shortly after the above event, Causey was sent home on a
medical emergency for a family member. On the way, he
made a stop at a Naval medical facility stateside and ran into
my brother, Sgt. Howard "Barney" Baxter, 5th Marines, with
Chosen Reservoir frost-bitten feet. My brother said Causey
told him what had happened, and that it had "changed his life
forever." Never again would he do "the collective thing" of race
abuse. He saw the value of each individual, regardless of race,
station, or gender. He even forgave himself and became a worthy
and honorable U.S. Marine.

Jim Baxter
Sgt. USMC
WWII & Korean War
semper fidelis
pointman/follower of The Lion of Judah

INDIVIDUAL VALUE - Gift of Y'shua JESUSJames Fletcher Baxter

Re: The siren call of Shariah

James Fletcher Baxter — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:45:17 -0000

Until the oppressors discover that wisdom only just
begins with a respectful acknowledgment of The Creator,
The Creation, and The Choicemaker, they will be ever
learning but never coming to a knowledge of the truth.
The rejection of Creator-initiated standards relegates
the mind of man to its own primitive, empirical, and
delimited devices. It is thus that the human intellect
cannot ascend and function at any level higher than the
criteria by which it perceives and measures values.

"No one is smarter than their criteria."

Re: The siren call of Shariah

James Fletcher Baxter — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:43:52 -0000

"No one is smarter than their criteria."

Re: EXCLUSIVE: Marine leads 'Don't ask, don't tell' fight

James Fletcher Baxter — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:34:43 -0000

MIND Over glands

The defenders of homosexuality continue the oxymoron
contradiction of attempting to use the mind to justify the
rule of carnal glands.

Undisciplined human desire can induce distorted perception.
The disturbed personality or inverted character can be
considered to be cognitively confused. This description is
confirmed by the work of English psychoanalyst Money-
Kyrle, who indicates that it is more accurate to recognize
such a condition as the result of distorted perception.

Our posterity cannot respect what it does not perceive, and it
cannot perceive that which has been abandoned or inverted to
an appetite of physical expediency by the equivocal person.

With confidence in the laws of human nature, we can know that
in the clash between carnality and intellect, the 'man of the mind'
will always prevail.

That is nature and GOD's way and intent all along.

"No one is smarter than their criteria." selah jfb

Jim Baxter
Teacher - 30 years
pointman/follower of The Lion of Judah
Santa Maria, CA

semper fidelis
Sgt. USMC
WWII & Korean War

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