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The Christmas Truce of 1914 and The Power Of One Idea

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It is Christmas Day today. Children all over the world will be waking up to a plethora of gifts underneath their tree. They will be shrieking in joy at the excitement of opening up a gift just for them. They will be playing with their new games or toys for the very first time with all the exhilaration that animates even the most phlegmatic and stolid amongst us. Whatever your views are regarding Christmas or the holidays matters little. Is this explosive elation in our children not one the most precious things to witness in our children?

 

Top 10 Rich People Who Were Once Poor

 

Many parents work hard building a business or acquiring wealth so that their children do not need to “suffer” as much.

 

Ironically sometimes out of an environment of mild privation emerge the most dedicated and passionate individuals.

 

Strong work ethic and a desire to achieve are the pillars of success.

 

There is so shortage of rags to riches stories.

 

 

“Success is ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm”, Winston Churchill

 

Just as we, as parents, must encourage our children to devote themselves to their craft if they want to achieve mastery, so too must we encourage them to seek self-knowledge.

 

Knowledge that is learned of one’s own accord becomes owned as opposed to knowledge passively given to us by others.

 

Being comfortable in solitude or surrounding oneself with a small group of soulful genuine friends can facilitate this process.

 

 

Before I leave you I would be remiss if I did not make mention of the Christmas Truce of 1914. Simply put, it was a brief pause in the bloodshed of the trench warfare that comprised World War I.

 

To the immense chagrin of the superior officers for one day there was no more slaughter.

 

For one brief day there was camaraderie, friendship, and benevolence. There was hand shaking, retrieving and burying of the dead. There was exchanging of gifts and conveying heartfelt messages of love. There was drinking, eating, laughing, and playing of games. For one brief day amongst the carnage, humanity shone through.

 

The immense tragedy is that this magnanimous sentiment lasted only one day before the killing commenced once again.

 

 

 

This is the power of one idea!

 

This is why I write, produce videos, and interviews! This is why I focus my attention on discussion of philosophy, morality, and economics!

 

War, oppression, and injustice are largely the result of ignorance and misunderstanding, not evil.

 

I hope you all carry this Christmas spirit of compassion, kindness, and humanity far beyond this one day. I hope you all are able to carry it with you throughout your lives. This is what changes paradigms. This is what improves the world.

 

Happy Holidays! 🙂

 

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The Greatest Christmas Gift Is Truth

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Hahaha here is a hilarious 4 minute video on the 12 banned items by the TSA for Christmas. It’s nice to know that our Federal Government is using our hard earned tax money wisely by giving these nice incompetent people a job. We should feel grateful for the sexual molestations and occasional theft that occurs in the name of the “War on Terror”. All in an honest day’s work!

Here is a hilarious yet on point 2 minute video on the abuses we all directly face with the NSA’s immoral and unjust criminal activities. Stop funding these criminals with your tax dollars! Stop committing tax financed murder overseas! Just ignore the State and it will go away!

Here is a funny 2 minute cartoon video on Season’s Greeting from Spying Claus. This is a special message from your neighborhood magical, morbidly obese, diabetic, mythical, peeping tom philanthropist.

Here is a fascinating 8 minute Stefan Molyneux examination on the importance of teaching one’s children the truth about the world, or at least one’s understanding of the truth, let alone not lying to them with a mythical quasi NSA figure such as Santa Claus that “sees us when we’re sleeping, knows when we’re awake, and knows if we’ve been bad or good.”

Others argue “Believing in Santa Claus gives kids a sense of wonder about the world.” Is it necessary to lie to our children in order to provide them with a sense of wonder? I do believe that there is enough uncertainty and mystique we can glean from attempting to teach our children about the real world, let alone deceiving them with a tale that abandons all reason for the sake of one day.

Our children are born as foreigners in a strange land. They know nothing about prison, pain, flowers, toys, crime etc. They trust us, as the authority figures, to provide them with the truth about the world. If we deceive them with falsehoods, what does that speak about our credibility? Be truthful with your children. They deserve nothing less. The truth does not hurt. The truth is beautiful, wondrous, and inherently magical.

 

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