The Cogitations of Skarbutts

Cogitations 180

skarbutts — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:27:07 +0000

Will
How much easier it is to regret the past, than change the future.

Important?
You likely won’t forget something truly important as it will always remind you, though maybe too late–and if not, maybe it was not so important.

The Overlords
The totalitarian state is occupied with inventing problems for their ‘answers’ and crises for their ‘solutions’.

Attitudes
The tendency is that the more one complains, the worse life becomes.

Hope and Change
One generations reality becomes a following generation’s absurdity.

Cogitations 179

skarbutts — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:57:48 +0000

Yes He can
God is the one I have been waiting for. Yes He Can.

Tyranny
Tyranny is not an end, it is a means that has no end until it comes to its own.

History repeats
Those who forget the toast are condemned to repeat it.

Always
Good will yet dare.

Leader?
If the masses are already predisposed to go in a certain direction, the one who arises take them there is not a leader but a figurehead.

Mob rule
When the majority rules, you get what they deserve.

Good
Love, by faith, will always choose the uncertainties of goodness, over hopeful certainties promised by evil.

Cogitations 178

skarbutts — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:44:26 +0000

Courage
Courage is choosing to fear only certain consequences and facing the others. Cowardice is a determination to flee all consequences.

Nothing
If you have nothing, don’t waste any of it and always use it wisely.

Motive
Where achievement alone is the driving force, purpose is distorted.

The problem
If it is always everybody else, it is probably you.

True Love
Many desire, fewer love, beware the difference.

Big fish
Despise not the small fish if it is all you can catch, it may be the bait that catches the big one.

Cogitations 177

skarbutts — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:48:13 +0000

Mercy
When mercy first appears, you might not always like it.

Hope
When you can find no hope, hope for hope.

Sin
Sin harms all, no less the perpetrator.

Always
Righteousness is always the victor, regardless the outcome.

Seeing
You are the only person in the world that sees it from behind your eyes.

Run
Life is a marathon, but when you see the ribbon, sprint full speed.

Alone
None is lonelier than the lonely that is not alone.

Cogitations 176

skarbutts — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:22:31 +0000

Give up
It is an act of greatness to surrender in cases when you do not have to, but should.

Antidote?
Most attempts to the cure the world’s social ills end with another disease.

Value
The only true measure of a person’s worth is goodness.

Rebels
Worse than a rebel without a cause is a worthy cause without a rebel.

Uptight
A contentious person will start an argument even when in essence they agree.

Paradox
Even a conservative is trapped inside of a liberal body.

Cogitations 175

skarbutts — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:01:13 +0000

Final destination
Just because you know you are on the right track, do not take it for granted that you are on the right train.

Standard bears
The standard bearers of destruction almost always march under ensigns of salvation.

Means and ends
A means must be justified before the end. And, the end is a witness for the means, or the accuser of it.

Truth and goodness
Relentlessly pursue goodness and truth will appear.

Inevitable
Everyone eventually loses to God; surrender now and avoid the rush.

Revealed
Understanding deep mysteries is not merely the result of figuring things out, but rather, they are revelations which come as a gift.

Cogitations 174

skarbutts — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:31:01 +0000

Scientific paradox
There is a tendency within the scientific community to deny absolutes, yet, when confronted by faith, that same community will often by faith, take an absolute position against that faith. And if it be otherwise, upon what foundation do they then have right to argue—one that is not absolute?

Self vs. self
Because you relate to yourself, you are most easily deceived by yourself. On the other hand, by knowing yourself, you can overcome yourself.

Mental paralysis
A captive thought confines thinking.

Road work
The bulldozer that paves the way to tyranny is an angry people, a despot supplies the fuel of hatred and steers it.

Brave new world
When efficiency is the end goal for management of society, those who find no place will face the elimination of their being.

Cogitations 173

skarbutts — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:34:40 +0000

Answers?
When science answers a question it begs a thousand more.

Deceiver
The most deceitful liars in the world are emotions. On the other hand, sometimes they are the most aware.

Greatest victory
He who defeats himself can conquer all.

True love
True love is by far a doer more than a feeler.

Cause and affection
Why are those who starve people looked upon with benevolence when they throw a few crumbs?

Cogitations 172

skarbutts — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:56:27 +0000

Absolutes and time
All things are absolute; those which are not will be once they are outside of time.

Truth?
When you shouldn’t tell your truth, you may get by with telling someone else’s.

Worst wrong
The worst wrongs are ones that are absolutely brilliantly wrong.

Cause of causes
Often, the cause of a cause is to have a cause to promote another cause.

Consider all things
Was it really the last straw, or did the camel have a bad back to begin with?

Quit while your behind
A fool’s words are a deficit; the more he speaks the deeper he sinks.

Cogitations 171

skarbutts — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:47:56 +0000

Wisdom of nothing,
The nearest a fool comes to wisdom is silence, and the silence of the wise is wiser than the words of fools.

Monopoly
Where only one has the exclusive to ‘serve’ all, the tendency is self service.

Strength of evil
The greatest evil of self-righteousness is an ardent devotion to itself.

Virtue of evil
Among those things that perpetuate evil the most, is compassion where it ought not be.

Love trusts
Trust but yourself you will love but yourself.