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Where are we in the cycle?

Where in the cycle are we?

  • bondage to spiritual truth

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  • spiritual truth to great courage

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  • courage to liberty

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  • liberty to abundance

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  • abundance to selfishness

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  • selfishness to complacency

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  • complacency to apathy

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  • dependence back again to bondage

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Ben H

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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.

Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.

Alexander Tytler usually gets credit with this, but that is un-verified by the library of congress.
 

MsSage

Well-known member
Ben what is scary is our children will be the ones having to break free from bondage. I can only pray they have the courage to fight back.
 

Ben H

Well-known member
It doesn't really matter who the first person who actually said this is, the fact remains that history has proven this to be true.
 

Ben H

Well-known member
I think that our Constitution is designed to freeze us in the cycle, we've made it past 200 years, but as we get away from it we get towards the end of the cycle, moving back to the Constitution is the answer to breaking the cycle. A cycle within a cycle.
 

per

Well-known member
Ben H said:
I think that our Constitution is designed to freeze us in the cycle, we've made it past 200 years, but as we get away from it we get towards the end of the cycle, moving back to the Constitution is the answer to breaking the cycle. A cycle within a cycle.
Like a bicycle? :???: (couldn't resist)
 

hypocritexposer

Well-known member
per said:
Ben H said:
I think that our Constitution is designed to freeze us in the cycle, we've made it past 200 years, but as we get away from it we get towards the end of the cycle, moving back to the Constitution is the answer to breaking the cycle. A cycle within a cycle.
Like a bicycle? :???: (couldn't resist)

Could be Per. Get some new recruits in Government and give them some training wheels. Give them a copy of the Constitution and start them out slow.

Don't let them ride the 12 speed yet, they'll only hurt themselves.
 

hypocritexposer

Well-known member
katrina said:
This is really interesting..... I'm more hopeful than you guys....

Maybe there is Hope.

Here it is: The United States Constitution, along with the Declaration of Independence, is on the bestseller list! Is that good news or what? In the Washington Post, it's ranked #6 in the nation among non-fiction books. The Founding Fathers have made the bestseller list after all of these years!

The Post lists the two founding documents, bundled together in the same publication, that is available for $4.95 from the Cato Institute, the publisher of "The Pocket Constitution". The Cato Institute publication includes both the Bill of Rights and all of the amendments.

http://www.cato.org/
 
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