Strange Syrup

[IainH]

My church in it's eagerness to follow their thoroughly mistaken interpretation of Roman's 13, closed it's doors right before Easter!!!! They remain closed. Governor Cooper's edicts are unconstitutional. He cannot close churches. His oath of office pledges him to uphold the NC Constitution and the US Constitution (a relic from the Reconstruction Constitution of 1868). Article 1 Section 13 states All persons have a natural and inalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences, and no human authority shall, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience.
The Governor is a human authority and has violated his oath of office and therefore should be impeached and removed. That won't happen. I have been telling my Christian friends this, to almost no avail. Our Pastor is deaf to it. So, he bravely records his limp sermons and released them on social media. They had a Wednesday night "meeting" via Zoom and I watched as they prayed for God to grant wisdom to and bless our political overlords during this difficult time. My thoughts on this syrupy servile nonsense is creating a blue aura around me that is visible to me but, no one else because  y'all ain't around to see it.
If I was a pastor, the doors of my church would have never shut and I would gladly go to prison for doing so. 
The order to "close" churches was no accident and because there has been no widespread outrage, the next restrictions will be worse. 
I performed my due diligence but, could not find one church locally that has opened its doors. 
Whatever smidgen of covering the Lord placed over these flabby, docile rubes has been removed. These are the people who will be told to "depart from me, I ain't got no idey who you is"*
while simpering "but, but, but didn't we...yadda yadda yadda".
  I'm not surprised at our Democrat Governor, he's kowtowing to the DNC and keeping the destroy Trump plot going for as long as they can. Mediocrity and power do not mix. Mediocrities lose themselves in their delusions of power. 
The church will not stand up for itself. It seems obvious to me that God, in his infinite grace and mercy was giving these fools an opportunity. They blew it. 
If the power drunkards like that woman from Michigan and the crone from Maine along with the other mediocrities stay on their drunken orgy of power. Regular people will rebel and people will die.
We are fast approaching the breaking point, my un-revelated guess is winter/spring 2021 if Biden wins, resigns due to health reasons and whatever Commie the DNC selects is then sworn in and has the numbers to force feed Americans Communism. States will secede and there will be blood. If Trump wins it will be in 2025 when the Commicrat Party gets their turn. 
Of course, this could easily be the imaginations of a sleepy man. Good night Brethren and Sisthren.
*Mr Iain's Hillbilly translation.

[Ed Hurst]

It may not take that long.

[IainH]

It may not take that long.

No matter what happens I know this much; I have people to defend and I was made in such a way that I can do anything that needs to be done, decisively and without hesitation or the qualms that others may have. Family first. I'm walking every day, trying to work up to a jog then, run. Our diet is, well could be better. We are trying to find a place  to plant a garden, our yard is full of rocks, you can't even get a spade to go more than a couple of inches. In five gallon buckets, you can grow maters, beans and above ground veggies. I didn't grow up on a farm like, my Daddy but, I've done my share on Grandpa's, I never liked it. It just seems to make sense to put those lessons to good use. There's enough arable land up here for the year round people, the locals to subsist on. Of course, there is always the traditional way of getting a corn crop off the mountain in the condensed form, if you catch my drift. That's currency, right there. It wouldn't bother me a bit, to see having to go back to living like our great grandparents did. 
  If the Lord saw fit to take the techno world out with a CME, I think I might like that, who knows. This country is idolatrous and those who claim to stand for Him had a great opportunity to show where their first allegiance lies, they did and they chose to follow the beast instead of the Almighty. I repeatedly challenged them to open up their churches in messages, posts and emails but, I got no replies. From my perspective, it was a no brainer but, they had to follow the guvner. I don't think I'd be too welcome no more, maybe I'll get a $50 online ordination and start my own: the "Church of the Holy Middle Finger".

[Ed Hurst]

Online ordination is generally free; it's the papers that cost money. I went through it once just so I could wave the papers when anyone asked for them.

[IainH]

Online ordination is generally free; it's the papers that cost money. I went through it once just so I could wave the papers when anyone asked for them.

I thought it would be, oh, I don't know, a lark and then I thought; if the pompous, blowhards, the mistakenly "called", dimwits, Sunday morning saved & baptized, called on Sunday night then, ordained Wednesday and other assorted misfits can claim to be a chosen implement of the Almighty then, why not me. Any recommendations?

P.S. Hey Jay, I thought I'd give you a nice long rambling sentence, I hope you approve, while I'm still far, far short of the 19th century style of sentefication that I so admire, I'm working on it.

[Ed Hurst]

This guy is still doing ordinations and stuff.

[jaybreak]

P.S. Hey Jay, I thought I'd give you a nice long rambling sentence, I hope you approve, while I'm still far, far short of the 19th century style of sentefication that I so admire, I'm working on it.

Do I write long sentences? Like, too long? I have been accused of that in my critique groups, here and there, but I don't notice it to be honest.

[IainH]

P.S. Hey Jay, I thought I'd give you a nice long rambling sentence, I hope you approve, while I'm still far, far short of the 19th century style of sentefication that I so admire, I'm working on it.

Do I write long sentences? Like, too long? I have been accused of that in my critique groups, here and there, but I don't notice it to be honest.

Not to me, I like long sentences whereas, modern writers tend to adopt short, clipped sentences which sometimes, don't even qualify as sentences. Writers of the past were highly educated and were experts in the use of written English and oftentimes, Latin and Greek as where the people who read. I came up at the end of the era when education was education and not the feel good indoctrination that followed, my greatest regret is that there was no one around me who actually gave a shit enough to make me apply myself to my studies. I was a free range kid who tried to stay out of the house as much as possible.

[Ed Hurst]

Writing style depends on the intended audience. I use shorter sentences to reach the dummies churned out by the failed education system I know only too well. I use longer sentences to appeal to folks whose reading skills are more developed. I'm no master of English, and often quite frustrated with what it won't do, but I agree we could all do better using it than is common.

[jaybreak]

Thanks, Ed and Iain. The modern approach, for fiction at least, is either shorter sentences or, if you're going to write long sentences, pepper shorter ones in between them. I find the latter approach easier for me to do. Short sentences all the time start to sound like babytalk to me.