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The Problem

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                                                                 The Problem

Have you ever had a problem that wouldn’t go away, where every answer you threw at it seemed to come up inadequate or wrong?  

You worked tirelessly to handle the darn thing, certain that finally you had it licked, and then to your amazement, there it was again, standing right in front of you with a smug smirk on its face.  Yes, problems can and do smirk.  They can also spit in your eye and give you the finger.  Like some people, they seem to find it amusing when they can get a rise out of you.

I used to react to these pesky problems.  I would put on all my battle gear like a dutiful soldier readying for war.  I’d put on my best frown and sharpen my evil eye.  I’d gather mighty curses to be tossed at my foes like grenades.   I’d want to break something or plot some kind of secretive vengeance that I could implement against them when least expected.  That’s what problems seem to want, they relish in their obscene power to consume us, to eat at us from the inside out. 

Then one day I woke up, put my problems aside and decided to assume responsibility for a whole different world of problems other than my own.  Big problems— like the opioid epidemic and the promulgation of gender confusion, the inexcusable injustice of psychiatric labels and the drugging of millions of innocent children via our public school systems, the false and abusive nature of the Psychiatric Diagnostic Manual.  I had never previously dreamed that I had any responsibility for these social failures and false purposes that now riddle our society.  When I finally began assuming some responsibility for these social ills and their flagrant betrayal of human trust, my individual problems suddenly lost their all consuming power.  In the light of this new found optimism, I began receiving way too many smirks and middle fingers to acknowledge any single one of them.   They simply fail to get a rise out of me.  I can look at them with integrity and certainty that I go to battle wielding the greatest weapon of all— the truth.   I know it is they who are the problem, not I or our children.

My new book, THE GOLDEN STALLION, is for kids aged 8 and up.  It is my contribution to righting a wrong.  It is my assumption of my own responsibility for a social problem our kids face in this age of special interests and academic misinformation.  I hope it speaks to your parental needs and your child’s innate wisdom of the soul.  

Richard and Mary Rensberry, Authors at QuickTurtle Books®

The Heavenly Spa

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When I awoke early this morning, there was an Angel sitting in the chair beside my bed.  She was wrapped in a gossamer aura and held a look of weary concern in her eyes and on her face.  She reached out with thin fingers and touched me lovingly on the cheek, gave me a meek smile, then rose from the chair like a wisp of smoke and hovered near the ceiling.  Tenting her hands in prayer, she momentarily held my gaze, then closed her Continue reading →

United States Citizenship

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Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America

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“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.”

Note: In certain circumstances there can be a modification or waiver of the Oath of Allegiance. Read Chapter 5 of A Guide to Naturalization for more information.

The principles embodied in the Oath are codified in Section 337(a) in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which provides that all applicants shall take an oath that incorporates the substance of the following:

  1. Support the Constitution;
  2. Renounce and abjure absolutely and entirely all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which the applicant was before a subject or citizen;
  3. Support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
  4. Bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and
  5. A. Bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; or
    B. Perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; or
    C. Perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law.

Betrayed

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There are times people have to stop what they are doing.  We have to examine ourselves and our actions.  We have to take the blinders off and look at the bottom line, truth.  We are not slaves.  We are not pre-programmed robots with pre-programmed responses.  We are thinking sentient beings ultimately responsible for our own thoughts, our own actions and inactions that result in reality.  We are responsible for ourselves as well as the well being of our children.  We are responsible for their physical and mental make-up and health.  We are responsible for their up-bringing.  After all, they are children.

Presently, it is a cruel reality that millions of kids are being labeled with and drugged for imaginary mental disorders by people that have chosen to put and keep their blinders on.  Kids are not mentally ill.  Let me repeat that.  KIDS ARE NOT MENTALLY ILL.  They are just kids in need of good parenting, good nutrition, sound goals and purposes, good physical education habits, good fun and constructive activities.  They also need sound spiritual principles and spiritual mentors on their path to adulthood.  Given those things most children thrive.  What they don’t need are drugs.

Drugs are poison.  Drugs are irresponsible.  Drugs are cruel.  Drugs are spiritual murder and a cop out by those that should be held accountable.  Us.  I know we have created and live in a very mechanistic and self-centered society.  That does not justify this barbaric behavior of shrugging off our own responsibilities onto the shoulders of innocent children.  They are not responsible.  They are not mentally ill.  They are being subjected to the punishment of strong psychotropic drugs instead of being helped.  They are thrown into the darkness of being alone and betrayed.  It’s time to stop and examine the repercussions of what we are doing.  It’s time to wake up.  This isn’t a dream.

Richard Rensberry, Author at QuickTurtle Books™