Common Sense Commentary: If your doctor prescribes a medicine to aid your recovery, ... read the 72,000 words of instructions ... but skip the long list of "side effects" under "WARNING". If you read the multitude of illnesses that may result from "taking your medicine", you may change your mind and just go ahead and die of what you already have. My brother-in-law, Ed Kirk, came home from the pharmacy and found my wife, Bunnie, and I visiting. Ed sat down and began reading the possible side effects of his prescription. In a moment, he jumped up, reading loudly the list of reactions to this remedial medication.... as follows: "Heart palpitations, dizziness, nausea, headaches, diarrhea, insomnia, constipation, loss of hair, blurred vision, ringing in ears, skin rash, internal bleeding, and impotency.... but rarely death." Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease.
For instance:
(1) The Mirage Illusion during human crisis' ... A novice prospector in the hot, dry hills overlooking Death Valley in early California, neglected to check his back trail when he left camp the morning of his first day there. After wandering all day, he was lost, out of water and desperate. He stood on what is now known as Dante's View ... looking down on the lowest spot in the U.S. called Death Valley ...(282 ft. below sea level). In the distance, his eyes told him, was a beautiful shimmering lake of water. With Funeral Hills at his back and bone dry, Furnace Creek in the Valley before him, he headed down the hill toward what he was certain was cool, clear water. The lake was there, I've seen it, but it is an "illusion", a "mirage", the sky reflecting on heat waves in the desert. They found his skeleton years later. Illusion is in the eye; but Delusion is in the brain. Illusion in the eyes can sometimes cause Delusion in the brain ... "Blind in Mind". "But, their minds were blinded ...." 2Cor.3:14.
(2) Bad Water "DELUSION" to quench desperate thirst. How many thousands of sailors, lost at sea, in tiny boats, died drinking salty sea water in their delusion to quench their awful thirst and preserve their lives? Salt water is a "Deadly Remedy" to quench thirst. There's a place in the Chihuahuan Desert of far West Texas; a rare place to cross the Pecos River, during frontier days, called Horse Head Crossing. In those early days of Texas, during Comanche Moon, Comanche Indian raiding parties, on horseback, crossed here going south into Mexico and then back north to their home camps in places like Palo Duro Canyon. The Butterfield Overland Stage also crossed the Pecos at Horse Head. The great cattle drivers, Charles Goodnight, John Chisum, and Oliver Loving all crossed at Horse Head going west as they also crossed the Red River going north with herds of thousands. Wagon Trains crossed at Horse Head on their way to California. Horse Head was a very dangerous Crossing but the only one for a hundred miles. It got its name from the multitude of horse skulls and skeletons littering the banks on both sides of the River. They died there after long, hard distances of waterless desert. Death was usually a result of too great an intake of the briny, salty water or getting trapped in quicksand. Many pioneers and Indians died there as well. This longed for "River of water" salvation ... often became a "Deadly Remedy" for them or their animals. It was not an illusion which drove them to drink too much from the Pecos but their "delusion".
(3) The "Bleeding The Patient" Healing Procedure of Medical History.
For centuries, before modern times, "bleeding" the sick and wounded was common practice worldwide. When the patient died of it, "He died of his illness"; but when the patient lived, "He was healed by the bleeding procedure"... they thought. President George Washington is a case in point of this "Deadly Remedy". He came down with a case of Laryngitis and his "physicians" bled him of well over two quarts of his six or seven average quarts of blood. That's a third of his blood drained to heal him of his laryngitis. He died the following day of "Acute Laryngitis" .... they said. It was hard to prove cause of death in those days so they were absolutely certain the bleeding remedy was "good medicine". It was, in fact, a Deadly Remedy.
(4) And then there is the "Casino Remedy" for paying out of control, Terminal Debt.
If the multimillion dollar, space age, Casinos didn't win your money, before you leave, 99.9 % of the time, how did they pay for all those "illusions of winning" Mirages, Pyramids and New York City replications in Vegas and by the hundreds all over the nation? Why do they call slot machines "One Armed Bandits"? So here is a ten (each) credit card young couple 66 miles deep in a dark pit of debt despair. They have lived like millionaires on a "living wage" salary and are maxed out, bled dry, borderline suicidal, looking for a $561,241.89 check in the mail from an unknown benefactor, deceased uncle, or by mistake. When it hasn't yet arrived after 522 trips to the mail box, the little wife has a "sure cure" inspiration. "Johnny, you have never failed to win in Las Vegas on your "business" trips there. That may be our only hope to come up with that $561,241.89 we owe. Like you have told me many times, you are a born winner." Sooo ole Johnny takes his frequent flyer tickets and the grocery and house payment money, due six months ago, to Las Vegas ... from whence he has, in fact, NEVER left as a winner. "This time its different". "God knows I need money and he won't let me down". "Lady Luck is on my side today". "The stars are aligned just right". "I feel it in by bones". "I cannot lose!" "Somebody up there loves me". "I'm bringing home the bacon this time." Johnny lasted till midnight, slept in the Casino flower bed and flew home the next morning on his round trip Frequent Flyer. I know, this may sound stupid but ... actually it really is. It may also sound like exactly what our government has done with our national economy ... but, not so. What they have done to our American Family is much, much more stupid and far, far, far worse. Whatever is 666 miles below "Bankruptsy" is where they have taken us. Their "Debt Remedy" formula of one big dose of TARP plus two huge quantities of Qualtitative Easing plus enormous amounts of Stimulous Billions spent is, as Desert Mirages, Lost at Sea Delusions, Horse Head Crossings, Winnings in Vegas, and Remedial Bleeding ..."deadly remedies". "And if the blind lead the blind both shall fall..." said Jesus.
Pass it on. RB
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