Here an example of corporate infestation of a social-service organisation
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All Lions and friends,
Only 37 tickets remain available in our special lower reserved Lions section for the PAC12 Football Championship Game, Levi’s Stadium, 5 PM, Friday, December 1, 2017. The tickets are available to the public at $90 but we are offering at $50 as a fund raiser for Diabetes Youth Families (DYF) and camp scholarships. $15 of each $50 ticket sold goes to DYF. These remaining few tickets will sell fast, so please purchase now.
Stanford will be playing against USC. Remember, USC has the inspirational long snapper, Jake Olson, who is totally blind. ESPN will be televising nationally.
...[I]mmediately below is the website link to purchase tickets. Our Lions tickets are only available online. Purchase online, print for scanning, and bring to the game.
https://groupmatics.events/Lionsclub2
Expect Lions tail gate details in a future email.
For Lions, this is a hugely important corporate partnership opportunity with the PAC12 university system and Levi’s Stadium Management where they are co-promoting our elite relationship. Please know that we are already positioning Lions Clubs International for next year's NCAA National Football Championship game which will be held at our own Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara.
Please go online and purchase your tickets now, share this email and promote with your friends and neighbors, and let’s have some Lions fun.
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Why not just send $15 to the DYF and watch the game from your house?
There are travel expences, lodging expences, food expences, and more expences. There is the $50 ticket.All these expences just to donate $15 to DYF.
Do you really want to experience security theatre when you attend the game? Do you really want somebody treating you as a potential security threat just because you show up?
Far better to just donate directly to DYF. You can donate $50 and view the game from the comfort of your house. DYF gets $50 instead of $15 and you get none of the aggravation that attending the game would impose upon you. It's a win-win.
LIONS is about loving individuals offering nutritive services....corporations are just institutions through which individuals work....this emphasis on corporate options is contrary to what LIONS is about.....
2017-08-04
12 Adoration Affirmation and Public Piety
A pledge of allegiance is a promise to obey. A promise to obey a symbol, or a structure that it represents, coupled with lies, is an invalid promise. Rational promises made by competent parties to competent parties are valid because they are real.
Let’s take a look at the adoration affirmation
I pledge allegiance to [I promise to obey]
the flag of the United States of America, [a symbol] and to
the republic for which it stands, one nation, under g-d, indivisible, [a structure through which folks steal from folks to finance assaults against folks by folks]
with liberty[compared to the rest of the world, US is 18th from top freest government jurisdiction, down from 2d freest government jurisdiction]
and justice [justice does not exist]
for all [without liberty, no one gains].
Francis Bellamy wrote this affirmation in 1892 to motivate school administrators to buy flags to display throughout their buildings, and display on the outside. He was a self-confessed socialist who dreamed of a utopia of regulated folks, indoctrinated through repeated articulation of the affirmation. More folks bought more flags.
Looks to me like the affirmation is a sales tool. Why do folks want to recite a sales tool?
Looking at public piety I see that prayer, like masturbation, is better done in private, unless with somebody to whom you are really close. Christianity's founder warned folks to pray privately, and to avoid public displays of piety.
Let’s take a look at the adoration affirmation
I pledge allegiance to [I promise to obey]
the flag of the United States of America, [a symbol] and to
the republic for which it stands, one nation, under g-d, indivisible, [a structure through which folks steal from folks to finance assaults against folks by folks]
with liberty[compared to the rest of the world, US is 18th from top freest government jurisdiction, down from 2d freest government jurisdiction]
and justice [justice does not exist]
for all [without liberty, no one gains].
Francis Bellamy wrote this affirmation in 1892 to motivate school administrators to buy flags to display throughout their buildings, and display on the outside. He was a self-confessed socialist who dreamed of a utopia of regulated folks, indoctrinated through repeated articulation of the affirmation. More folks bought more flags.
Looks to me like the affirmation is a sales tool. Why do folks want to recite a sales tool?
Looking at public piety I see that prayer, like masturbation, is better done in private, unless with somebody to whom you are really close. Christianity's founder warned folks to pray privately, and to avoid public displays of piety.
2017-07-27
11 Membership Numbers Decline
.Membership numbers may continue to decline because
as more folks comply with more mandates to spend their income on items for their own good, less income for anything else, including dues and contributions, remain.
as more folks claim benefits from coercively-funded sources, demand for benefits through voluntarily-funded sources drops. As demand for benefits through voluntarily-funded sources drops, interest in funding these sources drops. This declining interest in funding leads to declining interest in membership.
as long as LIONS insist on trying to host parasitic entities representing coercively-funded sources, LIONS will continue to weaken as service-providers, and as a source of personal fulfillment through voluntary service. The more government folks do, the less government folks let volunteers do. Over time, volunteers spend resources complying with mandates, instead of investing resources in service opportunities, or using these resources to make grants or loans to qualified recipients. Over time, complying volunteers forget their connection to, and lose interest in, LIONS.
By the way, at what age point is there a significant membership number drop-off?
I get that LIONS Clubs flourish when folks do not turn to coercively-funded sources for help with social concerns.
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as more folks comply with more mandates to spend their income on items for their own good, less income for anything else, including dues and contributions, remain.
as more folks claim benefits from coercively-funded sources, demand for benefits through voluntarily-funded sources drops. As demand for benefits through voluntarily-funded sources drops, interest in funding these sources drops. This declining interest in funding leads to declining interest in membership.
as long as LIONS insist on trying to host parasitic entities representing coercively-funded sources, LIONS will continue to weaken as service-providers, and as a source of personal fulfillment through voluntary service. The more government folks do, the less government folks let volunteers do. Over time, volunteers spend resources complying with mandates, instead of investing resources in service opportunities, or using these resources to make grants or loans to qualified recipients. Over time, complying volunteers forget their connection to, and lose interest in, LIONS.
By the way, at what age point is there a significant membership number drop-off?
I get that LIONS Clubs flourish when folks do not turn to coercively-funded sources for help with social concerns.
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2017-06-28
10 Leading to Misery
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be [there].
—Rosalynn Carter
Who decides ought? who proclaims should? who mandates shall?
During the 1914-1917 era, U S residents did not want to go to war, but a LION idol, as President, got folks to go to war, anyway.
During the 1939-1941 era, U S residents did not want to go to war, but a President, lionised by many as a wonderful fellow, got folks to go to war, anyway.
Those presidents decided that war was better for their friends than trade, regardless of the prices other folks paid: diminished liberty, money stolen from them (aka taxation), heartbreak due to combat deaths of loved ones, and more.
Folks did not want war. The leaders led them to war, anyway.
Leadership is over-rated. Far better to counsel, to consult, to collaborate, to coordinate, than to compel, to coerce, to command, to charge.
—Rosalynn Carter
Who decides ought? who proclaims should? who mandates shall?
During the 1914-1917 era, U S residents did not want to go to war, but a LION idol, as President, got folks to go to war, anyway.
During the 1939-1941 era, U S residents did not want to go to war, but a President, lionised by many as a wonderful fellow, got folks to go to war, anyway.
Those presidents decided that war was better for their friends than trade, regardless of the prices other folks paid: diminished liberty, money stolen from them (aka taxation), heartbreak due to combat deaths of loved ones, and more.
Folks did not want war. The leaders led them to war, anyway.
Leadership is over-rated. Far better to counsel, to consult, to collaborate, to coordinate, than to compel, to coerce, to command, to charge.
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