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. 

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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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. 

9 About LIONS

• Liberty-that respect that folks get by exercising their freedom (the power to say no) from other parties to interactions. A link to luminous living. Your life without liberty is darker than with liberty. 
• Intelligence- Inquiry. Information, Insight; Individuals through Intelligent  Inquiry by gathering Information achieve Insight 
• Options-LIONS volunteer their lives, and their resources to non-coercively offering options and opportunity to  distressed folks 
• Nurturing- LIONS provide those services and resources that distressed folks require to resume their lives or to upgrade to better living.  
• Service- Who LIONS are; what they do. LIONS look at life, see what is, and what could be, and help bring about better living through voluntary action.

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8 LIONS v Government

LIONS-                                                                                             

This is why I WILL NOT cooperate with government folks. 

The first letter in LIONS is Liberty, not Loyalty, not fucking Leadership, not fucking Looting. LIONS have no business hanging out with government folks. LIONS have no business demanding that other folks die so that LIONS can fly....                                                                                        

Mind you, government folks administer legal frameworks through lethal means. When you say you value more than breath the maintenance of other folks or of critters, whose breath are you willing to stop to maintain those that you value? How many folks are you willing to kill your dreams to fulfill? 

 The second letter in LIONS is Intelligence, not Indoctrination, not Incarceration of innocents, not Intellectual Impoverishment... LIONS have no business promoting the destruction of children's minds through compulsory attendance to indoctrination institutes.... 

Mind you, government indoctrinaters administer legal frameworks through lethal means. When you say you value more than breath the indoctrination of other folks, whose breath are you willing to stop to maintain that which you value? How many folks are you willing to kill your dreams to fulfill? 

Third through fifth letters in LIONS are our nations safety-      twaddle....

• one collective ownership does not exist. only individual ownership is possible.
• two nation does not exist. nation is a concept that some folks use to bamboozle gullible folks into cooperating with the bamboozlers. 
• three there is no safety through, or for, imaginary or false entities. LIONS have no business promoting collectivism, imaginary entities, or fraud. 

Far better to think of those letters as Offering Needed Service. Loving Individuals offer needed service to those who suffer....not groups, individuals. Offer, don't force....Needed, not mandated....Service, not enslavement.... 

LIONS can be better folks by withdrawing support for using up-to-lethal force to compel folks to behave to their satisfaction. LIONS can do better by ignoring government initiatives

LIONS can do better by ignoring government or coercive institutions 

LIONS can do better by promoting self-directed living

LIONS can do better by promoting non-government, non-coercive solutions to social concerns 

LIONS can do better to remember that government folks administer legal frameworks through lethal means. 

When you say you value more than breath the maintenance of other folks or of critters, whose breath are you willing to stop to maintain those that you value? 

How many folks are you willing to kill your dreams to fulfill?

7 U.S. Veterans Recruitment to Lions Club

To those LIONS and friends who promote special consideration for protected classes... 

I flat-out oppose special regard for former or current government employees. 

YOU need to educate yourself about real life. 

YOU need to understand that governments are gangs, that's right, GANGS, made up of people who steal from other people to finance assaults that gang-associated people launch against other people. 

YOU need to understand that veterans were gang-bangers working for shot-callers. Start educating yourself with this http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm 

You are flat-out wrong to promote special regard for any class of applicants. You are flat-out wrong to promote "stronger communities". 

Let me remind you the the first letter of LIONS stands for LIBERTY; liberty makes each individual stronger. There is no such thing as institutional or collective liberty. 

6 Lions view of indoctirnation

From Lion Magazine July-August 2012 at http://mydigimag.rrd.com/publication/?i=118591

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The volunteer sector plays an important role in providing education- viewed by many experts-including the United Nations-as one of the root causes of the cycle of poverty.

Please read this sentence and tell me how cool this is....

I have known for years that the indoctrination incarceration industry is in fact set up to create poor people.  Isn't it cool that Lion Wayne wants to make that motive for government schooling clear?