Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Classic Car Show

There recently was an old car show in town. They sure don't make them like they use too! 


It reminds me of a classy time.


This was before my time but something about this wooden door makes me want to stop and look. 

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Cars no longer have hood ornaments... why??
















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Classic
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American pride, American made


Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Vintage Button Bouquet

Next April I will be getting married to the man I love! And we'll be doing a vintage wedding, so for my bouquet mom and I have been collecting old pins, buttons, and earrings to use! 

So after scouring a few garage sales and second hand stores, here's what we've found so far! 

I like this one the best :)



Sunday, May 27, 2012

The Photography of a Sapling, With Hopes to be an Oak of Christ

I think it's time to do a little bit of a lighter post after doing a few that involve way too much thinking! ;) 

One of my favorite things to do in the summer time is to take long walks in parks and take photos of God's beautiful creation. I especially like to shoot pics of old wood and trees, they always seem to catch my eye! So I wanted to share a few of my top shots. 
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This one was a stop by the side of the road near the highway.

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"Train me, God, to walk straight, then I'll follow your true path. Put me together, One heart and mind, then undivided, I'll worship in joyful fear" Ps. 86:11 

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Out in the boonies somewhere along the borderline of South Dakota. We were on our way to see the ever so good looking Trace Adkins. :)
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"As I went down in the river to pray, Studyin' about that good ol' way and who shall wear, The robe and crown Good Lord, show me the way"
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Peaceful
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Even in frozen sleep, there in lies beauty.

Thank you Lord for your beauty and your creation, thank you for trees and may we be more like them. Their foundation is strong, their roots are deep, and they ever reach towards to you, bearing fruit to bring glory to your Name. 

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Feminism Part 2: Modern Feminism

   As I stated in the previous post, feminism began as an equal opportunity endeavor; to play an equal part in the choosing of this countries leaders, and to be recognized as equal voters. Feminism has since then taken a turn from its original views and has adopted a new set of codes and agendas.


  The "second wave" of feminism, as it is referred to, began in the 1960's. It got it's kick-start from a book entitled "The Feminine Mystique" written by Betty Friedman. This book was about the common housewife and how she was bored with the home environment, and desired something "more then my husband, my children, and my home". Friedman called it "the problem that has no name". This ignited a flame that lay smoldering for many years in the lives of American Feminists. So in 1966, a group of 28 men and women banded together and formed what's known as N.O.W. (National Organization for Women). N.O.W. held to end cultural, sexual, and political discrimination against women, and to "Take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American Society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities there of in truly EQUAL (keep in mind this word) partnership with men".


   Now at first glance this seems like a fair thing to fight for right? Equality. But, not when the battle for equality becomes one of superiority. Superiority? Where does this word come from you might ask? I see nothing about being superior or oppressing the male sex. Right? No, wrong. Why? Well, let us take a look at why.


   What does something or someone do in order to become superior? They destroy what keeps them from their superiority, the very thing that inhibits them and gets in their way. This is the nature of mankind, from as drastic as Hitler's attempt to destroy the Jewish community, down to a child pushing another for the right of way to the swing set. That's a little harsh isn't it? Is it really? Unfortunately no, this is reality. So what would be the feminist's target? It's already been hinted too above; the home, marriage, and family. "The problem that has no name". The destruction of the most fundamental, the safe, and the familiar. In September of 1969, members of the Feminist movement banded together outside the New York Marriage Licence Bureau and handed out pamphlets that stated this, ""All the discriminatory practices against women are patterned and rationalized by this slavery-like practice. We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage."


   Another Feminist author that played a significant role during this time was Germaine Greer. Her main literary work is "The Female Eunuch" .  Greer also had a view on marriage and stated that "If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love, but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism". She also stated that "The housewife is an unpaid employee  in her husbands house in return for the security of being a permanent employee".  As for marriage she says "Never advise anyone to go to war or get married"  and that "you can't share your life with another person, not really. That's an illusion".  Greer as well as many other modern Feminists  hold to the view that women should not be bound by marriage, but should explore their sexuality, and not hold to celibacy or monogamy. 

   So now that the home is messed up, what next? Indoctrination. The new found revelation that now that we are free from this oppression, we are better then the oppressor. Telling these "revolutionized" women that ...
Men hate them; "Women have very little idea of how much men hate them" Germaine Greer.
They (men) are the enemy; "Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their oppressors" Evelyn Cunningham 
They(women) will be stereotyped; "The emotional, sexual, and physiological stereotyping of females begins at birth when the doctor says, 'it's a girl'" Shirley Chisholm
Men bring them down; "Most women are one man away from welfare" Gloria Steinham
They are bound; "Women's chains have been forged by men, not anatomy" Estelle R. Ramey
   
   And it can continue and continue till they're blue in the face, but the things said to these women are falsities, and exaggerations  to promote the superiority and self proclaimed entitlement of the feminist movement. To destroy the God-given roles of man and woman, the desecration of the home, sanctity of marriage, and to indoctrinate the minds of misinformed women and men. The next post is to delve a little deeper into the male role in feminism, their response to it, and the taking away of masculinity. 

Thank you for reading. 






Saturday, March 24, 2012

Feminism Part 1: Origins and Early Stages

I've recently been inspired and driven to write about something that has caught my attention as of late. It's always been present in our world, had its' surges and lulls. Uttered in secrecy, to proclamation in the streets. Given a voice to young and old, both positively and controversially. Has faced acceptance with open arms, to dismissal and rejection. What is this thing, you may ask, that causes such diverse reaction? It is defined by Webster as, "the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes." Answer? Feminism.

Feminism has definitely faced its ups and downs, even to this day. It especially struggled during its early development in the 19th century. Before this time, women held to the ideas and principles of what is known today as the "Cult of Domesticity" or the "Cult of True Womanhood". The idea of this was that a woman held to four virtues; Piety, Purity, Submissiveness, and Domesticity. To put it generally, a pure, religious mother and housewife. This view was widely accepted until 1848 when opposition began to develop and the Seneca Falls Convention took place. Women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, along with other women and men supporters, took the first steps towards women's suffrage.
                                                                  Lucretia Mott

Anyone reading a School House Rock fan? Cause I am! Be it "I'm Just a Bill" or "Conjunction Junction", but they also had one about women's suffrage, entitled "Sufferin' Until Suffrage", and suffer they did.


 They battled opposition and fought for decades for voting equality. Through the 1850's, until 1861 when the Civil War began, and it fell to the side. Shortly after it ended, the 15th Amendment was ratified, classifying that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude". "Citizens" here referred  to African American men now being allowed to vote.
                                                                 Susan B. Anthony
This faced both positive and negative reactions from women suffrage advocates. The opposing side included Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. They used this to bring awareness and campaign for universal suffrage, to include women. It became a state by state struggle and process. In western states however, they were far more sympathetic to this cause and states such as Wyoming and Utah had already given women suffrage rights, during the 1870's. By 1920, 14 states, primarily western, had given women the right to vote.

Finally on August 18th, 1920, the 19th Amendment was passed allowing the "Rights of citizens of the United States to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex". Women had won the right to vote and thus ended what is known as the first wave of feminism.

These early stages of Feminism battled for equality with men for voting rights in our country. Feminism has since then evolved into something different then what these ladies fought for. What I plan to do in the following posts, is to go in depth and show that the battle for equality has now become the battle for supremacy. And also touch on the subjects of modern Feminism, male roles in it, and how we've lost the true meaning of real manhood, and womanhood. Thank you for reading.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Winter-Time

Winter sets in and it grows colder, daylight is shortened and the night lingers.
The trees are bare, they seem aged and older. I look on as the air bites my fingers.


I glance at the midnight sky, the stars appear to quiver. A lonely leaf upon a tree, in the wind it shivers. 


"By the breath of God frost is given" Job 37:10


For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.  Job 37:6


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