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I agree with what you have said and it is impossible to discuss any topic with them because they think you are crazy and what you would say to them can not be true even though you can prove it.

A book I have read, 180 Degrees , made the comment that you can not convert people with facts ; you have to point them in the right direction and let the find out themselves.

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Thank you Sarah. This was very encouraging to me & came at a strategic time in dealing with exactly what David in the comment section also described.

I really enjoyed your writing in itself & the content was beautiful along with the picture.

I live in a very small town, less than 500 people.

Heaven help us or we will not be helped. We are so far down the road, it is, at times, impossible to see how we can ever turn back . . . but if we help ourselves by desiring the Intervening Help from above, I still believe the Father will answer & meet the heart-cry, if it is made.

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Heck, we don't avoid our neighbors. We don't even know them. Some move in, live for years two houses down, move away, and we never spoke to them. There are no cultural centers, to town squares, no commons where people gather. Who are all these people? Beats me. Of my whole neighborhood, I know two names.

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Good point Sean. And it got even worse during and after covid and is being pushed on us. You convinced me as I am looking for a new place, to look for one within an actual community structure. Buyers and renters can vote with their wallets.

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Good luck and good hunting. Small town Idaho, up in the mountains along winding narrow roads, that might be a good place to start.

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There are actually a lot of small towns in Florida that should fit the bill. Also, a place called The Villages intentionally designed for community but over 55, retirement community. Idaho, no doubt beautiful and idyllic, is likely too cold for this former Northerner now spoiled by the southern sun :)

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Well done and said ma’am. And modernity in a lot of has emotionally handicapped a lot of our fellow humans sadly.

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People in America have no link to the town they grew up in, because the town they grew up in was already a disintegrated community when they arrived. People just get up and move when they don't like it or don't like something that has begun happening there. Nobody fights for their town, even if they still live in it. Globalism has further degraded 'local' and unless you live in a farming community, most likely urban decay just happens and nobody does much about it. Entire streets decay, get their windows broken and graffiti spreads. People let their towns die because the rich move out, and the poor who remain can barely survive anyways and have no energy or time to clean the place up, and whoever is left in charge is corrupt. Wandering the youtubes you'll find churches left to fall apart, with the owners holding out for their 'million dollars' even though it's located in an abandoned town. Outsiders move in and further erode the place with crime and drugs.

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Had to spend many years denying the trauma set upon myself and my family for decades because the act of reviling those who caused the conflict was too unproductive and was likely to inflict more harm than good on loved ones. Tyranny is the problem that the American revolution tried to overcome. The high connectivity of the modern world does not provide relief from such “big city” is a small town concerns but intensifies them.

We should recognize that a house divided against itself will not stand is a vital teaching. Also consider the facade towns of the American west with a complete hidden underground infrastructure just behind the false fronts. How capital built them and the corruption became ingrained and the normative. Without such formation the emphasis on abortion and the death culture could have never arisen.

The good old days of the happy village, with rare exceptions, never were. Exploitation, greed and inhumanity are persistent in a fallen world. False hopes of dialectical progress and utopian dreams are the Koolaid that many drink. The drink that is necessary is that which we celebrate this month. The Sacred Blood of Jesus. The only cure for the ruler of this world is The Kingdom of God.

Holiness is the goal, to be a saint. The only safe and effective remedy is The Sacred Blood, that with which we have been purchased. Fear not the one who can kill the body but the one who can kill the body and then throw you into Gehenna. Repent and be baptized for The Kingdom of God is at hand. There is no way in the village of yesterday nor that of tomorrow except to pick up your cross and follow Jesus.

The more things change the more they stay the same. A fitting cliche for the changing community that stagnates more than flows.

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I'm a devoted Catholic Catechist, Jesus Christ is indeed my Lord, but I disagree with your corrupt American West facade culture as quite simplistic and unreal. Without Christian morals and reliance on authentic American values the West could not have happened. All those new thriving towns and cities took people with vision to create and build. Brave people of faith. Your scenario is missing that blaming capitalism for the abortion and death culture forming today in America and throughout the world. That is a product of the rise of atheistic modernism devolving into decadence. Not Western American values.

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I was speaking of those very real and specific railroad brothel towns built with actual false fronts. These were not the dominant types of town in the west but were generally associated with regions of eminent domain corruption. That is in areas stolen by the robber barons from the good people who went to peacefully settle in fertile lands. These criminals were atheists but often found a ( often alcoholic ) preacher as a front man for the brothel towns.

These were indeed few and some may never have been revealed for their origins. That is, such early history may have been paved over in a town or two with no one ever catching on. But they fed the worst of DC politics. That is my point. The corruption in DC has a long and dirty history.

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We're called to perfect this earth and this world creating a reflection of heaven on earth - so some of these earth people are corrupt yet they build things with the tools available such as capital and will power. We're called to build things that are not corrupt with the tools available such as capital and God's will power. Just don't lose sight of that as you witness and experience all this corruption.

The world is more corrupt than it ought because too many modern Christians complain in fear instead of being Christians and doing the works of Christ. We have a prayer we say every day and its second phrase is, "Thy Kingdom come they will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven." We are God's body on Earth to make that will happen. Our Father has no other body on this Earth. He gave it to us to do - that is our work. Do it and you'll see corruption diminish much quicker than most think possible.

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The narcissist culture that leads to loneliness, fear and division is a root cause for the virtue signaling and identity politics that underlie the ghosting phenomenon. What you speak of is the light of Christ and God making all in all. The woke and communist pundits see a dialectical progressive agenda as equal or greater than the truth of which you speak. Prayer is the only way to open these eyes to the attachments of the poor in spirit lost in deceit.

We can understand redemptive suffering in contemplating His Passion. It is that mercy that fills and repairs the wounded world and soul.

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What & where is this lovely picture?

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Bebenhausen, Germany

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Contemporary or in the long past?

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Contemporary photo, but probably similar to the long past.

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If your neighbors are Democrats then ya, ghosting works! 🤣🤣🤣

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They're likely not Democrats now but Marxists. Marxists took over & have indoctrinated useful idiots to believe & do what the Party tells them regardless of plain facts. They think they're voting for socialism but what they're getting is dictatorship. Thanks to gov't schools they're ignorant of history & repeat the same disastrous mistakes.

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