Flashback Alert

6/03/09 - 4th Day - After Breakfast. Hey, things are looking bleak out there, so welcome back to A Process Driven Life - your daily jolt of alternative hope. Well, June is here and today was supposed to be our "First Wednesday" community work day, but the rains came last night and we had to cancel the work day. I would guess we probably received about 2 inches, which is very, very nice. Our best rain this year I would say. We are doubly blessed because the Lord saw fit to protect us from some pretty severe weather in the area last night, including tornadic vortices and heavy hail. Praise God for his mercy. Anyway, I should get some time today to work on the first submission of the June Book Project, so I pray, if the Lord wills, that I will have that ready to post tomorrow morning some time.

Hey, the dollar continued to decline as other nations begin to wake-up to the fact that Amerika's economy is on life support. Russia and other countries are beginning serious talks on getting out of the dollar as their reserve currency. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the hypnotist with the soothing voice in charge of telling other countries that we are not falling as our elevator screams towards final impact, was laughed at by an audience of Chinese when he waved his hand in a Star Wars mind control manner and said, "Our dollar is strong and your investments are safe". All the while, The Amazing Timothy has been unable to sell his house in a rich New York Suburb, even after he dropped the price to less than what he paid for it. He finally had to rent out it so he didn't bleed to death from the house payments on an empty castle. But things are fine and we are already seeing the signs of a strong recovery... right.

Oh, and someone shot a missile at a passenger jet here in Texas, but you'd never know it because the mainstream national news isn't touching the story. In fact, even though the pilot who reported the incident is an ex-military man and even though he did an awesome job documenting the incident, the investigation is being kept hush-hush and at a low level with the local County Sheriff's office heading it! Yes, you see Homeland Security and the FBI are too busy following old men with ties to anti-tax groups, spying on people with conservative bumper stickers, and giving armed security to late-term abortion doctors to investigate a missile attack on a US passenger aircraft.

Enough of that.

FLASHBACK ALERT: So I was reading back through my early June blog posts of previous years, and I found some snippets I thought I'd share with you. This first is from June 2008 I believe...

"The thing that scares folks is that I am proposing an actual Biblical philosophy of Christian Agrarian Separatism, rather than just offering agrarianism as a pretty good lifestyle choice. Our approach condemns the world that hates Christ, and the industrial system that it has produced. It doesn't mollycoddle syncretists and worldlings, but challenges them to examine their foundations, and to read the Bible as it is written, and not through the rose-colored and skewed filter of industrial and commercial colonialism. The fact is, if folks listen to me (and they are listening in ever larger numbers) AND do what I am proposing, the world system that has corrupted and destroyed so many billions of souls would collapse around us. I have always preached that people have a fear of freedom, and nowhere is that more evident than in the nascent agrarianism movement. People want to live in a picture postcard, or imagine living in one, but they want to bring Egypt with them. They want renovation without revolution. They want a life with barnyard animals and chicken tractors, but they want them and air-conditioning and Wal-Marts and toaster pastries too. Every movement is killed by syncretism, and every attempt at change is destroyed by compromise. I understand that not everyone is going to agree with me. In fact, I expect almost nobody is going to agree with me. But I don't need a million man march to change the world. One man and one family at a time will be enough. Each family that unplugs from the modern apostate industrial and religious world, is a leg being kicked out from under the hologram of freedom and security most people have accepted as reality. That is a fact. Which makes me dangerous. You may write me off as a kook and an extremist, but don't ever think that I'm not dangerous. There is no more dangerous man than one who believes and who attempts to live what he preaches.

Think about that."

And this one, if I remember right, is from June 2007:

"Agrarianism naturally puts us into closer contact with God's creation. We hear (or see) His still small voice in the minute changes of the weather, in its extremes, in the animal and plant life. The example of the righteous in Israel in the Bible is interesting - the elect few were able to see the hand of God in conditions and events, and gave Him alone the glory for all His mighty works; when chastised they repented, and when blessed they praised God. The Puritans, also Agrarians, exemplified this understanding, instituting days of thanksgiving and days of humiliation based on their in-depth understanding of what God was doing in the creation. By contrast, Industrialism makes man blind and dumb to the hand of God and ignorant to His speaking and threatenings in His book of nature. Now, a thousand-million blind, deaf, and dumb industrial prophets – surrounded by air-conditioning, wall-to-wall carpeting, and sheet rock – preach peace to a people who have insulated themselves from anything God has to say in the creation. When the children of Israel refused to hear God, He spoke to them through Moses. Today's Moses is a pampered seminary graduate with well lotioned hands and tempered glass with a high R-value who considers Agrarianism to be an ill-informed lifestyle choice, an ignorant movement of simple-minded throwbacks, a folly-bound quest for dreamers who reject the “Great Commission” and eschew explosive evangelism.

It is interesting to me that our friends and family members still don't get it. Well, the fact is they don't want to get it. It's easy enough to explain if they cared to hear, which they do not. They still think their lives and choices are better than ours, and they cannot believe that anyone seriously would choose to live this life. In their minds even if we adults do choose this life, surely our children are only doing it out of obedience to their parents. They cannot comprehend that our children might follow after us. Who (they think) would possibly reject 4 years of the drunken debauchery in college, followed by the “better life” - 401k's, highway traffic, hypertension, drug stores, abortions, fag-preachers, apostate Sunday school, HDTV, and a ¼ acre bit of paradise in a subdivision, peacefuly jammed between two other homeowner/consumers and their pets? Oh, and let us not forget a lingering death in a nursing home with visits maybe once a week from family members treading the same path.

For generations, Christian Agrarianism was the foundation and ruling philosophy for our ancestors. Remember, the modern industrial lifestyle is still fairly new in the grand scheme of things. All of these things have become ubiquitous only in the last 100 years:

urban living, latch-key kids, public schooling and social indoctrination from 5 to 22 years of age, air-conditioning, cars, planes, the 'suburbs', punching a clock, retirement plans, convenience stores, superstores, microwaves, cell-phones, free condoms, radio, television... Oh, and we best not forget the computer and the Internet – only widely used for less than 20 years. So all of this is the gift and promise of the Industrial victory over Agrarianism... How's that workin' out for ya?

Stupid people (and I do not mean to be un-charitable) who become prophets and recruiters for the One-World Cult can not understand why a reasonable person can examine all the evidence and reject that thinking and way of life. In fact, some even consider it child abuse to raise our children like our grandparents were raised! Worst of all, these people act hurt and offended if you dare defend your way of life – even though their lifestyle has been on display these past decades and the disaster it has visited on lives and families is self-evident.

Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein (Jer. 6:16).

They said, “we will not walk therein – and neither will you if we can help it. If we can't convince YOU to abandon the old successful paths of your ancestors, then we will do our best to steal your children”.

You know what? My children do not want to go to college – and it is not because they are abused, mistreated, or brain-washed. In fact, they have more information on the subject than you do, thank you very much. My guarantee to you is that they will be better educated, wiser, more able to persevere and survive, and more willing to walk in obedience to God than the flaccid, mind-numbed slaves that your university can produce. We teach our children about the dangers and seductions of the secular cult of industrialism and its plans to subvert them:

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand (Eph. 6:10-13).

2 Corinthians says that we are not ignorant of the devices of the devil, and that is true – but some of you are. The best tool we have is to educate our children about the wiles and devices of the devil. To let them see the product of the worldview and lifestyle of this wicked world. The Bible says about any man who loves this world, that the love of the Father is not in him. The prophets and recruiters for this world system better heed what they do, even those of you who go around with the name of Christ on your lips."

So enough light reading for today. Y'all go out and have a great day, and be sure to tune in tomorrow (Lord willing) for the first installment of the new book.

Your servant in Christ Jesus,

Michael Bunker