Are My Conclusions Upon This Blogsite (& Nuff Said) A Contradiction-In-Terms...Well, YES (& No)...- I Find I Simply Cannot Help Heralding the Refreshing Sight/Prospect of a World Leader 'Wearing His Heart Upon His Sleeve', A Real NO-GO Area in This Day & Age of Deep-Seated Duplicity and Double-Dealing...

In That Vein I Find Myself - In This Day & Age of Playing it Safe & Never Letting Others Know What One Really Thinks & Feels (Afraid of Upsetting the Apple Cart & Ruffling Any Number of Highly Sensitive Feathers), Almost Awestruck By & Unable to Control My Involuntary Inner Reaction of 'Hear, hear!" Upon Hearing and Witnessing (Upon the Box) the Other Night, United States President Joseph Biden - FAR FROM RESILING AN IOTA From His 'Reckless & Precipitous' Remarks Concerning Vladimir Putin - Actually, Unbelievably Doubling Down Upon the Same...Suggesting Not Just That He Never Meant/Intended Them To Be Taken 'Literally' (by the Russians/Putin Etc) As Any Kind of (New and Worrisome, Regime Change-Oriented) Policy Tweak/Redirection, Those Remarks Merely Being His Own Personal & All-Too Human If Highly Visceral Reaction to/Take on the (In)Human Tragedy Unfolding Day-by-Day In (and Around) the Ukraine, But Moreover, and More Importantly, HAD NO INTENTION WHATSOEVER of Backing Down From Or Retracting/Walking Back Said Remarks...

And neither should he. For once he's effectively called Putin's bluff, well knowing that were the Russian President to use such as a pretext for a full-on nuclear war with NATO et al, he'd have already decided upon the same already...

Nevertheless, if it does serve to fuel Putin's ire (and doubtless Putin'll twist it for all it's worth), and it does, however indirectly, contribute to WW111, *we'll doubtless one and all retract such an apology and resile ourselves from he same, judging Mr Biden somewhat differently...

Perhaps America's second ever Roman Catholic president is taking a leaf out of his forbear's book, JFK coining that unforgettable "better dead than red" line, which thankfully - after a precipitate eleventh-hour standoff at both the Bay of Pigs & in the Cuban Missile Crisis...saw the Russians - under the cool and collected leadership of the relatively enlightened Nikita Khrushchev, back down... 

*If we're even around to do so, that is...

Or, rather, the Judgment Books of Heaven one day soon will, as a depopulated Earth itself gives way to the long-anticipated Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and, after a 1,000-year interim during which the saints themselves participate in a careful examination and perusal of selfsame books of record, they are opened to the (stunned) sight (and subsequent subdued silence) of one and all...

"Here I Stand - I Don't Care [Give a Fig-Leaf/a Rat's Razoo] What Hollywood [Et Al] Says": A Refreshingly Honest - If Ever So Politically Incorrect, In-Your-Face - Sentiment Florida's Republican Governor Ron de Santis Was Reported Having Expressed in Regards to the State's (and Nation's) Ever More Vocal & Frankly Intolerant and Militant LGBT 'Leadership' , & In Particular to the Federal (&/Or State) Mandating of LGBT Etcetera Propagandist Brainwashing of - Would You Believe It - Kids From Kindergarten Age & Upwards...Unbelievably, In That The Old (Sarcastic) Adage 'Only in California' No Longer Applies, 'Californication' Now Truly a Plague Across the Entire Length & Breadth of the DIS-United States of America...

Something/a matter, incidentally, upon which the Russian President is, oddly enough, 'right on'...

Oh for more people - women and men, boys 'n girls (whether 'teeny-boppers' or pre-adolescent) - with the grit, the gumption, the gall (& the gonads, if you will); the moral calibre, the depth of character, to do the same; to call a spade a spade, and to do so unapologetically and forthrightly, 'devil take the hindmost'...

But before you rather automatically and reflexively relegate my views to those of some prehistoric cave-dweller, and instantly and instantaneously 'discontinue' reading my blogposts and make me the sorry little subject of your upcoming round of 'cancel culturism', let me respectfully beg to differ (from that rather harsh and negative assessment/evaluation), and remind you that such bold and courageous stands and stances actually follow in the footsteps of and in the good old tradition of such moral giants as...

Martin Luther King: in our own day willing to go to gaol and beyond - and even die if necessary, as ironically he eventually did as a martyr in the righteous cause of civil rights for *all Americans - in defence of those timeless principles of truth and justice, of life, liberty and happiness for all people...

His namesake, 450-some years previous, Martin Luther: who nailed his 95 theses to the door of that fabled church in Wittenberg (Germany), ***declaring: "Here I stand, I cannot [in good conscience] do otherwise."

Or as a certain modest, self-effacing servant of that selfsame God once put things (in a classic quote it would be hard to better):

The greatest want of the world is the want of men -

men who will not be bought or sold;

men who in their inmost souls are true and honest;

men who do not fear to call sin by its right name;

men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole;

men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

(P. 57, Education.)

(Though I've no doubt whatsoever that the writer, Ellen Gould White (nee: Harmon), would've included women in that statement were she to be alive today.)

*As a song my (almost 24-years deceased) beloved Grandma (Wilhelmina) - 'Billie' as she was affectionately known - once shared with me, 'Jesus Loves the Little Children', expresses things:

Jesus loves the little children, **all the children of the world...

red and yellow, black and white, **all are precious in His sight,

Jesus loves the little children of the world... 

**In 'quoting' said song of yesteryear I'm only too well aware that folk reading this may well turn upon me and, as folk in His day did with Jesus, (effectively) say: "Physician, heal thyself!" In other words, I'm declaring the 'all-importance' of love, whilst evidently denying the same to a large number of people...i.e. those affiliated with the LGBT community...

Not at all, not even on your nelly - if you happen to have one, which is doubtful...

Jesus Christ had and displayed - once for all time - His undying love for every single person who has ever lived, yes, even the likes of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Pol Pot, Mao-tse Tung, Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Vladimir Putin - just to name a few of the infamous 'characters' who've strode, larger than life, across the stage of human history...

upon a lonely cross (of Calvary) outside the city gate (of Jerusalem) on Golgotha's hill in Palestine...

But the love there demonstrated proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was sin which caused the death of God's dear Son, and that that sin is so deadly serious that it cost the very life of God to atone...

...so let's beware of considering and treating anything that God's own word deems sin/ful to be anything but...

No, in this life we may not always - or ever - understand all the whys and the wherefores - if anyone was ever a fly on the (night)wall listening to my 'conversations' with my Heavenly Father sometimes they'd realize I know of what I speak (although they'd find it odd that a Christian could carry on so, and might well even disbelieve that I was really one after all, but be that as it may)... 

***Admittedly it's quite possible, though such a sentiment well expressed Luther's feelings upon that fateful occasion, he actually spoke those words on another, such as when he faced the intimidations of cardinals and prelates and priests in a convocation of a church court...

Postscript:

And yes, though it's taken me a heckuva long time to 'come out' and 'out myself' (as it were) - but certainly not in the way that folk hearing such a disclaimer normally assume one means - I will here and now declare my conviction that (the now in/famous) kiwi-born 'Australian' Israel Falau...

did absolutely nothing wrong a couple years ago when he simply echoed the Holy Bible's declaration that there are various sins/sinful practices which - unrepented of - will usher one into eternal darkness

But more on that on another occasion, suffice to add (Jesus' own most searching words, ones among many He fearlessly uttered which are strangely neglected by those who only seem to hear and notice His gentle, meek and mild sayings in accents of softest love & doings of merciful lovingkindness )...  

...that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God...

I'm sorry, folks, yes, Jesus Himself did say such a thing, and as the 'ole sticker succinctly puts it:

God said it - I believe it - and that settles it.

El finito. End of story. Nuff said.

The Fellow's [Ukraine's U N Ambassador's] Theology May Well Be Questionable, But His Sentiment is Spot-On: Yes, God On High Can Forgive ANY & EVERY Sin, Even the Most Heinous & Reprehensible, & Folk Go Absolutely Nowhere Upon Death; They Stay Dead in the Ground, Awaiting the Resurrection (of the Good, to Eternal Life; & of the Evil, to Everlasting Death)...But Those Involved in The Sins Solomon Singles Out (Under Divine Inspiration) As An Abomination to God, Such As the Shedding of Innocent Blood - Unless Converted & Brought to Repentance - Do Indeed, Upon That Fateful DAY of the LORD, Go Straight to Hell (i.e. the Lake of Fire), Whereupon There'll Be No Second Chances...

 For it is appointed unto men once to die, [and then] the [J]udgment...

Putin Putting All the Pieces Into Play to Position Our World Into Its Final Chapters...But Thank God, I've Read the Last Page (& Several Earlier, Penultimate Ones)...And He Ain't Even Mentioned (Explicitly, Anyhow), He's Such a Cipher In the Ultimate Scheme of Things - If. Admittedly, A Rather Potent and Presumptive, Presumptuous & Precipitous - & Cruel, Callous, Criminal & (Self-)Condemned Specimen of Inhumanity...Who's Put In A 'Good' Showing Now To Be Placed Right Up There Next to Adolf & Co (I Kid You Not)...

And the fact that he's seriously considered and consulted the Chinese Government means this fellow is playing for keeps and will stop at absolutely nothing in his bid to achieve the unachievable and defend the indefensible...

For God's sake he must be stopped (though it won't be by earthly means or arms). No indeed.

Marina Ovsyannikova, Heroine For Our Times

To Be Continued...(or see 'I Realize You Might Not Happen to Agree, But This Is How I See It Anyhow')... 

Putin a War Criminal? For Real, & A Helluva Lot Worse: Hey, Even Adolf Hitler , Ferocious Fiend (in Human Skin) That He Was, Didn't Deliberately Target/Single Out Orphanages, Kindergartens & Old Women (& Men)...

*A murderous despot hunting down and poisoning political opponents...

*A petty tyrant thus quashing legitimate dissent at home and abroad...

*An imperialist abroad with no qualms about murdering innocent civilians posing him no threat whatsoever...

In fact, as Newstalk ZB's London correspondent Rob/Rod Little summed him up so succinctly yesterday morning: "Many think Putin's insane - mad...he's not mad/insane, he's evil."

And believe me or don't, people, there's one heckuva qualitative difference!

Disclaimer:

Though I'm not for a moment even pretending that Hitler & Co did not systemically hunt down, capture, 'ship off' and ultimately dispose of all manner of folk, without any regard to age/vulnerability/innocence...

...only that he and his own did not systematically identify, target and then blow to smithereens such folk...

Perhaps (you could well argue) a technical point of quibble-some value, but one that strikes me anyhow.

Heartfelt-ly Honouring Russian Heroines and Heroes One & All: All Those Courageous Russian War Dissenters Coming Out of the Proverbial Woodwork Throughout the Length & Breadth of the Land - Yes, Apparently Even Including Siberia - To Register Their Heartbreak and Disgust at the Loathsome Deeds of Their Dastardly 'Leader'...Boldly Going Where So Few of Their Compatriots Have Ever Gone Before Or Are Now Prepared to Go: to Face the Full-Fledged Throttle of Putin's Police State Henchmen

Yeah, *"Don't [Let's Not] Mention [That There's] The War [Going On - in the Ukraine]"...Unless, That Is, You're Up For/To 15 Years Behind Bars in Sub-Arctic Siberia

*With due acknowledgement to Basil Fawlty (John Cleese) for that unforgettable refrain in his unforgettable TV sitcom...

Freedom May At Times Mean One Has Nothing Left to Lose...But One Thing's For Certain: Championing True Liberty Will Always Cost Us Something, As President Joe Biden Convincingly Declared to His Countrymen and Women This Very Day, As He Appealed for America-wide Support WHATEVER THE ECONOMIC PAIN While Acknowledging the Major (Energy) Sanctions His Administration Was About to Authorize/Institute; & As the Fleeing ............ Intoned (to His Beloved Kiri) As the War Machines of the Invading Martians Settled in the London Commons During the Ongoing Onslaughts in HG Wells' Seminal 'War of the Worlds', "There Are SOME THINGS Worth Living For...& SOME THINGS WORTH DYING FOR"

And so one cannot but admire the staunchness and stamina being shown - on display to the whole world - of Ukraine's gutsy statesman for our times, Volodymyr *Zelensky...

...nowhere seen as dramatically as he this very day 'virtually' addressed the UK House of Commons in a speech which channeled that never to be forgotten rallying speech of Winston Churchill to his people...

...declaring Ukrainians would fight the invading Russians in the fields and in the forests...

wherever the shameless invaders might approach them...

Winston Churchill would have joined the standing parliamentary ovation...

Would he what!

P.S. No, not Yelensky!