NOW WOULD BE GOOD!

NOW WOULD BE GOOD!

In the U.S.A. it took the infamous, December 7, 1941, “sneak attack” on Pearl Harbor for us to finally realize that the war raging in Europe was an actual bombs and bullets threat to the existential existence of Humanity. Like the Nazi blitzkrieg launched in 1940-41 in Europe and England, the December 7^th sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was initiated by the then current Asian manifestation of the ancient self-appointed Super Persons who assume that their natural born right is to rule the world because they are literally Superior to the mere humans who are running all around thinking that they are equal or free or some such nonsense.

The Nazis of Germany and Japan's Shintaisei, para-fascist organization, were not halfway. The Retrogressors are never halfway. They were all in from the get go as they so efficiently demonstrated in the Pearl Harbor attack and in the Neville Chamberlain “Peace in our time” con.  In the case of the Nazis they had a great time for the first couple of years, thanks to the ignorance of the pacifists and isolationists in the United States who opposed FDR’s efforts to enter into “other people’s wars”. So duped were these folks that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise.

As we all know, once we decided to go All In, these fascist forces were roundly and soundly defeated. But recall that triumph came at a great cost of Human life and suffering for all of humanity, including the virtual erasing of the entire populations of two of Japan’s largest cities in non-seconds. The now current manifestation by the present puppets of these Super Persons is appearing in various governments around the world including the United States of America.

The goal, the same as it always has been,—and as it actually was, from time to time and here and there around the world, in the past who knows how many centuries—the goal is to Make the World Great Again, or more clearly, to reestablish the word rule of Despots. The actual meaning of this war cry, which is what it is, is to retrogress to a state of government for all by the Superior Few. They mean to accomplish this goal by getting rid of this Life, Liberty, and Justice for All non-sense. And, make no mistake, that goal includes the utter destruction of the ecosystems of this planet and vast numbers of the extraneous humans who are requiring all of this food and stuff.

In a technology based system, these retrogressive forces simply do not need and do not want all these consumers running around.

The Present situation is similar in that it is a worldwide, all-out assault by a subjectively aligned group of individuals in a number of Nations, (U/S., England, Russia, Brazil, just to name a few) on Humanity’s Self Evident Truths, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. The present situation is different in that, so far, with the exception of the very serious all-out war on the environment, it is mainly occurring on the subjective emotional and mental planes.

It seems prudent to grasp the chance of eliminating those forces as a real threat now.  For starters we can strive to regain control of the government of the United States in the upcoming elections. This would be an extension of the giant step we took to gain control of the House of Representatives. Notice friends, this cannot be a halfway effort. Even if Democracy is successful in regaining the Presidency and the Congress, halfway programs will not work.

It is precisely now that we need to realize that the Retrogressors are All In. They literally have nothing to lose, and having bombs and bullets war break out in any major way is not off the table for them.

Humanity simply does not have the time from both an environmental destruction point of view and from the destruction and replacement of Democratic Ideals with the Laws of the Kings point of view. It is a big thing. If it is to be a Good Thing, it cannot be a halfway thing.

As the young woman from Sweden, Greta Thunberg, says, “Just Do It”.

Re. David Koch:
A co-warrior asked me if the death of David Koch would "help the Light".

My sense is that the Koch empire still stands and is still deeply involved in the basics of replacing Democracy with some sort of fascist conglomerate where those who are, in their ancient assumption, supposed to rule, do rule.

It is difficult to know who most of these persons are because they live in very exclusive situations and shun a public presence. However it is also easy to know who some of these chosen ones are because they tell us. As the current occupant of the White House has recently informed us he is  the Chosen One and the King of Israel.

They demonstrate their power by the purchasing the people who are supposed to be implementing the democratic government, and use them to systematically destroy the democratic structures of that government.

The recent purchase of the White House, Senate, and Supreme Court  in the United states is an example.

David Koch was one of the more effective of these individuals because he looked so nice and appeared to be generous, and friendly. He was "an enthusiastic patron of the arts and a man-about-town."  That's the thing about Humanity's  most dangerous retrogressors. They all dress beautifully, and with few exceptions, such as the current president, have nice manners when they are in the public eye.

What exists behind these facades of "niceness" is a ruthless, heartless, highly intelligent, amoral, and unquenchable drive to dominate and own, to be Kings again. These individuals do not deal in halfwayness. they are one pointed and their aim is to dominate. Anything that might resemble an offer to "compromise" is a facade.

These individuals are not to be feared or hated. Triumph comes through Striving with Good Will to enhance the Light to grow the Common Good and General welfare on every level of life. This will  expose  the lie, for that which is not of the light cannot exist in the Light.

As has always been the case, we need to see clearly through their multitudes of  masquerades and posturings of concern for the people. When necessary, as in WW2, and now to we need to be totally adamant and unmoving in our resistance.

From the beginning the struggled. From the beginning we conquered.

Pragmatism: Sophistry in Action

Let’s take a look at what “pragmatism” when applied to Human Evolution really is:

Pragmatism is primarily a method for keeping people poor and stupid and kings rich.

Pragmatism is the nice suit of clothes that cowards wear while they are busy stealing our equality and justice.

Pragmatism is a con that offers a little to hide the fact that the Lot has been stolen.

Pragmatism is based on doubt. “It looks like to do that much will be too much, and it will fail. So let’s get a little that will satisfy the stupid people and make it look like we are doing something.”

Pragmatism is fear driven. I am afraid that we will not be able to go that far or to get that much, so let’s get a little and at least we will have gotten something and that will look like success.

Pragmatism is THE product of sophistry. It is a huge con that tries desperately to look reasonable.

Pragmatism is based in a one dimensional materialistic view of reality that does not recognize Principles of Physics. “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Or you get out what you put in.

Pragmatism assumes that individuals act according to some one-dimensional, superficially and basically ignorant notions that control just how far people or individuals are willing to go before they give up, cave in, and lose their will and courage…..

Pragmatism creates the illusionary concept of Profit.

Pragmatists generate a materialistic value system that is used to measure the return of materialistic value from an effort, or “investment.” The amount of the returned materialistic value, power or money, makes the decision.

Pragmatism does not concern itself with fairy land Ideals such as The Common Good and General Welfare.

The pragmatist’s value system is based totally on the level of the shift in power/wealth that will result from any given effort. For example, if the super wealthy would have to part with 10 or 20 or 30 % of their owned power/wealth in order to have excellent health and educational systems that would serve the entire population, they would see that as impractical. Bedsides losing wealth it would not generate profit.

Instead the pragmatist Owners offer Private Insurance. Private Insurance as it functions today consists of for profit, private owned systems that actually generate huge profits for the Owners, adding to their wealth holdings. In these systems the people are actually paying for whatever merger health care the “insurance” would allow.

There's more. But you get the idea!

GAME TIME

Two great motions are simultaneously occurring. We, Planet Earth, are leaving and arriving. We are leaving the Piscean era, in which the dominant energies were Intelligence and one pointed focus, and entering the Aquarian era in which the dominant energies are Will, Love, and Manifestation. On a much larger “time” scale we are exiting the Kali Yuga Letters on Occult Meditation P. 353, and entering the Satya Yuga, Agni Yoga #511, Infinity 1, #16

Both of these motions have been going on simultaneously, in the case of the Piscean and Aquarian ages, probably for 4 or 5 centuries. In the larger case, well, a Yuga is an Age. The Kali Yuga or “black age” was 432,000 years. Who knows when its dominance began to give way to the Golden Age or the Satya Yuga?

In the Piscean and Aquarian case, the process is greatly accelerating. Almost daily now, we are being faced with worldwide politically driven upheavals and assorted atrocities. Although painful and horrible as they are, such events throughout history, even though what progress was achieved was shortly wiped out, have always been indicators of Evolution. They are indicators of and offer opportunities for significant change. (Think of the appearance of Jesus/Christ and the short time, 200 or so years, it took the Retrogressive forces to undo or cover up much of the message He brought. Or, for a more current example, look at what has been and is being done to various segments of our “Democracy” in the United States in just 2.5 years.)

The upcoming elections in the United States are the doorway to such meaningful and significant change. They offer, not another tired ride around the merry-go-round of half-way/no-way effect changes, but a serious opportunity to upgrade the consciousness of our Government. As long as the government is in the hands of “the self-crowned ignoramuses the frigidity of the Stone Age still prevails.” Infinity 1#16

I know that many, many of you are living in other parts of the One Earth, and of course, most of us realize that the boundaries which we use to designate various nations are quite meaningless in the reality of the fact that we all live in a synthesized energy field we call Earth. We know that what happens to our children, ourselves, the attacks on our liberty and justice anywhere in this unified system, happens to all of us. Also, any good we can cause to happen anywhere is ultimately good for all of us.

The One Force of Brotherhood, Reason, and Common Sense, that includes all of us, is highly engaged in preventing this from happening. And we are certain that we will prevail. However, as we have learned in centuries of struggle with these forces, the very best defense is a very good offense. Also, as we know from the painful experience, in the last 200 years, sitting around being holy and “spiritual” does not work.

The Cosmic Law of Tactica Adversa guarantees that offensive reaction. Its presence is signified by the free will of Humans to manifest it. The time for half-way efforts, or for asking, or praying, or paying for aid or help left with the Piscean Age.

Armageddon is Game Time.  What we have to work with is not our intelligence, although there is nothing wrong with a little intelligence, it is our hearts, our Love. It is our ability to Think.

Warriors of Light

The real struggle is on an entirely higher plane than the dense physical, which, as we well know, is only an effect of what happens on the lower mental and emotional planes of the infinite Cosmos. We are warriors. We possess certain skills that we have developed over many campaigns in undoubtedly many incarnations in this ancient struggle. We know Why, When and How to think. And, we understand that “the word is the pedal of thought—that each word is a thunder-bearing arrow.” New Era Community #47

We realize that there is One Planet. We get that we are the One Humanity, and that there is no “off the net”.

We understand to a good degree what kind of life is sustainable for everyone. We can tell the difference between what fosters the growth of the common good and what kills it. We understand that creation that sustains can come only through the Heart. “Only from the heart center can stream, in reality, those lines of energy which link and bind together.” Discipleship in the New Age I P.87

By the way, I suppose that everyone has already figured out that Thinking is Loving. It’s what we do. We used to call it meditation. Now it’s called Service. It is daily living consciously. It is being informed and consciously, deliberately (nothing wrong with a little 6^th ray either) thinking or (another way of looking at Love), Empowering ideas or Images of Truth through conscious, deliberate action on whatever plane that works for the mission.

“That a situation is without solution is only imagined by those who would rely on other people rather than upon the power of their own thought. Grief experienced by others flows like the ripples of a stream; but the images of Truth, which you call ideas, rule the karma of the world. It is astonishing to see how images of Truth participate in the spatial battle. While the multitudes disintegrate in a blind fury of ignorance and betrayal, the thoughts of Truth weave their heavenly nests, which for real evolution are far more vital than any worship by entire nations. Agni Yoga #122

It’s actually a 24/7 thing. I mean, what is going on when we are sleeping? Units of Consciousness do not sleep.

Tom Carney

July 12, 2019

TOO FAR LEFT?

This has been the sophistic cry of retrogression from the beginning. Evolution is an unavoidable driver of Life on this Planet. Just look around. The Planet has been evolving for many eons longer than our illusionary one dimensional vision which passes for science can even imagine.

Evolution cannot be stopped any more than the sun can be prevented from rising.  However, there are those whose ignorance, in spite of Plato’s best efforts, has kept them immersed in the cave of one dimension. And there are those leftovers from the first System, to whom we refer as the Retrogressors, who work tirelessly with great intelligence and cunning to foster the Great Lie of illusion.

These dark ones manipulate the ignorant ones. With illusions of gaining personal power and wealth, They keep the ignorant ones in slaved. They stoke the desires of greed, the worship of grandiosity and the illusions of ownership of Kingdoms.  All this in the effort to stop or at least slowdown the inevitable manifestation of Life, Liberty and freedom for All.

Our boundaries are not RIGHT and LEFT. They are Illusion and Reality, or Chaos and Beauty, or Evil and Good. There is no Too Far Left. We cannot get too Beautiful, or too Good, or too Real.

Every effort to reach for something better for Humanity and the Planet, needs to be all out. There is no half-way. There are no baby steps.

Caution is not fear. Caution is the bedrock of progress. It has nothing to do with halfway efforts. Halfway is the hand of the retrogressor in the glove of the coward.

Caution is the wisdom in the heart of the courageous. Caution has everything to do with the willingness to face and overcome obstacles of ignorance and chaos with every ounce of everything we have. Courage is that without which nothing else is possible!

Under the present dominant systems of capitalism, of the exclusive ownership and manipulation of just about everything for the exclusive benefits of the super wealthy few, the large percentage of humans are literally being murdered in wars, starved to death, and deprived of basic human rights such as a home in which to live, education and healthcare.

This system has been maintained by, greed, murder, theft, and lies for centuries. It’s like a rotten melon ready to burst.

All we have to do is go as far as we can go toward Equality and Liberty for All. The time is not tomorrow or maybe next year. It is Now.        

Conscious Government

Loss of the true significance of concepts has contributed much to contemporary savagery. People strew pearls about like sand. Verily, it is time to replace many definitions. New Era community #47

Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth

As we know, from the beginning of our long evolutional journey virtually all of the actual word language that we have to use for trying to move Principles and Ideas from the formless realms of Cosmos into intelligently comprehendible thoughtforms have been grossly distorted. This distortion is the result of our intelligent one dimensional separative identification with our brains and consequently the lower physical planes of our planet.

Vehicles of Truth

These words or thoughtforms which we so casually throw around are actually the dense vehicles of the majestic concepts of Truth or Cosmic Physics. This distortion is most obvious, of course, in the usage of words such as Life, Beauty, Love, Justice, Freedom, etcetera. These terms have been rendered practically meaningless by the superficial application or use for every passing emotion or thought regardless of how banal.

“Life” is probably the most trashed word in the language. A close second, frequently not even noted in this group, is the word “Consciousness”. Consciousness is commonly defined as the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings, or the awareness or perception of something by a person, and this includes the fact of awareness by the “mind” (which is another grossly distorted word) and has been reduced to a function of the dense physical brain.

All of these “definitions” are based in the delusion that consciousness is a condition of being alive, which means that a dense physical body is able to breathe and beat its heart. Consciousness is assumed to be something that can only exist within a “live” human being. Dead means not conscious. “Consciousness”, again largely because of Humanity’s delusional identification with its dense physical body, is a term that is not just “misunderstood”, Consciousness is not understood at all.

That the dense physical planes of Cosmos manifest, that they do so in an infinite diversity of forms, from radio waves to Galaxies is obvious. However the identification of one’s self as being a form, is perhaps the most basic blockage to Reality that individual humans must overcome. This situation is what is referred to as the Great Lie. It is the delusion that we are our bodies.

The Path of Evolution

The efforts and struggles to overcome the challenges this delusion generates are essentially the content of the Path of Evolution. Through—who knows how many— repeated incarnations and a scientific process which is called “Experiment, experience and expression” The Rays and the Initiations p. 337—we finally arrive at a point in some incarnation where we have launched an experiment, and had a resulting experience that opens a door, maybe just a crack, but it is enough for us to have an experience of realizing that we are more than our bodies. That “more” is Consciousness.

The Path of Probation

Eventually we actually accept that Reality and begin to try to live it. This period of our evolution from ignorance to Wisdom is aptly named the path of Probation. As we all know from experiment, experience and expression, this path is like spending lives riding Kingda Ka. However, what we finally get is conscious.

Consciousness is not “the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings”. We have been awake and aware of our surroundings for many, many incarnations. We have mostly always thought we were mortal objects. Every interface was, still is in most cases, instinctively and instantly evaluated for danger. Fight or flight was our number one response. We lived in fear of death, and totally separate from all other “things” of whatever kind.

A Point of Light

Consciousness is the realization that one is NOT one’s thing or any of the surrounding things but a quite detached, dispassionate, and discriminative individual unit of consciousness or, as it is known in the Ageless Wisdom, a Soul. In a word, we are consciousness. And as such we are “aware” of both our unique individual self and the unavoidable fact that we are simultaneously also “a point of light within a greater Light”. Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle p.197

When we realize that this process has been going forward for a very, very long time, certain kinds of phenomena become understandable, even expected. Evolution proceeds, and even a superficial look at the past 5000 years of recorded history will reveal that the speed at which evolution has progressed over the past 500 years is literally amazing. It is quite easy to see this acceleration in terms of dense physical areas such as transportation. We went from sailing ships which were used for untold thousands of years to deep space in 189 years. We went from the first telephone call in 1876 to an estimated 5.7 billion cell phones on the planet in 2016.

What is most striking but seldom considered is the speed of population growth. In 1500 there were an estimated 450,000,000 humans (units of consciousness) on the Planet. In 1974 there were approximately 4,000,000,000 people on the planet. By 2019 that number has almost doubled to 7,800,000,000.

It is reasonable to conclude that the evolution of “consciousness”, the realization that one is not any dense form, also expanded and accelerated. That means that a significant and steadily increasing number of those units of consciousness that were incarnating before and during these 400 or so years have achieved consciousness, at least on some level. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that a significant number of the units of consciousness that are in fact presently on the planet are Conscious, i.e. they “know” intuitively that they are not separated from others by the fact that they are in a body. They intuitively know that they are one with Humanity.

This does NOT necessarily mean that they think, “Hey, I am not my dense body. I am a soul or some sort of “spiritual” being”. In most cases, this is simply knowing. It is a previously achieved level of consciousness with which they incarnated. It is not something about which they have to process data. It simply makes sense. Any other conclusion seems ridiculous to them.

Conscious individuals are usually very much aware of others who see reality as they do. And they are well aware of the fact that many, if not most of the other humans see reality in a different way than they do. However this understanding does not generate disdain or a sense of separation. Such an attitude is simply not possible for a conscious person to harbor. Such attitudes are ignorance, unawareness, and a clear sign of an undeveloped consciousness.

Of course, there is growth and expansion on all levels of Consciousness, and for all of us the space between the steps was, time wise, lengthy. It takes a lot of experimenting, experiencing, and expressing to gradually get it Right.  Again, however, we need to understand that the path of evolution is a spiral. Nothing is lost, and every gain shortens the circumference and the length of time between the spirals. That’s what makes a spiral.

Conscious Government

So, we come to the point of this Thoughtline. Humanity has forever been evolving toward a Conscious Government. As the presence of conscious individuals increased on the planet, how we behaved or “governed” ourselves changed as well. For literally thousands of years, with an occasional exception here and there—during which exception we would  make significant progress which would be lost as the next aware, but non-conscious king gained power—Humanity was governed by non-conscious individuals who fostered the Great Illusion of separation.

Under the rule of these individuals most of our present governmental policies were developed. However, there were moments when a conscious individual would gain some measure of power or would be able to influence the direction of the unfolding and in this manner, consciousness by fits and bursts slowly but steadily evolved policies that were synchronous with Cosmic Physics.

Presently, the previously sophistically obfuscated fissure between the illusion of a separate, exclusive, and power driven reality and Reality has been forced once again into unavoidable visual manifestation by the frenetic and fanatic actions of the Retrogressive Forces. There was nothing like the Nazi invasion of Poland with 1.5 million troops in 1939 to get our attention. These present actions, by Retrogressive Forces are global and are being driven not just by occasional horrendous acts of brutal murder and dismemberment, but 24/7 by raving media of all kinds.

They are now, as then, designed to separate and depress people, and to engender fear and hatred between groups. The ancient goal has not changed. A self-designated super race wishes to own and control this planet.

“Verily, a great page! Verily, the Banner unfolds powerfully. Verily, when the world is in convulsion We intensify the forces of the higher means. But the front of opposition uses the lowest means. Therefore, the most powerful possibilities are being brought forth. Hence, Tactica Adversa is Our measure.” Infinity 2 #367

Literally billions of people all over the world have in the past 15 years been involved in protests of all kinds. These protests range from fiction and non-fiction books, poetry and movies, to musical lyrics and operas, photography and paintings of every kind from ten story murals to images on our cell phones along with a half dozen doing stand-ins, sit-ins, lie-ins, camp-ins, in the offices of reactionary politicians, to tens of millions marching in streets from small towns to the largest cities on the planet.

This is just the beginning of the Tactica Adversa response.

A much more powerful response is the sudden appearance of a group of 20 or so women and men candidates for the office of the President of the U.S. These twenty individuals have been physically campaigning all around the United States for the past several months. And, we have had many, many media opportunities to observe, and hear each of them in various settings speaking about their views on a number of policy issues, their vision for the Nation, and the planet, and the actions they would take if elected President of The United States.

Toward Synthesis

What is totally amazing about these 20 odd individuals is that while they all have individual styles, approaches, and opinions concerning priorities, there is a remarkable unity in the consciousness and basic values and visions for the Nation they each have. Together it does approach an expanding synthesis. Our Government is designed to be a government of, for, and by the People. While every human being has a free will, we are all just one. So the freewill of one cannot intrude on the free will of anyone else.

Some people are NOT more free than others. It is this simple fact that is utterly destroyed by the present retrogressive systems of the illusion of superiority, inferiority, separation. “All men are created Equal.”Declaration of Independence

We need a government of conscious individuals, not just the Federal government but government all through the system. This is the goal toward which we have been evolving, and the appearance of this group of individuals is a blazing tactica adversa indicator that we are evolving.

By The Way

It might be interesting to note that in 1776 a similar group of 56 Conscious and concerned for the Common Good and General Welfare individuals gathered in Philadelphia and created the Declaration of Independence. In May of 1787 another group, containing many of the same individuals, gathered and created a synthesis called The Constitution of the United States. “On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify that document, and it was subsequently agreed that government under the U.S. Constitution would begin on March 4, 1789.” https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-constitution-signed

Tom Carney

July 4th 2019

THE RISING SPECTER OF HALF-WAYNESS

THE RISING SPECTER OF HALF-WAYNESS

“The destroyers always build upon halfway striving. There is nothing worse than a halfway servitor, for he screens himself by halfway-ness. Therefore, a direct enemy of Light is preferred by Us. We do not admit into the great battles the small worms that crawl in the mist. Thus, halfway-ness must be avoided.” Hierarchy #302

Once again we are being offered halfway measures by a number of the individuals who are responsible for dealing with the ongoing assault on Human Liberty which Retrogressive forces launched, mainly on the emotional and mental planes, soon after their defeat in 1945. It is considered by some of these responsible individuals and those who support them that we cannot proceed with new major programs and policies that will actually eliminate or correct the basic causes of the two recent world wars which are continuing to manifest today in seriously damaging ways through those who presently control the Government of the United States. The faces and names of these retrogressors have changed, but their agenda and methods are exactly the same as they were in 1914 and 1939…. namely to return Humanity to the days when the divine Kings or Supreme Beings, by whatever name they use, ran the world.

The kinds of goals and policies that are being proposed by most of the present candidates for President are said to be too much too soon by these halfway-officials. Cloaking themselves in a façade of caution and superiority, they use fear to drive their claims that such policy and programs are inflammatory and would cause us to lose elections. We are cautioned to go slowly and take baby steps so as not to alarm the less liberal of the voters.

Although statistical data always depends on who is presenting it, it is interesting that the group who support the halfway steps seems to be largely made up of individuals who are probably over 40, who are living in homes that they own, are comfortable, secure, whose children and grandchildren are attending decent schools, have good child-care, insurance, at least one good car, good decent paying jobs, vacations and sick leave, plenty to eat, even able to “eat out” occasionally, and provide their children with decent clothing and etcetera. Those who vote Democratic in this group are around 25% of the total democratic vote.

About 69% of those who vote democratic earn $50,000 or less in a year. 13% of those earn less than $5,000 in one year. http://digg.com/2018 The federal poverty level for a family of 4 is $25,000. These individuals need, and by and large want new major programs and policies that will actually eliminate or correct the basic causes of poverty, and poor or no housing, poor or no schools, inadequate pay for work or no work at all, poor or no insurance, etcetera  

As even a shallow look at the past 45 years or so will reveal, that halfway measures to our basic problems in education, health, housing, employment, and recently secure voting processes, provide cosmetic illusions of correction which often lead to even more egregious problems as we are now witnessing in regards to hacked voting systems.

Yesterday, June 6^th was the 75^th anniversary of D-Day. D-Day was not a halfway operation. 10,000 people died on D-Day. It was all in with everything we had, and anything less would have failed.

If we look at our back trail, it will become very clear, very fast that halfway measures have seldom if ever resulted in any kind of serious progress. Without going back too far, consider if: Jesus was into halfway measures, or if the Manhattan Project was a halfway measure.

Not to beat a dead horse, but the present situation requires an all-in. It’s serious.