MARK TWAIN AND PATRIOTISM

Great quote!



In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.  "Twain"



Join me.  Lets take the trash to the curb together!  The absolute worst that can happen is that you get to see really cool and awesome peeps on the other side.  It is all a temporary thing.  You put it all on the line - you gain it all.  You cower - you get the reward of satan and his "safety first" pukes/minions.

Here is the specific language in the contract - and it IS a contract, or agreement between two parties:

 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

 9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

 12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (this is the ulitmate patriot motivation - putting yourself out there and not caring about the consequences; only about the promulgation of truth)

 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

 15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

 16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

 17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.

 18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

 20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

 21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.

 22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

 25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.