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The Freedom to Flounder
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In 1607, Captain John Smith founded the first permanent English settlement in America, called Jamestown.
Jamestown was named after King James I of England who commissioned the first "authorized" English version of the Bible, commonly known as the King James Version.
The Jamestown Colony was a business venture of the Virginia Company of London, a British firm formed by members of a secret society, including Sir Francis Bacon. The goal of this secret society was to build a New World Order by starting their own "ideal" community from scratch and expanding globally from there.
Sir Francis Bacon was the Grand Commander of the brotherhood order called the Rosicrucians and the founder of English Freemasonry. He's also considered by many historians to have been the true identity of the playwright known as William Shakespeare,
Not long thereafter, a second English Colony was assembled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, by a group of religious dissenters.
Britain had broken from the Catholic Church and formed the Church of England, but these two splinter groups had disdain for this new church. They were the Puritans and the Separatists who decided to journey to American in the pursuit of religious freedom. Collectively, they were known as Pilgrims.
Thus, the Jamestown Colony and the Plymouth Colony had been formed in the new land.
Initially, the first two colonies were each set up as collectives with a communal style of living, based primarily on the philosophy of Plato, where no one owned property and everyone was fed from a common store.
They were the hippie communes of their time -- disdainful of authority, seeking freedom of expression, wanting to live in harmony with like-minded others.
It was a utopian scheme, lofty on idealism but short on practicality, that soon floundered. Both colonies suffered great hardships.
The leader of the Plymouth Colony, William Bradford, eventually realized that the lack of incentive was the root of the problem and instituted a system whereby each family was assigned a plot of land they could call their own and reap whatever rewards they could produce.
From then on, the Plymouth Colony flourished.
The leaders of the Jamestown Colony had no such enlightenment. If it weren't for friendly Indians and the arrival of reinforcements in 1610, they likely would have perished.
This is another example of how the ideals of private property ownership and free enterprise work for the benefit of all.
Collectivism (socialism, communism, totalitarianism, or any large centralized excessive bureaucracy that feeds on productivity and suffocates individuality) will never be as effective as individual freedom simply because there is a lack of incentive to be productive or innovative.
In a free society, ambitious people are free to be rewarded for their efforts and are inclined to prosper, while lazy bums are free to avoid responsibility and are inclined to hang out with other lazy bums.
In a collective society, people have no incentive to be productive. No matter how hard they work, they will only receive an equal share for their efforts. And those who contribute little to the overall communal output will receive an equal share as well. There's no point in working hard if there's no reward for working hard.
In a free society, innovation is driven by competition. Rapid improvement leads to success.
In a collective society, there's no incentive to be innovative. Everyone is merely a cog in a vast human machine, enslaved by a rigid system where decisions require a collective agreement, leading to a stagnant bureaucracy where change will be discouraged.
In a free society, a wide gap tends to exist between the rich and the poor, one of the chief complaints of those who endorse a collective system. But that's the price of freedom. So be it.
In a collective society, a wide gap tends to exist between the illusion of common good and the reality of common sense. Another wide gap also exists between the ears of those who support the illusion.
Unfortunately, those who feel entitled to the efforts of others will invariably attempt to impose various forms of legalized plunder, such as a "progressive" income tax or an inheritance tax, against those who prosper. But whenever the plunder of successful people takes place, a free society becomes less free.
In a free society, everyone starts on a level playing field and the outcome is determined by effort.
In a collective society, the playing field is rigged because the outcome is determined in advance by a central committee. Such a system will almost certainly flounder.
If I flounder, I'd like it to be my choice.
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Your account of history seems a bit skewed. This is what I found about John Smith and 1607. There is much more at http://www.christianlaw.org/index.php/ar...
These accounts are backed up by historical documents. Not sure what your account is backed up by.
Jamestown: Where America Became a Christian Nation
The first permanent settlement in America was dedicated to God and to the expansion of the Christian faith. When a company of English settlers reached what is now called Jamestown, Virginia, one of their first acts was to plant a cross in the sand and claim this new land, not for England, but for God. That cross was planted on April 29, 1607, exactly 400 years ago this month.
Most modern historians emphasize the difficulties faced by the Jamestown settlement and play down or ignore completely the spiritual goals of this colony. While other primary goals were to establish trade, find a route to the Orient, and make sure the Spanish did not control the entire new continent, another stated and important goal was to expand the Kingdom of Christ in this New World.
The first English attempt at colonizing America failed miserably. In 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh's ships had reached the outer banks of what is now North Carolina. Raleigh's colony on Roanoke Island collapsed and vanished two years later before provisions and reinforcements could be brought from the mother country.
Then in 1606, King James I (of King James Bible fame) granted a royal charter for another attempt to colonize Virginia. A band of nearly 150 men left England for America in December, 1606. Their royal charter establishing Virginia emphasized the Christian character of the expedition's purpose:
We, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their desires for the furtherance of so noble a work, which may, by the providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the glory of His Divine Majesty, in propagating of the Christian religion to such people as yet live in darkness and miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God, and may in time bring the infidels and savages living in those parts to human civility and to a settled and quiet government, do, by these our letters patent, graciously accept of, and agree to, their humble and well-intended desires.
After a rough Atlantic crossing, on April 26th 1607, the colonists landed at Virginia Beach. The London Company intended that every new colony would become its own church community with its own minister. That man was Robert Hunt, who became the first pastor at Jamestown.
Upon landing on the Tidewater beach, Pastor Hunt called for three days of prayer and fasting in repentance for sins and in preparation for dedicating this new land to God. On April 29th, crew members took timbers from their ship and constructed a makeshift cross. Dragging it ashore, they planted the cross firmly in the sand. Kneeling in humility, Pastor Hunt prayed and dedicated this New World to God. He prayed that the Gospel would be preached from these shores to the uttermost parts of the earth. This colony, beset as it was with ongoing difficulties, nevertheless established a monumental covenant with God there in the sands of Virginia, one that laid the foundation for the birth of a new nation founded on the Gospel of Jesus Christ!
The first representative assembly in America met in the Jamestown church a dozen years after the colony was established. By that time the Virginians had ventured far out of Jamestown and inhabited much of the Tidewater area of the state. They would meet in regular assembly to carry out the first European attempts at self-government in North America. This assembly was the forerunner of the American Congress. It is very important to note that this first representative assembly opened with prayers offered by local Christian clergymen, seeking God's guidance in their proceedings.
See more at http://www.christianlaw.org/index.php/ar...
To Hem:
The first comment you made this time was to "skew" Mr. Burquest's character, just like your Jesus wouldn't do. Once you got that out of the way you presented some good information, which we all enjoy. Thanks.
For me your comments seemed a bit like a puff-piece using this platform to sell your flavor of Christianity (I think He's OK too and yes I too have read the Bible and have 24 versions setting here on my desk as I write) and that's all right, but I wish you had also addressed some of the issues brought forth in the article:
1. Was the Jamestown Colony a business venture of the Virginia Company of London?
2. Was the Virginia Company of London founded by members of a secret society that included Sir Francis Bacon?
3. Was Sir Francis Bacon the Grand Commander of the brotherhood order of called the Rosicrucians?
4. Was Sir Francis Bacon the founder of the English Freemasonry?
5. Who were the Rosicrucians and what were they all about?
6. Were the first two colonies set up like collectives with communal-style of living?
7. Why did they flounder?
8. When William Bradford put incentive back into the system of producing food and shelter, did the colony flourish?
9. So how is this not an example of how the ideals of private property ownership and free enterprise work for the benefit of all?
10. While the colonies lived in the collective society mode, did they prosper?
Again I challenge you to research these claims and am confident that once the semantic fog clears you will see that the facts in this article are correct to the best of our historic records. So to borrow and paraphrase the hook line from an old ad, "Where's your beef?"
To Archie Arthur,
It seems that you would want to ask Mr. Burquest those questions since it is his article. In case you don't remember, I asked him where he got his information from as I could not find it in any historical documents that can be verified.
It seems that historians can't even agree as to whether or not Sir Francis Bacon was even associated with the Rosicrucians. So to say for sure would certainly not agree with any historical documents that are out there.
As far as your question, "Where's your beef?" I think that was clearly stated in the article I referenced. I still am uncertain as to what documents were used for the information in Mr. Burquest's article. Contrary to your opinion, I made no attack on his character.
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Marie Bauer Hall (1904 -- 2005) was a researcher of Sir Francis Bacon. She wrote, "Bacon is the Founder of [English] Free Masonry ... and the guiding light of the Rosicrucian Order, the members of which kept the torch of true universal knowledge, the Secret Doctrine of the ages, alive during the dark night of the Middle Ages."
In the early 1600s, Bacon wrote a book called NEW ATLANTIS, establishing a blueprint for a new society (new world order) based on the principles established in the ancient island of Atlantis.
Bacon was fascinated with Plato's TIMAEUS AND CRITIAS (425 BC), in which Solon, the founder of Greek democracy, learned from Egyptian priests that the huge island of Atlantis existed long ago but sank beneath the sea during a cataclysmic flood. The philosophy of the Atlanteans was of the same Mystery school as the Egyptians, and the same foundational philosophy upon which Bacon wished to build a new society.
Historians are like doctors -- they often don't agree.
I find something interesting and share it with others. Feel free to ignore it.
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Thank you for the information you provided on your source for your article. I did some research on Marie Bauer Hall and it seems she was married to a Manly Palmer Hall who was quoted as saying...
"I hereby promise the Great Spirit Lucifer, Prince of Demons, that each year I will bring unto him a human soul to do with as as it may please him, and in return Lucifer promises to bestow upon me the treasures of the Earth and fulfill my every desire for the length of my natural life. If I fail to bring him each year the offering specified above, then my own soul shall be forfeit to him."
- Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages
When you're working with the Devil as it appears the Halls were, you tend to not be enlightened with the truth.
I still stand by the article I provided as it can be backed up with historical documents i.e. The Constitution, The Mayflower Compact, etc and not some person's account who has an agenda to say otherwise.