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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

One must wonder if Charlie was consulted about being a sacrificial lamb. #philosophy

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

With freedom comes uncertainty, but better the uncertainty of freedom than the certainty of slavery. #philosophy

"Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt." - Patrick Henry

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Take the values you subscribe to here and apply them to the world. And when it is asked if it is possible the answer is, "With God, all things are possible."

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We must unite. There is no other way. #bethepeople

"I am the way, and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - John 14:6

A simple drawing of the face of Jesus with a crown of thorns and a tear in his eye depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

There is order and then there is the pecking order. #philosophy

"World peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power." - Sri Chinoy

Sri Chinoy with his hands together and his head bowed depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

If you're pastor/ethical counselor is not clear about what is worth fighting for, then they are either being weak or being deceptive. #philosophy

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." - Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln looking right at you depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

When in doubt, remember, you are more powerful than any emperor that has ever lived. #philosophy

Never, never stood anywhere, in greater luxury, than surrounds me now. This is a chamber of marvels! There isn’t a King or Queen or Emperor I have ever known - or eaten - who would step into this room and agree to ever leave it again. I knew the future would bring wonders. But I didn’t know it would make them ordinary.

Dracula (2020)

Claes Bang as Dracula lost in thought depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. #philosophy

Nuclear armed communists - girl making ugly face

Nuclear armed oligarchs - Oppenheimer

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Just because I don't bend the knee doesn't make me your enemy. #philosophy

No one deserves an equal say more than you.

The White House at dusk depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

The lesser of two evils is knuckling under? You don't say. #philosophy

"Political parties are likely to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be able to subvert the power of the people and usurp for themselves the reigns of government." - George Washington, Farewell Address September 17, 1976

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

If the idea of democracy scares you, it is because you frighten easily. #philosophy

"Respect... Respect everyone!" - Buzz Lightyear showing an apprehensive Woody the way

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Do not be shy about speaking from your heart. The only thing that can stop us is our own timidity. #bethepeople

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

Robin Williams as John Keating, standing on a desk, speaking to his class in Dead Poets Society.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

You will serve the greater good whether you like it or not. #philosophy

"The devil knows scripture like the back of his hand." - Tom Waits

Tom Waits looking right at you depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

There is the Tree of Life and the Tree of Judgement. Which one are you barking up when you get in your pulpit. #bethepeople

This is a period where everybody is struggling to exist. They don't have time to be a community anymore. - written in industrial typeface on a crumpled piece of burlap

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Freedom under these conditions is both a blessing and a curse. #philosophy

A disembodied hand holding a brick over a wall with an empty space. Is it putting it down or is it lifting it up?

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Either we sanctify all or we justify all. #philosophy

"I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things" - Isaiah 45:7

A single tree split in half, with the side on the left in sunshine and green leaves on a flower filled prairie and the side on the right without any leaves on a desolate plain under dark skies depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

The only answer to prison planet is global online democracy. #philosophy

"Should I accept the fact I'm not cut out for an equal say or NAH" - squinty eye Fry

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

It is by being righteous to the nth degree that we will find our commonality. #philosophy

To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” - Romans 12:20

Angel with a spear, standing over the devil, poking him in the face depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

We market ourselves and then wonder why we are consumed. #philosophy

A little boy holding a sign saying "I'M NOT A CONSUMER. I'M A PERSON."

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Why are you talking about God or ethics but not talking about our potential to come together like never before? #philosophy

"All our dreams will come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

Fireworks over the Magic Kingdom depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

There is but one thing to vote for and one way to vote. #philosophy

No more!
No more!

Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz in the final scene of Apocalypse Now depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

There are rulers and there are leaders. The rest are inbetweeners. #philosophy

And then I told them if we give them an equal say it would be mob rule!

Ray Liotta as Henry Hill laughing his ass off depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

We don't want democracy. We want warlords and conquests and booty. Oh and our rights too. #philosophy

"Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man." - A Clockwork Orange

Malcolm McDowell as Alex giving you the look depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

We trade because we do not share. We do not share because we do not trust. We do not trust because seats of power separate us. #philosophy

"Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common." - Acts 4:32

A group of kids sharing a pizza together depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

We often use the word 'we' without recognizing that we are divided and therefore not on our best behaviour. #philosophy

"The way to learn whether a man is trustworthy is to to trust him." - Ernest Hemingway

The old man looking right at you depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Give me certainty or give me death. #philosophy

"If you're not getting an equal say, you're getting dissed." - Captain Obvious

The Captain looking right at you depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Let's debate our right to an equal say. #philosophy

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand in black and white looking right at you depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

They want to frame their struggle as a matter of principle, but really it's a question of power. #philosophy

To elevate some above the rest is to say there is one who is the best.

Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

From "I am that I am!" to "As I am holy, you are holy" to "We the People do ordain." #philosophy

"This Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People." - John Wycliffe, 1384

A devout John Wycliffe depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Top down thinking knows how to hide behind its walls. It's curtain. #philosophy

"On this mountain He will swallow up the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations." - Isaiah 25:7

Two hands parting a closed curtain depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

"Human nature is why humans suffer, not me." #philosophy

"When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you're not in it, there's a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing." - Adrienne Rich

A young Adrienne Rich looking right at you depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

What do you need to see before you speak up for yourself as an equal member of society? #philosophy

Do you really need an engraved invitation to your very own seat at the table?

Jackie Chan wants to know.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Telling children not to become bullies while we fight for power is the same as asking police to keep the peace while we fight for power. #philosophy

"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see if it something we should change in ourselves." - Carl Jung

A small child wearing a boxing glove raised up and pointing right at you depicted.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

When it comes to pass that sharing power globally becomes possible, our rigid institutions and positions will keep us fighting for power without any hope or direction for the future. #philosophy

"But understand this: In the last days, terrible times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!" - 2 Timothy 3:1-5

Artistic depiction of a human face without flesh looking down on you with manic contempt.

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bakerjohnj @bakerjohnj.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

What does it mean when it is said that fighting for power makes us hate each other? #philosophy

ALL I SAID IS WE DESERVE SN EQUAL SAY

Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble dodging bullets depicted.

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