Thread by @ThyConsigliori

John Minford, #SunTzu 9: 14 "If you come to Heaven's Torrents, Heaven's Wells, Heaven's Prisons, Haven's Nets, Heaven's Traps, Heaven's Cracks: quit such places with al speed. Do not go near them.

9: 14 Continued: "Keep well away, let the enemy go near them. Keep them in front; let him have them at his rear."

Wow! What a stunning verse. In preparing my comments I went over 3 additional versions: Giles, Ames and Griffith. In all three the high drama is fantastic. This could be a movie, or maybe even a mini-series. Heaven's Torrents, Wells, Prisons, Nets, Traps, and Cracks.

Yeah, I'm thinking a six-part mini-series. The Torrents Of Heaven, episode one. The Wells Of Heaven, episode two. Each episode would be set in the best possible location to represent Master Sun's specifications. Each location has its own dynamics and drama.

Enough fantasy TV. The first thing I had to force my brain to understand about this verse was this funny thing. Heaven isn't just Heaven, as in the sky, or Heaven's will. Heaven is also the highest ground upon which an army may march.

I think I can explain it this way. As Heaven is to Earth, so also is mountaintop to valley. All six of these fantastically dangerous formations, are high up in the mountains, far from the valleys below. And oh my, they truly are dangerous. We'll look at each in a moment.

Before we do, just think of all six as really high, really dangerous places. So, what's the tactical command? First, get out of there! Second, keep all that stuff in front of you. Third, maneuver your enemy between you and those places, so they're at his back.

Master Sun doesn't discuss the tactics of how to get your enemy facing you with these dangerous places at his back, but we can guess pretty well that we have to entice him with irresistible gain. You have to bait him there, hiding your main force, offering small contingents, etc.

Heaven's Torrents are great cliffs with rapid streams flowing into descending passages. Heaven's Wells are banks towering upward on all sides, with pools of water at the bottom. Heaven's Prisons are box canyons, easy to enter, enclosed on 3 sides within.

Heaven’s Nets are jungles or dense undergrowth so think you can’t use your weapons without getting them trapped in branches and tangles. Heaven’s Traps are highland swamps and quagmires where your men and vehicles get stuck in thick mud or quicksand.

For Heaven's Cracks, I have to quote Giles translating Tu Mu: "ground covered with trees and rocks, and intersected by numerous ravines and pitfalls." He goes on to use the terms: defile, crack or fissure, and crevasses. Can't you just feel the danger sizzling at every turn?

The great high year of socialism in America was 1913, when after 125 years of effort, Congress finally broke the power of the Constitution to limit its revenue and keep the federal apparatus small. The 16th Amendment is the turning point in American history.

Only the rich would ever pay an income tax, we were sold as a people, back then. Only the rich. What is that, when you take from the rich to give to everyone else? It is socialism and its great principle that only so much property may be protected. After that, others can take it.

What is this place? It is Heaven's Prison. It's so easy to walk into, so impossible to get out of. We can skip over the 1930's for their obvious socialism. The real danger of this prison comes in the 1960s, with the beginnings of the very entitlements we live with today.

Forget the cash, the deficit, federal spending out of control. Forget the house of cards of a nation who's debt equals its GDP. Focus on the real imprisonment. We are trapped into dependency and we can't escape. I won't go off on the schools, but that is where it occurred.

Our children are indoctrinated into dependency. Forget elementary and high school. Who owns all collegiate debt? We have socialized the entire school debt industry. The government owns the debt. What is that? Indoctrination into socialism before you finish your schooling.

And who has trapped the Democrat Party into having its back to this particular Heaven’s Danger Zone? None other than @realDonaldTrump. Did you see the banner flown above the Democrat Debates tonight? "Socialism will kill Houston's Economy. Vote Trump 2020"

@realDonaldTrump Healthcare is a right. How so? By taking the cost of healthcare from someone else. So, that person didn't have the right to their property so that you could have the right to healthcare. This is Heaven's Prison, America 2020. And how do we follow @POTUS lead?

@realDonaldTrump @POTUS Walk it through. Discuss it. If you have an honest friend favoring Medicare For All, just ask, who exactly is paying for this? How is it paid? And, how does this fit into our four rights, Life, Liberty, The Pursuit of Happiness, and Property? Your friend won't follow at first.

@realDonaldTrump @POTUS The left has wiped out the very idea of true rights and replaced it with false rights. That's okay. You stand in front of the box canyon with your honesty, love, and patience. They're the ones who are trapped within.

@realDonaldTrump @POTUS 242 verses completed, 196 to go.

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