You put one of those in front of a child or a gullible young adult, combine it with a gold rimmed eyeglassed, grey-bearded kind talking person to read the scales, do the weighing out of the money and trade values, and most people take for granted they're getting a true and righteous deal.

        The scales reak with authority. Only people in authority have them. They've very expensive. They're brought out to prove to someone they are getting the right amount for their trade. The scales say what amount of your gold is equal in weight to the other person's gold when you're doing an exchange.
People know this is what scales are made to do, so they trust things to be right when they see the person using the scales.
They say things like "I know I got the right amount of gold for my wheat because I saw the man lay the measures on the scale."

Here we get to the first error. The ignorant trader failed to define completely the scale. He called it "the scale" when he told the story to his friend of how he saw the exchange person lay the measures upon the scale.

        THE SCALES is a term that makes a connection between the thought of a perfect scale, which most have been raised up to believe that scales are a perfect way to measure weights, so when a term like THE SCALE is used, the reference is that a perfectly right measurement was made.

Problem is, those scales that were used in that transaction were not THE SCALES, but they were his scales,
The trader's scales were made by him, belonged to him, and were kept from prying hands by him.
The trader knew that most people tended to completely trust the results decided by scales, so he used them continually to maintain people's trust in the way he traded.

The error was in the incomplete name given to those scales. Those scales belonged to that man. They were his scales. They weighed things the way that man wanted them to weigh.

The error was in assuming those scales were perfectly true and righteous altogether.

The question to ask is, whose scales are they? And how does the owner want them to weigh?
Does the owner want them to be tilted in his favor, or true and righteous?

How many ways can a scale, even a scale that you've been taught to believe, just by seeing it that it will give a true and righteous answer,... how many ways can it be built to steal from you, to lie about the measurements, and ultimately to kill you from starvation by stealing so much from you. How many ways? Let us count the ways.

But first, see for yourself how many ways you can list that scales can be made to steal from you.

Key lesson points: Prove all things. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. He won't be able to have his bread very long before someone takes it from him, if he doesn't do things according to the word of God. Some lessons in life are passed down without ever making a connection to the true source from which those good lessons came. Some people do things right without even knowing or believing God is the source. When an evil general studies the battle field, he is attempting to "prove all things" for the battle to come. That he denies God doesn't prevent him from the benefit of doing proving all things. Same with any farmer who plants seed. Laws are laws, and they work for everyone, whether they believe in them or not. Someone who believes in the law of gravity gets the same result for falling off a building a someone who doesn't believe. The law is true whether it is believed or not. Spiritual laws are reflected in the laws of natural things. But this is the subject of another study. On with the idea of Two World Views.

How did it come to pass that men would cheat working mothers out of food for their babies with false scales?

Remember the Garden of Eden? Remember God created man and the woman. Remember the ol' serpent who deceived the woman? Remember the curse? The law was spelled out later to explain the cause of the curse that came upon man and the earth.

People err when they excuse themselves from teaching their children about war. See Judges 3:1,2 in the KJV of scripture.

People err when they teach their children everything is roses and cream.

People err when they teach their children the authorities love them and are taking care of them.

Did I say err? Well how polite of me, I should say sin.

People sin when they replace the term good and evil with right and wrong. Why? I'll tell you why. Right and wrong are terms acceptable to those who deny the truths of God. Right and wrong are the words accepted by Christians who want to be ACCEPTABLE to those who deny Christianity.

Evil has its roots in stories that tell of God and Satan. Wrong as a substitute for the word evil is simply wrong.

        Larry Hayes was a Cherokee Indian descendant, and an American history teacher at A&M Consolidated. He was the only teacher who made a point of letting us know that we didn't know why World War One happened. Or why World War Two happened. The old stand-by answer for children was the story about a murder of a German Duke by a Polish officer, or was it the other way around? Anyway, the children were told simple reasons for the start of wars. You know the standard answers. World War One was because one person killed someone else. World War Two, let's see, it started after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour. Korea, that was to stop the Russians and Communists from taking over the world. Vietnam, well that was the same thing as Korea, according to the politically correct school boy answer that state-federal schools are allowed to teach.

Larry Hayes tried as much as he dared to tell us something of the politics of war, some of the high finance of war. The term is fin-pol, for financial politics. Public school children are not taught this term because it is too close to the truth. Fin-pol active people see to it that the lower classes ,as our local Mayor referred to us, and is a common understanding among monied people, do not learn such things. Financial-Politics would be harder to carry out if the people knew and understood.

Larry Hayes was the first man to tell me American corporations were selling engines of war to foreign countries who were supplying the enemies of England. Since then, several books have documented the same and more. See World Without Cancer. Read Creature from Jekyll Island. Read Machiavelli's, The Prince. Read the Holy Bible and get familiar enough with all of it to be able to judge things more according to God's way than the world's way. If you like, you can read congressional documents of foreign and American mixtures of money and power that are little known. I have some documentation saved from the 1950's when the Bankers worked hard to stamp out by ridicule any kind of effort to preserve America from becoming Socialist. The Soviet Socialist Republic of Russia was socialistic. Back then, Americans didn't want to become a socialist state like Russia. Today, Britain, Canada and America have socialized medicine and much more.

See the links on this site to Grandfather's Economic Reports for the growth of socialism in America.

My children's text book told them with all the authority of the State-Federal School System Approved Books that the United Nations would solve the problems of the world ich religion had failed to do. It was in one of their social-studies books. It could have been the same book which called General George Washington a mediocre general. I was incensed about many things missing in the books as much as I was about statement contrary to the truth.

That U.N. statement of the U.N. would solve the problems of the world where religion had failed, serves as an example of falsely based instruction. Scripture teaches we will have the poor with us always. Additionaly, scripture says wars will increase, and wars have increased. Count them now. Yet, the public school books, written to fit the approval of the fin-pol, tells the children how the U.N. will stop wars and famine. It's easier to get an education about the glories of the U.N. in our public school libraries than to discover the thoughts of our Founding Fathers. If you question that statement of mine, just go with me to a local junior high school library. I'll show you how easy it is to find books on the U.N. and how hard it is to find much from those who established the United States of America.

I would be happy to hear from any of you telling me your school has a book from which children learn the thoughts of the Declaration of Independence. None of my children learned it in public school, even though I argued for it.

Well, that's all for tonight. Will come back later and write more. Hope to hear from some of you. Hope some of you get stirred up enough to do something at least for your own children and maybe help some others too.

Folks, we're going into a time of fast change in technology and ways of thinking. Mass media communication and public school has seen to those changes. Who's going to teach your children? Teach what?

Please notice who is teaching them that evil is good. Study your Bible on this theme, about calling good evil, and evil good. Please. Wake up! It has already happened to some degree nearly everywhere in America. Bible ideas have been mocked, scorned and ridiculed while new psychology has replaced them and been enthroned as the right way to understand things.