Based on the comments on Time to Freeze the Trains, there is no consensus on what Going Galt means. I have an idea in my mind but that is not fixed in stone. Rather than use what we “feel” Going Galt means, why don’t we use this as an opportunity to come together and make a meaningful difference with unity instead of diversity.
Let’s start with marriage. And I cannot find a better place to begin than with this article on marriage covenants. Here are some considerations from this article:
There are many things which are affected by your decision (or not) to obtain a wedding license. Among these are…
- Driver’s License
- Social Security Number (we refer to this as the ‘slave number’)
- Bank Accounts
- Paychecks
- IRS Forms (W2, W9, 1099, etc.)
- Filing Status
- Bills / Mail
- Employer / Associates
- Children
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George Washington did not ask permission from the state to get married. He did not pay any fees or taxes in order to get married. He was married in a church under God where homosexuality would not have been an issue as the “government” is mandating it today. What are your opinions on Going Galt and getting married in a church without any government’s approval?
While Ayn Rand was an atheist, I consider the church to be part of Going Galt. What is the role of the church in fighting the evil now comprising the “state”. Should we support a church that supports evil? Should we support a church that ignores evil? Can we build a new country without a firm reliance on God?
Please only comment on these aspects of Going Galt or submitting other areas for future articles on specific topics on Going Galt. While the next article will be coming shortly, it will be based on paying taxes.
David DeGerolamo
There are very few churches that have not become “infected:” so to speak. A small denomination called “Evangelical Free” you may want to look into. Also, amish mennonite type churches are generally still isolated non infected groups of like minded persons.
Best I know is Pastor Chuck Baldwin. His is not 501c3. He has a website and lives in Montana.
I have states it here before. Marriage is a religious ceremony between a man and a woman under God. A civil union is a legal contract between two “individuals” for any and all legal purposes. Separation of Church and State. Now maybe we can require those that are wed under God also file civil paperwork as desired.
Start with going “redneck”. Mandates, resolutions, orders, rules, memos, and directives are not law. When confronted with this kind of BS just say: “Ain’t doin’ it”.
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Agree….marriage is a union between a man and a woman and GOD. That’s the way it should be….BUT……if you don’t have the state sanctioning the union; when that union dissolves, boy howdy are you in for a rocky settlement.
I have worked with folks that were never legally married (in a ‘state’ sense). They co-habitated. Then when one of them died; usually the male, the female was SOL! She had no claim to ANY of “their” estate. She technically couldn’t even sleep in their home. She technically couldn’t get into the checkbook or savings account. She couldn’t use their vehicles.
And if the spawn was especially hateful….they would do everything possible to make the females life miserable. Things like changing locks on the door. Not allowing her to be at the funeral etc.
Yeah, so all you hippie, baby boomers that think “love transcends all things…”. You go right ahead believing that; but at least make a safe haven for your “spouse?”.
A will that is witnessed will take care of this issue. We are not discussing specific bad examples; we are discussing how to Go Galt in a specific topic.
A will, yes, but also putting property in joint names is helpful. A well-written pre-nuptual agreement lodge with a law firm can overcome many difficulties, state sanctioned relationship or common law.
A trust is another answer. It would require planning, but it can be done.
The best summary of “going Galt” that I have seen is posted on the Atlas Society website: https://www.atlassociety.org/post/going-galt
Atlas Shrugged is the story of how productive people went on strike, withdrawing their services in protest against a society that damned them for being productive and expropriated the fruits of their labor.
WHAT IS “GOING GALT?”
Hans, thank you for posting the list above pertaining to going Galt. I am currently reading Atlas Shrugged for the third time, and I each time I have read the book, I am reminded that Ayn Rand was an exceptional writer and she had the amazing ability to weave a fictional story with multiple talented characters that were self-made first-raters, and their struggles to understand and deal with the value destruction caused by the ideology of second raters, moochers, pull peddlers and pull pullers. The key character in the book John Galt recognized at an early age that self-made first-raters with their desire to be productive seldom realize the danger that they are in from the second-raters and moochers.
While Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is a work of fiction, it is amazing how accurate her story has become. America, and most other countries for that matter, are now ruled by second-raters, pull peddlers, pedophiles and the mentally ill. Unfortunately, we no longer have in America the types of first-raters in the book, such as, Dagny Taggart, Hank Reardon, Ellis Wyatt, Hugh Akston, Francis d’Anconia, Ragnar Danneskjold, John Galt, and Midas Mulligan -- instead we have pull peddlers like corrupt Biden, Pelosi, McConnell, Schumer, Cornyn, Romney, McCarthy…. Also, while we used to have self-made first-raters in industry, instead, we have now professional woke CEO’s who create nothing and spend their time like James Taggart, glad handing in Washington D.C. lobbying for regulations to constrain or destroy value for value. Who is John Galt?
Beautiful synopsis !
The Gubmint should have NO say in the institution of Marrige, since it is a God-given one!
Interesting topic. I have married two couples who wanted no part of government intrusion into their marriages. One a traditional Christian marriage and another a Celtic hand binding ceremony. A couple of weeks ago, I asked my Baptist pastor if our little church is a government church. He said no. I responded by reminding him that it is a 501c3 church and asked him if it’s not a government church, why do we display a United States flag in the front of the sanctuary next to the pulpit. Aren’t we supposed to be ‘citizens of another country’? Says so in the Book.
Go tax exempt from federal but pay your state taxes. It’s time to fight.
So what happens when the Feds come for you (fees, fines etc)?
The feds already came for me. The IRS put me through hell for over a year for political reasons. That was before the story broke about the IRS being weaponized. I filed a lawsuit against them. They dropped everything instead of going to court. If I had to do it over again, I would have went to court to expose them earlier. But that was ten years ago. Evil has usurped every part of the government.
There are simple solutions to protecting property in a religious union.
I went Galt over fifty years ago, to the best of my ability and never regretted it.
You don’t have to live in a hidden community, a rural unzoned area is fine as even most state laws aren’t enforced. If you live off of a county road, out of view, all the better. Being off the grid is even better, which is easily possible these days!
Most country folk mind their own business and get along with no difficulty most of the times! There are no homeless accept during hunting season, or bums or junkies and even the sexual deviants mind their own business.
Get out now while you still can, tempus fugit!
“ Should we support a church that ignores evil? Can we build a new country without a firm reliance on God?”
That’s actually a lot of territory right there. For me “Going Galt” can be as simple as removing your participation, or as Solzhenitsyn said, do not speak the lie, let it thrive, but not through me. That seems to me to be the *base* line. Less than this is dishonorable. If a church has embraced the lie, do not participate. Luther went further than that, of course, and so did John Galt (in the story).
Organization will be needed, and churches are an obvious place to start, so they are also an obvoius place to infiltrate. Not that hard to do when they have submitted to terms of 501c3 funding.
As to “building a new country” requiring “a firm reliance on god”, I note that the writtings of some of the founding fathers, suggests that not all were that enamored with “christianity” of the day. Many prefered terms like “providence”. I believe that happyness, peace of mind, and civilization itself *require* a prevelant sense of “thankfullness”, of gratitude, that not everything you have or value was strictly of your doing. To “give thanks”, you need a recipient. It can be an impersonal “nature” or “providence”, but giving it thanks personifies it. So even a grateful athiest has effectively postulated divinity.
I define “honor” as a sense that at least *something* is more important to you than your own existence, or put differently, there are possible futures you’re not interested it, or that there are things you are not willing to live with having done.
Gratefulness, also creates a sense of endebtedness, which leads to charity, especially “paying it forward” actions like nurturing children, and the inoccent. This may be why I believe it is requisite to civilization.
At this stage of the illegal regime, I will not recognize any of the laws of the compact we had as a constitutional republic. I will only recognize God and his righteous written word, no other. The authoritarians can only move in one direction now and that leads to our deaths, nothing more nothing less. I have never been a lawless man, but that is what I have now become, just like the authoritarians, I have only one way to go, and it does not involve peace.
Marriages were commonly made in churches in this country only with a church certificate. This was the case until roughly the time of the civil war. The state actually has no business in a marriage in any way and the church certificates provide the church a means to avoid such things as divorce and homosexual unions. Sure it comes with a tax price but what is a marriage worth? Excellent treatment of this topic theologically, historically and legally here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/apostasy-divorce-stephen-weaver/1132522528?ean=9780359752607
I have had a gripe with the whole “marriage license” issue for quite a while. Who does gov’t think it is to but into such a personal matter. Some would argue that being “legally married” offers protections to children born to a man and a wife, but I contend there is no place for guh’mint in marriages. And drivers’ licenses, fishing licenses, national parks, national forests and other similar usurpations, business licenses for that matter, and on and on are loudest attestations to the fact that government is self-expanding, self-delimiting, self aggrandizing and ever destroying the rights and persons hood of its citizens. God promised the Israelites that to have a man-king displacing God at the head of its government would bring pain and misery. If you love government, you hate your own existence to your very depths.
Great post realwesterner, to the point.
Going to church issued certificates instead of licenses would also deprive the state of a lot of funding and a minor fee for the certificate would do a lot to incentivize churches away from 501 (c) status
Hmmm…About those taxes -- there are certain taxes that must be paid or else. Or else you cannot function. Most folks do not, cannot live off the grid. And the vast majority are stuck where they are. And you cannot renew a vehicle license without proof of insurance and/or, in some states, personal property tax. Apart from funding those necessary evils just to function, perhaps the best case scenario is a all out war. That pretty much eliminates financial responsibility. Then again, it won’t matter when you’re dead.
Read Atlas Shrugged and going Gault will be evident.
Reading the comments -- trust and legal recourse in the event of separation seems to be the main issues. This modern world throws sexuality around like water from the sky. Even hyper sexualizing children. Hook up culture has prevailed. To be married in the church does one not profess to God, till death? Like so many things today, it’s easier to replace something than repair it. Maybe more folks ought to take a civil union instead.
Marriage:
How many have allowed man to separate them because it is “legal” never to consider what the Messiah said? How many have caused and committed adulteries, and have not understood, have not repented, (because mankind deem it “Legal?”
Can we build a new country without a firm reliance on God?
No, at least not a country worth building. Can we know God without following the Son?
Can we serve His will without knowing and following the Son?