***** It is the example of others lives that has moved my life back in the direction of.....

It is the example of others lives that has moved my life back in the direction of sanity, humanity, compassion, empathy, decency... the self into which we are all born. The lives of those like Eleanor Roosevelt, Malala, Teresa of Calcutta, Alice Paul, Dorothy Day, Gandhi, Martin Luther King jr.... It is only then that their words have helped me understand how to accomplish that move.  "Example is not the major thing in influencing people.  It is the only thing." Albert Schweitzer

***** My Revered sisters, I'm dying of cancer. I have a request of you, ALL...

My Revered sisters, 

I ASK NOTHING MORE THAN that you read this WHOLE post, deeply, courageously, holding your nose if need be...  HEAR WHAT I AM SAYING IN THIS. HEAR DEEPLY, WITH YOUR SOUL.  Yes, I am boring as Hell. I put glaciers, polar ice caps, to sleep - hmmm, that's an idea.  But can you really turn down what may be my dying wish - to deeply read this whole thing? Just that???

I'm dying of cancer, the odds are 80 percent as things stand, that I'll go non-functional within about a year (was supposed to happen by now) (hmmm, where'd those tears come from? I never cry about this. Well, I never think about it, cept this moment, on the bus from the Hospital, sharing with you. Hmm.), and terminal within about the following year. I'm wearing a poison chemo pump for the next 46 hours, hoping to shrink the cancer, so it is operable, before the poison kills me. LOL. If in 2 weeks, Sept 12, they find the tumors haven't shrunk enough, they'll offer me $60,000 more of chemo, 4 more months, already knowing my answer, 'NO, I'll not take $60,000 of my future world-children's money for me to have another year or so. Not going to happen.' I've already told them, many times now.  But, if they discover on the Sept 9, intensive CT scan, that the tumors in my liver have shrunk enough to operate, they think they can give me a 40% chance at another 7-15 years of fighting, or so. To that, my answer would be Yes.

 

So, maybe you can cut me some slack, and hear what I'm saying. I ASK NOTHING MORE THAN that you read this whole post, deeply, courageously, holding your nose if need be...

Oh, and pls, try to remember, I wrote most of it, on my Android, riding across DC wearing my chemo pump (typos, dyslexiaisms, idiocies...)? Thanks.  I have few lucid moments left, before this chemo levels me, for the next 4 days.  Just try your best, hard, that is all any of us can do.  :-(

I'm willing, I'm pretty much expecting, to lose my last female friend over this, as excruciating as that WILL be for me. 90-95% of those I've found to be Friends, Family, fellow Warriors, are you, sisters, in the last 15 years, through today. Oh well.

I'm tough, no worries.  Truly, ZERO worries about me.  ZERO WORRIES FOR ME. JUST, WHATEVER YOU DO, SAVE MY NEXT 200 BILLION CHILDREN. YOU ARE OUT OF TIME. YOU ARE OUT OF TIME (http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2013/04/dying-4-u-2-c-averting-ecocide-20-nasas.html ). YOU ARE, BY EVERY OBJECTIVE MEASURE, INTO OVERTIME, WITH SECONDS ON THE CLOCK.  SECONDS LEFT TO GET TO THE HOSPITAL BEFORE THE FATE OF YOUR BABIES ARE DETERMINED. LITERALLY.  ACTUALLY. FOREVER.

In the following I am NOT, not,NOT... talking of seducing (GOD NO, THERE IS ZERO HOPE IN THAT. ZERO. ZERO. INFINITELY TOO WEAK, TOO UN-LOVING. TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE.), I'm talking the nuclear option, what has worked in history, withholding - imagining, and unfolding, a STRATEGIC, MIGHTILY STRATEGIC STRATEGY, FIRST PIN-POINT, THEN UNFOLDING STRATEGY... of WITHHOLDING.

Sparking, inspiring, unleashing a strategic strategy of withholding.  Read on.

Yes, it would be a miracle to achieve, and only a miracle, now, BY EVERY OBJECTIVE, SCIENTIFIC, TECHNOLOGICAL, ECOLOGICAL, ECONOMIC MEASURE, NOW, 2013, will give a future to the next generations, to all of creation, to every creature that will ever be on earth.

NOTE: HERE'S THE WHOLE SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMICS AND ECOCIDAL HELL, IN ONE DRY AS DIRT, AUTHORITATIVE, 30 MIN VID http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2013/04/dying-4-u-2-c-averting-ecocide-20-nasas.html  ). TOOK ME 5 YEARS TO ASSEMBLE FROM THE GLOBAL SCHOLARLY LEADERS, AND YOU CAN HAVE IT IN 30 MIN. THERE IS NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT, TO THE ETERNAL SHAME OF THE INTELLECTUALLY ELITE ARMIES MORE CAPABLE THAN I. THE COWARDS.

Per the video, per 97% of the 3500 PhD climate scientists on Titanic (if you get them in a corner and help them find the guts to tell it to you straight), it is 2013 to cause the only 6% reduction in fossil fuels PER YEAR, forever, instead of the 3% per year increase, now locked in...

..... the best case as things stand:

A.  the next 2 generations will experience economic destitution paying an estimated 15-25 trillion dollars to try and suck co2 out of the atmosphere (oh, btw, that won't save sea life - all of that will be gone, for 1000 generations); an estimated 20-50% of their lifetime earnings, on top of what taxes you've ever paid, to just try and survive what we've given them, and to remediate some of the future for their kids; and

B. infinitely more likely - ecocide, irreversible, forever, earth hell, earth as eternal, perpetually writhing, Titanic Hell.  Lifeless Venus-like earth, will be the eventual, end-game - WILL CERTAINLY be the endgame, unless you sisters work the Miracle. Now.  See NASA Dr. James Hansen's, "Storms of My Grandchidren," Venus Syndrome, here and here.


Withholding. You know in History, it has been tried before. You know it has worked before - WITHHOLDING.

As you know, in truth, but maybe don't like to face, all wars have been fought, and will always be fought, wars of violence that is, for the real estate that is your female bodies, YOUR FEMALE BODIES. THE GUYS THAT ORCHESTRATE, OR THAT FIGHT WARS, WANT THE PLUNDERS OF WAR (STUFF, FAME, BRAVERY, MONEY, THE HIGH OF YOUR ADMIRING THEIR MACHOISM [IF ONLY IN THEIR ADDICTIVE MINDS...) BECAUSE THEY THINK IT WILL GET SOME OF YOU TO SLEEP WITH THEM.

YES, THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS.  The exceptions, the exceptions, the exceptions... prove the rule. Virtually all men, in one way or another, do near everything they do in life, to have sex with you. The exceptions prove the rule. I'm not saying I like it, I HATE it. But that's how it is.  Maybe we'll make it different in the future. BUT WHAT I'VE JUST OUTLINED, IS WHAT WE HAVE TO WORK WITH, TODAY.

You know the history better than I, and near all of you are smarter than I, so you know what your sisters did, for the sake of peace, thousands of years ago - Greece? Rome? I forget. Other times and places, too?  Are there such smart, strong, wise, disciplined, wise, humble, committed, courageous, LOVING... women today? If not, can the few who are, awaken the many, fast enough? NOW?

Senator(s) wife(s) was pivotal in getting your right to vote. Their Mothers were instrumental to getting the Senators and Congressmen, to vote the right way, as you know better than I. And what of today's Senators? Congressmen? President?  Governors?  Even, Captains of Industry?

By every objective measure, you are the more compassionate sex, more attuned to life, to the soon terminal life un-worth living for all life on earth. You are the best organizers, and even better among your sisters. By a piece I saw yesterday, you are objectively the smarter sex - the two highest IQ's ever measured are females, I read.

AS I'VE JUST OUTLINED, JUST REMINDED YOU, THE TRUTH IS, YOU ARE THE MOST POWERFUL SEX, BY FAR.

THAT IS THE HORRIBLE, WONDERFUL TRUTH.  IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE COURAGE TO FACE IT, WE'RE DOOMED. IF YOU DO HAVE THE COURAGE TO FACE IT, AND GRASP IT...?
THEN, THERE MAY BE A PRAYER.

Maybe what I'm saying here, strategically, has zero possibilities.

But decide, ok?  You, decide, ok?

I AM NOT OPEN TO DISCUSSING IT. I AM NOT. I WILL NOT. It is your baby, now, or it is stillborn.  Do, or don't do.

IF YOU THINK IT HAS MERRITT, AND YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY, YOU WILL FIGURE OUT WHAT I'M INCAPABLE FIGURING OUT, BEYOND WHAT I'VE SHARED HERE, AND YOU'LL GET IT GOING, remembering, "Full effort is full success,"  Gandhi.

Remembering, SUSAN B. ANTHONY,

"FAILURE, IS IMPOSSIBLE."  

Remembering, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT,

"THOSE WHO WOULD GIVE LIFE, MUST ENDURE BURNING."

Remembering, DIANE WILSON, and here, and here, and here, and here...

"Reasonable women adapt to the world,
and unreasonable women make the world adapt to them. And we need more unreasonable women." 

IF IT IS STUPID YOU THINK, WHAT I'VE SKETCHED OUT, HORRIBLE, POLITICALLY INCORRECT, HATEFUL, OFFENSIVE..., WHATEVER, WELL, DO WHAT YOU WILL REGARDING ME.

BUT NO MATTER WHAT,  IF THERE IS TO BE A FUTURE FOR OUR NEXT 200 BILLION KIDS, FOR ALL OF CREATION, YOU WOMEN ARE THE ONLY ONES WITH THE POWER, OBJECTIVELY, IN TRUTH, IN FACT, TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.  

"Gandhi, what is this soul force, this satyagraha, you speak of?"   

"I'm talking of the mother's love for her child, the strongest force in the universe."

Again, I AM NOT OPEN TO DISCUSSING THIS WITH YOU. I AM NOT. I WILL NOT. It is your baby, now, or it is stillborn.

I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT YOUR MIGHTY POWER "OVER" - FORCE.

I AM NOT TALKING OF SOME CHEAP, MEDIA ORIENTED, UNDIGNIFIED RANTING.

I AM TALKING OF THE UNSPEAKABLE DIGNITY, AND COURAGE, SHOWN BY YOUR SISTERS DURING THE SUFFRAGE DAYS, THE GREATEST IMPLEMENTATION OF UNVIOLENT WARFARE IN HUMAN HISTORY:

"A Women's Crusade  here and here,"

"IRON JAWED ANGELS, here and here," the book;

Iron Jawed Angels here and here, the Movie;

INEZ MILHOLLAND here and  here, 

I'M TALKING OF YOUR MIGHTY, NEAR INFINITE, POTENTIAL POWER 'FOR' - LOVING, IMPOSSIBLY TOUGH LOVING.

My favorite quote, ever? My favorite quote of all time? Thanks Cyndi Weaver, for inspiring me to remember it:

"Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.”  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Everything that is NOT full EFFORT, is full failure, more finally now, than at any other time in the history of Creation.

Sisters, like it or not, the future is in your hands.

If you are honest, you know I will keep doing what I can, and will do EVERYTHING in my power to support you, you that step out, with Diane, with my last breath I will. Just ask Diane Wilson. She might not like what I do, :-), she may hate what I do (I'll never know), but she has to admit, I've done everything in my power to support her Divine Sherosim. Important what I do? No. I'm only saying I put my Life, all that I am, all that I have, every breath, where my mouth is. And never more than now.

"I'm talking of the mother's love for her child, the strongest force in the universe." Gandhi.  Me too, that's what I'm talking about. That's what with every breath I Live to embody.  "I'm talking of the mother's love for her child, the strongest force in the universe."

THAT'S THE OBJECTIVE TRUTH OF IT....

...EXCEPT, FOR THE CHILDREN.  HMMM. THE CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS. THE ANTI-APARTHEID WORKERS, FOUND A PLACE FOR THE CHILDREN... AT THE FRONT, THE FRONT, THE FRONT OF THE MOVEMENT. AND IT MOVED MOUNTAINS. THEY WOULD NEVER, NEVER, NEVER... HAVE MOVED THE MOUNTAINS WITHOUT THE CHILDREN IN FRONT.

AND WHO HAS THE MORAL RIGHT TO KEEP THE CHILDREN FROM FIGHTING, WITH THEIR VERY LIVES IF NEED BE, FOR THEIR VERY PLANET?????????????? NO ONE. BUT WE'VE KEPT THEM TOTALLY IGNORANT....

THE MOTHERS, THE WOMEN, COULD MAKE THAT HAPPEN, NOW.... WILL THEY? WILL ANYONE(S) LEAD?

THE  MEN, CAN NOT DO THAT.  DUH. BUT, THEY CAN, AND WILL, FOLLOW.

Your brother forever, no matter what, Loving

ps: I AM NOT OPEN TO DISCUSSING IT. I AM NOT. I WILL NOT.

pps: I wonder if any of you are going to share this. It is of ZERO importance if you do, THAT I KNOW.  And if you do, it would be infinitely better if you reformulate it UNDER YOUR OWN NAME. LEAVE ME 100% OUT OF IT, ONE TRILLION MILES AWAY FROM IT. I'M PRETTY TOXIC, BY NOW. THINK, PLUTONIUM.

ppps:  Oh, I wish I'd thought of this. Saw on FB several days ago. Something like...

pppps: Sorry, one last, obvious, thing. The issues you care about - women's rights, equal pay, education for your kids, economic opportunity for your kids, ending wars, quality of life for your kids, gender equality, immigration reform, health care... did I mention, ENDING WARS?  Gone, for the next 1000 thousand generations, objectively.  The next 1000 generations will be nothing but one extended war for survival, a death spiral, unless you work an impossible miracle, now. FACT.  And you won't, unless you try.

"The person that wants to do something, finds a way.  The person that doesn't, finds an excuse."

***** In this 2013 world, "loving," when we say it, when we think it, means, ' affection,' or ' craving.' Is there not something different than these? Are affection, craving, why they did or do what they do - Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Alice Paul, Teresa of Calcutta, Gandhi, Martin Luther King jr., Brian Wilson, Diane Wilson, Jesus, Lizzy Arizona.... Really?

* In this 2013 world, loving, when we say it, when we think it, means, ' affection,' or ' craving.' Is there not something different than these? Are affection, craving, why they did or do what they do - Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Alice Paul, Teresa of Calcutta, Gandhi, Martin Luther King jr., Brian Wilson, Diane Wilson, Jesus, Lizzy Arizona.... Really?

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"NOT GOOD IN A BED, BUT DOES WELL WHEN UP AGAINST A WALL," Eleanor Roosevelt famously said this about the description of a rose named after her. True of Loving, here, too. LOL.

"NOT GOOD IN A BED, BUT DOES WELL WHEN UP AGAINST A WALL," Eleanor Roosevelt famously said this about the description of a rose named after her.  True of Loving, here, too.  LOL.

"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down." -Eleanor Roosevelt, 1960

"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."
-Eleanor Roosevelt, 1960

http://ourpresidents.tumblr.com/post/12476033619/courage-is-more-exhilarating-than-fear-and-in-the

***** (detail) 'LOVING IS, EQUALS, MEANINGFUL WORK = LOVING. IT IS THE ONLY PURPOSE, ONLY JOY, FOR ANY AND EVERY BREATH WE ARE GIVEN.' Loving

I've been reading a lot of Albert Schweitzer lately, and today, Eleanor Roosevelt.  Maybe these two
are the two icons I'd point to in the last 1000 years as our Purest Saints, really. 

I think Eleanor's biggest concern on earth was what I call Meaningful Work - enough Meaningful (Loving) work for everyone.  For Schweitzer his moral Holy Grail was Reverence for Life, but the expression of that is Meaningful Work! Loving Service - Loving!  And, Loving, Meaningful Work is my conclusion as the most needed thing on earth, the most needed thing by EVERY human being.  And we have almost no meaningful work left in the US.

Cancer update

Sleep, sleep, sleep... study, sleep, sleep, sleep.... WTF!?!?!?

Hopefully this will pass, soon!

I've been reading Eleanor Roosevelt's last book - "Tomorrow is Now."  They say, she literally used her last breaths, last days, to write this, despite dozens of books, thousands of speeches... before.

My God, what a book, what a Soul.  Has there been a greater?

THE STAFF HERE, IN THE INFIRMARY, ARE VOLUNTEERS!!!!?????!!!!!!!!!!!  Oh my God, am I HUMBLED.  4 shifts I guess.  Late 20's, and 30's guys, af am.  Nice.  Nice.  Humble.  VOLUNTEERS.  Part of CCNV 'programs,' graduates.  Here.  I've just heard from one, the one who helped me out with my 'midnight talker' of a roomate last night.  I'm a master in counseling.  I couldn't dream of turning around folks from drugs, alcohol, crime... the way this young man does, IN HIS SLEEP.

My God.

Ghost of Christmas Present, to Scrooge, 'In the sight of God you may be more worthless than MILLIONS like this mans child.'

***** NO. REALLY. REALLY!!! Pls hear me, deeply. It is all that I've learned - "LOVING IS, =, IS, THE CREATOR. THE CREATOR IS, =, IS LOVING. WHEN YOU ARE LOVING, YOU ARE IN, OF, AND BY THE CREATOR. WHEN YOU ARE NOT LOVING, YOU ARE IN, OF AND BY THE DESTROYER, ENTROPY, EVIL. THAT'S IT. THAT'S ALL I'VE LEARNED. THAT'S ALL JESUS, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, GANDHI, KING, TERESA OF CALCUTTA... LEARNED. ALL THE REST IS DETAILS.' Loving

***** NO. REALLY. REALLY!!! Pls hear me, deeply.  It is all that I've learned - "LOVING IS, =, IS, THE CREATOR.  THE CREATOR IS, =, IS LOVING.  WHEN YOU ARE LOVING, YOU ARE IN, OF, AND BY THE CREATOR.  WHEN YOU ARE NOT LOVING, YOU ARE IN, OF AND BY THE DESTROYER, ENTROPY, EVIL. THAT'S IT. THAT'S ALL I'VE LEARNED. THAT'S ALL JESUS, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, GANDHI, KING, TERESA OF CALCUTTA... LEARNED. ALL THE REST IS DETAILS.' Loving

***** 'THE MOST CRUCIAL BOOK ON EARTH (sadly): Book 2 - "Resurrecting Your Unviolent Warrior - a Personal Trainer." Link was broken but now fixed - Tabs above. Loving

Book 2: "Resurrecting Your Unviolent Warrior" (Personal Trainer)

My daily Personal Trainer, constructed from lifelong study and practice of history's greatest Spirits and Sages - Jesus, Gandhi, Schweitzer, Wilson, Corrie, Teresa, Eleanor Roosevelt, Romero, Diane Nash, Alice Paul, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Adler, Maslow, Csikszentmihalyi, Tolstoy, Montagu, Sorokin, Frankl, Tom Peters, Senge, MLK Jr....

Note to a friend, my age, contemplating Leaping to a Life of Radical Service, Insane Humanity.

Wonderful, wonderful note.  I'm deeply touched, and honored by your sharing.

I consider your sharing Sacred.  I've chosen to reply forcefully.  YOU need to  decide whether it is Helpful, or not, to read my comments.........  Truly.

You are looking in the right direction, very much so.  Very much so.

I fear for you, and us, that it is too little, too late.  What I mean is, the direction of the path you lay out is Right; but the speed with which you outline traversing it, and all the caveats, and conditions...

'START, HAVE SOME SYMPATHY MAN!  IT IS DAMN INTIMIDATING LOOKING IN THE  DIRECTION I OUTLINED!'  'START, I JUST GOT OUT OF THE HOSPITAL, BOTH LEGS ARE BROKEN, MY SPINE IS BRUISED, I ACHE ALL OVER... AND YOU ARE TELLING ME I'VE GOT TO SPRINT OUT OF THE WAY OF THAT ONCOMING TRUCK!!?!?!!??!!?'  :-)

'If you pick up your Cross, it WILL cost you son, daughter, wife, husband, farms....' Mandela, Gandhi, Jesus, Romero, Bonhoeffer....

'Let the dead bury the dead.'

'If you look back, you are not worthy [ABLE] to follow Me.'

'The parable of the feast - 'Oh, I'd love to come Lord, but I just bought an ox....'

Jesus, Our Father, they never tell us what THEY are going to do TO us.  They  tell us what we are going to do TO OURSELVES, if we don't bow to the Truth, The Truth, that They have outlined some of to us.

I hear you saying, in effect, 'YES START, I SEE that the roof collapsed on the  elementary school, with kids inside!  I'm gunna run in to help!  But I have to settle my affairs, take a course, get guidance, pack some water, and then I'll be ready!'  Yes, and the kids will be dead.

My God Chris, I am not belittling, but rather Honoring what you shared with me. YOUR INCLINATIONS ARE SO CORRECT!  But pretty quick after you begin to learn to hang-glide, you either leap off the cliff, or you don't, and if you kinda try to slide of the cliff gradually, you crash, or Truly, stay on what was to be only your departure point, forever.

You are seeing that you need to get out of the way of the oncoming truck, and to help others do so as well!  That's great!  But all that really matters is whether you actually GET you and others out of the way of the truck, IN TIME. Tho we must NEVER for an instant forget, 'FULL EFFORT IS FULL SUCCESS.'  Gandhi.  'WE ARE CALLED TO BE FAITHFUL; WE ARE NOT CALLED TO BE SUCCESSFUL.'

It can't happen nearly, nearly, nearly as painlessly, or as well calculated as you lay out. 

Pray on what the World, Our Father's Family needs from you.  How fast, how far do They need you to move?  Can they really wait?  Yes, the risks you lay out are real!  But can They, the neediest, afford for you to be so cautious? No.  Nor reckless.

Had I not been able to leave a fairly large pile of wealth for the woman I  was married to, and for my grown bio-kids for finishing college, would I have lept?  Possibly not.  Probably so.  John, Paul, Andrew... did.  By leaping as  I did my bio-sons totally severed relations with me; as the relations were  severed between the Prodigal Son and Father; Jesus and his bio-fam, pretty much; Jesus and the Rich Young Man, who Jesus loved.  But in all these cases,  by virtue of allowing the separation, the rupture, the distance... an opportunity was created for the Lost, to see, and Choose, and Return home.  'No one comes to me except that the Father brings him.' 

Jesus didn't decide for himself and his apostles to be bums, living off the land, etc.  He saw that what was required was total, immediate action, NOW, and the consequence was they were a bunch of bums, living off the land, and  what people handed out.  Things have only gotten worse, more desperate, more urgent.

Two last  thoughts.  Focusing on those 'farthest from God.'  This is really difficult, but very important.  I think I know what you are grabbing at, and that is Good! But we all need to learn a lot more about this.  The good MD, comes around the bend of a remote country road, and there before her are hundreds of bodies that have been thrown out in a terrible plane crash.  Does she go to the one furthest from life?  She goes to those she has the best chance of bringing the biggest distance from death, to Life, in time.  This is really, really, really tricky to see - I've not figured it out yet nearly enough. 

This is all I can share, so far.  When you go fishing, do you get down in the water with scuba gear and visually pick out which fish you want to catch?  No. You go to an area you guess is promising, and throw in the line, and wait for a while, and see if you get any nibbles.  Jesus told us to sow, sow, sow... on the rock on the path among the brambles.... but  yes, when we could SEE a swine, to not throw before it.  Who in Jesus day did Jesus assess were the farthest from God, the least likely to be helped?  The Church folk, (Jews), and the Priests and Pastors - they had devoted their lives to remaking God in their own image, and inoculating themselves to the Truth.  And so it is today. [Start, ARE YOU ASSUMING I'M NOT WAY AHEAD OF YOU ON ANY OR ALL OF THIS?!? No.  :-)  ]

Last thought, THERE IS NO CHURCH.  Don't shy from creating one - this is our work!  HOWEVER, THE CHURCH IS THOSE IN WHOM OUR FATHER DWELLS, IN TOTAL CONTROL.  Do they flock?  Do they build buildings for themselves? Do they sing for themselves?  Etc. Etc. Etc???? THEY GO OUT!!!!!! AND TEND THE SHEEP THAT ARE GREATEST IN NEED!!!!!  Did the apostles flock?  Did Jesus build buildings, organizations...?

'A church is the place people go out from.' MLK Jr.

'Go out into the houses, two by two; if they accept your Peace....'

'We must preach the Gospel, every day, all day long! And occasionally use words, to do so.' Assisi.

"Example is not the major thing in influencing people; it is the only thing."  Schweitzer.

With much Love,

sl

ps: 

http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2007/10/from-inhumanity-to-humanity-always-leap.html

xx sl

pps:

Your note of this morning brought this to my mind, too:

An Email from SL to Occupy DC

xx sl

ppps:   To my friends reply, and expression of profound agreement, to the long email above:

Friend, again, I consider this dialog with you on this immensely consequential personal journey, immensely Sacred.  But we are talking of the ENTIRE Gospel you and I.  NOTHING is as consequential.  NOTHING.  Everything else is symptomatic of getting the Gospel right, or wrong.

'Heart' IS OUR FATHER'S KINGDOM, and 'Head,' when Head is IN CHARGE, is Satan's.  I continue to do all in my power to make available at my blog everything I've been, and am being shown about the 'Path.'

I've been on that 'Path' for 13 or so years now.  I swear on Our Father that if I had doubts of that Path, that I'd found It, that the walking of it IS Heaven itself, IS Salvation ITSELF, I'd tell you.  IT IS HEAVEN ITSELF.  IT IS SALVATION, ITSELF.  Yes, it absolutely looks like HELL to the Head/Flesh.

FYI, if you've not seen this in my recent posts, my level of Hoplessness for the world is at levels in recent weeks way, way, way, way beyond anything I could have imagined even months ago, and my level of hope has descended each of the last 13 years.  Am I Hopeless, without Hope?  I am not.  I have no Right to be Hopeless.  Today's young, Eternity's Children, have a Right to my Hope.

But I think more and more of what little I know of the Monks that 1000 years ago went and lived in caves, as I understand it.  I think I get it.  They too, objectively, saw so little hope, they went to preserve what little there was of Goodness in themselves, for future generations.

No, I don't counsel anyone, me or you, to go into 'caves.'  No, you and I are at the scene of a planetary 'plane crash,' and before us are the twisted, writhing bodies of 7 billion today, and 10's of billions to be born, if you, I or someone(s)  don't bring Our Father (BY WHATEVER NAME(S), BY WHATEVER CREED(S)....)  DOWN TO EARTH. 

If you haven't watched these, PLEASE DO.  NOW. They are short.  If you HAVE watched these, DO IT AGAIN, NOW:

Rabbi Abraham Heschel

'The Ultimate WLODI Master, objectively. History's Ultimate 'Yoda,''so far.' SL

My point in all this is, YES, YOU ARE CONTEMPLATING LEAPING OFF TOTALLY INTO THE MOST DANGEROUS, MOST DEADLY, MOST CRUCIAL BATTLE IN HUMAN HISTORY. THIS IS IT.  How can we do less, if we love anyone at all?  I imagine sometimes, how the spouses of the one group in this country I have any respect for, our men and women in Uniform, how the spouses, and bio-children react when they hear from their spouse - 'I enlisted today.'  Some are proud, of course.  But it is the ones that feel outraged, betrayed, abandoned... that I find instructive, illuminating, of my own journey, of my own RESPONSIBILITY TO THEM, to those MOST DEPENDENT, MOST MY RESPONSIBILITY.  So, I offer you one last thought -

D135 D-18 'Enabling my Affloholism lifelong; Grateful I'm NOT.' SL

Not that you should care, but NEVER will there be a second when I will judge you, what you do, or what you don't do, personally.  How could I be that stupid? I'm not.  Only YOU know you well enough to possibly know what you should or shouldn't do from moment to moment.  However, to my horror, I find that I KNOW NO ONE ELSE BESIDES SL THAT HAS FOUND, AND IS WALKING, THE 'PATH' IN  THIS AGE.  I don't say there are none, I PRAY THERE ARE 1000's!!!!!! I SUSPECT THERE ARE SOMETHING FEWER THAN 1 IN A MILLION, ABOUT 7,000 today. But I say I KNOW  OF NONE.  Point being, to my horror, I, in horrible solitude, know a lot about the Path, and WILL offer, when it seems appropriate, about what I know of it.

xx sl

ps final:    

The greatest Revelation that yet Our Father has given to me, and just within the last 4 weeks or so, is the concept, and words - Insane Humanity, Insanely Humane.  This encapsulates everything, EVERYTHING I've learned of importance to day. 

If 4 years ago I'd had these words, my tattoos would have been different, if I could have figured out how to cram them on my face!  LOL.

If Jesus wasn't Insanely Humane, and Bonhoeffer, Camara, Eleanor Roosevelt,  Teresa of Calcutta, MLK Jr.... well, then I just don't know anything.

And of course by Insanely Humane I mean nothing more, less or else than - CLINICALLY SANE.

What you are contemplating is leaving the Clinically Insane, Deadly, Affloholic, Sodom and Gomorrahic domain that our sickest of all cultures fights to the  Death to defend as Sanity.  It isn't.  It is Satan on the verge of winning it all, forever.

For you, and us, I Pray for you now.  There have been only two Einstein-calibre psychologists - Viktor Frankl and Alfred Adler.  Adler said, as a clinical psychologist, 'The correct, the Healthy decision typically lies in the direction of Courage (Loving, the Heart, properly understood).'  Everything else is typically, Insane.

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SL here. A note to my 3 Friends.

Our words are so inadequate for all that is of consequence.

The word 'despair' is the best I can think of to describe what I'm feeling with respect to the future, the IMMEDIATE, and ETERNAL future of Humanity, Earth, Creation.  Anything less than despair

and I'd be quite a dead husk of a creature, and/or delusionalas to how bleak it is.  We don't have a technology problem, a resource problem, an energy problem, a social science problem.

We have a Heart problem, a Soul problem, a Humanity problem, a Sanity problem, clinically.  The problem with the world 'despair' is that it suggests debilitation or dysfunction.  I'm quite fully

functional, but yes, I feel despair, deeply.  

As to the outlook for my actions - in crisis, we only learn by diving  in - all Revolutionaries of Change, of Love, of Humanity, they dive in  first.  And so it is with me, and this is the choice I continue to make.  When the notion of ceasing food and water for days, weeks, months...  years (if they kept me on life support) came to me, I examined it  carefully, tested it, and when it seemed Right, seemed sound, I  moved in that direction, and alerted you.  Only when one leaps  into a situation can further, accelerated learning happen.  What  I may be learning, once again, more deeply, with more data,  more experience, is that
A.  In a graveyard, 2011 US, such a move is relatively  pointless;
B. I've been correct in recent months to place ALL hope,  for whenever there might be of Hope, in Insane Humanity, that  many of  us evidence from time to time, and that one out of a  million come to and Live with every breath.  (I like the term   Insane Humanity - it really captures, but like all our language,  'denial,' and our other defenses can trash it real quick. )  Therefore,  it may be that I am to serve by moving more deeply into, resigning  myself much more fully to living in a 'cave,' my ever increasing  solitude, isolation... devoting myself to the possibility that  directly or indirectly I ever meet someone that is desperate  to give their Insane Humanity control of their lives, but need  help in taking that step.  It may be that my primary responsibility  will be preparing centrally for such a moment, that I fully don't  expect to come. 

With amusement, and seriousness, the  image of Obi-Wan stays with me, and the WLODI (Wage Love  or Die) Warriors.  All hope, ALL hope lies in this.  Jesus would  agree I think - he and his hand-picked apostles were the equivalent.  I don't think He ever foresaw that more than one in a million of  us would find Life - our Insane Humanity.  I've resisted, and still do, this notion, but  that is out of cowardice and denial on my part.  "Many  are called by few choose to follow."  "The gate is narrow, and  few will enter in."  The Insanely Humane is who He meant.  Who do you know that fits this description?  Harriet Tubman  did, and Eleanor Roosevelt, Mother Jones, Dietrich Bonhoeffer,  Jesus, Assisi, Teresa..., the Insane Humane.  1 in a million.  The Yeast.  The Levin.  The Mustard seed.  The Yeast isn't the  bread, nor the Levin.  The seed isn't the tree.  They are but  trace elements.  I hope I'm wrong, but objectively, I think not.  And now there is no Yeast, no Levin, no Mustard Seed. 

There is a good chance that Christmas eve I'll begin yet another  hunger strike, but probably taking liquids, able to live off of body  fat recently acquired, but not much, for maybe 15-40 days.  I  foresee being much in front of the White House, possibly playing,  over and over, the Plan B 3.0 W/O the BS video, audio I'm half way through  creating now; for my own education / development, and for the rare passerby  with any Heart for Humanity.  In effect I must be on my 10th  reading of Plan B 3.0, and every day I read other sources on the  subject, too.  I'm not stupid.  And really, I'm not all that slow a learner.  The scope, scale, degree of the horror that we humanoids of  2011 are condemning all of creation to, forever, is vast, so unimaginable,  so totally overwhelming... that it takes so long for it to sink in.  Think Eternal Holocaust.  Studies reported conclusively that the  Germans were all very 'nice,' 'normal' folks.  And so are we.

My feeling that it was right for me to advise you three of my  plans has pretty much left me, I think.  I can and do manage  my work on my own.  I experience myself like a Space Probe,  fired off into the unknown, sending back what it sees, for whatever  Good that might do.  I expect to continue my practice of doing  so at my Blog, if you ever have interest.  I've pretty much discontinued
posting to my FB page, or YouTube (except as a video repository)  as these are pretty much sites of all talk, all spectating, no  action. 

Brother, my Will and Testament, should they ever be needed, will  be on my person, and will mention you as the point of contact for  any belongings on my person, and you know my intent that anything
I have be liquidated and proceeds to Diane for her work.  I'll probably  soon find, and resend the copy from last time so you have it.

xx sl

Note of interest:  Jesus, and Obi-Wan, for that matter, there came a point  where they served better by allowing their life to be taken by the raging  inhumanity around them, but not until there was, were, those of latent  Insane Humanity assembled that it might ignite.  I don't see that.  Yet.  "No one comes to me except that the Father brings them."  Maybe it is  for me to wait, prepare, get ready, in the unlikely event....