3.08.2007
Capitalist Culture: Clincally Pathological to the Soul
See Alfred Adler, Victor Frankl, M. Csikszentmihalyi, Abe Maslow....
See the posts at the top of this site.
Otherishness / brotherly love is sanity / psychological health.
Adam Smith capitalism is the explicit elimination of Otherishness / Brotherly Love / Christian responsibility from all economic life.
How many days can you go without water without damaging your body?
How many minutes can you go without breathing without damage?
How many weeks without any form of movement or exercise at all?
How many days can you totally abuse your body with sweets and junk food before your health degrades.
HOW MANY HOURS CAN YOU GO WITHOUT HEROIC, TOTAL BROTHERHOOD / OTHERISHNESS WITHOUT DAMAGING YOUR HEART / MIND / SPIRIT / SANITY?
See the posts at the top of this site.
Otherishness / brotherly love is sanity / psychological health.
Adam Smith capitalism is the explicit elimination of Otherishness / Brotherly Love / Christian responsibility from all economic life.
How many days can you go without water without damaging your body?
How many minutes can you go without breathing without damage?
How many weeks without any form of movement or exercise at all?
How many days can you totally abuse your body with sweets and junk food before your health degrades.
HOW MANY HOURS CAN YOU GO WITHOUT HEROIC, TOTAL BROTHERHOOD / OTHERISHNESS WITHOUT DAMAGING YOUR HEART / MIND / SPIRIT / SANITY?
STOP THINKING. STOP TALKING. START LOVING.
It has taken an enormous amount of "Thinking" to get us into this mess - econimic genocide, middle class decimation, 13 children starving to death per minute, unopposed genocide in Darfur, 8 million slaughtered in Congo for cheap electronics, 40 year Palestinian concentration camps, nuclear weapons proliferation, US child well-being 19th out of 20....
It has taken an enormous amount of "Talking" to keep us in this mess.
It has taken an enormous amount of "Talking" to keep us in this mess.
"Loving" is the only way out of this mess. If we still have time.
3.06.2007
Jesus STANDS not for Justice or for Charity. ONLY OTHERISHNESS / BROTHERHOOD.
Charity and justice reigning can only come as a system of OTHERISHNESS / BROTHERHOOD as a way of life.
THE ULTIMATE SELFISHNESS IS THE ULTIMATE OTHERISHNESS
Otherishness IS Heaven on Earth:
* For the dooer
* For the receiver
* For the dooer
* For the receiver
Dear [Inner] Family, What if you don't see the grenades?
Hi. The following was quite helpful when it came to me last night as I was speaking to college students from Wisconsin in front of the White House. One of them quite appropriately but wrongheaddedly asked me if vigiling there "does any good?" What she had in mind I am sure was the time-killing/Darfur-killing emails, phone calls, lobying congress. Finally, with the following I found something that might help others understand the inappropriateness of such actions today. Into Thanksgiving Dinner rolls a live Hand Grenade...
Well, of course you are my Inner Family and I see grenades raining down all around you: Darfur, Palestine, Lebanon, Impending Police State, Congo, Guatemala, Haiti, Chester, Camden....
You don't see them.
I'll keep diving on them. That is going to keep me pretty busy. I probably will not be able to come to see you for a long, long time.
Well, of course you are my Inner Family and I see grenades raining down all around you: Darfur, Palestine, Lebanon, Impending Police State, Congo, Guatemala, Haiti, Chester, Camden....
You don't see them.
I'll keep diving on them. That is going to keep me pretty busy. I probably will not be able to come to see you for a long, long time.
"Be HEROES," Jesus said. No?
"Heaven on Earth = REIGNING OTHERISHNESS Elimanting Selfishness," Jesus said. (Do you disagree?)
Truly, to articulate and promote this may be why I was born. I think it embodies everything that Jesus told us, and everything of value that I've learned from countless authors, HEROES and decades of striving:
"Be Heaven on Earth. REIGN OTHERISHNESS to Elimante Selfishness," Jesus said. (Do you disagree?)
"LIVE Heaven on Earth. Reign Otherishness to Elimante Selfishness," Jesus said. (Do you disagree?)
[Site not yet begun BeHEROES. My hope is to create and maintain a site broader than DARFUR Dying For Heroes to encourage and insprire heroes in every applicable realm: Human Rights, Religion, Environment, Anti-War, Anti-Nuc....]
Otherishness, Heroism - the antidote to Selfishness (the root of all evil) - is the object of this site. The insight that led to its creation includes prominently this quote from David Dellinger:
"Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love [Otherishness] or total war. "
There are many permutations of this - many forms of selfishness, many forms of evil that result. Check out:
DELLINGER'S WORDS THAT COULD SAVE THE WORLD
Truly, to articulate and promote this may be why I was born. I think it embodies everything that Jesus told us, and everything of value that I've learned from countless authors, HEROES and decades of striving:
"Be Heaven on Earth. REIGN OTHERISHNESS to Elimante Selfishness," Jesus said. (Do you disagree?)
"LIVE Heaven on Earth. Reign Otherishness to Elimante Selfishness," Jesus said. (Do you disagree?)
[Site not yet begun BeHEROES. My hope is to create and maintain a site broader than DARFUR Dying For Heroes to encourage and insprire heroes in every applicable realm: Human Rights, Religion, Environment, Anti-War, Anti-Nuc....]
Otherishness, Heroism - the antidote to Selfishness (the root of all evil) - is the object of this site. The insight that led to its creation includes prominently this quote from David Dellinger:
"Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love [Otherishness] or total war. "
There are many permutations of this - many forms of selfishness, many forms of evil that result. Check out:
DELLINGER'S WORDS THAT COULD SAVE THE WORLD
3.05.2007
Into Thanksgiving Dinner rolls a live Hand Grenade...
.... What do you do? A. Email your congressman; B. Blog; C. Lobby your congressman; D. Send $ to a charitable organization / nonprofit ...; E. See a sad movie about a similar situation; F. Hold a seminar at your church; G. Dive on the handgrenade so it does not kill your family.
Darfur is a live hand grenade thrown into your house. Throw yourself on it or it will destroy you and those you love.
Next rolls in Palestine, then Congo... Haiti...Jamaica...Iraq...New Orleans....
The Grenades are rolling. The only choice is how to act. The choice determins the outcome.
Darfur is a live hand grenade thrown into your house. Throw yourself on it or it will destroy you and those you love.
Next rolls in Palestine, then Congo... Haiti...Jamaica...Iraq...New Orleans....
The Grenades are rolling. The only choice is how to act. The choice determins the outcome.
JESUS DECLARED WAR AGAIN. This time through Dave Dellinger
Is this the most important essay ever written? You decide:
Revolutionary Nonviolence essay: QUOTATIONS FROM "DECLARATION OF WAR" 1945
Revolutionary Nonviolence essay: QUOTATIONS FROM "DECLARATION OF WAR" 1945
3.04.2007
"The...State [and its law]...is Rejection of God," Phil Berrigan
From: FOREWORD by Philip Berrigan #14850-056Federal Correctional Institution at Petersburg 1996-1997Federal Correctional Institution at Elkton 2001
"The genesis of the State then, ancient or modern, is rejection of God, rebellion against God. "They have not rejected you [Samuel], they have rejected me as their King." (1 Sam. 8:7) And God instructs Samuel to tell the elders what a human King, Leader, Premier, Fuhrer, Prime Minister, President would cost the people -- sons for the military, daughters as domestics, crushing taxes, fields, vineyards and flocks confiscated, servants seized, slavery the final, tragic culmination. As the ruling hierarchy told Pilate: "We have no King but Caesar. (John 19:15) ... As the ruling hierarchy told Pilate: "We have no King but Caesar." (John 19:15)"
" Paul equates the law with sin and death -- sin because law has nothing to say to sins of omission, and death because most will draw their morality from the law. The morality of most Americans is legalized. To become "law abiding" is to fear the penalties of the law, to become house-broken, domesticated. Morality limited by the boundaries of the law is spiritual death."
"The genesis of the State then, ancient or modern, is rejection of God, rebellion against God. "They have not rejected you [Samuel], they have rejected me as their King." (1 Sam. 8:7) And God instructs Samuel to tell the elders what a human King, Leader, Premier, Fuhrer, Prime Minister, President would cost the people -- sons for the military, daughters as domestics, crushing taxes, fields, vineyards and flocks confiscated, servants seized, slavery the final, tragic culmination. As the ruling hierarchy told Pilate: "We have no King but Caesar. (John 19:15) ... As the ruling hierarchy told Pilate: "We have no King but Caesar." (John 19:15)"
" Paul equates the law with sin and death -- sin because law has nothing to say to sins of omission, and death because most will draw their morality from the law. The morality of most Americans is legalized. To become "law abiding" is to fear the penalties of the law, to become house-broken, domesticated. Morality limited by the boundaries of the law is spiritual death."
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