In this work phase - all pain, no reading, leasure and difficult prayer - it is enormously humbling and helpful to try to keep myself in their presence.
Of course I have a great tendency to feel sorry for myself. I also have a strong distaste and aversion to this. I'm not good at it yet. I don't yet have the objectivity, the self monitoring (Dave) to judge when to indulge the pain impulses, rest, for reasons of protecting my ability to Serve, and when to press on.
Bringing myself in my imagination in front of Beko or Jesus helps. Of course my pain and suffering can't begin to come into the same realm as theirs. Now it doesn't make it easy or successful. I still am very tempted, and do - self indulge. But I find some assitance and much hope and promise for new strength and otherisness in the approach.
4.22.2007
I think I'll fail. I think I'll always keep trying this approach.
I'm not sure why I find this story so useful, but I have and do: Jos. Lister discovered that contamination on scalpels was causing massive amounts of death, in the 1870's is when he made his discovery I think. He saw with certainty the death of unsterilized tools. IT TOOK HIM UNTIL THE EARLY 1900's BEFORE ANYONE WOULD LISTEN. He could have given up trying to convince people. Who could have blamed him?
What I am doing -
What I am doing -
- standing up for "the least of these my brothers,
- "doing unto others ALL that I would have them do unto me,"
- attempting to "live just like Jesus lived,"
- "lay down my life for my brother,"
- "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven..."
- Hunger Strike as the Weapon of Mass Therapy...
...This is Life. There is nothing else that is Life. That we have grown up in a culture that has almost totally eradicated the circuits within us that recognize and practice this makes the need for me to live as I am living, to "be" the "Bread of Life" the best I am able, ALL THE MORE NECESSARY AND URGENT, DEMANDING AND EXCITITING AND INVITING.
If I am given 1 more month or 4 more decades I suspect every breath will be spent practicing the above for the intent of spreading the Life-type, for spreading Revolutionary Brotherhood, to Start Loving, and for the Live / Love / Joy / Peace of it.
This is a shocking revelation for me in light of:
- The pain, intensity, duration, and saturation per minute per day of my Serving in Solidarity from my Soul which is more intense than ever before, and
- The lack of "success" in any foreseeable future is more apparent to me than ever before.
I should feel extremely discouraged. I feel more certain of the need and more resolved than ever.
I also feel what I have long hoped to feel and see clearly. "ANYONE THAT DOESN'T LIVE AS IS AM LIVING IS NUTS! THIS IS LIFE!!! THIS IS LIVING, MAN!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS LIFE, NOTHING ELSE IS. I KNOW. I'VE TRIED IT ALL.
Sorokin: Brotherhood or War
"If unselfish love does not extend over the whole of mankind, if it is confined within one group – a given family, tribe, nation, race, religious denomination, political party, trade nation, caste, social class or any part of humanity – such an in-group altruism tends to generate an out-group antagonism."-- Pitirim Sorokin
We now fully dehumanize our children before college
Matthew: "Whoever causes one of these little ones 5 who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea."
Our children have totally bought in to the society before they enter college. Has this ever happened before? They cannot even conceive that there is any other way to live besides our religion of Selfishness.
This IS the anti-Christ. This U.S. / Western way of life [death] is the anti-Christ. The "Church" is a major henchman.
This IS the Matrix.
Our children have totally bought in to the society before they enter college. Has this ever happened before? They cannot even conceive that there is any other way to live besides our religion of Selfishness.
This IS the anti-Christ. This U.S. / Western way of life [death] is the anti-Christ. The "Church" is a major henchman.
This IS the Matrix.
Jay's Health Day 53: SHOCKINGLY EXCELLENT
About 4 days ago I started to pee furiously and now my lower legs are normal.
Thomas saw me for the first time in about a week and said with a grin, "you are looking kinda skeleton like."
My brain seems fine. All vital signs are good - steady heart at a resting rate of 60/min. Eyes are back to normal. Rare to have much weakness or nausea, very rare.
My regimen for about a week now:
For Darfur, trying to establish the urgency, the Truth of "global family emergency" that has been missing from all the activism I've lost an estimated 45 lbs leaving another 10-20 to get to an Auschwitz skeleton of 110 lbs. Upon hitting that profile I'll go shirtless as much as possible in front of the embassy to try to bring the Holocaust to a City and world that obviously does NOT "remember. " See: The world is doing nothing to halt the genocide is again being perpetrated in Darfur - that was the message from Yosef (Tommy Lapid), a Holocaust survivor from Budapest, who now serves as chairman of the Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem for the six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis during World War II.
To burn the weight I walk at a brisk pace with the posters for 8 - 12 hours per day which at 240 cal/hr is 2000-3000 cal/day!!!! Two to three times per day I am notching in my belt!
Beverly's sister Ellen :-) is wonderful at keeping me going with about 600 cal/day of pureed fruit, tuna fish, chicken, V8, Vitamins.... She is the mainstay of this operation - a true Godsend. A GODSEND. Every day she is by with encouragement, nutrition, news, friendship, warm stuff, whatever, friendship, warmth.... Please pray to see if you should support her. I'm beginning to see that she is the Saint in the bunch. It is a great joy to come into relationship with her.
My lower body after about the first two hours each day of walking is in pretty severe pain. A hike with Gerry, Dave and Steve is what I can liken it to. In this case, I think a lot of the padding in my joints and on the bottom of my feet is reduced (digested). Anyway, that is what if feels like.
Sleeping has become extremely difficult because of great pain in my feet and knees at night. Also, I am choosing rest every 1-3 hours from walking, I sit, take of my boots, and invariably nap for 30-6o minutes.
But absolutely I see not permanent damage so far, and I have a hunch now that there may be none. God's will be done.
When I am really skeleton-like, if they are available, I expect to consume as many calories / day as necessary to maintain my weight and to avoid further degradation. I can see myself in front of the Embassy and in the area (there is a heavy-traffic intersection half a block east that I am now harassing - fully covering with my march with posters) for many, many months.
Water is always brought by my dear sister Ellen but passers by offer it once every day or so. One or two bring V8 or Ensure, or Vitamin Water.
Three folks from Amnesty International have stopped by. Will be interesting to see where that leads.
NPR was by a week ago, Kitty, at 2am for 45 min interview. Hasn't been back to finish. Interesting. No other news triggered by the Wash. Post article. This is NOT a good sign. God's will be done. I mean that with all my heart. I see Him/Her/It clearly now as the only force that has ever served what I value and the only one that there is.
My entire hope is in God/Love/Brotherhood/Truth/Life - exactly where Jesus, Gandhi, King, Teresa... placed ALL of their hope. Everything hinges upon us ALL gaining this clarity.
With the intensive "intersection walking" that depends on split second timing with green and red lights so I get all N S E West traffic within about an 80 second cycle reading is now out, praying is very difficult and managing the pain is what plays most on my mind. This is a wonderful experience - this is the real thing - from the Soul, in Solidarity Serving. The first weeks where I was sedentary were much easier for two reasons:
* The campaign was new,
* and it was extremely spiritual with all day to read and pray.
Now it is all work - all service. Neither is better. This "work" phase is harder, but also more "real," more mature, more promising, more saintly. So much to learn about how to "live just as Jesus lived," as John rightly pointed out it is ALL about.
Thomas saw me for the first time in about a week and said with a grin, "you are looking kinda skeleton like."
My brain seems fine. All vital signs are good - steady heart at a resting rate of 60/min. Eyes are back to normal. Rare to have much weakness or nausea, very rare.
My regimen for about a week now:
For Darfur, trying to establish the urgency, the Truth of "global family emergency" that has been missing from all the activism I've lost an estimated 45 lbs leaving another 10-20 to get to an Auschwitz skeleton of 110 lbs. Upon hitting that profile I'll go shirtless as much as possible in front of the embassy to try to bring the Holocaust to a City and world that obviously does NOT "remember. " See: The world is doing nothing to halt the genocide is again being perpetrated in Darfur - that was the message from Yosef (Tommy Lapid), a Holocaust survivor from Budapest, who now serves as chairman of the Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem for the six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis during World War II.
To burn the weight I walk at a brisk pace with the posters for 8 - 12 hours per day which at 240 cal/hr is 2000-3000 cal/day!!!! Two to three times per day I am notching in my belt!
Beverly's sister Ellen :-) is wonderful at keeping me going with about 600 cal/day of pureed fruit, tuna fish, chicken, V8, Vitamins.... She is the mainstay of this operation - a true Godsend. A GODSEND. Every day she is by with encouragement, nutrition, news, friendship, warm stuff, whatever, friendship, warmth.... Please pray to see if you should support her. I'm beginning to see that she is the Saint in the bunch. It is a great joy to come into relationship with her.
My lower body after about the first two hours each day of walking is in pretty severe pain. A hike with Gerry, Dave and Steve is what I can liken it to. In this case, I think a lot of the padding in my joints and on the bottom of my feet is reduced (digested). Anyway, that is what if feels like.
Sleeping has become extremely difficult because of great pain in my feet and knees at night. Also, I am choosing rest every 1-3 hours from walking, I sit, take of my boots, and invariably nap for 30-6o minutes.
But absolutely I see not permanent damage so far, and I have a hunch now that there may be none. God's will be done.
When I am really skeleton-like, if they are available, I expect to consume as many calories / day as necessary to maintain my weight and to avoid further degradation. I can see myself in front of the Embassy and in the area (there is a heavy-traffic intersection half a block east that I am now harassing - fully covering with my march with posters) for many, many months.
Water is always brought by my dear sister Ellen but passers by offer it once every day or so. One or two bring V8 or Ensure, or Vitamin Water.
Three folks from Amnesty International have stopped by. Will be interesting to see where that leads.
NPR was by a week ago, Kitty, at 2am for 45 min interview. Hasn't been back to finish. Interesting. No other news triggered by the Wash. Post article. This is NOT a good sign. God's will be done. I mean that with all my heart. I see Him/Her/It clearly now as the only force that has ever served what I value and the only one that there is.
My entire hope is in God/Love/Brotherhood/Truth/Life - exactly where Jesus, Gandhi, King, Teresa... placed ALL of their hope. Everything hinges upon us ALL gaining this clarity.
With the intensive "intersection walking" that depends on split second timing with green and red lights so I get all N S E West traffic within about an 80 second cycle reading is now out, praying is very difficult and managing the pain is what plays most on my mind. This is a wonderful experience - this is the real thing - from the Soul, in Solidarity Serving. The first weeks where I was sedentary were much easier for two reasons:
* The campaign was new,
* and it was extremely spiritual with all day to read and pray.
Now it is all work - all service. Neither is better. This "work" phase is harder, but also more "real," more mature, more promising, more saintly. So much to learn about how to "live just as Jesus lived," as John rightly pointed out it is ALL about.
A Hopeful "Christain" Blog Site
Ben Witherington
Some comments I made on the comments of others:
Friends,I am honored and pleased to see this dialog. My clothes are starting to speak to me, so I took that as a sign to accept refuge from friends to do laudary, bathe, and blog tonight. Back to the Embassy tomorrow morning. I'm down to about 130 lbs as a result of burning about 2000-3000 calories per day by marching with the posters 9-12 hours per day, and now taking in about 600 cal/day - mostly juice. My goal is to be a visual of the Holocaust there in Mass. Ave in DC asap. When I hit about 110lbs (I was 175) I'll take calories sufficient to last until June 30 God willing. Then? Whatever I understand our Father and Master to want.You demonstrate much courage, Truth and Spirit in how you view my story. Commendations.As to committing Suicide, I really think that this issue is one we have to get past. Does a mother that goes into a burning building to get her child commit suicide? Did Jesus going into Jerusalem KNOWING he would be Crucificed commit Suicide? Does a soldier going an a "suicide mission" commit suicide? The 911 fire fighters? Etc. Etc. Etc.Who knows? But what is important is not this fine point in the scheme of things, certaninly. Jesus is our Master and BROTHER. "As you do unto the least of these my family." Jesus has billions of us down here suffering Sprititual (U.S.) and or physical (Darfur and elsewhere) mutilation and horror. Would He be horrified if Start Loving out of some selfish angst or self pitty killed himeself? YES! But Jesus is the one that has me walking willingly into exactly what killed Him - Selfishness / Cowardice / Neglect. King did the same thing. So did Gandhi. I can avoid that evil easily! But so could they. No. The only Christian thing to do is to place our bodies between the evil, Selfishness / Neglect and the victims that it may kill us if it will, and maybe spare them. As Dr. King said, "Unearned suffering is redemptive." If Start Loving dies it will NOT be by his own hand. It will be at the hand of my wealthy, heartless U.S. brothers and sisters - at their neglectful, cowardly, non-brotherly, selfish hand - the hands that currently has the blood of 450,000 Darfuries on them. Why their blood on our hands? Because we have the power to protect, and they do not. I am not talking about Bush. I am talking about you and me as the guilty parties. "I was in prison, and you did not visit me...."Some believe, as I do, that although on our entrance interview for Heaven there is much we COULD be asked, there is really only one thing we will be asked about - DID YOU LOVE YOUR BROTHER AS YOURSELF - DID YOU DO UNTO OTHERS ALL THAT YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU. If I perrish, if I am not saved by my U.S. brothers and sisters from the lot I throw mine in with - that of my neglected Darfur family - I am not the one Jesus is going to be upset with.Your always Loving brother, Start
5:43 PM
Start Loving said...
Ben, More than anyone I know or have read of with the exception of the likes of Gandhi, Jesus, King and Teresa I believe in, trust in, and throw my life totally on what I imagine God wishes for me to do. I just don't know exactly what God is. But I feel Him/Her/It as clearly and surely as I feel gravity.My point? I believe that Jesus was the most perfect "child" of that God of Love / Life / Truth / Joy / Brotherhood. I do not believe less nor more than that.One of your wonderful posters expressed deep sadness that I seemed to believe not more. I thank your poster, but I am almost completely certain that I grieve more than can be imagined that others believe "more" than I do. And I am certain that Jesus shares that grief. My God. Jesus didn't want to be worshiped. Jesus wanted to be followed. Jesus saw with perfect clarity that:A. Any and every individual that would go to the cross with her/his life for "the least of these" would immediately, for their life on earth enter Our Father's Kingdom - Heaven. I'm doing it every minute of every day. It is complete Love, Life, Peace, Joy and Agony JUST LIKE HE PROMISED. It dwarfs all of life's other "pleasures" that I've drowned in most of my sinfully "privileged" life.B. "Thy Kingdom come[s as] thy will is done...." As true as E=MCsqd. Jesus saw with perfect clarity that He/we could bring about Heaven on Earth - or it was gunna be complete Hell.Friends, I see no Christians (ok maybe 100 or 1000 on the planet.) I see no Followers of Jesus. Oh what grief. Oh what sorrow. We are missing the entire, the ENTIRE thing. If we followed Jos. Lister like we "follow" Jesus we would all die from dirty, infected scalpels.If we followed Tiger Woods like we "follow" Jesus Tiger would go undefeated every game.And on, and on....Jesus was the Albert Einstein of Humanity / How to Live / Heaven on Earth / Family of Man / Brotherhood / Human Psychology. He told us how to make this place Heaven absolutely: For those who try; and for all when they succeed. My God, isn't this enough? Of course it is, unless we want to have no faith in Him, and hang on to our "Fleshly," Sinful, Error filled, SELFISH Lives (which of course exactly what we "Christians" are doing - nothing more, nothing less; nothing else.")After a lifetime of prayer, study, experimentation and now extreme experience nothing can change my mind on this I expect. And if I am right (and God help me, I am)? Think of the implications for you, and for the world. Gandhi did. Look what happened when he followed Jesus the man. Imagine if we all did. My God, do we really need more than this? What a Miracle. WE DO NOT NEED MORE THAN THIS. AND IF WE START FOLLOWING HIM AN STOP WORSHIPING HIM DO YOU REALLY THINK HE WILL NOT GIVE US THE REST IF THERE IS MORE? Come on now. If Gandhi, a devout follower of Jesus the man, while a devout Hindu is not in some Heaven after this life... I don't know about you, but I don't want to be there either.Your Loving brother, Start
Some comments I made on the comments of others:
Friends,I am honored and pleased to see this dialog. My clothes are starting to speak to me, so I took that as a sign to accept refuge from friends to do laudary, bathe, and blog tonight. Back to the Embassy tomorrow morning. I'm down to about 130 lbs as a result of burning about 2000-3000 calories per day by marching with the posters 9-12 hours per day, and now taking in about 600 cal/day - mostly juice. My goal is to be a visual of the Holocaust there in Mass. Ave in DC asap. When I hit about 110lbs (I was 175) I'll take calories sufficient to last until June 30 God willing. Then? Whatever I understand our Father and Master to want.You demonstrate much courage, Truth and Spirit in how you view my story. Commendations.As to committing Suicide, I really think that this issue is one we have to get past. Does a mother that goes into a burning building to get her child commit suicide? Did Jesus going into Jerusalem KNOWING he would be Crucificed commit Suicide? Does a soldier going an a "suicide mission" commit suicide? The 911 fire fighters? Etc. Etc. Etc.Who knows? But what is important is not this fine point in the scheme of things, certaninly. Jesus is our Master and BROTHER. "As you do unto the least of these my family." Jesus has billions of us down here suffering Sprititual (U.S.) and or physical (Darfur and elsewhere) mutilation and horror. Would He be horrified if Start Loving out of some selfish angst or self pitty killed himeself? YES! But Jesus is the one that has me walking willingly into exactly what killed Him - Selfishness / Cowardice / Neglect. King did the same thing. So did Gandhi. I can avoid that evil easily! But so could they. No. The only Christian thing to do is to place our bodies between the evil, Selfishness / Neglect and the victims that it may kill us if it will, and maybe spare them. As Dr. King said, "Unearned suffering is redemptive." If Start Loving dies it will NOT be by his own hand. It will be at the hand of my wealthy, heartless U.S. brothers and sisters - at their neglectful, cowardly, non-brotherly, selfish hand - the hands that currently has the blood of 450,000 Darfuries on them. Why their blood on our hands? Because we have the power to protect, and they do not. I am not talking about Bush. I am talking about you and me as the guilty parties. "I was in prison, and you did not visit me...."Some believe, as I do, that although on our entrance interview for Heaven there is much we COULD be asked, there is really only one thing we will be asked about - DID YOU LOVE YOUR BROTHER AS YOURSELF - DID YOU DO UNTO OTHERS ALL THAT YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU. If I perrish, if I am not saved by my U.S. brothers and sisters from the lot I throw mine in with - that of my neglected Darfur family - I am not the one Jesus is going to be upset with.Your always Loving brother, Start
5:43 PM
Start Loving said...
Ben, More than anyone I know or have read of with the exception of the likes of Gandhi, Jesus, King and Teresa I believe in, trust in, and throw my life totally on what I imagine God wishes for me to do. I just don't know exactly what God is. But I feel Him/Her/It as clearly and surely as I feel gravity.My point? I believe that Jesus was the most perfect "child" of that God of Love / Life / Truth / Joy / Brotherhood. I do not believe less nor more than that.One of your wonderful posters expressed deep sadness that I seemed to believe not more. I thank your poster, but I am almost completely certain that I grieve more than can be imagined that others believe "more" than I do. And I am certain that Jesus shares that grief. My God. Jesus didn't want to be worshiped. Jesus wanted to be followed. Jesus saw with perfect clarity that:A. Any and every individual that would go to the cross with her/his life for "the least of these" would immediately, for their life on earth enter Our Father's Kingdom - Heaven. I'm doing it every minute of every day. It is complete Love, Life, Peace, Joy and Agony JUST LIKE HE PROMISED. It dwarfs all of life's other "pleasures" that I've drowned in most of my sinfully "privileged" life.B. "Thy Kingdom come[s as] thy will is done...." As true as E=MCsqd. Jesus saw with perfect clarity that He/we could bring about Heaven on Earth - or it was gunna be complete Hell.Friends, I see no Christians (ok maybe 100 or 1000 on the planet.) I see no Followers of Jesus. Oh what grief. Oh what sorrow. We are missing the entire, the ENTIRE thing. If we followed Jos. Lister like we "follow" Jesus we would all die from dirty, infected scalpels.If we followed Tiger Woods like we "follow" Jesus Tiger would go undefeated every game.And on, and on....Jesus was the Albert Einstein of Humanity / How to Live / Heaven on Earth / Family of Man / Brotherhood / Human Psychology. He told us how to make this place Heaven absolutely: For those who try; and for all when they succeed. My God, isn't this enough? Of course it is, unless we want to have no faith in Him, and hang on to our "Fleshly," Sinful, Error filled, SELFISH Lives (which of course exactly what we "Christians" are doing - nothing more, nothing less; nothing else.")After a lifetime of prayer, study, experimentation and now extreme experience nothing can change my mind on this I expect. And if I am right (and God help me, I am)? Think of the implications for you, and for the world. Gandhi did. Look what happened when he followed Jesus the man. Imagine if we all did. My God, do we really need more than this? What a Miracle. WE DO NOT NEED MORE THAN THIS. AND IF WE START FOLLOWING HIM AN STOP WORSHIPING HIM DO YOU REALLY THINK HE WILL NOT GIVE US THE REST IF THERE IS MORE? Come on now. If Gandhi, a devout follower of Jesus the man, while a devout Hindu is not in some Heaven after this life... I don't know about you, but I don't want to be there either.Your Loving brother, Start
Jesus asks not "more," but "ALL" from us.
I am now more sure than ever.
There is now following Jesus that is less than 100% all of what we are and what we do.
Jesus is ALL or nothing. Now "More" is applicable as one is striving with all of their being to become a Christian. But it is never acceptable or sufficient as a goal. It is never an excuse any more that being an incompetent, less than fully mature soldier on the front lines - it will surely end in your torturous death, and maybe the death of many of your comrades.
Jesus wasn't playing. Jesus died to lead us into the ultimate battle for Life and Death - yours, mine, ours.
There is now following Jesus that is less than 100% all of what we are and what we do.
Jesus is ALL or nothing. Now "More" is applicable as one is striving with all of their being to become a Christian. But it is never acceptable or sufficient as a goal. It is never an excuse any more that being an incompetent, less than fully mature soldier on the front lines - it will surely end in your torturous death, and maybe the death of many of your comrades.
Jesus wasn't playing. Jesus died to lead us into the ultimate battle for Life and Death - yours, mine, ours.
JESUS IS AN EXCITED REVOLUTIONARY LEADER
Gosh, try it: "Our MASTER, who art in Heaven...."
Oh my gosh, what I keep getting is this excited, visionary, clear headded, passionate revolutionary leader that just wants to be in this midst of the greatest suffering, leading us to bring humanity no matter what the personal cost.
Come on lads, follow me to Darfur, Haiti, Congo, Palestine...!!!!!!!!! On to battle!!!!!!!!
No?
Oh my gosh, what I keep getting is this excited, visionary, clear headded, passionate revolutionary leader that just wants to be in this midst of the greatest suffering, leading us to bring humanity no matter what the personal cost.
Come on lads, follow me to Darfur, Haiti, Congo, Palestine...!!!!!!!!! On to battle!!!!!!!!
No?
WE ARE THE "DAILY BREAD"... OR THERE'S NONE
As I've shared below I now see clearly that by "Give us [all] this day our daily bread," Jesus was showing us that WE must see that OUR JOB is to live in such a way that we show others the daily bread - what our Father wants us to do NOW, TODAY. Yes, of course we don't know for sure and each individual must find the Truth within themselves. But never the less we are exhorted with this prayer to do our best to discern and show the truth to others. An easy example, an elementary school collapses, the parents are shell shocked outside just standing - pretty good bet that their "daily bread" is to wake up and to inside and save their children. If you were NOT shell shocked this would be your opportunity to serve their "daily bread."
What I did NOT see is that we give others their daily bread by BEING OUR daily bread.
How do you learn to ride a bike. You get on the bike and ride. So many times Jesus said, follow me. Just follow me and then you will know the truth. Get on the bike and ride.
Now that I am following His call moment by moment I am beginning to learn how to ride and how it works. Walking that intersection hour by hour; staying in and around the Embassy 24 hr/day... I see that for at least a few people I AM their "daily bread;" I AM their call to wake up and go and save their children. They may not be consuming it, but they are seeing it. It is available. And if I don't make it/ become it/ be it - they ain't gunna get it, cuz no one else ain't makin it.
My job and yours is to be the Daily Bread in as much volume as we can be it for as many people per hour as we can serve.
What I did NOT see is that we give others their daily bread by BEING OUR daily bread.
How do you learn to ride a bike. You get on the bike and ride. So many times Jesus said, follow me. Just follow me and then you will know the truth. Get on the bike and ride.
Now that I am following His call moment by moment I am beginning to learn how to ride and how it works. Walking that intersection hour by hour; staying in and around the Embassy 24 hr/day... I see that for at least a few people I AM their "daily bread;" I AM their call to wake up and go and save their children. They may not be consuming it, but they are seeing it. It is available. And if I don't make it/ become it/ be it - they ain't gunna get it, cuz no one else ain't makin it.
My job and yours is to be the Daily Bread in as much volume as we can be it for as many people per hour as we can serve.
Einsten: Our technology has exceeded our humanity.
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
Albert Einstein.
Albert Einstein.
4.16.2007
ONLY SELFISHNESS FOR JOY/LOVE/PEADE/LIFE CAN SAVE THE WORLD, OR YOU
Be careful with this. Much of this site concerns itself with the critical insight that selfishness is the entirety of evil, and that every selfishness is evil - murder.
This is fundamental, paramount to understand.
Yet, it seems there is one exception and it represents the nuclear power plant that can drive the Salvation of the world:
The ultimate selfishness for Joy/Love/Peace/Life can save world. Here is why this is a special case. The chemical cocktails that create the experience of Joy/Love/Peace/Life are only released by the body when the nervous system thinks you are doing something heroic for others! Pleasure is the cocktail of serving yourself with whatever - food, entertainment, sex, prestige, safety, comfort.... Different cocktails.
THE ULTIMATE SELFISHNESS IS THE ULTIMATE OTHERISHNESS.
The world can be Saved. The world MUST be saved now.
No amount of discipline or thought will give us the energy to do it. Only the enlightened selfishness for a Wealth of Joy/Peace/Love/Life will do it. And it will do it.
Find the Joy. Pass it on. Hurry.
This is fundamental, paramount to understand.
Yet, it seems there is one exception and it represents the nuclear power plant that can drive the Salvation of the world:
The ultimate selfishness for Joy/Love/Peace/Life can save world. Here is why this is a special case. The chemical cocktails that create the experience of Joy/Love/Peace/Life are only released by the body when the nervous system thinks you are doing something heroic for others! Pleasure is the cocktail of serving yourself with whatever - food, entertainment, sex, prestige, safety, comfort.... Different cocktails.
THE ULTIMATE SELFISHNESS IS THE ULTIMATE OTHERISHNESS.
The world can be Saved. The world MUST be saved now.
No amount of discipline or thought will give us the energy to do it. Only the enlightened selfishness for a Wealth of Joy/Peace/Love/Life will do it. And it will do it.
Find the Joy. Pass it on. Hurry.
!!!!!!!!!! DEFINITION: "SAVED" !!!!!!!!!!
This is entirely it: "SAVED" FROM ANY AND ALL SELFISHNESS. EVERY SELFISHNESS IS SIN. THERE IS NO SIN BESIDES SELFISHNESS. IN THIS SOCIETY SELFISHNESS AND SIN ARE OUR RELIGION SO LESS THAN .001% OF US ARE CURRENTLY SAVED.
THERE IS NO OTHER "SAVED" THAN "ENTIRELY SAVED FROM A LIFE OF SELFISHNESS" AND INSTEAD ENTIRELY "SAVED FOR" / LIVING A LIFE OF BROTHERHOOD WITH THE LEAST OF THESE [HIS] FAMILY."
Jesus died to teach us that there is only one sin. ONLY ONE SIN: to NOT "do unto the least of these my family ALL that you would have them do unto you." Well of course this is a 24/7 lifetime job - absolutely in all objective terms given that about 99.999% of us are "least of these" dying materially or spiritually (West.)
Well what's the problem? Selfishness - the Head and the Flesh / Sensory Desires. These two are always and everywhere Selfishness and 100% the degree to which they lead any second / minute / hour... of our lives we are in "sin," error, less than Alive, divorced from Joy, drowning is Pleasure just like, JUST LIKE Sodom and Gomorrah.
THERE IS NO OTHER "SAVED" THAN "ENTIRELY SAVED FROM A LIFE OF SELFISHNESS" AND INSTEAD ENTIRELY "SAVED FOR" / LIVING A LIFE OF BROTHERHOOD WITH THE LEAST OF THESE [HIS] FAMILY."
Jesus died to teach us that there is only one sin. ONLY ONE SIN: to NOT "do unto the least of these my family ALL that you would have them do unto you." Well of course this is a 24/7 lifetime job - absolutely in all objective terms given that about 99.999% of us are "least of these" dying materially or spiritually (West.)
Well what's the problem? Selfishness - the Head and the Flesh / Sensory Desires. These two are always and everywhere Selfishness and 100% the degree to which they lead any second / minute / hour... of our lives we are in "sin," error, less than Alive, divorced from Joy, drowning is Pleasure just like, JUST LIKE Sodom and Gomorrah.
MUSICAL "CROSSES"
Remember the children's game, a horrible one at that, "Musical Chairs?" The music stops, there is always one too few chairs, you are to sit down, the person without a chair is out!?
It is like that with Heaven except there are always enough chairs.
When your time is up, if you are not 100% carrying the Cross for one of "the least of these my family" you don't get in. If you are, you are in for sure.
The real point here is exactly and entirely what Dr. King said: "A man is not [able / equipped] to live unless he knows what he would die for." If you are not fully immersed in serving the needs of "the least of these [His] family" you are not being fully utilized and hence are not fully Alive and your Joy is not complete.
At least, this is what Jesus was dying to show us with his words and life.
It is like that with Heaven except there are always enough chairs.
When your time is up, if you are not 100% carrying the Cross for one of "the least of these my family" you don't get in. If you are, you are in for sure.
The real point here is exactly and entirely what Dr. King said: "A man is not [able / equipped] to live unless he knows what he would die for." If you are not fully immersed in serving the needs of "the least of these [His] family" you are not being fully utilized and hence are not fully Alive and your Joy is not complete.
At least, this is what Jesus was dying to show us with his words and life.
Who is Jesus family? Who is yours? The same.
Who is your "family?" If you are lucky, your "family" is the set of people of whatever relation that would give their very lives if you needed it for your wellbeing to flourish IN THE EVENT THAT YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONE BECAME ONE OF THE "LEAST OF THESE."
Who is Jesus family, the folks that He considers "family" to him? The folks that take care of "the least of these His family," NOW, TODAY, AND ALWAYS.
JESUS IS FAMILY TO EVERYONE, BUT ONLY A FEW OF US A FAMILY TO HIM, AND ARE WITH HIM, AND WILL BE WITH HIM - IN HEAVEN.
Who is Jesus family, the folks that He considers "family" to him? The folks that take care of "the least of these His family," NOW, TODAY, AND ALWAYS.
JESUS IS FAMILY TO EVERYONE, BUT ONLY A FEW OF US A FAMILY TO HIM, AND ARE WITH HIM, AND WILL BE WITH HIM - IN HEAVEN.
STARTING A MOVEMENT? EXCLUDE THE MASSES!!!!!!!!
... OR DIE A CERTAIN DEATH!!!
Listen up! The following applies to every, EVERY new venture. Everyone is ignorant of the following, and the result of ignorance is certain failure.
In the case of Darfur, ignorance of the following has cost 450,000 lives so far.
The above is from the book "Crossing the Chasm," by Geoffrey Moore.
The following is from a digested version on the net I just found that seems fairly good:
A Summary of “Crossing the Chasm”
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLGeoffrey A. Moore, Crossing the Chasm, Marketing and Selling High-Tech ... Now, by definition, when you are crossing the chasm, you are not a market leader. ...www.parkerhill.com/Summary%20of%20Crossing%20the%20Chasm.pdf - Similar pages
The heart of the summary:
Listen up! The following applies to every, EVERY new venture. Everyone is ignorant of the following, and the result of ignorance is certain failure.
In the case of Darfur, ignorance of the following has cost 450,000 lives so far.
The above is from the book "Crossing the Chasm," by Geoffrey Moore.
The following is from a digested version on the net I just found that seems fairly good:
A Summary of “Crossing the Chasm”
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLGeoffrey A. Moore, Crossing the Chasm, Marketing and Selling High-Tech ... Now, by definition, when you are crossing the chasm, you are not a market leader. ...www.parkerhill.com/Summary%20of%20Crossing%20the%20Chasm.pdf - Similar pages
The heart of the summary:
Moore demonstrates that in fact, there are cracks in the curve, between each phase of the cycle, representing a disassociation between any two groups; that is, "the difficulty any group will have in accepting a new product if it is presented the same way as it was to the group to its immediate left." The largest crack, so large it can be considered a chasm, is between the Early Adopters and the Early Majority. Many (most) high tech ventures fail trying to make it across this chasm.
- Early Adopters are the rare breed of visionaries "who have the insight to match an emerging technology to a strategic opportunity,… driven by a 'dream'. The core dream is a business goal, not a technology goal, and it involves taking a quantum leap forward in how business is conducted in their industry or by their customers… Visionaries drive the high-tech industry because they see the potential for an 'order-of-magnitude' return on investment and willingly take high risks to pursue that goal. They will work with vendors who have little or not funding… As a buying group, visionaries are easy to sell but very hard to please… because they are buying a dream…They want to start out with a pilot project, which makes sense because they are 'going where no man has gone before' and you are going with them. This is followed by more project work, conducted in phases with milestones, and the like."
"You can succeed with the visionaries, and you can thereby get a reputation for being a high flyer with a hot product, but that is not ultimately where the dollars are. Instead, those funds are in the hands of more prudent souls who do not want to be pioneers"
- The Early Majority are pragmatists… "they care about the company they are buying from, the quality of the product they are buying, the infrastructure of supporting products and system interfaces, and the reliability of the service they are going to get… Pragamatists tend to be 'vertically' oriented, meaning that they communicate more with others like themselves within their own industry than do technology enthusiasts and early adopters… It is very difficult to break into a new industry selling to pragmatists. References and relationships are very important…Pragmatists won't buy from you until you are established, yet you can't get established until they buy from you…
"On the other hand, once a startup has earned its spurs with the pragmatist buyers within a given vertical market, they tend to be very loyal to it, and even go out of their way to help it succeed. When this happens, the cost of sales goes way down, and the leverage on incremental R&D to support any given customer goes way up. That's one of the reasons pragmatists make such a great market…
"They like to see competition… Pragmatists want to buy from proven market leaders because they know third parties will design supporting products around a market-leading products… aftermarket…
"Overall, to market to pragmatists, you must be patient. You need to be conversant with the issues that dominate their particular business. You need to show up at the industry-specific conferences and trade shows they attend. You need to be mentioned in articles that run in magazines they read. You need to be installed in other companies in their industry. You need to have developed applications that are specific to their industry. You need to have partnerships and alliances with the other vendors who serve their industry. You need to have earned a reputation for quality and service.
- "Pragmatists are not anxious to reference visionaries in their buying decisions. Hence the chasm. Four fundamental characteristics of visionaries that alienate pragmatists:
1. Lack of respect for colleagues' experiences.
2. Taking greater interest in technology than in their industry.
3. Failing to recognize the importance
GO TO THE LINK TO THIS SUMMAR AND CONTINUE READING...
A Summary of “Crossing the Chasm”File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLGeoffrey A. Moore, Crossing the Chasm, Marketing and Selling High-Tech ... Now, by definition, when you are crossing the chasm, you are not a market leader. ...www.parkerhill.com/Summary%20of%20Crossing%20the%20Chasm.pdf - Similar pages
4.13.2007
Exploitative U.S. "Family Values" will be its demise...
... and the demise of Darfur.
See: A Hunger For Justice : Darfur Becomes One Man's Cause for Deprivation
Washington Post, April 14th, 2007 by Delphine Schrank, C01 (Post)
Note: Darfur Hunger Strike at Sudan Embassy Day 44.
Protection of our "Family" is the reason, the shameful fig leaf we hide behind, for not risking our very lives to stop the Darfur Genocide. Just as Dr. King said, not the Priest or the Levite, but only the Good Samaritan had the courage, integrity, morals and humanity to ask the proper question, "If I do not stop, what will happen to HIM," [the injured stranger by the side of the road.] Presumably the priest and the Levite hid behind their "Family" to avoid giving aid, as has become our shameful U.S. custom.
How long will we ignore the admonitions of the world's great souls that we must live quite literally the truth that all men are brothers, or perish due to this fatal error alone? How long will we indulge our limitless selfishness at the certain extermination of the likes of Darfur to Genocide in the name of "Family Values?"
One of Gandhi's books was entitled, "All Men are Brothers" and surely this is the Truth by which Gandhi lived. Two books forged Gandhi when he studied in England as a youth. Tolstoy's "Kingdom of God is Within You" focuses on Jesus ethic of equal love for all humankind, and not just "family," as expressed in Matthew 5:45 "If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?." The other book forging Gandhi's humanity at that time was John Ruskin's "Unto This Last [Unto the least of these my family]" the point of which was that the demise of the West was sewn in the fact that the merchant or consumer segment of society with certainty would exploit, not sacrifice its lives for the larger good of mankind in stark contrast to Doctors, Soldiers, Lawyers, and Pastors in 1860's England when this was written.
Other great souls have weighed in on this issue. "The problem is not the absence of love, but the presence of tribal love," Ashley Montegue, 1950's intellectual, professor, scholar.
Did Jesus die for any other reason than to save us from "Family Values?" Mark 12:29-3129 "The most important [Commandment]," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God [one Father of all humankind; one family] with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' 31 The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself [we are one family, all brothers].' There is no commandment greater than these." NIV And Jesus again, Matt. 12:46,48,49 "Who is my mother and who are my brethren" when told that his biological family was outside a meeting he was holding? And finally, "Luke 14:26: Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple."
We shamelessly exploit the opposite of the above admonitions of these great men; we exploit U.S. "Family Values" purely for selfish gain, so we can enthusiastically abandon our responsibilities to our fellow man. This is obvious when we consider how quickly we withdraw this standard when it serves us! We joyfully have soldiers of violence leave [abandon?] their "families" to protect us; police to risk death for us [thereby abandoning their families]; we laud the Holocaust rescuers that universally placed their entire "families" including all their children at risk of certain, cruel execution by the Nazi's; and we universally esteem men who served us at the expense of their "families" like King, Jesus, and Gandhi.
No, the ploy of "Family Values," preferential treatment of my biologically affiliated unit, is a shameless ploy; crassly immoral licence in U.S. society to neglect, abandon or exploit all who are not part of that unit - inner cities, black Darfuries experiencing Genocide, Katrina victims, 18,000 children starving to death per day, etc. The likes of Jesus, Gandhi and Montegue saw through this ploy; that it was by nature "cancer" and would kill society unless it was rooted out. They all gave their lives to this end, thereby abandoning their families, for the good of all humankind.
See updates at all sites:
DARFUR'S LAST HOPE: Brigade of PeaceMakers: for Darfur. JOIN NOW
SAVING DARFUR, EARTH, OURSELVES: Jesus, God, Good...
REAL ACTIVISM LOOKS LIKE THIS: Holocaust Rescuers
REAL ACTIVISM LOOKS LIKE THIS: Peace and Nonviolence
REAL ACTIVISM LOOKS LIKE THIS: David Dellinger 4 DARFUR HEROES; 21,000 FOR HOLOCAUST: Darfur Dying for Heroes
HUNGER STRIKE: Stand with Darfur: Sudan Embassy
WE'RE PROOF OF NO GENOCIDE: Darfur Genocide a Fraud
Actions 6/06 - 1/07: Stand With Darfur White House II
Actions 5/06 - 6/06: Stand With Darfur White House
Actions 7/05 - 5/06: Rescue Restore Darfur
See: A Hunger For Justice : Darfur Becomes One Man's Cause for Deprivation
Washington Post, April 14th, 2007 by Delphine Schrank, C01 (Post)
Note: Darfur Hunger Strike at Sudan Embassy Day 44.
Protection of our "Family" is the reason, the shameful fig leaf we hide behind, for not risking our very lives to stop the Darfur Genocide. Just as Dr. King said, not the Priest or the Levite, but only the Good Samaritan had the courage, integrity, morals and humanity to ask the proper question, "If I do not stop, what will happen to HIM," [the injured stranger by the side of the road.] Presumably the priest and the Levite hid behind their "Family" to avoid giving aid, as has become our shameful U.S. custom.
How long will we ignore the admonitions of the world's great souls that we must live quite literally the truth that all men are brothers, or perish due to this fatal error alone? How long will we indulge our limitless selfishness at the certain extermination of the likes of Darfur to Genocide in the name of "Family Values?"
One of Gandhi's books was entitled, "All Men are Brothers" and surely this is the Truth by which Gandhi lived. Two books forged Gandhi when he studied in England as a youth. Tolstoy's "Kingdom of God is Within You" focuses on Jesus ethic of equal love for all humankind, and not just "family," as expressed in Matthew 5:45 "If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?." The other book forging Gandhi's humanity at that time was John Ruskin's "Unto This Last [Unto the least of these my family]" the point of which was that the demise of the West was sewn in the fact that the merchant or consumer segment of society with certainty would exploit, not sacrifice its lives for the larger good of mankind in stark contrast to Doctors, Soldiers, Lawyers, and Pastors in 1860's England when this was written.
Other great souls have weighed in on this issue. "The problem is not the absence of love, but the presence of tribal love," Ashley Montegue, 1950's intellectual, professor, scholar.
Did Jesus die for any other reason than to save us from "Family Values?" Mark 12:29-3129 "The most important [Commandment]," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God [one Father of all humankind; one family] with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' 31 The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself [we are one family, all brothers].' There is no commandment greater than these." NIV And Jesus again, Matt. 12:46,48,49 "Who is my mother and who are my brethren" when told that his biological family was outside a meeting he was holding? And finally, "Luke 14:26: Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple."
We shamelessly exploit the opposite of the above admonitions of these great men; we exploit U.S. "Family Values" purely for selfish gain, so we can enthusiastically abandon our responsibilities to our fellow man. This is obvious when we consider how quickly we withdraw this standard when it serves us! We joyfully have soldiers of violence leave [abandon?] their "families" to protect us; police to risk death for us [thereby abandoning their families]; we laud the Holocaust rescuers that universally placed their entire "families" including all their children at risk of certain, cruel execution by the Nazi's; and we universally esteem men who served us at the expense of their "families" like King, Jesus, and Gandhi.
No, the ploy of "Family Values," preferential treatment of my biologically affiliated unit, is a shameless ploy; crassly immoral licence in U.S. society to neglect, abandon or exploit all who are not part of that unit - inner cities, black Darfuries experiencing Genocide, Katrina victims, 18,000 children starving to death per day, etc. The likes of Jesus, Gandhi and Montegue saw through this ploy; that it was by nature "cancer" and would kill society unless it was rooted out. They all gave their lives to this end, thereby abandoning their families, for the good of all humankind.
See updates at all sites:
DARFUR'S LAST HOPE: Brigade of PeaceMakers: for Darfur. JOIN NOW
SAVING DARFUR, EARTH, OURSELVES: Jesus, God, Good...
REAL ACTIVISM LOOKS LIKE THIS: Holocaust Rescuers
REAL ACTIVISM LOOKS LIKE THIS: Peace and Nonviolence
REAL ACTIVISM LOOKS LIKE THIS: David Dellinger 4 DARFUR HEROES; 21,000 FOR HOLOCAUST: Darfur Dying for Heroes
HUNGER STRIKE: Stand with Darfur: Sudan Embassy
WE'RE PROOF OF NO GENOCIDE: Darfur Genocide a Fraud
Actions 6/06 - 1/07: Stand With Darfur White House II
Actions 5/06 - 6/06: Stand With Darfur White House
Actions 7/05 - 5/06: Rescue Restore Darfur
The world's greatest killer - NEGLECT
No question about it. No dispute.
18,000 children starve PER DAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Health and Well/Being of US Children are 19th out of 20 for the world's most materially rich nations.
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18,000 children starve PER DAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Health and Well/Being of US Children are 19th out of 20 for the world's most materially rich nations.
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The Golden Rule in All Major Faiths
Baha'i Faith
Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for anyone the things you would not desire for yourself.
Baha'u'llah, Gleanings
Buddhism
Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
The Buddha, Udana-Varga 5.18
Christianity
In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.
Jesus, Matthew 7:12
Confucianism
One word which sums up the basis of all good conduct....loving-kindness. Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.
Confucius, Analects 15.23
Hinduism
This is the sum of duty: do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you.
Mahabharata 5:1517
Islam
Not one of you truly believes until you wish for others what you wish for yourself.
The Prophet Muhammad, Hadith
Jainism
One should treat all creatures in the world as one would like to be treated.
Mahavira, Sutrakritanga 1.11.33
Judaism
What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary. Go and learn it.
Hillel, Talmud, Shabbath 31a
Native Spirituality
We are as much alive as we keep the earth alive.
Chief Dan George
Sikhism
I am a stranger to no one; and no one is a stranger to me.Indeed, I am a friend to all.
Guru Granth Sahib, p.1299
Taoism
Regard your neighbour's gain as your own gain and your neighbour's loss as your own loss.
Lao Tzu, T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien, 213-218
Unitarianism
We affirm and promote respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.
Unitarian principle
Zoroastrianism
Do not do unto others whatever is injurious to yourself.
Shayast-na-Shayast 13.29
Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for anyone the things you would not desire for yourself.
Baha'u'llah, Gleanings
Buddhism
Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
The Buddha, Udana-Varga 5.18
Christianity
In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.
Jesus, Matthew 7:12
Confucianism
One word which sums up the basis of all good conduct....loving-kindness. Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.
Confucius, Analects 15.23
Hinduism
This is the sum of duty: do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you.
Mahabharata 5:1517
Islam
Not one of you truly believes until you wish for others what you wish for yourself.
The Prophet Muhammad, Hadith
Jainism
One should treat all creatures in the world as one would like to be treated.
Mahavira, Sutrakritanga 1.11.33
Judaism
What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary. Go and learn it.
Hillel, Talmud, Shabbath 31a
Native Spirituality
We are as much alive as we keep the earth alive.
Chief Dan George
Sikhism
I am a stranger to no one; and no one is a stranger to me.Indeed, I am a friend to all.
Guru Granth Sahib, p.1299
Taoism
Regard your neighbour's gain as your own gain and your neighbour's loss as your own loss.
Lao Tzu, T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien, 213-218
Unitarianism
We affirm and promote respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.
Unitarian principle
Zoroastrianism
Do not do unto others whatever is injurious to yourself.
Shayast-na-Shayast 13.29
Our [Master Jesus] in Heaven, Hallowed...!!!!
Oh my, what a wonderfully helpful option in being said by the Lord's Prayer!
Jesus was such a revolutionary leader. What I get when I am prayed by this variation is something like a joyful war cry - "Come on lads!!!!!!! Let's take Darfur!!!! Let's take Congo!!!! Let's take Palestine!!!
Let's wade into battles of totally self-sacrificial, profoundly tough brotherly love, and LET'S TAKE THESE HELLISH SITUATIONS INTO THE HEART, INTO OUR FATHER'S KINGDOM, OR DIE TRYING!!!!
Jesus was such a revolutionary leader. What I get when I am prayed by this variation is something like a joyful war cry - "Come on lads!!!!!!! Let's take Darfur!!!! Let's take Congo!!!! Let's take Palestine!!!
Let's wade into battles of totally self-sacrificial, profoundly tough brotherly love, and LET'S TAKE THESE HELLISH SITUATIONS INTO THE HEART, INTO OUR FATHER'S KINGDOM, OR DIE TRYING!!!!
4.10.2007
At age 33 why did Jesus ride into town to certain death?
There can be only one answer that makes sense outside of nonsense about fulfilling ancient legend in the Bible.
85% of communication is non-verbal. This is one of the ONLY things that all psychologists agree on! Indisputable truth. We humans do not get it with words. Oh, we'll talk forever. But our behavior, our actions, our core beliefs are not influenced by words.
Action, heroic, self-sacrificial action is the only thing that can Save us from distorted, sick, sinful / wrongful behavior, actions, core beliefs and values.
Jesus rode into town to certain torture and death because that was the only way He could Save / Change us. Words, or safe action couldn't do it.
I, Start Loving am Hunger Striking in front of the Sudan Embassy to Death's Door because that is the only way I can Save / Change you and others so that YOU wake up,
!!!!JOIN ME NOW!!!! and Save Darfur, and get on with Saving your world from its Death Spiral of Entropy. Words, or safe action couldn't do it.
Yes, so far Jesus has almost totally failed. But He never expected to succeed unless we followed in His footsteps. I am following His footsteps, and it is everything He promised - more Love, Joy, Happiness, Mothers, Brothers, Houses in this life and the next. Oh, you must believe me. You must get it. This is Heaven. You may be willing to deprive yourself. Are you willing to deprive your dearest loved ones? Are you willing to abandon Jesus? Are you willing to deprive your biological children?
KNOWLEDGE IS RESPONSIBILITY. IF YOU REVIEW THIS SITE IN DETAIL YOU WILL KNOW.
85% of communication is non-verbal. This is one of the ONLY things that all psychologists agree on! Indisputable truth. We humans do not get it with words. Oh, we'll talk forever. But our behavior, our actions, our core beliefs are not influenced by words.
Action, heroic, self-sacrificial action is the only thing that can Save us from distorted, sick, sinful / wrongful behavior, actions, core beliefs and values.
Jesus rode into town to certain torture and death because that was the only way He could Save / Change us. Words, or safe action couldn't do it.
I, Start Loving am Hunger Striking in front of the Sudan Embassy to Death's Door because that is the only way I can Save / Change you and others so that YOU wake up,
!!!!JOIN ME NOW!!!! and Save Darfur, and get on with Saving your world from its Death Spiral of Entropy. Words, or safe action couldn't do it.
Yes, so far Jesus has almost totally failed. But He never expected to succeed unless we followed in His footsteps. I am following His footsteps, and it is everything He promised - more Love, Joy, Happiness, Mothers, Brothers, Houses in this life and the next. Oh, you must believe me. You must get it. This is Heaven. You may be willing to deprive yourself. Are you willing to deprive your dearest loved ones? Are you willing to abandon Jesus? Are you willing to deprive your biological children?
KNOWLEDGE IS RESPONSIBILITY. IF YOU REVIEW THIS SITE IN DETAIL YOU WILL KNOW.
Jesus Family? Those who do unto His least of these...
"Family" has two directions to its meaning doesn't it.
Family can mean those to whom I am family - unconditionally loving and caring.
Family can mean those who are unconditionally loving to me.
QUESTION: To the healthy adult what is the extreme determinant of who is "family?"
ANSWER: "Family" is who in a crisis, in an emergency takes heroic, unconditionally loving care of you OR YOUR "CHILDREN" RIGHT!?!?!?!
"Who is my mother and my brother?" "As you do unto the least of these my family, you do unto me." 1 John: "Whoever claims to abide in Jesus aught to live just like Jesus lived."
If your life is dedicated to the "least of these [His] family" YOU are part of His family.
If your life is NOT dedicated to the "least of these [His] family, you are OUTSIDE of His family; not a very Heavenly, Joyful place to be.
Family can mean those to whom I am family - unconditionally loving and caring.
Family can mean those who are unconditionally loving to me.
QUESTION: To the healthy adult what is the extreme determinant of who is "family?"
ANSWER: "Family" is who in a crisis, in an emergency takes heroic, unconditionally loving care of you OR YOUR "CHILDREN" RIGHT!?!?!?!
"Who is my mother and my brother?" "As you do unto the least of these my family, you do unto me." 1 John: "Whoever claims to abide in Jesus aught to live just like Jesus lived."
If your life is dedicated to the "least of these [His] family" YOU are part of His family.
If your life is NOT dedicated to the "least of these [His] family, you are OUTSIDE of His family; not a very Heavenly, Joyful place to be.
The Anti-Christ: American Capitalism and its Export
This is the Beast of Biblical fame - unbridled worship of Mammon / Selfishness - Sanctioned War of the Strong upon the Weak... WESTERN CAPITALISM.
Jesus taught the Golden Rule: "Do unto others All that you would have them do unto you."
Adam Smith with Capitalism taught: "Do unto others before they do unto you and let God work the rest out."
We ignore Jesus and worship Adam Smith.
Sorry, no more time to explain. YOU need to put the rest together. You NEED to put the rest together, or Happy Armageddon. No kidding.
The Catholic Workers have been establishing communities for 70 years that exist outside of the Beast / Capitalism / Selfishness. You must explore seriously what they do. Now.
I have been thinking that the "Church" was the Beast - Mammon. No, the Church is too impotent to be the Beast. The Church is the Sanctifier and room deodorizer for the Beast so we can tolerate its smell. I wish I were being the least bit cynical.
Gandhi: "It is as much a moral duty to refuse to cooperate with evil as it is to avoid doing evil."
You must remove yourself from the Capitalist system; you must remove yourself from the Beast.
Jesus taught the Golden Rule: "Do unto others All that you would have them do unto you."
Adam Smith with Capitalism taught: "Do unto others before they do unto you and let God work the rest out."
We ignore Jesus and worship Adam Smith.
Sorry, no more time to explain. YOU need to put the rest together. You NEED to put the rest together, or Happy Armageddon. No kidding.
The Catholic Workers have been establishing communities for 70 years that exist outside of the Beast / Capitalism / Selfishness. You must explore seriously what they do. Now.
I have been thinking that the "Church" was the Beast - Mammon. No, the Church is too impotent to be the Beast. The Church is the Sanctifier and room deodorizer for the Beast so we can tolerate its smell. I wish I were being the least bit cynical.
Gandhi: "It is as much a moral duty to refuse to cooperate with evil as it is to avoid doing evil."
You must remove yourself from the Capitalist system; you must remove yourself from the Beast.
Good Friday: "Come on, follow me!!!!" Jesus was shouting!
This is how I think it was. I prayed a lot on this Friday - hours. Jesus was so pleased and excited with how the day went.
"Wow, did you see how clear things were?!?!? Did you see the sharp contrast between my totally unconditional, heroic love and the heartlessness of the State and Religious Institutions!?!?! Some people had to get it, were going to get it. Oh what a day!!! I am so happy. This was the gift I was born to give, in the hopes of Saving Humanity!!!!"
This is all He would talk about!
But that was 2000 years ago. Now Jesus is broken. We've crucified him anew. "What did I do it for?" He asks himself.
"Wow, did you see how clear things were?!?!? Did you see the sharp contrast between my totally unconditional, heroic love and the heartlessness of the State and Religious Institutions!?!?! Some people had to get it, were going to get it. Oh what a day!!! I am so happy. This was the gift I was born to give, in the hopes of Saving Humanity!!!!"
This is all He would talk about!
But that was 2000 years ago. Now Jesus is broken. We've crucified him anew. "What did I do it for?" He asks himself.
2nd Law of Thermodynamics - Entropy. Brotherhood is the opposite.
Entropy - the tendency for everything to break down into smaller and smaller parts - things rot, people die, civilizations decay, rocks turn to dust....
Brotherhood / Humanity / God / Love / Otherishness / Conscience / Compassion is the counter to the immutable law of Entropy in human concerns. Brotherhood is what makes the Inner Family, community, society - healthy, whole and survive. NOTHING ELSE WILL AND CAN.
SELFISHNESS is the agent of Entropy - Selfishness is Entropy by another name.
This is physics folks.
If we don't get on with a Heroic effort to Save Darfur, NOTHING will restart the Brotherhood / Humanity that is all but extinguished in this most hedonistic, most Mammon Worshiping, most ENTROPY WORSHIPING society that planet earth has ever seen. Game Over, Well Deserved Hell On Earth Irreversibly. With not enough Brotherhood / Humanity to counter Entropy all systems, the last vestiges of "civilization" will turn to dust.
This is Physics folks.
Brotherhood / Humanity / God / Love / Otherishness / Conscience / Compassion is the counter to the immutable law of Entropy in human concerns. Brotherhood is what makes the Inner Family, community, society - healthy, whole and survive. NOTHING ELSE WILL AND CAN.
SELFISHNESS is the agent of Entropy - Selfishness is Entropy by another name.
This is physics folks.
If we don't get on with a Heroic effort to Save Darfur, NOTHING will restart the Brotherhood / Humanity that is all but extinguished in this most hedonistic, most Mammon Worshiping, most ENTROPY WORSHIPING society that planet earth has ever seen. Game Over, Well Deserved Hell On Earth Irreversibly. With not enough Brotherhood / Humanity to counter Entropy all systems, the last vestiges of "civilization" will turn to dust.
This is Physics folks.
"Peace!" This is the Devil's Greeting
Yes, I think this is very serious.
"Peace" [as state of things] is not the opposite of war [an activity of people]; that "peace" is literally only achievable in death. In no form is life possible in "peace."
"PeaceMaking" is what we need to pray, think, dream, plan, say and LIVE in opposition to "war." This is way more than semantics. Focus is everything.
Jesus did not say "Blessed is Peace;" he said, "
"Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God" (Matthew 5:9).
PeaceMaking be with you.
"Peace" [as state of things] is not the opposite of war [an activity of people]; that "peace" is literally only achievable in death. In no form is life possible in "peace."
"PeaceMaking" is what we need to pray, think, dream, plan, say and LIVE in opposition to "war." This is way more than semantics. Focus is everything.
Jesus did not say "Blessed is Peace;" he said, "
"Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God" (Matthew 5:9).
PeaceMaking be with you.
Darfur is so somple to solve! So is Congo, Palestine, Iraq....
... world hunger, poverty, curable disease, global warming.... I'll try to show you what I mean.
It is so cool that the Washington Post writer met with the Sudan Ambassador to talk about the Hunger Strike. In my fantasy I wish I had been there when he said what a "complex" situation Darfur was - that I shouldn't die for such a thing. Of course this is the entire problem with him, Bashir, State Dept, congress, Bush, US InActivsts of all stripes. "Oh it is so complicated!" everyone wails.
It is actually very simple, I wanted to tell him. Just imagine that an all powerful entity has just placed your dearest loved one in one of the camps and you are told that the only way you can save them is to stop the Genocide, and you have until June 30. Mr. Ambassador, Darfur just got a whole lot simpler, didn't it?
We are all trying to Save Darfur with our "heads." It can't happen. The "head" is neither wise enough, inspired enough, courageous enough, or motivated enough. The exercise above puts your "Heart" in charge with all that the "head" is missing. Darfur is easy for the "heart" to solve; I'd have liked to tell him. Actually I'm dying to tell him and everyone that passes the embassy the same thing. If they listen, it will Rescue and Restore Darfur. Nothing else can and will.
It is so cool that the Washington Post writer met with the Sudan Ambassador to talk about the Hunger Strike. In my fantasy I wish I had been there when he said what a "complex" situation Darfur was - that I shouldn't die for such a thing. Of course this is the entire problem with him, Bashir, State Dept, congress, Bush, US InActivsts of all stripes. "Oh it is so complicated!" everyone wails.
It is actually very simple, I wanted to tell him. Just imagine that an all powerful entity has just placed your dearest loved one in one of the camps and you are told that the only way you can save them is to stop the Genocide, and you have until June 30. Mr. Ambassador, Darfur just got a whole lot simpler, didn't it?
We are all trying to Save Darfur with our "heads." It can't happen. The "head" is neither wise enough, inspired enough, courageous enough, or motivated enough. The exercise above puts your "Heart" in charge with all that the "head" is missing. Darfur is easy for the "heart" to solve; I'd have liked to tell him. Actually I'm dying to tell him and everyone that passes the embassy the same thing. If they listen, it will Rescue and Restore Darfur. Nothing else can and will.
In the "Danger Zone?" Alive!
Remember the song from "Top Gun?"
Oh my goodness, common wisdom in our society is so wrong isn't it?
It does not even bear explanation, just emphasis: IN THE "DANGER ZONE?" ALIVE.
Off where it is save and routine? DEAD.
Oh my goodness, common wisdom in our society is so wrong isn't it?
It does not even bear explanation, just emphasis: IN THE "DANGER ZONE?" ALIVE.
Off where it is save and routine? DEAD.
DEFINITION OF VIOLENCE - "Enemy," Non-Brotherly, Selfish, Not-as-you-would-have-them-do behavior
Excluding brutally tough love.
I am speaking as a trained Psychologist - 2 years formal at the Masters Level (Streight "A's" except a "C" in Ethics, of which I am deeply proud), 20 years by avocation in professional (organizational turn-around in industry) and personal. See Alfred Adler elsewhere throughout this site.
NO Adler is not popular any more than UNADULTERATED JESUS IS TODAY, OR WAS IN 33 AD, and for the exact same reason - Mortal Enemy #1 of the Flesh / Evil Spirit / Demon / Selfishness / State
I am speaking as a trained Psychologist - 2 years formal at the Masters Level (Streight "A's" except a "C" in Ethics, of which I am deeply proud), 20 years by avocation in professional (organizational turn-around in industry) and personal. See Alfred Adler elsewhere throughout this site.
NO Adler is not popular any more than UNADULTERATED JESUS IS TODAY, OR WAS IN 33 AD, and for the exact same reason - Mortal Enemy #1 of the Flesh / Evil Spirit / Demon / Selfishness / State
DEFINITION OF LOVING (NONVIOLENCE) - Brotherly, Loving, Otherish, as-you-would-have-them do behavior
I am speaking as a trained Psychologist - 2 years formal at the Masters Level (Straight "A's" except a "C" in Ethics, of which I am deeply proud), 20 years by avocation in professional (organizational turn-around in industry) and personal.
See Alfred Adler elsewhere throughout this site.
Note: These implications are huge. Think about it: Is it brotherly to steal / take property without approval for those who are starving? Well if clinically "right mind," is brotherliness, and hostility is insanity if all else fails - announcing to your "brother" [oppressor] that you must break into his store that has food he is inhumanely (psychotically) hoarding, may be the only way to "heal" him/her; to shock him/her to "right mind, sanity. You owe Militantly Tough, mortally self-sacrificial Love it to your brother - you are morally bound. You must give fore-warning, you must lovingly accept the inhumanity he doubtless will unleash on you, even unto death, if you love him / her.
It is time to get rid of the term "Nonviolence." Let's use the terminology that Jesus died to give us - Brotherhood.
See Alfred Adler elsewhere throughout this site.
Note: These implications are huge. Think about it: Is it brotherly to steal / take property without approval for those who are starving? Well if clinically "right mind," is brotherliness, and hostility is insanity if all else fails - announcing to your "brother" [oppressor] that you must break into his store that has food he is inhumanely (psychotically) hoarding, may be the only way to "heal" him/her; to shock him/her to "right mind, sanity. You owe Militantly Tough, mortally self-sacrificial Love it to your brother - you are morally bound. You must give fore-warning, you must lovingly accept the inhumanity he doubtless will unleash on you, even unto death, if you love him / her.
It is time to get rid of the term "Nonviolence." Let's use the terminology that Jesus died to give us - Brotherhood.
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