Heaven on earth (in a hellish world): Militant PeaceMaking

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Several models for those who conclude that Blessed, Beastly Blindness to; Divine, Disastrous Divorce from the world's misery is no longer desirable:

• "To Kill a Mockingbird"
• WWII: How the healthiest of US citizens lived: Soldiers, Factory Workers, Husbands, Wives, Children. The Heroic Responders.
• WWII Holocaust Rescuers
• "It's A Wonderful Life"
• Rescuers of 9/11
• "Little Women"

Imagine Heaven: Its key dimensions

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Dimensions:

• Property rights
  
• Laws
• Infrastructure
• Religion
• Geographical boundaries
• Time horizon / focus
• Resource extraction
• Resource distribution
• Activities
• How time is spent
• What it looks like

Heaven on earth: Property Rights

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Heaven on earth: Property Rights

Imagine the "PROPERTY RIGHTS" among the following folks:

• A "healthy" biological "family"
• Holocaust Rescuers
• On a bucket brigade at a house fire
• Saving kids at an elementary school after an earthquake
• Neighbors after a massive flood
• Jesus, King, Gandhi, Bhave, Khan Ghaffar Kahn

THE "PROPERTY RIGHTS" AMONG THOSE LIVING FOR HEAVEN ON EARTH:

• All property is owned by all and by none
• All property is owned by the born and unborn
• First priority is "the least of these" born and unborn
• Each individual is a steward
• Each individual looks to the "Master" the still small voice s/he hears
• Each indivisual gives the life s/he has to have brothers and sisters here the voice within them too

Heaven on earth: Laws

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Heaven on earth: Laws

Imagine the "LAWS" among the following folks:

• On a bucket brigade at a house fire
• Saving kids at an elementary school after an earthquake
• Neighbors after a massive flood
• Jesus, King, Gandhi, Teresa, Khan Ghaffar Kahn

THE LAWS AMONG THOSE LIVING FOR HEAVEN ON EARTH:

INDIVIDUALLY AND SUPREMELY -

• Still small voice within
• Heart / Love / Agape
• Compassion
• Empathy
• Solidarity
• Compassion
• Wisdom

COLLECTIVELY AND SUBORDINATE TO THE ABOVE -

• ALL JUST LAWS
• ALL COMPASSIONATE LAWS
• NO UNJUST LAWS
• NO UNCOMPASSIONATE LAWS

Dietrich Bonhoeffer captured it divinely: “Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God – the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God.”

Heaven on earth: Infrastructure

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Heaven on earth: Infrastructure

Imagine the "INFRASTRUCTURE" among the following folks:

• A "healthy" biological "family"
• Holocaust Rescuers
• On a bucket brigade at a house fire
• Saving kids at an elementary school after an earthquake
• Neighbors after a massive flood

THE INFRASTRUCTURE AMONG THOSE LIVING FOR HEAVEN ON EARTH:

• Luxuries converted into necessities (the "lady" shredding her dress for bandages)
• From each according to their abilities, to each according to their need
• All blessings shared in common
• All problems shared in common
• No gap between rich and poor

Heaven on earth: Geographical boundaries

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Heaven on earth: Geographical boundaries

Imagine the "GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES" among the following folks:

• A "healthy" biological "family"
• Holocaust Rescuers
• On a bucket brigade at a house fire
• Saving kids at an elementary school after an earthquake
• Neighbors after a massive flood
• Jesus, King, Gandhi, Bhave, Khan Ghaffar Kahn

THE GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES AMONG THOSE LIVING FOR HEAVEN ON EARTH:

• There are none
• See Property Rights

Heaven on earth: Time horzon / focus

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Heaven on earth: Time horzon / focus

Imagine the "TIME HORIZON / FOCUS" among the following folks:

• A "healthy" biological "family"
• Holocaust Rescuers
• On a bucket brigade at a house fire
• Saving kids at an elementary school after an earthquake
• Neighbors after a massive flood
• Jesus, King, Gandhi, Bhave, Khan Ghaffar Kahn

THE TIME HORIZON / FOCUS AMONG THOSE LIVING FOR HEAVEN ON EARTH: WATCH OUT - THIS ONE IS TRICKY. THE FOLKS ABOVE ARE ACTING OUT OF LOVE - LOVE IS TRUTH AND WISDOM!!!

• Present
• Future
• Infinite Future - Guarding the Unborn, their children, their children's children....

Heaven on earth: Resource extraction

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Heaven on earth: Resource extraction

Imagine the "RESOURCE EXTRACTION BEHAVIOR" among the following folks:

• A "healthy" biological "family"
• Holocaust Rescuers
• On a bucket brigade at a house fire
• Saving kids at an elementary school after an earthquake
• Neighbors after a massive flood
• Jesus, King, Gandhi, Bhave, Khan Ghaffar Kahn

THE RESOURCE EXTRACTION BEHAVIOR AMONG THOSE LIVING FOR HEAVEN ON EARTH:

• Minimal extraction as required for "the least of these"
• Minimal extraction as required in protection of future generations

Heaven on earth: Resource distribution

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Heaven on earth: Resource distribution

See PROPERTY RIGHTS

Heaven on earth: Activities

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Heaven on earth: Activities

Imagine the "ACTIVITIES" among the following folks:

• A "healthy" biological "family"
• Holocaust Rescuers
• On a bucket brigade at a house fire
• Saving kids at an elementary school after an earthquake
• Neighbors after a massive flood
• Jesus, King, Gandhi, Bhave, Khan Ghaffar Kahn

THE ACTIVITIES AMONG THOSE LIVING FOR HEAVEN ON EARTH:

• SERVICE: They live to serve the least of these born and not yet born (infinite generations)
• HUMILITY AND EXPERTISE AS REQUIRED BY THE LEAST OF THESE: They live in extreme reverence to the sacredness of their ability to serve
• REST AND REGENERATION: To the extent necessary for optimal service; LIMITED so as not to interfere with service. Think R&R for the heroic soldier.

Heaven on Earth: How time is spent

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See ACTIVITIES

Imagine Heaven: What it looks like

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Heaven on earth: What it looks like

Imagine "WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE" among the following folks:

• A "healthy" biological "family"
• Holocaust Rescuers
• On a bucket brigade at a house fire
• Saving kids at an elementary school after an earthquake
• Neighbors after a massive flood
• Jesus, King, Gandhi, Bhave, Khan Ghaffar Kahn

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AMONG THOSE LIVING FOR HEAVEN ON EARTH:

• LOVE
• SERVICE
• MODESTY
• INTENSITY
• SACRIFICE
• JOY
• FOCUS
• WISDOM
• LOVE
• SIMPLICITY
• FRUGALITY
• HUMILITY
• POVERTY (think NURSES serving Doctors Without Borders in Darfur; think Amish; think American Indian before the Genocides)

EFFECTIVE RADICALISM IS INFINITELY DIFFICULT

Conservatism fights (with one's life if necessary) to keep things the same. In such a Hellish world this is unacceptable.

Liberality is NOT the opposite of Conservatism, as Liberals tend not to fight for ANYTHING with their OWN lives.

RADICALISM is the counter to Conservatism. Radicals want change so much with their Head and their Hearts that they will pay whatever price is necessary. Think King, Gandhi, Jesus....

Conservatism is EASY! Just hate every prospect for change, and anyone that represents it! NO IMAGINATION OR CREATION NECESSARY!

RADICALISM IS ENTIRELY CREATIVE AND INFINITELY DEMANDING:

1. THE NEW WORLD MUST BE ENVISIONED!
2. NEW LANGUAGE AND ARTICULATION MUST BE CREATED!
3. EDUCATION AND TRAINING SPREAD ON THE NEW WORLD!
4. NEW TACTICS OF "WAR" FORMULATED WHERE THE FIGHTERS, NOT THEIR "ENEMIES" PAY WITH THEIR LIVES.
5. NEW ARMY RAISED AND TRAINED.

I CHOOSE JESUS' WAY OVER CHRISTIANITY

These alternatives are not the same. These are two, distinct, mutually exclusive choices.

JESUS' WAY:

• Love the Almighty
• Love all humankind
• Lay down your life for the least of these Jesus' / our family, as Jesus did.

CHRISTIANITY:

• Profess Jesus Christ your lord and savior that died for your sins; who rose from the dead
• OR, according to the Nazi Pope - be Catholic, go to Latin mass
• And all the other dogmatic, dead, murderous, evil, Jesus-excluding crap

Any overlap of Christianity with JESUS WAY (Jesus Word, and His word alone) is arbitrary, random, capricious, incidental, variable, hypocritical, noncommittal and rare.

I CHOOSE JESUS' WAY.

I REJECT AND DENOUNCE AS COUNTER TO TRUTH / LOVE / LIFE
CHRISTIANITY AND EVERY OTHER ORGANIZED / INSTITUTIONALIZED / FOSSILIZED RELIGION TO THE EXTENT THAT IT DISPLACES
THE SOLE AND ENTIRE PURSUITE OF TOTAL LOVE / MILITANT BROTHERLINESS / "WORLD FAMILY" / "WE."

PROBABLY EVERY "RELIGION" CAN BE USED TO ACHIEVE A LIFE OF TOTAL LOVE / LIFE / TRUTH AND THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE INDIVIDUAL USES IT IN THIS WAY - WONDERFUL. THIS IS THE POSITION OF GANDHI AND TERESA ALSO.

"GROUNDHOG DAY." 3RD, DOMINANT FACE OF "SALVATION."

Two faces of "Salvation" (from less than AWESOME Life / Love / Truth) are discussed in FRODO AND SAM. THE TWO FACES OF SALVATION.

A third face can be seen in the movie "Groundhog Day."

This 3rd face is expressed in the highly recommended practice of prayer within the "Our Father," and in particular the parts:

6. "Forgive us our [errors],"

7. "As we forgive [the errors of others.]

Among the murderous garbage put out by most "Christian" churches is the notion that we cannot "Save" ourselves from selfishness / disconnection from others / Error / Sin.

Groundhog Day shows us the nonesense of this position. The verses above show us the truth that we can and must, if we want Joy for ourselves and others, continually "Save" OURSELVES, Grow, Learn! This is indespensible to "Salvation." It may or may not be helped by deliberate intervention by others, in a "church" for example. Usually such Self-Salvation is dreadfully hurt by such intervention - because almost always it is a mater of the "blind leading the blind" as Jesus cautioned. Those who "see" are one in a million, literally. Beware.

"REMOVE THE PLANK FROM YOUR OWN EYE" JESUS TAUGHT.

JESUS FAITH WAS REDICULOUS; UNIMAGINABLE - LOVE; ONLY LOVE.

Do you get it? I just did! After all this time and I just got it.

Jesus' total, entire, second by second, minute by minute, in all things, IN ALL THINGS "FAITH" was in LOVE / TRUTH / LIFE; ONLY THESE; NEVER ANYTHING ELSE. NEVER. NOTHING ELSE.

Come on now, see this. What do you and I in this society put our faith in second by second. Is it Love / Life / Truth - the Almighty forces of Our Nervous System / Nature / The Cosmos!?!!?

You and I do what we were taught. We ignore our natural faith in our inborn capacity for Love / Life / Truth. We worship instead:

• Our mind
• Our learning
• Our institutions
• Our relationships
• Our "stuff"
• Our "superiority" over situations and others
• Experts
• Elders
• Bosses
• Clergy
• Etc....

Is "Faith" in Love / Life / Truth exclusive of these just mentioned? We think so, but quite the opposite!

Love / Life Truth totally and brilliantly use all resources internal and external for their purposes.

But the opposite is never true.
When we put our faith in anything except Love / Life / Truth these three are fundamentally excluded from our existence.

Moon explorers first left their "home world"

Especially in the early days of the space program it is true that virtually the entire world they depended upon, their entire safety net, was left behind. They left their old world for a new one. This was a price they had to pay. It was a price they were extatic to pay!

IMPEACH RATZINGER

This is the Pope from Hell from what I can see so far. In the face of Darfur, 18,000 children dying per day, 1 million killed by U.S. in Iraq... what is Christ's Vicar in the news for? Just what Jesus would do:

Pope, Restating 2000 Document, Cites ‘Defects’ of Other Faiths

Ratzinger effect boosts Vatican's cash-flow

Pope Set to Ease Restrictions on Latin Mass: Document Expected ...

This guy is from Hell from what I can see.

FRODO AND SAM. THE TWO FACES OF SALVATION

BORN SAVED: Sam it seems was born saved, presumably by being born into an Otherish family -

• Otherish, no selfishness
• Sorokin of Harvard in his study of Altruistic Love, "The Ways and Power of Love," found that most Saints come from profoundly loving families. Fogelman in her study of Holocaust Rescuers found the same. The apple does not fall far from the tree.
• The "Fall" is NOT inevitable. Our environment does it to most of us.

SAVED LATER IN LIFE: Frodo was not saved from Selfishness / Detachment / Divorce-from-others until the final seconds as he hung by his fingers in the volcano, by Sam's Love, limitless Sacrifice / Otherishness -

• Frodo was Redeemed, his Otherishness bought back from Selfishness by Sam's Love / Otherishness. Sam's Love was Therapy for Frodo.
• Militant Brotherliness, my name for Nonviolence is this type of Therapy primarily.
• This was the aim of Gandhi, King, Jesus.... They had limited success.
• We cannot afford limited success anymore. We are out of time.

THE OPOSITE OF CONSERVATIVE IS RADICAL, NOT LIBERAL

See EFFECTIVE RADICALISM IS INFINITELY DIFFICULT

DIVINE: THAT WHICH NOTHING IS MORE WONDERFUL THAN

Definition - DIVINE: THAT WHICH NOTHING IS MORE WONDERFUL THAN

The Eskimos have 20 words for snow, different kinds of snow.

We in the states take our most valuable FEW words - Love, Divine - and use them for 2,000 inappropriate things. IN THIS WAY WE BLIND OURSELVES.

LOVE is COURAGE is CONNECTION is TRUTH

LOVE IS COURAGE IS CONNECTION IS TRUTH

As I attempt to understand the mystery of Love this is a big step for me.

LOVE - COURAGE - CONNECTION - TRUTH (as Gandhi used "Truth"- Species specific Morality)

• are never separate,
• THEY NEVER HAPPEN SEPARATELY!
• THEY ARE THE SAME THING NEUROLOGICALLY, OR
• THEY ARE SO INTERTWINED THAT THEY CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD SEPARATELY ONE FROM THE OTHER

THAT FINAL INSTANT FRODO DIDN'T LET GO THE RING

Well, I just can't think of a clearer image of our madness / blindness / craziness. CRAZINESS!

There is Frodo:

• Swimming in Brotherhood (Sam, Strider, et al),
• Awash in the suffering of Selfishness / Exploitation / War / Greed (the Ring and its doing)
• Etc.
• ALL THE EVIDENCE IN THE WORLD OF THE WONDER OF LOVE / MILITANT BROTHERLINESS
• ALL THE EVIDENCE IN THE WORLD OF THE HORROR OF SELFISHNESS / EXPLOITATION / DISCONNECTION / WAR

AND YET FACED WITH THE FINAL CHOICE -
FRODO IS BLIND TO ALL BUT POWER / STUFF / SUPERIORITY

WE ARE IN THE GRIP OF SOCIETAL MADNESS / BLINDNESS / CRAZINESS / INSANITY

GUARANTEED SEPARATORS FROM THE DIVINE: STUFF / SUPERIORITY / SYSTEMS

The Almighty, God, the Divine is LOVE / LIFE / TRUTH. Right? Soul, Solidarity and Service are the dimenstions of the Spirit in service and unity with, AND FILLED WITH the Almighty Powers. Right?

Stuff, Superiority (over), and Systems / Institutions are

INSTEAD OF

SOUL, SOLIDARITY / SERVICE.

Simple.

WOULD. NOT "SHOULD!!!"

Jesus was all about WOULD not "SHOULD."

My beloved friend told me how her father told those he taught -

"Hold a pencil in front of you.

Now, "TRY" to drop the pencil.

See?

There is no "TRY."

There is only "DO," or do "NOT DO."

Well, this is why Jesus was all about WOULD. If you followed me you WOULD:

• Love as I have loved
• Do unto the least of these as you would do unto me
• Love the Almighty Powers with entire heart, mind, soul, strength...
• Love everyone born and unborn as yourself
• Love your enemy
• Love the stranger
• Lay down your life for the least of these

THERE IS NO ROOM FOR "SHOULD"
IN JESUS TEACHING.
"TRY" TO DROP THE PENCIL
YOU HOLD IN FRONT OF YOU.
IF YOU FOLLOWED ME YOU WOULD....

"MADDEST OF ALL IS TO SEE LIFE AS IT IS AND NOT AS IT SHOULD BE"

"Maddest of all is seeing life as it is and not as it should be." Man of La Mancha

HEAR THIS:
LINK 1 min 30 sec

JESUS USED PARABLES BECAUSE THEY ACTIVATE THE HEART

Most speech activates the Head, and in doing so it takes energy that otherwise could go to the Heart, the Kingdom of the Almighty / Love / Life / Truth / Heaven.

MOST SPEECH BLOCKS
HEART / LOVE / SALVATION /
HEAVEN / THE DIVINE

The parables of Jesus can only make sense, can only be decoded by the divine wisdom, insight, brilliance of the Heart.

Using parables Jesus both engaged,

enlightened and strengthened the Heart.

INSEPARABLE ARE JOY AND SUFFERING FOR LOVE.

But when Love is engaged -

INSEPARABLE are

JOY and SUFFERING

FOR LOVE.

WHEN JOY IS ABSENT,

OR SUFFERING IS AVOIDED,

LOVE IS DISENGAGED.

LIFE IS GIVEN TO SPEND FOR GOOD

Well, you have to believe one or the other of these:

1. God, a sentient being, gave you life, or...
2. Your Genes gave you life.

Either way...

LIFE IS GIVEN TO SPEND FOR GOOD:
1. GOD IS GOOD AND
WOULD HAVE YOU DO ONLY GOOD
2. YOUR GENES WANT
THE GOOD OF THE SPECIES

OUR REWARDS DIMINISH AS WE
STRAY FROM
SPENDING LIFE FOR GOOD

COWARDS SEEK TO PAY WITH OTHERS LIVES. HEROES PAY WITH THEIR OWN.

COWARDS SEEK TO PAY
WITH OTHERS LIVES.

HEROES PAY WITH THEIR OWN.

ANY QUESTIONS?