"SAVED:" YOU LOSE EVERYTHING... EXCEPT THE GREAT STUFF

"SAVED:"
YOU LOSE EVERYTHING...
EXCEPT THE GREAT STUFF

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WE "DO" SELL OUR SOUL IN THIS CULTURE

You've sold your soul to the extent that what you do is to:

• Keep my job
• Keep my wife
• Please my parents
• Stay out of jail
• Stay alive
• Stay safe
• Avoid hunger
• Avoid pain
• Be popular
• Be successful
• Get sex
• Get stuff
• Protect "my children" (if they are not among "the least of these.")
• Protect "my family" (if they are not among "the least of these.")
• Etc.
• Etc.

IT ALL COMES DOWN TO: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE?

There is no post on this site that is more important or elemental.

IT ALL COMES DOWN TO: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE?

1. Selfish, self-centered, finite centered, pleasure-seeking Flesh?
2. Otherish, other-centered, infinite, humane, loving, joy-filled Humanity / World-Famliness / Militant Good / Love?

You cannot chose to be both or neither.

You will, YOU WILL "BE" one or the other.

!!!!! WHAT BEING "SAVED" LOOKS LIKE !!!!!

Our nervous system provides
ONLY THESE TWO PATHS.
THERE ARE NO OTHER.

YOUR ENTIRE
FREEDOM OF CHOICE
LIES ALONG THESE PATHS.

BEING "SAVED" IS RADICAL "CANCER" SURGURY

Mark Chapter 10:29
Jesus said, "Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel 30 who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age: houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come.

• YOU CANNOT LOSE "GOD," GOOD, LOVE, LIFE, TRUTH
• WHATEVER YOU LOSE IS NOT "GOD," GOOD, LOVE, LIFE, TRUTH
• ALL CANCER WILL BE REMOVED: YOU WILL LOSE EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT "GOD," GOOD, LOVE, LIFE, TRUTH

TODAY'S "CHURCH" IS LIKE AN ANCHOR TO A LIFESAVING SWIMMER

Is there anything else to say?

Is there any justification before Jesus / Good / God / Churchgoers / Clergy for diverting energy from "the least of these" to Church?

When a building is
reduced to rubble
by decay
NO ONE USES
THE DECAYED REFUSE
TO REBUILD.
THEY ALWAYS START ANEW.
IF MATERIALS
FROM THE RUINS
PRESENT THEMSELVES
AS APPROPRIATE
THEY ARE ACCEPTED
WITH JOY.
BUT NEVER ARE THEY
THE STARTING POINT.

SIN OF EMPIRE: GIVING CAESAR WHAT IS GOD'S

"Resist not evil."

"But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil." Matthew Chapter 5

It is imperative that the "Peace" movement grasp this; AND THEY DO NOT.

We must allow
NO attention to go toward
sinful "government," and
AND ALL NEEDED ATTENTION
TO BE FOCUSED ON
OUR SUFFERING / ERRING
SISTERS AND BROTHERS!

WE WILL SERVE ONE MASTER. SELF? or HUMANKIND?

"MAN CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS." MAN WILL SERVE ONE MASTER.

WE WILL BE SLAVE.
to SELF? or to HUMANKIND?

Slavery is an inescapable condition - our nervous system WILL BE FOCUSED in a quasi permanent way. This is inescapable.

Each of us will be either:

1. Slave to SELF / SELFISHNESS / DISINTEREST IN OTHER'S WELL BEING / EXPLOITATION / DELUSION;
2. Slave to WELL BEING OF HUMANKIND / OTHERISHNESS / LIFE / TRUTH / LOVE / LIFE.

WHICH MASTER DO YOU SERVE?

WHICH MASTER WILL YOU SERVE?

DYING TO THE FLESH?

Hmmmm. Is a glimpse of "dying to the flesh" what just wafted over me a few seconds ago? I was pondering lugging my body back in front of the Sudan Embassy 6d/21h for months.

My body is not, NOT happy about the idea. But it is not pulling me away from the idea either. "Dying to the flesh?" Yes, this is what I sensed.

Am I moving in this direction? Certainly.

Do I have any regrets? Yes. I regret that I am learning about this and gaining some capacity for it at 56 years not 8 years old. Oh my God, what a mistake, what an error, what a travesty is our worship of selfishness / disconnection / self-indulgence.... Hell. Pleasure Island. Filthy. Blood soaked.

Will I ever be good at it - at Dying to the Flesh? I pray so. We'll see.

:-)

DEEP GRIEF. GOOD GRIEF?

Good grief? The grief I feel, unceasing since my incarceration a week ago Thursday at the White House does not depart. I do not regret it. I thank the Almighty for it. But it is deep and painful. To come into intimate contact with the deep evil, EVIL, INHUMANITY, BESTIALITY of our US System is nauseating, deeply disturbing, deeply depressing to me.

Exactly as I enter this post I then find my self reading pages 66-67 in Phil Berrigan's must read, "Fighting the Lamb's War." Phil writes:

"What might Reverend King say if he could visit our country’s death cages, crowded with African-Americans waiting to die? If he could walk our inner-city streets again and see the legacy of crack cocaine, the. gangs, and hopeless poverty? I imagine him weep­ing, his tears drowned out by sirens and the sound of automatic gun­fire, his message of love and reconciliation smothered by fascist ideologues.
Black mayors. Black Congressmen. Black police chiefs. Black generals. Black rock stars. Black film stars. Black sports stars. Some commentators argue that the glass is half empty, others that it is half full. The analogy hardly matters. We lurch toward the year 2000, dragging our bloody chains, our crimes, behind us. Millions of African-Americans are still living in poverty, captive to the “tricks” of institutional racism, police bmtality, white fear, and capitalist manipulation."

"Malcolm X intended to present his case before the United Nations. He was determined to tell the world that the United States govern ment was systematically violating the human rights of its own black citizens. Would the white community believe him, then or now? When the police fracture a welfare mother’s skull, or kill her son in the hallway of a housing project, the crime hardly makes the news. When the bullet-riddled body of another black teenager is taken to the morgue, the event is of no importance. What we don’t see, we don’t believe. What we don’t know, doesn’t happen. The mirror we looked into in the fifties has become the vicious magic show of the nineties:

• Ending affirmative action means creating meritocracy.
• Cutting people off welfare means giving people hope.
• Putting people to death means respecting life.
• Building atomic submarines, instead of schools, means protecting democracy.
• Destroying our children means saving them."

SUFFERING FOR LOVE IS "THE" KEY TO UNLOCK THE HEART

This is a neurological phenomenon / Truth:

SUFFERING FOR LOVE
IS "THE" KEY
TO UNLOCK THE
HEART / CONSCIENCE /
HUMANITY / WORLD-FAMLINESS.

OUR PRIMARY IDENTITY MUST BE BROTHER / SISTER.

This simply summarizes all that I've been coming to understand.

Our primary role as healthy, helpful, hopeful, joyful, suffering adults is / must be Brother / Sister. Anything less is failure on any meaningful front.

Your Loving brother, Start

CONFRONT COURTS UNLESS GOD IS ABOVE THE "LAW"

[maybe there will be time to flesh out the following at some future point.]

Among the self murdering errors of even best of the dreadfully self labeled "nonviolent" "peace" movement is the mistaken, unclear notion regarding how it should address itself to the "law."

Here is the correct answer.

1. When Humanity / Love / World-Family / God-the-Father reigns then it may usually be appropriate to address and thereby respect the courts.
2. AS IS THE CASE TODAY when God is nowhere to be found in the US let alone the Courts confronting the Courts / State simply empowers evil, the Idol State, address ourselves directly to the State in any way. We are to address ourselves to our brothers and sisters, including those within the State - but as brothers and sisters - not a State functionaries.

OUR "AGENDA" DOESN'T INCLUDE JAIL TOO OFTEN. P.B.

Must read all of Phil Berrigan at Jonah House. The following is derived from Faith and Justice:

"Most of us play checkers with resistance; we calculate the next move so as to reduce inconvenience or eliminate it altogether from our lives.
We have our own agenda and it doesn't include going to jail too often. We want to say that we were there; we don't want to say how far we went in."
Phil Berrigan

YOU VOTE WITH YOUR FEET... AND LIFE. P. BERRIGAN

Must read all of Phil Berrigan at Jonah House. The following is derived from Dispatches From The Lamb’s War:

"Jesus Christ practiced direct action, as did the Jewish prophets and other nonviolent militants. Even before the American Revolution, colonists resorted to direct action in struggles against injustice. In a capitalist society, there are no other means for representation, redress, or justice. To vote is political window dressing. It makes not the slightest bit of difference. If it did, the American people would soon lose this “right.” The only means for fighting judicial corruption, corporate greed, worker exploitation, police brutality, and militarism is direct action. The Industrial Workers of the World — aka the “Wobblies” — were right: you don’t vote with the ballot, you vote with your feet and with your life."

Phil Berrigan

OURS IS THE EVIL GENERATION. P. BERRIGAN

Must read all of Phil Berrigan at Jonah House. The following is derived from Scapegoating:

"With all my heart, I agree with Gerard that the Gospel alone will destroy scapegoating and needless killing. The Gospel alone offers the truth and strength necessary to disarm and eliminate nuclear terror. But the unknown quantity are Christians and our disbelief.
Luke's Gospel (11:29) speaks of an "evil generation", and ours is certainly that. No sign is allowed this generation except the sign of Jonah the prophet. And that sign is the Cross - the execution, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.
Fidelity to that sign will not be easy, but it will not be hard. His yoke is easy, and His burden light. (Mt. 11:30). We are not to be afraid, Just believe. (Mk. 5:36)"

ACCEPTING VIOLENCE WITH LOVE ENDS THE SPREAD

Must read all of Phil Berrigan at Jonah House. The following is derived from Scapegoating:

ACCEPTING VIOLENCE
WITH LOVE
ENDS THE SPREAD

"THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH COULD NOT..." P. BERRIGAN

Must read all of Phil Berrigan at Jonah House. The following is from Scapegoating:

"The early Christian Church could not bear the purity and weight of the true meaning of Jesus' execution. It could not grasp the sheer voluntariness of the Cross, the voluntary love of His choice. And so the belief grew that God sent Jesus to die, that from his conception He was doomed to die, the divine scapegoat. Theology acquired a determinism, even tinges of fatalism. The divine/human mission to restore God's Kingdom began to fade; the Church's unequivocal condemnation of violence and war began to fade. The empire began to absorb Christians, exacting taxes and military service from them."

Phil Berrigan

"STATE IS A PUBLIC... REBELLION AGAINST GOD." PHIL BERRIGAN

MUST READ: FOREWORD AS IS EVERYTHING AT THE JONAH HOUSE SITE by Philip Berrigan.

Some quotations from Phil Berrigan on Law:

• the Bible gave human law ample treatment. 1st Samuel 8th chapter, for example, exposes the State as a public, bureaucratic rebellion against God.
• the law, like the State is inherently flawed and violent -- its function to legalize a rebellious State.
• Paul's Letter to the Galatians -- his most sustained indictment of human law.
• 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)
• 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.

LEGAL DISSENT IS CONSENT - THOREAU

LEGAL DISSENT IS
CONSENT - THOREAU

How are we to understand this?

• Driving the speed limit is to say that there is not an emergency.

NOBODY'S PEACEMAKING CUZ NOBODY'S PEACEMAKING

• NOBODY'S PEACEMAKING CUZ NOBODY'S PEACEMAKING
• Nobody's liberating Palestine cuz...

Nobody's:

• Stopping use of depleated uranium cuz...
• Ending the starvation of 18,000 children / DAY cuz...
• Rescuing and Restoring Darfur...
• Ending the war in Iraq cuz...

"This is no day
to pay lip service...
we must
pay life service....”
Dr. Martin Luther King,

COMMUNITY DIES WITH FOCUS ON "ME" OR "COMMUNITY" ITSELF

TRUE COMMUNITY / "FAMILY"
ONLY COMES FROM
EMERGENCY SHARED

Do most honest attempts at "community" fail with a misguided notion that they are to focus on helping the "individual" or on fostering "community?" The impossibility and assured destruction of this can be imagined in this way:

Can you drive effectively
and at the same time
watch yourself in the mirror?

As soon as community
is ABOUT the "individual's
growth" or fostering
"community" it is cut
off from its roots and
begins to die.
TRUE COMMUNITY /
"FAMILY" ONLY COMES
FROM EMERGENCY SHARED

WAR OF HUMANITY WILL COST 1000'S OF LIVES

In order to save planet earth it will take a war of mass construction, militant loving, militant humanity whose cost can be measured in 10's of thousands of lives. Or, it is the end of any human history that we could wish for.

ps: This is extremely inexpensive compared with wars of destruction. But it is NOT without cost in lives. 10's of thousands of lives it will cost.

Mine seems to be happily pledged to saving the world.

FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE IS TRUE RELIGION'S FRUIT

FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE,

OF HUMANITY,
IS TRUE RELIGION'S FRUIT.

WHAT FREEDOM
IS IN PRISON?
FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE;
FREEDOM OF HUMANITY...
THE ONLY TRUE FREEDOM.

WHAT FREEDOM IS IN PRISON? CONSCIENCE, FREEDOM OF.

WHAT FREEDOM IS IN PRISON? FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE.

Are you your pulse? Are you your lusts / appetites? Are you your conscience / humanity?

Conscience / Humanity comes closest, right? In which case:

THE ONLY TRUE FREEDOM

IS FREEDOM OF
CONSCIENCE / HUMANITY.

WE RELIGIOUSLY DESTROY

OUR FREEDOM AND

OUR CHILDREN'S FREEDOM

WITH THE CHAINS OF:

"NORMALCY,"
CONVENTION,

"GETTING ALONG,"
BEING "SAFE,"
PATRIOTISM,

"RELIGION..."

"CONSISTANT WITH THE SPIRIT OF JESUS...?"

"Was it constant
with the spirit of Christ,
Martin Luther King,
and Mohandas Gandhi?"
Philip Berrigan

THIS IS THE
ULTIMATE QUESTION
FOR THE
FOLLOWER OF JESUS:

"IS IT CONSISTANT WITH
THE SPIRIT OF JESUS?"

HEREIN LIES THE ERROR
OF THE DOGMATIST;

OF THE "RELIGIOUS;"
THE FUNDAMENTALIST;
THEY UPHOLD "LAWS"
AND TRAMPLE "SPIRIT."

IF YOU KNEW A "POLICE STATE" WAS PLANNED, YOU'D DO WHAT?

IF YOU KNEW A "POLICE STATE" WAS PLANNED, YOU'D DO WHAT?

Millions of folks like you would take to the streets, protecting the future of their children, right?

What if you "suspected:"

1. A "police state" was planned to happen with the next "engineered" 911?


2. The war in Iraq was ALL ABOUT OIL and that 2+ million innocents have been slaughtered there for "oil?"


3. Iran is the next target for US exploitation, plunder, terror and murder?


4. The US elites are totally selling out and stealing the assets and jobs of the US people?


5. The US elites are selling out planet earth / global warming for short term profits?

Phil Berrigan Quotes

1. Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.
2. "Peacemaking is not only a central characteristic of the Gospel, peacemaking is the greatest need of the world today. We are the daughters and sons of God, and that means we are called to be peacemakers."
3. "There is no freedom without love."
4. "You are the answer."
5. "Don't get tired."
6. "War on terrorism by the U.S. is impossible. We are the number one terrorist."
7. “We're not made by God to mass kill one another, and that's backed up by the Gospels. Lying and war are always associated. Pay attention to war-makers when they try to defend their current war: if they’re moving their lips they're lying.”
8. Herein lies a riddle. How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?
9. "I die with the conviction, held since 1968 and Cantonsville, that nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself."
10. "I die with the conviction, held since 1968 and Cantonsville, that nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself."
11. "War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism."

"WORLD SINKS DEEPER INTO ... PSYCHOSIS..."

"Where does one
look for hope,
as the world sinks deeper
into social psychosis?
To the people alone,
particularly
to people of faith.
In the past,
the people alone
checked the mad ambitions
of the pharaohs."

Phil Berrigan

"CONSCIENCE, THE SOLE CERTAIN GUIDE." Tolstoy

"I WILL ADMIT BUT ONE TYRANT
IN MY LIFE;
THE STILL SMALL VOICE WITHIN."
Tolstoy's Gandhi