10.09.2007
9.30.2007
FOOL-FOR-CHRIST
A saint who has the title Fool-for-Christ is one who is known for his
apparent, yet holy, insanity.
"If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become foolish that he may become wise" (1 Cor. 3:18).
GOODNESS IS CULTIVATED. EVIL IS FORCED.
I guess I kinda knew this, but I'd forgotten, and maybe it is clearer for me now.
I'm wrestling with how I am to respond to the opportunity our Mother has given me in the form of two upcoming Court appearances.
The fact of these appearances encourages my attention to focus there. It is, and as before I sense this unspeakable, monumental evil in the direction of my focus.
EVIL IS FORCED.
Who would treat their "child" the way our courts treat all but the economic elite? NO ONE. And if they did their child would be made evil.
IF YOU KNOW,
JESUS NON-RESISTANCE: EFFECT ON PILOT?
I think I get it now. The Truth before Pilot / the Court was clear, there was no defense necessary. The only reason that Pilot / "the system" wanted defense was to take attention OFF OF THE TRUTH; to further enable AVOIDANCE / IRRESPONSIBILITY.
Jesus realized that it would give Pilot, the onlookers and bystanders a better chance at moral conversion if he did NOT ENABLE THEIR AVOIDANCE / IRRESPONSIBILITY. To return evil with kindness would "heap burning coals upon their heads," it would leave the full weight of their evil undisguised, undistracted from on their heads, and through such a gift by Jesus of Clarity, of Truth Jesus maximized the chances that their Humanity / Conscience would be at some future time awakened.
Yes, this is how to wage UNARMED PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE for the KINDOM.
* Matthew Chapter 5 39 But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on (your) right cheek, turn the other one to him as well.
40 If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well.
41 Should anyone press you into service for one mile, 26 go with him for two miles.
42 Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow.
43 27 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
44 But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,
45 that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.
46 For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors 28 do the same?
47 And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same? 29
48 So be perfect, 30 just as your heavenly Father is perfect.
** Romans Chapter 12 20 Rather, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head."
21 Do not be conquered by evil but conquer evil with good.
9.29.2007
WHAT THE JUDGE DOES: NO MY YOB MAN
- Stand up for EVERYONE that enters or leaves the courtroom (NO ONE deserves more or less respect than another)...
- Disobey their request for hours of undivided attention in the courtroom until your case is called (I'm not at liberty to give God's time demanded of me by Her for her tortured children)...
- Refuse to willingly give them more than the 27 hours they've already taken from you (lockup)...
- Refuse to cooperate with unjust jail time for their sinful Empirish behavior...
... THEY'LL LOCK YOU UP!!!!!!!! THEY'LL HURT YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
No my yob man.
MY behavior is my yob.
THEIR behavior is THEIR yob.
9.27.2007
"TO SIN BY SILENCE... MAKES COWARDS OF MEN." ABRAHAM LINCOLN
At minute 35 there is the most incredible quote:
when they should protest
makes cowards out of men."
"LIFE" IS WORTH YOUR ENTIRE FUTURE
A moment of Life is worth a lifetime of pulse. More and more I see this. More and more I live this.
I live this not for the principle. I live this for the Joy / Love / Peace / Life.
HISTORY WILL BLAME US CITIZENS, NOT LEADERS
- Bombing
- War
- Extortion
- Forced Starvation
- Neglect
This is a land of 300 million yet we hide behind the fantasy that it is a nation of a handful of purported "leaders." The shame and blood is on the hands of we-the-people.
9.26.2007
UNARMED PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
I remain horrified at how the "language" of people I respect throughout history CRIPPLES AND DISARMS US. I take it as a personal responsibility to attempt to discover infinitely more descriptive, TRUE, EMPOWERING ALTERNATIVES TO THE LIKES OF:
- NONviolence. NON??!?!? Does "non" explain Jesus? King? Gandhi? NON?!?!??!?! Desecration. Unacceptable. We must do better.
- Peace (the moon, because it is absent of Life has Peace). "He came not to give the peace of the world which is only that we don't bother each other. He came to give the Peace of heart which comes from loving - from doing good to others." Teresa of Calcutta.
- Resistance (there is no victory / new order at the end of the word "resistance.") If our child were trapped under a car would we "resist?" WE'D LIFT THE DAMN THING, or die trying.
- Etc....
THIS MORNING popped into my mind "UNARMED PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE."
- The "war" we despise is not only "armed" but ultimately, explicitly and entirely PSYCHOLOGICAL. The bombs are to "change the mind" of the "enemy."
- The alternative to armed warfare of oppression, that action waged by Empire that is destroying the planet? UNARMED PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE.
Yes this needs more work, but I think it is on a promising path. Comments?
CONSTRUCTIVELY FACING THREAT OF JAIL
But, it is entirely my responsibility, my only responsibility in this, and in life more broadly to guide the use of my life as constructively as possible. Hence my musings in this post. Your comments would be valued as I discern what I am called to do.
THESE ARE MY CURRENT THOUGHTS (expanded below):
- My focus should not / MUST NOT be on making some "Legal" point or advance.
- My focus should be to offer an opportunity (no matter how remote) that MIGHT spur a dramatic MORAL CONVERSION within anyone touched by my action, now or in the future.
- My efforts should be to be a Brother providing an opportunity to a sibling (judge, onlookers) to "wake up" to their sub-humanity, and move to their birthright - HUMANITY (EMPIRE LICENSES SUB-HUMANITY ).
- I should take responsibility for how much risk (time in jail) / opportunity this Moral Opportunity presents and decide accordingly how much risk to take.
1. MY FOCUS SHOULD NOT / MUST NOT BE ON MAKING SOME "LEGAL" POINT OR ADVANCE.
- There is no more time for the slow reformation of our "Legal" process. It is not my responsibility to block others from this pursuit, but it is my view that this path is too slow, when we just don't have the time. If I kill time, I kill people.
- TO ENGAGE AN EVIL SYSTEM ON ITS TERMS IS TO LEGITIMIZE / EMPOWER, PARTICIPATE WITH THE SYSTEM. What purports to be a "Legal" system in this country is the opposite; it is patently a system to impose the will of the overprivelaged, or overprivelaged-wanna-bees on the poor and weak. It feeds off of cooperation. Gandhi was correct in asserting our moral duty to NOT cooperate with evil.
2. MY FOCUS SHOULD BE TO OFFER AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MORAL CONVERSION.
- With Gandhi again I find agreement - Moral Conversion is the most difficult goal, and the most necessary for us to cling to. And even if all of us are not to cling to that goal, I feel that for my entire adult life this has been my goal; I am suited to it; I desire it; I find it worth my life, so at least, for me, this is the right goal.
- WE ARE OUT OF TIME ON PLANT EARTH; THE TIME FOR CHANGE IS NOW OR NEVER; THE CHANGE WE NEED IS A QUANTUM LEAP; MASS MORAL CONVERSION IS THAT LEAP. START LOVING IS CALLED TO ATTEMPT TO SPARK THAT QUANTUM LEAP.
3. My efforts should be to be a Brother providing an opportunity to a sibling (judge, onlookers) to "wake up" to their sub-humanity, and move to their birthright - HUMANITY (EMPIRE LICENSES SUB-HUMANITY).
IF I DECIDE THAT THIS OCT 12 COURT APPEARANCE IS WORTH IT:
- MY ACTION SHOULD BE TO BE PRESENT AS A BROTHER OUT OF RESPECT AND CONCERN FOR HIS SISTERS AND BROTHERS (IN THE SYSTEM.) I WILL HAVE NO COUNSEL. I THINK JESUS MEANT IT WHEN HE SAID - DO NOT GO TO LAW. LAW IS SIMPLY SANCTIONED WARFARE - ONE PERSON "AGAINST" THE OTHER. IT IS NOT AN ACT OF LOVE OR SISTERHOOD; IT IS EVIL VIOLENCE.
- I WILL "AGREE" WITH THEIR CHARGES THAT I DID WHAT THEY SAID - WENT ON THE SIDEWALK TO LEAFLET WHEN THEY SAID "NO."
- I WILL LOVINGLY AND FIRMLY REFUSE TO AGREE WITH THEIR WORD "GUILTY" BECAUSE MY ACTION WAS EXACTLY TO AVOID BEING "GUILTY" OF VIOLATING OUR "MOTHER'S" / HUMANITY'S / HIGHER-LAW'S DEMANDS - "DO UNTO OTHERS ALL THAT YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU." If I worked in the Pentagon, you bet I would want armies of sisters and brothers to leaflet no matter what to bring my attention to being the world's largest oil polluter / planet murderer.
- IN DOING THIS (ABOVE) I WILL GIVE THEM A CHOICE (yes it is a choice they can and almost certainly will avoid "facing"): THE CHOICE BETWEEN TREATING ME AS I TREAT THEM - AS A HUMAN, AS A BROTHER / with HUMANITY; OR TREATING ME AS AN INANIMATE OBJECT - TRASH / IN-HUMANELY, AS IS THEIR HABIT. THIS IS THE MORAL CHOICE I WANT TO PRESENT THEM WITH. THIS IS THE MODEL JESUS PROVIDED, when He thought the time was right for him to make such a costly move.
4. I should take responsibility for how much risk (time in jail) vs opportunity this particular Moral Opportunity presents and decide accordingly how much risk to take. With two weeks to ponder this further, and hoping for input from you, my current, strongly held thought for weeks now is to proceed as outlined above, despite the wonderful input I have received to the contrary so far [take a lawyer, contest that the order was "lawful," cuz it "wasn't; it violates free speech! Will help us correct the legal system....]. Why?
- I find a deep belief that the poorly expressed line of thought above is correct.
- It is an experiment in unarmed-psychological-warfare (nonviolence) , giving Innocent blood worth executing.
- It is an opportunity worth presenting both to the "court" and to the onlookers.
Please tell me your thoughts, if you like; but feel not an ounce of pressure to do so. Start. See Comments below.
ps: Several hours after writing this post I saw Blood Diamond.
PERSONAL WEALTH IS MURDER
- The US "Dream" is ecologically unsupportable by many thousands of orders of magnitude. This is scientifically inarguable. Therefore...
- All Personal Wealth above that which IS sustanable is FORCED STARVATION, MURDER of people born and unborn on this planet.
EMPIRE LICENSES SUB-HUMANITY
- An individual man would never murder dozens of innocents - but a Soldier does!
- An individual woman would never take money from the poor - but a Business Woman does!
- An individual man would never cheat and bully - but a Lawyer / Judge does!
- Etc....
- Etc....
This was a major discovery revealed in Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You (last 2 chapters first), the book that created Gandhi:
What the individual would never do,
gross inhumanity to another,
that same individual
IN THEIR
STATE / EMPIRE /
INSTITUTIONAL / SOCIAL ROLL
WILL ALWAYS DO,
AGAIN, AND AGAIN....
9.22.2007
MEANING. VIKTOR FRANKL QUOTES
- A human being is a deciding being.
- Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
- Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
- Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
- Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
- Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
- Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
- Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
- For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
- I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
- Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
- Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
- Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
- The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
- Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
- What is to give light must endure burning.
- When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
EMPIRE ERADICATES MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANINGFULNESS
no meaning to live for.
Viktor E. Frankl,
"The Unheard Cry for Meaning"
9.19.2007
I'M DYING FOR THE SPIRIT OF EMPIRE TO DIE
Yup. That's about how life is for me.
Start Loving
9.16.2007
EMPIRE, THE ULTIMATE THREAT, JESUS DIED FIGHTING.
Empire, the Spirit of Empire (Stuff, Superiority, Systems-Institutions (False Idols)) is that ultimate threat.
Jesus saw that ultimate threat.
Jesus could not resist fighting Empire to his death.
You?
GOD IS LIVID; FURIOUS. WE ARE OBSCENE.
God must be Livid, Furious at we 1% in the world that control 80% of the world's resources, God given resources; control them FOR OUR OWN BENEFIT.
We control Her resources so WE CAN HAVE MORE WHILE 80% of Her children:
- We Starve
- We Exploit
- We Oppress
- We Abuse
- We Bomb
- We Extort
- We Neglect
WE ARE OBSCENE
9.15.2007
}}}} EMPYRE EMPIRE. Start Loving {{{{
I suggest that this post is more of physics and physiology than of metaphysics or philosophy.
In brain surgery TARGETING is entirely crucial.
In saving the world / Iraq / Iran / Palestine / Congo / Cuba / Haiti / Darfur... TARGETING of our scarce energy is entirely crucial.
I submit to you that Nuclear Weapons / Bombing Iran / Darfur Genocide / Occupying Iraq / Bush / Katrina Neglect... are the SYMPTOMS, not the CANCER to be TARGETED.
The CANCER to be TARGETED
is the
SPIRIT of EMPIRE
in ourselves,
and that is devouring all Spirit of Humanity world-wide. The CLEANSING FIRE, THE SURGEON'S LASER BEAM TO BE AIMED WITH ENTIRE CARE, TO EMPYRE THE CANCER OF EMPIRE, IS
THE FIRE OF LOVE,
OF HUMANITY;
OUR HUMANITY.
I would EMPYRE Empire.
I would give Fire to the world,
a fire to entirely consume Empire
leaving the world blazing
with the Fire of Sisterly Love / Humanity.
Let's burn;
in time.
winds, waves, tides and gravity,
we shall harness
the energies of love.
And then, for the
second time in the
history of the world,
man will discover
fire.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
God willing I will have served my immediate purpose here at the Peace House and return to the 24 hour / day US Forces / Iran / Iraq Vigil at the Capitol Monday.
___________________________________________________
!!! WHAT MILLIONS MIGHT DO, ONE MAN MUST DO !!!
IGNITE THE FIRE
click the MATCH.IGNITE THE FIRE OF HUMANITY
!!click the MATCH above!!
DO IT!
DO IT!!
DO IT!!!
You see the dynamics of EMPYRE EMPIRE in "Dances With Wolves" in the opening sequence - the battle that is a genocidal stalemate until....
The armies are across the field from one another...
Agonizing, slow, mutual slaughter...
One person faces the madness, they are dead already...
Quietly, alone one rides out -WHAT MILLIONS MIGHT DO, ONE MAN MUST DO
As in EVERY CRUCIAL STRUGGLE, the odds are impossible...
But HOPE and POSSIBILITY, HUMANITY are in the ATTEMPT....
}}}}}}}} ALL IT TAKES IS ONE MATCH. YOU? {{{{{{{{
The Infection of "Possibility" Spreads...
And spreads....
And Salvation is at hand.
IGNITE THE FIRE OF HUMANITY
click the match.!!click the match above!!
DO IT!
DO IT!!
DO IT!!!
!!! WHAT MILLIONS MIGHT DO, ONE MAN MUST DO !!!
EMPIRE'S PRIMARY ATTACK POINT: LANGUAGE CORRUPTION
- LOVE twisted to mean LUST.
- GOD AS LOVE LIFE TRUTH twisted to mean GOD AS STUFF, SUPERIORITY, SYSTEMS / INSTITUTIONS.
- CHURCH twisted to mean CLUB.
- GOD THE SPIRIT OF LOVE twisted to mean GOD EXCLUSIONARY BESTOWER OF INEQUITY.
- PATRIOTISM twisted to mean OBEDIENCE.
- LAW twisted to mean COMPLIANCE WITH ELITE INTERESTS.
- RELIGION twisted to mean ROAD TO SUPERIORITY OVER OTHERS.
- VOTE AS BALLOT twisted to mean VOTE AS $$$$
- NATIONAL INTERESTS twisted to mean EXPLOITATION OF FOREIGNERS.
- TERRORISTS twisted to mean THOSE THAT RESIST OPPRESSION.
- FAIRNESS twisted to mean LICENSE TO STARVE THE ALREADY STARVING POOR.
- CHRISTIAN twisted to mean HYPOCRITE PHARISEES.
- and on...
George Orwell's 1984
was written in 1949.
WE HAVE NO EXCUSE
FOR OUR IGNORANCE.
}}}}}} CRUCIFIXION: ENTIRETY OF HUMANE LIFE {{{{
the most important chance to "save" my life, and yours.]
With 18-30,000 children dying PER DAY, all of Palestine's children in military torture prison 40 years now, American Empire taking Haiti as a slave plantation, 4.5 million left to die in concentration camps in Darfur...
BECAUSE OF OUR
OVER-PRIVILEGE-OF-THE-FEW /
PERSONAL AGENTRY OF EMPIRE /
NON-WORLD-FAMILY /
SELFISHNESS /
DETACHMENT /
US "FAMILY VALUES"
(LICENCE TO ABANDON
6 BILLION OF OUR FAMILY)...
CRUCIFIXION IS THE ENTIRETY
This is the part that I saw, maybe 15 years back:
- If you are not being crucified, you are not living Human or Christian.
- If you ARE getting crucified, you MIGHT be living Humane, Christian.
!!!!!! THIS, BELOW, IS HOW IT IS /
HOW I NOW SEE IT CLEARLY !!!!!!
- MAYBE 1/2 OF THE HUMANE / CHRISTIAN LIFE IS PLACING OURSELVES BETWEEN "EMPIRE" (ALL THE FORCES OF DESTRUCTION (NOT-KINDOM)) AND THE VICTIMS (DARFURIES, US BLACKS / LATINOS, US POOR, HATIANS, PALESTINIANS, NEW ORLEANSEANS, ILLEGAL ALIENS (BUSH AND CHANEY); LEGAL ALIENS PERSECUTED (UNDOCUMENTED HISPANICS...).... (THIS IS THE PART I'VE SEEN AND EXPERIENCED FOR DECADES NOW. OUCH!!!!!)
- 100% OF THE WAKING"HUMAN" LIFE IS EXACTLY INVOLVED WITH CRUCIFIXION. IN TODAY'S FESTERING HELL-HOLE OF A WORLD, ANYTHING LESS IS NOT "CHRISTIAN." THIS I DIDN'T REALIZE!!!!
- [THIS I DIDN'T SEE AT ALL!!!!!] THE OTHER 1/2 OF THE "HUMANE" LIFE IS CRUCIFYING OTHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!
ARE YOU PERFECT? ME EITHER. THEREFORE, IF YOU ARE TRYING (POINT 1) YOU WILL ERR / SIN, AND IN ERRING YOU WILL CRUCIFY OTHERS (HURT, INSULT, MISLEAD, KILL, PERSECUTE, DISEMPOWER, OPPRESS...). NO, I AM NOT SAYING TO TRY TO CRUCIFY. I'M SAYING YOU MUST "OWN" YOUR INEVITABLE CRUCIFYING OF OTHERS. - HOW TO "OWN" YOUR INEVITABLE CRUCIFYING OF OTHERS: HOW DO YOU MINIMIZE THE CHANCE OF GETTING ALL THREE NAILS AND THE SPEAR INTO JESUS BEFORE YOU STOP? ONLY ONE WAY. DEDICATE EVERY FIBER OF YOUR BEING, EVERY WAKING MOMENT TO LOVING THE LEAST OF THESE HER/HIS FAMILY. THAT WILL MAXIMIZE YOUR EMPATHY FOR EVERYONE BORN AND UNBORN.
EXTREME EMPATHY / COMPASSION / FAMILYNESS / CONNECTEDNESS / WORLD-FAMILYNESS / MILITANT LOVING... WILL BE YOUR EARLY WARNING SYSTEM. HOW?!?!?!? YOU WILL FEEL YOUR VICTIM'S PAIN EVEN BEFORE YOUR HAMMER HITS THE NAIL INTO HER HAND. AND INSTEAD OF AGAIN CRUCIFYING CHRIST, YOU WILL CRUCIFY YOURSELF!!!!! Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero said the “Violence of Love … left Christ nailed to a cross; it is the violence we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and the cruel inequalities among us. It is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred, it is the violence of brotherhood, the violence that will beat weapons into sickles for peaceful work.”
NOW THAT YOU "SEE,"
NOW YOU ARE "RESPONSIBLE,"
NOW YOU MUST DO.
}}}}}}} OUR MORTAL ERROR IS "STARVING" {{{{{{{
Cancer simply STARVES the body
of what the body cannot live without -
24/7 Loving Service
from every cell
in the body
until
death.
by STARVING the body. I, JAY MCGINLEY,
HAVE MURDERED 10's OF THOUSANDS
DURING MY LIFE BY STARVING OUR
HUMAN BODY, OUR WORLD FAMILY;
STARVING my 100 billion brothers and sisters,
born and unborn,
of
the
24/7
Loving
Service
until
death
I
was
born
with
the
sole
purpose
of
giving
them.
Who
says?
Our conscience.
Our scientific methods.
Our great teachers like Jesus,
Gandhi, King, Buddha, Berrigan...
Our cells, organs, cats, trees, plankton...
All manner of life "reveals" to us
this ALMIGHTY LOVING TRUTH of LIFE.
Will
half dead all of my life.
I am beginning to RECALL
the TRUTH of the LIFE given for LOVE.
OF THE ALMIGHTY'S FINAL MERCY.
THAT MERCY? S/HE IS REMOVING
THE ILLUSION THAT WE HAVE MORE TIME;
THUS CONFRONTING US WITH A TRUTH
SO CLEAR THAT WE MAY FINALLY SEE IT;
AND IF NOT WE DESERVE THE HELL OUR OFFSPRING WILL INHABIT FOR ETERNITY.
}}}}} JOB 1: DEFLATE / INCINERATE / EMPYRE EMPIRE WITH YOUR HUMANITY {{{{{
THE SPIRIT OF EMPIRE
IS WHAT WE MUST
FIGHT TO OUR DEATH
TO DESTROY;
IN OURSELVES,
IN OUR SISTERS
AND BROTHERS
EVERYWHERE
IN THE WORLD.
OUR LIVES DEPEND ON IT.
HUMANKIND DEPENDS ON IT.
ALL FUTURE GENERATIONS
DEPEND ON IT.
IT WILL BE
HELL TO PAY
IF WE FAIL.
WE MUST FIGHT LIKE
WE'RE OUT OF TIME
ALREADY,
WHICH WE ARE.
"Hey Start, I thought Darfur was your issue."
We're out if time. If Empire is not reined in, there is no habitable planet for Darfur to exist on.
JESUS IS MY HERO, WHO I ADORE. NO MORE. NO LESS.
"I believe in Jesus Christ, but do not believe in circumscribing him within strictly sectarian or theological walls. To me Jesus was something far beyond any individual phenomenon. [Jesus] was Love and Compassion incarnate. We can carry his message to the people by serving them with love, mercy and compassion in our hearts. That message will spread despite you and me, because it is the innermost cry of the human heart."
"Ditto." Start Loving
JESUS IS MY HERO, WHO I ADORE. NO MORE. NO LESS.
My only hero? Oh my God, I have so many - Phil Berrigan, Dave Dellinger, Diane Wilson, Gandhi, King, Bev, Joan of Arc, Rosa Parks, Mandela, young Tim Phiri, Thomas, Connie, Ellen, DIANE, Ann, Gael, Assisi, Eleanor R, Teresa of Calcutta, Col Ann Wright, MR, Buddha, Liz MacAlister, .... and so many others like these.
But Jesus is my greatest hero. Jesus is my greatest Love. Jesus is my greatest example.
Is He God? I don't know, and neither do you. And, like Gandhi, I couldn't care less. He is my brother. He loved us more than anyone ever has. He died to give us the example of how to Live. I want with all of my being to be like Him, for you, for your children, for their children....
EMPIRE IS MASS PSYCHOSIS...
- Learned detachment / animosity (Social Disinterest, Adler)
- Selfishness
- Denial
- Fear
- Mass psychosis
- Mass sociopathy
- Trance (Korten)
- Intoxication
- Diversion
- Immunization to Inconvenient Facts
- Drunk on power and greed
- Distraction
- Heard mentality
- Drugging
- Manipulation
- Debauchery
- Gluttony
- Mind control
- Indoctrination (18 years schooling ruthlessly censored of Empire negative info.)
- Drugging (drugs, alcohol, TV, consumerism...)
- Addiction (Hilfiker)
- Foolishness (Bonhoeffer)
- Living of the Myth
- Fear to induce obedience (Chomsky)
- Masturbation
- Shocked and Terrorized into a Childlike, Compliant State (Naomi Klein.)
- Intentional Ignorance
- Enchantment (psychological NOT mystical)
- Hypnotic state (Tolstoy)
- Selective stupidity
- Blissful ignorance
- Self-serving delusion
- Delusion
- Mythology (Zinn)
- ...
- ...
- ...
EMPIRE OR KINDOM. ONE OR THE OTHER YOU HAVE CHOSEN.
But being week on these dimensions does not explain a George Bush, Dick Cheney or Adolph Hitler. Hence the alternate realm / way of "being" - Empire. Empire is a function of the three dimensions of "being" opposite to those of Goodness available to the human psyche - Stuff, Superiority, Systems/Institutions. The Third Reich of Nazi Germany and those supporting it might be the easiest image for you to grasp this concept. For some of you Fascist US 2007 and those of us supporting it might be even easier.
If you are looking for me to prove this beyond my directing you to search your own experience and heart... good luck. But if you do search your experience and heart, again you will find the fundamental psychological Truth of which your life, and that of everyone you know is the proof.
I wish I had time to explore this further with you. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU EXPLORE IT FURTHER ON YOUR OWN, WITHIN YOURSELF. Do it until the point of rejection, or SELF EMPOWERMENT.
(see graphic below)
With this I try to give you a picture of where those
we both know of reside - within which Realm of Being, and how fully and completely within the realm. It is of course a broad picture.
9.10.2007
}}}}}}} WORLD'S GREAT PEACEMAKING ESSAY {{{{{{{
But at that site this is the single greatest, most important, most enlightening piece on ERADICATING EMPIRE (IN OURSELVES AND IN THE WORLD) THAT EVER I HAVE READ [SORRY JESUS :-) ]:
And although this second one is much, much, much trickier to understand when all of the Life Giving Truth from the Spiritual greats has been corrupted and distorted completely by Empire (since Constantine), this essay to is a must read:
"HEY START, I'M JUST NOT THERE YET."
- 18,000 children starving to death per day,
- US Soldiers being destroyed daily,
- 4 million Iraquis in prison-like conditions,
- Millions of Iranians about to be carpet bombed,
- The soul of the US going to Empire beyond the point of redemption,
- 3 million Darfuries dying of your neglect in Concentration camps....
Let's take our time. Let's take our time. Let's act with huge courrage and compasstion when it is COMFORTABLE FOR US.
Truly, I love you anyway, with all of my heart; and I love and forgive me too.
Your brother,
Start Loving (blog)