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3.28.2008

HUMANITY BEGETS HUMANITY. INHUMANITY BEGETS....

Humanity begets Humanity as certainly as E=MC Sqd.

In/UnHumanity begets In/UnHumanity UNLESS it is countered with HUMANITY in which case Saving/Salvation can occur. (Think of the Bishop of Di (sp) in Les Mis.)

HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE HUMAN EXPERIENCE. "THE KINGDOM."

Humanity (the experience of, and the participation in) IS THE ULTIMATE HUMAN EXPERIENCE - Virtue IS it's own reward. This is an inescapable truth of our DNA determined nervous system. Humanity produces Joy (chemical cocktail). Un/InHumanity produces pleasure (a Different chemical cocktail). Joy TRUMPS pleasure. No other "positive" choices possible.

Humanity is that experience of Life, the entire experiential "Diet) that an enlightened, aware human being would want to 99.999999999999999999999% Flood every waking microsecond of themselves, and of the entire waking life of anyone and everyone they have even the least caring for. No?

YOU MAY BE THE ONLY JESUS

From an email I just received from our sister Nancy. Breathtaking! Magnificent! The entire story of Jesus - what He died to give the world:
"You May Be the Only Jesus
Somebody Knows"


I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
—Galatians 2:20

There was a soldier who was wounded in battle. The padre crept out and did what he could for him. He stayed with him when the remainder of the troops retreated. In the heat of the day he gave him water from his own water bottle, while he himself remained parched with thirst. In the night, when the chill frost came down, he covered the wounded man with his own coat, and finally wrapped him up in even more of his own clothes to save him from the cold. In the end the wounded man looked up at the padre. "Padre," he said, "You're a Christian?"

"I try to be," said the padre.


"Then," said the wounded man "if Christianity makes a man do for another man what you have done for me, tell me about it, because I want it." *


You are the only Jesus somebody knows. Christ [HUMANITY / God (or what we can know of God)] lives in you and will use you to help heal this hurting world if you'll let Him. The priest was willing to become uncomfortable for the sake of a dying man. Sometimes I don't feel like going out of my way to reach out to someone and sometimes I close the door. There are other times when I realize that I represent Jesus to the world around me and that I touch someone not with my love but with His love. [WRONG: God's Love, HUMANITY (all that we can know of God) is what Jesus surrendered to, and what he Led US to surrender to.] And it makes a difference in their life and mine.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Start

ps: "I TRY to be...." I despise it when I am asked "Are you a Christian?" Why do I despise it? In large part because it largely implies - have you joined the "club!" Well, in Jesus' eyes, if there IS some valid category of "Christian" it has absolutely NOTHING to do with self declaration or joining-a-club. It would ENTIRELY have to do with Being. The "Padre's" answer above captures this. Nancy, thanks for this answer I can use in the future when the hideous question is asked of me, "Are you a Christian?" " I TRY to be."

THE MEASURE OF HUMANITY; FOR JESUS IT WAS BILLIONS

OUR HUMANITY'S MEASURE: THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN OUR "IMMEDIATE FAMILY (RECEIVE OUR FULL HUMANITY OUR PROPENSITY FOR OUR FULL HUMANITY):
Jesus: XX,000,000,000
Most of us: XX
OUR INHUMANITY'S MEASURE: THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE NOT IN OUR "IMMEDIATE FAMILY (RECEIVE OUR NEGLECT, LIP SERVICE, LEFT OVERS, EXPLOITATION, HOSTILITY; OUR PROPENSITY FOR OUR INHUMANITY):
Jesus: 0
Most of us: XX,000,000,000
What is important about Jesus is his Humanity, NOT whatever Divinity He may or may not have (which is a murderous, hideous distraction from what He died for). Jesus was a man, a man that found the secret to life, and died trying to share it with us. (King, Gandhi, Teresa, Berrigan... DID share.)
The secret of Jesus? The key to Heaven on Earth for you, me all humankind? The key to the psychological place of infinite Joy? Humanity; your Humanity; the size of your Humanity.
But, my Humanity is not under my individual control! My Humanity is entirely under my individual control in the same sense as is my capacity to speak French, play the piano or climb mountains.
Merry Christmas.
Your Loving brother, Start

KINGDOM OF GOD: WHEN YOUR HUMANITY EMBRACES YOUR ENEMY

The Kingdom of God is where/when YOU have lost your amnesia (that everyone is your family), EVEN IF NO ONE ELSE HAS!!!! This seems to be what has happened to me. [Note: If indeed I am NOT in the Kindom of God now, PLEASE DON'T TELL ME, cuz I can't imagine anything that feels, every second, more like Heaven.]

"The Least of These:" 2 flavors: MATERIAL, SPIRITUAL

The "least of these" are in two main categories - A. economically; B. morally / spritually.

The greatest poverty I've encountered is in the west; poverty of the spirit. Teresa of Calcutta

TO "PROFIT FROM" IS SIN AGAINST OUR HUMANITY (THE ONLY GOD WE CAN KNOW)

We do not, we do NEVER "PROFIT" off of "family" members. Right? Our Hearts REVOLT at the thought of it; profiting off of "family"! Yup. But that is exactly how we fund our overprivilege you and me, by making profit off of Jesus "least of these." The point? We need to START profiting off of our immediate family members! Just think how joyful that will be!!!! Just think what we've been missing! Duh!!!!

The opposite is why we were created. The opposite is what it is to Live / Be Alive / THE ENTIRETY OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE: TO PROFIT OTHERS BY YOUR EXISTENCE.

CULTURALLY INDUCED AMNESIA: WHAT JESUS DIED TO DISPELL

The reason that Jesus' Gift is required is our mass, pathological, clinical AMNESIA induced by today's INFINITELY psychologically-toxic-environment (such an environment the indigenous tribes of 30-60 members that we humans neorlogically evolved to flourish within are not poluted by). At age one ALL 6 BILLION BORN WERE YOUR FAMILY! IT WAS NOT THE PLAN OF YOUR DNA THAT THIS AMNESIA OCCUR!

JESUS GIFT CAN KILL; IS KILLING MILLIONS

Jesus' "Gift" can kill us, IS slaughtering us; is killing those of us "Christians" most of all. What!?!?!? Dr. King: "Nothing is so tempting as evil in the garb of virtue." Therefore NOTHING IS SO TEMPTING AS INHUMANITY IN THE GARB OF HUMANITY. We use Jesus offering to us (of our Humanity, forgotten family) TO GIVE US THE DELUSION OF possessing our HUMANITY PRECISELY SO WE CAN MAINTAIN and INCREASE OUR INHUMANITY (truly neglect our "least of these" family)!!!!!! Look at where the Christmas lights are; are the beautiful ones in the homeless shelters? No, but don't that $5 scarf we threw in the collection box for our "least of these" child make us feel Humane? Look at where we will spend Christmas; with "our" "family," NOT with JESUS family who we will abandon on that day as much or more than ever. Etc. Etc. Etc. THIS IS NOT ABOUT "BAD." THIS IS ABOUT "LOSS" of our Humanity, of our TRUE FAMILY. Where will our gift budget go; to the "least of these?" Hardly. And don't we feel Humane! See what we are missing? See what we are "giving" to the "immeidate family" we DO recognize? OUR AMNESIA!!!!!! OUR INHUMANITY!!!!!!!!

HUMANITY IS WHAT JESUS DIED FOR

[an email I sent a Christmas]

I've just been given my Christmas present and I'm breathless with the wonder, with the overwhelming joy of it; and I want you to have it. I pray I can give it to you.
What was Jesus' humanity? WHAT WAS JESUS' HUMANITY??!?!?!!? Jesus' Humanity as He experienced it was all people born and unborn, ESPECIALLY THE LEAST OF US, ESPECIALLY "the least of these my family!!!" Do you see it? I didn't until this week. Do you feel it? I have been obsessed with it, possessed by it, but dimly without this Blessed new light of understanding. Do you feel it in your heart, what Jesus felt; what Jesus died to tell us; to give us? If you do, you will see why Jesus died for HIS humanity, with all the passion and greed that most of us die for our comfort, prestige, wealth, pleasures, stuff, superiority, systems and institutions. But he died with infinite JOY, while most of us die for ... nothing.
  • Jesus' Humanity was me, you... everyone born and unborn, ESPECIALLY THE LEAST OF THESE OUR HUMAN FAMILY. Nothing else is or ever can be our Humanity.
  • Our Humanity is our Life, Love, Truth. Nothing besides our Humanity is our Life, Love, Truth.
  • Our Humanity ("the least of these") is "the Pearl of great price."
  • Our Humanity ("the least of these") is the "Treasure" worth selling all we have for.

This is what the "rich young man" did not grasp. Jesus attempted to give him, to return to him his Humanity, "the least of these his family" that he had abandoned, forgotten and ignored. Oh my God, what a gift. "The rich young man couldn't see it. The rich young man thought he was being asked to take up a burden. No, the rich young man was being offered HIS LIFE, HIS HUMANITY, HIS FAMILY!!! The Pearl. The Treasure.

MARK 8:36: "What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his HUMANITY ("the least of these," HIS/HER BROTHERS AND SISTERS in Iraq, Iran, Palestine, New Orleans, Congo, Haiti...!?!?!?)"

What profit is there for one to gain the whole world FOR THEIR [CHILDREN OR DEAREST ONE'S] WHILE SACRIFICING THE HUMANITY OF THEIR CHILDREN OR DEAREST ONES?!?!?!!?!

Who are you NOT LOVING-with-your-actions on this Planet? THEY are your lost Humanity; the diminishment of your Humanity... YOUR INHUMANITY. Jesus showed us this, how to FIND our lost Humanity, and to REGAIN OUR LOST HUMANITY, to SAVE our Humanity, to become ALIVE in our Humanity - TO BE SAVED!!!!! For this he Joyfully died. [I hope we do to.]

Oh I am so sorry if this does not communicate to you. Forgive me.

Wishing you the Joy of CHRISTmas - regaining Humanity - yours, your children's, mine ...the World's.

Loving you infinitely, your brother, Start

ps: I expect to spend CHRISTmas with our "least of these" in-US-uniform, Iraqi and Iranian family on Capitol Hill. I pray you find as much Joy as I will on that Sacred day of Jesus birth.

pps: Pass it on.

ppps: The writeup on me at a Capitol Hill church I was asked to address this week - "Start Loving is a former corporate executive who reminds me of St. Francis of Assisi. He literally give up his safe and comfortable world to be come a prophetic witness for peace. He radiates compassion and love." [I pray it is so.]

--- follow on to the email above the next day---

My Beloved family,
I received some more of the "Gift" (yesterday's email to you) this morning going to, during and coming from church. Please let me share.[What I experience to be the entire value of the following is its absolute, entire UNIVERSAL, ALL IMPORTANT PSYCHOLOGICAL TRUTH; such truth without which it would have zero, ZERO value in my view.]
  • THE GIFT (yesterday's email; explicitly what Jesus died to give us): The Gift is His Humanity. The Gift is to-become/merge with/reunite with-OUR-Humanity - "the least of these our brothers;" the "immediate family" ("least of these") around the world that our psychologically toxic environment has erased from our memory, or worse, demonized and "alien"-ated from us. No, there is nothing else to Jesus' Gift than that; if you truly had clinical amnesia, had forgotten your biological "children," "sisters," etc. and were "cured" of that amnesia - WHAT GREATER GIFT COULD YOU BE GIVEN? Hmmmm. What if those forgotten "children," "brothers," "sisters..." were poor? Diseased? "Foreign?" "Extremely needy?" "Gay?" Black? Israeli? Palestinian? Muslim...? It wouldn't matter would it? No. With the lifting of the amnesia you would have received the greatest gift possible. Truly. Right? This is the entirety of what Jesus died to give us - our 6 billion "forgotten" family members, and 30 billion yet to be born. Was this family real and worth everything to Him? He died for them with Love and Joy. We will JOYFULLY die for them if and when we are "Saved" from our "amnesia," "delusion;" purely for the Joy of it. There could be no greater Joy, personally; more or equivalent Joy would be a psychological impossibility. Jesus did not die to make us "good." Jesus died to GIVE US THAT WHICH IS !!!!!GOOD!!!!! There is no punishment from Jesus if we continue to ignore his Gift. There is only punishment OF Jesus, and of OURSELVES BY OURSELVES when we ignore his gift. (Think of when your "loved one" has ignored advice you gave that you KNOW WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM JOY AND SAVED THEM MISERY; how did you feel? What did THEY CHEAT THEMSELVES OF?)

3.01.2008

HOME PAGE


Everything I've Learned,

Everything on this site
can be reduced to
any one of
the following:

Join JESUS
Start LOVING
Militant KINDNESS
Militant HUMANITY


Watch this (2min)
... then read on...

Beyond question it is entirely possible to Rescue and Restore Darfur, eliminate poverty, bring peace to Palestine, wage war of "construction" in Iraq, prevent Bombing of Iran, save and protect US Forces.... Any imagining of the effort and elements required to do so are dwarfed by the US and worldwide resources to do so. Therefore, it is simply a matter of lacking, thus far, and raising the will to effect the Rescue and Restore. Start has given much thought to:

  • THE JOY (Rapture) of the attempt (INDEX OF POSTS).


OUR ENTIRE WORK LIES IS RAISING THE WILL... IN TIME: Employees and citizens in this world can be counted upon to be selfish, whether we like it or not. This includes our Elected Government Officials. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS DO WHAT IS IN THEIR INTEREST. HOW DO WE MAKE DARFUR, PALESTINE, CONGO, IRAQ CIVILIANS.... CENTRAL TO THEIR INTEREST?


  1. YOUR BEHAVIOR MUST BE THE CATALYST...

  2. FOR ONE, AND

  3. THEN TWO AND

  4. THEN FOUR...


  5. OUR BEHAVIOR MUST BE THE CATALYST FOR THOUSANDS, AND

  6. FINALLY...BILLIONS TO...

STAND SO CLEARLY,
FIRMLY AND COMMITTEDLY
THAT FELLOW HUMANS
AND THE POLITICIANS
SEE AN UNMISTAKABLE
TRUTH / MANDATE / ULTIMATUM /
OPPORTUNITY.


Thinking on the key elements for this to happen:

  • Wisdom has been drawn from Gandhi's, King's, Assisi's, Teresa's, Romero's... master - JESUS (INDEX OF POSTS), and MANY MASTERS (INDEX OF POSTS)throughout history.





  • THE COST (INDEX OF POSTS)to those that make the attempt.


WE MUST HURRY

10.17.2007


"PEACE MOVEMENT:" WHO WOULD SAY YOUR BEHAVIOR MATCHES YOUR WARNINGS?

No one would say your actions match your warnings.

Your warnings say Armageddon.

Your actions say, "Ban soda machines from high school grounds!" (unless you don't want to)

10.16.2007

DEAR PEACE ACTIVIST, WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THE SURGEON "WARRING" FOR YOUR LOVED ONE?

"Tell me what Hypocricy looks like."
"THIS IS WHAT HYPOCRICY LOOKS LIKE...."

No! I didn't INTENTIONALLY live a life of Hypocricy either!!!!!!! But I did, until I began to peal off the layers of propaganda, lies, deceit and indoctrination implanted in me over a lifetime.

Ok. You hate my "war" language. Let me tear away the veil of hyocricy from your eyes.

Your loved one can be saved only by one Dr. in the world - extremely expensive and totally booked - NO WAY!!!!!!!!

You get an audience, plead, beg your case. And you see a miracle. She says, "My God, you've convinced me." You see she is on fire with passion. "By God, me and my team are headed to the O.R., we are going to war to saved your loved one, and we are not coming out till we are done."

How do you feel? Elated right?

Inclined to criticize the language of the Dr.? No. Not unless you are a psychopath. You are elated!!!!!

You don't like "war" as a word because YOU don't want to be MOBILIZED AS IF IT WERE WAR.

INCINERATING EMPIRE: SHOWING EMPIRE TO ITSELF BY COMPARISON WITH YOU

Empire can be made to see itself when it is placed in contrast to itself, that is, when it is in the presence of Massive Humanity.

This is your opportunity. This is all about "being." Yes action matters, but if you allow yourself to become totally "infected" with Humanity, YOU CANNOT HELP BUT COMMIT YOURSELF TO THE MOST HEROIC LIFE OF ACTION.

BE A PRAYER FOR HUMANITY


There is just not much more to say about
Jesus Teachings, or that of the
great religious besides
that.

EMPIRE IS THE SERPENT

No, who cares about Biblical compliance except as it informs a Humane life? Not me.

But, as it informs Humane life, as the Bible does contain some awesome wisdom -

EMPIRE IS THE SERPENT
(OR THEY SURE DO THE SAME THING!
COINCIDENCE?)


What did the serpent in the Garden of Eden accomplish? The serpent succeeded in separating Man from God.

Empire suceeds in
separating Man from Her HUMANITY!

10.15.2007

EMPIRE DEPENDS ON DISENGAGING HEART / HUMANITY / LOVING

The implicaitions of this must be pondered and understood.

EMPIRE DEPENDS ON
DISENGAGING
HEART / HUMANITY / LOVING

This is a matter of life and death,
LITERALLY,
for Empire

}}}}} NO PEACE WITH OUT WAR OF HUMANITY {{{{

The laws of physics apply.

If the War of Empire is to be overcome it must be through a War of Humanity.


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NOT PURSUING A MIRACLE? ALREADY CONCEDED DEFEAT.

OK. Objectively it will take a miracle as never before seen or achieved to avert a global catastrophe, calamity, Armageddon.... 199% Truth this is.

Therefore, if YOU are not dedicating your life to trying to spark such a miracle, you are of little hope. Such ones are loved anyway, but they are on the sidelines of Life, Love and Truth. Pity. Hell.

10.14.2007

}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} LOVE IS THE WAY {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{

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This is what A. J. Muste meant to say.


A.J., forgive us our desecration of your life by cowardly using your one, huge abomination* to hide behind, and to corrupt what you stood for...


"If men are not willing to practice
the way of non-violence
[LOVE]
with the same kind of
commitment and recklessness
of cost or con­sequences
as they practice
the way of war
and as
Communists work for Communism,
clearly non-violence will not work."
A. J. Muste

* A.J.'s [MUCH BELOVED] ABOMINATION:

"There is no way to peace;
peace
is the way."
A. J. Muste


One word makes all the difference in the world:
PEACE... Dick Cheney has it.
LOVE... Amy Goodman has it.



LOVE IS THE WORD A.J. NEEDED,
NOT
"PEACE!!!!"


LOVE MAKES HIS SAYING PERFECT.

"PEACE"
MAKES HIS SAYING A
FORMULA FOR GLOBAL HOLOCAUST
BY DISARMING ALL BUT THOSE
WITH MURDEROUS LUST FOR EMPIRE.

WHICH FORMULA WILL IT BE?
1. E=MC Sqd
2. LOVE IS THE WAY




OUR FINAL CHOICE:
HUMANITY OR
INHUMANITY, FOREVER.


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IGNITE THE FIRE OF HUMANITY
click the match.IGNITE THE FIRE OF HUMANITY
!!click the match above!!
DO IT!
DO IT!!
DO IT!!!

You see it 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.



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IGNITE THE FIRE OF HUMANITY

click the match.IGNITE THE FIRE OF HUMANITY
!!click the match above!!
DO IT!
DO IT!!
DO IT!!!

"PEACE" MOVEMENT ACTIONS SPEAK "FEEL GOOD" NOT "DO GOOD"

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HUMANITY DEFINED: FRONTLINE US FORCES.

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YOUR CHOICE: HUMANITY OR INHUMANITY, FOREVER.












YOUR FINAL CHOICE:
HUMANITY OR INHUMANITY,
FOREVER.


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Humanity or InHumanity Forever? Our margin of error is gone.

Gone is...

  • Water to spare
  • Enough land
  • Separation of hostile parties by time and space
  • Safety from personal WMD's
  • Reservoir of morality
  • The ozone layer
  • 50%, 1 degree of the 2 degrees of atmosperic temperature buffer
  • Invisibility by the have nots to the haves
  • US respect of International Law / Treaties
  • Legal status of People over Corporations
  • Executive Branch restraint
  • Gone...
  • Gone...
  • Gone...

FROM INHUMANITY TO HUMANITY: ALWAYS A LEAP.

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Leaping
from
INHUMANITY
to
HUMANITY
is never gradual.
Summoning .
.. the Wisdom, Grace,
Conviction, and
Compassion necessary to leap may take
a lifetime... or a
SPLIT SECOND...

LEGALIZED-INJUSTICE SYSTEM

[No. I wish I WERE trying to be even .00000001% cute.]

LEGALIZED-INJUSTICE SYSTEM,
beautifully disguised behind Humanity's
highest ideals with the sole purpose
of oppressing the masses
for exploitation by the power elite.

LEGALIZED-INJUSTICE SYSTEM

JOIN HANDS, SPREAD HUMANITY.

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WE MISSED ONE: 'NO HUMANITY, "no jutice, no peace!" '

WE'VE MISSED A STEP:
'NO HUMANITY,
"no Justice,
no Peace." '
...
..
.

YOUR FOCUS IS EVERYTHING TO HUMANITY.

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