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5.23.2008
My ESSENTIAL LIFE SAVING KIT
Personally, I will continue to study and attempt to master all the posts on this site. But when I reflect on which thoughts and ideas are most constantly used by me to find the most Joyful, Helpful, Hopeful, Truthful possible Life for myself and others - the following are the major elements in my personal LIFE SAVING KIT: Click
"Click" and explore each and EVERY item below.
- Life / Love / Truth / JOY Are Found Only in The Emergency
- PLEASURE Marks Death/HATEfulness/Evil as JOY Marks Life/Love/Truth
- The Map of Your Two Options - Joy / Life / Love or Pleasure / Hate / Death
- Pleasure or Joy - Your Only Two Options
- You WILL, You DO Wage. Is it Love/Life or HATEfulness /Cancer?
- Middle-Classism / "Family Values" - the #1 Killer of the World
- Re-Attaching TO Your World Family - The Entire Hope for Humanity - Yours and Ours
- Heart Must Reign Supreme Over Mind and Flesh
- Example is NOT the major thing. EXAMPLE is the ONLY THING.
- Be What You Want to See
- Neglect is HATEful
- You Are Your Environment; You Are What You Do.
- Commit Life, Limb, Treasure - or You Are the Problem
- You're Committed to a Miracle - or You've Already Accepted Defeat
- The Lord's Prayer PRAYED THIS WAY
- "Success" - WAYYYYYY TOO COWARDLY A GOAL
- The Relentless Pursuit of Joy is the Only Hope of Salvation
- FOR JOY WAGE LOVE. REPEAT.
- YOUR CHOICE: A. DEPART FROM or B. BE WITH GOD (GOOD)
- BOTTOM LINE: WAGE LOVE, PROFIT HUMANITY, REAP JOY
5.16.2008
GOOD NEWS!!! The Truth is: Life, out of Love, Sacrifices for JOY
Gospel as we know means "Good News!" But what is the good news??????? Well, maybe as the cHURCH says it is that one can go to Heaven after death. I've never believed this and I never will. I've always believed that it had to do with THIS life, THIS earth, and I've been sure of it because the more I've joined Jesus in His work the more heavenly my life has been. But, I believed there was an answer to the question - What's the Good News? And I couldn't express it. NOW I CAN!!!!!!!!!!!
THE GOOD NEWS!!!! ...
TRUTH IS: LIFE OUT OF LOVE, SACRIFICES FOR HUMANITY, FOR JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "If you lose [sacrifice] your life you gain it; if you hold on to your life [refuse to sacrifice it] you lose it!!!!!!!!!" Jesus.
Now I can articulate it!!!!!!! Now maybe I can learn to express it beyond my own actions, before I pass on!!!!!!! Boy, that would be great!
GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!
THE GOOD NEWS!!!! ...
TRUTH IS: LIFE OUT OF LOVE, SACRIFICES FOR HUMANITY, FOR JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "If you lose [sacrifice] your life you gain it; if you hold on to your life [refuse to sacrifice it] you lose it!!!!!!!!!" Jesus.
Now I can articulate it!!!!!!! Now maybe I can learn to express it beyond my own actions, before I pass on!!!!!!! Boy, that would be great!
GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!
5.12.2008
THROW OUT CHRISTIANITY BUT DON'T THROW OUT CHRIST
THROW OUT CHRISTIANITY BUT DON'T THROW OUT CHRIST.
This is what Tolstoy did - and now we have Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
This is what Tolstoy did - and now we have Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
LOVE IS, LIFE IS SELF-SACRIFICE. LUST IS, DEATH IS SELF-INDULGENCE.
LOVE IS,
LIFE IS SELF-SACRIFICE.
LUST IS,
DEATH IS SELF-INDULGENCE.
Clinically. Biologically. Psychologically.
LIFE IS SELF-SACRIFICE.
LUST IS,
DEATH IS SELF-INDULGENCE.
Clinically. Biologically. Psychologically.
5.04.2008
THE BOTTOM LINE: WAGE LOVE, PROFIT HUMANITY, REAP JOY
1. Wage Love - this is what you were designed to do - as is all life - to Wage Love/Creation/Goodness.
2. Profit Humanity - avoid the murderous lie that our "family" is some subset of Humanity. Every single one of History's heroes sets the lie to this - King, Gandhi, Jesus, Romero.... Avoid the cancerous lie of western civilization, aided and abetted by the cHURCH that it is OK to Profit FROM others. This is a direct perversion of Jesus teaching and life. Life PROFITS OTHERS. Period.
3. Reap the uninterrupted flow of the chemical/psychological coctail Joy - Heaven, "Our Father's Kingdom," Nirvana... by whatever name.
There is not much else that the greats teach. There is not much else to know.
Will waste a lifetime, like me, discovering this path?
Will you discover it and walk the path now in time to lead others?
2. Profit Humanity - avoid the murderous lie that our "family" is some subset of Humanity. Every single one of History's heroes sets the lie to this - King, Gandhi, Jesus, Romero.... Avoid the cancerous lie of western civilization, aided and abetted by the cHURCH that it is OK to Profit FROM others. This is a direct perversion of Jesus teaching and life. Life PROFITS OTHERS. Period.
3. Reap the uninterrupted flow of the chemical/psychological coctail Joy - Heaven, "Our Father's Kingdom," Nirvana... by whatever name.
There is not much else that the greats teach. There is not much else to know.
Will waste a lifetime, like me, discovering this path?
Will you discover it and walk the path now in time to lead others?
5.03.2008
THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF JOY IS THE ONLY HOPE OF SALVATION
- An inescapable aspect of the human condition is that we cannot NOT seek our greatest self interest.
- An ALMOST inescapable aspect of our Religion of Consumerism is that WE ARE TOTALLY MISINFORMED ABOUT OUR SELFINTEREST. We've been told that PLEASURE is the ultimate, when in fact it is JOY.
- JOY is the FUEL of the PERPETUAL LIFE/LOVE/TRUTH/SALVATION engine. No? If not there is no hope. If not Jesus was wrong; King was wrong; Gandhi was wrong.
"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
"Success" - WAYYYYYY TOO COWARDLY A GOAL
What!?!?!?!?! "Success" is our RELIGION!!!!! Cowardly??!??!!?!?!?!? Weak!?!?!?!?!?!?
A mother works to lift a car off of her pinned child. Is her measure "success?"
HER MEASURE IS 'TOTAL COMMITMENT TO THE ATTEMPT." And this it ALWAYS is with Love / Life / Truth / Courage.
"Courage is doing what needs to be done regardless of the likely outcome." Alfred Adler
"Full effort is full success." Gandhi
"Nothing great ever happens without a committed, maniacal champion." Tom Peters
"Never think that a small group of COMMITTED people can't change the world. It is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead.
"Never think that a committed individual can't change the world. It is the only thing that ever has." Start Loving
A mother works to lift a car off of her pinned child. Is her measure "success?"
HER MEASURE IS 'TOTAL COMMITMENT TO THE ATTEMPT." And this it ALWAYS is with Love / Life / Truth / Courage.
"Courage is doing what needs to be done regardless of the likely outcome." Alfred Adler
"Full effort is full success." Gandhi
"Nothing great ever happens without a committed, maniacal champion." Tom Peters
"Never think that a small group of COMMITTED people can't change the world. It is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead.
"Never think that a committed individual can't change the world. It is the only thing that ever has." Start Loving
BE WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE
BE WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE.
This is what Gandhi was getting toward: "Be the change you want to see."
Example is NOT the major thing. EXAMPLE is the ONLY THING.
"Example is NOT the major thing in influencing people. EXAMPLE is the ONLY THING in influencing people."
Albert Schweitzer
1952 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Albert Schweitzer
1952 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Now, this is nonsense, unless what is at stake is changing/saving the world, in which case we delude ourselves any longer, and doom our posterity beyond any possibility of recovery.
Stop Thinking,
Stop Talking,
Start Loving.
Stop Talking,
Start Loving.
YOU WILL, YOU DO WAGE. IS IT LOVE/LIFE or HATEfulness/CANCER?
"It is not a question of whether we will [wage,] be extremists. The question is whether we will [wage] be extremists for love or extremists for [wage] hate." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are two basic forms of animated existence:
1. Healthy Life - that which Wages Life/Love/Good/Creation; that which reaps JOY.
2. Cancer - that which Wages Death/Neglect/Evil/Destruction; that which reaps PLEASURE.
There are no other options - not in this world of 5 of every 6 people in agony; not in this world where most of the people you know - for every $30 you spend, $29 are excess $ that your poor brothers, sisters and children needed just to survive a dignified life; every 14 hours you are awake, 13 hours you spend on what 5 billion people know as unreachable luxuries.
There are two basic forms of animated existence:
1. Healthy Life - that which Wages Life/Love/Good/Creation; that which reaps JOY.
2. Cancer - that which Wages Death/Neglect/Evil/Destruction; that which reaps PLEASURE.
There are no other options - not in this world of 5 of every 6 people in agony; not in this world where most of the people you know - for every $30 you spend, $29 are excess $ that your poor brothers, sisters and children needed just to survive a dignified life; every 14 hours you are awake, 13 hours you spend on what 5 billion people know as unreachable luxuries.
PLEASURE MARKS DEATH/HATEfulness/Evil as JOY MARKS LIFE/LOVE/TRUTH
Psychology as predestined by our DNA is the entirety of my interest, and a lifelong honest search for the Truth will lead one to this shocking conclusion:
Now I haven't the time to argue that there is not some theoretically possible future world where all want and ignorance have been eliminated and the above law no longer holds, but today it does.
The proof? You are in Calcutta about to go into a stall with $20, just enough for a famed meal that you have been relishing! But before your eyes a mother with 3 starving kids is beaten and the only Dr. available insists she will not help unless $20 is paid in advance.
PLEASURE insists you spend the $20 on yourself. HOW HATEFUL THIS WOULD BE.
JOY insists you give the $20 to your sister's Dr.
Joy, as always when presented clearly wins.
But within the last day, probably, you caved to PLEASURE many times, with consequences seen by your POOR family JUST as HATEful as the above scenario.
Where do you think 9/11 came from? YOUR HATEful behavior due to your slavery to PLEASURE.
PLEASURE MARKS DEATH/HATEfulness
as
JOY MARKS LIFE/LOVE/TRUTH
as
JOY MARKS LIFE/LOVE/TRUTH
Now I haven't the time to argue that there is not some theoretically possible future world where all want and ignorance have been eliminated and the above law no longer holds, but today it does.
The proof? You are in Calcutta about to go into a stall with $20, just enough for a famed meal that you have been relishing! But before your eyes a mother with 3 starving kids is beaten and the only Dr. available insists she will not help unless $20 is paid in advance.
PLEASURE insists you spend the $20 on yourself. HOW HATEFUL THIS WOULD BE.
JOY insists you give the $20 to your sister's Dr.
Joy, as always when presented clearly wins.
But within the last day, probably, you caved to PLEASURE many times, with consequences seen by your POOR family JUST as HATEful as the above scenario.
Where do you think 9/11 came from? YOUR HATEful behavior due to your slavery to PLEASURE.
5.02.2008
IF I'M NOT SPENDING MY LIFE FOR MY FAMILY I AM PART OF THE PROBLEM (or they're not my family)
"... the fulfillment of the Father's will depends on each man's effort and striving to make people see that life is given, not for oneself personally, but for the fulfillment of the Father's will, which alone saves from death and gives life." from Jesus, "Gospel in Brief," Leo Tolstoy
A dear friend reminded me that an activist shehe knows first lost eyesight and later mind due to Hunger Strikes. Now I don't expect that will happen to me, although I realize it might.
But it got me thinking. If when my family is being raped, pillaged and murdered by folks with the most cruel and deadly weapons ever conceived; by the bullies we all grew up with in school turned loose with $3 billion of your tax dollars to do the job, YOU RISK YOUR LIFE TO STOP IT! DON'T YOU?
And the US Forces, Irsnians and Iraqis ARE my family.
Hmmm. I'm surprised it has taken me so long. This riddle has been trying to fully solve itself within me for years - "How do you live in the face of Genocide?" "How do you live in the face of your country being the world's Terrorist?"
IF I'M NOT RISKING/SPENDING LIFE, LIMB AND TREASURE I AM PART OF THE PROBLEM.
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A dear friend reminded me that an activist shehe knows first lost eyesight and later mind due to Hunger Strikes. Now I don't expect that will happen to me, although I realize it might.
But it got me thinking. If when my family is being raped, pillaged and murdered by folks with the most cruel and deadly weapons ever conceived; by the bullies we all grew up with in school turned loose with $3 billion of your tax dollars to do the job, YOU RISK YOUR LIFE TO STOP IT! DON'T YOU?
And the US Forces, Irsnians and Iraqis ARE my family.
Hmmm. I'm surprised it has taken me so long. This riddle has been trying to fully solve itself within me for years - "How do you live in the face of Genocide?" "How do you live in the face of your country being the world's Terrorist?"
IF I'M NOT RISKING/SPENDING LIFE, LIMB AND TREASURE I AM PART OF THE PROBLEM.
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4.03.2008
THE ENTIRE REASON FOR YOUR EXISTANCE - TO SERVE THE LEAST OF THESE.
If this is true, and it is, entirely because this is true of all non-cancerous life, think of the implications. How much of your Life is in line with this? Unless your life is entirely in violation of what society values - ALMOST NONE OF YOUR LIFE IS IN LINE WITH THIS.
IF your life is entirely in violation of what society values - YOUR LIFE IS IN LINE WITH THIS AND YOU ARE FULL OF JOY, and you just might save the world!!!! What? An enormous crystal can grow from one perfect seed. Enormous areas of burned flesh can be restored from just a few healthy cells. Your body started with just ONE cell that became 2...4...8.....trillions.
IF your life is entirely in violation of what society values - YOUR LIFE IS IN LINE WITH THIS AND YOU ARE FULL OF JOY, and you just might save the world!!!! What? An enormous crystal can grow from one perfect seed. Enormous areas of burned flesh can be restored from just a few healthy cells. Your body started with just ONE cell that became 2...4...8.....trillions.
ROSETTA STONE: HUMANITY/LOVE IS ALL-OUT-WAR ON IN/UNHUMANITY OF CONDITION AND / OR COMMISSION
ROSETTA STONE OF HUMAN LIFE/JOY/PROSPERITY/SURVIVAL:
HUMANITY/LOVE IS ALL-OUT-WAR ON IN/UNHUMANITY OF CONDITION AND / OR COMMISSION.
I think that this difficult phrase above is:
HUMANITY/LOVE IS ALL-OUT-WAR ON IN/UNHUMANITY OF CONDITION AND / OR COMMISSION.
I think that this difficult phrase above is:
- The entirety of what "Peace" efforts are searching to become, and how they need to be conceived. This is the core "physics" we must master.
- The entire "physics" that Jesus died to reveal to us.
- The entire "path" that our DNA would have us pursue 7/24 and for which it will pump the optimum reward - Joy.
- The essential core of everything Gandhi, Tolstoy, King... was searching to master/understand.
- InHumanity: no explanation needed.
- UnHumanity: Neglect, irresponsibility, denial... THE MASS MURDERER of the modern times orders of magnitude more than InHumanity: why we pay taxes for war; why we use our God given gifts for middle-class houses instead of to eliminate poverty, ignorance and disease....
- In/UnHumanity of Condition: A chld having insufficient healthy food due to a drought is an example - the Cause is secondary.
- In/UnHumanity of Commission: Bush/Cheney causing a war to destroy Iraq so they can rape and plunder for themselves and their overprivelaged buddies.
- Humanity: Love
- Love: Humanity
HUMANITY AND IN/UNHUMANITY. NOT NONVIOLENCE AND VIOLENCE.
I've long been horrified at how crippling is the language, how cripplingly inadequate are conceptualizations used within the so-called Peace Movement:
Here is the entire Truth we've been groping for; this is the DNA for any and every PeaceBuilding effort of promise; this is the core Physics:
HUMANITY is the Truth/word / Concept we've been searching for in place of Peace, non-violence, resistance...!!!!
IN/UNHUMANITY is the Truth/word / concept we've been searching for in place of Violence.
This is Huge - possibly the most important contribution to yet come through me.
YES my writing here is entirely inadequate. But I'm out of time now. YOU need to think about it. PLEASE. NOW.
More later.
- Peace (nothing that is alive has "peace." A rock has peace.)
- Non-violent (humans/life cannot be "non" - impossible, we are goal-seeking creatures, inescapably.)
- Resistance (deathly weak, disabling - defines life solely in terms of its opposition)...
- Violence - all life IS violence!!!!! Your heart is at war, your cells are at war, a mother giving birth is at war.... GET OVER IT!
Here is the entire Truth we've been groping for; this is the DNA for any and every PeaceBuilding effort of promise; this is the core Physics:
HUMANITY is the Truth/word / Concept we've been searching for in place of Peace, non-violence, resistance...!!!!
IN/UNHUMANITY is the Truth/word / concept we've been searching for in place of Violence.
This is Huge - possibly the most important contribution to yet come through me.
YES my writing here is entirely inadequate. But I'm out of time now. YOU need to think about it. PLEASE. NOW.
More later.
4.02.2008
JESUS' GOALS WENT FROM MODEST TO EXTREMELY MODEST
I never saw this. It has been there for me to see all along, but I never saw.
Jesus NEVER saw what I imagined and have been living/striving for - that the entire world would become Christlike; the Romans would become Christlike. No! I imposed this (with a little help from the Apostles, Paul in particular): THE APOSTLE'S MURDEROUS SIN: THEY CHANGED THE STANDARD
His starting goal was to convert all Jews to Christlikeness. Jesus goal SHRUNK as time went along - He saw that all / most Jews would REJECT Him, but that a few Gentiles would embrace Christlikeness!
Sleeper Cells (hi my NSA brothers), THIS is what Jesus aspired to; saw as possible. Right? I've got to go back and read his words, but I'm almost certain now that this is what Jesus lived and taught.
My goals must be Jesus goals, not Paul's delusion. Sleeper Cells of Christlikes.
A group (very sick) that years ago I came within seconds of joining, "Twelve Tribes," got this part of it right, that Jesus was about a small subsegment of the population (many will be called but few Chosen), but they emphasize all the stuff from Paul about line of succession, and all the other witch-doctory like "Profess with your lips," "Baptism," and other lip-service junk.
Jesus NEVER saw what I imagined and have been living/striving for - that the entire world would become Christlike; the Romans would become Christlike. No! I imposed this (with a little help from the Apostles, Paul in particular): THE APOSTLE'S MURDEROUS SIN: THEY CHANGED THE STANDARD
His starting goal was to convert all Jews to Christlikeness. Jesus goal SHRUNK as time went along - He saw that all / most Jews would REJECT Him, but that a few Gentiles would embrace Christlikeness!
Sleeper Cells (hi my NSA brothers), THIS is what Jesus aspired to; saw as possible. Right? I've got to go back and read his words, but I'm almost certain now that this is what Jesus lived and taught.
My goals must be Jesus goals, not Paul's delusion. Sleeper Cells of Christlikes.
A group (very sick) that years ago I came within seconds of joining, "Twelve Tribes," got this part of it right, that Jesus was about a small subsegment of the population (many will be called but few Chosen), but they emphasize all the stuff from Paul about line of succession, and all the other witch-doctory like "Profess with your lips," "Baptism," and other lip-service junk.
3.31.2008
THE APOSTLE'S MURDEROUS SIN: THEY CHANGED THE STANDARD
Well, if I could convince folks that I was the same as the greatest Marine of all time, I could then water down the standard and declare millions or billions "Marines" and think how wildly popular I'd be. I mean, the millions or billions would PAY me part of their salary for such a "freebie."
I never saw it. This is what the Apostles did. They changed Jesus standard of "lay down your life for your brother," etc. to "Profess Jesus as your lord and savior," and other such murderous drivel.
I accuse them of no malice. In fact I've easily lived the trap, their trap, since rediscovering Jesus 10 years ago.
But in this single act they set in motion the real Crucification of Jesus and it has continued for 1900 years.
I never saw it. This is what the Apostles did. They changed Jesus standard of "lay down your life for your brother," etc. to "Profess Jesus as your lord and savior," and other such murderous drivel.
I accuse them of no malice. In fact I've easily lived the trap, their trap, since rediscovering Jesus 10 years ago.
But in this single act they set in motion the real Crucification of Jesus and it has continued for 1900 years.
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