Start, Wage, Loving: For Joy Serve Soul In Solidarity

2.01.2010

"I was among the Dead, those not brought to total dedication to serve, by the needy." SL

"I was born and raised among the Dead, the all but the few of us
who are not brought to total dedication to serve, by the needy.
Ultimately, my dad's Spirit, the Spirits of Teresa of Calcutta,
King, Gandhi, Jesus..., and the teachings of Adler, Maslow, Tolstoy,
Csikszetmihalyi, Rogers, Sorokin... Saved my Life.
If I'm speaking metaphorically, that is NOT how it
feels to me. TOTALLY it feels like the difference
between Life, and Death." SL

"Start Loving or Stop Living. Its your choice. Not much time left. Agape." SC

"Start Loving or Stop Living.
Its your choice.
Not much time left.
Agape."

SC (this Beloved Sister is exactly right).

"Start Loving or Stop Living. Its your choice. Not much time left. Agape." SC

"Start Loving or Stop Living.
Its your choice.
Not much time left.
Agape."

SC (this Beloved Sister is exactly right).

"WAR IS THE ANSWER WE'LL GET, TILL TOUGH-LOVING IS THE ANSWER WE GIVE." SL

"WAR IS THE ANSWER WE'LL GET,
TILL TOUGH-LOVING IS THE ANSWER WE GIVE." SL

'The job of the citizen is to die for the common good.' Gandhi synthesis

'The job of the citizen is to die

for the common good.'
Gandhi synthesis, consequence of his reading of
"Unto This Last," by John Juskin, one
of the two books that created the
man named Gandhi.

"My non-violence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving
dear ones unprotected. Between violence and cowardly flight, I can only prefer
violence to cowardice. I can no more preach
non-violence to a coward than I can tempt
a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
Non-violence is the summit of bravery. And in my own experience, I have
had no difficulty in demonstrating to men
trained in the school of violence the
superiority of non-violence. As a coward, which
I was for years, I harboured violence. I began to prize non-violence only
when I began to shed cowardice.... A rabbit that runs away from the bull terrier
is not particularly non-violent. The poor thing trembles at the sight of the terrier
and runs for very life. (YI, 28-5-1924, p178), M.K. Gandhi.

More here: Gandhi - Give me a military man

"Love is TOUGH, or it is not Love." SL

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SL's FROM ALL HISTORY DREAM TEAM PICKS FOR 2010:

1ST - Pr. O;

LAST - Today's Americans

"WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER. TOUGH LOVING IS THE ANSWER." SL

"WAR, COWARDICE ARE NOT THE ANSWER, EVER.

TOUGH-LOVING IS THE ANSWER, ALWAYS"

SL

"All mean exactly the same: 'Peace-Making,' 'Non-violent Action,' 'Tough-Loving.'" SL

"All mean EXACTLY the same thing:

'Peace-Making,' 'Non-violent Action,' 'Tough-Loving.'

Wage Love, or die. No 3rd option any longer exists." SL

"'What got SL here? I grew up in a war zone. I wanted to die many nights." SL

"'What got SL here?
I grew up in a war zone.
I wanted to die many nights." SL

I Adored my mother. My poor, desperately sick
younger sister had her constantly under massive
psychological, viciously hostile, SCREAMING attack.
I totally didn't know what to do TO MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(And now I weep at the recollection.)
Violence (non-Loving) was not within me;
Nor was a REMOTELY sufficient
capacity or competence for Tough-Loving.
I just didn't know how, had not undergone the training.

I've been unwilling to remain incapable, incompetent.

My TOTAL AND COMPLETE HORROR at
war / NEEDLESS SUFFERING is ever more acute,
as is my recognition that it IS THE TOTALLY WRONG ANSWER.

Obviously my forecast was off. (Brain)-Storm not yet over. :-(

Spam bucket me, or bear with. Can't last much longer.

"NEVER 'Peace,' but rather TOUGH LOVING is the Goal; 'Peace,' the desired CONSEQUENCE." SL

"NOT 'Peace,'
but TOUGH LOVING (aka non-violence)
is the GOAL;
'Peace,' the desired CONSEQUENCE.

The GOAL was NOT the end of Crippling;
but rather the eradication of Polio.
We know the Blessed Consequence of this Goal.

Wage Love, or die, no 3rd option exists."
SL

"Peace is not the absence of Tension,
but the presence of Justice."
MLK Jr ?

"'Peace Activist,' like 'Friend, 'Surgeon,' 'Pilot...' means NOTHING self-declared." SL

"'Peace Activist,' like 'Friend, 'Surgeon,' 'Christian,' 'Pilot...'
means NOTHING (or Death) self-declared.

Character, Competence, COMMITMENT,
SECOND BY SECOND PERFORMANCE / BEHAVIOR...
IS WHERE WE MUST LOOK FOR THE TRUTH OF SUCH WORDS.

'Anyone can be great, because anyone can Serve.' MLK Jr.

'The least among you shall be the Greatest.' Jesus

Thomas. Gandhi. MLK Jr. Dave Dellinger. Phil Berrigan.
Col. Ann Wright. Mandela. Diane Wilson. Rodolfo Macias.
Liz Hourican. ClimateGroundZero...." SL

1.31.2010

"Peace Making IS the creation of MORE Peace Makers - or it is of no significance." SL

"Peace Making IS the creation of MORE Peace Makers -
or it is of no significance." SL

"The ONLY essentials for the Peace Maker: Solitude, Space, Rest." SL

"The ONLY essentials for the Peace Maker:
Solitude, "Space," and Rest.

A mark of the Peace Maker -
They will pay any personal price for
Solitude ("space") and Rest,
the only essentials of their Work.

It is widely known that Prison time,
Solitude, Space, Rest -
was ESSENTIAL
to the Development of Powers of
Mandela, Gandhi, ML King Jr, Dellinger,
Wilson, Fr. Louis, Dan Berrigan, Phil Berrigan ...." SL

"Peace Making is ENTIRELY Mental / Spiritual; that ENTIRELY Dictates External Behavior." SL

"Peace Making is ENTIRELY Mental / Spiritual;
and yes, that ENTIRELY Dictates External Behavior." SL

"Primary Slander of MLK, Gandhi, SL...: Abandoned 'Family.' EXACTLY the Opposite is True." SL

"Primary Slander of MLK, Gandhi, SL...:
Abandoned 'Family.'
EXACTLY the Opposite is True;
STOPPED Abandoning (Global) Family;
ENTIRELY the Source of their Hope, Power and Goodness." SL

"NOT the Purpose of Chemo: Making Folks Sick. But it Does, and thereby Saves." SL

"NOT the Purpose of Chemo: Making Folks Sick.
But it Does, and thereby Saves;
and so it is with Peace Making."
SL

"Peace is not the absence of tension,
but the Presence of Justice."
MLK Jr. (as I recall)

"Food, Safety, Shelter, Life, Funds, Comfort, Support - NEVER Peace Maker esentials." SL

"Food, Safety, Shelter, Life, Funds, Comfort, Support -
NEVER Peace Maker esentials." SL

My Friends - Brainstorm is ending, I think.

Yes, I've inundated you with a blizzard of my brainstorms.

I don't control the blizzards.

I CAN control sharing them.

I've chosen to share this blizzard.

I'll always hope you know how to assign me to the SPAM bucket. Seriously.

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"Holding oneself to the highest standards is the ENTIRETY of Peace Making/Leadership." SL

"Holding oneself to the highest standards
is the ENTIRETY of Peace Making/Leadership; and yes
the manifestations of this are near infinite,
but ALWAYS DICTATED by
the needs of the least of these."
SL

"Everyone can be great,
because everyone can serve."
MLK Jr.

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
Gandhi

"The least among you shall be the Greatest."
Jesus

"TOUGH-LOVINGLY, NOT the HORRIBLY TRANSLATED Non-Violently, captures Gandhi." SL

"TOUGH-LOVINGLY,
NOT the HORRIBLY TRANSLATED
'Non-Violently,'
captures Gandhi."
SL (I've been working to
solve this for years. Whew!)

HELP, please. Not what I can "spare," but all I own I'm donatating. You? SL

They languish in jail FOR YOU, until you help them.

My "boots" are CVS bags over my socks under my sandals.
Duct tape is keeping my pants belt functional (so far). Point?
I spend nothing on myself.

I'm looking for sympathy? If you don't deeply envy me my life,
I'm continuing to fail you. Sorry. I owe a debt of millions,
literally, to my global poor family - that unknowingly I squandered
on myself till recently.

All that I own I'm donating to these folks (below). During the warmer
months occasionally school kids throw a buck or change into
a donation pot at the Vigil, and by tradition the vigiller takes that
to support themselves in their work. I don't by coffee, or ANYTHING with it.
I save it for my work, or, the work of real heroes, in the hopes
they would emerge, in a time of need.

All that I've accumulated these last few years I'm donating.
FINALLY THE RIGHT "CAUSE," THE RIGHT "HEROES" HAVE COME
ALONG. (4 min vid below)

CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT THEY RISKED, WHAT THEY SUFFERED,
WHAT THEY SACRIFICED FOR US? WATCH THIS. (4 min vid below)

THEY LANGUISH IN JAIL FOR YOUR KIDS, CUZ WE ARE NOT
DOING OUR PART OF THE WORK.

PLEASE HELP THEM. NOW would be a good time:

Two Heroes Languish in Jail. Crime? Fighting for your
kids, nieces, nephews....

http://www.youtube.com/StartLoving2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcnV5TkHm3k

FOR GOD'S SAKE SHARE THIS with friends, "family," acquaintances,
facebook, twitter, youtube..., PLEASE.

1.30.2010

"Dad Loved mom for herself. She? She Lusted for what he did for her." SL

"Dad Loved mom for herself. (Eros and Agape)
She? She Lusted for what he did for her (Eros, no Agape)." SL

"Give me an honest Repub/Conserv any day; NO Lip-service Libs." SL

"Give me an honest Republican /Conservative
to stand with any day; don't give me NO Lip-service Liberals."
SL inspired by Gandhi

MLK Jr. and Christ Jesus warned us of NOTHING so much as the hypocrites.

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SL here. URGENT. If there is anyone you love, I CAN'T OVERSTATE the importance of these

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"Respectability: Living in a way that the poor should weep in Joy, Awe, Gratitude." SL

"Respectability:

Living in a way that the
poor should [would if they fully knew]
weep in Joy, Awe, Gratitude, Wonder;
That is, Incarnating Universal Love;
BEING Immediate Family TO the least of these.
[Thomas, Jesus, King, Gandhi,
Teresa, Romero, Eleanor Roosevelt,
Pr. Obama, Michelle Obama,
Diane Wilson, Col. Ann Wright.]

Dis-Respectability:

EVERYTHING less than, EVERYTHING else besides
BEING IMMEDIATE FAMILY TO
the least of these our global brothers and sisters;
that is, NOT being Universal Love incarnate /
Immediate Family TO ALL,
ESPECIALLY the poor in
Spirit (enemy, wicked, foreigner)
and materiality." SL

4" snow, 4 degree wind ccchhhhiiiiillllll

WISH YOU WERE HERE!!!

http://hannasyalala.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/dreamland-beach-bali.jpg

Uh, I mean here! :-)

Thomas died a week ago Saturday. A rare and truly Great, truly Divine Spirit. We desperately
needed that Spirit, a gift from Our Father, and now it is gone, and forgotten. God forgive
us. http://prop1.org/thomas.htm IF YOU'VE NEVER READ HIS Biblical Wandering in the Desert,
as God is my witness, you've missed a chapter of the Gospels. Your brother, Start

1.29.2010

"There are but 2 Great Religions: 1. RESPONSIBILITY (Love); 2. UN-RESPONSIBILITY (Violence)" SL

RE: "There are but Two Great Religions: 1. RESPONSIBILITY (Love);
2. UN-RESPONSIBILITY (Violence)" SL

'Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve." MLK Jr.

Leo Tolstoy was the common cause of both Gandhi (virtually entirely),
and MLK Jr. (very substantially). The book that shaped MLK Jr., read
when he was in Crozier Seminary in Chester, PA was,
"THE LAW OF LOVE, AND THE LAW OF VIOLENCE." Love and Violence
are the only means of human existence, physically, practically,
ACTUALLY, REALLY. We survive, eat, maintain relationships, are
housed and clothed base on EITHER
1. GIVING (POWER FOR), NON-VIOLENCE / PEACE MAKING or
2. TAKING (POWER OVER), VIOLENCE / WAR MAKING.

These are the only two GREAT RELIGIONS, GREAT LAWS BY WHICH
HUMANS CAN EXIST. This is not a matter of superficial choice, but
rather the fact of, the physics of survival.

1. RESPONSIBILITY - Survival by CONTRIBUTION TO THE WELLBEING
OF THE WHOLE. This is what all healthy tissue (non-cancerous) and
all life forms EXCEPT FOR HUMANS do. Humans have "Fallen" away
from this natural, DNA ordered "religion," way of being. "Christianity,
[Judaism, Buddhism...] what a wonderful idea. What a shame no one
has tried it." CS Lewis (?) Gandhi, King, Jesus, Eleanor Roosevelt,
Gaffar Kahn, Diane Wilson, Col. Ann Wright Thomas....

2. UN-RESPONSIBILIY - SURVIVAL BY TAKING - Cancer, Parasitism,
VIOLENCE, POWER OVER OTHERS, EXPLOITATION (USUALLY COVERT).
Christianity, Peace Movement, Capitalism, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam,
American "Freedom"... as practiced these thousands of years.

1.28.2010

My understanding is that living with Gandhi was pretty much unbearable....

My understanding is that living with Gandhi was pretty much unbearable.

I guess it was just as bad living with ML King, Jr, Jesus, Romero....

I guess I knew that but I hadn't thought of it for a long while.

I've NEVER heard any suggestion that they INTENDED to be unbearable to live with;
Quite the contrary.
It just goes with the territory;
with the Call.

My father was profoundly difficult to live with.
Greatest man
I've ever personally known.
(First time I've ever thought of that.
It TOTALLY was not his intent to be so.)