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nd "FAILURE IS IMPOSSIBLE," Suffragist Susan B. Anthony.
nd "FAILURE IS IMPOSSIBLE," Suffragist Susan B. Anthony.
***** nd 'THEY FIGHT TO WIN (Failure is not an option), AND ARE WILLING TO DIE - the UNFAILING HALMARK, the Litmus Test, of True Activists in history.' Loving
***** nd 'THEY FIGHT TO WIN (Failure is not an option), AND ARE WILLING TO DIE - the UNFAILING HALMARK, the Litmus Test, of True Change Agents, Activists, in history.' Loving
nd ' "HELL NO!!!!!!", is the deafening Reply to New Posters: 'WOULD U DIE TO STOP ECOCIDE????' Loving
nd ' HELL NO!!!!!! Deafening Reply to New Posters: 'WOULD U DIE TO STOP ECOCIDE????' Loving
nd 'STOP TALKING, STOP THINKING, START LOVING - The One thing that can Stop Ecocide is the ONE THING ACTIVISTS WON'T DO.' Loving
nd 'STOP TALKING, STOP THINKING, START LOVING - The One thing that can Stop Ecocide is the ONE THING ACTIVISTS WON'T DO.' Loving
nd 'Miracle Workers act on their Vision, as Others act (or WON'T act even...) on 'facts.'' Loving
nd 'Miracle Workers act on their Vision, as Others act (or WON'T act even...) on 'facts.'' Loving
nd 'The only hope, the only activism worthy the name, is FULL Effort. "Full effort is full SUCCESS." Gandhi. Everything less is CERTAIN FAILURE.' Loving
nd 'The only hope, the only activism worthy the name, is FULL Effort. "Full effort is full SUCCESS." Gandhi. Everything less is CERTAIN FAILURE.' Loving
nd 'If I, Loving, were a match, I'd gladly, Joyfully, IMMEDIATELY go up in flames, if there was that around that could be ignited. But there is not. Dead, drenched, rotten wood as far as the eye can see.' Loving
nd 'If I, Loving, were a match, I'd gladly, Joyfully, IMMEDIATELY go up in flames, if there was that around that could be ignited. But there is not. Dead, drenched, rotten wood as far as the eye can see.' Loving
nd 'Death Fast IS the Weapon capable of Stopping Ecocide. That even a small group won't go near it, is the reason Ecocide will Prevail.' Loving
nd 'Death Fast IS the Weapon capable of Stopping Ecocide. That even a small group won't go near it, is the reason Ecocide will Prevail.' Loving
nd 'Any Breath, Any Second the only choice of consequence is to be Loving, Universal Family, or not. Everything else is determined by this decision; every breath, every second.' Loving
nd 'Any Breath, Any Second the only choice of consequence is to be Loving, Universal Family, or not. Everything else is determined by this decision; every breath, every second.' Loving
nd 'The one moral duty of which we can every breath be certain: Being near-perfectly Loving to self, and to others.' Loving
nd 'The one moral duty of which we can every breath be certain: Being near-perfectly Loving to self, and to others.' Loving
nd 'DON'T GO TO CHURCH. GO TO JESUS, INSTEAD.' Loving
nd 'DON'T GO TO CHURCH. GO TO JESUS, INSTEAD.' Loving
***** Thomas Jefferson: "... I am a REAL CHRISTIAN....", "...To the corruptions of christianity I am indeed opposed (detail)..." MUST READ. MUST. READ - Thomas Jefferson's Religions Views.
From "The Jefferson Bible." See Library Tab this site.
From the letter, below, Jefferson to Mr. Charles Thompson:
"...I am a REAL CHRISTIAN, that is to say, a
disciple of the doctrines of Jesus, very different from the Platonists, who
call ME infidel and THEMSELVES Christians and preachers of the
Gospel, while they draw all their characteristic dogmas from what its
author never said nor saw. They have compounded from the heathen
mysteries a system beyond the comprehension of man, of which the great
reformer of the vicious ethics and deism of the Jews, were he to return on
earth, would not recognize one feature."
From the following letter from Jefferson to Dr. Priestly, a friend:
"...To the corruptions of christianity
I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine
precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he
wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to
all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence, and believing he
never claimed any other."
Religious Views of Thomas Jefferson
IN a letter to his daughter, written in 1803, Mr. Jefferson said: “A promise
made to a friend some years ago, but executed only lately, has placed my
religious creed on paper. I have thought it just that my family, by
possessing this, should be enabled to estimate the libels published against
me on this, as on every other possible subject.” The “religious creed” to
which he referred was a comparison of the doctrines of Jesus with those
of others, prepared in fulfillment of a promise made to Dr. Benjamin
Rush. This paper, with the letter to Dr. Rush which accompanied it. is a fit
introduction to the “Jefferson Bible.”
Washington, April 21, 1803.
Dear Sir: In some of the delightful conversations with you, in the
evenings of 1798-99, and which served as an anodyne to the afflictions
of the crisis through which our country was then laboring, the Christian
religion was sometimes our topic; and I then promised you that one day
or other, I would give you my views of it. They are the result of a life of
inquiry and reflection, and very different from that Anti-Christian system
imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the
corruptions of christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine
precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he
wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to
all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence, and believing he
never claimed any other.
At the short intervals since these conversations, when I could justifiably
abstract my mind from public affairs, this subject has been under my
contemplation; but the more I considered it, the more it expanded beyond
the measure of either my time or Information. In the moment of my late
departure from Monticello, I received from Dr. Priestly his little treatise
6
of “Socrates and Jesus Compared.” This being a section of the general
view I had taken of the field, it became a subject of reflection while on
the road, and unoccupied otherwise. The result was to arrange in my
mind a syllabus, or outline, of such an estimate of the comparative merits
of Christianity, as I wished to see executed by some one of more leisure
and information for the task than myself. This I now send you, as the
only discharge of my promise I can probably ever execute. And in confiding
it to you, I know it will not be exposed to the malignant perversions of
those who make every word from me a text for new misrepresentations
and calumnies.
I am moreover averse to the communication of my religious tenets to
the public; because it would countenance the presumption of those who
have endeavored to draw them before that tribunal, and to seduce public
opinion to erect itself into that inquisition over the rights of conscience
which the laws have so justly proscribed. It behooves every man who
values liberty of conscience for himself to resist invasions of it in the
case of others, or their case may, by change of circumstances, become
his own. It behooves him, too, in his own case, to give no example of
concession, betraying the right of independent opinion by answering
questions of faith, which the laws have left between God and himself.
Accept my affectionate salutations.
Syllabus of an Estimate of the Doctrines of Jesus,
Compared With Those of Others:
In a comparative view of the ethics of the enlightened nations of
antiquity, of the Jews, and of Jesus, no notice should be taken of the
corruptions of reason among the ancients, to wit, the idolatry and superstitionof
the:; vulgar, nor of 'the corruptions ofChristianity by the learned
among its professors. Let a just view be taken of the moral principles
inculcated by the most esteemed of the sects of ancient philosophy, or of
their individuals; particularly Pythagoras, Socrates, Epicurus, Cicero,
Epictetus, Seneca, Antoninus.
7
I. PHILOSOPHERS
1. Their precepts related chiefly to ourselves, and the government of
those passions which, unrestrained, would disturb our tranquility of
mind. In this branch of philosophy they were really great.
2. In developing our duties to others, they were short and defective.
They embraced indeed the circles of kindred and friends, and inculcated
patriotism, or the love of country in the aggregate, as a primary obligation:
towards our neighbors and countrymen they taught justice, but scarcely
viewed them as within the circle of benevolence. Still less have they
inculcated peace, charity, and love to our fellow-men, or embraced with
benevolence the whole family of mankind.
II. JEWS
1. Their system was Deism, that is, the belief in one only God; but
their ideas of him and of his attributes were degrading and injurious.
2. Their ethics were not only imperfect, but often irreconcilable with
the sound dictates of reason and morality, as they respect intercourse
with those around us; and repulsive and anti-social as respecting other
nations. They needed reformation, therefore, in an eminent degree.
III. JESUS
In this state of things among the Jews, Jesus appeared. His parentage
was obscure; his condition poor; his education null; his natural endowments
great; his life correct and innocent. He was meek, benevolent, patient,
firm, disinterested, and of the sublimest eloquence. The disadvantages
under which his doctrines appear are remarkable.
1. LikeSocrates and Epictetus, hewrote nothing himself.
2. But he had not, like them, a Xenophon or an Arrian to write for
him. I name not Plato, who only used the name of Socrates to cover the
whimsies of his own brain.
On the contrary, all the learned of his country, entrenched in its
power and riches, were opposed to him, lest his labors should undermine
their advantages; and the committing to writing of his life and doctrines
8
fell on unlettered and ignorant men; who wrote, too, from memory, and
not till long after the transactions had passed.
3. According to the ordinary fate of those who attempt to enlighten and
reform mankind, he fell an early victim to the jealousy and combination of
the altar and the throne, at about 33 years of age, his reason having not
yet attained the maximum of its energy, nor the course of his preaching,
which was but of three years at most, presented occasions for developing
a complete system of morals.
4. Hence the doctrines which he really delivered were defective, as
a whole, and fragments only of what he did deliver have come to us
mutilated, misstated, and often unintelligible.
5. They have been still more disfigured by the corruptions of
schismatizing followers, who have found an interest in sophisticating and
perverting the simple doctrines he taught, by engrafting on them the
mysticisms of a Grecian Sophist (Plato), frittering them into subtilties
and obscuring them with jargon, until they have caused good men to
reject the whole in disgust, and to view Jesus himself as an impostor.
Notwithstanding these disadvantages, a system of morals is presented to
us which, if filled up in the true style and spirit of the rich fragments he
left us, would be the most perfect and sublime that has ever been taught
by man. The question of his being a member of the Godhead, or in direct
communication with it, claimed for him by some of his followers, and
denied by others, is foreign to the present view, which is merely an
estimate of the intrinsic merits of his doctrines.
1. He corrected the Deism of the Jews, confirming them in their
belief of one only god, and giving them juster notions of his attributes
and government.
2. His moral doctrines, relating to kindred and friends, were more
pure and perfect than those of the most correct of the philosophers, and
greatly more so than 'those of the Jews; and they went far beyond both
in inculcating universal philanthrophy, not only to kindred and friends,
to neighbors and countrymen, but to all mankind, gathering all into one
family, under the bonds of love, charity, peace, common wants and
common aids. A development of this head will evince the peculiar
superiority of the system of Jesus over all others.
3. The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code laid hold of
9
action only. He pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man; erected his
tribunal in the region of his thought, and purified the waters at the
fountain head.
4. He taught emphatically the doctrine of a future state, which was
either doubted or disbelieved by the Jews; and wielded it with efficacy as
an important incentive, supplementary to the other motives to moral
conduct.
I, too, have made a wee-little book from the same materials (The
Gospels) which I call the Philosophy of Jesus. It is a paradigma of his
doctrines, made by cutting the texts out of the book and arranging them
on the pages of a blank book, in a certain order of time or subject. A
more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen. It is a
document in proof that I am a REAL CHRISTIAN, that is to say, a
disciple of the doctrines of Jesus, very different from the Platonists, who
call ME infidel and THEMSELVES Christians and preachers of the
Gospel, while they draw all their characteristic dogmas from what its
author never said nor saw. They have compounded from the heathen
mysteries a system beyond the comprehension of man, of which the great
reformer of the vicious ethics and deism of the Jews, were he to return on
earth, would not recognize one feature.
—Jefferson to Mr. Charles Thompson.
From the letter, below, Jefferson to Mr. Charles Thompson:
"...I am a REAL CHRISTIAN, that is to say, a
disciple of the doctrines of Jesus, very different from the Platonists, who
call ME infidel and THEMSELVES Christians and preachers of the
Gospel, while they draw all their characteristic dogmas from what its
author never said nor saw. They have compounded from the heathen
mysteries a system beyond the comprehension of man, of which the great
reformer of the vicious ethics and deism of the Jews, were he to return on
earth, would not recognize one feature."
From the following letter from Jefferson to Dr. Priestly, a friend:
"...To the corruptions of christianity
I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine
precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he
wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to
all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence, and believing he
never claimed any other."
Religious Views of Thomas Jefferson
IN a letter to his daughter, written in 1803, Mr. Jefferson said: “A promise
made to a friend some years ago, but executed only lately, has placed my
religious creed on paper. I have thought it just that my family, by
possessing this, should be enabled to estimate the libels published against
me on this, as on every other possible subject.” The “religious creed” to
which he referred was a comparison of the doctrines of Jesus with those
of others, prepared in fulfillment of a promise made to Dr. Benjamin
Rush. This paper, with the letter to Dr. Rush which accompanied it. is a fit
introduction to the “Jefferson Bible.”
Washington, April 21, 1803.
Dear Sir: In some of the delightful conversations with you, in the
evenings of 1798-99, and which served as an anodyne to the afflictions
of the crisis through which our country was then laboring, the Christian
religion was sometimes our topic; and I then promised you that one day
or other, I would give you my views of it. They are the result of a life of
inquiry and reflection, and very different from that Anti-Christian system
imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the
corruptions of christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine
precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he
wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to
all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence, and believing he
never claimed any other.
At the short intervals since these conversations, when I could justifiably
abstract my mind from public affairs, this subject has been under my
contemplation; but the more I considered it, the more it expanded beyond
the measure of either my time or Information. In the moment of my late
departure from Monticello, I received from Dr. Priestly his little treatise
6
of “Socrates and Jesus Compared.” This being a section of the general
view I had taken of the field, it became a subject of reflection while on
the road, and unoccupied otherwise. The result was to arrange in my
mind a syllabus, or outline, of such an estimate of the comparative merits
of Christianity, as I wished to see executed by some one of more leisure
and information for the task than myself. This I now send you, as the
only discharge of my promise I can probably ever execute. And in confiding
it to you, I know it will not be exposed to the malignant perversions of
those who make every word from me a text for new misrepresentations
and calumnies.
I am moreover averse to the communication of my religious tenets to
the public; because it would countenance the presumption of those who
have endeavored to draw them before that tribunal, and to seduce public
opinion to erect itself into that inquisition over the rights of conscience
which the laws have so justly proscribed. It behooves every man who
values liberty of conscience for himself to resist invasions of it in the
case of others, or their case may, by change of circumstances, become
his own. It behooves him, too, in his own case, to give no example of
concession, betraying the right of independent opinion by answering
questions of faith, which the laws have left between God and himself.
Accept my affectionate salutations.
Syllabus of an Estimate of the Doctrines of Jesus,
Compared With Those of Others:
In a comparative view of the ethics of the enlightened nations of
antiquity, of the Jews, and of Jesus, no notice should be taken of the
corruptions of reason among the ancients, to wit, the idolatry and superstitionof
the:; vulgar, nor of 'the corruptions ofChristianity by the learned
among its professors. Let a just view be taken of the moral principles
inculcated by the most esteemed of the sects of ancient philosophy, or of
their individuals; particularly Pythagoras, Socrates, Epicurus, Cicero,
Epictetus, Seneca, Antoninus.
7
I. PHILOSOPHERS
1. Their precepts related chiefly to ourselves, and the government of
those passions which, unrestrained, would disturb our tranquility of
mind. In this branch of philosophy they were really great.
2. In developing our duties to others, they were short and defective.
They embraced indeed the circles of kindred and friends, and inculcated
patriotism, or the love of country in the aggregate, as a primary obligation:
towards our neighbors and countrymen they taught justice, but scarcely
viewed them as within the circle of benevolence. Still less have they
inculcated peace, charity, and love to our fellow-men, or embraced with
benevolence the whole family of mankind.
II. JEWS
1. Their system was Deism, that is, the belief in one only God; but
their ideas of him and of his attributes were degrading and injurious.
2. Their ethics were not only imperfect, but often irreconcilable with
the sound dictates of reason and morality, as they respect intercourse
with those around us; and repulsive and anti-social as respecting other
nations. They needed reformation, therefore, in an eminent degree.
III. JESUS
In this state of things among the Jews, Jesus appeared. His parentage
was obscure; his condition poor; his education null; his natural endowments
great; his life correct and innocent. He was meek, benevolent, patient,
firm, disinterested, and of the sublimest eloquence. The disadvantages
under which his doctrines appear are remarkable.
1. LikeSocrates and Epictetus, hewrote nothing himself.
2. But he had not, like them, a Xenophon or an Arrian to write for
him. I name not Plato, who only used the name of Socrates to cover the
whimsies of his own brain.
On the contrary, all the learned of his country, entrenched in its
power and riches, were opposed to him, lest his labors should undermine
their advantages; and the committing to writing of his life and doctrines
8
fell on unlettered and ignorant men; who wrote, too, from memory, and
not till long after the transactions had passed.
3. According to the ordinary fate of those who attempt to enlighten and
reform mankind, he fell an early victim to the jealousy and combination of
the altar and the throne, at about 33 years of age, his reason having not
yet attained the maximum of its energy, nor the course of his preaching,
which was but of three years at most, presented occasions for developing
a complete system of morals.
4. Hence the doctrines which he really delivered were defective, as
a whole, and fragments only of what he did deliver have come to us
mutilated, misstated, and often unintelligible.
5. They have been still more disfigured by the corruptions of
schismatizing followers, who have found an interest in sophisticating and
perverting the simple doctrines he taught, by engrafting on them the
mysticisms of a Grecian Sophist (Plato), frittering them into subtilties
and obscuring them with jargon, until they have caused good men to
reject the whole in disgust, and to view Jesus himself as an impostor.
Notwithstanding these disadvantages, a system of morals is presented to
us which, if filled up in the true style and spirit of the rich fragments he
left us, would be the most perfect and sublime that has ever been taught
by man. The question of his being a member of the Godhead, or in direct
communication with it, claimed for him by some of his followers, and
denied by others, is foreign to the present view, which is merely an
estimate of the intrinsic merits of his doctrines.
1. He corrected the Deism of the Jews, confirming them in their
belief of one only god, and giving them juster notions of his attributes
and government.
2. His moral doctrines, relating to kindred and friends, were more
pure and perfect than those of the most correct of the philosophers, and
greatly more so than 'those of the Jews; and they went far beyond both
in inculcating universal philanthrophy, not only to kindred and friends,
to neighbors and countrymen, but to all mankind, gathering all into one
family, under the bonds of love, charity, peace, common wants and
common aids. A development of this head will evince the peculiar
superiority of the system of Jesus over all others.
3. The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code laid hold of
9
action only. He pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man; erected his
tribunal in the region of his thought, and purified the waters at the
fountain head.
4. He taught emphatically the doctrine of a future state, which was
either doubted or disbelieved by the Jews; and wielded it with efficacy as
an important incentive, supplementary to the other motives to moral
conduct.
I, too, have made a wee-little book from the same materials (The
Gospels) which I call the Philosophy of Jesus. It is a paradigma of his
doctrines, made by cutting the texts out of the book and arranging them
on the pages of a blank book, in a certain order of time or subject. A
more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen. It is a
document in proof that I am a REAL CHRISTIAN, that is to say, a
disciple of the doctrines of Jesus, very different from the Platonists, who
call ME infidel and THEMSELVES Christians and preachers of the
Gospel, while they draw all their characteristic dogmas from what its
author never said nor saw. They have compounded from the heathen
mysteries a system beyond the comprehension of man, of which the great
reformer of the vicious ethics and deism of the Jews, were he to return on
earth, would not recognize one feature.
—Jefferson to Mr. Charles Thompson.
LOL. Cancer update. There goes my last Miracle? D.C.’s Medicaid goes bankrupt
LOL. Cancer update. There goes my last Miracle? D.C.’s Medicaid goes bankrupt
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dcs-medicaid-upheaval-puts-health-care-providers-in-a-tight-spot/2013/05/25/e546e456-c3b9-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html
Miracle #1 is that I've remained symptom free so long.
Miracle number two would be if the cancer has not spread so far that it is now inoperable.
It looks now worked as if a third miracle would be required, that somehow Georgetown Hospital would still do the operation.
LOL.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dcs-medicaid-upheaval-puts-health-care-providers-in-a-tight-spot/2013/05/25/e546e456-c3b9-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html
Miracle #1 is that I've remained symptom free so long.
Miracle number two would be if the cancer has not spread so far that it is now inoperable.
It looks now worked as if a third miracle would be required, that somehow Georgetown Hospital would still do the operation.
LOL.
nd '***** WANNA SAVE THE WORLD, OR ANYONE IN IT? ALL, ALL, ALL PRIOR EXAMPLES SPEAK - START LOVING IT. START LOVING IT. GET LOVING IT, WITH EVERY BREATH YOU ARE GIVEN. ALL THE REST IS DETAILS THAT ONLY THE LOVING IN YOU CAN FIGURE OUT, IN TIME. THE LOVING [THE CREATOR] WITHIN YOU WILL SHOW YOU THE WAY.' Loving
nd '***** WANNA SAVE THE WORLD, OR ANYONE IN IT? ALL, ALL, ALL PRIOR EXAMPLES SPEAK - START LOVING IT. START LOVING IT. GET LOVING IT, WITH EVERY BREATH YOU ARE GIVEN. ALL THE REST IS DETAILS THAT ONLY THE LOVING IN YOU CAN FIGURE OUT, IN TIME. THE LOVING [THE CREATOR] WITHIN YOU WILL SHOW YOU THE WAY.' Loving
***** NO. REALLY. REALLY!!! Pls hear me, deeply. It is all that I've learned - "LOVING IS, =, IS, THE CREATOR. THE CREATOR IS, =, IS LOVING. WHEN YOU ARE LOVING, YOU ARE IN, OF, AND BY THE CREATOR. WHEN YOU ARE NOT LOVING, YOU ARE IN, OF AND BY THE DESTROYER, ENTROPY, EVIL. THAT'S IT. THAT'S ALL I'VE LEARNED. THAT'S ALL JESUS, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, GANDHI, KING, TERESA OF CALCUTTA... LEARNED. ALL THE REST IS DETAILS.' Loving
***** NO. REALLY. REALLY!!! Pls hear me, deeply. It is all that I've learned - "LOVING IS, =, IS, THE CREATOR. THE CREATOR IS, =, IS LOVING. WHEN YOU ARE LOVING, YOU ARE IN, OF, AND BY THE CREATOR. WHEN YOU ARE NOT LOVING, YOU ARE IN, OF AND BY THE DESTROYER, ENTROPY, EVIL. THAT'S IT. THAT'S ALL I'VE LEARNED. THAT'S ALL JESUS, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, GANDHI, KING, TERESA OF CALCUTTA... LEARNED. ALL THE REST IS DETAILS.' Loving
5.25.2013
nd 'MY RELIGION, LIKE JESUS BEFORE ME, IS LOVING, THE OPPOSITE OF CHRISTIANITY.' Loving
nd 'MY RELIGION, LIKE JESUS BEFORE ME, IS LOVING, THE OPPOSITE OF CHRISTIANITY.' Loving
nd 'LEAVE CHURCH. GO TO JESUS. THE REVERSE FOR 1800 YEARS IS ECOCIDE.' Loving
nd 'LEAVE CHURCH. GO TO JESUS. THE REVERSE FOR 1800 YEARS IS GLOBAL WMD, ECOCIDE.' Loving
5.24.2013
nd 'As I detest getting drunk, I detest Conditional Loving - both are Instead of, Displace, Loving. Joy of Loving is the High I prefer, every waking breath. [It's been 7-10 years since I've been drunk.]' Loving
nd 'As I detest getting drunk, I detest Conditional Loving - both are Instead of, Displace, Loving. Joy of Loving is the High I prefer, every waking breath. [It's been 7-10 years since I've been drunk.]' Loving
***** WOW. Pope Francis: Atheists all clear to 'do good' and go to Heaven. AMEN AMEN AMEN....
http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/05/23/Pope-Francis-Atheists-all-clear-to-do-good-and-go-to-Heaven/4881369322926/
AND...
AND...
Atheists and other nonbelievers largely welcomed Wednesday's (May 22) remarks by Pope Francis
that performing "good works" is not the exclusive domain of people of
faith, but rather a place where they and atheists could and should meet.
|
5.23.2013
Paranoia? I've had waves of debilitating fatigue in recent days. This is symptomatic of cancer.
Paranoia? I've had waves of debilitating fatigue in recent days. This is symptomatic of cancer.
posted from Bloggeroid
5.21.2013
"Loving, I feel like I just met the Savior In meeting you," said Erv Wagner, JUST WALKED FROM DETRIOT, at the end of our Joyful 15 minute exchange.. "We need one Erv, cuz otherwise, we're screwed now," Loving replied. (see Erv's links).
It was a most blessed 15 minute exchange. Erv, probably my age, just walked, WALKED, from Detroit, FROM DETROIT!
HE HAS PTSD AND ALZHEIMERS.
SUPPORT, ENCOURAGE HIM.
Erv, probably my age, just walked, WALKED, from Detroit, FROM DETROIT!
http://www.facebook.com/ervin.wagner.7
https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/y272/occupylifeoccupy
Erv, probably my age, just walked, WALKED, from Detroit, FROM DETROIT!
HE HAS PTSD AND ALZHEIMERS.
SUPPORT, ENCOURAGE HIM.
Erv, probably my age, just walked, WALKED, from Detroit, FROM DETROIT!
http://www.facebook.com/ervin.wagner.7
https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/y272/occupylifeoccupy
Erv, probably my age, just walked, WALKED, from Detroit, FROM DETROIT!
***** 05.21.13 Status: ARGH. WHO IS JESUS? WE'LL NEVER KNOW WHO JESUS WAS, A RORSCHACH TEST. Day #3 of "Quest for the Historical Jesus," Albert Schweitzer. Wow, agonizing. It is
A Christian is one who has the spirit of Christ. This is the only theology. (The Schweitzer Album, p. 37.)
05.21.13 Status: ARGH. WE'LL NEVER KNOW WHO JESUS WAS, A RORSCHACH TEST.
From Wikipedia - ... there is no single portrait of the historical Jesus that satisfies most scholars.[14][15][16]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_the_historical_Jesus
Day #3 of "Quest for the Historical Jesus," Albert Schweitzer. Wow, agonizing. It is agonizing, to realize, that in Truth, the man Jesus that has been so central to my Life, the only thing of which I can be Certain, in Truth, is that He is a product of my imagination, as would be my reaction to a Rorschach inkblot.
Schweitzer's book is a 200 year review of all the Biblical Scholars. Arduous. But I'm forcing myself through - firehose - but I owe it to you.
There is certainty beyond that, but extraordinary minds, and a few extraordinary spirits, like Schweitzer, have spent person-decades on the task in recent centuries and, again, From Wikipedia - ... there is no single portrait of the historical Jesus that satisfies most scholars.[14][15][16]
Quotes from Schwietzer:
The essential element in Christianity as it was preached by Jesus and as it is comprehended by thought, is this, that it is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as will-to-love. (Out of My Life and Thought, p. 277.)
Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in its simplicity, and its influence is direct. (Quest of the Historical Jesus, p. 399.)
A Christian is one who has the spirit of Christ. This is the only theology. (The Schweitzer Album, p. 37.)
What would the Lord Jesus have answered when someone came to Him in pain? Quick, waste no time. Get him to the operating room. “Whatever you do unto the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.” [Gospel of Matthew 25:40] This is my image of the Kingdom of God -- not the Apocalypse -- only this is the right meaning. (The Schweitzer Album, p. 38)
He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lake side, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: “Follow thou me!” and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal Himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is. (Concluding paragraph, Quest of the Historical Jesus.)
How is Jesus alive for us? Do not attempt to prove his presence by formulations, even if they are sanctified by the ages. Of late I have very nearly lost my temper when some pious soul has come to me saying that no-one can believe in the living presence of Jesus if they do not believe in his physical resurrection and the eternal existence of his glorified body. Jesus lives for everyone whom he directs, in matters great and small, as if he were here among us. He tells them ''Do this or that.'' And they answer, quite simply, ''Yes!" and go about their job, humble and busy… The fact that the Lord still, in our days, gives his orders, proves to me - and for me it is the only proof - that he is neither a ghost nor dead, but that he lives.
If you will let me explain in my way this living presence, I will say to you: ''The eternal body of Jesus is simply his words; for it was about them that he said 'Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away!’ ” (Sermon preached on November 19, 1905; cited in Albert Schweitzer: Essential Writings. )
05.21.13 Status: ARGH. WE'LL NEVER KNOW WHO JESUS WAS, A RORSCHACH TEST.
From Wikipedia - ... there is no single portrait of the historical Jesus that satisfies most scholars.[14][15][16]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_the_historical_Jesus
Day #3 of "Quest for the Historical Jesus," Albert Schweitzer. Wow, agonizing. It is agonizing, to realize, that in Truth, the man Jesus that has been so central to my Life, the only thing of which I can be Certain, in Truth, is that He is a product of my imagination, as would be my reaction to a Rorschach inkblot.
Schweitzer's book is a 200 year review of all the Biblical Scholars. Arduous. But I'm forcing myself through - firehose - but I owe it to you.
There is certainty beyond that, but extraordinary minds, and a few extraordinary spirits, like Schweitzer, have spent person-decades on the task in recent centuries and, again, From Wikipedia - ... there is no single portrait of the historical Jesus that satisfies most scholars.[14][15][16]
Quotes from Schwietzer:
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“The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do
something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to regard these
[acts of goodness] as something usual, ordinary.”
― Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus
― Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus
“He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside,
He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.”
― Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus
He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.”
― Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus
The essential element in Christianity as it was preached by Jesus and as it is comprehended by thought, is this, that it is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as will-to-love. (Out of My Life and Thought, p. 277.)
Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in its simplicity, and its influence is direct. (Quest of the Historical Jesus, p. 399.)
A Christian is one who has the spirit of Christ. This is the only theology. (The Schweitzer Album, p. 37.)
What would the Lord Jesus have answered when someone came to Him in pain? Quick, waste no time. Get him to the operating room. “Whatever you do unto the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.” [Gospel of Matthew 25:40] This is my image of the Kingdom of God -- not the Apocalypse -- only this is the right meaning. (The Schweitzer Album, p. 38)
He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lake side, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: “Follow thou me!” and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal Himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is. (Concluding paragraph, Quest of the Historical Jesus.)
How is Jesus alive for us? Do not attempt to prove his presence by formulations, even if they are sanctified by the ages. Of late I have very nearly lost my temper when some pious soul has come to me saying that no-one can believe in the living presence of Jesus if they do not believe in his physical resurrection and the eternal existence of his glorified body. Jesus lives for everyone whom he directs, in matters great and small, as if he were here among us. He tells them ''Do this or that.'' And they answer, quite simply, ''Yes!" and go about their job, humble and busy… The fact that the Lord still, in our days, gives his orders, proves to me - and for me it is the only proof - that he is neither a ghost nor dead, but that he lives.
If you will let me explain in my way this living presence, I will say to you: ''The eternal body of Jesus is simply his words; for it was about them that he said 'Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away!’ ” (Sermon preached on November 19, 1905; cited in Albert Schweitzer: Essential Writings. )
nd 'Profound Blessing of Poverty: You can Only Give of Yourself, from your Need. Hugly eliminated Temptation to give of surplus and think it Matters, that it is Loving. It isn't.' Loving
'A Profound Blessing of Poverty - You can Only Give of Yourself, from your Need. Hugly eliminated Temptation to give of surplus and think it Matters, that it is Loving. It isn't.' Loving
5.19.2013
Marta brought me a beautiful chicken dinner tonight. This is the MARTA that has been cooking all afternoon as she does every weekend for we homeless throughout the DC area. But she was so overjoyed that I terminated the death fast that weeks ago she said she could hardly wait to bring me a special dinner. And she did so tonight, bless her heart. Oh, and I got to the delicious rice and steak bits that she brought for everyone else too. That will be tomorrow's delicious lunch, if I can keep it away from the rats as I sleep.
Marta brought me a beautiful chicken dinner tonight. This is the MARTA that has been cooking all afternoon as she does every weekend for we homeless throughout the DC area. But she was so overjoyed that I terminated the death fast that weeks ago she said she could hardly wait to bring me a special dinner. And she did so tonight, bless her heart. Oh, and I got to the delicious rice and steak bits that she brought for everyone else too. That will be tomorrow's delicious lunch, if I can keep it away from the rats as I sleep.
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45 ish brother Tyrone tonight, ' loving, I don't want you to die. I need you and your example every day. You for found a change to me in the last 6 months that I've known you.' in all the time we've spoken it probably hasn't accumulated to more than 15 minutes.' but, they say, I walk the walk. I reminded him that if I leave him it's because he made that choice. Or he could make the choice to keep me in his heart. He was adamant that he'd make the latter choice, without any prompting for me.
45 ish brother Tyrone tonight, ' loving, I don't want you to die. I need you and your example every day. I have you to thank for a pro found change in me in the last 6 months that I've known you.' in all the time we've spoken it probably hasn't accumulated to more than 15 minutes.' but, they say, I walk the walk. I reminded him that if I leave him it's because he made that choice. Or he could make the choice to keep me in his heart. He was adamant that he'd make the latter choice, without any prompting for me.
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More and more I'm feeling pain and and unwanted fullness in the area of my liver. Might not be a very good sign.
More and more I'm feeling pain and and unwanted fullness in the area of my liver. Might not be a very good sign.
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vlog 'Family's NOT biological. Family is Being, how you are, inside, and therefore toward others.' L
[I mis-spoke mid vid - "Synonyms" of Loving, not "Symptoms " - Partnership, Family, Solidarity, Helping, Respect.... Cancer in the brain now, or just Brain Cramp? LOL. Tho, symptoms, too]
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