You can Worship Christian myth, or the Man Jesus, but YOU CAN'T DO BOTH. YOU CANNOT DO BOTH. I Adore Jesus above all others. The Crucifixion story(s) is deeply moving to me, always was. It is a complete fiction - virtually no one at the time, or since, knows anything about those three days except for one thing, and one thing only - he WAS crucified, and it is virtually certain he was NOT burried, etc, etc, etc.

You can Worship Christian myth, or the Man Jesus, but YOU CAN'T DO BOTH. YOU CANNOT DO BOTH. I Adore Jesus above all others. The Crucifixion story(s) is deeply moving to me, always was. It is a complete fiction - virtually no one at the time, or since, knows anything about those three days except for one thing, and one thing only - he WAS crucified, and it is virtually certain he was NOT burried, etc, etc, etc.

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I have lost the will to live in this society. I will NEVER lose my will to Serve, from my Soul, in Solidarity, our Global Neediest.

I have lost the will to live in this society. I will NEVER lose my will to Serve, from my Soul, in Solidarity, our Global Neediest.

All that keeps me going, all that literally gets me out of bed each day, is the vision of maybe being of use to others in need. It is a joy. I'd be dead without it. Come to think of it, we ARE Dead, without it

All that keeps me going, all that literally gets me out of bed each day, is the vision of maybe being of use to others in need. It is a joy. I'd be dead without it.  Come to think of it, we ARE Dead, without it

Jesus: Will you ever love me enough to honor what I said and taught: Love God; Love your Neighbor, Enemy, Foreigner; Create Heaven ON EARTH... and Stop Disgracing what I taught in favor of the stuff made up after my death: Virgin birth, Resurrection from the Dead, ONLY Son of God, Physical Miracles, Heaven in the Sky...? Will you, ever??? [THAT, and only that, would be the Miracle I died for.]

'Loving, accept what housing is available to you..., PLEASE' (Advice from some Dear friends)

 To some very Loving friends that have expressed some concerns with yesterday's
posts (here, and here):

*  Who knows what Jesus meant (if He said it), when He said, "Render unto
Caesar what is Caesar's, and render unto God what is God's."  But to me
it is clear, in my Heart, it has become clear.  LOL.  EVERYTHING is the
Creator's!  NOTHING IS Caesar's, OURS, except to use for Her, Creator's, Work.

*  On top of that, I'm not entitled to that Social Security, it is 'mine' purely because
of an accident of birth - I was born white, male... to
massively endowed parents, in a massively
wealthy suburb... and not in Newark, NJ, the blighted ghetto's of any US city,
not Bangladesh, India, Nigeria... not urban Texas....

*  We 'Good' people have tried forever to 'take care of ourselves' so we can take
care of others, right?  It makes sense!  But it isn't working.  It isn't Solidarity.
It isn't Loving.  It isn't working.  I need to see what Solidarity can do, I think.

*  Housing IS a Right, IS Right... before the Creator,
but Amerika is NOT holding itself before God, OF the Creator, it is not.  It is
holding itself SQUARELY before Satan - Evil - Mammon.  Yes, I a Senior,
with Soc Sec... have access to that Right... and what of those here of color,
under 62, no Soc Sec?  A Father, a Brother... does not leave his Family
on a sinking ship, does he?  Solidarity shares in, does not leave.

*  Yes, maybe my Godly brother would provide me work so I I could avoid the 30% loss of
with Early Retirement on Soc Sec.  We need those funds now.  If I see a
viable strategy emerge for holding onto the Senate, and winning back some
of the House... WE NEED TO FUND THAT, NOW.  2014 may be the most
decisive election in world history.  That doctor in Africa needs funds, now.
A few other sheros and heroes of loving.. need funding now, for their work.
And, the Creator, Creation, Humanity... need me to remain full time in my
puny efforts fighting for what is Good.  Part time won't cut it.

And, there are some hugely worthy guys here in the shelter, victims of abuse,
theft...  I may be able to help a few, selectively, with funds. And, LOL, there
are a few churches that come here to the shelter and serve, and do AMAZING
work - those funds can help their work....  The needs have no time for me
to wait.

*  I need to remain safe, to serve?  1.  I'm making no difference, of any
consequence.  2.  Solidarity is what we've been missing, I think, for the
sake of reasonable 'safety.'  We can't spread Solidarity by abandoning it.

Loving: I've found that the real pain of a personal problem is that it switches the focus of my life from the Joy of trying to Serve the Neediest others, to the Hell of dwelling on myself. This, I can overcome. Loving, is the answer, always.

Charity is a feel-good solution for the giver; a deadly substitute for what is needed. Solidarity, from the Soul, Loving, is all that acan Serve and Save the neediest. If not this it is nothing more than isult to injury.

I OD'd on meds last night. :-( Overwhelmed at the world. Loving (Serving from the Soul in Solidarity), each hour, as best I can see, is all that makes sense to me - my would-be Religion; there is none other as High. I'm a life-long night-teeth-grinder beyond what dentists have ever seen, while I sleep. Within the last week the symptom they long feared for me has blossomed - '8-9' level pain of TMJ joint muscle spasm starting about 1 hour after I go to sleep - may have been triggered by work my dentist is doing, whatever. He prescribed 800mg Ibupropen that doesn't TOUCH the pain - but 1600 mg does! But I figured there would be something bad as a result of doubling the already large dose - and I was as weak as a kitten all day today, bedridden. Looks like hours of '9' level pain each night for me going forward. Not fun. I'm really overwhelmed by how near totally evil the world is - yes my overprivileged friends - 'near totally' - including our consumption levels at tens to hundreds of times what half our brothers and sisters can even imagine; my own included. I'm trying to see a way thru, even theoretically, for us as a species were we to be open to the Path - regarding ecocide, animal cruelty, human destitution, oppression by the disgustingly over-privileged; the cowardly, insane denial of the liberals as to the price they must pay to match their rhetoric; mass US incarceration; chronic psychic starvation of the US poor.... The list of our systemic evils is sooooooooo long. I think there may be no 'answer' to any of these things, other than individually,, pitifully, 'Loving the global neediest,' as much per hour, as one can, as inadequate and pitiful as it may be - with as many of us, as fast as possible, reaching world-class standards of this Loving, Giving, Self-Giving. If there is a 2nd aspect to the solution I think it is Supporting the Practitioners of that Religion of Loving (Serving the Global Neediest, from the Soul, in Solidarity).

I OD'd on meds last night.  :-(  Overwhelmed at the world.  Loving (Serving from the Soul in Solidarity), each hour, as best I can see, is all that makes sense to me - my would-be Religion; there is none other as High.  I'm a life-long night-teeth-grinder beyond what dentists have ever seen, while I sleep.  Within the last week the symptom they long feared for me has blossomed - '8-9' level pain of TMJ joint muscle spasm starting about 1 hour after I go to sleep - may have been triggered by work my dentist is doing, whatever.  He prescribed 800mg Ibupropen that doesn't TOUCH the pain - but 1600 mg does! But I figured there would be something bad as a result of doubling the already large dose - and I was as weak as a kitten all day today, bedridden.  Looks like hours of '9' level pain each night for me going forward.  Not fun.  I'm really overwhelmed by how near totally evil the world is - yes my overprivileged friends - 'near totally' - including our consumption levels at tens to hundreds of times what half our brothers and sisters can even imagine; my own included.  I'm trying to see a way thru, even theoretically, for us as a species were we to be open to the Path - regarding ecocide, animal cruelty, human destitution, oppression by the disgustingly over-privileged; the cowardly, insane denial of the liberals as to the price they must pay to match their rhetoric; mass US incarceration; chronic psychic starvation of the US poor.... The list of our systemic evils is sooooooooo long.  I think there may be no 'answer' to any of these things, other than individually,, pitifully, 'Loving the global neediest,' as much per hour, as one can, as inadequate and pitiful as it may be - with as many of us, as fast as possible, reaching world-class standards of this Loving, Giving, Self-Giving.  If there is a 2nd aspect to the solution I think it is Supporting the Practitioners of that Religion of Loving (Serving the Global Neediest, from the Soul, in Solidarity).

Teresa of Calcutta: "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurst, there can be no more hurt, only more love."

***** "If you are coming to help me you are wasting your time. But if you are coming because your liberation is bound up with mine then let's work together." Lila Watson

nd. I have ZERO substances in my life - used to do 2 or 3 glasses of wine, like my folks, before me. One day it hit me - What do I do so poorly at the task of Living, that I need substances to enhance the way I feel? Now, if I used any substances it would bring me DOWN from my natural high.

I have ZERO substances in my life - used to do 2 or 3 glasses of wine, like my folks, before me. One day it hit me - What do I do so poorly at the task of Living, that I need substances to enhance the way I feel? Now, if I used any substances it would bring me DOWN from my natural high.

Indiana churches unite to provide free meals. timesunion.com

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Indiana churches unite to provide free meals

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In New Albany, there are more than 25 churches of different faiths and hundreds of volunteers who work to provide meals and groceries to people in the community every day of the week. There are nine churches in the downtown corridor that take turns...

Ben Franklin: "Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."

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A wise quote from Benjamin Franklin.

George Orwell: "It is not so much staying alive, it's staying HUMAN that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other."

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(M) Unfortunately most people will never get the memo.

pic. Jesus - My body wasn’t cold before my Teaching of: A. Infinite Joy of Radical Universal Family... was perverted into... B. Endless Pleasure of Jesus as pharmaceutical: anti-anxiety, Jesus ‘high,’ individual superiority, Death- avoidance....

My body wasn’t cold before my Teaching of:

A.  Infinite Joy of Radical
Universal Family...

was perverted into...

B.  Endless
Pleasure of Jesus as pharmaceutical:
anti-anxiety,
Jesus ‘high,’
individual
superiority, Death-
avoidance....

pic. Young girls should be socialized in such a way that they are utterly revolted at the thought of EVER shedding their blinding, stunning, magnificent... innocence, brilliance, strength, compassion, wisdom, beauty, loveliness, to become stupid sex toys, Barbies, Princesses.... AMEN?

Young girls should be socialized in such a way that they are utterly revolted at the thought of EVER shedding their blinding, stunning, magnificent... innocence, brilliance, strength, compassion, wisdom, beauty, loveliness, to become stupid sex toys, Barbies, Princesses....  AMEN?

Pope Francis: "The world tells us to seek success, power and money. God tells us to seek humility, service and love."

Linda LeTendre shared Catholic Study Fellowship's photo.

***** pic. prayer: A responsive prayer for Justice (Loving)

Sharing to save.

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pic. "Where there is hatred, let me sow love." Francis of Assisi

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Sowing love, ProgressiveChristianity.org

***** Jane Goodall did an amazing job but what this chimp did will melt your heart. amazingoasis.org

David Whittall via Robin Kimmerer

Jane Goodall did an amazing job but what this chimp did will melt your heart

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Wounda a female chimpanzee has been reintroduced in the wild on the island of Tchindzoulou after staying at Tchimpounga sanctuary where she was...