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Showing posts with label Truth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Truth. Show all posts

1.02.2015

nd. FB post to a Muslim sister for whom I have considerable respect, and from whose posts I profit: "I NEVER do anything to be 'disrespectful,' including making comments or posts that maybe directly conflict with the views of others. And I only bother commenting on the posts of the very few other people for whom I have considerable respect, such as you; or to whom I feel an obligation to comment. I believe we are at a point in history where our 'polite' shaving of the Truths as we see them, is doom. When I lose 'friends' as a consequence of speaking the Truth unvarnished as I understand it, at all costs (lost a 'friend' yesterday over this) I feel deep sadness and loss, but my respect and Love for the other person is never reduced. And I am relieved when those who find it too painful to travel near me, drop off, and so protect themselves."

FB post to a Muslim sister for whom I have considerable respect, and from whose posts I profit:  "I NEVER do anything to be 'disrespectful,' including making comments or posts that maybe directly conflict with the views of others.  And I only bother commenting on the posts of the very few other people for whom I have considerable respect, such as you; or to whom I feel an obligation to comment.  I believe we are at a point in history where our 'polite' shaving of the Truths as we see them, is doom.  When I lose 'friends' as a consequence of speaking the Truth unvarnished as I understand it, at all costs (lost a 'friend' yesterday over this) I feel deep sadness and loss, but my respect and Love for the other person is never reduced.  And I am relieved when those who find it too painful to travel near me, drop off, and so protect themselves."

12.31.2014

nd. 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS' IS LYING, AND MURDER NOW: FRIENDS, I WILL NEVER WANT TO 'LOSE' ANY OF YOU (AS 'FRIENDS.') BUT I WILL NEVER BE SO POOR A FRIEND AS TO LIE TO YOU ('POLITICAL CORRECTNESS' IS LYING). Please remember the difference, when you leave.

nd.  'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS' IS LYING, AND MURDER NOW:  FRIENDS, I WILL NEVER WANT TO 'LOSE' ANY OF YOU (AS 'FRIENDS.') BUT I WILL NEVER BE SO POOR A FRIEND AS TO LIE TO YOU ('POLITICAL CORRECTNESS' IS LYING).  Please remember the difference, when you leave.

12.29.2014

nd. "After 70 years of work, the Jewish archaeologists have found no historical or archeological evidence to back the biblical narrative of the Exodus, the Jews' Wandering in Sinai, or Jashua's conquest of Canaan. There is also no archaeological evidence to prove that the Temple of Solomon ever existed." Prof. Israel Finkelstein. " The Father of Biblical Archaeology". Tel Aviv University.

"After 70 years of work, the Jewish archaeologists have found no historical or archeological evidence to back the biblical narrative of the Exodus, the Jews' Wandering in Sinai, or Jashua's conquest of Canaan. There is also no archaeological evidence to prove that the Temple of Solomon ever existed."

Prof. Israel Finkelstein. " The Father of Biblical Archaeology". Tel Aviv University.

12.15.2014

nd. "Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored." Aldus Huxley

nd. "Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored."  Aldus Huxley

If you are honest, Truthful, and that costs you friends and family, then what you are left with is your only True friends and family, if you ever had any to begin with. This has been my experience, without exception, and with each that has fallen away I feel lighter, faster, more healthy, less drained... with more energy for Loving. Note: 1. One can never lose True friends and family, right? 2. It makes me sad that we are not ALL Friends, Family... every creature. Deeply sad. But this is less and less the case in this deathly culture. The saving grace for me is refusing to not be a Friend TO every creature, as best as my limited means and abilities allow.

If you are honest, Truthful, and that costs you friends and family, then what you are left with is your only True friends and family, if you ever had any to begin with.  This has been my experience, without exception, and with each that has fallen away I feel lighter, faster, more healthy, less drained... with more energy for Loving. Note: 1. One can never lose True friends and family, right? 2. It makes me sad that we are not ALL Friends, Family... every creature. Deeply sad. But this is less and less the case in this deathly culture. The saving grace for me is refusing to not be a Friend TO every creature, as best as my limited means and abilities allow.

12.14.2014

nd. I am immensely defensive of Muslims and Islam against the vicious, brilliantly conceived, relentless savaging by western monied, chr'istian, and zionist hoards for the purpose of dehumanizing, raping and robbing Muslims for more than 70 years. I am immensely defensive of Muslims and Islam when I compare what I understand to be the record of 'chr'stians' vs Muslims in the world where 'chr'stians' have tortured and slaughtered in the name of Jesus hundreds of millions in north and south america, tortured and enslaved and lynched blacks in america, tortured and slaughtered 10s of millions of aborigines in australia, tortured and killed 10s of millions of blacks in congo, tortured, tormented, terrorized 10's of millions of blacks in south africa... and are now torturing, terrorizing, tormenting... millions of Palestinians. I know of no Muslim behavior that is in the same league as this. I am open to discovering I am incorrect... but there is much study of the scholarship ahead of me before I am confident I've gotten past the western propaganda to the truth. What I also know is while the chr'stian west was terrorizing Jews, the one place in the world where Jews were safe was the Muslim world. Finally, unlike Jesus who sought to rule the world of Spirit (tho he seems to have directed his disciples to strap on swords under certain circumstances) Mohammad was in a world not dominated by empire, but rife with inter-tribe warfare, and from what I can tell, so far, brought unprecedented peace and prosperity to the parts of the world he influenced... without the disgusting hedonism, excesses, lusts, intoxications... of the chr'stian west.

I am immensely defensive of Muslims and Islam against the vicious, brilliantly conceived, relentless savaging by western monied, chr'istian, and zionist hoards for the purpose of dehumanizing, raping and robbing Muslims for more than 70 years.

I am immensely defensive of Muslims and Islam when I compare what I understand to be the record of 'chr'stians' vs Muslims in the world where 'chr'stians' have tortured and slaughtered in the name of Jesus hundreds of millions in north and south america, tortured and enslaved and lynched blacks in america, tortured and slaughtered 10s of millions of aborigines in australia, tortured and killed 10s of millions of blacks in congo, tortured, tormented, terrorized 10's of millions of blacks in south africa... and are now torturing, terrorizing, tormenting... millions of Palestinians.  I know of no Muslim behavior that is in the same league as this.

I am open to discovering I am incorrect... but there is much study of the scholarship ahead of me before I am confident I've gotten past the western propaganda to the truth. 

What I also know is while the chr'stian west was terrorizing Jews, the one place in the world where Jews were safe was the Muslim world. 

Finally, unlike Jesus who sought to rule the world of Spirit (tho he seems to have directed his disciples to strap on swords under certain circumstances) Mohammad was in a world not dominated by empire, but rife with inter-tribe warfare, and from what I can tell, so far, brought unprecedented peace and prosperity to the parts of the world he influenced... without the disgusting hedonism, excesses, lusts, intoxications... of the chr'stian west.

12.09.2014

12.06.2014

"People always use that saying "Walk a mile in somebody else's shoes before you judge them" like after they walk the mile, then they can judge, then they have the right. When in reality, the whole point is after you walk that mile, in anybody's shoes, there is no longer any judgement left, you can't judge, the entire impetus for judgement no longer remains. Judgement is gone, there is only understanding." Ryan Fitzmaurice

Ryan Fitzmaurice wrote: "People always use that saying "Walk a mile in somebody else's shoes before you judge them" like after they walk the mile, then they can judge, then they have the right.
When in reality, the whole point is after you walk that mile, in anybody's shoes, there is no longer any judgement left, you can't judge, the entire impetus for judgement no longer remains. Judgement is gone, there is only understanding."

11.30.2014

***** Central to my life experience, my professional training, my professional work, my study of activism, my practice of activism,... There is nothing more central in my life, there is nothing that I value more in my life then what Gandhi spoke of as truth force, holding on to the truth, after devoting one's life to discovering what it is, holding on to that truth no matter the personal cost. I believe that holding on to the truth, embodying it, and therefore making it present, particularly the truth of a human tragedy, is the surest way to penetrate even the strongest defenses. It is a very low probability proposition, but it is still the surest way. I can think of no clear example of this in my life than this brief video. http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2014/11/wow-wowwwww-israeli-kids-watch.html

* Central to my life experience, my professional training, my professional work, my study of activism, my practice of activism,... There is nothing more central in my life, there is nothing that I value more in my life then what Gandhi spoke of as truth force, holding on to the truth, after devoting one's life to discovering what it is, holding on to that truth no matter the personal cost. I believe that holding on to the truth, embodying it, and therefore making it present, particularly the truth of a human tragedy, is the surest way to penetrate even the strongest defenses. It is a very low probability proposition, but it is still the surest way. I can think of no clear example of this in my life than this brief video. http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2014/11/wow-wowwwww-israeli-kids-watch.html
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11.05.2014

:-) HUGS. If you don't want the Truth that a weather vain gives you... don't look at it. If you don't want the Truth that I give you... don't look at what I say.

:-)  HUGS.  If you don't want the Truth that a weather vain gives you... don't look at it. If you don't want the Truth that I give you... don't look at what I say.

11.04.2014

nd. There has always been someone like me, sitting at your gates of power, showing you your insane rush into the abyss. You have ALWAYS ignored us, or perverted us into a grotesque fetish for your lusts. Now, by every objective measure, it is all but too late for you, and for your children, and their grandchildren....

There has always been someone like me, sitting at your gates of power, showing you your insane rush into the abyss.  You have ALWAYS ignored us, or perverted us into a grotesque fetish for your lusts.  Now, by every objective measure, it is all but too late for you, and for your children, and their grandchildren....

11.02.2014

nd. GANDHI'S "TRUTH FORCE:" I was the most disgustingly over-privileged, clueless, pampered, spoiled, protected, sheltered... child on earth... I cringe at the ocean of undeserved over-privilege that I allowed to be squandered on me. I ache at the thought. I squirm. But deep down, I had a good heart. Literally, that is the only reason that I can think of that my Saint of a dad, a magnificently accomplished man, didn't have me killed. AND, my point here, I BELIEVED THERE WAS 'TRUTH', 'A TRUTH,' 'THE TRUTH,' TO BE KNOWN ABOUT LIFE, AND EVERY MAJOR SITUATION. (And just this moment, for the first time in my life, this moment, I realized it was because my dad, as a developer of systems to teach poor kids to read... was devoted, every breath, to finding and building solutions on the Truth in his domains). When I came of age, and ever since, I HAVE BEEN DRIVEN BY THAT BELIEF IN THE EXISTENCE AND ULTIMATE POWER OF THE TRUTH, AND THAT KNOWING THE TRUTH (not MY truth, YOUR truth, but THE Truth) of an important situation... THE GREATEST POWER IN THE UNIVERSE WOULD THEREBY HAVE BEEN TAPPED INTO TO BRING ABOUT WHAT IS BEST, RIGHT, JUST, LOVING. Every day of my life since, and now, convinces me of this. WE NEED TO DEVOTE OURSELVES TO THE TRUTH - SCHOLARLY, DISCIPLINED, ABOVE EGO, ABOVE SELF-INTEREST, DESPITE THE AWFUL PERSONAL MATERIAL PRICE.... FINDING, HOLDING ONTO... AND BEING IN THE DEATH-LIFE-GRIP OF THE TRUTH... WITH EVERY BREATH. This the hope, the ONLY hope to Free Palestine.... TO LIVE IN THE GRIP OF THE TRUTH OF THE MAN MADE, CHR'STIAN MADE, HELL... THAT IS PALESTINE... UNTIL THEY ARE FREE.... until WE are Free... of the Guild by Permission... of their TERRORIZED EXISTENCE.

GANDHI'S "TRUTH FORCE." I was the most disgustingly over-privileged, clueless, pampered, spoiled, protected, sheltered... child on earth... I cringe at the ocean of undeserved over-privilege that I allowed to be squandered on me.  I ache at the thought. I squirm.  But deep down, I had a good heart.  Literally, that is the only reason that I can think of that my Saint of a dad, a magnificently accomplished man, didn't have me killed.  AND, my point here, I BELIEVED THERE WAS 'TRUTH', 'A TRUTH,' 'THE TRUTH,' TO BE KNOWN ABOUT LIFE, AND EVERY MAJOR SITUATION.  (And just this moment, for the first time in my life, this moment, I realized it was because my dad, as a developer of systems to teach poor kids to read... was devoted, every breath, to finding and building solutions on the Truth in his domains).  When I came of age, and ever since, I HAVE BEEN DRIVEN BY THAT BELIEF IN THE EXISTENCE AND ULTIMATE POWER OF THE TRUTH, AND THAT KNOWING THE TRUTH (not MY truth, YOUR truth, but THE Truth) of an important situation... THE GREATEST POWER IN THE UNIVERSE WOULD THEREBY HAVE BEEN TAPPED INTO TO BRING ABOUT WHAT IS BEST, RIGHT, JUST, LOVING.  Every day of my life since, and now, convinces me of this.  WE NEED TO DEVOTE OURSELVES TO THE TRUTH - SCHOLARLY, DISCIPLINED, ABOVE EGO, ABOVE SELF-INTEREST, DESPITE THE AWFUL PERSONAL MATERIAL PRICE....  FINDING, HOLDING ONTO... AND BEING IN THE DEATH-LIFE-GRIP OF THE TRUTH... WITH EVERY BREATH.  This the hope, the ONLY hope to Free Palestine.... TO LIVE IN THE GRIP OF THE TRUTH OF THE MAN MADE, CHR'STIAN MADE, HELL... THAT IS PALESTINE... UNTIL THEY ARE FREE.... until WE are Free... of the Guild by Permission... of their TERRORIZED EXISTENCE. 

10.24.2014

***** nd. FRIENDS: TO UNDERSTAND ME, AND MY 'HARSHNESS,' YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THE FOLLOWING. "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH." This is the great Norman Finkelstein's synthesis/understanding of Gandhi's guiding star - Truth Force, Soul Force, Satyagraha. "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH." It implies that one has devoted their every breath to this task, beginning and ending with paying the price to 'see' the truth... through objective, riggourous, scholarly, no sacred cows devotion to the Truths of any important situation. "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH." Personally, I have found, with great and unexpected joy these last 12 years of practicing this, that it has cost me EVERYTHING materially, and given me EVERYTHING spiritually, AND, COUNTER-INTUITIVELY, because it has stripped me of all material resources, THAT IT HAS ALIGNED ME WITH THE TRUE, CENTRAL, PHYSICAL POWER OF THE UNIVERSE. My point to you? OUR 2014 REALITIES, THE TRUTHS... ARE END-TIMES HHHAAARRRSSSHHHHH!!!!!!! I WILL hold on to the Truths... I WILL HAVE THE TRUTHS HOLD ON TO ME, POSSESS ME...TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY AS I CAN... EVERY BREATH.. SO I WILL BE CONSTANTLY HARSH, HHHHAAAAARRRRRSSSSHHHHHH. BECAUSE I CARE FOR YOU, never the contrary.

***** FRIENDS: TO UNDERSTAND ME, AND MY 'HARSHNESS,' YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THE FOLLOWING.   "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH."  This is the great Norman Finkelstein's synthesis/understanding of Gandhi's guiding star - Truth Force, Soul Force, Satyagraha.  "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH."  It implies that one has devoted their every breath to this task, beginning and ending with paying the price to 'see' the truth... through objective, rigorous, scholarly, no sacred cows devotion to the Truths of any important situation.  "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH."  Personally, I have found, with great and unexpected joy these last 12 years of practicing this, that it has cost me EVERYTHING materially, and given me EVERYTHING spiritually, AND, COUNTER-INTUITIVELY, because it has stripped me of all material resources, THAT IT HAS ALIGNED ME WITH THE TRUE, CENTRAL, PHYSICAL POWER OF THE UNIVERSE.  My point to you?  OUR 2014 REALITIES, THE TRUTHS... ARE END-TIMES HHHAAARRRSSSHHHHH!!!!!!! I WILL hold on to the Truths... I WILL HAVE THE TRUTHS HOLD ON TO ME, POSSESS ME...TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY AS I CAN... EVERY BREATH.. SO I WILL BE CONSTANTLY HARSH, HHHHAAAAARRRRRSSSSHHHHHH.  BECAUSE I CARE FOR YOU, never the contrary.

10.10.2014