Now remember, little if ANY Sin / Error / Hypocrisy is conscious! I'm making a diagnosis, not a condemnation here in what follows.
I had no foresight to the indispensable value of B.O., tatoos, long fingernails and hair, until I saw it with my own eyes. Someone that I saw as the best Total friend / colleague by far that God has ever given me was unmasked - terminated our relationship - as my B.O. became more extreme and my fingernails grew through neglect due to my single minded efforts to breathe life into a dying hero - I live at war. (The hero is now in recovery for the first time in many, many years by the way. Pray,)
This termination came weeks ago and I still bleed; feels like the wound will never heal.
But what an incredible blessing, what a gift for us both to have escaped a deadly Hypocrisy weeks, months, years... sooner than otherwise might have occurred. So much time Saved. The gift of Time, which is the gift of Life.
It never was a Friendship at all, because true Friendships / Love cannot end. It was / is I think a POTENTIAL Friendship / Love; but maybe it was never that; rather an infatuation, a fantasy (entirely altruistic), a mirage....
I don't expect I'll ever know.
But I'll be forever grateful for the heroic kindnesses shown me; and for the B.O. , long finger nails, etc. that they are likely to remain part of me - HYPOCRISY DETECTORS - that I am otherwise far too blind without.
3.28.2008
}}}}}}} CHRISTLIKENESS: THE ENTIRETY OF ALL HOPE {{{{{{{
A year and a half ago God took mercy on me and my pitiful struggles toward Life / Truth / regaining-my-Humanity and revealed to me the Truth that Life lay along the Path of never again working for money, but living or dying solely within the relationship of "Family," from each according to herhis ability, to each according to herhis need. My yearnings had been tearing me in that direction forever but the clarity that day at the White House on hunger strike for Darfur was a Divine gift. It was soooo the Clarity I had been searching for. And thus I've LIVED WITH A SHAMEFUL WEALTH OF JOY ever since.
Today I've received the next installment - Life comes, is developed by, and is to be accepted ONLY from PeaceWarriors / Humanitarians / Christlikes / WorldFamily, come what may. ("Christlikes?" What Jesus attempted to restore us to - "Our Father.... (Jesus said, including you and me WITH Himself.)" "Whoever claims to abide in Jesus aught to live just like Jesus lived;" John's 2nd letter. Why not "Christians?" Christians are Pagans and Zionist-jews that stole and have masqueraded under the "Christ" brand for wholly evil, anti-Christlike reasons; the greatest most murderous hijacking / hoax / atrocity / holocaust in history.)
Is all this ranting of mine Exclusionary? Elitist? How could I have been so blind, I wonder. This is among the most profound, hopeful awakenings on my part in the last 10 years! Eureka! Thank God! When I was in the computer industry turning around failing organizations I was acutely aware of the ULTIMATE importance of having the right people in the organization. Everything was possible with, nothing was possible without. Truly and consciously I would much rather have had vacant seats, than to have those seats filled with non-zealous, non-selfdisciplined, non-committed folks; and frequently so it went. Since leaving industry, and especially since entering God's business, Saving Humanity, I've totally, TOTALLY overlooked this ALL IMPORTANT ASPECT. In industry would I have hired / engaged with someone because they were nice, because they were pleasant, because they were kind, because their WORDS were agreeable? NO! These are important ingredients but totally insufficient in and of themselves to achieve anything great. No, the crucial ingredient I knew to look for in a recruit / partner / fellow traveler / contributor then was potential for Vision / Burning Desire / Fire / Passion / Courage / Commitment / Self-Sacrifice / Self-Discipline / Complete Devotion, Surrender and Submission to Mission. This has been nowhere on my radar screen, a profound and total blind spot day after day, year after year since joining God's Business - Humanity. Thank God for this new clarity. God forgive me if I forget again.
There is, there IS PeaceWarrior / Christlike (health) and everything else is Death (cancer); everything else, no matter how kIND, how nICE is the end of Life-worth-living on earth - lIVING Death. Extreme view? Your heart is extreme - it NEVER for an instant has stopped to think of itself; it NEVER has stopped beating, stopped Living entirely for the body - for the "least of these." Same for the skin cell, the eye, the ear, the liver.... Such total, complete, 100% service, EXTREME SERVICE of the BODY is the way, the only way of Life NOTHING ELSE IS LIFE. It is precisely this Clarity that seized and held Jesus, and now holds me. Thank God. "What profiteth a man to win the wORLD but to lose hisher Life; hisher HUMANITY?" "The good shepherd lays down his life for the flock." "Do unto others ALL that you would have them do for you." "You cannnot serve God and Mammon." Falling away from what the heart knows and practices, what the skin cell knows and practices - 24/7 service - is the ENTIRETY of the Biblical "Fall" from Grace, the Fall from God / Life / Love / Humanity. "We will be extremists for love, or extremists for hate." ML King. Tissue is healthy, or it is cancer. Start Loving.
Today I've received the next installment - Life comes, is developed by, and is to be accepted ONLY from PeaceWarriors / Humanitarians / Christlikes / WorldFamily, come what may. ("Christlikes?" What Jesus attempted to restore us to - "Our Father.... (Jesus said, including you and me WITH Himself.)" "Whoever claims to abide in Jesus aught to live just like Jesus lived;" John's 2nd letter. Why not "Christians?" Christians are Pagans and Zionist-jews that stole and have masqueraded under the "Christ" brand for wholly evil, anti-Christlike reasons; the greatest most murderous hijacking / hoax / atrocity / holocaust in history.)
Is all this ranting of mine Exclusionary? Elitist? How could I have been so blind, I wonder. This is among the most profound, hopeful awakenings on my part in the last 10 years! Eureka! Thank God! When I was in the computer industry turning around failing organizations I was acutely aware of the ULTIMATE importance of having the right people in the organization. Everything was possible with, nothing was possible without. Truly and consciously I would much rather have had vacant seats, than to have those seats filled with non-zealous, non-selfdisciplined, non-committed folks; and frequently so it went. Since leaving industry, and especially since entering God's business, Saving Humanity, I've totally, TOTALLY overlooked this ALL IMPORTANT ASPECT. In industry would I have hired / engaged with someone because they were nice, because they were pleasant, because they were kind, because their WORDS were agreeable? NO! These are important ingredients but totally insufficient in and of themselves to achieve anything great. No, the crucial ingredient I knew to look for in a recruit / partner / fellow traveler / contributor then was potential for Vision / Burning Desire / Fire / Passion / Courage / Commitment / Self-Sacrifice / Self-Discipline / Complete Devotion, Surrender and Submission to Mission. This has been nowhere on my radar screen, a profound and total blind spot day after day, year after year since joining God's Business - Humanity. Thank God for this new clarity. God forgive me if I forget again.
There is, there IS PeaceWarrior / Christlike (health) and everything else is Death (cancer); everything else, no matter how kIND, how nICE is the end of Life-worth-living on earth - lIVING Death. Extreme view? Your heart is extreme - it NEVER for an instant has stopped to think of itself; it NEVER has stopped beating, stopped Living entirely for the body - for the "least of these." Same for the skin cell, the eye, the ear, the liver.... Such total, complete, 100% service, EXTREME SERVICE of the BODY is the way, the only way of Life NOTHING ELSE IS LIFE. It is precisely this Clarity that seized and held Jesus, and now holds me. Thank God. "What profiteth a man to win the wORLD but to lose hisher Life; hisher HUMANITY?" "The good shepherd lays down his life for the flock." "Do unto others ALL that you would have them do for you." "You cannnot serve God and Mammon." Falling away from what the heart knows and practices, what the skin cell knows and practices - 24/7 service - is the ENTIRETY of the Biblical "Fall" from Grace, the Fall from God / Life / Love / Humanity. "We will be extremists for love, or extremists for hate." ML King. Tissue is healthy, or it is cancer. Start Loving.
}}}}}}} PUBLIC ENEMY #1 TODAY: GOD / GOOD / LOVE / LIFE / TRUTH {{{{{{{
God. God is our Public Enemy #1. We despise God. We've relentlessly, ruthlessly, effectively killed, and continue to kill the God who used to admonish us. Adam and Eve are no longer ashamed; Kane is no longer ashamed; no, they've become proud. They've, we've killed God in ourselves and in those around us - what's to be ashamed about? Imagine such an enormous achievement - killing God. Who wouldn't be proud.
But the God of creation (God IS the natural laws of Life, Physics, Psychology... distilled within us as our Humanity (the opposite of In/Unhumanity...) that are the Force of Creation) - God - will have the final say. When we've violated the Truths of Life sufficiently beyond a point - Entropy has its way - Life-worth-living ends. We've now so effectively killed God in ourselves and in those around us that Entropy has no opposition. How so? It is not God / Humanity that has us amusing ourselves while women are raped in Darfur. It is not God / Humanity that has us in comfortable homes while billions need what we hoard and lavish upon ourselves. It is not God / our Humanity that has we Americans sit and watch while our tax dollars are used to rape and pillage, kill, starve and deform the weak around the world in order to extort their resources....
Some of this is on my mind because there is a fellow in the community in which I reside who is a fanatic about the literal story of Noah, and the flood. Of course I absolutely reject the notion of a sentient Creator who would turn around and "flood," willfully destroy what SheHeIt was responsible for, as utter nonsense. But as an allegory, as a metaphor it is exactly what is in the final stages of unfolding here on planet earth - terrorism (of which we in the US are the greatest purveyors by many orders of magnitude), environmental disintegration, arms race (about to accelerate into the stratosphere); looming Police State; brilliantly disguised Fascist State... THE FLOOD IS UPON US.
But Start, we are so nice to each other in our "families;" we are so extremely pleasant to mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles cousins, grandma's, grandpa's, "friends like us," and even on occasion those in our chURCH, strangers and wierdos. I've come to realize, quite to my surprise that this type of "family love" is precisely THE mortal sin. Such "immediate family" Love existed in Jesus day, predominated in Jesus day. Was Jesus against such Love? Of course not. But He was explicit - "even the heathens (pagans?) do that." No, what Jesus DIED for, His entire desperate attempt to "Save" humanity was to show us that Life depends entirely on Love for the LEAST OF THESE; LOVE FOR THE ENEMY - AS ONESELF - AS ONE'S "IMMEDIATE FAMILY;" not one iota less or different - but rather MORE because the least-of-these needs more! If our finger is bleeding, if our finger is at that moment "the least of these," that finger, that tiny remote part of our body gets all the attention, right? Jesus died to telly us that regardless of how daunting, how impossibly high this bar of performance seems to be set - the immutable truth of Creation is that Life would/will come to an end, in a million horrible ways, if humankind did not regain this God given capacity - Humanity - that every child is born with, which every child manifests until they are taught that there are some folks that are to be cared for, and it was unavoidable, morally neutral and "natural," to not care, to care less about others - the stranger, the enemy, the weirdo, the extremist.... Even CANCER does this. This is precisely what cancer does - it cares / massively nurtures those around it - those like it - and they flourish and multiply and prosper - and the body is neglected, and the body dies, and then the cancer that has so enjoyed itself, and flourished - it too dies a horrible death - first the Spirit / Humanity / God / Truth-DNA of Life is killed and dies, then the body.
Your Loving brother,
Start
ps: But Start, what about the Churches - God's house! A house of wax, a wax museum at best - more truly a zoo or prison where what is left of God / Jesus is kept safely imprisoned, to be visited rarely and safely on occasion to enable our cancerous delusions to flourish unimpeded; and flourish they have.
But the God of creation (God IS the natural laws of Life, Physics, Psychology... distilled within us as our Humanity (the opposite of In/Unhumanity...) that are the Force of Creation) - God - will have the final say. When we've violated the Truths of Life sufficiently beyond a point - Entropy has its way - Life-worth-living ends. We've now so effectively killed God in ourselves and in those around us that Entropy has no opposition. How so? It is not God / Humanity that has us amusing ourselves while women are raped in Darfur. It is not God / Humanity that has us in comfortable homes while billions need what we hoard and lavish upon ourselves. It is not God / our Humanity that has we Americans sit and watch while our tax dollars are used to rape and pillage, kill, starve and deform the weak around the world in order to extort their resources....
Some of this is on my mind because there is a fellow in the community in which I reside who is a fanatic about the literal story of Noah, and the flood. Of course I absolutely reject the notion of a sentient Creator who would turn around and "flood," willfully destroy what SheHeIt was responsible for, as utter nonsense. But as an allegory, as a metaphor it is exactly what is in the final stages of unfolding here on planet earth - terrorism (of which we in the US are the greatest purveyors by many orders of magnitude), environmental disintegration, arms race (about to accelerate into the stratosphere); looming Police State; brilliantly disguised Fascist State... THE FLOOD IS UPON US.
But Start, we are so nice to each other in our "families;" we are so extremely pleasant to mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles cousins, grandma's, grandpa's, "friends like us," and even on occasion those in our chURCH, strangers and wierdos. I've come to realize, quite to my surprise that this type of "family love" is precisely THE mortal sin. Such "immediate family" Love existed in Jesus day, predominated in Jesus day. Was Jesus against such Love? Of course not. But He was explicit - "even the heathens (pagans?) do that." No, what Jesus DIED for, His entire desperate attempt to "Save" humanity was to show us that Life depends entirely on Love for the LEAST OF THESE; LOVE FOR THE ENEMY - AS ONESELF - AS ONE'S "IMMEDIATE FAMILY;" not one iota less or different - but rather MORE because the least-of-these needs more! If our finger is bleeding, if our finger is at that moment "the least of these," that finger, that tiny remote part of our body gets all the attention, right? Jesus died to telly us that regardless of how daunting, how impossibly high this bar of performance seems to be set - the immutable truth of Creation is that Life would/will come to an end, in a million horrible ways, if humankind did not regain this God given capacity - Humanity - that every child is born with, which every child manifests until they are taught that there are some folks that are to be cared for, and it was unavoidable, morally neutral and "natural," to not care, to care less about others - the stranger, the enemy, the weirdo, the extremist.... Even CANCER does this. This is precisely what cancer does - it cares / massively nurtures those around it - those like it - and they flourish and multiply and prosper - and the body is neglected, and the body dies, and then the cancer that has so enjoyed itself, and flourished - it too dies a horrible death - first the Spirit / Humanity / God / Truth-DNA of Life is killed and dies, then the body.
Your Loving brother,
Start
ps: But Start, what about the Churches - God's house! A house of wax, a wax museum at best - more truly a zoo or prison where what is left of God / Jesus is kept safely imprisoned, to be visited rarely and safely on occasion to enable our cancerous delusions to flourish unimpeded; and flourish they have.
}}}}}}} CHOOSE SELFISHNESS AND YOU CHOOSE TO LEAVE GOD {{{{{{{
(from an early February email)
Hey brother.
"Nobody chose war; they chose selfishness and the result was war." Dave Dellinger
This phrase has been playing around in my mind constantly for the last week or so, and it was an extreme lightning bolt of illumination for me a year or so ago when I read it in Dellinger's "Radical Nonviolence" which is in your audio collection. Do you see the implications? 'Nobody chose war / prostitution / divorce / rape / murder / vehicular homicide / environmental destruction / disturbing the peace / fascism / depleted uranium / ACTIVIST-IMPOTENCE - collusion... THEY CHOSE SELFISHNESS AND THE RESULT WAS (SEE ABOVE).
The phrase has been in my mind as I've worked these endless, lonely weeks on the project for you as my life-long struggle with addiction to (online) pornography arose. Also in my mind as I've struggled, more successfully than ever (so far) with my addiction, is something new. "Start, YES you want to indulge in the addiction, with practically every ounce of strength that you have. BUT THAT IS NOT THE QUESTION. The question is, do you want to leave the realm of hopefulness / helpfulness / Life / Goodness / Love / HOPE / GOD for the time it will take to indulge your addiction, your SELFISHNESS?' Brother, I've never had this last "question", this CHOICE in mind before; I've never seen it; and it has been a Salvation for me. For entirely selfish reasons, now that I have SEEN the choice I have had encouraging new levels of success (complete) against my addiction. YES I want to indulge in pornography. NO I don't want to leave the realm of Goodness / Godness that is available for me to inhabit. I never saw that this is what I was choosing - to leave Life / Goodness / Hope / Potential... for my addiction, for my selfishness. I'm finding that if when the temptation arises I BRING THIS CHOICE CONSCIOUSLY TO MY MIND, to ask my self, "Start, do you want to leave Goodness?," it causes me, if FORCES me to make much more Joyful decisions.
Your Loving brother, Start
Hey brother.
"Nobody chose war; they chose selfishness and the result was war." Dave Dellinger
This phrase has been playing around in my mind constantly for the last week or so, and it was an extreme lightning bolt of illumination for me a year or so ago when I read it in Dellinger's "Radical Nonviolence" which is in your audio collection. Do you see the implications? 'Nobody chose war / prostitution / divorce / rape / murder / vehicular homicide / environmental destruction / disturbing the peace / fascism / depleted uranium / ACTIVIST-IMPOTENCE - collusion... THEY CHOSE SELFISHNESS AND THE RESULT WAS (SEE ABOVE).
The phrase has been in my mind as I've worked these endless, lonely weeks on the project for you as my life-long struggle with addiction to (online) pornography arose. Also in my mind as I've struggled, more successfully than ever (so far) with my addiction, is something new. "Start, YES you want to indulge in the addiction, with practically every ounce of strength that you have. BUT THAT IS NOT THE QUESTION. The question is, do you want to leave the realm of hopefulness / helpfulness / Life / Goodness / Love / HOPE / GOD for the time it will take to indulge your addiction, your SELFISHNESS?' Brother, I've never had this last "question", this CHOICE in mind before; I've never seen it; and it has been a Salvation for me. For entirely selfish reasons, now that I have SEEN the choice I have had encouraging new levels of success (complete) against my addiction. YES I want to indulge in pornography. NO I don't want to leave the realm of Goodness / Godness that is available for me to inhabit. I never saw that this is what I was choosing - to leave Life / Goodness / Hope / Potential... for my addiction, for my selfishness. I'm finding that if when the temptation arises I BRING THIS CHOICE CONSCIOUSLY TO MY MIND, to ask my self, "Start, do you want to leave Goodness?," it causes me, if FORCES me to make much more Joyful decisions.
Your Loving brother, Start
THE EXTINCTION OF CHRISTIANITY: THE cHURCH'S TRIUMPH
Jesus died to let the genie out of the bottle - the genie of Life, Love, the Divine within us - HUMANITY.
Then a state appointed gate keeper arrived on the scene to get that genie back in the bottle and to keep it there. Within 200 years the job was done and it has been maintained ever since. Yes, the cHURCH - Christ's Crucifier; Jesus Jailer. They have brilliantly succeeded in rendering Jesus totally harmless to the state (and actually a huge asset!) for 1800 years now. Quite an achievement.
Then a state appointed gate keeper arrived on the scene to get that genie back in the bottle and to keep it there. Within 200 years the job was done and it has been maintained ever since. Yes, the cHURCH - Christ's Crucifier; Jesus Jailer. They have brilliantly succeeded in rendering Jesus totally harmless to the state (and actually a huge asset!) for 1800 years now. Quite an achievement.
cHURCH: A WEEKLY SHOWER FOR WE PROSTITUTES
There are certain professions that might be almost literally impossible to endure if it were not for soap and water - a shower: coal mining, prostitution (of the sexual kind), stall mucking.... This is what Sunday church is, right? It is the "shower," the opportunity to get clean so we can return to our lives of cancerous prostitution - using our divine gifts NOT exclucively for the "body," but rather for selfish (me and mine) personal gain; a way of being that we, our consciences could not stand but for that Sunday "shower" that cHURCH offers.
IT IS RIGHT FOR A SKIN CELL TO GO CANCEROUS WHEN....
It is right for a skin cell to go cancerous when... what? When other skin cells go cancerous? When almost ALL of the other skin cells go cancerous? NEVER, it is never right for a skin cell to go cancerous. Right? Cancer is NEVER the correct choice for a healthy cell... nor for any way of life. The only option of healthy Life is to do what the body needs done; if no other cell is doing it - this is irrelevant; if it will do no good - this is irrelevant. And, until the last cell succumbs, THERE IS HOPE FOR THE BODY, because there is life left; Life that can Save others.
And what is cancer? Cancer is that form of life that simply detaches from its purpose visa vis the "body," and attends to its personal needs over the needs of the "body." And yet this is precisely the form of life that our current world culture exhorts us to embrace with every fiber of our being. It is NEVER the correct choice.
And what is cancer? Cancer is that form of life that simply detaches from its purpose visa vis the "body," and attends to its personal needs over the needs of the "body." And yet this is precisely the form of life that our current world culture exhorts us to embrace with every fiber of our being. It is NEVER the correct choice.
JESUS ABHORS WORSHIP AND FOLLOWING.
Jesus ABHORS Worship! Jesus ABHORS Following!
What??!?!?!??!?!?? Here's how to see it. You in future years become a great, world-beloved healer of some sort. You are driving in a populated area of the city and you come upon a horrible bus crash with dozens of wounded. Your heart breaks as you frantically leap out of the car to help, to try to Save. You and the bystanders are the only available help. You get out of your car, and your would-be helpers come and worship, and adore you, and follow you around, gawking and praising you as you help people.
What could be more abhorrent to you? Joining you in the total attempt to save; that is what you desperately and agonizingly want of people.
For every pro football player on the field there are millions, MILLIONS in bars or living rooms watching (and drinking) - VICARIOUSLY sharing in the "glory." But Jesus was not playing football. Jesus was trying to lead humankind to SAVE ITSELF from the Hell, from the Entropy of Meaninglessness, and the Hell, the Entropy of Ignorance and Want.
And by the billions we debauch and gluttony in our wicked "worship" and "following," stealing Vicarious GRATIFICATION from Jesus, glorying in HIS Crucifixion, THRIVING ON the "needless suffering" of others, INSTEAD OF JOINING HIM; AS A DEFENSE AGAINST FOLLOWING HIM!!! Oh, it is so sad. It is so abhorrent. And soon, it will be over, if we don't wake up, and begin to individually, lonely one by lonely one walk, and possibly lead out of this mess.
Your Loving brother,
Start
ps: Oh, am I incorrect?
What??!?!?!??!?!?? Here's how to see it. You in future years become a great, world-beloved healer of some sort. You are driving in a populated area of the city and you come upon a horrible bus crash with dozens of wounded. Your heart breaks as you frantically leap out of the car to help, to try to Save. You and the bystanders are the only available help. You get out of your car, and your would-be helpers come and worship, and adore you, and follow you around, gawking and praising you as you help people.
What could be more abhorrent to you? Joining you in the total attempt to save; that is what you desperately and agonizingly want of people.
For every pro football player on the field there are millions, MILLIONS in bars or living rooms watching (and drinking) - VICARIOUSLY sharing in the "glory." But Jesus was not playing football. Jesus was trying to lead humankind to SAVE ITSELF from the Hell, from the Entropy of Meaninglessness, and the Hell, the Entropy of Ignorance and Want.
And by the billions we debauch and gluttony in our wicked "worship" and "following," stealing Vicarious GRATIFICATION from Jesus, glorying in HIS Crucifixion, THRIVING ON the "needless suffering" of others, INSTEAD OF JOINING HIM; AS A DEFENSE AGAINST FOLLOWING HIM!!! Oh, it is so sad. It is so abhorrent. And soon, it will be over, if we don't wake up, and begin to individually, lonely one by lonely one walk, and possibly lead out of this mess.
Your Loving brother,
Start
ps: Oh, am I incorrect?
MEET JESUS: TOLSTOY'S "WHAT I BELIEVE"
I don't know how else to say it - Do you want to be face to face with Jesus? Want to be with Him, really, really walk with Him? There is a way, for most of us:
Loving you, Start
ps: What if I am correct?
pps: I am correct.
TOLSTOY: WHAT I BELIEVE
Outlandish? Read it, really, really read it, top to bottom, and you decide.Loving you, Start
ps: What if I am correct?
pps: I am correct.
UNDERSTAND JESUS' APOSTLE: TOLSTOY
If for Gandhi Jesus was the greatest human ever to exist, his hero, his model,
and if for Gandhi, Tolstoy was Jesus Greatest Living Apostle...
We seekers had better understand Tolstoy quite well:
and if for Gandhi, Tolstoy was Jesus Greatest Living Apostle...
We seekers had better understand Tolstoy quite well:
Leo Tolstoy Quotations
Start LovingFOR OUR JOY/TO ELIMINATE SUFFERING: WHY JESUS DIED. PERIOD.
"Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
John 15:11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing. Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace. 2 Corinthians 1:24 Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy. Matthew 13:44 "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field." John 16:22 You have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. Luke 2:10 And the angel said to them, "Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy that will be for all the people."
"Sour godliness is the devil's religion."
-John Wesley
Mother Teresa
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
"In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could be satisfied by works, but since it is spiritual, no one can satisfy it unless everything he does springs from the depths of the heart. But no one can give such a heart except the Spirit of God, who makes the person be like the law, so that he actually conceives a heartfelt longing for the law and henceforward does everything, not through fear or coercion, but from a free heart."
- Martin Luther
I asked God for all things, that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.
Booker T. Washington: Quotes: Joy
I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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| He summarizes Augustine’s theology with phrases like the following: “Grace governs life by giving a supreme joy in the supremacy of God”
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. - Buddha
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. - Ayn Rand
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behaviour, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps. - William Blake
George Bernard Shaw |
Joy in God
This is my religion . . . joy and exaltation in my own existence . . . so go ahead and snarl . . . howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian. - John AdamsThe theologian who has no joy in his work is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this science. - Karl Barth
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all-that has been my religion. - John Burroughs
One of the signs of God-realization is joy. There is absolutely no hesitancy in such a person, who is like an ocean in joyous waves. But deep beneath the surface, there is profound silence and peace. - Ramakrishna
When I am with God my fear is gone. In the great quiet of God, my troubles are as the pebbles on the road; my joys are like the everlasting hills. - Walter Rauschenbusch
It is a great dishonour to religion to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces. - Walter Scott
YOUR ONLY OPTIONS: FLESH OR HUMANITY
(This is the big one, the bottom line, the "whole deal," the fork in the road where Heaven OR Hell are chosen) - That which is "Life," worth protecting AT ALL COST, WORTH THE ULTIMATE PRICE - Is Humanity (the opposite of Un/InHumanity). The point? Jesus said it this way: "What shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world [Pulse, Fleshly Pleasures...] and suffer the loss of his [Humanity]? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his [Humanity]? " (Mark 8:36), "For whoever has a desire to keep his [Pulse, Fleshly Pleasures...] will have [LIFE / Humanity] taken from him!!!!!!!!!!, but whoever gives up his [Pulse, Fleshly Pleasures because of me], will keep [LIFE / Humanity]!!!!!!!!!!!! (Luke 9:24) " The single biggest reason that even the most promising of us SELECT Hell (Inhumanity, separated from our Humanity), AND LEAD OUR MOST BELOVED to this same HELL is ON ACCOUNT OF OUR BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN!!!!!!!! "IF I LIVE OUT OF MY HUMANITY, THE MATERIAL WELLBEING ("Flesh," "Longevity," "Afluence," "Career," "Social Standing," "lIFE"...) of my dependants will suffer!!!! True. THUSLY we CHOOSE TO "BE" the MURDERERS ("double bind," "hypocrisy," "deceiver," "Viper / Serpent") in our Children's lives and therefore with absolute certainty plunge the knife of Death into their Heart - we become the unwitting murderers of their Life. YOU (we) CANNOT ESCAPE CHOOSING (through omission or commission) "Heaven" or "Hell" for our Dearest.
CHURCH AND "FAMILY::" THE PLAGUE OF EXTINCTION
The, The destroyer of Humanity is Hypocrisy / Lip Service / Self Deception / Good Intentions - THE DOUBLE BIND. (Get ready now, this is scary: "YES my dearest loved one, I AM "CHRISTIAN," and and I keep for "us" a lifestyle that for 99.99999% of Jesus "family," "our" family cannot dream of affording.... Yes Dearest child, Everyone is your brother and sister (Jesus teaches you so), but no, of course we don't / can't REALLY treat them that way...." The biological family, and secondarily the "church" family are thereby the great "Crucifiers" of Humanity.
INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN ACTIVIST, "Start, are you Jesus Christ?"
From a December email I received:
"hey start loving, as per usual you are heavens and worlds out there. i
was not joking when i asked if you were JC. your compassion and love
are immeasurably appreciated. your friend and sister,"
My response was something like, "Gosh, that would be awesome, because that is what we ALL are supposed to be - Christlikes."
"hey start loving, as per usual you are heavens and worlds out there. i
was not joking when i asked if you were JC. your compassion and love
are immeasurably appreciated. your friend and sister,"
My response was something like, "Gosh, that would be awesome, because that is what we ALL are supposed to be - Christlikes."
HUMANITY BEGETS HUMANITY. INHUMANITY BEGETS....
Humanity begets Humanity as certainly as E=MC Sqd.
In/UnHumanity begets In/UnHumanity UNLESS it is countered with HUMANITY in which case Saving/Salvation can occur. (Think of the Bishop of Di (sp) in Les Mis.)
In/UnHumanity begets In/UnHumanity UNLESS it is countered with HUMANITY in which case Saving/Salvation can occur. (Think of the Bishop of Di (sp) in Les Mis.)
HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE HUMAN EXPERIENCE. "THE KINGDOM."
Humanity (the experience of, and the participation in) IS THE ULTIMATE HUMAN EXPERIENCE - Virtue IS it's own reward. This is an inescapable truth of our DNA determined nervous system. Humanity produces Joy (chemical cocktail). Un/InHumanity produces pleasure (a Different chemical cocktail). Joy TRUMPS pleasure. No other "positive" choices possible.
Humanity is that experience of Life, the entire experiential "Diet) that an enlightened, aware human being would want to 99.999999999999999999999% Flood every waking microsecond of themselves, and of the entire waking life of anyone and everyone they have even the least caring for. No?
Humanity is that experience of Life, the entire experiential "Diet) that an enlightened, aware human being would want to 99.999999999999999999999% Flood every waking microsecond of themselves, and of the entire waking life of anyone and everyone they have even the least caring for. No?
YOU MAY BE THE ONLY JESUS
From an email I just received from our sister Nancy. Breathtaking! Magnificent! The entire story of Jesus - what He died to give the world:
"You May Be the Only Jesus
Somebody Knows"
Somebody Knows"
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
—Galatians 2:20
There was a soldier who was wounded in battle. The padre crept out and did what he could for him. He stayed with him when the remainder of the troops retreated. In the heat of the day he gave him water from his own water bottle, while he himself remained parched with thirst. In the night, when the chill frost came down, he covered the wounded man with his own coat, and finally wrapped him up in even more of his own clothes to save him from the cold. In the end the wounded man looked up at the padre. "Padre," he said, "You're a Christian?"
"I try to be," said the padre.
"Then," said the wounded man "if Christianity makes a man do for another man what you have done for me, tell me about it, because I want it." *
You are the only Jesus somebody knows. Christ [HUMANITY / God (or what we can know of God)] lives in you and will use you to help heal this hurting world if you'll let Him. The priest was willing to become uncomfortable for the sake of a dying man. Sometimes I don't feel like going out of my way to reach out to someone and sometimes I close the door. There are other times when I realize that I represent Jesus to the world around me and that I touch someone not with my love but with His love. [WRONG: God's Love, HUMANITY (all that we can know of God) is what Jesus surrendered to, and what he Led US to surrender to.] And it makes a difference in their life and mine.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Start
ps: "I TRY to be...." I despise it when I am asked "Are you a Christian?" Why do I despise it? In large part because it largely implies - have you joined the "club!" Well, in Jesus' eyes, if there IS some valid category of "Christian" it has absolutely NOTHING to do with self declaration or joining-a-club. It would ENTIRELY have to do with Being. The "Padre's" answer above captures this. Nancy, thanks for this answer I can use in the future when the hideous question is asked of me, "Are you a Christian?" " I TRY to be."
THE MEASURE OF HUMANITY; FOR JESUS IT WAS BILLIONS
OUR HUMANITY'S MEASURE: THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN OUR "IMMEDIATE FAMILY (RECEIVE OUR FULL HUMANITY OUR PROPENSITY FOR OUR FULL HUMANITY):
Jesus: XX,000,000,000
Most of us: XX
OUR INHUMANITY'S MEASURE: THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE NOT IN OUR "IMMEDIATE FAMILY (RECEIVE OUR NEGLECT, LIP SERVICE, LEFT OVERS, EXPLOITATION, HOSTILITY; OUR PROPENSITY FOR OUR INHUMANITY):
Jesus: 0
Most of us: XX,000,000,000
What is important about Jesus is his Humanity, NOT whatever Divinity He may or may not have (which is a murderous, hideous distraction from what He died for). Jesus was a man, a man that found the secret to life, and died trying to share it with us. (King, Gandhi, Teresa, Berrigan... DID share.)
The secret of Jesus? The key to Heaven on Earth for you, me all humankind? The key to the psychological place of infinite Joy? Humanity; your Humanity; the size of your Humanity.
But, my Humanity is not under my individual control! My Humanity is entirely under my individual control in the same sense as is my capacity to speak French, play the piano or climb mountains.
Merry Christmas.
Your Loving brother, Start
KINGDOM OF GOD: WHEN YOUR HUMANITY EMBRACES YOUR ENEMY
The Kingdom of God is where/when YOU have lost your amnesia (that everyone is your family), EVEN IF NO ONE ELSE HAS!!!! This seems to be what has happened to me. [Note: If indeed I am NOT in the Kindom of God now, PLEASE DON'T TELL ME, cuz I can't imagine anything that feels, every second, more like Heaven.]
"The Least of These:" 2 flavors: MATERIAL, SPIRITUAL
The "least of these" are in two main categories - A. economically; B. morally / spritually.
The greatest poverty I've encountered is in the west; poverty of the spirit. Teresa of Calcutta
The greatest poverty I've encountered is in the west; poverty of the spirit. Teresa of Calcutta
TO "PROFIT FROM" IS SIN AGAINST OUR HUMANITY (THE ONLY GOD WE CAN KNOW)
We do not, we do NEVER "PROFIT" off of "family" members. Right? Our Hearts REVOLT at the thought of it; profiting off of "family"! Yup. But that is exactly how we fund our overprivilege you and me, by making profit off of Jesus "least of these." The point? We need to START profiting off of our immediate family members! Just think how joyful that will be!!!! Just think what we've been missing! Duh!!!!
The opposite is why we were created. The opposite is what it is to Live / Be Alive / THE ENTIRETY OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE: TO PROFIT OTHERS BY YOUR EXISTENCE.
The opposite is why we were created. The opposite is what it is to Live / Be Alive / THE ENTIRETY OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE: TO PROFIT OTHERS BY YOUR EXISTENCE.
CULTURALLY INDUCED AMNESIA: WHAT JESUS DIED TO DISPELL
The reason that Jesus' Gift is required is our mass, pathological, clinical AMNESIA induced by today's INFINITELY psychologically-toxic-environment (such an environment the indigenous tribes of 30-60 members that we humans neorlogically evolved to flourish within are not poluted by). At age one ALL 6 BILLION BORN WERE YOUR FAMILY! IT WAS NOT THE PLAN OF YOUR DNA THAT THIS AMNESIA OCCUR!
JESUS GIFT CAN KILL; IS KILLING MILLIONS
Jesus' "Gift" can kill us, IS slaughtering us; is killing those of us "Christians" most of all. What!?!?!? Dr. King: "Nothing is so tempting as evil in the garb of virtue." Therefore NOTHING IS SO TEMPTING AS INHUMANITY IN THE GARB OF HUMANITY. We use Jesus offering to us (of our Humanity, forgotten family) TO GIVE US THE DELUSION OF possessing our HUMANITY PRECISELY SO WE CAN MAINTAIN and INCREASE OUR INHUMANITY (truly neglect our "least of these" family)!!!!!! Look at where the Christmas lights are; are the beautiful ones in the homeless shelters? No, but don't that $5 scarf we threw in the collection box for our "least of these" child make us feel Humane? Look at where we will spend Christmas; with "our" "family," NOT with JESUS family who we will abandon on that day as much or more than ever. Etc. Etc. Etc. THIS IS NOT ABOUT "BAD." THIS IS ABOUT "LOSS" of our Humanity, of our TRUE FAMILY. Where will our gift budget go; to the "least of these?" Hardly. And don't we feel Humane! See what we are missing? See what we are "giving" to the "immeidate family" we DO recognize? OUR AMNESIA!!!!!! OUR INHUMANITY!!!!!!!!
HUMANITY IS WHAT JESUS DIED FOR
[an email I sent a Christmas]
I've just been given my Christmas present and I'm breathless with the wonder, with the overwhelming joy of it; and I want you to have it. I pray I can give it to you.
I've just been given my Christmas present and I'm breathless with the wonder, with the overwhelming joy of it; and I want you to have it. I pray I can give it to you.
- Jesus' Humanity was me, you... everyone born and unborn, ESPECIALLY THE LEAST OF THESE OUR HUMAN FAMILY. Nothing else is or ever can be our Humanity.
- Our Humanity is our Life, Love, Truth. Nothing besides our Humanity is our Life, Love, Truth.
- Our Humanity ("the least of these") is "the Pearl of great price."
- Our Humanity ("the least of these") is the "Treasure" worth selling all we have for.
This is what the "rich young man" did not grasp. Jesus attempted to give him, to return to him his Humanity, "the least of these his family" that he had abandoned, forgotten and ignored. Oh my God, what a gift. "The rich young man couldn't see it. The rich young man thought he was being asked to take up a burden. No, the rich young man was being offered HIS LIFE, HIS HUMANITY, HIS FAMILY!!! The Pearl. The Treasure.
MARK 8:36: "What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his HUMANITY ("the least of these," HIS/HER BROTHERS AND SISTERS in Iraq, Iran, Palestine, New Orleans, Congo, Haiti...!?!?!?)"
What profit is there for one to gain the whole world FOR THEIR [CHILDREN OR DEAREST ONE'S] WHILE SACRIFICING THE HUMANITY OF THEIR CHILDREN OR DEAREST ONES?!?!?!!?!
Who are you NOT LOVING-with-your-actions on this Planet? THEY are your lost Humanity; the diminishment of your Humanity... YOUR INHUMANITY. Jesus showed us this, how to FIND our lost Humanity, and to REGAIN OUR LOST HUMANITY, to SAVE our Humanity, to become ALIVE in our Humanity - TO BE SAVED!!!!! For this he Joyfully died. [I hope we do to.]
Oh I am so sorry if this does not communicate to you. Forgive me.
Wishing you the Joy of CHRISTmas - regaining Humanity - yours, your children's, mine ...the World's.
Loving you infinitely, your brother, Start
ps: I expect to spend CHRISTmas with our "least of these" in-US-uniform, Iraqi and Iranian family on Capitol Hill. I pray you find as much Joy as I will on that Sacred day of Jesus birth.
pps: Pass it on.
ppps: The writeup on me at a Capitol Hill church I was asked to address this week - "Start Loving is a former corporate executive who reminds me of St. Francis of Assisi. He literally give up his safe and comfortable world to be come a prophetic witness for peace. He radiates compassion and love." [I pray it is so.]
--- follow on to the email above the next day---
My Beloved family,
I received some more of the "Gift" (yesterday's email to you) this morning going to, during and coming from church. Please let me share.[What I experience to be the entire value of the following is its absolute, entire UNIVERSAL, ALL IMPORTANT PSYCHOLOGICAL TRUTH; such truth without which it would have zero, ZERO value in my view.]
- THE GIFT (yesterday's email; explicitly what Jesus died to give us): The Gift is His Humanity. The Gift is to-become/merge with/reunite with-OUR-Humanity - "the least of these our brothers;" the "immediate family" ("least of these") around the world that our psychologically toxic environment has erased from our memory, or worse, demonized and "alien"-ated from us. No, there is nothing else to Jesus' Gift than that; if you truly had clinical amnesia, had forgotten your biological "children," "sisters," etc. and were "cured" of that amnesia - WHAT GREATER GIFT COULD YOU BE GIVEN? Hmmmm. What if those forgotten "children," "brothers," "sisters..." were poor? Diseased? "Foreign?" "Extremely needy?" "Gay?" Black? Israeli? Palestinian? Muslim...? It wouldn't matter would it? No. With the lifting of the amnesia you would have received the greatest gift possible. Truly. Right? This is the entirety of what Jesus died to give us - our 6 billion "forgotten" family members, and 30 billion yet to be born. Was this family real and worth everything to Him? He died for them with Love and Joy. We will JOYFULLY die for them if and when we are "Saved" from our "amnesia," "delusion;" purely for the Joy of it. There could be no greater Joy, personally; more or equivalent Joy would be a psychological impossibility. Jesus did not die to make us "good." Jesus died to GIVE US THAT WHICH IS !!!!!GOOD!!!!! There is no punishment from Jesus if we continue to ignore his Gift. There is only punishment OF Jesus, and of OURSELVES BY OURSELVES when we ignore his gift. (Think of when your "loved one" has ignored advice you gave that you KNOW WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM JOY AND SAVED THEM MISERY; how did you feel? What did THEY CHEAT THEMSELVES OF?)
3.27.2008
3.01.2008
HOME PAGE
Everything I've Learned,
Everything on this site
can be reduced to
any one of the following:
Join JESUS
Start LOVING
Militant KINDNESS
Militant HUMANITY
Watch this (2min)... then read on...
Beyond question it is entirely possible to Rescue and Restore Darfur, eliminate poverty, bring peace to Palestine, wage war of "construction" in Iraq, prevent Bombing of Iran, save and protect US Forces.... Any imagining of the effort and elements required to do so are dwarfed by the US and worldwide resources to do so. Therefore, it is simply a matter of lacking, thus far, and raising the will to effect the Rescue and Restore. Start has given much thought to:
- THE JOY (Rapture) of the attempt (INDEX OF POSTS).
- How to bring Humanity (peace, justice, Love, Joy and Life) to the oppressed and the oppressors (INDEX OF POSTS).
OUR ENTIRE WORK LIES IS RAISING THE WILL... IN TIME: Employees and citizens in this world can be counted upon to be selfish, whether we like it or not. This includes our Elected Government Officials. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS DO WHAT IS IN THEIR INTEREST. HOW DO WE MAKE DARFUR, PALESTINE, CONGO, IRAQ CIVILIANS.... CENTRAL TO THEIR INTEREST?
- YOUR BEHAVIOR MUST BE THE CATALYST...
- FOR ONE, AND
- THEN TWO AND
- THEN FOUR...
- OUR BEHAVIOR MUST BE THE CATALYST FOR THOUSANDS, AND
- FINALLY...BILLIONS TO...
STAND SO CLEARLY,
FIRMLY AND COMMITTEDLY
THAT FELLOW HUMANS
AND THE POLITICIANS
SEE AN UNMISTAKABLE
TRUTH / MANDATE / ULTIMATUM /
OPPORTUNITY.
Thinking on the key elements for this to happen:
- Wisdom has been drawn from Gandhi's, King's, Assisi's, Teresa's, Romero's... master - JESUS (INDEX OF POSTS), and MANY MASTERS (INDEX OF POSTS)throughout history.
- THE PHYSICS OF THE BATTLE (INDEX OF POSTS),
- THE MENTALITY (INDEX OF POSTS) at issue,
- THE (CLINICAL) MADNESSES (INDEX OF POSTS) that keeps us all from acting accordingly,
- FINDING THE COURAGE AND WISDOM (INDEX OF POSTS) as individuals.
- THE COST (INDEX OF POSTS)to those that make the attempt.
WE MUST HURRY
10.17.2007
"PEACE MOVEMENT:" WHO WOULD SAY YOUR BEHAVIOR MATCHES YOUR WARNINGS?
No one would say your actions match your warnings.
Your warnings say Armageddon.
Your actions say, "Ban soda machines from high school grounds!" (unless you don't want to)
Your warnings say Armageddon.
Your actions say, "Ban soda machines from high school grounds!" (unless you don't want to)
10.16.2007
DEAR PEACE ACTIVIST, WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THE SURGEON "WARRING" FOR YOUR LOVED ONE?
"Tell me what Hypocricy looks like."
"THIS IS WHAT HYPOCRICY LOOKS LIKE...."
No! I didn't INTENTIONALLY live a life of Hypocricy either!!!!!!! But I did, until I began to peal off the layers of propaganda, lies, deceit and indoctrination implanted in me over a lifetime.
Ok. You hate my "war" language. Let me tear away the veil of hyocricy from your eyes.
Your loved one can be saved only by one Dr. in the world - extremely expensive and totally booked - NO WAY!!!!!!!!
You get an audience, plead, beg your case. And you see a miracle. She says, "My God, you've convinced me." You see she is on fire with passion. "By God, me and my team are headed to the O.R., we are going to war to saved your loved one, and we are not coming out till we are done."
How do you feel? Elated right?
Inclined to criticize the language of the Dr.? No. Not unless you are a psychopath. You are elated!!!!!
You don't like "war" as a word because YOU don't want to be MOBILIZED AS IF IT WERE WAR.
"THIS IS WHAT HYPOCRICY LOOKS LIKE...."
No! I didn't INTENTIONALLY live a life of Hypocricy either!!!!!!! But I did, until I began to peal off the layers of propaganda, lies, deceit and indoctrination implanted in me over a lifetime.
Ok. You hate my "war" language. Let me tear away the veil of hyocricy from your eyes.
Your loved one can be saved only by one Dr. in the world - extremely expensive and totally booked - NO WAY!!!!!!!!
You get an audience, plead, beg your case. And you see a miracle. She says, "My God, you've convinced me." You see she is on fire with passion. "By God, me and my team are headed to the O.R., we are going to war to saved your loved one, and we are not coming out till we are done."
How do you feel? Elated right?
Inclined to criticize the language of the Dr.? No. Not unless you are a psychopath. You are elated!!!!!
You don't like "war" as a word because YOU don't want to be MOBILIZED AS IF IT WERE WAR.
INCINERATING EMPIRE: SHOWING EMPIRE TO ITSELF BY COMPARISON WITH YOU
Empire can be made to see itself when it is placed in contrast to itself, that is, when it is in the presence of Massive Humanity.
This is your opportunity. This is all about "being." Yes action matters, but if you allow yourself to become totally "infected" with Humanity, YOU CANNOT HELP BUT COMMIT YOURSELF TO THE MOST HEROIC LIFE OF ACTION.
This is your opportunity. This is all about "being." Yes action matters, but if you allow yourself to become totally "infected" with Humanity, YOU CANNOT HELP BUT COMMIT YOURSELF TO THE MOST HEROIC LIFE OF ACTION.
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