If you've struggled with the above on this site you can make your own judgement on this.
Either way I deserve ZERO blame or ZERO credit.
For all practical purposes the contents of this site, any value or new insights, revelations that have come through me were just "there." They were a product of Our Father / Divine Wisdom / Insipiration / Supra Consciousness / Conscience / Immagination ... I don't care what you call it.
All this came as I stopped thinking, stopped talking, and started Loving, started turning all my attention to the Heart.
3.08.2007
Jesus' Reign? Death of Capitalism
This is a shocking discovery for me that has come within just the last months. I probably might never have gotten there had I not read Dellinger's Yale to Jail, or Zinn's People's History of the United States.
Adam Smith, the creator of Capitalism, a good man as near as I can tell, reached the genocidal conclusion that: The world is too complex to be managed by brotherhood / one family. We must surrender to capitalism, forget the Golden Rule, and God, Devine Providence will work it all out for the best. Oh My GOD.
Adam Smith, the creator of Capitalism, a good man as near as I can tell, reached the genocidal conclusion that: The world is too complex to be managed by brotherhood / one family. We must surrender to capitalism, forget the Golden Rule, and God, Devine Providence will work it all out for the best. Oh My GOD.
The psychology of Life and Joy
Well, some day I hope to have the time to complete this post. For now, this entire site, particularly the posts above will have to suffice. But in addition, or for emphasis:
* We have two basic ways of "living" out our lives, two mutually exclusive choices of paradigm: The world is Enemy, or the world is Family.
* SELFISHNESS is the being of the life lived among "enemies." Do unto others before they do unto you.
* OTHERISHNESS / BROTHERLY LOVE is the life lived among "world as family."
There are two chemical coctails of a positive nature that can wash our nuerons - Pleasere and Joy.
PLEASURE IS ELLICITED WHEN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IS INVOLVED IN SELFISHNESS.
JOY IS THE COCTAIL THAT BATHES THE NEURONS WHEN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IS HEROICALLY SERVING THE "OTHER."
HOW MUCH MONEY / SELFISH PLEASURE WOULD IT TAKE TO CAUSE A HEALTHY MOTHER TO SELL HERE CHILD - THE ONE THAT CRIES, POOPLS, SCREAMS, DEMANDS.... THE ONE THAT SHE DEVOTES HER LIFE TO SERVING?
JOY ALWAYS TRUMPS PLEASURE. HOWEVER, WE HAVE BECOME SLAVE TO A CULTURE THAT HAS REMOVED, OR PUNISHES VIRTUALLY ALL OPPORTUNITUES FOR OTHERISHNESS / HEROIC NONVIOLENT SERIVCE.
* We have two basic ways of "living" out our lives, two mutually exclusive choices of paradigm: The world is Enemy, or the world is Family.
* SELFISHNESS is the being of the life lived among "enemies." Do unto others before they do unto you.
* OTHERISHNESS / BROTHERLY LOVE is the life lived among "world as family."
There are two chemical coctails of a positive nature that can wash our nuerons - Pleasere and Joy.
PLEASURE IS ELLICITED WHEN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IS INVOLVED IN SELFISHNESS.
JOY IS THE COCTAIL THAT BATHES THE NEURONS WHEN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IS HEROICALLY SERVING THE "OTHER."
HOW MUCH MONEY / SELFISH PLEASURE WOULD IT TAKE TO CAUSE A HEALTHY MOTHER TO SELL HERE CHILD - THE ONE THAT CRIES, POOPLS, SCREAMS, DEMANDS.... THE ONE THAT SHE DEVOTES HER LIFE TO SERVING?
JOY ALWAYS TRUMPS PLEASURE. HOWEVER, WE HAVE BECOME SLAVE TO A CULTURE THAT HAS REMOVED, OR PUNISHES VIRTUALLY ALL OPPORTUNITUES FOR OTHERISHNESS / HEROIC NONVIOLENT SERIVCE.
Capitalist Culture: Clincally Pathological to the Soul
See Alfred Adler, Victor Frankl, M. Csikszentmihalyi, Abe Maslow....
See the posts at the top of this site.
Otherishness / brotherly love is sanity / psychological health.
Adam Smith capitalism is the explicit elimination of Otherishness / Brotherly Love / Christian responsibility from all economic life.
How many days can you go without water without damaging your body?
How many minutes can you go without breathing without damage?
How many weeks without any form of movement or exercise at all?
How many days can you totally abuse your body with sweets and junk food before your health degrades.
HOW MANY HOURS CAN YOU GO WITHOUT HEROIC, TOTAL BROTHERHOOD / OTHERISHNESS WITHOUT DAMAGING YOUR HEART / MIND / SPIRIT / SANITY?
See the posts at the top of this site.
Otherishness / brotherly love is sanity / psychological health.
Adam Smith capitalism is the explicit elimination of Otherishness / Brotherly Love / Christian responsibility from all economic life.
How many days can you go without water without damaging your body?
How many minutes can you go without breathing without damage?
How many weeks without any form of movement or exercise at all?
How many days can you totally abuse your body with sweets and junk food before your health degrades.
HOW MANY HOURS CAN YOU GO WITHOUT HEROIC, TOTAL BROTHERHOOD / OTHERISHNESS WITHOUT DAMAGING YOUR HEART / MIND / SPIRIT / SANITY?
STOP THINKING. STOP TALKING. START LOVING.
It has taken an enormous amount of "Thinking" to get us into this mess - econimic genocide, middle class decimation, 13 children starving to death per minute, unopposed genocide in Darfur, 8 million slaughtered in Congo for cheap electronics, 40 year Palestinian concentration camps, nuclear weapons proliferation, US child well-being 19th out of 20....
It has taken an enormous amount of "Talking" to keep us in this mess.
It has taken an enormous amount of "Talking" to keep us in this mess.
"Loving" is the only way out of this mess. If we still have time.
3.06.2007
Jesus STANDS not for Justice or for Charity. ONLY OTHERISHNESS / BROTHERHOOD.
Charity and justice reigning can only come as a system of OTHERISHNESS / BROTHERHOOD as a way of life.
THE ULTIMATE SELFISHNESS IS THE ULTIMATE OTHERISHNESS
Otherishness IS Heaven on Earth:
* For the dooer
* For the receiver
* For the dooer
* For the receiver
Dear [Inner] Family, What if you don't see the grenades?
Hi. The following was quite helpful when it came to me last night as I was speaking to college students from Wisconsin in front of the White House. One of them quite appropriately but wrongheaddedly asked me if vigiling there "does any good?" What she had in mind I am sure was the time-killing/Darfur-killing emails, phone calls, lobying congress. Finally, with the following I found something that might help others understand the inappropriateness of such actions today. Into Thanksgiving Dinner rolls a live Hand Grenade...
Well, of course you are my Inner Family and I see grenades raining down all around you: Darfur, Palestine, Lebanon, Impending Police State, Congo, Guatemala, Haiti, Chester, Camden....
You don't see them.
I'll keep diving on them. That is going to keep me pretty busy. I probably will not be able to come to see you for a long, long time.
Well, of course you are my Inner Family and I see grenades raining down all around you: Darfur, Palestine, Lebanon, Impending Police State, Congo, Guatemala, Haiti, Chester, Camden....
You don't see them.
I'll keep diving on them. That is going to keep me pretty busy. I probably will not be able to come to see you for a long, long time.
"Be HEROES," Jesus said. No?
"Heaven on Earth = REIGNING OTHERISHNESS Elimanting Selfishness," Jesus said. (Do you disagree?)
Truly, to articulate and promote this may be why I was born. I think it embodies everything that Jesus told us, and everything of value that I've learned from countless authors, HEROES and decades of striving:
"Be Heaven on Earth. REIGN OTHERISHNESS to Elimante Selfishness," Jesus said. (Do you disagree?)
"LIVE Heaven on Earth. Reign Otherishness to Elimante Selfishness," Jesus said. (Do you disagree?)
[Site not yet begun BeHEROES. My hope is to create and maintain a site broader than DARFUR Dying For Heroes to encourage and insprire heroes in every applicable realm: Human Rights, Religion, Environment, Anti-War, Anti-Nuc....]
Otherishness, Heroism - the antidote to Selfishness (the root of all evil) - is the object of this site. The insight that led to its creation includes prominently this quote from David Dellinger:
"Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love [Otherishness] or total war. "
There are many permutations of this - many forms of selfishness, many forms of evil that result. Check out:
DELLINGER'S WORDS THAT COULD SAVE THE WORLD
Truly, to articulate and promote this may be why I was born. I think it embodies everything that Jesus told us, and everything of value that I've learned from countless authors, HEROES and decades of striving:
"Be Heaven on Earth. REIGN OTHERISHNESS to Elimante Selfishness," Jesus said. (Do you disagree?)
"LIVE Heaven on Earth. Reign Otherishness to Elimante Selfishness," Jesus said. (Do you disagree?)
[Site not yet begun BeHEROES. My hope is to create and maintain a site broader than DARFUR Dying For Heroes to encourage and insprire heroes in every applicable realm: Human Rights, Religion, Environment, Anti-War, Anti-Nuc....]
Otherishness, Heroism - the antidote to Selfishness (the root of all evil) - is the object of this site. The insight that led to its creation includes prominently this quote from David Dellinger:
"Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love [Otherishness] or total war. "
There are many permutations of this - many forms of selfishness, many forms of evil that result. Check out:
DELLINGER'S WORDS THAT COULD SAVE THE WORLD
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