Start, Wage, Loving: For Joy Serve Soul In Solidarity

6.17.2007

"OUR FATHER... LEAD US NOT INTO ["ME"...]"

"...whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these." USCCB - NAB - John 14 12.

In the spirit of John 14:12 I share what has been revealed to me:

"Our Father... lead us not into ["me"];

But, Deliver us [to "WE," Militant PeaceMaking, Brotherliness, Heaven]..."

better captures what Jesus intended.

"OUR FATHER... DELIVER US [TO "WE;" TO PEACEMAKING]..."

"...whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these." USCCB - NAB - John 14 12.

In the spirit of John 14:12 I share what has been revealed to me:

"Our Father... lead us not into ["me"];

But, Deliver us [to "WE," Militant PeaceMaking, Brotherliness, Heaven]..."

better captures what Jesus intended.

OUR RELIGION WE PRACTICE? PROSTITUTION.

Astonishing. As a professional in the computer industry, for decades I've used and heard the expression "prostituted himself / herself." Have we not all heard that?

Def: a person who willingly uses his or her talent or ability in a base and unworthy way, usually for money.

Well, what does Our Father have to say about this?

"Life is given, not for oneself personally, but for the fulfillment of the Father's will, which alone saves from death and gives life." Gospel in Brief
"Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me." USCCB - NAB - Mark 8 34

Are these exhortations from Our Father what we do in our society? Prostitute ourselves is what we do in our society with all the religious fervor we can muster.

NOT "as you do unto the LESSER of these..."

But isn't "lesser" exactly the word whe "hear" when we think of this scripture?

These that follow are who we "do unto," are they not? Are they "the least of these" or "the [LESSER] of these?!?!??!"

My bioligical child [who happens to be infinitely better off than most of my 4 billion children?]
My demanding wife.
My cranky mother.
My disgruntled older sister.
My boss.
My disagreeable co-worker....

Jesus gave us the SOLUTION TO LIFE: "As you do unto the LEAST of these my family you do unto me."

What we COULD pay for with our lives.

Currently we pay for all sorts of stuff with our lives right?

Good grades
Social acceptance
"Family" peace and acceptance
Sex (yup). No not necessarily with money. There are lots of way to prostitute ourselves.
Promotions.
Bigger dwelling.
Better school for me and mine.
Nicer clothes.
Better furniture.
Stuff.
Superiority.
Systems and Institutions.
Etc.
Etc.

Think of what we could pay for with our lives!!!!!!!!!!!!! AWESOME:

End of 18,000 children starving to death per day
End the occupation of Palestine
End the attrocities in Darfur
End the slaughter in Darfur
End the suffering and neglect of Katrina
End the holocaust in front of us due to global warming
Etc.
Etc.
Etc...

The Empire that is U.S.

It is out of the goodness of our heart that we have in excess of 1000 U.S. military bases around the world right?

It is not so that we can secure / exploit the best resources at the lowest price for US consumers and US capitalist interests. Right? It is the poor and needy in these societies that are benefiting from our presence. Right.

US Military Bases Around the World
by Populist Party
Fri Mar 16, 2007 at 03:36:33 PM PDT

...People in US cities would be outraged if another country garrisoned its troops close by with all the resulting fallout: unacceptable noise, pollution, environmental destruction, appropriation of valued public real estate along with drunken soldiers on the loose violating laws, causing damage and raping local women. Not the kinds of neighbors we choose, especially when they're mostly unaccountable for their actions...

Chalmers Johnson, in his book Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, reviews the known number of US bases in other countries by size and branch of service. According to the Department of Defense's Base Structure Report through 2005, the official total of all sizes is 737, but so many were built in recent years, Johnson believes the actual number exceeds 1000 and is rising. Unlisted ones includes dozens in Iraq, 106 garrisons in Afghanistan, the gigantic Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo built after the Yugoslav war in 1999, and others in Eastern Europe, Israel, Qatar and other Gulf states plus ongoing negotiations all the time to build new bases in new locations in new and currently "occupied" countries.

Beware of "Twelve Tribes"

Twelve Tribes of Israel is a cult. It broke my heart to discover this. I don't know if they know they are a cult. I don't know if the founders realize it. Oh my. I came within inches of joining them, after months of exploration, prayer. It was only at the last seconds that enough experience had accumulated within me that I could see that they are not about worshiping the Divine, the Almighty, the Father within us, but rather they are about surrendering to the Power Structure they have formed within including their first and second generation of children, some of whom I have witnessed displaying what I can only describe as Naziesque behavior:

smiling viciousness visited on a visitor in their presence - a middle aged woman who obviously was damaged by abuse in her life.
repeatedly dismissing a wife as one might have expected a black slave to be dismissed by a black hearted master.
rank arrogance displayed by the power structure / hierarchy;
a hierarchy of approval by their "leader," NOT a hierarchy of Love / Otherishness / Brotherliness....

They do so much correctly - location, simplicity, health.... But as almost all attempts it has been mortally corrupted by the desire of men to control other men, and of course, women.

ML King: "Life's most urgent and persistant question..."

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' " Martin Luther King, Jr.

God damn it! We have been so damaged, so corrupted in our ability to communicate / hear.

Don't you hear Dr. King's words, as I did, as a weighty moral commandment?!??!?!?

IT IS A SOLUTION TO LIFE. LIFE! Dr. King, like Jesus, is telling us how to gain the full experience of Life!!! He is giving us the solution! Let's get on with it!!!!!

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' " Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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." Eleanor Roosevelt;

"The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die." George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

WE ARE "DYING" FOR MODELS

This is the single greatest problem in the world. How to live joyfully? How to be good? How to "Save" others? How to "Save" ourselves?...

THERE ARE NO MODELS TODAY, VIRTUALLY NONE!

HOW DO WE EXPECT ANYONE TO "GET IT" IF THERE ARE NO MODELS?

WE NEED TO BECOME MODELS, GREAT MODELS.

"Ignorance is bliss..."FUL MASS MURDER!!!!!!!!

Duh!! It is just amazing how diluded we are and how long, oh how long it takes to climb up to the light.

I grew up in a town, Short Hills, among the most wealthy in the world! My mom was a social hub of this town! What blisful ignorance!!!!!!! What blisful blindness!!!!!!

There are two ways to have a world that looks like heaven:

Create Heaven in the material world.
Obscure that which is not Heavenly and construct for YOU AND YOURS the best you can.

JESUS: MUCH "PLANTING." LITTLE "CULTIVATING."

Jesus didn't spend much time in one place, or chasing after folks.

Followers Jesus did spend repeated and considerable time with, but never chasing after followers / disciples I suspect.

Let's do the same.

MUCH "PLANTING."

LITTLE "CULTIVATING."

Why little time "cultivating?" Jesus said it has to do with "many are called, but few are chosen."

HELL = SEPARATION FROM LOVE / LIFE / TRUTH.

I testify that I would die if I returned to my life of Selfishness / Neglect / Indifference / Separation from "the LEAST of these my family." It would be Hell.

I wish I had known this 30 years ago.

MY QUEST: WHAT WOULD HAVE SAVED ME

This site would have Saved me from 30 years of Hell, off of the Path.

Although I expect to spend much time with it, studying it, if I ever forget it, please return me to this site.

"Start, you love [everyone] so deeply," the Sister observed.

I testify:

Think of the person you most love in the world.
Feel how much that love means to you.
Each other person you learn to love that much will multiply your Joy / Love / Fulness by almost that much.

Unleashing "Lusting" is the solution to Greed / Mammon / Selfishness / Stuff / Superiority / Systems - Institutions / Pleasure / Hell.

Unleashing "Loving" is the solution to Life / Love / Truth / Soul / Solidarity / Serving / Joy / Heaven.

WWOFHUD: WHAT WOULD OUR FATHER HAVE US DO?

Jesus did not ask what "Jesus" would do. Although I think we should!

Jesus asked

"What would Our Father have us do?"

WE SHOULD TOO.

1. "Our Father in Heaven."
2. "Hallowed be your name."
3. "Thy Kingom [IS FUNDED]"
4. "[As] Your will [is] done on earth as it is in Heaven.
5. "Give us [all] this day our daily bread."
6. "Forgive us our [errors],"
7. "As we forgive [the errors of others.]
8. "LEAD US NOT INTO ["ME"...]" BUT
9. "DELIVER US [TO "WE;" MILITANT PEACEMAKING, BROTHERLINESS, HEAVEN]..."
10: For Thine is the "Kingdom," and the
11. "Power" and the
10. "Glory"

EVERYTHING ON THIS SITE IS ENCAPSULATED IN THIS POST AND THE ASSOCIATED LINKS ABOVE.

WHEN THIS PRAYER, PRAYED THIS WAY IS THE CENTER OF MY LIFE I AM ON THE PATH.

JESUS' PRAYER IS PERFECT.

"GIVE EVERYTHING AND FREE YOUR SPIRIT." Start Loving

Well, this is how it is.

For the first third of my life I took and almost never gave. It was Hell. Drowning in pleasure, starving for joy.

In the last half of my life I have given everything, as best I have known how, to others. Pleasure has been at an ever accelerating decrease. JOY ABOUNDS. PEACE ABOUNDS. HEAVEN.

"GIVE EVERYTHING AND
FREE YOUR SPIRIT."
Start Loving

Man is an intelligence
in servitude to his organs.

Aldous Huxley

For YOU it will be LUSTING or LOVING

For me too of course.

A switch is on OR off.

At any instant a PC is being used for Word OR Excel.

A piece of steel is a shovel OR a pitchfork.

For YOU it will be LUSTING or LOVING

"Start, having an impact?" AS MUCH AS I CAN.

What can make a father work harder, suffer more, risk more than Love for his child?

Love is the greatest taskmaster.

The question I most hear from the rare person that stops to talk as I march all day at the Sudan Embassy in DC is, "Are you having an impact?"

THE PRIMARY QUESTION

IN THE FACE OF EMERGENCY

IS NEVER -

"ARE YOU HAVING AN IMPACT?"

AS A SECONDARY QUESTION FOR

GUIDANCE / TARGETING THIS QUES. CAN HELP.

THE PRIMARY QUESTION

IN THE FACE OF EMERGENCY IS -

"IS THIS YOUR BEST CHANCE

TO ALLEVIATE THE EMERGENCY?"

WHAT ARE YOU ASKING YOURSELF?

SIN is ERROR. NOTHING LESS!

What do you mean by "nothing less" Start?

"Less" than "error" are - Guilt, "I know I should," I'll go to Hell if I don't..., it is Bad....

What?!?!!?!? These are LESS THAN "Error?!?!?!?"

Yes. I'll show you with an example that applies to me, but if you want you can imagine one that applies to you:

My biological father, who I worship(ed) as a man of great knowledge, wisdom, character and toughness was my driving teacher as a teen. He taught me to drive.

"KEEP BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL AT ALL TIMES," he commanded! Well, when he was in the car with me I sulkingly and cowardly obeyed. BUT, OH BOY, WHEN HE WAS NOT WITH ME, ONE HAND IS WHAT I TYPICALLY USED; EASIER, MORE RELAXED, MORE COOL!!!! I FELT GUILTY! I KNEW I SHOULD! I KNEW I WAS BEING BAD! But all these I could tolerate!

Then one dark, gray, rainy afternoon I found myself on a cattle-chute like, under construction stretch of highway. ERROR! Both hands went to the wheel!!!

I WAS UNWILLING TO PAY THE PRICE

OF WHAT THEN I COULD SEE WAS

ERROR - VIOLATING THE

GOOD WISDOM IMPARTED

BY MY FATHER.

!!!!!!!NO DOUBLE STANDARDS. EVER!!!!!!

Probably the entire contents of this site, everything I've learned, everything I believe Jesus and the other "Greats" learned and taught can be reduced to this:

NO DOUBLE STANDARDS. EVER.

Do unto others ALL
that you would have them do unto you

Love your brother as yourself

Love your enemy

As you do unto the least of these
MY FAMILY, you do unto me

ONE FATHER. EVERYONE IS
"IMMEDIATE FAMILY."
GET ON WITH IT.

UBUNTU:

An ancient African word meaning
"humanity to others";
and
"I AM WHAT I AM
BECAUSE OF WHO WE ALL ARE".

"A TIME TO KILL." BEHOLD SALVATION. "WE"

A Time to Kill (1996)

More recently I have written: LOVE is COURAGE is CONNECTION is TRUTH. (Please scan this post and then return here.)

See this movie. When you do you will see a cataclysmic scene toward the end where the afore mentioned Post is achieved / illustrated like a thunder clap. Brilliant. Blindingly divine. In the blink of an eye a group of people are transported before our eyes from Hell to Heaven. Salvation, what it is, how it happens, what it means all there to see in a the universe of five seconds or less.

Email me if what I am pointing you to is not clear. I'll explain what I am attempting to share.

"Start, I'm thinking you are 'Biblically crazy' "

This quote, above, from a nationally recognized journalist that is deeply disturbed / shaken / troubled / moved by my stand at the Sudan Embassy.

"Start, I'm thinking you are

'Biblically crazy' "

"LOVING" IS THE "SOLUTION" FOR THE HEART

Breathing is the solution
for the lungs.

Eating is the solution
for the stomach.

"LUSTING" IS THE "SOLUTION"
FOR THE FLESH

"LOVING" IS THE "SOLUTION"
FOR THE HEART
Jesus was dying to teach us simply this.

"LUSTING" IS THE "SOLUTION" FOR THE FLESH

Breathing is the solution
for the lungs.

Eating is the solution
for the stomach.

"LOVING" IS THE "SOLUTION"
FOR THE HEART

"LUSTING" IS THE "SOLUTION"
FOR THE FLESH

The Hell Jesus died to "Save" us from.

KNOWLEDGE HAS BECOME A NARCOTIC

In June one Sunday was Embassy "Open House" for the larger Embassies like Greece, Ireland....

The sidewalks were crowded with gawkers. My march with huge signs was virtually "invisible" to the walkers or line-standers just inches from me. One lady, obviously quite "educated" did notice me as one might notice a bush, and commented to her companion:

"Oh yes, Darfur. Horrible. I'm reading a book on it." It was evident from her comment that this "reading a book on it" would be the end of her engagement with Darfur. She would be fulfilled in every way with this act (non-act).

It should, of course, be the reverse.

Knowledge should be responsibility,
the spur to action.

But some terrible perversion has happened.
Now, Knowledge is License,
Exoneration, Dispensation.
I Know, therefore I have Acted.

Now we waste away, strung out on
books, radio and TV "news,"

OPIATE of the people.

The "Prodigal" father does NOT go after his son.

Ok, imagine, God forbid, that a world-wide plague of unimaginable viciousness is raging and ravaging the world. You are an unknown, uncredentialed researcher and have just developed a vaccination / cure. Do you feel superior? YOU FEEL OBLIGATED.

I feel obligated.

Jesus felt obligated. Yet, the Prodigal Father did not chase after his son. Jesus did not chase after the Rich Young Man.

Jesus can not have been careless in these points. Clearly he taught that we are to become the cure and to make it available.

BUT WE ARE NOT TO
CHASE AFTER THE PATIENTS,
AS THIS WILL PROLONG
THE PERIOD OF TIME
IT TAKES FOR THEM TO
"RECOGNIZE" AND SEEK
THE "CURE."

My biological father, a brilliant "cure" in his own right, knew and practiced this excruciating self-restraint. I am being forced by "failure" to try to learn and practice this wisdom.

What are you living for? It is your bottom line. Happy?

You are, you ARE living for SOMETHING(S). Right? Right.

Probably, so far it is some combination of:

Safety
Family "expectations"
"Love"
Pleasure / comfort....

What did Jesus "Live" for?

The least of these his "family"
You
Me
Heaven on earth

You and Jesus are
both Dying for something.
Are you happy with your choice?
Jesus was.