- Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.
- "Peacemaking is not only a central characteristic of the Gospel, peacemaking is the greatest need of the world today. We are the daughters and sons of God, and that means we are called to be peacemakers."
- "There is no freedom without love."
- "You are the answer."
- "Don't get tired."
- "War on terrorism by the U.S. is impossible. We are the number one terrorist."
- “We're not made by God to mass kill one another, and that's backed up by the Gospels. Lying and war are always associated. Pay attention to war-makers when they try to defend their current war: if they’re moving their lips they're lying.”
- Herein lies a riddle. How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?
- "I die with the conviction, held since 1968 and Cantonsville, that nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself."
- "I die with the conviction, held since 1968 and Cantonsville, that nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself."
- "War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism."
8.14.2007
Phil Berrigan Quotes
"WORLD SINKS DEEPER INTO ... PSYCHOSIS..."
"Where does one
look for hope,
as the world sinks deeper
into social psychosis?
To the people alone,
particularly
to people of faith.
In the past,
the people alone
checked the mad ambitions
of the pharaohs."
look for hope,
as the world sinks deeper
into social psychosis?
To the people alone,
particularly
to people of faith.
In the past,
the people alone
checked the mad ambitions
of the pharaohs."
"CONSCIENCE, THE SOLE CERTAIN GUIDE." Tolstoy
"I WILL ADMIT BUT ONE TYRANT
IN MY LIFE;
THE STILL SMALL VOICE WITHIN."
Tolstoy's Gandhi
IN MY LIFE;
THE STILL SMALL VOICE WITHIN."
Tolstoy's Gandhi
WHAT "CIVILIZATION" / "FAMILY" LOOKS LIKE
- Lives squarely in the midst of the least of these
- Expert at suffering out of love for the joy of it
- Teaches / leads their children to do the same as though their children's lives depended on it - because they see that their lives do depend on it
- Expert at taking and savoring just the R & R that each NEEDS [not more, NOT LESS] for the sole purpose of keeping the level of emergency service at maximum throughout the lifetime. "It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation." Eleanor Roosevelt. Also from Eleanor: "When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."
- Aggressive at recruiting exactly as the best nurse or Dr. in an emergency "recruits" / brings / exhorts / collects / carries... people to health
- Lives as though Love, Life and Truth are more the essence of Life than Pulse Itself - because they are.
"THE SOLE MEANING OF LIFE IS TO SERVE HUMANITY..."
"THE SOLE MEANING OF LIFE
IS TO SERVE HUMANITY
BY CONTRIBUTING TO
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
THE KINGDOM OF GOD,
WHICH CAN ONLY BE DONE
BY THE RECOGNITION
AND PROFESSION OF THE TRUTH...."
Gandhi's Tolstoy
IS TO SERVE HUMANITY
BY CONTRIBUTING TO
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
THE KINGDOM OF GOD,
WHICH CAN ONLY BE DONE
BY THE RECOGNITION
AND PROFESSION OF THE TRUTH...."
Gandhi's Tolstoy
"But seek ye first
the Kingdom of God,
and His Righteousness,
and all these things
shall be added unto you."
(Matt 6:33)
the Kingdom of God,
and His Righteousness,
and all these things
shall be added unto you."
(Matt 6:33)
"The Kingdom of God
comes not with outward show,
neither shall they say, Lo here!
nor Lo there!
for behold,
the Kingdom of God
is within you."
(Luke 17: 20-20)
comes not with outward show,
neither shall they say, Lo here!
nor Lo there!
for behold,
the Kingdom of God
is within you."
(Luke 17: 20-20)
8.13.2007
DELUSION: SUBSTITUTING "HAVING" KINDNESS FOR "BEING" KIND
Our culture addicts us to this type of self-subterfuge so why should I be surprised?
- I have an LA Fitness Membership so I AM STRONG
- I am an American so I must be just and fair
- I am a Christian so I must be good
- I have done a kindness
(a big one for a moment last week)
so I AM KIND
Living this self-deception
instead of living the Truth
is all the difference between:
Heaven and Hell;
Nirvana and Police State;
Gandhi and George Bush;
Jesus and the Hypocrites
WE VICTIMS OF EMPIRE DESTROY THE EVIDENCE!
When we are confronted by empire we destroy the evidence. What evidence?
Our compassion. Our sorrow. Our sadness. Our grief.
Our World Familyness.
Our compassion. Our sorrow. Our sadness. Our grief.
Our World Familyness.
IT IS THIS EVIDENCE THAT CAN KILL THE HYPOCRISY,
THE BEAST THAT IS MURDERING THE PLANET.
How do we destroy this evidence? In the face of the empire we allow
Anger, Self Righteousness, Animosity, Hatred
to destroy the evidence.
THE BEAST THAT IS MURDERING THE PLANET.
How do we destroy this evidence? In the face of the empire we allow
Anger, Self Righteousness, Animosity, Hatred
to destroy the evidence.
THE MACHINE MAKES THE MAN. IT'S THE ENVIRONMENT STUPID!
On my 4th reading / listening of Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is Within You" (last 2 chapters; FREE online) I'm beginning to get it. More later, but for now -
We must come out of the machine.
The Matrix.
Take anyone playing even a remotely small role in US empire and it's domestic and international exploitation; take anyone of these participants OUT of the machine and they would never sanction the horror. They would even stand against! But from within the machine the machine "is" their "world" and we don't summon the imagination to see beyond. We exist in a hypnotic trance, and it is this that allows us to participate in the destruction of the planet and our 6 billion brothers and sisters.
We must come out of the machine.
The Matrix.
8.12.2007
NOT GIVING INNOCENT BLOOD? USELESS AT BEST.
Strategically this may be the most important post on this site: TO KILL THE BEAST (DISCONNECTION) - OFFER IT ENOUGH INNOCENT BLOOD
If it is correct, and it is, AND if we are on the verge of Armageddon in a host of forms, then:
If it is correct, and it is, AND if we are on the verge of Armageddon in a host of forms, then:
NOT GIVING INNOCENT BLOOD?
USELESS AT BEST.
USELESS AT BEST.
UNTIL WOULD-BE "SAVIORS" ARE ADMIRED, WE FAIL.
It is not unusual for me
to be told by those
observing my work
that they "admire"
what I am doing.
Unless and until I
live a life that others "envy,"
"greedily envy"
I am of little or no use.
Start Loving
to be told by those
observing my work
that they "admire"
what I am doing.
Unless and until I
live a life that others "envy,"
"greedily envy"
I am of little or no use.
Start Loving
KING AND GANDHI'S CHILDREN "ABUSED." 2 REASONS.
More later. For now:
Both King and Gandhi led lives that placed their "family" under extreme physical risk, deprivation and trauma. Did they bring them into a war zone? Unnecessarily?
Both King and Gandhi led lives that placed their "family" under extreme physical risk, deprivation and trauma. Did they bring them into a war zone? Unnecessarily?
- They found that their bio-children were only part of the "family" of billions;
- To live less-than-heroic humanity would be to pass on living "death" which although it is the norm, is a fate WORSE THAN CESSATION OF PULSE to the likes of King, Gandhi, Jesus and any and every other Human being that has not been dehumanized by adulthood.
"Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?"
Gandhi
Our values in this society religiously sacrifice, murder the Spirit, Freedom, World-Familiness of our biological children to "save their bodies / lives." King and Gandhi lived the reverse out of love for their "children."
Start Loving
The n0n-fictional movie "Patch Adams" gives us an interesting look at this life choice. The woman Patch loved, when "saved" from the living death of her depression "Lived" just briefly. Her actions upon coming "Alive" killed her.
Give me liberty or give me death. It is time to decide what we really want for our children: Pulse? or Life.
ONLY KINDNESS MATTERS. HURRY.
Click (3min54sec)"Hands" Jewel
If I could tell the world just one thing
It would be that we're all ok
And not to worry because worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these
I will not be made useless
I won't be idled with despair
I will gather myself around my faith
for light does the darkness most fear
My hands are small, I know,
but they're not yours they are my own
but they're not yours they are my own
and I am never broken
Poverty stole your golden shoes
but it didn't steal your laughter
And heartache came to visit me
but i knew it wasn't ever after
We will fight, not out of spite
for someone must stand up for what's right
cause where there's a man who has no voice
there ours shall go singing
In the end only kindness matters
In the end only kindness matters
I will get down on my knees and I will pray
I will get down on my knees and I will pray
I will get down on my knees and I will pray
My hands are small, I know,
but they're not yours they are my own
but they're not yours they are my own
and I am never broken
My hands are small, i know,
but they're not yours they are my own
but they're not yours they are my own
and I am never broken
We are never broken
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's mind
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's heart
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's eyes
God's hands
We are God's hands
God's hands
We are God's hands
If I could tell the world just one thing
It would be that we're all ok
And not to worry because worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these
I will not be made useless
I won't be idled with despair
I will gather myself around my faith
for light does the darkness most fear
My hands are small, I know,
but they're not yours they are my own
but they're not yours they are my own
and I am never broken
Poverty stole your golden shoes
but it didn't steal your laughter
And heartache came to visit me
but i knew it wasn't ever after
We will fight, not out of spite
for someone must stand up for what's right
cause where there's a man who has no voice
there ours shall go singing
In the end only kindness matters
In the end only kindness matters
I will get down on my knees and I will pray
I will get down on my knees and I will pray
I will get down on my knees and I will pray
My hands are small, I know,
but they're not yours they are my own
but they're not yours they are my own
and I am never broken
My hands are small, i know,
but they're not yours they are my own
but they're not yours they are my own
and I am never broken
We are never broken
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's mind
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's heart
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's eyes
God's hands
We are God's hands
God's hands
We are God's hands
WE USE VIOLENCE CUZ WE'RE TOO DISCONNECTED TO LOVE
This became so accutely clear to me in Jail. See DARFUR VIGIL: INTERRUPTED INDEFINITELY BY JAIL
Why 2 million in jail in the US and rising?
Why 2 million in jail in the US and rising?
- Jails require little or nothing from the "elite."
- The "elite" are so disconnected from the poor that they feel nothing, none of the pain, humiliation, dehumanization, violence, murder....
God help us all.
OUR RELIGION, CAPITALISM IS KILLING THE US, LITERALLY
U.S. life span shorter
August 11, 2007 05:08:02 PM PST
August 11, 2007 05:08:02 PM PST
Americans are living longer than ever, but not as long as people in 41 other countries.
For decades, the United States has been slipping in international rankings of life expectancy, as other countries improve health care, nutrition and lifestyles.
Countries that surpass the U.S. include Japan and most of Europe, as well as Jordan, Guam and the Cayman Islands.
"Something's wrong here when one of the richest countries in the world, the one that spends the most on health care, is not able to keep up with other countries," said Dr. Christopher Murray, head of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
A baby born in the United States in 2004 will live an average of 77.9 years. That life expectancy ranks 42nd, down from 11th two decades earlier, according to international numbers provided by the Census Bureau and domestic numbers from the National Center for Health Statistics.
Andorra, a tiny country in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain, had the longest life expectancy, at 83.5 years, according to the Census Bureau. It was followed by Japan, Macau, San Marino and Singapore.
The shortest life expectancies were clustered in Sub-Saharan Africa, a region that has been hit hard by an epidemic of HIV and AIDS, as well as famine and civil strife. Swaziland has the shortest, at 34.1 years, followed by Zambia, Angola, Liberia and Zimbabwe.
Researchers said several factors have contributed to the United States falling behind other industrialized nations. A major one is that 45 million Americans lack health insurance, while Canada and many European countries have universal health care, they say.
But "it's not as simple as saying we don't have national health insurance," said Sam Harper, an epidemiologist at McGill University in Montreal. "It's not that easy."
Among the other factors:
• Adults in the United States have one of the highest obesity rates in the world. Nearly a third of U.S. adults 20 years and older are obese, while about two-thirds are overweight, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
"The U.S. has the resources that allow people to get fat and lazy," said Paul Terry, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Emory University in Atlanta. "We have the luxury of choosing a bad lifestyle as opposed to having one imposed on us by hard times."
• Racial disparities. Black Americans have an average life expectancy of 73.3 years, five years shorter than white Americans.
Black American males have a life expectancy of 69.8 years, slightly longer than the averages for Iran and Syria and slightly shorter than in Nicaragua and Morocco.
• A relatively high percentage of babies born in the U.S. die before their first birthday, compared with other industrialized nations.
Forty countries, including Cuba, Taiwan and most of Europe had lower infant mortality rates than the U.S. in 2004. The U.S. rate was 6.8 deaths for every 1,000 live births. It was 13.7 for Black Americans, the same as Saudi Arabia.
"It really reflects the social conditions in which African American women grow up and have children," said Dr. Marie C. McCormick, professor of maternal and child health at the Harvard School of Public Health. "We haven't done anything to eliminate those disparities."
Another reason for the U.S. drop in the ranking is that the Census Bureau now tracks life expectancy for a lot more countries — 222 in 2004 — than it did in the 1980s. However, that does not explain why so many countries entered the rankings with longer life expectancies than the United States.
Murray, from the University of Washington, said improved access to health insurance could increase life expectancy. But, he predicted, the U.S. won't move up in the world rankings as long as the health care debate is limited to insurance.
Policymakers also should focus on ways to reduce cancer, heart disease and lung disease, said Murray. He advocates stepped-up efforts to reduce tobacco use, control blood pressure, reduce cholesterol and regulate blood sugar.
"Even if we focused only on those four things, we would go along way toward improving health care in the United States," Murray said. "The starting point is the recognition that the U.S. does not have the best health care system. There are still an awful lot of people who think it does."
8.11.2007
COINCIDENCE THAT "MULTICULTURAL" SERVES THE WEALTHY?
Who is the majority
in this country?
The poor and
lower middle class.
But is this realized?
No. Why?
Because we conceive
of ourselves, we MAJORITY as
splinters - Jews, Italians,
Blacks, Gays, Staights,
Hispanics....
in this country?
The poor and
lower middle class.
But is this realized?
No. Why?
Because we conceive
of ourselves, we MAJORITY as
splinters - Jews, Italians,
Blacks, Gays, Staights,
Hispanics....
BRILLIANT.
Drummers clash with new Harlem residents By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press Writer
Sat Aug 11, 6:19 PM ET Exerpts:
NEW YORK - On Saturday nights in summer, hundreds of fingers pound out mesmerizing rhythms on African drums — a ritual repeated for decades in Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park.
This year, the drums have a counterpoint: the complaints of "new Harlemites."
"African drumming is wonderful for the first four hours, but after that, it's pure, unadulterated noise. We couldn't see straight anymore," says Beth Ross, who lives in a luxury apartment building near the park. "It was like a huge boom box in the living room, the bedroom, the kitchen. You had no way to escape except to leave the apartment."
...The influx of outsiders intensified after the arrival six years ago of Harlem's most famous commercial tenant, former President Clinton, whose 125th Street office is a short walk from Marcus Garvey Park. He said then that he hoped his presence would encourage others to move to the neighborhood.
...Ross, an executive career coach who moved into the area a year ago, says she feels "honored" to be living in Harlem alongside longtime residents. "It is their community, their history," she said. But when it comes to their drumming location, she thought it was time to change.
"It's a matter of quality of life," she said.
Just a conicidence,
that by our being divided
it is a windfall
for the materially wealthy?
Strategically a coincidence
that Jesus died to make
the poor one family?
WE MUST BE "SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT."
Oh my goodness. This is another of those cases where the answer has been right on the tip of the tongue in the form of a common phrase. Why didn't we see it? Because it seems so trite!
WE MUST BE
"SOMETHING
TO THINK ABOUT."
WE MUST
GIVE THEM
"SOMETHING
TO THINK ABOUT."
Jesus was, and did.
Mandela was, and did.
Dr. King was, and did.
Gandhi.
Teresa.
Assisi....
WE MUST BE
"SOMETHING
TO THINK ABOUT."
WE MUST
GIVE THEM
"SOMETHING
TO THINK ABOUT."
Jesus was, and did.
Mandela was, and did.
Dr. King was, and did.
Gandhi.
Teresa.
Assisi....
"TRUTH" - THE OPPOSITE OF HYPOCRISY
candidness, fairness, genuine article, honesty, honesty, integrity, loyalty, openness, sincerity, straightforwardness, true statement, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, verity
HMMM. WHO WUDA THUNK.
Jesus said to him,
"I am the way
and the TRUTH
and the life.
No one comes
to the Father
except through
[TRUTH.]"
[TRUTH.]"
TRUTH: THE ANTIDOTE,
THE CURE FOR THE
GENOCIDAL EPIDEMIC
OF HYPOCRISY.
GENOCIDAL EPIDEMIC
OF HYPOCRISY.
CREATING THE CHURCH / COMMUNITY / ARMY IS EVERYTHING
Oh my goodness, I've spent my life DOING it, and only now I SEE IT!??!?!?!?! Oh my.
INTENSE OF CHARACTER:
CREATING THE
CHURCH / COMMUNITY / ARMY
IS EVERYTHING...
INTENSE OF CHARACTER:
- MILITANTLY PEACEMAKING
- MILITANTLY LOVING
- MILITANTLY KIND
- MILITANTLY WORLD-FAMILYISH
WE MUST HURRY.
EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON IT.
DARFUR VIGIL: INTERRUPTED INDEFINITELY BY JAIL
[from a letter to an inquiring friend]
I don't mean to alarm you, and you know by now that often, OFTEN, early in hearing one of my "callings" I get Her intention wrong and do NOT move forward, but I've also promised to be honest with you and keep you informed. I'll be writing of my experience and plans over the next few days and will post on this and the Brigade of PeaceMakers blog. As I sit here the morning after release, I find myself "Called" to violate the conditions of my release (8 hours community service; service I'll do anyway at a place I've long wanted to serve, CCNV, but not report that service and hence the "violation") and to their surprise and anger, re-present myself with total peace and respect to the officials of the system (part of my family) for re-arrest but now acting with complete and profound non-cooperation - being a piece of limp meat - complete non-cooperation with this consummately evil system of violence to our brothers and sisters. Gandhi and others are correct in saying that, "Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good." And, as Oscar Romero predicted, "Those committed to the poor must share the same fate as the poor."
About 15 years ago a premonition swept over me that I would be homeless. I was living in "my" $500k West Chester house that I built on Cloverly Road at the the time. TA-DA! A year or so ago I had a similar premonition, but this time that I would die, murdered by the system for non-cooperation with evil in prison.
Truly I am sorry to worry you; probably without basis. I will share more with you when it is written over the next few days.
Loving you and profoundly blessed by your love, Start
Hi beloved [friend.] Along with a 16 year old "angel" from New Haven Catholic Worker and the first genuine, non-hypocrite "Pastor / Priest" that maybe I've yet encountered (Steve Miller, and YES he's been "fired" from the church for non-hypocrisy[see today's posts]!) got out after 27 hours of jail after arrest at the White House for lying on the sidewalk still, dead, as a Nagasaki/Hiroshima victim. Photos and video of our actions this week - click here (and here for more background). Only posted so far are Pentagon (pictures like the one below) and DOE/Bechtel. White House and Archdiocese of the Military (THE MOST EVIL EVER COMBINATION OF WORDS?) will go up in the next day or so I'm sure if you check back on their site. (continued below) 
If I have met only one living saint it may be Margaret McKenna pictured below, creator of Philadelphia's New Jerusalem. I've tried for maybe 8 years to meet her, and it never worked out. Now, we've been arrested together! Meet her. All of you, each of you, meet her. Know her. Help in her work. For yourself. She defines humility. She defines peace. She defines the presence of "God." She is completely non-dogmatic, profoundly agreeing (I perceive) as I told her I believed that "Loving" is the only true religion. She is maybe the closest encounter yet I have had of God; not a lot closer encounter than you beloved sister and several others have given me; and maybe not closer than my bio-father. Margaret must be known. She must be helped. SHE MUST BE LEARNED FROM. Tell her you are my sister, my "family." I've told her of you. i think she Loves me. (more below).
Not that it bothered me personally but the DC White House Arrest I've just been released from, and specifically how "the system" treats human beings (poor, defenseless, outside the "power structure," for parking tickets and the like - chains, shackles, pens, cages, sleep deprivation, toilet paper deprivation, food deprivation, water deprivation, 27 hour whimsical life/liberty/"human rights" deprivation...), dozens of us that I personally witnessed, is possibly the greatest inhuman evil that personally I've ever touched; evil I expect I cannot walk away from.
If I have met only one living saint it may be Margaret McKenna pictured below, creator of Philadelphia's New Jerusalem. I've tried for maybe 8 years to meet her, and it never worked out. Now, we've been arrested together! Meet her. All of you, each of you, meet her. Know her. Help in her work. For yourself. She defines humility. She defines peace. She defines the presence of "God." She is completely non-dogmatic, profoundly agreeing (I perceive) as I told her I believed that "Loving" is the only true religion. She is maybe the closest encounter yet I have had of God; not a lot closer encounter than you beloved sister and several others have given me; and maybe not closer than my bio-father. Margaret must be known. She must be helped. SHE MUST BE LEARNED FROM. Tell her you are my sister, my "family." I've told her of you. i think she Loves me. (more below).
Not that it bothered me personally but the DC White House Arrest I've just been released from, and specifically how "the system" treats human beings (poor, defenseless, outside the "power structure," for parking tickets and the like - chains, shackles, pens, cages, sleep deprivation, toilet paper deprivation, food deprivation, water deprivation, 27 hour whimsical life/liberty/"human rights" deprivation...), dozens of us that I personally witnessed, is possibly the greatest inhuman evil that personally I've ever touched; evil I expect I cannot walk away from.
I don't mean to alarm you, and you know by now that often, OFTEN, early in hearing one of my "callings" I get Her intention wrong and do NOT move forward, but I've also promised to be honest with you and keep you informed. I'll be writing of my experience and plans over the next few days and will post on this and the Brigade of PeaceMakers blog. As I sit here the morning after release, I find myself "Called" to violate the conditions of my release (8 hours community service; service I'll do anyway at a place I've long wanted to serve, CCNV, but not report that service and hence the "violation") and to their surprise and anger, re-present myself with total peace and respect to the officials of the system (part of my family) for re-arrest but now acting with complete and profound non-cooperation - being a piece of limp meat - complete non-cooperation with this consummately evil system of violence to our brothers and sisters. Gandhi and others are correct in saying that, "Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good." And, as Oscar Romero predicted, "Those committed to the poor must share the same fate as the poor."
About 15 years ago a premonition swept over me that I would be homeless. I was living in "my" $500k West Chester house that I built on Cloverly Road at the the time. TA-DA! A year or so ago I had a similar premonition, but this time that I would die, murdered by the system for non-cooperation with evil in prison.
Truly I am sorry to worry you; probably without basis. I will share more with you when it is written over the next few days.
Loving you and profoundly blessed by your love, Start
"ISM" = THE 3RD OF THE 3 DEADLIEST SINS
[Maybe later I can return and share this point more clearly. For now please help me by a patient and thoughtful reading.]
"ISM" = THE 3RD OF
THE 3 DEADLIEST SINS:
Anti-Nuclearism, Abortion-Rights-ism, Anti-Zionism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Christianityism, Communism, COMMUNITYISM, Corporatism, Democratism, Evangelicalism, Free-Palesitineism, Pacifism, Hinduism, Islamism, Judaism, Militarism, "MY-CHILD"-ISM, "MY-FAMILY"-ISM, Nationalism, Patriotism, Protestantism, Right-To-Lifeism...
HOW CAN THIS BE!?!?!?
"Thou shalt have
no value as high or higher than
CONSCIENCE / HUMANITY /
LOVE / KINDNESS."
Start Loving
It is not that any
of the above "isms"
are per-se bad.
It is that they
have been elevated
ABOVE
the Humanity /
Conscience / Love / Kindness /
ALMIGHTY POWERS -
LIFE, LOVE, TRUTH
which they were
CREATED TO SERVE!!!
"ISM" - THE ULTIMATE
DISPLACEMENT OF THE
ALMIGHTY GOOD
DISPLACEMENT OF THE
ALMIGHTY GOOD
ISM, of the 3 deadliest sins
(The other two being
RECREATIONAL SEX AND
"IMMEDIATE FAMILY"),
SEEMS
THE MOST LIKELY TO
MURDER THE NEAR SAINTS
THAT I HAVE ENCOUNTERED.
THESE NEAR SAINTS SEEM
NOT TO SEE THAT
THEY HAVE ELEVATED THEIR ISM,
PROTESTANTISM, CATHOLICISM,
ANTI-NUCLEARISM, ANTI-ZIONISM...
ABOVE THE ALMIGHTY GOD.
(The other two being
RECREATIONAL SEX AND
"IMMEDIATE FAMILY"),
SEEMS
THE MOST LIKELY TO
MURDER THE NEAR SAINTS
THAT I HAVE ENCOUNTERED.
THESE NEAR SAINTS SEEM
NOT TO SEE THAT
THEY HAVE ELEVATED THEIR ISM,
PROTESTANTISM, CATHOLICISM,
ANTI-NUCLEARISM, ANTI-ZIONISM...
ABOVE THE ALMIGHTY GOD.
"ISM" = THE 3RD OF
THE 3 DEADLIEST SINS:
Anti-Nuclearism, Abortion-Rights-ism, Anti-Zionism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Christianityism, Communism, COMMUNITYISM, Corporatism, Democratism, Evangelicalism, Free-Palesitineism, Pacifism, Hinduism, Islamism, Judaism, Militarism, "MY-CHILD"-ISM, "MY-FAMILY"-ISM, Nationalism, Patriotism, Protestantism, Right-To-Lifeism...
HOW CAN THIS BE!?!?!?
"Thou shalt have
no God before Me!"
Bible
no God before Me!"
Bible
"Thou shalt have
no value as high or higher than
CONSCIENCE / HUMANITY /
LOVE / KINDNESS."
Start Loving
It is not that any
of the above "isms"
are per-se bad.
It is that they
have been elevated
ABOVE
the Humanity /
Conscience / Love / Kindness /
ALMIGHTY POWERS -
LIFE, LOVE, TRUTH
which they were
CREATED TO SERVE!!!
THE SACRED OPPORTUNITY OF NONCOOPERATION WITH EVIL
Evil is anything and everything that takes away the TOTAL AND COMPLETE SERVICE OF LIFE that is the reason that any and all life is created. NEGLECT, selfishness, DISCONNECTION, Hate, Animosity - these are the MALIGNANT CANCERS - the consummate evils.
As Jesus and Gandhi taught there is a SACRED OPPORTUNITY OF NONCOOPERATION WITH EVIL. Why? Because:
The opportunity to non-cooperate with evil is possibly the most potent weapon for the elimination of all evil.
As Tolstoy Divinely Reveals (PLEASE read and STUDY and re-read the last two chapters of "The Kingdom of God is Within You"; I BEG YOU. I TOO AM RE-RE-READING.) those in the beast, slave to the "isms," are as if "hypnotized," and indeed clinically they may be!
As Jesus and Gandhi taught there is a SACRED OPPORTUNITY OF NONCOOPERATION WITH EVIL. Why? Because:
The opportunity to non-cooperate with evil is possibly the most potent weapon for the elimination of all evil.
As Tolstoy Divinely Reveals (PLEASE read and STUDY and re-read the last two chapters of "The Kingdom of God is Within You"; I BEG YOU. I TOO AM RE-RE-READING.) those in the beast, slave to the "isms," are as if "hypnotized," and indeed clinically they may be!
COMPLETE NON-COOPERATION
WHOSE SUBSTANCE IS OF
PROFOUND FAMILINESS /
KINDNESS / GOODNESS
MAY BE BY FAR THE
OPPORTUNITY
MOST LIKELY
TO REVEAL THE BEAST
& AWAKEN THE
SLEEPER / ZOMBIE / SLAVE
FROM THE
GENOCIDAL HYPNOSIS.
"But I say to you,
offer no resistance
to one who is evil."
Jesus (Matt 5:39)
"Non-cooperation with evil
is as much a duty
as cooperation with good."
Gandhi
WHOSE SUBSTANCE IS OF
PROFOUND FAMILINESS /
KINDNESS / GOODNESS
MAY BE BY FAR THE
OPPORTUNITY
MOST LIKELY
TO REVEAL THE BEAST
& AWAKEN THE
SLEEPER / ZOMBIE / SLAVE
FROM THE
GENOCIDAL HYPNOSIS.
"But I say to you,
offer no resistance
to one who is evil."
Jesus (Matt 5:39)
"Non-cooperation with evil
is as much a duty
as cooperation with good."
Gandhi
RESPECT and LOVE: INSEPERABLE
NO RESPECT, NO LOVE.
DISRESPECT IS VIOLENCE.
Respect (From the Greek) -
To look again; to pay attention to.
To look again; to pay attention to.
Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus - Cite This Source
Main Entry:
love
Part of Speech:
noun 1
Definition:
adoration
Synonyms:
adulation, affection, allegiance, amity, amorousness, amour, appreciation, ardency, ardor, attachment, case*, cherishing, crash, crush, delight, devotedness, devotion, emotion, enchantment, enjoyment, fervor, fidelity, flame, fondness, friendship, hankering, idolatry, inclination, infatuation, involvement, like, liking, lust, mad for, mash, partiality, pash, passion, piety, rapture, regard, relish, respect, sentiment, soft spot*, taste, tenderness, the hots, weakness, wild for*, worship, yearning, zeal
Antonyms:
hate
Source:
Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1)Copyright © 2007 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.* = informal or slang
HYPOCRISY = FALSITY = DECEPTION = DISSIMULATION
affectation, bad faith*, bigotry, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, false profession, falsity, fraud, glibness, goop, hooey, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service*, mockery, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, pietism, pretense, quackery, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, sham, soft soap, speciousness, sweet talk, two-facedness, unctuousness
ALL EVIL COMES FROM PERVERTING OUR SYMBOLS
because they hide the good,
and instead of it uphold evil."
Jesus
Jesus
- Nazi Germany gassed millions in "shower" buildings.
- Nazi Germany secretly dispatched the infirm and disabled to death camps from "Hospitals."
- Nazi Germany sent Germans into the 3rd Reich army from the German "Christian" "Church."
- 2007 US "Church"
- 2007 US "Synagogue"
- 2007 US "Justice System"...
- 2007 US "Homeland Security System"...
- 2007 US "Democracy"...
See: HYPOCRISY = FALSITY = DECEPTION = DISSIMULATION
See the term in psychology, that which is known to be the most totally destructive of the human psyche, "DOUBLE BIND." A concept originally coined by Margaret Mead's husband in an attempt to understand the causes of schizophrenia, it is illuminated by the following:
A young man who had fairly well recovered from an acute schizophrenic episode was visited in the hospital by his mother. He was glad to see her and impulsively put his arm around her shoulders, whereupon she stiffened. He withdrew his arm and she asked, "Don't you love me anymore?" He then blushed, and she said, "Dear, you must not be so easily embarrassed and afraid of your feelings." The patient was able to stay with her only a few minutes more and following her departure he assaulted an aide and was put in the tubs.
Read or recall 1984, by George Orwell
[How this works:
Step 1. Identify a powerful truth,
Step 2. Empower it with a symbol
(word, name, building, cross, ritual...),
Step 3. PERVERT THE MEANING OF THE SYMBOL! (intentionality is NOT a requirement for success)]
Step 4. THE MASSES NEVER NOTICE!!!
THE MASSES REFUSE TO NOTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Nothing is so tempting
as evil in the guise of virtue."
Dr. Martin Luther King.
TRUE COMMUNITY / "FAMILY" ONLY COMES FROM EMERGENCY SHARED
- The roof of an elementary school falls in with children inside with only towns folk to help. They rush in.
- A house in the rural community catches fire, and there is no fire department. The "Community" FORMS and rushes in.
- Two or more people "see" part of the "beast," an evil in this world that is crushing and destroying people - "the least of these [our] family..."
See JonahHouse.org,
many Catholic Workers, 
Doctors Without Borders
This is why the following communities are false, not-True communities:
- "immediate family,"
- "my family,"
- Bruderhof,
- Twelve Tribes,
- "Church."
- Etc...
These, with rare exceptions, are not devoted to the emergency in which 6 billion are drowning. Lip-service? Yes. Life-service. NO.
TRUE COMMUNITY / "FAMILY"
SHARED EMERGENCY
"DEATH," RESURRECTION AND IMMORTALITY
From: Who was Oscar Romero?
Why is so much attention being paid to Romero twenty years after his death. Why does he matter to so many people? Should we focus so much on the actions of one individual? The message from El Salvador and across Latin America is that Romero and his message still live on – as he prophesied. The people still gain enormous strength from their memories of him and the words he left behind. His sainthood was assumed almost immediately and the people’s faith in themselves is strengthened by the memory of his faith in them. They commonly say: “St Romero of the Americas, pray for us”.
Only by offering all of our
"Suffering, the nonviolent resister realizes, has tremendous educational and transforming possibilities," King wrote, quoting Gandhi that "Things of fundamental importance to people are not secured by reason alone, but have to be purchased with their suffering. Suffering is infinitely more powerful than the law of the jungle for converting the opponent and opening his ears which are otherwise shut to the voice of reason."
“If I get killed
I will rise
in the Salvadorean people.”
I will rise
in the Salvadorean people.”
Why is so much attention being paid to Romero twenty years after his death. Why does he matter to so many people? Should we focus so much on the actions of one individual? The message from El Salvador and across Latin America is that Romero and his message still live on – as he prophesied. The people still gain enormous strength from their memories of him and the words he left behind. His sainthood was assumed almost immediately and the people’s faith in themselves is strengthened by the memory of his faith in them. They commonly say: “St Romero of the Americas, pray for us”.
Only by offering all of our
inocent, world-familyish blood
to the beast -
disconnection / selfishness / evil
- will peace / kingdom / nirvana /
universal joy reign.
Start Loving
"Suffering, the nonviolent resister realizes, has tremendous educational and transforming possibilities," King wrote, quoting Gandhi that "Things of fundamental importance to people are not secured by reason alone, but have to be purchased with their suffering. Suffering is infinitely more powerful than the law of the jungle for converting the opponent and opening his ears which are otherwise shut to the voice of reason."
Martin Luther King
IF YOU CLIMB MOUNTAINS, THE PIANO MUST STAY BEHIND
IF YOU CLIMB MOUNTAINS,
THE PIANO MUST STAY BEHIND.
THE PIANO MUST STAY BEHIND.
:-) This is another way of seeing what Oscar Romero told us:
"Those committed
to the poor
must share
the same fate as the poor."
to the poor
must share
the same fate as the poor."
And Peter Maurin, quoted by Dorothy Day:
"We cannot see our brother
[or sister] in need
without stripping ourselves.
It is the only [genuine] way
we have of showing our love."
Love OR Disrespect. YOU ARE DOING ONE NOW.
Any and every spec of your being / existance / behavior that is NOT Loving / Kindness / Familyness / Otherishness IS Disrespect / Violence / Selfishness / Disconnection.
Every waking second
you will
LOVE or DISRESPECT.
CHOOSE.
you will
LOVE or DISRESPECT.
CHOOSE.
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