9.05.2007
WHY DID YOUNG FRANZ JAGERSTATTER STAND AS HITLER SHOT HIM?
Q: WHY DID YOUNG FRANZ JAGERSTATTER STAND STILL WHILE HITLER SHOT HIM? "An Austrian peasant, Franz Jägerstätter refused to serve in the Nazi army following Germany’s invasion of Austria. His courageous and singular refusal was based in a deeply pietistic Catholicism. His story, and his reflections, are a moving testimony to the moral responsibility of the individual as opposed to the obligations of the state."
A: BECAUSE THE LIFE OF THE WORLD'S PEOPLE WAS WORTH MORE TO FRANZ AGERSTATTER THAN HIS OWN.
A: BECAUSE THE LIFE OF THE WORLD'S PEOPLE WAS WORTH MORE TO FRANZ AGERSTATTER THAN HIS OWN.
!!! WHAT MILLIONS SHOULD DO, ONE MAN MUST DO !!!
- What Millions would do, one woman did do. Rosa Parks
- What Millions would do, one man did do. Nelson Mandella
- What Millions might do, one woman is doing. Aung San Suu Kyi
- What Millions would do, one man did do. Steven Beko
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- What no "Christians" would do, one man did do. Deitrich Bonhoeffer
- What Millions would do, one man did do. Gandhi
- What Hundreds now do, one woman did do. Rachel Corrie
- What Dozens now do, one woman did do. Liz MacAllister
- What Dozens now do, one man did do. Phil Berrigan
- What Billions of Christians have not done, one man did do. Jesus
- And on...
- And on...
The point?
- Before billions of cell phones would be bought, one cell phone was bought.
- Before everyone rejected apartheid, one person had to reject it.
- Before everyone in the US rejected slavery, one person had to.
- Before everyone sterilized scapels, Lister had to do it for decades, alone.
"What is to give light
must endure the burning."
Eleanor Roosevelt
A blaze that incinerates ALL Empire
would start with one, lone torch.
would start with one, lone torch.
Start Loving
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!!! WHAT MILLIONS SHOULD DO, ONE MAN MUST DO !!!
IGNITE THE FIRE
click the match.
IGNITE THE FIRE OF HUMANITY!!click the match above!!
DO IT!
DO IT!!
DO IT!!!
You see I AM RESPONSABLE in "Dances With Wolves" in the opening sequence - the battle that is a genocidal stalemate until....
The armies are across the field from one another...
Agonizing, slow, mutual slaughter...
One person faces the madness, they are dead already...
Quietly, alone one rides out -WHAT MILLIONS MIGHT DO, ONE MAN MUST DO
As in EVERY CRUCIAL STRUGGLE, the odds are impossible...
But HOPE and POSSIBILITY, HUMANITY are in the ATTEMPT....
}}}}}}}} ALL IT TAKES IS ONE MATCH. YOU? {{{{{{{{
The Infection of "Possibility" Spreads...
And spreads....
And Salvation is at hand.
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IGNITE THE FIRE
click the match.
IGNITE THE FIRE OF HUMANITY
!!click the match above!!
DO IT!
DO IT!!
DO IT!!!
IGNITE THE FIRE
click the match.
IGNITE THE FIRE OF HUMANITY!!click the match above!!
DO IT!
DO IT!!
DO IT!!!
!!! WHAT MILLIONS MUST DO, ONE MAN MUST DO - NOW !!!
IS START MORBIDLY SEXIST? !!! PLEASE HELP !!!
For the first time in my life, now I have seen a "Church" of more than one to 5 "Christian" people. I'm about 56 years old. Do you know what I am saying?
I spent time with this Church all weekend. I'll guess that the cost they've paid fighting nonviolently for their 6 billion brothers and sisters is 20+ years in prison. Yes, you heard me.
Which certain senior female person in this "Church" wrote the following to me is utterly unimportant, and if you think you know who it is, put that thought out of your mind immediately - it is the Devil working. But that it is held by one (and many I suspect) of these Saints is crucial for me to wrestle with. Their message to me (below) may be correct. The message for me may be incorrect. I must decide. IF YOU KNOW ME, tell me what you think.
----
"Dear Start,
The whole feminist revolution seems to have eluded you. The way you speak to and of women is inappropriate and, often, insulting; this is especially true of the way you speak to younger women. Your language is far from inclusive. And that language, it seems to me, reflects a spirit that is not inclusive...."
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Dear friends. I'm not interested in whether I can cross "t's" or dot "i's" better than I do. No time for that, no time to be concerned with "perfection." NO TIME NOT TO BE CONCERNED WITH EXCELLENCE ON IMPORTANT ISSUES! What I need to determine is to what degree is this feedback to me:
I spent time with this Church all weekend. I'll guess that the cost they've paid fighting nonviolently for their 6 billion brothers and sisters is 20+ years in prison. Yes, you heard me.
Which certain senior female person in this "Church" wrote the following to me is utterly unimportant, and if you think you know who it is, put that thought out of your mind immediately - it is the Devil working. But that it is held by one (and many I suspect) of these Saints is crucial for me to wrestle with. Their message to me (below) may be correct. The message for me may be incorrect. I must decide. IF YOU KNOW ME, tell me what you think.
----
"Dear Start,
The whole feminist revolution seems to have eluded you. The way you speak to and of women is inappropriate and, often, insulting; this is especially true of the way you speak to younger women. Your language is far from inclusive. And that language, it seems to me, reflects a spirit that is not inclusive...."
----
Dear friends. I'm not interested in whether I can cross "t's" or dot "i's" better than I do. No time for that, no time to be concerned with "perfection." NO TIME NOT TO BE CONCERNED WITH EXCELLENCE ON IMPORTANT ISSUES! What I need to determine is to what degree is this feedback to me:
- A correct assessment of a major source of destruction on my part, or...
- Reflective of what is true of most every "revolution," that the outcome of the revolution in the eyes of the "victor" is that those who dominated (in this case men) are now TO BE DOMINATED, subservient, servile, oppressed... (which I am not and will not be).
Do I empower people powerfully, in this case especially young women, or do I disempower - act to dominate them. PLEASE HELP ME. PLEASE HELP ME (IF YOU CAN. POST "COMMENTS" TO THIS SITE. I'LL PUBLISH WHAT YOU WRITE I AM SURE.)
SAINT WILLIAM STRINGFELLOW
William Stringfellow 1928 - 1985
"Can the pope speak infallibly?", Stringfellow was asked at an ecumenical gathering. He reply was swift and sure. "Any Christian who speaks in conformity to the gospel speaks infallibly." It was typical of the pithy pronouncements which would endear him to many. Yet he was ever as profound as he was precise. When Karl Barth visited the United States in 1962 he pointed past the seminary professors to the diminutive lawyer and remarked, "This is the man America should be listening to."
William Stringfellow was born in Johnston, Rhode Island. His father was a knitter in a stocking factory. Needing money for a university education, he held three jobs in his last year of high school, yet managed to gain several scholarships and find himself at Bates College by age fifteen. Another scholarship took him to the London School of Economics. It was here, he was to write later, that he learned the difference between vocation and career. Military service followed with the Second Armored Division of the U.S. Army. When other soldiers complained that they were deprived of an identity in the armed forces and couldn't "be themselves", he disagreed. He knew that it is the living Word of God, Jesus Christ, which gives us our identity and frees us to "own" ourselves, cherish ourselves, profoundly be ourselves, anywhere.
Next was Harvard Law School. While a degree from this prestigious institution was a key which unlocked many doors, the door on which he knocked belonged to a slum tenement in Harlem, New York City. He had decided to work among poor blacks and Hispanics, the most marginalized of the metropolis. The move from Harvard to Harlem was jarring. His apartment measured twenty-five feet by twelve feet. Earlier five children and three adults had lived in it. The kitchen contained a tiny sink and an old refrigerator (neither of which worked), an old gas stove, a bathtub, and a seatless toilet bowl. Thousands of cockroaches were on hand to greet him. "Then I remembered that this is the sort of place in which most people live, in most of the world, for most of the time. Then I was home......"
His frustration with seminaries was inconsolable. Liberal schools of theology, having disdained the bible, offered little more than "poetic recitations...social analysis, gimmicks, solicitations, sentimentalities, and corn." Fundamentalist institutions, on the other hand, had yet to learn that "...if they actually took the bible seriously they would inevitably love the world more readily...because the Word of God is free and active in the world."
"Can the pope speak infallibly?", Stringfellow was asked at an ecumenical gathering. He reply was swift and sure. "Any Christian who speaks in conformity to the gospel speaks infallibly." It was typical of the pithy pronouncements which would endear him to many. Yet he was ever as profound as he was precise. When Karl Barth visited the United States in 1962 he pointed past the seminary professors to the diminutive lawyer and remarked, "This is the man America should be listening to."
William Stringfellow was born in Johnston, Rhode Island. His father was a knitter in a stocking factory. Needing money for a university education, he held three jobs in his last year of high school, yet managed to gain several scholarships and find himself at Bates College by age fifteen. Another scholarship took him to the London School of Economics. It was here, he was to write later, that he learned the difference between vocation and career. Military service followed with the Second Armored Division of the U.S. Army. When other soldiers complained that they were deprived of an identity in the armed forces and couldn't "be themselves", he disagreed. He knew that it is the living Word of God, Jesus Christ, which gives us our identity and frees us to "own" ourselves, cherish ourselves, profoundly be ourselves, anywhere.
Next was Harvard Law School. While a degree from this prestigious institution was a key which unlocked many doors, the door on which he knocked belonged to a slum tenement in Harlem, New York City. He had decided to work among poor blacks and Hispanics, the most marginalized of the metropolis. The move from Harvard to Harlem was jarring. His apartment measured twenty-five feet by twelve feet. Earlier five children and three adults had lived in it. The kitchen contained a tiny sink and an old refrigerator (neither of which worked), an old gas stove, a bathtub, and a seatless toilet bowl. Thousands of cockroaches were on hand to greet him. "Then I remembered that this is the sort of place in which most people live, in most of the world, for most of the time. Then I was home......"
His frustration with seminaries was inconsolable. Liberal schools of theology, having disdained the bible, offered little more than "poetic recitations...social analysis, gimmicks, solicitations, sentimentalities, and corn." Fundamentalist institutions, on the other hand, had yet to learn that "...if they actually took the bible seriously they would inevitably love the world more readily...because the Word of God is free and active in the world."
NEW SITE HEADDER
Now at the top of this site:
STOP "STARVING."
STOP "KILLING."
START "LOVING."
"LOVING" is our only way
to Rescue and Restore Humanity
from the planetary Hell
of our "STARVING" and "KILLING."
Our "LOVING" HEARTS
are the only thing
"strong" enough, "wise" enough,
"brave" enough
to get us out of this mess.
"STARVING" and "KILLING"
CREATED THIS HELL:
"STARVING" OTHERS
OF THE LIFETIME OF SERVICE
TO THEM
WE ARE BORN TO GIVE;
"KILLING"
AS WE HAVE
OUR STATES DO
TO EXTORT OVERPRIVILEGE.
to Rescue and Restore Humanity
from the planetary Hell
of our "STARVING" and "KILLING."
Our "LOVING" HEARTS
are the only thing
"strong" enough, "wise" enough,
"brave" enough
to get us out of this mess.
"STARVING" and "KILLING"
CREATED THIS HELL:
"STARVING" OTHERS
OF THE LIFETIME OF SERVICE
TO THEM
WE ARE BORN TO GIVE;
"KILLING"
AS WE HAVE
OUR STATES DO
TO EXTORT OVERPRIVILEGE.
STOP "STARVING."
STOP "KILLING."
START "LOVING."
!!!! GOD IS THE LOVING TRUTH OF LIFE !!!!
We will NEVER know more than that.
I have never written a more important post. And as usual, I'm the messenger, not the source. The source? The Hebrew Bible on which the life lived by Jesus, and the Corruption we know today as the Bible and New Testament are based.
Jehovah within the Hebrew Bible of Jesus' time was - the divine forces that we all feel, but will NEVER BE ABLE TO NAME.
ALL WE CAN EVER KNOW ABOUT GOD FOR SURE:
GOD IS:
LOVING-ABSOLUTE-TRUTH-ABOUT-SECURING-ABUNDANT-LIFE-FOR-THE-INDIVIDUAL-AND-OF-ALL-HUMANITY.
FATHER? MOTHER? SENTIENT? COGNIZANT? ALIEN? INFINITE? WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO NAME ANY OF THIS FOR SURE. WE ARE MAD NOT TO IMAGINE ABOUT "FATHER," "MOTHER," ETC. BUT WE MURDER WHEN WE LIVE AS THOUGH OUR IMAGININGS ARE "TRUTH."
My source on this about Jehovah? Saint David Dellinger. God help the person that doubts Dave Dellinger as a source without God Damn good reason and authority to do so.
I have never written a more important post. And as usual, I'm the messenger, not the source. The source? The Hebrew Bible on which the life lived by Jesus, and the Corruption we know today as the Bible and New Testament are based.
Jehovah within the Hebrew Bible of Jesus' time was - the divine forces that we all feel, but will NEVER BE ABLE TO NAME.
ALL WE CAN EVER KNOW ABOUT GOD FOR SURE:
GOD IS:
LOVING-ABSOLUTE-TRUTH-ABOUT-SECURING-ABUNDANT-LIFE-FOR-THE-INDIVIDUAL-AND-OF-ALL-HUMANITY.
FATHER? MOTHER? SENTIENT? COGNIZANT? ALIEN? INFINITE? WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO NAME ANY OF THIS FOR SURE. WE ARE MAD NOT TO IMAGINE ABOUT "FATHER," "MOTHER," ETC. BUT WE MURDER WHEN WE LIVE AS THOUGH OUR IMAGININGS ARE "TRUTH."
My source on this about Jehovah? Saint David Dellinger. God help the person that doubts Dave Dellinger as a source without God Damn good reason and authority to do so.
AM I FINALLY TO "START?" I THINK SO.
From a letter to folks that have been family to me:
Your love has meant the world to me.
I think that my life has been easy for you to bear compared with what is in store now. I'm just getting glimpses, finally, FINALLY, of what I am here on earth to do. I think. I am so excited, so grateful I am sobbing. The Almighty is maybe answering my begging after all these years, I think. "PLEASE SHOW ME HOW I CAN HELP, HOW TO MAKE ALL THIS CRUELTY, KILLING, STARVING, INHUMANITY STOP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!," I beg answer of Her. I'm beginning to be shown what I can do, how I can finally be of some help.
When and if I have clarity I'll share with you more. For now, what I am "Hearing" from God is a miracle, and something of which you will be enormously proud, and anguished. No, you will NOT be horrified or mortified. And maybe as has happened so often what I am hearing now is not to materialize. We'll see.
I'm sorry I can't share more right now. I don't expect to act in the way I'm beginning to "see" for several more weeks. You must respect and yield my need for this space, silence as to further explanation, at the moment.
Pray for me. Pray for our 100 billion brothers and sisters, born and unborn.
Loving you immensely, Start
ps: You must disconnect from me if and when traveling with me as you have gets too intense. You are responsible to protect your blessed and utterly essential ability to contribute, from damage.
pps: I've never been given more important revelation than is in the process of posting at START LOVING. You might want to keep checking over the next few days.
Your love has meant the world to me.
I think that my life has been easy for you to bear compared with what is in store now. I'm just getting glimpses, finally, FINALLY, of what I am here on earth to do. I think. I am so excited, so grateful I am sobbing. The Almighty is maybe answering my begging after all these years, I think. "PLEASE SHOW ME HOW I CAN HELP, HOW TO MAKE ALL THIS CRUELTY, KILLING, STARVING, INHUMANITY STOP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!," I beg answer of Her. I'm beginning to be shown what I can do, how I can finally be of some help.
When and if I have clarity I'll share with you more. For now, what I am "Hearing" from God is a miracle, and something of which you will be enormously proud, and anguished. No, you will NOT be horrified or mortified. And maybe as has happened so often what I am hearing now is not to materialize. We'll see.
I'm sorry I can't share more right now. I don't expect to act in the way I'm beginning to "see" for several more weeks. You must respect and yield my need for this space, silence as to further explanation, at the moment.
Pray for me. Pray for our 100 billion brothers and sisters, born and unborn.
Loving you immensely, Start
ps: You must disconnect from me if and when traveling with me as you have gets too intense. You are responsible to protect your blessed and utterly essential ability to contribute, from damage.
pps: I've never been given more important revelation than is in the process of posting at START LOVING. You might want to keep checking over the next few days.
I HAVE BEEN DYING SINCE I WAS CONCIEVED ...
I HAVE BEEN DYING SINCE I WAS CONCIEVED ... AND SO HAVE YOU; SINCE THE TIME OF YOUR CONCEPTION. THIS IS AN INDESPUTABLE, BIOLOGICAL FACT.
SOOOOOO... NOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT
YOU "ARE"
AT THIS MOMENT DYING...
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DIE FOR?
YOU "ARE"
AT THIS MOMENT DYING...
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DIE FOR?
9.03.2007
THERE ARE REAL FOOLS: THOSE NOT FOR CHRIST
Please hear me. Think about it. If Jesus spoke of how "Foolish" people would think his followers to be, and if we knew that his followers were not fools... THEN WHO ARE THE FOOLS?!?!?!??!!?
Anyone that is not dedicating themselves to total, radical world-family, radically coming out of empire and fighting life-or-death revolution to make the Kin-dom reality, is a FOOL.
8.25.2007
8.24.2007
THE VALUE OF THE WORK = COMPENSATION FORGONE
Jesus, your mother, your father, Assisi, Dorothy Day, Teresa, McKenna....
DESTRUCTIVE VIOLENCE IS FORCE AGAINST. FAMILINESS IS VIOLENCE FOR.
DESTRUCTIVE "VIOLENCE" IS FORCE AGAINST. FAMILINESS IS FORCE / VIOLENCE FOR.
In the name of God please let us get past this notion that there is Peace without omnipresent VIOLENCE OF A POSTIVE NATURE - MILITANT LOVE / MILITANT FAMILYNESS / MILITANT PEACEMAKING.
In the name of God please let us get past this notion that there is Peace without omnipresent VIOLENCE OF A POSTIVE NATURE - MILITANT LOVE / MILITANT FAMILYNESS / MILITANT PEACEMAKING.
WHEN YOU SUPERORDINATE ANOTHER'S ROLE YOU DEHUMANIZE
WHEN YOU SUPERORDINATE ANOTHER'S ROLE YOU DEHUMANIZE THEM AN YOU. You take infinite potential beings and amputate massive parts of that potentiality.
STATISM, CORPORATISM, ETC EXISTS TO DEHUMANIZE
Do the President, King, etc. truly accept the "limits" to their humanity of their role? Only for public show. Yet they impose at pain of death the roles of "state" on everyone else.
STATISM, CORPORATISM, ETC EXISTS FOR IRRESPONSIBLITY
STATISM, CORPORATISM, RELIGIONISM, ETC EXISTS IN ORDER TO ENABLE IRRESPONSIBILITY ON THE PART OF SOME PEOPLE AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS.
GANDHI WAS THE EQUIVALENT OF HOW MANY MAGATON BOMBS?
How many nuclear bombs would it have taken to liberate India from the British?
How many nuclear bombs would it have taken to gain civil rights for people of color?
How many nuclear bombs would it have taken to gain civil rights for people of color?
8.23.2007
NO GOOD WORK IS PAID
NO GOOD WORK IS PAID.
Who in "God's Name" would say that Her work is "Paid" work?
- Jesus?
- Gandhi?
- Mandela?
- Beko?
- Mother Teresa?
- Francis of Assisi?
- Phil Berrigan?
- Liz McAllister?
- Dorothy Day?
- Peter Maurin?
- Diane Wilson?
- Col. Anne Wright?
- Ellen Thomas?
- Thomas?
- Connie?
- Catholic Workers?
- Etc?
- Etc?
GET "REAL." BE "REAL."
GET "REAL." BE "REAL."
These mean something important. My brother Thomas the prophet, on those rare occasions when someone meets his approval, or does not, are they "real" seems to be central to his determination.
Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus - Cite This Source
Main Entry:
real
Part of Speech:
adjective
Definition:
genuine
Synonyms:
absolute, actual, authentic, bodily, bona fide, certain, concrete, corporal, corporeal, de facto, embodied, essential, evident, existent, existing, factual, firm, heartfelt, honest, incarnate, indubitable, intrinsic, irrefutable, it, legitimate, live, material, original, palpable, perceptible, physical, positive, present, right, rightful, sensible, sincere, solid, sound, stable, substantial, substantive, tangible, true, unaffected, undeniable, undoubted, unfeigned, valid, veritable
Antonyms:
false, imaginary, imitation, unreal
These mean something important. My brother Thomas the prophet, on those rare occasions when someone meets his approval, or does not, are they "real" seems to be central to his determination.
Real:
- "REALity" for
95% of the world's population. - Of "REAL" hope
for 95% of our "world-family."
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source
re·al1 /ˈriəl, ril/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ree-uhl, reel] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. true; not merely ostensible, nominal, or apparent: the real reason for an act.
2. existing or occurring as fact; actual rather than imaginary, ideal, or fictitious: a story taken from real life.
3. being an actual thing; having objective existence; not imaginary: The events you will see in the film are real and not just made up.
4. being actually such; not merely so-called: a real victory.
5. genuine; not counterfeit, artificial, or imitation; authentic: a real antique; a real diamond; real silk.
6. unfeigned or sincere: real sympathy; a real friend.
7. Informal. absolute; complete; utter: She's a real brain.
8. Philosophy.
a. existent or pertaining to the existent as opposed to the nonexistent.
b. actual as opposed to possible or potential.
c. independent of experience as opposed to phenomenal or apparent.
9. (of money, income, or the like) measured in purchasing power rather than in nominal value: Inflation has driven income down in real terms, though nominal income appears to be higher.
Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus - Cite This Source
Main Entry:
real
Part of Speech:
adjective
Definition:
genuine
Synonyms:
absolute, actual, authentic, bodily, bona fide, certain, concrete, corporal, corporeal, de facto, embodied, essential, evident, existent, existing, factual, firm, heartfelt, honest, incarnate, indubitable, intrinsic, irrefutable, it, legitimate, live, material, original, palpable, perceptible, physical, positive, present, right, rightful, sensible, sincere, solid, sound, stable, substantial, substantive, tangible, true, unaffected, undeniable, undoubted, unfeigned, valid, veritable
Antonyms:
false, imaginary, imitation, unreal
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