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Sunday, August 4, 2019

Defend

8.11.19
Kylie Jenner

Defend
Your
Property
保卫你的财产
Bǎowèi nǐ de cáichǎn
あなたの財産を守る
Anata no zaisan o mamoru
ps50
Rem defendam

I prayed for the preservation of private property
to prevent it or me being taken by some improper lottery.

The earth has been called from the dawn to twilight.
Time and the world are ever in flight.

Divine light is revealed in glory.
It is perfect in the beauty of the celestial story. 

A consuming flame precedes the raging storm. 
Purification in redemption is the symbolic norm 
for ritual to perform.

Wash yourselves
from the decadent self.

Make yourselves clean
from the wrong you have seen.

Remove evil from your action.
Your goodness will find satisfaction.

Don't let evil return
or in shame you will burn.

Learn from the observation of goodness.
Things work best for functional sureness.

Seek justice
for augustness.

Defend the oppressed
from oppressing the rest.

Support the grateful orphan
to earn a portion of importance.

Grant the widow a place in the community
that she may continue to value opportunity.

Argue your position
to learn from opposition.

The analysis of language has a history
that describes the special meaning of word mystery.  

If your sins were as red as scarlet
your conscience will become as clean as snow white carpet.

If they had the shade of crimson
your soul will be cleansed of shame like wool from Lisbon.

We understand by faith that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.
Worlds were prepared by the word of God with a providence that is divisible.

Abraham set out for a place 
that he was to receive by faith.

Ziggurat of Ur

He moved forward to receive his estate 
like a wraith with a date from heaven's gate. 

Heaven and earth are called to witness
the wealth in health from forgiveness
for fitness. 

Gather those who have sealed the covenant with sacrifice
to celebrate the wonders of paradise.

Heaven will declare the rightness of cause
as the basis from which to draw a reason to pause
to form a clause for the judgment of law.  

The offering of praise is presented to find
the blessing in sacrifice for the Giver divined.

Spirit does not require meat for existence.
The divine nature does not require food for subsistence. 

The beasts of the forest are wild in nature.
Herds of any kind find freedom with feeding for labor. 

Birds in the sky defy gravity with flight.
Creatures of the field travel mostly at night. 

Would I drink the blood of goats?
I wouldn’t even put that in quotes.

Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Most High.
Gratitude is satisfying to the source of sight for your eye.

Call on me in the day of trouble.
I will deliver you from the misperception bubble.

Do not state my covenant with your words
and live in a way that makes life look absurd.  

When you refuse to govern your own actions,
it doesn’t work for public satisfaction.

When you make a thief your friend
it doesn’t work as a legal end.

When you cast your lot with the destructive
you help that which is obstructive and corruptive.

Don’t speak to cause evil to another.
Speech can motivate some to damage others.

You thought that these things made you like me.
You didn’t have the right way to see.

I have put my case before your eyes.
Don’t use it to justify lies.

Redemption is at hand
when the request for forgiveness has been asked.

Consider the value of goodness in law.
You are an advocate for the public draw in awe.

Be ready to protect your house from theft. 
Security asks you to be ready for defense even while at rest. 

The Son did not come to condemn humanity or nature.
The Word became incarnate to improve natural stature.

Those who walk with faith will see salvation
as a cause of thanksgiving for station in the nation.

The promise of entering into divine rest is open.
Take care to prevent your part from being broken.

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50 Deus deorum
God of gods

1 The Lord, the God of gods, has spoken;
he has called the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
2 Out of Zion, perfect in its beauty,
God reveals himself in glory.
3 Our God will come and will not keep silence;
before him there is a consuming flame,
and round about him a raging storm.
4 He calls the heavens and the earth from above
to witness the judgment of his people.
5 "Gather before me my loyal followers,
those who have made a covenant with me and sealed it with sacrifice."
6 Let the heavens declare the rightness of his cause;
for God himself is judge.
7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak:
"O Israel, I will bear witness against you;
for I am God, your God.
8 I do not accuse you because of your sacrifices;
your offerings are always before me.
9 I will take no bull-calf from your stalls,
nor he-goats out of your pens;
10 For all the beasts of the forest are mine,
the herds in their thousands upon the hills.
11 I know every bird in the sky,
and the creatures of the fields are in my sight.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the whole world is mine and all that is in it.
13 Do you think I eat the flesh of bulls,
or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving
and make good your vows to the Most High.
15 Call upon me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall honor me."
16 But to the wicked God says:
"Why do you recite my statutes,
and take my covenant upon your lips;
17 Since you refuse discipline,
and toss my words behind your back?
18 When you see a thief, you make him your friend,
and you cast in your lot with adulterers.
19 You have loosed your lips for evil,
and harnessed your tongue to a lie.
20 You are always speaking evil of your brother
and slandering your own mother's son.
21 These things you have done, and I kept still,
and you thought that I am like you."
22 "I have made my accusation;
I have put my case in order before your eyes.
23 Consider this well, you who forget God,
lest I rend you and there be none to deliver you.
24 Whoever offers me the sacrifice of thanksgiving honors me;
but to those who keep in my way will I show the salvation of God."

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Isa. 1:16-18

Wash yourselves. Make yourselves clean.
Remove the evil of your action
from before my eyes.
Cease to do evil.
Learn to do good.

Seek justice.
Rescue the oppressed.
Defend the orphan.
Plead for the widow.

Come now. Let us argue it out
says the LORD:

Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be like snow.
Though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool.

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Wash yourselves
from the decadent self.

Make yourselves clean
from the wrong you have seen.

Remove evil from your action.
Your goodness will find satisfaction.

Don't let evil return
or in shame you will burn.

Learn from the observation of goodness.
Things work best for functional sureness.

Seek justice
for augustness.

Defend the oppressed
from oppressing the rest.

Support the grateful orphan
to earn a portion of importance.

Grant the widow a place in the community
that she may continue to value opportunity.

Argue your position
to learn from opposition.

If your sins were as red as scarlet
your conscience will become as clean as snow white carpet.

If they had the shade of crimson
your soul will be cleansed of shame like wool from Lisbon.

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Hebrews 11:3,8

We understand by faith that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so what is seen was made from things that are not visible.

Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance by faith. He set out not knowing where he was going.

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We understand by faith that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.
Worlds were prepared by the word of God with a providence that is divisible.

Abraham set out for a place
that he was to receive by faith.

He moved forward to receive his estate
like a wraith with a date from heaven's gate.

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Luke 12:39

Know this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief would come, he would have protected his house from theft. You also must be ready. The Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.'

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Be ready to protect your house from theft.
Security asks you to be ready for defense even while at rest.

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Meaning and Language

Scott Soames
b. 8.11.1946

Scott Soames is  is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He specializes in the philosophy of language and the history of analytic philosophy.

He is well known for defending and expanding on the program in the philosophy of language started by Saul Kripke as well as being a major critic of two-dimensionalist theories of meaning. David Chalmers is a leading representative of this kind of theory.

The philosophy of language is derived from the history of analytic philosophy. Analytic philosophy can be traced back to the beginning of the 20th century. Central figures in the development are Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), G.E. Moore (1873-1958), Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) and the logical positivists (1920-1960).

It is characterized by an emphasis on argumentative clarity and precision. Formal logic, conceptual analysis, mathematics and the natural sciences are used in analysis. John Locke had described his work as that of an "underlabourer" to the achievements of natural scientists such as Newton. The most influential advocate of the continuity of philosophy with science in the 20th century was Willard Van Orman Quine.

Analysis is directed by the principle that the clarification of thought can only be achieved in the form of propositions. Russell distinguished modern analytic empiricism  from that of Locke, Berkeley and Hume by its incorporation of mathematics and its development of a powerful logical technique.

It is able to achieve definite answers in regard to certain problems in a series of propositions that have the quality of science rather than of philosophy. It does not attempt to invent a block theory of the whole universe at one stroke.

The method resembles that of science, but it doesn't require the expertise of a scientist. It analyzes the conceptual propositions used to explain the object of a scientific inquiry.

The majority of university philosophy departments in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Scandinavia identify themselves as "analytic" departments. This is contrasted most notably with continental philosophies such as existentialism, phenomenology, Thomism and Marxism.

The philosophy of language explores logic, meaning and accounts of mind in the analytic tradition.  The scope of the inquiry may extend into the origins of language, the nature of meaning, the usage and cognition of language. The study investigates the relationship between language and reality more broadly.

Frege and Russell were pivotal figures. They were followed by Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle. other positivists and Quine.

Interest in language extends back to the 5th century BCE in the west with Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics.  Medieval philosophers were concerned with the subtleties of language and its usage.

This interest was provoked by the necessity of translating Greek texts into Latin for many scholastics. The trivium was the template for the investigation of Latin.  Peter Abelard anticipated the modern ideas of sense and reference.

William of Ockham's Summa Logicae brought forward one of the first serious proposals for codifying a mental language.  Ockham and John Duns Scotus considered logic to be a scientia sermocinalis (science of language).

Linguists of the Renaissance and Baroque periods were infatuated with the idea of a philosophical language reversing the confusion of tongues. The fascination was fueled by the discovery of Chinese characters and Egyptian hieroglyphs. This thought was paralleled by the idea that there may be a universal language in music. The music of Bach has be recognized for the mathematical phrases in form.

The German philosopher Gottlob Frege brought the philosophy of language to the modern era. His work in logic in the late 19th century  influenced the work of 20th-century analytic philosophers Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

The philosophy of language became so pervasive that for a time in analytic circles, the discipline as a whole was understood to be an analysis of language.

Scott Soames was born on August 11, 1946. He did his undergraduate work in philosophy at Stanford University. He completed his graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in linguistics and philosophy. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from MIT in 1976.

Soames taught briefly at Yale University (from 1976–1980). He moved to Princeton University from 1980 to 2004. His departure from Princeton in 2004 was seen as a major loss at the philosophy department.

He has been a professor at the University of Southern California, Department of Philosophy since 2004. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.

Soames specializes in the philosophy of language and the history of analytic philosophy. He has published books and articles primarily on issues concerning meaning, reference and truth.

He and Nathan Salmon edited a book entitled Propositions and Attitudes (1989) fairly early in his career. This was a collection of readings that investigates philosophical issues surrounding the nature of propositions.

Soames has been known for expanding on the anti-descriptivist position developed by Saul Kripke in Naming and Necessity (1972/1980) later in his career. His work Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of 'Naming and Necessity' (2002) developed the position.

He is also a major critic of two-dimensionalist theories of semantics. He wrote Reference and Description: The Case against Two-Dimensionalism (2005) to express this criticism.

Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century (2003) is his two-volume history. It was developed from a lecture course regularly given at Princeton. It has been the subject of significant controversy among historians of the topic.

Exchanges on the Notre Dame Philosophical Review, Brian Weatherson's blog, the journal The Philosophical Quarterly and Soames's own web page have often been heated.

Scott Soames
S.  斯科特索姆斯
T.  斯科特索姆斯

斯 Si      this                     斯  shi       this                          Su   す    ス               Seu  스  switch   
科 ke     rules                    科  ka        department             ko  こっ コッ            kos  콧  nose           
特 te     special                 特  toku   special                      to   と      ト               So    소  small     
索 Suo  to exact               索  saku    cord                         So  そ-    ソ-               me   메  me           
姆 mu   governess            姆 mo       wet nurse                 mu  む     ム               jeu   즈  the               
斯 si       this                     斯  shi       this                          zu   ず     ズ                             
                                                 
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The analysis of language has a history
that describes the special meaning of word mystery.

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wiki Scott Soames
USC Soames
USC Soames against Chalmers 2 dimensionalism
USC History of Analytic Philosophy in US

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Revere

4.18.19

Last Supper

Revere
Life
反抗生活 
Fǎnkàng shēnghuó
リヴィア生活
Rivu~ia seikatsu
ps116

I love that I found help when I needed it.
Salvation came and I heeded it.

I had fallen to the place of shades
the distress beyond bad dreams had made.

The grip of the grave grapple grabbed
until my adam's apple gagged
while seeing the sensible source sag 
from the sense perception had.

I said, "Though I have been driven from your sight,
I hope to look on your temple again with delight."

I felt desperate. My mind cried for direction.
Choice was compressed to this bit. I had to select protection 
from the danger of dereliction.

I found what I needed before the moment of crisis.
The rightness in choice was decisive. 

The cords of death had entangled me.
My sight was so strangled, I had to get free.

Sorrow drove sadness to the threshold of pain.
The horror drove madness to enfold the insane.

Human being is not made holy by work
but faith lives for grace when responsibility is not shirked.

I remembered to pray
when my life was fading away.

My prayer reached you in your holy place.
You heard my cry for help with grace.

I will sacrifice to you with thanksgiving.
I will give a portion from what I am given to make a living.

Salvation spoke to me through a whale and fish.
The sea spit me out on dry land to answer my wish.

The success of salvation is gracious.
It was so efficacious, it was almost salacious.

Nothing else is quite so profound
as wonder in the world once it has been found.

Defense is granted to the watchful
if only because the thoughtful 
watch for the goodness of the gospel.

I felt that I fell very low, but I was helped.
I exempted contempt for the hand I was dealt.

I was rescued from death.
Help was given in the test.

My eyes shed natural tears.
I was grateful for my years.

My feet did not stumble
though I felt very humble.

I will walk in the presence 
of the divine essence
in the land of the living
to give thanks for the giving.

Brooker Creek Preserve Trail

I believed even when 
I had been brought to a bend.
Then I had said, 
“No one can be trusted
when trust has been busted.”

How will I repay my debt
without regret 
for all the good things 
carried by angel wings?

I will lift up the cup of salvation 
and hold it high as a libation.

I will fulfill my promise to live
with reverence for life as a gift
in the rule of law that we win
by transcending sin.

We had been told that your lamb will be a sheep or a goat.
It will be a year old male intended to connote
a sacrifice from providence as a promissory note.

Now the sacrifice is a donation to service
to consecrate thanksgiving with purpose.

Precious in the sight of divine Light
is the death of those who defended rights.
They lived good lives.

I am a defender of rights. 
I have been resurrected as a good life
by the experience that brought me past strife. 

I tasted this glimpse of the abyss.
It was black and gray with white lights in the tryst.

I have been freed from the world of discrimination
to recount deliverance by narration.

I listen to hear.
I have not rebelled in fear.
I did not turn back the years.

My ear has been opened.
I hear sounds that are spoken.

Blessing and curse come from the same mouth.
This ought not to be so for the north or the south.

From the same tongue comes curses or worse.
Speech should be the garden ground for statement and verse.

Who do you say that I am?
You are anointed to pass the exam.

Christ stood near the water anointed by the sun.
Peter said, "You are the Messiah of the holy One."

I was not rebellious,
reckless or helpless.

I did not turn backwards.
I spoke in exact words.

Bravery is most bold when prepared.
Faith looks for benign design to be shared.

Time starts to grow bold.
The word shares the beauty of hope.

Hope desires goodness
to add to the fullness.

Measure the base of an object
to secure restraint in the prospect 
for the project.

The bug pulls this stem.
You straighten the hem.

The bridge to love leads the way
to the right thing to do or say.

I will offer thanksgiving with my sacrifice.
I will give thanks to the Giver of life.

Jesus said
after he broke the bread,
'Take eat. This is my body broken for you.

This is my blood offered for redemption in truth.
Do this in remembrance of my gift to guide your youth.'

He poured water to clean his disciples' feet.
He washed and dried each foot to make the task complete.


I will speak with reason for the reasonable acceptance
of benefit for people in the presence 
of the divine essence
in the assembly in public
in the city of peace that is love lit
by the waters near where the dove sits.

It is time to rest
now that I have been blessed
with the quest to sing of salvation with zest.

Stress from the test has worn my torn soul.
I will do my best to celebrate life as a whole. 

Yea Yah!
You fill me with awe!


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116 Dilexi, quoniam
I love because

1 I love the Lord, because he has heard the voice of
my supplication,
because he has inclined his ear to me whenever
I called upon him.
2 The cords of death entangled me;
the grip of the grave took hold of me;
I came to grief and sorrow.
3 Then I called upon the Name of the Lord:
"O Lord, I pray you, save my life."
4 Gracious is the Lord and righteous;
our God is full of compassion.
5 The Lord watches over the innocent;
I was brought very low, and he helped me.
6 Turn again to your rest, O my soul.
for the Lord has treated you well.
7 For you have rescued my life from death,
my eyes from tears, and my feet from stumbling.
8 I will walk in the presence of the Lord
in the land of the living.
9 I believed, even when I said,
"I have been brought very low."
In my distress I said, "No one can be trusted."
10 How shall I repay the Lord
for all the good things he has done for me?
11 I will lift up the cup of salvation
and call upon the Name of the Lord.
12 I will fulfill my vows to the Lord
in the presence of all his people.
13 Precious in the sight of the Lord
is the death of his servants.
14 O Lord, I am your servant;
I am your servant and the child of your handmaid;
you have freed me from my bonds.
15 I will offer you the sacrifice of thanksgiving
and call upon the Name of the Lord.
16 I will fulfill my vows to the Lord
in the presence of all his people,
17 In the courts of the Lord's house,
in the midst of you, O Jerusalem.
Hallelujah!

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Exodus 12:5

Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

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Your lamb will be a sheep or a goat.
It will be a year old male intended to connote
a sacrifice from providence as a promissary note.

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1 Corinth. 11:24

When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, 'This is my body that is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me.'

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Take eat. This is my body broken for you.
This is my blood offered for redemption in truth.
Do this in remembrance of my gift to guide your youth.

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John 13:5

He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him.

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His command was to love each other as a service.
He washed the disciples' feet to show that he heard us
as having heard his purpose.

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Washing Feet

Maundy Thursday

Law is a system of rules that regulates the members of a body. Enforcement by the imposition of punishment is to be limited to cases where damage was caused by a party charged with a crime.
Maundy Thursday is the name given to the day on which Jesus celebrated the Passover with his disciples. The event is known as the Last Supper. It occurred the night before the day on which he was crucified. The Last Supper is used for the celebration of the Eucharist or Communion.

Communion and Baptism are regarded as key rites in the institution of the Christian religion. Baptism is performed once for initiation into membership in the Church. Communion is offered repeatedly to commune with the Christ of Jesus as the Son of God. Leadership in the Church is respected as sanctified for the administration of the sacraments.

The word Maundy is derived from the Latin word for command, mandatum. Jesus gave a command to his disciples at the Last Supper to love and serve one another.

Maundy Thursday is the Christian holy day that falls on the Thursday before Easter. It commemorates the Last Supper and foot washing of Jesus Christ with the apostles as described in the canonical gospels. It is the fifth day of Holy Week. It is preceded by Holy Wednesday and followed by Good Friday.

The term Holy Thursday is associated with the celebration of the Ascension throughout the Anglican Communion. The Eastern Orthodox Church uses the term for the day before Good Friday.
When a church observes the rite associated with Maundy Thursday, it includes the enactment of the foot washing ceremony. The act is performed in remembrance of how Christ humbled himself.

Have this mind which is yours in Christ Jesus. He did not count equality with God a thing to be taken. He emptied himself by being born in the likeness of men and took the form of a servant. (Philippians 2:5)

A new commandment was given. Love each other as you have been loved that you may serve each other. (John 13:34)

Maundy Thursday initiates the Easter Triduum. This is the period which commemorates the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. The Easter celebration starts on Saturday before midnight. Thursday, Friday and Saturday are the three days in the triduum.

The commemoration of the crucifixion of Christ serves as a symbolic reminder to reject or 'put to death' false beliefs. We believe in our Savior as the author of salvation, but that which is false about belief in God does not serve the Church, the world or us.

Law is absolute in the identification of murder as a capital offense. When the charge of murder is proven in a court of law, it warrants life in prison or death as the penalty. The severity of the punishment is dependent upon the certainty of proof in the evidence.

Since it is conceivable that a person who was not guilty of murder could be convicted for the charge of that crime, proof of guilt has to be beyond the shadow of a doubt for the imposition of death as the penalty.

The prohibition of things that don't necessarily, but could cause harm represents an over-extension of legislative authority.

The prohibition of alcohol serves as an example. Alcohol causes physical damage to bodily health when consumed in excess, but it can be used recreationally for the medicinal property of relaxation. Driving while drunk can be prohibited by law, but the prohibition of alcohol was an example of overreach.

https://www.gotquestions.org/Maundy-Thursday.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maundy_Thursday
https://www.christianity.com/christian-life/what-is-maundy-thursday-11628350.html

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Kiss


Miley Cyrus
Liam Hemsworth

Kiss
Bliss
至福を楽しむ
Shifuku o tanoshimu
ps 65

The sky is moist with air.
The courage of conviction has to be fair.

Oversight sails on high.
Beauty gives courage an ally.

This temple was not made with human hands.
It was not built on stone. It is closer to sand
but it is on land.

Build a promise like you build a house.
Don't forget your beginning sprouts
with the tests you tout.

Prayer is answered with each test
insofar as you seek to find the best.

Start each task with the end in mind
until the step is the tie that binds.

Courage for faith 
will pave 
the way 
to say:

Design will be conceived.
Goals will be achieved.
Stress will be relieved.
Reward will be believed.
Promises will be kept.
Support will not have left.

Meaning will be what was meant.
The ominous drama of office
will honor the keeping of promise
for the honorable prominence
of love's dominance.

Forgiveness will be shown.
The drone groan will not have blown
the bliss of this kiss.
The fixable will forge forgiveness
for that which is forgivable in this.

Happiness will happen.
Welcome will be in fashion.
Reliability will protect the hallowed halls
with the brightly painted walls
of faith with fidelity
as the melody
for the clarity
of charity.

We will be satisfied in this house of satisfaction
with attraction for the action of benefaction
as the plan for action that is not just abstraction
with respect for life with liberty and the justice
that will thrust us into august robustness
with justness as our substance.

Deliverance will deliver us from ignorance
as the construction for destruction and belief
in being lawyers with destroyers as employers.

Salvation is hope that reaches
by the farthest seas to the nearest beaches.

Mountains were established by the strength of land
being pressed by pressure from beyond and beneath the sands.

The roaring waves of outraged oceans
find solace in silent motions
after the purging surge of roaring rage
releases peace from the pain of the age.

Love for life quiets the tumult
from turbulent tides and the lightning bolt.

The morning and evening
shout for joy as gateways for retrieving
the goodness of peace that reaches
to the ultimate end that the awe of awesome teaches.

The power of the sun, wind, water and soil
make grain grow as part of the plan for the least amount of toil.

Irrigation teaches water to reach low
to each place that had not been known
by moisture or had not been shown
the blessing of growth.

Drainage drives deluge into ponds
for holding the drink for the palm's unfolding fronds.

Time is crowned by provision.
Trade, travel and labor's vision
will overflow with wealth in a provident decision
of the economy's revision of monetary division.

The land abounds with boundaries
established by pastures. forest trees,
rivers, lakes, seas, deserts and constructed levies.

Meadows are adorned with flocks.
Gates are secured with locks.
Valleys give growth to grain.
Pleasure is cultivated from pain.

Life sings for the joy of living.
This joy is strengthened with thanksgiving.

Liberty is limited by the law of love for life.
Redemption transforms adversity from strife.

Happy are those who are brought near your courts.
Security transcends the structure of the fort.

Kiss bliss.
Don't dismiss this.
It will help you to dismiss
what the Swiss missed.


Like you build a temple, like you build a statue, you build a vow...

Psalm 65
To the leader. A Psalm of David. A Song.

1 Praise is due to you,
   O God, in Zion;
and to you shall vows be performed,
2   O you who answer prayer!
To you all flesh shall come.
3 When deeds of iniquity overwhelm us,
   you forgive our transgressions.
4 Happy are those whom you choose and bring near
   to live in your courts.
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house,
   your holy temple.
5 By awesome deeds you answer us with deliverance,
   O God of our salvation;
you are the hope of all the ends of the earth
   and of the farthest seas.
6 By your* strength you established the mountains;
   you are girded with might.
7 You silence the roaring of the seas,
   the roaring of their waves,
   the tumult of the peoples.
8 Those who live at earth’s farthest bounds are awed by your signs;
you make the gateways of the morning and the evening shout for joy.

9 You visit the earth and water it,
   you greatly enrich it;
the river of God is full of water;
   you provide the people with grain,
   for so you have prepared it.
10 You water its furrows abundantly,
   settling its ridges,
softening it with showers,
   and blessing its growth.
11 You crown the year with your bounty;
   your wagon tracks overflow with richness.
12 The pastures of the wilderness overflow,
   the hills gird themselves with joy,
13 the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,
   the valleys deck themselves with grain,
   they shout and sing together for joy.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Honor


Review for Thanksgiving Week 2012
Others,

Concern for provision in the economy and protection for human rights protects liberty within the law.
Physical and mental conditioning is necessary for competition and important for living a healthy life. Knowledge of the elements can be used for justice in the rule of law. Education promotes security based on defense and community; not aggression for personal gain.

Education and communication help us to survive natural disaster.  Recovery and re-building help us to review what had been learned and communicated.
Those who sowed loss with tears will harvest recovery with songs of joy.
http://bible.cc/psalms/126-6.htm

Recovering from Sandy
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/letters/letters-the-politics-of-recovering-from-sandy-1.4226701

Thanksgiving Reflection
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-34222_162-57553437-10391739/thanksgiving-wishes-with-a-little-politics-on-the-side/
President Obama said, "As Americans, we are a bold, generous, big-hearted people. When our brothers and sisters are in need, we roll up our sleeves and get to work - not for the recognition or the reward, but because it's the right thing to do. Because there but for the grace of God go I. And because here in America, we rise or fall together, as one nation and one people."


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Elizabeth of Hungary had been married to Ludwig IV when she was 14 years old (1220).
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/286.html
http://nobility.org/2011/11/17/elizabeth-of-hungary/
"In the spring of 1226, when floods, famine, and the pest wrought havoc in Thuringia, Ludwig was in Italy attending the Diet at Cremona on behalf of the emperor and the empire. Under these circumstances Elizabeth assumed control of affairs, distributed alms in all parts of the territory of her husband, giving even state robes and ornaments to the poor. In order to care personally for the unfortunate she built below the Wartburg a hospital with twenty-eight beds and visited the inmates daily to attend to their wants; at the same time she aided nine hundred poor daily.”

Elizabeth’s fame was established as a gentle and charitable giver. Her honor will be remembered with joy.

There are those who use the death and destruction due to natural disaster as a justification for cruelty. It is better to suffer for having been good.
http://bible.cc/1_peter/3-17.htm

Those who live for evil haven't learned. They can't pay enough to restore life. They haven't started to pay in order to learn goodness.

Edmund (841-869), King of East Anglia, was killed when he was 28 years old. He had been king from 1855. He had been king for 14 years.
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/287.html
http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/adversaries/bios/edmund_east_anglia.html

Condemn evil acts: homicide, genocide, tyranny, aggressive war and terrorism. Punish those who are guilty of enslavement, torture or violent crime.

Otherwise, do not condemn or you will be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Correct in a way that you would be corrected. Mercy is stronger than sacrifice. Love changes the world. http://bible.cc/luke/6-37.htm

Clement of Rome (c.30-101 CE) wrote a letter to the Corinthians that encouraged mercy.
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/290.html
“Recall especially what the Lord Jesus said when he taught gentleness and forbearance. "Be merciful," he said, "so that you may have mercy shown to you. Forgive, so that you may be forgiven. As you treat others, so you will be treated. As you give, so you will receive… The measure of your giving will be the measure of your receiving."

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There are those who believe that mercy has no place in national leadership. The bombing in Gaza last week provided another example of the excessive force associated with “targeted killing.”

Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved. There will be deliverance from violence. The hatred will cease. Anger will be remembered. Survivors will be called to establish justice with reparations.
http://bible.cc/joel/2-32.htm

Gaza Ceasefire
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-11/22/c_131992928.htm

Egypt Brokers Truce with US Support
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57553476/mideast-truce-about-stopping-the-killing-not-long-term-peace/
“Morsi's aid in brokering the truce legitimized his presidency on the international stage, after he has struggled to consolidate control over a post-Arab Spring Egypt.”

National Madness
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/for-israelis-like-me-gaza-was-a-moment-of-national-madness/article5583671/
Lisa Goldman wrote: "That was the war (2008-9) that nearly wrecked my relationship with my oldest friend. She dropped by to visit just as I was ending a phone conversation with a colleague in Gaza – or, rather, the conversation was ended when a missile landed with a huge gut-churning crash right next to his home. When the static on the line cleared, the sound in the background was his 8-year-old daughter, screaming. He had just finished telling me that they had no electricity or running water and his daughter was confined to bed with a psychosomatic paralysis brought on by fear of the bombardment.

"Shakily, while setting out coffee and cookies, I recounted this conversation to my friend, whom I had known since I was 17. She responded, “Well, what can I say? He should not have voted for Hamas.” These people want to kill us, she continued, and what’s more they force us to kill them because they use their women and children as human shields.

"I hardly spoke to her for six months after that."

The state exists to serve people. It is not the vehicle for destruction and enslavement.

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Honor
Fm. 2 Samuel 23:1-7

The statement of goodness, product of grace;
     the oracle of those whom have been blessed;
the elect for the God of creation;
    those favored with the strength of competition.

The spirit of the LORD speaks through
   that which is right about reason with science.
This word can be spoken with truth for justice.
   The Rock of competition has said:
One who rules justly for people,
    remembers the poor;
promotes provision for basic needs;
   rules with light from fire.
This leadership is like the radiance of day,
            like the sun rising on a cloudless morning
            with light gleaming from the rain on plants
            moving with the wind.
The goodness of creation is the house of God.
            We have an everlasting covenant;
            ordered with security by defense for community.
We have a plan for the rule of law
            that respects human rights.
Deterrent action is used to prevent harm.
Excessive force is not allowed.

Evil actions are high crimes:
murder, murders, tyranny, terrorism
and violent crimes that result in death
Slavery and criminal acts are outlawed.
Those accused with probable cause
will be investigated with due process
and tried in court. They will not be held indefinitely.
They will judged by reason with science
before a jury of their peers.

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The state is not to dictate truth to the people. Truth guides the state in government. Law without liberty is dictatorship.
http://bible.cc/john/18-37.htm

Morsi Claims Exemption from Judicial Review
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-24/judiciary-slams-morsis-unprecedented-attack/4390612

Supreme Court of Egypt Declares 1/3 of Parliament Illegal (June 2012)
http://www.bibleprophecyblog.com/2012/06/egypts-high-court-tries-to-stave-off.html#

Decisions promoted by the President of the US are subject to review by the Supreme Court. Why should any leader have decisions placed beyond the judgment of law?

What is Healthcare to Cost in the US?
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/boehner-obama-debt-obamacare/2012/11/21/id/465060

The Muslim Brotherhood is pushing for an Islamic state. Morsi is affectively declaring that Islamic presidential power cannot be judged by the Supreme Court of Egypt. His claim to power is a push for dictatorship. Fair statesmanship supports freedom of religion. It does not dictate religion to the people of the state.

Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2012 was World Day of Prayer and Action for Children.
http://www.aco.org/acns/news.cfm/2012/11/20/ACNS5253

The story about the virgin birth is about children who are not registered with the state. Jesus did not have a birth certificate. He was not registered due to the fear that the tyrannical leadership would have had him put to death.

It has been argued that Europe without Greece is like a child without a birth certificate. Europe needs Greece, but poor families often live in fear that they are not being represented by leadership. Remember the poor by representing provision for basic needs.

The Synod for the Church of England Rejected Draft Legislation for the Ordination of Female Bishops
http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2012/11/20/ACNS5254

The House of Laity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/21/church-house-laity-special-interest

A Clear Majority
http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2012/11/20/ACNS5254
"Speaking after the vote the Rt Revd Graham James, Bishop of Norwich, said: "A clear majority of the General Synod today voted in favour of the legislation to consecrate women as Bishops. But the bar of approval is set very high in this Synod. Two-thirds of each house has to approve the legislation for it to pass. This ensures the majority is overwhelming. The majority in the house of laity was not quite enough. This leaves us with a problem. 42 out of 44 dioceses approved the legislation and more than three quarters of members of diocesan synods voted in favour. There will be many who wonder why the General Synod expressed its mind so differently. "

Freedom of religion is supported in practice in the UK, but the legislative record has declared the monarch to be the head of the Church.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Supremacy
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/royal_supremacy.htm

Queen Elizabeth II is the monarch for the UK. How is it that the monarch can be a woman, but a bishop cannot be female? The UK needs to legislate freedom of religion. The Church of England needs to establish a constitutional theocracy for the church. If the vote to ordain a female bishop does not pass all three houses with a 2/3 majority, additional change is in order.

Queen Elizabeth II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II

Dr. Rowan Williams (retiring Archbishop of Canterbury)
http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2012/11/21/ACNS5255
“Whatever decision was made yesterday, today was always going to be a difficult day.“

Some people were going to be left feeling that their presence and participation was not appreciated.

http://www.aco.org/acns/news.cfm/2012/11/22/ACNS5257
Archdeacon Christine Hardman said, "Archbishop Rowan’s leadership had been distinguished by his “scholar-like” insistence that we “attend to what is the case, even if we wish it were otherwise”

We also have the right to work for the ordination of female bishops; a more representative apostolicity. Strictly male leadership in ordained roles is outdated.

Apostolicity for Paul and the mission to the Gentiles is grounded in remembrance of the poor. Promote provision through a healthy economy. Support the rights of others as well as your own. Being Christian; being religious; is a commitment to being human. Living only for “number one,” individual self, is an act of self isolation that prevents the development of community by the alienation of others.
Led Zepplin – Kashmir

I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been;
To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen.
They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed.

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We have a plan for the rule of law
            that respects human rights.

Steve K.