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Sunday, June 9, 2013

Monster!

Others,

It is an error to worship leadership as God. This is the same error that was condemned with idolatry. When absolute power is ascribed to human being, leadership or the “LORD” has been deified as a replacement for leadership from nature’s God as the Creator of all.

This is the Leviathan that seeks to destroy freedom for the people by offering rights as a reward, but takes the offer away to make people pay for the unlimited accumulation of capital for an elite group. War is used to delay the extension of rights.

People have the right to worship God according to the teachings of religion, but it is wrong to give an elite group absolute power without the possibility for legal reprisal.

The ascription of absolute power to human being opens the door to war for aggression, genocide, murder, torture, rape or violent crime of any kind, including economic destruction. Economic destruction is violent because it takes away food, shelter and clothing from those who are otherwise motivated to work for the same.

Freedom of religion is a human right. There is no legal freedom to make human being into the God for war, violence and destruction.

Leviathan
Spirit for War
The war of all against all.
Bellum omnium contra omnes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellum_omnium_contra_omnes
Hobbes was writing for the establishment of a state religion. Christianity was conveniently placed at the time. He defined life as the war of every one against every one.

Cindy Jacobs Tells Native Americans
to Repent from Animism or Laviathan
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/05/cindy-jacobs-native-americans-repent_n_3390601.html
""If you have in your bloodline any animus, any Native American blood, for instance -- not all Native Americans worshiped the serpent or crocodile, many did — but you might want to renounce that and repent for the generational iniquity,” Jacobs says. “If you are -- perhaps you’re Mexican and you might have indigenous blood in you or Mayan blood -- those who have Aztec blood in any way, you need to repent for the sin of animism before you begin to deal with this spirit.”"

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The population for her message is too specific. Everyone in the USA needs to worry about the consequence for animism after the push for the establishment of profit from war as the religion for the state. The 'Citizens United' rule for industry leadership has re-established idolatry as the state religion. The nation has regressed to the state where leadership for war has been given status as the son of the god of war. Limiting the warning of the message to native people repeats the neo-Platonic error. The error blames those who were victimized most by the state for profit from war.

Lawfrom Ps.146

Say yea Yah!
Yea you!
Praise God, my dear soul.
I will praise the LORD while I live.
I will sing praises while I have being.

Don’t put your trust
in dictatorship.
Don’t trust cruelty.
It is the spirit for violence or war.
There is no help in fighting
for each against each;
all against all; each against all
or all against each.

When a dictator has died
his rule dies with him;
his plans for domination perish.

Happy are those
who engage in competition
with respect for rights
with the rule for law.
Virtue is the spirit for law.
Christ is divine person
who leads us in virtue.

No one is above the law.
No one is beyond correction for infractions that harm.
No one is beyond prosecution for high crime or crime.

Happy are those whose hope
is in God as LORD;

Who made heaven, earth, the seas
and all that exists in the environment;
Who keeps the promise of prosperity
for management, labor and posterity;

Who gives justice to those who are oppressed,
shelter to those who are homeless
and food to those who hunger.

Prisoners are set free.
Sight is given to heal blindness.
Movement is given to mend immobility.

Love is shared with family,
friends, neighbors and citizens;
care is shown for the stranger;
citizenship is made possible for immigrants;
sustainment is extended to those who struggle
against disadvantage,
but the way of violent aggression
will be corrected by punishment.
Spirit for violence will be corrected
by the Spirit for law.

God will reign forever,
your LORD for living
throughout all generations!
Praise God, my dear soul.
I will praise the LORD will I live.
I will sing praises while I have being.

Say yea Yah!
Yea you!

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What is the reward for looking at the beast from the abyss? Lyrics from the song “Monster” give us a clue.

Paramore – Monster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoTEnaAI9Fo

“I’ll stop the whole world
from turning into a monster
eating us alive.
Don’t you ever wonder
how we survive?
Now that you’re gone
the world is ours!”

The challenge is great, but the world belongs to those who respect civil and human rights. This respect is survival for what is humane about humanity. Life lives for joy. Celebrate goodness by living well.

Steve K.

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Bread

Others,

The commandment against killing is one of the most significant moral standards for all time. Lines get blurred however in international conflicts. What is acceptable in the rules for engagement?

UN involvement in the Syrian crisis has opened the door to criticism for NATO policies.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/04/world/meast/syria-unrest/

Thinking back to the Vietnam war, Americans are forced to admit that while there were Chinese and Russian advisers, the communists did not send in regular troops.

Western coalition involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq did not show as much restraint. Coalition support with advisors and arms for Syrian rebels on the other hand is consistent with the foreign policy exercised by both the Chinese and Russians in Vietnam. This said, read what the Chinese had to say about the Syrian government:

       “But most of [China’s] ire is reserved for al-Assad’s regime. It strongly condemns the
             “continued widespread and continued gross violations of human rights and
              fundamental freedoms by Syrian authorities and pro-governmental militias.””
              (downloaded fm. CNN on Sat.Aug.4, 2012)

How is it that China survived as a communist nation when the Soviet Union collapsed? One reason is that the Soviet Union had occupied Eastern bloc countries and invaded other countries, e.g. Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan. Afghanistan was particularly costly. They were over-extended economically.

While China and Russia both issued statements against western intervention in Syria a US administration that had pledged to let the Syrian people work things out, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq; the bombing of Libya and the drone missile attacks in Pakistan warranted the statements. Support for rebels against the arms supplied by Russia and China (e.g. attack helicopters & tanks) however is justifiable.

While battle rages around Aleppo, Olympiad XXX continues in London. One competitor had his legs amputated as a baby because he had been born without the tibia in his lower legs. He has nevertheless attained competitive status in the premiere international competition for sporting events.

Pistorius Revolutionizes Olympic Notions
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/olympics/wires/08/04/2090.ap.oly.john.leicester.040812/

Some of the miracle stories in the gospel allude to the “lame” being healed from stigma associated with elitist imperial occupation. Anyone who was lame was regarded as inferior in the highly competitive social climate promoted by the military occupation and domination of the imperial power.

Jesus taught that the lame were loved by God and showed love for them despite the stigma against such a thing. This increased the sense of self-worth for those who were shown love and helped them to display remarkable changes in ability.

The ministry of Jesus was marked by his leadership by example. The following re-write celebrates his ability to develop the legacy of hope in the people of faith.

Essence
Eph.4, Ps78

Please lead a life worthy
of the calling to leadership.
Lead with kindness,
patience and love.
Maintain the unity of Spirit
in the bond of peace.

The people said,
“We had been saved from flood
by the ark of salvation.
We had been spared from drought
by saving the grain.

We had been delivered
from plague by sanitation.
There had been led from slavery
by the funnel cloud in the day
and the volcano’s fire by night.
We were provided quails as meat
and manna from heaven
when we had no food to eat
in the wilderness.

Resource management
characterized our character.
The law was given
as a call to administer
justice with equity;
to protest slavery and injustice;
to be firm with the wealthy;
to stand opposed to violence,
war and killing;
to punish murder;
correct other offenses;
to show mercy
to the poor;
and to encourage
self defense.

“We have been delivered from slavery.
We have been fed in the wilderness.
We have been released from captivity.
We have been taught to celebrate
the heritage of salvation.

“When we were on the way
to celebrate deliverance from plague,
the teacher taught us to share our sustenance
with faith.

“Now he must have gone home
to the town of comfort.
Let’s go to see
if we may find him there.”

They found the teacher
and asked for wisdom.
He said that love for others
guides us in all facets of the law.
The love of goodness leads us
into living with joy.
We are called to love our enemies,
so they will become allies.

Our task is to find the essence of goodness
and to share the wealth of our discovery.

Celebrate the substance of life!
Whoever eats this food will never be hungry.
Whoever drinks this water will never thirst.

Faith in God leads us to sustenance!

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Elitists seek to make those who are not in agreement with them weak. If they are not successful in weakening opposition, they make them into enemies that are at fault for error. Ordinary people are living in the midst of an economic assault on the middle and lower classes. Does this mean that all people are united in opposition to the elite?

There are the opportunists among the ordinary that work on exploiting the elitist advantage to oppress others. They try to make it seem that expressing an opinion that does not support the elites is like suicide. It is like “slitting my throat.” Many of us can relate to the words in the song, “slitting my throat is all I’ve ever….” had.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn_YodiJO6k

“Centuries are what it meant to me.
A cemetery where I marry the sea.
Stranger things could never change my mind.
I've got to take it on the other side.”

We are not suicidal. We have just been opposed to the elite from the start. We are the people. We will prevail.

The people united, will never be defeated!

Steve K.