I do have a plan for the salvation of our World, but it has not been approved by Heaven therefor i continue to work on it. Essentially one man must claim this authority over the World and be able to govern every Nation of the Earth. No man has ever been found worthy to claim the iron rod, and to govern and judge. In order for his authority to be recognized by the people, he will need to be able to produce a believeable threat of destruction. These are the circumstances of our world, the Nations will never beat their swords into plowshares unless they have a very good reason. Its up to our King to provide that reason, this is the nature of the iron rod, it represents the power to make demands.
If mountains can be moved, I have been thinking of a solar eclipse that would endure for many years. In this case our Moon is the mountain, it is currently moving in orbit around the Earth, and the goal is to have it stopped. The threat of complete and total destruction will be represented by a collision with our moon, clearly such a cataclysmic event would be unsurvivable. This is a small part of my plan, it is only the very begining, but it depends heavily upon the agencies of Heaven.
If the Creator has a will to do this work in my behalf, then I will win that authority over the world. If I am ever awarded the Iron Rod, it represents vindication of my judgement. How should the people prefer to be goverened? By the stern but loving Father or by a great Villan and Tyrant? The King must be a little of both, neither purely evil or purely good in his intentions. He must be willing to destroy if the children of humanity refuse to grow out of it's childish ways. And this destruction of Humanity must be considered for the greater good, if that is the decision he must make. IF the Beast can not be tamed, if it can not be civilized, then it must be destroyed. Or else Humanity does pose some threat, if only to the possibility of a greater community of life in this Universe.
Our Creator is the true Lord and King above all others, it is the Lord of all the angels and demons alike. It is the Lord of the Stars and Planets of manifestation. All that substance of creation is beholden to the Creator's will, we depend on certain laws being enforced. But of course the problem is that we've never had a clear understanding of what those laws really are. Even the physical laws of nature may be bent or broken by the power of consciousness. Consciouness allows for many more possibilities than nature alone, but we should consider it to be among the forces of nature. We have never been able to measure it directly, or to observe how it affects matter, but evidently it does affect matter.
We can not rule out the possibility of additional dimensions in the Universe, beyond the normal 3 physical dimensions that we are aware of. It's difficult to account for all these near-death experiences that the people have related. It seems to indicate that consciousness does not depend upon brain activity, and may survive our mortality for some time. I will stand with science in saying that existance depends upon manifestation. But I have long suspected that the Stars have something of a mind and personality of thier own. These Stars represent the physical evidence of our Angels and Demons in the Universe. Historicly humanity has long associated the stars of Heaven with the Angels or Gods, its not an original idea of my own. Clearly we have good evidence that the Kingdom of Heaven holds a great multitude of personalities, beyond the number of Human Beings. But we can not say for certain that the number of persons is greater than Life on Earth may account for. Still its not so difficult to imagine a person who is greater than a Human Being, but still less than the One-True-And-Most-High-God.
Personally I have no experience conversing with such persons, other than Human Beings. I have never heard voices to inform or instruct me on the higher principles of Creation. Sadly I will not be able to offer mathematical formulas or a complete theory of everything. I have no great revelations to make about the physical world and the forces of nature, my knowledge is no better than Human understanding allows. I have no memories of a past life or existance, as far as I am aware I have my begining in 1963, and had no existance prior to that time. But I claim HISTORY and the History of all things as my own personal history, back to the very moment of birth, and not my birth but the birth of our Universe. In some sense we enjoy many beginings in life, when we consume the apple we participate in the begining of the apple tree as a seed. Perhaps we should think it enough to win the Great Game of Life, that we have participated. Why should we need to accomplish more than this to be winners? But we can win beyond merely existing, the great goal of life may be considered personal growth. The growth and developement of personality and not just the physical body help to establish us within God's Eternity. We are each a personality of Heaven, this Creation and this Universe, we belong to it.
And it will not forget us after we are gone, because something always endures. All that substance of our flesh and bone will be returned to the World after we are done with it. In fact the substance of life is constantly renewing itself and growing and decaying and dieing. Some part of ourselves has already returned the the World at Large, but we don't miss it. And of course we don't always feel pain over this loss, a simple haircut is all that it is.
So therefore the loss of life may never be considered as punishment, we each must surrender it eventually. If it is taken from us in our Health, it is a crime unto those who would impose that punishment upon us. In as much as we have all done these things perhaps we can be forgiven. It has always been the question of forgiveness if recognition and appology alone could ever be enough. Must we feel regrets in order for the cause of justice to be served? Must we work off our debts? Is it possible that someone else can make the sacrifice in our behalf?
If the Earth must be destroyed, it is not punishement but a great failure of our species. It's no great crime to fail to survive against all odds. We must give a full consideration to all the conditions of life, and then decide what the world deserves. God has given us the gift of JUDGEMENT so that we may decide, every person receives this gift. It is not Free-Will unless we are also given choices, in some cases we are not given choices. We may not take a vote, we may not decide anything based on popular opinion. Morality is a common concern among men, and its something that we have desperately tried to impose upon the World and one another. Life is not always fair to us, and we should not complain when it is unfair, it is what it is.
A wise old saying goes, "Whatever doesn't kill us, can only make us stronger!" But individually our strength does pass beyond a mortal end unto something else. Even if we are killed we might gain strength in Eternity, we might learn. Its sad if we must suffer the loss of life in order to learn something of true value. Because the Earth is a beautiful World, and the Universe is a Marvelous Work and a Wonder. I want to be part of it forever and ever, and I know that it will be so.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
A True Experience From My Life
I have a story to tell about my sign from a Higher-Power, it was an experience I had one day in Oct 1982.
The circumstances were I had been fired from a job on the accusation of stealing. Eventually I learned much later that an assistant manager set up the whole deal, so his girlfriend could get my job.
So I was feeling pretty depressed, my loss of innocence as a young man perhaps. I wrote out my side of the story, i isolated myself from family life. I started reading the gospel stories, and felt a strong inspiration to follow the examples of Christ. I also studied the book of Revelations and longed for a World at Peace where lies could never hurt us.
I decided to leave my home and my family behind and seek, what I hoped to find I had no clue. But I did find something along the way. I took what money I had and purchased a plane ticket to Los Angelas, CA. I didn't tell my family i was leaveing i just packed a small bag and went.
On the first leg of my flight I had a stopover in Salt Lake City, Utah. I had been there before and I had heard of the Mormons there. On that flight I ended up sitting next to a man who was a member of that church. And I had a little pocket copy of the New Testament that I was reading on the plane. The man inquired of me if I was a student of the Bible, and after that we had a bit of conversation. In short I told him my story about leaving home to seek Christ, and he suggested that I try Salt Lake City as a destination. He gave me the name of another man who lived in that city who might be able to help me. He did not live in Utah and he was catching another flight back to Idaho, he traveled as a potato salesman. Previously he had been a teacher he told me, and this is how he knew of the other man.
So when our flight landed in Salt Lake City he had to run to make his connection and I was left all alone at the airport. I thought that I might need cab service to get to the city, but i didn't want to spend what little money I had on that. So I walked out of the Airport and looked around, I started walking. It was already evening by then and the sun was going down. I walked out past the parking lot into a field, until i reached a body of water and I sat down.
I was feeling quite angry with God because I didn't know what to do next. I was feeling impatient, why were we still waiting for this wonderful ressurection I asked. Where is Jesus, why isn't he here?! In anger I stood up and threw my little pocket bible out into the water. After a bit of time had passed i wandered back into the Airport and called home to let them know where i was. During the phone conversation with my mother I agreed to get a flight home, then I went and purchased a ticket. However it was very late by then and the Airport was more or less closed. My flight would not be leaving until the early morning hours.
So I returned outside to the field, took a little marijuana out of my bag, rolled a fat joint and smoked it. A little weed would help the time pass more pleasently I figured because I had a long wait. I picked up a stick from the ground and scribed a circle in the dirt. The I took my roach, the bit left over from the marijuana cigerette and ground it into the center of the circle. Then I stood in that circle. The distant sounds from the Airport became the sound of a chorus of many voices singing in my mind. And I turned to quater the compass, and with each facing the voices changed there song a little, so that I had the impression of a great multitude. And I imagined a crevace opening up in the Earth and smoke billowing out, the pit where the Ancient Dragon lay chained. And then I cried out, "Let there be no more delay!" Whatever it takes to fullfill the prophecy I am willing to do, I will even take the part of the Beast and the reward that goes with it. Only so that there will be no more delay!
Eventually I wandered back into the airport and found a seat near a television. I started to relax, but some person who worked at the airport walked by and make a rude remark. Something to the effect that, "We don't need your kind of people here." After that I got up and went back outside.
The evening was turning to early morning and it started to get cooler outside. I wanted to keep warm but I didn't want to return to the Airport Terminal. I walked through the parking lot to a fenced off long-term parking area, there were several RV's parked in that lot. I tried to gain access to one of the RV's but it was locked, just then a truck drove by and I ducked down. I kinda scampered out of the parking area back out into the field. There was something of a dirt road I was running along, and I could see the truck coming with its headlights on.
At some point down that path I scrambled down an incline off the road and found a concret slab were I sat down. And I watch for that truck to come further along the road, but it did not come. There was a large bushy plant against the incline in the road and i was trying to look over it. Then suddenly small points of light began to appear above the bush. At first I thought it must be a reflection of light off some cobwebs, but as soon as I began to think that the lights grew stronger. And then I thought it might be fireflies, so I looked away for a few seconds. But when I returned my gaze to that spot, the pinpricks of light had become like stars hanging in the air. And these lights outlined the figure of a man. It was a man standing in the air above the bush, legs together and arms stretched wide, I thought perhaps a vision of christ upon the cross. I looked at it, and to be certain I was the only one to witness this event, but it was real and not hallucination I was certain.
There was no great voice from God offering explainations. I bowed my head and closed my eyes, I made my commitment then to Humanity, to serve the great cause. I promised my life to God, take me and use me I prayed. Temper me in your furnace and strengthen me so that I can do what needs to be done, make me your instrument. These things i prayed.
The shape above the bush had changed somewhat once i reopened my eyes, and I started to feel uncomfortable. I got up went up past the bush, back up the incline to the dirt road. Looking back from a higher vantage point the stars had taken on the shape of star. It was as if a pointed star made of of smaller stars was lodged within the branches of the bush. But I turned and started walking toward the Airport. And as soon as I entered the terminal it would seem that it was time for my flight.
On the flight home I was feeling an sense of elation and a real high. There was a blind woman on the flight with a companion, and I wondered what would happen if i touched her. Would her blindness be cured? But I did not venture to get up from my seat and try. I looked out the window of the plane and watched the landscape pass by beneath.
The circumstances were I had been fired from a job on the accusation of stealing. Eventually I learned much later that an assistant manager set up the whole deal, so his girlfriend could get my job.
So I was feeling pretty depressed, my loss of innocence as a young man perhaps. I wrote out my side of the story, i isolated myself from family life. I started reading the gospel stories, and felt a strong inspiration to follow the examples of Christ. I also studied the book of Revelations and longed for a World at Peace where lies could never hurt us.
I decided to leave my home and my family behind and seek, what I hoped to find I had no clue. But I did find something along the way. I took what money I had and purchased a plane ticket to Los Angelas, CA. I didn't tell my family i was leaveing i just packed a small bag and went.
On the first leg of my flight I had a stopover in Salt Lake City, Utah. I had been there before and I had heard of the Mormons there. On that flight I ended up sitting next to a man who was a member of that church. And I had a little pocket copy of the New Testament that I was reading on the plane. The man inquired of me if I was a student of the Bible, and after that we had a bit of conversation. In short I told him my story about leaving home to seek Christ, and he suggested that I try Salt Lake City as a destination. He gave me the name of another man who lived in that city who might be able to help me. He did not live in Utah and he was catching another flight back to Idaho, he traveled as a potato salesman. Previously he had been a teacher he told me, and this is how he knew of the other man.
So when our flight landed in Salt Lake City he had to run to make his connection and I was left all alone at the airport. I thought that I might need cab service to get to the city, but i didn't want to spend what little money I had on that. So I walked out of the Airport and looked around, I started walking. It was already evening by then and the sun was going down. I walked out past the parking lot into a field, until i reached a body of water and I sat down.
I was feeling quite angry with God because I didn't know what to do next. I was feeling impatient, why were we still waiting for this wonderful ressurection I asked. Where is Jesus, why isn't he here?! In anger I stood up and threw my little pocket bible out into the water. After a bit of time had passed i wandered back into the Airport and called home to let them know where i was. During the phone conversation with my mother I agreed to get a flight home, then I went and purchased a ticket. However it was very late by then and the Airport was more or less closed. My flight would not be leaving until the early morning hours.
So I returned outside to the field, took a little marijuana out of my bag, rolled a fat joint and smoked it. A little weed would help the time pass more pleasently I figured because I had a long wait. I picked up a stick from the ground and scribed a circle in the dirt. The I took my roach, the bit left over from the marijuana cigerette and ground it into the center of the circle. Then I stood in that circle. The distant sounds from the Airport became the sound of a chorus of many voices singing in my mind. And I turned to quater the compass, and with each facing the voices changed there song a little, so that I had the impression of a great multitude. And I imagined a crevace opening up in the Earth and smoke billowing out, the pit where the Ancient Dragon lay chained. And then I cried out, "Let there be no more delay!" Whatever it takes to fullfill the prophecy I am willing to do, I will even take the part of the Beast and the reward that goes with it. Only so that there will be no more delay!
Eventually I wandered back into the airport and found a seat near a television. I started to relax, but some person who worked at the airport walked by and make a rude remark. Something to the effect that, "We don't need your kind of people here." After that I got up and went back outside.
The evening was turning to early morning and it started to get cooler outside. I wanted to keep warm but I didn't want to return to the Airport Terminal. I walked through the parking lot to a fenced off long-term parking area, there were several RV's parked in that lot. I tried to gain access to one of the RV's but it was locked, just then a truck drove by and I ducked down. I kinda scampered out of the parking area back out into the field. There was something of a dirt road I was running along, and I could see the truck coming with its headlights on.
At some point down that path I scrambled down an incline off the road and found a concret slab were I sat down. And I watch for that truck to come further along the road, but it did not come. There was a large bushy plant against the incline in the road and i was trying to look over it. Then suddenly small points of light began to appear above the bush. At first I thought it must be a reflection of light off some cobwebs, but as soon as I began to think that the lights grew stronger. And then I thought it might be fireflies, so I looked away for a few seconds. But when I returned my gaze to that spot, the pinpricks of light had become like stars hanging in the air. And these lights outlined the figure of a man. It was a man standing in the air above the bush, legs together and arms stretched wide, I thought perhaps a vision of christ upon the cross. I looked at it, and to be certain I was the only one to witness this event, but it was real and not hallucination I was certain.
There was no great voice from God offering explainations. I bowed my head and closed my eyes, I made my commitment then to Humanity, to serve the great cause. I promised my life to God, take me and use me I prayed. Temper me in your furnace and strengthen me so that I can do what needs to be done, make me your instrument. These things i prayed.
The shape above the bush had changed somewhat once i reopened my eyes, and I started to feel uncomfortable. I got up went up past the bush, back up the incline to the dirt road. Looking back from a higher vantage point the stars had taken on the shape of star. It was as if a pointed star made of of smaller stars was lodged within the branches of the bush. But I turned and started walking toward the Airport. And as soon as I entered the terminal it would seem that it was time for my flight.
On the flight home I was feeling an sense of elation and a real high. There was a blind woman on the flight with a companion, and I wondered what would happen if i touched her. Would her blindness be cured? But I did not venture to get up from my seat and try. I looked out the window of the plane and watched the landscape pass by beneath.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Jehova, who is he?
I just had a nice long chat with someone who claimed to be a Jehova's Witness. I've had the opportunity to meet a few of these people in my life and hear what they do believe in. This person urged me to contact the witnesses and speak with them, but if i claim to be Jehova himself I don't think that they will appreciate it.
Who is this Jehova? I said to her that Jesus urged us to pray to Heavenly Father, those were his words. In the 'JW' version of the Bible i'm fairly certain that all such terms have been converted to the name Jehova. Personally I do not know for certain that Jesus ever used the name Jehova. But he did pray to some person aside from himself obviously, a higher King. And Jehova is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords among men, but I told her NOT the One-True-And-Most-High-God. Jehova is the Owner and the Landlord but NOT the Creator. Jehova is a person of flesh and bone like ourselves, but still a mortal man like Jesus was. These things I told her.
I would never agree that Jesus himself was or is a God. There can be only one God, and a man can never become like God. The Spirit of God extends to every corner of Creation, at least she agreed with me on this. She proposed that Jesus himself helped create the Earth and Sun, which means that we have to allow for some kind of pre-existance. She said that God gives us Free-Will so that we can choose; but I said that God gives us Judgement so that we can make decisions.
I will fight for a ressurection and the Earth, because I choose to fight for these things. God has never told me what to do, or how to fight, or what exactly needs to be done. There is my Choice, I made it long ago and i'm commited to it. I will not join the ranks of Jehova's Witnesses myself so that they can feel that I belong. I do belong, whether or not they will agree with my point-of-view. So many people of some religous faith profess to have the truth, and as we all know the truth has all the power to deliver us to freedom. And the One-True-And-Most-High-God has all the power to reveal that truth to whomever it pleases, directly. Many people will profess that God's will has been revealed through the written scriptures because those men who wrote were directed and inspired. But all such written works are flawed because they were created by men. God is not flawed and there is no seperation between us and it. We need no mediation from other men and women, we can get what we need from our own personal experiences in life. At least this is the principle of spirituality, we don't know what prevents us from Understanding the truth that's available.
Clearly we have no special power to decide between truth and fiction, and to recognize a story from a fact. I told her that the Gensis story is a myth at best. According to that story our friend Adam would have lived less than 7000 years ago. But we know very well that Humanity has been here on Planet Earth for at least 100,000 years. Therfor if such a person as Adam had lived 7000 years ago, it would not be possible for him to have been the first Human Being. When I explained this to her she said but that, 1000 years may be a day to God. However this argument is irrelevant to the facts, it may be a reasonable assertion but it does not prove the Age of Adam. I told her that God creates life with evolution, this is a considerably well proven fact. And she said that dna does not support a theory of evolution. However DNA does indicate that it would take a very long time for Humanity to diversify as much as it has into the several different races that we see today. She said we are not Dogs and Cats or Trees, we are not made from the same elements! But I told her that we are made of the same elements; in fact all that substance of our flesh and bone has been here as part of the Earth from the very begining just waiting to become part of us.
Clearly I did not Create the Earth and Sun, I can not claim to be the progenitor of the Human species. I have a definate begining in Life, at the time of my conception or birth. And my parents gave me the name Kenneth Richard Hopper; however I have been known by other names including Token. Most of my friends just call me Ken. If I claim that I am also Jehova it will not be believed of course, but its true that I am Jehova. The God they have long believed in but not a true God, made real in flesh and bone and all mortality. I could claim to be Adam himself, reborn in the World because Adam never had this opportunity to have parents of his own and to be loved by them. There was an Eve, but she was in a sorry condition when i knew her and I don't know what has become of her.
Still Eve is depending on me to make the World right at long last, she professed as much to me. And she believed that I could do the job, God knows someone has to do it. My friend the Jehova's Witness said I should be worried about my own salvation, but I told her I worry enough already. I am saved already, I'm comfortable with my realationship with God, I trust that my place in Eternity is secure. We don't have to accomplish everything all at once, we do have time to become whatever we can become. But we should never expect to become Gods ourselves, in as much as we are children of God we can not become like him.
I told her that we do have a Creator and I name it Heaven. Not a person of flesh and bone like ourselves, but still a living thing in some sense. It too is blessed by God's gift of consciousness, in the same way that we have been blessed. But it is not the same thing as the One-True-And-Most-High-God. Heaven is my Lord and Creator, and she asked me if I do have a King. I told her that I am a King, and I told her that even Jesus has a King above him.
"Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come upon Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who tresspass against us. Deliver us from Evil because thine is the Kingdom and the Glory forever and ever." I paraphrase the Lord's prayer thus, to the best of my recollection.
We all know that Jesus lived as a mortal man and was put to death. And we know that before he died he prayed to Heavenly Father for our forgiveness. The prayer that he made upon the cross so long ago has been preserved down through the ages of time until 2000 years later we can still hear it. Did he pray to Heavenly Father or Jehova, I don't know the answer; but clearly he prayed to a person other than himself. And its long been considered true that Jesus himself was a King, and did promise the Earth as an inheiritance for the meek. According to the story his spirit and his flesh were reunited and he did ascend bodily into Heaven, we don't know what has become of him. But most people who believe in him believe that he lives, clearly he does not live here on Planet Earth. Some other planet perhaps? Perhaps there is another world in the whole of the Universe where the ressurection is already a fact. And we should think that Jesus lives there on some other planet and that he is not without some companions. But clearly the ressurection is not a fact here on Earth, and to the best of my own personal knowledge we have not been visited.
Earth is our home, our nativity, we belong to it. We should long to return to it after our travels. All things being considered, expecting nature to follow some predictable course, we can not expect the Earth to last forever. How long must the Dead be kept waiting for the opportunity of more life? Time is a funny thing, and when we are unconscious we do not notice it passing. And so the Dead are asleep in Hades, experience nothing not even the passage of time. They are not aware that they are waiting, but we remember them. Perhaps the time will soon come to call them all home, to awaken them once again.
Who is this Jehova? I said to her that Jesus urged us to pray to Heavenly Father, those were his words. In the 'JW' version of the Bible i'm fairly certain that all such terms have been converted to the name Jehova. Personally I do not know for certain that Jesus ever used the name Jehova. But he did pray to some person aside from himself obviously, a higher King. And Jehova is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords among men, but I told her NOT the One-True-And-Most-High-God. Jehova is the Owner and the Landlord but NOT the Creator. Jehova is a person of flesh and bone like ourselves, but still a mortal man like Jesus was. These things I told her.
I would never agree that Jesus himself was or is a God. There can be only one God, and a man can never become like God. The Spirit of God extends to every corner of Creation, at least she agreed with me on this. She proposed that Jesus himself helped create the Earth and Sun, which means that we have to allow for some kind of pre-existance. She said that God gives us Free-Will so that we can choose; but I said that God gives us Judgement so that we can make decisions.
I will fight for a ressurection and the Earth, because I choose to fight for these things. God has never told me what to do, or how to fight, or what exactly needs to be done. There is my Choice, I made it long ago and i'm commited to it. I will not join the ranks of Jehova's Witnesses myself so that they can feel that I belong. I do belong, whether or not they will agree with my point-of-view. So many people of some religous faith profess to have the truth, and as we all know the truth has all the power to deliver us to freedom. And the One-True-And-Most-High-God has all the power to reveal that truth to whomever it pleases, directly. Many people will profess that God's will has been revealed through the written scriptures because those men who wrote were directed and inspired. But all such written works are flawed because they were created by men. God is not flawed and there is no seperation between us and it. We need no mediation from other men and women, we can get what we need from our own personal experiences in life. At least this is the principle of spirituality, we don't know what prevents us from Understanding the truth that's available.
Clearly we have no special power to decide between truth and fiction, and to recognize a story from a fact. I told her that the Gensis story is a myth at best. According to that story our friend Adam would have lived less than 7000 years ago. But we know very well that Humanity has been here on Planet Earth for at least 100,000 years. Therfor if such a person as Adam had lived 7000 years ago, it would not be possible for him to have been the first Human Being. When I explained this to her she said but that, 1000 years may be a day to God. However this argument is irrelevant to the facts, it may be a reasonable assertion but it does not prove the Age of Adam. I told her that God creates life with evolution, this is a considerably well proven fact. And she said that dna does not support a theory of evolution. However DNA does indicate that it would take a very long time for Humanity to diversify as much as it has into the several different races that we see today. She said we are not Dogs and Cats or Trees, we are not made from the same elements! But I told her that we are made of the same elements; in fact all that substance of our flesh and bone has been here as part of the Earth from the very begining just waiting to become part of us.
Clearly I did not Create the Earth and Sun, I can not claim to be the progenitor of the Human species. I have a definate begining in Life, at the time of my conception or birth. And my parents gave me the name Kenneth Richard Hopper; however I have been known by other names including Token. Most of my friends just call me Ken. If I claim that I am also Jehova it will not be believed of course, but its true that I am Jehova. The God they have long believed in but not a true God, made real in flesh and bone and all mortality. I could claim to be Adam himself, reborn in the World because Adam never had this opportunity to have parents of his own and to be loved by them. There was an Eve, but she was in a sorry condition when i knew her and I don't know what has become of her.
Still Eve is depending on me to make the World right at long last, she professed as much to me. And she believed that I could do the job, God knows someone has to do it. My friend the Jehova's Witness said I should be worried about my own salvation, but I told her I worry enough already. I am saved already, I'm comfortable with my realationship with God, I trust that my place in Eternity is secure. We don't have to accomplish everything all at once, we do have time to become whatever we can become. But we should never expect to become Gods ourselves, in as much as we are children of God we can not become like him.
I told her that we do have a Creator and I name it Heaven. Not a person of flesh and bone like ourselves, but still a living thing in some sense. It too is blessed by God's gift of consciousness, in the same way that we have been blessed. But it is not the same thing as the One-True-And-Most-High-God. Heaven is my Lord and Creator, and she asked me if I do have a King. I told her that I am a King, and I told her that even Jesus has a King above him.
"Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come upon Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who tresspass against us. Deliver us from Evil because thine is the Kingdom and the Glory forever and ever." I paraphrase the Lord's prayer thus, to the best of my recollection.
We all know that Jesus lived as a mortal man and was put to death. And we know that before he died he prayed to Heavenly Father for our forgiveness. The prayer that he made upon the cross so long ago has been preserved down through the ages of time until 2000 years later we can still hear it. Did he pray to Heavenly Father or Jehova, I don't know the answer; but clearly he prayed to a person other than himself. And its long been considered true that Jesus himself was a King, and did promise the Earth as an inheiritance for the meek. According to the story his spirit and his flesh were reunited and he did ascend bodily into Heaven, we don't know what has become of him. But most people who believe in him believe that he lives, clearly he does not live here on Planet Earth. Some other planet perhaps? Perhaps there is another world in the whole of the Universe where the ressurection is already a fact. And we should think that Jesus lives there on some other planet and that he is not without some companions. But clearly the ressurection is not a fact here on Earth, and to the best of my own personal knowledge we have not been visited.
Earth is our home, our nativity, we belong to it. We should long to return to it after our travels. All things being considered, expecting nature to follow some predictable course, we can not expect the Earth to last forever. How long must the Dead be kept waiting for the opportunity of more life? Time is a funny thing, and when we are unconscious we do not notice it passing. And so the Dead are asleep in Hades, experience nothing not even the passage of time. They are not aware that they are waiting, but we remember them. Perhaps the time will soon come to call them all home, to awaken them once again.
What is Gen?
"Gen" is the english spelling of a Chinese word for Mountain. In Chinese mythology the Mountain can stand for a great General or Emporer. In the "Book of Changes" or "I Ching" a work of Confucian philosophy the Mountain stands for the idea of standing still and observing the world without taking action.
In Christian mythology the Mountain stands for the Kingdom of Heaven established on Earth. But it may also stand for a man, in the story of the small stone which was cut out without hands, which becomes the mountain.
The Chinese word may also be spelled as "Ken", but the letter E should have a carrot over it. So I have always identified myself with the Chinese character from "I Ching". The observer who does not act, the Mountain is standing still, but perhaps the Mountain can be moved. Every concept within the "I Ching" is represented by a hexagram made up of light or dark lines. The light lines embody the idea of Creation, the force that gives light and warmth to the Universe. The dark line embodys the idea of receptivity, that which is in need of the light and the warmth. One line stands for Heaven and the other stands for Earth.
It is called the "Book of Changes" because the conditions of our lives are always changing. The Hexagram which represents one condition eventually becomes old and changes into another state. There is a Hexagram for Peace, according to this philosophy it is a passing condition at best, it may be obtainable but only for a moment in time. The Hexagram for peace is called "T'ai", I have given this name to my oldest son. Each of these Chinese Hexagrams has the power to change into any one of the other Hexagrams, by changing a few of the lines. There are 6 lines in each full hexagram and this is a binary numbering system with two states for each line. This allows for 64 possible combinations or conditions, if we number them from 0-63.
The "Book of Changes" has been used as an Oracle in the past to make predictions based on the chance outcome of a coin toss. There have been other ways to use the book as an Oracle that do not involve the tossing of coins, but the element of chance outcomes is always preserved. It is through the element of chance that Heaven may excert its influence, and a higher Law works it way down to our lives here on Planet Earth. This is a basic principle of Confucian thinking that there exists a higher order in Heaven, in as much as that order is mirrored here on Earth all will be well and good. When we try to go against the order of Heaven, this is the cause of our problems here on Earth. This philosophy supports the idea of Heiearchys and Laws representing order very well.
In Christian mythology the Mountain stands for the Kingdom of Heaven established on Earth. But it may also stand for a man, in the story of the small stone which was cut out without hands, which becomes the mountain.
The Chinese word may also be spelled as "Ken", but the letter E should have a carrot over it. So I have always identified myself with the Chinese character from "I Ching". The observer who does not act, the Mountain is standing still, but perhaps the Mountain can be moved. Every concept within the "I Ching" is represented by a hexagram made up of light or dark lines. The light lines embody the idea of Creation, the force that gives light and warmth to the Universe. The dark line embodys the idea of receptivity, that which is in need of the light and the warmth. One line stands for Heaven and the other stands for Earth.
It is called the "Book of Changes" because the conditions of our lives are always changing. The Hexagram which represents one condition eventually becomes old and changes into another state. There is a Hexagram for Peace, according to this philosophy it is a passing condition at best, it may be obtainable but only for a moment in time. The Hexagram for peace is called "T'ai", I have given this name to my oldest son. Each of these Chinese Hexagrams has the power to change into any one of the other Hexagrams, by changing a few of the lines. There are 6 lines in each full hexagram and this is a binary numbering system with two states for each line. This allows for 64 possible combinations or conditions, if we number them from 0-63.
The "Book of Changes" has been used as an Oracle in the past to make predictions based on the chance outcome of a coin toss. There have been other ways to use the book as an Oracle that do not involve the tossing of coins, but the element of chance outcomes is always preserved. It is through the element of chance that Heaven may excert its influence, and a higher Law works it way down to our lives here on Planet Earth. This is a basic principle of Confucian thinking that there exists a higher order in Heaven, in as much as that order is mirrored here on Earth all will be well and good. When we try to go against the order of Heaven, this is the cause of our problems here on Earth. This philosophy supports the idea of Heiearchys and Laws representing order very well.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Glory to the Most-High
My cup is overflowing, it is neither half full or half empty; and we can only hope for a larger cup. We answer this hope with work, this is the true purpose of work. All of our efforts should be so focused but we are distracted by the need to eat and other neccessities of life. If the growth of the vessel depends upon the size of our brains, then we all know very well that the brain stops growing. But the human spirit may not be defined by our physicality, and it may not be judged by appearances. Its a very hard thing to love all people equally, without considering deeds. Perhaps it's too much to expect from one man, but God is constantly pouring out his strength.
Either we are men and women and belong to the human-species, or else we do not belong here at all. How many men are there in the world today whom we will refuse the hand of brotherhood? If we choose to discriminate between men for any reason at all, its makes the case that we are not Saints.
Joseph Smith claimed to be a prophet and founded a church in North America, these people have become known as the Mormons. Whatever Joseph was in life, its clear that he was a brilliant young man and very charismatic. He may have been an honest man as well, but we do not know for certain. Of course we may choose to believe that he was honest, or to believe that he was dishonest; and there are shades of grey inbetween of course. Even an honest man can at times be misstaken about some things, and a dishonest man may be motivated with the best intentions. Its unfortunate that Joeseph didn't live long enough to become an old man like myself. He was murdered by an angry mob, and perhaps those people even had a good reason to feel angry. Despite the fact that he claimed to be informed by the One-True-And-Most-High-God; at the time there was no clear successor to the presidency of the new church. Owing to this fact the membership split at that time, and since that time many men have claimed to be prophets and successors to Joseph. The larger church is called "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints."
Officially I became a member of that church many years ago, I was babtised and confered with a priesthood. Therfor I am a preisthood holder in the Aaronic Priesthood of that Church, it is the lesser of two priesthoods. At the time that I received the priesthood, there were no vows made, in fact I was not told that I was a priest. I only learned more about the priesthood over the course of my membership, until finally I had to ask the Bishop if i was in fact a priest of Aaron. I don't think I actually heard the news until several years after the fact.
The Aaronic Priesthood is primarily concered for the worldly welfare of Humanity in general. But under normal cicumstances our responsibilities are considered to extend only to the members of our immediate family. It may also extend to other church members within our ward if we are in attendance. The Aaronic Priesthood blesses the sacrement for the membership, I have done this myself on at least one occassion. The church wards are very well defined regions, and each one has a Bishop presiding over it. The responsibilities of a Bishop in the church are primarily the responsibilities of the Aaronic priesthood, and those responsibilities may extend to non-members who reside within the ward. But normally if you want the Bishop's help you have to ask for it, and most non-members will not know that they can ask. The church sends missionaires all over the world to recruit new members, they've even run ads on televison. But the fact that non-members might get help from this church is not well publicised. The Church leaders want us to make a commitment, and I've heard a few stories of them refusing to help. And for the most part we have to accept the help that's available even if its not exactly what we want.
The good members pay a full tithe, 10% of their worldly income; and because of this the church has become exceedingly wealthy and powerful. The church owns a great deal of land, and has made improvements on the land including the construction of several Temples. Recently a temple was built here in Saint Louis, Missouri and briefly it was open to the general public before being consecrated. Normally the temple is closed to non-members, and to members who are not in good-standing with the church. A long time smoking habit had prevented me from gaining the good-standing status, but I did tour the Saint Louis temple, and even helped out with a little work there.
When I married, I was not married in the Mormon temple as is the custom. My wife and I were married in a non-denominational Christian church; and we exchanged vows that included the words, "til death do us part." Whenever church members marry in the temple they make vows for eternity, and yet divorce is not uncommon. My wife and I have become seperated, a judge signed a settlement agreement between us, and she has since remarried. She even has a daughter with this other man, who was also previously divorced, and has a couple daughters from that marriage. However I never gave my consent to the divorce, I was never given the opportunity to speak with the judge who signed papers. I was not present in the court room when the papers were signed and I had no legal representative present at that time. And of course I do believe in a higher court, I think that the matter is relevant even if it's not relevant within a court of law. A judge of the Law can only decide these cases if both parties agree to be bound by his decision, he has no authority to annul marrital vows that were made in a church before God. That is my opinion, which only leads me to wondering how we so often fail to make lasting commitments.
It would be one of the doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints that as members we should be bound by the laws and customs of the land. They can propose the doctrine but they can't make me agree to it, it will always be subject to personal choice. And I choose not to be bound by artifical limitations and restrictions that men may impose upon one another. Of course I'm not entirely free to do as I please, national borders are enforced, my freedom of travel is restrained.
And if I am judged to have commited a crime in this country, my freedom of travel may be further restrained, or I may be subject to other kinds of penalties. Of course I am not strong enough to oppose the strength of the American people, they can do as they please without my consultation. But I am not a patriot of theirs, its my right and privledge to claim seperate interests, and to claim that my interests are disserved. Perhaps the federal authorities should consider me to be a resident alien, but I doubt they would be willing to consider soverignty.
If they would agree to soverignty they would be forced to exercise diplomacy at the risk of conflict. But of course I pose no threat to this or any other Nation of people that would be believeable. I have no army of the world's young men and women standing behind me who would be willing to fight and to kill for my cause. I do not employ assassination to eliminate the people who I do not like; and I have no desire for such an army. Nor will I commit the violent crime myself, because I beleive that it is a crime against Humanity. I will merely wish and wait patiently to gain the upper-hand, such has been the way of my life for the most part. And it may be a very long wait, watching the world, but I do have eternity if not eternal life. Besides it would be wrong of me to hope for dominion instead of equality. But one thing is abundantly clear, we must work and we are interdependent.
No-one is depending on me, i'm retired from the production of material goods and services. I make nothing but poo, on deposit in our septic tank. I don't have to worry too much about food, my life is fairly comfortable and think thats a good thing. It's good for all men to feel comfortable in life, and simply to enjoy spending time. But I think that some men would agree that it takes Hard-Work to be well-informed and to make good decisions. And for the most part I still do this kind of work, if only for my own gratification. We can only hope that we continue to grow, gain wisdom, knowledge, understanding; we can only pray that the vessel is enlarged by the process. And then we might hold more of this stuff that the One-True-And-Most-High-God is constantly pouring out. Is this Wealth, so easily available to one and all? It is only an indication of what we can become, if not Gods at least more than we have been. With greater ability comes the power to do more, and by growing God get's his glory.
Either we are men and women and belong to the human-species, or else we do not belong here at all. How many men are there in the world today whom we will refuse the hand of brotherhood? If we choose to discriminate between men for any reason at all, its makes the case that we are not Saints.
Joseph Smith claimed to be a prophet and founded a church in North America, these people have become known as the Mormons. Whatever Joseph was in life, its clear that he was a brilliant young man and very charismatic. He may have been an honest man as well, but we do not know for certain. Of course we may choose to believe that he was honest, or to believe that he was dishonest; and there are shades of grey inbetween of course. Even an honest man can at times be misstaken about some things, and a dishonest man may be motivated with the best intentions. Its unfortunate that Joeseph didn't live long enough to become an old man like myself. He was murdered by an angry mob, and perhaps those people even had a good reason to feel angry. Despite the fact that he claimed to be informed by the One-True-And-Most-High-God; at the time there was no clear successor to the presidency of the new church. Owing to this fact the membership split at that time, and since that time many men have claimed to be prophets and successors to Joseph. The larger church is called "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints."
Officially I became a member of that church many years ago, I was babtised and confered with a priesthood. Therfor I am a preisthood holder in the Aaronic Priesthood of that Church, it is the lesser of two priesthoods. At the time that I received the priesthood, there were no vows made, in fact I was not told that I was a priest. I only learned more about the priesthood over the course of my membership, until finally I had to ask the Bishop if i was in fact a priest of Aaron. I don't think I actually heard the news until several years after the fact.
The Aaronic Priesthood is primarily concered for the worldly welfare of Humanity in general. But under normal cicumstances our responsibilities are considered to extend only to the members of our immediate family. It may also extend to other church members within our ward if we are in attendance. The Aaronic Priesthood blesses the sacrement for the membership, I have done this myself on at least one occassion. The church wards are very well defined regions, and each one has a Bishop presiding over it. The responsibilities of a Bishop in the church are primarily the responsibilities of the Aaronic priesthood, and those responsibilities may extend to non-members who reside within the ward. But normally if you want the Bishop's help you have to ask for it, and most non-members will not know that they can ask. The church sends missionaires all over the world to recruit new members, they've even run ads on televison. But the fact that non-members might get help from this church is not well publicised. The Church leaders want us to make a commitment, and I've heard a few stories of them refusing to help. And for the most part we have to accept the help that's available even if its not exactly what we want.
The good members pay a full tithe, 10% of their worldly income; and because of this the church has become exceedingly wealthy and powerful. The church owns a great deal of land, and has made improvements on the land including the construction of several Temples. Recently a temple was built here in Saint Louis, Missouri and briefly it was open to the general public before being consecrated. Normally the temple is closed to non-members, and to members who are not in good-standing with the church. A long time smoking habit had prevented me from gaining the good-standing status, but I did tour the Saint Louis temple, and even helped out with a little work there.
When I married, I was not married in the Mormon temple as is the custom. My wife and I were married in a non-denominational Christian church; and we exchanged vows that included the words, "til death do us part." Whenever church members marry in the temple they make vows for eternity, and yet divorce is not uncommon. My wife and I have become seperated, a judge signed a settlement agreement between us, and she has since remarried. She even has a daughter with this other man, who was also previously divorced, and has a couple daughters from that marriage. However I never gave my consent to the divorce, I was never given the opportunity to speak with the judge who signed papers. I was not present in the court room when the papers were signed and I had no legal representative present at that time. And of course I do believe in a higher court, I think that the matter is relevant even if it's not relevant within a court of law. A judge of the Law can only decide these cases if both parties agree to be bound by his decision, he has no authority to annul marrital vows that were made in a church before God. That is my opinion, which only leads me to wondering how we so often fail to make lasting commitments.
It would be one of the doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints that as members we should be bound by the laws and customs of the land. They can propose the doctrine but they can't make me agree to it, it will always be subject to personal choice. And I choose not to be bound by artifical limitations and restrictions that men may impose upon one another. Of course I'm not entirely free to do as I please, national borders are enforced, my freedom of travel is restrained.
And if I am judged to have commited a crime in this country, my freedom of travel may be further restrained, or I may be subject to other kinds of penalties. Of course I am not strong enough to oppose the strength of the American people, they can do as they please without my consultation. But I am not a patriot of theirs, its my right and privledge to claim seperate interests, and to claim that my interests are disserved. Perhaps the federal authorities should consider me to be a resident alien, but I doubt they would be willing to consider soverignty.
If they would agree to soverignty they would be forced to exercise diplomacy at the risk of conflict. But of course I pose no threat to this or any other Nation of people that would be believeable. I have no army of the world's young men and women standing behind me who would be willing to fight and to kill for my cause. I do not employ assassination to eliminate the people who I do not like; and I have no desire for such an army. Nor will I commit the violent crime myself, because I beleive that it is a crime against Humanity. I will merely wish and wait patiently to gain the upper-hand, such has been the way of my life for the most part. And it may be a very long wait, watching the world, but I do have eternity if not eternal life. Besides it would be wrong of me to hope for dominion instead of equality. But one thing is abundantly clear, we must work and we are interdependent.
No-one is depending on me, i'm retired from the production of material goods and services. I make nothing but poo, on deposit in our septic tank. I don't have to worry too much about food, my life is fairly comfortable and think thats a good thing. It's good for all men to feel comfortable in life, and simply to enjoy spending time. But I think that some men would agree that it takes Hard-Work to be well-informed and to make good decisions. And for the most part I still do this kind of work, if only for my own gratification. We can only hope that we continue to grow, gain wisdom, knowledge, understanding; we can only pray that the vessel is enlarged by the process. And then we might hold more of this stuff that the One-True-And-Most-High-God is constantly pouring out. Is this Wealth, so easily available to one and all? It is only an indication of what we can become, if not Gods at least more than we have been. With greater ability comes the power to do more, and by growing God get's his glory.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
The Right to Govern
To speak or to write our opinions is to take action in the world, and things that have been simply imagined become a part of reality. I have never been afforded the luxury of a career in life, as much as I have wanted it. But my time is very valuable I think, it doesn't really matter that I've never been paid to make a decision. I've never been able to command a fee just for my opinions, that sounds like nice work if you can get it. My words and my opinions are becomeing documented herein, and therefor work has been accomplished. It may be considered as evidence of rational thought; or it may just serve to prove how much a medical condition has governed my life and developement. I have been diagnosed as bi-polar and to be honest I have suffered a great deal in life. At first I didn't believe in the medical condition, and the medications I received didn't really help that much. But these days I do believe, fortunately the science of psychiatry has advanced a great deal over the past 20 years. Many years ago a doctor who worked at the Hopewell Clinic in Saint Louis, Missouri finally prescribed medication that worked. Medical Science has given me a certain advantage in life now, the advantage of an artificially regulated mood. I take medications daily and I will take them for the rest of my life because there is no cure. The condition is considered to be genetic in nature, apparently I was born this way. I can't help the way I was made, and I can't blame my parents, if anyone is to be blamed its our creator. Evidently our friend the creator is still trying to improve upon the Human Species, but clearly some people have been born with very debilitating conditions which do not improve the species one bit. Children who can not survive into adulthood and never become parents themselves. But as a group of people, Bi-polars have proven very successful at passing along our heritage. We are different but not enough to be considered a seperate species, and not especially blessed.
But in a way I have been blessed to experience the widest range of human conditions. From my own personal experience I have learned that we are really powerless over our own feelings, and feelings govern our thoughts to a large degree. No amount of positive thinking can turn a feeling hopelessness into hopefulness. When we are feeling hopelessness we can not help but think and wish for an end to our suffering.
And to be sure some of us have given up on life, we surrendered to those feelings of hopelessness, believeing in ill fate. I don't think its really a crime to give up the good fight, and to believe that we are powerless. I've heard people remark that God never gives us more than we can handle, but I think that sometimes he does.
Life's lessons can be very hard, and many of us learn that we really are powerless in the ways that we think important. But our judgement of what is truely important has never been very good; its hard to know exactly what it will take to be successful in life. Wealth, friends, family, intelligence, strength, speed, knowledge, faith; there are many ways to answer the question of success it seems.
To know that there is a God who cares about us, that is success and a gaurentee of victory. And knowledge is far better than mere belief.
Not everyone has been favored with a personal experience of divinity, and its hard to say why some people have been favored while others have not. And if we ourselves have no personal experience, its very easy to dismiss the testamony of others as a symptom of wishful thinking. The Human experience can be explained away perhaps because we are victims of our own biology. Chemistry plays a large role in how we do experience the Universe, and in subtle ways that we can never be fully conscious of.
Some aspects of life are simply beneath our capacity to notice them; and its not always easy to explain why we react as we do. The Human experience can be pretty extreem or even bizaar at times, but it is all genuine experience. Subsequently our behaviour may be deemed either appropriate or inappropriate by others observing us and judgeing us. But whether or not they are good judges, they can not experience the same thing that we experience. Therfor I believe that a fair argument could be made in favor of the idea that all human behaviour is appropriate, if only we could give full consideration to all conditions. But our limitations will not allow us to be aware of those conditions, therefor we make judgements from a position of ignorance.
We each have to decided that some things matter more than other things. We have to make judgements about tasks being more or less important. Clearly life comes with certain dependencies, and some jobs need to have priority over others. But thats not the same thing as making judgements about other people. Clearly some people should matter to us more than others, we are close to our friends, family, co-workers; seperated from others. There are varying degrees of seperation and we want to distance ourselves from those people who we don't care for; especially if their behaviour threatens our welfare. And if not deeds, even ideas alone may be construed as a threat. If some ideas became popular it could easily work out to be a dissadvantage for us, because the majority opinion is always the correct opinion. If a majority of the World's population consent to certain customs, then individually we are powerless to oppose. And of course we should all like to believe that we are important and that our opinions matter. But no matter how passionately we feel about our favorite principles, some opinions matter less.
I have grown beyond caring how other people will feel about me as a person, I have no reputation to risk. Being labled with a mental illness has turned me into a third-rate citizen, suspect. I have lived at the bottom of the scale of social acceptability, many of my old friends have forsaken me, and i've lost touch with several who did not. But in all my life I have met one person who truely believed in me; and her name was Eve. At the time I met Eve in a hospital ward, I was feeling betrayed by my own family. Eve was an elderly and unattractive woman then, she would easily be counted among the least fortunate of human-beings. She survived in the world by giving old men blowjobs and housework, and when that failed to keep a roof over her head she went to the psychiatric wards. As I said she was unattractive, her life and appearance both; but she was my friend. We spent some time together playing card games, and on several occassions she told me my fortune with a standard deck of playing cards. Eve said that I would save the world, and she believed it. And I said, "yes, but I don't know what needs to be done." I was only 19 at that time, still a young man, but I had made my commitment. Eve never really heard me tell my story, but she gave me recognition, she gave me validation, something objective. Thats something that we must depend on others to give, but for my own satisfaction I have already received enough.
So now i've had it in mind to save the world for a very long time, and I've given much thought to the problem. Enough to have a plan, a plan with dependencies. Even the most expert imagination can not guess how people will respond in every situation; and we don't know who we will be dealing with, or what they will be like. But I still need validation from our Creator, approval and consent to provide labor. I have no doubt that it is aware of the plan, whether or not i write it out in great detail. Because in truth we do not enjoy any privacy, even in our own thoughts; not from the One-True-And-Most-High-God at least and to whomever it does choose to reveal. I've said it before in the past, the Universe has a way of remembering itself; and our personal memories would naturally be a part of that memory.
From my point-of-view our Creator is a person who does experience the Universe in exactly the same way that we do experience it. It is a person of remarkable capacities, but as we experience suffering it also shares the experience with us. By our great crimes and our suffering the Great and Ancient Dragon has been wounded, and I have dedicated my immortal soul to healing those wounds. It has never truely been chained, it has always had the power to destroy us, but did exercise restraint out of hope perhaps. I'm reminded of a song by Jewel where she sings that, "We are God's Hands." Some people by thier example in life seem to prove the theory that we are the fallen angels and demons. I can not be too cynical about human-nature myself because I've enjoyed the opportunity to meet a few exceptional people in my life. I must agree that we have something here on Planet Earth thats worth saving.
If I am given the authority that I crave, I will proceed to do my work. Then the Earth can be renewed and a new Heaven will be revealed unto the children of Humanity. Not an End to our story in wrathful judgement, but a new begining. But I am not like Jesus was, within an instant of getting that power I would produce the threat of destruction. I would never allow the authorities of the world to punish me, or to restrain my freedom of travel. I will not forgive the people for being ill-behaved, i will not allow for ignorance to prevail as an excuse. The people who do have some authority in our world today may have good reason to consider me a threat to that authority. I would like to be counted among the champions of justice, and an enemy to tyranny in all it's various forms. But I'll settle for being the greater tyrant, because thats what the world deserves. And thats what it will take to establish peace on Earth, this is my final conclusion.
But in a way I have been blessed to experience the widest range of human conditions. From my own personal experience I have learned that we are really powerless over our own feelings, and feelings govern our thoughts to a large degree. No amount of positive thinking can turn a feeling hopelessness into hopefulness. When we are feeling hopelessness we can not help but think and wish for an end to our suffering.
And to be sure some of us have given up on life, we surrendered to those feelings of hopelessness, believeing in ill fate. I don't think its really a crime to give up the good fight, and to believe that we are powerless. I've heard people remark that God never gives us more than we can handle, but I think that sometimes he does.
Life's lessons can be very hard, and many of us learn that we really are powerless in the ways that we think important. But our judgement of what is truely important has never been very good; its hard to know exactly what it will take to be successful in life. Wealth, friends, family, intelligence, strength, speed, knowledge, faith; there are many ways to answer the question of success it seems.
To know that there is a God who cares about us, that is success and a gaurentee of victory. And knowledge is far better than mere belief.
Not everyone has been favored with a personal experience of divinity, and its hard to say why some people have been favored while others have not. And if we ourselves have no personal experience, its very easy to dismiss the testamony of others as a symptom of wishful thinking. The Human experience can be explained away perhaps because we are victims of our own biology. Chemistry plays a large role in how we do experience the Universe, and in subtle ways that we can never be fully conscious of.
Some aspects of life are simply beneath our capacity to notice them; and its not always easy to explain why we react as we do. The Human experience can be pretty extreem or even bizaar at times, but it is all genuine experience. Subsequently our behaviour may be deemed either appropriate or inappropriate by others observing us and judgeing us. But whether or not they are good judges, they can not experience the same thing that we experience. Therfor I believe that a fair argument could be made in favor of the idea that all human behaviour is appropriate, if only we could give full consideration to all conditions. But our limitations will not allow us to be aware of those conditions, therefor we make judgements from a position of ignorance.
We each have to decided that some things matter more than other things. We have to make judgements about tasks being more or less important. Clearly life comes with certain dependencies, and some jobs need to have priority over others. But thats not the same thing as making judgements about other people. Clearly some people should matter to us more than others, we are close to our friends, family, co-workers; seperated from others. There are varying degrees of seperation and we want to distance ourselves from those people who we don't care for; especially if their behaviour threatens our welfare. And if not deeds, even ideas alone may be construed as a threat. If some ideas became popular it could easily work out to be a dissadvantage for us, because the majority opinion is always the correct opinion. If a majority of the World's population consent to certain customs, then individually we are powerless to oppose. And of course we should all like to believe that we are important and that our opinions matter. But no matter how passionately we feel about our favorite principles, some opinions matter less.
I have grown beyond caring how other people will feel about me as a person, I have no reputation to risk. Being labled with a mental illness has turned me into a third-rate citizen, suspect. I have lived at the bottom of the scale of social acceptability, many of my old friends have forsaken me, and i've lost touch with several who did not. But in all my life I have met one person who truely believed in me; and her name was Eve. At the time I met Eve in a hospital ward, I was feeling betrayed by my own family. Eve was an elderly and unattractive woman then, she would easily be counted among the least fortunate of human-beings. She survived in the world by giving old men blowjobs and housework, and when that failed to keep a roof over her head she went to the psychiatric wards. As I said she was unattractive, her life and appearance both; but she was my friend. We spent some time together playing card games, and on several occassions she told me my fortune with a standard deck of playing cards. Eve said that I would save the world, and she believed it. And I said, "yes, but I don't know what needs to be done." I was only 19 at that time, still a young man, but I had made my commitment. Eve never really heard me tell my story, but she gave me recognition, she gave me validation, something objective. Thats something that we must depend on others to give, but for my own satisfaction I have already received enough.
So now i've had it in mind to save the world for a very long time, and I've given much thought to the problem. Enough to have a plan, a plan with dependencies. Even the most expert imagination can not guess how people will respond in every situation; and we don't know who we will be dealing with, or what they will be like. But I still need validation from our Creator, approval and consent to provide labor. I have no doubt that it is aware of the plan, whether or not i write it out in great detail. Because in truth we do not enjoy any privacy, even in our own thoughts; not from the One-True-And-Most-High-God at least and to whomever it does choose to reveal. I've said it before in the past, the Universe has a way of remembering itself; and our personal memories would naturally be a part of that memory.
From my point-of-view our Creator is a person who does experience the Universe in exactly the same way that we do experience it. It is a person of remarkable capacities, but as we experience suffering it also shares the experience with us. By our great crimes and our suffering the Great and Ancient Dragon has been wounded, and I have dedicated my immortal soul to healing those wounds. It has never truely been chained, it has always had the power to destroy us, but did exercise restraint out of hope perhaps. I'm reminded of a song by Jewel where she sings that, "We are God's Hands." Some people by thier example in life seem to prove the theory that we are the fallen angels and demons. I can not be too cynical about human-nature myself because I've enjoyed the opportunity to meet a few exceptional people in my life. I must agree that we have something here on Planet Earth thats worth saving.
If I am given the authority that I crave, I will proceed to do my work. Then the Earth can be renewed and a new Heaven will be revealed unto the children of Humanity. Not an End to our story in wrathful judgement, but a new begining. But I am not like Jesus was, within an instant of getting that power I would produce the threat of destruction. I would never allow the authorities of the world to punish me, or to restrain my freedom of travel. I will not forgive the people for being ill-behaved, i will not allow for ignorance to prevail as an excuse. The people who do have some authority in our world today may have good reason to consider me a threat to that authority. I would like to be counted among the champions of justice, and an enemy to tyranny in all it's various forms. But I'll settle for being the greater tyrant, because thats what the world deserves. And thats what it will take to establish peace on Earth, this is my final conclusion.
Monday, December 7, 2009
King of Peace
Through the efforts of one man your immortality can be gaurenteed; various people would consider that either a blessing or a curse. To be certain some of us have been glad to embrace our mortality because the experience of life can be unpleasent. To be granted a ressurection and denied a mortal end, as demonstrated by Jesus or so the story goes. Is this something that we should hope for? Our observations of reality and it's nature renders the very idea irrational, but the Universe may still hold a few surprises for us yet. Its very hard to elminate a possibility with certainty until we experience the events, and the past becomes concrete. But all possibilities of Human accomplishment seem to depend on past accomplishments. If history simply repeats itself in predictable ways, its easy to see what our fate will be. But the power of the individual has always been enough to make a difference, and to change the world. Clearly it has not always been changed for the better by some individuals; but progress is always being made in the right direction. For many of us life has become characterized by instant gratification, and of course we don't like to be kept waiting for something good to happen.
It's well within reason for one man to decide that Humanity is underserving, and therefor refuse to make an effort. If we deny the possibility of our ressurection its even easier. And perhaps we choose to believe in the possibility of more life here on Planet Earth, and it has already been gaurenteed by the efforts of one saviour, for those who believe. And for those who believe this may not depend on our good works in life. God has a plan for the Ultimate fate of Humanity, if we trust it our deeds are of little consequence. And it doesn't matter what you know, or who you know, or how you delt with other people. If our saviour has the power to forgive then judgement has no power over us, we will not be punished.
Was the immortality of the Human Soul ever in doubt; I wonder? I think that there is enough evidence to suggest that the Universe has a way of remembering itself and remembering us individually. We do make some impression upon the fabric of reality that becomes indelible, I never worry that I will be remembered. It didn't take some epiphany for me to believe in something larger than myself, but a little knowledge helps me to understand the implications. If we can see ourselves standing at the very center of creation, then we should feel that we are most important. But if we are forced to see our insignificant place in the whole, we should not feel less important, we may be very small but still significant.
And so the very chains of death that did bind us have been broken by one man's sacrifice. We may be restored to life with all of our memories intact. Should this great boon be reserved for a few or should it extend to all? This once and future King promised the whole land to all those people who should be considered meek, he did not make this promise to his own people specificly. I would think that there have been excellent examples of meekness demonstrated by peoples of every ethnicity and nationality. Perhaps our deeds in life did matter, perhaps it did matter how we delt with one-another. When we impose our own will upon the world and make many demands upon others, then we are not meek. But I think the promise of an inheiritance goes more towards who should govern, who the leaders should be. It's not meant to exclude all those people who have shown aggression, just that they should be subdued in some way. And as soon as we deny the people mortality, we deny them the power to kill one-another, so that disputes can never be resolved in this way. We will have all the time and opportunity for conversation and argument, the force of persuasion is the only force that should prevail in the world.
So isn't there anything that we still need to get that promise of a ressurection gaurenteed? We have not had the Millenium of Peace on Earth yet! We have not had a day of Judgement without punishment, and the mystery of God is yet unrevealed. And who will God find to do the job of judgement, and to deliver Peace on Earth? Who will win this wonderful power to reform the world so that there will be a New Heaven and a New Earth. And not to end the story of Humanity but find a new begining. Humanity is yet in its infancy as a civilization, but eventually the time comes for us to leave behind our childish ways and begin to grow up. A rite of passage to adulthood and maturity, this is the meaning of judgement day.
Heaven our Creator governs the course of the stars and planets but it does not govern our lives so much. But I consider it likely that Heaven enforces certain rules upon advanced civilizations like ours. And rule number one is to practice non-violence. Its that same old commandment of Moses, thou shall not commit the crime of murder. And we have to get that rule right without making exceptions. Violent means will never serve to solve the problems of violence, this should be simple wisdom. And violence may be defined as any use of force no matter how civil. Dignified treatment and respect is what every person derserves, we should not have to earn this from one-another, nor should we be able to lose it. We are all victims more or less, even the criminal is a victim. When a man has done wrong, he deserves a better education, and he should not be made to suffer indignity to get that education.
Unfortunately Humanity will not be persuaded away from violent means so easily. The Nations have devoted literally billions of man-hours and gross-national-product to the technology of warfare. Who can ask all these Nations to sacrifice all that hard work for the sake of peace? No one can ask and get away with it, unless they have some authority to make demands. Normally all Human authority comes from the consent of our peers, but its a hard thing to figure how one man can get consent from every Nation. So it stands to reason that this authority can not come from popular support, it can not depend on men in any way. Which leaves our prospective peace maker seeking allies from Heaven, and Heaven's will to apply force or at least to produce a clear and preasent threat. The old addage of beating our swords into plowshares will never come to pass unless someone can demand the work be done. Unfortunately some people will never respect anything less than the power to destroy when it comes to certain demands. And I believe that it is well within Heaven's power to destroy us, given that there is any kind of will behind creation at all. Of course whenever Humanity has been confronted with natural disasters, we easily proclaim it to be the 'Wrath of God'. But its not really punishment, just mother nature at work, a process neccessary to life.
In order for one man to be crowned King of Kings, Judge of all Nations, and the long expected Messiah; he must be able to produce effects that are obviously super-natural.
It's well within reason for one man to decide that Humanity is underserving, and therefor refuse to make an effort. If we deny the possibility of our ressurection its even easier. And perhaps we choose to believe in the possibility of more life here on Planet Earth, and it has already been gaurenteed by the efforts of one saviour, for those who believe. And for those who believe this may not depend on our good works in life. God has a plan for the Ultimate fate of Humanity, if we trust it our deeds are of little consequence. And it doesn't matter what you know, or who you know, or how you delt with other people. If our saviour has the power to forgive then judgement has no power over us, we will not be punished.
Was the immortality of the Human Soul ever in doubt; I wonder? I think that there is enough evidence to suggest that the Universe has a way of remembering itself and remembering us individually. We do make some impression upon the fabric of reality that becomes indelible, I never worry that I will be remembered. It didn't take some epiphany for me to believe in something larger than myself, but a little knowledge helps me to understand the implications. If we can see ourselves standing at the very center of creation, then we should feel that we are most important. But if we are forced to see our insignificant place in the whole, we should not feel less important, we may be very small but still significant.
And so the very chains of death that did bind us have been broken by one man's sacrifice. We may be restored to life with all of our memories intact. Should this great boon be reserved for a few or should it extend to all? This once and future King promised the whole land to all those people who should be considered meek, he did not make this promise to his own people specificly. I would think that there have been excellent examples of meekness demonstrated by peoples of every ethnicity and nationality. Perhaps our deeds in life did matter, perhaps it did matter how we delt with one-another. When we impose our own will upon the world and make many demands upon others, then we are not meek. But I think the promise of an inheiritance goes more towards who should govern, who the leaders should be. It's not meant to exclude all those people who have shown aggression, just that they should be subdued in some way. And as soon as we deny the people mortality, we deny them the power to kill one-another, so that disputes can never be resolved in this way. We will have all the time and opportunity for conversation and argument, the force of persuasion is the only force that should prevail in the world.
So isn't there anything that we still need to get that promise of a ressurection gaurenteed? We have not had the Millenium of Peace on Earth yet! We have not had a day of Judgement without punishment, and the mystery of God is yet unrevealed. And who will God find to do the job of judgement, and to deliver Peace on Earth? Who will win this wonderful power to reform the world so that there will be a New Heaven and a New Earth. And not to end the story of Humanity but find a new begining. Humanity is yet in its infancy as a civilization, but eventually the time comes for us to leave behind our childish ways and begin to grow up. A rite of passage to adulthood and maturity, this is the meaning of judgement day.
Heaven our Creator governs the course of the stars and planets but it does not govern our lives so much. But I consider it likely that Heaven enforces certain rules upon advanced civilizations like ours. And rule number one is to practice non-violence. Its that same old commandment of Moses, thou shall not commit the crime of murder. And we have to get that rule right without making exceptions. Violent means will never serve to solve the problems of violence, this should be simple wisdom. And violence may be defined as any use of force no matter how civil. Dignified treatment and respect is what every person derserves, we should not have to earn this from one-another, nor should we be able to lose it. We are all victims more or less, even the criminal is a victim. When a man has done wrong, he deserves a better education, and he should not be made to suffer indignity to get that education.
Unfortunately Humanity will not be persuaded away from violent means so easily. The Nations have devoted literally billions of man-hours and gross-national-product to the technology of warfare. Who can ask all these Nations to sacrifice all that hard work for the sake of peace? No one can ask and get away with it, unless they have some authority to make demands. Normally all Human authority comes from the consent of our peers, but its a hard thing to figure how one man can get consent from every Nation. So it stands to reason that this authority can not come from popular support, it can not depend on men in any way. Which leaves our prospective peace maker seeking allies from Heaven, and Heaven's will to apply force or at least to produce a clear and preasent threat. The old addage of beating our swords into plowshares will never come to pass unless someone can demand the work be done. Unfortunately some people will never respect anything less than the power to destroy when it comes to certain demands. And I believe that it is well within Heaven's power to destroy us, given that there is any kind of will behind creation at all. Of course whenever Humanity has been confronted with natural disasters, we easily proclaim it to be the 'Wrath of God'. But its not really punishment, just mother nature at work, a process neccessary to life.
In order for one man to be crowned King of Kings, Judge of all Nations, and the long expected Messiah; he must be able to produce effects that are obviously super-natural.
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