Clearly we can be unequal in many different ways; but our rank in the Great Game of Life matters less than the fact that we we're players. Try stroking your Ego with that bit of wisdom; it's a way-point on the path to becoming a peer. No one can say that I didn't have a life, and the people who try to say such things will never offend me. No matter what or how many accomplishments we have in life, none of that can make one of us more important. It's an error of judgement to disparage those less skilled or less knowledgeable than ourselves. Due to the limitations of our biological condition, we all lack some knowledge, and no one can claim differently with any authority.
Is there one person in the whole Universe that can grant us all the knowledge that we lack? Perhaps we all are destined to obtain such things beyond our mortal ends. Having all the experiences of every life lived, we must be forced to change, becoming something other than we are today. To embody the personality and character of an Ancient of Days, but to remain uniquely individual, separate, and self-willed. We we're all born with the gift of judgement and some applied that gift well. Some of us made a career out of it and managed to earn a living; but we don't need to be professionals to apply the gift. And we don't need a great following of supporters to agree with our opinions, in order to form an opinion. So many of the people that we meet in life are ready to tell us what we should believe in, and what we should disbelieve. We don't need to create ideas on our own, many ideas will be offered to us. How much trust and faith should we place into the fundamental beliefs which tell us that we are unequal? Our rights can neither be superior nor inferior to the rights of another single individual. Individual rights can not be diminished by the rights of a group of individuals. Our true rights, whatever they may be, can never be suspended and are not well defined by any constitutional document. We can however be deprived of life and our place in the World. Our freedom of travel is constrained by natural boundaries and can be further limited by artificial boundaries; many of us have been incarcerated within small spaces. Although some of our fellow human beings have presumed to have the authority to impose limits upon us, none has ever had the authority to isolate one of us from the Universe as a whole. When one of us has been put to death for any reason, they have not been punished by passing away from the World. The Human will to do violence may serve as motivation for the living, but it has no power over the dead. I do not believe that there is a God who will judge and punish one of us for any reason. To best of my understanding, God's will for us is to grant the strength to endure all things, even though we may not endure in life. We may very well have a definite beginning; but the future stretches out endlessly, now that we have become part of it we can never cease to be a part of it. There is the whole of history, and there is our story. We belong to it, and it belongs to us. I trust in something greater than myself and greater than humanity. I see a Unity that defies our ability to divide and classify the world around us, and a Unity for which great distances pose no obstacle. I see that the children of humanity share many common beginnings, our Universe has realized the potential to become many different things from a single common origin. We guide the Universe to the best of our ability, and there are persons of greater or lesser ability who also guide. We can very easily make the observation that there is more than one of us, and more than one living thing. We are not alone, there is a great multitude of persons with us, and it is good. All the processes of work are ongoing, and we don't have to do all the work that gets done, neither do we get to make every decision. We may choose some things, but not everything can be made subject to our choice.
No one, by making choices, has ever been able to overcome their own mortality to the best of my knowledge. Even Christ suffered a mortal end, and if he had the power to avoid it, he chose not to use that power. In fact it looks as if he walked right into the situation with a full understanding of what the consequences would be; and evidently, he didn't manage to do this without some feelings of anxiety. Many of us have chosen death in the belief that it served some noble cause, or in the belief that we would be rewarded for making the sacrifice. Some of us chose to risk our own lives, in the hope of saving one life. Of course many of us have also chosen to kill in the defense of our own lives, or the lives of others, or for some noble cause. If we had the ability to choose everlasting life in the belief that it served a noble cause; how many would make that choice knowing that they would be rewarded with a life of torment? Our friend John, the popular prophet, in his vision of Revelations describes such a reward for one of us. The person who would be so rewarded is made out to be a great villain and deceiver, far from being a herald of our salvation, this person is considered to be the anti-thesis of everything that Christ stood for. But if God really does have a plan for humanity, to bring about a general resurrection, should we consider this individual to be a necessary condition? If we believe in a divine origin for this prophecy, then we must consider it a true prediction of future events, although it's not very clear what these events amount to exactly. One prediction stands out for me with crystal clarity, and that is the Millenium of Peace on Planet Earth. From my own point of view this can only mean a world free of armed conflict; and that's a very hard thing to hope for considering the status-quo. It's hard to imagine any series of events that would cause the nations of the world to disarm themselves; I think that there would have to be a very persuasive argument for doing it. For the citizens of these United States, who exert a great deal of influence over the rest of the world, disarmament would represent an immense sacrifice of power and the loss of some very expensive assets. I can not see the American people choosing to do it, unless they're forced into it by some means. Is it possible that the issue can be forced by a single individual? If we can imagine an individual with the power to summon up the clear and present danger of overwhelming force, that's just about the only thing that several nations of the world would respect. And what manner of technological innovation would make it possible, what can one man do to render all our technology of arms and warfare obsolete? Evidently, and according to the words of Christ, the technology of faith can empower a man to move literal mountains. Perhaps it is even something that one of us can achieve independently through a personal effort, although its hard to imagine what qualities a person would need to achieve it, it's never been achieved before. Although it's believed that Jesus himself had this kind of power, he chose not to apply it in an effort to govern the world. One person must obtain the same power and apply it, whatever the personal consequences may be for that individual, in order to fulfill the prophecy.
Therefor I have predicted that our world will be governed by a King one day, and perhaps a great Tyrant, the world is not undeserving of a tyrant IMHO. All the nations of the Earth will be united and governed by a single individual. As the proponents of democracy that we are in America, we don't believe in the divine right of King's to govern us, we would never willingly pay homage to a King. If one person can bring overwhelming force to bare against the entire world, we must consider that strength as righteousness, and equal to divine right. In order to make a choice, one must have options to choose from. A great world leader would have the ability to limit those options, until only one choice remains. The Survival of our Species versus Extinction; if there we're clearly one and only one path to survival then I believe that the people would choose that path willingly. And what could one man gain, if by winning the world, he lost his soul in the process? Evidently a great deal of material wealth, the true King would be our Landlord and exercise all rights to real-estate and the world's natural resources. For a career I suspect that the King Job pays very well, and it is a job that's waiting for someone to fill the position. I guess that I could admit that I've applied myself for the position, and I'm waiting to see if my bid will be accepted. If I fail to get the job, I would probably be better off as just another child of humanity anyways. But I still believe that there will be someone with the right qualifications, and I'd be happy to see someone else do the job so long as it gets done. Perhaps that individual is already alive in the world today; much like everyone else, I don't like waiting for something good to happen. And I pray to the God of my beliefs, "Let peace be established!"
Of course many Christian thinkers believe that a resurrected Jesus will return to the Earth and be "The King of Peace." But I don't believe that Jesus is the right man to do all the hard work. He may have been a King in his day, but he is one King among many and there is yet a King of all Kings above him I believe. The worldly estate of our Savior was never very large, and he labored to guarantee the immortality of the human spirit, so that we all may survive our mortal ends. If you want to have a physical body and more life on planet Earth, I believe it would require a different savior and another plan of salvation.
Is there one person in the whole Universe that can grant us all the knowledge that we lack? Perhaps we all are destined to obtain such things beyond our mortal ends. Having all the experiences of every life lived, we must be forced to change, becoming something other than we are today. To embody the personality and character of an Ancient of Days, but to remain uniquely individual, separate, and self-willed. We we're all born with the gift of judgement and some applied that gift well. Some of us made a career out of it and managed to earn a living; but we don't need to be professionals to apply the gift. And we don't need a great following of supporters to agree with our opinions, in order to form an opinion. So many of the people that we meet in life are ready to tell us what we should believe in, and what we should disbelieve. We don't need to create ideas on our own, many ideas will be offered to us. How much trust and faith should we place into the fundamental beliefs which tell us that we are unequal? Our rights can neither be superior nor inferior to the rights of another single individual. Individual rights can not be diminished by the rights of a group of individuals. Our true rights, whatever they may be, can never be suspended and are not well defined by any constitutional document. We can however be deprived of life and our place in the World. Our freedom of travel is constrained by natural boundaries and can be further limited by artificial boundaries; many of us have been incarcerated within small spaces. Although some of our fellow human beings have presumed to have the authority to impose limits upon us, none has ever had the authority to isolate one of us from the Universe as a whole. When one of us has been put to death for any reason, they have not been punished by passing away from the World. The Human will to do violence may serve as motivation for the living, but it has no power over the dead. I do not believe that there is a God who will judge and punish one of us for any reason. To best of my understanding, God's will for us is to grant the strength to endure all things, even though we may not endure in life. We may very well have a definite beginning; but the future stretches out endlessly, now that we have become part of it we can never cease to be a part of it. There is the whole of history, and there is our story. We belong to it, and it belongs to us. I trust in something greater than myself and greater than humanity. I see a Unity that defies our ability to divide and classify the world around us, and a Unity for which great distances pose no obstacle. I see that the children of humanity share many common beginnings, our Universe has realized the potential to become many different things from a single common origin. We guide the Universe to the best of our ability, and there are persons of greater or lesser ability who also guide. We can very easily make the observation that there is more than one of us, and more than one living thing. We are not alone, there is a great multitude of persons with us, and it is good. All the processes of work are ongoing, and we don't have to do all the work that gets done, neither do we get to make every decision. We may choose some things, but not everything can be made subject to our choice.
No one, by making choices, has ever been able to overcome their own mortality to the best of my knowledge. Even Christ suffered a mortal end, and if he had the power to avoid it, he chose not to use that power. In fact it looks as if he walked right into the situation with a full understanding of what the consequences would be; and evidently, he didn't manage to do this without some feelings of anxiety. Many of us have chosen death in the belief that it served some noble cause, or in the belief that we would be rewarded for making the sacrifice. Some of us chose to risk our own lives, in the hope of saving one life. Of course many of us have also chosen to kill in the defense of our own lives, or the lives of others, or for some noble cause. If we had the ability to choose everlasting life in the belief that it served a noble cause; how many would make that choice knowing that they would be rewarded with a life of torment? Our friend John, the popular prophet, in his vision of Revelations describes such a reward for one of us. The person who would be so rewarded is made out to be a great villain and deceiver, far from being a herald of our salvation, this person is considered to be the anti-thesis of everything that Christ stood for. But if God really does have a plan for humanity, to bring about a general resurrection, should we consider this individual to be a necessary condition? If we believe in a divine origin for this prophecy, then we must consider it a true prediction of future events, although it's not very clear what these events amount to exactly. One prediction stands out for me with crystal clarity, and that is the Millenium of Peace on Planet Earth. From my own point of view this can only mean a world free of armed conflict; and that's a very hard thing to hope for considering the status-quo. It's hard to imagine any series of events that would cause the nations of the world to disarm themselves; I think that there would have to be a very persuasive argument for doing it. For the citizens of these United States, who exert a great deal of influence over the rest of the world, disarmament would represent an immense sacrifice of power and the loss of some very expensive assets. I can not see the American people choosing to do it, unless they're forced into it by some means. Is it possible that the issue can be forced by a single individual? If we can imagine an individual with the power to summon up the clear and present danger of overwhelming force, that's just about the only thing that several nations of the world would respect. And what manner of technological innovation would make it possible, what can one man do to render all our technology of arms and warfare obsolete? Evidently, and according to the words of Christ, the technology of faith can empower a man to move literal mountains. Perhaps it is even something that one of us can achieve independently through a personal effort, although its hard to imagine what qualities a person would need to achieve it, it's never been achieved before. Although it's believed that Jesus himself had this kind of power, he chose not to apply it in an effort to govern the world. One person must obtain the same power and apply it, whatever the personal consequences may be for that individual, in order to fulfill the prophecy.
Therefor I have predicted that our world will be governed by a King one day, and perhaps a great Tyrant, the world is not undeserving of a tyrant IMHO. All the nations of the Earth will be united and governed by a single individual. As the proponents of democracy that we are in America, we don't believe in the divine right of King's to govern us, we would never willingly pay homage to a King. If one person can bring overwhelming force to bare against the entire world, we must consider that strength as righteousness, and equal to divine right. In order to make a choice, one must have options to choose from. A great world leader would have the ability to limit those options, until only one choice remains. The Survival of our Species versus Extinction; if there we're clearly one and only one path to survival then I believe that the people would choose that path willingly. And what could one man gain, if by winning the world, he lost his soul in the process? Evidently a great deal of material wealth, the true King would be our Landlord and exercise all rights to real-estate and the world's natural resources. For a career I suspect that the King Job pays very well, and it is a job that's waiting for someone to fill the position. I guess that I could admit that I've applied myself for the position, and I'm waiting to see if my bid will be accepted. If I fail to get the job, I would probably be better off as just another child of humanity anyways. But I still believe that there will be someone with the right qualifications, and I'd be happy to see someone else do the job so long as it gets done. Perhaps that individual is already alive in the world today; much like everyone else, I don't like waiting for something good to happen. And I pray to the God of my beliefs, "Let peace be established!"
Of course many Christian thinkers believe that a resurrected Jesus will return to the Earth and be "The King of Peace." But I don't believe that Jesus is the right man to do all the hard work. He may have been a King in his day, but he is one King among many and there is yet a King of all Kings above him I believe. The worldly estate of our Savior was never very large, and he labored to guarantee the immortality of the human spirit, so that we all may survive our mortal ends. If you want to have a physical body and more life on planet Earth, I believe it would require a different savior and another plan of salvation.
