That is the what to do. This is the why: ”so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body (Phil. 1:20); “the tongue is a fire” (James 3:6); “be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2).
Showing posts with label PHILOSOPHY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PHILOSOPHY. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Truth is Truth – “One God, One Faith, One Baptism”
That is the what to do. This is the why: ”so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body (Phil. 1:20); “the tongue is a fire” (James 3:6); “be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2).
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Bristol Palin Accidentally Reveals Mother's 15 Abortions
Bristol Palin Interview Accidentally Reveals Mother's 15 Abortions | The Onion - America's Finest News Source#
Surely the Mama Grizzly is educated enough to know about birth control. Thus she must prefer abortion to birth control. Bristol is proud of mom, to say the least. Oh, and “accidentally” is truly amazingly suspect. Might Sarah be a contender for the 2012 presidency? Hummm.
Surely the Mama Grizzly is educated enough to know about birth control. Thus she must prefer abortion to birth control. Bristol is proud of mom, to say the least. Oh, and “accidentally” is truly amazingly suspect. Might Sarah be a contender for the 2012 presidency? Hummm.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Countdown to Another Murder in Georgia
Georgia, because of Troy Davis, your souls, and the souls of your advocates (including the "victims") are weighed in the balance. Within the next eight hours, you will kill a man who was PROVEN guilty on shallow evidence. "There is not enough evidence" to convict him, but you overturned that assertion and convicted him to death in spite of it.
I remember a little while ago when California killed Tookie Williams, when there was evidence that could possibly prove his innocence, but it was not accepted. Instead, the then governor, "The Terminator," would not hear of a last minute stay of execution. I watched the execution on television. The last thing one witness said as they left the room was, "You killed an innocent man! That will ring in the ears of the hearers forever unless they really are dead - spirits.
The victims will not feel vindicated as they think they will because they do not care if Troy Davis is innocent or not. They want someone to die for the death of their loved one. If someone came to them with irrefutable evidence that Davis is innocent, would they accept it? A good question since they want it to "be over."
America is bathing itself in a bloodfest (in all the states that murder prisoners) and calling it justice. We have no right to accuse other countries, for example, China, Iran, or whomever else we do not like, of being torturers. We torture people and call it justice. Rick Perry never loses sleep over it as he told someone on the news. Unless we begin to do things differently, i.e., grow up into mature beings, we will continue to torture citizens and be barbarians, while calling others barbarians. "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things" (1 Cor 13:11). Would that this verse were this country's motto.
I remember a little while ago when California killed Tookie Williams, when there was evidence that could possibly prove his innocence, but it was not accepted. Instead, the then governor, "The Terminator," would not hear of a last minute stay of execution. I watched the execution on television. The last thing one witness said as they left the room was, "You killed an innocent man! That will ring in the ears of the hearers forever unless they really are dead - spirits.
The victims will not feel vindicated as they think they will because they do not care if Troy Davis is innocent or not. They want someone to die for the death of their loved one. If someone came to them with irrefutable evidence that Davis is innocent, would they accept it? A good question since they want it to "be over."
America is bathing itself in a bloodfest (in all the states that murder prisoners) and calling it justice. We have no right to accuse other countries, for example, China, Iran, or whomever else we do not like, of being torturers. We torture people and call it justice. Rick Perry never loses sleep over it as he told someone on the news. Unless we begin to do things differently, i.e., grow up into mature beings, we will continue to torture citizens and be barbarians, while calling others barbarians. "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things" (1 Cor 13:11). Would that this verse were this country's motto.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
HERE’S A THOUGHT ON THIS DAY: SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2011
HERE'S A THOUGHT: I am convinced that if people spent their years that are short and "full of trouble" living whatever religion they profess, the world would be in a better place. If people used the energy to live a religious life that they use trying to prove (by hook or crook) which one is right or wrong for everybody, they would be better off as souls and the world would be better off as neighbors. If people genuinely approached other people in the spirit of cooperation rather than with a mind to put one's own stamp on the other, they would not be harmful or harmed.
I suggest that is why so many people don't know much about whoever they profess to believe (or not, to be genuine), because they spend too much time trying to dissuade others (mostly by fear tactics) from believing in whomever they profess a faith in. Faith is to be lived, demonstrated, and shared. When we do that, Faith and its doctrine will find their place in whatever nests they please; nests that they have prepared for entry in order to lay their eggs. A Living Faith is its own testimony that it is True.
"Freely given, freely received" is the way of Faith and Love. If we approached religion from within instead of from without, there would be more unity to live a religion. There would be less aches and pains from dodging various types of weapons of mass destruction (the tongue is one) from those who want to snag an opponent or grab a possible convert.
No hijacked religion is free; no forced religion is free. They are still bound by something without rather than wound up securely and safely like a cocoon by the Self within. "The kingdom of heaven is within you," the Master said. "Only within," said Edgar Cayce.
Friday, December 3, 2010
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