Martin Luther King Jr. stated, and I paraphrase, “There are unjust laws and there are just laws. Unjust laws degrade human personality, whereas, just laws uplift”.
I’ve been thinking about hunger. There are so many purposely hidden and closed doors on this planet. All of them should lead to discussions for potential solutions. But the only people seeking to keep them closed are those who wish to either profit from keeping them closed or those who seek to maintain their ideologies by keeping them closed. Such worthlessness. Poverty is expensive, both in cost and in destruction.
It’ll help if we start by figuring out a way to remove common notions of cost and value from certain food stuff. What people consider “valuable” changes from person to person, region to region, and country to country. A global “value” that does not translate into local currencies might be a way forward. It would not benefit anyone seeking to gain a coin. A lot of thought and a lot of discussion are key. Nothing is impossible. Only profiteers would convince you to give up as they fill their bank accounts from your sorrowful surrender.
Friday, October 25, 2019
Sunday, October 20, 2019
Tweets - October 20th - Love
Love must be the means, it must be the way, it must be the ends. Without these 3, there will always be injustices nearing your doorstep, you will always know protest. The whole world is in an uproar, and it's nearing my doorstep.
Oh, and Love is action (it's the only way I know how to love). What good is it if a mother feels love for her child but does not save her child when they fall down a well?
Oh, and Love is action (it's the only way I know how to love). What good is it if a mother feels love for her child but does not save her child when they fall down a well?
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Tweets - October 17th - Dialogue
Monologue would have been unacceptable for me. All those years ago when I knocked on God's door, if no one had answered, I would cling to agnosticism or atheism with certainty. I could not bear to hear another man speak to me about God; it was going to be God or nothing.
I wouldn't have been to blame either. "I knocked", "I tried", "No one was there", "If there is a God then God does not answer doors, no matter how hard one knocks."
But here I stand. I knocked once and the door flew open, the wind pulled me in and thrust me to the ground, and I have been astonished ever since. So much effort has gone into fine-tuning this path for me so that I would not stray left or right, so that I would understand the Garden of God (to one day become the Garden of Humanity), and I am so glad.
I don't know what comes next, but there is a lot of work that needs to be done here - none of which will be to maintain the comforts of the status quo. Status quo has meant perpetual injustices, environmental destruction, faithlessness, and slow death on this world, and that's just not good enough for me. But I am patient, and I expectantly wait for the Living God through God's power (which is foolishness to this decaying race). And I am OK with my flesh being used as judgment against this place - a dark thing for those who destroy, and light for those who uplift.
I wouldn't have been to blame either. "I knocked", "I tried", "No one was there", "If there is a God then God does not answer doors, no matter how hard one knocks."
But here I stand. I knocked once and the door flew open, the wind pulled me in and thrust me to the ground, and I have been astonished ever since. So much effort has gone into fine-tuning this path for me so that I would not stray left or right, so that I would understand the Garden of God (to one day become the Garden of Humanity), and I am so glad.
I don't know what comes next, but there is a lot of work that needs to be done here - none of which will be to maintain the comforts of the status quo. Status quo has meant perpetual injustices, environmental destruction, faithlessness, and slow death on this world, and that's just not good enough for me. But I am patient, and I expectantly wait for the Living God through God's power (which is foolishness to this decaying race). And I am OK with my flesh being used as judgment against this place - a dark thing for those who destroy, and light for those who uplift.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Tweets - October 15th - Shih Tzu
I was watching this thick and tall guy walking his tiny shih tzu. The dog was jolly, and not afraid nor bothered in the slightest by his large footsteps. The faith of this dog simply didn't allow it to be afraid of something so potentially disastrous. Faith requires innocence.
Sunday, October 13, 2019
Tweets - October 12th thru 14th - Walking Alone
I needed to remind myself that I don't walk alone. I know that I don't walk alone, but I had to remind myself that God is with me in everything - traumatic events change you in unexpected and unanticipated ways, even for years.
I'm currently in Delaware. I went out to the end of a pier a few nights ago, and a spacecraft flew. I didn't expect to see it as I wasn't discussing anything in particular - and I hadn't seen them fly since August I believe.
I've realized that I don't need to concern myself with anything. My worry is not God's worry. God has infinitely greater foresight than I do. So if God was ever concerned, it occurred a long time ago, and plans were set in motion to deal with whatever had been concerning God.
Since God is with me, and my flesh and the broken glass my bare feet walk on all belong to God, what is my concern? The liar, the salesman, and the false prophet - God saw them all coming a long time ago, and has been weaving them into the plan ever since.
People liken light to joy, but my light is not joyous. I live in a world where the things I want don't yet exist. I long for a people who haven't yet been born. God will never hand the Garden over to a people who'd wish to control it. So I'm gonna do my part, whatever that is.
I have ideas, but I'm not even about to walk anywhere alone. I am subtle; people mimic my behavior even when they don't intend to. This is why patience, mercy and forgiveness are of great importance, and why trying to control people is unnecessary and overall harmful.
We're really playing the long game here. I am a child in a Garden. Makes sense to me to rely on mercy rather than control, to wait for God (my Mother) rather than plan a siege. But this wouldn't sit well for a people, for adults, who fear and look forward and only see death.
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I am aware of my audience. Forgiveness is enduring. Forgiveness does not forgo transparency or justice, but it does precede these things.
People are often powerless, whether they recognize it or not, and so they have no other choice but to forgive when they see or receive injustice. Would you forgive if you had the REAL option and power to do something other than forgive? Believe who you are.
The downside is that people are without God and so walk alone, so any "justice" has to come from a court ordered decree or from a personal gun.
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I am unsatisfied with my last set of tweets. I was thinking out loud and I doubt anyone can really get anything of value from them.
Forgiveness is an act, it's how I know that God has forgiven me of my past behaviors (treating people in ways I'd never want them to treat me). When I was forgiven, I was shown jaw-dropping compassion - but I was not entrusted with as much as I am entrusted with now. That took time for me to care and be in a position to receive the things I've received. I would also need to suffer the consequences of my own actions - this requirement did not disappear because I had been forgiven. However, my burden was not as heavy, and I did not have to do all the repairing all by myself, but I had to do much of the work myself. (Just making right what was made wrong.)
Eventually, God will forgive the world; this will be evident when God saves the dead. My hope is that, through the kindling of God's judgment, people end up in a position that God can save them while they're still alive, so this world can be transformed into the perpetual Garden.
There is the other side of forgiveness that isn't so much an act, but is rather the letting hold of a grudge for an injustice committed. That's up to the person. Just be honest about your feelings. But if in spite, you lay a trap for the person you hold a grudge against, you shouldn't expect God to remove the trap before you.
I'm currently in Delaware. I went out to the end of a pier a few nights ago, and a spacecraft flew. I didn't expect to see it as I wasn't discussing anything in particular - and I hadn't seen them fly since August I believe.
I've realized that I don't need to concern myself with anything. My worry is not God's worry. God has infinitely greater foresight than I do. So if God was ever concerned, it occurred a long time ago, and plans were set in motion to deal with whatever had been concerning God.
Since God is with me, and my flesh and the broken glass my bare feet walk on all belong to God, what is my concern? The liar, the salesman, and the false prophet - God saw them all coming a long time ago, and has been weaving them into the plan ever since.
People liken light to joy, but my light is not joyous. I live in a world where the things I want don't yet exist. I long for a people who haven't yet been born. God will never hand the Garden over to a people who'd wish to control it. So I'm gonna do my part, whatever that is.
I have ideas, but I'm not even about to walk anywhere alone. I am subtle; people mimic my behavior even when they don't intend to. This is why patience, mercy and forgiveness are of great importance, and why trying to control people is unnecessary and overall harmful.
We're really playing the long game here. I am a child in a Garden. Makes sense to me to rely on mercy rather than control, to wait for God (my Mother) rather than plan a siege. But this wouldn't sit well for a people, for adults, who fear and look forward and only see death.
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I am aware of my audience. Forgiveness is enduring. Forgiveness does not forgo transparency or justice, but it does precede these things.
People are often powerless, whether they recognize it or not, and so they have no other choice but to forgive when they see or receive injustice. Would you forgive if you had the REAL option and power to do something other than forgive? Believe who you are.
The downside is that people are without God and so walk alone, so any "justice" has to come from a court ordered decree or from a personal gun.
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I am unsatisfied with my last set of tweets. I was thinking out loud and I doubt anyone can really get anything of value from them.
Forgiveness is an act, it's how I know that God has forgiven me of my past behaviors (treating people in ways I'd never want them to treat me). When I was forgiven, I was shown jaw-dropping compassion - but I was not entrusted with as much as I am entrusted with now. That took time for me to care and be in a position to receive the things I've received. I would also need to suffer the consequences of my own actions - this requirement did not disappear because I had been forgiven. However, my burden was not as heavy, and I did not have to do all the repairing all by myself, but I had to do much of the work myself. (Just making right what was made wrong.)
Eventually, God will forgive the world; this will be evident when God saves the dead. My hope is that, through the kindling of God's judgment, people end up in a position that God can save them while they're still alive, so this world can be transformed into the perpetual Garden.
There is the other side of forgiveness that isn't so much an act, but is rather the letting hold of a grudge for an injustice committed. That's up to the person. Just be honest about your feelings. But if in spite, you lay a trap for the person you hold a grudge against, you shouldn't expect God to remove the trap before you.
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