Tweets - February 27th - Josiah

With regards to religion and understanding God, I wonder if it's possible, or even worth the effort, to throw out the bath water and keep the baby intact. I'm not sure. Wasn't possible with me - it all had to go; I got the baby back later.

I've been following Josiah Jennings, porn star known as Sean Zevran, for a few years now, even before I joined Twitter. I don't recall what he said or did those years ago to catch my attention, but he not only caught my attention, but kept it. I don't think this is a coincidence.

Though I'm mentioning Josiah, I am not writing this explicitly for him, because he's still as deaf as everyone else in this place and can't yet hear. He will only be able to interpret these things as ridiculous foolishness.

Do you plan to walk alongside me in my Mother's Garden? I won't be celebrating you, nor will I be congratulating you. I will not lift you up any higher than acknowledging the work you've done - and even then, what exactly did you accomplish all by yourself?

Ever since Josiah began taking a more assertive and militant stance against mercilessness and oppression, I could see his Twitter follower count go down. Day by day, week by week, I would watch those hundreds and thousands indicators drop. And sure enough, once he began posting more pics and videos, his count would start to rise. I can tell he's gaining insight from that experience.

I appreciate a few things about Josiah's journey so far, 1) we don't have to bother tossing out the baby with the bath water - they're both long gone; 2) he uses a mirror at times; 3) he has shown active care for the state of this world; 4) he has been plain and open about how he feels about the idea of God; and 5) he doesn't appear to know shame.

One thing I am unable to fully ascertain is his integrity in certain matters, as he keeps many things hidden from social media (like most).

Good news/bad news - I had a talk with God about Josiah and asked God to allow him to peek. If God says, "Yes", then what this means is that Josiah is going to be extremely offended at the idea of God (and I have previously seen him offended at the idea of God). When God heals his eyes, he is going to be thoroughly pissed - so great care has to be taken. I will be giving him his space until he is calm enough to come to terms with not only the idea of God, but God.

He will need a bit of help discerning what is true, as truth is what is evident, and not just rhetoric or even things that are reasonably sound (to your ears). Then there is the issue of the contradiction that exists between one being militant and assertive and one walking by faith - but this is God's issue and not Josiah's.

Tweets - February 15th

In response to an article from The Hill:

If black Americans were healed 4 or 5 generations ago through acts of compassion and justice (via restorations and reparations), then educating others on the almost forgotten term "n*gger" would very much be a non-issue to Americans. But instead of healing, our ancestors received a coat of white paint (Satan always forgives himself), they were continually called "n*ggers", and they were told to "get the fuck over it"; so here we are.

You will not accomplish much in this world if you value your life and your peace more highly than the lives and peace of others. There can truly be peace in this world, but it will end with you, and not begin; I wish our ancestors understood this, black and white.

Tweets - February 7th - Have Faith in God

Poverty within a community, nation, or world of plenty IS oppression. Poverty, by reason, is restriction from having what you need to have (which includes joy and pleasure) due to a lack of abilities. Poverty is an accumulation of inabilities.

By this reasoning, one could consider physical disabilities, impairments, deformities, "ugliness", and decrepitness, forms of poverty; and they are. But these forms of poverty have been an acceptable poverty because (as far as you're concerned) nothing can be done about them outside of medical and scientific achievements. But when something can be done about them, those achievements become synonymous with justice, and any restriction to said achievements or procedures become an injustice; and then there is much anger and protest.

The billionaire isn't least in poverty - by reasoning - because of their assets or money in the bank, they are least in poverty because of their lack of inabilities. They can obtain resources, have few inhibitions to space, and they create their own opportunities; taking ownership of all these things.

Some would suggest that poverty is due to a lack of opportunities, where the solution is often stated: "Let us end barriers to opportunities where they exist, and create opportunities where they don't exist." This is typical and true from the perspective of exploiting someone for someone else's gain (being at the mercy of those who both wield and gatekeep opportunity), but poverty goes beyond the lack of opportunity. Poverty (like most forms of oppression) is enforced through legislation and the management of the money supply.

We require a more universal solution, a kinder solution. We require abilities, and most importantly, we require empathy.

I've been trying to wrap my head around ways that people can build systems based on mercy and equity without actually requiring people to truly care for the wellbeing of their neighbors (local, regional, and global neighbors) - but this doesn't make much sense. What I mean is that I don't see how this world can continually cling to individualism and policies that encourage competing for resources while, at the same time, caring for the equal ground of everyone (not just the few, not just the many, but everyone).

The Garden of God is liberation from poverty in all its awful forms.

It is becoming more and more clear to me that the "path" will be empathy. I've always figured the "path" would be human decency - acts of uplifting care - but it wasn't clear to me until recently that this would need to be deeply ingrained in the hearts of humanity in the form of empathy. What this means is that this world, this race, requires devastation.

Little children, it's almost time to let go of the fear of the unknown and have faith in God. A new pain will be your learning experience, but when God takes hold of your hand, you never need to let go in fear. Have faith in God.

Tonight while outside, I thought about the message given to Brent regarding the back-to-back hurricanes that would turn the southern US into a swamp, and a spacecraft flew. It slowly became more and more bright as it flew. Then I thought to myself, "perhaps that is just the beginning or just part of the message" and I thought about China and east Asia, and a spacecraft dipped out of the sky and shined brightly for a few seconds before going dim. I wasn't given anything else on the matter, which leads me to think that I have a say in some of these things (along with Yeshua - who has much more say - and along with everyone who seek the Garden of God in this world).

As I've said before, you can never be too sure who's speaking with you - but because of the lack of authoritativeness of these messages and the understanding of what's been on my mind these last few weeks, I do think these were truthful angels.

There were other spacecrafts that flew, I was even pinged (where the spacecraft drops really fast overhead and shines exceedingly bright for a second) - but I don't have clarity in those messages.