- In a world at war and catastrophic destruction from a
tsunami, it's enlightening to observe the actions of various people and
nations. For example: The first response from the Super-Power nation (that's
us) was that letters of condolence were sent to the various countries!
This from the platform of Christian empathy-the supposed 'values' of those
claiming God will rid the world of evil no matter how many are shredded
or slaughtered! Meantime on CCTV (out of Beijing) the 'immediate' response
(absent letters) were huge cargo planes of tents-food-medicine and teams
of doctors! Meantime here in the U.S. Colin Powell (Mr. Bush on vacation)
announced 4 million-then 15 million and finally after UN outrage an announced
35 million to be sent to nine countries with multi-billions in damage and
whole villages destroyed!
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- Meantime we pause (some of us) thinking of the $1 trillion
in tax cuts under Bush (to the wealthy)-the $228 million per day on the
Iraq war (all borrowed), the $400 million spent on the Bush/Kerry gyrating
buffoonery of conventions-the $65 million spent on the Ukrainian voting
debacle (ours meantime unreported), $225 million for ONE F-22 Raptor tactical
fighter jet and the planned $45 million + for the upcoming coronation fiasco
in Foggy Bottom.
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- The point being that be it Rose Bowl parades, football
games, Times Square revelry tonight, inaugurations-balls-or the lament
of a family on a year's long vacation losing their camera and computer
in the "tsunami event"; like spooks or voyeurs to life's events;
nothing hinders or interferes with party hardy-trips-parades-or gladiator
sports events! Not even what has been announced as a tragedy of "Biblical
proportions?" What schizoid perverseness has on the one hand sighing
over those poor brown people (uninsured) suffering total destruction (loss
of life) while we go about the continual pulverizing-maiming-shredding-and
brutal torture of other brown people? What delusional insanity is this?
Hmmm-God is being blamed for (various reports) on His insensitivity-brutality
on 'causing' such an environmental tragedy but lauded on the other hand
as being the God of War able to pulverize-poison (depleted uranium) whole
lands and generations of people (soldiers and Iraqis) for billions of years!
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- It is perplexing for those of simple common sense understanding
this schizophrenic God! He apparently gives the genius to invent and create
the most diabolical of organ rupturing-oxygen sucking-melting weapons but
neglected to whisper in the ears of the officials that a mere $20 million
in warning technology would have saved tens of thousands of people! He's
apparently 'gifted' the oil-gas corporations of the world with the 'genius'
to rupture the bowels of the ocean floors (surrounding Indonesia) to explore
with sophisticated sonar-electromagnetic waves etc., but is in a quandary
as to responsible stewardship of gifting corporations with knowledge on
preventing toxic poisoning of whole regions! Genius from this mentally
ill God, creates pigs with human hearts and livers, sterilized seeds, mutated
modified foods, chemical blankets of the world's skies (nobody looks up),
biological chemicals, killer viruses, stun guns, laser scans, land rovers
for distant planets, space stations, et al; but is incapable of granting
the genius to stop acid rain, feeding the multitudes, heal cancer, restore
sight, or ministering to the dispossessed, homeless and marginalized of
the world outside the city gates!
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- How is it that this God proclaimed as raising the dead,
healing a withered hand, caring for the sick, the stranger, the hungry,
the imprisoned, the leper and delivering the demoniac of his legion of
demons cannot heal the hardened, insensitive, brutal, ruthlessness or greed
of man? But, ah, then that would have this maniacal God of War as a mere
puppet-master giving man no choice in the matter. It is not God who supplies
thousands of machetes to a people so that they might hack their neighbors
to death. It is not God who piles pyramids of naked people in distant prisons
and laughs at the humiliation. It is not God who hoods men, puts them in
cages and identifies them as non-persons. It is not God who shoots down
women, children and wounded people in vengeful rage. It is not God who
has men building roulette wheels, one armed bandits, blackjack tables,
and various games of chance for the sake of mammon. This and more is all
man's choice.no-one can serve two masters.
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- When one deconstructs emotionally and chooses to reside
outside the barriers of his/her walled, hardened heart for shallow, superficial
monetary, materialistic or corrupt power over others; they enter the realm
of prejudice, hatred, insatiable greed, abuse, venomous attacks, torture,
lewdness, sexual depravity, and murder. There is no light in this maze----one
inhumane act leads to another. They choose to live in the twilight or darkness
of the soul stealers. No love, empathy, compassion, kindness, gentleness,
or sacrificial giving exists in this void. They are the living-dead who
costume themselves in various masked personages to exist in society. Any
emotions-social amenities-postured concern etc., is all mimed and staged.
Only thing is.the one gift of the Spirit that cannot be counterfeited is
LOVE. This is impossible---thus by their "fruits" (love being
one of them) you shall know them. Simple.
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- In the realm of Love one does not covet another nation's
resources. In the realm of Love one does NOT use the gifts, genius, and
talents that each is given to maim, destroy, torture, poison, or kill another.
In the realm of Love one does not sacrifice one's young to the master puppets
of war. In the realm of Love one does not plunder, drill, poison, and pollute
the majestic wonders of the earth for profit! In the realm of Love one
never creates weapons of annihilating destruction. In the realm of Love
one does not pollute the heavens, outer space or the awesome oceans with
technology, waste, and sonar disruptive sound waves---killing ocean life.
In the realm of Love one does not posture and pontificate over the word
genocide while hundreds of thousands die. In the realm of Love one does
not serve corporate hucksters with tax breaks, subsidies, and inhumane
trade policies. In the realm of Love one does not party, spend obscene
millions or parade while the multitudes of the earth suffer and die. In
the realm of Love one does not beat clubs on shields, gas, beat, or terrorize
those who stand on Freedom's side! In the realm of Love one does not threaten,
intimidate, or attack those on the side of righteousness and justice. In
the realm of Love one creates, feeds the hungry, houses the homeless, cares
for the sick, protects the environment, pays a fair wage for a day's labor,
and sees to one's neighbors. Love hopes all things.
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- Many have 'chosen' not to reside outside the barriers
of their hearts in the outer darkness-but can be seen as beacons of light,
thus darkness will not conquer. They joy in the small patch of yard in
Ohio, care for an autistic son in New Mexico, are cabinet makers, artists,
forest rangers, farmers, social workers, representatives, janitors, editors,
counselors, doctors, business people, fishermen, poets, musicians, teachers,
and ordinary people. These are those who live in the realm of Love and
are not the destroyers; but instead builders, creators, and peace-makers.
Their presence and voice can be found wherever there is injustice, greed,
bias, prejudice, illegal gain, and bombastic war. They are the drummers-the
voice in the wilderness. They are much maligned and labeled in a perverse
world which sees evil as good and lauds those who destroy-or salivates
at the feet of the titled, moneyed, and famous. In the realm of Love their
heartbeat cannot be silenced.
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- A few years ago it was another Christmas season. I walked
in the woods to visit an ancient tree. Seemingly these acres of woods were
being eyed for the few dollars of profit they would bring. Surely I thought
the people in this removed wilderness would protect this land. Alas---a
few months later it was clear cut with the debris of smaller trees and
hemlocks left rotting. Greed won again.with surprisingly (too late) the
land now marked as protected for recreation etc! Man's insanity knows no
bounds.recreation in a plundered forest!
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- And so when I think of peace of the strong leaning down
to nuzzle-to communicate with the small-fragile and weak -------- it's
to nature I turn. And so I gift you with a lesson of a gigantic Moose (that
resides in our part of the country-NH) and a small kitten.would that man
had such empathy and gentleness, one for another. Love Jude SEE picture
below. Kiss of peace!
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