Living while you are yet alive
Government is to serve the community….. doing together what we can not do alone.
Therefore, taxes are our fair share in our service to the community.
Stopping taxation because of failure in responsible spending of taxes is not a solution to irresponsible spending of taxes.
Government is a vehicle to help us with the fully human process of living in a community and doing what we cannot do as an individual.
You never reach the truth just get nearer.
The path to truth is in the searching, in the feeling of truth: to hear, see and feel beauty.
Truth can be seen in kindness.
To be the beauty of music to hear the beauty of the tree
To hear the beauty of the mountain
To see the beauty of the music.
Virtues- being kind, being virtuous only can exist in practice – the individual is not virtuous the practice is. Yet, only can be accomplished through the individual.
One can solve their psychological troubles by dying while you live:
Lots of money
The hobby you succeed at
Take a nap
Love your grandkids
Get the true and only religion
Read a book, a book, a book…
Go shopping
Taking vacations
Following the sun.
If food and shelter is our need then there can be no Hope, only survival. If people are hoping for food and shelter then there is no hope for the caring practices of humanity let alone the experiences of awakenings, epiphanies, and living while you are yet alive.
If humanity would establish practices that do not allow pain or humiliation, then everyone has a chance.
A God should not belong to a country, a government, or a political system. There are many gods in the minds of the people and whoever God rules will be at the expense of other people therefore questions your belief in God, not God.
A generous good God will always protect the people. If there is not a generous God to protect the people then we, humanity, should protect the people, in the name of justice (decency).
Do you have a need for Hope? The fewer the beliefs the less upheaval in one’s living, however, the less upheaval the more you should worry about your lack of life, your lack of living, your loss of salvation.
To have Hope for salvation
Do not believe in anything!
To keep from going crazy believe in some things. (Do not forget your belief is not whole, not totally accurate, the belief is just keeping you from going crazy on the way)
Learn for yourself, learn for yourself, find out, investigate for yourself, and get information for yourself.
Let’s find out, let’s taste the chocolate, put it in our mouth, on our tongue, and taste:
Is the chocolate ok, good, very good
Is the tasting enough?
Was the chocolate made in sanitary conditions? Who made the chocolate?
Child labor, slave labor…. Whom is the profit going to the terrorist group?
Being poor (not in pain or humiliation) or helping the poor can save your life.
Saving one life is more likely to happen when poor or helping the poor than living within one of our denominations of God Believers.
Binary politics – the American System of two parties that sets up an argument. An argument does not represent a discussion of issues. In a Binary argument, solutions are one end or the other even though the problem is recognized and agreed to. American political system is not usually even a compromise; the winner applies their extreme answer (one end or the other of a spectrum where the minority of the people believe…a binary practice may not be the most effective way to create solutions or a correct problem. It represents an opinion on one end which is practically never what is best for humanity.
The shape of the double helix is important? Its real value is in the shape.
Looking at history we see that people have changed their ideas about diversity or god. First, we had sea gods, then earth gods, and then as understanding matured we move to sky gods and then from sky gods to transcendent gods… Huh! What does this mean?
A capitalistic practice reduces humans to a producing unit and a consuming unit. Being human is not about consumption or production. The major practice of living our lives should be about our mutual service and mutual benefit within the bounds of community.
A community must be built around our humanity, not around Our God… God should not be excluded. God should freely be allowed to live in the community or not.
Always —— fear the fanatic, a fanatic is a person who only has answers.
Be careful of the perfect belief …. Jesus said only his Father in Heaven knows, so you can never have perfect truth. Must remember your imperfections…not Father in Heaven’s Perfections.
Revolutions should not be fought in the streets but in our minds.
Laws are the processes: first to make certain justice happens for humanity, no pain or humiliation of the individual, and then to allow for peaceful revolutions (growth, maturing, caring of humanity) in answer to meeting the needs for mutual benefits for humanity.
The argument on Global Warming has two answers: being caused by humans or not being caused by humans. The result of who is correct has many different consequences. It is these consequences that should be the driving force for the decision-makers. Because right or wrong carries no value… only the consequences have value.
Ideas are Ideas, and Answers are Answers but consequences that touch humanity and cause pain or humiliation should drive the decisions of those who make decisions or those who vote for the decision-makers.
Oppressive Violence is not a solution! Protective Violence is often a necessary action.
Ways of Perception, Hans Durrer
…. Create a shared meaning through collaborative efforts….
Communication …is a dynamic process of intentionally creating shared meanings that need to be understood in context…. Pg 6
Conflict in communication is normal….
misunderstanding is the only thing certain about … communication….
misunderstanding is often caused by the styles of communicating…
conflict needs to be defined as a mutual problem…
conflict in ideas should not be seen as conflict
but as a difference in meaning shared and should not trigger
conflict
but trigger the immediate beginning of a search for meanings to perhaps arrive at shared meaning
or at least an understanding of the other persons meaning… pg.37
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NEVER FORGET ONLY ONE GOD
And…………. SHE DOES NOT EXIST.
STOMACH SOUNDS
(organs of truth/memory)
The stomach just turned….
Oh, it is the hum of than not seen engine, somewhere in the sky.
If thinking is allowed the remembrances will flow into my mind.
The stomach is twisting….
Oh, the heart recognizes that memory, with a faster beat.
Betrayal, reoccurrence of betrayal, and after prior forgiveness.
The stomach acids are flowing….
The first betrayal was not the same as this second betrayal
Oh, the memories return to consciousness.
In the hearing of an engine of that unseen airplane
The Turns, The Twists, The Acids, The Flutter of the heart of so long-ago experiences… remember again pains.
Screams from the pain’s remembrances… all from the hearing of an engine somewhere in the sky…… and forgiveness again? Forgiveness was given in hope of freedom, but one cannot be freed from that experience, it was and will always be in the memory of my stomach.
I AM FORGIVEN
Forgiveness does work for my wrongdoings. I accept god’s forgiveness; I give myself forgiveness and I am free of the pain of my doing wrong to you. Thank You, god
I FORGIVE YOU
Yes, my forgiveness of your doing wrong to me will free you to move on; but that forgiveness given to you WILL not free me from the pain/humiliation I suffered. The experienced pain will be relived each time it is triggered…… racing from my mind to my stomach and heart, never to be forgotten just reduced in intensity.
Here lies the reason not to cause pain and humiliation to any human.
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Meaning is the work
Not the results
Reducing pain and humiliation in the doing (a practice)
No Pain & No Humiliation cannot: just exist, cannot just be, cannot just happen
Action is required … pain & humiliation must be prevented by me and you.
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A church is known by teams: music, services, and facilities, not by its works in a community.
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God is neither weak nor stupid….. god exists but not through existence.
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“Sound” of that local airplane is heard in my stomach. OH! Those stomachs heard sounds….tied to “events of living” that smashed against heart, ego, and family.
Ignited by Zizeck readings (easter ’07)
Philosophically the evolutionary process’ true value lies in the “changing”. Value is lost if one assumes some sort of improvement in these “changing’s”. Dynamic is the value as placed alongside static. Dynamic is related to Chaos?!
Living Organisms – Humans only seek pleasure upon reaching: food, shelter, and having some sort of health… is this just virtual reality? To me, the best argument for a god’s belief is the indelible stamp of death on humanity. Is pleasure the only satisfaction in being human: family, house, car, horse, looks, education, or whatever—materiality only value…….. is the creation of pleasure? The One God religion has the pleasure goal of an afterlife. Not thinking about evolutionist or creationist ideology, right or wrong. The practice of each has a value on a different level of the flow.
Me, what a silly idea, this kind of organism, consciousness, if it had a charismatic personality, it would become this fanatic, therefore, creating a different flow within the existing flow. I do not think the flow of humanity has changed directions for millenniums since the Erectus. (Iceman, over 5000 years ago seems to be the proof).
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The lifestyle presently being practiced by me is from the parables:
Building barns to store as “my” properties is a dangerous practice. (notice the success of the storage business)
Not throwing the first stone or any stone at my fellow sinner is a forgotten practice. (listen to the talk)
Not helping the people who lay at the side of the road after being attacked is a dangerous practice, not human.
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The first problem with capitalism is: Capitalism produces products for profit and not for the welfare of humanity.
The second problem with capitalism is it uses advertising as a method to sell products with no consideration for the welfare of humanity.
Therefore, solving a problem using capitalism will never be for the good of humanity over the long run only will be good for profits, never good for you and me.
For example, in the Imus affair, to think that capitalism corrected is a misunderstanding. The capitalist would cancel the advertising dollars because they can always find the advertising demographics someplace else. Staying as an advertiser can only cause harm to the sale process of the product.
What could influence the Board Room is that more Blacks, Females, and enlightened people were on the Boards and the executives’ making decisions because of years of education on these subjects in classrooms and laws established to stop racist comments.
Important to think about the many layers of the Imus Affair and try to understand and maybe see a bit of history surrounding this event: abolishing slavery, suffrage for women, civil rights, and woman’s rights.
Other things one might think about…… that are going on right now: prohibition then repealed, gambling prohibited but back through the reservation, censorship, and defending Imus through freedom of speech against the taking away of rights because of terrorism.