O souls that turn
Like sunflowers to the pure and best!
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Thursday, December 20, 2007
And I looked, and [there was] none to help; and I wondered that [there was] none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
Isa 63:5
Isa 63:5
Friday, December 14, 2007
Argument for relocation and resettlement of Caribbean Peoples in America
Brief introduction
The definition of genocide that is most widely accepted and generally recognized as the authoritative definition of this crime, inclusive for purposes of customary law, is that adopted by the United Nations through the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 9 December 1948 (Genocide Convention). According to Article 2 of the Convention, genocide means:
any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
9 No. 3 Hum. Rts. Brief 14 (2002)
The United States has been such a hospitable country that there are very few people that pay attention to the fact that it is not necessarily capable of recognizing its (destructive behaviors) towards its own minority populations.
There has been very little effort to find a new location for the African descended / Caribbean peoples of North America.
The underlying causes of the conflict stem from the enthusiasm of the African peoples for progressive culture. Because the majority culture is not used to competing against this minority, they have developed excessively negative perspectives of the culture and behavioral choices of the black population.
The majority culture tends to compete within its own group and is not used to having outside competition at a high level.
They are not willing to acknowledge the similar yet more streamlined correlation of cultures and have developed in the black community such a divergent and disjointed style that the two cultures tend to identify themselves to some degree by mutual exclusion.
The majority culture has begun to passively and without direct application undermine the development of these minority cultures. Because they not capable of advancing within their hierarchical structure, they are continuously suspicious of minority groups that are able to advance without subjecting themselves to similar cultural and traditional rituals.
There is an enormous range of destructive behaviors that are undisclosed to the public.
These behaviors include, the destruction of brain tissue, mutilation of the abdomen, the tainting and poisoning of water sources, the enforcement of unwritten rules and laws on people.
It is essential that there be a recognition of the torturous and extremely abusive realities of the lives of many people in America.
The definition of genocide that is most widely accepted and generally recognized as the authoritative definition of this crime, inclusive for purposes of customary law, is that adopted by the United Nations through the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 9 December 1948 (Genocide Convention). According to Article 2 of the Convention, genocide means:
any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
9 No. 3 Hum. Rts. Brief 14 (2002)
The United States has been such a hospitable country that there are very few people that pay attention to the fact that it is not necessarily capable of recognizing its (destructive behaviors) towards its own minority populations.
There has been very little effort to find a new location for the African descended / Caribbean peoples of North America.
The underlying causes of the conflict stem from the enthusiasm of the African peoples for progressive culture. Because the majority culture is not used to competing against this minority, they have developed excessively negative perspectives of the culture and behavioral choices of the black population.
The majority culture tends to compete within its own group and is not used to having outside competition at a high level.
They are not willing to acknowledge the similar yet more streamlined correlation of cultures and have developed in the black community such a divergent and disjointed style that the two cultures tend to identify themselves to some degree by mutual exclusion.
The majority culture has begun to passively and without direct application undermine the development of these minority cultures. Because they not capable of advancing within their hierarchical structure, they are continuously suspicious of minority groups that are able to advance without subjecting themselves to similar cultural and traditional rituals.
There is an enormous range of destructive behaviors that are undisclosed to the public.
These behaviors include, the destruction of brain tissue, mutilation of the abdomen, the tainting and poisoning of water sources, the enforcement of unwritten rules and laws on people.
It is essential that there be a recognition of the torturous and extremely abusive realities of the lives of many people in America.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Love and Correction must be concomitant
From Back to the Bible Authors: FaithWalk
About the time we start to think that repentance is only an Old Testament idea, along come verses like this one from the New Testament: "'Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent'" (v. 19). There is an interesting blend of two contrasting actions-love and rebuke.
We may not understand how love and rebuke go together, but they do. It is vital to our understanding of God and the development of our spiritual life to understand that they are both a part of our relationship with Him.
God loves us. That is a comforting thought. We do not typically draw as much comfort from the thought that God rebukes us-until we realize that His rebuke is an act of love. He cares for us enough to correct us, and His desire is to help us change.
Several times in these letters to the churches, the message of Jesus includes a call to repentance. It is a message that we must not miss nor misunderstand. Do not misunderstand it as being anything but an expression of God's love for us. And do not miss the need for change, removing from your life those things that God says are wrong. We are saved from the penalty and power of sin. God desires that we turn from those sins and determine to do that which is right in His sight. Repent truly is a word for us today.
About the time we start to think that repentance is only an Old Testament idea, along come verses like this one from the New Testament: "'Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent'" (v. 19). There is an interesting blend of two contrasting actions-love and rebuke.
We may not understand how love and rebuke go together, but they do. It is vital to our understanding of God and the development of our spiritual life to understand that they are both a part of our relationship with Him.
God loves us. That is a comforting thought. We do not typically draw as much comfort from the thought that God rebukes us-until we realize that His rebuke is an act of love. He cares for us enough to correct us, and His desire is to help us change.
Several times in these letters to the churches, the message of Jesus includes a call to repentance. It is a message that we must not miss nor misunderstand. Do not misunderstand it as being anything but an expression of God's love for us. And do not miss the need for change, removing from your life those things that God says are wrong. We are saved from the penalty and power of sin. God desires that we turn from those sins and determine to do that which is right in His sight. Repent truly is a word for us today.
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