The fragility of human will

"A great number of wise men is the protection of the world." Wisdom 24?

How awful that the stability of the world depends on the thinking of men who can be coerced or manipulated.

Human Limitations - the uselessness of microscopic cellphones

But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." Matthew 9.13

To be perfect I could avoid gray, but my perfection is a conversation with a Higher being, and not a tangible thing.

We are still stained, not in behavior, but by assignment. So, in Christianity, perfect behavior is not of value (for salvation, but for sanctification).

If someone in the rain finds shelter in an abandoned building, it is fine. We are human and it is a blessing to share even if unknowingly. This is why I sometimes leave money in unusual places -- you never know how someone's life may be blessed.

We share the crumbs of our lives -- they fall even when we don't see.

A limit is necessary so that we are open to human need.

And so magnanimity is best.

Inhumanity

"Pressed Forward"

Trials are for us to perfect our obedience

Sacrifice all things for obedience

So that after God can call you up to a new level of development


Thus God used wicked men to be his scourge to chastise a still more wicked nation, who were yet the objects of his affection and love. Spurgeon (Storming the Battlements)

Straight Paths

Heb 12:13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

With liquid thinking the world becomes a tangled mass around you.

With acknowledgment of unholy spiritual powers your life becomes subject to these powers.

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Stop suffering for voodoo's sake, and do what is asked and sensible! (trusting God and the sensible Christian community).

A Warning Rejected

The social gets in the way of spiritual

Jesus said drop everything!! For that reason



The social realm (whether silent or spoken) has its sphere,
but for Christians no spiritual authority at all.

Because it has chosen the darker destructive path

I Died For Beauty

I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied." And I for truth - the two are one; We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a-night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names. Emily Dickinson

Valley of Decision

God be merciful to me.

Pour out your remembrance

On the mosaic of souls

that surround the earth

and cover its darkness

Let us find a clear purpose

and focus on a lighter and holier place

so that we may be one with you

and shine too.

Brain restructuring

They are trying to take my brain down today. They cut off a blood vessel on the top of my brain- something at the base of my spine and neck.

My brain has been dying for several years because of these sequential poisoning and the stress.

We are foolish not to discuss all anxieties in detail with each other. There is no point speaking in a code that exists to cover emotions.

It is not difficult to create communities that allow us to worship who we please and live lives that are not destructive and negative. Every pioneer in the wild west brought with them all that they needed to survive. They created grocery stores, hotels, banks, farms -- everything that they needed to maintain their independence. I do not believe any other answer is acceptable for God's people.

It is not wise to allow other forces to take over your emotional and spiritual lives.

God makes us responsible for spiritiual choices. If we are sick we need to try to heal ourselves. If we have brain diseases we are also subject to infirmities. But we must avoid 1.evil (spirit) 2.sickness (flesh) as much as we are able.

Real class

Classes should be divided by how much harm a person is willing to cause others or can be induced to cause others under the right circumstances.

Regardless of monetary value those who are respectable and decent should be separated from those who are not.

Perhaps education (or a love of learning for those with less means) should also be a criteria.

The appeal of paganism

During the French Revolution the aristocracy was forced to scramble for existence. During a spiritual equivalent of the French Revolution with dirty peasants roaming through spiritual palaces, I am sure that it will be essential for people not to turn away from what is right or join the unholy.

I hate vain thoughts, but thy law do I love. Ps 119.113

Peanut butter and toes

CURSED is the man that relies on man, and maketh man his arm.

People can only do what they are able

Who are the dogs

"Give not that which is holy unto the dogs," Matthew 7:6.

Jesus here refers to a class who have no desire to escape from the slavery of sin. By indulgence in the corrupt and vile their natures have become so degraded that they cling to the evil and will not be separated from it. The servants of Christ should not allow themselves to be hindered by those who would make the gospel only a matter of contention and ridicule.

But the Saviour never passed by one soul, however sunken in sin, who was willing to receive the precious truths of heaven.

[And suffer as Christ stated that we would].

No fellowship without extensive conversation for non-Christians.

It is forbidden for Christians altogether.

The Time of Trouble

Satan will excite to still greater intensity the spirit of hatred and persecution

People do not realize that in order to create a spiritual condition he is willing to pull them along by all kinds of deceptive lies


The Great Controversy, Ellen G White

When God's presence was finally withdrawn from the Jewish nation, priests and people knew it not. Though under the control of Satan, and swayed by the most horrible and malignant passions, they still regarded themselves as the chosen of God. The ministration in the temple continued; sacrifices were offered upon its polluted altars, and daily the divine blessing was invoked upon a people guilty of the blood of God's dear Son and seeking to slay His ministers and apostles. So when the irrevocable decision of the sanctuary has been pronounced and the destiny of the world has been forever fixed, the inhabitants of the earth will know it not. The forms of religion will be continued by a people from whom the Spirit of God has been finally withdrawn; and the satanic zeal with which the prince of evil will inspire them for the accomplishment of his malignant designs, will bear the semblance of zeal for God.

The Time of Trouble

The Great Controversy, page 614, paragraph 1

When He leaves the sanctuary, darkness covers the inhabitants of the earth. In that fearful time the righteous must live in the sight of a holy God without an intercessor. The restraint which has been upon the wicked is removed, and Satan has entire control of the finally impenitent. God's long-suffering has ended. The world has rejected His mercy, despised His love, and trampled upon His law. The wicked have passed the boundary of their probation; the Spirit of God, persistently resisted, has been at last withdrawn. Unsheltered by divine grace, they have no protection from the wicked one. Satan will then plunge the inhabitants of the earth into one great, final trouble. As the angels of God cease to hold in check the fierce winds of human passion, all the elements of strife will be let loose.

Wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace."

From Jesus Christ Superstar

Simon:
There must be over fifty thousand
Screaming love and more for you
And everyone of fifty thousand
Would do whatever you ask him to


Keep them yelling their devotion
But add a touch of hate at Rome
You will rise to a greater power
We will win ourselves a home
You'll get the power and the glory
For ever and ever and ever
For you'll get the power and the glory
For ever and ever and ever
You'll get the power and the glory
For ever and ever and ever (Amen! Amen!)
For ever and ever and ever (Amen! Amen!)
For ever and ever and ever (Amen! Amen!)
For ever and ever and ever (Amen! Amen!)
For ever and ever and ever (Amen! Amen!)


Excellent although I now recognize as somewhat sacriligious

Relevant texts

Acts 4.19
But Peter and John replied, "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God, you must decide.

Galatians 1:10
Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Lawlessness -- Its your own fault

lawlessness
The antichrist is the lawless one it says in the Bible.
If they substitute llamas for people then normal people should take charge of the stupidly - behaving people.
Also will have to form a society WITHOUT the stupid people
Also should not even bother to interact within STUPID peoples society and false rules
because it just makes it grow
If people, for example, should make a rule that you have to rub their privates before you interact with them.
Just find less stupid to interact with, ie People who think that kind of behavior is disgusting.
THere is no reason to accept a broken misshapen society.
Ignore what you lose and find other normals.
They did it in the wild west ALL THE TIME
People who continue to enable this awful situation are stupid and become even more so as time passes.

The flawed earth

How sad the human animal outruns its own maturity increasing in knowledge before controlling its passion and ego.

It is like the tragic flaw of a youthful hero, the earth decaying before it could blossom.

I invented the cup, yesterday! SERiously.

It is an obnoxious error for any modern culture to claim ownership of cultural knowledge.

All Modern cultures (and also American culture) borrowed much their culture from the rest of the world and usually upgraded the materials from which these things were made. (cups, doors, curtains, beds)

Suddenly all culture is Euro-based. Actually it is only that the European culture is newest. Technological advances aside (from 1900 on) there is little ownership only contribution.

In the same way all European and World culture is mine and will be enhanced by what I add to it.

Familial and spiritual knowledge is another matter.

ALSO, In 4000 BC the 10 million people on earth created inventions in proportion to their numbers. Today with 6 billion there has to be a proportional increase in the frequency of creative ideas.

Wandering Prophets

Apparently human beings, when they try to maintain any kind of standard, become insufferable boobs.

Any kind of comparison any kind of avoidance ends in pride and eventually violence because each one of us tries to have good standards but they always require pride to maintain.

Christianity only allows us to maintain the standard of avoiding those who reject God.

Can any standard be upheld without pride?

We become meaningless in society without maintaining our standing.

Are we all to be wandering prophets?

Stop harassing me

Jesus called them together and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.

Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

Matt 20.25-28


Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

2 Corinthians 6:14

The weak of heart

People who limit their recognition of beauty may as well not understand beauty at all because it is not beauty that they love, but the approval of others.

What caused this anger and grief? It was their hardness of heart.

This is an excerpt from a sermon by Spurgeon.

What was their exact fault?

First, they would not see, though the case was clear. He had set the truth so plainly before them that they were obliged to strain their understandings to avoid being convinced: they had to draw down the blinds of the soul, and put up the shutters of the mind, to be able not to see. There are none so blind as those that will not see, and these were of that blindest order; they were blind people that had eyes and boasted that they could see, and therefore their sin was utterly without excuse. Ah, me! I fear that we have many around us still, who know, but do not act on their knowledge; who do not wish to be convinced and converted, but harden themselves against known duty and plain right.

What was more, what these people were forced to see they would not acknowledge. They sullenly held their tongues when they were bound to speak. Does it not happen to many persons that the gospel forces itself upon their belief? They feel that they could not conjure up an argument against the divine truth which is set before them: the word comes with such demonstration that it smites them with sledge-hammer force; but they do not intend to admit its power, and so they brace themselves up to bear the blow without yielding. They shut their months against the water of life which is held up to them in the golden cup of the gospel. No child could shut his teeth more desperately against medicine than they against the gospel. Any man may take a horse to the water, but ten thousand cannot make him drink, and this is proved in many a hearer of the word. There sat these Scribes and Pharisees: it is a wonder that the stones did not cry out against them, they were so doggedly determined not to admit that which they could not deny. Are there none of that breed among us still?

More than that, while they would not see what was so plain, they were diligently seeking to spy out flaws and faults where there were none, namely, in the Lord Jesus. So there are many who profess that they cannot understand the gospel, but they have understanding enough to cavil at it, and cast slurs upon it. They have a cruelly keen eye for non-existent errors in Scripture: they find this mistake in Deuteronomy, and the other in Genesis. What great wisdom, to be diligent in making discoveries against one's own eternal interests! The gospel of the Lord Jesus is man's only hope of salvation: what a pity to count it the height of cleverness to destroy our only hope!

Spurgeon's Sermon "Jesus Angry with Hard Hearts"

Luke 16:31
"He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.' "