Yours Truly
Janet Fauble at home
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Some Maxims of Rochefoucauld
A book called Horizon has some very fascinating stories in it, and I selected this one which has a story about Rochefoucauld and at the end of the article, some maxims. I am going to cite a couple of his maxims, and choose a few paragraphs to give the idea of this interesting article.
Where love is, no disguise can hide it for long; where it is not,none can simulate it.
There are few sensible people, we find, except those who share our opinions.
A feeling of confidence does more for conversation than wit.
The glory of great men must always be measured against the means they have used to acquire it.
When you cannot find your peace in yourself it is useless to look for it elsewhere.
This article called The Making of a Cynic is in Horizon books, written by Morris Bishop.
A shy, sensitive boy who was a bridegroom at fourteen, a colonel at fifteen, and for much of his life thereafter a courtier, in the end became France's most acerbic critic of human folly and frailty.
I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning
Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld,
If the steet were time and he at the end of the street.
So wrote young T.S. Eliot, weary, disillusioned, walking the sad street of time through the Boston waste land in company with his disillusioned elder. One may be fairly sure it was drizzling.
Eliot's companion in gloom was the Duc de La Rochefoucauld, seventh-century French moralist, soldier, intriguer against the government of Cardinal Richelieu, and lover of three of the most remarkable women of the century: the Duchesse de Chevreuse, the Duchesse de Longueville, and Mme de La FAyette. He is commonly tagged as La Rochefoucauld the Cynic.
What is a cynic like? Do great loves end in cynicism, or does cynicism aid one in becoming a great lover? How does one get to be a cynic? Let us exmaine the case of Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac.
He was born to greatness, of an ancient and mighty family. His blood was presumed to be only a slightly lighter blue than that of the Princes of the Blood (in those days blood types were distinguished by inherited rank). The marks of his noble caste were pride, honor, courage, courtesy ---and cruelty, rapacity, and contempt for common men, which can readily become contempt for all humanity. But some few bear hard the burden of aristocracy. They torture themselves in secret; they question their own eminence.
Young Francois was shy and sensitive, introspective, a dreamer. The scenery of his land of dreams was provided by the pastoral novels of his time, wherein beribboned shepherds endlessly flutetheir hopeless love to queenly shepherdesses, inexorably chaste. He knew Honore d'Urfe's Astreealmost by heart, and all his life he read and reread it, even when he became a misantrhopic gouty old man. We can no longer dwell in the dreamland of Astree; no living mortal, I suspect, has finished its 5,216 pages.
Francois was married at fourteen, for financial and dynastic reasons. He went to the wars almost immediately, and within a year was commissioned a colonel, commanding hte Auvergne regiment. The realities both of marriage andof war no doubt jarred his dreams of love and heroism.
(This is all written by Morris Bishop)
Where love is, no disguise can hide it for long; where it is not,none can simulate it.
There are few sensible people, we find, except those who share our opinions.
A feeling of confidence does more for conversation than wit.
The glory of great men must always be measured against the means they have used to acquire it.
When you cannot find your peace in yourself it is useless to look for it elsewhere.
This article called The Making of a Cynic is in Horizon books, written by Morris Bishop.
A shy, sensitive boy who was a bridegroom at fourteen, a colonel at fifteen, and for much of his life thereafter a courtier, in the end became France's most acerbic critic of human folly and frailty.
I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning
Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld,
If the steet were time and he at the end of the street.
So wrote young T.S. Eliot, weary, disillusioned, walking the sad street of time through the Boston waste land in company with his disillusioned elder. One may be fairly sure it was drizzling.
Eliot's companion in gloom was the Duc de La Rochefoucauld, seventh-century French moralist, soldier, intriguer against the government of Cardinal Richelieu, and lover of three of the most remarkable women of the century: the Duchesse de Chevreuse, the Duchesse de Longueville, and Mme de La FAyette. He is commonly tagged as La Rochefoucauld the Cynic.
What is a cynic like? Do great loves end in cynicism, or does cynicism aid one in becoming a great lover? How does one get to be a cynic? Let us exmaine the case of Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac.
He was born to greatness, of an ancient and mighty family. His blood was presumed to be only a slightly lighter blue than that of the Princes of the Blood (in those days blood types were distinguished by inherited rank). The marks of his noble caste were pride, honor, courage, courtesy ---and cruelty, rapacity, and contempt for common men, which can readily become contempt for all humanity. But some few bear hard the burden of aristocracy. They torture themselves in secret; they question their own eminence.
Young Francois was shy and sensitive, introspective, a dreamer. The scenery of his land of dreams was provided by the pastoral novels of his time, wherein beribboned shepherds endlessly flutetheir hopeless love to queenly shepherdesses, inexorably chaste. He knew Honore d'Urfe's Astreealmost by heart, and all his life he read and reread it, even when he became a misantrhopic gouty old man. We can no longer dwell in the dreamland of Astree; no living mortal, I suspect, has finished its 5,216 pages.
Francois was married at fourteen, for financial and dynastic reasons. He went to the wars almost immediately, and within a year was commissioned a colonel, commanding hte Auvergne regiment. The realities both of marriage andof war no doubt jarred his dreams of love and heroism.
(This is all written by Morris Bishop)
Trying to do too much
It is October now..Oh, unbelievable as I have been waiting for it for so long just to get a cool down. This has been one of the longest, hottest summers ever. Fortunately, the evenings are cooling down,and soon we will be back into the 90's which is really cool after spending all summer in what we in Arizona call Triple Digits, meaning 101 up, and it is usually around 106/107 from June through September..this year has been especially long for some reason.
But when one reaches old age, one can only do things at a slower pace than when one was young, but honestly, I find that now I probably do more than I did then because I now have the time to do it. Before, I was a workaholic.
The point is that while I am trying to read so many books, I often take on too many, and each one pulls me away from another. I began a book review here awhile back on the book I read about La Grande Mademoiselle, and as I am a member of TudorTalk which discusses the English Tudors so much, I am getting involved in English history as well as French.
But the past two discussions have really been very enlightening to me as I had just finished rereading some of the book about LaGrandeMademoiselle. She is a first princess of France, and early in her life, had wanted to marry the little prince Louis XIV when he was just an infant. Had things been a bit different, she might have done so, as it was her ardent desire for some time that she would.
But then I today got sidetracked into reading a modern contemporary spy book about modern times, involving France and the Middle East, called Traiter, by a man name of Steve Coontz, and I am now caught up in it, while also trying to finish some of the religious books called The Left Behind Series. I have begun to lose interest in them, I will admit.
I have several other French books I have been trying to finish also, but as it is, I put all on hold, while then catching up with Twitter,Facebook, and AboveTopSecret, Yahoodiscussion groups, and blogs to write as well. I have three blogs, some inactive, some active, this having become the most active. So with all of that, I still have time to watch Dancing with the Stars, and a few t.v. shows at my neighbors.
So when I ask where does time go? Today I went to the Fitness Center, relaxed there a bit, and exercises in the water, and rested at the Sauna. I then played games at the computer, read a few emails, read a few chapters in The Traitor, and worked on my lottery game, bringing it up to date as well. Time just passes that quickly, whether busy or not.
I have been thinking a lot about the concept of reincarnation as usual, since it preys on my mind so much. Since I made my statement about it being a blessing to me, I have more or less realized that that is all that I need to do about it. Let it rest, and think about other things, like the earth's magnetic field which became a part of my life through a discussion group. I was amazed to learn of the inner core that is the earth's strange interior at CayceCayce, and this has me really rocking.
Reading the book The Traitor, I think that people today are more interested in contemporary problems, and what kind of book I should write about regarding my interest in Louis XIV. I finally arrived at a conclusion about it..I would write it for the humor of it rather than the seriousness of it. Louis XIV is a rather playful personality in many ways, and I am thinking that I should see the way to make a book of humor interesting for those who might wonder at life in that time period.
I am only toying with that idea. I will publish this so I can write a bit about Rochefoucauld.
But when one reaches old age, one can only do things at a slower pace than when one was young, but honestly, I find that now I probably do more than I did then because I now have the time to do it. Before, I was a workaholic.
The point is that while I am trying to read so many books, I often take on too many, and each one pulls me away from another. I began a book review here awhile back on the book I read about La Grande Mademoiselle, and as I am a member of TudorTalk which discusses the English Tudors so much, I am getting involved in English history as well as French.
But the past two discussions have really been very enlightening to me as I had just finished rereading some of the book about LaGrandeMademoiselle. She is a first princess of France, and early in her life, had wanted to marry the little prince Louis XIV when he was just an infant. Had things been a bit different, she might have done so, as it was her ardent desire for some time that she would.
But then I today got sidetracked into reading a modern contemporary spy book about modern times, involving France and the Middle East, called Traiter, by a man name of Steve Coontz, and I am now caught up in it, while also trying to finish some of the religious books called The Left Behind Series. I have begun to lose interest in them, I will admit.
I have several other French books I have been trying to finish also, but as it is, I put all on hold, while then catching up with Twitter,Facebook, and AboveTopSecret, Yahoodiscussion groups, and blogs to write as well. I have three blogs, some inactive, some active, this having become the most active. So with all of that, I still have time to watch Dancing with the Stars, and a few t.v. shows at my neighbors.
So when I ask where does time go? Today I went to the Fitness Center, relaxed there a bit, and exercises in the water, and rested at the Sauna. I then played games at the computer, read a few emails, read a few chapters in The Traitor, and worked on my lottery game, bringing it up to date as well. Time just passes that quickly, whether busy or not.
I have been thinking a lot about the concept of reincarnation as usual, since it preys on my mind so much. Since I made my statement about it being a blessing to me, I have more or less realized that that is all that I need to do about it. Let it rest, and think about other things, like the earth's magnetic field which became a part of my life through a discussion group. I was amazed to learn of the inner core that is the earth's strange interior at CayceCayce, and this has me really rocking.
Reading the book The Traitor, I think that people today are more interested in contemporary problems, and what kind of book I should write about regarding my interest in Louis XIV. I finally arrived at a conclusion about it..I would write it for the humor of it rather than the seriousness of it. Louis XIV is a rather playful personality in many ways, and I am thinking that I should see the way to make a book of humor interesting for those who might wonder at life in that time period.
I am only toying with that idea. I will publish this so I can write a bit about Rochefoucauld.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Time is everything
Probably the one subject that has produced more comment than anything else in life besides Love itself is Time. We just simply do not understand time at all. We mark our calendars, time speeds from month to month, this one no exception to that, but yet each day can either crawl, slow down, speed up, or just plainly zip past and none of us can ever understand why one second can become a minute or an hour it seems, only when timing it on a microwave for your coffee to heat, but by day's end, it seems as though it either flew past or it turtlelike crawled slowly.
I could go to a book of quotations and probably find more quotations about time than any other topic except that of Love.
I think people are more obsessed with love in its varieties than time, but time is what life is essentially about.
Where does our life go? What do we do with it? When we finally are held accountable for all the days we spent on the earth, how will we explain what we did with the time that we have had?
I don't believe in inflicting guilt upon anyone for their particular circumstances, whether rich or poor. Each one is give the same allotment of days, and to each person he will be held accountable for how he spent his time.
I am into the one on one thinking, that if one person has done one thing for one other being that has real value and worth, then each of them impact in turn many others in the ongoing process of life. In other words, one good teacher will impact one good student and that will proceed to reverberate over the course of time many many times.
So one need not be a glutton to impact many but rather should at least impact one well.
I am thinking of time because we use time to make goals, and time appears to control every aspect of our lives. Our calendars are filled with a certain number of days in which we must work in order to produce, and for certain kinds of occupations, length of days and hours is crucial to achievement, especially in agriculture and husbandry.
We mark the school calendar with so many days in which a number of lessons, and values are set to be learned and mastered before the end of the season. Our lives become structured by the number of years it takes to accomplish set agendas, whether that of earning a degree, mastering a skill, or performing a function or job.
While man may be productive to fulfill a position in the economy of a nation, many nations are nonproductive and many people do not have anything to do but to languish around, to get by, and to simply exist. These people have become what we call illegal immingrants who move about from one country to another, hoping to find a place where they may find something to do, some life to lead, and some way to fill time that will be better than the way they had lived in the previous environment.
Isn't it amazing to realize that nations can be so different from one another in terms of providing for the national care of its most important resource: people.
But each one of those people is equal to every other person on the planet in this one respect: each has time, and each must find a way to use that time to his or her best advantage!
To be cogitated upon again maybe...just using my time to make a point!
I could go to a book of quotations and probably find more quotations about time than any other topic except that of Love.
I think people are more obsessed with love in its varieties than time, but time is what life is essentially about.
Where does our life go? What do we do with it? When we finally are held accountable for all the days we spent on the earth, how will we explain what we did with the time that we have had?
I don't believe in inflicting guilt upon anyone for their particular circumstances, whether rich or poor. Each one is give the same allotment of days, and to each person he will be held accountable for how he spent his time.
I am into the one on one thinking, that if one person has done one thing for one other being that has real value and worth, then each of them impact in turn many others in the ongoing process of life. In other words, one good teacher will impact one good student and that will proceed to reverberate over the course of time many many times.
So one need not be a glutton to impact many but rather should at least impact one well.
I am thinking of time because we use time to make goals, and time appears to control every aspect of our lives. Our calendars are filled with a certain number of days in which we must work in order to produce, and for certain kinds of occupations, length of days and hours is crucial to achievement, especially in agriculture and husbandry.
We mark the school calendar with so many days in which a number of lessons, and values are set to be learned and mastered before the end of the season. Our lives become structured by the number of years it takes to accomplish set agendas, whether that of earning a degree, mastering a skill, or performing a function or job.
While man may be productive to fulfill a position in the economy of a nation, many nations are nonproductive and many people do not have anything to do but to languish around, to get by, and to simply exist. These people have become what we call illegal immingrants who move about from one country to another, hoping to find a place where they may find something to do, some life to lead, and some way to fill time that will be better than the way they had lived in the previous environment.
Isn't it amazing to realize that nations can be so different from one another in terms of providing for the national care of its most important resource: people.
But each one of those people is equal to every other person on the planet in this one respect: each has time, and each must find a way to use that time to his or her best advantage!
To be cogitated upon again maybe...just using my time to make a point!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Today is another Day!
I have gone on a cooking spree. I have made cornbread muffins, brownies, macaroni salad, potato salad, and now am about to make homemade baked beans, Pillsbury recipe style. So I had to go get some salt pork today. And some molasses. Need some brown sugar too, but will wait til tomorrow for that and may make my own if I learn how to do it.
When in doubt, improvise!
I was writing about my religious experiences. I have nearly forgotten what I had written, but I tend to let these things just write themselves out. Did I mention Light of Egypt or not? That book or volume of two books created an awareness in me of mystical life that no other book has ever done, including the Bible. I often wonder at spiritual truisms as this book is about a spiritual group called the Hermetic Brotherhood.
I will not discuss this at this writing because I have to weigh the pros and cons of introducing it here and now. It has merit and it is very deep, and probably a bit too real for most people's tastes. Religion is a very funny thing as it is mostly social and wishful thinking. When it actually becomes true, and miracles do happen, and events do occur which can only be explained through religious instruments, then people can become frightened very easily.
It is o.k.for people to say oh they are the reincarnation of so and so because nobody actually ever believes anyone who says this, but tends to think, oh, so that is who you would want to be if you could be someone? We all do that, including myself.
I very seldom take any but a very few seriously who discuss things of this nature.
I think it turns out to be an ego trip more than anything else, and I am well aware that that is probably what people have thought of me. I could understand why if they do.
However, that is really funny when you finally examine it. I would not have liked any of these people had I known any of them without my spiritual knowledge. I could literally land into them so fierce and hard as not to be funny. I could decimate each and every one of them as many people have done and will do. That is one of the problems of becoming a person who is famous and a part of history. There is no end of exposure over time to every thought, word, and deed known to mankind. Famous people end up dirtied and sullied more than any other people on the planet. Nobody can appreciate anonymity now more than I do. Everyone thinks being famous would be such a great thing to achieve...for those who are held up as so called models to imitate, that can be true. But there is nothing so aggravating to anyone anywhere as to be someone who is envied and mocked.
But they do weather the test of time, and each generation will contribute to the bulk of knowledge about each one, as it can never be stopped so that I am at least blessed with the inner knowledge which is mine alone, so that I can say that the truth of my soul is better than any historian can or will ever know.
So on that note, I finally appreciate all this effort so much better and that is why I am writing this. To fathom and accept it for what it is: a blessing.
When in doubt, improvise!
I was writing about my religious experiences. I have nearly forgotten what I had written, but I tend to let these things just write themselves out. Did I mention Light of Egypt or not? That book or volume of two books created an awareness in me of mystical life that no other book has ever done, including the Bible. I often wonder at spiritual truisms as this book is about a spiritual group called the Hermetic Brotherhood.
I will not discuss this at this writing because I have to weigh the pros and cons of introducing it here and now. It has merit and it is very deep, and probably a bit too real for most people's tastes. Religion is a very funny thing as it is mostly social and wishful thinking. When it actually becomes true, and miracles do happen, and events do occur which can only be explained through religious instruments, then people can become frightened very easily.
It is o.k.for people to say oh they are the reincarnation of so and so because nobody actually ever believes anyone who says this, but tends to think, oh, so that is who you would want to be if you could be someone? We all do that, including myself.
I very seldom take any but a very few seriously who discuss things of this nature.
I think it turns out to be an ego trip more than anything else, and I am well aware that that is probably what people have thought of me. I could understand why if they do.
However, that is really funny when you finally examine it. I would not have liked any of these people had I known any of them without my spiritual knowledge. I could literally land into them so fierce and hard as not to be funny. I could decimate each and every one of them as many people have done and will do. That is one of the problems of becoming a person who is famous and a part of history. There is no end of exposure over time to every thought, word, and deed known to mankind. Famous people end up dirtied and sullied more than any other people on the planet. Nobody can appreciate anonymity now more than I do. Everyone thinks being famous would be such a great thing to achieve...for those who are held up as so called models to imitate, that can be true. But there is nothing so aggravating to anyone anywhere as to be someone who is envied and mocked.
But they do weather the test of time, and each generation will contribute to the bulk of knowledge about each one, as it can never be stopped so that I am at least blessed with the inner knowledge which is mine alone, so that I can say that the truth of my soul is better than any historian can or will ever know.
So on that note, I finally appreciate all this effort so much better and that is why I am writing this. To fathom and accept it for what it is: a blessing.
Religious beliefs continued 3
Because of Left Behind series which deals with a real person being an Antichrist, I have been discussing the various concepts which are antiChristian in nature. An actual real AntiChrist is something that I will leave to the individual interpretation of each Biblical scripture. Were I to write a book similar to the one that these two men have written the antichrist would not be a suave blonde Robert Redford lookalike whose false piety was too easy to see through in the beginning for as soon as he had risen so quickly from obscurity into fame I knew that he would be the one that would be the antiChrist. Many today think that bin Laden fits the picture, and in many ways, he had fit the picture of a portrait that Jean Dixon, a seer from years ago, had depicted coming into power.
To my impression, a real antiChrist is someone who would have abnormally superhuman powers that few would be able to resist. Few today can resist celebrity, fame, fortune, excessive wealth, and simple ordinary things like alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs, meth, etc. All are symbols of an antiChristian lifestyle if you really think about it. So the anti Christ is ever present, not merely an endtime character.
Everyone seems to want to push something that is not quite ready to happen onto today's society, and it is like trying to get a seed to sprout before its germination period...just let it be and take its own time, and it will all come about.
I do not have all the answers to all the questions, and do not pretend to do so, but I have had strange unusual godlike capabilities that make me understand what a true god would have to be like to satisfy the needs of man's desire to know...I have clairaudience, the ability to hear spiritual beings speak, clairvoyance, the ability to see into the future, olfactory senses that are spiritual in nature that can smell fragrances that are not that ordinary man can smell, and all the other senses spiritually activated so that I can actually hear someone's voice within my solar plexus whenever I activate a post from them on the internet, and an ability at times to run a finger down a page of written word and get the actual mental thought process of the author at the time of writing, a myriad of such things that are out of the normal range of most people...amplify this a thousand times in all the languages of the world and it would give some idea of what a so called God who is omniscient, omnipotent, etc. would be and it is beyond most of man's comprehension to understand any single entity that could stand all this at once. Theoretically, if God is at this moment in full knowledge of all time, all life, all events, then all is a known quantity, and what can be done about it.
All multiple lives are known to God at once and it would appear that life must be like the living organism, with each lifetime resembling the internal structure of the human body, each lifetime being perhaps similar to the synapse in the nervous system, occuring throughout the entire body, or for those who wish to use the skeletal structure, each lifetime like the joints of the interlocking bones to make up the entire human structure. Get it...see what I mean.
At any rate, some minds are far more capable of understanding the mathematics of life, while others can understand the figurative language quality of comprehension. To comprehend an all knowing entity requires one to be capable of relating to that thought. Most admit that they cannot.
At any rate, I am in the state of believing that God exists, that man projects God in man's own image rather than vice versa, as God is a part of all, and while man may approximate God's entity more closely than other species, it seems that religious beliefs originate from man's witness to strange events around him more than from God's making a simple declaration for all to know exactly who or what he is.
So Jesus springs from the belief system of those who accepted all the stories of the old Testament and kept it intact so that when Jesus finally arrived, he fulfilled all the prophecies that had been given about him. Since his arrival and his departure, his story has been told, and believed and disbelieved by all who hear it.
My reason for believing is a personal one of which I do believe in the inexplicable as being plausible and that Jesus in reality is all that he says he is, a male born of a young girl (why so young as is marriage always only tied to the menstrual cycle) who had not yet had sexual intercourse in her young life, and a girl so predetermined to be able to carry the child and to wed a man who would care for her and her spiritually conceived child, proving that all the prophesies were accurate and correct in order to identify him properly.
He had to fit into a preconceived mold, and for all practical purposes did so, but his message deviated from the ancient conquer your enemy and defeat him to establish your own domicile to love your enemy and convert and change him to become one of your belief.
And when that day does come that the enemy is totally changed and converted to this one belief of salvation of the soul, then the world be of one accord and faith and will live according to that without bloodshed and division. It will be one world of one faith and one harmony, a symphony of beauty and peace and joy.
The true enemy is always the devil, which is also a thought process as Jesus said, get thee behind me, Satan, to Peter when Peter questioned him about something which realy meant that the Satan was the doubt or fear that Peter had expressed. Oh yes, of little Faith.
The day will come, but it will be a while before all the enemy is converted to this message of Love, Peace, and cooperation amongst many but it will be done. God's will be done! Jesus simply is the way to be, to be loving, kind, gentle, and true to the required state of obedience to do the will of the Lord. Love One Another! That is the great commandment.
So be it!
To my impression, a real antiChrist is someone who would have abnormally superhuman powers that few would be able to resist. Few today can resist celebrity, fame, fortune, excessive wealth, and simple ordinary things like alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs, meth, etc. All are symbols of an antiChristian lifestyle if you really think about it. So the anti Christ is ever present, not merely an endtime character.
Everyone seems to want to push something that is not quite ready to happen onto today's society, and it is like trying to get a seed to sprout before its germination period...just let it be and take its own time, and it will all come about.
I do not have all the answers to all the questions, and do not pretend to do so, but I have had strange unusual godlike capabilities that make me understand what a true god would have to be like to satisfy the needs of man's desire to know...I have clairaudience, the ability to hear spiritual beings speak, clairvoyance, the ability to see into the future, olfactory senses that are spiritual in nature that can smell fragrances that are not that ordinary man can smell, and all the other senses spiritually activated so that I can actually hear someone's voice within my solar plexus whenever I activate a post from them on the internet, and an ability at times to run a finger down a page of written word and get the actual mental thought process of the author at the time of writing, a myriad of such things that are out of the normal range of most people...amplify this a thousand times in all the languages of the world and it would give some idea of what a so called God who is omniscient, omnipotent, etc. would be and it is beyond most of man's comprehension to understand any single entity that could stand all this at once. Theoretically, if God is at this moment in full knowledge of all time, all life, all events, then all is a known quantity, and what can be done about it.
All multiple lives are known to God at once and it would appear that life must be like the living organism, with each lifetime resembling the internal structure of the human body, each lifetime being perhaps similar to the synapse in the nervous system, occuring throughout the entire body, or for those who wish to use the skeletal structure, each lifetime like the joints of the interlocking bones to make up the entire human structure. Get it...see what I mean.
At any rate, some minds are far more capable of understanding the mathematics of life, while others can understand the figurative language quality of comprehension. To comprehend an all knowing entity requires one to be capable of relating to that thought. Most admit that they cannot.
At any rate, I am in the state of believing that God exists, that man projects God in man's own image rather than vice versa, as God is a part of all, and while man may approximate God's entity more closely than other species, it seems that religious beliefs originate from man's witness to strange events around him more than from God's making a simple declaration for all to know exactly who or what he is.
So Jesus springs from the belief system of those who accepted all the stories of the old Testament and kept it intact so that when Jesus finally arrived, he fulfilled all the prophecies that had been given about him. Since his arrival and his departure, his story has been told, and believed and disbelieved by all who hear it.
My reason for believing is a personal one of which I do believe in the inexplicable as being plausible and that Jesus in reality is all that he says he is, a male born of a young girl (why so young as is marriage always only tied to the menstrual cycle) who had not yet had sexual intercourse in her young life, and a girl so predetermined to be able to carry the child and to wed a man who would care for her and her spiritually conceived child, proving that all the prophesies were accurate and correct in order to identify him properly.
He had to fit into a preconceived mold, and for all practical purposes did so, but his message deviated from the ancient conquer your enemy and defeat him to establish your own domicile to love your enemy and convert and change him to become one of your belief.
And when that day does come that the enemy is totally changed and converted to this one belief of salvation of the soul, then the world be of one accord and faith and will live according to that without bloodshed and division. It will be one world of one faith and one harmony, a symphony of beauty and peace and joy.
The true enemy is always the devil, which is also a thought process as Jesus said, get thee behind me, Satan, to Peter when Peter questioned him about something which realy meant that the Satan was the doubt or fear that Peter had expressed. Oh yes, of little Faith.
The day will come, but it will be a while before all the enemy is converted to this message of Love, Peace, and cooperation amongst many but it will be done. God's will be done! Jesus simply is the way to be, to be loving, kind, gentle, and true to the required state of obedience to do the will of the Lord. Love One Another! That is the great commandment.
So be it!
Religious beliefs continued
I had to take a break there...but Twitter got me back to wanting to finish this as quickly as possible. Because of a love affair in 1959, to a man who was a Catholic, a bad one, but one nonetheless, I finally looked into the Catholic faith to see if it was where I wanted to be in this church going stuff. I had already written my paper for my philosophy class in demonstrating how much religious beliefs influence in who we are, so I was asking for a sign to become a convert to Catholicism, showing the importance of men in my life. I became a Catholic then which did impact my social life years later, and always my love life. I was sincere at one time, writing to nuns, etc., seeing how far one can go when in love with Jesus.
Children are always the most susceptible and most zealous, so that when I was a child, I was often thought of as a potential child evangelist even. I never did become one, but my mother and dad often begrudgingly and sarcastically would call me preacher woman for many years. Even at Hollywood Park, one time, I got the feeling they thought I was the church lady on NBC's Saturday Night Live.
I was trying to impact horse racing with my knowledge of talking to the animals.
Won't go into that now...but anyway, religion does permeate everything we do in life, like it or not.
Which of us will finally be lifted up into Heaven at Heaven's Last Call is more than any of us know but I suspect that if I am right about God, more will be than not.
To me, the antichrist is more concept and idea than an actual individual entity. My idea for the economy makes banks the antichrist, and currency the antichrist. All are against Christ as Christ clearly told his apostles to prove their faith by not using money or sandals when preaching and spreading the word of God to those they were trying to reach in that age.
The very idea that food has a price tag on it is to me anti Christ. I believe all food should be free and available to everyone everywhere, and that all agriculture and all food producing industries should be borne out of love, not out of profit. All mankind should eat and be housed fairly and squarely. The idea that one should have excess while others have nothing or little is anathema to my idea of what God realy wants for mankind to be like when sharing their bounty.
Give freely, receive freely.
I learned when I was in Virginia years ago that an energy bank could be kept to assure that everyone be recognized for his input no matter his talent or his trade. Most people love to work, and some will do it without pay even. Putting a price on one's labor, one's talent, one's produce is an arbitrary thing that is ridiculous in the first place but it keeps labor unions going, banks going, and other businesses that depend upon profit and loss.
An executive who simply signs a statement is probably not nearly as important to real life than the legman who either digs the ditch, builds the hosue, carries out the garbage, but because he is the head of an organization he seems to think that he should be paid more than others in his organization simply because his name signs a document at a bank.
He is the CEO, and look how well over paid they really are. Totally the real form of an Antichrist if ever there was one. Do they like to hear this? No, of course not. They sold themselves their own bill of goods years ago or even yesterday, and cannot begin to understand why it is such that anyone should ever criticize them for over estimating themselves so much.
So when people discuss devil and angel, God and Satan, antichrist, and all, look around, they are all amongst you everywhere. Right now...not in some future time zone.
The one place I do give Muslims credit is in their attitude towards usury as they do continue to obey the laws that were written ages ago about that, as the Jews have long since violated those laws, and Christians likewise violate them also. America would not be the richest nation in the world had it not made interest rates so ridiculously rich for banking interests. I have an ongoing feud right now with a financial institution for wrongdoing, and the interest rate and lie that they are working clearly tells me the truth about this industry of making money at the expense of innocent people...
Yeah, Americans have to wake up some day.
to be continued later...
Children are always the most susceptible and most zealous, so that when I was a child, I was often thought of as a potential child evangelist even. I never did become one, but my mother and dad often begrudgingly and sarcastically would call me preacher woman for many years. Even at Hollywood Park, one time, I got the feeling they thought I was the church lady on NBC's Saturday Night Live.
I was trying to impact horse racing with my knowledge of talking to the animals.
Won't go into that now...but anyway, religion does permeate everything we do in life, like it or not.
Which of us will finally be lifted up into Heaven at Heaven's Last Call is more than any of us know but I suspect that if I am right about God, more will be than not.
To me, the antichrist is more concept and idea than an actual individual entity. My idea for the economy makes banks the antichrist, and currency the antichrist. All are against Christ as Christ clearly told his apostles to prove their faith by not using money or sandals when preaching and spreading the word of God to those they were trying to reach in that age.
The very idea that food has a price tag on it is to me anti Christ. I believe all food should be free and available to everyone everywhere, and that all agriculture and all food producing industries should be borne out of love, not out of profit. All mankind should eat and be housed fairly and squarely. The idea that one should have excess while others have nothing or little is anathema to my idea of what God realy wants for mankind to be like when sharing their bounty.
Give freely, receive freely.
I learned when I was in Virginia years ago that an energy bank could be kept to assure that everyone be recognized for his input no matter his talent or his trade. Most people love to work, and some will do it without pay even. Putting a price on one's labor, one's talent, one's produce is an arbitrary thing that is ridiculous in the first place but it keeps labor unions going, banks going, and other businesses that depend upon profit and loss.
An executive who simply signs a statement is probably not nearly as important to real life than the legman who either digs the ditch, builds the hosue, carries out the garbage, but because he is the head of an organization he seems to think that he should be paid more than others in his organization simply because his name signs a document at a bank.
He is the CEO, and look how well over paid they really are. Totally the real form of an Antichrist if ever there was one. Do they like to hear this? No, of course not. They sold themselves their own bill of goods years ago or even yesterday, and cannot begin to understand why it is such that anyone should ever criticize them for over estimating themselves so much.
So when people discuss devil and angel, God and Satan, antichrist, and all, look around, they are all amongst you everywhere. Right now...not in some future time zone.
The one place I do give Muslims credit is in their attitude towards usury as they do continue to obey the laws that were written ages ago about that, as the Jews have long since violated those laws, and Christians likewise violate them also. America would not be the richest nation in the world had it not made interest rates so ridiculously rich for banking interests. I have an ongoing feud right now with a financial institution for wrongdoing, and the interest rate and lie that they are working clearly tells me the truth about this industry of making money at the expense of innocent people...
Yeah, Americans have to wake up some day.
to be continued later...
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