The One Is Indivisible
The Truth Is The Whole
The Church is embodying in a freedom movement presenting as national patriotism, meaning, honoring the parents both physical and spiritual.
The Great Trump Awakening for national sovereignty contrasts with and outruns The Great Clinton/Bush/Obama Transgressions for global governance.
No games. No appeasing tyrants. Never lose faith in your nature, which is divine, nor in your inner necessity, your purpose, which also is divine. Remember that you are always right.
The man who knows he is right and keeps coming wins.
God Himself can be taken by storm and completely subjugated with the right determination, assiduity, perseverance, equipment, and method, which are Love.
Have faith in the power of Righteousness to keep Her honor in the presence of such treachery, deceit, and blandishment as today flood the streets, homes, and offices. A great sluicing of USA judicial, law enforcement, and intelligence structures is underway.
Do your duty and your duty will protect you. Duty is God. Work is worship.
Your duty starts in your family, no matter its conditions. Honor your father and mother, even if you do not know who they are, and no matter their moral condition or legal status. Pay them the respect and allegiance you owe to God for giving you this birth, this embodiment with its myriad opportunities and travails. Remember always also that your parents are not God. But treat them always as if they are.
Your duty continues in yourself. Be simple. In all you do, be simple. In all you say, be simple. In all you think, be simple. In how you live, be simple. In where you live, be simple. Be simple.
Things are tools. Have just what you need and no more. Any thing comes with a burden of maintenance, which means an expenditure of time — which cannot be recovered once spent — money, and energy.
Animals are servants, but animate ones who have their own wills and destinies, unlike tools.. Have as few as possible and attend their needs before attending yours, because they are your dependents. Animals come with a burden of maintenance, which means an expenditure of time — which cannot be recovered once spent — money, and energy.
Humans are companions, embodiments of divine love, as you are. Keep company with those who do what they talk about and do not talk about what they cannot do. Ask straight questions. Give straight answers. Love more to find a fact than to value a vision. Protect those who are loyal to you and pray for those who abuse you. Companions come with a burden of maintenance, which means an expenditure of time — which cannot be recovered once spent — money, and energy.
To maximize time, money, and energy well-spent, minimize things, animals, and companions attending your Godly pilgrimage Godward.
Above all, protect your wife and children. They are your treasure here and in heaven. Give them a home well-ordered and high-disciplined. Their and your protection is in those qualities, not in fame or fortune. It is called Dharma. Dharma is the strength which holds the consciousness bound to truth. Want Dharma, always want Dharma, in Hebrew Zedekah, Righteousness. Be strong and happy. Be Dharmic.
Simplicity. From now on, Christians are making monasteries for their families, protecting their children therein, developing skills which contribute to making life strong and enjoyable, and conducting spiritual exercises. Forget the churches. Make the monasteries, family by family. All good things — which are, simply, more Dharma added to Dharma — follow from that.
Anyone who does not do their duty, who goes wandering into visions, is stupid and ipso facto diminishes good order and discipline. They are an agitator, a troublemaker. Stay well away from them.
The husband is supreme authority inside his family. It cannot be otherwise. It is not otherwise. The wife is the chief operating engineer. The children are in school from the moment of conception and are present in their family in order to learn how to fulfill their own purpose for having this birth, their own inner necessity, their own destiny.
From now on, this is the Christian family. This way, The Church embodies in a freedom movement presenting as national patriotism in each nation. Let the nations be strong and happy because their families are Dharmic monastics.
Update 1: Foul stenches invite exterminators. Lincoln said that a skunk’s downfall is the advertising it gives itself.
Name the naughties, but lose not faith in the power of truth to take care of itself.
Swampers, Lefties, Transgressives not only conduct intimacies with each others’ spouses and their boy and girl toys. That free association of the sexes, along with powering drugs to make it all bearable, is the specific corruption being sequestered by these nominal worthies. That is the whole story, the tangible part of it anyhow.
Update 2: A weak mind inclines a person to favor visions over realities. This is the phenomenology of a Leftist. Leftists are anti-Ulysses personalities. They steer towards rather than away from Sirens, aka visions of what is not and cannot be. In theology, we call visions idols and visionaries idolaters.
Update 3: This is pop-culture advice — newspaper theology — that was current in the 1950s. It is not wrong, but it is out of context and so goes nowhere scaled up, as snapshots such as the Pew stats you mention tell.
The context is that the churches are given over to visions rather than to truth, and Leftist visions at that. So they are inimical to religious practice and to Christianity especially. Perhaps the Moravian Brethren and certainly a very few Catholic parishes here and there remain Christian. All the Reformation churches, however, as well as descendants of the Left wing of the Reformation — e.g., American Evangelicals, who descend from Anabaptists and Antinomians — are gone in visions, Leftist, collectivist visions, and therefore are anti-Christian. The Catholic Church is run by homosexuals and, now, a Left Visionary Vicar. So there too, with a few local exceptions, are anti-Christian contexts having no place much less sympathy for the advice you proffer.
The context of your advice should be Christians who are making monasteries for their families, protecting their children therein, developing skills which contribute to making life strong and enjoyable, and conducting spiritual exercises such as you suggest. Forget the churches. Make the monasteries, family by family.
tofubamboo to David R. Graham
It is wrong … it is suggesting people become their own “God” deciding when and how they sort-of pray. And, David Graham, who clearly is NOT Catholic, the Catholic church may have some perverts, as many other faiths do, but they are true to the Word of God and to the Liturgy. Might help you figure out who God is if you went to Mass. Maybe you should go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Might teach you a thing or two.
David R. Graham to tofubamboo
People already are their own God. You seem likely to be familiar with Genesis 1:26-28. As for your advisements, I take them under advisement while mentioning that you likely know me less well than you think you do. If you knew me, how could you tell a difference between you and me?
Update 4: I could go on all day about Sir Roger, but for now at least I’ll sign off with perhaps my favorite short quote from him: A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is merely relative, is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Update 5: China Orders Christians to Use Religion for Spreading ‘Communist Party Principles’
Update 6: Angelo M. Codevilla: Abolish The CIA
Related: Very weak tea from Austin Bay
Once Vivekananda went to Swami Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and asked him, “Have you seen God?” “Yes”, said Sri Ramakrishna. “In what form?”, asked Vivekananda. Ramakrishna replied, “I am seeing Him just as I am seeing you”. “Why then, am I unable to see Him?” Ramakrishna explained that if he yearned for God with the same intensity with which he was yearning for many other things, he too would experience God. Ramakrishna said that people shed tears for relations, wealth and many other aspects, but how many shed tears for God? Ramakrishna advised Vivekananda to yearn for God with all his heart and soul. God is then bound to manifest Himself to him. If you are keen to experience the Divine, you must devote yourself to the Divine. People undertake various troubles to achieve wealth, relations, position, and power. If they devote a small fraction of that time to thoughts of God, they would definitely experience freedom from the fear of death.
Sathya Sai Baba – Divine Discourse, July 9, 1998 / Daily Email, Sai Inspires: Subscription
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