3.28.2008
THE EXTINCTION OF CHRISTIANITY: THE cHURCH'S TRIUMPH
Then a state appointed gate keeper arrived on the scene to get that genie back in the bottle and to keep it there. Within 200 years the job was done and it has been maintained ever since. Yes, the cHURCH - Christ's Crucifier; Jesus Jailer. They have brilliantly succeeded in rendering Jesus totally harmless to the state (and actually a huge asset!) for 1800 years now. Quite an achievement.
cHURCH: A WEEKLY SHOWER FOR WE PROSTITUTES
IT IS RIGHT FOR A SKIN CELL TO GO CANCEROUS WHEN....
And what is cancer? Cancer is that form of life that simply detaches from its purpose visa vis the "body," and attends to its personal needs over the needs of the "body." And yet this is precisely the form of life that our current world culture exhorts us to embrace with every fiber of our being. It is NEVER the correct choice.
JESUS ABHORS WORSHIP AND FOLLOWING.
What??!?!?!??!?!?? Here's how to see it. You in future years become a great, world-beloved healer of some sort. You are driving in a populated area of the city and you come upon a horrible bus crash with dozens of wounded. Your heart breaks as you frantically leap out of the car to help, to try to Save. You and the bystanders are the only available help. You get out of your car, and your would-be helpers come and worship, and adore you, and follow you around, gawking and praising you as you help people.
What could be more abhorrent to you? Joining you in the total attempt to save; that is what you desperately and agonizingly want of people.
For every pro football player on the field there are millions, MILLIONS in bars or living rooms watching (and drinking) - VICARIOUSLY sharing in the "glory." But Jesus was not playing football. Jesus was trying to lead humankind to SAVE ITSELF from the Hell, from the Entropy of Meaninglessness, and the Hell, the Entropy of Ignorance and Want.
And by the billions we debauch and gluttony in our wicked "worship" and "following," stealing Vicarious GRATIFICATION from Jesus, glorying in HIS Crucifixion, THRIVING ON the "needless suffering" of others, INSTEAD OF JOINING HIM; AS A DEFENSE AGAINST FOLLOWING HIM!!! Oh, it is so sad. It is so abhorrent. And soon, it will be over, if we don't wake up, and begin to individually, lonely one by lonely one walk, and possibly lead out of this mess.
Your Loving brother,
Start
ps: Oh, am I incorrect?
MEET JESUS: TOLSTOY'S "WHAT I BELIEVE"
TOLSTOY: WHAT I BELIEVE
Outlandish? Read it, really, really read it, top to bottom, and you decide.Loving you, Start
ps: What if I am correct?
pps: I am correct.
UNDERSTAND JESUS' APOSTLE: TOLSTOY
and if for Gandhi, Tolstoy was Jesus Greatest Living Apostle...
We seekers had better understand Tolstoy quite well:
Leo Tolstoy Quotations
Start LovingFOR OUR JOY/TO ELIMINATE SUFFERING: WHY JESUS DIED. PERIOD.
"Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
John 15:11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing. Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace. 2 Corinthians 1:24 Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy. Matthew 13:44 "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field." John 16:22 You have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. Luke 2:10 And the angel said to them, "Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy that will be for all the people."
"Sour godliness is the devil's religion."
-John Wesley
Mother Teresa
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
"In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could be satisfied by works, but since it is spiritual, no one can satisfy it unless everything he does springs from the depths of the heart. But no one can give such a heart except the Spirit of God, who makes the person be like the law, so that he actually conceives a heartfelt longing for the law and henceforward does everything, not through fear or coercion, but from a free heart."
- Martin Luther
I asked God for all things, that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.
Booker T. Washington: Quotes: Joy
I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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He summarizes Augustine’s theology with phrases like the following: “Grace governs life by giving a supreme joy in the supremacy of God”
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. - Buddha
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. - Ayn Rand
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behaviour, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps. - William Blake
George Bernard Shaw |
Joy in God
This is my religion . . . joy and exaltation in my own existence . . . so go ahead and snarl . . . howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian. - John AdamsThe theologian who has no joy in his work is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this science. - Karl Barth
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all-that has been my religion. - John Burroughs
One of the signs of God-realization is joy. There is absolutely no hesitancy in such a person, who is like an ocean in joyous waves. But deep beneath the surface, there is profound silence and peace. - Ramakrishna
When I am with God my fear is gone. In the great quiet of God, my troubles are as the pebbles on the road; my joys are like the everlasting hills. - Walter Rauschenbusch
It is a great dishonour to religion to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces. - Walter Scott
YOUR ONLY OPTIONS: FLESH OR HUMANITY
CHURCH AND "FAMILY::" THE PLAGUE OF EXTINCTION
INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN ACTIVIST, "Start, are you Jesus Christ?"
"hey start loving, as per usual you are heavens and worlds out there. i
was not joking when i asked if you were JC. your compassion and love
are immeasurably appreciated. your friend and sister,"
My response was something like, "Gosh, that would be awesome, because that is what we ALL are supposed to be - Christlikes."
HUMANITY BEGETS HUMANITY. INHUMANITY BEGETS....
In/UnHumanity begets In/UnHumanity UNLESS it is countered with HUMANITY in which case Saving/Salvation can occur. (Think of the Bishop of Di (sp) in Les Mis.)
HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE HUMAN EXPERIENCE. "THE KINGDOM."
Humanity is that experience of Life, the entire experiential "Diet) that an enlightened, aware human being would want to 99.999999999999999999999% Flood every waking microsecond of themselves, and of the entire waking life of anyone and everyone they have even the least caring for. No?
YOU MAY BE THE ONLY JESUS
Somebody Knows"
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
—Galatians 2:20
There was a soldier who was wounded in battle. The padre crept out and did what he could for him. He stayed with him when the remainder of the troops retreated. In the heat of the day he gave him water from his own water bottle, while he himself remained parched with thirst. In the night, when the chill frost came down, he covered the wounded man with his own coat, and finally wrapped him up in even more of his own clothes to save him from the cold. In the end the wounded man looked up at the padre. "Padre," he said, "You're a Christian?"
"Then," said the wounded man "if Christianity makes a man do for another man what you have done for me, tell me about it, because I want it." *
You are the only Jesus somebody knows. Christ [HUMANITY / God (or what we can know of God)] lives in you and will use you to help heal this hurting world if you'll let Him. The priest was willing to become uncomfortable for the sake of a dying man. Sometimes I don't feel like going out of my way to reach out to someone and sometimes I close the door. There are other times when I realize that I represent Jesus to the world around me and that I touch someone not with my love but with His love. [WRONG: God's Love, HUMANITY (all that we can know of God) is what Jesus surrendered to, and what he Led US to surrender to.] And it makes a difference in their life and mine.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Start
ps: "I TRY to be...." I despise it when I am asked "Are you a Christian?" Why do I despise it? In large part because it largely implies - have you joined the "club!" Well, in Jesus' eyes, if there IS some valid category of "Christian" it has absolutely NOTHING to do with self declaration or joining-a-club. It would ENTIRELY have to do with Being. The "Padre's" answer above captures this. Nancy, thanks for this answer I can use in the future when the hideous question is asked of me, "Are you a Christian?" " I TRY to be."
THE MEASURE OF HUMANITY; FOR JESUS IT WAS BILLIONS
KINGDOM OF GOD: WHEN YOUR HUMANITY EMBRACES YOUR ENEMY
"The Least of These:" 2 flavors: MATERIAL, SPIRITUAL
The greatest poverty I've encountered is in the west; poverty of the spirit. Teresa of Calcutta
TO "PROFIT FROM" IS SIN AGAINST OUR HUMANITY (THE ONLY GOD WE CAN KNOW)
The opposite is why we were created. The opposite is what it is to Live / Be Alive / THE ENTIRETY OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE: TO PROFIT OTHERS BY YOUR EXISTENCE.
CULTURALLY INDUCED AMNESIA: WHAT JESUS DIED TO DISPELL
JESUS GIFT CAN KILL; IS KILLING MILLIONS
HUMANITY IS WHAT JESUS DIED FOR
I've just been given my Christmas present and I'm breathless with the wonder, with the overwhelming joy of it; and I want you to have it. I pray I can give it to you.
- Jesus' Humanity was me, you... everyone born and unborn, ESPECIALLY THE LEAST OF THESE OUR HUMAN FAMILY. Nothing else is or ever can be our Humanity.
- Our Humanity is our Life, Love, Truth. Nothing besides our Humanity is our Life, Love, Truth.
- Our Humanity ("the least of these") is "the Pearl of great price."
- Our Humanity ("the least of these") is the "Treasure" worth selling all we have for.
This is what the "rich young man" did not grasp. Jesus attempted to give him, to return to him his Humanity, "the least of these his family" that he had abandoned, forgotten and ignored. Oh my God, what a gift. "The rich young man couldn't see it. The rich young man thought he was being asked to take up a burden. No, the rich young man was being offered HIS LIFE, HIS HUMANITY, HIS FAMILY!!! The Pearl. The Treasure.
MARK 8:36: "What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his HUMANITY ("the least of these," HIS/HER BROTHERS AND SISTERS in Iraq, Iran, Palestine, New Orleans, Congo, Haiti...!?!?!?)"
What profit is there for one to gain the whole world FOR THEIR [CHILDREN OR DEAREST ONE'S] WHILE SACRIFICING THE HUMANITY OF THEIR CHILDREN OR DEAREST ONES?!?!?!!?!
Who are you NOT LOVING-with-your-actions on this Planet? THEY are your lost Humanity; the diminishment of your Humanity... YOUR INHUMANITY. Jesus showed us this, how to FIND our lost Humanity, and to REGAIN OUR LOST HUMANITY, to SAVE our Humanity, to become ALIVE in our Humanity - TO BE SAVED!!!!! For this he Joyfully died. [I hope we do to.]
Oh I am so sorry if this does not communicate to you. Forgive me.
Wishing you the Joy of CHRISTmas - regaining Humanity - yours, your children's, mine ...the World's.
Loving you infinitely, your brother, Start
ps: I expect to spend CHRISTmas with our "least of these" in-US-uniform, Iraqi and Iranian family on Capitol Hill. I pray you find as much Joy as I will on that Sacred day of Jesus birth.
pps: Pass it on.
ppps: The writeup on me at a Capitol Hill church I was asked to address this week - "Start Loving is a former corporate executive who reminds me of St. Francis of Assisi. He literally give up his safe and comfortable world to be come a prophetic witness for peace. He radiates compassion and love." [I pray it is so.]
--- follow on to the email above the next day---
- THE GIFT (yesterday's email; explicitly what Jesus died to give us): The Gift is His Humanity. The Gift is to-become/merge with/reunite with-OUR-Humanity - "the least of these our brothers;" the "immediate family" ("least of these") around the world that our psychologically toxic environment has erased from our memory, or worse, demonized and "alien"-ated from us. No, there is nothing else to Jesus' Gift than that; if you truly had clinical amnesia, had forgotten your biological "children," "sisters," etc. and were "cured" of that amnesia - WHAT GREATER GIFT COULD YOU BE GIVEN? Hmmmm. What if those forgotten "children," "brothers," "sisters..." were poor? Diseased? "Foreign?" "Extremely needy?" "Gay?" Black? Israeli? Palestinian? Muslim...? It wouldn't matter would it? No. With the lifting of the amnesia you would have received the greatest gift possible. Truly. Right? This is the entirety of what Jesus died to give us - our 6 billion "forgotten" family members, and 30 billion yet to be born. Was this family real and worth everything to Him? He died for them with Love and Joy. We will JOYFULLY die for them if and when we are "Saved" from our "amnesia," "delusion;" purely for the Joy of it. There could be no greater Joy, personally; more or equivalent Joy would be a psychological impossibility. Jesus did not die to make us "good." Jesus died to GIVE US THAT WHICH IS !!!!!GOOD!!!!! There is no punishment from Jesus if we continue to ignore his Gift. There is only punishment OF Jesus, and of OURSELVES BY OURSELVES when we ignore his gift. (Think of when your "loved one" has ignored advice you gave that you KNOW WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM JOY AND SAVED THEM MISERY; how did you feel? What did THEY CHEAT THEMSELVES OF?)
3.27.2008
Video Interview of Start Loving
Start Loving Interview - Part 1
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Start Loving Interview - Part 2
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Start Loving Interview - Part 3
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Start Loving Interview - Part 4
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Start Loving Interview - Part 5
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Start Loving Interview - Part 6
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Start Loving Interview - Part 7
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3.01.2008
HOME PAGE
Everything I've Learned,
Everything on this site
can be reduced to
any one of the following:
Join JESUS
Start LOVING
Militant KINDNESS
Militant HUMANITY
Watch this (2min)... then read on...
Beyond question it is entirely possible to Rescue and Restore Darfur, eliminate poverty, bring peace to Palestine, wage war of "construction" in Iraq, prevent Bombing of Iran, save and protect US Forces.... Any imagining of the effort and elements required to do so are dwarfed by the US and worldwide resources to do so. Therefore, it is simply a matter of lacking, thus far, and raising the will to effect the Rescue and Restore. Start has given much thought to:
- THE JOY (Rapture) of the attempt (INDEX OF POSTS).
- How to bring Humanity (peace, justice, Love, Joy and Life) to the oppressed and the oppressors (INDEX OF POSTS).
OUR ENTIRE WORK LIES IS RAISING THE WILL... IN TIME: Employees and citizens in this world can be counted upon to be selfish, whether we like it or not. This includes our Elected Government Officials. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS DO WHAT IS IN THEIR INTEREST. HOW DO WE MAKE DARFUR, PALESTINE, CONGO, IRAQ CIVILIANS.... CENTRAL TO THEIR INTEREST?
- YOUR BEHAVIOR MUST BE THE CATALYST...
- FOR ONE, AND
- THEN TWO AND
- THEN FOUR...
- OUR BEHAVIOR MUST BE THE CATALYST FOR THOUSANDS, AND
- FINALLY...BILLIONS TO...
STAND SO CLEARLY,
FIRMLY AND COMMITTEDLY
THAT FELLOW HUMANS
AND THE POLITICIANS
SEE AN UNMISTAKABLE
TRUTH / MANDATE / ULTIMATUM /
OPPORTUNITY.
Thinking on the key elements for this to happen:
- Wisdom has been drawn from Gandhi's, King's, Assisi's, Teresa's, Romero's... master - JESUS (INDEX OF POSTS), and MANY MASTERS (INDEX OF POSTS)throughout history.
- THE PHYSICS OF THE BATTLE (INDEX OF POSTS),
- THE MENTALITY (INDEX OF POSTS) at issue,
- THE (CLINICAL) MADNESSES (INDEX OF POSTS) that keeps us all from acting accordingly,
- FINDING THE COURAGE AND WISDOM (INDEX OF POSTS) as individuals.
- THE COST (INDEX OF POSTS)to those that make the attempt.
10.17.2007
"PEACE MOVEMENT:" WHO WOULD SAY YOUR BEHAVIOR MATCHES YOUR WARNINGS?
Your warnings say Armageddon.
Your actions say, "Ban soda machines from high school grounds!" (unless you don't want to)
10.16.2007
DEAR PEACE ACTIVIST, WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THE SURGEON "WARRING" FOR YOUR LOVED ONE?
"THIS IS WHAT HYPOCRICY LOOKS LIKE...."
No! I didn't INTENTIONALLY live a life of Hypocricy either!!!!!!! But I did, until I began to peal off the layers of propaganda, lies, deceit and indoctrination implanted in me over a lifetime.
Ok. You hate my "war" language. Let me tear away the veil of hyocricy from your eyes.
Your loved one can be saved only by one Dr. in the world - extremely expensive and totally booked - NO WAY!!!!!!!!
You get an audience, plead, beg your case. And you see a miracle. She says, "My God, you've convinced me." You see she is on fire with passion. "By God, me and my team are headed to the O.R., we are going to war to saved your loved one, and we are not coming out till we are done."
How do you feel? Elated right?
Inclined to criticize the language of the Dr.? No. Not unless you are a psychopath. You are elated!!!!!
You don't like "war" as a word because YOU don't want to be MOBILIZED AS IF IT WERE WAR.
INCINERATING EMPIRE: SHOWING EMPIRE TO ITSELF BY COMPARISON WITH YOU
This is your opportunity. This is all about "being." Yes action matters, but if you allow yourself to become totally "infected" with Humanity, YOU CANNOT HELP BUT COMMIT YOURSELF TO THE MOST HEROIC LIFE OF ACTION.
EMPIRE IS THE SERPENT
But, as it informs Humane life, as the Bible does contain some awesome wisdom -
(OR THEY SURE DO THE SAME THING!
COINCIDENCE?)
separating Man from Her HUMANITY!
10.15.2007
EMPIRE DEPENDS ON DISENGAGING HEART / HUMANITY / LOVING
DISENGAGING
HEART / HUMANITY / LOVING
This is a matter of life and death,
LITERALLY,
for Empire
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NOT PURSUING A MIRACLE? ALREADY CONCEDED DEFEAT.
Therefore, if YOU are not dedicating your life to trying to spark such a miracle, you are of little hope. Such ones are loved anyway, but they are on the sidelines of Life, Love and Truth. Pity. Hell.
10.14.2007
}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} LOVE IS THE WAY {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{
A.J., forgive us our desecration of your life by cowardly using your one, huge abomination* to hide behind, and to corrupt what you stood for...
"If men are not willing to practice
the way of non-violence [LOVE]
with the same kind of
commitment and recklessness
of cost or consequences
as they practice
the way of war and as
Communists work for Communism,
clearly non-violence will not work."
A. J. Muste
"There is no way to peace;
peace is the way."
A. J. Muste
One word makes all the difference in the world:
PEACE... Dick Cheney has it.
LOVE... Amy Goodman has it.
LOVE IS THE WORD A.J. NEEDED,
NOT "PEACE!!!!"
FORMULA FOR GLOBAL HOLOCAUST
BY DISARMING ALL BUT THOSE
WITH MURDEROUS LUST FOR EMPIRE.
WHICH FORMULA WILL IT BE?
1. E=MC Sqd
2. LOVE IS THE WAY
OUR FINAL CHOICE:
HUMANITY OR
INHUMANITY, FOREVER.
click the match.IGNITE THE FIRE OF HUMANITY
!!click the match above!!
DO IT!
DO IT!!
DO IT!!!
You see it in "Dances With Wolves" in the opening sequence - the battle that is a genocidal stalemate until....
The armies are across the field from one another...
Agonizing, slow, mutual slaughter...
One person faces the madness, they are dead already...
Quietly, alone one rides out -WHAT MILLIONS MIGHT DO, ONE MAN MUST DO
As in EVERY CRUCIAL STRUGGLE, the odds are impossible...
But HOPE and POSSIBILITY, HUMANITY are in the ATTEMPT....
}}}}}}}} ALL IT TAKES IS ONE MATCH. YOU? {{{{{{{{
The Infection of "Possibility" Spreads...
And spreads....
And Salvation is at hand.
IGNITE THE FIRE OF HUMANITY
click the match.IGNITE THE FIRE OF HUMANITY
!!click the match above!!
DO IT!
DO IT!!
YOUR CHOICE: HUMANITY OR INHUMANITY, FOREVER.
YOUR FINAL CHOICE:
HUMANITY OR INHUMANITY,
FOREVER.
CLICK IMAGE FOR LARGE, PRINTABLE VERSION
Humanity or InHumanity Forever? Our margin of error is gone.
Gone is...
- Water to spare
- Enough land
- Separation of hostile parties by time and space
- Safety from personal WMD's
- Reservoir of morality
- The ozone layer
- 50%, 1 degree of the 2 degrees of atmosperic temperature buffer
- Invisibility by the have nots to the haves
- US respect of International Law / Treaties
- Legal status of People over Corporations
- Executive Branch restraint
- Gone...
- Gone...
- Gone...
LEGALIZED-INJUSTICE SYSTEM
LEGALIZED-INJUSTICE SYSTEM
WE MISSED ONE: 'NO HUMANITY, "no jutice, no peace!" '
'NO HUMANITY,
"no Justice,
no Peace." '
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