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12.15.2009

"I Love, therefore I am." William Sloan Coffin

"Love is Universal, Courageous, Selfless,
Self-sacrificial, Focused on the LEAST of
these Our Family, all consuming...
or it is not Love."  SL

"I Love, therefore I am."  William Sloan Coffin

12.14.2009

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Climate negotiations 'suspended' BBC News

Climate negotiations 'suspended'
BBC News

Citizens STANDING UP,
TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.


"The killing continues till we, the nonviolent soldiers take the field. Guaranteed." SL

"The killing continues till we, the nonviolent soldiers takes the field.  Guaranteed."  SL

12.13.2009

"Living is Loving. Death is not." SL

"Living is Loving.  Death is not."  SL

Friends, something exquisite just happened to me. Start

Hi.

About a month ago in the Park I was on post and a woman with a few
grandchildren approached.  We spoke for a while, and sadly I don't
remember the particulars - but my focus is always the same -
the Vigil, Thomas founding it, it continuing with Connie and now my
help, anti-nuclear, climate protection and repair, Palestine....
that we do this out of Love for our global human family, that Waging
Love with greater ferocity, and greater numbers than the world
has waged death is our entire hope; that there is no other ....

I could tell she was deeply moved.

At the end, I asked where she was from - Connecticut she said, and
then mentioned that she is the wife of William Sloan Coffin.  If you
don't know, and I did, William was Chaplin at Yale during the Vietnam
era and one of the most eloquent, first, most courageous, outspoken opponents
of that horrible, horrible, horrible war.  A book that Ellen and Thomas
connected me with that I've excerpted here was my exposure to his
sublime Soul and writings - his essay is excerpted here:
Militant Non-Violence, William Sloane Coffin

I said that reading more of his work was high on
my list.
  I mentioned that I'd searched for more of
his work at the DC Libraries, but they had none.
  She said she would
like to send me one of his books.  We spoke a few more words and then
she left (forgetting to get my address.)  I let it go.

10 minutes later she was back - "I forgot to get your address."

Last week a copy of William's "Credo" arrived.  Only just now did I
have a moment to begin leafing through.  The first chapter is
entitled "Faith, Hope, Love."  On the first page of this chapter she
had written a note:  "*  THIS IS FOR YOU!"  Here is what she
had marked, of William's writings (and now I weep):

"Socrates had it wrong: it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life
that is not worth living.  Descartes too was mistaken; "Cogito ergo sum" - "I think
therefore I am"?  Nonsense.  "Amo ergo sum" - "I love therefore I am."  Or. as with
unconscious eloquence St. Paul wrote, "Now abide faith, hope, love, these three;
and the greatest of these is love."  I believe that.  I believe it is better not to live
than not to love."       William Sloan Coffin, by way of his wife Randy.

Your brother,

Start Loving

"Church:" The nail that kills Jesus, again, and again....

"Church:" The nail that kills Jesus, again, and again....

Imagine what would happen to the Marines if EXACTLY as the
"Church" was perverted to mean not PEOPLE of a specific
Character, Commitment, Competence, but mere buildings and property...
imagine the Marines were convinced of the same - that Camp Lejeune
IS the Marines.  That a Marine is therefore SIMPLY someone who
"attends" and "pays dues" at Camp Lejeune.  This would be
the killing of the military!!!!

This is EXACTLY what the Christ killers pulled off 1800 years ago,
and every day since.  THESE are the Christ-killers:

"Church" is the Chirst-killer as defined this way.

"Christian" is the Christ-killer defined this way.

And these may be in the final stages of killing
all of Humanity.
 

It may be too late to Save us.

"Those who have eyes must see.
Those who have ears must hear."

We need to hurry.

sl


"Christlikes are the Church. There is no other. Ever." SL

"Christlikes are the Church.  There is no other.  Ever."  SL

http://thechristlikechurch.blogspot.com/



Fw: "Our Father is Universal Love demanding the Truth necessary to Life out of..." SL

"Our Father is
Universal Love demanding the Truth necessary to Life out of...
Universal Love demanding the Truth necessary to Life out of...
Universal Love demanding the Truth necessary to Life out of...
Universal Love demanding the Truth necessary to Life out of...
Universal Love demanding the Truth necessary to Life out of...
Universal Love demanding the Truth necessary to Life out of...
Universal Love demanding the Truth necessary to Life out of...
Universal Love demanding the Truth necessary to Life out of..." 

SL


"Our Father is Universal Love demanding the Truth necessary to Life out of..." SL

"Our Father is
Our Father is Universal Love demanding the Truth necessary to Life out of...
Our Father is Universal Love demanding the Truth necessary to Life out of..." 

SL

"Salvation is ENTIRELY re-adopting the LEAST of these in Our Family globally." SL

"Salvation is ENTIRELY re-adopting the LEAST of these in Our Family globally.

There is no other Salvation. 

GOOD NEWS!" 

SL

12.12.2009

Wanna understand Pr. Obama? Listen to Abe Lincoln: [DON'T MISS]

"Public sentiment is everything.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail;
without it nothing can succeed.
Consequently he who molds public
sentiment, goes deeper than he who
enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.
He makes statutes and decisions possible
or impossible to be executed." 

Abraham Lincoln

PLEASE PONDER THIS DEEPLY.  PLEASE SHARE.

"Living normally in a world of suffering is living Death." SL

"Living normally in a world of suffering is living Death."  SL

"You must BE the VISION of what you wish to see in the world." SL

"You must BE the VISION of what you wish to see in the world." SL

12.10.2009

Christmas Present: Toward Pleasure is Away from Joy, practically always.

Christmas Present: 

Toward Pleasure is Away from Joy, practically always.

'If you love your life you will lose your Life.
If you hate your life you will gain your Life.'

ps: I always quote this wrong. Send me the correct scripture?

Pretty simple: Stay with Our Father, and Our Father will stay with you. For CERTAIN.

"Pretty simple:  Stay with Our Father,
and Our Father will stay with you. 
For CERTAIN." 
SL

ps:  Equally certain:  Step away from Our Father,
and you are alone, without Love.  Dead.
Pretty horrible.  For
CERTAIN.

12.07.2009

"Start, you have a beautiful mind," said the stately retired Marine who had been quietly listening

"Start, you have a beautiful mind," said the stately retired Marine
who had been quietly listening.

"Give me a military man to work with any any day. 
Don't give me any cowards."  Gandhi

12.06.2009

If "Nuclear Family" persists, it is the death knell for us all.

Of the genius Ashley Montague (Princeton, Yale prof) the NYTimes wrote in
the1950's - 'If the world does not embrace his [ideas] we will not make it.'

"Our problem is not the absence of Love.
Our problem is the presence of Tribal Love." 
Ashley Montague

NPR this morning had an hour long segment on robotics - that this is
the age of their proliferation.  It was excruciating to listen to.  Oh yes,
at a younger age for me I'd have been enamored.

Why now sickened, horrified?!  OMG.  #2.  Although Military was never
mentioned, Military OF COURSE will be the initial, primary, dominant use.
BUT, #1 - THE ROBOTS ARE OF, BY AND FOR THE RICH!!!  DUH!!!  US!!!!!!!!!!

"Start, you conspiratorial moron!  Don't you know that they will do things
like help MD's SAVE CHILDRENS LIVES!?!???!?!?"

THIS IS WHERE I GET REALLY, REALLY, REALLY SICK TO MY STOMACH.  THIS IS WHERE I
REALIZE THAT "NUCLEAR FAMILY," "MY" FAMILY, "MY" TOWN, "MY" SCHOOL,
"MY" COMPANY, "MY" COUNTRY, "MY" CHURCH... ARE OUR DEATH.

1.  HOW MANY OF THE 4 BILLION FOLKS EXISTING ON $4 PER DAY WILL THESE
ROBOTS HELP?
2.  HOW MANY OF THEIR CHILDREN WILL THEY SAVE? HOW MANY OF THE 28 MILLION
CHILDREN THAT DIE EVERY YEAR WILL THEY HELP?
3.  HOW MANY WOULD WE LIFT FROM POVERTY, SAVE, IF THE BILLIONS BEING
SPENT ON ROBOTICS, IF THE 10,000'S OF THE WORLD'S BEST MINDS WERE
NOT DISTRACTED BY ROBOTS FOR THE RICH, BUT ELIMINATING POVERTY?????

All given license by  "MY" family, "MY" group....  IF IT WERE OUR FAMILY,
INCLUDING THE 4B IN POVERTY, WE COULDN'T DO THIS!!!!!!!!  OF COURSE
WE'D DEVOTE OURSELVES TO THE POOREST OF OUR FAMILY, THE
4 BILLION!!!!


AND AS LONG AS "NUCLEAR FAMILY" EXISTS, WE NEVER WILL. AND WE WILL
THINK THAT WE DO GOOD, "GOD'S WILL" IN THIS.  I DID.

12.05.2009

A few want to help. MOST want to help-themselves. SL

"Few chose war.  They chose selfishness, and the result was war." 
David Dellinger

A few want to "help."  MOST want to "help-themselves."  SL  :-(

Twitter: @StartLoving1

:-)

12.04.2009

Deeply Lonely much of my life, Fully Alone now, and no longer Lonely!!! :-)

Yes Nancy, SC, K, D, Ellen... are in my life - Friends as I've never had before.

But physically I am extremely alone.

But I AM NEVER LONELY. Why?  Because I AM WITH ALL of my 6.8 billion
sisters and brothers, ESPECIALLY those most suffering, EVERY WAKING
MOMENT.

I am describing how my life felt, and feels.  Astonishing. WONDERFUL.

Universal Love is, well, er, um - HEAVEN.

That it be unrequited is quite irrelevant.

Death by either means: Right shoots to death. Left talks to death.

"We are what we DO; NOT what we think, feel, say, intend
desire believe...."  SL

"Love is unable to remain passive in the face of suffering."
Teresa of Calcutta [If it is passive, it is NOT Love.]

12.02.2009

ADDICTION is inescapable. The choices are addiction to Humanity or Selfishness.

ADDICTION is inescapable.  The choices are addiction to Humanity or Selfishness.

The Bible is like an Inkblot test. Jesus' Teachings alone are Salvation - Universal Love

The Bible is like an Inkblot test.  Jesus' Teachings alone are Salvation - Universal Love

11.30.2009

11.29.2009

In US "Freedom" means Freedom from Responsibility, Humanity, Brotherood...

Freedom from ...decency, consideration, accountability, restraint....

Freedom to ... pollute, steal resources, neglect the poor, hoard
and squander resources on ourselves, deny the consequences of
our irresponsibility....

Freedom to do whatever pleases us regardless of the impact
on the poor, the needy around the country, around the world.

Is this not the Truth?  Really?  REALLY?

11.26.2009

I hope for, but make no demands on - your thoughts

Updated significantly as of this moment:

http://thechristlikechurch.blogspot.com

US Muslims are Americans too CNN


Start's Religion

Hey, you might despise this, and me for it.

I awoke bolt awake an hour early this morning.

The quote - "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians,
they are so unlike your Christ."  Gandhi.  has been playing
through my head for days recently.

Our Father, I'm sure awoke me this morning.  Start, I want
you to document the Religion, the Church you've been living
these recent years - My Church, My Religion, that others
might too be Saved.

I've just begun:  http://thechristlikechurch.blogspot.com/
Less than .1% of the work done.  I don't know how fast
Our Father will have me scribe this, and I don't know if and
when He will have others join in the Work.  My guess is that
He will have me be in charge of the work, 1st Shepherd, but
I yearn for Him to bring others to the work.

I'm so sorry if I'm upset you.

Love you.

Start


http://thechristlikechurch.blogspot.com/

11.25.2009

CHANGE: "The most beautiful thing in Life is the feeling of Duty within us." Pr. Obama

"It has been said that the most beautiful things in life
are the stars above us, and the feeling of Duty within us."
President Obama at the State Dinner for PM Singh

11.24.2009

Salvation = Your Full Adoption of the Poor (in Our Human Family)

There is no other.

PEACE = WAR - (HOSILITY, KILLING, BLOODSHED, FORCE)



LOVE demands TRUTH for LIFE for LOVE... [repeat, repeat...]



Belgian man: end of coma misdiagnosis like rebirth AP


HUGE DAY ON DEMOCRACYNOW.ORG

DN! Rep. Obey Calls For War Surtax
DN! FBI Releases New Hate Crime Data
DN! Officer Shoves Passenger Into Window
DN! Lou Dobbs Considers a Presidential Run in 2012
DN! Women of Zimbabwe Arise Honored At White Hosue
DN! Police Brutality Against Students Protesting Fee Hikes CAL Berkeley

11.22.2009

Vicki Kennedy Tears of Hope with Sat. Night Health Care Vote


Political Left & Right: 2 Faces of InHumanity. OBAMA'S THE 3RD WAY.

The "Right" kills by elevating primitive action over ideas.

The "Left" kills by substituting ideas for courageous action.

President Obama represents the 3RD WAY, IF WE WILL JOIN HIM:

THE 3RD WAY: IDEAS + COURAGEOUS ACTION.

Saul Alinsky called it "RADICAL."

RADICAL THREATS CALL FOR RADICAL SOLUTIONS, AND ACTION.

Our greatest Living Activist on Hunger Strike Day 16


"Start, be more subtle!" Love tolerates nothing less than the Truth. Hate can't abide Truth.

"God is Truth.  Truth is God." 
Gandhi

"Start, be more subtle!" 
I hear that all the time
in different ways.  I always have.

Love accepts nothing less than the urgent Truth. 
Hate/Fear/Selfishness/Greed cannot abide Truth.
Start stands with Love / Truth (as best he can know it);
come what may.

Truth / Love are our only, and entire hope.
We're out if time.