What would Jesus Do? And "What would Marcus do?" Let's see if there are any difference. I don't believe in the law of "limited good" per se. Judy does. She believes if you tax a rich person soon he will be poor just like everybody else, which is what these Socialists like Obama really want. I don't believe that Good per see is limited by Quantity. But I do believe that Good, unlike Evil, is limited in Quality. As such you can't get "whiter than white" no matter how much the laundry detergent advertisers protest that you can. You can't get more perfect than perfect. That's the one word where if you use s superlative with it such as "more perfect" as in St Paul saying "But I shall show you a more perfect way" you diminish the word. People say that God is so "Good" and next to God's goodness, Ghandi and Stalin are practically bed fellows, morally. And Jesus is the perfect manifestation of God on earth. Even the Mormons believe that. I don't believe in limited good, but there are cases where I believe in limited gain. Often sacrifice costs you. It was an economic sacrifice to move in here. It's a gift that "keeps on taking" kind of like the Supreme Court. I know have enough Dr. Phil savy to be able to project ahead into the future. Just because I have a full pack of cigarettes now, doesn't mean I should start passing them out like candy. I know my capacity for income is limited, and that not too long in the future I'm going to wish for the time when I had that cigarette back. You can spend minutes or even hours wandering around this whole place looking for someone with a cigarette. It's no fun. So when I see old ladies giving their family expensive heir looms to Gene Scott I cringe, because they are worth one hell of a lot more to the people who gave them, and their children and grandchildren, than they could ever be to Gene Scott. To him they're just another notch on his belt. And he puts them in a room and brags to others how people just gave them to him, no doubt to the sheer force of his personality. You hear the story of the widdow's coins. Were I there on the spot in Jesus' place I would say "Lady, keep your money. You need it. Believe me I'd seen your finances. Besides, the church is supposed to be giving its money to people like you, and not the other way around. If you give it- - it will get shuffled around in some beaurocracy and some cleaver accountant will appropiate it to increase the temple profits. In like manner the prostitute who poured all that expensive perfume on Jesus that Saturday before Palm's Sunday. I'd say "Lady keep your expensive perfume. I don't need it". But she would protest, "But I want you to have it. I feel guilty about how I god it and I wouldn't feel right about keeping it, if you know what I mean. It was from an expensive client. I would then say to her "Lady, isn't that kind of the point?" You're giving it as a token to try and ease your guilt because you know deep down God hasn't really forgiven you. First go to God and get forgiven by him. Then you'll see the whole question in an entirely different light. In like manner in the parable of the dishonest steward- - I would teach against disloyalty and stabbing an employeer in the back. The moral of the parable seems to be 'Just be as big of a crook as you can- - and win His enemies over to your cause and they will admire you and hire you on when they see what I real Crook you are". Again this is Mitt Romney logic, and not mine. You know in late 2004 seventy dollars was stolen out of my drawer, which was ransacked several times after that perhaps by the same person looking for more money. Yet I am more affected by another loss. The one of just twenty dollars, a lesser ammount, at the beginning of 2010. This was not the result of theft but rather of getting cheated out of the twenty on pay day a couple of days before. This loss affected me more because my finantial situation had changed markedly, and I knew it would be much harder to make up the loss. You know that Mike Meloy says that we worship a blood thirsty sociopath of a god named Jehovah. Maybe the president's Health Plan is a cure for "Romnesia" which is a pre existing condition. But what about Sin as a pre existing condition. I can always be rejected as a Saint on account of having this pre existant condition called Sin. Or being more to the point it's because "My name was not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world", which was a long, long time before I was born and had absolutely no control over. God sees things in Eternal terms. God neither changes his nature, nor changes his mind about anything, or ever "sees things in a different light" with the passage of time, which we humans are all such a slave too. I am "A Sinner". Charles Tex Watson and Ted Bundy may well be "A Saint" and "A Saint" but I am "A Sinner". God sees us the way he does, as it were from that Eternity vantage point outside our created Universe. Mitt Romney says I was being a crook for not having health care into my mid forties. I invoke the Dr. Phil doctrine again. "Past behavior is the best predicter of future behavior". I've managed to get that far in life without getting sick or have any serious conditions. The odds favor me. But it might not be so in Mitt Romney's world. He apparently told Jay Leno last March that "If you are 45 and discover you want to buy insurance and they discover some condition you have that you knew nothing of- - well - - you can't do that. Just have insurance your whole life and then you'll be all right". My contention with Christianity is that you can't be accused of rejecting something which, in truth, was never really offered to you. It was never yours to claim. In the words of "No Words for my Love" - - "You say you want to give your love to me - - and end up giving nothing. I'm not surprised that your black eyes are gazing".
Mitt Romney is now trailing in Virginia by five points to the President. Well that's the ball game. If Obama takes Virginia, and it looks as if he has, Romney doesn't have a prayer- - - even if he is a Mormon Bishop or whatever. People at last, hopefully, even the undecided among us, are seeing Mitt Romney for who he really is. And now it's spaghetti time. And I imagine that post time is correct.
Some may accuse me of "hearing hoofs and thinking zebras and not horses" or going for the odd or unusual. Just because I don't believe "The Story" that the early Christian church tells. Or - - in a completely different area this whole Kathy and Joe thing from the last posting - - is something that my siblings might even be baffled about. But if I haven't have been told anything, I imagine they haven't either. My Mom might just- - let's hope not - - be headed down the same road that Caroline Brady is steps ahead of her on. One of the most intriguing Star Trek shows- - and there are certain ones that "stay with you" and continue to mystify- - - such as "Clues". It isn't one thing but a regular gulag of clues- - all pointing to the same thing. And you're looking for some kind of signed confession from God that you're right on the subject. It's little things like - - that letter I sent to my parents in December of 1992. There were four topics covered in the letter. My whole thing with the SSI audit and my termanating job prospects. Then there is the question of why dates in my baby book appear to have been messed with. Then there is the Asshole from El Paso. And then there is you-know-who and her husband. My Dad made a really strange statement I won't repeat here. But even if it were true - - and I think he was way exagurating- - he would at least "theoretically" have no way of knowing whether it was true or not. At one point in late summer you have Kathy openly accusing me of "spying on her". You have VERY abrupt plans as to whether or not to move from that apartment. People call the 9 - 11 Conspiracy people as a little eccentric. Yet we are the sane ones. We can't "Prove" our stuff to the extent it would compell a unanamus jury verdict. Some philosophers say you can't even Prove you exist. But there are the glaringly obvious clues that would arrest ANYONE"S attention. They are literally screaming at you from all directions. Yet there is this Conspiracy of Silence in the Government and in the Media which passeth all Understanding and personally - - - I Just Don't Get It!
I
listened to Randy Rhodes. What I'd like to do now is talk about basic moral logic. For instance a big reason why you punish someone is to make an example out of them so others see their punishment and learn from it. As to the idea of making someone suffer - - I think you've exceeded your warrent if the suffering of said individual no longer points them to the crime they comitted but instead becomes "an ongoing condition of life". As such it is pointless to send someone to hell - - and have nobody else know about it except you. And need I say if you threaten someone you first have to have the Power to threaten them, and they pretty much have to KNOW you have that power. But also, and this one is paradoxical, ti threaten is to some degree to assume the Other person has a Choice of how they Respond to it. You can't change someone elses' behavior is the other person has no Choice. This is a lesson God seems slow to learned. God is unable to threaten people like Mike Meloy because Mike has learned that what he does is absolutely irrelivent in God's sight. We now come to today's Soap opera. Nicole dropped
the charges against Jennifer and Roman will have them dropped officially. Roman told her when she signs the document that her signiture must be witnessed. Roman said "There is no going back once you do this". Tell that to Ted Kennedy. He made extensive changes in his deposition in the Chapiquittic matter. Or do rich people have special priveleges the rest of us don't. But knowing what a flake Daniel Jonas is I
wouldn’t put it past him to say to Nicole, “You know I said we’d be together,
but now I’m so overjoyed that they’ve dropped the charges against Jennifer, and
that changes everything. So naturally
you can understand why I’m dumping you and going with her”. It's a funny thing to suddenly be told out of the blue you owe someone a lot of money and payment was "due as of yesterdy". I've experianced that. Christine seemed only to be a “me, top”
leader with this bit about her being Samantha’s boss and Sammy now suddenly
owing all this personal money to the corporation. Hey, do you think it would cause Mitt Romney
one moment’s worth of sleep to know that he cost his corporation lots of
money? Not on your life. Strange as it seems, Samantha is a lot more
contentious with business affairs and money than is Mitt Romney. Oscar is mopping the halls and I’ll be headed
off to the store when the floor is dry.
Bill has not been around the last couple of hours. Nora was in briefly to fiddle with the
shower.
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