Natural gas is one of the cleanest, safest, and most useful forms of energy in our day-to-day lives. Natural gas is a hydrocarbon, which means it is made up of compounds of hydrogen and carbon. The simplest hydrocarbon is methane; it contains one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms. This is confirmed by government energy service providers. Try a natural gas powered fuel cell heat pump today! Reduce your energy bill by one half.

There was an article or two during the Kennedy administration that described the Presidency and the office as being a cog in a wheel or the greater governmental system. It seems that FDR, Ford and a few great Democratic Presidents made notes to this effect such that personality is muted under duty. There is nothing else to observe. It was also quite upsetting when this was observed by Reagan in his first term when his Amex Visa card did not work when buying a takeout meal for Nancy at Kenny Rogers' Roasters in Georgetown. It was a real novelty. Ronald was not supposed to use his personal card apparently; especially when you are the most powerful, big and important cog in a wheel. They should have told Ronald just to be sure he understood he was safe and was able to use the company card for all transactions under $100,000.00. He might have to buy a friend in the field a helicopter; right Mr. Jack Ryan? A new, never released documentary of Ronald Reagan visiting presidential libraries is to be aired soon. They thought Ronald should go back to broadcasting after being President but he decided to write books and give speeches on the Speech/Tour Circuit. But, he was still a dutiful employee. The Presidential Library Documentary series is a great idea as suggested by the departments who suggest such great ideas!

There is no parental authority in punching your kids under the ten commandments, expecting that they have to honor you. If they have to honor you, then you need to honor God above all else. It's a command and a positive command; remember?

The word "authority" has many uses and definitions.  There is the natural authority of a natural disaster such as a giant wave or tsunami. There is the natural authority of a parent, the natural authority of an artist or the authority of a self-taught blind musician.  There is the authority of praying for one's community.  However, there is also the desire for authority.  A parent does not have to abuse a child to feel authority. He can have authority by praying for his children and for talking with them. He can also have authority by providing. He or she will have authority whether or not the child remembers to say thank you and whether or not he gets a part-time job to buy Christmas presents for his family by the time he is 14 years old.

There are mindsets, however, that associate parental or family authority with the power to abuse, hinder and demean a relative; usually a younger relative. If they(parents) look closely, they will realize that this is not culture and they are the only aberration manifesting(confessing to) the lack of forgiveness for abuse suffered as children while they seek to pass this anger and lack of forgiveness on to another generation. They claim, as parents, the authority to abuse children as they read the ten commandments (honor mother and father). But the command to honor is a positive command on the children and not a licence for parents to break the other nine, presuming that the command to honor says that God gives them an unconditional honor in life in spite of what wickedness and abuse they may visit upon their children in breaking all other nine.  The commandments, if you seek any honor under them, are all positive commands and indicate that one is to seek honor from God and not the honor that is dispensed from a society or community that is caught up in disrespecting oneself in abusing one's own children and demeaning ones own progeny in addition to demeaning the word of God while claiming the right to do so under the command that says your children must honor their parents. There is a command to love the Lord your God. You cannot love God as you abuse your children who are, in fact, God's children. See Psalms 82.   God could not have intended for His commandments to be applied in this fashion; that one would abuse children based on a child's obligation under the commands to honor His parents.  They are commandments based on love, community safety, family unity and peace; that we will love our neighbors, including our children ,as our selves and love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, body and soul. You cannot love the Lord and have His natural authority for doing so while you abuse your children, hoping that your community will honor you if you do. You have sufficient natural authority from loving God, sharing His message of peace and love your children as your children and also as your neighbor. Why would you want to touch his fiance, wife or his girlfriend? They will honor you without your abuse and you will feel honored by your community as your love for them, as you express it, will show. Buy that child a good graduation gift in addition to helping them buy an  office loft space so that they can sell the art and photography they are creating with that art degree.  Your community will respect you!  Self-acceptance is much more macho than any other kind of acceptance. You will still be a macho community parent but really respected and most importantly, honored within the truth of the word of God! Thank God!        

Did you hear about the referee that handed out nine red cards for the same foul in the Ligue 1 while the player was disabled in shock and sat in the box after the first red card? The player was incapable of struggling after the first red card. The referee was a fan of zombie movies and other trendy stuff.

Special Concert Presentation, Incognito: A marriage of humanity, a practical and effective gospel, creativity and genius at the table of brotherhood for at least thirty years now! Isn't a genuine hug a very practical and effective gospel? God is positive and also life and those who resist others who wish to enjoy His quiet, universal positivity are resisting life itself.

 

Don't be a spiritual gumby. The fruits of the spirit have their antonyms. If you see these antonyms in your personality, it could explain why you are spitting in the water cooler at work; hoping to be able to know who are your friends. Get the Plasticine out of your spiritual diet and stand on the rock(the word of God). Feed on the word. You could just accept the fruit of the spirit and treat others as you wish to be treated while you sleep better at night. Read Galatians 5:22.

Five is a significant number. It is synonymous with the word and the testimony of man's experience with Adonai. Did you know the words "bible", "Torah" and the "Koran" all have five letters? What an amazing coincidence or God incidence?

One missed space ship docking is disappointing but 9(nine) missed dockings for NASA is totally unamerican and does not reflect the official organization's trained professionalism or that nation's socio-economic progress. It would not be forgivable whether or not the ISS was black, paisley or white.

W.E.B Du Bois' great book needs to be re-written for the current realities and successes of America. What would Du Bois have said about Benjamin O. Davis? What did Du Bois say about America in the 1950's? What would he say today if he knew the CEO of many major food corporations were negros? First of all, his book needs to be updated as a well written profession with new groundedness and reality. The black astronauts and bomber pilots stepped over Du bois' wall.

From W.E.B.  Dubois.

...and given an emphasis which reminded black folk that before the Temple of Knowledge swing the Gates of Toil.	10
Yet after all they are but gates, and when turning our eyes from the temporary and the contingent in the Negro problem to the broader question of the permanent uplifting and civilization of black men in America, we have a right to inquire, as this enthusiasm for material advancement mounts to its height, if after all the industrial school is the final and sufficient answer in the training of the Negro race; and to ask gently, but in all sincerity, the ever-recurring query of the ages, Is not life more than meat, and the body more than raiment? And men ask this to-day all the more eagerly because of sinister signs in recent educational movements. The tendency is here, born of slavery and quickened to renewed life by the crazy imperialism of the day, to regard human beings as among the material resources of a land to be trained with an eye single to future dividends. Race-prejudices, which keep brown and black men in their “places,” we are coming to regard as useful allies with such a theory, no matter how much they may dull the ambition and sicken the hearts of struggling human beings. And above all, we daily hear that an education that encourages aspiration, that sets the loftiest of ideals and seeks as an end culture and character rather than bread-winning, is the privilege of white men and the danger and delusion of black.	11
Especially has criticism been directed against the former educational efforts to aid the Negro. In the four periods I have mentioned, we find first, boundless, planless enthusiasm and sacrifice; then the preparation of teachers for a vast public-school system; then the launching and expansion of that school system amid increasing difficulties; and finally the training of workmen for the new and growing industries. This development has been sharply ridiculed as a logical anomaly and flat reversal of nature. Soothly we have been told that first industrial and manual training should have taught the Negro to work, then simple schools should have taught him to read and write, and finally, after years, high and normal schools could have completed the system, as intelligence and wealth demanded.	12
That a system logically so complete was historically impossible, it needs but a little thought to prove. Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground. Thus it was no accident that gave birth to universities centuries before the common schools, that made fair Harvard the first flower of our wilderness. So in the South: the mass of the freedmen at the end of the war lacked the intelligence so necessary to modern workingmen. They must first have the common school to teach them to read, write, and cipher; and they must have higher schools to teach teachers for the common schools. The white teachers who flocked South went to establish such a common-school system. Few held the idea of founding colleges; most of them at first would have laughed at the idea. But they faced, as all men since them have faced, that central paradox of the South,—the social separation of the races. At that time it was the sudden volcanic rupture of nearly all relations between black and white, in work and government and family life. Since then a new adjustment of relations in economic and political affairs has grown up,—an adjustment subtle and difficult to grasp, yet singularly ingenious, which leaves still that frightful chasm at the color-line across which men pass at their peril. Thus, then and now, there stand in the South two separate worlds; and separate not simply in the higher realms of social intercourse, but also in church and school, on railway and street-car, in hotels and theatres, in streets and city sections, in books and newspapers, in asylums and jails, in hospitals and graveyards. There is still enough of contact for large economic and group coöperation, but the separation is so thorough and deep that it absolutely precludes for the present between the races anything like that sympathetic and effective group-training and leadership of the one by the other, such as the American Negro and all backward peoples must have for effectual progress.	13
This the missionaries of ’68 soon saw; and if effective industrial and trade schools were impracticable before the establishment of a common-school system, just as certainly no adequate common schools could be founded until there were teachers to teach them. Southern whites would not teach them; Northern whites in sufficient numbers could not be had. If the Negro was to learn, he must teach himself, and the most effective help that could be given him was the establishment of schools to train Negro teachers. This conclusion was slowly but surely reached by every student of the situation until simultaneously, in widely separated regions, without consultation or systematic plan, there arose a series of institutions designed to furnish teachers for the untaught. Above the sneers of critics at the obvious defects of this procedure must ever stand its one crushing rejoinder: in a single generation they put thirty thousand black teachers in the South; they wiped out the illiteracy of the majority of the black people of the land, and they made Tuskegee possible.	14
Such higher training-schools tended naturally to deepen broader development: at first they were common and grammar schools, then some became high schools. And finally, by 1900 some thirty-four had one year or more of studies of college grade. This development was reached with different degrees of speed in different institutions: Hampton is still a high school, while Fisk University started her college in 1871, and Spelman Seminary about 1896. In all cases the aim was identical,—to maintain the standards of the lower training by giving teachers and leaders the best practicable training; and above all, to furnish the black world with adequate standards of human culture and lofty ideals of life. It was not enough that the teachers of teachers should be trained in technical normal methods; they must also, so far as possible, be broadminded, cultured men and women, to scatter civilization among a people whose ignorance was not simply of letters, but of life itself.	15
It can thus be seen that the work of education in the South began with higher institutions of training, which threw off as their foliage common schools, and later industrial schools, and at the same time strove to shoot their roots ever deeper toward college and university training. That this was an inevitable and necessary development, sooner or later, goes without saying; but there has been, and still is, a question in many minds if the natural growth was not forced, and if the higher training was not either overdone or done with cheap and unsound methods. Among white Southerners this feeling is widespread and positive. A prominent Southern journal voiced this in a recent editorial.   “The experiment that has been made to give the colored students classical training has not been satisfactory. Even though many were able to pursue the course, most of them did so in a parrot-like way, learning what was taught, but not seeming to appropriate the truth and import of their instruction, and graduating without sensible aim or valuable occupation for their future. The whole scheme has proved a waste of time, efforts, and the money of the state.”	16
While most fair-minded men would recognize this as extreme and overdrawn, still without doubt many are asking, Are there a sufficient number of Negroes ready for college training to warrant the undertaking? Are not too many students prematurely forced into this work? Does it not have the effect of dissatisfying the young Negro with his environment? And do these graduates succeed in real life? Such natural questions cannot be evaded, nor on the other hand must a Nation naturally skeptical as to Negro ability assume an unfavorable answer without careful inquiry and patient openness to conviction. We must not forget that most Americans answer all queries regarding the Negro a priori, and that the least that human courtesy can do is to listen to evidence.	17
The advocates of the higher education of the Negro would be the last to deny the incompleteness and glaring defects of the present system: too many institutions have attempted to do college work, the work in some cases has not been thoroughly done, and quantity rather than quality has sometimes been sought. But all this can be said of higher education throughout the land; it is the almost inevitable incident of educational growth, and leaves the deeper question of the legitimate demand for the higher training of Negroes untouched. And this latter question can be settled in but one way,—by a first-hand study of the facts. If we leave out of view all institutions which have not actually graduated students from a course higher than that of a New England high school, even though they be called colleges; if then we take the thirty-four remaining institutions, we may clear up many misapprehensions by asking searchingly, What kind of institutions are they? what do they teach? and what sort of men do they graduate?	18
And first we may say that this type of college, including Atlanta, Fisk, and Howard, Wilberforce and Lincoln, Biddle, Shaw, and the rest, is peculiar, almost unique. Through the shining trees that whisper before me as I write, I catch glimpses of a boulder of New England granite, covering a grave, which graduates of Atlanta University have placed there, with this inscription: “IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THEIR FORMER TEACHER AND FRIEND AND OF THE UNSELFISH LIFE HE LIVED, AND THE NOBLE WORK HE WROUGHT; THAT THEY, THEIR CHILDREN, AND THEIR CHIL- DREN’S CHILDREN MIGHT BE BLESSED.”	19
This was the gift of New England to the freed Negro: not alms, but a friend; not cash, but character. It was not and is not money these seething millions want, but love and sympathy, the pulse of hearts beating with red blood;—a gift which to-day only their own kindred and race can bring to the masses, but which once saintly souls brought to their favored children in the crusade of the sixties, that finest thing in American history, and one of the few things untainted by sordid greed and cheap vainglory. The teachers in these institutions came not to keep the Negroes in their place, but to raise them out of the defilement of the places where slavery had wallowed them. The colleges they founded were social settlements; homes where the best of the sons of the freedmen came in close and sympathetic touch with the best traditions of New England. They lived and ate together, studied and worked, hoped and harkened in the dawning light. In actual formal content their curriculum was doubtless old-fashioned, but in educational power it was supreme, for it was the contact of living souls.	20
From such schools about two thousand Negroes have gone forth with the bachelor’s degree. The number in itself is enough to put at rest the argument that too large a proportion of Negroes are receiving higher training. If the ratio to population of all Negro students throughout the land, in both college and secondary training, be counted, Commissioner Harris assures us “it must be increased to five times its present average” to equal the average of the land.	21
Fifty years ago the ability of Negro students in any appreciable numbers to master a modern college course would have been difficult to prove. To-day it is proved by the fact that four hundred Negroes, many of whom have been reported as brilliant students, have received the bachelor’s degree from Harvard, Yale, Oberlin, and seventy other leading colleges. Here we have, then, nearly twenty-five hundred Negro graduates, of whom the crucial query must be made, How far did their training fit them for life? It is of course extremely difficult to collect satisfactory data on such a point,—difficult to reach the men, to get trustworthy testimony, and to gauge that testimony by any generally acceptable criterion of success. In 1900, the Conference at Atlanta University undertook to study these graduates, and published the results. First they sought to know what these graduates were doing, and succeeded in getting answers from nearly two-thirds of the living. The direct testimony was in almost all cases corroborated by the reports of the colleges where they graduated, so that in the main the reports were worthy of credence. Fifty-three per cent of these graduates were teachers,—presidents of institutions, heads of normal schools, principals of city school-systems, and the like. Seventeen per cent were clergymen; another seventeen per cent were in the professions, chiefly as physicians. Over six per cent were merchants, farmers, and artisans, and four per cent were in the government civil-service. Granting even that a considerable proportion of the third unheard from are unsuccessful, this is a record of usefulness. Personally I know many hundreds of these graduates, and have corresponded with more than a thousand; through others I have followed carefully the life-work of scores; I have taught some of them and some of the pupils whom they have taught, lived in homes which they have builded, and looked at life through their eyes. Comparing them as a class with my fellow students in New England and in Europe, I cannot hesitate in saying that nowhere have I met men and women with a broader spirit of helpfulness, with deeper devotion to their life-work, or with more consecrated determination to succeed in the face of bitter difficulties than among Negro college-bred men. They have, to be sure, their proportion of ne’er-do-weels, their pedants and lettered fools, but they have a surprisingly small proportion of them; they have not that culture of manner which we instinctively associate with university men, forgetting that in reality it is the heritage from cultured homes, and that no people a generation removed from slavery can escape a certain unpleasant rawness and gaucherie, despite the best of training.	22
With all their larger vision and deeper sensibility, these men have usually been conservative, careful leaders. They have seldom been agitators, have withstood the temptation to head the mob, and have worked steadily and faithfully in a thousand communities in the South. As teachers, they have given the South a commendable system of city schools and large numbers of private normal-schools and academies. Colored college-bred men have worked side by side with white college graduates at Hampton; almost from the beginning the backbone of Tuskegee’s teaching force has been formed of graduates from Fisk and Atlanta. And to-day the institute is filled with college graduates, from the energetic wife of the principal down to the teacher of agriculture, including nearly half of the executive council and a majority of the heads of departments. In the professions, college men are slowly but surely leavening the Negro church, are healing and preventing the devastations of disease, and beginning to furnish legal protection for the liberty and property of the toiling masses. All this is needful work. Who would do it if Negroes did not? How could Negroes do it if they were not trained carefully for it? If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?	23
If it is true that there are an appreciable number of Negro youth in the land capable by character and talent to receive that higher training, the end of which is culture, and if the two and a half thousand who have had something of this training in the past have in the main proved themselves useful to their race and generation, the question then comes, What place in the future development of the South ought the Negro college and college-bred man to occupy? That the present social separation and acute race-sensitiveness must eventually yield to the influences of culture, as the South grows civilized, is clear. But such transformation calls for singular wisdom and patience. If, while the healing of this vast sore is progressing, the races are to live for many years side by side, united in economic effort, obeying a common government, sensitive to mutual thought and feeling, yet subtly and silently separate in many matters of deeper human intimacy,—if this unusual and dangerous development is to progress amid peace and order, mutual respect and growing intelligence, it will call for social surgery at once the delicatest and nicest in modern history. It will demand broad-minded, upright men, both white and black, and in its final accomplishment American civilization will triumph. So far as white men are concerned, this fact is to-day being recognized in the South, and a happy renaissance of university education seems imminent. But the very voices that cry hail to this good work are, strange to relate, largely silent or antagonistic to the higher education of the Negro.	24
Strange to relate! for this is certain, no secure civilization can be built in the South with the Negro as an ignorant, turbulent proletariat. Suppose we seek to remedy this by making them laborers and nothing more: they are not fools, they have tasted of the Tree of Life, and they will not cease to think, will not cease attempting to read the riddle of the world. By taking away their best equipped teachers and leaders, by slamming the door of opportunity in the faces of their bolder and brighter minds, will you make them satisfied with their lot? or will you not rather transfer their leading from the hands of men taught to think to the hands of untrained demagogues? We ought not to forget that despite the pressure of poverty, and despite the active discouragement and even ridicule of friends, the demand for higher training steadily increases among Negro youth: there were, in the years from 1875 to 1880, 22 Negro graduates from Northern colleges; from 1885 to 1890 there were 43, and from 1895 to 1900, nearly 100 graduates. From Southern Negro colleges there were, in the same three periods, 143, 413, and over 500 graduates. Here, then, is the plain thirst for training; by refusing to give this Talented Tenth the key to knowledge, can any sane man imagine that they will lightly lay aside their yearning and contentedly become hewers of wood and drawers of water?	25
No. The dangerously clear logic of the Negro’s position will more and more loudly assert itself in that day when increasing wealth and more intricate social organization preclude the South from being, as it so largely is, simply an armed camp for intimidating black folk. Such waste of energy cannot be spared if the South is to catch up with civilization. And as the black third of the land grows in thrift and skill, unless skilfully guided in its larger philosophy, it must more and more brood over the red past and the creeping, crooked present, until it grasps a gospel of revolt and revenge and throws its new-found energies athwart the current of advance. Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all to clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours. You may marshal strong indictments against them, but their counter-cries, lacking though they be in formal logic, have burning truths within them which you may not wholly ignore, O Southern Gentlemen! If you deplore their presence here, they ask, Who brought us? When you cry, Deliver us from the vision of intermarriage, they answer that legal marriage is infinitely better than systematic concubinage and prostitution. And if in just fury you accuse their vagabonds of violating women, they also in fury quite as just may reply: The wrong which your gentlemen have done against helpless black women in defiance of your own laws is written on the foreheads of two millions of mulattoes, and written in ineffaceable blood. And finally, when you fasten crime upon this race as its peculiar trait, they answer that slavery was the arch-crime, and lynching and lawlessness its twin abortion; that color and race are not crimes, and yet they it is which in this land receives most unceasing condemnation, North, East, South, and West.	26
I will not say such arguments are wholly justified,—I will not insist that there is no other side to the shield; but I do say that of the nine millions of Negroes in this nation, there is scarcely one out of the cradle to whom these arguments do not daily present themselves in the guise of terrible truth. I insist that the question of the future is how best to keep these millions from brooding over the wrongs of the past and the difficulties of the present, so that all their energies may be bent toward a cheerful striving and co-operation with their white neighbors toward a larger, juster, and fuller future. http://www.bartleby.com/114/6.html.  W.E.B Du bois(1868-1963) Published in 1903.

Special Documentary: On The Brink.

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Blameless...Matthew 5:48

People in all walks of life are constantly striving for perfection. Musicians practice tirelessly to achieve flawless performance. Athletes repeat the same motions over and over again to gain perfection in competition. Secretaries aim to become perfect typists/administrators. Those in business always seek greater success. But despite our best efforts, we fall short of our lofty goals. When we compare our behavior with God what  demands in His holy law, we discover that we are failures. We do not have perfect love for God, nor do we exhibit selfless and sincere love for our neighbor. We find it impossible to live up to the Lord's demand, "Be perfect as I am perfect."

What a comfort it is, then, to know that our perfect God has a found a way to make up for our imperfection. He does this through His grace and pardon. In baptism we are clothed with the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ Himself. God looks at us as if we had the perfect, sinless life of our Lord. Through faith in Christ, we ever stand blameless before God. This wonderful grace motivates us to strive for perfection in our obedience to God and love for those around us. We know we will never attain perfection in this life, but by Gods grace in Christ, we honor our heavenly Father by doing our best for Him.

Thank you, Father, that the blood of Your son enables us to be perfect before you. Amen.

From Portals of Prayer, 1991.

A Special Presentation. Kama; The Surfing Pig.

Movie Of The Week: Hidden Assassin. Some of the extras in this movie were raised within 50 miles of three mile island and fit in quite spontaneously.

Click the title. Some of the language used in this dvd is certainly not condoned or approved by those who have reviewed this dvd. Moses and David faced a few assassins as taught.  If they were here today, they would have to be just as mindful as prophets of the word.

A good history student who gets at least a B or C in High School understands the message of the Kennedy Assassination. The lesson is as follows; the most powerful man in the world is Jehovah and such a student prays to serve his country and also any governing authorities. He prays this way every day. Amen!

Psalms 148: 1-7

Movie Of the Week: Ocean Paradise.

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Capitalism and Marxism do not deny the market. . They both acknowledge human ingenuity and creativity for the market. A light bulb is a light bulb !

Who could deny the market and why? You buy low and sell hi. Everyone is a consumer and the extent of this truth is adjusted for the benefit of the socio-economic needs of each country or society. A penny saved is a penny saved and it is better to have little or plenty with thankfulness. Capitalism and Marxism do not deny the market. They both acknowledge human ingenuity and creativity for the purposes of the market. A light bulb is a light bulb ! Marxism did not deny consumers or the need for them but Leninism is quite different. Marxism has consumers while Leninism did not. Why is that? The cold war apartment blocks are filled with new workers for a new community that celebrates the reality of the market dynamic. Leninism is like trying to fly while ignoring the reality of gravity or boating without reflecting upon the ever present truth of water. Every economy is inevitably a market economy; whether you call it capitalist or marxist. Every economy is engaged in social engineering to reflect the needs of the social environment. Politics is the process by which a society decides how to make the "best deal" to satisfy the needs (life, liberty, health and property-Locke; Marx put it quite similarly) of society within an economy. Every country is an economy and is valued based on various factors and indicators such as its GDP and population growth or home growth. An unusual disease in the national brand oats that kills a wife's cheerleader feet in her Nine Wests or an acid that ages her gums may lead her to think her husband cheated. If she reads enough cosmo or watches soap operas, she won't hear him say that it was the cereal she bought for the family on sale. The resultant separation feeds home growth. Another household helps to add to the number of towel and cutlery sets sold and the number of toasters and microwaves. The other idea is to put a husband downer in the national coffee brand and then the wife decides he has to be cheating since he seems to be getting love elsewhere. Once he is a little husband down, is she supposed to feel rejected? It was just the coffee. She isn't rejected. It's family time.

The good thing about Christians, regardless of color and creed, is that they are usually only interested in offering love; not censure as they pray for the strength to offer forgiveness, grace and non-critical social and political environments that absorb the diversity of the human condition. They usually don't worry about what's in your fridge or the age of your golf shoes. In being non-critical yet observant, that type of pre-occupation is for empty, purile and superficial people who love nothing other than their proximity to glossy media images. But, everybody does their best to have a personal sense of style along with a favorite running shoe and phone OS. We need safe communities and consistent social and politcal moral values. Christians are essentially Messianic Jews. See Romans 10 and 11.

Sacrifices...

A young man appreciated the work of the blacksmiths.  It was a special community organization. They made sacrifices to have a sense a community and family.  However, they wanted to ensure that younger generations would respect the sacrifices they made. Many in the younger generations respected the sacrifices and showed appreciation by working very hard in school. What other sign of appreciation would the blacksmiths want or expect?  The  blacksmiths really didn't talk about the "sacrifices" as they may be but they certainly did encourage the younger generations to study and work hard at school and so they did; giving full recognition and showing respect for the "sacrifices" of blacksmiths.

Deuteronomy 13.

Just because you may find water in the atmosphere of Venus or magnesium on the moon, it does not mean that Jehovah did not create the Heavens and the stars or an extremely unique paradise with complex life capable of communication, design, creativity, exploration, repentance, forgiveness and destruction. Your mind and your imagination is your temple.  When whales (whale vertebrae are as large as that of a dinosaur) are extinct in 300 years and fossilized somewhere, a bunch of dedicated Christian believers in 500 years may call the discovery of whale bones in a condo excavation a hoax in the same way they call fossilized dinosaur bones a hoax. I have not met many Christians like that but I have heard about and met one or two who fail to accept the evolutionary process of creation in Genesis 1 and 2(2nd Peter 3:8/Psalms 90:4-a day unto God is LIKE a thousand years). A thinking mammal is the last mammal to show up in the story and one that is capable of having an opinion contrary to what the word of God was trying to demonstrate. Animal extinction does take pace; sometimes due to natural environmental catastrophes.  A Siberian tiger or great white shark does not appear in the list of names that Adam gave to the creation. This is also true of a Mammoth and other such expressions of His creation.  The point is that God made all of the animals regardless of size and this is so whether or not we are aware of their existence. God knows He made Benjamin Franklin. You have proof in a museum.

We are capable of being as communal as our imaginations will allow us. What will our imaginations allow? What will they entertain? This depends on what is affecting our imaginations and how the imagination is being influenced.  It is accepted that all human beings are created with equal functionality, presuming relatively equal inputs to solve simple equations such as 2+x3-3=8.  Solve for x.  

Movie Of The Week: Kaz

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After you leave the abusive family, the POW camp or the concentration camp, the only way to leave it behind and exit the experience emotionally is forgiveness.

There is enough water, oxygen, and the Holy Ghost for everyone. So, why argue or have an ego? There is enough love, joy, peace, patience, kindness and the additional fruits of the spirit to go around.

A young man went to church but worshiped his feelings of jealousy. Another young man got together with a bible-quoting female and the jealous-prone young man became very jealous. He did all he could to ensure she would read bible verses to him and no other. He was possessed and determined to find out if she had read and quoted bibles verses lovingly to the other young man who recognized that God gives breath and lots of water to lots and lots of people. Why covet breath or broken cisterns? Anyway, she never answered the question really because did enjoy his possessiveness and jealousy. One day, after 40 years, the other young man was invited to a Coffee shop so that he could run into the girl and the jealous-prone man reading the bible together. Who really cared except the jealous-prone man who always had a suggestion as to what to do for fun? He was soo easy to manipulate on that basis. Eventually, it was discovered that she was as old as the jealous-prone man is physically although she was twenty years younger. If it wasn't for the other young man, the jealous-prone man would not have known what it is to love bible verses or to covet hearing them; that is.

Is authoritative capitalism compatible with Judeo Christian Humanitarian Democracy? A new article in the NYT and the Atlantic Montlhy have reviewed this issue. It's an interesting point of discussion.

 Has the goal to provide certainty led to a predictability in the name of economic stability in the socio-political arena? We have the certainty of free and fair elections in Western-Judeo Christian humanitarian democracies. Are there free elections and democracies in the world in light of these over-accessing goals? There is although much of human effort boils down to "the best deal". You get a free FTD (Family Times) in your major national brand granola and other notable news providers. The purpose is to ensure people are sufficiently educated to get the best deal; hence free FTD in the 2.50 dollar boxes. It's a good deal!

In Noah(the movie 2014), Noah was certain the Lord has judged us all(but that is His eternal purpose and daily duty) so Noah chose to refuse to change the fuel(that is to something more in tune with paradise) to ensure that the child born miraculously of his first daughter in-law would be the last human instead of Japheth or he would kill the first born female. It was believed that humanity should end instead of improve. With God, all things are impossible. The story confirms that we are all related to Noah and Methuselah. May we have accordant faith. The ignorant 18th century suggestion is that only the children of Ham have a dark hue. But, all of Noah's children looked like Noah. A few Kings of Europe are partially related to Ham, Japheth and Shem because it was just soo hard mathematically with such human beauty to have it occur any other way during the 400 years of Hebrew occupation in Egypt and in the palaces of Israel. How many Egyptian wives and children did the Shemite Kings of Israel have in total? Certainly, Shem, the ancestor or Isaac and Ishmael, will have more children.

There is no resurrection without forgiveness. Jesus the Christ would have stayed in the tomb and failed to resurrect without overcoming death if he did not forgive.

Benjamin Franklin's brotherhood was given a name that stood for structure and community building; not destruction.

LBJ once said that BF(Benjamin Franklin) was blessed with tremendous ingenuity but his writings were not books of prophecy while he certainly believed in God. Also, it seems that someone may have ripped out a page or two since any man who discovered the uses of electricity hoping to make his family's life easier would not allow anyone to mistreat his wife or family in the name of brotherhood, associations and connections or in the hopes of getting brotherly assistance. No book designed with the purpose of brotherhood should injure a brother or his family with the fear that if one is helped without offering something or losing something, he may have a sense of respect or authority that could threaten another friend or brother's ego necessitating that he should be humbled after his receipt of help or before the help if he did well in something by the simple rules of hard work and faith. Benjamin's book was not a sword to unravel the word of God or to work against God honoring community or family but to give a man a sense of extended family, brotherly assistance, a leg up or association in the new and emerging modern world that took men to cities and away from family farms, natural kinship networks, salmon-filled habitats and lands full of wild deer with fresh water from the river to satiate the big fat belly or the small, little belly. A hard working 1960's or 1990's graduate in the same city dedicated to Benjamin Franklin's memory or the other city down the road should not be a victim with a missing knee cap, toe or molars simply because he did not join the membership and because he might have worked hard following principles in the other book Benjamin Read every day(the bible) that extols the virtue of hard work and prayer. Benjamin Franklin was not double minded and he should not be dishonored with any organisation that has wickered his writings or reprinted incomplete versions of his books thereby unraveling the country he loved and founded so dearly. People are spending a lot of time with Benjamin's electricity, advocating for a wickered version of the life Benjamin envisioned for families, wives, husbands and children. There are some pages missing from Benjamin's book that made it contrary to brotherhood to break the ten commandments or to ask any member to do so in anyway by hurting his family. Benjamin Franklin's brotherhood was given a name that stood for structure and community building; not destruction and the unraveling of community or the covering of the family unit itself. Unlike those Horror movies, lock the family cabin door and do not walk out into the woods by yourself at night.

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Either you are for Him(the Lord) or...

Romans 8: It is evident that the devil is not only involved in tempting the children of God but also in condemning them. A burden of guilt that continues after sincere repentance is of the devil. You should forgive yourself and receive God's forgiveness. Any Christian who claims to be a genuine child of God, regardless of denomination, should not be involved in trying to suggest that other Christians should sin, fail, or pray that they be hindered or held back. It is not only a sign of general human immaturity and spiritual underdevelopment that is involved in an ego-driven grasping for a sense of power over others, it is working for the enemy of your soul while you boast about showing up on time for service and for hitting the highest note while singing the hymn. Why not endeavor to be the salt and light of the earth? Love your neighbor! Are you praying for others as you claim to be a child of Christ or praying against them(other believers regardless of denomination)? Who are you really working for if not the devil with (prayers?) of hindrance and distraction.

The wife of a School Principal, she was a senior teacher evidently, taught students the golden rule. She went to a gym three days a week, a healthy idea, and used the towels and drinking fountain on occasion. She contracted a cold sore on her lip. It wasn't visible but she was very self conscious about it and concerned about being rejected. She had other rejection issues from childhood since she was sort of "big" in comparison to Barbie's proportions and was always a little insecure about her husband's affections. When she became a Christian, her insecurity about proportions went away since she stopped idolizing the images of beauty on TV and ostracizing herself while projecting her feelings on to her husband as if he was to be made responsible for how she felt. She respected the fact that God made her excellent. TV was quite false and not the norm. She no longer idolized the image as to think twice about her acceptance, herself and was very confident in her appearance and in her self. She put the image away and did not judge herself with idolized image again. Gym three times a week was still brilliant though for good health. She had her husband's love. However, instead of taking a cold sore medication, she spit in the orange cool aid served to the kids to whom she taught the golden rule. They would end up getting the cold sore and she would never feel alone or rejected in her reasoning. She was three months away from full deliverance from any fear or sense of rejection. All she had to do is use the cold sore medication and in three months, God was going to ask her to teach on the issue on national TV or to produce a movie on the issue if she had done the right thing; that is practice the golden rule. She taught it every day.