What inspired Solomon to write Proverbs 3:5-6? He was inspired by all of the people around him who were trying to seek authority by influencing him with advice that is essentially predicated on the notion of self-rejection. They don't want to be alone in their rejection of self or of God's word.  How can you accept God's love if you don't accept your self? God is within you. He took his father's advice and read Psalms 82. How can you accept your children if you don't accept yourself?  Your children are within you. You are within your children.  You could spend a whole entire life rejecting yourself as manifested in your children. Follow the wives' tales as promoted by several popular magazines as you wish. Some of them tell you to do whatever you want so you can feel just like them. The devil did this to Adam and Eve.  Eventually, you get to a place where you might have jilted the only man who would ever stay faithful and you justified this by following the wives' tale that all men cheat or that all men are dogs. But, that could not be a wives' truth but just a tale. Dogs have tails.

Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas From Londiniumtvchannel.com.

The Myth.

There was a woman who lived in Ohio and who emigrated from a south sea Island. She went to high school and university.  She wrote her exams and she graduated. She was so pleased. She had a son and he followed accordingly. He was soo afraid of disappointing his mother and father that he spent a lot of time preparing and studying. He went to school in Ohio all of his life.  He went to high school and to university. He graduated as well but when his mother heard about some of his results, she started a myth.  The myth was that the old governor of Ohio helped or protected her son all of his life. However, its not as if the son wrote " I believe in the syllabus"  and then walked out of his exams without actually answering the question. He did believe in the syllabus and demonstrated his belief by showing up for class, participating in the tutorials and studying accordingly. There was no one  helping him to write the answers in the exam book and anything, including google di google di goop, could have risen up out of his pen and stood on the paper. That was her son and if he had walked out of school with something on his syllabus that reflected the one line answer such as " I believe in the syllabus", the school would have made sure that it reflected in his final grades. You could always get an exam copy; right? There were no favorites of any kind regardless of race. He was just another student capable of studying the faces and symbols on the coins provided by the professors in the syllabus. The coins and their design are pretty constant because they are used throughout the entire system for everything that we call sacred such as a sprite, fanta, a pepsi or a box of milk. They need systemic recognition. He answered accordingly.    

Movie Of the Week (Special Christmas Presentation): Christmas Lodge.

Click the title.

1st Corinthians 13 is an equation. If you treat each other well and give each other an equal listening ear, then it should balance out. 6+x+7=15.  The two have become one flesh. Two are better than one.  How can two walk together unless they agree? 1st Corinthians 13 is prayerful agreement.

Ephesians 5, 6.

There is a story of a young woman who had a son. She was a cosmo girl. She read cosmo magazine to her son so he became a cosmo boy.  Her friend was also a cosmo girl and they both became Christians.  The friend had a daughter and she became a Christian as well. One day the daughter met the cosmo boy. He wanted to know if the daughter was right for him so he did some cosmo things like stealing her bible. The idea is that she should know he is the one who stole the bible and just show up at his house. It didn't work so he tried other cosmo things like breaking into her house and spitting in her food or drinking her cup water  as found in a cup left in the dish washer or sink because it should work apparently. But, by the time she figured out that she had never experienced anything like this before, she also decided that there was a reason why her mother is a Christian and also her mother's friend. There are certain things that could never work except but to found a relationship of abuse, inequality and onesidedness. It is essentially a relationship  for one since it serves the needs and insecurities of only one person in the relationship.  That person who took your bible is not a friend. What wedding vow could they make to love and cherish ?  They should bring back that bible and try 1st Corinthians 13.   There is no law against passion or curiosity but there is a law against expressing your self in ways that places an improper foot hold or an encroachment on someone's privacy or physical health. That is an unholy desire; an improper feeling or expression that is the antithesis of the fruit of the spirit. Do you want to serve Jesus or are you serving something else?  That is not a fatal  attraction except but to one's own ego that is also truly an expression of control and abuse.    Read the bible with them but please don't just take it. You don't own anyone. The cosmo son realised that friendship was best after some experiences with cosmo girls and became the Christian son who worked it out with the Christian girl. He might have noticed this earlier if he was a musician, singer, athlete or if he just put the Cosmo ideas away. They enjoyed blessed friendship. Everybody was just soo happy!

Special Documentary Today Only. See Also The Battle For Marjah. This movie depicts American professionalism and dignity in dealing with civilian populations. The 1:07th minute is of particular interest where they provide a cash payment( not a $100000.00 though) for each civilian casualty to memorialize the loss of a life. It is a part of their code of ethics and their legislation.

Goldie Lockes is a story based on the reality of Hyderabad West Indian Orphan refugees in the West Indies. Goldie Lockes is the archetype of a Hyderabad West Indian Orphan refugee.

DJ Pears Soappe and Friends Special Music Mix Of the Week.

Click the title.

Was Star Wars(the movie) an emotional and psychological big box office Trojan to start the process of reversing 200 years of democratic ideals for the people and by the people? Someone on the RT news network reported recently that the American dream is dead(December 3rd, 2014). Is that a declaration of war or an act of subversion against the great American people and the move of democracy internationally in the guise of journalism or is this revelatory of the reformation of something imperial (but unseen and insidious) where the people aren't really a factor for decision making except but to keep them viable consumers? Does your country still have a senate or have they talked about dismantling it and reducing representation for the people? Who is the emperor?

Star Wars Saga Reflects Political Ideals

Published May 22, 2005 

NONE

Facebook0 Twitter0 livefyre0 Email Print

In the lead up to the last Star Wars movie, Weekly Standard online editor Jonathan Last took his magazine over to the dark side.

The Empire may be a dictatorship, Last wrote, but it's "a dictatorship people can do business with. They collect taxes and patrol the skies. They try to stop organized crime...The Empire has virtually no effect on the daily life of the average, law-abiding citizen."

Last went on to explain that imperial ruler Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine "is a dictator — but a relatively benign one, like Pinochet." Last's column was written tongue-in-cheek — I think. But, in post-Patriot Act America, I hope his ideas stay far, far away from Capitol Hill.

No cultural icon can exist without someone trying to stuff it into a political ideology. The Star Wars saga, the greatest pop culture icon of the last three decades, is no exception. Fan Web sites have buzzed for years over whether Sith patsies Nute Gunray and Lott Dodd symbolize Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott. Palpatine's dissolution of the Senate in favor of imperial rule has been compared to Julius Caesar's marginalization of the Roman Senate, Hitler's power-grab as chancellor, and FDR's court-packing scheme and creation of the imperial presidency.

Creator George Lucas admits that his tale of a republic succumbing to dictatorship is colored by his observations of the Nixon administration and, more recently, the post-9/11 Bush administration. Fear, his Jedi often say, leads to the Dark Side; public fears, Episodes I–III suggest, can lead to the concentration of power in the hands of politicians and the erosion of democracy into authoritarianism.

Some observers of the politics of Star Wars sharply criticize parts of Lucas's tale. Following the release of "Episode II: Attack of the Clones," the Objectivist Center's Ed Hudgins fired off an op-ed criticizing the film for showing Palpatine and the Sith forming an alliance of convenience with traders (the Trade Federation), bankers (the Banking Clan), unions (the Commerce Guilds), and corporations (the Corporate Alliance).

"That's about as obvious a slap at business as you'll get," Hudgins bristled. "Lucas the liberal sees economic power as a danger, and fails to realize that it is political power, even in the hands of a republican government, that corrupts commerce and society."

But classical liberals can just as easily argue the Force is on the side of free markets and limited government. What characterizes an empire is a central government's expansion of its control over social, political and economic institutions. With due respect to Hudgins, no student of public choice theory can look agreeably on a politician-orchestrated cartelization of unions, investors and firms. Nationalized industries, mercantilism, restricted trade — all are the work of the Galactic Empire of Episodes IV–VI (not to mention many empires in this corner of our galaxy).

And just think about the taxes necessary to keep the Empire functioning, the storm troopers fed and the star destroyers and Death Star flying. In a scene later cut from Episode IV, Rebel pilot Biggs uses the tax angle to encourage Luke to leave his Uncle Owen's farm and join the Alliance: "What good is all your uncle's work if it's taken over by the Empire?" Biggs asks. "It won't be long before your uncle is merely a tenant, slaving for the greater glory of the Empire."

By and large, the rebellion's supporters were ordinary people who wanted self-determination, republican government, and free enterprise in place of the Galactic Empire's oppression, economic controls, and high taxes. They called it the Dark Side for a reason. 

Thomas A. Firey is managing editor of the Cato Institute’s Regulation magazine.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/05/22/star-wars-saga-reflects-political-ideals/

Movie Of The Week: The Book of Ruth Journey of Faith.

Click the title.

No one doubts a train conductor's duty to do a job. When do you give him a South Seas vacation? What if there is just a black passenger on the train? Unfortunately, you don't hear about the dead non black passengers so much. The train conductor has a lot of power with lives in his hands but does he have the power to execute people without a trial and how often? That would be embarrassing to the emperor who has shares in that railway. Any how, it's not an easy thing dying at the hands of someone who is being paid by your gas, food and tea taxes as collected by the emperor.

We could just get on with our human logic if we decided that God did not exist and by virtue of that logic, we would be obligated to build the cleanest and most hallowed world possible for the salvation of our human logic. Where's your cell phone honey or baboo? Now, most of us our too logical to even think of emoting like that. It is just a cell phone.  This means we could consider our collective behavior accordingly without consideration of a prophecy that the world must end.  The tremendous technology in our hand bags of vast discovery make it obvious that the end cannot be man-made; that is if we have the time to even think or contemplate whether God exists. If the end  to the world is the result of human hands, human endeavor or the lack thereof, then God must exist and the word of God concerning human nature is true. The whales and other animals must know the Prince of peace.  Faith is a choice. Read Deuteronomy 8 and 11. An end to human existence as we know it is as much as man can achieve. It is a very particular endeavor of agreed conflict instead of cooperation. Your dog is able to understand you when you say "Kissy Kissy". Human beings have very sophisticated powers of communication. What have we decided today for the general quality of human life tomorrow?   The end could not be of human hands since we have too much brain power and time in our gifts of logic to think about  whether God exists. We buy soccer shoes when there is a 2 for 1 deal as opposed to buying one pair for the same price.  The end, if we are soo smart to argue about God, has to be the result of some natural disaster since our logic would predicate that we follow logically and collectively the simple wisdom of the word of God or Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. What does mankind need? They need water and air. This also demonstrates the shortsightedness  of man's wisdom to utilize technology to sustain man's existence and the various animals that remain dependent on his rationale to preserve the only habitat as we have it  for life. Jesus came that we might have life and life more abundantly.

Horkheimer and Adorno said that civilization is becoming more barbaric. They made these observations during the 1940's when the phenomena of multimedia and societal visualization via movies, television and magazines became a significant phenomenon. Society could not begin to suffer a devolution toward barbarism without barbarism in the media. Barbaric societal feedback via multimedia outlets leads to societal barbarism. Seeing vomit in a movie or on a side walk instead of not seeing it in the privacy of someone's toilet is quite barbaric; isn't it?  We should meditate on media that reflects only the essence of  psalms, hymns and spiritual things and society should follow in terms of its enlightenment instead of its devolution toward barbarism.  I have to go and watch the movie "Force 10 from Navarone" and "Crazy Stupid Love". You were taught that Hitler won an election to obtain political power in Germany. That is factually impossible. But, you never know. Essentially, there was a Nazi Germany in place prior to any election so that a Nazi Germany could exist electorally.   But, Germany is a Christian nation. You must have heard of Martin Luther and Dr. Diesel.

In the end, if turning might into right and power into legitimacy is the purpose of politics, does this mean that the F-35 and B1 bomber commanders have a gay marriage agenda?

In a new movie plot, Someone once said quite emphatically that politics is about "...turning might into right and power into legitimacy." I would suggest that it is best not to argue with the PH.D who is grading your paper unless you have something meaningful to say about morality and the fact that politics should be about turning morality into right or right into might and morality into legitimacy. The concern is that there are certain moral absolutes. If this is not so, we are in danger at the most fundamental levels of community and civilization. You have no right to take my dogs home as if it was yours. You have no right to use my barbecue as if it was yours. This is very important!
It's my pet and my barbecue. What would my children say if you could just use my barbecue. In the end, if turning might into right and power into legitimacy is the purpose of politics, does this mean that the F-35 and B1 bomber commanders have a gay marriage agenda? Couldn't they have an anti-coral bleaching agenda or a clean air agenda. They have such big (manly?) hands to fly those bigggg machines.


It is the continuing policy of Londinium TV Channel to discuss everything in a light hearted manner and to let everyone know that homosexuals are human beings. It is also to share the gospel. They should be as well respected in public as any bible believing Christian. Hatred is not tolerated against homosexuals and nor should anyone tolerate anyone, including homosexuals, perpetrating crimes of anger, passions and violence. 
Warren Lyon, Editor.
Londinium TV Channel. 

Lord of my life and Spirit sustaining why should we live in constant complaining? Thy loving kindness so tender and true will always see our problems through.

Reverend J. J. Carter Henry.

Partisan police activity...there is no such thing!

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.

Click the title.

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.

Click the title.

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

Click the title.