Sunday, February 26, 2023
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Sunday, February 19, 2023
One of my addictions, maybe my greatest, is an unwillingness to let learning opportunities, Strategic Le....
One of my addictions, maybe my greatest, is an unwillingness to let learning opportunities, Strategic Learning opportunities, get away from me. To a degree it is sin, but I think more than that it is virtue. In every aspect of life that I think is important, including my management of this magical resource, this vehicle. Spare tubes are carried, but when a tube gets a puncture instead of the spare, I'll risk three four five six seven incidents to try and learn how to repair the spare in place. Particularly because the rear trike wheel, when I can patch it in place, saves a hour and a half tube change, which could also be saving our life.
What is a person profited if they gain the whole world but lose their own soul, Jesus asked. In many ways he expressed the truth that if we don't use it, we lose it. Each moment that you're not living out of your soul you're losing it. Anatomically.
What is a person profited if they gain the whole world but lose their own soul, Jesus asked. In many ways he expressed the truth that if we don't use it, we lose it. Each moment that you're not living out of your soul you're losing it. Anatomically.
Christianity is of by and for rich people to oppress and exploit poor people. They would either have been wiped out by Jesus teaching or they had to turn it into their own tool which they've done for thousands of years now.
Christianity is of by and for rich people to oppress and exploit poor people. They would either have been wiped out by Jesus teaching or they had to turn it into their own tool which they've done for thousands of years now.
He gets us? Then why are you speaking for him?
'Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing. They steal, kill, and destroy..... A Camel is more likely to get through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven.' The oppressors have been twisting Jesus into a tool for themselves, a tool of oppression, ever since constantine, for thousands of years. Christianity was created as a tool of oppression. Priests pastors popes preachers are their army.
Saturday, February 18, 2023
Billions think, so, I must be wrong, but I'll take that chance. Jesus was the total, singular, necessary, and sufficient definition of God and good, I'll be arguing on judgment day. The Christians will be arguing that moses, abraham, the scribes, the pharisees, the popes, the preachers, the pastors, luther, calvin, revelations, paul.. we're all equally if not more important than the teachings and example of Jesus.
Billions think, so, I must be wrong, but I'll take that chance. Jesus was the total, singular, necessary, and sufficient definition of God and good... salvation, I'll be arguing on judgment day. The Christians will be arguing that moses, abraham, the scribes, the pharisees, the popes, the priests, the preachers, the pastors, luther, calvin, revelations, paul, their free and easy holy spirit,...were all equally if not more important than the teachings and example of Jesus.....
So alone in my bet, I'm much more comfortable than they should be.
Jesus said, call no man your master save one, me. He also said, if you seen me, you have seen the father. He also said, all who came before me are thieves and robbers. And in a variety of ways he said you better be really really really really really careful to try and understand what I'm saying because it isn't easy, and if you don't, it's going to be hell to pay.
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Today was not the day we were supposed to die, despite all appearances. The fire, and....
Today was not the day we were supposed to die, despite all appearances. The fire, and.... then the flat on the brief part of the 75 mph interstate that did not have a wide shoulder. This after several flats where it did. For safety sake, yes, for safety sake, we decided to take Interstate 10 rather than a previously carefully planned off Interstate route. Why? Large cities are really nasty and dangerous. And there's a long weekend ahead which provides a relatively safe time to get through phoenix. But it turns out I was lulled into a sense of security, it turns out there are clouds in the southwest. And adverse winds. And guess what we've got for the next 4 days? The fire was a controller cable, why? I'll never know. A standard connector that I think has been compromised I'm guessing now based on the symptoms for several months. And today it went. And mercifully the vehicle was not combusted in the meantime. And with some rewiring and Spares that are carried we got rolling again.
There is so little kindness and goodness in the world, but at this truck stop I asked for the manager and she instantly sprang into action. She and the lady that are her facilities manager searched and searched and found me an ac plug. So the plan is early tomorrow morning to take the 13 miles of energy that we're collecting in the next hour and a half, and the 25 that we already had in the batteries, and to get as far as we can tomorrow before the headwinds, to then stop mid-morning and collect energy until we have enough, and then to see if we can get to the next place where we might be able to plug in. And that's what the next 5 days look like. I watch myself, a lot, amused much of the time, frustrated much of the time. For the 30 minutes on the side of that 75 mph Interstate with no shoulder, I watched myself with amusement and realized, I had no concern whether I was exterminated or not. I did my job. The rest was up to creator. I really like that. And yes I have the comfort of realizing it would be a clean kill. All I ask for, personally.
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Monday, February 6, 2023
With no reference to Jesus, as always, Christians say that one can only be Christian in a group. Curious, Jesus refused to be in a group, and avoided forming groups. He sent disciples out pretty much on their own. One can only follow Jesus on their own. Devoting their lives to help the one in a million Souls that still alive and capable of joy and Transcendence of suffering.
Sunday, February 5, 2023
Jesus has been dismissed as a piece of meat, nothing more than a sacrificial slab of meat on the altar. Imagine that Einstein had been similarly dismissed. The one in a million that have heeded him are the gandhi's, Martin Luther King jr, tolstoys, Rauschenbusches, MLK Jrs.... (Lsgiabeing.com). The purpose and crowning achievement of christianity. The rest is history.
An encouraging thought this morning as I go about my Breath by breath floundering. That no one including Jesus has figured out how to save more than one or two Souls per generation if any, from joylessness and suffering. I shall continue my floundering till my last breath I suspect. For the joy peace love and vitality of it. Enlightened greed. Disciple of the man Jesus.
Saturday, February 4, 2023
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Notice. Many JesianJames posts on Facebook
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Sabbath, maybe I'm beginning to understand. Joyful life is co-creating, serving, creator. Responsible serving requires proper care of t...
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It pretty much comes down to how you define the word believe. Christians seem to Define believe as like the tooth fairy or Santa claus, tha...