This is Satan’s World Unless We Take It Back

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In response to “This One Is All About Me”

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it is the people who have to start the change and make it happen, or the change doesnt happen! thats the law of nature. most people in the world have already forgotten religion. those few that are left are causing their own downfalls.

I did not mean to imply that this is the fault of the Pakistani people. You and I have been friends for years and I’ve learned a lot from you.

What is happening in Pakistan concerning the floods is the fault of global warming and some of us wonder, me included, if this could be a result of HAARP (that would be a reach, but still a possibility, either intentional or by accident) Though our government might have to put money out for emergency aid, they could save a bunch of money in future military spending, again though, that is a reach without evidence.

The terrorists in Pakistan, mostly in Afghanistan was a creation of our own CIA, Hillary Clinton admits this on national television, at that time we were at war with communist Russia. There was an instance once, four times in a row after Desert Storm and again it just happened recently here in Oklahoma, when our soldiers come home, they would kill their wife and children and then kill themselves. It is not to difficult for me to believe that mind control experiments are done on our soldiers, perfected, to only be used as weapons of propaganda for an agenda that is kept hidden from us. There was no such thing as suicide bombings until U.S. involvement.

Common sense tells you that air planes did not take down those sky scrapers. My government is not stupid and I’m not smarter than they. They know air planes did not take those buildings down, but they are willing to believe that and propagate this which means, they, our government was involved in the 9/11 terrorist attack. If they could be that evil, what other evil could they be involved in.

I don’t believe that the Pakistani people are being punished, but victims. Global warming is mostly a result of coal and oil along with an industrialized market economy. It’s like drunk drivers who get in a car and drive and then have an accident. It always seems that they live while some innocent person dies. Those who have taken advantage of coal and oil investments and an industrialized market economy, they are fat and happy while the innocent suffer the consequences of their indulgence.

While you may not believe that Jesus was crucified. Death would have been a favour compared to the punishment of hatred, slander and torture from those he offered good will.
But that is this world, a world ruled by Satan. With leaders who pretend to be for us to gain our power but are always against us at every turn.

I can’t change it and you can’t change it, but all of us together can. Jesus (peace be upon him) and many others have been sent to teach us how to change this world, but we have to follow those teachings. Not you or I, but all of us. Satan knows the power of the collective conciousness and so takes every opportunity to divide us up one against another.

A Round World Has Many Sides

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I’ve always said that this is a round world and everyone sees their own side and their are many sides to a round world.

The smartest of us are the ones who can see thru the eyes of others.  They can see more of this round world than anybody else.

Because the wise say, “I wonder” and the fools say, “I know.”

How can anybody know when they can only see one side of a round world?

Sweden withdraws arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Assange

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From:  http://www.france24.com/en/
BREAKING NEWS
Sweden withdraws arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Assange
Swedish prosecutors have withdrawn an arrest warrant for Julian Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, saying rape allegations against him were unfounded.
I figure I better post this, because you know how it goes.  Most people don’t even read articles, just the headlines.  This second article isn’t really an article and it is doubtful that those who saw the first headlines will see this to correct their perception.

A Poem About War That I’m Not Fighting In

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IN THE ECLIPSE OF THE DAWN

Surrounded by sophisticated bob wire
In the eclipse of the dawn
circling overhead is a bat and a dove
They send their love

I’m not understanding why I’m here
protected
Across the fence is life destructed
I know I should feel so lucky
I can’t
knowing that there are lives in destruction
Can somebody tell me why
or better yet
just make it stop
Stop all this life stopping, hurting pain

Its an eclipse of the dawn
when an unknown song is sung
All the angles will be smiling
The dove and the bat will sing along

Surrounded by sophisticated bob wire
Circling overhead the bat and dove
send there love

But I don’t know why
I ask the sky
and there is no reply
Why not I
How is it that I’m so lucky
and they are not
It makes me want to cry

I cannot tell a lie
Thankfully but not happily
I have to ask why
Death and pain is cast upon some
innocent women and children cry to you
As Fathers and husbands unable to protect them
against a wrath of unseeing, uncaring and sometimes even
unknowing eyes

But I am lucky
surrounded by sophisticated bob wire
In the eclipse of the dawn
An unknown song will be sung
The angles will smile
The suffering will end
then

By: Roger Harkness
The Okcitykid

This One Is All About Me

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My blood pressure keeps going up and my doctor keeps having to up my prescription, and today I worked very hard and unloaded almost a whole pallet of copy paper, so there was no reason why my blood pressure should have been high.  I have even supplemented my blood preasure medicine with grape seed extract, but still it keeps creeping up there.  So today I figure I should take some extra medication and I accidently took my wife’s Anti Depressant pill.  She takes some good drugs, I am mellow yellow.  The world could be coming to an end and I would be like, “whatever!”

With that said, I feel like talking if anyone cares to listen.

Pakistan, it really bothers me and I even complained to God (as I pray to him in my mind).  I’m like, God how can people believe in you when such terrible things happen.  I mean, here’s the deal, people are hungry, sick and thirsty for some clean fresh water, because that crap they’re drinking is making them sick, and they’re drinking it because they are hungry and it fills their belly leaving them feel sick, yet they have no home.  They have lost everything except what they can carry, and carry they must, for miles and miles treading thru water sometimes up to their waist in hopes to find dry ground, food and clean water.  When it rains they just get wet, and at night, do they have a dry blanket to keep them warm?  I dare anyone to tell these people that if they’re not saved, they will go to hell.  And they will be like, well at least it will be warm and dry there.  To die of hunger and thirst has got to be the worst way to die, because it is a very slow death.

I think we have a serious misunderstanding of God.  I believe if God could do something, God would do something, but can’t.  Because God is the ruler of the spirit world.  By his mere thought he created the physical world, but he is not a part of it and does not rule it.  We are the rulers of the physical world, that’s why we’re here, to make it better.  Jesus and many other leaders have tried to teach us this, but we’re still not listening.

I can’t do anything, but WE can change the world.  It has to be WE.  It can’t be me and it can’t be you, it has to be US, only we can do it.  That is our challenge and we are utterly failing.

Mosque NEAR Ground Zero – A Jewish Perspective

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Shame on ADL for opposing Mosque 2 blocks from Ground Zero

by Rabbi Michael Lerner

The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) publicly opposes the construction two blocks from Ground Zero of the Cordoba House (also known as Park 51), which the planners imagine as hosting a range of activities similar to those offered at the 92nd Street Y, and including a Mosque at which Muslims could worship. The plan, supported by Mayor Bloomberg, is opposed by some who have consistently used the attack on the World Trade Center as justification for war and fear+hatred of Muslims.

ADL leader  Abe Foxman presented the position of this organization that claims to oppose discrimination by reading a formal statement that seemed to be a perfect example of “shooting and crying” (first you attack brutally, then you cry about how sad it is to be put into this difficult position, often blaming the victims for having “forced” us to attack them). The key to that statement was this:

“Proponents of the Islamic Center may have every right to build at this site, and may even have chosen the site to send a positive message about Islam. The bigotry some have expressed in attacking them is unfair, and wrong. But ultimately this is not a question of rights, but a question of what is right. In our judgment, building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain – unnecessarily – and that is not right.”

This kind of argument is deeply mistaken. It was not “Muslims” or Islam that attacked the World Trade Center, but some Muslims who held extreme versions of Islam and twisted what is a holy and peace-oriented tradition to justify their acts and their hatred. We see the same thing happening in the name of Christianity (many of those who justified the war in Iraq were Christians who felt they were acting from a Christian ethical perspective) or in the name of Judaism (the immoral behavior of some of the settlers who use Judaism as their cover for stealing land and destroying the olive trees of their Palestinian neighbors).  Just as we would rebel against others dismissing Judaism or Christianity, or prohibiting Jews and Muslims from constructing our holy places of worship or community centers where we wish because some of those who had suffered from the immorality of some Jews or some Christians had decided that it was painful to them to see the presence of these institutions near the site of previous suffering, so we reject this claim.

Arthur Waskow asks us to imagine how we would feel if some group of Muslims in the US, identifying with the suffering of Palestinians, and including within them some who had lived in Israel and had to leave to protect themselves from the oppression of Occupation that they labeled as “Jewish oppression,” had opposed the construction of a synagogue in their predominantly Muslim neighborhood because it would cause some of the victims of Israeli policy to experience more pain. Would we accept that? Certainly not.

Underlying the ADL position is its references to the Holocaust and the need to respect the feelings of its survivors. Sadly, the memory of Jewish suffering is appropriated by right-wing forces to justify special privilege for Jews in general and Israel in particular, now is to be extended to victims of 9/11 (but not, for example, to the survivors of US military assaults on civilians in Vietnam,Cambodia, Laos, El Salvador, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Iraq, or Afghanistan). The aggression of others is always evil, ours always justifiable, to the political right. That’s bad enough. But shame on ADL in particular for now using our suffering in the Holocaust to justify discrimination toward others, whether in Israel or in the U.S.

Actually, to those of us who take seriously the Torah command to “love the stranger” (the Other), it seems clear that the rebuilding of Ground Zero should include the construction of an interfaith center in which all of the world’s religions could be represented, particularly that of Islam as a way of affirming and supporting those many Muslims who do not adopt an extreme anti-American or anti-Jewish perspective.

The American Jewish Committee tried to adopt a more nuanced position, but wanted to withhold endorsement till they can establish that the source of money for this building did not come from extremist elements in the Muslim world. Yet how would we feel if construction of a Jewish center was similarly conditional? Would money from those who support the settlers or others who believe that Jews have a right to all of the Biblical Land of Israel and have a right to use violence to achieve that end be sufficient reason to prevent the construciton of a Jewish center? Would a Church that received money from sources in the Christian community that believed it appropriate to engage in violence to create the world they wanted (e.g. to support a US military intervention in Iran) be sufficient reason to deny them the right to build their Christian center? I don’t think so.

No wonder, then, that we at Tikkun–seeking to build a world in which animosities among religions can be dramatically reduced so that all of us can recognize our common humanity (or what we Jews call “being created in the image of God”) and recognize the immediate global environmental emergency to overcome national and religious antagonisms so that we can work together to save the planet and its peoples from destruction–strongly endorse and support the construction of the Muslim community center/mosque a few blocks from Ground Zero.

Shame on ADL and the American Jewish Committee for not understanding the moral imperatives of this moment! They not only betray Jewish values (“do not do unto others what you would not wish them to do to you”) and American values (government should not interfere with the operations of religious communities), they unintentionally but nevertheless certainly increase the tensions between Jews and Muslims at a moment when all sane people in both communities recognize the need to build bridges of understanding, friendship and mutual caring as a prelude to supporting peace in Israel. Given that both ADL and the AJCommittee have consistently supported the most outrageous actions of the Israeli government toward Palestinians, is it possible that unconsciously they are taking these kinds of stands because they do not see the supreme importance of creating caring and sensitivity to the needs of the other?  Yet it is this sensitivity which is the necessary prerequisite for a lasting peace with justice and security for both sides  in the Middle East conflict. And that peace would be a major step toward undermining the support that terrorists have been able to amass,  in part because such a peace is absent.

Rabbi Michael Lerner is editor of Tikkun Magazine www.tikkun.org, chair of the interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives www.spiritualprogressives.org, rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue in Berkeley, Ca. and author of eleven books, most recently the national best-seller The Left Hand of God: Taking Back our Country From the Religious Right.  If you wish to support this kind of thinking, please join our Network of Spiritual Progressives at www.spiritualprogressives.org.

Why I don’t belong to any church or religion

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I have beliefs that don’t fit in any church or religion.

1. I remember before I was born. That I know of, the only religion that comes close to that is the Mormons who believes that before we were born we were in a very nice place. We are sent here basically to earn our way back, however, they believe that you don’t remember it, well I do.

2. The Christians believe in a rapture that is to happen before Jesus returns, I agree, but believe that it already happened. I base this on a tour I took of the Catacombs of Rome while I was in the Navy. I was fortunate to have a real historian conduct our tour who gave us pretty much the history of the Roman empire. Rome murdered Christians horribly just for sport in their spectator stadium. To escape, the Christians hid down in the Catacombs. They etched things in the walls of the Catacombs like fish, birds, anchors and other strange things and he said, nobody really knows what those symbols mean. He said some will guess and think they know, but know body really knows. I thought that was really strange. One day the leader of Rome converts to Christianity and creates the Roman Catholic Church and makes himself the first pope, though their church history denies this and Rome goes from killing Christians to putting to death anyone who refuses to become Catholic.

Study the history of Christianity and the first organized church is the Roman Catholic Church and all churches that exist today have broken off from the Roman Catholic Church, well what happened to the Christians before that time? And why doesn’t anyone know why they etched fish, birds, anchors and other strange things into walls of the catacombs?

The Christian church teaches that Peter would be the rock of the church until Jesus returns, Christians believe this strongly today. I don’t know, it looks to me like that rock got broke, or did it. Maybe, now this is just an idea, the Christians that we don’t know a lot about, who hid in the Catacombs to escape persecution have been raptured into heaven.

This is what I figure happened. Word got to Alexander, the Catacombs were empty, we couldn’t find any Christians to capture to bring into the arena for our entertainment, could it be that Jesus did come back and get them? So Alexander and his advisors had to think fast, because if word got out that Jesus did come back and take his followers home there would be panic in the streets and the Roman empire could be toppled. So they came up with the bright idea of claiming to have converted, organize the church, make yourself the leader and should anyone disagree with your dictates, they are also disagreeing with God himself. So you could sweep this bit of history under the carpet and no one would dare question it or they would be tortured, imprisoned, and or killed.

That’s what I believe happened though I have no way to prove it. The only church I know of who comes close to that same belief is the Jehovah Witnesses and I have a friend who visits once a week teaching me the bible in hopes to convert me. They believe the rapture happened in World War I, or something like the rapture, that’s a little fuzzy, but maybe in time I’ll have a better understanding of that.

3. One day I decided that I would start over and stop believing everything I have ever been taught and start over, study for myself and discover for myself what I believe or not so I studied all the major religions and I must admit that unknowing to me, when it came to Islam I had studied the Christian version and it was “The Nation of Islam” and not the Islam religion. “The Nation of Islam” and “Muslim” is not the same, they are two different religions and I hadn’t read the Koran, but I did start reading it. I had read all the Gnostic scriptures that existed today and decided that the Gnostic were the true religion mainly because, they we’re not around anymore. Though some have tried to recreate Gnosticism and it is often referred to as New Age, a lot has been lost, many of their scriptures have been destroyed, so the new age is really guessing. I did however receive a message from someone saying that the Gnostic have moved underground and are now the Illuminati of today, well, I don’t know, I think that is just a smoke screen.

But anyways. The Gnostic believed in two Gods, they believed in a true God and a false god. Now if you believe their is a false god and a true God then you really only believe in One God, and that of course would be the True God because the false god would of course be false. But, because they claimed to believe in two Gods, they were wiped off the face of this earth for breaking the commandment where God commanded he was one. A sad misunderstanding and just an excuse to kill another. History tells of babies of Gnostic parents being hung from stakes.

The Gnostic believed that the false god created our bodies, but the body had no life, so the true God breathed into the body the soul and brought the body to life. Salvation for the Gnostic was to escape from this human body that we are trapped in and once again return to the true God. It made sense to me, so I decided that’s what I would believe.

Then one night I had this dream that told me that it was true that the false god created our body, but the false god also created our soul, but the true God takes us as if we were a ball of clay and makes us unto himself. That of-course goes against Gnostic teaching and that teaching I was given in a dream can be found no where that I am aware of.

So, this is why I am a man without a church or religion, but on my own out here. But I find truth in all religions, churches and teachings. I even believe that Mohammad was a true prophet of God. Because Mohammad teaches us of the spirit of the false Messiah who rules our world.

Some have tried to help me interpret this dream because they want me to join their church or religion, but what is there to interpret, pretty straight forward. My own father has tried to explain to me that I had been deceived by Satan, but since when does Satan deliver hope of salvation? I can show you many places in the bible where people have been guided by their dreams, but I don’t know anywhere in the the bible that Satan has deceived anyone with a dream.

It Starts With You

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It starts with you, that’s right, that’s what I’m saying, are you listening, it starts with you. Love that is. If you got lost, then you have to find yourself, and when you do, you have to love yourself, you see, because it starts with you.

Roger Harkness

A Stone Is All You Got

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A Stone Is All You Got

Just agree with everything you see
Believe everything you hear
The stone is your reality

But the life you aint got
Until you are brave enough
To Disagree

Then inside that rock you will see
It isn’t that hard to be

By: Roger Harkness
7/25/10

Yes, There Was An Apostasy

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There was an apostasy I will agree. It is my opinion that the true Christians were raptured into heaven long, long ago. This occurrence caused the Roman empire to create its own church, called the Roman Catholic Church. An empire who went from killing Christians to claiming to be one, whose empire fell but the church lived on. I find it really strange how the story of Paul who claims to be the 13th apostle who once himself judged and captured Christians to bring them to their death then claims to have become one and becomes the leader, the apostle sent to the gentiles because the Jews had rejected Christ. I believe this story was made up and that Paul is actually the Roman Catholic Church. The writer intentionally did this to give hints of the truth to future generations which was at that time greatly suppressed. It is strange how the Catholic church doesn’t even recognize Paul, but rather claims that Peter was the first Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.

After the creation of the Roman Catholic church, Mohammed (peace be upon him) shows up on the scene who I believe was a true prophet, he warns us about the coming Anti-Christ.

The Roman Catholic church waged war with the followers of Mohammed, while Christian history tries to teach it the other way around. The Roman Catholic Church had torture chambers that surpass anything since, and many Muslims and Jews were tortured to death.

After the Anti-Christ rules the world for a bit, then Jesus (peace be upon him) will return along with the true Christians who were raptured long, long ago. He will set up his kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.

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