(1) Iesus went unto
mount olivet, (2) and early in the morning came again into the temple,
and all the people came unto him, And he sat down, and taught them. (3)
The scribes and pharises brought unto him a woman taken in advoutry,
and set her in the midst and said unto him: (4) Master this woman was
taken in advoutry, even as the deed was a doing. (5) Moses in the law
commanded us that such should be stoned: What sayest thou therefore?
(6) And this they said to tempt him: that they might have, whereof to
accuse him. Iesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the
ground. (7) And while they continued asking him, he lifted himself up,
And said unto them: let him that is among you without sin, cast the
first stone at her. (8) And again he stooped down and wrote on the
ground. (9) As soon as they heard that, they went out one by one the
eldest first. And Iesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the
midst. (10) When Iesus had lifted up himself again, and saw no man, but
the woman, He said unto her: Woman, where are those thine accusers?
Hath no man condemned thee? (11) She said: Sir no man. Iesus said:
Neither do I condemn thee. Go hence and sin no more.

Something about this verse that some may not have thought of.
Who in this scripture is forgiven and who in this verse is
guilty?

Let me explain how this works, I’m sure every woman who reads this
knows what I’m talking about because they have most
likely been confronted with this.  There are men who
will look at a beautiful woman and think in his heart how he would like
to rape that woman, and so, he will call that woman a whore. By calling
her a whore, she now becomes a whore to him, and in this mindset he now
feels justified in raping her, believing she deserves it.

Some men who might read this might wonder why I am saying this, (I’ll
get to that) and disagree with me, but that could be
because we may not be paying attention, and we need  to be
paying attention.. The reason we need to pay attention to this is that
the most powerful tool in the tool box setting standards in society is
pier treasure. This has been going on since who knows when and it goes
on still and it needs to end NOW!  When we see our piers (I
don’t want to call them our piers, but they are) act like
this, we need to call them on it, and this should NEVER/EVER be
ignored.  It will not go away if we ignore it.

She recently converted to Islam and was proud of this and shared this
in several youtube videos.  Acting real, speaking out from her
heart.  Her last video however wasn’t very nice, as she
explained “a brother” Muslim sent her a message calling her a whore and
threatening to rape her. She has closed her Youtube account and I have
managed to find one of her videos and saved it in my Youtube account,
you’ll find a link at the bottom of the page.

This is an
example of right turned inside out, upside down and flipped. This is
when beauty becomes ugly and
ugliness claims to be righteous. This pains me, but it gets worse.
Her videos were shared to proselytize the Muslim faith and
that’s how I learned of her.  I’ve contacted those who shared
her videos and let them know about this, they’ve deleted my comments
and worse they have deleted her videos. Now I’m angry.  She is
a married woman and I imagine her husband is REAL angry as he is the
one who introduced her to the faith.

Now I know that this doesn’t just happen in the Muslim faith, I imagine
every woman who reads this will agree.  There are men like
this and they are everywhere.  It lives if we ignore it and it
dies if we confront it..  I bring this up and am making a big
deal out of it, because when I brought this up, my comments were
deleted, that’s not the way this is going to work.

Ernest Holmes taught that what you say about others is the truth about
yourself.  I’m telling you for a fact that these men who call
beautiful women whores are themselves whores.  In that verse
at the top, the woman was forgiven, but the men were not, because it
was they who were doing the condemning.  On that judgment day
when all the hearts are opened for everyone to see, you’re going to see
I am rights. Thats why I called this article  “THE
STONE THROWERS ARE THE WHORES.”

Copyright 2011 Roger Harkness and you have the right to
share this everywhere, anytime, anyplace, anywhere without permission,
I will.

I’m a Liberal Conservative. I believe in liberty and conservation.

I don’t know what liberal means, and I don’t know what conservative means.  But if I ask somebody, they will give me an answer, and everybody I ask will give me a some what different answer.  So you got all these different categories of liberalism and conservatism to explain these differences.  You might be in this group or you might be in that group.  What ever group you are in is of course the most enlightened group, and everyone else is either in the dark or just coming around, It is this and including race, sex, religion, politics that keep us divided.  Together we stand, divided we fall.

We may or may not agree on an enemy, but you have to agree that something isn’t right in this world, and something will continue to be wrong as long as we continue to be divided.  As for me, I believe in Liberation and Conservation.  I’m a member of nothing, believe anything is possible and question everything and I’m only sure about one thing: we need to treat each other the way we would want to be treated, because together, we are what we were made to be. And that’s why we are here, to be what we were made to be. War and hunger would end in our world and we might just be able to fix a lot of things we broke.

Roger Harkness
june 11, 2011

Can you prove that there is a God, can you prove that there isn’t. But some things we are certain about. Building 7 was demolished. A building containing great amounts of financial information allowing large sums of money to just disappear without a trace and it is strange that would happen on the same day as 9/11, also, we were lied to about weapons of mass destruction. The lies that started that war killed far more than 3,000 people. The rumors are rampant gong every direction you could imagine. But let me tell you a story. Once upon a time a man was innocent until proven guilty by a court of law in a land called America. But Bin Laden never saw his day in court, Concerning when he died, well, that’s just another rumor. You can believe what you like and I’ll believe what I like. The evidence was buried at sea.

It will now never be proven if Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11 or not. Personally I don’t think he was. But he didn’t like America, that is true, so you could say, he was our enemy. Jesus taught that we should pray for our enemy. So I’m going to ask everyone to pray for Bin Laden.

All the U.S. politicians who support Israel because they largely financed their political campaign and turn a blind eye to the abuse of the Palestinians who live there are hypocrites to everything they took an oath to honor and bring shame on America. That’s why we send Israel Billions in aid each year, far more than any other country and gladly sell them weapons. And if you were an American you’d protest against this. The media who fails to cover the abuse who also receive large amounts of money from Israel are also hypocrites.

Before I explain these pictures, let me tell you tell you a story. While I was in the Navy, I’ve seen evil, I tell that story here:  Son of Satan. But there is another story I have not yet told. Briefly, during my 14 years in the Navy, there is a time I remember well that I will never forget. It was our 21 days on the North Atlantic aboard the USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2), it seemed like 21 years. The first ship to have an aluminum supper structure and I became the Master Helmsman, the only person the Captain would trust on the helm during difficult operations, because the person training me had fallen apart on the helm and I had to take over. The seas where 21 to 24 foot during that 21 days.  That water was cold.  Our superstructure had cracked, expansion joints were holding it together.  We made four attempts to take on fuel and failed each time.  The forward refueling team almost got washed over the side and the aft refueling rig became damaged beyond repair.

I’ve seen big strong men who you would think was the bravest of us all break down and cry like a baby because they was afraid to die. The one man who adamantly claimed that there was no God, was on his knees when the Chaplain said prayers over the 1MC at sundown every night.. And those who I thought were my best friends had me pinned against the bulkhead ready to brake my arms, believing that if my arms were broken, I could not steer the ship and the Captain would be forced to take us ashore in order to refuel.. But there was one man who didn’t like me at all because I was a Yankee. He stood against all of  First Division defending me. But as they explained, “you might be tough, but you ain’t big enough to take all of us.”  Of course, in the movies, or on TV, when the tough guy stands up, everybody moves aside. Well this wasn’t a movie, this wasn’t TV, this was for real.  So Bubba Pate had to explain to them that if my arms were broken and I could not steer ship, how did they know we had enough fuel to make to shore. They let me go and apologized to me. While I may have been able to forgive them, I never ever again thought of them as my friends.

The point of this story is. Things are never as they appear to be, and I can tell you that for a fact, because I know. When shit hits the fan and the mask comes off and the true person is revealed, you might be surprised. And I believe when the judgment day comes, a lot of people will be surprised. That being told, let me now explain these pictures.

It is being said that the Church of the Jehovah Wittiness is another religion created by the aluminati for their one world order scheme and the pyramid is proof of that.  It is said that the founder of the Jehovah Witness church was a 33rd degree Mason.

First of all, I’m not convinced that the Mason’s are the bad people.  It seems that we have taken all secret society cult religions and lumped them all together and labeled this group as evil, just because there is one very powerful group called the skull and cross bones that worship Satan.  This is guilt by association, and I tell you, we will all be judged individually for what we have done and not done while we lived on this earth.  And I can quote you some scriptures from Matthew, but I’m not going to bother,  Never assume.  Because to assume makes an ass out of u and me.  Study, and not that anyone has never been wrong, at least once, and probably more times than that. But you should always first try to find the correct answer before accusing anyone of anything.

There is a great deal of proof that the Mason’s created this nation.  According to their writings, it does not appear that they would have agreed with our military being the world police with bases and serving members all over the world.  They supported the gold standard, warned us about banks and would be appalled by the Federal Reserve.

Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Jehovah Witness Church at first lost faith in God, but after coming to a newer in site, began to rethink things.  Whether he was a member of the Mason’s or not,  I cannot find evidence either for or against.  The pyramid however was erected in his honor by those who loved him, because, and I quote:

“So, then, if we measure backward down the “First Ascending Passage” to its junction with the “Entrance Passage,” we shall have a fixed date to mark upon the downward passage. This measure is 1542 inches, and indicates the year BC 1542, as the date at that point. Then measuring down the “Entrance Passage” from that point, to find the distance to the entrance of the “Pit,” representing the great trouble and destruction with which this age is to close, when evil will be overthrown from power, we find it to be 3457 inches, symbolizing 3457 years from the above date, BC 1542. This calculation shows AD. 1915 as marking the beginning of the period of trouble; for 1542 years BC plus 1915 years AD. equals 3457 years. Thus the Pyramid witnesses that the close of 1914 will be the beginning of the time of trouble such as was not since there was a nation — no, nor ever shall be afterward. And thus it will be noted that this “Witness” fully corroborates the’ Bible testimony on this subject…”

The  Jehovah Witness Church do not teach this, because they are not followers of  Charles Taze Russell, but for now, only teach what is in the bible. Just as Charles Taze Russell has changed his mind about a few things throughout his life, as new things had been learned, so has the Church of the Jehovah Witnesses, and I suspect this will continue.

Why Jews Around the World are Praying for the Victory of the Egyptian Uprising

Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine and chair of The Tikkun Community, affirmed today (Feb. 1, 2011) that there is a growing upsurge of support for the Egyptian Uprising in the Jewish community.

Rabbi Lerner issued the following statement:

Ever since the victory over the dictator of Tunisia and the subsequent uprising in Egypt, my email has been flooded with messages from Jews around the world hoping and praying for the victory of the Egyptian people over their cruel Mubarak regime.

Though a small segment of Jews have responded to right-wing voices from Israel that lament the change and fear that a democratic government would bring to power fundamentalist extremists who wish to destroy Israel and who would abrogate the hard-earned treaty that has kept the peace between Egypt and Israel for the last 30 years, the majority of Jews are more excited and hopeful than worried.

Of course, the worriers have a point. Israel has allied itself with repressive regimes in Egypt and used that alliance to ensure that the borders with Gaza would remain closed while Israel attempted to economically deprive the Hamas regime there by denying needed food supplies and equipment to rebuild after Israel’s devastating attack in December 2008 and January 2009. If the Egyptian people take over, they are far more likely to side with Hamas than with the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

Yet it is impossible for Jews to forget our heritage as victims of another Egyptian tyrant—the Pharoah whose reliance on brute force was overthrown when the Israelite slaves managed to escape from Egypt some 3,000 years ago. That story of freedom retold each year at our Passover “Seder” celebration, and read in synagogues in the past month, has often predisposed the majority of Jews to side with those struggling for freedom around the world.  To watch hundreds of thousands of Egyptians able to throw off the chains of oppression and the legacy of a totalitarian regime that consistently jailed, tortured or murdered its opponents so overtly that most people were cowed into silence, is to remember that the spark of God continues to flourish no matter how long oppressive regimes manage to keep themselves in power, and that ultimately the yearning for freedom and democracy cannot be totally stamped out no matter how cruel and sophisticated the elites of wealth, power and military might appear to be.

Many Jews have warned Israel that it is a mistake to ally with these kinds of regimes, just as we’ve warned the US to learn the lesson from its failed alliance with the Shah of Iran. We’ve urged Israel to free the Palestinian people by ending the Occupation of the West Bank and the blockade of Gaza. Israel’s long-term security will not be secured through military or economic domination, but only by acting in a generous and caring way toward the Palestinian people first, and then toward all of  its Arab neighbors. Similarly, America’s homeland security will best be achieved through a strategy of generosity and caring, manifested through a new Global Marshall Plan such as has been introduced into the House of Representatives by Congressman Keith Ellison.

In normal times, when the forces of repression seem to be winning, this kind of thinking is dismissed as “utopian” by the “realists” who shape public political discourse. But when events like the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt occur, for a moment the politicians and media are stunned enough to allow a different kind of thinking to emerge, the kind of thinking that acknowledged that underneath all the “business as usual” behavior of the world’s peoples, the yearning for a world based on solidarity, caring for each other, freedom, self-determination, justice, non-violence and yes, even love and generosity, remains a potent and unquenchable thirst that may be temporarily repressed but never fully extinguished.

It is this recognition that leads many Jews to join with the rest of the world’s peoples in celebrating the uprising, in praying that it does not become manipulated by the old regime into paths that too quickly divert the hopes for a brand new kind of order into politics and economics as usual, or into extremist attempts to switch the anger from domestic elites who have been the source of Egyptian oppression onto Jews or Israel which have not been responsible for the suffering of the Egyptian people. Such extremists could easily be marginalized were Israel to take definitive action to accept the peace terms offered by the Palestinians in 2007-8 and known to the world through the release of relevant documents by Al-Jazeera, and were the US in conjunction with Israel to announce a Global Marshall Plan with first location being the Middle East. Such a plan has been developed in some detail by the Network of Spiritual Progressives.

We hope that Egyptians will hear the news that they have strong support from many in the Jewish world.

Rabbi Michael Lerner is editor of Tikkun www.tikkun.org , chair of the interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives, and rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in Berkeley, California.  He can be reached at  RabbiLerner@Tikkun.org  To read details of the Global Marshall Plan, go to www.spiritualprogressives.org/GMP

Editor’s Note: We at Tikkun/NSP who often critique the extremism and violence that characterizes Israeli attacks on Palestinians and Arabs have an equal responsibility to critique the extremists in the Arab world. Ziad Asali, former chair of the ADC (Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee), was an honoree at a Tikkun/NSP conference in D.C. in 2004. Asali and Ibish present a critique of extremist ideas in the Arab and Muslim world that should be taken seriously by Arabs and Muslims around the world. And just as we resist any attempt to blame all Jews for the behavior of the Israeli government and its repressive policies against Palestinians, we resist any attempts to blame Islam itself or all Arabs or all Muslims for the violent assault on Christians (or Jews) that take place both in the discourse and actions of some Arab and Muslim extremists. Yet as we make clear in our analysis of some ideas in the Jewish world and as Asali and Ibish make clear in their analysis of some ideas in the Arab/Islamic world, both communities have an obligation to do more to critique the kind of thinking that gives support to ther extremists or justifies them because of the (alleged or real) “evil” of their enemies. –Rabbi Michael Lerner

Honesty and hypocrisy in facing terrorism

Ziad Asali, Hussein Ibish
The Huffington Post (Blog)
January 3, 2011 – 12:00am

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ziad-j-asali-md/honesty-and-hypocrisy-in-_1_b_8038…

The murderous bomb attacks against Christian communities in Egypt and Iraq have been roundly condemned by most political and religious leaders, commentators and public opinion in the Arab world. They have also been met with an outpouring of passionate condemnation by ordinary people who have taken to the streets to express anger and demand justice. People have sensed the danger to their whole society inherent in such atrocities. The Alexandria church massacre could be a wake-up call to reverse dangerous trends, or it may be the beginning of unraveling of the bonds that keep people of different faiths and backgrounds together as citizens.

However, the effort to place the blame solely on outsiders or extremists for these attacks glosses over a much deeper and more troubling context. While there is little sympathy for the outrageous crimes of the fanatic extremists outside of their own ranks, these murderous radicals are in fact taking some prevalent societal attitudes to a cold bloodied and logical, albeit extreme, conclusion. Emerging out of a pervasive reality of powerlessness and inequity, political trends in the Arab world have given rise to a belligerent chauvinistic sensibility that has increasingly valorized the Islamic identity and regarded the rest of the world, especially the West, with deep suspicion and hostility.

These attitudes are promoted from the top down, through government-sponsored media, educational and religious institutions, and from the bottom up, in the home at the dinner table and online through a social media echo-chamber featuring a radical chic discourse aimed at restless young people. The worst ideas generally come from Islamist religious institutions, leaders and political opposition groups, which frequently argue that there is not only a conspiracy against the Arabs to prevent their development, but a global campaign to destroy Islam itself. Moderate voices who view the world in political rather than religious terms are outnumbered and function outside the parameters and comfort of political correctness. They try valiantly to stand for universal values while having to contend with constant intimidation because of their principled opposition to extremism.

The hegemonic narrative of relentless victimization at the hands of an all-powerful West frequently focuses on the theme of double standards, to which Arabs certainly have been subjected. However, this same ideal of a single standard is rarely applied in an introspective or self-critical manner. The contribution of Arabs and Muslims to their own failures, powerlessness, socio-economic inequities and dysfunctional systems are mentioned without any serious pursuit of corrective measures. The real blame for the failure, however, is consistently laid at the door of a hostile and manipulative West, led by America, and their regional amorphous client elite.

The question of religious minorities is an ideal place to begin examining the double standard argument. When given the opportunity, Muslims keep flocking to the West, where Muslim communities are growing and thriving, although they also face an increasing threat of discrimination and cultural hostility.

Christian and other religious minorities in the Arab world, however, are generally shrinking and withering, and are now facing a murderous campaign of attacks that seem consciously designed to try to drive them out of the region, or at least certain countries, once and for all. The fact that the vast majority of the victims of Islamist terror have been Muslims must not belittle the distinctive brutality of these attacks on Christians. These people were killed simply because they were Christians, with the evident aim of scaring them away from the country and possibly the region. Muslims have generally been killed because they happened to be in the way of those who use terror to achieve power and political objectives, including significant intra-Muslim sectarian violence in Iraq that intended to force communities to relocate.

It can’t be enough for Arab and Muslim governments, and some media and organizations, to simply condemn obviously unacceptable outrages such as the recent massacres. In several Muslim countries religious minorities face discrimination, restriction of rights, laws against blasphemy, apostasy and “insults to religion,” prohibitive constraints against building and reconstructing houses of worship, and the aggressive state-sponsored promotion of not only Islam, but certain narrow versions of it. All these realities need to be opposed in a consistent manner by those who would credibly defend Muslim rights in the West without engaging in double standards of their own.

Without even addressing circular arguments about who is defending themselves against whose aggression, the work that must be done to counteract narratives of intolerance and exclusion everywhere must be performed officially and legally, as well as at the social and community level both here and in the Middle East. It would be almost impossible to find explicit support from Arab or Muslim Americans for wanton acts of violence against civilians, but easy to find echoes of the sentiments of victimization and self-righteousness from which they ultimately derive. Even among Arab and Arab-American Christians and other minorities it is readily possible to encounter such views.

Of course, others have a great deal of work to do as well. The problems of Islamophobia spreading in the West, and growing blatant anti-Arab racism in Israel, need to be confronted at every level, without fear or favor. Marauding lawless bands of Israeli settlers, and American religious and ideological fanatics who advocate racism, must be held accountable. It is vital that communities, identity groups and societies take more responsibility to proactively define boundaries regarding what will be accepted as “respectable” discourse or conduct and what clearly crosses the line and has to be confronted as socially and politically dangerous even, and perhaps especially, if that means breaching expectations of ethnic, cultural or religious solidarity.

Critics will complain that we are conflating apples and oranges, casting the net of blame too widely or being unfair. What we are in fact doing is the unavoidable task of drawing connections between words that begin with hypocrisy and chauvinistic bluster, continue on into the promotion of intolerance, fear and hatred, and finally, in the hands of the most extreme, erupt into unconscionable acts of violence. This progression needs to be addressed as much at its source as its outcome if the trend is to be reversed.

Too few voices and organizations in Arab and Muslim societies, and the Arab-American community for that matter, repudiate much of the rhetoric that ultimately, when taken to its logical conclusion by demented murderers, leads to this kind of appalling violence. Their default position is to cite various injustices and to ask others to understand the motives for violence by pointing to a double standard argument or other rationalizations. This approach means that most of Arab societies, and many in the Arab and Muslim American communities, are in effect opting for silence. This doesn’t mean that this silent or ambivalent majority condones murderous acts by extremist fanatics, far from it. But these massacres in Egypt and Iraq demonstrate that everyone has a responsibility to be more vigilant and to recognize that the language of hate and intolerance can ultimately lead to unspeakable violence and should not be tolerated and countered by responsible choices.

In our own country, the most vociferous proponents of the Arab and Muslim victimization narrative, those who blame the West, especially America or “the white man,” for all the ills that befall the Arabs and Muslims, and those who most loudly advocate against the legal and societal harassment of Arabs and Muslims in the United States, take full advantage, as they are entitled to, of the American system and find shelter in the comfort and security of its freedoms. The damage they do in being the loudest and most anti-American voices emanating from the vulnerable Arab and Muslim immigrant communities, who already feel besieged, is to provide ammunition to the demagogues and profiteers of racism and peddlers of hate and fear of Arab and American Muslims, and to empower and encourage the worst racist and chauvinistic tendencies in this country. Minorities in this country have achieved their communal and collective objectives by working the system as they redefine it, and gaining support and power by courageous but peaceful confrontation with injustices, by use of the law and the political system, and not by rejecting the system as inherently corrupt and uncorrectable. And certainly not by murdering unarmed military personnel or civilians, or by plotting to blow up planes or public squares.

For Arab and Muslim Americans silence is not a safe option. No group is more vulnerable to the consequences of the next terror attack, or to policies based on fear and exclusion. What happens, and does not happen, in the Arab and Muslim world matters here at home. This assertion needs no explanation after September 11, 2001. The relentless wars against minorities, and not just Christians in the Middle East, whether official, societal or even just criminal, waged by those who aim to divide the world into large, mutually-exclusive and warring religious and ethnic blocks is not just a threat to America and its values. It is a specific and imminent danger to Arab and Muslim Americans, who must, for their own urgent necessity, oppose such politics and rhetoric. They need to develop a higher degree of honesty in their discourse and demand that a more elevated sense of responsibility be conveyed and articulated by their elites and leaderships.

The present tragic course of events, with mal-distribution of power and resources in the Arab and Muslim world, and a deepening sense of victimization that is increasingly directed at the West, especially America, and its friends and allies, will eventually break through the coercive measures that have thus far maintained the intrinsically unstable status quo. If serious change is not effected in short order, this dam will burst and after that comes the deluge. Ideas, deeds, programs and a modicum of peace in Palestine are urgently needed to give a fighting chance to forces of moderation and sanity everywhere.

To survive, and to compete globally, Arab and Muslim societies need to embrace their cultural, religious and ethnic mosaics, and view their diversity as strength rather than weakness. They need to embrace a culture that values not only individual rights and foregrounds the role of the citizen in political and social life, but minority rights as well. The values of pluralism, peaceful resolution of disputes and inclusivity are the only effective antidote to the poison of extremism and extremist violence. Embracing these values will require a change in social and political culture, and for that, every Arab, and Arab and Muslim American, must take up their share of the responsibility. They must speak publicly and courageously for these values here and in the Middle East. The price of silence is prohibitive. The forces of fanaticism, violence and exclusion must not be allowed to prevail.
http://www.americantaskforce.org/daily_news_article/2011/01/03/1294030800_6

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