The Sacrifice of the Lamb to repay in blood, a debt ....

     

    Having lost Salvation, in order to regain it, (so says  the Church) a debt had to be repaid in Blood!

In the first place how was Grace lost? How did Man lose Salvation or the divine Grace?

All because Man had (supposedly) committed sin (wronged God) by doing what Man naturally were made to do - commit an act very natural to our innate self i.e. something we had been programed to be naturally inclined to do? Like the hungry tiger snapping at the lamb or the cat grabbing the unattended fish or the priests preaching about God, or the bird flying or the fish refusing not to fly! 

ALL NATURAL PROCESSES BUILT IN ALL  CREATURES GOD MADE!

After having done what we are made to do, the Church says we lost us our Grace & we now owe a debt.

Who is owing who in the first place & who needs to pay whom? 

Is God also into a trading, commercial buy sell system?

Is Divine affairs also tainted with debits, credits and balance  sheets? 

We humans (according to Church) lost Grace and only the Son of God can magnanimously bear the burden of paying God, the Father by spilling His (the son's) blood so as to redeem our (created beings') debt. 

Both Father & Son are one & the same entity - one of 3 inThe Holy Trinity. 

If I were the Father possessing Divine abilities to just say and have it done,  would I not be simple & write off what I owe myself by saying: "Let it be paid" ? And it would have been settled?! 

   But no, Church has come up with an explanation that:

Rather, I God, would prefer go the tortuous (dramatic & 'beneficial' to Church's agenda?) way of impregnating a Virgin, {who had to be pre-configured to be without Original Sin - whatever THAT is} through my other persona the Holy Ghost,  then have my Son go through the pity-evoking birth in a forlorn stable, & grow up to diametrically oppose  & vehemently frenzy-up the entire socio-political setting he was put in, to such a murderous rage that they had no choice but to kill Him. 

All these just so that I as Jesus the Son could be killed & thus spilling my precious Blood, in order to repay the debt humans supposedly owed the Father; who essentially is also me, being the same entity as myself, Jesus the Son! 

Does it not appear to be really a very Life -endangering trade when debts owed has to be settled with the spilling of blood! And imagine an ALL LOVING God wanting to get repayment through killing, when even other vicious loan sharks happily settle for cash?! 

And after enraging the Pharisees and others to kill the Son, I the Father, resurrects the dead Son  - effectively making his tormentous dying a non-event similar to and just as painful as drinking and other natural processes.

And all this was 'cos we did what we Man naturally were made to do! And LOST GRACE; thus the whole rigmarole of the REPAYMENT of the DEBT had to be carried out! 

Even thinking about this tires a person let alone having to figure out the truth of the entire story of the Sacrifice!

  Great Indeed is the mind which worked up this tale !

   Other than faithful believers with unquestioning faith or someone with no independent original thought, this story is entirely in the realm of the unbelievably ridiculous. Even though humans were not imbued with divine Intelligence the simple basic logic we have makes such a convoluted bizarre story very, very unpalatable. 

If one were to have Faith in the Divinity of the Maker of the universe, a Persona with the HIGHEST, NOBLEST GREATEST of all INTENTS, would one not at least expect Him to possess some reasonably acceptable more expedient way of conducting Himself   than what Christianity (& other religious organizations)have theologized Him to have done?

THIS POST IS NOT REFUTING GOD or what one would call the MAKER; a persona who created all ! 

The foregoing refutes the ideas and claims associated with God, or attributed to Him, to justify the existence and relevance CHURCH or religion; the entire story on how we needed Jesus Christ to come get born through a very convoluted process, involving the dishonoring of an honorable virgin, asking her to make such a tremendously brave decision; then to suffer, die and get resurrected, just that a debt we supposedly owed to His Father who essentially is Himself can be paid by His son's spilling blood! 

Rationally dwell on this and you might just see the ridicule of the entire premise.

Just because no one can prove God exist or refute Him does not need Church to come forth with such a tale to claim it true -  again assumed true just because the tale cannot be refuted!

It is completely true there are many good priests and religious doing great charity & performing outstanding sacrifice in working for the ideals of Godliness without any realization that Church and all the theology we are told as divine TRUTH is really Divine or true! 

If one meets a good truly loving and charitable sacrificing and godly priest one should be convinced that there indeed is God, & be assured of His goodness. At the same time just because there are good, honest priests, the theology associated with the religion which Church tells Christians as being the divine Truth is actually divine and truthful??!

It is very difficult, almost impossible to practice worship or adoration of God without religion. Structure-less worshipping & honoring the Maker may be reflex for those possess of higher intellects, the man of common born has need for prosthetic aid in the form of doctrines, sacraments & other aids vis statues, rituals, chants, mantras, likeness etc .

Perhaps therein lie the reason people flock to Church. It is easier, less tedious, to just follow than try to work out what God intended for us. 

We may think with the complexity of Creation staring us in the face His intent for us must be really difficult or impossible for us Man to grasp.  

One would be surprised and pleasantly elated by its COMPLETE simplicity ......... 

to be continued.

Does it matter if Jesus is or isn't Son of God?

    The concept of a human being who is also divine, does indeed give believers of Religions a sense of having a powerful intercessor. Imagine believers having on their side a 'persona' impossibly powerful & able to do anything. 

   The coming to life of "If God is on our side, who dare to  be against us"?

   Imagine if we had on our side, God, would anyone dare try anything ?

The answer to all man's needs, the complete, perfect elixir for man's  feelings of insecurity! 
 A very human (& childish) concept of the big brother looking out for the weaker!

   
As it is, many seek super powers or align themselves to very powerful forces or individuals with the same intent. Or at the very least some try to acquire weapons of great destructive powers, for the same intent & purpose.

   

   It cannot be denied there once lived such a person, Jesus. It is also historically documented the things he did and said. The teachings as well as ideas he imparted to those close to him are well researched to be actual events. 

   

   But whether he were DIVINE should not be a deterrent to our essential understanding of his mission. His so-claimed miraculous and immaculate conception and the romanticized events surrounding his humble birth, the tales of the guiding star, plus all the fairy-tale-like embellishment is; mildly put  utterly irrelevant.

  
Whether he is divine or not is secondary to what his purpose was in his doing & teaching; in his attempting to impart a concept  to those of his time.

    It should be of greater concern what he was trying to show or teach us all. 

  It should be of greater concern His message of UNSELFISHNESS, of complete GIVING, of Ultimate CHARITY.

  It should be of greater concern his perpetuating of the idea of the Supreme Act of Sacrifice, the giving up of one's life for another, one who is a stranger !

   His ideas on LOVE for someone repulsive, one who is completely unloveable. 

  His ideas on fairness, justice, on what constituted discrimination against another based on ethnic, gender or political differences.

   Based on all that we read or know about him it is not relevant if he were or were not divine - unless one has other intentions, to manipulate his intent.

   

   The bigger picture and more important is what he tried to teach and show us all ARE God's Values !

A way to live harmoniously, lovingly, peacefully,  for the greater love of the Creator. 

  

   He might be trying to correct the  misdirection and wrong focus all humans have of self-enrichment & the massive acquisition of material wealth & earthly power! 

We do not know that we can never take anything with us??

     He might be trying to tell us the reason and purpose for which God made us!

    

    Would the stuff he tried to teach us & show us be any less relevant  or truthful if he were not divine, not the son of God?  

Truth and Godliness has no need for certification or validification…when spoken or shown, whomever by, are evidently TRUTHFUL and GODLY.

Would any Godly values be less godly because the one imparting it is not divine?

Certification and accreditation are very human requirements and practices for selfish generation of commerce as well as for the creating of elitism & material wealth.

In general Man should devoid ourselves of such mandated requirement in affairs concerning the Divine, & godly values.

And most definitely Jesus did not suggest to not love or accept anyone else just because the other has a different religious conviction!

What is it that he is trying to tell us ? 
Perhaps he wants us to realize & appreciate the purpose of our being put here after CREATION was realized ?

But that is another post to follow.

  Truth no matter who tells it is still TRUTH  !

 GODLINESS is still GODLINESS no matter who practices it! 

Life is not about the here & the now. Neither is it about what we can gain from living. 
For everything becomes nothing.

Find Him - Lose All Else

  
   By going to a certain building, on a particular day & time, performing prescribed, approved rituals, doing the motions, reciting the mantras, pledging & rededicating beliefs through declarations, reaffirming trust via invocations, confessing to & admitting one is a spiritually failed deficient human; then throwing and completely surrendering the fate of oneself, to an Authority mandated by those claiming to be acting on the behest, on behalf of the Creator, many  are CONVINCED  & BELIEVE they have found the ONE true Maker called god! And firmly convinced what they are doing is what the ONE true god wants them to do.

   Rather than skim surface frivolities & basing one's understanding of the ONE true god on pronouncements, edicts, doctrines, espoused & propagated by so called guides, gurus and shepherds, who though are supposedly hand-picked by the divine, & are supposedly 'imbued' with intimate knowledge & understanding of the ONE true god which no living person could actually have; - one, if wanting to reach greater heights of spiritual clarity & exhilaration, need to go real deep into spiritual waters; uncharted, unguided, & delve deep into parts of the realm that supposedly holds the vast understanding called Truth - called God. 

In the quest for an eternal Creator, as yet never 'seen' other than through non human senses, or spiritual blind faith, the attempt to intimately reach the Maker/Originator/Creator/God/Yahweh/Allah etc is fraught with loneliness, assuredly very unfulfilling & troubling.

Loneliness - no one is willing or able in any sense of the word, to share in that soul draining search. Besides most of one's contemporaries AND family would perform emergency evacuation, perhaps not physically, but surely distance themselves from your proximity!

Unfulfilling - as the answers or 'success'  if any, if ever achieved or arrived at, has no confirmatory finality. Even the seeker would not be sure of having 'arrived at destination'

Troubling - there are almost no reference, no unabridged versions of any authority or guide. 
    

   One easily could visualize the desperate loneliness, complete isolate-ness of those pre-religion philosopher-thinker-spiritualist 'giants' - attempting to re-establish the ethereal pathways, the pre-Adamic links long severed & erased, long lost to us. In the deep darkest hour of desert desolation, they stubbornly attempt to reach the Divine through intense soul seeking, diving deep into the primordial depths, the roots of pre-born consciousness, attempting to touch that link & re-establish to Him. 

Picture the weirdness other (normal) beings viewed these 'mystics', & apprehensively take a step (more like 3) away from them, while they seemingly enter into that state of transcendent unquiet in their un-fulfilling, unsatisfying, often self exiling act to grasp an 'XYZ' not even they knew was 'WHAT'.  

 Yet to be human is more than willful pleasures, blind beliefs & unquestioning allegiance to Man-mandated star, super successful personas. 

 The seekers,  scattered throughout god's interaction  with us, gave inklings but never solid bankable "reality" of the ONE. 

   

   In seeking in the vast Unknown for Him - for God,  if one ever even find any inkling of understanding or nano bit of 'clarity' of Him, one might still be as lost, still be as un-clear, still as un-informed!

 Being completely unequipped, un-prepared as in not possessing the abilities, qualities of extra-human senses to assimilate what one might find regarding the reality, clarity or even a firmer inkling of His Nature might prove the futility & unrewarding nature of one's preoccupation/obsession/search. 

Which is why the understanding of such knowledge is better summed up with 'blindness' - an unwavering confidence in an INFALLIBLE which nothing ever devised or stumbled upon by humans can authenticate.

   Thus is it worth sacrificing normalcy, the comforts of everyday living & social acceptance, to go off on a turbulent quest where one surely would be regarded persona non grata by one's circle of 'failed ' fellow 'faithfuls'?

 A Leper, not ringing a bell, or shouting 'unclean, unclean' would still be regarded in every other sense  -  a leper!

Dare one thus make that choice? 

To attempt pondering on, seeking that elusive, perhaps unfathomable-even-if- found Entity?

Dare one forego earthly, familial, communal, social comforts for a non profitable venture, doomed to bring nothing…except maybe an un-tenable promise of 'almost-but-not-quite-there-yet' near Enlightenment?

Life's tempting promises of comforts plus its brevity make that choice unlikely for many.

SATAN's Taunt.

 Clarification:
 on 'believers' Great Expectations of being saved again

    Some of you humans hopelessly wish & foolishly believe that even though you are all so desperately in deep sh*t Sin, the Lord (benevolent God) will come deliver you  - like the calvary or Lone ranger & Tonto in the old Westerns.
For evil as you know you all are, He has a weird love which you humans has never understood - a kind of unconditional Love, you so proudly call AGAPE. That in itself is fallacious  Which intelligent being would want to associate with creatures like you let alone a Divine Intelligence like God? (OMG!)
  Naturally being made  (only) as images of Him you will never be able to feel, express or even appreciate this Agape. (Shame on you).
Being what you are your eyes see only visually *agreeable images.. *include mainly crass, gross & other  earthy,  sensually exhilarating images (despite claiming a religion)
Your minds seek only *acceptable thoughts, the bland, the safe, & the mundane *(not restricted to only spiritually imprimatur-d thoughts - also & especially materialistically avaricious  self enriching-ly tempting deliciously one-upping)
The Ears you have tune into only to the soothingest, most consoling, condescending comforting, religious  platitudes.
*How many of you poor fallen ones will trouble yourselves to seek in places most of you will shun, which might bring you closer to a proper perspective of the whole story and purpose?
*How many will endure spiritual isolation, being ostracized and shunned by your religious peers to enquire alternative and usually unorthodox inputs on the happily accepted romanticized version of your Maker - fed to you from infancy by organized religions?
*Who among you hopeless, spineless creatures will even think of being different and try figure out the real deal? 
Rather you prefer to feel secure & spiritually safe (I have been SAVED)by believing unquestioningly as Religion would have you do, that what you were told IS THE TRUTH about God. An idiot with unquestioning FAITH!
Is that what Faith is - Unquestioning? Not wishing to know ? Swallow whatever is fed to you? Would you even ask why should Faith be unquestioning??

So here's the 

Final decree & CLARIFICATION for your information :

NO God is ever coming to save your miserable a**es

(readers without 'faith' in the authenticity/reliability of events depicted in scriptures - what the 'eF' are you doing reading this crap? )

Nobody, NOBODY is coming to save anyone, anytime, anymore  - ever:
REASON why No One will be coming ..
•First time 'God' came: He was accused of submerging & drowning the entire world except for a few people from a favored family namely NOAH, his clan & most animals ( mosquitoes, snakes, killer viruses, creepy crawlies -& Yes politicos; they were very inconveniently not excluded since heaven isn't here.  Unicorns & Santa Claus sorry, are not on board)
•Second time God came: He was accused of making a VIRGIN full - Bringing shame, disrepute, scandal, shambles, & catastrophic horrors  to the honor of two entirely respectable (middle Eastern) families. (you still think it's a privilege to be a race that's chosen -  i.e. in the same family tree as Mary & Joseph?)
•Third time God came: ... oh well - you know right?
You hung Him high between 2 thieving scoundrels on a hill where  public execution of *criminals, low-life, perverts, rebels with or without cause, people who wear glasses, tatoo-ed people generally anyone not with you & thus are against you...
... "Justice must not be done but be seen to be done... bla bla bla'' (politicos very qualify for inclusion on this list)!

   From the torture exacted on Him prior to, as well as during the termination of His 3rd earthly encounter with you miserable humans, the Manual on techniques to extract information used in various black sites, on detainees from the Axis of Evil, is devised and is instrumental in helping Team Seal 6 get that 'tall Guy' at AbbotaBAD

Thus if you were in God's shoes (if He wears shoes) would you wish to, dare to, bother at all to make a come back & face the music with fargs like such?
Or would you make yourself as scarce, as far away, as silent, as unseen, unheard, unreachable, unavailable, invisible;  as you can from this mistake called MAN?

Following this CLARIFICATION it is now CLEAR why you never see or hear or smell or touch or taste or even imagine Him after His Crucifixion?
If you still see, hear, smell, touch, even dream of His presence - CONGRATULATIONS!! the stuff you are smoking or snorting, mainlining, imbibing will be greatly sought after... $$$$$$$.


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of  deputy asst vice president: 
Sir S. A. Tan C.S.B.(knight of the Imperial order of Coal Sulphur Brimestones)

Valentine's Gift- A Prayer

Tribute to Pope Benedict

  

  Say whatever you like, that he did not do much good, he done much, he was the best pope ever, the worst, a former Nazi youth member, Rottweiler of the Catholic Church, the oldest ever elected - blah blah blah. 

   Man are just that - very capable, very quick-witted, ever willing & ever happy to pass comments on some one, especially if the guy is a high profile figure; highly visible in world events.

His every move, (even the motions passed in his private WC), are examined, dissected, & publicly gleefully gloated over & in other clandestine congregations.
Paparazzis pander to this perverse Voyeurism often not only in visually saucy images, sometimes deadly deeds were accomplished by uncalled for audio and videos.

Mischief & impropriety seem second nature to Man.

  This post is just another item in an ever pervasive sphere of worldly virtual pastimes - but it isn't entertainment.

It is an addendum from a nobody who felt moved by the courage of a man who had the humility, wisdom & strength, enough to subdue ego & visions of selfish glory to relinquish control and power over millions of Catholics.  

A tribute to Pope Benedict's Papacy.

May the Master he so faithfully serve be kind to him in his retired years.

Anonymous...

     Following on the suicide of the young brilliance Aaron Swartz you might want to read this article Anonymous on the persecuting (vs prosecuting)policy of Big G. 

The target is a lose group of hackers, modern day Robin Hoods, using talents with digital manipulations to disrupt or snipe at authoritative institutions.
Many do not agree to tactics that seem illegal and no doubt some members of Anonymous seem to be drawn from  the criminal fringe. Do we not have such shady characters in positions of Institutional Authority too?
But the Govt being what it is there are very few ways of dissenting expressions.       

    China is perpetually held up & criticized & blasted for denial and suppression of Human rights & Freedom. 

Compare the action of the Freest Nation of the world is there much difference? Perhaps in the way suppression, denial of rights as well as human rights infringements are packaged and presented by media for public assimilation. That is what makes it seem different. Essentially any right-set fair minded individual will recognize similar trends in restrictive governmental control in every man-set administration in every country...Even Vatican city - whcih does it in a more spiritually acceptable packaging! Ha!
    Guess George Orwell with his 1984 really was visionary.

    After watching Seven Dark Thirty, the immense expenditure of extreme volumes of resources including man-hours plus untold billions - all to bring down ONE lone, old & probably dying, Islamic Radical who dared to slap the Almighty USA!

    Imagine all the foreign policy-stated Aid programs for relieving human suffering all over the globe, could have ALL been financed to complete fruition if these "wasted" resources were directed in that direction  where the real beneficiaries are deprived human-kind as so often propounded by the same great Humanitarian US all over the world - Instead of wastefully spent to 'waste' an old, probably ill terrorist. 

Justifications are of course undeniably inopposable. No doubt the satisfaction factor is great as can be seen by the joyous celebration all over - BUT does killing one guy involving that much of resources in money, time, efforts, plus grief; as well as the dubious torture tactics; and the bending of ethical practices; to obtain intelligence;  make any difference in ending inter-cultural, inter-ideological, inter-religious difference and conflicts? 
Will the Kill deliver PEACE nation-wide ?
Is the money plus effort well spent?

    No one is ever right... as each human has individual precepts on what should be. 
Given that, how is it that just because of its overpowering abiliy to command vast resources to terminate anyone, Govt has no accountability in carrying out such acts. 
The individual, human or no, has zero rights.
When big gun speaks - everyone best listen. 
Well the only reason why anyone; country, nation or person act this way is : we all are fallen beings. 
Sadly it is impossible to regain our former nature short of dying not just as in ending life, but by killing first our EGO.
No one is inclined to do that anytime soon.
It is not about who is acting for Rights or Justice or Equality or Fairness. 
It is about "since I have the means & you don't toe my line .. oh well its too bad - you have to go"!

Zero Dark Thirty..

     
    Over so many millennia of existence it is only understandable that humans now acknowledge the impermanence of their existence. We, all living beings that are 'gifted' with the ability for intelligent thought & reasoning, realize that no one is immortal. 

    Following that understanding, more & more, the hesitancy, to commit acts of atrocity & unjustifiable taking of lives as well as random & large scale destruction of peoples, cultures and anything else that stand in the way of one's agenda; is greatly reduced. 

    Any person AND especially any Nation that has the means, the resources & the inclination to so commit atrocity against any other person or Nations, is very reluctant to even reconsider the options. Instead there is  a perverse pleasure in doing what humans should hesitate to commit….take the opponents out! 
    Especially when no perp is going to be around to regret or to be punished at all for any longer than ONE lifetime of at most 90 years!

   Thus whoever is not in the same agreeable category or is belligerent & deemed to be a threat to the intents of the more  powerful nation, is almost always with little hesitation - terminated. 

     Nations with greater fire-power, are better equipped & powerfully aligned to eliminate & take out its perceived  opponents with no negative repercussions from any other quarters, will go ahead & do just that…thus making our world exactly what it is today - a world where the ones with the biggest guns call the shots!

    Justifications and all the eye-wash rhetorics are only for self consolation, to help soothe over the psyche, to still conscience, to ease the mind.

 Judging from world events, it is disturbing to witness, read about & hear of the immense, unlimited expenditure of resources, man-power, as well as time, materials and human dedication that are expended to achieve a political aim - that in most cases involve the taking out, termination of an individual, or the effective deactivation of a functional sovereign entity.

  The display of such vehemence, such venom, hatred, such hostility, such supreme intolerance for some other creatures or opponent nations to occupy the same time period, is beyond most human comprehension.

    Great praise and self congratulations are heaped on successful operations that culminate in the death, destruction of an opponent & or his forces. Hardly any remorse over the talking of lives or the wanton destruction wreaked. Every act is justifiable. 
Feelings of Loss? The pain of the victims mourners? Don't talk of these inconsequentials.

    Imagine if the same commitments of  such awesome abundance of resources, the powers applied, the dedicated countless man-hours expended are aimed at achieving higher human goals & ideals?

Is there any point or purpose to even mention the concept called Love? Or the concept of sanctity & respect for human life? 

Is there anything 'beautiful' anymore when the monstrosity of such destructive psychopathic abandon is frivolously, triggered & indulged in?

   What is the point of elevating ideals called humanity's  shared destiny? 

    All the hollow talk blasted all over the air-waves on the nobility of our species,

the greatness of our cultures, the intelligence & achievements of the human race - how far, how advanced, how great we have become from the times of the caves?!

Thus, being mortal, nobody bothers to dwell on trivialities like these, when after 80 or so years the perp is no more and memories don't hurt no one…not especially the long-gone, dead perp. 

    
    If anyone or anything at all offends one, don't even hesitate to take extreme measures since very, very soon one would be no more. 
It does not matter what or how bad or how severe one acts whilst one lived one's very short, temporary life!

And the Divine??

That is something which from the light of the present situation of 'might is right', would provide much mirth!