The bullying culture

#MuseNotAmuse

Our public discussion has become one mean bullying contest. Let see what qualifies.

Is it better that one does an action or agree with you, because they want to?
Because of sound reason, and truth.
Or better that they are obligated/forced (bullied).

Force (unjust)= Mockery/ridicule, lying, name calling, value/emotional labeling(stereotypeing), profanity-(verbal, print, &visual), law, and violence.

Just force is applied to address a wrong. But lying is never just, because it takes away the hearers ability to make a rational decision.

An issue needing unjust force. Can indicate a lack on the part of the person pursuing it’s acceptance. Or the validity of the issue/cause.

And for me first and foremost.
If you cannot debate/discuss from a polite stance. It indicates a weakness of some sort.

Rudeness always shows that you are arguing desperately from a point of weakness.

Consider.
Ad hominem (Latin for “to the man” or “to the person”), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a logical fallacy ( fallacy=false belief or argument) in which an argument is rebutted by attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.

What is the best way for the presentation of arguments on any issue.

As such the presentation needs to contain much as possible of the following.

Hard evidence.

Knowledge.

Plan of action.

Why it is the best way.

Personal interest.

If you do not have those on your side.

Then admit that you are wasting time. You will convince no one.

One last thing to consider.

Remember. Hurt people hurt other people. They feel in control and in a safe place when they are doing something that they’ve seen accomplish dominance. Sometimes you can help them break the cycle. By just asking them if their attempt to hurt is from someone hurting them. They might not admit it. But it may give them the train of thought needed.

Be blessed.

Kingdom of God

As many writers in Christian apologetics I to am stressed between, The City of God, and The City of men.

Everyone needs to wake up and see their roles and deal with the past as best as we can.

Lotta room for improvement to put it weakly.

We treat people shamfully. At some level we dehumanize them as property, objects to be used. The bucket of crabs needs to be gone. Nurturing and helping up from our ruts has to be the common theme. How to get there from here?

Who is willing?

#WasAFoolToo

Pluralism is both an academic and a public perspective on the good life, the good society, and good government. Because we all inhabit the same universe, pluralists recognize that there is some ultimate uniformity about what is good in personal, social, and political life, but because we also live in a pluriverse of many competing […]

via About Pluralism — Paul Schumaker

God Revealed

The only avenue through which ‘we’ might obtain real knowledge of God, that is, His special revelation, apparently oblivious of the fact that only the Spirit of God can search and reveal the deep things of God and reveal them unto us.

-Biblical Training

“In all sincerity I think we must conclude that the attempt to demonstrate by purely intellectual processes the truth of the deliverances of direct religious experiences is absolutely hopeless.”

-John Baillie

We can only know God by, Posteriori knowledge, by experiencing.

Not

Priori deductive knowledge, relating to or derived by reasoning from self-evident propositions.

As Job asks the question of Zophar, “Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?” (Job 11:7)

Independent and On Our Own

Liberty and the American Idea

Many of us feel trapped in social disorder and a slowly suffocating economy.  Ours is a predicament that seems to be sliding toward disintegration.  Foreboding weighs on the soul.  These feelings are not unreasonable, but let’s try to take a step back and look at the whole picture.

I submit that the collapse of the old order and the birth of something good and revitalized are both happening at the same time.

This is hard to see when we are confronted daily by the degradation of what we have always known.

A dysfunctional past must collapse before a revitalized nation can turn the corner and strive for a principled and productive future.  But there is no reason to wait for the bottom.

I have no hidden agenda.  I do not propose a social or political prescription for the American future.  Rather, I seek the restoration of a spirit and character…

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#GardenPower #FoodDesert

If yout want to have power over people or diminish them. Limit their ability to access clean food and water. We have seen it in history time and again.  In Francis Moore Lappe’s search for an answer to relieve famine in, “Diet for a Small Planet”. She found that it is not the lack of food or good land and conditions to grow it, that makes scarcity. But  it is limiting access to those things. As John Block also experienced in his life chronicled in, “Escape from Siberia to California.” When the communists “collected” food from the farms. It was wise to have hidden holes in your barns threshing areas to sweep a little for yourself. In early America, when the military wanted to bring the native American people to ruin. Killed off millions of bison. Everytime I pass a marker to the “Trail of tears” remember them and offer a prayer for not again. Everytime I pass an impoverished community, there are no gardens. It takes only 700 square feet intensely managed to produce enough food for one person. And it is easily cleaner and has greatly superior nutrition than commercially available

God’s agape love

From the rejection/denile of Gods perfect  love comes all evil.

God’s AGAPE love.
The  deceiving fool in all of us avoids this reality with every tool it can.
AGAPE love.
At its extreme, it is the supreme self sacrifice for your enemies, by their hands.
To open to them a way from destruction if they want it enough to see what you have done.
That is what Jesus the Christ.
Son of the Living God accomplished.
And that is our goal as followers in the Way, (also known as Christians ).

For love, by definition, must be freely given. It cannot be coerced. That’s why C. S. Lewis wrote, “the Irresistible and the Indisputable are the two weapons which the very nature of [God’s] scheme forbids Him to use. Merely to over-ride a human will (as His felt presence in any but the faintest and most mitigated degree would certainly do) would be for Him useless. He cannot ravish. He can only woo.”

He will not even force forgiveness on the unwilling. Need to ask.

1 Corinthians 13New King James Version (NKJV)

The Greatest Gift
13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.

4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

About relationships

In the same room you can leave someone by ignoring them.
Be “THERE” in a relationship.  And an important  part of such is knowing all you can about that person.
Know Jesus?
In the New Testament,
1900 sayings.
900 commands.
Let alone all the foreshadowing and phrophesy in the Old Testament.
And a couple thoughts alongside that goes with this. We too often treat Jesus like a drive thru window. Place our order and we are on our way. Does that make for a good follower/leader relationship?
As we are talking about God’s Word made flesh.
You are never separate from the words you utter. They are the lyrics of the song of your life and your actions the music. What is the title of the song that you are  composing?

Agape love

The bottom line is,
AGAPE love.
The  deceiving fool in all of us avoids this reality with every tool it can.
AGAPE love.
At its extreme, it is the supreme self sacrifice for your enemies, by their hands.
To open to them a way from destruction if they want it enough to see what you have done.
That is what Jesus the Christ.
Son of the Living God accomplished.
And that is our goal as followers in the Way, (also known as Christians ).

Selah!
Corem Deo.

 To realize that God purposed the whole of creation so that He could express Himself fully. So that His record of accomplishments would be complete.

 It took me almost 30 years to start to see some of the interconnected lines of logic in the Bible.  People keep trying to shortcut it with spurious sophistry.

Not in my strength.
But by thy spirit Lord.
Power over sin.
Spiritual gifts.
Not a got to. ( law=you do, you live).
But a get to. (Grace=you live. You do.)
Training to  find and hear His Will.
Obey with a thankful heart.
Peace and contenent.
Even in a very stressful situation.

 Intolerance is rampant. Seems that we have a conform with my own derived values or lose everything mentality.
I thank God for showing us truth. And that He does not change to suit vain fashion.

 That there is no genetic or chemical  reason to act in others best interest.  That is given to all by God. Without God’s leading hearts and the ones  following Him showing agape love. The world would have rampent evil.

The Bible is for adult minds.

C. S. Lewis

There is no need to be worried by facetious people who try to make the Christian hope of ‘Heaven’ ridiculous by saying they do not want ‘to spend eternity playing harps’. The answer to such people is that if they cannot understand books written for grown-ups, they should not talk about them.