9.25.14
Democracy
can’t be transplanted. It comes from
economics. The approach to extremism is
ill advised. Ok, Rouhani, let’s give the
west your slant to ending extremism.
Entrusting
leaders in the Middle East to end extremism is necessary. Right. The blunders of the west have created
the fire on both sides of my country. The west has put blades in the hands of
madmen. Tony Zinni would agree with this,
with exception I think to Assad. Iran is
a tranquil nation. Right. Cooperation is necessary to end the death of
thousands of Palestinians at the hands of the Zionist regime. How about recognizing Israel’s right to exist?
How could the regime continue to resist
your nuclear ambitions if they accept your right for them to live?
Sure,
Israel, make peace with your enemies across the wall and may your enemies do
the same but please stop building on land that is not yours anymore. Ya gotta forgive, it’s that time of year.
Is Iran
supporting terrorists? A myth? Know your people, Mr. President.
The west
can’t fight evil if it has intentions Islamic countries fear. America wants peace but not with hopes one day
Hollywood and Coke will find new markets.
Forget the oil, I think that’s happening. The idea of democracy works if there is
cooperation. How could the colonies
defeat the British if they weren’t one in mind and thought?
Nevertheless
while we blunder about in a far distant land, the locals have kept their
literal heads in the sand. No more, ‘it’s
not my war’, no more ‘it doesn’t threaten us’.
Fight your battles in the name of a faith that proclaims peace.
Ninety
two percent of Saudis believe ISIS is correct in its interpretation of Islam’s
divine prophet, so
says an Arabic newspaper. I don’t want to believe this but if it were true it’s
the imams who spread it and no one questions them and makes me wonder what the
imam behind me is saying to his flock right now.
The UN is
cutting food programs to refugees by 40%.
We are out of money.
There’s no bleeping way I can stiff a beggar with a baby with a few
bucks when I can give more.
9.26.14
Last night I
sat across from the pastor who has an uncanny resemblance to a cousin in
Chicago and asked him if he had any affiliation with the folks at Oasis
hospital. Stan Rubesh is my boss.
The pastor at the church I attended in 1993, what a funny memory after
service Stan would take out a white handkerchief which he’d open ‘hey
interested in some rubies from Sri Lanka?”
beautiful blood red stones, say support is low this month, Pastor?
I am not
interested in attending a house service though it could be better than nothing,
no I’d argue over the finer points of theology and leave more skeptical. The Al-Ain fellowship asked me to preach
once, the Good Friday service and I talked about the five views of
sanctification and ended the service with a negro spiritual
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
OoooOOOooo
sometimes it causes me to tremble tremble tremble
Were
you there when they crucified my Lord?
This evening
I will go to the Yaz Medical Clinic and reschedule my next dentist
appointment. The root canal job hurt
like the dickens last night and while I thought I should at least let the man
look at what is going on but two more potassium pills and an after dental
surgery pill I picked up in KohSamui it is ok.
I simply do want to travel with post trauma throbbing.
A coincidence
is God’s way of remaining anonymous. Wait, if you’re connecting the coincidence with God then God
isn’t anonymous, right? Is Einstein credited with saying this? I have to completely disagree, a coincidence
is God’s way of remaining in the human loop.
There is nothing anonymous about a coincidence.
This quote
appears on page 850 in my copy of The Goldfinch. Something good can come from something bad,
sometimes though nothing good comes from war and disease. A coincidence is a
simple sign of the active spirit world.
Why spirits don’t engage more often in human endeavors I don’t know but
if you’re looking hard for answers, if you’re thinking hard for meaning, the
greater the likelihood there’ll be an intervening connection but you can’t expect
them to happen because then they’ll never happen.
9.27.14
Is divinity
obligated to reassure the inhabitants on planet earth we’re supposed to live in
harmony? It’s been a couple of millennia
since any kind of message was given and time has changed that message. Second, nature’s chaos isn’t enough because
it’s too personal, too volatilely impermanent.
To what end do the greatest mountains, forests, and oceans bridge the
two worlds and bring a collective peace.
I’m glad I
didn’t visit the dentist for a third week in a row. The root canal continues to heal, my mouth
needed to rest from the trauma.
And can we
talk about the Unified Field Theory?
Some day? I am so guilty of
expecting a force greater than humanity will save us. What a mess divinity has given us. We are always putting out God’s fires.
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