Do you believe in God, that good will win over evil, and in Heaven and Hell?

[Desiremakesmeweak]

"Okay. Okay. You caught me. I did ask God for a new Mustang GT, orange with black strips, black wheels, six speed, and Recaro seats."

I've been asking the same thing for a few years now. Hedging my bet, I've asked Santa for the same thing too at Christmas. Still no Mustang in my driveway or under my tree.

I need to try writing to some billionaires and include a cheesecake photo of me wearing nothing but two Mustang bumper stickers strategically placed.

"Dear God...

Dear Santa...

Dear Mr. Zuckerberg...

Dear Oprah..."

Being that Oprah is a closet lesbian, she may be my best bet.

This much I will say openly, and publicly - the phrase in the New Testament, oft-used, always misquoted or at least mistranslated, is this: 'Lord, we prayed and prayed yet why do these things not occur for us in this instance? And he answered them: Oh men of little faith, where is thy faith, for if you had but faith as much as a mustard seed - which is very small - verily, this mountain would fall into the sea if you told it 'raise yourself up, and cast yourself into the sea.'

Whereas in fact, the Greek word for faith here is a phrase: 'underlying basis.'

As in - 'Where is your underlying basis for such and such to have happen...'

And this is not to shy away from the argument, or its objective, let's say. People have almost no realization whatsoever that Greek scribes of the kind who wrote the New Testament were far far removed from 'magical' or 'mythical' thinkers; they went to pains to make a case for rational and even factual or evidentiary bases for claims being made. However, what has happened for a long time is that a particular kind of Greek language has been forced to fit into a fairly non-specific and very casual language, namely, modern Western English. A place it arrived from having gone through even less categoric forms of language.

The reason you are not having the Mustang turn up in your driveway is that you are looking at Christianity from a fragile underlying basis; the main premise of Christianity is the casting down of an agency of cosmic or at least global Earthly, mundane, Evil, from 'a high place,' and the potential of the rising up of ordinary Humankind, in one Cosmological sense, because a god or God, positioned itself into Humanity (and, according to the narrative, in person)... But what this does is place enormous moral and ethical responsibility onto the shoulders of whoever assumes such roles of power.

I don't really see that there is too much ethical problem with having a Mustang turn up in your garage. There are a lot of problems with having malicious and whole-ly self-interested people be able to enter into some kind of uncommon understanding of how things work to the extent they are able to 'make anything happen that they please.'

Now as for you specifically, having a Mustang turn up, I'd be happy to go into this in a tiny touch more detail if you pm me. I would not go into such things openly.

Can it be done? Yes it can be done.

This is the time of year when, by tradition, Xeryus, the Bright Star appeared, and pointed the way. Now, we also have 'Syria' of course, but then, that is a tradition of the Alouites and those other 'star worshippers' and astrologers, who resort to the position of and movement of stars to determine if or whether some 'prayer' may be answered. Zarthooshti people go along these lines. Parsees (Zarthooshti religion) are filled with people who make large amounts of money! So there may be some truth in their concepts.

That is not, however, what I am referring to, although you know, as they say, 'where there is smoke, there is also fire...'

Orange Mustang, eh.

 

[SusanJillParker]

This much I will say openly, and publicly - the phrase in the New Testament, oft-used, always misquoted or at least mistranslated, is this: 'Lord, we prayed and prayed yet why do these things not occur for us in this instance? And he answered them: Oh men of little faith, where is thy faith, for if you had but faith as much as a mustard seed - which is very small - verily, this mountain would fall into the sea if you told it 'raise yourself up, and cast yourself into the sea.'

Whereas in fact, the Greek word for faith here is a phrase: 'underlying basis.'

As in - 'Where is your underlying basis for such and such to have happen...'

And this is not to shy away from the argument, or its objective, let's say. People have almost no realization whatsoever that Greek scribes of the kind who wrote the New Testament were far far removed from 'magical' or 'mythical' thinkers; they went to pains to make a case for rational and even factual or evidentiary bases for claims being made. However, what has happened for a long time is that a particular kind of Greek language has been forced to fit into a fairly non-specific and very casual language, namely, modern Western English. A place it arrived from having gone through even less categoric forms of language.

The reason you are not having the Mustang turn up in your driveway is that you are looking at Christianity from a fragile underlying basis; the main premise of Christianity is the casting down of an agency of cosmic or at least global Earthly, mundane, Evil, from 'a high place,' and the potential of the rising up of ordinary Humankind, in one Cosmological sense, because a god or God, positioned itself into Humanity (and, according to the narrative, in person)... But what this does is place enormous moral and ethical responsibility onto the shoulders of whoever assumes such roles of power.

I don't really see that there is too much ethical problem with having a Mustang turn up in your garage. There are a lot of problems with having malicious and whole-ly self-interested people be able to enter into some kind of uncommon understanding of how things work to the extent they are able to 'make anything happen that they please.'

Now as for you specifically, having a Mustang turn up, I'd be happy to go into this in a tiny touch more detail if you pm me. I would not go into such things openly.

Can it be done? Yes it can be done.

This is the time of year when, by tradition, Xeryus, the Bright Star appeared, and pointed the way. Now, we also have 'Syria' of course, but then, that is a tradition of the Alouites and those other 'star worshippers' and astrologers, who resort to the position of and movement of stars to determine if or whether some 'prayer' may be answered. Zarthooshti people go along these lines. Parsees (Zarthooshti religion) are filled with people who make large amounts of money! So there may be some truth in their concepts.

That is not, however, what I am referring to, although you know, as they say, 'where there is smoke, there is also fire...'

Orange Mustang, eh.

Firstly, Oprah said that I needed to be more positive and that my wishes would come true.

Trust me. It's not easy for me to be positive when I've lived such a negative life.

Secondly, I thank you for buying me a new, Mustang GT orange with black stripes, a six speed, black wheels, and Recaro seats.

Oh, and I almost forgot..."God bless you."

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Thank you thank you.

Wishes can come true but truth is real.

'As above, so below...?'

You have a Mustang somewhere. With black stripes.

 

[GforGraham]

I'm guessing you never had a union card.

Wrong, try not guessing in future, and stay away from casinos, they love guessers.
My worms once guessed that they could guess, but they were wrong.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Wrong, try not guessing in future, and stay away from casinos, they love guessers.
My worms once guessed that they could guess, but they were wrong.

Yeah and if you could say that in a Clint Eastwood accent, you might end up inside a NOIRTRASH novel!

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Yeah and if you could say that in a Clint Eastwood accent, you might end up inside a NOIRTRASH novel!

He plays Glenna Beck in my latest. Glenna used to be Glenn but remains a police lieutenant, forever a day late and a dollar short.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I understand faith to be belief in something real enough I cant explain. Like the blossoms on my peach and pear trees, now. Theyre dropping leaves and fulla blossoms. I cant explain it but its real enough. So faith is trusting what you know regardless of the context.

 

[coochiebarber]

I believe, God, Evil and anything you believe in without having a scientific cause, were created by criminal minded people to spread fear among the masses to control them.

 

[SusanJillParker]

I believe, God, Evil and anything you believe in without having a scientific cause, were created by criminal minded people to spread fear among the masses to control them.

So, lemme get this straight just so I understand what you wrote.

In the way that Superman had Lex Luther and Batman had the Joker, you think there are super criminals spreading fear among the masses to control them. Is that it?

Hey, with so very few people in the world who have all of the money, the power, and the influence, I'd believe it. Only, we need to give him a name.

"Got it! The new breed of super criminal in the guise of a boy genius but out to control the masses...Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook.

I knew there was something about that guy I didn't like.

He replaces Bill Gates who was in control of more people and more computers than anyone.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

The test of all bullshit artists who want to talk about the 'scientific basis' for things - especially religion - is the same one Pythagoras set thousands of years ago.

And let me just repeat that so that it sinks in to a few people's thick skulls: THOUSANDS of years ago.

First, study under me for FOURTEEN YEARS at least (that was Pythagoras's rules) and THEN I will disclose to you the higher secrets. And then Plato said, in his day, things had to be cut back to half that span; in other words, seven years.

And the reason for this is that unless you have a properly trained and disciplined and truly objective mind, you cannot distinguish truth from the bias you will acquire from common daily living amongst a society of other casual thinkers.

And I lay this charge directly at people like the pussy shaver, who so blithely dictated what he(?) expected the truth to look like for all the rest of the idiots who clearly know nothing, see nothing, and are otherwise completely deluded of course.

Today, I expect the young and arrogant genius to spend what, a full ten seconds at least of click-through time, before they will 'get' their degree from a university of great and largely self-proclaimed and fee-funded, marketed, note.

And then, at this point, THEY, and only such as they, will be shown the higher truths within the upper chambers, as it were, to bring down to us lesser and certainly, despised mortals.

And all of this will of course be based on 'SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE.'

Without a single passing nod to the point that Pythagoras and others of his stature were making, namely that people don't necessarily possess the subtlety of mind and of intellectual vision to understand these types of things, not without considerable education by ACTUALLY knowledgeable and experienced people - and not just a bunch of post WWII charlatans pretending to be academics.

I ask this question to students all the time:

'Do you know what percentage of Faculty Heads were alive after WWII, and that continued the courses for the much older age students who were able to be enrolled after WWII - from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, Stanford - anywhere?'

Not one person has ever been able to tell me, yet they are all sure that the 'corporate memory' as it were, of these institutions was kept and was able to be passed on to all of the clots like the pussy person hovering with blade from KFC free plastic knife department, such that they know whether or not there is a God.

Or whether there is anything other than their bill for 'professional' services, in fact.

 

[SusanJillParker]

The test of all bullshit artists who want to talk about the 'scientific basis' for things - especially religion - is the same one Pythagoras set thousands of years ago.

And let me just repeat that so that it sinks in to a few people's thick skulls: THOUSANDS of years ago.

First, study under me for FOURTEEN YEARS at least (that was Pythagoras's rules) and THEN I will disclose to you the higher secrets. And then Plato said, in his day, things had to be cut back to half that span; in other words, seven years.

And the reason for this is that unless you have a properly trained and disciplined and truly objective mind, you cannot distinguish truth from the bias you will acquire from common daily living amongst a society of other casual thinkers.

And I lay this charge directly at people like the pussy shaver, who so blithely dictated what he(?) expected the truth to look like for all the rest of the idiots who clearly know nothing, see nothing, and are otherwise completely deluded of course.

Today, I expect the young and arrogant genius to spend what, a full ten seconds at least of click-through time, before they will 'get' their degree from a university of great and largely self-proclaimed and fee-funded, marketed, note.

And then, at this point, THEY, and only such as they, will be shown the higher truths within the upper chambers, as it were, to bring down to us lesser and certainly, despised mortals.

And all of this will of course be based on 'SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE.'

Without a single passing nod to the point that Pythagoras and others of his stature were making, namely that people don't necessarily possess the subtlety of mind and of intellectual vision to understand these types of things, not without considerable education by ACTUALLY knowledgeable and experienced people - and not just a bunch of post WWII charlatans pretending to be academics.

I ask this question to students all the time:

'Do you know what percentage of Faculty Heads were alive after WWII, and that continued the courses for the much older age students who were able to be enrolled after WWII - from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, Stanford - anywhere?'

Not one person has ever been able to tell me, yet they are all sure that the 'corporate memory' as it were, of these institutions was kept and was able to be passed on to all of the clots like the pussy person hovering with blade from KFC free plastic knife department, such that they know whether or not there is a God.

Or whether there is anything other than their bill for 'professional' services, in fact.

Not all of us who write erotica are illiterate (lol).

As once a student of Plato, I remember reading one of his quotes that may apply here.

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Change the light to truth and you have the problem in a nutshell.

Sorry but I'm still hung up on the fact that no one went to jail for the financial meltdown and so very many white, old, Caucasian men made hundreds of millions of dollars.

Yet, if a black man steals a loaf of bread to feed his hungry family, he's shot down in the street as if he's a wild animal.

What would Plato say if he was alive today?

 

[R. Richard]

Not all of us who write erotica are illiterate (lol).

As once a student of Plato, I remember reading one of his quotes that may apply here.

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Change the light to truth and you have the problem in a nutshell.

Sorry but I'm still hung up on the fact that no one went to jail for the financial meltdown and so very many white, old, Caucasian men made hundreds of millions of dollars.

Yet, if a black man steals a loaf of bread to feed his hungry family, he's shot down in the street as if he's a wild animal.

What would Plato say if he was alive today?

A few people did go to jail, usually for short periods of time. The Madoff people took the brunt of the punishment.
The old, white men. any of whom were deserving of jail, were the same as the old, white men who judged them.
Your statement of a black man stealing bread to feed his family is a statement of ignorance. The state feeds many, many black families. The man responsible for the need of the state to feed so many black families, rest with one boy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR bribed the black people who were struggling to raise families and gave them just enough money to live in grinding poverty. As a result, the blacks mainly worship FDR. Back in the thirties, it was tough for a black man to earn enough to raise a family, as the jobs available were mainly low paid, hard labor. However, there was a thriving black culture in many places. The Cotton Club in Harlem was a prime example. There were black restaurants and other services. It was tough, but blacks were surviving. Then FDR bribed them to give up their chance for a decent life.
Look at the riots in Jefferson. Blacks mainly stole TVs, computers, jewelry, etc. They also destroyed several black businesses.

 

[SusanJillParker]

A few people did go to jail, usually for short periods of time. The Madoff people took the brunt of the punishment.
The old, white men. any of whom were deserving of jail, were the same as the old, white men who judged them.
Your statement of a black man stealing bread to feed his family is a statement of ignorance. The state feeds many, many black families. The man responsible for the need of the state to feed so many black families, rest with one boy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR bribed the black people who were struggling to raise families and gave them just enough money to live in grinding poverty. As a result, the blacks mainly worship FDR. Back in the thirties, it was tough for a black man to earn enough to raise a family, as the jobs available were mainly low paid, hard labor. However, there was a thriving black culture in many places. The Cotton Club in Harlem was a prime example. There were black restaurants and other services. It was tough, but blacks were surviving. Then FDR bribed them to give up their chance for a decent life.
Look at the riots in Jefferson. Blacks mainly stole TVs, computers, jewelry, etc. They also destroyed several black businesses.

You're right. What was I thinking? The black people have it made. Who wouldn't want to stay home and collect welfare and foodstamps?

...And then those shiftless niggers have no respect for white people owning everything and having all of the money. WTF? The frigging nerve of them not to be satisfied to drop out of high school and to get a minimum wage job at McDonalds.

The bottom line is we brought them here. We stuck them all together in ghettos. We didn't give them the same opportunities as white folk as far as education and jobs and they still don't have the same opportunities as white children.

We pushed them to join the military or to go to jail. Damn, you're right. It makes me wish I was a black woman with 3 babies from three different men.

"Thank you Massur. Thank you for giving me this roach infested, cold water flat. Thank you."

We all admire black athletes until we see them on the street and see how much bigger they are then we are.

"Shoot him! Shoot that nigger!"

"What did he do?"

"He crossed against the light and I feared for my life."

"What? Huh?"

 

[FantasyXY]

Freedom Of, or From... Choose Wisely

Wow, somebody touched a nerve somewhere in those last few posts. Bunch of Heathens if you ask me...

Here is my take... and there is a mountain of proof to back all of this up... Religion and all of its entrapment, traditions, beliefs, and dogma, are all just another form of government... PERIOD.

Look at the roots of any religion, and I truly mean any religion. What you will find is religion is used, either subversively or overtly, as a tool to manipulate and govern people while providing power and control the religion's administrators.

Also look at what has happened throughout history, including what is happening in the world today, when that power and control is not freely given to the religion's administrators by the people they wish to govern. (war, mass murder and ethnic cleansing is what happens... in case you hadn't already figured that one out)

 

[SusanJillParker]

Wow, somebody touched a nerve somewhere in those last few posts. Bunch of Heathens if you ask me...

Here is my take... and there is a mountain of proof to back all of this up... Religion and all of its entrapment, traditions, beliefs, and dogma, are all just another form of government... PERIOD.

Look at the roots of any religion, and I truly mean any religion. What you will find is religion is used, either subversively or overtly, as a tool to manipulate and govern people while providing power and control the religion's administrators.

Also look at what has happened throughout history, including what is happening in the world today, when that power and control is not freely given to the religion's administrators by the people they wish to govern. (war, mass murder and ethnic cleansing is what happens... in case you hadn't already figured that one out)

Actually, I believe in God. I believe that good will prevail over evil. I'm more with Dante Alighieri in Hell's Inferno, I don't believe in religion and I hope there is a special place for those priests, bishops, cardinals, and popes who have abused their power.

I think most nuns are better than most priests, that is as long as they're not twisted by their sexual preferences, if you know what I mean.

I think woman should have more of a voice in the Catholic church. Nuns should become priestesses, bishops, cardinals, and even a pope. I also believe the priests and nuns should be allowed to get married.

It always angered me that Vatican City is so rich and so many are so poor. Vatican city was built from the money of the poor that they could ill afford to give. I don't know why the Catholic church should have a city of gold and churches that are so ornately adorned.

 

[R. Richard]

You're right. What was I thinking? The black people have it made. Who wouldn't want to stay home and collect welfare and foodstamps?

The Irish came here, at first many were driven by starvation. There were signs in Boston, 'Help wanted, no Irish need apply.' The Irish, who did have white faces, started businesses and worked their way into society. The Germans and Italians did the same. Admittedly, having a black face made it difficult to get a job.

[...And then those shiftless niggers have no respect for white people owning everything and having all of the money. WTF? The frigging nerve of them not to be satisfied to drop out of high school and to get a minimum wage job at McDonalds.

I spent some of my younger years in South Central L.A. The role models for blacks were pimps or drug dealers. I did enforcement work for some of the pimps and was accused by the drug dealers of ripping off some of the street foremen. They sent hoodlums after me and I had a retirement plan for them. I dropped out of high school, but it wasn't to take a minimum wage job. I, as a minor child, created an effective program to reduce alcohol abuse in the area, which brought the scumbag and the gangs down on me.

[The bottom line is we brought them here. We stuck them all together in ghettos. We didn't give them the same opportunities as white folk as far as education and jobs and they still don't have the same opportunities as white children.

We pushed them to join the military or to go to jail. Damn, you're right. It makes me wish I was a black woman with 3 babies from three different men.

After the war between the states, the northerners went away and left the South, Negroes included, in grinding poverty. You can take your education and shove it up your ass. I got my first legal jobs, by studying on my own. I worked hard ans made something of myself.

The few times that I did attend high school, I was a champion long jumper. Most long jumpers are black. I have quite a bit of experience dealing with blacks, in and out of school. The blacks were mostly bigger than I was. "The bigger they are, the dirtier I fight!"

 

[SusanJillParker]

The Irish came here, at first many were driven by starvation. There were signs in Boston, 'Help wanted, no Irish need apply.' The Irish, who did have white faces, started businesses and worked their way into society. The Germans and Italians did the same. Admittedly, having a black face made it difficult to get a job.


I spent some of my younger years in South Central L.A. The role models for blacks were pimps or drug dealers. I did enforcement work for some of the pimps and was accused by the drug dealers of ripping off some of the street foremen. They sent hoodlums after me and I had a retirement plan for them. I dropped out of high school, but it wasn't to take a minimum wage job. I, as a minor child, created an effective program to reduce alcohol abuse in the area, which brought the scumbag and the gangs down on me.


After the war between the states, the northerners went away and left the South, Negroes included, in grinding poverty. You can take your education and shove it up your ass. I got my first legal jobs, by studying on my own. I worked hard ans made something of myself.

The few times that I did attend high school, I was a champion long jumper. Most long jumpers are black. I have quite a bit of experience dealing with blacks, in and out of school. The blacks were mostly bigger than I was. "The bigger they are, the dirtier I fight!"

Live and let live. Why can't we all just get along?

Yes, I know that about the Irish in Boston. Then, when the Irish came to power with nearly all Boston politicians, cops, and fireman Irish, the Irish discriminated against the Italians while everyone discriminated against the blacks and the Jews.

An aside and a point of fact, we are the reason why African Americans are bigger, stronger, and faster. The slave owners bred them that way as if they were breeding farm stock.

Nothing will change in this country with regard to the races until we are invaded by aliens from outer space. That is when we'll all band together to fight a common enemy.

Yet, I don't understand the hatred that exists. White, yellow, red, brown, or black, we're all humans. Seriously, why can't we all just get along?

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

"Do you want the Mustang or not? (I take it this is the one with the Coyote engine)."

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Apart from the jocularity, I should add this much on the serious side of things:

It's understandable that people, being social animals, get together in what they think of as 'like-minded' groups. This, I suppose is one of the originations of religious groups or even religions.

The fact is though, that concepts about divinity pertain to individual perception and especially individual conscious perception.

Authors and writers generally, have an edge over others because writing is mostly a sole person's task.

Why is it - at least in my own view - that really important, valuable, functional ideas to do with how things run/how they work, on the Cosmological scale, or in the Cosmic sense, get twisted into formulae and dogma in the hands of 'group-think?' I don't know.

For me, in the end it is the idea, that counts. When it comes to religion, there are too few concrete ideas, and too much 'authority,' and not anywhere near enough functionality.

God is mostly definitely this shadowy, mysterious, difficult to pin down figure - in terms of modern life and culture. Almost not there at all, and to many people categorically not there.

I understand their perceptions.

But for me as soon as you get hung up on a name or a word or particular words and wordings, rather than a definition, you move into this never-ending battleground of 'religion' and group religious or anti-religious ideas.

I want the Mustang GT to turn up in SJP's drive.

This to me, would be the Universe showing a sense of humour.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Apart from the jocularity, I should add this much on the serious side of things:

It's understandable that people, being social animals, get together in what they think of as 'like-minded' groups. This, I suppose is one of the originations of religious groups or even religions.

The fact is though, that concepts about divinity pertain to individual perception and especially individual conscious perception.

Authors and writers generally, have an edge over others because writing is mostly a sole person's task.

Why is it - at least in my own view - that really important, valuable, functional ideas to do with how things run/how they work, on the Cosmological scale, or in the Cosmic sense, get twisted into formulae and dogma in the hands of 'group-think?' I don't know.

For me, in the end it is the idea, that counts. When it comes to religion, there are too few concrete ideas, and too much 'authority,' and not anywhere near enough functionality.

God is mostly definitely this shadowy, mysterious, difficult to pin down figure - in terms of modern life and culture. Almost not there at all, and to many people categorically not there.

I understand their perceptions.

But for me as soon as you get hung up on a name or a word or particular words and wordings, rather than a definition, you move into this never-ending battleground of 'religion' and group religious or anti-religious ideas.

I want the Mustang GT to turn up in SJP's drive.

This to me, would be the Universe showing a sense of humour.

I want the Mustang GT to miraculously appear in my driveway (along with a handsome man, about 6'2" tall, Harvard educated, and built).

I pray that there is a God. I pray there is something else out there. I need to know that there is a reason why so many of us have so suffered so much.

Yes, I've had a horrific childhood that continued into my adulthood but that part of my life is over. I attribute much of my happiness to writing and to meeting people who write me to tell me that they love my stories. With so many people turning to alcohol, drugs, food, and abhorrent behaviors, writing has been my salvation.

Just as no one can take my college education from me, something that made me more realize how much I don't know instead of how much I know, no one can take my writing from me.

"Excuse me but I have to check if the Mustang and my dream man are parked out in my driveway."

 

[R. Richard]

Live and let live. Why can't we all just get along?

When a business owner belongs to group A, the business owner is lobbied, by group A friends to hire group A people. The same with group B, etc. Since Negroes run few businesses economic inequality persists.

People tend to look down on poor people.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

I'm not going to turn up in your driveway, trust me!

But - I'm 6' 1" and although I have never physically been to Harvard I did have Professor (then only 'Doctor') Munro Leaf (a real biggie at Harvard) as a personal private tutor when I was quite young.

Thankfully, I no longer have ANY of the family wealth left. Except for the narlidge, the narlidge...

...Seems to me you're kinda getting close though, to what you 'want.'

Why is there suffering in the world?

(You don't ask for enough, do you!)

Why is there suffering in the world of HUMANS. Is the correct way to put the question.

The sea is deep, the waters large, and the waves great when stirred up.

The measure of Man is deep and wide and tall. His suffering is great as his (unrealised) power, and his capacity for good and for attainment.

Man, is a story, unfinished.

God is the co-author, but now you know where he/she/it/they - reside/s. He is only the co-author because Man has the faculty of a free will, yet even so, free will depends on truth, and the knowledge of it, the correct perception that will see it, and even the favour of a god who will allow it to be seen.

Mortal Man has many enemies. Because he - mortal Man - is not divine, he is constantly in peril from his enemies and from many deadly dangers. Yet he also stands halfway between the mortal and the eternal and the divine. That is why there is hope, but the way ahead is narrow, difficult, and hard to find, that leads to the Upper World.

 

[SusanJillParker]

When a business owner belongs to group A, the business owner is lobbied, by group A friends to hire group A people. The same with group B, etc. Since Negroes run few businesses economic inequality persists.

People tend to look down on poor people.

Sounds simplistic but not necessarily true. Networking will only get one so far.

Typically, no matter what the color, race, and creed of the candidate, especially in this global employment environment, it's the best man or the best woman who gets the job.

The last time anyone from Group A hired anyone from Group A was the local union and/or the Mafia (lol).

It's a different world today. You just need to walk a college campus, Harvard, MIT, Boston University, Northeastern University, and Tufts University to see that white, American students are the new minority. The only college staying firm is Boston College, and Irish, Catholic school.

 

[DreamCloud]

Everything came from somewhere. Call it God.
Religion was defined by someone. Call him man.
Life is a dice roll. It's up to you whether they are God's dice or yours.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Everything came from somewhere. Call it God.
Religion was defined by someone. Call him man.
Life is a dice roll. It's up to you whether they are God's dice or yours.

Writing is my therapy too. I can't go a day without writing. If I do, I get the jitters. As if I missed my caffeine for the day, I get nervous and jumpy.