Wednesday, December 23, 2009
The Philosophy Of Will
Friday, May 29, 2009
Good Vs Evil
Proverbs 27:11
Be wise, my son, and make my heart rejoice, that I may make a reply to him that is taunting me.
Genesis 3
1 Now the serpent proved to be the most cautious of all the wild beasts of the field that Jehovah God had made. So it began to say to the woman: “Is it really so that God said YOU must not eat from every tree of the garden?” 2 At this the woman said to the serpent: “Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat. 3 But as for [eating] of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘YOU must not eat from it, no, YOU must not touch it that YOU do not die.’” 4 At this the serpent said to the woman: “YOU positively will not die. 5 For God knows that in the very day of YOUR eating from it YOUR eyes are bound to be opened and YOU are bound to be like God, KNOWING good and bad.”
6 Consequently the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was something to be longed for to the eyes, yes, the tree was desirable to look upon. So she began taking of its fruit and eating it. Afterward she gave some also to her husband when with her and he began eating it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them became opened and they began to realize that they were naked. Hence they sewed fig leaves together and made loin coverings for themselves.
8 Later they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden about the breezy part of the day, and the man and his wife went into hiding from the face of Jehovah God in between the trees of the garden. 9 And Jehovah God kept calling to the man and saying to him: “Where are you?” 10 Finally he said: “Your voice I heard in the garden, but I was afraid because I was naked and so I hid myself.” 11 At that he said: “Who told you that you were naked? From the tree from which I commanded you not to eat have you eaten?” 12 And the man went on to say: “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me [fruit] from the tree and so I ate.” 13 With that Jehovah God said to the woman: “What is this you have done?” To this the woman replied: “The serpent—it deceived me and so I ate.”
14 And Jehovah God proceeded to say to the serpent: “Because you have done this thing, you are the cursed one out of all the domestic animals and out of all the wild beasts of the field. Upon your belly you will go and dust is what you will eat all the days of your life. 15 And I shall put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will bruise you in the head and you will bruise him in the heel.”
16 To the woman he said: “I shall greatly increase the pain of your pregnancy; in birth pangs you will bring forth children, and your craving will be for your husband, and he will dominate you.”
17 And to Adam he said: “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and took to eating from the tree concerning which I gave you this command, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground on your account. In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life. 18 And thorns and thistles it will grow for you, and you must eat the vegetation of the field. 19 In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.”
20 After this Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she had to become the mother of everyone living. 21 And Jehovah God proceeded to make long garments of skin for Adam and for his wife and to clothe them. 22 And Jehovah God went on to say: “Here the man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad, and now in order that he may not put his hand out and actually take [fruit] also from the tree of life and eat and live to time indefinite,—” 23 With that Jehovah God put him out of the garden of E´den to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken. 24 And so he drove the man out and posted at the east of the garden of E´den the cherubs and the flaming blade of a sword that was turning itself continually to guard the way to the tree of life.
Job 11 There happened to be a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man proved to be blameless and upright, and fearing God and turning aside from bad. 2 And seven sons and three daughters came to be born to him. 3 And his livestock got to be seven thousand sheep and three thousand camels and five hundred spans of cattle and five hundred she-asses, along with a very large body of servants; and that man came to be the greatest of all the Orientals.
4 And his sons went and held a banquet at the house of each one on his own day; and they sent and invited their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 And it would occur that when the banquet days had gone round the circuit, Job would send and sanctify them; and he got up early in the morning and offered up burnt sacrifices according to the number of all of them; for, said Job, “maybe my sons have sinned and have cursed God in their heart.” That is the way Job would do always.
6 Now it came to be the day when the sons of the [true] God entered to take their station before Jehovah, and even Satan proceeded to enter right among them.
7 Then Jehovah said to Satan: “Where do you come from?” At that Satan answered Jehovah and said: “From roving about in the earth and from walking about in it.” 8 And Jehovah went on to say to Satan: “Have you set your heart upon my servant Job, that there is no one like him in the earth, a man blameless and upright, fearing God and turning aside from bad?” 9 At that Satan answered Jehovah and said: “Is it for nothing that Job has feared God? 10 Have not you yourself put up a hedge about him and about his house and about everything that he has all around? The work of his hands you have blessed, and his livestock itself has spread abroad in the earth. 11 But, for a change, thrust out your hand, please, and touch everything he has [and see] whether he will not curse you to your very face.” 12 Accordingly Jehovah said to Satan: “Look! Everything that he has is in your hand. Only against him himself do not thrust out your hand!” So Satan went out away from the person of Jehovah.
13 Now it came to be the day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother the firstborn. 14 And there came a messenger to Job, and he proceeded to say: “The cattle themselves happened to be plowing and the she-asses were grazing at the side of them 15 when the Sa·be´ans came making a raid and taking them, and the attendants they struck down with the edge of the sword; and I got to escape, only I by myself, to tell you.”
16 While this one was yet speaking that one came and proceeded to say: “The very fire of God fell from the heavens and went blazing among the sheep and the attendants and eating them up; and I got to escape, only I by myself, to tell you.”
17 While that one was yet speaking another one came and proceeded to say: “The Chal·de´ans made up three bands and went dashing against the camels and taking them, and the attendants they struck down with the edge of the sword; and I got to escape, only I by myself, to tell you.”
18 While this other one was yet speaking, still another one came and proceeded to say: “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother the firstborn. 19 And, look! there came a great wind from the region of the wilderness, and it went striking the four corners of the house, so that it fell upon the young people and they died. And I got to escape, only I by myself, to tell you.”
20 And Job proceeded to get up and rip his sleeveless coat apart and cut the hair off his head and fall to the earth and bow down 21 and say:
“Naked I came out of my mother’s belly,
And naked shall I return there.
Jehovah himself has given, and Jehovah himself has taken away.
Let the name of Jehovah continue to be blessed.”
22 In all this Job did not sin or ascribe anything improper to God.
Matthew 4
1 Then Jesus was led by the spirit up into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil. 2 After he had fasted forty days and forty nights, then he felt hungry. 3 Also, the Tempter came and said to him: “If you are a son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4 But in reply he said: “It is written, ‘Man must live, not on bread alone, but on every utterance coming forth through Jehovah’s mouth.’”
5 Then the Devil took him along into the holy city, and he stationed him upon the battlement of the temple 6 and said to him: “If you are a son of God, hurl yourself down; for it is written, ‘He will give his angels a charge concerning you, and they will carry you on their hands, that you may at no time strike your foot against a stone.’” 7 Jesus said to him: “Again it is written, ‘You must not put Jehovah your God to the test.’”
8 Again the Devil took him along to an unusually high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, 9 and he said to him: “All these things I will give you if you fall down and do an act of worship to me.” 10 Then Jesus said to him: “Go away, Satan! For it is written, ‘It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.’” 11 Then the Devil left him, and, look! angels came and began to minister to him.
12 Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Gal´i·lee. 13 Further, after leaving Naz´a·reth, he came and took up residence in Ca·per´na·um beside the sea in the districts of Zeb´u·lun and Naph´ta·li, 14 that there might be fulfilled what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: 15 “O land of Zeb´u·lun and land of Naph´ta·li, along the road of the sea, on the other side of the Jordan, Gal´i·lee of the nations! 16 the people sitting in darkness saw a great light, and as for those sitting in a region of deathly shadow, light rose upon them.” 17 From that time on Jesus commenced preaching and saying: “Repent, YOU people, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.”
18 Walking alongside the sea of Gal´i·lee he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, letting down a fishing net into the sea, for they were fishers. 19 And he said to them: “Come after me, and I will make YOU fishers of men.” 20 At once abandoning the nets, they followed him. 21 Going on also from there he saw two others [who were] brothers, James [the son] of Zeb´e·dee and John his brother, in the boat with Zeb´e·dee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. 22 At once leaving the boat and their father, they followed him.
23 Then he went around throughout the whole of Gal´i·lee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom and curing every sort of disease and every sort of infirmity among the people. 24 And the report about him went out into all Syria; and they brought him all those faring badly, distressed with various diseases and torments, demon-possessed and epileptic and paralyzed persons, and he cured them. 25 Consequently great crowds followed him from Gal´i·lee and De·cap´o·lis and Jerusalem and Ju·de´a and from the other side of the Jordan.
Revelation 20
1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven with the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he seized the dragon, the original serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3 And he hurled him into the abyss and shut [it] and sealed [it] over him, that he might not mislead the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After these things he must be let loose for a little while.
4 And I saw thrones, and there were those who sat down on them, and power of judging was given them. Yes, I saw the souls of those executed with the ax for the witness they bore to Jesus and for speaking about God, and those who had worshiped neither the wild beast nor its image and who had not received the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand. And they came to life and ruled as kings with the Christ for a thousand years. 5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. 6 Happy and holy is anyone having part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will rule as kings with him for the thousand years.
7 Now as soon as the thousand years have been ended, Satan will be let loose out of his prison, 8 and he will go out to mislead those nations in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Ma´gog, to gather them together for the war. The number of these is as the sand of the sea. 9 And they advanced over the breadth of the earth and encircled the camp of the holy ones and the beloved city. But fire came down out of heaven and devoured them. 10 And the Devil who was misleading them was hurled into the lake of fire and sulphur, where both the wild beast and the false prophet [already were]; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
11 And I saw a great white throne and the one seated on it. From before him the earth and the heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened. But another scroll was opened; it is the scroll of life. And the dead were judged out of those things written in the scrolls according to their deeds. 13 And the sea gave up those dead in it, and death and Ha´des gave up those dead in them, and they were judged individually according to their deeds. 14 And death and Ha´des were hurled into the lake of fire. This means the second death, the lake of fire. 15 Furthermore, whoever was not found written in the book of life was hurled into the lake of fire.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Poetry Post 274
I speak without any vain piety
But with pencil and paper I'll change society
Speaking truth in mass communication many nations will hear
I'll show Jehovah is someone to revere and endear
I'll show my fellow bleeding hearts neither is God's heart at all cold
I'll show the family values groups God values the whole household
I'll show Jehovah is generous enough to give
The whole universe for every nation of man to enjoy
Fade Away
Goodbye my dear friends
This is how it ends
Although the end is never clear
We can feel the departure coming near
Every bond is broken for every one made
And there is nothing left but for our affection to fade
Old Friends
Old friends reentering their relationship
After they lost contact and let time slip
From no words been spoken
Their friendship grew old and broken
Is it possible for their friendship to grow again
Or has it reached its final end
Will they make it though
Or do they have to start off new
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Poetry Post 257
There is only one reason to live
That is for the gifts Jehovah gives
The gift of humor
Will help you endure
The gift of music
Will cure the spirit of the sick (1 Samuel 16:23)
The gift of a friend
Will help hearts mend
The gift of wildlife
Will calm internal strife
The gift of free will
Will give you the choice to love God still
But the gift of love
Is the gift all others are made of
Reply To A Soldier's Memorial
Don't speak for the dead you buried
For you they have no more mind to read
Don't say they died out of need
When you know they died for your greed
It wasn't their mouths you tried to feed
You offered no help when the plead
You just sent them off to do your deed
And no looked back to watch them bleed
Distant Lover
Wasting the morning in bed all I can ever do
Is restlessly fantasize about me and you
My thoughts drift to images of you so clear
That I make love to you when you're not even here
But the clarity fades after so many days
Even though the memory and the passion forever stays
And so all that remains is little more than a ghost
Taunting me with the wish I desire most
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
PP 238
Where's the snow of Mt Kilimanjaro?
Where is there for it to go?
Did anyone see it passing by?
Did it leave by river or by sky?
Strange things are happening in nature
Something is happening to its glaciers
All over the world there's less ice and yet less green fields
Nothing to counteract the pollution it builds
Our tundras have melted dry
Excessive clouds mount in the sky
Clouds just keep gathering as temperatures start to warm
Until the floodgates are full at the wake of an apocalyptic storm
I Knew God
In childhood I knew a kingdom without war
The Kingdom of God I was striving for
I knew only pure love and truth
I knew the logic and saw the proof
I felt safe drawing to the conclusion
That the Kingdom of God wasn't built on seclusion
I felt certain God rewarded the good
And saves all those doing as they should
No more sickness no more death
Resurrection giving our souls a second breathe
But as time wears on my spirit wears out
And my soul dies slowly as my faith begins to doubt
Growing Up
Growing up means learning to say goodbye
Through drifting apart to death to a million reasons why
Growing up means learning not to cry
Learning futile masking tricks mastered on the first try
Growing up means always feeling guilty
Loathing every lonely moment you spend free
Growing up means counting your money
To see your value in society
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Poetry Post 172
Why do evil ones cast stones
On already broken bones
Their sunburnt leather tongues whip every with a curse word
While their cries of agony go unheard
Laws Of Man
I learned the Bible, Jesus and Jehovah
I've learned Dylan, Lennon and Buddha
If you read Walden or Marx there's not much conflict
And the creeds of the world don't often contradict
And though the laws and principles of man are massive
They mainly decree to love and be otherwise passive
So we must impart knowledge and love to be free
And then may choose what we want to be
Views
I am my own voice
My life is my choice
I can only speak on my own behalf
So I can only speak truth from my own path
Trying to conform to another view
Would impurify what I feel is true
Poetry Post 171
It's alright my dear friend
I will stay with you to the end
And then one day we will see each other again
Don't worry it will be alright
I will stay from the break of night
To the break of daylight
We have nothing to fear just hold my hand
No one can destroy something so grand
Together we'll last till the Promised Land
Loneliness
Loneliness you have found me once again
I thought for once I would have a best friend
I can not help but feel close to the end
Then I realize Jehovah is my friend
Mortal Legends
Are the universal mysteries locked in your mind
Albert Einstein
Do you hear from the mountaintops equality ring
Martin Luther King
Can you cure the sick and paranoid
Sigmund Freud
Are all people free
Mahatma Gandhi
Is racial prejudice gone
Abraham Lincoln
Did the proletariat light the sparks
Karl Marx
Does personal conscience stand with human law set below
Henry David Thoreau
Is human technology used to turn our minds on
Thomas Alva Edison
No your time and power was not infinite
So our work and causes are not definite
Poetry Post 170
I pray my vices never go pass me
While my virtues transcend all through society
I wish to do good without piety
Remain a humbled slave to humanity
Though I don't live every second of my life doing goodwill
I will always try to do my part forever still
But I'll only go so far before sin makes my spirit ill
So I'll keep on marching until...
Need Of A Samaritan
Sometimes I resent isolation sometimes I like being alone for awhile
Sometimes my mental distractions are anywhere from wholesome to vile
But most of the time I lay half dead on the road
Lonesome trying too hard to carry my own load
A voluntary and reluctant hermit
I find it too easy to quit
But no one comes to help me on my way
Burdened down on the road day after day
Holy Womb
Ever since I was born
The Devil's tried to make me torn
But back when I was a fetus
I was protected by Jah and Jesus
And in their holy womb I felt stronger
As I stayed there longer
Favorite Romantic Scriptures
Genesis 2:18-24
18 And Jehovah God went on to say: “It is not good for the man to continue by himself. I am going to make a helper for him, as a complement of him.” 19 Now Jehovah God was forming from the ground every wild beast of the field and every flying creature of the heavens, and he began bringing them to the man to see what he would call each one; and whatever the man would call it, each living soul, that was its name. 20 So the man was calling the names of all the domestic animals and of the flying creatures of the heavens and of every wild beast of the field, but for man there was found no helper as a complement of him. 21 Hence Jehovah God had a deep sleep fall upon the man and, while he was sleeping, he took one of his ribs and then closed up the flesh over its place. 22 And Jehovah God proceeded to build the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman and to bring her to the man.
23 Then the man said:
“This is at last bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh.
This one will be called Woman,
Because from man this one was taken.”
24 That is why a man will leave his father and his mother and he must stick to his wife and they must become one flesh. 25 And both of them continued to be naked, the man and his wife, and yet they did not become ashamed.
Ruth 1:16, 17
16 And Ruth proceeded to say: “Do not plead with me to abandon you, to turn back from accompanying you; for where you go I shall go, and where you spend the night I shall spend the night. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. 17 Where you die I shall die, and there is where I shall be buried. May Jehovah do so to me and add to it if anything but death should make a separation between me and you.”
Proverbs 5:15-23
15 Drink water out of your own cistern, and tricklings out of the midst of your own well. 16 Should your springs be scattered out of doors, [your] streams of water in the public squares themselves? 17 Let them prove to be for you alone, and not for strangers with you. 18 Let your water source prove to be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth, 19 a lovable hind and a charming mountain goat. Let her own breasts intoxicate you at all times. With her love may you be in an ecstasy constantly. 20 So why should you, my son, be in an ecstasy with a strange woman or embrace the bosom of a foreign woman? 21 For the ways of man are in front of the eyes of Jehovah, and he is contemplating all his tracks. 22 His own errors will catch the wicked one, and in the ropes of his own sin he will be taken hold of. 23 He will be the one to die because there is no discipline, and [because] in the abundance of his foolishness he goes astray.
Proverbs 31:10-31
10 A capable wife who can find? Her value is far more than that of corals.
11 In her the heart of her owner has put trust, and there is no gain lacking.
12 She has rewarded him with good, and not bad, all the days of her life.
13 She has sought wool and linen, and she works at whatever is the delight of her hands.
14 She has proved to be like the ships of a merchant. From far away she brings in her food.
15 She also gets up while it is still night, and gives food to her household and the prescribed portion to her young women.
16 She has considered a field and proceeded to obtain it; from the fruitage of her hands she has planted a vineyard.
17 She has girded her hips with strength, and she invigorates her arms.
18 She has sensed that her trading is good; her lamp does not go out at night.
19 Her hands she has thrust out to the distaff, and her own hands take hold of the spindle.
20 Her palm she has stretched out to the afflicted one, and her hands she has thrust out to the poor one.
21 She does not fear for her household because of the snow, for all her household are clothed with double garments.
22 Coverlets she has made for herself. Her clothing is of linen and wool dyed reddish purple.
23 Her owner is someone known in the gates, when he sits down with the older men of the land.
24 She has made even undergarments and proceeded to sell [them], and belts she has given to the tradesmen.
25 Strength and splendor are her clothing, and she laughs at a future day.
26 Her mouth she has opened in wisdom, and the law of loving-kindness is upon her tongue.
27 She is watching over the goings-on of her household, and the bread of laziness she does not eat.
28 Her sons have risen up and proceeded to pronounce her happy; her owner [rises up], and he praises her.
29 There are many daughters that have shown capableness, but you—you have ascended above them all.
30 Charm may be false, and prettiness may be vain; [but] the woman that fears Jehovah is the one that procures praise for herself.
31 GIVE her of the fruitage of her hands, and let her works praise her even in the gates.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their hard work. 10 For if one of them should fall, the other one can raise his partner up. But how will it be with just the one who falls when there is not another to raise him up?
11 Moreover, if two lie down together, they also will certainly get warm; but how can just one keep warm? 12 And if somebody could overpower one alone, two together could make a stand against him. And a threefold cord cannot quickly be torn in two.
Song Of Solomon 4:1-5
1 “Look! You are beautiful, O girl companion of mine. Look! You are beautiful. Your eyes are [those of] doves, behind your veil. Your hair is like a drove of goats that have hopped down from the mountainous region of Gil´e·ad. 2 Your teeth are like a drove of freshly shorn [ewes] that have gone up from the washing, all of which are bearing twins, with none among them having lost its young ones. 3 Your lips are just like a scarlet thread, and your speaking is agreeable. Like a segment of pomegranate are your temples behind your veil. 4 Your neck is like the tower of David, built in courses of stone, upon which are hung a thousand shields, all the circular shields of the mighty men. 5 Your two breasts are like two young ones, the twins of a female gazelle, that are feeding among the lilies.”
Song Of Solomon 8:6,7
6 “Place me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; because love is as strong as death is, insistence on exclusive devotion is as unyielding as She´ol is. Its blazings are the blazings of a fire, the flame of Jah. 7 Many waters themselves are not able to extinguish love, nor can rivers themselves wash it away. If a man would give all the valuable things of his house for love, persons would positively despise them.”
Matthew 19:3-9
3 And Pharisees came up to him, intent on tempting him and saying: “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife on every sort of ground?” 4 In reply he said: “Did YOU not read that he who created them from [the] beginning made them male and female 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife, and the two will be one flesh’? 6 So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has yoked together let no man put apart.” 7 They said to him: “Why, then, did Moses prescribe giving a certificate of dismissal and divorcing her?” 8 He said to them: “Moses, out of regard for YOUR hardheartedness, made the concession to YOU of divorcing YOUR wives, but such has not been the case from [the] beginning. 9 I say to YOU that whoever divorces his wife, except on the ground of fornication, and marries another commits adultery.”
John 15:11-16
11 “These things I have spoken to YOU, that my joy may be in YOU and YOUR joy may be made full. 12 This is my commandment, that YOU love one another just as I have loved YOU. 13 No one has love greater than this, that someone should surrender his soul in behalf of his friends. 14 YOU are my friends if YOU do what I am commanding YOU. 15 I no longer call YOU slaves, because a slave does not know what his master does. But I have called YOU friends, because all the things I have heard from my Father I have made known to YOU. 16 YOU did not choose me, but I chose YOU, and I appointed YOU to go on and keep bearing fruit and that YOUR fruit should remain; in order that no matter what YOU ask the Father in my name he might give it to YOU.
Acts 20:31-35
31 “Therefore keep awake, and bear in mind that for three years, night and day, I did not quit admonishing each one with tears. 32 And now I commit YOU to God and to the word of his undeserved kindness, which [word] can build YOU up and give YOU the inheritance among all the sanctified ones. 33 I have coveted no man’s silver or gold or apparel. 34 YOU yourselves know that these hands have attended to the needs of me and of those with me. 35 I have exhibited to YOU in all things that by thus laboring YOU must assist those who are weak, and must bear in mind the words of the Lord Jesus, when he himself said, ‘There is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving.’”
Romans 8:35-39
35 Who will separate us from the love of the Christ? Will tribulation or distress or persecution or hunger or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 Just as it is written: “For your sake we are being put to death all day long, we have been accounted as sheep for slaughtering.” 37 To the contrary, in all these things we are coming off completely victorious through him that loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor governments nor things now here nor things to come nor powers 39 nor height nor depth nor any other creation will be able to separate us from God’s love that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 12:9-16
9 Let [YOUR] love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is wicked, cling to what is good. 10 In brotherly love have tender affection for one another. In showing honor to one another take the lead. 11 Do not loiter at YOUR business. Be aglow with the spirit. Slave for Jehovah. 12 Rejoice in the hope. Endure under tribulation. Persevere in prayer. 13 Share with the holy ones according to their needs. Follow the course of hospitality. 14 Keep on blessing those who persecute; be blessing and do not be cursing. 15 Rejoice with people who rejoice; weep with people who weep. 16 Be minded the same way toward others as to yourselves; do not be minding lofty things, but be led along with the lowly things. Do not become discreet in YOUR own eyes.
1 Corinthians 7:1-7
1 Now concerning the things about which YOU wrote, it is well for a man not to touch a woman; 2 yet, because of prevalence of fornication, let each man have his own wife and each woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render to [his] wife her due; but let the wife also do likewise to [her] husband. 4 The wife does not exercise authority over her own body, but her husband does; likewise, also, the husband does not exercise authority over his own body, but his wife does. 5 Do not be depriving each other [of it], except by mutual consent for an appointed time, that YOU may devote time to prayer and may come together again, that Satan may not keep tempting YOU for YOUR lack of self-regulation. 6 However, I say this by way of concession, not in the way of a command. 7 But I wish all men were as I myself am. Nevertheless, each one has his own gift from God, one in this way, another in that way.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but do not have love, I have become a sounding [piece of] brass or a clashing cymbal. 2 And if I have the gift of prophesying and am acquainted with all the sacred secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all the faith so as to transplant mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my belongings to feed others, and if I hand over my body, that I may boast, but do not have love, I am not profited at all.
4 Love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up, 5 does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury. 6 It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are [gifts of] prophesying, they will be done away with; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9 For we have partial knowledge and we prophesy partially; 10 but when that which is complete arrives, that which is partial will be done away with. 11 When I was a babe, I used to speak as a babe, to think as a babe, to reason as a babe; but now that I have become a man, I have done away with the [traits] of a babe. 12 For at present we see in hazy outline by means of a metal mirror, but then it will be face to face. At present I know partially, but then I shall know accurately even as I am accurately known. 13 Now, however, there remain faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Ephesians 5:21-33
21 Be in subjection to one another in fear of Christ. 22 Let wives be in subjection to their husbands as to the Lord, 23 because a husband is head of his wife as the Christ also is head of the congregation, he being a savior of [this] body. 24 In fact, as the congregation is in subjection to the Christ, so let wives also be to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, continue loving YOUR wives, just as the Christ also loved the congregation and delivered up himself for it, 26 that he might sanctify it, cleansing it with the bath of water by means of the word, 27 that he might present the congregation to himself in its splendor, not having a spot or a wrinkle or any of such things, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 In this way husbands ought to be loving their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself, 29 for no man ever hated his own flesh; but he feeds and cherishes it, as the Christ also does the congregation, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave [his] father and [his] mother and he will stick to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This sacred secret is great. Now I am speaking with respect to Christ and the congregation. 33 Nevertheless, also, let each one of YOU individually so love his wife as he does himself; on the other hand, the wife should have deep respect for her husband.
Philippians 2:1-4
1 If, then, there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any sharing of spirit, if any tender affections and compassions, 2 make my joy full in that YOU are of the same mind and have the same love, being joined together in soul, holding the one thought in mind, 3 doing nothing out of contentiousness or out of egotism, but with lowliness of mind considering that the others are superior to YOU, 4 keeping an eye, not in personal interest upon just YOUR own matters, but also in personal interest upon those of the others.
Colossians 3:12-15
12 Accordingly, as God’s chosen ones, holy and loved, clothe yourselves with the tender affections of compassion, kindness, lowliness of mind, mildness, and long-suffering. 13 Continue putting up with one another and forgiving one another freely if anyone has a cause for complaint against another. Even as Jehovah freely forgave YOU, so do YOU also. 14 But, besides all these things, [clothe yourselves with] love, for it is a perfect bond of union.
Hebrews 13:1-6
1 Let YOUR brotherly love continue. 2 Do not forget hospitality, for through it some, unknown to themselves, entertained angels. 3 Keep in mind those in prison bonds as though YOU have been bound with them, and those being ill-treated, since YOU yourselves also are still in a body. 4 Let marriage be honorable among all, and the marriage bed be without defilement, for God will judge fornicators and adulterers. 5 Let [YOUR] manner of life be free of the love of money, while YOU are content with the present things. For he has said: “I will by no means leave you nor by any means forsake you.” 6 So that we may be of good courage and say: “Jehovah is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”
1 Peter 3:7-9
7 YOU husbands, continue dwelling in like manner with them according to knowledge, assigning them honor as to a weaker vessel, the feminine one, since YOU are also heirs with them of the undeserved favor of life, in order for YOUR prayers not to be hindered.
8 Finally, all of YOU be like-minded, showing fellow feeling, having brotherly affection, tenderly compassionate, humble in mind, 9 not paying back injury for injury or reviling for reviling, but, to the contrary, bestowing a blessing, because YOU were called to this [course], so that YOU might inherit a blessing.
1 John 4:11-19
11 Beloved ones, if this is how God loved us, then we are ourselves under obligation to love one another. 12 At no time has anyone beheld God. If we continue loving one another, God remains in us and his love is made perfect in us. 13 By this we gain the knowledge that we are remaining in union with him and he in union with us, because he has imparted his spirit to us. 14 In addition, we ourselves have beheld and are bearing witness that the Father has sent forth his Son as Savior of the world. 15 Whoever makes the confession that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God remains in union with such one and he in union with God. 16 And we ourselves have come to know and have believed the love that God has in our case.
God is love, and he that remains in love remains in union with God and God remains in union with him. 17 This is how love has been made perfect with us, that we may have freeness of speech in the day of judgment, because, just as that one is, so are we ourselves in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love throws fear outside, because fear exercises a restraint. Indeed, he that is under fear has not been made perfect in love. 19 As for us, we love, because he first loved us.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Poetry 165
Make the truth your own
As if to you it was divinely shown
As if by you it is universally known
For universal truth is not made a clone
Mount Zion
When the flood comes in again
I'm gonna head up to the top of Mount Zion
When Jesus comes down again
I'm gonna head up to the top of Mount Zion
If it's not my blood I'm not gonna take it
If it's not my faith I'm not gonna fake it
But I'm gonna head up to the top of Mount Zion
When Jehovah takes down Babylon
When the flood comes in again
I'm gonna head up to the top of Mount Zion
When Jesus comes down again
I'm gonna head up to the top of Mount Zion
The truth will set me free
Even when faith makes you a refugee
Don't fear persecution or discrimination
It won't be there when you reach God's nation
When the flood comes in again
I'm gonna head up to the top of Mount Zion
When Jesus comes down again
I'm gonna head up to the top of Mount Zion
I'm waiting for the passing of Armageddon
Sitting on top of Mount Zion
Waiting for Jehovah's day to come
When establishes His Earthly Kingdom
Imagine Paradise
Imagine every shore without an oil spill
Imagine every community without a landfill
We could all be there in paradise
And moral awareness would pay the price
Poetry 164
The things we need the most are the ones we can't tell are there
Like words of love and breathe of air
Futile and functionless are the things tangible
Only what we take for granted are unchangeable
Holy Reliance Paradox
We sit sick and idly by hoping God will find a cure
As we go without Him to raise and fight a "Holy War"
We keep nothing in any sense holy, clean or pure
Naively thinking, praying God will help us endure
Love Of Freedom
Some people stand in awe of a God of all powerful skill
I prefer to look at a loving God giving of free will
But the power and the love come from one God still
Although many respect His power, justice and wisdom
Or the thought of His Eternal Heavenly Kingdom
I prefer a God who loved the world so much as to give it freedom
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Poetry Post 162
I was thinking about Jesus and His Father
Wondering why they even bothered
Why do they continue to walk by our side
When all we know is selfish pride
Is there anything from us that they could gain
What's the motive for their loyalty to maintain
In a world that's forgotten what's fair
Why do they choose to care
Then I look at those who say God's on their side
Then I wonder why does God hide
I look at the world wondering where God went
The Father and The Son are gone without a clue or hint
You can see Jesus with Nicodemus and Mary Madeline
But God doesn't walk with those calling themselves Christian
For God chooses to walk with those in doubt
Over the pious crowd who have it all figured out
He shuns those who proudly proclaim to submit to God's Kingdom
But then control their neighbor's conscience under their thumb
Trapped
Tossed and turned and thrown about
Locked in a room with no window out
No solution to my situation
Always running into a complication
Tragedy
Fear consumes as I'm drained of empathy
Pushing out all emotion purging myself into vulnerability
Shivering for fears, tears for sorrow
I will be emotionally dead tomorrow
For today all worries and concerns erupt violently pass the surface
Throwing fits of all feelings finding tomorrow is going to be a numb place
Poetry Post 160
Those with Jah know no cause for war
For there is no cause worth killing for
We choose to imitate the Prince of Peace
Silently waiting for the Day war will cease
In times of war there is only one way to find certainty
Is through Jah's way of purity
Church Sins
Making a profit off the Prophets
The clergy give the church commercial glitz
Selling a pocketful of hope
To each gullible dope
Saying salvation comes from race and vague belief
Believing those lies gives vague relief
God becomes an obscure commercial logo
And the church is just a traveling show
Truth & Light
We all live in Dark where there is no light
Who can say who is wrong or who is right
You can never really say that you know me
Only the light you project is all you'll see
Sunday, March 1, 2009
104 Poetry Posts
How do you measure a sin?
(By how the motives begin?)
How do you measure the wrong you do?
Is it a numerical value?
Is it based on the number victimized?
Or is it too vague to analyze?
Is sin an act or a sensation?
Is it measured by its duration?
Is sin succeeded by punishment or consequence?
Is our pain a penalty or coincidence?
The Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan
Favored by Jah but forgotten by man
So is sin born into us doomed to never die?
Are we condemned the first time without a second try?
Is sin unforgivable when you give up resistance?
Is it wrong to when perfection is so long a distance?
If failure is inevitable in our mortal existence
How can we fight it with relentless persistence?
Future Sight (Haiku)
Don't live for today
It will soon be yesterday
Set goals for future
Final Wishes
In case something should happen to me
Bury me by my maple tree
Hire a grave man scribe my tombstone
Hire mourners in black so no one knows I died alone
Hire shovelers to dig the grave
The cost will be the life you couldn't save
Monday, February 23, 2009
Poetry Post 81
Laying under the blue sky
While everyone else is wondering why
I choose to lie watching the clouds roll by
And while the world stumbles in confusion
I am under a beautiful illusion
And I find the real solution
God's Creation
I traveled through the art of God we call science
I've journeyed through the levels of subconscious
And saw its frail condition
But still in its position
How wisely He made the balance of nature
How wisely He made the Earth secure
His Creation has millenniums endure
And of His Creation we will only see more
For He shall save the meek
Give them the Paradise they seek
And shall save His Beauty
And restore Earth's purity
Sunny Day (Haiku)
Resting my body
Upon the soft tender grass
On this sunny day
Friday, February 20, 2009
Poetry Post 77
Jehovah remember Martin Luther King
For with faith in you he believed freedom would ring
Jehovah remember Mahatma Gandhi
For with Christ like peace he caused a change to be
Jehovah remember Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein
For they kept faith and science soundly intertwine
Jehovah remember Mother Teresa and Albert Schweitzer
For in a time of greed they remembered what Christian love is for
Jehovah remember Henry David Thoreau
And all who struggled to be on the path you show
Phonies
What can I say what can I do
To make my feelings connect to you
We have no intimacy
You can't even feel me
My pains and pleasures you know of
But you only know it not feel, there is no love
Between us are only knowledge and a void
A quaint acquaintance I would like to avoid
We take and we give
Without any real motive
We know our value but have no appreciation
Our love feels like mere obligation
And since we don't really care
I don't think I need to be there
High
When I get so low I look for a high
But I have to watch so that I don't fall and die
I want to go touch the cloudless sky
But I know I'm left high and dry
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Poetry Post 75
Time fades away but my love for you does not
The memory of our love is all I got
The pages of my poetry is decaying
And no one hears what I'm saying
Nothing of mine is immortal except for the love I'll never forhet
But when I die the world won't care a bit
The love will lay in remission
Just another love locked in a tombstone prison
And all the love will have been in vain
But even now it's no use but a longing pain
Purpose In Life
Jehovah, His People and His Earth
Have been disregarded as having no worth
But our purpose in life
Is to fight against this strife
We are to respect God's Children and His Land
And follow through our lives to live up to God's Command
Bedtime (Haiku)
Laying down my head
Tired and weary once more
From a working day
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Poetry Post 56 (and nothing silly to say)
Though politically neutral we were caught in its tangle
Genocided, ghettoized, and segregated by a purple triangle
Persecuted by those with the rafter in their eye
It is better to live than to die
But better to be a martyr than a soldier
So by the might of Jah we stand shoulder to shoulder
In our holy battle no sword was lifted nor gun was shot
But the Nazis sent us to the camps to rot
Our only weapons was a Gospel of Love
Preaching and praising our Lord above
Jehovah gave us our soul that he Devil tries to take
In a goal so vain in effort to make us God's name forsake
Miscarriage
Did you feel the baby kick in the womb
Did you see the baby through the ultrasound
We're turning the den into a nursery room
We're decorating it with teddy bears and rainbows all around
If it's a boy we'll name him James
If it's a girl we'll name her Ann
We are buying toys, crayons and family games
We are saving up a college fund that's going as planned
We bought this crib and this carriage
And before it's full born I love full hearted
Until my wife had a miscarriage
And our family was destroyed as quickly as it started
Sane, Safe, Senseless
We all play dumb
To keep ourselves numb
Because the numb can feel no pain
And the thoughtless can't be insane
And so the two together work out
To hide what life is all about
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Poetry Post Masters 52
I want love I want peace
I want death to cease
I want the world to laugh
I want food well staffed
I want to make the world think and feel again
I want mercy to finally win
I want all pain to numb
I want Jehovah's Kingdom
If I Were Perfect
If I were perfect I'd live forever so I'd never die alone
I would throw away these mechanisms so I could make it on my own
If I were perfect I'd fear not where I trod
For if I were perfect I'd be next to God
Charity
I wish I could feed the poor
Until they could need no more
If I could liberate the oppressed
I would become forever self blessed
Monday, February 9, 2009
Poetry Post 39 (by unpopular demand)
Don't say that righteousness is a battle lost at birth
Why would Jesus Christ pay the ransom if we had no worth
Why should one proved righteous die for unrighteous man
If His demands of us was more than we can
How can you say you believe in trinity
When you can't even understand unity
Two and two aren't five; one and one and one ain't one
Don't try to excuse the massacres you've done
Don't tell me pure love isn't real
When you live in illusion slanderers tell you to feel
Love isn't self assuming trying to take control
Love doesn't hurt others to protect its soul
Because true love always persist
It may not be common but it will always exist
In something called marriage, family, brotherhood, Christianity
And all those who believe in the Divine Rights of Humanity
Cult Labeling
I follow no graven image
I don't retreat to a communal village
I don't follow any tribunal rites of passage
I don't take drugs looking for a vision
I conform only to my conscious decision
But I'm put on derision
I follow no mortal man
I look to reason and understand
The laws on which I stand
I don't pop a spiritual pill
I reason to convert not resort to kill
But they are those who label me a cultist still
Jehovah Bleeds
No one bleeds like Jehovah God
Fair weather friends use Him for their fame
But then Satan curses them
And they forsake God's Name
Satan gives the curse
Jehovah gets the blame
Blind and bitter apostates leave
Left the faithful and true in shame
Capitalist Trinitarians kill God as much as atheist intellects
Wicked people live in sin at the cost of Jehovah's respect
War, hellfire, racism, sexism, tithing all exist at the expense of God
To reject or blindly accept for Divine paths to trod