http://www.sermonspice.com/product/38536/welcome-to-our-church-2011
I think we as a society have forgotten something along the way to progress. We forgot what freedom means. We forgot what it means to live in community with one another and God. Our Nobility has been sapped by our poor decisions and the never ending attack on our senses by the world around us.
Alot of you try to figure out why, how I became a Christian. It fits.
For all of us, it fits. I don't know why we make up so many lies as to why we believe or don't believe. I don't know why we have so many interpretations of one simple book.
But I do know this -- life is more full, more noble, and much less complicated as a Christian.
I mentioned earlier that we have forgotten what it means to be free. Freedom is not the ability to speak without censure. It is not the ability to date who you like, marry whomever you want. Freedom is not having the absence of discipline and perogative in our lives. Yet somehow, we have come to be deluded and think it is these things that define freedom.
I posit that Freedom exists when and only when an individual becomes self aware and has control of their mind - untethered to anything else in the world. You are free when you exist in the world but are not of the world. (PS that nugget's in the Bible by the way)
So how then can we achieve this? I contend that no other faith or philosophy on the planet allows for a path to complete freedom outside of Christianity. And I believe that no one can grasp the true freedom of life, the universe and everything (D.A. RIP 1952-2001) without being in a community of people who are themselves also pursuing the same thing.
The church experience should be one where you are not indoctrinated and brainwashed, nor brow beaten into a guilt laden submission of all temptations and desires. The link above describes my church experience at Calvary Chapel (we're in wikipedia too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary_Chapel).
Anyway, I'm not perfect. But life is good and free. I did have to work hard for my freedom - but it didn't consist of paying for soldiers to fight terrorists, nor did it consist of teaching about creation or darwin in schools, nor does it require me to be consistently paying attention to the economic strife that is tearing our country down....
It required me to think, decide, and act in a manner consistent with my values.
Ok. done for now.
Spread the word - especially to young people.
Showing posts with label Cultural Migration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cultural Migration. Show all posts
Monday, August 15, 2011
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Miscegenation
Main Entry: mis·ce·ge·na·tion
Pronunciation: ..(?)mi-?se-j?-,,n,,-sh?n, ?mi-si-j?-,,n,,-..
Function: noun
Etymology: irregular from Latin misc,,re to mix + genus race — more at mix, kin
Date: 1863
: a mixture of races; especially : marriage, cohabitation, or sexual intercourse between a white person and a member of another race
— mis·ce·ge·na·tion·al ..-shn?l, -sh?-n?l.. adjective
I have a lot of "Odin" worshipping friends... new odinists... one of their cultural beliefs is to not mix via marriage or intercourse with other races... they are a shamanistic belief system, where they believe that Gods are region specific... therefore, if you are from Norway, the Gods of that region take care of you. If you are from Kenya, the Kenyan Gods take care of you. Black with Black, white with white, yellow with yellow... you get the picture.
This is a valid belief, not tainted with hate and predjudice, nor lacking in morality -- it is akin to the Japanese belief that civilized Japanese should not marry barbaric "other" races. Cultures should be encouraged to have a variety of perspectives and beliefs...it is healthier for our population.
However, three things pop into my mind: 1. Modern Neo-Odinic sub-Cultures often warp this thinking into hate filled, ethnic clensing type behavior, 2. Original Icelandic, Norwegian, and Scandanavian Cultures PROMOTED intermarriage, and co-mingling. 3. Modern day science shows that inter-racial mixing is healthier for the child (hybrid vigor ring a bell?).
1. I don't really need to get into an indepth discussion on Neo Nazism....or Aryan discussions... we all know the hype. Fact is a majority of New Odinists do NOT ascribe to hate and violence, and prefer to just be with their own kind...but there is a significant amount of others within their clans that remind me of radical islamists and fundamental christians. So as a universal rule, it seems none of our religions can keep the bad apples out... grrr...
2. If one does and anthropologic study of the Nordic regions, they will find a lot of research scientific, in the literature, and in the architecture - in the economy, the cultural practices (like drinking of mead), and in the beliefs that CLEARY PROVE that the humans who ended up living in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, East Russia, etc. were the resultant children of a 1,300+ years of migration, intercultural mixing, and on and on. FACT... the Aryan race was not white, blue eyed, and blond... they were a mix of Caucasoid, and Indo Dravid... (meaning they came from Africa, through India, into Europe and made several stops along the way). The literature suggests that even later on, the culture of the Vikings, promoted the taking of wives and children from conquered lands.
No where, from start to present, is there a clear indication that the original culture or the culture post Christian invasion, ever sought to be separatists....truly this idea of culture preservation is a NEW THINKING from the 60's and 70's -- what is at the heart of it, I don't know... maybe hate, maybe fear, maybe a desire just to preserve the past and take it into the future. (Only active dialog will tell, so far most of the people I have spoken with don't know themselves... they only seem to recite garble that they were told by their spiritual leaders - just like most of modern day christiandom, where the average Christian doesn't know what "grace" is, just the fact that they are "saved by it"...
The languages spoken, the genetic code of the people, the practices all stem from an Indo-Africaans back ground... yup, nearly all vikings are BLACK on the inside... bet you didn't guess that one. The shamanistic belief structure can be traced back through Vedic India into Proto-Mesapotamic Africa. Genetic tracing demonstrates that most people from modern day Scandanavia to as far south as the Czec Republic and Hungary share IDENTICAL Genetic markings as their African counterparts including: bone structure in spine, legs, arms, rib cage and jaw, blood types and illnesses, teethshape, and mitochondrial DNA...
In addition, the cultural practices, Hearth Fires, Drinking of Mead, Celebrating Past Victories, Attacking Tribes for any of a number of reasons, are almost identical between the practices of the peoples in Coastal Africa and the Nordic Peoples... even the way that they made their boats, structured their economy (typically with women in leading political roles), and their languages share common phonetic structures not found anywhere else....
3. Modern Biology has shown that hybrid vigor, i.e. the mixing of diverse sub species of human (i.e. races) results in children that are healthier, more prone to conception (more attractive), more intelligent, and stronger, than either of the parent race. 90% of the time the progeny have the "best" traits (the dominant ones)...
It has been demonstrated that a majority of the recessive traits :propogated during trans migration... with no one else to concieve with the tribes migrating from Africa to the north of Europe, were forced to, yup, inbreed... leading to whiter skin, lighter eyes, blonder more straight hair, thinner bones, more dry skin, smaller breasts and butts, weaker thyroid glands, weaker nails... etc.
So my point is:
While many of the new odinic rite may be trying to preserve culture, and prevent dilution of their peope and beliefs... they may in fact be leading themselves closer and closer into genetic and cultural repression. If this is the case, rather than rising up out of the milue, they run the risk of falling ever into the back drop - like an endangered species.
So while I applaud their desire to preserve -- I must ask, is it healthy? Is it worth the risk? I know that other cultures have tried - despite the odds... native americans, Jewish people, Japanese, heck even the Chaldeans at a point went the route of being isolationsist.... but all have withered away... or ultimately found a way to mix in with Global populations...
I hope, for what it is worth, that this new rising of a pre-modern culture will not go the way of the Amish, the Aztec, or the Atlantian, but rather find a healthy nich in which it can prosper and contribute back to the diaspora of human civilization.
I for one, want to read more about this people, beyond Lief Erricson, Eric the Red, Odin, Thor, and Wulfgar... there must be more than Denmark... (had to throw in that reference...)
Good luck in staving off Miscengenation...however, it may very well be the downfall of your culture....
Pronunciation: ..(?)mi-?se-j?-,,n,,-sh?n, ?mi-si-j?-,,n,,-..
Function: noun
Etymology: irregular from Latin misc,,re to mix + genus race — more at mix, kin
Date: 1863
: a mixture of races; especially : marriage, cohabitation, or sexual intercourse between a white person and a member of another race
— mis·ce·ge·na·tion·al ..-shn?l, -sh?-n?l.. adjective
I have a lot of "Odin" worshipping friends... new odinists... one of their cultural beliefs is to not mix via marriage or intercourse with other races... they are a shamanistic belief system, where they believe that Gods are region specific... therefore, if you are from Norway, the Gods of that region take care of you. If you are from Kenya, the Kenyan Gods take care of you. Black with Black, white with white, yellow with yellow... you get the picture.
This is a valid belief, not tainted with hate and predjudice, nor lacking in morality -- it is akin to the Japanese belief that civilized Japanese should not marry barbaric "other" races. Cultures should be encouraged to have a variety of perspectives and beliefs...it is healthier for our population.
However, three things pop into my mind: 1. Modern Neo-Odinic sub-Cultures often warp this thinking into hate filled, ethnic clensing type behavior, 2. Original Icelandic, Norwegian, and Scandanavian Cultures PROMOTED intermarriage, and co-mingling. 3. Modern day science shows that inter-racial mixing is healthier for the child (hybrid vigor ring a bell?).
1. I don't really need to get into an indepth discussion on Neo Nazism....or Aryan discussions... we all know the hype. Fact is a majority of New Odinists do NOT ascribe to hate and violence, and prefer to just be with their own kind...but there is a significant amount of others within their clans that remind me of radical islamists and fundamental christians. So as a universal rule, it seems none of our religions can keep the bad apples out... grrr...
2. If one does and anthropologic study of the Nordic regions, they will find a lot of research scientific, in the literature, and in the architecture - in the economy, the cultural practices (like drinking of mead), and in the beliefs that CLEARY PROVE that the humans who ended up living in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, East Russia, etc. were the resultant children of a 1,300+ years of migration, intercultural mixing, and on and on. FACT... the Aryan race was not white, blue eyed, and blond... they were a mix of Caucasoid, and Indo Dravid... (meaning they came from Africa, through India, into Europe and made several stops along the way). The literature suggests that even later on, the culture of the Vikings, promoted the taking of wives and children from conquered lands.
No where, from start to present, is there a clear indication that the original culture or the culture post Christian invasion, ever sought to be separatists....truly this idea of culture preservation is a NEW THINKING from the 60's and 70's -- what is at the heart of it, I don't know... maybe hate, maybe fear, maybe a desire just to preserve the past and take it into the future. (Only active dialog will tell, so far most of the people I have spoken with don't know themselves... they only seem to recite garble that they were told by their spiritual leaders - just like most of modern day christiandom, where the average Christian doesn't know what "grace" is, just the fact that they are "saved by it"...
The languages spoken, the genetic code of the people, the practices all stem from an Indo-Africaans back ground... yup, nearly all vikings are BLACK on the inside... bet you didn't guess that one. The shamanistic belief structure can be traced back through Vedic India into Proto-Mesapotamic Africa. Genetic tracing demonstrates that most people from modern day Scandanavia to as far south as the Czec Republic and Hungary share IDENTICAL Genetic markings as their African counterparts including: bone structure in spine, legs, arms, rib cage and jaw, blood types and illnesses, teethshape, and mitochondrial DNA...
In addition, the cultural practices, Hearth Fires, Drinking of Mead, Celebrating Past Victories, Attacking Tribes for any of a number of reasons, are almost identical between the practices of the peoples in Coastal Africa and the Nordic Peoples... even the way that they made their boats, structured their economy (typically with women in leading political roles), and their languages share common phonetic structures not found anywhere else....
3. Modern Biology has shown that hybrid vigor, i.e. the mixing of diverse sub species of human (i.e. races) results in children that are healthier, more prone to conception (more attractive), more intelligent, and stronger, than either of the parent race. 90% of the time the progeny have the "best" traits (the dominant ones)...
It has been demonstrated that a majority of the recessive traits :propogated during trans migration... with no one else to concieve with the tribes migrating from Africa to the north of Europe, were forced to, yup, inbreed... leading to whiter skin, lighter eyes, blonder more straight hair, thinner bones, more dry skin, smaller breasts and butts, weaker thyroid glands, weaker nails... etc.
So my point is:
While many of the new odinic rite may be trying to preserve culture, and prevent dilution of their peope and beliefs... they may in fact be leading themselves closer and closer into genetic and cultural repression. If this is the case, rather than rising up out of the milue, they run the risk of falling ever into the back drop - like an endangered species.
So while I applaud their desire to preserve -- I must ask, is it healthy? Is it worth the risk? I know that other cultures have tried - despite the odds... native americans, Jewish people, Japanese, heck even the Chaldeans at a point went the route of being isolationsist.... but all have withered away... or ultimately found a way to mix in with Global populations...
I hope, for what it is worth, that this new rising of a pre-modern culture will not go the way of the Amish, the Aztec, or the Atlantian, but rather find a healthy nich in which it can prosper and contribute back to the diaspora of human civilization.
I for one, want to read more about this people, beyond Lief Erricson, Eric the Red, Odin, Thor, and Wulfgar... there must be more than Denmark... (had to throw in that reference...)
Good luck in staving off Miscengenation...however, it may very well be the downfall of your culture....
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Solving Iraq
Consider giving Iraq statehood...
Then all their people would be our people. Our laws would be their laws. Our soldiers would be defending our people.
Iraq could be divided into 3 states... giving them 6 senators and a ton of congressmen.
They would get roads, hospitals, schools, a vote, freedom of religion, freedom of speech... they would have the right to bear arms and eat at McDonalds.
They would pay taxes, and we could declare a state of emergency and rebuild that part of OUR country very fast.
We could offer incentives:
1. Any business that invests in Iraq will pay no income tax or social security tax. Doctors, Engineers, and Teachers will get a government stipend for 5 years on top of normal salaries, and have no income tax.
2. Amnesty and "no-look-backs" for people claiming to be of Iraqi decent... immediate citizenship for 5 years... after that, you need birth certificates like the rest of us.
3. If you want to be a us citizen or green card holder, do a tour for two years in Iraq as a Teacher, Engineer, or Doctor, or a 1 year tour as a soldier...upon your completion of rebuilding or defending our Country, you will have an immediate granting of your status with the US.
4.Offer domestic US citizens to live in Iraq for a period of time in exchange for no income tax.
In addition to the incentives, adding Iraq as states under the protection of the US - our country gains a permanent footing in the middle east, access to oil, independence from Saudi, and we now have a good rational for investing in the region.
Terrorism against Iraq would be considered terrorism against the US... requiring a permanent military (national guard) presence.
As Iraqis become adjusted to their status as Americans, the majority will desire to maintain their liberties, they will encourage promotion of capitalistic ideas and discourage violence against their homes...
Regional oppression will create a desire to immigrate into Iraq from areas like Saudi, Iran, Qatar, etc.
Economic wealth can be exponentially increased as the US/Iraq builds an economic trade alliance with UAE (United Arab Emirates) and Dubai.
The current parliment becomes the state senate, the PM becomes one of the Govenors...
In Ten years we would have peace, and a new New York...
Then all their people would be our people. Our laws would be their laws. Our soldiers would be defending our people.
Iraq could be divided into 3 states... giving them 6 senators and a ton of congressmen.
They would get roads, hospitals, schools, a vote, freedom of religion, freedom of speech... they would have the right to bear arms and eat at McDonalds.
They would pay taxes, and we could declare a state of emergency and rebuild that part of OUR country very fast.
We could offer incentives:
1. Any business that invests in Iraq will pay no income tax or social security tax. Doctors, Engineers, and Teachers will get a government stipend for 5 years on top of normal salaries, and have no income tax.
2. Amnesty and "no-look-backs" for people claiming to be of Iraqi decent... immediate citizenship for 5 years... after that, you need birth certificates like the rest of us.
3. If you want to be a us citizen or green card holder, do a tour for two years in Iraq as a Teacher, Engineer, or Doctor, or a 1 year tour as a soldier...upon your completion of rebuilding or defending our Country, you will have an immediate granting of your status with the US.
4.Offer domestic US citizens to live in Iraq for a period of time in exchange for no income tax.
In addition to the incentives, adding Iraq as states under the protection of the US - our country gains a permanent footing in the middle east, access to oil, independence from Saudi, and we now have a good rational for investing in the region.
Terrorism against Iraq would be considered terrorism against the US... requiring a permanent military (national guard) presence.
As Iraqis become adjusted to their status as Americans, the majority will desire to maintain their liberties, they will encourage promotion of capitalistic ideas and discourage violence against their homes...
Regional oppression will create a desire to immigrate into Iraq from areas like Saudi, Iran, Qatar, etc.
Economic wealth can be exponentially increased as the US/Iraq builds an economic trade alliance with UAE (United Arab Emirates) and Dubai.
The current parliment becomes the state senate, the PM becomes one of the Govenors...
In Ten years we would have peace, and a new New York...
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