Jack Spratt

120813 02:34 power

“Faith” is experience
“Belief” is rote
In my definition of faith I find no fixed and immutable uniform posture or conclusion. Not situational ethics or morality but a mindful attitude towards how does any opportunity work in terms of life. Not my life alone but all life having a right to be what it is of equal or greater value than mine.

This luxury was absent for most of the recorded history of ‘life’ we as humans lived and encountered reality expressed in extremely simplistic terms: kill or be killed. As we grew in proportion to our territory and sphere of influence, what we needed to survive, in process we became, in essence, the greatest predator in recorded history.

The idea of God, the actual absence of which would suggest the idea should or would be invented, is a power to judge whether we or our adversary will die in order that what we know as life continues. The primitive mind always opted to survive at any cost thus reflexively choosing to kill the adversary. In a very simplistic sense it was then that fear began to rule human consciousness and trust in our ability and/or right to judge any confrontation out of the norm to be either good or bad.

To be honest I tend to seek the lowest common denominator in cause and effect; the turning point in each event. I have an abiding sense of God as uniform from beginning to end: both capable of wrath and of forgiveness/mercy. My concept of humanity, drawn from my own experience, is that we tend to make complex very simple issues.

Common to all human consciousness are two events. The first is God, or the idea of God, the second is The Flood. The latter, using Galbraith’s adjustment theory, was an opportunity to start all over again. A sort of reversal of the creation theory/myth/fact. I see no difference between religion or science since I always ask what was the cause and effect?

“There is no God higher than Truth.”
“You/We must become the change you/we want to see in the world.”
--Mahatma (Mohandas K.) Gandhi

My source of truth is neither Jesus or Gandhi but from God. That said. What I say is about us not them since they embody the highest consciousness published and incarnate of Love in their time.

God is love for the greatest part and devolving down in a scale of consequence from all the prophets of love to you/me/us in this time of chaos we are called to be part of the solution not the problem.

Change is not the problem, we are.

Change is the only absolute true factor in life. We, as a species, are in the ‘old age’ of life and should simply accept that death is part of the process. But then we must ask what about the children; those who inherit this nest of ours this planet exploited to exhaustion? Do we make babies for fun or purpose? Pleasure and joy always have consequence, in that neither Nature or God do revisions in reality.

Well acquainted with my personal death I accept it fearlessly knowing that in love I need not fear of what will come beyond all my knowing. This defines my faith and why I ignore beliefs.

Think back to your childhood dependence upon mother and father who to you then were in fact “god” and what you are now as you read this.

You/we/I are in one stage of consciousness seeking a better understanding of the why of everything. And if like me you find all previous constructs inadequate -- in a sense pushing round pegs through square holes -- then we seek opportunity instead of fate.

No one is perfect. Here I have in mind the two people I most closely follow, Jesus and St. Francis, both of whom I sense committed suicide in despair of ever being, either The Solution or part thereof. A great factor in truth is your and my willingness to ask what is the nature of vision and version.

The starting point of my truth came from curiosity and satisfaction. I am ignorant of the ways of the world by record but wise in the ways of the world by demonstration.

Reading across all definitions of truth/god/love I find no philosophy, religion, governance adequate to contain the God I know and love. The Who I would forever follow, seek, know, love more dearly day-by-day. And for Whom I would be, within the parameters of free will, willing to be do or become anything to nurture and succor. In this statement I describe not merely God but all of us as well since we all bear God within: dimly or clearly.

Returning to the Flood as fact or myth; are we not in a flood of unknowing which way to go forward? And is God as myth or fact not the author of consciousness based upon free will or karma?

I vote for love and if love is impossible then give me death for I detest slavery to anyone or anything. I will not be a slave to God since knowing God is to know not pleasure but joy surpassing all understanding and life unending: growth.

. . . let this be so for you and all of us before we destroy ourselves in boring repetition the fulfillment of those who think but do not know truth’s reality or value. I am bored with prophecy and profit since it is our choice to live or die for What?

All life is at its origin/basis divine. Nothing is for naught and no one measurable by any standard of value except what they/you/I/all of us are willing to live and die for. I refuse to give you what you already have yet know that I could use you for my pleasure were I to view life as what is good is to take instead of give. Take my truth for your amusement or cause to find your own.

Be well but also expect to be better.

“I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am" - Discourse on the Method (1637)
--Rene Descartes

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