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February 04-B, 2023

God doesn’t play favorites. Doesn’t have favorites. From the beginning until now, God’s Chosen people don’t come off any better than the reprobates and scoundrels. Even the Bible is straightforward about it: “Time and chance happen to us all.” “It rains on the just and the unjust alike.” But we seek the advantage above allContinue reading “February 04-B, 2023”

February 04-A, 2023

Taking something on faith is having an opinion about something with no facts or substantiating evidence to support you and believing in it anyway. Faith is an opinion with no foundation or validity. And is the ground of all religion everywhere. We have sacrificed animals, children, virgins, limbs and digits based on the opinion thatContinue reading “February 04-A, 2023”

February 03-B, 2023

We think thinking is the living end. That all it takes is explaining things in ways they can be understood. With enough of the right kind of information we all come together in complete agreement, seeing the same things in the same way, achieving peace and harmony at last. Reason, logic, analytics, calculus, methodology, andContinue reading “February 03-B, 2023”

February 03-A, 2023

We owe it to one another to listen each other to the truth of our own being here and now. In order to assist you in doing that, I’ve developed a list of questions you can modify for use in your own conversations, and ask your own follow-up questions in order to take the conversationContinue reading “February 03-A, 2023”

February 02-B, 2023

Be free to make mistakes without being bound to them, repeating them, becoming them to the point where your life is just one continuing, eternal mistake in a Karmaratic, indulgent, helplessly incapable of breaking out of the tradition kind of way declaring, “I’m nothing but a screw-up! I’ve never been anything but a screw-up! I’llContinue reading “February 02-B, 2023”

February 02-A, 2023

We are told what to believe, but no one can give us our opinions. Of course, they try, but to be genuine, opinions have to come from within. Belief from without, opinions from within. Articles of faith are opinions that take themselves seriously. And, when we don’t know what we think or believe, it’s greatContinue reading “February 02-A, 2023”

February 01-B, 2023

How we see what we look at depends upon how we look at what we see. How do we look at liberals? Conservatives? Police? People of Color? Immigrants? Orientals? Trans-gender People? Etc. through all the lists of all there is to look at. We have a pre-determined preference for the way we look at practicallyContinue reading “February 01-B, 2023”

February 01-A, 2023

Jesus said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” Begging the questions, “Free from what?” “Free to do what?” And Pilate’s inquiry, “What is truth?” Which Jesus left hanging through all these long years of truthlessness. Which will continue as long as we look for truth “out there,” when itContinue reading “February 01-A, 2023”

February, 2023

I have no idea where we get our filters, the perception sieve that tilts us imperceptibly toward the way we see/interpret/comprehend/ understand/judge/determine/take things to be, and away from different/better/worse ways of doing the same thing. We look and see something different from the way others look at the same thing. A lot has to doContinue reading “February, 2023”

January 31-D, 2023

I am taken by the flow of life through the circumstances and situations of each day– and how so few people seem to be aware of it. My sister-in-law, for instance (You know the one I mean), sees every moment as an opportunity to assert her way upon whatever is happening, with no clue regardingContinue reading “January 31-D, 2023”

January 31-C, 2023

There is what we say, “Yes,” to, and there is what we say “No,” to, and that’s it. Our life is lived out between “Yes,” and “No.” You might think we would be better at being clear about, and dedicated to, “Yes” being actually and absolutely “Yes!” and “No” being actually and absolutely “No!”, butContinue reading “January 31-C, 2023”

January 31-B, 2023

Believe anything you want– it doesn’t matter what– as long as you do what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs to be done, in each situation as it arises without an eye on what’s in it for you. How often do those who “Believe in God the Father Almighty, maker ofContinue reading “January 31-B, 2023”