The word and the voice of God

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Myra wrote:Light? humm.... 'that's how the light gets in'.

I think you possibly have a good example but, Is light a 'thing', if it is a thing - wouldn't the fact that it needs a crack to get in be it's crack.
Ha... Now who's uttering blasphemy under this venerable marble arch! <grin>

It would be it's crack only if there wasn't a crack in everything else.

But there has to be a crack in everything else. Thanks to Leonard, "It's in the book" now.
Once a homeless man gave me a bus ticket, because I didn’t have change– that was years ago and I remember it still. If it had been a man in a suit, the gesture would have been long forgotten. I know it sounds horrible taking a bus ticket from a homeless guy, but I kinda know him and if I had said no, I would have hurt his feelings. When all you have is crumbs, there is no better gift.
Thank you, Myra, you've made my day again... :-)

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Gullivor wrote:Casey, The one who is coming next is already here and has never left! And he/she will always be!
"Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
"Everybody knows that the captain lied
"Everybody got this broken feeling
"Like their father or their dog just died"

You tell me, where the hell is SHe if she's here? What, the Body of Christ, crushing Palestinians and Iraqies, Atheists, Christians and Jews that don't fit the mold?

Where is the Body of Christ? Wreaking hell on earth...

What about all the promises? Do you suppose those people in Texas are asking in the name of Jesus for the state to give their kids back?

That's what Jesus told us to do, isn't it? Christians believe in Jesus... surely those begging mothers have tried that. He said He would do ANYTHING we asked.

"In the name of JESUS, please restore our babies to us..."
"In the name of JESUS, please stop killing us..."
"In the name of JESUS, please don't abort your babies..."
"In the name of JESUS, please don't let me die..."
"In the name of JESUS, please heal me..."
"In the name of JESUS..."

Maybe you've tried that in some desperate moment of your own, like everybody has.

But apparently the Captain lied... He made His Church into Jesus, He made everybody that hears of Him into Jesus, He made them One with Him...

And all of us have made Jesus into a self-righteous, veangeful and hateful tyrant-killer God.

"And everybody knows that you're in trouble
"Everybody knows what you've been through
"From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
"To the beach of Malibu
"Everybody knows it's coming apart
"Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
"Before it blows
"And everybody knows..."

Again... There are two "Gods" in the Book of Revelation - one is colored blood red, the other white and from Whom all of heaven and earth flees. There is only one woman in the book of Revelation.

Can we all please wake up and read this book for what's there for a change???

Here again is the light we have right here in America... "It's here we have the range and the machinery for change...":
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ..."

"We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states... And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."
It's not in a riddle on the back of the Declaration. It's right there on the front in plain English, and the Treasure it leads to is greater by far...

Nobody has unalieanble rights in this country anymore. The Covenant has been broken, the sacred honor of the founders and all of our government today is cast aside, and Jesus is not going to help us.

Jesus is the problem. The Body of Christ is corrupt and terrified and leading us all into a hell of our own making.

Not because He lied to us, but because we've lied about Him to keep ourselves ignorant of the God of Love.

Jesus is NOT God. Jesus lived His life as the Truth about the God we've always resisted.

Jesus was a Prophet.

The concept of God within us all is valid, but only THE God can make the world work as we all know it can by the Sermon on the Mount.

Meanwhile, you are not God, I am not God, Jesus is not God, and all together the whole world is not God, and God is NOT here at present. Only Jesus, in us, is here. The proof is all over the place today.

"And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:"

"(Even him), whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,"

"And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved."

"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:"

"That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
[KJV-Bible - 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12]

Don't let it scare you. It's just Jesus, our Man who will be anything we want Him to be.

The prophets have done this, and thank God they have.

The Moon only reflects the Sun. He can be all Light or He can be all Darkness, He can be anything in between.

When the Moon and the Sun are joined together, the next One will be here and O baby, we'll be making love again. We'll be going down so deep the river's gonna weep, and the mountains' gonna shout Amen! It's coming like the tidal flood beneath the lunar sway, imperial, mysterious, in amorous array: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Sail on, sail on, O Mighty Ship of State...

I loved you for your beauty
but that doesn't make a fool of me:
you were in it for your beauty too
and I loved you for your Body
there's a Voice that sounds like God to me
declaring, declaring, declaring that your Body's really really really really...

One thing is really cool, Eliezar... Because of His words I've never been called a "fool" either, except by myself - but hellfire is finished with me, I think. On the other hand I'm always jumping ahead of myself. But phew... Thank you, sir... And forgive me, please, Gullivor.

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soulwlc wrote:Hi. Just joined the forum tonight and I was trying to sand a comment but for some reason it doesn't go through,so I have picked you for some help if you can.
How can I submit what I have written so it will appear in the forum like the one you are in?
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Hi soulwlc (if you mean me)... This message showed up fine. Which forum did you want your message to appear in, or did you mean something else?

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"It's coming to America First, the cradle of the best of the worst..."

"To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed, but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference to all others, ascribing to himself every human excellence, and believing he never claimed any other." - Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, introducing Jefferson's syllabus to his The Life And Morals Of Jesus Of Nazareth (the "Jefferson Bible") http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBi ... fbsyl.html

Thomas Jefferson, who heard the Sermon on the Mount, wrote quite prophetically about what we've turned Jesus into, and predicted that the freedom of thought guranteed by the United States would indeed someday bring an intellectual end - through reason - to the "artificial scaffolding" we have attached to God and Jesus.

Please read this beautiful letter he wrote to John Adams in 1823:

http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/jef ... adams.html

Jefferson's on my list too. It's getting to be a big list. :-)

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Casey,
I use to bitch and complain about what everybody else and what the world is not doing right too.
But I had to look at "what am I doing", then I was able to see clearly. Its soooo easy to sit on a pitty pot
and wine about eveybody else and point fingers. So what are you doing Casey??? Dont answer that question,(don't defend your-self) just ask yourself that question. "What are you doing"
With Love,
GULLY
We’ve all come to
This moment
To find out
Who we are.
Painted colors
Scribed words
Sweetly found.
~Gully~
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" Looks like Freedom but it feels like death...something in between I guess.."
Heaven, Hell or somthing in between???? Make the Best out of it!!!!
A NEW HEAVEN, A NEW EARTH is Within. A NEW FREEDOM, A NEW HAPPIENESS from the inside out.
with Love,
Gully
We’ve all come to
This moment
To find out
Who we are.
Painted colors
Scribed words
Sweetly found.
~Gully~
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Gullivor wrote:So what are you doing Casey??? Dont answer that question,(don't defend your-self) just ask yourself that question. "What are you doing"
Everybody here knows what I'm doing, I think. Maybe you meant to ask "Why"?

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Gullivor wrote:" Looks like Freedom but it feels like death...something in between I guess.."
Heaven, Hell or somthing in between???? Make the Best out of it!!!!
A NEW HEAVEN, A NEW EARTH is Within. A NEW FREEDOM, A NEW HAPPIENESS from the inside out.
with Love,
Gully
I know it's with love, Gully, thank you. :-)

Are you proud of Gully's conclusion here, Eliezar? All that work, carefully fine-tuning each string on your violin in order to squeak through it all as undamaged as possible?

"Therefore have I hewed (them) by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments (are as) the light (that) goeth forth."

I had a dream when I got here. I and my family are camped outside your gates, and I am carrying a sign - but I couldn't read the sign yet. Now I see it clearly. It says "STOP, IN THE NAME OF LOVE".

Enough Spiritual hewing, please.

"For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings." [KJV-Bible - Hosea 6:5-6]

When Gully's "pain comes through" will it be from a stranger or someone he implicitly trusts, someone he feels love and mercy from?

I've got to talk, I have no choice. Mercy is no longer withholding Knowledge and singing it in metaphor - not today, not anymore.

Reason works. Knowledge works. I married your proud woman, my wife Elizabeth. I can hear you because you sing our lives: Me waiting, and her persistently sending invitations to a fiery bloodbath I just could never stomach.

But she understands it never existed now, she hears David's Secret Chord better then me now, she's ready with Hallelujah on her tongue, because somebody who she knows loves her shared hard-won Knowledge of God with her in an urgency and sincerity that shone through his "Satanic character", his boastful nature, and his "filthy habits".

My daughter Heather led me to you, "You've gotta hear him!" She is in the midst of her time, but I'm her Dad, the one who drew her through the fire in the first place, a fire she too ended up rejecting. She loves you, but she has a hard time hearing me.

Oh I can wield a sharp sword, I'm a horse in a china shop, I can tell Gully and everyone else I can reach - I have to do something. I can share Knowledge cold and hard because I've been taught that Mercy without Knowledge causes sacrifice and burnt offerings.

We are ready for Knowledge.

We are tired now.

We need it delivered with Love.

What can I do, what loop can I jump through, what transcendental feat must I perform in order that you will share your Knowledge of God plainly and clearly so that we can reason Love out using all the data available - right now? I will do anything you ask of me.

She's come to you. What did you do to prepare? Again, oh let us cry help beside you teacher.

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Cool. :-) :-) :-)

Okay. Sharper eyes than mine would have already noticed the undertow this section has been subjected to.

But don't you at least have some kind helpful, lucid, anonymous documentation available? I was given a scattergun with buckets of ammunition, but its tendancy to pull to the right worries me sometimes. And I never did learn to dance. Much less waltz. And now my knees hurt. :-)

Hi Ho Silver...

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All I know is Ones own life is not worth a dime (pain is a sign)
knees shoud hurt, Life turned over to God
To do his will
to the End of time
One thing for sure 'God wins'
Its his game and he has it rigged.
Throwing Darts is fun, but life will go on.
Gel..I guess how well can one gel.
The big picture is out of sight.
We never die because we are only figments of our imagation. We are not who we think we are ?
Same book but all are on differt pages and chapters, but the book is everlasting. Most never pick the book up. They get in the way of themselfs.
I have nothing new to say, its all been said before. They need to pick up the book themselfs to find the way out. How do you tell them that??? In a song? They just listin to the song and move on.
We’ve all come to
This moment
To find out
Who we are.
Painted colors
Scribed words
Sweetly found.
~Gully~
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Gullivor wrote:All I know is Ones own life is not worth a dime...
Not until the life of another is absolutely priceless to you, like that life is in God's eyes...

Right, Eliezar? :-)

Next you realize all lives are just that priceless. God told you so. He's always told you so.
knees shoud hurt, Life turned over to God
For me, my knees didn't hurt until after the God thing...
To do his will
Yeah, when I started seeking that...
to the End of time
Sooner than you think, 'cause now I'm here with at least 7,000 other sheep - somewhere...

And I AM THAT I AM, no matter what you may think of me.

And your life is priceless to me.
One thing for sure 'God wins', Its his game and he has it rigged.
Duh...
Throwing Darts is fun, but life will go on.
Actually the darts are the rigging. Look closely, matey, darts and arrows are what it's all rigged with.

The LORD OF ARMIES has done this.
Gel..I guess how well can one gel. The big picture is out of sight.
Only until our resolution is great enough to fit all those pixels in. 640 X 480 didn't cut it, true.
We never die because we are only figments of our imagation. We are not who we think we are ?
Our Imagination knows we are figments. We only sleep until we wake up to Him.

But it has to be everybody at once, you know? Nobody gets to the other side alone anymore, except in their Imagination.

It's on the Record now:

One Guy listens to His imagination and we all get together and kill Him.

One Guy listens to His imagination and we all get together and kill Him.

One Guy listens to His imagination and we all get together and kill Him....

When are you gonna pick up the book, Gully, damnit! Everybody knows you live forever after reading a line or two.

Enough training... No more boots! We need snipers armed with thermonuclear weapons.

All that you see through your lens is priceless treasure - every quark... Stop stifling your Imagination, and listen to the Nightengale's. :-)

They don't let women kill you in the Tower of Song.

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They don't let women kill you in the Tower of Song
Im only wounded Casey, I'll heal...In the tower of song!

Gully
We’ve all come to
This moment
To find out
Who we are.
Painted colors
Scribed words
Sweetly found.
~Gully~
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Gullivor wrote:
They don't let women kill you in the Tower of Song
Im only wounded Casey, I'll heal...In the tower of song!

Gully
Good deal and good choice... The Tower of Song heals all wounds, no health insurance required, nobody refused treatment.

But... Too bad neither it, nor I, can raise the dead.
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But... Too bad neither it, nor I, can raise the dead.
Only God can do that Cacey Butler.
So I guess I'll start 'digging graves'!

Gully
We’ve all come to
This moment
To find out
Who we are.
Painted colors
Scribed words
Sweetly found.
~Gully~
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