Wisdom of the Prophet: Book 7

The Septuple Serving of Mumblings from the Ether

1. If you aren't willing to be accountable for your beliefs which you try to impose on others, then you don't believe them yourself.

2. We are so well Provided for that we can envy, covet, and become jealous of each other just like a toddler who always want the other child's toy even when holding an identical toy. We all know that type of selfish, greedy, self-centered child. They are so easy to identify, especially when it's your toy at risk, but somehow when we are that demanding brat we have a hard time taking that blame.

3. Our lives are a short string of moments.

4. In order to think outside the box, you have to realize that there is no box just a fear of rejection.

5. Many people know a God who is mildly indifferent to them, or theirs is an obsessive and capricious God ever vigilant for the opportunity to inflict damnation. This is not Yahweh.

6. One thing overlooked or denied in the Genesis narrative is that God's Holiness and right action is demonstrated in His allowing others the freedom to choose.

7. If we look at the Fall as avoidable sin and the resulting punishment, then we have a God to be feared and mistrusted. However, if we see the Garden as the Womb, then everything changes, even the very Nature of God. This is the Path to the God of Abundance.

8. Human vision is very limited in scope. Even among the rest of the animal kingdom many species can see far better and in different spectrums. There is much more that we cannot see than that which we can. There is Wisdom here.

9. Beyond ourselves there is others, and that is God's Domain. That is Holy Ground.

10. Permanence is our first step into self-deception.

11. Some people adopt religion to learn how to live, some people adopt it in the hope of living a little longer, others adopt religion to learn how to die well, and some take religion in order to become a foster parent. They believe that their religion gives them the right to tell others how to live. They worship the god of vainglory.

12. The bureaucrat is the most loathsome of all humanity. They trade their God-given reason for “policy”. They barter worth for budgets. They confuse their purpose with position. They produce nothing of real value, but administer that which has been taken from those who do. They are unelected, yet wield the greatest power in any government. In their purest form, being quite divorced from anything we consider a rational worldview, they are nearly parasitic symbiotes. They're just surviving in whatever way works best for them, an instinctive behavior driven by an unnatural selection process we call “Appointment”.

13. I am a writer by vocation, a minister by calling, a fixer of broken things and cleaner of messes by occupation, a philosopher by nature, an analytic by compulsion, an original thinker by lack of options, a revolutionary by neurosis, a friend by default, a class clown by credentials, a dreamer by night, and a visionary by day. How am I to know the difference between any of these?

14. Our humanity is neutralized by the pain we choose to inflict upon others.

15. In our earthly lives our purpose should never be to become God, and always to be better children of God.

16. Let me fall upon you as gentle as my shadow so when I am absent you will remember me as one who left you in the light.

17. Sin is to miss the mark. The mark is love. All else is sin.

18. We do not attend a Memorial for the departed, at the close of the ceremony we take them with us. We are their Memorial.

19. My eldest brother, David, was always the grand tactician, the master strategist, the long-game player. When I look at the ruination of my family, I know that his plan was perfectly planned, played, and executed. He has my congratulations and my forgiveness. That is all he requires of me and all I have to offer him.

20. No one ever commits a crime of passion after considering the consequences.

21. Most actions thought to be malicious are the consequences of ignorance rather than intent.

22. Love is worth the pain.

23. We all come from the same place and we will surely all return to Him. That place is God. We are all learning to Sing the Lord's Song in a foreign land. That is where we stand.

24. The Left wants to divorce actions from their natural consequences and the Right wants to synthesize and add their own.

25. Silence is not always consent, many times it is revulsion.

26. I do not believe in incomplete gods.

27. If someone will not give you a job, make one.

28. That's where men have always run afoul of the fairer sex, by trying to divide the line between black and white. Many times we are looking for the substance of the ether, we are reaching for the solid in the mist.

29. We are putting out fires with a baseball bat. [Speaking on the War on Terror]

30. It is the unintended consequences that kill.

31. In a war of attrition the defender need only meet one victory condition, to exist.

32. There is but One Path and it is at your feet. Now, walk.

33. There aren't many problems in the world that can't be solved with a gallon of gas and a match. The critical point is determining precisely where to apply the gas.

34. Sometimes, I can reach into the person to whom I am speaking with and they are like a stringed instrument, and I know, I just know which string to pluck to resonate within their being.

35. We used to build infrastructure, now we blow it up. The specs are a lot less tedious.

36. If you are spending a great deal of time trying to prove you are right, then perhaps your premise is in error. The Truth is punctual. One can always wait for the exception and claim it to be axiom.

37. Love for God is always reciprocated.

38. Retaliation and retribution are  not lessons. They are the most convenient paths to escalation.

39. There comes a time when you must flush the roaches from their cover and expose the termite den to understand how deep the damage is within.

40. It doesn't matter if Godzilla is the good guy or the bad guy, Tokyo is still fucked.

   41. In the end, God wins. Whatever made us think otherwise?