What is one thing that you fear most?
I’ll go first. I fear losing our freedom (what is left of it anyway).
What is “the Jew”? There are those who acknowledge God and follow His commands and those who do not. There are Orthodox Jews and Reformed Jews. Ethnic Jews and Honorary Jews. There are Secular Athirst Jews and Messianic Jews. Which of these are you afraid of?
Can you elaborate on what you mean exactly by “freedom”?
Good question. Finally you understand that there are not just christians and jews and muslim. It goes deeper. You are a catholic I am a perverted catholic or whatever and some people are mormon or whatever. There are many types of jews.
See while I do hate jews I do not hate the jewish individual. I even think that a jewish individual can be a nice person and my friend. Maybe even join me in my quest.
Jewish history tells us about tribes and lost tribes and new tribes. Then there are the Khazarians who converted to judaism because otherwise they would have been slain for being so despicable.
The main problem of the jew is actually evereything he believes and practices. Jews lie to their own god. Have you ever heard about Sabbat? Their holy day where they have to rest and are prohibited of work? Crafty jews think that they can deceive and trick their own god with sabbat products. Like ink that disappears after 24 hours so they can claim that they didn’t write something when they actually did write something. Or cars that have a button that randomly starts the engine because if jews drive the car it is a sin so technically if it randomly starts they think it doesn’t count as driving it when they do.
The wickedness of the jew knows no bounds and all civilizations on earth know it and have said it and blamed them and nobody listens because the jew conditions you into not believing it or not doing anything about it.
Also the jewish god is a genocidial maniac and their books are evil be it the Torah or whatever. Don’t believe me? Recent newspapers tell us that an Israeli minister called for the slaughter of all muslims because they are animals and another prominent jew to this day disagreed about it claiming they are even lower than animals so they should be slaughtered even harder.
Sure, I am not a libertine. I am a libertarian and what I mean by this, is government has three main roles: Protect Life from eminent threat, Liberty & Private Property. Anything more than this is over-reach.
- Programmable Digital Currency to track and dictate what we spend our money on is over-reach.
- FLOCK Cameras that record your license plate is a violation of the 4th Amendment. And if they will eventually try using these cameras to implement 15 minute cities by taxing you or fining you if you drive more than fifteen minutes from your home, that too is over-reach.
- Creating a Digital ID in order to use the internet, is over-reach. They are trying to implement this in the U.K. (pretending it is to protect children on the internet, but it is ultimately about control).
Meanwhile, government violates the very things they are supposed to protect. It is fine when they kill people (through unjust war and the death penalty). It is fine if they tell you what you are not allowed to consume or what you must inject into your bloodstream. It is fine when they take a portion of your money that you earned, but if I demand a portion of what you make, it is called theft.
Spiritual freedom on the other hand cannot be taken away. The Bible talks about slaves being spiritually free. But, I Pray that we do not become slaves to the state.
Both physical & spiritual freedom is what I am about. Just because something is not deemed illegal, does not mean that it is spiritually nor physically good to do it. And just because something is viewed as illegal by the state, does not mean that it isn’t over-reach to implement such a decree.
Ultimately authority comes from God. Christ gave certain spiritual authority and responsibility to the Apostles and their successors. And Christians who justify the state’s over-reach by appealing to Matthew 22:21 are already enslaved by the state and fail to understand that Jesus was speaking here of spiritual authority, rather than telling Christians to obey unjust laws. Jesus’ mission was not to start a revolution with the rulers of his day. He was about Heavenly things and freedom from sin.
I hope this clarifies some things. I am not an anarchists. Anarchy void of morality would not lead to freedom. If you and I behaved as government does, then that too would lead to spiritual depravity.
Every election cycle, Democrats and Republicans (here in the United States) vote based on fear.
Commercials use fear to sell you goods & services. And the more fear they sell you, the less clear-minded your decisions become.
There is such thing as rational and irrational fear. And maybe someone else would like to expand on these two types of fear.
Then there is fear of the Lord (which relates to humility before God and being in awe of God’s almighty power and love).
This past Sunday, the Scripture Readings were all about this theme of fear. And God tells us not to be afraid of men, even if they can kills us. Because though they can physically harm us, they cannot conquer death. But, God, through His Son, Jesus Christ, has.
Thank you for your clarification. That helps me to understand what you mean by freedom.
You fear the loss of and the erosion of personal autonomy. That makes sense.
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Though I would not use that terminology, because it has loaded meaning, but I’ll meet you half-way ; )
Gain and loss, victory and defeat, honor and dishonor, friend and enemy, … all of this is called duality. The Bible speaks of the “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” and forbids us to eat that fruit. This kind of knowledge…this is the knoweldge of duality. For everything positive in the material creation, there is something negative. Hot and cold. Wet and dry. Rich and poor. Young and old. Sweet and sour. Sickness and health. This kind of daily experience, is the fruit of the tree, the knowledge of good and evil. However, the Bible, and the prophets therein, speak of a different kind of knowledge…the knowledge of the spirit…the knowledge of the spiritual dimension…in which the “oneness” of spiritual delight pervades all experience. In John 8.32, Jesus says, “Then you will know the truth…and the truth shall set you free.” Jesus is telling us, encouraging us, that there is a quality of consciousness that is different fom mundane, material consciouness…the consciousness of duality…the consciousness that God advised Adam and Eve to avoid. Jesus teaches that we can have this consciousness even while we are here in the material world: “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth, as it is in heaven.” (Our Lords Prayer, that Jesus has given to us). This is God’s will, that we have this consciousness, even while we are here in the material world.
AI says: “In a biblical context, absolute refers to the nature of truth, the divine standard of reality that transcends time, culture, and personal circumstance”. Duality means that everything is relative. Absolute means God is all good.
Jesus says that when we realize this “truth”, we will experience a freedom that transcends personal circumstance. For example, your are speaking of a concern over loss of freedom. But for one who realizes the truth that Jesus wishes to share with us…no personal circumstance can condition or alter this sense of freedom. No jail can. One who knows the truth will be fearless…even of death…knowing himself to be eternal spirit soul. His happiness will the happiness of David which he describes in the 23rd psalm, “My cup runneth over.” No material circumstance can penetrate that happiness. This is the freedom of the spirit that realizes the “truth” that Jesus wants to share with us. This is what Jesus means, when he says, “Accept the yoke that I wear. Oh ye who are heavy-burdened. You will find it to be very nice.” (paraphrase).
In other words, there is a consciousness that transcends the mundane consciousness of duality, transcends to fruit of the tree of good and evil, that most of us eat on a daily basis. Those who transcend that duality…the saints…they are indifferent to their material circumstances. That is the symptom of one who realizes the “truth” that Jesus speaks of. They are not austere. They are indifferent…buoyed up by a happiness of the spirit that cannot be defeated by material circumstance.
But this kind of happiness, total freedom from fear, can only be known by those who don’t think of religion as a means to material fulfillment. If we pray to God for material fulfillments, we cultivate the consumption of the fruit of good and evil. Jesus tells us what we should really pray for: “Love of God with all of thy heart, soul and strength.” Because when love of God fills the heart…all love for the fruit of the tree of good and evil departs… without separate endeavor. This is what Jesus means when he says: “The truth shall set you free.” When we pray for nice material circumstances…we are praying for the dualities that are the very sources of our suffering…the suffering that Jesus wants to free us from. Very few have this understanding…other than the saints… like Saint Francis…running barefoot in the snow.
Reincarnation. I’d rather not reincarnate on this planet, but if I have to, I know exactly what my next life will look like.