Freedom's Light

Love Yourself First

2007-11-13T16:03:00.000-08:00

“The measure you give is the measure you shall receive.” Jesus If you love yourself then you are loved. If the whole world loves you but you do not love yourself then you will not know love. If the whole world hates you but you love yourself then you will know love. It does not matter whether or not God loves you or Jesus loves you or anybody loves you, if YOU do not love yourself then you

Impending Doom

2007-06-19T11:29:00.000-07:00

I wonder if people who are about to die have some sense of impending doom, some ‘knowingness’ that they are about to die. Just before my father died of a massive heart attack he called my mother, whom he had not talked to in almost twenty years, to wish her a happy birthday, which was the next day. Within an hour of that phone call my father was dead. He also called both of my sisters but

The Virtue of Laziness

2007-06-16T13:03:00.000-07:00

Jesus was lazy and so was the Buddha. Both of them could read and presumable write but neither of them wrote anything down; probably because they were lazy. They were too lazy to be industrious and they did not ‘create’ anything. They just enjoyed talking and that is all they really did. They had no home to support or take care of. They had no bank account. Their possessions were only

Unholy Religion

2007-05-25T14:31:00.000-07:00

From a web page titled “All Have Sinned” (http://www.santacruzbible.org/findingGod/allHaveSinned.php) Man is SINFUL and SEPARATED from God, so we cannot know Him personally or experience His love Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Romans 6:23 "The wages of sin is death" [spiritual separation from God]. Romans 8:6-8 "The mind of sinful man is death, but the

Atheists

2007-05-04T13:00:00.000-07:00

I find that atheist tend to “throw the baby out with the bath water” in that they reject the god concept while missing the underlining REASON for creating the concept of god. The etymology of the title “Holy Bible” shows that it means Health Book; meaning that it was a primitive attempt by primitive people to share what they had learned that was healthy for the mind, body and society. Atheists

What is Love?

2007-05-02T09:22:00.000-07:00

I saw a video on YouTube that asked the question, What is Love, so I thought I would offer my experience of my exploration of that questions.

Religious Sheep

2007-04-29T19:14:00.000-07:00

I went to church tonight and was amazed at how dumb the eulogy was. The minister was trying to talk the people into thinking they were dumb animals: sheep. Maybe they really are that dumb...

Self Judgment = God's Judgment

2007-03-27T15:00:00.000-07:00

We all judge ourself and we are our harshest critic. Judgment can be good and even fun until we start to believe that it is true. We are the "God" that judges ourselves when we "die" to our busyness.

War and Taxes

2007-03-26T16:20:00.000-07:00

Support the War, pay your taxes. If you pay taxes you support war, terrorism, torture and murder. Only the gullible believe that a society based on violence or the threat of violence is necessary.

Emotional Predisposition

2007-03-14T12:04:00.001-07:00

Believing happens when people hear some ‘information’ about something that they have an emotional predisposition toward. For instance, if a person has been shunned by Christians and they carry that emotional hurt with them then if there were to hear some ‘information’ challenges the validity of the Christian message they would have that emotional predisposition to want to believe that ‘

Failure to Communicate

2007-03-07T13:57:00.000-08:00

I see that the root cause of most of humanities problems is a failure to communicate. We do not talk enough with one another, particularly about deep and/or personal things. The problem is not that we do not share our financial wealth; it is that we do not share HOW we got our financial wealth. By developing and teaching good communication skills, the courage to be honest and most importantly

The Root Cause of Terrorism

2007-03-07T12:55:00.000-08:00

The root cause of terrorism is in the very first line of the bible, which comes out of a primitive, unhealthy mind. It says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” This is a silly construct that comes out of an immature, primitive mind that could not see that there was no beginning and there is no end. But their minds could not handle infinity and eternity so that created

My Fear of Commitment?

2007-02-25T10:43:00.000-08:00

I have a Fear of Commitment. No doubt about that, I cannot follow through on just about anything. I have ideas galore but I do not follow though on any of them. Many a time I have what I thought was a good idea, even a great idea, but I have learned to sit with these ideas and watch them gestate to see what happens with them. To date not a one has really survived long enough to even be

Judge Me, Please!

2007-02-12T13:43:00.000-08:00

I want to improve myself and my ability to help people be healthier and happier. Your comments and criticism are appreciated, either here or at YouTube. I want to hear people's criticism and judgments. I recognize that they cannot hurt me, only MY REACTIONS to words and thoughts can cause me harm. I have overcome my unhealthy habit of reacting to words and thoughts so now I am open

Educating the Heart

2007-02-07T11:30:00.000-08:00

The author is Melvin McLeod. (This article [link with title above] was not WRITTEN by the Dali Lama, but ABOUT him and his talks. I find that in this type of situation the writer sometimes does not convey the true mean or intent of the speaker. Understand the words used and their INTENT is important.) Here are some quotes from the article that I like and then my comments: He doesn’t

Dynamic Compassion

2007-02-06T10:08:00.001-08:00

Dynamic Compassion is a compassion that goes beyond just respect, service and care. Compassion is the willingness to suffer with others. Dynamic compassion is the underlying cause of change or growth that comes from that willingness to suffer with others. Dynamic compassion is a willingness to engage the world or a situation that is unhealthy, possibly making that situation temporarily more

Fear of Self

2007-02-01T09:07:00.001-08:00

Today I am struck by how people are so afraid of themselves. Everywhere I go I see people afraid. At first they seem afraid of me if they know anything about me, and sometimes even if they do not know anything about me. I see this as a “problem” within society but here in lies the rub; maybe this ‘problem’ is only in MY mind. When I speak about this ‘problem’ with other people

Jesus vs. the Christians

2006-10-13T14:16:00.000-07:00

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Christians not only are not like Jesus they seem to oppose Jesus’ way and truth. Every time I talk to a Christian I come away amazed just how much they seem to fear Jesus’ way and truth. I do not think they see themselves as apposed to Jesus’ way and truth, but in

Season of the White Crow

2006-09-07T15:03:00.000-07:00

Rob Brezney writes in his astrology column (www.freewillastrology.com) for Sagittarius last week: “If you want to upset the law that all crows are black,” wrote William James, “you mustn’t show that no crows are, it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.” Philosopher Jonathan Zap applies this idea to his ruminations about telepathy. He says that if there is even one irrefutable

Spiritual Issues in the Immigration Debate

2006-05-20T13:05:00.000-07:00

From an article by Rabbi Marc Gellman: What are our moral obligations to illegal immigrants_and to the laws of the U.S.? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12875442/site/newsweek/from/ET/ For me, the ‘obligations’ to obey the government is not as strong as the obligation to obey the God that lives within my heart. I see the “problem’ of immigration not as a problem of immigration but as a problem of

Beyond the Democrat Party of the Bible Belt

2006-05-02T14:04:00.000-07:00

"No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought." JOHN STUART MILL (English philosopher), Autobiography, 1873 No great change is going to happen in our political reality until people start to think beyond their current fundamental constitutions or modes of thought. It is time to think beyond

9/11 was good for Humanity

2006-02-14T12:17:00.000-08:00

I wonder if people can see the good that came out of the events of 9/11/2001. I look back and the stories of how FDR set up American to be attacked at Pearl Harbor just to get Americans out their isolationistic and narrow-minded ideology. In the 1930’s America was suffering from and still coming out of the depression and we did not care about anybody else but America and Americans (does

Truth & Righteousness

2006-01-26T16:09:00.000-08:00

I would like to bring up the topics of righteousness and truth, which seem to be of great concern to conservatives. I will start with truth. Truth is defined as sincerity in action, character and utterance; the state of being the case, fact. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia has a definition of truth as coming from firmness, stability, consistency and FAITHFULNESS. That last

How Open is Your Mind

2005-12-22T15:55:00.000-08:00

I often hear people say that they are an open minded person (at least my liberal friends say that) but I wonder just HOW open minded they really are. When a mind is open would it not be expanded to thinking outside the boxes of conventional thought? What thoughts does everybody else have that you also have? Where are you thinking in a box that even your opponents

Moral Courage

2005-12-19T14:31:00.000-08:00

I want to articulate a new angle on the biblical depravity and extend that all Jews, Christians and Muslims who embrace the bible as their moral manual are moral cowards for they do not have the courage to question the moral depravity and outright sickness of the writers of the bible. I challenge the Jews, Christians and Muslims to admit that the writers of the bible were morally sick when