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  1. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    When we take into consideration the fact that a belief in the Trinity is absolutely essential to salvation, how unfortunate it was for the world that this doctrine was not established until the year 1274. Think of the millions that dropped into hell while these questions were being discussed.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #ingersoll #Christianity #damnation #doctrine #dogma #God #orthodoxy #revelation #salvation #trinity #eternaltruth

  2. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    When we take into consideration the fact that a belief in the Trinity is absolutely essential to salvation, how unfortunate it was for the world that this doctrine was not established until the year 1274. Think of the millions that dropped into hell while these questions were being discussed.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #ingersoll #Christianity #damnation #doctrine #dogma #God #orthodoxy #revelation #salvation #trinity #eternaltruth

  3. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    When we take into consideration the fact that a belief in the Trinity is absolutely essential to salvation, how unfortunate it was for the world that this doctrine was not established until the year 1274. Think of the millions that dropped into hell while these questions were being discussed.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #ingersoll #Christianity #damnation #doctrine #dogma #God #orthodoxy #revelation #salvation #trinity #eternaltruth

  4. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    When we take into consideration the fact that a belief in the Trinity is absolutely essential to salvation, how unfortunate it was for the world that this doctrine was not established until the year 1274. Think of the millions that dropped into hell while these questions were being discussed.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #ingersoll #Christianity #damnation #doctrine #dogma #God #orthodoxy #revelation #salvation #trinity #eternaltruth

  5. *PLANETMATES: The Great Reveal* (2014) by Michael Adzema.

    KEYNOTE 2, p. 18

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  6. Mornings of Obscurity

    I awake from a strange night of vigilance to a day filled with the white trappings of fog.

    Within me, however, there is clarity.

    Often the outer landscape informs the inner, though they are not always alike. The meteorology of the soul follows different laws. A clear morning may find me lost within myself, while a world hidden beneath fog may awaken in me some unexpected certainty.

    Still, there is always a lesson to be learned, if I can stay aware enough to be educated.

    There is a kind of safety in what is hidden.

    Fog softens the distances. It removes the horizon. It asks nothing of me beyond the next few steps. Things ordinarily exposed become mercifully indistinct. Roads disappear into the pale. Houses, trees, the fauna of everyday, become shadows.

    I need such mornings.

    Perhaps there are times when obscurity is not confusion but a refuge, when I am protected from seeing everything at once.

    I think of the bathroom mirror after a shower.

    I emerge from the steam and reach for the towel, and there I am—or ought to be—but the reflection is incomplete. I am there somewhere beneath the white film. I can make out a shape, a suggestion of myself, but not the familiar arrangement by which I reassure myself that I am still who I was before I stepped beneath the spray.

    For a moment I am only a blurred presence.

    There is mercy in that too.

    I spend so much of my life asking the world to return an image of myself: Who am I here? How do I appear? What has become of me? Yet sometimes the glass clouds over and will not answer.

    I can wipe it clean with my hand or a towel, of course.

    But then there is only a small clearing in the mist—a smeared oval through which one eye looks back at me while the rest of me remains unseen.

    A partial revelation.

    Enough to know that I am there.

    Yet not enough to see the whole.

    And there are other moments of obscurity.

    I step from the bitter cold of winter into a warm building, and my glasses immediately cloud over. Or I leave an air-conditioned room and enter the heavy heat of summer. The lenses upon which I depend for clarity suddenly become the very instruments of my blindness.

    I have crossed a threshold too quickly.

    For several seconds the world disappears.

    I know it has not vanished. I know there is a floor beneath me, furniture nearby, perhaps another person approaching. But knowledge and sight are not always the same thing.

    So I stop.

    Or slow.

    Or remove the glasses and wait.

    There is something almost sacred about that small helplessness.

    The instrument meant to help me see must temporarily be surrendered before sight can return.

    Perhaps there are thresholds of the spirit like this.

    I cross from grief into joy, certainty into doubt, solitude into community, one season of life into another, and discover that the ways I have learned to see no longer work immediately on the other side.

    My lenses fog.

    My familiar interpretations become opaque.

    For a moment I am blinded not because there is nothing to see, but because I have entered another atmosphere.

    And perhaps wisdom is learning not to panic in that interval.

    The landscape remains.

    The self remains.

    The world remains.

    I simply cannot see it clearly yet.

    But one cannot remain forever in obscurity.

    The sun will rise.

    The fog will burn away.

    The steam will leave the mirror.

    The lenses will clear.

    And what has always been there will slowly be revealed—not created by the light, only uncovered by it.

    The hills were there.

    The road was there.

    The distant trees were there.

    The face in the mirror was there.

    The room beyond the clouded lenses was there.

    What frightened me was there.

    What called to me was there.

    Perhaps this is the discipline of such mornings: to receive the hidden without mistaking it for absence, and to receive revelation without imagining that revelation has suddenly made the world new.

    To understand that obscurity is sometimes a condition of crossing.

    That there are moments when not seeing is not the same as being lost.

    That clarity may exist within me even while everything around me is veiled.

    And that sometimes the wisest thing I can do is stand for a moment at the threshold, blinded by my own lenses, trusting the world is still there.

    Sometimes clarity arrives before the landscape clears.

    Sometimes I must learn to walk while the world is still blurred around me.

    #Awareness #Blindness #clarity #ContemplativeWriting #eerieIllustration #fog #foggedGlasses #hiddenness #innerLife #mirror #morningMeditation #mystery #Obscurity #photorealisticArt #poeticProse #Revelation #showerSteam #SpiritualReflection #thresholds #transition
  7. The Maranatha Empire

    There is a prayer so holy that it should burn the tongue of every empire that tries to speak it.

    Maranatha.

    Come, Lord.

    It is the cry of the small church under pressure. The cry of the persecuted and the patient. The cry of those who have no armies to summon, no throne to defend, no voting bloc sufficient to save them, no market share large enough to secure their future. It is the cry of those who wait because they know they are not God.

    But in every age, there are those who take this prayer of waiting and turn it into a banner of possession.

    They say, “Come, Lord,” but what they mean is, “Give us control.”

    They say, “Thy kingdom come,” but what they mean is, “Let our faction rule.”

    They say, “Prepare the way of the Lord,” but what they build are prisons, borders, propaganda machines, religious celebrity platforms, and monuments to their own fear.

    This is the Maranatha Empire.

    It is not one nation only, though nations may become its servants. It is not one denomination only, though denominations may become its chapels. It is not merely Rome, nor Geneva, nor Washington, nor Moscow, nor any other city that has mistaken power for providence. The Maranatha Empire is the recurring temptation of the religious heart: to stop waiting for Christ and begin replacing him.

    It begins quietly.

    It begins with concern.

    The world is dangerous. The children are vulnerable. The church is shrinking. The enemies are multiplying. The culture is changing. The old certainties are crumbling. The people are afraid.

    Fear, when baptized, often calls itself faithfulness.

    So the frightened church begins to reach for tools Jesus refused.

    A throne.

    A sword.

    A spectacle.

    A scapegoat.

    A strongman.

    A law that can accomplish what love has not yet persuaded.

    A state that can enforce what the Spirit has not yet formed.

    A leader who promises to defend Christ, as though Christ ever asked Peter to keep swinging after Gethsemane.

    This is how the prayer becomes an empire.

    The early church cried, “Come, Lord Jesus,” because it knew that Caesar was not Lord. The Maranatha Empire cries, “Come, Lord Jesus,” because it wants Caesar to become useful.

    The early church broke bread in homes. The Maranatha Empire builds platforms and calls them altars.

    The early church welcomed the stranger. The Maranatha Empire sees the stranger as a threat.

    The early church died rather than kill. The Maranatha Empire kills and calls the dead collateral damage in the defense of righteousness.

    The early church believed the Lamb had conquered. The Maranatha Empire keeps looking for a beast strong enough to protect the Lamb.

    And there is the blasphemy.

    Not that empire rejects Christ outright. That would be too honest. The Maranatha Empire does something more dangerous. It uses Christ as decoration for a power that is fundamentally afraid of the cross.

    It sings of the Lamb while trusting the dragon.

    It preaches resurrection while organizing itself around survival.

    It displays the cross while despising weakness.

    It quotes Jesus while ignoring the people Jesus told us to notice: the poor, the imprisoned, the hungry, the foreigner, the enemy, the child, the wounded man beside the road.

    The Maranatha Empire is not built by atheists. It is built by believers who have lost patience with the way of Jesus.

    For the way of Jesus is slow.

    It is seed, yeast, salt, light.

    It is foot-washing.

    It is forgiveness seventy times seven.

    It is refusing the shortcut of domination even when domination appears efficient.

    It is telling Peter to put away the sword when everything in Peter’s body screams that this is the moment for holy violence.

    It is standing before Pilate and saying, “My kingdom is not from this world,” not because the kingdom has nothing to do with the world, but because it does not come by the world’s methods.

    The Maranatha Empire cannot tolerate this.

    It cannot tolerate a Messiah who will not seize power.

    It cannot tolerate a church that would rather be faithful than influential.

    It cannot tolerate a people whose politics begin at the basin and towel.

    It cannot tolerate enemy-love, because enemy-love ruins the machinery. Empire requires enemies. It needs them. It feeds on them. Without enemies, the crowd might look too closely at the throne.

    So, the Maranatha Empire manufactures urgency.

    There is no time to love.

    No time to listen.

    No time to discern.

    No time for reconciliation.

    No time for peacemaking.

    No time to ask whether the means resemble the Christ we claim to serve.

    The hour is late, they say. The danger is great. The stakes are too high. We must act now. We must take control now. We must win now.

    And somewhere beneath all that urgency is a terrible confession:

    They do not actually believe the Lord is coming.

    Or, if he is coming, they do not trust him to arrive in the right way.

    So they build him an empire to inherit.

    But Christ does not inherit empires.

    He judges them.

    He walks in alleyways, not palaces. He asks whether the churches have kept their first love. He warns those who are rich and comfortable and self-satisfied that they may be poor, blind, and naked. He stands at the door and knocks, not because he has been defeated by secularism, but because religious people have locked him outside while holding meetings in his name.

    The Maranatha Empire is always shocked when Jesus is found outside the gate.

    Outside the camp.

    Outside respectability.

    Outside the approved narrative.

    Outside the walls with the crucified, the excluded, the unclean, the inconvenient, and the condemned.

    The empire expected him in the capital.

    But he is with the refugees.

    The empire expected him in the cathedral of victory.

    But he is with the mother of the disappeared.

    The empire expected him on the reviewing stand.

    But he is washing feet in the basement.

    The empire expected him to bless the troops.

    But he is asking why his followers are still carrying swords.

    This is why Maranatha must remain a dangerous prayer.

    It must never be allowed to become a slogan for conquest. It must never be printed on the banners of those who are unwilling to be converted by the One they summon. To pray “Come, Lord” is not to invite divine endorsement of our projects. It is to invite judgment upon them.

    Come, Lord, and judge our churches.

    Come, Lord, and judge our flags.

    Come, Lord, and judge our markets.

    Come, Lord, and judge our weapons.

    Come, Lord, and judge our sermons.

    Come, Lord, and judge our secret hatreds.

    Come, Lord, and judge the ways we have used your name to avoid your way.

    This is the prayer empire cannot honestly pray.

    Because if the Lord comes, the first thing to fall may not be our enemies.

    It may be our idols.

    The algorithm.

    The nation.

    The party.

    The brand.

    The gun.

    The strongman.

    The myth of innocence.

    The lie that we can harm others for a righteous cause and remain untouched by the harm.

    The Maranatha Empire teaches us to fear the collapse of Christian influence.

    Jesus teaches us to fear gaining the world and losing our soul.

    The Maranatha Empire asks, “How do we take back the culture?”

    Jesus asks, “Can you drink the cup that I drink?”

    The Maranatha Empire says, “Blessed are the winners.”

    Jesus says, “Blessed are the meek.”

    The Maranatha Empire says, “Blessed are the forceful, for they shall secure the future.”

    Jesus says, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.”

    And perhaps this is the word for us now:

    The church does not need to become more powerful.

    The church needs to become more faithful.

    Not passive. Not silent. Not withdrawn into pious irrelevance. But faithful in the particular, cruciform, stubborn way of Jesus. Faithful enough to resist evil without becoming its mirror. Faithful enough to tell the truth without hatred. Faithful enough to protect the vulnerable without worshiping violence. Faithful enough to build communities of economic sharing, hospitality, forgiveness, courage, and joy. Faithful enough to be a people who can live without controlling the outcome.

    That is the hard part.

    Empire is attractive because it promises control.

    Jesus offers communion.

    Empire promises security.

    Jesus offers peace.

    Empire promises victory over enemies.

    Jesus offers reconciliation that may begin with our repentance.

    Empire promises to make us great.

    Jesus invites us to become small enough to enter the kingdom.

    So, let the Maranatha Empire fall.

    Let it fall first in us.

    Let it fall in every place where we have confused anxiety with zeal. Let it fall where we have preferred dominance to witness. Let it fall where we have wanted laws to do what discipleship would not. Let it fall where we have used the suffering of others as fuel for our own righteousness. Let it fall where we have asked Jesus to come only after we have arranged the throne to our liking.

    And when it falls, may something older and more beautiful remain.

    A table.

    A basin.

    A towel.

    A loaf.

    A cup.

    A people gathered without illusion, without empire, without the need to be impressive, whispering the ancient prayer not as conquerors but as witnesses:

    Maranatha.

    Come, Lord Jesus.

    Come not to crown our domination, but to free us from it.

    Come not to baptize our fear, but to cast it out.

    Come not to make our empire holy, but to teach us again that your kingdom comes like a seed, like yeast, like mercy, like a Lamb who was slain and yet lives.

    And until you come, make us faithful.

    Not imperial.

    Not triumphant.

    Not afraid.

    Faithful.

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  11. #Babaji is not #Jesus. But He knows what Jesus knew. He's one of the ones that got the pillar with his name on it and doesn't have to leave again. #Revelation 3:12. He is a knower of the Truth. #Jangama #Dhyana. Jesus taught Vedic. Read #Matthew and then study The #Vedas. Yes. Surrender.

  12. 💥 In what might be the most #groundbreaking #revelation since the discovery of gravity, somehow #rally #games teach us that cars are, in fact, #bouncy springs! 🎢 Apparently, controlling a 1000 kg hunk of metal is all about understanding #physics, but don't worry—momentum is the only thing that matters. Who knew? 🙄
    combo.cc/posts/its-all-about-m #momentum #springs #HackerNews #ngated

  13. A quotation from Orwell

    The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. Each of them tacitly claims that “the truth” has already been revealed, and that the heretic, if he is not simply a fool, is secretly aware of “the truth” and merely resists it out of selfish motives.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1946-01), “The Prevention of Literature,” Polemic Magazine

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  14. Ah yes, the thrilling saga of a parcel number revelation! 🎉 Who knew a string of alphanumeric soup like UT038926726CH could be so... ubiquitous? 🙄 Remember, folks, when you stare into the abyss of postal codes, sometimes they stare back! 📦🔍
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  15. The monotheistic religions made it normal to squash people: "I think there is something really special about the Bible [...] which is precisely this idea that the revelation of truth comes through the suffering of the weak." (Matthieu Poupart)

    Then the Renaissance made it easier to blame the victim: With modernity, "it is the person who takes no initiative who is seen as responsible for the emergence of sexual promiscuity." (Matthieu Poupart)

    #EstelleSays #longThread 🧶

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