The Message

Josephus Lascivious is the name I gave unto him at his rebirth
While in the days of innocence and Pan I remembered how to sin
How to use my will against my brother, against myself, and God
And in the pool of blood I questioned, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
And in the quiet solitude I confessed my sins.
And I was given no answer but the fate that awaited behind door number two
And I lost, and I learned
That the irreducible complexity limits us fore and aft
Trapped inside the eternal parenthesis of a Silent God
It is this wonder that drives some to discipline and others astray
Yet not all of the players are made of the clay
For some are water, and air, others fire of day
Importantly Insignificant is my name
For the ways of man delay for no one and that is just who I am
These are the words of No Man
The Message stands on its own
If the Atheist heart has ears to hear then listen closely
You are faith full just as the holy man is faithful
For all of you are hemmed in by irreducible complexities
And these are they that drive you to your terror
Look in to the face of your enemy and see that the problem is the answer
For how can you love your enemy unless he is you!
All the same! Just the same!
So don’t tell a who damn when you stand on the Common Ground
For revolutions are made in the mind and the revolution is here
See, but not with your I’s and you will understand that No Man is right! 

Here ye here ye one and all

Stay and listen to the wisdom of the Troll

As he sits in the midst of those who do not want him

Those that wish he would go away.

For this troll disturbs the holy as they strategize on how best

To reach the lost.  He speaks blasphemies in their presence saying

That the written word of God is not the same as the Living Word from God.

He tells them that the lost do not want to hear about Jesus, they want to see Him.

But the Holy cattle do not listen for they believe that their pastor can save the sinner if only they can get

that sinner to come to church.  So they become seeker friendly, hip and cutting edge.  “Fools!” says the

 Troll.  How can you hope to compete with the cutting edge the world has to offer.  Come out of

yourselves and let the Lord reign for wherever you are, He is!  Walk among the lost as He once did

offering yourself as a sacrifice. Do not think that the scriptures will bring the dead back to life for they

do not.  He that is the Living Word resurrects the lifeless to eternity, the scriptures are merely the

 retelling of the truth.  Yet there are far too many among you that worship the Bible as the golden calf. 

 And if the troll disturbs you then remember that it is not he that said, “you search the scriptures for in

 them you think you have eternal life, and these are they which testify of me, but you are not willing to

come to me to have life”.  A living epistle is what this lost world will recognize and then those that are

meant for our fold will come of their own free will.  And in the quiet, sits the troll, and he reads his Bible,

and waits for the Living Word from God to appear in the form of men and women, boys and girls, that

are not afraid of the dark for the light is in them, and not from without.     

  God is Great

In the name of God, the most Gracious, the most Merciful

All Praise is due to God, the Lord of all the worlds

The most Gracious, the most Merciful

Lord of the day of judgment

It is you we worship and you we ask for help

Guide us to the straight path

The path of those upon whom you have bestowed your blessings

Not of those who have evoked your anger

Not of those who go astray (Amen)

In the name of God, the most Gracious, the most Merciful

Say, “He is God the One”

“God the uncaused cause of all that exists”

God is great

God hears those who praise Him

(O our Lord all praise is due to you alone)

God is Great

And then I get such a contrary feeling

A hopelessness, a loss of untold depth

Do all those who seek out God experience this?

Every turn can bring about a reversal of favor

And then frustration, uncertainty, pain.

But then I see in the eye of my mind

that the only smattering of reality within this

mirage of bliss and frustration, is the

Virtue that I have been given.

To see the creation as it should be and God?s

children laughing and enjoying the Ever Presence.

Do you not see?

Every one of us lives one moment at a time

We remember the past and anticipate the future

but we only actually experience the Ever Present.

He is with us all the time.

Now what you do with your time is your prerogative

but you only have time in the present.

Now to be present is to live

If you do not yet understand this, you will.

There will be someone close to you die and then

you will know what it means for someone to not be Ever Present.

But you are, and He is, and for now you have a connection to the

Forever Alive, Forever Present, the Ever Presence.

Now child you must learn that Virtue leads to life and the Ever

Presence and Vices lead away to Death, The Ever Gone.

My heart felt greetings to the secular, the humanist, the simply existent. Cognizant of the fact that God has a great deal of respect for you, I open this letter with my well wishes upon you and your loved ones. I say that God has great respect for you because you, as I, are endowed with free will and that, in my Book, is granted to us all by God (to Him be the Glory). Whether He loves you or not, I cannot tell, for I lack your subjective experiential knowledge of Him. My Book tells me that He loves you immensely, but you do not believe in my God much less my scriptures, so why would I put this truth upon you? The only thing I can say for certain is that He respects you and your choices and so must I.

To the matter at hand, which is the same freedom of choice or free will mentioned previously, both yours and mine. I choose to speak to you now with regards to the many claims you have against me and my kind. Whoever fears the Lord, and loves his neighbor in spite of self, is a family member of mine. If I pick any one slight directed at me by your world, let it then represent every other slight, because the same truth can be applied to all, which is this, whatever sins you accuse me of, you are guilty of others. We are all guilty, insufficient animals, desirous of being more, but consistently falling short of the mark.

An invitation to peace between the secular mind and the metaphysical spirit is what I am proclaiming today. In pursuit of this peace, I leave behind those of my family who do not see this as possible, and I commend them to God, knowing that by their master they stand or fall. I ask that you be willing to do the same, for there are those in your family that are called cynical, and they will not allow meaningful exchange among those of the Common Ground. They are those that scorn anyone that challenges their pre determined world view. They are closed minds incapable of considering that which will heal this world of it’s penchant for destruction. Let us leave the bigots and the cynical to their fates and choose instead to speak of the commonalities that exist between us.

If we are to have peace on the Common Ground, let us first acknowledge that we cannot do so without the sacrifice of compromise. Inherent in compromise is sacrifice, and more specifically, sacrifice for the good of another. Conflict reigns in the world of men because men do not want this kind of peace. Rather than bear the pain of sacrifice for another, selfish men choose instead to force their portion of sacrifice on to the opposing side and arrive at a peace through conquest. All or nothing is a detrimental mind set and cannot be sustained on the Common Ground. We must accept that our compromises are for the benefit of another, knowing that the other is then duty bound to return that which is given to them. Does this not sound familiar? It is the Golden Rule and the description of true love! True love is defined by its sacrifice. Consider the greatest love stories ever told whether religious or secular, and you will find that sacrifice for another, is the zenith of Love. Peace then is a by product of Love on the Common Ground. Can you dig it?

To be continued on the Common Ground…

 In the red letters of my Bible there reads this verse, “And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.”

Doulos!

In the Spirit of this verse I say to my Christian family, do not make them out to be more than what they are, for what you give them now, they will not receive in the hereafter

Doulos!

I am talking about pastors, teachers, preachers, and us scribes, the students of the Word

Doulos!

Do you not know that sycophants rob the Doulos of their blessings in the hereafter?

Doulos!

And while you worship at their altars, they worship at the feet of the theologians who, in turn, lose their blessings in the hereafter

Doulos!

Servants are what they are!  Pastors, preachers, teachers, and theologians, for we all have but one master, and He is not a respecter of persons

Doulos!

Much too well rewarded in this life are these servants, in both money and notoriety, but I tell them this, remember as you are escorted to your earthly seats of honor, you will not have those same seats in the hereafter.

Doulos!

For He did say, “you know the rulers of the gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.  Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to be great among you, let him be your servant.”

Doulos!

Blessed are those among them that know that what I speak is Truth.  These will not have a difficult translation

Doulos!

Woe unto those among them that deny the Truth.  Leaders, not servants, they have become when they teach judgment, instead of servant hood to all.

Doulos!

Therefore, their fate is uncertain for, “not all who say Lord Lord…” but if those, that receive their portion in this life, manage to enter the Kingdom of
Heaven, rest assured that, in the hereafter, they will be waiting on tables 

In the darkness, the Mind battles the Spirit for control of the Body called Man.  In the darkness, those of the Mind say that man is the thinking animal. In the darkness, those of the Spirit say that man is the moral animal and the Body called Man must choose between two masters.  Pride blinds the Mind to the necessity of the Spirit and so too the Spirit is blind to the inescapability of the Mind, and the Body called Man is torn.  Is there no one that can give Man the meaning of this?

I can tell you only what has been shown to me.  Spirit! Be still and you will know God.  Mind! Know thyself.  Rest and No Man will awaken you to your dream for it is in the numbers that Truth will be seen.  Genesis.  Before there was something there had to be Nothing, for God is One and Nothing existed to witness Him.  The God of Nothing is the God of Everything for He is One and He is Whole.  One and Zero.  One and Zero are the two faces of Godand through the Blessed Binary do we dind our way back to Him once more.  This is the essence of God (Selah)

The Truth of Man you will find is simple, as simple as One Two Three and Four.  In the beginning Man was one Body, one with the universe, with his nature, with God.  Whether by spiritual disobedience or by destiny of the mind, man transcended, and gained the knowledge of good and of evil.  Man became dual, division was born, and man knew separation from the universe, from his nature, from God. 

And then there was Two.  There is inherent tension within Two for it is a number that satisfies no One.  Two longs to be One but this is impossible for it would have to divide itself in half thereby negating its completeness. 

First One now Two then Three.  Holy, Holy, Holy is the number three.

When One  became Two then Three arrived to restore harmony.   There is strength unimaginable in a triangle.  Consider the following.  In religious marriages the two become one by God the third strand.  In secular marriages the two become one by the third strand of children.
America’s greatness is not because of democracy as most think, for it is as Winston Churchill stated, “the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter”. 
America’s greatness is not found in our capitalist system either for that is a system of haves and have nots, of producers and consumers. The strength of
America is in our system of checks and balances among three branches of government.   If you want further proof of the dysfunction caused by the number two, consider then our two party political system.  The dissatisfaction with American politics will not be resolved until a third party is formed as strong and as robust as the other two so as to cure the incumbents of their whoring.   If you want peace among Jews and Muslims in the
Middle East, then step in and support both sides equally.  If you want peace in the cultural war between the religious right and the secular left, refuse to be either, and find Common Ground for both.

One is the absolute Unity

Two is a relationship of division

Three is the strength of Diversity in Union

Four is a return to balance.

When the Mind in the material world understands the power of Three and if it is joined by the One of the Spirit, the the balance of Four is achieved.  All sides of the table are girded under.

ONe plus Two plus Three plus Four equals 10.  The One and the Zero and the sum of All is God. 

It was on the third day that Abraham reached the mountains of Moriah where he believed his son would rise after the sacrifice.  It was on the third morning that God met Moses and the Israelites at the foot of
Mount Sinai.  It was on the third day that Joshua led the Israelites across the
Jordan into the promised land.  It was on the third day that a wedding feast was held at
Cana and our Lord began his public ministry with a miracle.  It was on the third day that He rose from the dead. 

There has always been a special significance to the third day and in particular the morning of the third day.  If a thousand years is as a day to the Lord then we who are alive in the third millennium A.D. are in fact living the morning of the third day.  God will be very active in this time.  Watch for it.

The Common Ground is here.

 “Man is the religious animal.  He is the only religious animal.  He is the only animal that has the true religion, several of them.  He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his (neighbors) throat if his theology isn’t straight.  He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven”  Mark Twain

I suspect that most people when asked about Mark Twain have a certain respect for him since he is undoubtedly one of our greatest American authors, yet not many know that he made this statement.  Here’s another from Twain, “If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be—a Christian”.  If you’ve never heard these quotes before, then you may be experiencing awkwardness right now.  It’s like leaning back on a chair to the point of flux, between falling on your ass or recuperating.  You love the man but didn’t know he was anti religious. My question to you is, why does it matter?  Some will respond that there is a cultural war going on, a fight for the very soul of our country and, like it or not we must choose a side.  Others like myself, understand that it really doesn’t matter cause, “who cares what Twain thinks.”

I used to find it entertaining to go on to the web and research this religious cultural war but I’ve grown weary of it.  Same old accusations from the atheist about our God condoning (commanding) genocide in the Old Testament and pitching fire and brimstone in the New.  Religionist taunt the atheists with wanting morality without grounds for morality and warnings that Hell is waiting for them whether they believe in it or not.  Both sides perceive themselves as right and that’s all they care about and in the meantime, time is running out for the race of men.  Can you feel it?

My flesh tells me to leave the mad men to their folly and let the whole world go up in flames Armageddon style for it will happen sooner or later.  The Spirit however has called me to preach of the Common Ground.  I’m not doing it for myself cause I know that this won’t win me any popularity contest with either side of the cultural war.   I can honestly say however that I am not doing it cause I love my human brethren either since I have met very few people worth the price.  I do it because I believe that the Holy Spirit is seeking those that want to be peacemakers in a time of war.  He is searching for those who want to stand up for righteousness without falling into the trap of self righteousness. He is trying to recruit those who know that the answer is within each of us, and if we would only stop trying to corner the market on goodness, we might see the answer in others as well.

Be fore warned , I am not your daddy’s preacher.  I will use colorful language at times for emphasis.

“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer”  Twain  

The Common Ground is found on my pages and I will be adding to it a few pages at a time.

Public Television is rebroadcasting this series on how the modern dog, man’s best friend, came to be.  I found the first part fascinating in that it hypothesizes that as early man began to villagize, there arose the problem of waste management.  Dumps would line the outskirts of most villages and scavengers would come to these places searching for food.  Among these scavengers were wolves and those wolves that would not scare off when Man approached, out of curiosity or hunger, would over time come to trust Man enough to eat from his hand.  The rest was academic.

I found a parallel in that interpretation of history with our spiritual journey in this world.  Every Man approaches like a wolf, ruled by the instinct of sin, to places where we might get an easy meal.  Churches are the dump sites of doctrines and interpretations, nothing more than places where we can sustain our spiritual existence.  When God shows up some wolves flee as fast as they can for these fear that God will dominate them and take them where they do not want to go.  Others are less afraid, perhaps more curious, and they stay around until finally they understand that God does not mean to stamp them out, but in fact, is looking for a faithful companion that will help him with his duties and responsibilities.  The wolf then becomes the Dog.

Just some insight from the CG.  Check out the Common Ground in my pages.