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Harry S. Truman set the stage for the next 60 years.
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Friday, March 29, 2013
Luke 6:22, 32-35
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GOOD FRIDAY
Luke 6:22-35
English Standard Version (ESV)
22 “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
23 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.
Jesus Pronounces Woes
24 “But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.
25 “Woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry.
“Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.
26 “Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.
Love Your Enemies
27 “But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you
28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you
29 To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic[a] either
30 Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back
31 And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
32 “If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them
33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same
34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount
35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
Hard to Do This and few have.
John 6:60 Many of his disciples said, "This is very hard to understand. How can anyone accept it?"
29 and 30 are especially difficult. Is Law worthless? As for the rest: it is true that if you love expecting nothing in return, your reward will be great and you might be loved yourself but that must not be your goal — a gift given with expectation of repayment is not a gift. Love given with expectation of love is not love. It is creepy and the recipient knows it for what it is.
Footnotes:
Luke 6:29 Greek chiton, a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin
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GOOD FRIDAY
Luke 6:22-35
English Standard Version (ESV)
22 “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
23 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.
Jesus Pronounces Woes
24 “But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.
25 “Woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry.
“Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.
26 “Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.
Love Your Enemies
27 “But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you
28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you
29 To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic[a] either
30 Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back
31 And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
32 “If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them
33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same
34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount
35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
Hard to Do This and few have.
John 6:60 Many of his disciples said, "This is very hard to understand. How can anyone accept it?"
Footnotes:
Luke 6:29 Greek chiton, a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The Real News Network
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The zenith of American power was August 1945.The atomic bombs were dropped on Japan to put the world on notice that the United States of America was the master of the world and it could do whatever it wanted from then on. Edward Teller was already planning a super bomb that could be "as big as you want to make it." I used to believe every word of American propaganda, but no more. George W. Bush opened my eyes. Thanks, George! Dream on, boys.
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The zenith of American power was August 1945.The atomic bombs were dropped on Japan to put the world on notice that the United States of America was the master of the world and it could do whatever it wanted from then on. Edward Teller was already planning a super bomb that could be "as big as you want to make it." I used to believe every word of American propaganda, but no more. George W. Bush opened my eyes. Thanks, George! Dream on, boys.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Statin Nation
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This groundbreaking movie may revolutionize your ideas about your own health and welfare. I was almost killed by the criminals who are foisting statin drugs onto an unsuspecting public. They make billions each year from this one nefarious scheme alone and they have many. Doctors prescribing statins and drug companies making statins could not care less about you and me. Don't let them cripple and kill you or the people you love. Learn how to avoid harm and how to become healthy.
posted by Morley Evans
This groundbreaking movie may revolutionize your ideas about your own health and welfare. I was almost killed by the criminals who are foisting statin drugs onto an unsuspecting public. They make billions each year from this one nefarious scheme alone and they have many. Doctors prescribing statins and drug companies making statins could not care less about you and me. Don't let them cripple and kill you or the people you love. Learn how to avoid harm and how to become healthy.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride
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Good sense is rare. Make time to listen when you hear it. Watch Parts 1, 2 and 3 here.
Dr. Mercola interviews Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG0HldVSkzU
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Good sense is rare. Make time to listen when you hear it. Watch Parts 1, 2 and 3 here.
Dr. Mercola interviews Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG0HldVSkzU
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Jewish Voice for Peace
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Dear Morley,
I just got back from South Africa, where I was interviewing Dutch Reformed Church leaders about apartheid. In those conversations, I heard a lot of recitations of Afrikaner history, about fleeing the oppressive British, fighting the local African tribes in the interior until the rivers ran red with blood, settling the land, “miraculously” gaining control of the government (in 1948!) and immediately setting about establishing separate bantustans where those natives could rule themselves by being removed from their homes and neighborhoods, not being allowed to vote and being repressed by massive state brutality.
My take-home: how you tell your people’s story depends on how you understand your people’s place in the world. If you think that you are unique and that only your fate matters, then you can justify doing terrible things to another people. If on the other hand you see your own tribe as one player in a world craving peace and wholeness for every person, then you will move quite differently in our hurting world.
With Passover coming in a few days, I look forward to eating and drinking with my friends and family and telling the story of our liberation from oppression. And at the same time I know we will be confronting the ways in which today we play the role of the Pharaoh in the ancient story, cruelly oppressing another people. An important part of my freedom as a Jew is the freedom to bring new questions to the old story. One small example: this year I wonder what we could learn from the ten plagues about Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) and about imposing deprivation on others for the sake of liberation?
Like all of you, I could be active in any number of groups seeking justice for the people of Palestine. But I have chosen to put my energy into JVP because it is a Jewish voice for peace, and that means a lot to me. Not everyone in JVP is religious, as I am. Not everyone in JVP is even Jewish. But we share a commitment to giving voice to a Judaism which moves the world -- and us -- towards justice. I look at JVP as the Passover table where I can be proudly and joyfully Jewish and at the very same time -- in fact, out of that same wellspring -- question everything, especially a view of history which says that only Jewish life and Jewish fate matter. I am grateful to every one of you for setting that table and joining me there.
For your seder table -- or wherever you will be thinking and talking about liberation this season -- we offer you a meditation by Rabbi Brant Rosen on the four children of the seder, which explores the various ways we respond to the painful news that too regularly comes out of Israel/Palestine.
And for the long haul, we offer you Breaking Through -- the JVP National Members Meeting, April 19-21 in Berkeley, CA, where you can meet hundreds of other activists and be inspired by leaders from our own and connected movements.
I hope to meet you there!
Wishing you a joyous and satisfying Pesach -- and wishing the world, and especially the people of Israel and Palestine, greater justice on account of our celebration -- bimheyrah b’yameinu -- quickly, this year, right now!
Rabbi Margaret Holub
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