We were born Kings

Chapter 2
Birth
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

It was once recognized that all men were created with equal rights that no man could take away from us since they were granted by a source that is far more powerful and stable than anything man could offer. I maintain that any right that is enforced is a law. If this is true it means that a farmer has the same rights under the law as a king has. I maintain that if a king has a “right” to rule his subjects that every man has that right. Let’s explore the possibilities.


          The question? How are we born kings? To begin with a brief definition is in order. Webster’s says that a king is:

“1a : a male monarch of a major territorial unit; especially : one whose position is hereditary and who rules for life b : a paramount chief 2 capitalized : Elohim, CHRIST 3 : one that holds a preeminent position; especially : a chief among competitors....”

The definition goes on about chess pieces, playing cards and checkers. Well, that clears things up doesn’t it? I don’t know about you but it looks to me as if I don’t qualify.
          Words and their meanings are important not only here but in every aspect of our life. Use the wrong word and we can insult someone very easily. After studying this definition the only problems I came up with were the words “major”, “territorial” and “male”. It sounds like we need men and have a whole country at our disposal to be a king doesn’t it? Well, let’s see.
          Here goes another definition. Webster’s says about the word “major” ( can you tell by now I like Webster’s dictionary):

 “ 1 : greater in dignity, rank, importance, or interest <one of the major poets> 2 : greater in number, quantity, or extent <the major part of this work> 3 : having attained majority 4 : notable or conspicuous in effect or scope : CONSIDERABLE <a major improvement> 5 : involving grave risk : SERIOUS <a major illness>....”

The definition goes on into areas we don’t need to, but, if you’re not sure feel free to look it up. It looks like number 1 is the part of this definition we need to concentrate on. If this part can be made to apply to ourselves individually then we fit the part of “major” in the definition of king.
          It’s at conception in my opinion that we become a person. All of the genetic information to make us a physically complete person is present. Right? The only thing lacking is our physical development to the point that we can survive outside of the womb. Some people call a person in the womb an embryo or a fetus. If you look up those words it looks like those are appropriate definitions of us in the womb. However, those definitions don’t address the uniqueness that is you in the womb. Because of this there are too many who are all to willing to terminate a pregnancy because after all it’s only a “fetus” or an “embryo”. That fetus or embryo is absolutely unique and there’ll never be another one like you. Think about it; if no two snowflakes are alike then how much more are we different than each other? Don’t you consider that to be “major”?
          Most normal parents consider it an honor to have a “baby in the oven”. Our society on the whole puts great importance on the concept of pregnancy. Maybe it should be stated as “used to be a honor” because things are changing now. An individual life may not seem so important to many anymore. Putting that aside though, the majority of people still look on a pregnancy as if it’s an important event. We include warning labels on just about anything that might endanger the mother or “fetus”. Isn’t that considered “major”? Many husbands will go out of their way to be supportive of their wives(or significant others if you must). That’s “major” isn’t it? Many women will stop a life long habit or addiction like smoking or drinking while they’re pregnant so that they don’t endanger the baby. That’s “major” isn’t it? How about the mothers body? It shifts gears to accommodate the new embryo. That’s gotta be “major” doesn’t it?
          There doesn’t appear to be anything insignificant about pregnancy. If there is it’s only because we all came into the world that way and familiarity breeds contempt? No, that’s not true!
          So it looks as if the definition of “major” fits us in the womb! How about the next word that was singled out “territorial”? Webster’s defines “territorial” as

 “1 a : NEARBY, LOCAL b : serving outlying areas : REGIONAL 2 a : of or relating to a territory <territorial government> b : of or relating to or organized chiefly for home defense <a territorial army> c : of or relating to private property....”

It looks like the first part fits; doesn’t it? “Nearby” or “Local”? What can be more nearby or local than the womb? Maybe other parts of the definition of “territorial” don’t exactly apply, but, we don’t need it to for our purposes.
          Admittedly, not everyone is male on this planet. So how to get around that? Let’s do it this way: while not everyone is male; everyone is of the family of man. Does this get us around the definition of “male”? It appears to be a matter of point of view. If you can’t get around this emotionally or otherwise then say “queen”. To me there’s another reason to say “king” and that’s Scripture.
            
Rev 1:5 And²⁵³² from⁵⁷⁵ YAHOSUA²⁴²⁴ Ha’Meshiach,⁵⁵⁴⁷ who is the³⁵⁸⁸ faithful⁴¹⁰³ witness,³¹⁴⁴ and the³⁵⁸⁸ first begotten⁴⁴¹⁶ of¹⁵³⁷ the³⁵⁸⁸ dead,³⁴⁹⁸ and²⁵³² the³⁵⁸⁸ prince⁷⁵⁸ of the³⁵⁸⁸ kings⁹³⁵ of the³⁵⁸⁸ earth.¹⁰⁹³ Unto him that loved²⁵ us,²²⁴⁸ and²⁵³² washed³⁰⁶⁸ us²²⁴⁸ from⁵⁷⁵ our²²⁵⁷ sins²⁶⁶ in¹⁷²² his own⁸⁴⁸ blood,¹²⁹
Rev 1:6 And²⁵³² hath made⁴¹⁶⁰ us²²⁴⁸ kings⁹³⁵ and²⁵³² priests²⁴⁰⁹ unto YAHOSHUA²³¹⁶ and²⁵³² his⁸⁴⁸ Father;³⁹⁶² to him⁸⁴⁶ be esteem¹³⁹¹ and²⁵³² power²⁹⁰⁴ forever and ever.^{1519, 165, 165} Amen.²⁸¹
Rev 5:9 And²⁵³² they sung¹⁰³ a new²⁵³⁷ song,⁵⁶⁰³ saying,³⁰⁰⁴ Thou art¹⁴⁸⁸ worthy⁵¹⁴ to take²⁹⁸³ the³⁵⁸⁸ book,⁹⁷⁵ and²⁵³² to open⁴⁵⁵ the³⁵⁸⁸ seals⁴⁹⁷³ thereof:⁸⁴⁸ for³⁷⁵⁴ thou wast slain,⁴⁹⁶⁹ and²⁵³² hast redeemed⁵⁹ us²²⁴⁸ to Elohim²³¹⁶ by¹⁷²² thy⁴⁶⁷⁵ blood¹²⁹ out of¹⁵³⁷ every³⁹⁵⁶ kindred,⁵⁴⁴³ and²⁵³² tongue,¹¹⁰⁰ and²⁵³² people,²⁹⁹² and²⁵³² nation;¹⁴⁸⁴
Rev 5:10 And²⁵³² hast made⁴¹⁶⁰ us²²⁴⁸ unto our²²⁵⁷ Elohim²³¹⁶ kings⁹³⁵ and²⁵³² priests:²⁴⁰⁹ and²⁵³² we shall reign⁹³⁶ on¹⁹⁰⁹ the³⁵⁸⁸ earth.¹⁰⁹³

          The above quote doesn’t qualify who “us” is; whether man or woman so it’s my opinion that it refers to either one equally.

What a King does
          Just what is it that a king is supposed to do anyway? Let’s make a list.
A king: rules
Kind of a short list huh? I sit here and for the life of me can’t think of anything else kings do that ordinary people don’t or do they? The previous sentence was purposely constructed in a manner that women could be included as a king by using the word they instead of “he”. There is no attempt here for political correctness because I firmly believe in women as kings. But, again if you can’t abide by this then substitute the word king with queen in your mind as you read this. Now, back to business. A look at what Webster’s has to say on the subject of “rules”.

1a : a prescribed guide for conduct or action b : the laws or regulations prescribed by the founder of a religious order for observance by its members c : an accepted procedure, custom, or habit d(1) : usually written order or direction made by a court regulating court practice or the action of parties (2) : a legal precept or doctrine e : a regulation or bylaw governing procedure or controlling conduct
2a (1) : a usually valid generalization (2) : a generally prevailing quality, state, or mode b : a standard of judgment :CRITERION c : a regulating principle d : a determinate method for performing a mathematical operation and obtaining a certain result
3 a : the exercise of authority or control : DOMINION b : a period during which a specified ruler or government exercises control

It looks as if number 3 is the winner. I firmly believe that newborns exercise authority and control. If you’re not a parent then ask any blurry eyed parent who gets up in the middle of the night to feed and change a babies diaper and they’ll tell you who’s really in charge. The part about DOMINION is important here. Let’s see what my favorite dictionary has to say about it.

1 : DOMAIN
2 : supreme authority : SOVEREIGNTY

And the word DOMAIN itself:

1a : complete and absolute ownership of land - compare EMINENT DOMAIN b : land so owned
2 : a territory over which dominion is exercised
Is there any question about wether the womb is land? According to the Scriptures it is:
Gen 2:7 Andיהוה³⁰⁶⁸ Elohim⁴³⁰ formed^{3335 (853)} man¹²⁰ of the dust⁶⁰⁸³ of⁴⁴⁸⁰ the ground,¹²⁷ and breathed⁵³⁰¹ into his nostrils⁶³⁹ the breath⁵³⁹⁷ of life;²⁴¹⁶ and man¹²⁰ became¹⁹⁶¹ a living²⁴¹⁶ soul.⁵³¹⁵

Deu 7:13 And he will love¹⁵⁷ thee, and bless¹²⁸⁸ thee, and multiply⁷²³⁵ thee: he will also bless¹²⁸⁸ the fruit⁶⁵²⁹ of thy womb,⁹⁹⁰ and the fruit⁶⁵²⁹ of thy land,¹²⁷ thy corn,¹⁷¹⁵ and thy wine,⁸⁴⁹² and thine oil,³³²³ the increase⁷⁶⁹⁸ of thy kine,⁵⁰⁴ and the flocks⁶²⁵¹ of thy sheep,⁶⁶²⁹ in⁵⁹²¹ the land¹²⁷ which⁸³⁴ he swore⁷⁶⁵⁰ unto thy fathers¹ to give⁵⁴¹⁴ thee.

Fruit comes from one thing and that’s what was formed out the things of the earth. Plant a seed in soil, water it and watch it grow. The seed and the new plant that comes from it contains elements from the earth; the ground. As the new plant grows it draws nourishment from the ground and air. The largest tree is 98% by dry weight carbon captured out of the air, but, it is 2% minerals by dry weight directly from the soil. The plant can’t survive without air or land. Neither can a human being. Everything we eat comes either directly from the land or animals that are sustained by the land. The reason? Because we all come from the ground. If we’re made up of dirt then we are dirt with a special life force within us.

          Babies don’t sit up and say “ok you peasants get to work on my land”. However, is there any doubt that the parents or guardians won’t muster as much effort as needed to provide for the welfare of the baby? Babies can’t talk and all they can do is eat, sleep, void, coo, cry and learn. Every one of these things are strictly attended to by the parent. I believe the rules of conduct for some of these things are actually hard wired into parents. A nursing mother may “let down” her milk if she hears her baby cry. Most parents respond immediately when they hear their baby cry.
          As a baby gets old enough to begin crawling the area where the baby is given free “reign” is meticulously prepared. Outlets are covered, stairs are blocked and potentially hazardous items are put safely up out of reach.
          Everything is being done to prepare the new king to ascend to the throne. One day the new kings will take over their own throne and return the rightful kings (the parents) to theirs. So eventually they have to learn the word “no” and it’s a shock to them at first. Nobody tells the king “no”. It’s all part of the plan to teach them how to rightly rule from their own thrones.
          Any parent who’s trained the next generation of kings can attest; that training is a tough challenge. I’m sure that almost any parent can look back and see gaps in the training.
          So the child king grows and receiving an education is paramount until the child reaches the age of majority. The most important education the young kings receive isn’t the one where they chose how to secure an income but the one on how to relate to the other kings around them. The education doesn’t end once the kings are finally coronated; the education will continue for the rest of their life.
          The purpose of all of this education is for one thing only: service. To rule is to serve. Since a king holds a superior position in relation to their subjects it’s only appropriate for a king to serve. It’s not a groveling sniveling kind of serving but an upright confident authoritative kind of service. Even a server in a restaurant can provide appropriate service because it’s one of solving challenges for their subjects. The server helps to solve a challenge for the patron of the restaurant; how to send the patron away full and satisfied. It’s done from a position of superiority because the server has access to an abundance of what the patron needs, food. What greater service can a king provide? You might say that the patron is paying for the service and food.
So what? If the money were more valuable than the food would they trade the money for the food? One has an excess of money and one has an excess of food. A fair trade? NO! Try to eat your money sometime and see how nourishing it is.
In periods of inflation what’s really happening is that the commodity is remaining stable in value while the money is declining in value and it takes more of the money to buy the same amount of the same commodity than it used to be able to buy. As a valued commodity becomes more scarce; people are willing to pay more for the same thing. The point is that the person who can provide the more valuable commodity has the superior position. The server can always chose not to serve a patron. What then? War, but, that’s another subject altogether.
          Does the idea of a king being a servant denigrate the position of kingship? Not at all. If YAOAY could be called upon to intervene in the affairs of an inferior; isn’t that serving? Of course it is. YAHOSHUA said:
Mat 23:10 Neither³³⁶⁶ be ye called²⁵⁶⁴ masters:²⁵¹⁹ for¹⁰⁶³ one¹⁵²⁰ is²⁰⁷⁶ your⁵²¹⁶ Master,²⁵¹⁹ even Meshiach.⁵⁵⁴⁷
Mat 23:11 But¹¹⁶¹ he that is greatest³¹⁸⁷ among you⁵²¹⁶ shall be²⁰⁷¹ your⁵²¹⁶ servant.¹²⁴⁹
Mat 23:12 And¹¹⁶¹ whosoever³⁷⁴⁸ shall exalt⁵³¹² himself¹⁴³⁸ shall be abased;⁵⁰¹³ and²⁵³² he³⁷⁴⁸ that shall humble⁵⁰¹³ himself¹⁴³⁸ shall be exalted.⁵³¹²
YAOAY is in the ultimate position to serve His creation. Everything is His: the Earth and every material thing in it, the power which is His Ruach haQodesh and all authority to grant kindness and favor to whomever He desires. It’s all his.
          YAOAY doesn’t ask too much in return. His main request is that we don’t give something or someone else the credit for what he does for us out of His kindness by worshiping them. How do you feel when you do something good and someone else gets the credit? Our worship is one of the ways we repay His service to us. There is one other way that we show our appreciation for YAOAY’S loving kindness; that’ll be discussed a little later.

Debt Relief

Debt Relief

Warning: if we aren’t careful this concept of debt relief may become a thing of the past.

Before I go to far I want to talk about two old ideas: republics and democracies. Basically, a republic is a form of government where it’s officials are voted into office by the people and that are governed by the rule of law. Laws are set up to protect the people from abuse by each other and the officials they vote into office. That is where the Constitution and the Bill of Rights came from. Our founding fathers understood the need to build a system that would insure our protection from a constantly fluctuating and changing system where one day you were protected from abuse and then suddenly things could change where you could find yourself in jeopardy from the very system you sought protection through. This country was founded as a REPUBLIC and not democracy. We even have a Pledge of Allegiance to the flag and to the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands... How many of us know the difference between a republic and a democracy?

A democracy is a form of government where supreme power rests in the majority of the people. On the surface of things this seems to be the same as a Republic. The difference being that there are no safe guards in a democracy. Laws can change quickly and catastrophically at the whims of the people. One day there is a constitutional law protecting you from abuse and the next day it’s gone because the mob (majority) decided it was outdated. What does this have to do with debt relief?

Let me ask you a question: how many of us entered into contracts with banks and credit card companies to borrow money and then to pay it back at a certain rate of interest? All of this is fine; we sign the contract that is regulated under the rule of law. The law says that when you enter a contract you have to follow the terms of that contract as long as those terms don’t violate some higher law that exists at the time the contract is signed. Most of us don’t enter into a loan intending to go bankrupt the next day. However, we knew at the time many of us entered our contracts there were a set of bankruptcy laws to protect us against ruin and slavery should something happen such as a loss of a job or the loss of business. Those same banks and credit card companies knew this when they entered into those contracts. But, and here’s the but, those same banks and credit card companies ignored sound business practices and granted loans to people who shouldn’t have received those loans. Then they turn around and complain that they’ve been cheated and that they want the law to change. Ok, that’s fair to change a law that will apply to future borrowers but, it’s not fair to change the law after the fact. If the banks and credit card companies could change the law retroactive to the time we signed contracts then there can be no such thing as protection under the law.

Why hasn’t there been a cry of foul play to this? This issue should go all the way to the Supreme Court of the land. We should be able to file bankruptcy under the law as it existed at the time we signed the contract. We wouldn’t be asking for something that we hadn’t already been guaranteed by our law.

This issue isn’t just about debt relief, it’s about our very freedom and liberty. Those banks and credit card companies have vast resources available to them to sway and influence our law makers. If we aren’t careful we’ll find ourselves without a voice and without a voice we’ll find ourselves prey to those people with all of those vast resources. There is only one way little people like myself can maintain a voice and that’s collectively with enough other small voices.

Let us return the system back to it’s original function and intent. Let’s restore the bankruptcy laws to what they were, not just for us but for future generations.

We should expect that businesses exercise sound business practices. That’s their greatest guarantee under the law. Don’t loan money to people who are poor risks. Loaning money is the same thing as investing and everyone should be aware that there aren’t any guarantees when it comes to investing. There is an element of risk in any kind of investing. That’s the nature of business. There are no floors, except the bankruptcy laws that apply to business as well as individuals and there are no ceilings either. You are free to succeed to any level you can achieve.

And while we’re on the subject of debt relief let’s force our government to live by the same rules everyone else lives by. Our government is the only entity that we have no debt protection from. It has shown itself to be able to evict people from their homes and businesses when they find themselves unable to pay the government rents in the form of taxes or they find themselves saddled with a debt that can never be paid off that only continues to grow until the debt is relieved by death. If we’re not careful the government may find a way to force our children to pay a debt we can’t pay.

A man should pay his debts and that includes little men like me. I desire to pay all of my debts and I’m sure you do also. But, I want the same freedoms that my forefathers had. They could fail then they could fail and then they could succeed. The protection of the law was there for them and for their businesses. I don’t want to look back and think that those freedoms are forever gone. Our country grew rich and strong under those laws. I’ll even bet that there were many of our captains of industry that failed and used those same freedoms and laws to eventually succeed. Try to think of it this way: if Thomas Edison had been forced to quit trying to make an incandescent light bulb because he failed once or twice we may not have many of the things we have today including the light bulb. Failure is a part of life and a part of learning. We would never think of making a baby stay seated the rest of it’s life because it fell down a lot; now would we? No. We encourage the baby to get up and try again. Some of us are like those little babies; it may take us a few times to learn how to succeed but, we need good teachers to show us how to succeed not harsh cruel taskmasters that probably were failures at one time of their life also.

Our government is turning out to be cruel when it’s able to change laws arbitrarily and at the whim of the mob. Let’s band together, become a mob ourselves and force the government to return to sound law; the same laws that lead us to freedom and prosperity as individuals and as a nation. I’d rather live in the Republic we started out with than the mob rule of democracy that we are turning into.

Katrael

Death and Taxes

Death and Taxes

I was once told that there were only two things in life that were certain: death and taxes. I’ve decided, after much deliberation, that at least one of these things is one hundred percent certain, maybe.
Taxes are just about a certainty for anybody who falls under the jurisdiction of a king. Kings demand taxes. But, if you live on a deserted island alone you might just about be able to avoid paying taxes. What about death? I’ve never heard of anybody being able to miss their appointment with death. There is something in the Scriptures about this appointment with death:

Heb 9:27 And²⁵³² as^{2596, 3745} it is appointed⁶⁰⁶ unto men⁴⁴⁴ once⁵³⁰ to die,⁵⁹⁹ but¹¹⁶¹ after³³²⁶ this⁵¹²⁴ the judgment:²⁹²⁰

There was only one person in the Scriptures, at least for the time being, who hadn’t kept that appointment and that was Ěliyahu. The Scriptures don’t mention anything about any escape clause when it comes to keeping our appointment with death so I believe that given time even Ěliyahu will have to die also.
Now, I have, or had, four living brothers and two living sisters. One of my brothers has just kept his appointment. His name is Thad. Thad was a young man by today’s standards; he was only fifty four years old when he kept his appointment. My mother used to say that only the good die young. Yahoshua was in his early thirties when he died and he certainly was good but, what about Thad; was he good?
Since our death date is appointed then I have to assume that it means that all of our work will be done when we keep that date. But, does that mean that you’re good when you die? I don’t think so but, I believe that we might be able to get a clue about whether a person is good when he dies. I say a clue because there aren’t any of us, or very few at least, who can read a mind to know what another person really thinks about. Before I go on I’d like to say that I understand what the Scriptures has to say about good men and that it might be nearly impossible for a man to be good without outside help. However, a person may leave clues behind that would indicate what it was that filled his heart.
Thad was a man who had his share of personal flaws. There were times in his life when he drank too much, smoked to much, maybe used drugs and probably engaged in other activities that would be considered wrong by almost anyone’s standards. In fact: he was considered by some to have done things that they had absolutely no proof of what so ever and if they had proof it was incumbent on them to present that proof to the authorities so that he could be dealt with. Those people have treated him according to their beliefs. Was he bad or evil when he died? I don’t believe so. He quit drinking, he quit smoking, and he stopped engaging in activities that almost anyone would consider evil. I believe he had the help of יהוה’s Ruach haQodesh. He wrote about יהוה and Yahoshua. He read his Scriptures and they were seldom far from him. Now I say that a man won’t turn his self around unless he’s convinced that he had been going in the wrong direction. I say that a man who does turn his self around is a man who’s heart is in the right place. This is what the Scriptures have to say about repentance:

Lev 26:40 If they shall confess^{3034 (853)} their iniquity,⁵⁷⁷¹ and the iniquity⁵⁷⁷¹ of their fathers,¹ with their trespass⁴⁶⁰⁴ which⁸³⁴ they trespassed⁴⁶⁰³ against me, and that⁸³⁴ also⁶³⁷ they have walked¹⁹⁸⁰ contrary⁷¹⁴⁷ unto⁵⁹⁷³ me;
Lev 26:41 And that I⁵⁸⁹ also⁶³⁷ have walked¹⁹⁸⁰ contrary⁷¹⁴⁷ unto⁵⁹⁷³ them, and have brought⁹³⁵ them into the land⁷⁷⁶ of their enemies;³⁴¹ if¹⁷⁶ then²²⁷ their uncircumcised⁶¹⁸⁹ hearts³⁸²⁴ be humbled,³⁶⁶⁵ and they then²²⁷ accept⁷⁵²¹ of ⁽⁸⁵³⁾ the punishment of their iniquity:⁵⁷⁷¹
Lev 26:42 Then will I remember^{2142 (853)} my Brit¹²⁸⁵ with Jacob,³²⁹⁰ and also^{637 (853)} my Brit¹²⁸⁵ with Isaac,³³²⁷ and also^{637 (853)} my Brit¹²⁸⁵ with Abraham⁸⁵ will I remember;²¹⁴² and I will remember²¹⁴² the land.⁷⁷⁶
Lev 26:43 The land⁷⁷⁶ also shall be left⁵⁸⁰⁰ of⁴⁴⁸⁰ them, and shall enjoy^{7521 (853)} her sabbaths,⁷⁶⁷⁶ while she lieth desolate⁸⁰⁷⁴ without⁴⁴⁸⁰ them: and they¹⁹⁹² shall accept^{7521 (853)} of the punishment of their iniquity:⁵⁷⁷¹ because,³²⁸² even because³²⁸² they despised³⁹⁸⁸ my judgments,⁴⁹⁴¹ and because their soul⁵³¹⁵ abhorred¹⁶⁰² my statutes.²⁷⁰⁸
Lev 26:44 And yet⁶³⁷ for all that,^{1571, 2063} when they be¹⁹⁶¹ in the land⁷⁷⁶ of their enemies,³⁴¹ I will not³⁸⁰⁸ cast them away,³⁹⁸⁸ neither³⁸⁰⁸ will I abhor¹⁶⁰² them, to destroy them utterly,³⁶¹⁵ and to break⁶⁵⁶⁵ my Brit¹²⁸⁵ with⁸⁵⁴ them: for³⁵⁸⁸ I⁵⁸⁹ am יהוה ³⁰⁶⁸ their Elohim.⁴³⁰
Lev 26:45 But I will for their sakes remember²¹⁴² the Brit¹²⁸⁵ of their ancestors,⁷²²³ whom^{834, (853)} I brought forth³³¹⁸ out of the land^{4480, 776} of Mitsrayim⁴⁷¹⁴ in the sight⁵⁸⁶⁹ of the heathen,¹⁴⁷¹ that I might be¹⁹⁶¹ their Elohim:⁴³⁰ I⁵⁸⁹ am יהוה.³⁰⁶⁸

I had a lot of interaction with Thad the last two years of his life, more than all other people except my father and I could see that Thad was a humble man. He treated all the same; Yes Mam and yes sir were often the words that you would hear coming from his mouth; he even addressed me and his brothers and sisters that way. To my knowledge, he never considered himself to be above anyone and often found good things to acknowledge in those others around him. He was a humble man in my opinion. He even acknowledged to me that his past life style was responsible for the frail man that stood before me but, he never complained about that condition. I’d say that he accepted his punishment. Was he in the land of his enemies? Oh most definitely. Only a man’s enemy would speak things publicly about him that they had no proof of. My children were very often in his presence alone and all of them say that he never attempted to do any of the vile things that his enemies have accused him of; though I doubt that he would have considered them to be his enemies. Though I don’t remember any specific time that he acknowledged to me that יהוה had walked contrary to him, I don’t see how he couldn’t have admitted that fact to יהוה; the scriptures don’t declare that that statement has to be made before other men. I know in my heart that he fulfilled all of the requirements so that it could be said that יהוה was his elohim and that יהוה will keep his Brit with Thad.
So, if we weep we weep for ourselves because we have yet to keep our own appointments but as for Thad we can rejoice because he has kept his. Now it’s time for him to move onto the next level.
Katrael.

conspiracies

Freedom and Conspiracies

What is freedom, what is liberty and are there conspiracies?
A few definitions are in order: But first, you may wonder why I like to include definitions in my work? The reasons are simple: first, it puts us on the same level of understanding. How can you understand what I’m saying if the words I use to describe something mean something different to you? Second, if what I have to say is true then it’s true for all time. How will someone in the future know what I’m saying if my words mean something different from the words they use? A new Rosetta Stone will be needed in the future to understand the things written today. Something that will be the key to understanding in the future what was said in the past; a link between now and then.
Why should I have anything to say; aren’t there enough people out there already saying the same thing and maybe saying it in a better way? I should be saying the truth, you should be saying the truth and everybody should be voicing the truth. That’s the only way that the truth can be truly spread, by each one of us saying it.
What is the truth? This is a harder question to answer because the truth often seems to be one of perspective. Sometimes the truth has to be revealed a little at a time; like the truth that the world is round and not flat and that the world orbits around our sun and not the other way around. It took a long time before these basics were understood and it took brave people to express these truths before they were accepted.
But, isn’t all of this that I’ve written so far just a waste of words? Not if it helps you to understand how I think and it could be that how and what I think are important things to someone besides me. If I’m able to help one person on their journey to the truth then I was successful. And it doesn’t matter if that one person is alive today or won’t be alive for a thousand years to come. Hopefully these words will somehow survive me to be read by others.
So, what is freedom? To me freedom is the ability to do the right thing. It’s not the ability to do what I want because what I want to do may be harmful to someone else. I may have the ability to do whatever I want regardless of it’s benefit to others but, if that’s freedom then freedom isn’t necessarily a good thing to have. The Nazi’s were free to impose their will on eleven million souls all in the name of advancing their idea of a better society. Were the Nazi’s right? You’ll have to be the judge.
So here’s a dictionary definition of freedom:

1 : the quality or state of being free: as a : the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action b : liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another : INDEPENDENCE c : the quality or state of being exempt or released usually from something onerous <freedom from care> d : EASE, FACILITY <spoke the language with freedom> f : improper familiarity g : boldness of conception or execution h : unrestricted use <gave him the freedom of their home>
2 a : a political right b : FRANCHISE, PRIVILEGE

So it appears that one man’s freedom could be another man’s enslavement.

How about liberty? Here’s the definition:

1 : the quality or state of being free a : the power to do as one pleases b : freedom from physical restraint c : freedom from arbitrary or despotic control d : the positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges e : power of choice
2a : a right or immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant : PRIVILEGE b : permission especially to go freely within specified limits
3 : an action going beyond normal limits as a : a breach of etiquette or propriety: FAMILIARITY b : RISK, CHANCE <took foolish liberties with his health> c : a violation of rules or a deviation from standard practice d : a distortion of fact
4 : a short authorized absence from naval duty usually for less that 48 hours

So now, it looks as if liberty and freedom are the same thing but, are they or should they be? Webster’s dictionary uses variations of the words liberty and freedom in both definitions. The problem is that these definitions are correct but, while in my opinion, they convey a dangerous thought: that having freedom or liberty means that one can do anything just as the Nazi’s did to eleven million souls. One thing becomes apparent to me: we will always have the freedom or liberty to do the vary same things the Nazi’s did when they exterminated eleven million people against their will.

How about a conspiracy? Here’s a definition of conspire first:

transitive senses : PLOT, CONTRIVE

intransitive senses
1a : to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act or an act which becomes unlawful as a result of the secret agreement b : SCHEME
2 : to act in harmony toward a common end <circumstances conspired to defeat his efforts>

Here’s the definition for conspiracy:

1 : the act of conspiring together
2a : an agreement among conspirators b : a group of conspirators

There are plenty of people who are scheming to break the law and not just the civil laws but the moral law. These are people who create viruses to infect peoples computers that are designed to destroy the work or other peoples minds and hands. These are people who conspire to relieve you of your life, liberty, property and happiness. There are so many of these people that it is estimated that a full twenty five percent of every dollar we spend (that is what’s left of our income after taxes) goes toward paying for the loses created by these people. We need vast armies and police forces to protect us from them. We spend a fortune to build prisons to hold them all at a cost of over twenty nine thousand dollars a year to house each one of them. The cost of supplying an army is a pure cost and other than protecting our liberty has no other benefit to us. If people learned to behave these cost could be eliminated.
The true cost of this isn’t just in dollars either. The crimes these people commit against us creates mental scars that linger with the victims the rest of their lives. These scars are painful to endure. So it looks like there could be an abundance of conspiracies going on.

But do these conspiracies end with just the people we consider to be criminals? No. Our politicians, doctors and lawyers are in there also. Our politicians scheme up ways to separate us from our monies by ever more ingenious ways. The taxes we pay are often hidden ones. They have convinced us that taxing corporations is a good idea all the while we fail to understand that the corporations only passes those taxes back onto us in the cost of their goods and services then we turn around and pay sales taxes on those hidden corporate taxes that we pay. The amount of corporate tax paid isn’t itemized on your sales receipt so there’s no way to know how much corporate tax you’re actually paying to the government. Ingenious. Then somehow they convinced us that it was a good idea to pay real-estate and property taxes. If we fail to pay them we lose our properties. Who owns these properties if they can be taken away from us if we aren’t able to pay them? They do. All we’re doing is paying rent to the king all the while we are tricked into spending our hard earned and heavily income taxed money to maintain properties that are even more heavily taxed when they are maintained by us. If we added up all of the taxes and fees that we pay we might be astounded to find that our government consumes close to sixty percent of our income and it’s always looking for ways to get more. Now I’m not against all taxes but lets be open eyed about it. Let’s require our government to be honest about how it goes about relieving us of our money. Let’s require the government to allow us to actually own our properties by removing these property taxes. Let them stop taxing corporations so that we don’t end up paying sales tax on corporate taxes. Let them lump all of the different taxes together and create one giant sales tax or income tax to pay for all of our needs. But our politicians are too smart for that. They know that if they did it we’d be outraged, rebel and then drag them out of their offices in chains and hang or shoot them. So they have all of these tiny little fees and hidden taxes that are most effective at nibbling away at our money. But, this is just the beginning.
Our doctors are in there also. They have an interest in maintaining the status quo. Although I will be fair because there seems to be a movement by some physicians to actually begin taking care of their patients by advising them to eat healthier. However for the most part the sick care industry doesn’t make any money unless you get sick. The doctor won’t make money from a person that doesn’t need them. So our sick care industry has coupled itself with the bad food industry with the result being that a much weakened body requires the use of the sick care providers to keep us alive. But, we are complicate in this conspiracy. I watched a commercial the other day that was singing the praises of a patented drug that would allow a person to eat anything they wanted; the drug was designed to eliminate heart burn and the resultant damage caused by acid reflux. The problem of heart burn is remove but, the damage and weakness caused by this poisonous food isn’t apparent to the person eating it because it takes years before the damage and weakness get to the point that it becomes debilitating. By that time the sick care industry has no idea what it was that caused this damage and weakness but, that doesn’t matter because they’ll be glad to help you continue to kill yourself for a healthy fee. It’ll take most of your hard earned resources or if the politicians have their way, the resources of everyone, to pay those fees. They’ll just spread the cost of killing ourselves to everyone so that we can continue to eliminate ourselves. Did someone actually sit down and scheme this system up? It’s taken many lifetimes for this system to become all pervasive. So it doesn’t seem probable that this sick care system was the design of one group of men. But, maybe it was. Or maybe there’s another entity, a being, at work.
Let’s stick with men for now. Our lawyers are in there also. They don’t make money unless you need them. So they often become judges and politicians who influence the making of law that guarantee that we will have to seek out their expensive advice and expert services in our courts. Are all lawyers bad? I’ve pondered this question for years and still am not sure about how many good lawyers there might actually be. Face it, there are few of them who are willing to work for free. I don’t blame them, college is expensive and everyone needs to make a living. And again we are complicate in this scheme. There are enough just laws on the books which we are often willing to break. Then we require those expert services to keep the punishment to a minimum. But, there are over three million laws on the books and sometimes we just end up in the wrong spot at the wrong time and we get tangled up in the legal system and that’s when we want the best lawyer our money can buy.
So I’ll be fair and say there is a real need for politicians, doctors and lawyers. Our politicians can help us to collect our efforts to provide roads, schools, armies, police forces, water systems and a host of other services that we really need. Our doctors, when they are at their best, help us when we get hurt and require fixing and when the real cause of our disease may be hidden from them and us they can bring us relief from our misery. Our lawyers can help to insure that we are able to carry out our wishes in a way that protect us and others from our own misguided efforts or that will protect us from the conspiratorial intent of others. But, if we are too busy to keep an eye on these people or are too naive to see what’s really going on then we are doomed to become victims.
How many of us actually understand what’s happening? Precious few. Am I one of those who sees anything going on? I think so. So I’m a voice crying out in the vast wilderness of blind souls who are hoping that somehow they can make it through this vast dark wilderness to the light of abundance. I’m attempting to help lead, even if it’s only a few, to this abundance. But, I have my own blindness to deal with also that was created by the generations before me who themselves were blind. But, my eyes are being healed and as they get better I’m able to see more and more which allows me to help lead the way to those that I’m closest to. I can’t help everyone but, I can help some.
Katrael