Editorial Movie makers vs humanity
It is clear Hollywood hates USA and conservatives. Following are three Prime (Amazon) offerings for subscribers.
The Mauritanian, Waiting for the Barbarians and, The Big Short. Each movie focuses an unbalanced view on history and reality.
The Mauritanian is ostensibly about an abuse of power that had an innocent tortured and detained in Gitmo. In fact, the movie is a polemic against torture. The obvious reality is it is ok for terrorists to engage as they wish, but the US is held to a higher standard by which it is wrong to demand terrorist supporters are held to account. It is, apparently, wrong for US intelligence to try to find out how deep the connections are between close family of terrorists. In the movie we have a brother in law of Osama Bin Laden's spiritual adviser detained and questioned over his knowledge of attacks on USA. So unlawful was the treatment the US did not kill him or his USA hating family. They do not even point out the spiritual advice is wrong. We know the 'victim' was present at places with people involved in 9/11. There are ambit claims that the 'victim' made that they were (convenient and unverifiable) absent from salient discussions at the times they took place. Just like Sirhan Sirhan being Palestinian but not Muslim?
Waiting for the Barbarians has an administrator of a distant imperial (European) outpost trying to survive insane bureaucracy as home politics forces local military engagements against friendly peoples. The result is a destructive storm brought against the empire outpost. And the allegory is clearly drawn against US foreign politics of the Cold War era that Obama has foisted on USA after GOP stopped their first effort.
The Big Short is an anti capitalist film about greed, glossing over the appalling Dem policy which wrought the Global Financial Crisis. Why not question Carter/Clinton policy?
Why would anyone trust Hollywood to produce a picture without political bias? Why can't Hollywood explore real issues?
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Here is a video I made From Sohrab and Rustum
Sohrab and Rustum is a narrative poem with strong tragic themes: first published in 1853 by Matthew Arnold.
He spoke; and Sohrab smiled on him, and took
The spear, and drew it from his side, and eased
His wound's imperious anguish; but the blood
Came welling from the open gash, and life
Flow'd with the stream;—all down his cold white side
The crimson torrent ran, dim now and soil'd,
Like the soil'd tissue of white violets
Left, freshly gather'd, on their native bank,
By children whom their nurses call with haste
Indoors from the sun's eye; his head droop'd low,
His limbs grew slack; motionless, white, he lay—
White, with eyes closed; only when heavy gasps,
Deep heavy gasps quivering through all his frame,
Convulsed him back to life, he open'd them,
And fix'd them feebly on his father's face;
Till now all strength was ebb'd, and from his limbs
Unwillingly the spirit fled away,
Regretting the warm mansion which it left,
And youth, and bloom, and this delightful world.
So, on the bloody sand, Sohrab lay dead;
And the great Rustum drew his horseman's cloak
Down o'er his face, and sate by his dead son.
As those black granite pillars, once high-rear'd
By Jemshid in Persepolis, to bear
His house, now 'mid their broken flights of steps
Lie prone, enormous, down the mountain side—
So in the sand lay Rustum by his son.
And night came down over the solemn waste,
And the two gazing hosts, and that sole pair,
And darken'd all; and a cold fog, with night,
Crept from the Oxus. Soon a hum arose,
As of a great assembly loosed, and fires
Began to twinkle through the fog; for now
Both armies moved to camp, and took their meal;
The Persians took it on the open sands
Southward, the Tartars by the river marge;
And Rustum and his son were left alone.
But the majestic river floated on,
Out of the mist and hum of that low land,
Into the frosty starlight, and there moved,
Rejoicing, through the hush'd Chorasmian waste,
Under the solitary moon;—he flow'd
Right for the polar star, past Orgunjè,
Brimming, and bright, and large; then sands begin
To hem his watery march, and dam his streams,
And split his currents; that for many a league
The shorn and parcell'd Oxus strains along
Through beds of sand and matted rushy isles—
Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had
In his high mountain-cradle in Pamere,
A foil'd circuitous wanderer—till at last
The long'd-for dash of waves is heard, and wide
His luminous home of waters opens, bright
And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars
Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.
David Ball4 years ago
In order to fit into a world where one can be sued for using other peoples pictures, I use my own, or ones I have permission to use.
https://rumble.com/vbj843-from-sohrab-and-rustum.html
=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. Corporations which are highly regulated in Australia and less profitable in Australia have been goaded into misguided philanthropic acts. The result is less profitability, and less satisfaction with performance. Commonwealth Bank has stood for racism with Aborigines, held a rainbow for SSM and endorses fads like republicanism. Yet Commonwealth Bank is in trouble when her advisers are found to have taken money for a decade from a dead client. Qantas, which makes her employees wear a steel ring for SSM, partners Emirates, a Dubai based airline, where gay people may be whipped and Jews may not travel. Australian mines are not allowed to operate unless they meet ridiculous environmental hurdles, and even then may not be allowed to profit. Commonwealth bank has an opinion on Cricketers she sponsors, endorsing an over the top punishment for a professional foul. But if businesses were allowed to address their core duty of profitability, the community would be better off. The ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) publishes an article about a company town in WA where everyone works and there is no crime. The lesson the ABC draws from the phenomena is that people that live without home ownership are less likely to commit a crime. Maybe the world would be a better place if BHP ran everything? That sounds like a core ABC mission statement.
The core duty for a bank is banking, and it is dangerous to cloud that with insurance and investment management. It becomes anti competitive. It is reprehensible of business to take sides in public discourse on social directions. Because it means that there is no condition on which an underperforming CEO can be sacked. That might make idiots like Turnbull and Shorten feel safer. But it isn't good for Australia.
=== from 2017 ===
IPA Review April 2017 has an article on Edmund Burke Conservative or Libertarian? by Scott Hargreaves reviewing Empire and Revolution by Richard Bourke. Edmund was one of the all time greats of conservatism. Libertarians like to relabel conservative ideals as their own. The truth is those ideals are shared. Richard Bourke demonstrates persuasively that Burke had consistent beliefs he refined over time, but which were consistent and now underpin much conservative thought. Critics have claimed Burke was inconsistent. Burke opposed French revolutionary activity but endorsed US independence. Both those positions are not inconsistent. The French Revolution was less to do with opposing unfair taxation than the US revolution and the terrible bloodletting of the French revolution can never be justified. Some things should not happen, but they do.
=== from 2016 ===
Malcolm Turnbull is calling an election on 2nd July, but refuses to call the election until after the May 2nd. Many would think the naming of the date sufficient, but the exchange of writs has not taken place. So the electoral commission have advance notice but are not able to do anything about it. This allows Malcolm Turnbull from placing his government into caretaker mode, where his inability to make a decision would be almost responsible behaviour. The double dissolution call is particularly dumb. Malcolm is throwing away the hard won advantage of independent senators and gifting them back to the ALP and Greens early. Probably there is some 'sly fox' intention behind the error, but if so it will only alienate and irritate the electorate. Turnbull has failed to explain Liberal Policy under his leadership. It seems he wants government jobs at the expense of the lives of soldiers in the future, by not building naval forces at cheapest, and best cost.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
Scull a beer and Mr Abbott's name goes around the world faster than when he was called a misogynist by a desperate Gillard. Naturally the anti Abbott forces are offended by the seven second effort. Should a PM be filmed like that? Mr Abbott, #IllDrinkWithU .. Meanwhile Hockey returns home and media are damning his budget before it s released.
Daylight shooting in Paramatta. Bullets fired through an office where three people worked. An immigration business asks not to be named as they were targeted. The shooter left his finger prints on a car he is seen by video to touch. It seems to involve Indian peoples by ethnicity, but not as a racist attack.
Five arrested regarding terror suspects in Melbourne. Some questioned in custody, Family and friends claim the arrests were over the top. Want apologies. One hopes an apology is not forthcoming. It seems ISIL have attempted to recruit for Anzac Day attacks.
In 65, a freed man betrayed a plot to assassinate Nero. History is silent as to what happened to the plotters, but Flavius Scaevinus, the principal plotter, seems to have been Consul under Otho and later exiled by Vitellius. In 797, the mother from hell, Empress Irene, organised a conspiracy against her son, Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI. He was deposed and blinded, shortly after dying of wounds. But he wasn't a good emperor anyway. Or popular. In 1012, an Archbishop of Canterbury, Ælfheah, was martyred by Vikings. He had refused to allow them to ransom him. They got drunk and he died when one hit him with an axe butt. Shortly before his own death, Thomas Becket prayed to Ælfheah. In 1770, Captain Cook first sighted the East Coast of Australia. On the same day in 1770, Marie Antoinette married French King Louis XVI and so forever validated the lyrics to VanGelis' Mr Cairo. In 1775, US revolutionaries were successful at the battles of Concord and Lexington. In 1782, John Adams successfully negotiated with the Netherlands recognition of the US. His house in the Hague became the first US embassy. In 1865, a funeral for Lincoln was held in the East Wing of the White House. In 1897, Léo Taxil, admitted to people he had duped, that his conversion to Catholicism was false and his writings were a hoax. In 1903, the Kishinev pogrom, resulted in Jews migrating to Palestine and the West. In 1919, Leslie Irvin used the first successful voluntary, free fall parachute. In 1943, Albert Hofmann, a Swiss Chemist, voluntarily took LSD for the first time. 1951, Douglas MacArthur retired. 1956, Grace Kelly married her Prince. In 1971, Charles Manson was sentenced to death, but that sentence was later commuted. 1984, Advance Australia Fair was made Australia's national anthem and Green and Gold were her colours. In 1985, FBI used 200 agents to successfully siege a neo-Nazi HQ of The Covenant, The Sword and the Arm of the Lord. In 1987, the Simpsons premiered. In 1993, the FBI siege of Branch Davidians on the fifty first day resulted in 81 deaths. In 1995, the Oklahoma bombing took place killing 168. In 2013, terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed by police in a shootout, but his brother Tamerlan was tragically taken alive.
From 2014
One of the greatest books of the greatest US writers is now largely forgotten. Jurgen is a fantasy set in a fantasy land that is faintly European. The protagonist is an ageing pawn broker who was a poet in his youth. He sees a priest stub a toe on a cobblestone and curse the devil. He upbraids the priest, pointing out the devil had done far more work than the priest ever did. A large man of no necessary (to record) description thanked Jurgen for taking his part. And offered to reward him. Jurgen says that it is too late, because he is married. When Jurgen goes home, his wife has disappeared. Jurgen is fine with that, but family convince him he needs to do the manly thing and journey to get her back. On his journey, he finds a pink cave and, on donning a magic shirt, is transported into his earlier self, and meets those he loved or dreamed of, including Guinevere, Helen of Troy and his first love. It was published in 1919 and immediately faced legal troubles with censorship. It took three years in court, and finally was cleared for publication, but not until James Branch Cabell had added a chapter to it addressing censors. A greater work is the later Figures of Earth.
On this day in 1925, Mae West was sentenced to ten days jail for her play she wrote and starred in, Sex. The play had run for ten months, and was seen by over 325,000 patrons before the censors sprang into action. The play had been inspired by a prostitute West had seen in 1924. The girl wore street clothes and had a sailor in each arm and West had remarked she could afford better clothes, but her taxi companion pointed out she couldn't and told her of the economics of the transaction. Fifty cents a trick might be the name of a modern rapper, but in 1924 it was a piece work salary. The play was not particularly inspired with original direction, but, Mae meant it as an instruction to liberate women.
Censors managed to obscure the brilliant and pathetic, but as with those who attempted to kill Hitler, they just missed their mark.
On this day in 1925, Mae West was sentenced to ten days jail for her play she wrote and starred in, Sex. The play had run for ten months, and was seen by over 325,000 patrons before the censors sprang into action. The play had been inspired by a prostitute West had seen in 1924. The girl wore street clothes and had a sailor in each arm and West had remarked she could afford better clothes, but her taxi companion pointed out she couldn't and told her of the economics of the transaction. Fifty cents a trick might be the name of a modern rapper, but in 1924 it was a piece work salary. The play was not particularly inspired with original direction, but, Mae meant it as an instruction to liberate women.
Censors managed to obscure the brilliant and pathetic, but as with those who attempted to kill Hitler, they just missed their mark.
Historical perspective on this day
In 65, the freedman Milichus betrayed Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators were arrested. 531, Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius was defeated by the Persians at Ar-Raqqah (northern Syria). 797, Empress Irene organised a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He was deposed and blinded. Shortly after Constantine died of his wounds, and Irene proclaimed herself basileus. 1012, Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, England. 1529, beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer banned Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protested the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms. 1539, Charles V and Protestants signed Treaty of Frankfurt.
In 1677, the French army captured the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops. 1713, with no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717). 1770, Captain James Cook sighted the eastern coast of what is now Australia. Also 1770, Marie Antoinette married Louis XVI in a proxy wedding. 1775, American Revolutionary War: The war began with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord. 1782, John Adams secured the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands became the first American embassy.
In 1809, an Austrian corps was defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davoutat the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory. 1810, Venezuela achieved home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General was removed by the people of Caracas and a junta was installed. 1839, the Treaty of London established Belgium as a kingdom and guaranteed its neutrality. 1855, visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London 1861, American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacked United States Army troops marching through the city. 1865, Funeral service for Abraham Lincoln was held in the East Room of the White House. 1892, Charles Duryea claimed to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts. 1897, Léo Taxil exposed his own fabrications concerning Freemasonry
In 1903, the Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) began, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world. 1919, Leslie Irvin of the United States made the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute. 1927, Mae West was sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex. 1928, the 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
In 1942, World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto was established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdaneksubcamp. 1943, Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately took LSD for the first time. Also 1943, World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews. 1948, Burma joined the United Nations. 1950, Argentina became a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. 1951, General Douglas MacArthur retired from the military. 1954, the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognised Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan. 1956, actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco. 1960, students in South Korea held a nationwide pro-democracy protest against presidentSyngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
In 1971, Sierra Leone became a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president. Also in 1971, Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War began a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C.. Also in 1971, launch of Salyut 1, the first space station. Also in 1971, Charles Manson was sentenced to death (later commuted life imprisonment) for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders. 1973, the Portuguese Socialist Party was founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel. 1975, India's first satellite, Aryabhata, was launched. 1984, Advance Australia Fair was proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours. 1985, U.S.S.R performed nuclear tests at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk. Also 1985, 200 ATF and FBI agents laid siege to the compound of the neo-Nazi survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas. The CSA surrendered two days later. 1987, The Simpsons premiered as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show. 1989, a gun turret exploded on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
In 1993, the 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ended when a fire broke out. Eighty-one people died. Also 1993, South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others were killed when a state-owned aircraft crashed in Iowa. 1995, Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, was bombed, killing 168. 1997, the Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelmed the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire broke out and spread in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hampered efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings. 1999, the German Bundestag returned to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1933. 2011, Fidel Castro resigned from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title. 2013, Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts.
In 1677, the French army captured the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops. 1713, with no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717). 1770, Captain James Cook sighted the eastern coast of what is now Australia. Also 1770, Marie Antoinette married Louis XVI in a proxy wedding. 1775, American Revolutionary War: The war began with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord. 1782, John Adams secured the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands became the first American embassy.
In 1809, an Austrian corps was defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davoutat the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory. 1810, Venezuela achieved home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General was removed by the people of Caracas and a junta was installed. 1839, the Treaty of London established Belgium as a kingdom and guaranteed its neutrality. 1855, visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London 1861, American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacked United States Army troops marching through the city. 1865, Funeral service for Abraham Lincoln was held in the East Room of the White House. 1892, Charles Duryea claimed to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts. 1897, Léo Taxil exposed his own fabrications concerning Freemasonry
In 1903, the Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) began, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world. 1919, Leslie Irvin of the United States made the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute. 1927, Mae West was sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex. 1928, the 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
In 1942, World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto was established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdaneksubcamp. 1943, Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately took LSD for the first time. Also 1943, World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews. 1948, Burma joined the United Nations. 1950, Argentina became a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. 1951, General Douglas MacArthur retired from the military. 1954, the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognised Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan. 1956, actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco. 1960, students in South Korea held a nationwide pro-democracy protest against presidentSyngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
In 1971, Sierra Leone became a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president. Also in 1971, Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War began a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C.. Also in 1971, launch of Salyut 1, the first space station. Also in 1971, Charles Manson was sentenced to death (later commuted life imprisonment) for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders. 1973, the Portuguese Socialist Party was founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel. 1975, India's first satellite, Aryabhata, was launched. 1984, Advance Australia Fair was proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours. 1985, U.S.S.R performed nuclear tests at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk. Also 1985, 200 ATF and FBI agents laid siege to the compound of the neo-Nazi survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas. The CSA surrendered two days later. 1987, The Simpsons premiered as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show. 1989, a gun turret exploded on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
In 1993, the 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ended when a fire broke out. Eighty-one people died. Also 1993, South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others were killed when a state-owned aircraft crashed in Iowa. 1995, Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, was bombed, killing 168. 1997, the Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelmed the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire broke out and spread in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hampered efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings. 1999, the German Bundestag returned to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1933. 2011, Fidel Castro resigned from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title. 2013, Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts.
=== Bible Reading ===
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Today's reading: 2 Samuel 3-5, Luke 14:25-35 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: 2 Samuel 3-5
1 The war between the house of Saul and the house of David lasted a long time. David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.
2 Sons were born to David in Hebron:
His firstborn was Amnon the son of Ahinoam of Jezreel;
3 his second, Kileab the son of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel;
the third, Absalom the son of Maakah daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
4 the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;
the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
5 and the sixth, Ithream the son of David's wife Eglah.
These were born to David in Hebron....
His firstborn was Amnon the son of Ahinoam of Jezreel;
3 his second, Kileab the son of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel;
the third, Absalom the son of Maakah daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
4 the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;
the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
5 and the sixth, Ithream the son of David's wife Eglah.
These were born to David in Hebron....
Today's New Testament reading: Luke 14:25-35
The Cost of Being a Disciple
25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters--yes, even their own life--such a person cannot be my disciple. 27And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
28 "Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won't you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? 29 For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, 30saying, 'This person began to build and wasn't able to finish....'
=== Morning and Evening ===
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Morning
Rahab depended for her preservation upon the promise of the spies, whom she looked upon as the representatives of the God of Israel. Her faith was simple and firm, but it was very obedient. To tie the scarlet line in the window was a very trivial act in itself, but she dared not run the risk of omitting it. Come, my soul, is there not here a lesson for thee? Hast thou been attentive to all thy Lord's will, even though some of his commands should seem non-essential? Hast thou observed in his own way the two ordinances of believers' baptism and the Lord's Supper? These neglected, argue much unloving disobedience in thy heart. Be henceforth in all things blameless, even to the tying of a thread, if that be matter of command.
This act of Rahab sets forth a yet more solemn lesson. Have I implicitly trusted in the precious blood of Jesus? Have I tied the scarlet cord, as with a Gordian knot in my window, so that my trust can never be removed? Or can I look out towards the Dead Sea of my sins, or the Jerusalem of my hopes, without seeing the blood, and seeing all things in connection with its blessed power? The passer-by can see a cord of so conspicuous a colour, if it hangs from the window: it will be well for me if my life makes the efficacy of the atonement conspicuous to all onlookers. What is there to be ashamed of? Let men or devils gaze if they will, the blood is my boast and my song. My soul, there is One who will see that scarlet line, even when from weakness of faith thou canst not see it thyself; Jehovah, the Avenger, will see it and pass over thee. Jericho's walls fell flat: Rahab's house was on the wall, and yet it stood unmoved; my nature is built into the wall of humanity, and yet when destruction smites the race, I shall be secure. My soul, tie the scarlet thread in the window afresh, and rest in peace.
Evening
When Jacob was on the other side of the brook Jabbok, and Esau was coming with armed men, he earnestly sought God's protection, and as a master reason he pleaded, "And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good." Oh, the force of that plea! He was holding God to his word--"Thou saidst." The attribute of God's faithfulness is a splendid horn of the altar to lay hold upon; but the promise, which has in it the attribute and something more, is a yet mightier holdfast--"Thou saidst, I will surely do thee good." And has he said, and shall he not do it? "Let God be true, and every man a liar." Shall not he be true? Shall he not keep his word? Shall not every word that cometh out of his lips stand fast and be fulfilled? Solomon, at the opening of the temple, used this same mighty plea. He pleaded with God to remember the word which he had spoken to his father David, and to bless that place. When a man gives a promissory note, his honour is engaged; he signs his hand, and he must discharge it when the due time comes, or else he loses credit. It shall never be said that God dishonours his bills. The credit of the Most High never was impeached, and never shall be. He is punctual to the moment: he never is before his time, but he never is behind it. Search God's word through, and compare it with the experience of God's people, and you shall find the two tally from the first to the last. Many a hoary patriarch has said with Joshua, "Not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass." If you have a divine promise, you need not plead it with an "if," you may urge it with certainty. The Lord meant to fulfil the promise, or he would not have given it. God does not give his words merely to quiet us, and to keep us hopeful for awhile with the intention of putting us off at last; but when he speaks, it is because he means to do as he has said.
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“If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.” - Romans 10:9-10
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Paul was writing to Rome from Corinth. He had Tertius of Iconium write this while he dictated. Paul had established a number of churches around the Greek seas in the decade leading up to the letter. Rome was the then undisputed capital of the 'known world.'
Here, (as wikipedia has posted) "Paul continues his discussion of Israel's rejection of God’s purpose which he had commenced in chapter 9: despite his "anguish over Israel" it remains his "heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites that they may be saved."" Paul's view is not the view of God, and can be described as prejudicial. He is illustrating how the faithful behave, but not doing so in terms which are compliant. To be fair, Paul was trained as one who might become High Priest of the Jews, before his conversion to Christianity, and so he may have felt entitled to write such.
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I am a decent man and don't care for the abuse given me. I created a video raising awareness of anti police feeling among western communities. I chose the senseless killing of Nicola Cotton, a Louisiana policewoman who joined post Katrina, to highlight the issue. I did this in order to get an income after having been illegally blacklisted from work in NSW for being a whistleblower. I have not done anything wrong. Local council appointees refused to endorse my work, so I did it for free. Youtube's Adsence refused to allow me to profit from their marketing it. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.
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I am publishing a book called Bread of Life: January.
Bread of Life is a daily bible quote with a layman's understanding of the meaning. I give one quote for each day, and also a series of personal stories illustrating key concepts eg Who is God? What is a miracle? Why is there tragedy?
January is the first of the anticipated year-long work of thirteen books. One for each month and the whole year. It costs to publish. It (Kindle version) should retail at about $2US online, but the paperback version would cost more, according to production cost.If you have a heart for giving, I fundraise at gofund.me/27tkwuc (Gofundme finished the fund raiser, 2017)
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August, September, October, or at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows a free kindle version.
The Amazon Author Page for David Ball
UK .. http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B01683ZOWG
French .. http://www.amazon.fr/-/e/B01683ZOWG
Japan .. http://www.amazon.co.jp/-/e/B01683ZOWG
German .. http://www.amazon.de/-/e/B01683ZOWG
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Other Stuff
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I'm now on MAGAbook to sidestep FB censorship
https://www.magabook.com/register?invite=11673951025fadd3f055eca4.00045664
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I'm looking for former students to endorse me
https://www.superprof.com.au/write-recommendation-13371374-1cc2cf0f56166c9b04ad4097fc7d0b67.html
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