We Will Not Cave

 Jesus yearned in prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane for his church to be one . . . SJL has temporarily forfeited its efforts to remain one.  These people love the Lord, one unequivocal thing, event, or person (take your pick) or things, events, people (have it as you will, cannot tear that flock of Jesus' down.  Nietzsche could not lay a hand on them, by calling them sheep.  There is no give way to the whims of Satan. Strong leadership is not what the hurting huddled and striking-out masses or congregation needs.  Valiant Maccabees are not needed to wield hammers in the night.

 Therefore, my people going to exile for lack of knowledge, they’re honored men go hungry, and their multitude is parched with thirst. Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure

WAKE UP churches, come OUT OF BABYLON.  I am sick and tired of the squabbles, infighting . . . behavior just proves to the nonbeliever how Janus-faced  Christians can be . . . the Lord will judge all nations according to Isaiah 33:22 He will spare His people . . . really, ask yourself, "who are His people?" what did the prophet mean?  is this the children of Israel or Judah He judges?  is this the nation of Israel? who will He judges?  the church? you look at the text . . . is it specific to its historical context or is it a text that applies to modern day Christian, Muslim, or Jew? you tell me . . .  

 If you got an invitation to this blog don’t worry it has been bbc’ed to many, so here goes.  ALL CHRISTIANS are like Peter.   I grew up in the church so I know Christians’ behaviors at times. I thought just maybe the Lutheran church was gracious enough to forego this stupendousness.  WRONG.  My Masters thesis at Hollins University was about trauma and theodicy (I will take a moment for you to look it up on google scholar) The nature of this blog site, I will stay on the right.  Abusive is what many master signifiers are (again, a moment). Doctors, pastors, lawyers, and more; these are the master signifiers in our lives.  They are sure to say “if you’ve got the money honey I’ve got the time”.  I have yet to have a conversation with any of these without being lectured by a master signifier.  I should say or hope that not all these fine people are like this, but over the past 14 years the opportunity to talk without being spoken over has not afforded itself much. Pastors can be abusive.

  Anthony Cohen once stated that, when determining how others think “we devise­­d systems for constructing other people’s consciousness, without enquiring too closely into their veracity” The truth be known? Cohen is right, when I try to think of how another person thinks I have taken into account the way my thought is structured.   It is important to realize that we make ourselves what we are in relationship to others, be it family, friends, or acquaintances.   We are continually making the self (see Alan Watts, Irving Goffman, or Jacques Lacan for more on this) based on the representations of ourselves that we have or that the world gives us.   We see the world through our eyes which are the receivers from the messenger who returns the verdict (that which we come to believe) to the judge (our consciousness) The commotion in the jury room (the recesses of our mind or our unconscious) is completely based on the weighing of the evidence which is rendered fact by the jury (that which dec

Recognizing the role of language in the destruction of nation as the aim and function of postmodern and postcolonial philosophers and theorists is crucial.   Identifying who recognizes and utilizes the significance of language as defining people is fundamental to the issue. Even though Judith Butler has written profusely about performativity and that is even evident in her work within Who Sings the Nation-State, it is important to note the subtitle of the book’s inclusion of the words “language” “politics” and “belonging.”   The seeming aim of this book is to advance the no borders mentality and frame of reference for the progressives’ agenda to tear down the very idea of there being a nation of the United States.   Butler writes about the notion of nation in the following. Butler advances that “state binds in the name of the nation, conjuring a certain version the nation forcibly” (4) Butler continues to diminish boundaries by stating that the same structure “unbinds, releases, expe

I am sharing my notes first, to mention some of the ideas in the page that follows, along with my comments and questions. First, I must echo the Gospel of John chapter 17 verse 22. Glory has been given to Christ from the Father and Christ has imputed glory to/on the disciples. Do we share in that same glory? Yes, amen and amen . . . . . . .   My Comments and Questions: “twofold subjectivity” is silliness “fact that man himself becomes the object of reflection” illusion a trick the brain is playing on itself, how is that for demeaning and debasement of the self? Reduction of self equaling “as German mysticism itself expresses it, to nothing” This did not originate from Western mysticism, much less German mysticism. “the concrete aspects ( das Konkretum ) of my life”  what part of the self is concrete, must we cling to this concept?  (this result of cognition) or is clinging what leads to suffering?      “shrivel to a mathematical point ” how do you get the body (Merleau -Ponty) to shri

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There has been for many many years now an attempt to unseat the United States of America as a solid nation.   The fight has gotten tougher in the last 20 years and especially in the last 10 years.   There is an attempt to give us the final knock-out blow, in the name of “decentering.” Decentering is the very thing that has happened to the identity. The self, as in the works of Heidergger and Derrida, has been destroyed and deconstructed. The notion of “nation”, we must note, has been slapped around by progressivism for a few decades now and this is evident in so many places, but particularly in the work of Judith Butler and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak entitled Who Sings the Nation-State . David Laguardia writes a wonderful and challenging review of Butler’s and Spivak’s work and points to the way in which Butler uses a rendition of the American national anthem, as it was sung by immigrants, to demonstrate the mocking of the American nation. Laguardia writes about what he ( sic ) conside

  “In such a time as this, we orthodox Christians feel the need for a refuge: a fortress” This echoes Psalm 91 and God will help us to stomp the Lion and the Adder. There was a wonderful Plow and Sword segment in a church newsletter that read that included the words in quotation marks above.  This pastor also wrote “The alcoholic who can’t hold down a job. The man who can’t hold together his marriage. The self-righteous saint who can’t see her folly. The hypocrite. The backstabber. The impostor. You. Me. This is us. And the church-of-the-righteous model won’t work, because the church is made up of us. As we used to confess in the old Lutheran liturgy, we baptized saints are still ‘poor sinners’ and will remain so till we die”  Indeed this is Lutheran ecclesiological language and Lutheran theology and anthropology and rings true of Lutheran orthodox tradition.   Another example of dyed in the wool Lutheran doctrine is found in the writer’s words “What if sacraments are neither quaint ri

  Review of a book by a progressive “scholar” reads: “Audacious. Original and provocative . . . a major scholarly contribution” This idea of what makes someone a scholar is promoted by Leftists. In their programming the popular phrase that is used is “allow your scholarly voice to be heard” It is a lie, because the only people who they think are scholars are people who agree with them. If you do not tow the party line then you are not a scholar.    Hang around with them long enough and you will be convinced you are a scholar, whatever that is . . . The same thing is going on with regards to identity among small children, they are being told that they choose their identity, when in fact they are being programmed to believe they can be anything, when in fact these children are being subjugated by a system that defines and controls children and steals (not frees) their imaginations. “Oh, you can be a fluffy” but who says so? The systemic sickness says what the children can be whate’er the

What is a hypomensch ??? one that would consider themselves as the representation of the lowest of humans in all sorts of ways.  Hypo meaning below and mensch meaning person.  The lowest of all creatures the least in any way, not deserving even of being the lowest in glory, but to be without any recognition by others.  This person is the lowest of all, the super-hypo-person whose lowliness is equivalent with dung.  Who is hypomensch, not the one who would ascribe to the first will be last and the last will be first, because that would imply hypomensch to be deserving of some recognition, in the Kingdom of God. What if hypomensch claimed to be God? How crazy that would be, but what if hypomensch were proclaimed to be God by others?  That is crazy yet, as well.  Let’s imagine for a moment that one of us is hypomensch.  That person would be subject to scorn and laughable disdain. But, that person would own the scorn and disdain. Isn’t that agreement by the person “to be hypomensch” and to