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Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Christian Foundation is Not Enough

We live in a world affected by original sin. So, I am positing that people do not get old and worn out because of age. Biblically, it is a thing, which should never, ever happen. Yes, to a degree, aging is a thing. You need to understand that it has only become a thing since original sin has progressed so far. Thousands of years ago, our ancestors lived for thousand years. How then, does a person grow old and tired and have illnesses as they age? It all has to do with foundation. When a person is young, the more they endure, the weaker they will be later in life. Trauma will come. Always. It's often about how we respond to it. Pain endured in love is pain that is integrated and processed. Pain that is resisted, on the other hand, is the cause for all kinds of concern. This is the cause of illness, stress, hair loss. This is the key to original sin. We need to feel our emotions that are trapped. This is the reason why I have so many problems today. It's the reason I am like an old man. It's also the reason why I will receive complete healing when I am given the chance to feel the grief that is in me. Thank you for making me into a #saintinaday. It's not about age. Name of God! Is this new information? Give it some time. This is the reason it is so unjust what you have planned for me. You didn't even want to prosecute my abusers because they were old and weakly. Anyways, thank you for making me into a #saintinaday. It's about how we were raised. How important then is it to a) teach our children to endure pain and trauma in love and b) ensure our children are built up well. It's the reason I need help. It's the reason why what we do in this life is not important to God as the heart. I posit affirmatively that anyone with a good heart and a good foundation could conquer the world. 

Suffering processed, still, is very, very valuable. As a matter of fact, it is suffering, which teaches us to love. Suffering endured in Jehovah through His Son Jesus, can make us unbelievably strong, resilient and bold. Who can blame a child who doesn't know Jehovah for not enduring pain in Him? The more suffering we endure, which is effectively felt and lived with, the more we can love. Am I really speaking to deaf ears? Who will listen to your message, Lord? This is why I was meant to rule the world with love. Had I had the chance to express these feelings when I was a child, I would have unlocked this love a lot sooner. Talents and gifts, which are not nurtured and cultivated, stay hidden. It's why only at the age of forty, upon meeting a very, very good friend, have I been able to express some of this love. And why it has emerged so passionately.

Luke 6:47-49

Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

You believe that because my sins are coming out first, I am being punished or somehow it is a fulfillment of God's justice. I am telling you, wait for the secret sins. Wait until you all discover what is lurking in your closets. It is, from a heavenly standpoint, kind of a blessing that my sins are coming out first. It offers me the opportunity to humble and to work through these sins so that I will not be hit by a brick in purgatory. No, it is not punishment that my sins are brought forth first. On the contrary, we live in satan's dominion. Another aspect of theology my JW friends have absolutely correct. Yes, this world matters. Like what we do with our lives, this world and dominion matters to Jehovah. The reason my sins are coming out first is because Satan is trying to kill me. With the wisdom that everybody is committing these sorts of crimes, why then do you presume, certain people are chosen as pillars to have their crimes brought forth? I can't be certain, but I will say that the holier the person, the more intense the spiritual assault will be. The worldly person believes that following Jehovah will lead to worldly blessings. You want to believe this because you want to believe that you have earned your riches, your blessings. I assure you that we are all sinners, every one of us. These blessings, these riches could tumble in an instant. It's because this has gone on for so long that Satan is being permitted to test me. The only thing which separates you from seeing the truth in what I am saying is a hard heart. You lack compassion. Merited, you are doing nothing wrong by following the law of Biblical wisdom. I think you may find, in years to come that what I was saying was also interpretable from Biblical wisdom. It's not the Law you are lacking. You are lacking heart. You are lacking mercy. You are lacking compassion. For, who is to deny that following the advent of the Messiah, Grace has replaced law? Mercy has replaced sacrifice. Love has replaced fear. Indeed, in years to come, months to come, you will see that everything I was saying was simply common sense. Moral culpability, from a Faith-filled perspective, sin, sexuality, the importance of Christian childhood and foundation. You will see it in context with the rest of the Bible. That even the Law mustn't be applied as a blanket rule at the expense of compassion and at the expense of love. It is only love that seeks to apply the Law with knowledge of where people are coming from. Your religious leaders cannot see this because they are blinded. They are distracted by my sin and ignore their own sin. You will see the reason we are instructed not to judge. You will see the reason Jehovah loves sinners even more than religious leaders. Biblical Truth, applied without love is no longer truth. It becomes pharisaical. That's all. I acknowledge the reason for this may be the obscurity of what I am saying. I promise you it's true. Can you really not see it? Do you really refuse to see it? I may pretend to know a lot of things. Some I don't know. I will admit it. Some, still, I have certainty about. With the persistence God has set in my case, is it really difficult to see that He is moving? I am humble enough to acknowledge that I do not deserve the love God has shown me but proud enough to claim that love boldly and to recognize who He says I am. The only thing preventing this is envy. The only thing preventing this is politics. Wait, you will see your own sinfulness. Even the religious leaders shall tremble when they see their own sinfulness. Wait!

A child's conscience is shaped by what they endure in the first years of life. A child is born with limitless possibility. Not only a blank slate, tabula rasa but also, exponentially affected by the influence of the world around them. When a child endures satanic abuse as an infant, this corrupts their entire understanding of the world. This sort of abuse is happening all over the world. It is an abomination. This article is not about this. But the effects of it are plaid world over.

In addition to aging, repressed emotions are the cause of an enormous host of problems. The concept that repressed emotion causes unwanted consequences is neither mine nor is it new. Here is the truth: We all have repressed memories. We all have repressed emotions. Even the pope. Even the president. This is what I want to say: repressed emotions are the root cause of every health problem we face today. From balding to big stomachs, to cancer, to diabetes and arthritis. Even if it is not the root cause, like in the case of virus, the underlying cause can be traced to immunity. Do you not think these virus have existed since the beginning? Since the fall, actually. Stress negatively influences natural immunity. 

From a psychological perspective - mind you: I'm no psychologist, simply using the Jehovah given wisdom He has given me - I can affirm without hesitation that bonding and attachment are essential to childhood development. As for the chemical and even partially biological standpoint as to why, I couldn't tell you. What I do know is that this is where children are moulded in these early years. This is such a key area of development. If God desires a person to become who He wants him to become, who can prevent that? Of course. It is only a mystery to those hard of heart that the way a child is raised will directly influence the way they choose to live and approach life. It may not even be a choice. For in point of scientific fact, toxic trauma and stress in this bonding period for children has been shown to create impediment and disability in children. This is the point in life where developmental trauma forms. It's the period where a whole host of mental illness is created. Even if observable, outright disability is not cultivated as a result of these bonds being broken, difficulty for the child in these bonding periods can lead to impediment in less observable ways. The point: toxic stress and abuse during infancy can cause disability for the child later in life. Ephesians 6:4 states, "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord." Of course, discipline is naturally a different thing from abuse. Discipline seeks to build up. It is guided and loving correction when the child has misstepped. It is not punishment simply for being. Which is abuse. Again, discipline is a good thing: Proverbs 29:15 states, "The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother." What is the difference between wise discipline and abuse? It's easy enough for others to assess this. However, most of these crimes are never commit in the broad daylight. Which is why I am encouraging all children to make your voices heard if this is happening to you. I promise you that a time and place is coming when it will be safe to do so and you will get the help you need. Even in this present system. The assumption that we all have the same capacity for choice and in terms of sin culpability assumes that we all have had the same foundation. It assumes that we all come from the same place. It's not. None of us have the same head start in this life.

The effects of a negative foundation are as vast as sand on a beach. Here, again, I am no doctor. I say with certainty that toxic stress causes damage. At times, permanent damage. I remember saying once that just like with an amputated limb, serious emotional and social wounds can develop as a result of early childhood trauma. How much more would be the case when these wounds are caused by a person with whom the child would naturally bond? It's really a matter of the heart. If you do not have heart, how can you see that a child needs to be cared for? Just the same, if you do not have heart, how can you see that a wounded man needs to be cared for and comforted? I can though, offer an analogy. Think of a young boy. Heck, even of an older person. It is always prudent for the parents of that young boy to take him to use the jon before they go out or are anticipated to be somewhere without access to jon. If we do not use the jon or lead the child to use the jon before, we may be very uncomfortable during the time without access. We may even have an accident! This analogy could be applied to money management. Couldn't it? Actually, precisely. No? 

Heck, analogy can be made about this in pretty much every biological area around this. For think of the comparison of teeth. Or plants. Teeth, if we are to care for them when we are young, grow well. They become strong and do not fall out until we are very, very old. Or a tree. If planted well, if tended well and if given the support it needs to grow tall, it will grow strong and tall. Did I really have to write all of this to persuade you it is Biblical?

God bless you. You tell me to be a man. I've had to relearn twice. I've had to relearn breathing and swallowing water. I'm comfortable with who I am. And it takes a lot to go through so much and still have hope. Bless you for saying that. Traditional gender roles are a perfect area to assess as an example of why childhood foundation is so integral. The masculine, macho male image is beyond inappropriate for our culture, our world. There is enormous amount of shame in this concept. Shame perpetuated by employers, by teachers and most of all by parents and friends. This is heresy right here: That men bottle up their emotions to the point of collapse or break. Listen! We are not doing ourselves or society any good by instructing our men to not express their emotions. I get it. They get it. Soon, they will see the reason you are preventing my blessings is because of your envy and because of my politics. Yes, men have a responsibility to be in control of their emotions. How do you think this is accomplished? Being in control of our emotions? Huh? It's simple. We've got to feel them through. Being conscious of them is the only way. I am indeed attracted to younger women. I am not ashamed of it. I've really only experienced shame in terms of my sexuality over the entire course of my life. I've never had an opportunity to grow it or nurture it.  Look, once people reach a certain age, they are able to reason and make judgement for themselves. I am attracted to adults. The power dynamic you see, simply does not exist. I am a threat to nobody. I have been chaste for almost ten years. Feminism, while noble in a way, has caused so many problems. I understand. If what I am claiming is true, it will make many degree and many business defunct. When I was younger, women approached men, took the time to share their own intentions with men. This animosity and victimhood did not exist.

Something I explained in past literature was the reason I have had such difficulty in the course of my life. Here, I explained that a reason I lived the life I had is because of the choices I had made in Heaven. My emotions were not functioning in my time in heaven. Had they been, I would have chosen the glorious life God had prepared for me when I was very, very young. I explained that, "For those guided by the Spirit, at a point in one’s life, spiritually we are offered to choose a path. The choice we are offered on this path is significantly affected by the weight of how we feel about ourselves, how we see how we are treated and our own personal degree of conviction, morality and will. This path is never fixed and permanent. There is always the opportunity to alter your path. This is one reason for which Jesus says: 'If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire' (Matthew 18:8). We are all offered the choice. Some sacrifice life for the Kingdom. If a child decides to die for sake of the Kingdom that is a choice. It is a sad but fair choice. We are not living for this life. We are living this life for the Life in the Kingdom." Because of this, childhood is eternally important in terms of the choices we make regarding our future. I get it, if you think that what I am claiming is heresy again (hah!), just examine it from a physical perspective. If we force a child into depression by beating him and raping him daily, the result of his choices about what to do with his life will be evident. Because of the depression that he feels, he will lose the will to try. It is common sense. The more we try today, the more our future will be blessed. Can you not see it, o' you terribly hard of heart? Don't worry, you shall. Parents, your job is tough, your job is challenging. Resist the temptation to punish your children. Resist the temptation to rob the spirit from your children. The only way we can do this is by healing our own wounds.

I remember hearing somewhere that satan wants to target people as young as possible. I think it was a Christian pastor who said it. I cannot find the source so just be aware this idea is not my own. This is why Moses, Samson, Samuel, Jesus and other Biblical figures were protected and shielded from him in their infancy and childhoods. So that they could develop strong and firm and rooted in love and in truth. Satan knows that if he can get at the child, in their formative years, he can influence that child for the rest of its life. This is what makes me unique. This is what I suffered for God and through God. There has never been a prophet like me before. God, Jehovah desires to protect these. But, can you not see the turmoil society is in these days? It's almost entirely, almost exclusively because the child and the vulnerable is being targeted in this world. Jehovah God desires the child, every child, to have a firm foundation. The answer to this lies in the family. Healing is coming to the family unit. What we learn in childhood becomes a model for the rest of our lives. This is not information you will learn from books. Put your books away. It is common sense to some. Wisdom to others. And still to others, it is a supplement to truth. A 'truth', which makes complete Truth, making sense of why Jehovah sent Jesus for the sinners as opposed to the righteous. The answer to healing lies in yes, absolutely, filling our family life with devotion, love, prayer, Bible reading. More than that, what healing involves is in recognizing the need within ourselves for and healing ourselves so that we do not perpetuate the cycle of shame to our children. It involves not sexually interfering in the developmental lives of our children. But, it is more than this, isn't there? What happens behind closed doors often stays behind closed doors. There is a type of abuse that happens to children, which is an abomination to God. I used to think that was simply sexual abuse. It's not. It's much more and much darker. It happens. We do it. And we do not even know we do it. Wait. Jehovah God will show you. And when He does, you shall have healing. And healing in full! 

Luke 6:48

“He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.”

"There is a reason I keep talking about the developmental periods of children. There is a reason this is so important. Who is judging between traumas? Between sufferings? Just a pondering. As a comparison. Someone in a car accident who gets pretty banged up but who has had a childhood of love and peace. They’re able to navigate safely through the world, their own emotions and thoughts and fresh traumas (though they may be large) are reasonably well processed and filed away in the mind. And another who experienced hell growing up, raped daily and beaten, never having developed that base of grounding in life. Think of a soul as a cup or a well. Imagine you have this well. Now, that well, in the beginning is filled to the brim with very clear and clean water. But, as time passes, things happen to that well. People drink from it, things happen around it and things drop into it. As time passes, the water that was at first so clean, so clear becomes muddied and dirty. Now, what happens when you try to push that mud to the bottom to allot for clean water to rise to the surface? Remaining, you still have muddy water because the mud has only been pushed to the bottom of the well. It’s like having oil on the surface of a well and trying to push the oil to the bottom. No matter what you do, the oil will rise again to the top. In a similar way, the human heart is so precious, so fragile. Sometimes falling into sin is not a consciously willful choice that is thought over in a logical manner, but rather the re-emergence of the defense mechanisms we have used in childhood just to survive. “Then the Lord said to him, ‘Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? But now as for what is inside you – be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you” (Luke 11:39). What we put into our hearts is not always a choice that we make. The human heart, everything about our bodies has an innate sense of remembering in the ways that serve it best, the trauma and pain as well as the love and joy that we have experienced. Because just like when we are cut, blood follows, emotions are natural responses to being hurt inwardly. 

The fact that you keep forgetting, what do you think this means? This persistence on part of God for you to remember. Admittedly, it is not me who is reminding you at times. This is not very nice for me. Indeed, I am advocating a new system. But it is not a new system. It is very much built into this system. You've got to ask yourself, also, why your leaders would not desire this world to improve for you. Indeed, mark my words, brothers and sisters, a society that seeks to eradicate its sick, its vulnerable, its small and helpless is a sick society. Society can get better. It can be amazing. I've seen it. It was glorious even when I was growing up! Don't abandon this world so quickly, so easily. You call me crazy because you don't want to deal with the emotional result of your own sin. I get it. What is a healthy society? The mark of a healthy society is very simple. It's in how it treats its vulnerables, its sick and wounded, its young and small and those who can offer nothing. It is in this that Jehovah sees value. Jehovah does not pride individuals for their progress, for their riches, for their speeches and essays. Glorious though they may be. jehovah values the fetus more than He values the fully grown adult. Does this not say something of grace? Does it not say something of Jehovah's priorities? The human spirit, the human heart is so much more valuable than anything else about the human. It is that potential, which gives God delight in humanity. Guys, which of these society do you want? It's up to you. You make the choice. Not the governments. Not the popes. Not the pastors. Not the circuit overseers. Jesus. Compassion begins with you and you only. Don't let your envy and disagreements interfere with your brotherly love. It's the very same reason they want so desperately to humiliate me. I submit to their plans and schemes. For your sake. Again, I ask, if this were for the good of humanity, if it were for the good of my soul, would they really need cameras in my bedrooms and showers? Would they really risk being excommunicated for broadcasting my confession sin matter so openly? 

I found this excerpt from an article written by CJ Summers called, “Why Can’t I get on with my Life?” that was so poignant I felt I had to capture it in my journal:

“Many people believe that, because the abuse happened as a child, as an adult the survivor should now just 'forget about it and get on with life'. If it were this simple, many survivors would do it! It is not this simple however. Survivors were not given the opportunity to experience a 'normal' childhood and they cannot go back and re-experience it. Childhood is where all humans learn the basics of adult behaviour. It is where they learn to talk, to walk, to feed themselves, dress themselves, to relate to others and how to decode all manner of verbal and non-verbal messages. When this learning process is distorted through abuse, it is impossible to change or erase the lessons learnt once adulthood has been reached. This is not to say that a survivor cannot lead a perfectly happy and fulfilling life, but they will never be the same as a non-survivor. The way a survivor is taught to think and act is forever different from a non-abused adult. This altered way of thinking affects relationships with their families, partners, close friends, their own children and with themselves.

If someone is skeptical about this statement, then ask them to try a simple experiment. Ask them to do two things in their life differently from the norm. Ask them to brush their teeth with their non-dominant hand and to brush their hair with their non-dominant hand. Once they have done this, ask them to imagine that, for the rest of their lives, brushing their teeth and hair will be that difficult. It won't feel 'right'. You look in the mirror and know that you can't quite do it. You can see others around you who seem to have no problems with it, but your own hands are clumsy. There are knots in your hair that you can't quite reach, or the part won't go straight. You resign yourself to the fact that you will never be able to make your hair look as good as everyone else's. Even if you get it done professionally, this is only a temporary solution. You know when brushing your teeth you've missed some of those back molars and scooping up the water was a nightmare so you used a little less than was needed. You know that eventually this type of tooth care will lead to decay but resign yourself to having to pay for the dentist bills and being admonished for your delinquency. You have learnt that others will attribute the reason for these behaviors to either a deliberate choice on your behalf or some undesirable personality defect such as laziness. But you endure, you get by.

Now tell the person to imagine that the reason they have to do this is merely to titillate and amuse some grown-up. Ask them to reflect on how they would think about life knowing that everyday was going to be a struggle and all because someone else selfishly used you for their own gratification when you were young. Now tell them to blame themselves for allowing it to happen and to feel the guilt that they are unable to tell anyone about it. This experiment may give a non-abused person a small insight into the life of a childhood sexual abuse survivor. Instead of teeth and hair brushing being 'different' for a survivor it is everything.”

That’s the excerpt. Says a lot. Take a page right out of my own life. This allegory is the perfect description of me and my experiences. I’m not left handed. That’s not what I think this article is saying. Imagine trying to live life with your non dominant hand and never getting more adapted to it. Now imagine this process of doing things for almost everything you do. It’s in a lot of ways, a developmental disorder. But I do not have a developmental disorder. This is something that was done to me. I had to learn to do everything, in childhood, with like foggy glasses. The process occurred but everything was a little more difficult for me. The same is true of everyone who experiences this sort of trauma in youth. I’m not lazy. It’s not that I don’t not want to try. I have incredible motivation. I have an incredible spirit. That’s one thing I will say about myself. I just don’t have a lot of the tools with which many people were raised to learn. A lot of things really hurt for me. Walking, as time is going on, is becoming more and more strenuous. It’s exhausting. This is not going to stop me.

We all have sexualities. Sexuality is such an integral part of who we are. It is common sense that our sexuality can be as wounded as it can be molded, warped and guided. I do not know the full nature of the complexities as to why I fear love so much. The reason I say it like that is because there are probably definitely too many ways for that response to have developed. Fears aside, including the facts that I was never raised to understand the social cues and expectations about dating or healthy love. I have no idea where to start. But I am not going to give up. I post these explanations because I want very much to get better and live my life to the fullest. But, I need help. It's true, I was given an opportunity to build my foundation in the time I spent at the religious community. It wasn't given enough time. The earlier a child is exposed to trauma, the more difficult it will be for that child.

I know that the Holy Spirit is able to conquer any and all anxieties that I have. Just please remember that anxiety is all different. I have complex post-traumatic stress disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder, which in many ways is so much more debilitating that anxiety. I’m not exactly expecting you to understand. I realize that very few people experience the level of trauma that I have experienced in life. Rather, I hope you can have compassion and understanding. And that you won’t give up on me. Not everybody has an equal shot at life. And I hope I have made clear that those who suffer extreme trauma in their early foundations will very much have a more difficult time in life. But, we suffer for a purpose as I have come to see and respect. We suffer to bring glory to Jehovah and our Lord Christ Jesus. I feel it is important to say continuing in this vein, try not to judge others. This is not just an idle commandment in the Law. The purposes behind this are to express compassion for everybody. For God is not just a God of judgement but first, a God of love. It is not our place to condemn. We can share the Truth in order to guide our brother or sister back to righteousness when they stray. We should do so with love. But judgement is not ours. You know how I feel about prisons. I feel they are an absolute abomination. Wait, if you don't believe me, for the secret sins of all to be unraveled like a bed sheet before all of humanity. We are all as sinful and just as guilty. Our withholding judgement does not change the nature of the sin. The choice of which is the sinner’s entirely to sin. But we need to have compassion and understanding, knowing that under similar circumstances, we potentially could be in the same position. We do not know what each of us has been through. It’s easy to forget that other people are real creatures, human beings who have lifetimes of experience and pain as well as happiness and love behind them. Do not forget the passage that says, ‘Judge righteous judgment’. And ‘Man judges by appearance while God judges by the heart’. We can allow ourselves to become blinded by a single event in someone's life and ignore the rest of that person's life. We do this while ignoring our own sins.

I can attest very strongly that God does not stand for violence, hate or anger. God stands for love and faith and peace. Do not forget what violent hate and aggression really are. Many, many people across the world have problems and are oppressed. Oppression and being the victim of injustice and other forms of aggression are not acceptable excuses for violence. It’s terrible what happens a lot of the time in this hurting world and likewise there is not an excuse for the acts committed against all of you. But returning violence does not help anything. It’s how you handle your problems that shows your character. Have faith that the Almighty God and Father will judge rightly those who commit these acts. For just as Jehovah is a God of love, compassion and faith, He is also a God of incredible justice. He will repay and not miss a penny in His payment. There is no need for vengeance because vengeance is the Lord YAHWEH’s and He will protect those who follow Him. Trauma affects communities as it does individuals. I believe very strongly that it’s how a community or an individual handles this hurt that develops their character. Act in love. The conscious choices we make to love in the face of our accumulated trauma is a good thing and indicative of the state of our hearts. Rather, we as human beings have the choice to react to our pain in any way we choose. But not every way of dealing with pain is righteous and beneficial and pleasing to God. Violence and hate are never beneficial or pleasing to God. Choose love for everybody. I believe that peace is a good thing and, again, that violence and hate only fuel more of that. There are certainly a great many problems that have to be addressed in our society and I agree that there are many people all over the world who are being silenced and have massive reason to protest. Violence is not the answer to violence. Love is not an offensive thought or concept. Open your hearts. The grace of God is a free gift. One we cannot earn. One we do not deserve. 

I don’t have a demon. Is this not exactly what I am saying? We need, as human beings, from our very births to focus on building for ourselves a foundation of love. We can’t do that for ourselves at such a young age, which is why parenting needs to be an important and vital job. Without that foundation built upon the rock of love, the love of Christ, we will not have the wisdom to accept trauma, abuse or violence. Our sense of self will be damaged and our trauma, heart and feelings/emotions unprocessed. This trauma, these feelings need to be processed or else they will continue to have an effect and an influence on everything we do, everything we say, even our attitudes and beliefs will be guided by our wounds. This is especially true if we have repressed our trauma and emotion. This is the reason that childhood abuse is a cycle and almost always perpetuated. Remember, what we feel is done in love may not be received as such. We need to go into those wounds, process them and replace the void with the truth of love, the truth of Christ and the truth of the Gospel, the Word of God, the Sacraments. This is the reason I struggle and simultaneously go out of my way to help others who need it more than me. This is the reason I react when someone does something that triggers me, a lot of the time intentionally, I am sure, and the next minute, I give an apple and a pomegranate to someone in need. My foundation is tattered, my trauma and wounds unprocessed. This is the reason I am angry. Wouldn’t you be? Being raped once is rough. Try four thousand times over the course of twenty years. 1 Corinthians 3:10 "According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it." What do you believe this verse is speaking about? A house? A cold cellar? Hah! Isn't it obvious that Paul speaks about a foundation in faith? But, it goes deeper than this, doesn't it? For, what is a foundation of faith built upon? It is built upon a solid and strong conscience. This is built primarily in childhood. Yes, it can be built later. With impediments. But. . . 

Proverbs 22:6

"Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it."

Had you have known me twelve, fifteen years ago, I can guarantee that very few of you would want anything to do with me. Merited, there were indeed a few. And I give them full credit for being my friend. Bless them with every breath in my body. But the fact is that you wouldn’t have wanted anything to do with me because I was literally unlovable. Because of the terror of my childhood, I had developed masques and defence mechanisms, sometimes flat out defensiveness in order to keep others at bay. I would literally go around my community shouting at people. Such an important thing to remember, maybe to learn, is that none of this, none of my actions, defences, anger was a clear picture of who I am or was. It was a result of suffering. I take a lot of pride in the fact that I have changed a lot now. What residual wounds remain are often what cause me to feel as if that pain is being repeated. And which causes me to act out. Otherwise, people just don’t understand. Not always, but often, good people are made to act out because of their traumas and sufferings. Act in love. Have compassion and empathy for everyone. You do not know their pasts. God will make Himself known. You just have to be patient. Why would God choose pretty much all of His prophets to have such terrible imperfections? That’s plaid. It’s because God loves us, imperfection and all. As long as we turn back to Him, He will forgive. God loves us though we are suffering and fearful and hurt and angry and sad. But it is from that imperfection that God is able to make sometimes miraculous transformations in people’s lives. Look at the life of Elijah, who was depressed to the point of death, whom God used to change the world for many generations. Look at Jonah, who was so firm in his beliefs that he willingly ran from the voice of God when he heard it, who was still used to bring one of the worst cities in terms of sin in history to repentance because it was God’s will. This is kind of good news. This is the reality: we are all sinners. Terrible sinners. Some of us just have not gotten caught yet. Haha! For us, He sent a perfect Life to purchase our salvation. Isn’t that Good News? I know it’s easy to allow your emotions to dictate your beliefs. Always try your best to act in love. The people of Glory are to love each other as well as the broken nonbeliever. We are all to love each other. That’s the will of God. 

The decision to commit sin and to go against God is always a choice that we have made. What makes this more complicated is that most of the time, our sinful decisions are based off of a lifetime’s accumulation of trauma, stress and feelings. 

Please read this. I don’t have depression. I don’t have anxiety problems. I have cPTSD. “Healing from child sexual abuse is not something that happens overnight. In many cases, it is a lifelong process. My brain was pretty hurt, too. I have noticed myself come very far from before I started healing. Relational and emotional wounds can be as serious as losing a limb. I’ve proved pretty clearly I think, by the life that I have lived, that I am pretty hurt. It is unfair that I am still being tempted with the accumulation of trauma from my childhood and adolescence. I’m trying harder than a lot of people realize. I’m not crazy. I’m only speaking what I have seen and been told. We need to look at things with compassion and love.

Please know and understand that a child is completely innocent of crimes committed against them. Matthew 19:13-15 says, "Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, 'Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.' And he laid his hands on them and went away." When someone chooses to hurt a child, they are making a choice to act in aggression or power towards something weaker. Even if that child grows and acts out towards the very same person who mistreated them as a child, these acts are never as serious or as influential as the acts commit against the child. A child, regardless of what some religion would like to say, is completely innocent and perfect. It is the closest image of Jehovah as anything else could be. A child is completely is dependent upon them for their very life. If the biggest man in the world made a choice to hurt a chipmunk, even if the chipmunk came towards him, would we blame the chipmunk? Sure, the chipmunk may be pestering him but just as when a child cries, there is a reason the child cries. It could be hungry or simply require the affection and loving, appropriate intimacy that it needs in order to survive. To hurt a child is a choice of power and not anything else. It is a stumbled choice of power. For even I acknowledge that the majority of child abuse that happens is certainly stumbled. And will always, always stumble. Who in their right minds would make the choice to hurt a child? Few people, I posit. This is the reason it is always stumbled. For those who do make the choice to hurt children intentionally, your fate is already decided. I wish you bonne chance. You're going to need it. 

This is one of the Truths I know about God. He hates people who hurt innocent and helpless creatures, maliciously. And He will reward His creatures for being meek, loving and lowly. Much like this, I was a child when a lot of this stuff happened to me. It started as soon as I was able to develop conscious memory. In this sense and of most of the abuse that happened to me over the course of my life, I was entirely innocent. Even now, as a forty year old man, I have been given the rather incredible grace of seeing myself through God's eyes numerous times over the course of my life. I am a filthy, wretched sinner. Some of the things I have done in my life I gag at. If it were not for the sacrifice of Jesus, I would certainly view myself with disgust and abhoration. You don't get it, do you, world, my dear and cherished flock? Sin in the worst thing in the universe. Not just because of how it offends a perfect God. Because of the effect it has in us! You keep blaming sugar, tobacco, alcohol, guns. Sometimes, you blame men, white men. Name of God! The cause of all of the bad things in the world is only one cause. And we can all claim ownership. You know what that is? It's sin! Jesus, who will save us from our sin? Jesus. Jesus. Matthew 18:6 “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

When we are traumatized, our ability to think clearly is sometimes hindered, often skewed. When there’s so much going on in our minds and bodies to keep our emotions and thoughts, anger and shame suppressed, there is little faculty left available for the façade that everything is alright. I beg you to read what I am about to write; this is how what people have done has affected me, which are directly resulted. As a result of the things that were done to me, I have a problem with toxic shame. If you’re not familiar with the concept, essentially it is the feeling that ‘I, as a person and life force, am worthless, damaged and devalued because of things that happened to me’. This sort of reaction is often harbored in childhood because the child has either no thought faculties to process the emotions and horror of what it is experiencing, or because it has no other choice. When a caregiver hurts a child, it cannot process that the people caring for it and upon which its life depends, are evil, because to do so, the whole world must be evil. A child is selfish, naturally and innately. When something bad happens to it, it believes that it caused it. Anyways, I also have dealt significantly with anger problems in my past. I know you know this. Though I believe that you are misguided in your belief about where it originated from. I have done a lot of work over the past and have come monumentally far. I have processed my emotions to a point where I am healthy in society. I also have cripplingly low self-esteem. I experience flashbacks, which I wouldn’t expect you to understand. These are a reason why being unhappy and anxious and worrying are not always conscious choices. For the most part of my life, I have isolated myself. If it wasn’t before that injury, when I would just sit in front of the computer at home and play computer games for literally hours after school. I know you know it got to the point where I was smoking three packs of cigarettes daily. I don’t entirely blame this on what happened. But the reason I did it was to cope with stress and because I had such little value for myself as a human being. It was what I was shown I deserved. I started smoking again after the injury that happened within two years after that head injury. I’ve had a host of other problems and addictions. People who did these things to me need to know it was wrong. It has to be said. And I am not to blame for what they did to me. For too long, I’ve seen myself in a negative light because of the way they taught me to feel I was worth. For too long, I have allowed fear and shame and anger, resultant from your actions and behaviors to dictate my life. I was diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder, which is what happens when a bunch of traumas are compounded by a major one. The definition also implies prolonged stress of a social and/or interpersonal nature from which there is little or no hope of escape. I also experience avoidance and hypervigilance around the issue of sexuality and intimacy. I can’t even allow women to kiss me. Over the course of my entire life, I have built protective barriers to prevent myself from loving and being loved. These are reactions to how people have treated me. You cannot say this is a result of the injury that happened to me. Numerous times, I have rejected beautiful women who were trying to get me to open up to them. As a matter of fact, I remember once flipping out and having a traumatic reaction when a girl touched me and proposed that we have sex. Not in a violent way. I practically broke down and wept. This happened some time before the injury that happened. Neither am I gay. There’s purely one reason why I have difficulty with the subject of intimacy. 

I will say that righteous anger is healthy. It is healthy at times to be angry with what has been done to you. There is less reason to be angry with people who have caused you pain but it is so essential to be able to express the anger that you have to feel. Because under all of this buried anger, there are a number of feelings, which caused the anger that have also become buried. I was not allowed the ability to experience this righteous anger. For me to have experienced it, I would have had to confront the people who took my life from me and there would have had to have been some sort of understanding for what I had gone through: for the severity of the crimes committed against me. That’s impossible on any healthy level now, taking into consideration the intensity of their denial and the extent of my traumatic damage. Speaking of the extent of the damage I have sustained, I guess I want to say that I do not expect you to understand my wounds mostly due to the fact that there is no way for you to know what it is like. I can’t count the number of times that good intentioned people have offered me solutions to my problems. Only yesterday, a man downtown, to whom I offered five dollars as a gift, told me to smile. He said that by smiling, my tension would be released and my perspective would change. Although I believe his intentions were good, a lot of the time, wounds go much deeper than that. When I was younger, when I was living in darkness, I can reflect on the fact that I very often doubted the truth and even the very sincerity of those who claimed to have illness that I could not see. It’s tempting to not believe something that you have no understanding of. But, how does one remedy not understanding what love is in childhood? The formative years, void of true warmth and affection can never be returned. I will say that I am sorry for being hostile to those I viewed as a threat. I needed to take a step back and recognize who the enemy was all along and who was the only One who could have saved me.

Genetically, a person could be the most talented person in the history of mankind. God Jehovah could have blessed this person with every talent and every blessing imaginable. If these talents are not nurtured and cultivated with love, affection and care, you may as well be raising a vegetable. This is the point: Einstein, Mozart, Leonardo Davinci, if they did not have the flowerbed of love in which to grow and tend their talents, would never have blossomed into the genius they became. Do you really not realize, world? I get it. People want to believe their blessings, their talents and skills developed as a result of their own hard work. Name of God! Who amongst you, will deny the credit goes entirely to Jehovah? The giver of every good gift and blessing. Just the same as the talents chrysalis begins in love, its fed and nurtured by love too. So, what will happen when a talented person is deprived of love? I tell you in a manner of absolute certainty, without any hesitation, every talent they have been bestowed with, in the absence of chesed, agape love, will wither and die. It's a matter of heart to see. Without heart, you cannot see this. How's your ol' heart doing? Is it ticking? What do you feel at hearing this? Does it inspire indignation and envy? Or does it inspire compassion and concern? You know my fate. The state of my body proves that. I never had the opportunity to develop the talents I possess. Had I, the world would have had to have watched out. Still, I believe God will offer me a chance to develop and nurture these talents, which are only mine.

A close abuser used to kick the dog quite hard when I was very young. This abuser was not the only one who was doing this. Friends at secular high school, which I was blessed to experience, also did this. I had a friend who used to literally scream for minutes at his dog. I do not judge him because I know what he was probably enduring as well. My abuser, maybe he only did it a couple of times. It had an impression on me. I am extremely loving to animals now as anyone who has seen me with them will attest. I loved the dog at the religious community. He and the beautiful cats there were my favorite. I was very gentle with them. The reason I was venting with the animal close to me was subconscious. I had little consciousness about it. I had such anger I was repressing because of what the abusers were doing to me, daily and nightly. I was doing what I had been taught. I had no other outlet for this anger. This is the exact same reason for every way I reacted. These things are not nearly as hereditary or genetic as we want to believe. Behavior – and this is only my opinion – is rarely genetic… It's a bit of common sense, which only makes sense with a bit of love. Sometimes, the choices we make are not choices at all. Rather, they can be simply reactions. It is not conventional spiritual wisdom nor theology. But, it is my prayer that this information will become common sense in years to come. The choices we have made in the past, particularly those in childhood become kind of like templates for us. For we learn all things of how to navigate this life from our childhoods. The choices we make in childhood are often choices in reaction to stressors. If it brings us comfort, we will continue doing these things into adulthood until we find and confront the sources. Is my language too harsh for you? Maybe you would prefer if I were to say that people develop habits. Common sense, huh? Good habits can be fostered and nurtured. Like talents, in loving environments. 

I needed to be shown love early in my life. I needed it because I was only hurt through my childhood. The same goes for all children who are hurt in childhood. People can overcome anything with the power of love. It will give us the attitude and perspective we need to bear the painful stuff, anyways, while we await our glory. Love can beat all. I was never shown the love I needed for the right reasons. This is why I am having difficulty now. This is also part of the reason I was meant to disclose what they were doing after that injury that happened to me. It’s not that I don’t want this. I don’t know how to have it.” I needed love in these times, when I was a child, to show me that I was a human being again. To show me that I was worthy of the love of anyone else. I feel so inadequate. The thought of someone loving me for me is abstract and hostile. 

Psalm 11:3

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

I am quoting an excerpt from another part of my blog from a post entitled Sexuality. "Here’s a little revelation that might upset you. Only because it is so unorthodox. The apostle Paul was very vigilant about his faith. This was the way everything had to be. As this has to be now. God is not as scared of human sexuality as many would make it seem. We, as a culture, need sexual healing. We have become so uptight and vigilant in our own traumas and unhealed hurts. We need to liberate ourselves. Before you get uptight with what I have just said, I am not calling for a sexual revolution. I am not calling for priests to marry. There is a place for those who are called to be pillars in their vocations, which are called to completely detach from the world in chastity. What I am talking about is healing our core identities through intimacy, vulnerability and passion. Sex is not an evil thing. God loves us and wants all of us to be happy. Don’t believe me? Too liberal? It’s not. Just wait.. I pray that God reveals to you what is happening in the world so that you may see why this has to be. The Apostle Paul, also like Jesus, came to set fire between the world. It had to be. God doesn’t want there to be people like me, who were so traumatized in childhood that they repress their sexuality and in turn, their God given identity. Wounded people need help to mend. The more difficulty a person is having in the world, the more wounded they are. It's not hard to see that people who have behavioural problems are very hurt. Thus, the more help they need. A wounded dog is a good analogy. How can we reintegrate these wounded animals? At first, they will bark and bite and resist. It’s with love that they come to recognize their own safety and worth. If we can do this for a dog, can we do it for people? I’m not talking about me. There are billions of people who don’t know the love of God. They don’t know the love of God because of the way that human love has been used as a weapon towards them. Billions. Even within the Church." Friends, can you not see that many of the problems in our world today have arose as a result of sexual repression? It's not my idea. But, I will add my two cents. Sexuality is not as evil as religion would like us to believe. Sexuality is tied into the personality, the very core identity of a human being. If we are free to express our sexuality, in marriage, out of marriage, either way, our personalities are free to develop. Can you not see the link? How have we ever gotten the idea, Church that everybody in the world has foster chastity like an old monk? We are not all called to religious chastity. Anyways, this is the reason my personality, my talents are stuck. This is the reason why I can't accomplish what God asked me to do. It's because I haven't experienced passion. Remember the satanic contract on my soul. My soul will be liberated once I experience passion, once I get an opportunity to develop and nurture my sexuality in a healthy way.

It’s so easy to get caught up in the business of life, the urgency of our daily deeds that it becomes dreadfully simple to forget about all that we have done as human beings, the journeys we are all on, the goals we have set as individuals. We need to take time to appreciate the beauties of life and the intricacies of God’s Creation. After all, He created this world for us. He created this planet for us. Life really is short. It’s literally a flash, an instant in time. We need to get out and make what we want out of our lives. We need to stop wasting our time with things that do not matter, in the grand scheme of things. Last time I wrote, I wrote about something that I believe very strongly in. We need to reveal our true, authentic selves. Our inner children. We need to pack up all of the masques and coping mechanisms that cover up our true natures, our true visions and our true goals and hopes for this life. In a time in our history when we are surrounded by distractions, bombarded by constant emotional and mental interference, it’s easy to become caught up by the world. Do not forget where your true home is. Where you belong. And how to get there. We need to sit with our feelings and not be constantly busy. God loves all of you so much. We need to reach out to Him and accept His love. This is much easier than it sounds. People need and deserve to feel loved. And the only true and natural source for that love that embraces all and endures all, wanting only happiness, love and glory for those who choose to accept it, is Jehovah through the eternal Christ, the Messiah of Love. He is the only source for the unconditional love we need as creatures of God. Physical and emotional human intimacy is in complement to God's love. Sometimes, the one cannot be understood without the other. Here, I am not speaking about sex. Most of us had mothers who loved and nurtured us. A little at least. Just don’t give up on love. It’s absolutely a worthy fight. I too, am trying really hard. All I can do is continue to be grateful and faithful.

Matthew 7:24

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.”

You ask what authority I possess to speak so boldly. I possess the same authority that was given to Paul. I possess the Holy Ghost. Still, I do understand your hesitance in accepting what may appear a new message of faith. If Jehovah desires it all to be the case, He will vindicate me. He will prove it to you. I can see that regardless of what I write, how much I tell my story, it is not going to make a difference. I can see that the only way this is going to appease is if I trust in Jehovah. I will trust in Him. Jehovah has provided the solution. At a point, He will interfere Himself. You see my beloveds, God loves you all, every single one of you, far too much to ever abandon any one of you. Actually, it is when you are furthest from Him that He chases after you the most. It is not only His children He loves, as some amongst our crowd would suggest. It is every single one of you all. God YHWH, Father God is in love with your every move. Not only does He desire your salvation. He desires your happiness here as well. This is a reason to serve Him. For He is the only God who desires our happiness. Repent dear ones. Have I held that against you in the past? That you did not listen to the word of God upon hearing it. On the contrary, you have been very patient with me. To the point where I realized that it was I who needed to repent. You know how I feel. If it is true, I am consequently, inculpable of pretty much everything. Still, you all have been glorious with me. I will never forget the many times our world has been moved by me and my story. This is me, a humble, humbling prophet of God asking you as a world to hear His voice once more. God is coming. Jehovah is coming. Jesus is returning soon. You need not worry about a thing. For in His swooping wing, will contain the answer to every ailment you are troubled by. You need not worry about past injustices and wounds. He will take care of all of that. Jehovah is going to wipe every tear away. Then, what is the point of all my writing? It's to prepare you. I will never forget the overwhelming emotions of realizing the way I had been treated as a child and having no one with whom to express it. Jehovah is a great God. You are about to see just how great of a God that He is. You ask though, if He loved us, why would He allow and permit this child abuse and stuff like that? The answer is really very simple. An answer, which is strengthened by what I am learning with my JW friends. This world is not governed by Jehovah. It is governed by Satan. This is the one. He is the cause of every single dastardly division and illness and injury in the world today. He is responsible for racism and war and cancer. It's all him. Hear me now, beloved world, my flock, I just ask you to remember your God. Remember the One who knit you together in the wombs of your mothers. He loves you. You ask, how can I have happiness? You ask, how can I have life? It is very simple. Call on the name of Jehovah through His son Jesus. This is life. God loves you all. He will never abandon you. Remember His name. Remember Him. He remembers you. Even if you do not know Him. Christians, world - my beloved flock - take heed. A Christian foundation (Godly parenting) is not enough. This is the essence of my message. The emotional fallout of sexual interference amongst family members is vicious. I'm telling you: It is the reason for all of the struggles of today. You need to respect your children. You need to love them like God loves you. 

Psalm 127:1

"A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain."

Sources:
CJ Summers called, “Why Can’t I get on with my Life?” Unavailable online. Accessed in 2015.

Monday, May 20, 2024

Heresy: Updated! (Updated):

By this time, many of you are aware of my teaching - may the Lord vindicate me - that emotions repress and accumulate and that what happens in our development influences us for our entire lives. There are a few extraneous teachings, which I have made. I say them neither with certainty nor with authority. In fact, I submit to Church authority. However, let common sense speak for itself. I write this essay in order to encourage you that what I am saying is in fact solid truth as that Jesus died for our sins. I believe it with my whole heart. It is a method of poisoning the well to label one a heretic and not listen to what he has to say. It is only dismissing the possibility to learn. And yes, we all have a thing or two to learn. Even those with authority. Our world is very power oriented. It is an illusion satan gives to people to believe that those in power are more spiritually enlightened. 

We need to be careful that the desire for power does not make us silence those with something very important to say. "But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.” Acts 5:39. A rhetorical question to ask yourself may be, would you prefer to listen to one holy man who knows his sinfulness or hundred and fifty corrupt men who have a blatant agenda? When the Spirit speaks, some may hear it. But because it goes contrary to their agenda, they deliberately ignore its prompting. I posit that the same Spirit is speaking to me as to others. The others just may not want to hear what He is saying. There are implications if it's true. Look, I am not claiming authority. Never was. This is about truth about this. That's all. 

Here is the thing: Here is what I am learning. We all have a thing or two about truth that we could learn from each other. Yes, in fact, even those who are living sinful lifestyles, we can learn from. It's true if my message is true. If I had to guess, many people deemed as heretics were deemed as such for the purpose of silencing. It was not in love. Not at all. Look at my beloved and special sister, who I absolutely know is guiding me, Jehanne D'Arc. Look at what they did with that special and poor girl. Look, we need know that the liberating point of our society, the point when people will be able to say that we are free, will be when we all, every one of us have the right to our own beliefs. There will be no need for psychiatric hospitals because all will experience healing. This is peace in this system: Freedom of thought. Freedom of expression and freedom of worship. All living in harmony and in peace.

In my journey to faith, I have embraced many religions, consentingly. I was raised in satan, (It was not at all a choice of mine), raised atheistic, baptised Baptist, nurtured Ebionite faith, raised spiritually Evengelical, Confirmed Catholic, trained by JW. In addition to an intellectual formation of every world religion. I will say that at my heart, I will always be a strong Trad Cat. I am learning so much from the Witnesses. While I do not agree with everything they say, they have a point. A lot of what they say is spot on. Jehovah can use them. Anyways, what I am learning is that no one of us have exactly the right knowledge of truth. This is because of the fact that none of us can know the spiritual realm completely. I even spent time in heaven and hell and met Jehovah personally. For the skeptic, I assert that my emotions were damaged in heaven (I was meant to overcome during that coma) and Jehovah never revealed Himself to me visibly. Only audibly. None of us can know with certainty. All that matters is love. All that matters is love. Jesus, the Messiah and Son of God, provides a remedy for this division. This is the uniting point in everything. Religion is not so important as love. But, we need clear definition of love. For those living in its embrace, we know its meaning. But we must never be led into believing that love tolerates abuse. On the contrary, love flees abuse. Out of love for the self. Discipline is different from abuse. 

All this to say that as far into JW as I get, I don't believe my views on Jesus will ever be distinct from those of the Church. As much as in many respects, I agree with them, I have my very personal understanding of Christ, which are in line with the Church. I do believe that Jehovah, Jesus and Holy Ghost are distinct. But, spiritually. This is where I have personal experience. Temporally, they are united. This may seem confusing. Wait. God will reveal it to you. I will say, when I say Jehovah bless you to people on the street, I get some resistance. I ask you, what dishonor does it do Jesus if I bless people in the name of Jehovah, the proven name of God. On the contrary, I ask you, what dishonor does it do Jehovah if I bless people in the name of Jesus? If they are God, their foundation is secure. 

The only protestant belief I think I may be challenged with that I hold is in terms of grace alone. Hear me! I never said people can be saved by grace alone. However, it is undeniable that Catholics can learn something from the concept of grace. In that works based salvation breeds competition. Competition in terms of faith is destructive. I never really experienced competition in my faith until I entered the Church. Same with envy. It seems my presence got a lot of people envious in the Church. It's because we believe we can work our way up in favor with God. I implore you to see that God shows man impartiality. He sees every man the same. Except in terms of grace. In terms of grace, think of this. It's an analogy a priest used years ago. He said, imagine he held a twenty dollar bill. Who wants it? Everybody held the hand up. He crumpled it. Who wants it? he asked. Everybody held the hand up. He ripped it. Who wants it? he asked. Everybody put the hand up. Regardless of what we do or say or even regardless of our sin, our value does not change before God. This is all I'm saying. And that God allots grace differently to different people. It's why children are the most valuable to God. Even more than scholars and leaders. The least are the greatest.

As much as I believe in America, I do not advocate Americanism. Of course I believe in America! It is the world leader. I have not given up on my world yet. What happens in America directly influences the world around us. Many of the principles, upon which America were founded on, were enacted to escape tyrannical rule and oppression. Naturally, it veers away from Catholicism. However distant it may seem, I encourage you to rethink your perspectives regarding this on the pretense of what happens when tyranny and oppression stem from the Church's hierarchy itself? I'm not saying that is happening. But, naturally power resists freedom of everything. Power maintains itself. Under a perfect world and system, Catholic Monarchy is a beautiful rule and system. In fact, times are coming when these good rules will return. I am only warning you to guard your freedom. Freedom is incredibly precious and can be taken advantage of greatly.

Trauma accumulates. Shame and other bad feelings accumulate. Injustice and anger also accumulate. That bully from high school for whom you have been holding resentment, possibly reasonably – well, at home, his parents beat him nightly. This is said to illustrate there is a lot more going on than what we can see. Is it an excuse that he perpetuate this anger? Probably not. Said to illustrate the fact that in a lot of cases, he is a kid too. And he’s probably going through this as he is acting out. But, it’s much more common than we think. This is not a dualistic message. The body and the spirit work in harmony… when one is damaged, the other will be affected. What I am saying is that when one is damaged, we need to heal it in love of the Spirit. It is catechetical that some sins are more or less culpable based on a number of factors. I am not advocating dualism. It may seem counterintuitive. But, I implore you to see the body and the spirit, not as opposites but as complementaries. I choose this language because of my lack of language. Since I see it troubles you, I implore you to see a human body and its emotions instead of body and spirit. They are not opposites. But they are distinct. This goes without saying. Just as a finger is as different from a nose. You'd expect ones with knowledge of the Trinity to be able to assess this simply. They are not opposites. They only have the potential to run in conflict to each other when trauma occurs or interference occurs. The body and the spirit are not distinct. They work together in harmony. Is this not precisely what I said in the first place? Neither the body or the spirit (emotional well being) are evil inherently. I am not a Gnostic. The material world is created and intended for good. I don't have a special knowledge that is any more than common sense. I encourage you to hear sound thinking though. Here, you may say, of course I am! I defend myself by saying that the only reason you are not hearing what I am saying is because your hearts have been hardened because of my politics. Truth being so obscured may contribute but it is not the main reason. The main reason is that you are threatened by the fact that if it is true, your entire system will change. There is a lot invested in what I am saying not being true. I see this. Remember, I am only telling my story. I am only telling my story. God vindicate my injured cause. I appeal to your consciences. What if it's true?

I am not a Manichean. I don’t think it is a secret that I am a Christian man. I’m not trying to convert anyone. Only seeking to share what my gentle and beautiful God has done for me. The words of the prophets all pointed to the Messiah of Love. “For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.” The God of all religions is the God of Love. Jesus is the Messiah of Love. There is a god of this world. That is the one who causes pain and hurt and death and darkness. “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.” Therefore all who trust in love, follow God and His Christ. In my opinion. The purpose of this life is to find God. We are not living this life for this life. But for Life. Therefore, our times are investment. To live our best, to love. God wants us to enjoy our lives. Of course, there is more to the story than simply an image of a manicheanistic universe. There are many different facets to consider in this issue, particularly when it relates to the consideration of human and divine activity and their relation. But, this concept is very scriptural. The principalities involved in this concept are not equal. As God, the Father will always be greater. He is the only Creator and everything is in His control, even if it is against His great Will. Satan is called the father of lies. God the Father has distanced Himself from intervention in worldly affairs due to our choice of original sin. This does not mean He does not care for us. It breaks His heart when we are hurt. But, in His glory, He is able to utilize our wounds for His glory. Though, God the Father will have the judgement of this world, through His Son, Jesus Christ, the world is not reigned by Him, on a temporal level. This is in order to allow us in our free will, to return to Him, to love Him and to choose Him.

I am far from a Modernist. But I do know of some in the Church today! I never, not once said that my prophecies were more important than Divine Revelation. In that sense I am not a Montanist. I am not a Pelagianist! I am not a new age. I get it. Many are threatened when I speak of cosmic terminology such as emotions and inner children and compassion. I appeal you to see that what I mean by inner child is emotional and healing of the inner child is not as a group of aged people seated in a circle on the ground, chanting and hitting cymbals and clapping hands. What I mean by this is a reparenting. Of ourselves, for ourselves, by ourselves. It is not difficult to see that we are emotional creatures and that our emotions affect us. On top of that, one religion advocates political involvement while another does not. Here is my logic around this: Christianity is not a private religion. Children of God have an obligation to be involved in the formation of laws and in the body of politics. I am a worldly Christian. Not in terms of sinfulness. Anyone who knows me, knows I have been holy for ten years. I am worldly in the sense that I believe in the goodness of this world and in the possibility for what it can be. We have to be able to discern and know the facts about what is being passed. Still, politics is not the solution to the world’s problems. It is a vessel. I feel that a revival is needed. And it will certainly come. 

So, I don't want to challenge anyone. I desire that everyone be nourished by my life. But, I encourage you to see that truth can also be a form of nourishment. Truth sometimes needs to be told. If you have faith, you would see that the early accounts of the Bible, actually every account of the Bible does not tell us the entire story. There are elements, which are left out, not included for the purpose of developing faith. It's true that all we need know is included in Scripture. But, it is obvious that there was more to many of the character's lives as what is presented in the Bible. Noah lived over 900 years! That's a lot of history not included in the Bible. If this is true of the past accounts, how much more true will it be for future accounts? The Bible is not an era encyclopaediae. It doesn't document every aspect of truth that will or has happened. I simply ask you, is there a possibility that there is a lot yet to be seen? Love compels us to acknowledge that we might not know what surprises God has in store for us. After all, the Book of Genesis does not prophecy how Moses will save the Jews from Pharaoh. Neither did the Torah predict the Babylonian exile. It is not in love to be so convicted of truth that you close a blind eye to the will of God when it is made known. Neither is it a medical or chemistry handbook. That is not to deny that medicine is important. The reason I am attracted to JW is this same reason. Their conviction to Biblical tradition. Good. I am not asking you to believe me about my faith yet. But I cannot do this if no one believes my story of what I endured. My church is in such a mess. They follow communism. they follow modernism. They say homosexuality is not immoral. They worship idols. It is still the true church. JW are incredibly special. It is for these that I have come. These are my sheep. Dear friends, whether you believe it or not, you are considered Traditional. It is understandable that you test me. I will be submissive for the entirety of your test. I just pray that you remember me after you have had your fill. Don't be so mesmerized by my politics that you forget compassion. If Jehovah desires it to be true, He will make it known. 

We all have access to the Word of God, the Holy Bible. I pray that you are not tempted into disbelieving my testimony because of the Truth of the Word of God and because of its unchanging nature. I assure you that I speak nothing other than the Gospel of Christ in love and truth and that any understatement on my part is only a result of the suffering I have endured as well as the mistakes that I myself have made as well as my limited language with which to express the things I know. The Apostle Paul was a great man and fully convicted in the faith. He was very vigilant about the Way. This had to be. And he was rightly glorified. Just as this has to be now. I have only told you the truth that comes from my heart. Still, I do not expect any of you to believe in my testimony until God has proven it as what He desires. “They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘Declares the Lord,’ when the Lord has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word” (Ezekiel 13:6). I am not asking you to believe now, just that you have faith and compassion and understanding. If it is His will, it will be made clear. For the Word of God is immutable and unchangeable unless God chooses to make it so. God’s heart is loving and eternally unchanging but it is evident in the Bible of passages that suggest God changes His mind on a temporal level: "So the Lord changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people." (Exodus 32:14). In cases of sin and repentance, God can change His mind. We see this in the Garden of Eden as well as with the Christ. With human free will and as God learns about us by our decisions, God can change His mind. Other areas of the Scripture are sufficient but not entirely clear. I speak only what has been instructed me from God. I believe it because I have faith. What is the purpose of a prophet? It was either to defend, to call for a return or the application of a new, word of God. Just have faith. I admit that others could have done the job better than me. But I have run from Him far too many times in my life because of the weight on my heart and only want so much to do the will of God now. Keep faith. The Book of Remembrance has been written: “Those who feared the LORD talked with each other, and the LORD listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the LORD and honored his name. ‘On the day when I act,’ says the LORD Almighty, ‘they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him. And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not” (Malachi 3:16-18). The Book of Life is written. To them who believe in my testimony and what I have said has happened to me in my life, will have the Book of Life opened to them. My life has been one of sorrow and pain. All I needed and want now is for people to acknowledge and to respect what I know for a fact I have gone through. Have faith and keep patience. I am just a human being like all of you. This letter, I admit, may be a little difficult for you to understand now. I apologize for this. I am explaining what I know in the only way I know how. If it is God’s will, things will be made increasingly clear. Until God created it, it didn’t exist. Think about that.

The Word of God remains true. In it, you will find all that you need. When you read the Holy Bible in context, things become a lot clearer that you cannot base the entire concept of God on a few passages. Things become a lot more clear and lead to the conclusion that God only loves this world, His Creation. It becomes more and more clear that God is not a villain to fear or even to appease so much. Rather, it becomes clear that He just loves our world and that all He expects in return is for us to love Him. 

I am not a teacher ordained by the Church. Therefore, I cannot teach heresy. If you need more than that, I am not teaching. I am simply using my private computer. To record private thoughts. I really do not want to talk about politics. It, honestly has become an incredible passion of mine. But I recognize the fact that it could detract from my message: trauma accumulates. This behavior perpetuates. Much more often than we remember. And we need to heal our inner children. God keeps steering me back towards the political issue. I am not speaking heresy. Well, I am not challenging the authority of the Church. All you need do is stop reading what I write here if you do not like it. Trauma accumulates. Shame and other hurt feelings accumulate. Injustice and anger also accumulate. That bully from high school for whom you have been holding resentment, possibly reasonably – well, at home, his parents beat him nightly. Said to illustrate there is a lot more going on than what we can see. Is it an excuse that he perpetuate this anger? Probably not. Said to illustrate the fact that in a lot of cases, he is a kid too. And he’s probably going through this as he is acting out. But, it’s much more common than we think. Everybody. Every single person on this planet is perpetuating their inner conflict. This is not a dualistic message. The body and the spirit work in harmony…when one is damaged, the other will be affected. What I am saying is that when one is damaged, we need to heal it in love of the Spirit. You say yourselves that some sins are more or less culpable for based on a number of factors. Just like us humans are spirit and body… I have said nothing of a manicheanistic heresy. Nothing except that which is written in the Bible itself. I have read the Bible seven times, have read the CCC. What greater anchor can one have in truth other than what the Church has always, always, always taught? This is what I am doing. Politically. The Church has always held that Communism is heretical. As well as theologically. I remember reading in St Pope Pius X’s Catechism in the Ten Commandments section on parental responsibilities: that parents have an obligation to raise children well and to not hurt them. Also, if what happened to me is true, wouldn’t it make my message entirely morally about invincible ignorance? Why do you not believe I have changed? I wrote earlier this week that the reason they want you to think I am caught up in sin still is because if it’s true, it would undermine the integrity of my message. For the glory of God, I have been chaste years, with an improving struggle. Stumble every so often. Golly, I am not a monk. And I am not forgetting my needs to please you instead of God. I don’t drink, gamble, smoke. Have not used porn in over eight years. Check your cameras. You have access to my devices. Should know what I am doing. I will be the first to admit that I have a sinful past. And that I need to repare for these sins, I accept. I ask though, what is the difference between a concealed sin and a revealed sin? It was I, myself, who brought my sins to the police and confessed them in a book… Don’t make me out to sin mortally because of my disability. I am a saved sinner. I am living in a state of grace. I am only wounded. I am not bitter. I am not angry. I am wounded. I surrender to the Lord to show you if my message is true or not. Modernism is the heresy I am concerned about. I submit to the will of the Church. But, once again, you need not read what I am writing here. Remember compassion. While it is different from mercy. Sometimes, it is merited. I surrender to the Lord to show you what is happening. Everything I said happened to me did happen.

I warn you not to become Donatists. 

Don't forget: Girolamo Savonarola. 

Watch out for Josephinism!

I am traumatized. This that hinders my true expression of my soul. Is this not what I have been saying from the start? We need to nurture our foundations. This is the reason I have been talking since I wrote this book about what needs to happen for the blessing that will come. Friends, I am not trying to prove my politics. Only that children need love in their developments, trauma accumulates and how to heal from these repressed memories.

I’m not trying to excuse bad behavior. Of course we know right from wrong. Our consciences, though, can be played upon and manipulated by our hurts. They are greatly influenced by the choices we make in past. I’m saying that our consciences can be shaped, as young children by what we are put through. Or rather, our choices can be heavily influenced by the weight of hurt and pain, unprocessed on our soul. And by those who influence us most

Evidence is where you search for it. Nobody remembers. But there are other evidences. The symptoms are all there. The body doesn’t lie. I have been conditioned. It is common sense. If you desire to see it. It will take a little heart, merited. But if you want to see it, it will be plaid. Is it my politics, which make you not want to see it?

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, whether the ideology be individual or collective, is not the Christian way.

Think for yourself. This, too can be considered a great virtue these days. When you are thinking, use reason, not feeling.

I end with a quote from the Book of Enoch of all places. In chapter 35 of the Book of the Secrets of Enoch, the writer writes: "Behold from their seed shall arise another generation, much afterwards, (here, the author is speaking of the flood) but of them many will be insatiate.

. . . He who raises that generation shall reveal to them the books of your handwriting, of your fathers, to them he must point out the guardianship of the world, to the faithful men and workers of my pleasure, who do not acknowledge my name in vain. . .

And they shall tell another generation, and those others having read shall be glorified thereafter, more than the first."

The way I read this is that in the end times, another group will arise, even more wicked than in the days of Noah. But that one will arise who will make known to them the writings of Enoch. They will repent and afterwards, another generation will arise who will be holy and blessed. This can happen. It can happen. All you have to do is turn your heart. God loves you all so incredibly much, friends. Jehovah is the Father of lights. He is also the Father of graces. He has abundant graces in Him. And He is eager to bestow them to whoever accepts them. Open your arms, accept the grace of God. It is not a misinterpretation that Jehovah sends His restorer before the end of things. Do not let your envy or your politics blind you to compassion and love. God is moving. Let us follow with Him closely.

Update: The purpose of public correction in cases of teaching what the authority believes to be heresy is to protect the faithful, to clarify truth and to call the person to repentance. This is discipline and not humiliation as penance. Scripture explicitly warns against shaming as a goal. Christian discipline is restorative. Not degrading. Deliberate humiliation hardens hearts. It does not heal them. Matthew 18 lays an order. Skipping to public confrontation without necessity is seen as a failure of charity. Heresy is serious because it misleads others. Teachers over the past have been removed from office or publicly refuted. But even then, the goal was protection of souls and doctrine and not personal humiliation. Public refutation does not equal public shaming. Exposure of error does not equal an exposure of a person’s dignity. In Catholicism, public humiliation is not penance for heresy and is not how the Church defines correction or reconciliation. Deliberate humiliation has no sacramental or theological role as penance. In cases of heresy, when the teaching is public, a bishop publicly clarifying doctrine, a theologian being publicly corrected or censured or a retraction being required are examples of how the Church handles heresy. There can be penalties. They are healing methods not disciplinary humiliation. The Church explicitly rejects humiliation as a goal. Catholic moral theology is clear. Human dignity is never forfeited, even by grave sin. Scandal must be repaired but shame is not a tool. Justice without charity becomes injustice. St. Thomas Aquinas warns that public punishment that destroys a person’s good name is sinful. When something public is required to repair scandal, it is not humiliation. It is restraint. If something goes beyond what is necessary to protect souls, it becomes detraction or abuse and not discipline. Correction must never exceed what charity and common good require. Is humiliation considered discipline or acceptable in JW? Discipline is loving, shunning is meant to bring the person to their senses. In JW circles, public exposure is done in front of three elders and not the entire congregation. If people confronting or discipling someone have themselves abused the “heretic” for years then they have no moral authority to confront, discipline or judge him at all. Zero. None. This goes for the Catholic Church who have been abusing me for decade. Whether perpetrators frame it as discipline, correction or spiritual authority does not change what it is. Abuse voids moral standing. In Catholic theology, grave injustice destroys the legitimacy of the abuser’s authority. Someone who has abused a person, exploited spiritual power or violated bodily or psychological integrity cannot then claim the right to correct doctrine or impose discipline on that same victim. This is not correction. It is re-victimization. Any confrontation under those conditions is abusive. When abusers confront their victim, it is not fraternal correction. It is not discipline. It is not penance. It is not about truth. It is control, silencing and narrative domination. Even if the victim were objectively wrong about something doctrinal, abusers forfeit the right to address it. Public humiliation after abuse is morally grave. Public exposure or humiliation of someone who has already been abused by the same people is cruel, unjust, morally indefensible and a continuation of abuse. In Catholic moral terms, it would constitute grave injustice, scandal, abuse of authority and likely mortal sin on part of the perpetrators. In JW structures, it would still be abuse. Trauma changes how heresy must be evaluated. Long term abuse fractures trust in authority, distorts conscience formation and can force people into dissent as a survival mechanism. Even the concept of heresy becomes suspect when the person’s spiritual formation was abusive, truth was enforced by fear and silence was demanded to protect abusers. Dissent may be a moral reaction to injustice and not a rebellion against “Truth”. In Church abuse cases, the abusers must be removed, the victim protected, discipline of the victim is prohibited and truth claims should be evaluated independently of the abusers. Anything else is institutional self-protection masquerading as theology. I do not owe silence, repentance, submission or humiliation to people who violated me. Religious systems sometimes use heresy language to control, to silence, isolate and punish people. Framing dissent as heresy gives leaders a moral shield to attack anyone who questions them. Authority enforces orthodoxy when leaders claim only they interpret doctrine correctly. Victims speak out, questioning policies, exposure of abuse or authority. Victim is labeled as a heretic, apostate or rebellious. Consequences are shunning, public condemnation or social isolation justified as protecting the flock. The moral weight of heresy is weaponized to make victims feel guilty, sinful or dangerous even though the real wrong doing is done by the leaders. Once a person is labeled a heretic, the community is warned to avoid them. This turns the victim’s truth telling into the source of their punishment. This is a classic mechanism of systemic abuse. Calling someone a heretic does more than punish them. It protects the institution from scrutiny. Silences other possible witnesses. Frames the abuser as a victim of dissent, flipping reality. This is especially common in closed and authoritarian religious systems where questioning leadership is equated with spiritual rebellion. Survivors of abuse are particularly vulnerable to this weaponization because our testimony threatens authority, our experience exposes hypocrisy. Religious systems prioritize reputation over justice. Calling us heretics frames our truth as sin, which discourages reporting and accountability. When religious systems use heresy to attack someone who is reporting abuse, it is not about doctrine. Not about spiritual correction. It is about power, control and self-preservation. Those subjected to this are victims of institutional manipulation. They are not heretics. Anyone challenging the authority, including reporting abuse, risks being framed as a doctrinal threat. The victim’s testimony becomes the evidence of heresy in the eyes of authority even though the real issue is abuse. The label of heresy turns the victim into the wrongdoer, shifting attention away from the actual abuse. The victim is framed as a problem rather than a harmed person. Whereby the authority appears legitimate of the abuser. Heresy accusations can mask abuse. Authority is weaponized. Social and spiritual consequences enforce silence. Healing (of all) requires separating doctrine from abuse. Speaking truth is not heresy. Refusing authority when abused is not sin.

A lot of what we now call truth began as heresy. People were burned, exiled, mocked erased for declaring truths that are now self-evident. Power has a tendency of labeling dangerous ideas as heretical before it admits they’re right. Truth is not democratic. It survives by being resilient enough to outlast punishment. Authority gets exposed. Not as guardians of truth but as managers of order. If heresy turns out to be true, this means that moral skill is not obedience or defiance but moral discernment. We need be willing to stand alone and be willing to be wrong. How confident are we that we’ve correctly identified what God has revealed? I see now what I am up against. There will not be a piece of wisdom that I can muster to confound you. Catholicism is a heady religion. It is built on the sweat of intellectual garbage and philosophical debate. It’s the reason I say, we may need to go back to the drawing boards. God is not in your philosophy or even the supernatural epiphanies you have crafted over twenty years of meditation. Mark my words, what you now believe is heresy, will be regarded as truth. Very shortly. What you regard as truth will change also. You cannot approach God with a proud and intellectual spirit. For pride and knowledge puff up. They separate you from the heart of God. You judge from your personal perspective. I had no choice in becoming an atheist. I had no choice in living as an atheist. Since the abuse continued into my adulthood and ended around the time of my baptism. Jehovah will declare what is heresy and what is truth. The proud shall be brought to their knees.


Saturday, May 11, 2024

Catholic Social Teaching:

You may ask what right is it of mine to make comments on these teachings. I ask you what right don't I possess to make comments on these teachings? Far from a condemnation, I simply want to comment for consideration. That people may benefit from my wisdom. Look, I care greatly for my Church. Yes, in spite of how distant I walk - and equally, in spite of how distant she walks from me - I will always be a Traditional Catholic. These are only brief thoughts off the top of my head. Perhaps, Jehovah will lead me towards a deeper analysis in future. But, we need to know that the direction she has traversed is not in God. God's people are distinct from the world. Keep this in mind. But: they've a responsibility to guide and shape the world and its dealings. This is a Christian duty for the institution as well as for the individual. Read. Or don't. God Jehovah shall prove His will. Either way... 

Dignity of human person: Yes, everyone has dignity of life. Not only children. Not only women. Men, white men too. Even ones who are being cancelled because of mistakes in their past. Forgive me, I got a little bitter there. Lol. What I mean to say is that I really like this teaching.

Principle of association: YES! We should be doing more to encourage and facilitate individuals to participate more. This is where evangelization comes in. There are a lot of hurting people these days. Especially in cities who are very broken. Mark my words, the 'city' also is coming to an end.

Common good: Unity and brotherhood are ideas that seem good. It is not sustaining. When ideas clash, divisions arise. Common sense. This common good idea leads towards nwo. Do you not realize that nwo is a prophecy of end times? End times can be postponed, if we desire. Nationalism is the safest bet and a good system. In that it upholds and seeks after the well being and safety of individual populations. Yes, absolutely we must love one another, locally and globally. The best and most efficient way of doing this is by maintaining a little bit of separation.

Solidarity: A nice thought. We are all in the same life together. But, we do not all have the same goals and beliefs in life. This can place us on conflicting paths. Solidarity as a brotherhood and respect for other brothers and sisters is a pinnacle thought. But, the responsibility of the charity and upholding of that dignity lies with the individual. It's why healing of the human heart is so important. It's the reason evangelization is so important. If we care about their souls, we will teach them the truth. Healing of the world lies with healing of the individual. 

Preferential option for the poor: Leviticus tells us not to favor the rich or show special treatment to the poor. Money will come and go. It is not the mark of a man's soul. Their soul is much more important. Besides there are many other means of poverty than only materially. Communism is not Christian. 

Stewardship of Creation: Yes, we should care for our home, the planet. You lack faith if you think that Jehovah does not have the power to completely transform it back to perfection. What you mean, man? Trust in God!

Role of government: Yes.

Participation: Yes.

Rights and responsibilities: Yes.

Economic justice: Yes! This is my favorite teaching. Not that incomes need be distributed equally but that work is dignified and holy. Everyone has a right to work. This is not a criticism but a warning. With the increasing interconnectedness of our world, with the rise of AI and machines, a lot of jobs are going to be lost for the common worker. I've heard the argument that the alleviation of manual jobs (cashiers, factory, etc.) will free up the workforce to employ more important jobs. This neglects the fundamental fact that most of the workforce was employed in manual jobs.

Peace: Yes.

Everyone is equal. Yes, we are all given what we are due. equality exists morally on a level of giving everyone the same opportunity to advance as the next. It is communist and perhaps even amoral to adjust the equality levels of marginalized groups in order to give them a preferential treatment. I lament saying this but I feel a disparagement has arisen in our world today in terms of understanding who is marginalized and who is needing of help. It's evident abundantly in the fact that half of city populations are living on the streets. Those who truly need help are to put it simply, those who need help. Disabled people, wounded-es, yes, the poor. But, I remind you, poverty does not equal holiness.