The Forgotten

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The future will kiss

Our shadows as if it knew

The things that we had chosen

And all the things that we had forgotten,

It will stare back as if

We were a part of all to come

The things that we had seen

And everything that we had prophesied,

But we are the lost

The souls who burned on Hell’s cold fields

And left the lessons buried there,

The future will still close

It’s cold unempathetic eye

It’s vengeful ghost still chained against

The cliffs we fought so hard to tame,

The laughter rings like rain

Upon the boxes we built as defence

Which wall out the moments frozen

To stop them scratching out our eyes,

The future will still blow

It’s kisses downwind to hide its fear

And all the things that we had chosen

For we are the forgotten.

© All original writing copyright Chris Nelson 2018

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We should all be writing

In this present world lots of short notices or messages are posted on social media, but to find serious writing on the net has become limited.

There is a serious need for analysing what happens in the world. We could do with some more bloggers recording for history what is going on and how we feel about it. Analyses of people giving an idea how a culture experiences the events.

It is for any person impossible to know what future shall bring, but by the knowledge of what happened in the past people can have an idea how things can evolve.

For sure all people should try to work for a better future and if they do not fix the disinformation problem, the divide will only widen.

You have very good reasons to point to Nazi Germany, because many factors are pointing that direction, and people could be surprised it can be as bad as then sooner than people think.

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To remember

Journals. Blogs. Letters to the editor. Letters to others. Letters to representatives. Emails. Facebook posts.

> recording for history

history written by those who have most to gain by revising history.

‘recording’ history =/= ‘rewriting’ history.

current problem = large number of people been brainwashed by lies + who think they are informed.

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Be the scribe. Record your experiences. Tell history the facts.

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Preceding

Mountains of information, disinformation and breaking away

Fake News Goes Back to the Garden of Eden says Pope Francis I

Parallels between what is happening in our world today and the atmosphere in pre-Nazi Germany

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Additional reading

1. Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past
2. Finish each day and be done with it
3. A Living Faith #5 Perseverance
4. No curtain placed over tomorrow
5. So it will be on the day when …
6. Not to speak is to speak
7. Faith, hope and love abide
8. A concrete picture of what is to come in the future
9. Trust the future to God
10. You God hold the future

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Evolutionary Politics for Evolving Citizens

We should all be writing.

Journals. Blogs. Letters to the editor. Letters to others. Letters to representatives. Emails. Facebook posts.

We need to be recording for history what is going on and how we feel about it.

They say that history is written by the winners. I don’t agree. I believe history is written by those who have the most to gain by revising history.

There is a difference between ‘recording’ history and ‘rewriting’ history. We are seeing this happening in 2017. There are those in public life who don’t seem to understand that technology makes it easy to find the videos from the past that document a statement. You can try to deny that you said something but someone will find that video and publish it to prove you are lying.

The current problem is not just the lying about the past, even the recent past. What is most…

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Yesterday not ours to recover

Yesterday is not ours to recover,
but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Gisteren niet aan ons gelegen om te herstellen

Little

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Eyes + Words

2/10/2017

“It’s amazing how a little

tomorrow can make up for

a whole lot of yesterday.”

– John Guare

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Photographer Unknown

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Leap

I do hope the author of the nice blog Reflections on Existence does not mind having my mind having gone wild by the dramatic photo on her site, bringing up a lot of thoughts in my whirling head. Often having to go over the edge, seeing many people not knowing where to jump over the stones lying on their path to somewhere in the future, I wondered.

Many may

skip and plummet into the void

Chasing the edge of an

Expanding universe.

Our lives are not agonizingly static,  stationary bike

Tires ceaselessly, maddeningly, spinning

Going nowhere. {When Words Fail}

Many roads in this world may be full of pitfalls and weeds growing everywhere. It looks like many do not want to go in the woods any more because it looking to dark for them and to much overgrown.

People have become afraid of taking risks or to show their inner being, letting know others what they really think or how they really feel. Lots of people do think they have to go with the mainstream and have to be popular, following the popularism of the present society where some politicians try to bring fear over the population, to enlarge their power and to exclude others to enjoy some of the welfare they might have.

Instead of trying to build up their own strongly funded future, many do hope others can do such building for them. Though those do not create the good pastures and many of those politicians have planted harmful weeds in the fields, infecting the wild and domestic horses. As such them jumping over the wild waters will not always bring them in the safe fields or bring them to good grassland.

Let us hope more people will have their eyes opened, not blinded by the low hanging sun of misleading politicians. That they take the risk jumping over the wild streams, daring to hang over the now and then, the between here and there containing all the risk
man could ever bear but has to do it for his own security and better life.

It is in the silent breaths between the lines we craft,

The mysterious space where words fail,

That our deepest truths are told, {When Words Fail}

that we may recover our deepest self and become pure again by a brighter light than the human being ever can present, making the grass grow and giving oxygen to the world, us being free again to run wild and to enjoy the life Allah has in mind for us, where all overs of God can be together in peaceful surroundings, giving each-other energy and hope to continue spreading the Good News of a coming Kingdom that shall be better than any human kingdom or republic.

Let us therefore look for words that may bring our heart to life, stirring our depths, carrying on the whisper of our clean breath. {read: Bread}

 

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Save

Save

Reflections on Existence

a single moment

between here and there

contains all the risk

you could ever bear

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leap into the future,

the reality,

to co-create…

all possibilities.

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© M.G. Iannucci 2017

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The future is not out there somewhere. There is no predetermined path for you to walk. You co-create your own future along with all living beings and the Creator who holds it all in existence. Choose each step wisely and with courage. We are all on the journey together.

Photo: Thank you to Derrick Knight for the wonderful photo. You can visit his blog by clicking the link HERE.

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Remember (an acrostic poem)

Never Short On Words

Reeling in grief at the loss of life

Embracing the challenge to overcome

Memories etched in our collective souls

Becoming stronger by becoming one

Elevating our eyes towards tomorrow

Reaching for a better future

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In Defense of the truth

Like the former Christian minister, writer, musician says “You can lead a horse to water, but sometimes you just have to drown them.” (or something like that) we should remember that it is important how we want to use our mind and find or bring logic and reason to the forefront of the place where we live and in our conversations with those around us.

Facing the difficulties in life we are always surrounded with many questions and most of us are looking for what we call”the Truth“.

In that quest for Truth most people are also confronted with religions and with ministers who work for certain denominations. Their attitude, their response to the many questions, often shall take the questioning person to take his or her next steps and shall bring on an attitude for the future.

We can not deny that probably “every single pastor (and pastor’s wife), every evangelist, every church planter and self described theologian” that has come certain persons their way over the past few years may have “slithered away like a de-fanged, de-rattled snake, back into the night where they came from.” Is that not a shame?

Have those ministers or priests had to go in the darkness again because they could not explain what really happened in the garden of Eden? Was it not because they could not show the writer of this reblogged text that there is not such thing as “a child murdering, rape endorsing, slavery promoting deity”?

God is a god of love. Out of love He has given the right for the people who took adversary on Him to rule the world and to arrange the things themselves. Though now they want to blame Him because He does not play the dictator and interferes, making everything like He wants it to be.

We may not forget that it is not God who is the cause of all those diseases and disasters which hit the world. He is not ruling this world. It are the adversaries of God (Satan) who are ruling this world now.

We just have to be patient enough until the third World War and the thousand years afterwards. Only then, after Jesus his return and the fulfilment of the promise of the Great Reality of the renewed Israel and the handing over by Jesus of the Kingdom of God to God, those who had their faith in this hope of Unity and Peace and did everything to live according to the Laws of Christ and the Law of God, shall be able to enter that Kingdom of God and enjoy a world without pain and without difficulties.

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Preceding: Cancerous Black Holes

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Please do find also to read:

1. Our way of life
2. Pain and Suffering is inevitable but Misery is optional
3. From pain to purpose
4. The blessing of a broken leg
5. Partakers of the sufferings
6. Foreword to Suffering
7. Suffering (Cd art)
8. Suffering – through the apparent silence of God
9. Suffering continues
10. Suffering leading to joy
11. Seems no future in suffering
12. Learning from suffering
13. Facing disaster fatigue
14. The soul has no rainbow if the eyes have no tears
15. Character is built
16. Your struggles develop your strengths
17. Reacting to Disasters
18. Dying or not
19. Frank risks taking
20. Remember there’s a light in the next day
21. If your difficulties are longstanding, try kneeling
22. Even in tough times remembering the blessings
23. Words from God about suffering
24. Self inflicted misery #1 The root by man
25. Self inflicted misery #2 Weakness of human race
26. Self inflicted misery #7 Good news to our suffering
27. Self inflicted misery #9 Subject to worldly things
28. Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #3 Right to Human dignity
29. Science, belief, denial and visibility 2
30. Faith and trial
31. A Living Faith #4 Effort
32. Fragments from the Book of Job #1: chapters 1-12
33. Fragments from the Book of Job #2: chapters 12-20
34. Fragments from the Book of Job #3: chapters 21-26
35. Fragments from the Book of Job #4: chapters 27-31
36. Fragments from the Book of Job #5: chapters 32-37
37. Fragments from the Book of Job #6: chapters 38-42
38. Fragments from the Book of Job #7 Epilogue
39. Bad things no punishment from God
40. Profitable disasters
41. Salvation, trust and action in Jesus #1 Suffering covered by Peace Offering
42. Miracles in our time of suffering
43. Offer in our suffering
44. Patient waiting (Cd art)
45. Be like a tree planted by streams of water
46. Suffering produces perseverance
47. Moving mountains
48. Rejoice even though bound to grieve
49. Suffering redemptive because Jesus redeemed us from sin
50. Surprised by joy
51. Surprised by time in joys & sufferings
52. Destination of the earth
53. Expiatory sacrifice
54. Crucifixion for suffering
55. From pain to purpose
56. Old age
57. Temptation and its conquest
58. Pain and Suffering is inevitable but Misery is optional
59. Light within
60. To be chained by love for another one
61. When the wind blows hard on a tree
62. Your struggles develop your strengths
63. The inspiring divine spark
64. Disappointed with God
65. Not sure there exist a God
66. Seeing or not seeing and willingness to find God
67. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #15 Exposition before the Creator
68. God’s Comfort
69. Only one God
70. Some one or something to fear #6 Faith in the Most High
71. Commit your self to the trustworthy creator
72. Getting out of the dark corners of this world
73. God should be your hope
74. Our relationship with God, Jesus and eachother
75. Nuturing a close relationship with God
76. Give your worries to God
77. Let us recognise how great God is
78. God is the strength of my heart
79. God Helper and Deliverer
80. God is positive
81. God’s design in the creation of the world
82. God’s instruction about joy and suffering
83. God’s promises
84. God His measure not our measure
85. God’s non answer
86. God’s promises to us in our suffering
87. Gods hope and our hope
88. God’s salvation (Cd art)
89. You God hold the future
90. Hope (Cd art)
91. Hope for the future
92. Importuning for suffering hearts
93. Incomplete without the mind of God
94. Is God hiding His face when He is seemingly silent
95. Jehovah my strenght
96. Kingdom of God what will it be like
97. God His reward
98. Chrystalised harmonious thinking
99. Epitome of the one faith
100. Life with God
101. Meaning of life
102. Some important differences
103. True hope
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106. Songs in the night Worship God only
107. Gospel = Good tidings, good news, a good message
108. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us
109. Preaching to an unbelieving world
110. To Live Gratitude
111. For those who make other choices
112. A concrete picture of what is to come in the future
113. Greatest single cause of atheism
114. Change

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Center For Reason

I like to argue. Anyone who knows me at all knows that I will debate anyone but what I really enjoy is a good argument where I don’t have to be polite or patient and I especially enjoy arguing with pious self righteous bigots who have made a career of selling heaven for profit like monopoly real estate.

So I woke up this morning like usual around 5 am. And like usual I reached for my phone to check my Facebook and Twitter accounts for comments.

I saw a couple of posts from friends a few conversations were going on about science and reason but today there were no heated arguments or comments from professional fucktardery profiteers offering prayers for my soul or proposing to change my mind about evolution or show me the error of my apostate heart and being me back to the feet of jesus at the…

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