Bias against guaranteed employment plainly evidenced in the report. This from the IG report out this week where FBI Attorney tries to comfort FBI Attorney 2:
Trump's supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS that think he will magically grant them jobs for doing nothing.
The inspector general cited five FBI officials for anti-Trump bias. And that didn't count the 'FBI Employee' who described Trump voters as 'poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS.' https://t.co/HRMCp12UXB— Byron York (@ByronYork) June 15, 2018
Don't be looking for any political support for the JG from the Deep State...
More because the deep state fancies itself part of the elite, I would say. That quote pretty much sums up the elite view of "the little people" (Alan Simpson) aka "the deplorables" (HRC). It's bipartisan prejudice.
ReplyDelete‘Through a glass darkly’ Matt ....
ReplyDeleteA human being took millions of years to evolve; an absolute miracle in this universe, no matter from which vantage point. Their most incredible feature is the ability to know the Self, and that is just the beginning.
For me, respect is not a superficial thing. When you look inside of yourself and find something that is real, fall in love with it, and understand how precious and amazing it is, then you have found something to respect that is unconditional; Breath - alive without a flaw. Everything on the outside is conditional; ever being recycled, evolving ever closer to the pattern. But, not one single atom in this universe that is ‘garbage’.
And noticing it in yourself, you notice it in others. That is why Christ said ‘you are brothers, with one Father’ (personifying the Divine for simple people); that no one understands diddly-squat, without this knowledge of what is inside of you. A simple lesson - adding to what Buddha taught – something to be experienced; beyond the pages of the books. Christ knew human nature, but still he taught brothers and father.
Within this ‘dirt’ a perfect place; where all is well, serene, beautiful and peaceful - on the outside, everything becoming what it is; the heart over flowing with respect, admiration, gratitude; tears of joy in the eyes! Knowledge!
A human being! Everything below the human flows towards becoming human. All of the great poets sang the praises of this human being. Never from their pens dripped the poison of garbage .....
These are the eyes through which to see a human .... millions and millions of them, coming and going, leaving no trace; but see what is inside to understand why. What happens to this being when the lamp is lit. How the heart rejoices! That is Life!
“More like they're White Racist POS who'd rather eat dirt and live in a box under a bridge than allow non-Whites to get 'free stuff'.”
ReplyDeleteNeb, you guys just had your 8 years of major diversity initiatives why don’t you just declare victory and move on.... the rest of us voted and won to repair the potholes for at least the next 4 years..
jr,
ReplyDeleteChristianity is ideally divisive ....
“Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.” Luke 12:51
ReplyDeleteIt’s not a dialectical method (combinatory)... Greek Scriptures are full of warfare/military analogies,etc...
“ Christ knew human nature,”
ReplyDeleteNo he didn’t.... this was the whole point... it’s a contrast... a division....
“God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.“ Gen 1
ReplyDeleteDivision is foundational in this era....
JR you guys are at least 1,000 years ahead of the game imo...
Like you I’m just me Matt, so who cares about the game? Anyway ...
ReplyDeleteI think the Christians misinterpreted the Ageless Wisdom, with their ideas about ‘darkness’. Darkness is the Absolute Principle (beyond the range and reach of all human thought and expression) from which manifests mulaprakriti (the ‘world-egg’) that responding to inherent Breath (fohat, prana, energy, motion) will later become Spirit (1st Logos, Father, Will, Being) at one pole and Matter (3rd logos, Mother, Active Intelligence) at the other; only then does their union produce Light (2nd logos, Son, Universal Soul or Christ principle, consciousness). So matter is consolidated light and light consolidated spirit and spirit the issue of the great unknown ‘darkness’ out of which everything periodically manifests. You will find the same thing in all of the world’s esotericism and mysticism, of which the exoteric religions are lay expressions, generally personifying the ‘Darkness’. Every single atom dancing with the Life!
In human terms the mind makes divisions but the heart sees the single reality behind all of these. Think of the time your heart last sang in pure happiness Matt, just by itself, for no reason, happy to be alive – what were you seeing out of your eyes? My bet is, it wasn’t multiplication or division; you weren’t even adding things up?
Today, I paid tribute to a 96 year old who passed. He was a p.o.w then came to Aus. His favourite saying was “‘Life is beautiful”. A few hours before he died he put a paper brown barf bag over his head, said he was a prince; to get a laugh out of the nurses! He could add up ...
This morning I remembered vaguely a little story (from the Upanishads maybe?): - I don't know - maybe it was the Mind or the Emotions or the Body, but out of ignorance they went to the Sun, complaining about the darkness (the kind of darkness to which christians love to refer, deify even, hence take up arms and fight - instead of simply acknowledging and exercising their Power of Choice to walk on). "Darkness" said the Sun. "What darkness? Everywhere I go, all I see is Light!" Light only penetrates so far into the ocean; after that it gets dark. We all choose where we live.
ReplyDeleteIn the Ageless Wisdom Lucifer was the bringer of Light: - it took some of the early chrisitian fathers, who had no understanding of the esoteric texts, to turn him into the devil in order to control their flock, original sin and all the rest of it; rather than karma for which you are responsible. I think Tom who has studied these things might agree: - according to the Himalayan school there is not one idea in the christian texts (perhaps just the OT)that is not taken from the perennial wisdom and ancient texts, and modifed to suit the religious purposes of some of the early church fathers. As with all of the world's relgions.
A religious form only lasts so long as a vehicle; then it doesn't suit any more and is shed; just like a crab sheds its shell. Happening in the world today but nothing to replace it with other than materialism. People should be allowed to practice their religion in peace; but many others will be looking further afield. The human heart cannot be fooled. From form to form it will seek, and these forms can be political, religious, economic, artistic, scientific, ideological, organisational etc - eventually it will look within itself.
It knows when it finds what it was after. Then all the religions will make sense 'father' 'in heaven' 'darkness' and 'light' etc. Heaven we carry within us and hell we carry within us. We get to choose. The heart has a language of its own and like children, we listen and learn its song. Mind goes huh? But somehow little children learn to speak.
jr,
ReplyDelete“karma for which you are responsible.”
I don’t believe in free will... I’m a Determinist...
We have to deal correctly with the material issues (“peace and security”) before we can get to the non-material matters...
“Lucifer was the bringer of Light”
ReplyDeleteHe was perhaps the bringer of the dialectic (“knowledge of good AND evil”) which some may see as enlightening...
But it then becomes a “house divided against itself” and doesn’t work...
In terms of the mind (a limited device expandable only through experience) I start with the conception of an Absolute Principle; always was, always is, always will be – a Causeless Cause of all manifestations of the universe(s). The human mind shrinks away when it considers as manifest, infinite Space or Time: - one universe could simply be one atom amongst many, on many planes – no one knows. There is no Determinism or Division, Matter or Spirit manifest in an Absolute Principle – however, it can manifest anything it likes, anyway it likes, from a Boundless Potential. It could shift your nose down to below your belly button if it wanted to! In this universe it has created Being and every single atom in it partakes of this Being. People should get used to the idea that their mind is a very small drop in a very large ocean. Superficially, Creation may seem to manifest different principles, but look deeper – these just exist in the human mind. Just because humans tell a story about politics, religion and economics on this planet, does not mean that these have got anything to do with reality. If you listen you will hear laughter ring amongst the stars!!
ReplyDeleteBack here on earth, the quantum and nuclear physicists get excited and look at each other knowingly: - there is no material world. They know something the rest of humanity will slowly have to wake up to. All those material laws of nature disappear over an energy horizon. There is nothing in this universe other than energy and they are wondering for the life of them - how consciousness and Life arise from that. Being is still a profound mystery.
Politics, religion and economics exist in the minds of men and because of this, they manifest on the outside. Primitive man looked up at the stars wheeling overhead and felt an awe and wonder; put their heads together and came up with G. O. D. (generator, operator, destroyer) – then they personalised it so that their god looked very much like them; was jealous and had wars just like them. Then they misunderstood what their Teachers said using simple language about ‘father in heaven’ etc. All of this needs to be cleared from the mind, just like flat earth theory and monetary theory; politics will one day recognise a hierarchy of Being. There is Life in this universe and it is Being. The closest term we humans have to this Being is Universal Energy – we just have to give it back its Life, its Consciousness that we stole from it, materialised and began to worship (Jehovah) in its Appearance. In the Ageless Wisdom the Absolute Principle does not create. Everything in creation is because of some Being, at whatever level it exists, and all are absorbed back to this Absolute Principle when the universe goes back to sleep.
The human heart is the greatest, most magical, sensitive, scientific, instrument we possess; way better than the Hadron Collider, priceless too – it is capable of knowing this Divine (not the stories) and putting the mind to rest; enlightening the mind. From this knowledge I believe, a better world may be dreamed up in the minds of men – no divisions; us responsible for what we determine. Karma is just another word for determine. After 200,000 years on the road, it is time to begin.
There is nothing ever achieved by war on this planet, that could not better have been achieved by Peace.
I probably should ‘re-mind’, ‘bring-back-to-mind’ that mind always uses the cookie-cutter approach; chopping everything up into little pieces, chop chop chop as far as it can go, until boom the sub-particles vanish, always generating more questions than answers.
ReplyDeleteThat is why we miss the Life in everything; why our eyes do not perceive the Being in everything. There is a quote somewhere, I think it was Carl Jung who said, paraphrasing ”Vision is of the pure heart”. In other words it is the Being inside of us that perceives, not the mind. Mind is a filter; and mind chops everything up into divisions (granted that is useful if used judiciously). People chase the phantoms flittering in the filter – I think that is what (Plato’s?) allegory of the cave is about? Being provides a single answer to everything, even though everything can only be partially uncovered.