Notes on the Monolithic Nature of the Nation
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Some issues may arise from my home page piece
from July and August of 2011. Instead of trying
to cover all of them in the notes, I added this
page to address them.
Issue 1:
"What about Jesus' statement that we should fulfill the
smallest letter of the law?"
This is from the book of Matthew, chapter
five, verses 17 to 20. Jesus is responding to those who
believe that to be free from the Pharisee's religious
rule is to be exempt from the principles in the law. The
answer to this comes from a full biblical understanding
of the law, Truth and Grace, and the striking contrast
between them.
This question is only asked (almost
always in the most smug rhetorical manner) to keep
people under the crushing weight of the World System's
oppressive prosecutorial arm and paying them for the
privilege of helping to provide it. The main thrust of
Jesus' point was whether or not His listeners could
follow that law even better than the Pharisees. There
was only one way to do that. One simple command from
Christ will tell you. Look at John 15:12 to see it. I've
compiled an entire page of convincing
Scriptural support about the actual meaning of the law to the
follower of Christ and its profound contrast to Truth and Grace.
Issue 2:
"How is the metaphorical 'going
under the water and dying in a fish' different from the
human sacrifice you say is
practiced by World operatives?"
The answer is that the former is an
individual simply choosing to do what Christ did, giving
of himself out of love for another. Everything Jesus
said was about giving up yourself and your attachments
to the World to regain yourself in your truest form. He
added that the only way you could do this was by Him.
The latter is biting off other humans to
stuff oneself. It is about being so devoted to mammon,
that you must devour the value of others in order to
sate one's desires. The most repulsive idols adopted to
do this are all the powerful people who best facilitate
the value extraction of the World System—the government
administrator, the financial advisor, the institutional
minister—getting in good with them is the overriding
goal.
If you cannot see the difference between
the two forms of sacrifice, then nothing written in this
webzine will be meaningful.
I should add, however, that when speaking of
self-sacrifice, 99% of the time this is not ending one's
life by stepping in front of a bullet
to save someone else. Most times it is simply the
choices one makes every moment to love another actively
in both word and deed, and this does involve giving up
some other selfishly pleasurable things that would
hinder that expression.
It is indeed "dying to self" on a regular
basis and "taking up the cross" of being alive in Christ
no matter what kind of pain comes with it. Those who
have done this have found that the most pleasurable
things come from self-sacrifice. Ultimately, yes, one's
physical body will die after such devotion. But those
who've habitually lived this kind of life depart the
mortal and temporal with the deepest joy because they
know they've loved because they are loved, eternally and
infinitely.
The home page piece mentions
the practice of "markdowns." All this means is that
companies try to read how a given market will behave
with respect to a given good or service. It is human
nature to try to find the highest value that would be
considered.
For instance, if I try to sell
a brand new invention, the turnip twaddler, I
need to get an idea of what kind of demand there would
be for that product. The marketing experts I consult
will try to find that out, but it is a lot like looking
in a crystal ball. Of course large amounts of
psychology, sociology, management skill, and plain common sense is
employed. But all they are asking is essentially, "Will
other human beings value this, and by how much?"
What then happens is the
company may figure people will value a twaddler at
$10.00 each, but actually price it for the market at $30.00
each. Assuming all the costs are entered into the $10.00
price, the company simply makes the $20.00 it won't get
from the market at $30.00 another cost. They call
it the "markdown" simply because they have to mark their
preconceived
$30.00 item down to $10.00 to better reflect the
market forces of supply and demand.
The question here is not
whether profits are good. Jesus even said they're
good when he spoke about using your gifts to amplify and
enhance the value of that gift for the benefit of all in
community. Profits simply represent the measure of
what's been done for others considered useful (whether
they actually are is another issue altogether).
The question is what are
businesses doing to get those profits (exploiting others
who are susceptible to exploitation?), what are they
doing with that money (appropriating it for iniquitous
purposes?), and how are they going about making
themselves look good all the same (setting up
organizations that foster codependent reliance on them
and their "generosity"?)
Barry Lynn's book Cornered
goes into great detail about the truth of "standard
business practices." The saddest part is not his
elucidation of that frightening reality, but his
conclusion that fails to contain the actually
efficacious answer, which is "Leave all of this, turn
to Christ, and manage all your enterprises
from the Kingdom." It is instead the pathetically typical "Keep
trying hard to tell Caesar to do more and more good things
and help out many more people." But he too, like so
many, is wholly Catholicized and simply cannot
comprehend the magnificent truth of a God who does reign
and does provide a very real deliverance from this body
of death.
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