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In the Bible, it states that Jesus was looking to make men like him, to make them a fisherman of men, and therefore it follows that he was looking to make them perfect.   It also follows that to be perfect you have to STOP being what you are now, thereby making being perfect the goal.  

Now this has confused many people, not the least of which is me, since attaining perfection, through hard work, is every kid's dream.  Except that attaining perfection is done not by beating others but at stopping the erosion of perfection... or of civility. 

To be civil is to have manners or better, to have laws, or better, to NOT have your own police department break its own laws, there... negative reinforcement works best! 

So here you are a teenager, you've read comics and watched movies and gone to Sunday school and most of the time they talk about being better at things.  They request that you strive harder or maybe run faster.  The true superheroes both in comics and in the Bible tend to vanquish others in spectacular form usually with the help of God right?  

But where do these special powers come from?  Where are these feats Moses is known for or these Superhuman strength feats Superman is known for?  Is this magic?  

Well, as are most things, it's all in the Eye of the Beholder, which means that you have to have the right perspective to see things just the right way.  One man's Moses is another man's William Wallace.  So WHERE am I getting at? 

Well one day there will come a time when people will struggle to find out for themselves WHO they are?  Will they stand up for freedom or bow to animalism. 

I was watching A Royal Affair recently, on Netflix, about a doctor who is appointed to care for the King and who eventually has an affair with the Queen.  It's very incisive and step by step you see with reality what it must be like to be brilliant and have no power, like me, to be stupidly wealthy and be a threat to noone and yet have enemies everywhere, like me, and perhaps not lastly, to be constantly horny for someone that is NOT your spouse(what?).   

(chuckle)

And trust me on this, the first couple of minutes is pretty boring but it gets real interesting real fast.  Oh and btw it's in a foreign language but it still has real film quality.  

No booby shots btw so just throwing that out there.  

The film makes a point althroughout that even with dictators, the power is not necessarily fluid or even centered.  People were getting fired, banished, or replaced despite being noble and well-liked.  I think that lends a sense of reality to the film.  

It didn't matter who in the film was doing wrong, it mattered who knew about it.(Remember my lesson of the question of WHERE?)  As soon as the doctor started to shake up the royal council with ideas he had harbored from being a commoner, the council dug around to find stuff out about him and then used HIS OWN suggestions against him by passing out pamphlets that slandered his name, whereas before his "reforms" and his "free speech" those pamphlets would not have been allowed.  

Such is war.  Verily(if he will but believe in me) at the end, (dare I say it... "spoiler alert" go down to the next paragraph); while he is being led to his execution, he chants out that "I am one of YOU!" over and over and wonders at how his own people, the common and the poor, that he saved from smallpox(at great expense to the court) and from corporeal punishment(which was a right held by the nobles which he outlawed), could now be standing there in the thousands, believing the pamphlets that said that he was poisoning the King(the king had become afraid of the people so stopped going out), and was an enemy of the state(he was from Germany) and was screwing the queen(this part was true).  And after the doctor's head was lopped off, the king and the queen realized clearly, though too late, what was happening, it was simply a coup d'etat and nothing more.  It wasn't about who was right or whether they had done something wrong or had been stupid, it was just people acting to keep their positions and to keep their money where it was, in their pockets, and not funding these reforms that costed more money.  

Both the king and queen loved the doctor and were lied to to achieve... what was achieved. 

This is much of what is happening to me.  I am accused perhaps of a great deal of wrongdoing but the facts are that I don't do drugs or score whores and with ME there, talking and breathing and acting like those things don't belong in a bar, it stops the money from going where THEY think it belongs.  So my reputation has been "pamphlet"-ed out there in an effort to just keep me away.  

 And such is what it means to pursue civility.  The masses demand reforms and care for the poor but in the end, they respect and yearn for power.  Power puts things in order.  You might wonder why people would gather around the cross of Jesus and gaze and revel in his death and that is because he is chaos.  One man without power trying to rule... is chaos.  If people are not willing to act, they are merely intellectuals, merely teachers.  It makes no sense to even listen to them. This is why in Star Wars Yoda talks about letting go of what is lost and to not fear death even that of a loved one like Padme.  People SHOULD be willing to die.  They SHOULD live without fear.  They SHOULD sleep knowing that "if they die before they wake, they pray the lord their soul to take".  This is what it means to be at peace.  When you live your life without fear, you are already in heaven when you sleep.  You can look forward to heaven every night and you can instead of walling up fortifications for your parents and your siblings and your children, you can know that if they die, that the appropriate response will follow and that their deaths will serve a purpose... a very public purpose.  A purpose the helps everyone.  

And it's through this realization that we can go back and understand the masses when they scream at Jesus.  They don't wish for civility, which takes work.  They don't wish to be perfect, by acknowledging a uniform edict to work together.  They don't wish to BE a part of the new world order where a higher level of understanding will allow us to shave off money from people that have much too much money.  

No, too many of the people that have that understanding also know that they got that understanding by being allowed to learn it and not because they earned it.  See that?  They were allowed to understand.  That's why teachers tend to be not so great.  That's why Jesus died and the devil was born.  People who do not blindly make their "leap of faith" for the sake of the public, for the sake of the body politic, are functionally allowing Jesus to die on that cross... over and over again.  

I am guilty of it too.  I have noone to fight for but myself but I don't think it is my time to fight, but I believe the day will come when I must.  

Often I think back to my time of suffering when I was in customer service, trying to take calls, speaking over a torrent of people simply throwing hatred at me, by coughing, by dragging their feet behind me, by popping air bubbles in a plastic bag, all the while knowing that they were inches away from being terminated for code of conduct violations and yet they did it anyways.  It was a duldrum move for me to do nothing since to turn them in to management would force me to ACT against people that I didn't understand.  Why were they doing this to me?  And the longer it went on the more I suffered and the more I suffered the more I wondered why were the people that weren't lobbying hatred at me... why were they doing nothing?  

Indeed Jesus clamored out to God those self-same words, "WHY hast thou forsaken me!!!"

See, that's God. God is the people.  And if you PEOPLE have not all become God the Avenger, then you are all God the Beast.  And what does God the beast want when they don't want to work very hard or learn very much or reach any level of understanding that they would have to teach... what do these people... these children of God the Beast... want?  

"Give us Barabas!" 

PS: It's not hard to understand HOW it is that the richest of the rich are keeping their power.  Because if the world came to a halt and everyone on the Earth stopped fighting, if there was NO horde out there to triumph over, what would happen next I wonder?  Who would we be against? 

The Patriot Act must be allowed to expire and we must return to a past just after WWII, when we were CLOSEST... to perfection.