Barth was the first theologian to begin the criticism of religion, and that remains his really great merit; but he put in its place a positivist doctrine of revelation which says, in effect, ‘Like it or lump it’: virgin birth, Trinity,, or anything else; each is an equally significant and necessary part of the whole, which must simply be swallowed as a whole or not at all. That isn’t biblical.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Letters and Papers from Prison", p. 286.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Such is Life, there are winners and losers. Most of us just have to keep trying for it is useless to reason why.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Wait one minute, like always, President Donald Trump has a plan!
Maybe it’s a New Years plan. Landers is a long way from Washington but shall we guess? The Trump plan could be to combine the $2000 checks to low income citizens with the long standing Republican election reforms that have been repeatedly trashed by the Democrats. Could any politically sensitive lawmaker of either party oppose this legislation and still survive? This could get interesting.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
One can always go home, no matter what. It will not be perfect, it never was, but it will be home.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Some of us wonder, at what speed would 3I/Atlas have to be making to be captured into an orbit around our sun as another planet? Is it all about speed?
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
God is on the side of the helpless. If there be God justice in eternity as some of us believe, the party will celebrate the earthly helpless.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
What does it mean to be moral? How do we know if a particular action is right or wrong? If you think you know and you have your absolutes, you are a fool. If you knew that by killing one person, millions of lives would be saved, would you do the deed? That was the question that drove German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer to participate in a plot to try to kill Adolf Hitler. Was this action moral?
Bonhoeffer
had a neat ethical system and then he had to live it. Any logical absolutist system
will be crushed in the troubled waters of life. Dietrich escaped Germany with
his family as the failed plot was being investigated but the justly moral
Dietrich made another decision. Returning to his German homeland alone, he was
imprisoned and then hanged until dead in the closing days of WWII.
Was this
action moral or false guilt?
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Sean Duffy was questioned by Finnety on Newsmax about 31/Atlas. Mr. Duffy our Transportation Secretary, has oversight authority to include the National Space Agency. Mr. Duffy said all the right things but some of us detected a lack of confidence. Was the shutdown responsible for NASA’s lack of transparency? Why no NASA pictures? We all will find out very soon, natural or something other.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
They are trotting everybody out these days. You know, the old Republican establishment guard and the likes of Newt Gingrich. The hero of Republican conservatism of 30 years ago has tried to stay politically relevant by running for the Presidency (2012) and writing books about or in support of President Donald Trump. Only to a point however, if he had a vote, which he does not, Newt says, no go on the proposal that the Republican majority of the U. S. Senators discard the 60 vote filibuster rule (60 out of 100).
Mr. Speaker,
have you not heard? The old Republican traditional politics is dead, almost as
dead as you and I, Mr. Speaker. Maybe,
we should both sit in our rockers and shut up. You can’t and I can’t so let’s
have a tussle to the finish line. You have all the credentials, a Doctorate in
history, a College professor, a political career in the U. S. House of
Representatives and the House Speakership. The tussle would seem to be a
mismatch. Not so says this BoBo.
Let’s start from the beginning. Newt, please answer one question. Who first broke the U. S. Senate “gentlemen’s filibuster agreement”? The rule of the Senate is intended to ensue that either party will not make unilateral radical changes to the political status quo based upon a thin majority. This is the spirit of our politics.
Neither
party has broken the agreement you answer. Wrong again. President Biden ungentlemanly
broke the spirit of the 60 vote rule when he opened the gates of American to upwards of 25 million
potential Democrat voters who would vote Democrat by hook or by crook. The Senate after the 2020 election was split, 50 Democrats to 50 Republicans, Vice President Kamala Harris gave the swing vote to Biden for his disastrous immigration policy. There
was no across the ale respect given to Republicans, no considering
of half way measures, zero respect was given and all our niceties have been trashed.
This was not
an official Senate vote but this one sided decision landed with just as much force
upon the other half of the American people, the consequences in lives lost are
immeasurable. What do you say Newt? This BoBo really doesn’t know how a reasoned opposing argument can be made. They (the vast majority of radical left Democrats) are
not playing nice and we are monumental saps if we remain stuck with our heads in the sand.
Pass voter
I.D. or our Republic is finished.
G. Goslaw
Landers, CA.
Republicans this is no time to relax. The Democrats didn’t cave, only eight democrats caved in the Senate. The vast majority of radical left democrats will never be persuaded to become moderates. Our American politics needs a one two punch combination, the first punch has landed, now for the knockout punch.
Congress
should put up a simple bill requiring citizenship I. D. for all voters in
federal elections. Even the Democrat moderates in the House, if there are any,
need a check on the radicalism in their own party. Pass it in the House, send it to
the Senate now.
If passage
is blocked by the filibuster rule, dispense with the filibuster agreement and
save America for Americans.
This could
be the best Christmas ever!
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Slow down 31/Atlas, hit the speed brake, 150,000 mph is a bit to much. If you are something other than a wandering ice rock, slow down.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Let’s take a vote! Senate Majority Leader John Thune, let’s take a vote. That is why you are there in our big beautiful city, is it not? Do your job. Don’t give us that subterfuge about not having enough votes. The folks back home want to know how each Senator is thinking or not thinking.
No one says that there can be only one vote, let’s keep voting as long as the Democrats keep our government shutdown. Let’s take a vote on the supposed wisdom of that Senate “filibuster gentlemen’s agreement”. Let’s take a vote!
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Senator Kennedy, you are not being honest. What no cute quips today? What is it going to take for you to be cornered into a come to Jesus moment? The truth is before all of us. If the Republican senators’ continue to play dumb and lose this shutdown battle, our America is dead. Are you afraid of a bullet from the new Democrat party? To be concerned is appropriate but Kennedy being afraid is cowardly.
President
Trump makes a good argument for busting the filibuster but you somehow know
better? This isn't your daddy's America. You didn’t give us your argument because you don’t have one and may just
be taking orders instead of thinking. At least you had enough courage to put a
face to your ignorance, as un-American as it is. America is at war at home, it is that simple, it
is them or us.
Please tell
Suzy Collins to come out of hiding.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Some of us remember when Republican politico Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa was elected in 2015 to the U. S. Senate. Mrs. Ernst was touted as a fighter for everyday Americans and a conservative force to be reckoned with in Washington. Instead, she disappeared for 6 years, maybe she was looking for a hairdresser that could do a proper fix.
Where did
she go? Joni got in bed with the Rino deep state to do their bidding. Only in
the last few years has she become visibly political, why? Maybe, the anti-Trump
Rinos are running out of talking heads. President Trump has beaten the Rinos
senseless. President Trump has us on the verge of a booming future for all Americas. President Trump is working his ass off for your America and each of us.
Senator
Ernst, do the honorable thing and join the growing chorus of Republican senators
who have spoken out saying that now is the time to discard the Senate filibuster.
Now is the time to pass critical across the board legislation. You, Senator
Ernest will be retiring soon, don’t go away as one of the goats who hid when
their country needed their heroism.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Update: November 6 @ 5 AM
Object #1 is
over 29 Palms but only 10 degrees above the horizon. Object #2 is over Goat
Mountain, pulsating like no other star, 40 degrees above the horizon????
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
“God is the beyond in the midst of life. The church stands, not at the boundaries where human powers give out, but in the middle of the village. How this religionless Christianity looks, what form it takes, is something I’m thinking about a great deal, and I shall be writing to you again about it soon.”
Dietrich
Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), Letters and Papers from Prison, Touchstone Edition, 1997. P. 282.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
One might assume from the election results last night that Republican Senators playing nice doesn’t work in certain places. Obama played the shutdown strategy quite well, infuriating the small thinking voters in New Jersey, Virginia and New York City to punish those supposedly hard hearted Republicans. Virginia has Washington government workers who are sitting home without pay. New Jersey insanely voted against its own self-interest, more big expensive government to further burden the homeowners. New York City is the ultimate American divide between the rich and the poor, hungry people living in the midst of wealth do not play nice.
Obama is playing hardball so, Republican Senators, are the niceties still on the table?
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Grieving for all of us is a tough sled. Each of us handle it differently, there is no right way. Sooner or later, we who grieve move on to rejoicing in the certainty that the missing have joined that great eternal party. There comes a time to put away the tears and laugh again. Mrs. Kirk, some of us wish that for you and your aching heart. Blessings.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
They are here. Our petty human life and death squabbles are soon to become ancient history in their importance. I am a morning person who watches the morning night sky. In July a star appeared in the east, rising steadily over Goat Mountain, three hours later, as the morning glow begins to pierce the darkness, this star is 45 % above the horizon. All the normal array of stars have disappeared but this star keeps shining brightly, to finally disappear as the sun peeks over the horizon.
Now, in November
this star rises to the south over 29 Palms. Is it a star or what? Another unusual
star has appeared over Goat Mountain. This apparent star also keeps its shine until
the sun rises above the horizon. This morning star,
if my eyes do not deceive me, blinks red at times. What is going on in the
heavens?
Could these
two unusually appearing stars be planes, balloons, satellites or space
stations? Or what? Could we be under surveillance from another world? Object 31/Atlas
is getting stranger as it heads our way, soon to pass through our solar system
in December. 31/Atlas has been a concern to astronomers because one day it has
a tail but not every day. Now it also has a flashing blue light. The experts
tell us that we will know, comet or other worldly explorers in the next few
weeks.
Place your
bets, the odds are about 50%!
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
The eastern sky is beautiful this morning as the sun came up. There are high cirrus clouds everywhere and one thin cumulus cloud rising from the horizon shaped like funnel or a staircase to the heavens. The temperatures must be right for there are jet trails everywhere, crisscrossing the heavens like checkerboard. One might ask, are we to take the beauty in this world solely as a natural occurrence or is there more going on here on earth?
I have been
digging into what the philosophers have to say about our world. It is a slow
dig because so much of what is said is couched in the language of the
intellectual community. However, it is never too late for an old dog to learn
new tricks, particularly when one’s days are so unencumbered. Pantheism says
that Gods are all around us in this world. The historical church has almost
equated pantheism with the devil or as evil. Traditional theism (God
understanding), says that God is located above and beyond our earthly reality yet
pulling strings in our world. To this observer, this is one of those bedtime
stories.
Panentheism
is the philosophical alternative to these two types of theisms. Notice the “en”
that is added to pantheism. What I know of philosophy I have learned via the
google search engine. Maybe if google had been around fifty years ago, I would
have been a better student? Getting the terms down is a lot easier with the
computer. Anyway, panentheism says there is a little bit of God in everything in our world and that God is also living, invisible, untouchable and largely
silent in our midst.
Panentheism
works for me, it gives credit where due for the beauty in this world and opens
up our lives to the true friend who knows our troubles, shares our pain and is
the giver of healing hope/joy.
What more
could we ask of God?
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
If God is our protector, why have 50,000 Christians been slaughtered to death in Nigeria by Muslim terrorists? God as our protector is a lie. A major grey haired TV preacher touted this lie to his grey haired white congregation this Sunday. The Bible can be made to say whatever you want it to say.
Meanwhile, the blood flows as the world's religious and political elites play dumb. President Trump is right once again. How many of our brothers have to die to get God’s attention? Or, does God only protect we, American, white folk? The jig is up.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca,
The baseball Gods were with the Dodgers this post season. For some strange reason, the twists and turns of the game of baseball allowed them to win the World Series, congratulations you Dodgers. You were out played, out hit, out homered and except for a few games out pitched. Your defense was at times sloppy and at times miraculous but the tide always turned just enough.
Allow me to make an application. Our lives are like the game that is not a game. Life is for real. There are times when the mojo is working and times when everything seems to be a great disappointment. We have all been there, at these bad times, despite our sloppiness at life, if we listen for the voice of God and that gentle nudge that is bigger than all our disappointments, God will reassure us we have value to God in the game that is not a game.
Travel on my friends.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Every morning at first light I wander out to check out the owls roosting in the big Eucalyptus. The females are hiding high up and behind as much foliage as possible. On the rare occasion there is a male owl, they roost on the blower branches and look you straight in the eye as if to challenge, this world is mine.
One could
easily assume I am making a value judgement between male and female but that is
not the point. Among we humans there is room for adjustments considering personality and capabilities but the point is that we all have a roll to play in life and most
all of us are naturally better equipped to stay in our natural, God given lane.
Travel on you birds.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Doing the right thing is so very hard to do. Have you not found it so? Washington knows so. Our politicians cannot avoid doing the wrong thing at the right time or the right thing at the wrong time. The easy stuff such as spending our tax money is a joy ride for these gutless wonders. Throwing money around is good back home. When the chips are down, however, when it really matters, they jump ship and go home for Halloween.
This time we
are talking primarily about the “good o’ boys” of the Senate. The Peoples House,
with the narrowest margins, has done their job and passed a clean temporary
funding bill to keep the government running, a funding bill that was written by
former President Biden.
So why have the
Democrats of the Senate suddenly voted no on the Biden CR after voting yes 14 times previously? Why do the Democrats now want federal employees, including the war
department, federal law enforcement and air traffic people, insanely working
without pay? Why do the Democrats want federal benefits like snap and child
care to cease? Why are the Democrats putting the lives and well-being of so
many people at risk? The Democrats are now starving the very people that they
count on as Democrat clientele.
It is all about Washington power. Republican Senators,
do you not know who you are dealing with? Politics is no longer a gentleman’s
game. The world wars of the last century were nothing compared to our present fight
from within, these are also deadly times. You and I cannot play nice with those
who want to kill us. Playing nice with a gun to the back of your head is more
crazy than the crazies who are pointing the gun.
Republican
Senators, please join the all-out fight for America. The Democrat party, as
presently constituted, will quickly trash the “filibuster rule” when and if
they should win a majority in the future. Common sense would say, let’s be a
real democracy now. Send the power grabbers home. Join the lead of President Trump
who has laid it all on the line for America. To do otherwise will be recorded
as the beginning of the end.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Why can’t Kamala be honest about the four years she was Vice President? She can’t be honest because if she was honest she would have to answer the next question, if Biden was incompetent, who was running the country?
The answer
to that question would trash for decades all democrats. The actual president
was Barack Hussein Obama who is still fighting against the freedom of the people so
that he can establish his reordering of America.
Some of us love our country as it has always been, a Constitutional Republic that has the voting people in control of their future.
Obama go home to your taxpayer funded mansion, wherever that may be.
G. Goslaw
Even if one is absolutely sure that the gun is empty, one should never point the gun at another human being and pull the trigger. Gun safety 101, to do otherwise is crazy. If you are so sure the gun is empty, first put the gun in your own mouth and pull the trigger. Then you can safely go about your horseplay.
Is it to much to ask for religion and politics to live under the rule of common sense?
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Democrats are flush (95%) with unaccomplished people. At all levels of politics, beginning with Barack Hussein Obama, they and their unaccomplished cohorts are about taking a bigger and bigger chuck from the people’s coffers because they have never had to earn a living like the rest of us. They believe that there is no honorable career except living on the public dole.
This is reason enough not to vote for any Democrat. Wake up you long time Democrat voters, you no long have a Party that is relevant with you or we the national rank and file.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Spirituality is quiet, patient, personal, and for the helpless. Is it any wonder that spirituality is a lesser traveled journey among the religious or the secular?
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
What is the Radical Democrat left up to with the government shutdown? It is as plain as the nose on every American face. Everything they do, every decision is about creating chaos in America. The chaos will happen in our streets at the end of this month when Snap food benefits are stopped because of the shutdown. The Snap people will riot like never before making our Federal resources powerless. Why would the Radical left Democrat politicians, who shut down the government with their votes in the Senate, starve their own supposed political base and cause such pain?
The left
cares not for people, people are expendable, they value only power, no matter
the cost in American lives. More than anything, the radical left wants to
destroy our America, our Constitutional Republic. it is that simple.
The
Republican Senate must use the nuclear option and their simple majority to
reopen the government, now! Senate tradition be hanged.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Christian Fundamentalism proved to be one of those religious fads, here today and gone tomorrow. Jerry Falwell would be disappointed. Charles Hartshorne, one of the founders of process thinking, published his book, "Omnipotence and other Theological Mistakes" in 1984 when the author was 89. Fundamentalism (he didn't use the word) was one of the glaring mistakes considered. According to the fundamentalist, the Bible is the ultimate authority for faith and life, every word supposedly being from the mouth of God.
No thinking adult who knows the history of the Bible can defend such a claim. The Bible is full of truth but also full of contradictions, somebody has it wrong. There is no simplified version. The fundamentalist can only slander and despiritualize those who ask real questions of the Bible. In response Charles Hartshorne asks:
“Is it desirable that religion should seem more and more an affair of the intellectually undistinguished or mediocre?”
Charles
Hartshorne, “Omnipotence and other Theological Mistakes”. P. 44.
Thus as Fechner, Berdyaev, Tillich, and, probably independently, Whitehead held (and Berdyaev most neatly formulated), our existence from moment to moment “enriches the divine life”. And this is the ultimate meaning of our existence.
Charles
Hartshorne, “Omnipotence and the other Theological Mistakes”, p. 27.
This works for me, I have found no better understanding as to why we are here, why is this world filled with multiplied dangers, why is life so unpredictable and random? Why does life and death look like the bouncing white ball of the roulette wheel? The only answer possible is that when we look up in spite of our circumstances, it pleases God, joy gushes from his or her belly and enriches the divine life.
Some day, if the opportunity presents itself, I shall ask God, could you not have gotten your jollies another way?
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
You are leaving on a long vacation, who do you trust with the keys to the house? The United Nations? An international conglomerate? The United States doesn’t want troops on the ground, so who does Israel’s trust? Shall Gaza be divided again leaving the monsters a safe haven from which to kill again? It is time for the U.S. to get out of the deal making business in Gaza.
Give the
whole mess to Israel, letting Israel do what is best for Israel!
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Christian Universalism is as old as Christian Revivalism (Evangelicalism). Both understandings of the God plan of salvation have always been among us with the times dictating their relative popularity. The preaching of the Church of England Priest George Whitfield in the mid 1700’s began what has been named “the Great Awakening”.
In the
Whitfield congregation was the Rev. John Murray who, after hearing about the
universal God plan of salvation from James Riley, spoke up with questions and
was summarily excommunicated from the church, the kingdom of God or whatever,
who knows? Rev. John Murray went to America to share the greater atonement.
In America “The
Great Awakening” already had a head of steam and Jonathan Edwards was
preaching, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. The Rev. John Murray became an itinerant preacher
on horseback in New England, spreading his Good News. The vastly different gospels
were gathered from the same Bible* but one God plan was more marketable
considering the times.
The times
were hard for most of the people around the known world of circa. 1750. The
ruling classes were busy feathering their nests but the vast majority of peoples
were living on the edge of survival. Soon France would erupt into open revolt and
the guillotine before the end of the century. All the while, the established
clergy, of whatever flavor, took their cues from the ruling moneyed folk.
George
Whitfield, John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards all blamed the people for their own
lack of upward mobility and excusing God for the hard times. Desperate people will
buy into anything that offers a suave for their future. It is ironic that the
God suave was already in place for “the whatever” of life. Why all the fuss?
* “The
Universalist’s Book of References”, Rev. E. E. Guild, 6th Edition
reprint, Boston Publishing House, 1853.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
The British-American Christian revival movement of the last 250 years will pass away in the next 250 years. There is a God cycle in politics and religion, a 500 year cycle of rising and falling. Over time revivalism becomes trite or common, turning off more people to spirituality than it entraps in the corral of acceptable thinking. Just as the socialist will eventually run out of other people’s money, the revivalist will eventually run out of soft targets.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
This morning I was awakened by a tune banging around in my head. Do not fear, it is not contagious. Getting personal is not my style but please grant me this one exception. I promise that I will not burden you with repeating what has become for me personal, lifelong unfolding truth. Every tidbit of truth that God has given me can be summed up in the words of this old Christian Hymn (circa 1880) by Clara M. Scott, “Open My Eyes that I May See”.
The words
are most important but it was the tune that was banging around in my head. Why
a tune? Why this tune? Who knows? Maybe, I should look it up the words? The
lyric is as follows.
Open my eyes
that I may see
Glimpses of
truth thou hast for me;
Place in my
hands the wonderful key
That shall unclasp
and set me free.
Second
verse:
Open my
ears, that I may hear
Voices of
truth Thou sendest clear;
And while
the wave-notes fall on my ear,
Everything
false will disappear.
Third verse:
Open my
mouth, and let it bear
Gladly the
warm truth ev’rywhere.
Open my
heart and let me prepare
Love with
Thy children thus to share.
Each verse
is followed by the refrain:
Silently now
I wait for Thee
Ready, my
God, Thy will to see;
Open my
(eyes, ears and heart) –illumine me,
Spirit
divine!
These words
mean to me the following:
Truth is
always unfolding, always personal and never static. Every given understanding
is only a now deposit on the full truth that is not a part of our earthly
future. Our now will ever be influenced by our history, personal circumstances and
corporate culture. Religion wants to define your truth.
God is a
respecter of all persons and our now truth but wants us all to never stop
moving. Never shall we stop being personally led by new revelation brought to
us through the Spirit of God in whatever context. Freedom resulting from the
truth search in our now, it is the ultimate good to be experienced in this
life, experienced over and over as we journey on.
After all, what
is truth? Truth is mine to discover. My truth is not necessarily your truth and
my truth places no disrespect upon your personal truth search. We are in this
life together and the truth search is much like an Easter Egg Hunt on the White
House lawn. Finding one egg, as Clint Eastwood once said, “makes my day!” Tomorrow
there will be another hunt, God willing.
Journey on.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Godliness is a two headed coin. Heads is goodness and tails is freedom. Goodness alone represents God as a haughty self-righteous spirit and freedom alone is only license. Godliness is goodness/freedom that enables respectful dialogue among us all. Goodness alone builds walls between people. Maybe, the balance that Charlie Kirk brought to us should be a model going forward?
Mr. Kirk and I would not have agreed on everything, particularly the role of religion in our lives but I respected the man from afar. Charlie appeared to have a rare style; he was first a listener and then he would make a respectful faith based response without putting anybody down. Thinking out loud like that is a rare talent in colleges or our religious circles but Charlie seemed to love it. Most of America considers Charlie a friend who will be greatly missed. We extend our condolences to the family.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
If God can dump what some call wisdom on this 70 year old, foul, ignorant, stubborn and deluded human, all of us are potentially gifted with spiritual ears. It would seem that this is the way God impacts our world (google Jacob Boehme), one set of ears at a time. Such a slow God plan has to have a slow impact in terms of actual numbers. So many of us, for one reason or another, missed or are now missing the bus. Does God not care for those of us without a ticket?
If one
claims to believe in God, a caring God, a God of order, a God with a plan, one
has to believe in the unlimited seating of eternity. To believe otherwise, is
to be less than a God believer. That one is only a cold religion believer.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
The Christian philosophers are stuck. They shall remain stuck as long as their God motive is goodness, where is it, what is it? The good God is a misnomer. We were told the minute we jumped out of the cradle, now, be good little boys and girls. Goodness to some means obedience. We have shaped our God, our theology and our philosophy to fit our human reality. Is God humanlike? Shall we define God with trite human life patterns?
The Godless
philosophers tell us there is no God and ours is a completely natural world
governed only by mathematics. Maybe, maybe not. Following their advice means we
live only for the moment. Suppose there is another alternative? Suppose our God
definition is slightly off kilter. God’s motive for our created order has to be
something other or something bigger than just goodness. Goodness is always
crushed in our world.
Maybe, God
has created a world that teaches us about what God most clearly respects,
freedom. The time has come for an adult theology, a masculine theology that is
rooted in the competitive world we came from and not the Platonic bedtime stories
that seemed appropriate 2500 years ago. God is freedom, total freedom, freedom
is good. We are here in our now to experience freedom or the lack of freedom.
We learn
best about God freedom when we don’t have it. Therefore, evil is a necessary
evil in our world. We are slow learners, stubborn idiots who think that life is
about gathering up all the available goodies, even when there are none to be
had. We religious humans of every flavor tie up our Gods in neat humanlike packages
where there is no God freedom. Grow up all "ye" God thinkers.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
The uglier this your world may be, the grander the intensity of your eternity.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Could suffering be the God appointed, redemptive thing?
William
Dembski, Christian Theology, p. 48. Quoted by William Hasker, The Triumph of
God over Evil, 2008, p. 108.
“I frankly
doubt that a static, dull, monotonously perfect world is what God had in mind
in creating our world. The world that God originally had in mind is the world
we in fact inhabit, a messy world filled with tragedy, comedy, romance, and
adventure. There never was any other world.”
There is no
other choice nor has there ever been another choice. There was no Garden of Eden. Suffering is normal. Therefore our world is good
“as is”, suffering is the plan. Religion will tell you otherwise, they say that,
somehow, suffering is always your fault. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't. Religion is always dated.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
What is heaven you ask? Heaven is the land of no regrets and no surprises. Heaven is the bucket list of every experience of every human that has ever seen the face of this our earth. Heaven is that much multiplied a trillion times. Put that on the internet, “oh ye of little faith”! Amen!
So why wait? God delays the inevitable reality of heaven for us because you and I, every one of us, has an ever so small contribution (testimony) to make in our short time in this our world. Every contribution is a possible door to heavenly things to be experienced by others in this world. There is a method to God's madness. The goal is to change us, all of us, in this world and not to bring heaven to earth. Ours earth shall remain an "as is" world that fits the purposes of God. Tarry on my brother.
Things were looking bleak. Almost all of my days seemed wasted and wondering, in and out, bobbing and weaving through life without a clear focus. The future was of little concern, tomorrow would take care of tomorrow. Well, not exactly, maybe that summary is a bit skewed or a gross oversimplification. True confession, maybe I was just scared. No maybe’s about it, I was scared but didn’t want anybody to know it, least of all me. Maybe, that is how most of us live our lives.
Then one day
in 2012, at age 67, I bought a house. Focus had arrived. No longer was the
world and my place in it an overwhelming concern. No longer was the weight of
the world seemingly on my shoulders. There was only one concern, all by myself,
it was me and my house against the world, nothing else mattered. Why then or why now? Why a house? Who
knows? My wife Karen used to say in times like these, no one knows the answer but
“the stars and their courses”. There is a reason for everything but some things
will ever be a mystery.
Therein lies
our frustration. Life is so unpredictable and confusing, so much so that the life
that you and I have been given is simply gory. We are told by some voices that the
where or when of our being deposited into this world matters little but our experience
tells us that most times it matters a whole lot. The contradiction is grotesque. In some worlds there are no
good choices.
Sooner or
later we have to engage the facts of life, life is about dying. Choosing about
how we should live is about choosing how we shall die. That big picture is the
search for meaning that has always been and ever will be a life and death issue. We
shall discover meaning in this life when we stare down the rabbit hole of death, regardless of our history, and then look upward. All the other stuff about living is mere window dressing.
God allows gross evil in our world because God wants us to experience freedom. Perfect freedom not perfect goodness, is who God is. Knowing or experiencing freedom means that we have to experience, first, the lack of freedom, better called evil. Thus we have to experience wars, the Holocaust or the killing of Charlie Kirk. Evil is an unavoidable consequence resulting from a world that is lacking a freedom priority. Is the search for freedom an adequate justification for evil?
One would think not. However, all earthly evil, when properly understood and experienced, gives us, at best, only a shallow dive into true freedom. In this world the race is on requiring a shallow racing dive that just skims the surface of freedom. We have only a few undetermined years to run our race.
The deep dive into freedom and what we understand to be God, that Perfect Freedom, one day we shall all experience as the deep dive.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Hope is a bus ticket. Hope is God given permission to travel on. Hope is a window seat. Hope is protesting the pain. Hope is the trip home.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Believers of every flavor have at least one thing in common, "this world is not our home". We, all of us, the good, the bad and the ugly, including the sexually challenged, are born to be citizens of another better world.
There are those Christian ideologues (useful idiots) who want to turn the assassination of Charlie Kirk into an evangelical revival meeting. All God believers do not look to such an atmosphere to be close to God. The crazed Godless are the displaced persons of this world, they are dangerous and the unprovoked enemy of all God believers, not just Christians. Christianity has historically and falsely claimed or assumed that the message of Jesus was the exclusive purview of their exclusive religion. Some of us believe that there is enough evil around in this world to engage all of us, regardless of one’s preferred religion or lack of religion.
As long as
it is only a Christian fight, Christianity will always be on the defensive and
probably the loser. And then we all lose.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
How should we, among the crowd of Charlie Kirk supporters, respond in the wake of his assassination? Our hearts and minds are full of anger and loathing for that crazy cowardly punk that did the deed. The dirt bag is subhuman. The radical left Democrat politicians are blaming the victim, Charlie, for his own death because he said some things that enraged the shooter. Charlie, you just wouldn’t shut up!
There is a righteous call from the governor of Utah for national unity. These are nice words in a perfect world but they are meaningless because they are divorced from our earthly reality. There has never been unity in America for we are a democracy, the majority rules. It will not happen in our world, now or any time in the future. Forget it, earthly unity is not the future God plan for our world. God must like a good scrap. God must be bigger than our scraps.
We were all
put here in our world to live as if we were already home. That is the God plan,
to share mercy with the unmerciful, to share forgiveness with the undeserving, to suffer the slings and arrows of the haughty, to run
where the weak dare not go, to care for something or someone besides our own
well-being. It is hard and against our nature but that is the God plan.
Most of us
play the noncommittal waiting game, hiding in the bushes, avoiding having to declare one way or the
other, nursing our fears and wants, not Charlie. Charlie stood up to say, our lives do not
belong to us, life is a gift from God (Christ). The religious context in which we
choose to express our faith is not the important decision. The important
decision is to live fearlessly knowing we are destined for the better world, the
better unified world. A world with an atmosphere of pure freedom for love is
freedom.
Shall we also stand up? Yes or No, check the box?
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
If you had a twenty year old socially challenged son with a room full of guns and ammo and no interest in hunting animals, what would you think and do? Some of us don’t get it, these young monster assassins have waved the red flags for years, so how can the parents, family, relatives, friends and neighbors remained silent?
How can the passengers
on a public transit train in North Carolina remain cowardly uninvolved when a
killing happens in their midst and the victim is left alone bleeding and struggling
for her life? One would think we are a nation of robots or demented scarred
cats.
Maybe we
have always been this way or maybe we, as a society, have lost our sense of
interrelatedness or community. Maybe we should have cell phone burnings and
start being human again.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Some have taken offense to the term “useful idiot” in this blog. A useful idiot is not dumb. A useful idiot is one who has set beliefs and conclusions that are considered absolute. There is no need for discussion, in fact, discussion will likely push the useful idiot off the deep end. A useful idiot is desperate to see their truth to be your truth. A useful idiot is easily motivated or manipulated by applause.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
So they say that the assassination attempt in Butler Pennsylvania was not a conspiracy of the many but one solo nut job. Really! The useful idiots are everywhere, in the pew and behind the pulpit. On orders from above, the security plan by the Secret Service on that day is deliberately sabotaged and a shooting perch is identified prior to the event. On the day of the event, all security at the perch is ordered elsewhere.
Months prior
to the event, a useful idiot is identified, prepped and motivated to gain hero
status among democrats by killing the president. The useful idiot is told of
the perch and was assisted in planning the shoot by a solo shadowy perpetrator.
The Secret
Service sniper team on the other warehouse roof had standing orders never to
fire until a threat first fires. We all are allowed one murder. Prior to the assassin’s
barrage of bullets, the sniper team had to have had the threat in sight for as
soon as the threat fired, they took him out. You are a hero no more.
Why is this
not an extreme likelihood? All the moving parts of a conspiracy are there,
however, such a scenario would be very difficult to trace. We can be sure that
the assassination of Charlie Kirk in Utah has a similar scenario. Or, the democrats
just got tired of playing games and hired a professional assassin.
No wonder
democrats are united and fearful of the radical communist left in their party, most
are not useful idiots, they know that any perceived dissent will be
extinguished. As a result of democratic cowardice, all democrats, the politicians
and the regular voters, are as guilty of murder as the shooter. Democrats have
earned a foul reputation that will be long remembered.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
It is time. The American people need our president to address the nation from the oval office. The Commies are coming from within and without. It is time to stop all imports from China. It is going to get messy no matter what actions we take or don’t take. This emergency requires America to pull out all the stops.
We the people are behind our president, tell us, how are we to remain a free people? The cost is irrelevant, we all will be heroic Americans in our generation just as many heroic American generations have done for the last two hundred and fifty years. God and Country forever.
G. Goslaw
Landers, CA.
Sean Hannity you are not that dumb. Me thinks you just want your guests to answer one question but every one of them avoids answering. Please explain that, can’t you find a guest who is willing to state the obvious? Why do Democrats insist on a crime ridden America? Why do they subject every large Democrat run city to rampant crime chaos regardless of the consequences?
Answer: chaos is right out of the Marxist playbook. Democrats are no longer
American. The plan that they advance has worked around the world. First trash
the legal system, have your partners in crime create total chaos, defend the
criminal and thereby destroy the country. The helpless country, in this case
America, can then be built back the communist way. Someone needs to speak up and state the obvious.
What do you
say, Sean Hannity?
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Luke 2: 19.
KJV: But Mary kept all these things, and pondered
them in her heart.
TNIV: But
Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.
One might
ask, what things? The surrounding stories would suggest the appearance of the angel
Gabriel, shepherds, a company of singing heavenly hosts and a message locating
the birth of the long expected birth of the Messiah-Savior. This is not
Christmas time so let’s get real. Some or all of these stories may be true or
they may not, that is not the point of their telling. The possibly exaggerated
stories were told only to convince the listener, nothing else. They were not deceitful
stories, they were stories told to add an exclamation point.
Was Mary
pondering the stories or something else? If you or I were an unmarried pregnant
teenager, what would we be pondering? If you or I were an unmarried pregnant teenager
who had heard from somewhere that God was up to something in and through your child, what
would we be pondering? If you or I were a newly wedded pregnant bride, with a doubting
virgin husband, what would we be pondering? If you or I were a homeless couple taking
shelter with the animals, what would we be pondering?
Maybe Mary was pondering over the question, "Is God really in the midst of my circumstances?" How can it be?
Yes, Mary, your child will be speaking my things to your world, some will listen but most will not. By trusting in the midst of your questions and doubts, you have done your part.
For us, take heart, we too are not alone in our questions. The only answer that matters is yes, I shall trust today and fight the fight of faith again tomorrow.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
So, the television puppeteers are threatened. Could it be that this blog is making sense out of the Bible? They say, no Christian commentator has ever proposed such a conclusion based on Scripture. Therefore it is not Christian. Fair enough, some of us just say, “thank you for the compliment”.
In some quarters, love for the Bible is about the search for truth for living. The truth search is holy while all religions, including Christianity, block the search for the people. If there is disagreement be honest and make an argument. Religion hides behind tradition.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
There are a few words in the Bible that we might consider to be Jesus words. You know, those Jesus words that some scholars tout to be historically authentic. The words that could have been spoken before all the interpreters of religion stacked the deck with additions. Jesus had a thing for sparrows, to him, the sparrow is the national bird of God’s world.
Why did Jesus use the sparrow to teach us about God? Sparrows are everywhere, they are short lived, they are of little earthly value and they have no power. Every day, every hour could be their last, they are at risk of everything. They are totally fragile but as Jesus said, God cares for them! Despite all the evidence to the contrary, God cares for them.
Jesus may also ask us, is it therefore lunacy to believe that God could also care for all of us, for you? Well, it is lunacy and it is not lunacy. Shall we ask the sparrow? .
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
If there be a God, that God is to be experienced as freedom. Dictators are all about this world, even the dictators who use only the name God. They are ignorant of what it really means to live our days in the fresh air of freedom.
How do we
know that God loves freedom? God loves freedom because all of us were dumped
into this risky, dangerous world where the monsters are allowed to live among
us. God wants us to learn of the other world by living in ours. Our world is a
teaching tool, are you learning?
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
The scandal of particularity is a God scandal that looks human. It is a scandal for any human to say to this world of multiplied billions of humans that somehow, God has noticed me. Some would say such a claim is craziness and that may very well be. However, is such a claim only Tom foolery? Does or can God scandalously influence the particular individual?
Some say
that God does so influence the individual, one on one, and that religion most times
is at war with these same individuals. Religion and God are not always comingling
because religion is about control and God is about freedom. Those who have been
impacted by God do not talk about it, they just go on about their God directed business.
They are not broadcasters, they are doers. They are not virtue signalers, they
give virtue away.
The ultimate
scandalous question needs to be asked. Could God likeness be advanced among men
through the life of an individual as seemingly undeserving as that of a bastard
individual? You know, those of us who did not ask to be born at a particular
time and place but born they were, born to live their lives in the midst of a
very real social stigma and the resulting turmoil. Such a notion would even be a
bigger scandal. Some of us believe that God did just that when he scandalously chose
to influence Jesus.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
What are you 31/ATLAS? Are you an interstellar object on a parabolic orbit through multiplied solar systems to return again in thousands or millions of years? Better yet, are you an interstellar life probe from a distant solar system looking for others of us? We are about to find out in three months. Will our world be a stopping point or will the interstellar object merely wave to us from its orbit, 168 million miles from earth? Hold on to your hats.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
The Bible as in every word is either, truth from the lips of God, or none of the words of the Bible are truth from the lips of God. We believers cannot have it both ways, picking, choosing and ignoring the words that are discomforting. The Bible has been passed to us as a hand me down from God but it is not true blue God. That supposed Bible is an idol, along with the other everyday idols of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
Every writer of every book is a unique interpreter of God with unavoidable blind spots and expressed God clarity. All the words of the Bible have value but only as they are put into the context of their historical time, made relevant to our time and the 5000 year God narrative. All Scripture has value but not equal value, that is where you and I come in. The complicated can be fun.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Good morning Mr. Westman, welcome aboard. You are dead before your time and so are the children, do you feel any better? Looking up, Robin responds, well, no.
Could it be that believing a mother’s lie can have eternal consequences? What say you? Dejected, Robin looks down and is silent. The prosecutor says, “God don’t make mistakes!” The Judge says, "Please go to the back of the bus".
Court of no appeal.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
There is absolutely nothing we can do or confront in this life that would warrant the taking of another life or the life that God has given to us. God will always have our backs in the midst of all of our suffering because hope is so much more than wishful thinking, hope is God given permission to journey on.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
America is sick. We are a nation of hypochondriacs, obsessed and disengaged from living by an overwhelming concern for how we look and feel. Big Pharma and the cosmetics crapola are racking in the dough treating our wrinkles, pains and aliments.
Look around
among us, what do you see? Those of us who are taking street drugs are sick.
Those of us who buy supposed healthy gimmicks are sick. You folk are the reason
some of us have to tolerate the druggy, gimmicky commercials. Go on, get your needed
exercise by peddling a machine while sitting in the easy chair. Sickness is craziness.
Maybe, it’s a death wish. Maybe, it’s a cry for interpersonal attention. In any case, stop talking about your sicknesses and start looking in the mirror, get a life. Stop talking about your inabilities and start doing for the betterment of yourself and those around you. Better yet, get a backbone and live regardless of your age or supposed pain.
Sorry, there are more important things in life than how you feel. No sympathy here. Knock on wood.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Forget all the Trump hate pundits on Fox News and Newsmax. They are lily livered. Please tell the people what’s really going on. The radical leftists of America are not just obsessed with Trump, they are filled with America hate. They will hate with equal intensity anyone who gets in their way. For now it is Trump, tomorrow it will be whomever. The freedom loving people of America cannot relax with a few Trump wins, as miraculous as they are, the wins must be bigger than Trump.
The wins will be bigger if the radicals are exposed as the frauds they really are. They are not about the freebees for the people, the Democrat radicals want to be the new American power center, the people be damned.
The America haters will never completely go
away but we the people can make them practically powerless in the midterm
elections of 26 and the presidential election of 28. When that happens, whoever
is buying their hate will then go broke but as they say, never relax, freedom
will never be free.
Maybe, nothing can be won without a real January 6!
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Forget the niceties, America is now at war! Politics as we have known it has been replaced by conquest at any price. The two hundred and fifty year American tradition of respectful political dialogue has gone by-by. It has been replaced by a war like attitude from the Democrats who are no longer Democrats but useful idiots for a big government, top down control over “we the people”. This control has many names but they all mean no personal or national freedom.
The control
of Socialism and Communism means that your life is no longer your own, your
life and livelihood belongs to the government which has ownership of everything,
including your children. Socialism is a thin minority of very small, incompetent
yet powerful people dumping on the majority of us in order to inflate their own
imaginary self-worth. They are takers. They know nothing but politics, protest and living off
the system. They are the crazies who will only kill our national identity as a
free people. They will kill you if you get in the way.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
There is no heaven as popularly understood. Eternity, if there is one, is not a social paradise open to the few who are somehow qualified. That much is a lie. That truth is religion. Please don’t start quoting Scripture that may have some value but it is not truth from the lips of God.
Some of us believe there is a boundless eternity for all when we die. Whatever that eternity may be, it will be a good fit because it is planned. Of course, we all could be wrong and there is only a blank space in our future. This possibility is worse than any picture of hell painted by men.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
There is no Teddy Bear God that we can snuggle up to when the going gets tough. That Teddy Bear God is for sale by every television ministry and in a large majority of pulpits around the world. In a real sense, that God is a lie, some of the people know it but most devotees don’t know any better. God did not bring this world into being in order to get cozy. We humans value a family support system; God is an adult; God values freedom.
God is an
earthly influencer not a dictator. God decides when and where God will pull a
couple of strings in our world. God decides; we don’t. Prayer changes us not
God. God acts to allows even the monsters freedom. God acts without partiality,
he or she is not flipping the channels on Sunday morning. God picks on the
nobodies, avoiding the well qualified. The prophet Samuel, led by the spirit of
God, reluctantly chose the 12th son, the tail end of the family,
David, to be King for the people. God directed the assassin’s bullet to miss in
Butler, Pennsylvania.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Some of us
have a peculiar moral ethic. There are only two no, no’s. The evil of all evil’s
is the lie, the telling of an intentional untruth. There are no excuses, to exaggerate
is to lie, and there are no good or kind lies. Any lie is a moral failure. The second
moral failure is to ask, seek or delude others to lie for you or to tag along
with you in your lie. That’s it, our peculiar morality in a nutshell.
How do we
know there is a God? We humans all have spiritual ears and we all lie. The Perfect awaits us.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
We all have a time and a place, this much is for certain. Maybe, this is the only certainty, only the now, our now, is for certain. For all of us, time and place are like the weather, ever changing from the norm of shared expectations. We desperately clutch these shared norms as a sailor clutches the mast of a sinking ship. These shared norms give us a fleeting feeling of longevity. Shared norms such as friends, family, religion, money, property, social status, politics or any other devised legacy. The idea of God can be another dead end legacy or God can be an adventure.
When our clock
ticks down to practically nothing, some of us wonder about our place among the
many. What does it all mean? We humans have been asking that question for millions of years. Our lives have to mean something, if so what? Do you have any clues?
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Some of us are generalists, experts at nothing. We dabble on, delving into the whatever, forming opinions which are always subject to the greater wisdom. Some may call generalists accursed because our culture rewards the experts. However, the typical one category expert is not likely to catch the attention of we regular folk. Experts that have walked the general broad road are the blessed thinkers and have earned our respect.
Some of us pray not for fortune or fame but the gifting of just one thinker who can share expertly, competently and independently, the truths of God, religion, history, philosophy, anthropology, cosmology, psychology and science. These folk are rare birds, indeed. These birds are less apt to be trapped in a cage of someone else’s making.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Department of Justice Memo: Ex-President Obama is here to for under indictment for leading a treasonous conspiracy to dethrone the duly elected president, Donald J. Trump, during his entire term (20016-20). The opinion of this DOJ is that such a conspiracy is not a part of the presidential powers that bring to any past president the shield of immunity.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
WOW. The possibility of an amoral eternity woke some folks up. Just because few of us would make such a claim does not mean that such a claim makes no sense. Ours is an amoral world, an amoral existence. Morality is a social issue not a God issue. Jesus was not a moralist, in fact, the moralists persecuted him, slandered him, put him on trial for claiming a spiritual status apart from the moralists, dragged him through the streets, put him on a cross for a slow death and ultimate humiliation. Was that moral? Jesus appeared among us not to make us or enable us to live right, whatever that may mean. Jesus appeared among us to show us a door to walk through.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
There is no way a God believer can be anything other than a Universalist unless that believer is selling a book, serving a bureaucracy or living a lie. God is about accountability but not eternal damnation. How God will work that out post death, we can only guess? Christian theologians of every sort have been guessing throughout the ages. This writer believes that there is no consistent God thinking for hell despite the endorsement of the likes of Billy Graham, Jimmy Swaggart and N.T. Wright.
Almost all books are written to please an audience, a market, the very few significant writings are written "come what may". A.T. Robinson's "Honest to God", was such a book. However, few writings of this sort arrive from the religious establishment. However, should another, "come what may" book be written, it may read something like this: God is not a religious extremist who condemns 90% of we earthlings to a Dante Inferno. The hell scenario is in lock step not with God but with our devilish human nature that delights in the misfortune of others.
St. Anselm (1033 - 1109 A,D.) gave God equality with the devil with his satisfaction teaching. God must somehow satisfy his holiness by the mass eternal torture of all nonbelieving souls in the resurrected Christ. Does this sound like a God win? Is God that concerned with looking righteous?
Universalism like hell is not a new spiritual fad or gimmick. Both understandings have been around since the get go. History has always chosen the winners and losers but do we believe in history or do we believe in our God awareness?
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
Our world is not a conflict or contest between good and evil. We have been sold a bill of goods. The Cartesian dualism of good verse evil is rooted in a bedtime story told to the kiddies by the dualist in Chief, Plato. His intent was to give the very young a handle to navigate the blessings and risks of life. Question, could there be another answer to explain our fragile lives? Many of us have been thinking on that one for a long, long time.
Recent Old
Testament scholarship (Copenhagen International Seminar) has dated the Genesis story
of the Tree of Good an Evil at 325 B.C., at Alexandria Egypt, by a large group
of Hebrew and Hellenist scholars. Moses had been dead for some 1500 years,
leaving no material of this sort that can be dated to his time. As a result and
as Karl Marx rightly told us, these (bedtime) stories have become the opiate of
the people. How so?
The bedtime
stories place the ultimate victory of Good verses Evil beyond this life and our demise. Therefore, the one who believes is shielded against the ravages of today
and tomorrow because they are not of ultimate consequence. The reality of this believed victory, may or may not be true, but
certainly it will never be verified in this life. Some say, when bad things happen to good
people just believe, have faith in the ultimate victory of God over Satan. This
is the “whatever comes my way” opiate.
The United States Federal Reserve is supposed to be independent of politics but never has been and is now an unabashed Democrat influencer. Let's rename this body politic "the Jerome the Ripper Fed", in honor of another of us who preyed upon the people so many years ago. Those voices calling for more of the same, have a vested interest in the treachery and thievery of the Federal Reserve.
Chase’s Jamie Diamond, the big bank guru, please take a long walk off a very short pier.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.