DISOBEYING GOD’S COMMAND!

A Study in Impertinance

Three major religions, and every sub-sect of these three religions, believe God commanded the following: THOU SHALT NOT KILL! Three major religions! The Jewish Religion. The Religion of Islam. The Christian Religion. All three believe somebfivebthousand or so years ago a prophet named Moses, also known as Musa, climbed a mountain named Sinai where he found two stone tablets with words written on them by The One True God, also known as Allah, also known as Yahweh, and by the tetragram YHWH.

All three of those religions, broken now into smaller and smaller sects too many to name here, are still around today. And all three of them profess to believe these Commandments came from the Supreme Being in our cosmos and are theregore sacrosanct — unbreakable. So will someone please tell me why we are killing each other all over this globe we call Earth.

Is this God not someone to be reckoned with? Is this God not someone we are supposed to fear? Is this God not someone we are supposed to revere? Is this God not someone we are supposed to worship? Is this God not someone we are supposed to emulate? If so, we are not worthy!

Even worse than us not being worthy, our leaders are certainly not worthy! All over this world our leaders are telling us to murder each other. They support armies, and they support police forces. They pay people to kill other people in their name (Putin and Netanyahu are two. HAMAS is yet another!) and pa?y people to kill in our name (Me, You, We the People!) I don’t know about you, but I have certainly never given anyone permission to kill in my name — not under any circumstance! Have you?

The worst part of this situation is, people who do not believe in killing are being killed right now. They never gave anyone permission to kill them. Yet they are being killed. Children, women, men, seniors, sick people, doctors, shopkeepers, all kinds of people. So why are we being killed?

Believe it or not, many of us are being killed in the name of the being we call God. Remember him. He is the Being who told us not to kill! He is the Being whom we are told holds every life precious in his hsnds. Yet people are killing, supposedly for him, and people are being killed, supposedly for him. Do you believe that? I do not believe that!

Humans are telling people to kill. People are killing because they want to kill. And people are being killed because other people don’t care if they die!

Does any of this make sense?

If it does not make sense to you, tell someone! Especially tell your leaders. Tell the people who are doing the killing. Tell the people who tell the peoplebto kill. And if you believe in God, tell God too. If anyone will listen, surely it will be God!

ARMING THE ENEMY

Ideas From Outside the Boxes

I woke up early this morning to reblog a post about climate change, but my tablet opened on a Word Press page that promoted the following news story. The title below caught my eye — how could it not! Reading the story sent shivers up my spine. The whole of Mexico has only one, yes one, legal gun store, on a military base in Mexico City. Yet Mexico has been the site of over 150,000 gun deaths since 2006, almost all at the hands of well-armed drug cartels. Does this make sense? Where do they get all their weapons from? Illegal gun dealers? Maybe a few. Believe it or not, they actually buy them legally, in the USA!

How Texas’s gun laws allow Mexican cartels to arm themselves to the teeth

Draw your own conclusions. To me buying guns legally with drug money should not be possible. But gun dealers in…

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A HAND UP, NOT A HAND OUT

Ideas From Outside the Boxes

My new favourite writer on monetary issues within American government, Rodger Malcolm Mitchell, posted today about a UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME (UBI) in the United States of America, otherwise known (in Canada, at least) as a Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI). This is an idea I first came across in the 1980’s. I was in favour of it then, and I am in favour of it now.

The idea of a GMI is to help all people live above the poverty level. Poverty leads to many social ills, and costs society much more than it ever could cost to ensure no one goes without the basic needs of life, healthy food, safe shelter, and whatever healthcare is needed to give everyone a fair chance at succeeding in life despite their circumstances at birth.

The UBI as written about by Mr. Mitchell actually gives more than what a GMI provides for, though in…

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HOW MUCH IS A DEAD BODY WORTH? Is it White or Non-White?

Ideas From Outside the Boxes

In 2022 Winnipeg City Police declined to search a landfill site to look for the bodies of two women they reasonably believe are buried in the rubble. From the precision of their evidence, they can only know this if the killer told them. They say they know the place and date the bodies were picked up from a dumpster and transported to a landfill site (read garbage dump!) And they are willing to let those bodies remain there, as nothing but garbage!

Yes, the bodies are those of indigenous women. Does that give them less value than if the women were white? We have seen police forces across North America move mountains to recover the bodies of white people, no matter who they were as living people, or how they died. So why are the bodies of two murdered indigenous women not worth every effort to recover them.

The…

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MARCH 31 WAS TRANSGENDER DAY — AND NO ONE TOLD US?

Ideas From Outside the Boxes

Did you know March 31st was, is, will be Transgender Day? I did not. I never heard as much as a whisper. In a way I am not surprised. With all the anti-trans messages getting airtime these days, too many people are afraid to speak out in favour of, and especially in defence of, our transgender friends and loved ones.

Well, I admit I am a few days late, and a few words short, but at least I can give a voice to someone else…

CNN—It’s not enough to love our trans family and friends behind closed doors.

“Telling me you love me in private is not enough. Anything less is a detriment to my survival. Your silence is just another nail,” said J.D. Melendez, a friend who is transgender, on social media recently.

Dylan Yeary, left, wears the trans flag during a rally for trans rights that marched through the streets of Austin, Texas in February, 2022.

Young people need us to see them as they are, and adults are off the mark…

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SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS MUSIC TO THE EXTREME — plus one

Ideas From Outside the Boxes

Last night I dreamt about the perfect protest song. In my dream I found it on You Tube, but I never actually got to listen to it! I want to know what my subconcious mind was trying to tell me.

So when I woke up this morning, I went in search of it. I never found it. But I did find something else online that was interesting. Some people had made a compilation of what they thought were the 50 best protest songs ever (confined to songs with English lyrics, of course. I am sure there are a lot of great protest songs written in other languages — GUANTANAMERA written by Compay Segundo jumps immediately to mind. See https://lyricstranslate.com/en/guantanamera-guantanamera.html-25 — as does the music of Ladysmith Black Mombaso from South Africa!) But moving on.

I once wrote a protest song or two (lyrics only, I am tone deaf and have…

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH — MARCH 13, 1985

Ideas From Outside the Boxes

Say her name KATRICIA DOTSON, also known as Tree Africa!

On the day after Mother’s Day, 1985, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , 11 people were murdered by the Philadelphia police. Why? I cannot tell you all the reasons.

To begin, 100s of Philadelphia officers of the law surrounded an occupied house in a black area of that city, and fired 1000s of rounds into the house. But that was not enough. They then had a helicopter drop incendiary devices (bombs that caused fires) on the house. The house caught fire, and a few people managed to escape. But most did not. They could have been saved, IF they were still alive by this time. But the Police Commissioner would not allow the Fire Department to put the fire out. In fact, he said to the Fire Commissioner, “Let it burn!”

The story did not begin that day, nor did it…

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A SAFE PLACE FOR TRANSGENDER AND NONBINARY PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD

Ideas From Outside the Boxes

A Canadian member of the House of Commons is asking all Canadians to sign the petition he is sponsoring:

Petition to the House of Commons

Whereas:

  • The world is becoming increasingly hostile to transgender and nonbinary individuals;

  • Transgender and nonbinary people’s rights to live as themselves are being restricted and removed in many places;

  • This includes the so-called “Western democracies” which have historically been presumed safe;

  • The United Kingdom is revising their Equality Act to exclude trans people from its protections;

  • More than a dozen American states have enacted or are considering legislation eliminating or criminalizing gender-affirming care; and

  • Canada has prided itself on being an inclusive, tolerant, and welcoming society for everyone regardless of gender identity or gender expression.

We, the undersigned,residents of Canada, call upon theHouse of Commonsto extend to transgender and nonbinary people the right to claim asylum in Canada by reason of…

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