Social Security and Pets
Many people have pets. Many people receive a social security check. However, most people feel more strongly either way about whether or not social security is a good thing or a bad thing. Social security is when adults receive a check for being over the age of 65 or having a disability. Many people sense that there is something outright wrong with receiving a check for having a disability. This is essentially the idea of rewarding the lame. It is pure communism.
What if we view social security as something different? What if we view social security in a similar way to society having pets? Yes, people on social security get something for nothing, but pets do to! This is not about livestock, grown to be slaughtered, but about pets. What makes a pet a pet is that it is an animal solely for the purpose of enjoyment. Having social security is as giving care for pets.Few are the people rejoicing at the sufferings of individuals, but rather the kindhearted reach out to individuals in need. There is a certain enjoyment, or reward in doing this. It is the reward for doing a good deed, and social security is just that. It is the same as providing good care for a pet, maybe a home for a stray, that the animal did nothing personally to merit. Through these eyes, social security should be nothing but pure reward for caring individuals. These would be the kind people that see that no person out of reason would injure himself/herself for the purpose of receiving money or needs to suffer unduly because in the life they received the shortest straw.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
What Do Moses, Paul, Martin Luther, and Shabbatai Tzvi have in Common with Me?
What Do Moses, Paul, Martin Luther, and Shabbatai Tzvi have in Common with Me?
When I was 21 years old, I thought I heard the voice of G-d in my bedroom. I was living a horrible life. I had chosen immorality over morality, or at least so I thought. This made me very receptive to Christianity given all the letters that have lists of immoral things, and urgings not to do them. Even my conception of what people thought of G-d was different from mine. I thought of G-d as weak. Then, it happened, I heard the voice of G-d in my bedroom and G-d said, “I AM punishing you.” I then shouted back at G-d, “Why are you punishing me?” This incident began my journey to study about G-d. I was essentially trying to be a good person in order to avoid the punishment of G-d, which is a very Jewish idea. In the end, because I was concerned with justice and accuracy, the Old Testament won me over, and I stopped believing in the New Testament. This essentially makes me a Jew both in a legal sense, and a sense of identifying with suffering, such that I often find my identity among Jewish people. Several things happened to me after I thought I spoke with G-d. One was that I saw a good doctor that essentially worked what I would call a miracle. Judaism is very much a religion of reward and punishment, and I believe I got my reward.
There is one thing different about me now, than how I was then. I have quit medication twice, and both times I hallucinate, usually spiritual visions. The doctor that worked wonders has been unable to cure me completely. As usual, I think I have been cured now, but now my family actually agrees. However, the thing is that the medicine cures the hallucinations. How can it possibly be true if the medicine cures it? Consequently, I have ruled out that I actually spoke with G-d. This makes it somewhat possible to rule out that anyone has spoken with G-d too, as the alternative is that mostly people psychologists deem as psychotic speak with G-d, such that I have not ruled out this speech to me means that I am on the level of Moses. I say this because it was said that G-d spoke face to face with Moses. How can Moses be any different from me? My guess is that Moses also suffered from hallucinations, but that some, if not all of them were beneficial to his life. My study of religion has also proved beneficial to my life, or at least so I think.
The funny thing is that history is littered with semi-psychotic geniuses, such as Moses. Since, I saw this doctor I mentioned above, nobody I recall has questioned that I am in fact among the most intelligent men of the world. However, there is one thing that I lack, and the great semi-psychotic geniuses also seem to lack it, and that is executive skills. This idea of ADHD or ADD seems to be in the greats, such as Martin Luther. In fact, one of my criticisms of Torah is that it is poorly ordered. Paul, the man who is more responsible for Christianity than anyone else also suffered from this orderliness problem. His writings in the New Testament are usually very disorderly. I admit; Romans is quite good. To some people this makes them seem all the greater! I am not one of those people. I feel perfectly comfortable not worshipping anyone or criticizing what I see as having flaws. Writing doesn’t have to be perfect in order to be quite good. Paul also had the hallucinations too, the same types of hallucinations that I have.
Paul is to Judaism what Martin Luther is to Catholics. I argue that these two individuals are more important than the actual individual they are promoting, Jesus. Jesus was a relatively unknown Van Gogh before Paul began persecuting him, and thus popularizing him. Both Peter and James and the others are replaceable, but Paul was the innovator that created an entirely new religion! I say this because Jesus never left any written document or even had a coherent document written by an eye witness written about him. Really, Jesus is just another false messiah, most likely crazy like Paul, but it is the book of Romans that Paul wrote that is a solid, although incorrect argument. Anyone without prior knowledge of Judaism would probably buy that argument, Romans; such that is was not only Paul’s writing, but his incredible charisma.
Shabbatai Tzvi like the greats probably had bipolar, but he caused much strife. He thought he was the Jewish messiah and led the people astray. This is rather common among people that have bipolar. I suggest that if Moses walked into a psych ward today, then he would be diagnosed with bipolar. If we take him, Moses, to be the author of the Torah, then there are very bipolar features to his writing. There is a manic portion of reward if you follow G-d, but then there is a punishment portion, if you do not follow G-d. Isaiah also knew of this, as it is often said that his idea of the suffering servant was not for the messiah, but was a reason for the suffering of the Jewish nation, which the sins of many Jews end up causing the punishment of the righteous Hassidic Jews.
In fact, I have thought I am the messiah before too. Somehow I just can’t get the idea out of my head even though, I, personally, don’t believe a messiah will come anymore. It’s just impossible. Too much is expected. I see it as something that arises out of a need for religious people to be somewhat futuristic, just as Christians await the second coming of Jesus.
When I was 21 years old, I thought I heard the voice of G-d in my bedroom. I was living a horrible life. I had chosen immorality over morality, or at least so I thought. This made me very receptive to Christianity given all the letters that have lists of immoral things, and urgings not to do them. Even my conception of what people thought of G-d was different from mine. I thought of G-d as weak. Then, it happened, I heard the voice of G-d in my bedroom and G-d said, “I AM punishing you.” I then shouted back at G-d, “Why are you punishing me?” This incident began my journey to study about G-d. I was essentially trying to be a good person in order to avoid the punishment of G-d, which is a very Jewish idea. In the end, because I was concerned with justice and accuracy, the Old Testament won me over, and I stopped believing in the New Testament. This essentially makes me a Jew both in a legal sense, and a sense of identifying with suffering, such that I often find my identity among Jewish people. Several things happened to me after I thought I spoke with G-d. One was that I saw a good doctor that essentially worked what I would call a miracle. Judaism is very much a religion of reward and punishment, and I believe I got my reward.
There is one thing different about me now, than how I was then. I have quit medication twice, and both times I hallucinate, usually spiritual visions. The doctor that worked wonders has been unable to cure me completely. As usual, I think I have been cured now, but now my family actually agrees. However, the thing is that the medicine cures the hallucinations. How can it possibly be true if the medicine cures it? Consequently, I have ruled out that I actually spoke with G-d. This makes it somewhat possible to rule out that anyone has spoken with G-d too, as the alternative is that mostly people psychologists deem as psychotic speak with G-d, such that I have not ruled out this speech to me means that I am on the level of Moses. I say this because it was said that G-d spoke face to face with Moses. How can Moses be any different from me? My guess is that Moses also suffered from hallucinations, but that some, if not all of them were beneficial to his life. My study of religion has also proved beneficial to my life, or at least so I think.
The funny thing is that history is littered with semi-psychotic geniuses, such as Moses. Since, I saw this doctor I mentioned above, nobody I recall has questioned that I am in fact among the most intelligent men of the world. However, there is one thing that I lack, and the great semi-psychotic geniuses also seem to lack it, and that is executive skills. This idea of ADHD or ADD seems to be in the greats, such as Martin Luther. In fact, one of my criticisms of Torah is that it is poorly ordered. Paul, the man who is more responsible for Christianity than anyone else also suffered from this orderliness problem. His writings in the New Testament are usually very disorderly. I admit; Romans is quite good. To some people this makes them seem all the greater! I am not one of those people. I feel perfectly comfortable not worshipping anyone or criticizing what I see as having flaws. Writing doesn’t have to be perfect in order to be quite good. Paul also had the hallucinations too, the same types of hallucinations that I have.
Paul is to Judaism what Martin Luther is to Catholics. I argue that these two individuals are more important than the actual individual they are promoting, Jesus. Jesus was a relatively unknown Van Gogh before Paul began persecuting him, and thus popularizing him. Both Peter and James and the others are replaceable, but Paul was the innovator that created an entirely new religion! I say this because Jesus never left any written document or even had a coherent document written by an eye witness written about him. Really, Jesus is just another false messiah, most likely crazy like Paul, but it is the book of Romans that Paul wrote that is a solid, although incorrect argument. Anyone without prior knowledge of Judaism would probably buy that argument, Romans; such that is was not only Paul’s writing, but his incredible charisma.
Shabbatai Tzvi like the greats probably had bipolar, but he caused much strife. He thought he was the Jewish messiah and led the people astray. This is rather common among people that have bipolar. I suggest that if Moses walked into a psych ward today, then he would be diagnosed with bipolar. If we take him, Moses, to be the author of the Torah, then there are very bipolar features to his writing. There is a manic portion of reward if you follow G-d, but then there is a punishment portion, if you do not follow G-d. Isaiah also knew of this, as it is often said that his idea of the suffering servant was not for the messiah, but was a reason for the suffering of the Jewish nation, which the sins of many Jews end up causing the punishment of the righteous Hassidic Jews.
In fact, I have thought I am the messiah before too. Somehow I just can’t get the idea out of my head even though, I, personally, don’t believe a messiah will come anymore. It’s just impossible. Too much is expected. I see it as something that arises out of a need for religious people to be somewhat futuristic, just as Christians await the second coming of Jesus.
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