2K Year Old Message

Gospel of Thomas (45) - Jesus' True Commentary on Trump

That the adulterer-ing, fornicating, drug abusing, incestuous collusion with Russia, pedophile enabling and loving GOP Evangelicals quoting Isaiah 45 comparing Trump to some Mesopotamian king Cyrus as proof of Trump anointing by Gawd, there is another 45 quote from the gnostic gospels found in Egypt in 1945.

Gospel of Thomas:

45)  Jesus said, "Grapes are not harvested from thorns, nor are
figs gathered from thistles, for they do not produce fruit. A
good man brings forth good from his storehouse; an evil man
brings forth evil things from his evil storehouse, which is in
his heart, and says evil things. For out of the abundance of the
heart he brings forth evil things."

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In Honor of Brett Kavanaugh, SCOTUS - Official Town Drunk Washington DC - Catholic Values

I was reminded of some article I wanted to write for a year or two now.

And it is more of a pet peeve and it goes back to the young buck who tried to fire me in my old job because he had a mandate to get rid of me, a whistleblower of sorts to HR about sexual harassment to myself among others and because I was over 50 and the benefits budget for healthcare apparently more so tiered to more and higher actuary figures, high premium tiers for old people. 

That said, the young buck was raised in upstate Westchester county type country and gleaning facts here and there, the bottom line is that Jack was educated from 1st grade to college degree in private Catholic education. 

Nothing wrong with that. But I have noticed this lately of a lot of politicians on the right DO NOT have what I consider traditional Christian values even though the religions checked for them next to a preference or a poll finding box is marked as that of "Christian" and or "Catholic".

Jack the supervisor made a comment to me one day, eating lunch at my desk about the smell. I explained to him that I was eating a tin of sardines in mustard which I did not think smelled. If you want me to eat sweet smelling food, don't ask me to work and to eat in on my lunch hour. Besides it was in the drawer with some crackers in a small tin and I had no money to buy the five dollar baloney sandwich in the company's Manhattan cafeteria, the cheapest item on the menu btw. I would usually go to this nearby fast food Chinese joint Kip's and get a Won Ton soup for a buck and a quarter and eat it outside in a small cubby hole urban park next door summer and winter. Oh the glory of Manhattan wages frozen since Reagan!

Aside from the ascetics of the thing, his look when I announced it was canned fish, I will remember the strange look on his face, to the day I die. One of disgust and of his pseudo-Patrician nose up in the air. How third world of you Mike?

A few more words of poor communication, more from his Catholic college educated side, than from my many self-helped book and college Psych courses labeled as or related to human communication. 

I finally asked if he had ever eaten sardines or canned fish. And again the disgusted look like I was the one covered in shit and he did not approve of my presence. This all in a face to face, my desk top across to a workstation where he was opening Fed EX packages containing certified checks and stock certificates. This is an area a lot of companies cash "The Cage" where raw cash or negotiables like bearer bonds are kept behind locked doors w/o windows.  The "Cage" tag no doubt goes back to 19th century banks, and brokerage houses where such a secured area was usually behind metal bars and locked doors. Of course in the old days, such places also handled gold bars etc. ...

This is where my own life experience kinda went back to being a kid of five and accompanying my father to the supermarket and seeing cans of Underwood Brand sardines in mustard sauce in wrapped cellophane wrappers and the likely price too was like a dime. Ancient American History.

The thought that his kid never had sardines, fish in a can, "Yuk" he said and or gestured in body language was something sad. Something I had shared with my dad was not something this kid shared with his dad. I was ignorant and his son/dad experience of taking Jack out on the golf course at the country club and caddying for dad in the same way he no doubt ever went shopping in a supermarket with anybody other than mom or the illegal nanny. 

Anyway to get to a point where I realize how old and useless this millennial thinks of me and in the line of the new Wharton Global Spreadsheet that reduces humanity to negative assets on that global spreadsheet in corporate American and corporate "Global" earth. 

That something as simple to me as a can of sardines and crackers reminds me of the lack to (of) empathy the ruling class have in dealing with a work force, my old job in fact now outsourced to India, disappearing from the landscape and making dysfunction everywhere, both coasts and flyover country in between, of people educated in private little Catholic colleges in upstate New York and charging tuition little different than Harvard. 

The gate/wall around the gated community extends to the gate around the country club next door and extends to the White Burb Catholic Educated minds of the people who have never eaten fish in cans such as sardines?

I always thought that it was po' people food like sardines, fish, that Jesus multiplied for the mixed crowds, mostly poor, in the desert?

This as an awful long prelude to a point in the news where the White Suburban Catholic Educated (Values) WSCEV Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, an asshole from South Carolina, where else but from where the Civil War started, -  

John Michael "Mick" Mulvaney thought that it was compassionate to chop "Meals on Wheels" from the Trump mean spirited GOP budget. And also how an after school snack for po' kids was also not cost efficient on the Wharton Global Humanity Destroying Spreadsheet. Mulvaney - 1st grade through Georgetown University - Catholic educated and with good Catholic "Values".

Compassion is in the eyes of the beholder. No doubt the guards at Auschwitz thought that they were being compassionate to the Jew getting off the cattle cars from the central cities of Europe. 

Good German Christian and Catholic Values practiced then and greatly unappreciated now as well with "Mick" Mulvaney's Compassionate Catholic Values Budget.

 https://lastcivilizedyank.blogspot.com/2017/03/mick-mulvaneys-compassionate-catholic.html

Trinity - Krishna, Jesus and Buddha

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Speadsheet Bible Sliced and Diced Into Statistics and Profits for The New Ignorant Classes in America Courtesy of the Oligarchs, FOX NEWS, GOP etc.

Spreadsheet Bible Jesus Riding Pet Dinosaur "Spike"

Of course you cannot deny the existence of the bones of Dinosaurs, but since the Earth is only 6,000 Years Old in a Perfect Market Economy Capitalist world, and you are on your own foraging for food and seeking shelter under decaying infrastructure underpasses etc., it is highly likely that Jesus, who defends Free Market Capitalism rode a Dinosaur according to homeschooled children's coloring books. 

Jesus would not take a grimy little poor people's socialist funded bus to his preaching gigs. He saved up and used a Cadillac Chariot.

Jesus looked ahead, invested with his local financial adviser in a 401K heavily leveraged into a hedge fund, looking forward to a fat retirement fund.

He believed in this, in the hope that God would bless him and lift him out of his poverty if God thought he deserved it. 

This in case his dad did not ask him to commit joint Patricide/Regicide/Suicide and save everybody from hell etc.

http://thisculturalchristian.blogspot.com/2014/02/spreadsheetization-of-bible-in-global.html

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Real Time Jesus, Maria, Jose – Philly – Kenzo – Manger

Bus Stop Jesus - Holiday Vision

It is strange to say this but the usual Victorian safe middle class era Jesus and his Manger scene sucks.

Jesus in real time sucks, hurts, needs a fix, needs a sandwich, needs a homeless shelter bed. Reality 21 century style is harsher than the fairy tale of the “Chrystian” Jesus of white bread (mean spirited GOP) heartland America.

http://www.brianphickey.com/what-the-manger-scene-wouldve-looked-like-if-christ-was-born-a-kenzo/#.UqwVh_RDsld

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Jesus Died on the Cross to Make Black Friday Possible - Amen - I Am The Way The Truth and The Reduced Item Sale on Aisle 4 !

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Devil’s Dictionary (Revised) – Ambrose Bierce – Definition of White Trash Science

White Trash Science:

The ability in homeschoolin or public schoolin in any red state (or Pennsylvania) to achieve just the right level of understanding in chemistry and alchemy to make passable Meth, prove that Darwin was an A-rab, know by devine instinct and the good book that Jesus's pet dinosaur "Spike" was housebroken enough to enter any church or see Global Warming as an ideal excuse on a hot day in July as the right time to steal a cold 30 pack at the local 7/11.


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Jesus Never Asked A Leper For A Co-Pay Bumper Sticker - John Fugelsang - Affordable Care Act (for People)

http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/chaplain-tries-justify-taking-health-c#sthash.npLqkUOG.dpbs

Fox News “Religion” Expert Lauren Green Attacks Islam on Air – Questions why a Muslim Religion Scholar Would Write About Christianity

Prom Queen, Miss Minnesota 1984 Lauren Green, Roger Ailes answer to a “Religion” expert in a bikini openly attacked Muslin Religion scholar  Resa Aslan for daring to write a book about Christianity on FOX NEWS.

Roger Ailes hates religion I think on the same scale he hates and assigns women.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/is-this-the-most-embarrassing-interview-fox-news-has-ever-do

Reza Aslan, a religious scholar with a Ph.D. in the sociology of religions from the University of California and author of the new book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, went on FoxNews.com’s online show Spirited Debate to promote his book only to be prodded about why a Muslim would write a historical book about Jesus.

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Cornerstone of a New Global Village?

Unfinished Monuments - Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn - 1894

Jesus said, “Show me the stone that the builders rejected. That is the cornerstone.”

Gospel of Thomas 66, Psalm 118:22-24, Matthew 21:42, Mark 12:10-11, Acts 4:11-12, 1st Peter 2:6-8

We travel further away, some of us, the older of us, from the village of our youth.

Some of us carry that image in our minds and our hearts till we die.

Congressman Burgess of Texas Demands Federal Protection for Unicorns in Texas

Congressman Mike Burgess with his mail order Christian Medical Degree claims that Unicorns still exist in Texas. 

Welcome to the Hotel California - Archbishop Cordileone - Gipsy Kings

Greetings from The Dude and Jesus, Sal.  Got any fresh Carpet? LOL 

No messing with Jesus. Right? LMAO

Welcome to San Francisco (that's Spanish for Saint Francis BTW).

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PAUL RYAN - JESUS - AYN RAND (John Fugelsang)

Ayn Rand – Born in Russia 1905 - born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum – Died 1982

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Devotional by M. McShea – Inspired by Artwork “The Passion Series” by F. Douglas Blanchard

Disclaimer:

The devotional passages below each work of art/image, by the artist F. Douglas Blanchard, reflects my own and not the artist’s written point of view or theological beliefs.

(I see this modern Jesus as an every modern day common man set against what appears to be the current high tech fascist state of the new global culture which says so much to me and in line with the theme of this blog. That overlaid with the standard Jesus story and or myth of history.)

The Passion Series

Devotional by M. McShea

Inspired by Artwork “The Passion Series” 

by F. Douglas Blanchard

  

One (1) – The Son of Man

The purpose of man has always been the myth of man.

The story of man has always been about his potential.

The man, the seed, plants the tree of the future.

The tree of man bears many fruits and abundance.

The family, the tribe, the myth binds the whole.

The whole is the definition of the (us) All.

Two (2) – Jesus Enters the City

The heart of Rome is her cities, her town square,

Her forum speaks the thoughts, feels of the people.

If I have the word and am the word then I must

Speak to the heart of the empire to change what

Is wrong into what is right and spread love of

The word and truth to all culture and peoples.

Three (3) – Jesus Drives out the Money Changers.

I went to pray in the house of stone.

I wanted to meditate on myself and my Deity.

I sought refuge from the outside world of strife.

All I found was the loud clank of chump change

Of priests emptying offering boxes.

I sought refuge and found none. Oh God!

Four (4) – Jesus Preaches in the Temple

The crowd grew hot and sweaty as I spoke.

I told of my dreams, shared fractions of light.

The stir of emotions on long dead stares

Lit up into the eyesight of vision and possibility.

The crowd became too large to carry one voice.

For an exit sign I searched and finally eyed.

Five (5) – The Last Supper

The warmth of the gathering, friends, strangers,

Family distant from the outside weather and

Negative political elements revives soul(s).

The food was cheap and from a warehouse

Doled meagerly to the poor. The spirit was rich

And mellow and full of human life, purpose.

Six (6) – Jesus Prays Alone

Alone I pray, meditate, gather my thoughts.

Focus. Focus on mean possibilities.

Things are harder to do than once I thought.

If I die, who will continue my cause

Who will bring down the temples and chains

Of oppression? Who among them can do it?

Seven (7) – Jesus is Arrested

In a dark city street a group of men descend

From squad cars and on foot. The helicopter

Overhead throws its accusing beam on me.

This was not a random act. This was done

With a heart in service to the evil in men at

Expense of the many without voice or hope.

Eight (8) – Jesus Before the Priests

How dare you think that God listens to you.

Your words, of a country fool, an abomination.

We in the city understand strength, power and

God’s purpose (to serve only us of the cloth).

You have made your last trouble. Too late

To go back. You have made too many enemies.

Nine (9) – Jesus Before the Magistrate

There was a riot in the house of prayer when

You spilled the money changers' tables.

There were deaths in the riot, Rome to our

Rescue. You are to blame. No need for trial.

Emergency powers to protect our freedom.

Death is to you, your poor silly fate.

Ten (10) – Jesus Before the People

The curious have gathered, opposite the square,

From the Hall of Justice. The crowd stares and

Enjoys too I think. They are full of rage towards

The State and they blame me for my failure to

Save them. They scream hate as I am driven

Off, handcuffed in the back of a paddy wagon.

Eleven (11) – Jesus Before the Soldiers

These soldiers are pigs. No rules or dignity

To any prisoners. Mocking. Slapping.

Down on your knees. Kicking. Spitting.

Obscene nursery rhymes. The taste of blood

From broken teeth pours out of my mouth.

Knives scrap and pull and cut. Pain. Pain.

Twelve (12) – Jesus is Beaten

Dachau. Abu Ghraib. Administrative Detention.

Hands bound and numb tied, held above.

Whips. Lashes. Broom handle’s thrust

Into ribs and private places. No life left

To protect. The State begins to sign off on,  

Decommissioning, a failed citizen of the State.

Thirteen (13) – Jesus Goes to His Execution

The long dark corridor from cell block A to B

Seem miles apart, full of regret, pain and numbness.

The greater vision lost in the smell of blood,

Sweat, urine, breath.  A momentary pause.

Turn the corner. Unlock a new door. Further

Along closer to death and final relief – release.

Fourteen (14) – Jesus is Nailed to the Cross

The execution is televised. A traitor will die.

Strapped to a piece of wood. A needle, piercing

steel set in place, hands and feet bound. A

signal given. Death takes its time to flow from

from head to toe. How strange. They can kill me.

I conquer life in death. Vision fades to black.

Fifteen (15) – Jesus Dies

A roar unheard from the couch potato audience.

Time for a new round of Pepsi, corn chips and

Don’t forget to flush. Commentary talking heads

Continue. Active crowds outside the prison gates.

And among the many a few – who did for Jesus

Cry that day a grand but simple tear.

Sixteen (16) – Jesus is Buried

The criminal’s body is the property of the State.

A bribe to inquire whom of many else to bride

In the coroner’s office to release a dead body.

No time to clean the body or do rituals, prayers.

A rich donor has bestowed the bribe money and

Quick burial before the State can change its mind.

Seventeen (17) – Jesus Among the Dead

On the new global spreadsheet I am nothing,

Not even a true number, even as a commodity

I only have a temporary value, mere slave of

Market place whim, taste, greed and profit.

As a whisper in my mind I have value.

I am (was) a Man. I am (was) a Human Being!

Eighteen (18) – Jesus Rises

The light within doth shine. The maker of me

Does not hide from me. I am thought and love.

I am not animal but man. The thought of me,

The essence of me was brought out by my

Creator. I cannot die. I live. I breathe. I love.

I am. I am who am. I am all mankind.

Nineteen (19) – Jesus Appears to Mary

With distant love I beheld you and wanted

Your aching, grasping, loving arms to embrace.

I had another purpose and I flew from your

Desire. Desire in me was no less but desire for

All others created such stress. Your fulfillment

In me goes beyond a body of me, (we are) soul.

Twenty (20) – Jesus Appears at Emmaus

The real me perhaps never really sat down

With you. I was another person with another

Face, another fate other than some mate you

Meet with over coffee.  My regrets of not

Being a simple man are now satisfied. I am

Grateful that you see the real me in me.

Twenty One (21) – Jesus Appears to his Friends

A symphony of relief. A cloud of grief

Is lifted. I went beyond the veil and return

For a while till I fade from simple view and

Memory. Touch me. See my wounds of life,

Scars of death. It was all a dream but really

Not a dream. More like some Greek tragedy.

Twenty Two (22) – Jesus Returns to God

Cannot linger. I from beyond the veil must

Remain behind the veil. Otherwise effort

Is lost without the purpose of searching.

Life is a search, a quest. And in the end

It all drowns away into silence, warmth,

Love. Returning to the womb of God.

Twenty Three (23) – The Holy Spirit Arrives

Purpose. Purpose. My sword of light is

Focus and flight among the weak who

Cannot travel by foot, or see with eyes

Or think beyond the grunge of day to

Day living. Arise. Awake. See. See as

He saw. Be of like mind and purpose.

Twenty Four (24) – The Trinity

Before purpose and energy and light of

Creation I was and still am. I remain the

Same. Where there is life, there is God.

Spark and breath, heartbeat of Creation,

Of and with purpose and flow in union

w/Sacred Wisdom’s milk, energy, life...

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