First Moves

 

I got the 11/20/24 The Cavalier Chronicle newspaper which has a weekly homily printed on Page 7 every Wednesday, and this one was entitled, Essential First Steps. I copy the homily and comment on it.

 

Homily: “The best plans produce the best results.”

 

My response: Absolutely.

 

Homily: “’How firm a foundation’ is important. When the Lord returns, will you be ready? Prepare yourself this week in church. Prepare the way of the Lord’ Matthew 3:1-12.”

 

My response: If one tries, genuinely and earnestly tries, to walk with God or the good deities each day, then one should be prepared for death, or for the return of Jesus to earth, whichever occurs.

Unseen

 

I subscribe to The Cavalier Chronicle, and every Wednesday they carry a short homily on Page 7, which I copy and then comment on. This homily below was printed in the paper on 11/6/24 and entitled No one has ever seen God.

 

Homily: “If we want to see God, we look to Jesus. Jesus restored things as God meant them: blind people could see, lame people walked and leapt, mentally ill people receive sound minds—and more. This week in church, look for Jesus at work. He is the image of the invisible God. Colossians 1:11-20.”

 

My response: It is true that God the Father, and the Holy Spirit and even Jesus is invisible to us today, so, if we are faithful believers and moral, perhaps after death our souls will reunite with these great deities in heaven, and then we will see them as they are.

 

If we really believed and practiced our faith on earth, perhaps good deities would be literally visible and walk among us.

Locateable

 

I subscribe to The Cavalier Chronicle, and every Wednesday they carry a short homily on Page 7, which I copy and then comment on. This homily below was printed in the paper on 11/13/24, and entitled Ready Or Not, Here I Come!

 

Homily: “Hide and go seek was the game, ‘ready or not’ was the warning from the seeker. God, however, puts His presence in plain sight.”

 

My response: I agree that God puts De presence in plain sight so people will not lose faith, and received divine grace, love, and feedback from God.

 

Homily: “The world can see Jesus. If you are a seeker, find that Jesus is not hidden, but in church this week. Be ready for the son of Man is coming. Matthew 24:36-44.”

Doing What Is Right

 

I subscribe to The Cavalier Chronicle, and on Page 7 every Wednesday, they publish a homily, which I copy and then respond too. The one from 10/30/24 was entitled, Be The Exception.

 

Homily: “Today’s headlines are full of people being caught and prosecuted for crimes of all kinds. Isn’t anyone playing it straight anymore? “

 

My response: People are born evil more than good, and the Devil rules this world, and we practice evil altruist-collectivist morality, and we group-live and live nonindividuated lives, both of which ratchet up our state of psychic, inner misery, heightening the evil in us, our self-loathing our lack of veridical self-esteem.

 

Considering all of these worldly and biological, negative inputs, it is a miracle that people are as just, kind and civilized as they are, that at least a minority of people still play it straight.

 

Homily: “God’s people should be different.”

 

My response: When we teach people that altruism and low self-esteem are noble, ethical ideals, we just taught people to lead evil lives, we reward them for leading evil lives, and we have convinced them that they are not leading evil lives.

 

Though all have some natural modicum of conscience and free will, so on some level--until willful blindness tamps these noble impulses down—that hints to them that they should be moral and play it straight, seeking after God, the worldly and group associations they are embedded in soon shout down these internal, shy suggestions to the self.

 

God’s children should be different, but most people are not God’s children—born as God’s children but not living as God’s children—despite their Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist professions of faith, most people are the Devil’s children due to their living in accordance with the immoral ethical code, altruism-collectivism.

 

Homily: We ought to be outstanding witnesses for God.”

 

My response: If we knew God and practiced a moral ethical code, egoism-individualism, most of us would be outstanding witnesses for God.

 

Homily: “Strengthen your ‘outstandingness’ this week in church.”

 

My response: Going to church will not sufficiently strengthen people’s virtuous outstandingness, unless they are trained to be rational egoists, not whimsical altruists. Going to church is better than not going to church, but moral standards and moral behavior there are too often scandalously low, because church is built on the premise of brotherhood, communal warmth, and group-thinking, group-living, and group-morality (altruism-collectivism). The Devil is the joiner and God is the loner or individualist. 

People should be taught to be egoists more than altruists, and engage in self-care more than other-care.

 

Homily: “Brothers and sisters do not be weary in doing what is right. 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13.”

 

My response: Believers will weary much less if they were practicing egoist-individualist morality.

The Exchange

 

I read the weekly homily published every Wednesday in The Cavalier Chronicle, to which I subscribe. This homily appeared in the 10/16/24 paper, and I will copy it and then comment on it, and it is entitled Turnabout.

 

Homily: “If the Lord takes pleasure in the people He created, what should our response be?”

 

My response: We should thank God for creating us, for existing, for not leaving us alone in a cold, meaningless universe, and for showering upon us divine love and many worldly blessings.

 

Homily: “How about taking pleasure in a God who loves us? How about rejoicing and lifting our voices in thanksgiving for the gift of life? Praise God this week in church. Praise the Lord. Psalm 149.”

 

My response: Amen.

Honor Thy Children

 

The Fifth commandment is: Honor thy father and mother. It is a beneficial commandment for we should honor our parents, they gave us life. Should we obey them and love them? To some degree yes, and to some degree, no.

 

Dennis Prager urges people to honor their parents, even if they cannot always love, like or obey them. I agree.

 

But I think it goes the other way around too. Parents should honor their children by introducing them to the worship of a good deity, by teach them morals, especially egoism and to individuate. Parents should treat children with dignity, courtesy, and respect.

 

A parent should take care of herself and other to provide the kids with positive role modeling.

 

I bet if parents honored their children more, then children would be more likely to honor their parents.

Novel idea

 

I subscribe to The Cavalier Chronicle and every Wednesday they carry a short homily, which I like to read and comment on, because truth and knowledge are scattered to smithereens, so one never knows where one might find a nugget of insight, so I look in odd places for new ideas.

 

On Page 7 of the 10/23/24 paper, was the following homily, entitled, Following the Lead: “Every great and new idea isn’t necessarily from God. For generations there has been a common understanding of God and of God’s purposes and ways.”

 

My response: Not every great and new idea is necessarily originated with or generated by God. God is the greatest and most perfect Individuator, ever growing, creating, learning, individuating, and evolving in an infinitely expanding universe which God made, is growing inside of forever, and yet is somehow coextensive and outside of infinity. I realize this is a contradiction and might not make sense, but I am sorry, that seems to me just how to be the way that the universe is, and God is.

 

God commands us to have some pride, independence from De, and to each of us originate a few new concepts, artistic projects, or new opinions about the world. God has no monopoly (De owns most new ideas anyway.) on originality and urges us as mini-creators and living angels to come up with something new—God says more power to you, just do not become arrogant, compete with me, or seek to overthrow me.

 

The metaphysical and theological understandings of the past give insight into God, and God purposes and ways, but humans—especially among those who maverize—evolving and individuating, will discover and write about God’s nature and purposes and ways, in a newer take, and this all during living life while we change and become, while God changes and becomes.

 

Homily: “Following our new and great ideas may lead us away from God’s truth.

 

Hear the truth this week in church.

 

Hold fast to the tradition that you were taught by us: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5.”

 

My response: God wants us to honor our cultural and religious traditions but to move on and forward too as self-realizers.