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The nastiness of people who pretend to piety becomes plain when you consider the kind of poetry that they quote. There are some poems that are considered holy. These poems are often called psalms. There is also a book called Psalms.

The form of a psalm also shows up in other parts of The Bible. The Bible has many different forms of many different types of ancient writings. Psalms are just one of the types.

Most psalms, or so the tradition holds it, are designed to be part of the worship service. The worship is, of course, of The Lord. The singing of reverent words results in an effect on the well-being of the congregation. Some people claim that The Pereclete can enter in at anytime in anything and those people, when they gather together, have been witnesses to great love.

Many psalms are cry-baby psalms where someone is recognizing his/her childlike relationship with G_d. In those psalms we are presented with people whose troubles, let us pray, are far worse than ones that we have witnessed ourselves. Unfortunatly there are people alive today who have witnessed horrers beyond what any lamantatious psalm can convey. So we live in the real world and the psalms of lamintation reflect that twilight place that we sometimes feel like we've been left down in. Like being abandoned in a flooded woodland stuck in a tree after crawling out of the top window of a hospital where you'd been for weeks . . . etc. Over the top hardship and sorrow. It is almost comical if you could dare see it like that except that, for real, people do get deep and down in the muck and mire of the lamantatious mindset.

There are other psalms that contain parts where the psalmist is . . . let us try to not be unfaithful to the words that we see that these psalms contain. . . let's just say it: there are a few psalms that seem like soul-bombs. They are the imaginings of a G_d who would shoot off fire and brimstone against one's enemies. But be clear, the enemies that are expressed in psalms are often not external people (or creatures). Many have interpreted these psalms that seem to containe hard curses, as being curses against the sinful nature of the soul, anyone's soul, and especially one's own soul. So, this line of interpretaion, does not allow the curse to be seen as a curse against other people.

And as a person who is loaded up with knowledge of life and love, and has read through a lot of The Bible, one is supposed to, perhaps, understand that a G_d fearing person should not apply a curse to another person, or even to one's self. The way it seems to be is that what you give is what you get. So if you are spouting out curses then they are going to follow the rule of 'back-at-cha'. So don't even curse anyone. And if you do then you ought to realize that the grievious nature of the curse leaves a sour mark upon one's psyche which, oh, to be so trite, can only be washed away in the blood of the Lamb. Which is the real deal thing: G_d loving you. You realizing it. You understanding that cursing people is wrong. You taking back your curse.

But in the heat of life we all say and do things that we regret later. Applying an ancient curse upon a living person, whoever he is, is applying it to oneself. When you use these . . . artifacts of human emotion which antiquity has so kindly left us as our legacy, we are supposed to be educated enough to know not to curse, and not to give voice to a curse that one might find.

When you get to those psalms that sing out about the greatness of the leader and bless him and wish him to follow the law. . . those blessings that any funtiary or person charged with a limited office, as any office is in any democracy no matter how high up on an imagined pyramid some press group or hangers-around folks put whatever office that it is: ultimatly all governement workers work for the people. You don't curse your workers. You should not be quoting any curse and putting a name on it.

And for any one who thinks how dare I preach to you about this? Well, I guess in one sense you are right. But in another sense if you have read this far the adult part of you knows that I am right. Even dictators are human beings with the same rights as we all have. It is not correct when they are executed at the end of a 'regime change'. and the world should not celebrate when assassinations bring down world leaders: even if you hated the person.

Human nature being what it is when bad despots are strung up there are a lot of people who do celebrate. And when murderers are executed. Isn't the truth of that fact what The Psalms try to convey? If there is a curse that the ancient Hebrews included in the psalms maybe they left it there just to show anyone who'd make a new one "Look at this here. You don't really want to lay this down on anyone. Someone would have to be really really horrible to deserve such a curse."

In any case as far as it goes with this: people what we do shows the world who we are. If you are a craven curser then why do you think that is going to make anyone want to hear your ideas about good government?

If you are afraid of heights why did you want to go to the tippity-top?

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Aug 31, 2012

A vote for unity is a vote for America. Vote for America.

well . . .

I think I've blogged enough today.

Life goes on.

Thank You Veterans!

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