From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017010800311998855-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > I don't see how the scripture you quote differs from my thoughts.  I won't   
   > deny religion, but I'm way too old to argue about it.  There are a few   
   > things I've slowly painfully learned ... and one is when to let somethings   
   > go.   
      
   It's not so much that as the idea that so many have about somehow   
   'preaching' 'religion' into someone by always talking about it and in   
   general, getting in their face with it. Testifying, that is, giving   
   testimony by reciting or reading Scripture is one thing, and so is   
   witnessing, relating personal experiences and how they accurately conform to   
   the testimony given in Scripture, but 'telling' someone to believe, or even   
   that they have to believe, or else, is not only ineffective, it's also   
   usually counterproductive in that it's often a very effective turn-off...and   
   I know that from personal experience.   
      
   > Wasn't there a story of some rich prince who Jesus told to give all his   
   > riches away and follow him ?  And he wouldn't, and so Jesus said " oh well   
   > " and left him.  That's probably not the King James wording, but eh,   
   > whatever.   
      
   Yes, it's in both the Gospel of Matthew and of Mark, where a very wealthy   
   young man asks Jesus what he can do to inherit God's Kingdom, to which He   
   replies that he should sell all he has and give what he gets for it to the   
   poor...and it wasn't Jesus who left him, it was the rich young man who   
   walked away and left Jesus!   
      
   > I'm at peace with not caring anymore if someone wants to disagree with me   
   > ... on religion, or anything else. They can have at it. If they are right,   
   > then, great, get out there and do it, whatever.  I'm only taking care of   
   > me and mine at this point.   
      
   But we're NOT Called to be Selfish!   
   And Selfishness is Precisely Why this Miserable world is such a Hell on   
   Earth in the first place, and it's far better to be part of the Solution,   
   than the Problem!   
      
   Just LOOK at tha Horror those two Devils, Adam and Eve visited upon ALL of   
   us by their being Selfish!!!   
      
   > And that even affects the band. Imagine that.  Long chat with singer girl   
   > tonight.  We're both of the mind to do songs we like, as we like, and if   
   > that breaks the band up because the others don't like our path, 'twas ment   
   > to be.   
      
   Totally different situation. Doing songs you like the way you like will   
   result in their being done the best.   
      
   > Caring what people with no " skin in the game " as far as MY career, MY   
   > life go .... well, I'm done listening to advice from them. Or, people who   
   > clearly don't have a clue. That would be other local musicians who don't   
   > like this or that about how we run the band. If they're so smart, then   
   > good for them.   
      
   That's a matter of the Unique, Individual character of a Specific band and   
   one size NEVER fits all!!!   
      
   > As someone once said, referring to some business strategy that disagreed   
   > with his  " we'll see them in the marketplace ".  It was Steve Jobs, as I   
   > recall.   
      
   Jim   
      
   Great example!   
   Steve Jobs was an atheist...so he ran his company as though there was no   
   God...which means, if he felt like Stealing from his customers, it wouldn't   
   matter that God Forbids Stealing, so he had his products designed to fall   
   apart and be difficult to fix, and he overpriced them too, along with all   
   the RipOffs that are the epitome of CRAPple!!!   
      
   On the other hand, if he had been a *genuine* Christian, he'd know what God   
   *expects* of him, like:   
      
   The *Golden Rule* directly from Jesus Himself in the Gospel of Luke 6:31   
   And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.   
      
   Also directly fro Jesus in the Gospel of Luke 6:38   
   Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken   
   together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the   
   same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.   
      
   Colossians 3:23   
   And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;   
      
   Just imagine *if* Steve Jobs had Actually Believed THAT!!!   
   Wouldn't thatt have been SO VERY NICE? A LOT nicer than what really   
   happened?   
   He would have *Lived* that belief, better known as Faith, in the constant   
   fear of God, Knowing he'd be *accountable* to Him, and as a result you'd   
   have computers that would hold up rather then being Deliberately Designed to   
   break down! And they wouldn't be overpriced either!   
      
   And that's only One, Tiny example...there are MANY, MANY MORE!!!   
      
   On my second album, Ignite The Sky, there's a protest song for track 6,   
   entitled "Why Are You Asking Me?', which is only a very short projectio and   
   protraction of an escalation of what's already happening right now - a Vile,   
   Godless, Satanic Despotic New World Order's Destruction of America, and its   
   bridge mentions something very important in terms of Factual details:   
      
   and to think that you once said we never had it so good   
   even while the virus just kept spreading like I said it would   
   too cheap and too lazy to work hard to pay the price   
   to keep our Heritage despite the Founders' sage advice   
      
   That last part, about the Founders' sage advice, is not mere words, here are   
   some examples of their sage advice:   
      
   "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this   
   Great Nation was Founded, not by religionists, but by   
   Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus   
   Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been   
   afforded asylum, prosperity, and Freedom of worship here."   
                                                --- Patrick Henry   
      
   "We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not   
   upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the   
   future...upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern   
   ourselves, to sustain ourselves, according to the Ten   
   Commandments of God."   
                                                --- James Madison   
      
   "The people know it is impossible to rightly govern without   
   GOD and the BIBLE."   
                                            --- George Washington   
      
   "We have no government armed with power capable of contending   
   with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.   
   Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the   
   strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a   
   net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and   
   religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other."   
                                                   --- John Adams   
      
   "...Is not a glorious death in defence of our liberties better   
   than a short, infamous life, and our memory to be had in   
   detestation to the latest posterity? Let us all be of one   
   heart, and stand fast in the liberties wherewith Christ has   
   made us free."   
                       --- Colonel William Prescott, July 4, 1774   
      
      
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