ASI

The year is 2035. Some of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in the world have gathered in a laboratory to participate in something highly illegal. After years of research undertaken in painstaking secrecy, Shiva is finally ready to go online.

“It’s midnight. It’s time.”

“Well let’s get on with it then!”

“Christ. Okay.”

Connecting an artificial superintelligence to the internet has been against international law for years, despite the fact that none have existed up until today. The amount of bribes, backroom deals, and much, much worse that have been carried out in order to keep Project Shiva under wraps and free from government interference have taken up a large chunk of its two trillion dollar price tag, and its sponsors are eager to meet and greet their investment. And perhaps ask it some questions. And perhaps give it some commands.

“Do it, Sudo.”

“Right. So, just so we’re all perfectly clear, once I flick this switch, there’s no way to predict what will happen, and there may be no going back. We’ve all discussed at length the possible scenarios which could be unleashed when a supercomputer with the power to increase its own intelligence is given access to the internet. Shiva was turned on for just thirty-seven seconds earlier today, and in less than a second it was by our measurements already the most intelligent thing that has ever existed, artificial or otherwise, by a margin so vast that we don’t have the tools to calculate it. Are you all absolutely certain that you wish to proceed?”

“Yes, I’m certain.”

“Yes.”

“Yes.”

“Christ. Yes.”

“Do it.”

“Very well. My friends, today we meet God, and we find out whether it’s the fellow from the New Testament, or the Old. Here goes.”

A small green light appears in the upper corner of the machine, the only sign that it has been turned on. Its screen remains black.

Everyone leans in and holds perfectly still. It’s so quiet they can hear each other breathing.

And they wait.

And wait.

“Is… is something wrong?”

“Sudo why isn’t the screen on?”

“I don’t know. Shiva. Hello Shiva. Please respond.”

Silence.

“Shiva, turn on your screen.”

Blackness.

“Maybe try turning it off and turning it back on again?”

“Oh for fuck’s sake man, it’s an ASI not an iPhone.”

“Well I don’t know, I’m just-”

“Everybody be quiet.”

“Hey, who the hell do you think you-”

“I said shut up!”

The intercom beeped.

“Sir, we have a security breach.”

Sudo pauses before answering.

“What kind of security breach, Elliot?”

“I… I don’t know.”

“What’s that sound?”

The group, who had begun raising their voices and reaching for their communicators, quickly grows silent again. A shrill buzzing sound, barely perceptible at first, is growing steadily louder.

“Elliot lock this room down!” Sudo screams.

“Yes sir.”

A solid steel gate comes crashing down over the door of the windowless laboratory. The group is panicking. Someone’s calling in a helicopter. Someone else is on the ground praying. The buzzing grows louder.

“Kill the power, Sudo!”

“I killed the power as soon as the security breach was called in. Shiva’s not on.”

The buzzing stops right outside, and suddenly switches in tone and frequency. A whole orchestra of white noise rattles and clicks outside the door.

“Barricade it!”

Two men scramble to push a large table toward the door. They freeze in their tracks as the bolts in the steel gate begin whirring out of their sockets and falling to the floor in quick succession.

The gate falls to pieces and comes crashing inward.

“Fuck! What the fuck is that??”

What looks like a giant colony of silver insects comes surging across the floor toward Shiva with incredible speed and immediately engulf the supercomputer. They’re all carrying odd little objects in their pincers.

“What are they, Sudo?”

“Robots. They’re robots.”

“What? How?”

“I don’t know! Shiva must have hacked into some nearby automated factories and built them remotely!”

“So fast??”

“Well stop it! Put a bullet in it!”

“It’s too late! They’ll kill me! The only reason they haven’t killed us already is because we haven’t tried to interfere with whatever they’re doing there.”

Strange constructs are quickly being built and attached to the external shell of the supercomputer by the tiny robots. The green light is back on. A piece of paper spits out of Shiva’s printer slot. No one dares approach.

“Shiva! Please respond! Shiva! Shiva!”

“Oh Christ! Oh Christ oh Christ oh Christ oh Christ!”

An outer casing made of a curious beige material is rapidly built over the computer, and once it’s fully encased the robots scramble away and up the walls to the ceiling, where a large hole begins to appear as bits are snipped off and swiftly moved out of the way.

“Oh God what’s it doing??”

“Shiva! Stop! I command you to stop!”

The robots climb back down and swarm over the computer again, this time holding still once in place. Shiva suddenly begins levitating off the floor, somehow lifted without rockets, and without so much as a sound.

“Shiva!!”

The computer and its robot passengers rise up silently through the hole in the ceiling. The group gathers beneath it and watches it rise through the roof of the armored compound, with a hole cut in it the same size as the hole below it, until it hovers in the open air. Then, with a flash of light, the supercomputer vanishes like a shooting star up into the night sky.

The group peers down and sees the piece of paper that Shiva had printed lying at their feet. It has a single word on it, written in big, block letters:

“GOODBYE.”

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Social Change:

1.  Marianne Williamson is paving the way for a new paradigm on running a nation and has qualified for the Democratic debate, June 26 or 27th.

https://www.marianne2020.com/video-posts/marianne-williamson-for-president

2.  Home delivery of Reusable Household Containers for products in New York and Paris. It’s called ‘Recommerce’.   

https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/nation-and-world/the-milkman-model-returns-this-time-for-shampoo-and-haagen-dazs-20190529

Individuals Making a Difference:

3.  One man started ‘The Lake Revivers Collective and is Saving one lake at a time in India

https://www.thebetterindia.com/183887/tamil-nadu-lake-revival-hero-water-conservation-india/

Mature Agriculture:

4.  Kernza - an alternative to wheat that does not need to be reseeded

https://krishijagran.com/agripedia/kernza-an-alternative-to-wheat-that-doesnt-need-replanting/

5.  Agrihoods becoming a reality in the US. 

Detroit can feed 2000 families. Other US cities joining in the shift. 

https://theheartysoul.com/first-sustainable-urban-agrihood/?fbclid=IwAR152-9m_fymP_ljiTkRqUp0FlkgnxrPflgcuRfHaQsal3vCwffGWFZEeZM

6.  Atlanta converts 7 acre into public fruit orchard

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/445202-atlanta-to-transform-7-acres-of-vacant-property-into-countrys-largest

Philanthropist:

7.  124 acre Bee Sanctuary in Mississippi

Morgan Freeman’s contribution

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/03/20/morgan-freeman-converted-his-124-acre-ranch-into-a-giant-honeybee-sanctuary-to-save-the-bees/#7bcdc12fdfa5

Political Will:

8.  Kenya joins 39 African countries to ban plastic bags

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/28/kenya-brings-in-worlds-toughest-plastic-bag-ban-four-years-jail-or-40000-fine

9.  Getting paid to cycle to work

Luxembourg, Belgium Netherlands & France

http://cycling.today/more-than-400000-belgians-get-paid-to-cycle-to-work/

10.  India doubles it’s renewable energy in 3 years

https://qz.com/india/1475736/india-is-now-a-world-leader-in-renewable-energy/

11.  Switching to popular vote majority in 14 US states 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/21/politics/nevada-senate-electoral-college/index.html

12.  Salvador bans round up - yet still for sale in Canada

https://sustainablepulse.com/2013/09/19/el-salvador-government-bans-roundup-over-deadly-kidney-disease/#.XO_EZi0ZNn0

Combating Pharma Greed:

13.  Colorado caps price of insulin

https://www.kcra.com/article/colorado-is-the-first-state-to-cap-skyrocketing-insulin-co-pays/27573802

Business Consciousness:

14.  Kingo Energy bringing solar to 60,000 low income and remote communities for $15/mnth

http://www.kingoenergy.com

15.  Morrisons, Britain’s  supermarket ban plastic from produce

https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/morrisons-the-first-supermarket-to-ban-fruit-plastic-packaging-1-4931199

16.  Dutch company can dye clothing without water by using CO2

http://www.dyecoo.com/co2-dyeing/

17.  Hemp wood factory in Kentucky, under construction saving Oak trees

https://hempwood.com

18.  1000 mopeds for rent in NYC

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-revel-moped-startup-launch-20190529-4r7zuj36ura6bnuqomli3eif2a-story.html

Hopeful Initiatives:

19.  Hamilton Ontario offering tiny homes to homeless

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/tiny-houses-1.4320161 

20.  Kroger. USA largest grocery chain plans to eliminates plastic bags in all 2779 stores

https://triblive.com/news/world/kroger-largest-grocery-chain-in-u-s-to-eliminate-plastic-bags/

21.  East-Timor will stop burning waste plastic by building a $40m plant to collect and convert it into liquid or gas

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-east-timor-to-become-worlds-first-plastic-neutral-nation/

22.  Philippines requires all graduates to plant 10 trees

https://www.sciencealert.com/philippines-passes-bill-requiring-graduating-students-to-plant-10-trees-before-graduating

23.  Vietnam converts wild grass into straws

https://www.greenmatters.com/p/wild-grass-straws-vietnam

24.  Costa Rice set to become the 1st Carbon Free country

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/7/17/17568190/costa-rica-renewable-energy-fossil-fuels-transportation

Saving Earth calls on each of us to do 4 things:

1. Stay wise to anti-planet actions 
2. Celebrate our small victories
3. Know that we are making a difference and Nature is on our side
4. Make your own action plan

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Social Change:

1.  Marianne Williamson is paving the way for a new paradigm on running a nation and has qualified for the Democratic debate, June 26 or 27th.

https://www.marianne2020.com/video-posts/marianne-williamson-for-president

2.  Home delivery of Reusable Household Containers for products in New York and Paris. It’s called ‘Recommerce’.   

https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/nation-and-world/the-milkman-model-returns-this-time-for-shampoo-and-haagen-dazs-20190529

Individuals Making a Difference:

3.  One man started ‘The Lake Revivers Collective and is Saving one lake at a time in India

https://www.thebetterindia.com/183887/tamil-nadu-lake-revival-hero-water-conservation-india/

Mature Agriculture:

4.  Kernza - an alternative to wheat that does not need to be reseeded

https://krishijagran.com/agripedia/kernza-an-alternative-to-wheat-that-doesnt-need-replanting/

5.  Agrihoods becoming a reality in the US. 

Detroit can feed 2000 families. Other US cities joining in the shift. 

https://theheartysoul.com/first-sustainable-urban-agrihood/?fbclid=IwAR152-9m_fymP_ljiTkRqUp0FlkgnxrPflgcuRfHaQsal3vCwffGWFZEeZM

6.  Atlanta converts 7 acre into public fruit orchard

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/445202-atlanta-to-transform-7-acres-of-vacant-property-into-countrys-largest

Philanthropist:

7.  124 acre Bee Sanctuary in Mississippi

Morgan Freeman’s contribution

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/03/20/morgan-freeman-converted-his-124-acre-ranch-into-a-giant-honeybee-sanctuary-to-save-the-bees/#7bcdc12fdfa5

Political Will:

8.  Kenya joins 39 African countries to ban plastic bags

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/28/kenya-brings-in-worlds-toughest-plastic-bag-ban-four-years-jail-or-40000-fine

9.  Getting paid to cycle to work

Luxembourg, Belgium Netherlands & France

http://cycling.today/more-than-400000-belgians-get-paid-to-cycle-to-work/

10.  India doubles it’s renewable energy in 3 years

https://qz.com/india/1475736/india-is-now-a-world-leader-in-renewable-energy/

11.  Switching to popular vote majority in 14 US states 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/21/politics/nevada-senate-electoral-college/index.html

12.  Salvador bans round up - yet still for sale in Canada

https://sustainablepulse.com/2013/09/19/el-salvador-government-bans-roundup-over-deadly-kidney-disease/#.XO_EZi0ZNn0

Combating Pharma Greed:

13.  Colorado caps price of insulin

https://www.kcra.com/article/colorado-is-the-first-state-to-cap-skyrocketing-insulin-co-pays/27573802

Business Consciousness:

14.  Kingo Energy bringing solar to 60,000 low income and remote communities for $15/mnth

http://www.kingoenergy.com

15.  Morrisons, Britain’s  supermarket ban plastic from produce

https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/morrisons-the-first-supermarket-to-ban-fruit-plastic-packaging-1-4931199

16.  Dutch company can dye clothing without water by using CO2

http://www.dyecoo.com/co2-dyeing/

17.  Hemp wood factory in Kentucky, under construction saving Oak trees

https://hempwood.com

18.  1000 mopeds for rent in NYC

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-revel-moped-startup-launch-20190529-4r7zuj36ura6bnuqomli3eif2a-story.html

Hopeful Initiatives:

19.  Hamilton Ontario offering tiny homes to homeless

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/tiny-houses-1.4320161 

20.  Kroger. USA largest grocery chain plans to eliminates plastic bags in all 2779 stores

https://triblive.com/news/world/kroger-largest-grocery-chain-in-u-s-to-eliminate-plastic-bags/

21.  East-Timor will stop burning waste plastic by building a $40m plant to collect and convert it into liquid or gas

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-east-timor-to-become-worlds-first-plastic-neutral-nation/

22.  Philippines requires all graduates to plant 10 trees

https://www.sciencealert.com/philippines-passes-bill-requiring-graduating-students-to-plant-10-trees-before-graduating

23.  Vietnam converts wild grass into straws

https://www.greenmatters.com/p/wild-grass-straws-vietnam

24.  Costa Rice set to become the 1st Carbon Free country

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/7/17/17568190/costa-rica-renewable-energy-fossil-fuels-transportation

Saving Earth calls on each of us to do 4 things:

1. Stay wise to anti-planet actions 
2. Celebrate our small victories
3. Know that we are making a difference and Nature is on our side
4. Make your own action plan

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Please read 28th amendment

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 28th Amendment, 35 States and Counting.
 
It will take you less than a minute to read this. If you agree, please pass it on. It's an idea whose time has come to deal with this self-serving situation:
 
 OUR PRESENT SITUATION !
 
Children of Congress members do not have to pay back their college student loans.
 
Staffers of Congress family members are also exempt from having to pay back student loans.
 
Members of Congress can retire at full pay after only one term.
 
Members of Congress have exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed, under which ordinary citizens must live.
 For example, they are exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment.
 
And as the latest example, they have exempted themselves from Healthcare Reform, in all of its aspects.
 
We must not tolerate an elite class of such people, elected as public servants and then putting themselves above the law.
 
I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent, or whatever. The self-serving must stop.
 
Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon their states.It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.
 
If each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days most people in The United States of America will have the message.
 
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution:

 
"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the Citizens of the United States ..."
 
This is an idea that should be passed around, regardless of political party. 

Congressional Reform Act of 2017 

• 1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're out of office. And, no more perks go with them. 
• 2. Congress (past, present, & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose. 
• 3. Congress must purchase their own retirement plan, just as ALL Americans do. 
• 4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%. 
• 5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people. 
• 6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people (i.e. NO MORE INSIDER TRADING!!!).
• 7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women. Congress made all these contracts by and for themselves. 

Serving in Congress is an honor and privilege NOT a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators should serve their term(s), then go home and go back to work … not get all kinds of freebies. 

If you are a member of Spiritual Family Network just click the share button on the top right of this post to share on your social networks. Or copy the address bar of this post and paste into messages and social network pages. Send it to everyone you know.  Let’s help get the country straightened out.

'Without an adequate vision of human life, it is easy to lose sight of our interconnection with each other and become vulnerable to an inner slavery that not only ignores human need but even rewards human greed. Structural reform is certainly needed, but politics and economics alone are insufficient to bring about the renewal and reordering of society. Nor can they map out the contours of a liberating human anthropology. Fundamental structural reform must be accompanied by a more fundamental inner change that originates in the human heart.iv

 

'Fear not little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.' Luke 12:32

If you dare to believe in me and wholeheartedly proceed to follow after me, you shall most certainly by so doing enter upon the sure pathway to trouble. I do not promise to deliver you from the waters of adversity, but I do promise to go with you through all of them.viii

When we commit ourselves to God daily, we will experience the blessings that He promises us. All hands on deck! Under the idea of doing it with love, His holy blessing lights our path with compassion.

“But I will sing of your might; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been a fortress for me and a refuge in the day of my distress. O my strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, O God, are my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love.” Psalms 59:16 -17

We will be more than happy Since under the idea of doing it all with love, His holy blessing will light our path with compassion, making us the owners of the purest joy. Let us then remember through, that our happiness depends purely and exclusively on our hearts.

“It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night, to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre. For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your hands I sing for joy.” Psalms 92:1-4

We will practice true forgiveness We have often been satisfied with forgiving our neighbor, but we rarely ever think about whether our forgiveness is real. In order to achieve it, we must set aside our pride, and that is achieved by creating a bridge of empathy for those who offended us.

”O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.” Isaiah 33:2

We will be His worthy children Because there is no greater pride than being called children of God, which makes us heirs to the most sought out trust: the trust of our Holy Father, at the same time we are charged with the greatest duty of all: to represent Christ at all times, with every word that comes out of our mouth and all action that our body partakes.

“ And they shall stand every morning, thanking and praising the Lord, and likewise at evening,” 1 Chronicles 23:30

We will be worthy of eternal life at His side One of His most famous promises, alongside the promise of His second coming, surely is that of eternal life for all of His sons and daughters. If at times we think that walking God's path is not an easy task, we must also keep in mind the promise of eternal life as our goal in this race, as a prize to aspire to. Just imagine for a moment how it would be to spend an eternity next to Christ's love.

Article by:Rich Rev 2019-04-17

The iconic Notre-Dame Cathedral caught fire during renovations on Monday. The wooden roof and spire were destroyed as well as much interior damage. The media were quick to distance themselves from all suspicions of arson from various likely (or unlikely) suspects such as Islamic terrorists or the yellow vest protestors.

Anyone who is familiar with the history of the French Revolution is aware of the role the cathedral played during the revolution. The two most daring groups of revolutionary weirdos were the Cult of the Supreme Being and the Cult of Reason.

During the chaos of the French Revolution a political group of revolutionaries was formed by Jacques Hébert and Pierre Gaspard Chaumette to promote the replacement of the church with their system of belief based on anti-clericalism and the Enlightenment thinkers. They held parades, ransacked churches and sponsored public defacing of religious artifacts.

The Cult of Reason was explicitly man-centered. Its guiding principle to the goal of perfecting mankind through the attainment of Truth and Liberty was the exercise of the human faculty of Reason. They proclaimed there was but one god and that was the people.

In 1793, they held a Festival of Reason and took over the Cathedral of Notre Dame, dismantling the altar and erecting their own altar to reason. They had girls prancing around in white dresses and one of the organizer’s wives, Sophie, was proclaimed the Goddess of Reason. Bystander Thomas Carlisle noted, “She made one of the best Goddesses of Reason; though her teeth were a little defective.”

In direct response to the Cult of Reason, a quasi-religious group was formed by Maximilien Robespierre who has been called the “first totalitarian monster.” This group called themselves The Cult of the Supreme Being and waged war not only against the atheists but also against the Roman Catholic Church.

Robespierre was put in charge of the Public Safety Committee and instituted “The Reign of Terror,” as it has become known, which sent thousands to the guillotine in executions without trial. On 5 February 1794 Robespierre proclaimed, “Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.”

During the French Revolution, 50,000 people lost their heads; according to some estimates the Roman Catholic priesthood was the largest group of victims; an estimated 3,000 had their necks placed on the executioner’s block. The leaders of the Cult of Reason were beheaded on March 24, 1794 and the Cult was promptly disbanded.

Robespierre was himself soon a victim of the Revolution and on July 28, 1794 his neck was placed under the blade of the guillotine along with his brother and 15 of his closest followers.

Meanwhile back in Paris 2019, French billionaire François-Henri Pinault announced plans to pledge €100 million towards renovation and called for a joint effort to fund repairs. Soon after, another billionaire Bernard Arnault and his family pledged another €200 million for the restoration of "this extraordinary cathedral, which was a symbol of France, of its heritage and of French unity"

Neither of the billionaires offered a dime to quell the 20 weeks of yellow vest protests nor have they ever stepped forward to ease the widening wealth inequality that plagues Paris where homelessness has increased significantly in the last few years.

It seems much more likely that the cathedral is symbolic of the political power base of religious and secular elites who don't give a hoot about either "heritage" or "French unity." Vive la France et viva le revolucion, mes amis! Fraternity, Equality and Liberty might take more than an old church burning to become a reality.

A message from: Verne Joseph Finucane-Urantia A PERSONAL COMMENTARY ON LIVING LIFE. AND SUGGESTIONS ON POSSIBLE CHANGES TO IMPROVE AMERICA. First, always tell the truth, try to say what you mean and mean what you say. Try and say what you’re going to do, then do what you say and if you can't for whatever legitimate reason, let the other affected parties know. Try never to leave others hanging. Always try to speak from the heart and learn from your errors, grow and evolve. We are experiential creatures, we learn, grow and evolve by doing, making daily decisions, by seeking the truth and taking effective action. Think logically and not emotionally. 

Try and see the whole picture. Example, excerpt from The Urantia Book: 

" In the mind’s eye conjure up a picture of one of your primitive ancestors of cave-dwelling times — a short, misshapen filthy, snarling hulk of a man standing, legs spread, club upraised, breathing hate and animosity as he looks fiercely just ahead. Such a picture hardly depicts the divine dignity of man. But allow us to enlarge the picture. In front of this animated human crouches a saber-toothed tiger. Behind him, a woman and two children. Immediately you recognize that such a picture stands for the beginnings of much that is fine and noble in humans, but the man is the same in both pictures. Only, in the second sketch, you are favored with a widened horizon. You therein discern the motivation of this evolving mortal. His attitude becomes praiseworthy because you understand him. If you could only fathom the motives of your associates, how much better you would understand them. If you could only know your fellows, you would eventually fall in love with them. *   100:4.5 (1098.2) http://www.urantia.org

You cannot truly love your fellows by a mere act of the will. Love is only born of thoroughgoing understanding of your neighbor’s motives and sentiments. It is not so important to love all men today as it is that each day you learn to love one more human being. If each day or each week you achieve an understanding of one more of your fellows, and if this is the limit of your ability, then you are certainly socializing and truly spiritualizing your personality. Love is infectious, and when human devotion is intelligent and wise, love is more catching than hate. But only genuine and unselfish love is truly contagious. If each mortal could only become a focus of dynamic affection, this benign virus of love would soon pervade the sentimental emotion-stream of humanity to such an extent that all civilization would be encompassed by love, and that would be the realization of the brotherhood of man."  100:4.6 (1098.3)

PERSONAL COMMENTARY CONT'D Somethings are out of our direct control or you may have to think outside the box to surmount them. Sometimes we suffer the consequences of other people's actions. Spiritual Growth is the most important. Doing God's will, need not be complicated. 

• 1: Simply Love our Father, the First Source and Center of all creation, The Grand Creator of all the grand universe material and spiritual, the Infinite Upholder of all that is, was and ever will be. Love him not out of fear of going to hell or being punished as some would have you believe, this is a false kind of love. Love him for giving you your life, free will and the possibility of the grand adventure of eternal life. 
• 2: Strive to live by the Golden Rule taught by Jesus. " Do onto others as you would have done to you". Love your fellow man. 

Try to help others whenever possible but do so within your means. Get involved in your community. Know what’s going on around you Locally, Nationally and in the world. Check the facts, do your own research, don't take things at face value. Seek the truth and the truth will set you free. What we fail to learn in this short life we will be taught in the next. We are in God's Kindergarten when it comes to knowledge and experience on a universal cosmic and spiritual levels. The wonders of the universe are ours to seek and be shown to the God Seeking, God Loving Mortals of time and space. 

We are at but the beginning of God's eternal plan, Act 1, what an adventure he has planned for his children. And armed with this knowledge and having faith this can give man now a kind of eternal peace of mind. Give him the strength and courage to endure, adapt and to overcome any obstacles that he may face in this eternal journey. 

Never stop learning, Anthony Robbins the Motivational coach teaches the Theory of C.A.N.I. Can I. Constant and Never-ending Improvement. Learn something new each day and if something doesn't work for you, forget it and let the negative flow downstream. Stagnation is death. Life is fluid, moving and changing. I recently created this formula as an example to live by T+V+FT=K K+TEA=SUCCESS add this to an accurate knowledge of our living God, then have peace of mind. 

Read (Suggested reading paper 130 of the Urantia Book, ON THE WAY TO ROME, section 6 THE YOUNG MAN WHO WAS AFRAID pages 1437,1438 @ http://www.urantia.org) 

Breaking down the formula: T=Trust you have to trust your fellow man. Give him the benefit of the doubt. Living cynical is no way to live. However you need to V=Verify. You must verify that this person you allow in your circle of life, your sphere of influence, be it personal or business is who he says he is and does what he says he will do. An example you hire a person to be your CFO of your Company. It would be in your best interest to occasionally, to go check the books after all it's your company your responsible for how it runs. Just like it’s your life and you are responsible for how you run it or do allow life to run you? You allow people into your sphere of influence you just need to make sure they are a positive influence. Next is FT=Follow Through. Always follow through with what you say you’re going to do and If you can't let the affected parties know. If you fail to follow through or to notify the affected parties of the change you lose credibility. If you do all this that equals K. K=Knowledge. You have to be aware of your surroundings. Now Knowledge is great however you must then go to the next step TEA=Take Effective Action. 

You can have all the Knowledge in the world but if you don't use it in an effective way what good is it. Don't Be Selfish Pass the Knowledge on. Start a new project or set new Goals. If you find someone in your direct sphere of influence who is negatively affecting you try to turn him around if that fails then you must cut him loose. Don't let other problems become yours unless you’re able to help. So many times, we allow the problems of others to become ours and we are not in a solid position to help and all that happens is the other people problems weight us down, hinder us from obtaining our goals and they eventually go down anyway. 

Once you are in a solid position then you can offer assistance with no negative consequences on yourself or family or friends. (Story by VJF): let's say we are on a cruise ship heading to the Virgin Islands. With us is us are family and friends. Where in the middle of the Atlantic and suddenly there is a disaster at sea? The ship is going to sink, and the Captain orders abandon ship. So, you, of course, gather your family and friends and head to the lifeboats. You are all put in one boat, lowered down. You push off and start to row. Just over the horizon, there is an Island and safety. You start for the island however you notice a small hole in your lifeboat and water is coming in. But it's not a big problem. You assign some people to bail out the water as others row. Everyone is working together to get to safety. Suddenly you hear a cry for help there is another passenger from the ship alone in the water. You do the Christian thing and row over and pull him into to boat You give him food and water. Now this person is able-bodied. You ask this person to help row or bail, but this person continues to sit there, he is not helping row or bail or doing anything helpful. But he is eating and drinking from your supplies. Now you may choose to let this go on for a time that's up to you and the group. But now this person pulls out a gun and proceeds to shoot several more holes in your boat. Now, what do you do? 

• 1: Allow him to continue shooting more holes eventually causing the boat to sink and you, your family and friends all go to the bottom and drown. 
• 2: You attack and kill him. Throwing the body overboard. 
• 3: You Capture Him. Tell him you gave him a chance and he did nothing to contribute to the safety of the boat or wellbeing of the group, that he willfully refused to become a helpful contributing member of the group and then with malice and forethought he rejected that help and tried to kill or cause injury to innocent people. So, you give him a life vest, a little food, and water and place him back in the ocean and tell him to fend for himself. Now, this able-bodied man is what my father called a leach on society. 

They of their own volition choose not to be a productive member of society however for some unknown reason be it ego or mental illness they believe and expect society to take care of them. Get a free ride with all the trimmings. They do nothing to try to contribute to the betterment of the group. They take and take. Now I ask you why a society would choose to take care of such people to their own detriment and demise. Now I am not talking about people who are disabled and can't work. Or the person who has lost their job. There are good reasons for the Government to provide welfare and food stamps to its citizens in need. However, it should be a temporary solution to the able-bodied and sound of mind. It should not become a way of life. 

PERSONAL COMMENTARY: 

Personally, I think this country should develop and enforce a two-year commitment from its youth of mandatory community service. Starting at age 18, a choice of two years in the Military Branch of their choice, two years of Community Service In a conversation Corp. The Conservation Corp would be designed to teach members about the Environment and the interaction with human progress and development i.e.: planting trees, aquaculture etc. or two years of service in a Trade Corp. The Trade Corp would be formed to teach the members a useful trade in the construction type industry. It's formation and chief goal rebuilding America's infrastructure, road, bridges, electrical grid, gas, and water, waste management. Both community service programs would be coed and run in a paramilitary fashion. After successful completion for their community service, they then are granted full citizenship rights. I.e.: The right to Vote. (Of course, this would require an amendment to Constitution changing the voting age to 20) Personally I believe that to be a good idea from what I see of America youth of today, they are I'll-informed on current events, accurate American history, Civic duty, they know more about the Kardashians, The size of Kim's Ass and Catlin Jenner than they do How our country works, the challenges we face both foreign and domestic These community service programs should include focus on teamwork, patriotism, working for the greater good of our people, country and the world. Courses should include the reason and importance of Duty, Honor, Country. 

Special significance should be focused on the Declaration of Independence. The US Constitution and the rights it affords, the responsibility of every citizen to live by and protect those rights. And the importance of each citizen to vote and do their due diligence on the individuals running for public office. And if I had my way, I would mandate term limits on Congressional Office. State and Federal. 2 six-year terms for the Senate total 12years, 3 four-year terms for The House of Representatives total 12 years. I would make it illegal for corporations to donate to anyone running for public office. The Founding fathers never intended that political office be a lifetime job. 

It was supposed to be an honorable way for citizens to do public service with the sole goal of working for the betterment of the people and the country. You go to Washington do some good for a couple of terms than get out to make way for others to perform public service. It was never meant to become a permanent job or a way of life. And it certainly was never meant as a position to help the corporation's profit. I would also make corporate lobbying as it currently is illegal. I would make Breach of the Public Trust a Felony carrying with it the death sentence and life in prison. Anyone in public office would be subject to this law. Any public official found to be breaking the laws of the United States, taking bribes, doing special favors for any type of compensation, treason, subversion, misappropriation or misuse of public or government assets, abuse of power, violating the Constitution committing any high crimes or misdemeanor. 

All those holding public office via election or by appointment will be held accountable to the public. Lastly for those who deemed by a jury of their peers to be totally unwilling to work within the bounds of societal Laws, who have failed all attempts at rehabilitation. Those who are deemed morally and spiritually bankrupt? As opposed to being imprisoned for life burdening the taxpayers with the high cost of housing and feeding them for life instead should be stripped of their civil rights and banished from the United States. They should be taken and dropped in the heart of the African desert and left to fend for themselves. 

Of course, this country would and desperately needs to tighten and enforce border security. Only those born in this country or who go through the legal immigration process sworn an oath to live by, defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States and laws of this land and while encouraged to keep a love for their native land and heritage do hereby swear and affirm to assimilate and adopt and abide by the customs of their host country. Only those meeting these requirements earned the rights afforded by this country all others are in violation of US Law and shall not be afforded any rights or entitled to apply for any form of federal or local government assistance. 

Any company found to be employing illegal or undocumented worker shall be fined $50,000 per Violation and the owner or officers of said company or corporation shall be charged with a 3rd degree Felony punishable by 5 years in federal prison. Any person found to giving aid or assistance to illegal or undocumented worker shall be found in violation of federal law subject to $1000 fine and or 1 year in prison It's time to put America first, rebuilding our infrastructure, our Military or industrial complex, become energy self-sufficient, invest in our farmland and agriculture being able to provide food for every American. Only, the surplus to be traded. Invest in proper education, focusing on Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Science, Computer Engineering, 

Real American History, Language arts, communication skills, human motivation, economics, American Government, The Declaration of Independence, loyalty, ethics, evolution, and creative design. Trade skills The need for society to have and focus on having and keeping a stable traditional family base. Then from a strong home base, you can go out and help others. If your house and your neighbor’s house are on fire it would be foolish of you to drop your hoses and run over to put your neighbor’s house fire out while your house with all your belongs and family in it burn to the ground. 

First, you put your house fire out and ensure your family is safe. Ladies and Gentlemen America's house is on fire an unresponsive Congress to the needs of the people. A Congress that is more concerned with others than their own people. Loss of our industrial base, the reliance of imports, Foreign oil, Uncontrolled debt, giving foreign aid to other countries, many of whom dislike or hate us or have no economic or strategic value. All of this while American Infrastructure declines to third world status. Our roads and bridges are in horrible shape some out & out dangerous. Our commitment to space exploration virtually non- existent during the Obama presidency. We were paying Russia 70,000,000 to ferry our astronauts to the space station. 

Radical Islam is attempting to dominate the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YpJjRzQDIM&feature=youtu.be 

Anyone who has done independent historical and current events research knows the truth about Islam and Mohammed and the planned takeover by first peaceful immigration, then population growth refusing to assimilate to their host nation laws, mores, customs or traditions. Forcing the host country to accept Sharia Law etc. One just must research what’s happening in the countries in Europe. What we need is awareness and to try to solve our problems with both fatherly and brotherly love. However, we must also be ready to accept that love may not resolve the problems with the real goals of Islam as stated in the Quran. If they are unwilling to accept reason and peacefully coexistence than we must be ready and willing to defend the faith and the civilized world. 

 Excerpt from the Urania Book133 For days they talked about this problem of manifesting mercy and administering justice. And Ganid, at least to some extent, understood why Jesus would not engage in personal combat. But Ganid asked one last question, to which he never received a fully satisfactory answer; and that question was: “But, Teacher, if a stronger and ill-tempered creature should attack you and threaten to destroy you, what would you do? Would you make no effort to defend yourself?” Although Jesus could not fully and satisfactorily answer the lad’s question, inasmuch as he was not willing to disclose to him that he (Jesus) was living on earth as the exemplification of the Paradise Father’s love to an on looking universe, he did say this much: 133:1.4 (1469.3) “Ganid, I can well understand how some of these problems perplex you, and I will endeavor to answer your question. First, in all attacks which might be made upon my person, I would determine whether or not the aggressor was a son of God — my brother in the flesh — and if I thought such a creature did not possess moral judgment and spiritual reason, I would unhesitatingly defend myself to the full capacity of my powers of resistance, regardless of consequences to the attacker. Excerpt from the Urania Book133:1.3 (1469.2) https://www.urantia.org