The Bruce Jenner’s & Baltimore’s of the world

Ok seriously. What the hell? Just when you think you’ve seen the brink of stupidity in people’s thinking.. Bruce Jenner walks on the scene. His moment of truth was aired with a grand total of 17 million viewers. The positive movement behind him is unbelievable. Don’t get me wrong. What I’m writing here today is not a “smash piece” I’m not one of the republican/conservative homophobic religious spouting freedom eating “American made” guns or nothing idiots that you have me figured out to be. I try to be a realist and like anybody that has any kind of moral thought life, I strive for truth. My issue isn’t with Jenner. My issue is with the 17 million that tuned into Jenner’s announcement. You know when it comes to the conversation of legalized marriage in homosexuality. I think it should absolutely be legalized. Why? Because regardless of what you may think you know about Jesus teaching. He was absolutely clear about creating one thing! “free will” for every man, child and woman. Oh and he was also about love. So without going into scripture and getting all “preachy” on yo ass. I’ll leave you to read between the lines. If this country which is “God fearing” can’t understand that GOD made it so that we could live within our own free will. Meaning YOU CAN MARRY A GOAT if you really wanted too. Then I guess we really need to wake up. As long as that person who is marrying a goat does not infringe upon my freedoms and isn’t murdering, raping ya know all the obvious stuff. Then I don’t CARE. Live your life the best way you see fit! God it’s like rocket science to some people. Anyway that’s not the point I’m trying to make.

Some of you that read this will say.. “Yea nick what’s your point” I don’t care. That’s fine. This is a 

rant and you’re free to move on.

What pisses me off is this percentage of people that are so ignorantly blind to the REAL problems of the world. The violent protestors of Ferguson and Baltimore coupled with this 17 million people that represent the KIM KARDASHIAN following simply blow my mind. People are so wrapped up in the Gossip and the offense of people like Bruce Jenner! Who is Bruce Jenner? He’s a simple human being. WHO CARES! Everything in this country is fueled by 3 things Religion, politics and entertainment. All 3 of those things are obsessed over and radicalized. Whatever happened to the forging of the human heart? The desire to see yourself be something more than your 9 -5 gossip train at work ending with a TV dinner and the news channel EXTRA EXTRA at 7 talking about 

Hollywood?!

Meanwhile Nepal is buried under thousand year old brick. Christians in the world are suffering a modern day genocide that isn’t being recognized. Tehran is lurking in the shadows of a sinister agenda our leaders refuse to see. ISIS continues to ravage and kill just like the days of old. Beheading men, woman and children, nailing entire families to trees, burning, raping killing.. And we are tuning into Bruce Jenner’s controversial announcement… 

Hmm anyway, Social equality is a valid conversation and issue that should be dealt with. But that’s just my point IT SHOULD BE DEALT WITH! My Faith in leadership is dashed at this point. How can we even attempt to solve the problems in the world if we don’t first deal with the ground floor problems like social equality? Martin Luther King is rolling over in his grave right now because of these racial issues in our country. C’mon people we’re American’s not African American or Irish or Dutch or whatever. Fine map back your genealogy and bloodline. Be PROUD of where you came from. But at the end of the day the past no longer matters. You are a citizen of the best country in the world. Now act accordingly. Are the cop killings ok? NO! But that doesn’t mean you burn a city that your father and grandfather built upon their backs! There is So much materialization in this age that people don’t even see the meaning of hard work, blood, sweat and tears shed through precious history. So much distortion of truth and reality most people that don’t really DIG in the news articles, fact checks and confirmation sites are really walking around basing their opinion off of a lie. We’ve created a society of People that are so sifted by “one line” antidotes that their moral compass is ass backwards. Who do we have to thank? The media? No my friend. That answer is to easy and not at the root. Every person in this world is a byproduct of a leader. That may look like a general in an army or a manager in dunkin donuts all the way down to a simple man or woman being a father or mother to their child. We need more leaders in this world that look up the word integrity and character 5 times a day and repeat it back to themselves. They don’t have to have degrees or great resumes detailing their accomplishments. Just simple people that knows what’s right and wrong in the face of blatant evil. Some would say it’s hilarious that I would even have to say something that should be already well understood. But unfortunately we live in a society of leaders that prove differently to us every day.  

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A fraction of the dysfunction

Do you ever just question it? Religion, your relationship with God, what you stand for, what you are and who you actually are? To some people even the notion of such a thought is an act of pure betrayal to themselves or in their mind betrayal to God himself. I know this because I use to feel that way. Maybe it’s not the same for everyone else. Maybe God isn’t looking at you through a magnifying glass trying to determine what you are and how you think. Maybe you are allowed to think outside the box of what you’ve been taught your whole life, which means maybe he’s got thicker skin than any of us know. Maybe just maybe he’s bigger than our minds eye all together. Maybe not. Think about your daily walk in life. The perfect synergy you share with people that are around you, that also share your ideologies, convictions and way of life. It all seems normal right? But what about when your alone? Do you ever feel like a different person? Someone that is screaming to be released in a different way. But it scares you because it’s contrary to how those other people know you. I believe the second we close our minds to the possibility that maybe our thinking is small, is the moment we’ve become brain washed to man’s ideas and traditions. It’s the moment that we’ve traded enlightened cosmic possibilities and ideas for thousand year old traditions that only seem different due to man’s constant revision after revision after revision. Is it betrayal to ask your God or your patterned thinking if there’s more than what you know? I know we all think and pray that already.. “show us more”… ”What else is there?”. I don’t know what your version of that prayer or thought process looks like. But I’m sure one way or another you’ve prayed, mumbled, hoped, thought or screamed it in some way. A simple cry for beautiful revelation, the hope of pure originality. But what does this powerful, divine God require of us to do? In order that he may “show his back side” to the face of Moses on mount sini? Or what’s even more exciting to think about is the idea that maybe he intended to show his face. But Moses lacked something in his own personal belief and thinking that only allowed God’s back. It’s just a simple example that came to mind.

Sometimes I think about Buddhism, astrology, new age, Islam etc.. And I wonder to myself are all the ideas and religions small pieces of a bigger picture. This God that we speak of.. He’s huge right? We’ve heard it all of our life. “God is bigger than your problems” some variation of this has been heard in your ears at some point I’m sure. I think that maybe we’ve heard it to much. I think we’ve heard it so much that the words used for him like huge and big have kind of lost there depth and taste. Or maybe it’s just the fact that we’ve been using the wrong words.. Words like big and huge are words I think of in correlation with my stomach after I had just finished eating a Thanksgiving dinner. When I think about the size and greatness of a creator that made the heavens and the earth I usually go to the dictionary and try to find a word that I never heard of that might touch on for a split second his enormity. Then it hits me. The word that should be used is simply unfathomable. Lets face it. His greatness, strength, height, all of it. It’s something that cannot be explained or understood. So with that being said.. I’ve stopped trying to serve him and understand him. BLASPHEMY! Haha Yes I know. Please don’t mess up the face. But honestly how can you please a God that is unfathomable in everyway that he can be thought of? I’m not saying that God is some rich girl in heaven that’s overly spoiled and haughty. I’m saying that God has everything he needs, lets face it he’s God. Maybe what he “needs” for a lack of better words is for us to simply delight in ourselves. Nothing better than creating something that is impressed with itself haha. For those of you that don’t believe in God, I’m sure you have something like that already figured out. Because you don’t believe in a higher power of any sort, man becomes that power. Which means you find your strengths, inspirations etc in yourself.  People that are engulfed in religious activity and or Relationship with God find their identity in a power that is greater than creation itself. They spend their life “crucifying the flesh” that they might be closer to him. I believe in some of the core values of atheism and believe in God. Some of you will probably write me off for some of what I’ve said. Which is fine, It’s just  an indication that your close minded, can’t have a conversation and live in fear due to the chains of religion and old traditions. But here is none the less where my mind has ended as of late. In truth it’s only a fraction of things I’ve been thinking. But at the end of the day it’s a fraction that I thought I’d share with you.

Happy Friday 

This is a war against humanity. A war against our way of life.

Qur'an (2:193) - "And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion be only for Allah. But if they desist, then let there be no hostility except against wrong-doers." 

Many of you know to some extent the problems that are faced in the world. Whatever news source you choose, doesn't really matter, they at least get you the correct information needed to realize some of the atrocities committed. Here is the bottom line atrocities are committed everyday. In our great country and all around the world. Things like thieving, rape and murder among COUNTLESS others that I'm not mentioning. All acts of lawlessness are disgusting and those that commit such things should be punished to the full extent of a moral law in place.

What is different about what I'll mention below is this. Most broken laws and sins are made in the shadow. In secret, behind closed doors. All made mostly with the intention that no one will find out.

Deep inside that person who just killed because of jealousy or raped because of lust. Those that stole for greed and fame and even those that are pedophiles because they just "simply can't help it" all realize one thing at the end of there day. It's wrong. They know that if Caught they will answer to a system that will convict them and punish them. Obviously they don't believe in this system, but somehow that hair brained decision to kill or rape or whatever was made and now has them in the clutches of a system that will investigate and convict. Obviously this system is not perfect. I understand that. Things happen and rules are bent. Nothing is perfect. But I've said all I said: to say that if you look at Religious Radical extremism in any religion you'll find a people that have there rules written from "divine influential power" this can be true of all religions even Christianity, look at the crusades for example. But specifically I am talking about Radical Islam. Radical Islam is nothing new to the world. September 11, 2001 was a day that shook us to the bone. We saw 2 towers fall in New York City thousands dead, thousands injured. What followed next was war. Where we learned more about our enemy. More about there convictions and more about there resolve to see manifest "the holy scriptures" of the Qur'an. 

I think from everything I've seen dating back to 9/11/01 is this. We are not fighting a political war. It is a Religious war. This War will not end for them until they've seen the fulfillment of there scriptures. They clearly disagree on all fronts with the worlds laws and systems in place. They clearly want to replace the worlds laws and systems in place with the laws and system of the Qu'ran. They have been relentless, ruthless and have shown that they are not easily clipped away like grass that has grown to long.

 The key phrase in that verse above from the Qu'ran is to fight until "religion be only for Allah."

Take a few minutes to read below some of the stories and things that have happend in 2015 already. Some of the images are GRAPHIC. But I think we need to see it. To understand it.

21 Christian men beheaded in Libya : 'A Message Signed With Blood to the Nation of the Cross'

276 mostly Christian girls captured by Boko Haram, after almost a year 219 are still missing and believed deceased:. 

148 students at a college in northeastern Kenya were pulled out of there classes and executed for being of Christian belief: Cynthia Cheroitich, 19, told The Associated Press from her hospital gurney that she hid in a large cupboard and covered herself with clothes, refusing to emerge even when some of her classmates came out of hiding at the demands of the gunmen from the al-Shabab group

Coptic Christian who confirmed this Christian girl in Syria who refused to convert to Islam and marry an Islamic man. Was stoned to death by radical Islamic extremists.

The mob of men beat 27-year-old Farkhunda before throwing her body off a roof, running over it with a car, setting it on fire and throwing it into a river near a well-known mosque. Allegations that Farkhunda, who like many Afghans has just one name, had set fire to a Qur’an. But Afghanistan’s most senior detective said no evidence had been found to support those claims.

What's the point of me saying all this? What's my feeble answer or solution to all this? The first step to a plan of action is first to be aware. I don't know what's to be done. But I know this. I love this country and it's God given rights. But can something last forever? What will life be like in 50 years?

I don't know. But in order to protect ourselves from an enemy, we must first understand our enemy. 

"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles"