John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

Sunday, February 23, 2014

HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

HI FAMILY!!!

Well family, today is SUNDAY, which means it's time for another SUNDAY SCHOOL VIDEO, where I post a video about ANY religious or spiritual to[pic.

This week, we have another episode of the epic You Tube series, "DISCOVERING RELIGION".

Published on Jul 25, 2012
The twenty-third installment of my original series, "Discovering Religion". In this episode I examine the basis of Secular Morality, which I've defined in two parts: Primal Morality and Refined Morality. This episode concludes the Secular vs. Biblical Morality miniseries, which began with Episode 20.

On a personal note, I apologize for my long absence. I've been extremely busy this year and I had to take some time off from youtube. However, even when I do manage to get some free time it's difficult to devote the many long hours it takes to researching, organizing, and producing new videos. At close to 40 minutes this episode has been by far the most labor intensive to produce. In fact, this script has been in the works since last year, so I feel a great sense of accomplishment in finally getting it out there. I hope everyone enjoys the episode. Thank you very much for supporting the series and for all your patience. :)

Please comment and rate. If you enjoy the video feel free to share it with others or mirror it on your own channel. Thanks!

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INDEX
0:10 - Introduction
3:20 - Primal vs. Refined Morality

Refined Morality:
5:06 Various examples of Refined Morality
9:41 Parallels b/w physiological and societal health
14:00 Refined Morality at work - Alcohol consumption

Primal Morality:
16:12 The basis of Primal Morality
19:21 An alternative evolution of morality

Lifestyle: Secular vs. Biblical Morality
23:27 The morality of lifestyle choices

Criticisms and Clarifications:
27:49 Loopholes in Biblical Morality (Biblical atrocities)
31:53 The objectivity of Secular Morality (a scenario of human extinction)
34:00 The subjectivity of Biblical Morality

Conclusion:
35:34 Conclusion of Secular Morality
36:42 Morality and the social dynamics of early man

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BIBLE CITATIONS:
Genocide (The Flood) - Genesis 7:21-23
Genocide (various nations) - Deuteronomy 20:16-17
Rape (Jerusalem) - Zechariah 14:2
Rape AND Infanticide (Babylon) - Isaiah 13:16
Infanticide (Passover) - Exodus 12:29-30
Infanticide (Midianites) - Numbers 31:17&18
Infanticide (Babylon) - Isaiah 14:21
Infanticide (Babylon) - Psalm 137:9
Infanticide (Israel's Punishment) - Hosea 9:16

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VIDEO CITED:
Robocop
American Psycho
Equilibrium
Let's Go To Prison
Year One

Planet Of The Apemen - Homo Erectus
BBC - Planet Earth - Mountains; Great Plains; Ice Worlds
BBC - Walking With Cavemen - Savage Family; The Survivors

Tribal Treehouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhF7wY...

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MUSIC CITED:

Phillip Glass (The Hours) - Dead Things
Phillip Glass (Kudun) - Distraught
Tutors (soundtrack) - Whispers & Confessions
James Asher (Dance of the Light) - Peace to All Beings

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TRANSCRIPT:
http://discoveringreligion.net/?page_...

PLAYLIST:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...

WEBSITE:
http://www.discoveringreligion.net

FACEBOOK:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Discove...
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License
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------------HEAVEN LETTERS------------

Heavenletters™, bringing Earth closer to Heaven.
HEAVEN is here to reach every soul on earth to reawaken:
* Our connection to God *
* Our belief in ourselves *
* Our awareness of our shared worthiness to God *
* Peace on Earth *
God is always bringing us closer to Him.

Heavenletter #4734 Closer to God Are You , November 10, 2013

God said:
What if the way you have thought about someone or something isn’t so absolutely right as you have thought? What if your thinking is askew? What is so important to you that you may feel you must keep the same way of thinking? We are talking about the way you think and the thoughts you have. You always are thinking something.

One way of thinking doesn’t have to be your lifeline. Your way of thinking is a precursor to the unfolding of your life. There are many ways of thinking. Be open to new ways of thinking or rethinking.

It is possible to think differently from the way you always have. You do not know the sum total of everything or anything, beloveds. Because you think a certain way doesn’t make what you think true – except it’s true to you. What you think, what you conclude, what you fear may indeed predicate your life. A thought process may be set in motion which will make your way of thinking come true, and, therefore, seem to prove true.

The way you think may not be all conclusive. You can have dooming predictions that do not come true, yet, meanwhile, you lived through dooming predictions. You could see and feel wonderful events that do not come true or have not yet come true. Meanwhile, however, you had uplifting thoughts that weigh their weight in gold. Uplifting thoughts carry you forward. Uplifting thoughts influence your take on life and, therefore, your life itself.

Fear not. Predict the life you want with the thoughts you choose. Who is better than you to predict what your life is going to look like.

You live by your thoughts. Your thoughts are your guide to life. What are your thoughts? Where do your thoughts take you? What thought leads to another? Your fate is not sealed. Your destination to be wholly with Me is irrefutable. Your destination is to be wholly with Me. There is no stopping that outcome. Let your outlook be equal to the outcome that is bound to come.

By no means is fate only strokes of luck. Your words, your thoughts steer your perception of life. In any case, you are the one who stirs your life and steers your life in the way it will go. You, and you alone are accountable for your life. Make Me your partner.

What may seem random is not random, or it may be random from anything you can see. And, no matter, what occurs in your life occurs, you make of it what you will.

Remember the theme of your life is to move forward. Moving forward forebears analysis. It is a foregone conclusion that life will lead you somewhere. You do influence your life and the lives of those around you.

Many relationships are like skirmishes. Choose a direction in your life, and move toward the direction you chose. You may not control your life much or at all, and yet you choose the direction you go in.

Choose happiness by the direction of your thoughts. Choose good will for yourself and others. Be the bird who leads a V-formation. And if you are a bird that is in the back of the V, meanwhile, go with the flock that knows where it is going which is, forward. Leave behind you what is behind you and move forward.

Do you hesitate? Regardless, you will move forward. Leap forth rather than be dragged. Make your choice to leap forward. Opportunity is right around the corner. Let go of the past and leap forward. The more you leap forward, the closer you are to Me.

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And now, as always, I'm gonna end this post with the most beautiful song in this whole, entire world, and a word from Don Miguel Ruiz.

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Every human is part of the infinite, and so is every object we perceive. There is no difference between any of us or between us and any object.
~don Miguel Ruiz

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What is a Warrior?

I see through different eyes.

I see a bigger picture when others see only grey skies.

Though many can’t conceive it,

I stand... facing the wind.

My bravery not from fighting,

but from my strength within,

I am a Warrior.

I will walk the extra mile,

Not because I have to,

Because it’s worth my while.

I know that I am different,

When I’m standing on a crowded street.

I know the fullness of winning;

I’ve tasted the cup of defeat.

I am a Warrior.

They say I walk with ease.

Though trained for bodily harm,

My intentions are for peace.

The world may come and go,

But a different path I’ll choose.

A path I will not stray from,

No matter... Win or Lose.

If you've been in the Martial Arts for a while, you'll find many people who would like to believe in the idea that just because they practice the Martial Arts, they are some kind of Warriors.(I like to call them Wannabee Warriors).

But what exactly is a Warrior? I mean, throughout history, there have been many different types of warriors, all having different Codes of Honor that they live by (And in case you're wondering, yes, there is a Warrior Creed that I follow and try to live up to also...) . But if you really try to define what a warrior is, there seems to be no one answer to that question. In fact, there seems to be many answers, almost as many answers as people you ask.

So, what I did was provide some links to some different websites about different warriors and types of warriors throughout history. Hell, I even posted links to web sites about Dan Millman and Carlos Castaneda for you "Spiritually Aware" types. Perhaps if you look through them, you'll find a good definition of a warrior for yourself...

And for you Wannabee Warriors out there... Some of the links I put up are to Law Enforcement & Military websites. If you really want to be warriors, Check out those links and become a police officer, or go join the armed forces. They need you!!!

FROM WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA: Silat is a collective word for indigenous martial arts of the Malay Archipelago and Malay Peninsula of Southeast Asia. Originally developed in what are now Indonesia, peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand and Singapore, it was also traditionally practiced in Brunei, the Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam. As a result, it is closely related to other Southeast Asian martial arts including krabi krabong and eskrima. Practitioners are called pesilat. The Chinese fusion of silat is known as kuntao.

There are hundreds of different styles but they tend to focus either on strikes, joint manipulation, bladed weapons, throws, animal-based techniques, or some combination thereof. Silat is one of the sports included in the Southeast Asian Games and other region-wide competitions. Training halls are overseen by separate national organizations in each of the main countries the art is practiced. These are Ikatan Pesilat Indonesia (IPSI) from Indonesia, Persekutuan Silat Kebangsaan Malaysia (PESAKA) from Malaysia, Persekutuan Silat Brunei Darussalam (PERSIB) from Brunei and Persekutuan Silat Singapura (PERSISI) from Singapore.

Below, I added some links to various websites and video clips so you can get a better understanding of what Silat is about.

One of the gravest disservices we have done to the people of our world is to have provided them with a poor education. We do not teach students to think.

If you do not learn to effectively process information (and it is a learned skill) then you will always be at the mercy of people promoting their favorite dogmas.

The problem is, that all kinds of people would like you to uncritically believe what they are telling you about the way the world is. Many of them pretend that such uncritical belief is "faith", which it is not.

If you do not have the tools to discover what a given person or group is really trying to sell you, then you are libel to be making some really wacky presuppositions about the world, which will in turn become the heuristics by which you operate.

About half of what we perceive as "intelligence" is the ability to process information effectively, so if you want to be "smarter" then all you have to do is improve in that area.

While this is pretty simple, it is not necessarily easy. In my experience, most people are conditioned to a way of thinking already comfortable to the individual. When a person tries to change the way they process information they run a good chance of evoking a "threat response" from within themselves.

The wonderful thing about the internet is that you have access to so much useful information. If you're reading this, then you are able to self-educate on any number of subjects to a remarkable degree, and do it almost for free.

And that's what this section is about. I added some links here so anybody with a brain can study and learn to use it.

Remember 2 things people:

"I NOT ONLY HAVE THE RIGHT TO THINK AT ALL TIMES, BUT THE RESPONSIBILITY TO DO SO."

"IF I DON'T THINK FOR MYSELF, THEN SOMEBODY ELSE WILL DO IT FOR ME".

There are over 10,000 different religions in the world, 150 of which have at least 1 millions followers. Which one is the truth? "Christianity!" someone says, but even Christianity alone has over 38,000 different denominations. So which interpretation is the TRUE one?

Religion is not the anchor-point of truth. The truth always existed. Religion is man-made, meaning that the truth existed prior to both man and religion. Religion may be an effective catalyst for some individuals who desire to invest their minds into ideological association for whatever reason, but it is not a necessary nor a sufficient condition for a relationship with God, and understanding of the Creator, or the inner workings of the self.

Spirituality is not a belief. It is a state of consciousness, a mental framework with which you approach the world. Spirituality is in fact what birthed religion through the attempted organization of experience and wisdom, which ended up being the hierarchical stratification of various belief systems that we call religion.

Don't let the commitments you have to a religious belief system in your mind take you away from your natural state of Being with all things. You were a human before you learned religion. God's light existed in you before you learned this through some spiritual guru. Does this mean don't read or believe what Jesus of Buddha had to say? Of course not. Just make sure you take the time and effort to experience the rose instead of just believing in the accounts of others. This is not an attack on any religion by any means, and religion has brought many people happiness and the experience of being close to one's creator, but don't let it cause segregation away from our inherent unity.

As for my religious beliefs, well...

I'm a CHRISTIAN, in the sense that I believe that personal redemption is feasible for everyone and that universal love makes that salvation possible.

I'm a MUSLIM, in the sense that I believe that there's only 1 GOD, ans that all are equal under this one GOD. And, althought I'm not jewish, I do have a respect for JUDAISM.

I'm a BUDDHIST, in the sense that the seeds of enlightenment are within all of us as an integral part of our DNA, and that we are capable of reaching the Absolute through our own efforts.

I'm a HINDU, in the sense that I believe that GOD takes many shapes and forms to reach out to mankind.

I'm a TAOIST, in the sense that I have a total belief in the reality of Yin & Yang Energies.

And I also have a total belief in the world of spirits, and what we can learn from them, so I guess that makes me an ANIMIST.

I never want to tell someone what to think, for ones spirituality is a private matter between that person and their creator.

My goal here is only to show all of you the history and traditions of the many, many ways the people of the world have reached out to god.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

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