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Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Ajay Maken on Monday said India was on the path of becoming the most populous nation by 2025 surpassing China.
The country would have to face many new challenges, if the population continued to grow at the current rate, Mr. Maken said.
Expressing concern over the rising population at a National Workshop on 'Youth for Population Stabilisation,' held to mark "World Population Day" at Vigyan Bhavan here, Mr. Maken urged the youth to spread the message of population stabilisation.
The workshop, jointly organised by the Jansankhya Sthirta Kosh (National Population Stabilisation Fund of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare) and the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, called for urgent steps to stabilise the population in view of the limited available resources within the country.
Inaugurating the workshop, Mr. Maken said it was estimated that India would have a population of 139 crore by 2025.
However, he said if population growth was a challenge, it could also be converted into an opportunity as average age in India by 2020 would be among the lowest.
"The average age in India would be 29 years by 2020, while in China it would be 37 years and in Japan 48 years. This would help young India convert this challenge into an opportunity," he said.
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I've taken some major steps forward in regards to the recording of my next solo record, "It Could Be Worse," so I thought I'd give you some updates. If you don't care, then there'll probably be an everything/nothing post in a couple days or something. If nothing else, my birthday is Monday so that'll probably motivate me to write something. But for now, I wanted to write a post for my fan. Singular. I have one. Hi, Angela.
I think I've got all or at least 99% of the instruments recorded. There's guitars, bass, keys, drums, and even a little harmonica. It's sounding good (if I may be so bold). There's a little bit of a different feel to this one. For my own sake, I burned a CD of just the music tracks to listen to and check levels/performances, etc…and most of the songs hold up as a good listen, even without the vocal parts, which I'm not sure I'd say about a lot of my back-catalog. (Some of it, sure…but a lot of it definitely needs words…) It's turned into an interesting mix of laid back, moody stuff and punk-influenced pop-songs. Yet it gels pretty well.
All told, I think it's going to be about a 40-minute record (give or take). Some folks could probably fit it into their morning commute. And I think that's good. Ever since CDs came along and offered everybody 80 minutes to mess with, albums got too long. Sometimes it's nice to know you don't have to take the whole day off to listen to every damn idea the writer had in the past couple of years.
I was going to wait until we were a little closer to release in 2018 (I'm thinking March–which means we're about the gestation of a baby away), but why wait? Here's the track list, so you can choose what song you're looking forward to the most based on absolutely no other information:
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The HMRC announcement blames Brexit for the delay in Simple Assessment. Tax professionals and experts believe that it is due to the uncertainty brought on by Brexit. The tax authority does not have adequate resources and also is under pressure, needing more time to get new forms into the system.
While contractor companies will have to fulfil the requirements of Making Tax Digital and digital VAT collection, they need not worry about Simple Assessment, which is a tax form used until now by those who have started getting state pension in the financial year 2016-17 and their pension is more than their personal allowance. Simple Assessment also covers those contractors judged within the PAYE, but their taxes cannot be collected via PAYE.
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The Paos Volcano tour from Jaco forms part one of a day of fabulous sightseeing. La Paz gardens and waterfalls follow on the itinerary of a day tour that really has to be on your Costa Rica bucket list.
As you will discover if you follow the links above, Xploratura has planned some very special tours for your visit to the Jaco region along the Central Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. Based on our local knowledge – we live in the region after all – Xploratura have put together a variety of Jaco tours designed to appeal to the varying needs of our discerning visitors.
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No matter the industry, almost every agency and in-house creative team reports in some way to a creative director — or someone with a similar title — who manages the brand, delegates creative work, and oversees processes and productivity, among other responsibilities.
There are some individuals bearing this title, however, who function more like creative dictators. They micro-manage, adhere to rigid processes that stifle freedom and innovation, and often stand in the way of forward momentum.
A big reason for this dictatorial oversight is that, for many creative directors, the process of managing the work seems out of control. There is a lack of visibility on the status of projects, which leads to a fear of missed deadlines. So many react by getting closer to the details of each project. And that is where the managerial challenges begin.
The biggest danger of these behaviors, according to Workfront creative director David Lesue, is that "your team will only be as good and as fast as you — which, no matter how good and fast you are, isn't enough to meet the needs of an organisation."
Not every creative leader is self-aware enough to recognise whether his or her leadership style leans more toward benevolent director or tyrannical dictator. How can you tell where you stand on the spectrum? Consider these three key differences between the two.
1. A director collaborates; a dictator commands
If you divide your time between leading and doing, and you get right into the trenches with your creative team, that's one clue that you're more of a collaborator than a commander. If, on the other hand, you believe that there's one right solution for every creative problem, and that your opinion trumps all others in matters both objective and subjective, you may be veering into totalitarian territory.
"In my day-to-day," says Jenny Theolin, owner of Studio Theolin, "the smartest person in the room, is the room."
Rather than taking a hierarchical view of talent and creativity, Theolin follows an egalitarian approach that empowers all members of the team. For her, even the "creative director" title is too strong; she prefers "creative curator or facilitator."
"I call myself a 'Triber,'" she says. "I manage my teams by giving them the freedom to do, in parallel with supporting and facilitating their process."
2. A director influences the environment; a dictator instructs individuals
Neil Hallmark, managing director of London-based PR agency Manifest, puts as much stock in the "F-word" as Theolin does. "The best creative leaders are facilitators," he says. "They inspire through example whilst also providing their teams with the right environment, framework, and tools with which to explore the world around them."
By focusing on shaping process and environment, a successful creative leader can influence the whole team in positive directions, without having to direct each individual team member's decisions and output.
Paul Mitchell, creative director of Tea Entertain, uses a gardening metaphor to illustrate this point.
"I believe the role is essentially about nurturing the environment to be as stimulating as I can," he says. "Preparation of the ground is an underestimated factor for successful planting as it is for creativity. As budding ideas begin to peek through, the role adapts and it's about creative husbandry: adding the 'creative fertilizer', weeding out the distractions, and encouraging the tiny seedlings that show to perform to their best, on their own."
3. A director embraces flexibility; a dictator remains rigid
Processes are necessary for creative teams — in fact they foster them. When designed and managed right, they liberate designers and writers from organizational chaos. But, Hallmark points out, welcoming in a little bit of chaos can be good for creativity. Too much rigidity can kill it stone dead. Successful creative directors are able to use technology and process in a fine balance with creativity and expression. There is a role for both.
"Chaos and process are not mutually exclusive," Hallmark says. "They both have an important role to play in the creative process. Creativity is constantly evolving, meaning rigid processes won't work if we want to keep innovating the industry."
Lesue agrees that boundaries, guidelines, structures, and processes are important, but they can't become more important than progress and innovation.
"We have established strong brand touchstones — a brand guide, asset templates, and great example pieces—that represent the visual brand that we are striving for," Lesue explains. "The team knows to draw from them when creating anything new. But they also know that those touchstones aren't inflexible. The brand is a living, evolving thing that the design gets to push — over time — into new directions."
Director or dictator?
These four creative leaders aren't just walking that fine line between "director" and "dictator," they're so far on the collaborative end of the spectrum that some of them wouldn't call themselves creative directors at all. They understand that a true leader in any industry must collaborate, facilitate, and create a flexible working environment that, in the words of Mitchell, has the potential to "create many surprising and unexpected results that often over-deliver on your wildest expectations." Show me a dictator who can do that.
Joe Staples is chief marketing officer at Workfront.


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One day after Yahoo unveiled big plans to take on America Online and upstart Snap Online, Excite weighed in today with an announcement of its own dealmaking that it said will bring in at least US$25 million in new revenues in the next several years.
Excite signed 10 contracts, averaging two to three years, to give prominent placement on the Excite and Webcrawler sites to the likes of Auto-By-Tel, CDnow, Consumers Car Club, First Auction, GolfWeb, Greet Street, and TMP Worldwide. In addition to traditional ad revenues, Excite will receive 25 percent to 35 percent of the net margins from transactions these sites conduct with customers coming from Excite and Webcrawler sites.
The $25 million Excite expects to receive from the contracts represents only the guaranteed revenues from ads and partnership fees. Excite's take from transactions made through its sites was too speculative to include in the estimate, and could boost the value of the agreements even higher, said Robert Hood, Excite's CFO.
The agreements represent the latest push among search engines to move the online service model - developed and dominated by America Online - to fee-free directories on the Web. Excite said in a statement that the partnerships are designed to "accelerate the company's move to a free online service," an aim it shares with sites such as Yahoo and the Microsoft Network.
Wall Street showed its approval of the move. Excite's stock rose 20 percent to $34.38 today. The announcement failed to upstage Yahoo's aggressive tactics, though. In addition to its own partnerships with TMP and Concrete Media, Yahoo this week bought the Four11 Web directory and arranged agreements with Compaq and Gateway 2000 to include the My Yahoo customized news service on new PCs.
Excite has already inked a lot of deals this summer - with online vendors such as Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Preview Travel. As Excite signs new contracts, they are growing smaller in value: The 10 new partnerships average $2.5 million in value, compared with an average $9.2 million for the six deals earlier this summer.


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Unveiled by Labour and the Greens around lunchtime; rubbished and rejected by National before afternoon tea-time. So much for the latest attempt to broker across-Parliament consensus on a matter of some importance.
It is too soon to be definitive and completely write off as a dead duck the joint Labour Party-Greens initiative to establish a Parliamentary Budget Office which — among other things — would be tasked with costing political parties' policy programmes and election promises. The omens don't look good, however.
What is at issue is the possible creation of a special entity which would enjoy the same status and esteem accorded to other "watchdog" Offices of Parliament, such as the Ombudsman, the Auditor General and the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.
A Parliamentary Budget Office would likewise be strictly independent. That would be essential for its findings to be carry weight.
It confuses things to attach the tag of "watchdog" to the new office. If it is intended that such an agency should replicate equivalent bodies operating in overseas jurisdictions, then most of its work would be concentrated on providing independent oversight of the fiscal performance of the government of the day— rather than focusing on the future spending planned by political parties once they are in government.
There is no argument about the potential value of something which— as the Greens' co-leader James Shaw puts it — "cuts through the noise" of election campaigns.
There is no argument about the potential value of having such an authority delivering "unbiased information" for voters to digest and thereby bringing more transparency to what political parties are promising.
Whether such an instrument would lift the quality of public debate and result in "fewer political games being played" — as Shaw also claims —is very much a moot point.
It is worth the try. There is going to be little public confidence, however, in something which will supposedly reduce political game-playing instead itself becoming a political football.
What will have rung alarm bells in the Opposition wing in Parliament Buildings is that Labour's Grant Robertson has so far said next to nothing about the mechanisms which would be available to a Parliamentary Budget Office to enable it to monitor a government's fiscal track record.
Indeed, this week's joint announcement by the Finance Minister and his Green Party side-kick that the Cabinet had given the go-ahead for a Parliamentary Budget Office was notable for the lack of detail as regards the functions and powers which will determine how this adjunct to New Zealand's unwritten constitution will operate.
So much for transparency; so much for enhancing public debate.
If as oft said the devil is in the detail. The only defence available to Robertson and Shaw in respect of that lack of detail is that the pair might well need to retain as much flexibility as they can muster to try to entice National to come on board.
The prevailing bottom-line which applies to the likes of the Ombudsman and the Auditor General is that they have the unquestioned backing of all political players. That is fundamental. Without that assurance coming from all quarters of the political spectrum, those institutions immediately risk being perceived as less than wholly independent. Their authority is undermined. Their decisions start to fail to stick.
The vacuum detail-wise has left some pretty basic questions still without answers.
It needs to be stressed — in fact it cannot be stressed enough — that any costing of policies undertaken by any Parliamentary Budget Office would only be done at the request of the party which is promoting that policy.
It is inconceivable that the office would undertake such an exercise at the behest of a rival party, or that costings would be done solely on the initiative of that office.
Such courses of action would drag the Parliamentary Budget Office into the political domain and thereby destroy any claim it would have to being independent.
The whole purpose of the exercise is to provide political parties — especially those in Opposition which do not have access to the resources of the public service — the opportunity to tap into expertise which is of help in developing credible and viable policy planks.
The big plus is that giving Opposition parties access to an alternative and hugely credible source of advice is that it would act as a massive disincentive for opponents contemplating making wild assertions of the Steven Joyce variety.
The latter's now-infamous claim during the 2017 general election campaign to have discovered a $11.7 billion "hole" in Labour's spending forecasts was widely and mercilessly ridiculed because that sum was so extreme as to defy credibility.
Had the-then National frontbencher come up with a more moderate amount, he might well have inflicted serious damage on Labour rather than himself.
Had Labour had recourse to a Parliamentary Budget Office, Joyce may well have incurred even more embarrassment on top of what he had heaped on himself. Herein lies the real reason for Simon Bridges' seemingly out-of-hand refusal to have any truck with the joint Labour-Greens initiative.
National understandably regards the whole shebang as a blatant attempt by its old enemy to blunt what has arguably been its most proven weapon — namely scaring the living daylights out of voters by suggesting Labour suffers from an in-bred and incurable proclivity to waste money which should have been left in taxpayer's pockets.
Labour's rebuttal of that charge has come in the form of ever-more detailed "alternative Budgets" highlighting where the money is coming from to fuel the party's extra spending.
In order to sway doubting voters that its mathematics can be trusted, the party has routinely contracted economic consultants based in the private sector to audit its alternative Budgets and attest to the veracity of those documents' fiscal projections and assumptions.
Such a response only goes so far in ameliorating the difficult politics which hang over the party when framing the party's economic policy.
The party is severely handicapped by the plain and simple fact that far more voters consider National to be the better managers of the economy than think the same of Labour.
That is not supposition. It is simple fact. Labour does not have so much a monkey on its back as a gorilla wearing steel-capped boots kicking it continuously in the groin.
The result is that Labour is constantly on the defensive. The Greens' articulation of the merits of having a Parliamentary Budget Office on hand and being tasked with independently costing party policies has offered Labour a possible route out of that political morass.
Securing a big tick of approval from a Parliamentary Budget Office as to the accuracy its costings could easily be spun as official confirmation of the responsibility displayed by the party across all aspects of economic policy.
That would leave Bridges and National with a problem. To criticise Labour would be to criticise an office of Parliament. To avoid that Bridges needs to explain why having a Parliamentary Budget Office is not a good idea.
Not surprisingly, he has struggled to find such an explanation. That is because there isn't one.
Bridges has one big thing going his way, however. The proposal for a Parliamentary Budget Office is now in the hands of Parliament's Officers of Parliament Committee. Without National's say so, however, the proposal cannot proceed, at least not in its current manifestation.
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Logan councillor Stacey McIntosh has been charged with one count of stealing as a servant. Photo: staceymcintosh苏州美甲培训419论坛A south-east Queensland councillor has been charged and stood down after allegedly defrauding a Brisbane business of more than $180,000.
Police allege Logan City Division 6 councillor Stacey Lee McIntosh, 34, stole more than $180,000 from an engineering company in Coopers Plains between June 2014 and July 2016.
She was charged on Thursday with one count of stealing as a servant.
The first-term councillor allegedly redirected client invoices and unauthorised refunds to her own accounts.
The charges came after a five-month investigation by the Queensland Police Service's Fraud and Cyber Crime Group.
A Logan City Council spokeswoman said the Queensland Police Service had notified the council of "charges relating to fraud, against a current councillor" and Cr McIntosh had been stood down from her position.
"Logan City Council has strict and transparent policies governing financial transactions and councillor conduct," she said.
"While the councillor is entitled to the presumption of innocence, in the matter of public interest, the councillor has been requested to stand down from participating in council matters and the councillor has agreed.
"As the former councillor for Division 6, mayor Luke Smith will immediately oversee the duties of this division until the new year and more permanent arrangements are in place."
The spokeswoman said Logan City Council took integrity issues "very seriously".
"As a result of the charges and without inferring any adverse conduct, council is conducting a review of matters to ensure the interests of council and the people of Logan are protected," she said.
"The CEO of the (Local Government Association of Queensland) has been informed and the Deputy Premier's office will also be notified."
Ms McIntosh is due to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on January 10.
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Plotting a referendum - Income
Following the shock decision by the UK to leave the EU, many ideas were put forward as to the reasons behind why so many people voted the ways that they did.
In an effort to learn more about data handling in python, using pandas, matplotlib and other fun stuff I scoured the internet for data and set about plotting graphs.
- Overview
- Sourcing data
- Mapping data
- Scatter plots
The income data downloaded from Nomis is already very structured and succinct, as we only chose the data we wanted to use. As such we don't need to do much to it before pickling it.
We rename the columns, set the electoral wards as index and throw away a few
rows which were constructed from the comments in the initial
csv file.
Data available from:
NOMIS website.
Dataset: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings
-> annual survey of hours and earnings - resident analysis
Geography: local authorities: district / unitary (as of April 2015)
Date: 2015
Pay and hours: Annual pay - gross
Sex & full/part-time: full-time workers
Variable: median
Include Area codes
Assumes resulting filename is: 'nomis-media-income.csv'
Data is released under the Open Government Licence:
import pandas as pd
inc = pd.read_csv('./raw/nomis-median-income.csv',header=7, na_values=['#','-'])
inc.columns = ['Area','Code','Income','Income_Conf']
inc.drop('Column Total', inplace=True)
inc = inc.dropna(subset=['Area'])
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Doing good
Joy In The Coming Of Our Lord
A Sermon by Rev. David C. Roth
"Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen
His star in the east and have come to worship Him …. And when they
saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy" (Matthew 2:2,10).
How often have we been in the same position as the wise men, or
maybe the same situation as the shepherds? We are in a position
similar to theirs when we are told of the Lord and the message of His
Word. As He did for the wise men and the shepherds, the Lord has
made Himself known to each of us in different ways, and now it is up to
us to respond. Both the shepherds and the wise men were told in
different ways about the coming of the Lord and then given guidance to
that special place where the Lord chose to be born. Although both were
present to see the newborn Savior, they received the message of the
Lord's birth in different ways.
Most likely each of us has a favorite story in relation to the Lord's birth.
We may even ask ourselves whether it was the wise men or the
shepherds who responded in a more favorable way to the
announcement of the Lord's advent. But this question is not really very
important when we realize that the essential observation is the one that
points to the fact that both the wise men and the shepherds did
respond. They both heeded the Lord's call, but in different ways, each
according to his own state – different states, yet states which were
acceptable to the Lord. How can we then apply the responses of the
wise men and shepherds to our own lives on this Christmas day? As we
examine the stories of the shepherds and the wise men, the spiritual
sense shows us clearly of their application to our lives.
The first thing, however, that we must understand is the importance of
the Lord's birth. Without His coming we could not be in freedom to be
regenerated by Him. His coming has redeemed mankind; that is, He put
the hells back where they belonged, put the heavens in order so that
they could be safe from the attack of the hells, and began a new church
where people could love the Lord and their neighbors (see TCR 86). By
His birth and fulfilled life here on earth the Lord is now present with us
fully and powerfully in His Word; we are not left alone. It was this
message involving all this wonderful work to be done by the Lord which
the shepherds were told of, and which the wise men sought to see
fulfilled. As the angel of the Lord proclaimed to the shepherds, "Fear
not, for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all
people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is
Christ the Lord" (Luke 2:10,11). The message was clearly one to pay
attention to, one to be happy about. A Savior had come, of whose
kingdom there would be no end.
When we consider the call of the shepherds we see a unique response.
The shepherds at this time of the year lived out in the fields with their
sheep day and night, always keeping a watchful eye on their tender
flocks. Perhaps we envision it being cold and dark, with the shepherds
staying close to keep themselves warm. This is illustrative of the type of
world into which the Lord was born – cold from the lack of charity and
love, and dark because of the false understanding in which the world
had engulfed its minds. Yet even in all this cold and darkness there
were a few who possessed an innocence and a willingness to be led
and taught by the Word. We can see this in the story of the shepherds.
A shepherd represents one who teaches the truths and goods of faith. A
good shepherd, that is, one that guards and protects his flock, shows us
a picture of someone who is learning, protecting and storing up goods
and truths. This is a picture of a basically good person, yet one who
believes that life is his own, and that most power is from himself. He has
been working hard to learn the truths of the Lord's Word; however, he
remains in a state of darkness as to how it all applies to his life, and how
it leads him closer to the Lord and away from self. But with this learning
of truth and innocent willingness the Lord is able to come to us and be
born in our hearts.
The first thing which the appearing angel said to the shepherds was,
"Fear not." This represents a renewal of life, meaning that the Lord will
create a new heart within us, a heart that acknowledges the Lord as our
Savior and not ourselves. This actually can be a real cause for fear. We
read, "For all who come suddenly from self-life into any spiritual life are
at first afraid, but their life is renewed by the Lord" (AC 80). It can be a
difficult and scary thing to give our life over to the care of the Lord when
we feel so strongly that life is our own and that we have the power
ourselves to conquer evil. When the Lord draws near, the result is
temptation, and if we are good we will fear for the loss of good and truth.
His nearer presence makes it feel as if we are losing what good and
truth we have. But it is when we do follow the Lord, when we listen to
the angel's good tidings, that He can truly care for us. The manger in
which the shepherds found the Lord represents spiritual nourishment. It
is here in the presence of the Lord that we are nourished and instructed.
The Lord does not lead us to Himself and then starve us; He will fill us
to overflowing. The Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes means first
truths, truths of innocence from the Lord's Divine Love. When we come
to the Lord He nourishes and instructs us in those things which will
make us ready for His kingdom, a kingdom of innocence, love, and use.
After seeing the Babe, "the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising
God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them"
(Luke 2:20). This response by the shepherds signifies a true confession
and worship, which comes when we acknowledge in our hearts that
there is nothing of good in ourselves, and that we can do nothing of
ourselves – and, on the other hand, that all good is from the Lord, and
that the Lord can do all things (see AC 1210). The Heavenly Doctrines
say further of this response, "When man is in this acknowledgment he
puts aside what is his own, which belongs to the love of self, and opens
all things of his mind, and thus gives room for the Divine to flow in with
good and with power" (AC 1210). The shepherds heard the Lord's call
and followed it. We can be like the shepherds ourselves when we make
the same sort of acknowledgment regarding the power of the Lord. He
will call us in His Word, but if we are looking to ourselves for strength we
will not hear Him. We may celebrate the Lord's advent, but not with the
same conviction for the Lord as we would if we humbled ourselves and
gave glory to the King of Glory.
From this beautiful picture of innocence as seen in the story of the
shepherds we now turn to a different scenario: one of wisdom and
perseverance – the story of the wise men. The wise men seemed to
have a special quality about them. They knew about the advent of the
Lord because they had a knowledge of the Word and its prophecies. We
read concerning them, "The knowledge of correspondences survived
among a number of the Orientals, even until the Lord's Advent, as is
evident from the wise men of the east who came to the Lord at His birth"
(SS 23), "and that they knew of His Advent by a star which appeared to
them in the east" (AC 10177).
It is interesting to think of the fact that those who were of the Jewish
faith who had the Old Testament Word and who should have known that
the Lord was to be born had no idea of it. When the wise men came and
asked Herod, "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews?" he
had no answer but called the chief priests and scribes together to help.
We can imagine that perhaps Herod was a bit embarrassed that he, the
king, did not know this, as well as being jealous of this newborn King.
The Word says that " … he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. "
Whatever the nature of the response, again it was quite indicative of the
state of the Jewish Church at the time. Not only was their knowledge of
the Word lacking and false but many, like Herod, had an all-out hatred
for the Lord. This is plainly shown in Herod's plot to kill the infant Lord, a
plot which resulted in the slaying of thousands of innocent children in
The Jews at this time, it seems, were not looking for the Lord. And when
they did find out that He had come, there was no room in their hearts
nor their inns to greet Him. Yet, as with the shepherds, we see in the
story of the wise men others who were ready for the Lord. But we
observe a difference in their response to the Lord's coming, the main
difference being that the wise men were actively seeking out the Lord.
They had seen His star in the east and had come to worship Him. They
traveled a long distance to see the star that had come out of Jacob, the
Scepter that had risen out of Israel, He who was to be born King of the
In the spiritual sense, the east represents love, and the star that went
before them signifies knowledge from heaven (see AC 3762, SS 23).
The wise men traveling eastward to the land of the east was
representative of those who in their life are moving toward the good of
faith. This, the Writings teach, is nothing else than charity toward the
neighbor, or a life according to the Lord's commandments (see AC
3249). In this spiritual picture we can see that it is the knowledges of
good and truth found in the Lord's Word, represented by the star, which
guide us to a life of charity or love, that is, which guide us to the Lord
Himself. This paints a beautiful picture for each of us. We see that it is
through the learning of the Lord's truths and commands that we can be
led to Him.
Still, the most beautiful aspect of the wise men's response to the Lord's
Advent is seen when they departed from Herod for Bethlehem and the
star reappeared before them. "And behold the star which they had seen
in the east went before them, til it came and stood over where the young
Child was. And when they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding
great joy." Exceeding great joy! What kind of a feeling did they have? It
must have been an overwhelming feeling of excitement and internal
peace over having embarked upon the last leg of the journey to their
Savior, the star's reappearing to assure them that the Lord was with
them as they continued their trek. Can we ever have such feelings of
great joy in our religious life? We certainly can, and we must! Talking to
a person who has recently become aware of the wisdom and love found
in the Heavenly Doctrines can certainly emanate exceeding great joy.
Or a newly engaged or married couple show it to a certain degree.
Perhaps we can even relate it to the expression a young child shows on
Christmas morning. However, if we are raised in the New Church, do we
lose this excitement, or never let it show? If we do, how can we regain
this feeling or bring it out so that others can share it? One answer is to
be like the wise men, to seek out the Lord in His Word and then come to
Him when we see the star, that is, the knowledges from heaven
contained in the Word. We may not find the Lord right away. Even the
wise men thought they would find the Lord in Jerusalem, but He wasn't
there. They could have given up, but they asked others where He could
be found. It is essential to talk to others about our beliefs and our quest
for the Lord. They can add to our understanding and love for the Lord,
and perhaps our picture then becomes clearer for us, which can
eventually lead us to Him. Notice, the star showed itself again until it
came and stood over where the young Child was. It led the wise men
right to the Lord. We need the truths and goods represented by the star
to lead us, and to keep leading us throughout life.
It is important to realize that truth will lead us to the Lord and make us
happy, but the real joy for us in our spiritual lives will be when we come
to the Lord offering gifts to Him, as the wise men did. These gifts of
gold, frankincense, and myrrh were more than just earthly treasures.
They represented testifications of the heart or will, the heart found in a
person that is truly thankful for all that the Lord has done for him, and
shows it by following His Word. These gifts represented things pleasing
to God, because their origin is in love and faith toward Him – the love
represented by gold, and our faith by the frankincense, and by myrrh is
represented our love and faith grounded in things external, which is a
life in obedience and love to the Lord and to our neighbor. These are
the gifts which the Lord is asking us to bear on Christmas day and
beyond. But more importantly to know, they are the gifts which He gives
us and wills to give each of us when we respond to His coming. So on
this Christmas day let us ask ourselves the following question with the
earnest desire to find the answer: "Where is He who has been born King
of the Jews?" Let us then search diligently for His star in the east and
come to worship Him, that is, live a life of charity and faith in Him,
because it is in this kind of a life where we too can share the vision of
the shepherds and the excitement of the wise men. "Where is He who
has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the east
and have come to worship Him … And when they saw the star, they
rejoiced with exceeding great joy." Amen.
Lessons: Luke 2:1-20; Matthew 2:1-12; AE 661
"The peace that reigns in heaven is like spring on earth, or like the dawn."
Arcana Coelestia 5662
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
[John 15:5 ESV]
In him we live and move and have our being.
[Acts 17:28 ESV]
Are we conscious that, as Jesus puts it, apart from me you can do nothing? Do we feel that, as Paul states, in [God] we live and move and have our being? Most people would probably answer that we do not have such a direct experience.
On the contrary all the evidence of our senses and everyday life is that we act in all things from our life within us.
We can see this very early on in the life of a new born baby. Initially the baby is completely helpless and totally reliant on those around. But gradually its sense of the outside world develops and then an awareness of itself. The baby learns to move, just small motions of eyes, head and limbs. Then the ability to reach out and touch comes into play and from sitting up crawling and then walking soon develops. And then as language begins miraculously to appear the small child starts to separate the people around into different people. However they refer to themselves they know they are a person in their own right. Our development from infancy through to mature adulthood is only achieved because we have a clear sense of who we are and an ability to direct our daily life as we wish.
But if we accept that there is only ONE life, the Divine life, and this is the source of all life and everything that is involved in living then none of us and nothing in the created world has a life of its own. Rather, we are all simply receivers of life. A simple analogy may illustrate this concept (or principle). Think of a light bulb which when working properly and connected to the mains glows brightly. We are all so familiar with how a light bulb works that it is hard to imagine how someone would view it from say 300 years ago. They would probably see it as a wonderful source of light that somehow existed entirely within the light bulb. To them the light bulb would seem to have light in itself. Yet we know that the light bulb is merely a receptacle and receiver of the power of electricity designed in such a way as to produce light.
We can see ourselves then as people created by God to be receivers of the Divine life but able to live in a way where we are not conscious of that fact. But suppose it was different. What if, instead of feeling that our life was our own, we were really aware at all times that it was God's life within us from which we lived and moved and had our being?
We can perhaps glimpse what this might be like from our own experiences of growing up. As a child we are totally dependent on our parents for our food, clothing and a place to live as well as direction in what we should or should not do and ambitions for our future. In many ways we become an extension of our parent's lives until the point comes in teenage years when we desperately feel the need to break free and establish ourselves as separate individuals. It is a painful process, but it is vital for our development. If we could really feel God's life within us wouldn't it be like a teenager yearning and fighting to be free, a puppet on a string unable to cut the parental cords? How could we develop our unique potential in such circumstances?
It appears that we have a life of our own despite the reality that our life is from God alone. It is because of this appearance that we are able to grow and develop and regenerate as spiritual beings.
Emanuel Swedenborg wrote extensively about the appearance that we live as if of ourselves. Here is a quotation from Divine Providence 156:
To say that we are led and taught by the Lord alone is to say that the Lord is the only source of our life, since it is the intentions of our life that are led and the intelligence of our life that is taught. This is not the way it seems, though. It appears to us as if we live on our own, when the truth is that the Lord is the source of our life and we are not. As long as we are living in this world, we cannot be given a palpable sense that our life is coming from the Lord alone. We are not deprived of our sense of living on our own, because that is what makes us human.
Every one of us is perfectly free to stay in this appearance and live thinking our life is our own. But this is not what Jesus calls us to do. He says: I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing [John 15:5 ESV].
Our Lord Jesus Christ longs for us to acknowledge that our life is from him and that, really, without him we can do nothing. Why? Not because he wants or needs our adulation. No. It's because he wants us to abide in him so that he can give us his joy, not because we are forced to but because we want to return to him, the source of our life.
These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
[John 15:11 ESV]
We should live 'as if of ourselves', but at the same time fully acknowledge that our life is from the Lord alone.
by Rev. Amos Glenn
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, "I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. And you shall know that I am Jehovah your God.'"
So it was that quails came up at evening and covered the camp, and in the morning the dew lay all around the camp. And when the layer of dew lifted, there, on the surface of the wilderness, was a tiny round substance, as fine as frost on the ground.
And Moses said to them, "This is the bread which Jehovah has given you to eat." "This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded: 'Let every man gather it according to each one's need.'"
Every man had gathered according to each one's need. And Moses said, "Let no one leave any of it till morning." Notwithstanding they did not heed Moses. But some of them left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them. So they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his need.
(Excerpted from Exodus 16:9-36)
The Lord wants us to have the peace and joy of heaven. Everything He does leads us away from misery and toward happiness. A willingness to follow the Lord's instructions doesn't come naturally to most of us, so we are unhappy at times. The children of Israel complained about their suffering in the wilderness because they trusted neither Moses nor Jehovah to take care of even their needs. Ironically, this very mistrust was the source of their misery.
Just as He cared for the Children of Israel, the Lord responds to our unhappy grumblings by sending two types of happiness: natural (meant by quail) and spiritual (meant by bread). The flavorful quail corresponds to the natural feelings of pleasure that come from doing a good deed—sometimes for selfish reasons. The Lord provides these positive feelings to motivate us, even when we aren't feeling loving, to sustain us during times of struggle.
While sustaining us with feelings of happiness (quail), the Lord also offers bread, corresponding to unselfish, spiritual happiness. Tasting the bread corresponds to genuinely enjoying serving the neighbor, authentic good feelings not mixed with self-gratification. The bread is satisfying and nutritious; quail was tasty, but the bread was life-giving. The bread corresponds to the happiness of heaven, which the Lord provides each of us.
Here is the catch: you cannot generate these simple, good ideas yourself. The bread was impossible to store and it is impossible to provide ourselves with heavenly life. The test for the children of Israel was to collect only as much as was needed for the day and to trust that the Lord would feed them again tomorrow. Bread stored overnight became putrid and full of worms. This is a picture of what happens when we lack trust in the Lord and His Providence.
Happiness comes from the daily journey. We are filled with heavenly happiness when we gather true ideas from the Lord's Word and make them part of who we are, when we do what the Lord teaches because we acknowledge Him as God. The Lord understands there are times when the bread is difficult to eat, when it seems tasteless, dry and unpleasant. In those times, the lower delights, represented by the quail, serve to motivate us to continue acting in a good way. These actions form a container into which the Lord can rain down the bread of life and its heavenly happiness.
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Who wouldn't be happy to have more money? To pay off the credit card or buy that needed furniture. Yet, the huge wealth of the 'fat cats' who run large companies in the UK has astonished us. By October 2011 the pay packages of directors of FTSE 100 companies had increased by 49% in a single year. The average figure had then become £2,697,644.
The total rewards of the chief executives of these companies were even higher. Forbes Magazine reported that the ratio of their income to that of the average UK employee rose from 45:1 in 1998 to 120:1 in 2010.
Some might wish them well in their good fortune. Who wouldn't enjoy having a large yacht, a smart place to live, fast car, and no money worries? But is it right to assume the happy life requires affluence? That having lots of money is the solution to common frustrations and stress?
In Britain politicians voting themselves high salary increases caused public disquiet. This soon turned to outrage when we discovered that many of them had been collaring small fortunes in expenses for themselves. All at a time when average living standards were being severely squeezed.
This desire for wealth is shown by a stitch up in the boardrooms as directors have awarded their own pay rises succumbing to the temptations of wealth.
We all thought that the shareholders own the company and determine who gets paid what. Also that the executives manage it to develop a more successful venture on a stable footing. But this seems to have changed. Companies have grown. Shareholders are now spread widely. Consequently, there has become a lack of external check on the pay of top managers.
'The actual controllers of the company would cream off the profits into their own pockets, direct profitable business into other companies controlled by themselves, as well as award themselves magnificent salaries.' (Ferdinand Mount, political commentator)
What has shocked us is the shameless way the top managers in numerous incidents have abused their power. They have taken more out of the company even when its performance has been at best mediocre. The same thing has happened in the large public bodies.
Grabbing huge pay rises, despite resulting social approbation, indicates a strong belief that wealth will make one happy. It is a common enough attitude. However, is seeking affluence actually the pursuit of an illusion? It would seem so. Study after study by psychologists has shown no association between wealth and happiness. The exceptions are where housing costs are a large proportion of income necessitating long working hours and cases of poverty when extra income does relieve hunger and suffering.
More startling still is research showing the pursuit of money is not only a mistake but also a dangerous one. Psychology professor Tim Kasser discovered that extremely rich people are not significantly happier than people on average income, and suffer from higher levels of depression.
Carolyn Gregoire, writing in The Huffington Post, quotes research that found that where both partners are materialistic, couples have a poorer quality of marital relationship. Also there are findings that students with higher materialistic values tend to have lower-quality relationships and feel less connected to others.
Researchers in positive psychology discovered that a real sense of personal well-being comes from good relationships, meaningful and challenging activities, and a sense of connection to something bigger than us – such as a religion, a political or social cause or a sense of mission.
All of us can hanker after money. According to transpersonal psychologist Steve Taylor, hardship does not drive the appetite for wealth and material goods. Instead, our inner discontent causes it. I would say a self-orientated inner state of mind creates this discontent. In other words what makes one happy is something non-materialistic- deep within one's being.
In his books, mystical writer Emanuel Swedenborg tries to put into words some of his limited experience of the happiness of what he terms an 'angelic state' of peace, contentment and joy. He says to be deeply happy involves several things.
Those who are moved by mutual love are constantly approaching the spring-time of their youth….. This process continues for ever, constantly bringing increases in joy and happiness.' (Emanuel Swedenborg)
In line with this third point, I believe my good intentions and perceptive insights are not my own. Instead their spiritual Source inspires them into my heart and head..
'Copyright 2017 Stephen Russell-Lacy Author of Heart, Head & Hands Swedenborg's perspective on emotional problems
Posted on 22nd March 2017 Categories Latest post, Meaning of life, Other aspects of meaning
. . . bad apples . . .
. . . bad avocados . . .
What makes these things so bad? Sure, a fruity disappointment is one thing, but human beings are so quick to describe something as bad. From a theological standpoint, what makes something "bad"?
Everyone has ideas about the difference between a bad thing and a good thing. Emanuel Swedenborg discusses this often in his theological works, where he talks about the impact of God's love and how people can feel heavenly happiness in their own lives. But before things can go from bad to good, he says, we have to understand what makes those two things different from a spiritual perspective.
To be truly "bad," Swedenborg says that beings must be free and able to choose rationally between things that will make them happy in good ways or bad ways. In this scenario, "bad" refers to things that are harmful to those around us (in Swedenborg's theology, this is what evil means), but that we choose anyhow because it benefits us personally: selfishness, greed, riches—any love that serves the self more than other people.
Objects, however, can't make that choice. A knife is great while it's serving a constructive purpose. But when it's used to harm someone, it is an awful weapon. Swedenborg says that objects cannot be inherently good or bad—they are good or bad depending on how people use them. People are the only things that can be good or bad, depending on the choices they make freely. Someone must decide, without being forced one way or another, to use something for good or bad ends—to either serve selfish loves or serve heavenly and neighbor-loving ones.
"Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." — William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Anyone who comes into contact with dogs knows that they make their own decisions—what their owner wants is not always as important as their own instincts. They see a squirrel, and they choose to either run after it and risk their fate to an owner-enforced consequence, or stay and miss the chance to catch that darn squirrel.
However, when a dog jumps up on the counter to eat some fresh-from-the-oven chicken pot pies (or twelve chocolate cupcakes, from personal experience), it's hard to blame the cute little beast that just had a hankering for some food. Why is it so hard to blame them? Swedenborg writes that in order for one to truly be free to make a choice, they must also be rational.
Rationality is an important concept—it means that people are able to weigh decisions, looking at cost vs. benefit, taking in long-term effects, looking at impact on other areas of life, and being able to be more objective and look at the whole picture rather than just a snapshot. This is why some teenagers seem to make bad decisions. ("Don't they ever think about the consequences of their decisions?!" says every parent in the history of teenagers.) People have to grow into their ability to consider options objectively and make decisions rationally. This is also why it's hard to blame dogs for their decisions—they don't have that rational, considerate type of brain.
Swedenborg asserts that human adults are the only beings that can look at situations and make entirely free and rational decisions. And even adults aren't always reliable in the rational decisions department—look at most reality TV shows, where the rational brain tends to take a backseat to emotional outbursts. People are only human—prone to mistakes and assumptions. Dogs are not only not human, but tend to be prone to decisions that hurt the people (or squirrels) around them. They aren't "bad," just accident-prone, because they lack the rationality to make clear decisions.
Humans: This is the hardest part, because it involves freedom, rationality, self-awareness, choice, and perspective.
To figure out if a choice is working toward bad things or good things, Swedenborg says that human beings must look at the effects of a decision on their life and the lives of the individuals around them. This means that if someone's goal is to get their own way in everything, their version of happiness would be to control or manipulate others, to advance their careers at the expense of others, to make money without worrying about the effects their business decisions will have on others. Swedenborg would call these hellish types of happiness.
Now, Swedenborg recommends personal goals that lead toward heaven, as the negative goals lead more toward separation from God and heavenly joy. If someone's goal is to be "good," they have to look at the decisions they make and see if the effects are good—does the decision make other people happy? Does it make people happy in good ways, positive ways that lead toward that heavenly happiness we talked about earlier? Does it add positive things to life, or does it tear down positive things?
Whether we chose the negative ends or the positive ones, the cycle is a never-ending one of regeneration—looking for truth, bringing that truth into our life, deciding what our goals are, and making decisions that lead toward those goals. This involves lots of rational ideas, like self-examination and looking at the true happiness of the people around us. No easy task!
However, Swedenborg states again and again that this hard process has the potential for so much love and happiness. People are able to be much happier because they can choose with freedom and rationality and continue to build on their choices to grow closer and closer to God. They can grow to have more and more heavenly happiness (or evil delight), which means they have the potential to be united with the Lord.
Looking back, it's easy to see that:
During stressful times, when unpaid taxes still lie on the table, the children argue upstairs, and images of war flash across the news, hope and patience seem hard to come by. Worry seems inevitable. But how much can we really gain from our furrowed brow? Consider this quote: "Worry is like a good rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere." Another way to think of the futility of worry is to imagine someone carrying around a suitcase of old junk that he doesn't use. If he complained to you about his aching back, wouldn't you suggest he drop the suitcase?
But we tend to do the same thing, feeling troubled, tired, and pulled off-balance. We hang on to our burden because (we think) something bad might happen if we let it go. But the answer is so easy. If we simply let go—if we trust in the Lord—we suddenly feel lighter.
We hear this same message from the Lord's own mouth when He says to His disciples, "Do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them…. Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these" (Luke 12:22–24).
If we try to take the Lord's command seriously, and avoid the habit of worrying, we can make a distinct difference in our inner nature. In the Heavenly Doctrines given through Emanuel Swedenborg, the book Secrets of Heaven 8474 describes the type of people who worry about the future: "They are not content with their lot, do not trust in God but in themselves, and have solely worldly and earthly things in view, not heavenly ones. These people are ruled completely by anxiety for the future…."
The passage goes on to describe, on the other hand, the kind of people who trust in the Lord: "Those who trust in the Divine are altogether different…in that they are not anxious, let alone worried, when they give thought to the morrow… They know that for those who trust in the Divine all things are moving toward an everlasting state of happiness…."
Whenever worry enters our minds, another emotion tends to tag along with it: impatience. Often we grow impatient by worrying that life won't turn out the way we think it should. We may unconsciously say to ourselves, "The Lord can't handle it, so I'm going to worry for Him."
Consider the following Biblical story, where King Saul becomes impatient with the Lord's command, and relies on his own judgment instead. The setting is this: the Philistines have accumulated a huge army, and Saul is waiting for Samuel to offer sacrifices so he can go into battle with the Lord as his ally. "[Saul] waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him. So Saul said, 'Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings.'" As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came" (I Samuel 13:8–11). When Samuel shows up, he's not happy with Saul. He says, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. . . .now your kingdom shall not continue" (I Samuel 13:8–11, 13–14).
Just as Saul—when facing his enemies—worries about the risk of patiently following the Lord's orders, we tend to feel the same way when we're under pressure. We worry that if we follow the Lord's way, it won't turn out the way we want it to. Because of this impatience, worry, and lack of trust, Saul lost his kingdom. We also may lose out when we become impatient. Specifically, we lose:
Enjoyment of the situation. We think about being somewhere else or being with someone else, so we lose the delight of that moment. Infidelity thrives on this notion. Consider this quote: "A happy marriage is not about finding the right person. It's about being the right person in the relationship."
Forward spiritual progress. If we aren't thinking about the present, we're either worrying about the past or the future. We get concerned with time, and this skews our perception. We think physical, lower thoughts, and we forget higher matters. Worry can't change our past or future, but it can ruin the present. When we dwell on the past or future, we lack motivation to make progress now.
Trust in the Lord. We begin to think the Lord isn't managing the universe very well. Just as Saul lost the kingdom because he trusted his own agenda, when we trust in our own ideas, we make poor decisions. Scholar Christopher Syn wrote, "Anxiety springs from the desire that things should happen as we wish rather than as God wills." This causes us to lose the kingdom—the happiness—the Lord wants us all to have.
So how can we achieve real patience, and gain back these things we've lost? First, we can make an effort to find contentment with what we have, and focus on being that person who is kind and loving rather than looking for that person elsewhere. Second, we can strive to make the best of our present situation, looking for opportunities to use our talents and reach out to others. And, finally, we can trust the Lord to bring good out of every situation, believing that what He says in His Word is true.
In his work, Secrets of Heaven (3827), Swedenborg explains how we can rise above impatience to an angelic state of love and acceptance, where time no longer matters: "When you are in a state of love…you are in an angelic state, that is to say, as if not in time…. For impatience is a bodily affection, and insofar as you are in it, so far you are in time…. By the affection of genuine love, we are withdrawn from bodily and worldly things, for our mind is elevated toward heaven and thus is withdrawn from things of time."
In other words, if we focus on the fact that we're not enjoying something, it becomes tedious. A student squirming in a class believes there's somewhere else he needs to be. As soon as that bell rings, his whole world seems to change. But has it? We live in the world of our mind, our heart, our thoughts. A bell doesn't change that world, but what we attach to that bell—our attitude—can change. Patience comes from being withdrawn from worldly things. When we learn to love and accept the situation we're in, we find the power to change—not the situation—but our perspective. Because when we love something, we're not paying attention to time.
Life is often compared to a journey. We can shuffle our feet and mope about the path we're taking, but anxiety and impatience don't change our speed or route. Instead, we can enjoy the scenery, confident that the direction of the stream of Divine Providence will steer us toward a more beautiful vista. So don't waste today worrying. Cast your burden on the Lord. Take a glance at the flowers, or listen to the birds, and remember that the Lord is taking perfect care of each one of us, in every single moment.
By Rev. David Roth, pastor of the New Church of Boulder Valley in Colorado
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"In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee." Ralph Waldo Emerson
And I should add, "flee into the open hands of the Messiah, who has long endured your disdain and indifference."
Here is how the Lord God Almighty continues to prevail through the literary genius of men, who might not particularly identify with Him, yet organise words and ideas that evidentially punch holes on the balloons of their own self-promoted philosophies.
Whether it is an Oscar Wilde or a Voltaire or a Nietzsche, if you study their works very well, in the multiplicity of their arguments, they always (somehow) unwittingly provide a witness for God in their self-acclaimed arguments.
Hear what Emerson says again: "Of what use to make heroic vows of amendment if the same old lawbreaker is to keep them?"
What do you have to say to that? Does that not perfectly summarise the principles of the New Creation Man documented by the Apostle Paul in his epistles, especially Romans? Jesus said, to put new wine into old wine skin is to waste it. Else, pour the new wine into new wine skin and everything will just be fine. Which means the old nature must be excommunicated before the laws of a New Life can work in a life. Paul spoke further about the tug of war that usually exist in such contradictions in Galatians. Unless man embraces the conditions of Higher Life, he can only continue in his endless circling of life with self-conceit.
The witness of God (and for God) is subtly tucked into every conceivable media of man that no one will eventually succeed in going through a lifetime without regular 'introduction' to the real nature of his longings.
Just like the spiritual persuasion of every author eventually floats to the surface of their literatures, the real desire of man for redemption is often sprinkled across the whole landscape of his philosophy; his frustrations with the insufficiency of man and the endless bemoaning of several socioculturally approved acts of decadence makes him a prophet of sorts – totally unfit to the fads of his generations – except that he cannot prophesy his own deliverance.
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