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Forum Post: The Rebel Jesus

Posted 1 year ago on Nov. 22, 2012, 8:05 p.m. EST by GypsyKing (9727)
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[-] 7 points by MaryS (678) 1 year ago

Very pretty. That man can't hit a bad note. I'd like to add, from Films for Action: "What Would Jesus Buy?" http://www.filmsforaction.org/Watch/What_Would_Jesus_Buy/


Thanks, great link. What would Jesus buy indeed?

[-] 4 points by Nevada1 (3970) 1 year ago

Hello Mary,

Thank you for link.

Hope you and yours enjoy a nice Holiday Season.

Best Regards

[-] 6 points by GypsyKing (9727) 1 year ago

Just re-posting this on Christmas Eve. It kinda says it all.


Already Christmas here, GK.

Hope you and yours have a great day.


The same to you, Bulider.

Merry Christmas!!!


Jesus tried to wake us. His message was "Do not fear death."

Fear and hatred are worse then death. They are the death of the soul, which is worse than the death of the body. That was what he tried to tell us.

"Consider the lilies of the field . . ."

Our hatred, and above all our fear, are what binds us in our self-created cycle of mysery.



Wow - fantastic lyrics! He nails it.


It's a really beautiful song.

[-] 3 points by RedDragon (-161) 1 year ago

What I have always found most interesting is that as our world has become increasing more secular we have failed to disengage our music; by and large the verses that emerge from the musical artist embrace both Christianity and the spiritual. This is just as true today as it was of the 60s; what it represents is bold contradiction between the sociopolitical and that which inhabits the emotional subconscious as uplifting.


Interesting point. We seem to be longing for re-connection to the spiritual, and a retreat from empty, disconnected, materialism.

Perhaps we can find a way, and, at the same time, reconnect reason and spirituality. They are NOT contradictions - NOT mutually exclusive. The truth is out there, it is free, and it resides in us!

[-] 2 points by ZenDog (20337) from South Burlington, VT 1 year ago
  • Jesus was not only a Liberal

  • He was a political dissident

And today has absolutely nothing what so ever to do with political dissent or human spirituality. On the contrary. It is all about moving money. That's right. Moving money.

Out of your pocket

and into theirs.

Happy Holiday


Nice post. You know I only found out that Jackson Brown was English this last year. I always felt he spoke to me or for me. He really has at least a small gift in expressing humanity. I don't know enough art words to define better. Hold Out, Hold On.


Here is one for people to consider the reality of:

The Sins Of The Father ( parent? ) will be visited on the son ( child? )

Pollution = air land water - from industrial practices on-going.


I think Jesus would agree on below program of Sameritan help for the Mentally Ill.





Just a thought - on mental health. Could generic behavior/perspective tests be created - along the lines of the national IQ testing ( perhaps incorporated into ) - that looks for how an individual looks at the world and people and other life that is around them.

An IQ test could be used to spot strengths and weakness in an individuals skills/abilities that could help plan proper educational activities/approaches for that individual. Could not the same be approached for good mental health?


well you caught me sort of unable to answer. I shared some personality traits with a friend and learned of the extensive testing he got into. I'm thinking it is very long, probably standardized, you continue testing over weeks, & months, to cover a lot of ground. In the end results will be higher in areas leading to conclusions.

I don't know why if could not be one standardized test. Sounds like a good approach. It probably is proprietary or has some rights like copy rights. (Capitalism) On the other hand, the government has people doing the same testing for military, military dependence, and social work. Should be government owned tests available. But that will cut capitalist out of the big money - so industry will oppose it.


Down with profits over people.


I dont watch news much. Has TV been talking about Mental Health in America? I guess I should look at the news websites and see what is going on today. I guess you have a lot of family here in the USA. You would never go to a foreign country for health care or as a full time resident.

But I got to say I hear some good things about health care outside of the USA. As a foreigner and someone with money, you would be going to the top teir hostpitals. I need some dentist work, and I need a dermatologist. I need to buy a ticket this week.


Mental Health in the USA has become more of a topic - the fact that medical funding/coverage has been systematically reduced over the years - as well as the all too apparent growing need for stress disorder treatments.

Sometimes I think I should go for a vacation to Canada and get ill - perhaps their universal health care/medical system would give me a good once over while I was there.

But all in all I am fortunate to live in the twin cities metro area of Minnesota as we have pretty good health care as far as a national standing anyway.


I suppose there are more and more empires or projects looking for funds. Are you seeing the pie being split by more and more projects? They used to say that Cancer took most of the money for research in Medicine... as drag on Aids Reserch perhaps.

If you look at the Federal Catalog of Subsidies ... the Health And Human Services subsidies has proliferated. Total Subsidies and Total Dollars are grwoing by leaps and bounds. perhaps what you see is some wealth people siphoning off big compensation packages for executives...

I never traced the money though. There are private research and university Hospitals, probably corporations doing research ... I don't know ...anyone can apply for a grant if they can prove they are qualified ....


Care for the mentally impaired was cut significantly back in the RayGun days. I saw people showing up on the streets that could not properly care for themselves - because the funding for housing them dried-up.


Exactly, Reagan did that I heard. And I think a Governor in Michigan even targeted mental institution for cuts in the 90s.

[-] 1 points by shooz (26749) 1 year ago

That was governor Engler, who also helped engineer the attack on unions here.

He was also head of domestic manufacturing under the Bush admin.

A slimy fuck no matter how you cut it.


yeah, he was proud of himself. He had a lot of Conservative support. I actually was like 6 feet away from him as he did a little campaign event. he sort of looked at me to give me a handshake, but I was wearing a green army field jacket. I didn't think he would really want to shake my hand and just looked at him. He was all pumped up with his little event.


Be aware that he is still active with ALEC and the teabagge(R)s.

As Bush's chief of domestic production, he oversaw the exodus of millions of good jobs.

Orwellian title, eh?


Yeah, Domestic Outsourcing. We are still waiting for something anything to come out of that office to help domestic production.

No, I never followed him, but someone may have told me in this forum this year. sounds familiar. ALEC, huh. wow. Now that is a picture of a perfect GOPer and Union buster. Neoliberal. Damn, I guess he makes a good case study if you can get enough info. THe corruption of America staring Engler.


Yes - mental health has made some forward progress - but has also met with resistance and roadblocks. The ills of society are real and need proper care and treatment or left alone will spread.


When you add it all us. There are no nice guys in government doing good things for you or ...going to war for humanitarian reasons.

All the rights fought for in the 1960s ... but the sorry shape of medicine today, prison system, drugs laws, young black men targeted and sent to prison, union busting, decreased wages, cost of college, cost of medicine ... it all smacks of oppression


GREED is all pervasive in it's disease of destruction for money/power.


yes, it destroys many men and worst ... I think any of us could be a victim and not even know something happened, who did it, why they did it. It is just evil. And it seemed to have affected teh Church very early. Maybe the Romans were just so dominating, their church dominated also.

Maybe worst still is that we can be hit by greed. We can fall into the traps, many traps are waiting for us.


Yes - recognition of self in others.

[-] 1 points by Middleaged (2021) 0 minutes ago

Oneness. ↥twinkle ↧stinkle permalink


Proper mental health care and enforcing that no one is above the law ( most especially law makers/enforcers ). Yes - we as individuals and as a society need to feed good fellowship and all healthy values over acquisition. Acquisition is a byproduct - NOT A GOAL. Self-serving needs to be addressed as a wrong perspective - that to have a healthy prosperous life for ones self is to engender it for all.




Did Ron do anything good at all, other than admitting that SS has NOTHING to do with deficits?


Ronnie Raygun? He was a very popular actor with TPTB. Hand him a script and point him in the desired direction - and off he would go.


B actor, but he could read a script with the best of them.


I think that TPTB were too successful as painting him as a Hawk - I believe they scuttled their own plans to invade Iran at that time because they did too good of a PR job. Hostages released - excuse for invasion removed.


He held up the hostage release to aid in his election.

Can you say .........TREASON?


TREASON? Yep - unfortunately it is the name of the game - why we are protesting all around the world. Time for the business of treason to be ended.

[-] 3 points by shooz (26749) 1 year ago

Treason was legalized under Nixon.

The precedent was set.

Those committing it, never looked back.


The Health(?) industry - such as Hospitals ( for profit testing and such ) probably hate this kid :

I'm Pretty Sure This Video Of A Kid Freaking Out Is Going To Save Me From Dying Of Cancer


Wow, I really liked that video. But it sounds like our cancer people are not organized. Of course, I don't really know the whole story and might not understand the science that Jack understands....


Jack seems like one really intelligent kid who got inspired to take a deep look at an issue to see if he could understand the problem of a particular health issue - and by using knowledge already in use - redirected a simple test in an apparent causal relationship to a disease. Amazing what avenues and connections can be made by an interested individual.

There are causal relationships to minute toxins found in food and water that show direct connections to many cancers - but have been deemed not to be an issue due to the low quantities - but then there are studies of synergistic effects of some minute parts per billion content of heavy metals and other things that when they are combined become quite a bit more potent/threatening/poisonous. Compounds found in different products which can be introduced to each other by random chance of diet.


Sort of sounds like Gulf War Syndrome. There was specualtion that Deet, depleted uranium, war dust, smoke from war or oil burning, might have combined... but that was like in the 1990s... I dont' know the current theories.


I am not up to speed on the gulf war syndrome - I know that people have fought for medical coverage/treatment and have been somewhat successful at getting the military/government to recognize and start covering treatments. Always such a hard battle to get proper care for our veterans.


Yeah, usually like 10 years to get VA to admit to injury. Even then the VA and Congress will exclude people like the Red Cross workers, volunteer nurses, or people handling agent orange on an island in the pacific which shows no records of the agent.

Was going to ask you about CODEX the EU/WTO suppliment guidelines that seem to be attached to CAFTA. If they plan to limit suppliments and have prescriptions for suppliments and restrict growing herbs ... wouldn't that be a reason for US people to hold on to their gun rights... I'm just saying... sorry not a joke ... can't even add any humor about this.


It is about greed and control ( nope nothing funny about it ) - it is also why I am surprised at the military take-downs of national leaders deemed to be committing crimes against humanity ( on their own people ). Used to be they "TPTB" supported relocating those criminals to asylum in other countries rather then have them face any sort of justice. Defending their future need of using the same escape route. Is this another ooops moment for them? Setting/enforcing precedent that government is not above the law?


It would appear to be a kind of clean break with an older generation of allies. Normally, the US would set a reputation for taking care of our buddy the tyrant who took our money and did us favors. You want a good reputation of being a good friend to win new friends. But, yes, why would the new Libyan leader want to deal with the USA. Why would the new Egypt leader or Iraqi leader.

So a new strategy must have emerged. I think they call it proxy armies. Rebels in Syria and Libya. Leap Frog us bases around the world for small quick actions. Don't try to take a whole country any more ... try to take over the government or control the people ... or blockade the people, isolate teh people from food, fuel, jobs, ... maybe try to get the people to flee the region (as it happened in Iraq) is a great way to claim land and rights to mine or drill.


Gone is the nice guy - we will protect you for your cooperation - now - don't play ball and we will invade you - one way or another.






If you have something to say, please say it. I don't know what "Z'at Jesus in 66" means. It is apparently aimed at triggering the emotions of people who share your worldview, whatever that is.


It means a spirit of justice or love socially expressed, has been sought by rebellion since at least 1966. The image hasn't changed much.


Did I take your image as sarcasm, when that wasn't the intention? If so I'm sorry.

Why do so manyChristians mock the efforts of the protesters in the 60's, (and those today) who have actually tried to live the message of Jesus? Weird. I've never understood that.

And now I celebrate . . .

[-] 0 points by rayolite (461) 1 year ago

Not sarcasm, rather, irony. The good intent supports love and understanding and are at the core of activism found everywhere, always.

About the time someone noticed people had chosen dogs that had physical similarities to them, we should have noticed that others take on the physical appearance of the spirit that has chosen them.


Remember the Pharisees (religious leaders of their day) opposed Jesus and would have killed him many times but they could not. Jesus laid down his life - it was not taken.


Oh, I forgot. You're the guy the Koch brothers (or fellow travelers) pay to encourage people to back an Article V Convention, so that they can revise the constitution to their own evil blueprint

Merry Christmas.

Yes, even to you, Merry Christmas.


You dont think that enough American's would show up to make a serious difference? Article V's would be democracy in it's rawest form.

I guess then, our problem is really with the people, and apathy.

Hmm...sounds like a familiar rallying cry.

[+] -4 points by outlawtumor (-162) 1 year ago

A pagan like you wishes Merry Christmas??


Pagan? How do you know what I believe? You just need to put everything in some box where you can identify it and then feel superior, without ever making any real effort at comprehension, and especially without ever doing any introspection.

You are motivated by nothing but fear and misunderstanding.

Merry Christmas.


Again,Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

I guess you're not a Pagan but you are a Leftist. May you find the truth in the new year.