So last night many of us tuned in to hear our President defend the reasons we chose to wage war upon Libya. Were we expecting any direct answers to our questions? No, not really, and President Obama did not dissappoint.
I must interject right here and say I actually have nothing personal against Obama, on a Presidential Level; All Presidents are puppets controlled by TPTB, the elite that really run things. Some may call them the Illuminati, heralding in The New World Order, Personally I think the roots go back a lot deeper than most think, and quite frankly I don't give a crap what name they go by. It is not "the U.S. Govt" that "makes things happen" the cadre is of an international worldwide nature. Our Presidents do what they are told, with corporate CEO's, Lobbyist, Congressional representives, and senators helping decide how high he jumps and how fast he twirls. The only difference between one President and another through the years is that some have been easier to control than others.
On a more personal level, as far as Obama in particular, I felt there was a chance for him to use his ethnic background, which includes a familiarity with the Muslim faith (admitted or not) to help unite all of us (regardless of Obama's Birth certificate which was an issue two years ago Mr. Trump not 2 weeks ago). Change our Cultivated and Divisive nature.
After all Christianity and Muslim faiths are actually worshipping the same one God. So we have different languages and we took different paths as each was shown by God... clearly, with intelligent unbiased research one cannot but help reach the conclusion that this is so. Many are not even aware that Jesus is greatly revered among the Muslim people, and is mentioned often in their scriptures, as is Abraham, Joseph, Mary, Moses and even our Angels. In conversation when Jesus's name is spoken they say Peace Be Upon Him, same as they say after speaking of the Prophet Mohammed.
Does Christianity offer the same respect? Why not?
Because we are conditioned not to. We are told of craziness like 40 virgins waiting for us, and cutting off hands and stoning deaths being a part of the Muslim faith. Does not the Holy Bible make many of these same referrences? Time and again wars happen in the pages of the Bible, people die. There is even a verse that speaks of babies dashed against the walls. Is a Christian not laid up treasures in heaven and assured a place in the fathers mansion? We say they are archaic and uncivilized but as recently as the late 1800's we were chasing witches here in America and burning people at the stake. How cruel was that?
No Christianity and the Muslim Faith are not as "divided" as TPTB would have us believe. For that matter neither are the Hindus or Budhhist or wiccans. The Christian faith does not have a monopoly on the path to God. It is a personal journey paved with good intentions. On the path you will find that most faiths no matter what culture do not deny Jesus.
Some may not get dipped, sprinkled or circumcised, but, does that mean GOD does not approve of them? I do not think that is up to man to decide. I believe in Jesus, but I also believe that he came to preach the word of GOD, NOT to create a new religion. Is there something wrong with being Christian? No, absolutely not, I do not think there is anything wrong in believing Jesus came as the Lord in flesh (I do) to try (again) to show us the right way to live, same as he came and spoke to different cultures and different people all over the
world since time began.
Does a Muslim have to "stop" believing in the message from the Prophet Mohammed to accept that Jesus was the son of God? If explained in the manner thus: God is the Father and we are all children of God, then Jesus could be the Son of God without further argument. Does a Christian need to give up their Christian Faith to believe the Prophet Mohammed came with a message from God? No absolutely not, why should they.
The Bible speaks of Many prophets, and Jesus himself told us many would come, so that
should not be an issue. We are putting too much empasis on mans record of religion instead of on mans relationship with religion. For exampleWhether I am Buddhist or Hindu, Christians should not have a problem with this for two reasons.
#1 Most important, like the Sumerians, these religions pre date Christianity.
#2 The Bible tells us there are "lesser gods".
Furthermore if anyone cared to look beyond the mythical pictures of flying dragons, and lotus blooms, and 8 limbed dieties they would find that there is a central "Creator" God in most religions. Even our own native American Indians refer to the Great Spirit. Jesus came into our history a little over two thousand years ago, but man and earth were here long before.
Read Genesis carefully and you will find that "In the beginning when the earth was void and without form" Gen1: 4-5, God speaks and says "let there be light", and he called the light day and the darkness night. That was day one. Skip ahead to Gen.1:14 though and we find God is AGAIN saying let there be lights in the firmament to divide night from day, Gen 1:19, goes into great detail explaining they are to
divide the night from the day as well as the seasons, this is end of fourth day. Mind you this is after gathering the waters together to create dry land, and after grass and the herb yielding seeds were completed on days 2 and 3. On day 5 the oceans brought forth everything of
it's kind, including things that fly. On day six God said let the Earth bring forth the living creature after his kind. It was on this day, day six that God said " "Let US make man in our image" Gen 1:27 "So God created man in his own image; in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them".
And do you know what he told them, besides that we should be good stewards over all that he has given us? He said :
Gen 1:28 " Go forth and multiply and "REPLENISH" the earth". He did not say go out and populate>
He said go and REPLENISH. As in earth was depleted add more.
That was the end of the sixth day, and as we all learned God rested on the seventh. But Wait...
Then He seems to go on to create man and woman a second time. A clue is found in Genesis 2: 4 where it tells us that what we just read was " The generations<PLURAL> of earth.
The Bible continues at this point, well after man and animals were created, in Genesis 2:5 "And there was Not a Man to till the ground". From this point onward we learn after the mist went up God created another man, and later brought him to Eden, and created a woman because it was not right for him to be alone. So, clearly something is Unclear in the timeline here. There has been a disconnect in the telling of the history.
Now, I do believe the Bible is accurate, and that the words are holy. BUT, I also understand that preserving these perfect words (especially with bad guys choreographing) has been an undertaking that has taken place over a course of time beyond my comprehension. Preserving and translating the scriptures with no doubt great effort taken to attempt to preserve the clarity and meaning of perfect words were undertaken by imperfect man.
The Bible is not wrong, it is just not complete, there is a difference.
From as young as I can remember I understood in my heart what I have tried to explain to others for many years, we are all one people, our ethicities and cultures are results of experience and survival. I believe God tells us everything we need to know if we come to him with sincerity and open hearts. I believe the earth has been "purged" as discussed by many cultures, most notably The Native American Hopi Indians, and "replenished" much like our familiar Noah's Ark. Each time God has helped survivors, and the earth has been replenished.
Now surprisingly in this day and age we find there are still some die hard fundamentalist who feel the earth is only six thousand years old. There are also believe it or not still flat earth believers out there as well. (Sigh. Scratches head... any chance getting through to people?). I believe massive amounts of knowledge have been retarded from release, distorted and intentionally lost that helped perpetuate our
division.
Think about this... People OBVIOUSLY had relationships with God prior to Jesus coming. Even back in the time of Jesus we were already arguing over who's way to practice religion, to "worship" God was best. Can you say circumsized or uncircumcized? Today we argue over whether a person was sprinkled, or submerged, what day and how often they go to church, etc..... Either way, we argue over the most Holiest of Holy> God.
Where did all the rules and traditions come from? Man. And what's even worse?
Because of these constant conflicts we see that generations later many are never finding the path to God at all, because of the confusion caused by everyone telling them "the one true way to get there".
Instead of explaining evolution we deny it happened and send children to school ill prepared to understand when faced with information that conflicts with what their parents taught them about God. Is it so hard to fathom that evolutionary man may have walked the earth before God "created" man as we know him? Where did Cain go after he slew Abel? Did you ever wonder how it was if Adam and Eve
were the first humans, then who were the "other people" the mark on Cain's forehead was supposed to protect him from?
We have been taught and conditioned to consider anyone who asks questions like this as heathens and evil, and the questions are avoided and never answered... but it's a valid question.
We say God created everything, but then we go to war against the evil heathens.
Jesus said of other belief systems if they are not against us they are for us.
What I see is a typical kindergarten fight, but on an unbelievably grand scale... My dad is bigger than your dad, or my dad can beat up your dad.
Grow up everybody, come out of the fog, stop being led to believe what you believe in, the answer, the path to God, lies within your own hearts.
Did your God create Heaven and Earth and everything on it or not? If so then you must accept that this includes everyone, even those with religious faiths different than your own, whether they pre date or do not 100% follow "the rules" of your own religion should not matter.
Heck For all we know there could even be truth behind the reptilian and gray aliens coming to visit and see how we're getting along. Are you so sure we are the only planet with life?
I don't know who God is, I just know he is, and that there is only one of Him.
Whew, well that tangent took a long trip, lol, gotta go with flow and let it roll sometimes. Where was I? Oh yeah, current events and bitching about shit in Libya....
So did Obama answer questions last night ? My first unanswered question was "what was the exact "act of aggression" that prompted the military action? I mean Gadhaffi has been in power for 40 years, we can see pictures of him meeting and shaking hands with U.S. Presidents, when exactly, at what moment was the act of aggression we responded to? As we all know, the situation had been ongoing for over a month, on the heels of Tunisia and right along with the unrest in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria. Articles dating back to
February
like this one INTERVIEW: Lybian army defector calls for global help in Benghazi By Nehal El-Sherif Feb 21, 2011,
We did not move to change the path of democracy in any of those other nations> Only Libya, and only after the Benghazi oil infrastructure was at risk.
But okay I'll let that slide because Gadhaffi is a bad guy and we have 40 years of human rights abuses to choose from. So we will let it be, it was The Battle for Benghazi and the approximately 200 rebels remaining, nothing to do with the oil interest located there. Nothing to do with Agoco, The Arabian Gulf Oil Company based in Benghazi, Libya, that is engaged in crude oil and natural gas exploration, production
and refining there.
Research shows that "Agoco was formed by the NOC in late 1979 to take over the assets of a partnership of BP and Nelson Bunker Hunt of the United States, and a partnership of Chevron and Texaco called Amoseas. Agoco has upstream operations in eight oil fields, including Sarir, Messla, Nafoora, Beda and Hammada. The company also operates an oil terminal and a refinery in Tobruk
and Sarir. I'm sure if we memorized the names of these areas we would find much of the fighting focused there. As noted by
Steve LeVine, in his Weekly Wrap "The fear is that Eni, along with BP and Exxon, could
face contractual problems with Qaddafi, Bloomberg reports. But that isn't how oil deals have really worked in recent decades. Instead,
governments have generally honored oil contracts from one regime to another, of course with some possible renegotiation".
So what exactly did we hear in the Obama Doctrine? Not Much. The stated reason for going into Libya, even though the U.S. "Is reluctant to use force" according to our President , was "a threat to our intersts and values", which we were told are "at stake" in this war. What interest? If not the oil Pipeline system that was in immediate danger of interuption? Well we didn't want refugees to place a strain on fragile Egypt and Yemin,(The other countries we did not help in the fight for democracy, As if they are not leaving in droves because of the bombing?) What Values? The ones where we pick and choose who we help based on what they have that we want or need?
We heard the "world faced the prospect of violence on a horrific scale" because of Gadhaffi (Is Obama a prophet too? What horrific violence was in our imminent future, Gadhaffi was in talks with Italy just weeks earlier making oil deals and shaking hands?)
So were my questions answered to my satisfaction as to why we are in yet another war killing and destroying again? No. But, my prediction is that this will be a ninety day war> after that it is anyone's guess what happens if the oil, ooops sorry I meant democracy, is not secured by then.
Wouldn't that be something if at the end of the ninety days Donald Trump came out and told Obama "you're fired"
Well Peace Out World:) Until my next rambling rant
