In high school on the South Side of Chicago David Gottlieb and
his brother Alan Gottlieb were friends of mine. They were generally
hospitable, you don't appreciate such hospitality until you spend time in the
less hospitable communities.
Once I was at the Gottlieb residence, socializing with the
Gottliebs one or both of them. I left their place and walked down to 55th
Street,to the intersection of I think Dorchester or Blackstone at 55th St.,
in Chicago Il., on the south side near the University of
Chicago. There at the playground where there is now a pool next to
the big twin apartment buildings, I ran into my friend Wayne Braxton and Linda
Skinner. I had taken some pill, I know not for sure what it
was.
We played frisbee, I could tell that I had charmed Linda. She was smiling
and clapping her hands together and her body language and facial expression were
that of one who considers themselves to be something less than me. I was on
the slide and she got on the slide in front of me and leaned backwards into
me, but I leaned backwards politely to avoid contact, she was 14 and I was 17. I
felt like a God, like Mercury; I felt on top of the world. I felt as if the top
of my head had come off, thereby unleashing all the joy and transcendence that
is usually suppressed.
Then later when I tried to talk Linda Skinner up, (the
playground was the first time I had met her) she would not be my girlfriend. I
became despondent and a few months later returned to the playground, where
I left an offering to God on the slide, a date, one of those things you eat, and
prayed to God for a sign to reveal to me how I could be the charming person
I was when I met her in the playground, for it seemed I was like two people, one
person who was the way I was when I met her in the playground,
and another person who was the way I was in my usual state of mind. It
seemed that I could not get Linda for a girlfriend because she liked one side of
my "split personality" but did not like the other.
As I sat on the slide praying for a sign, a car started honking. It sounded
as if it was sympathizing with me. I went over to look inside the car, and
inside of it, there was a "Holy Bible" on the front dashboard. This led to
my becoming serious about Christianity. I noticed that a very small percentage
of cars have a Bible visible in them.
Persons such as Linda may think I became serious about Christianity
just to please them, but actually, I became a Christian before I was five
years old, while I was living in the bungalow at the Prince of Wales Museum in
Bombay India, surrounded by Indians from India, Hindus, and my non-Christian
parents. I became a Christian before I ever got to know a Christian. But I
did not become serious about Christianity until this incident with the
honking car.
Dream about being a russian
commando that preceded me waking up feeling Christ on the Cross
Within
Not so long ago, I (a citizen of the USA) dreamt that I was
a Russian commando, spying on the German Army in WW II. I was watching them hold
a Christian church service. The Germans troops noticed me up in the rafters
of a big building spying on them--they heard or saw something--but they let me
go--it was as if, they were afraid that their bosses would find out about me. I
was admiring the German troops, I felt more akin to them than to my Russian
comrades. Later the Germans came to get my surrender. I was trying to decide if
I should fight to the death as a matter of honor or surrender. At this point, I
woke up, and could feel Christ crucified on the Cross within me for about an
hour. I did not feel the pain of it but still crucifixion was a boring
experience. I could feel the supernatural quality of Christ on the cross within
me, I could feel that Christ was more than a prophet.
There were
some other details to the dream and how I felt when I woke up but I have given
you the basics of it. I would have to spend a few hours digging through a small
mountain of my spiral notebooks to find the account I wrote of the dream when I
first had it and come up with the details.
The crucifixion was the
only time in Christ's life when he was reduced to the state of a slave, without
control over his body. It was probably the only time he was bored. Yet we humans
spend alot of time being bored even though we are never crucified, our boredom
stems from our sins. Seems God effected some kind of union with us humans, by
becoming bored on the cross the way we often are bored without being on a
cross.
Telekinetic Nature of Prayer or
thoughts
My idea is to if possible use the--for lack of a better
word--telekinetic action of the minds of people such as yourself (this is
rational continue reading for just a minute and you will understand I will
explain), to help improve spirits of people everywhere (except the ones who
should not be uplifted), especially some group you might wish to specially focus
on.
This is rational I'll explain to you an original insight I
figured out. Just as you could not hear the drumbeats produced by the mind of
the drummer if God blocked the sound waves, so also another type of action of
God, interference as opposed to non-interference, allows the benevolent thoughts
in the mind of a praying person to have effect on others. Another way of looking
at it is, if I had my finger on the remote control trigger of a nuclear bomb
that would destroy the devil, My brain activity that led to me pushing the
button would not be able to detonate the bomb if God intervened to prevent the
signals sent from the remote control device from reaching the bomb; the signals
would be able to travel to the bomb only if God allowed them to (this does not
mean God approves of everything he allows to happen). So if you do something
such as read the two poetic prayers I wrote you can find below,(keeping in
mind a couple of unwritten lines of special focus on some group of your own
choosing), you might actually be able to accomplish something. One poetic prayer
is entitled "Overcoming Sins that Prevent Us from Catching the Divine Game" and
the other is entitled "the Sport of Virtue". In these poems Christ is referred
to as "Yayzoos" the name by which he was originally referred to in scripture and
by the early church.
Scripture Reveals
Part of God's Mind
Many people these days are wont to argue with "religious" persons who
are similar to myself. The best way I know to deal with this kind of discord is
to point out that the Old and New Testament scriptures have three times
officially declared that most of God's thoughts words and actions are not
recorded in the scriptures. Perhaps the world would be a better place now if in
the past the religious had been more aware of and expressive regarding the fact
that scripture does make such declarations.
Conscience Must be Based on a Pure
Mind
Another new original insight discovered by myself into theological basics
that has somehow escaped the minds of humanity throughout the ages: The excuse,
"but it was not against my conscience", is invalid if the conscience has been
polluted by various pollutants such as greed, selfishness, arrogance, willful
ignorance, and intellectual laziness. Supposing in the presence of anger or some
other mental sin, a person's conscience dictates action A; but in the absence of
anger or the given mental sin it dictates action B. If, affected by anger or
some other defect in attitude the person follows his conscience and does action
A, how could this be better than if, in the absence of anger or some other
defect in attitude, he were to commit action A even though his conscience
dictated action B? That would imply that the presence of anger or some other
defect in attitude improved the person over what he would have been in the
absence of the defect.
'Religion-produced' Stress Can Be Healthy
Some people may feel "stressed out" by what they read in this
letter. The idea that a person's fate in the afterlife is affected by their
conduct in this world, the idea that the fate in the afterlife is
NOT predestined, both ideas I adhere to, are ideas that have been denied by
some new forms of Christianity, they are ideas that can cause stress, because of
the implication we have to worry about what we think say and do and
the implication that what we think say and do can effect our fate in the
afterlife.
My response to such persons, in part:
Stress can be good for you. Physical exercise is a form of stress.
Mental exercise is known to ward off certain types of senility. For hundreds or
thousands or more generations, mankind has, generation after generation, been
subjected to mental and physical stresses that exceed the level of stress much
of mankind is exposed to in modern times. Religion, properly understood, is more
than simple tranquilizer or sauna like relaxation. If you are walking across a
street, and a car is about to hit you, do you condemn the person who warns you
that you are about to be hit, on the grounds that he is a source of stress?
People fail to understand, and I also partly fail to understand, why
some should face unfortunate afterlives; in their inability to understand such
things, they proceed to reject the idea of a deity who would condemn some to
unfortunate afterlives. But despite my lack of understanding, I know for a fact
that Christ is the Son of God, and I know for a fact that certain portions of
the scriptures are inspired by God. My understanding of the matter at this time,
is, that, some are condemned to unfortunate afterlives, because such acts as a
kind of brain surgery for those who enter into fortunate after-lives. A lifetime
on earth, twists the brain of the person who experiences it into something that
is a shadow of a divine brain; and something has to be done to bring such brains
back to a divine condition.
St. Paul never said that the christian was freed from the burden of obeying
his conscience, though he did admit that due to the physical pressures of his
body he St. Paul in certain ways violated his own conscience without being
separated from God or damned as punishment for such certain types of violations
of conscience.
'Good Works' Can be Necessary; all is
not Predestined
In general regarding religion, I feel that there has
unfortunately been amongst almost all protestant denominations, a
misinterpration of St. Paul's words regarding works and predestination. This
misinterpretation was spoken of by St. Peter, when he said that there are
certain things in Paul's letters that are hard to understand, that the
"unlearned and unstable" misinterpret with the end result that they destroy
themselves. The fact is that Paul did not mean that for all persons it does not
matter what they do so long as they have faith; and the fact is that Paul did
not mean that for all persons it is predestined from the time of their birth
whether they go to heaven or hell. You can find my explanation of what Paul
actually meant when he was talking about faith and works in my
newsgroup
post. And if you scroll down to look at the scriptural quotation taken from
a letter of Paul's that appears on all of my resumes, you can find further proof
that yes what a person does can matter it is not just faith.
Another
newsgroup post of mine explains what Paul really meant when he talked about
predestination.
In a nutshell, regarding works, I believe that when Paul
talked about faith without works, when he was talking about works he
was talking about the works of the Jewish law in the case of the Jews, and that
no Jew successfully keeps all the works of the Jewish law; and he was talking
about the conscience of the Gentiles with regards to Gentiles, the idea
being no Gentile succeeds in following his conscience perfectly. Thus in and of
themselves such things cannot justify men. What Paul meant was that good
men are justified by faith not perfect adherence to conscience or law, in
combination with their general goodness. He takes it for granted that he is
talking about good men being justified through faith not the works of the Jewish
law or perfect adherence to conscience.
Things must be taken in context. The whole tone of the gospels is about a
preacher, Christ, urgently advising the people that if they do this they will
make it if they do not they will not. There is no implication in the narratives
describing Christ's life, that it was all a silly exercise because it does not
matter what men do and all is predestined. In context, there are
plenty of scriptures emphasizing the importance of good deeds.
However, I think that youths, and the conscientous, can be justified
without doing anything, get the Holy Spirit, when they first repent
and turn to Christ, but thereafter they have to be careful to behave
themselves.
If God is love, why do 'christian' leaders
increase the importance of factors other than love when it comes to social
life?
Religion is supposed to be about love; yet still there are outwardly
religious persons who are obsessed with turning "how much money does he or she
have" into a prime consideration in marital and other social decisions. What
sense does that make? If money becomes so important in such decisions, then love
becomes unimportant in such decisions. I do not believe that this constant
ratcheting up of financial pressures re marital and other social decisions,
is eugenic or truly religious.
perhaps the selective persecution of
certain drugs/herbs has reduced the spiritual intelligence of
mankind
One reason people have become so ignorant about such matters, is that
governments have been banning some herbs and plants and drugs while they have
been promoting other herbs plants and drugs; they have been banning the
substances that produce religious experiences while promoting the substances
that produce a kind of sacrilegious dopiness. As a result an imbalance has
developed in society, an imbalance that produces a profane state of mind in
society.
I personally have had "religious experiences" without using
any kind of herb or plant or drug; but, if persons find themselves unable to
escape their ignorance without consuming a substance, maybe they should go ahead
and consume some kind of substance in a disciplined fashion. Maybe they should
for a few days abstain from cigarettes and sexual passion for those they are not
married to, exercise, read the scriptures, and pray, and then proceed to consume
some kind of substance that will help them transcend their ignorance. But it
should be kept in mind, that this kind of approach varies with the individual
and should be put into effect in ways that do not violate the law.
Personal
Motto:
My
resume has the
following quote in the upper right hand corner:
Command those who are rich in this
present world not to be haughty neither to put their hope in the
uncertainty of wealth but in God, who so richly provides us with
everything for our enjoyment. Urge them to do good, to be rich in good
works, to be generous givers, to practice sharing, and to treasure up for
themselves a sound foundation for the future, so that they may take hold
of the life that is really life.
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Overcoming Sins that Prevent Us from Catching the Divine Game
Poetic Prayer
by David
Virgil Hobbs
God grant unto us and to all everywhere
except those we should'nt ask such for in prayer
that there be
less sin is the prayer we now declare
For we are like hunters tracking
magical game
whose meat gives us the holy spirit saints acclaim
Spirit of God help us reduce within us that sinfulness
through
which we fail to catch this game that gives the spirit to us
And help
reduce sins we commit that weaken the ability
of others to capture this
game that feeds us spiritually
God lend thy assistance and hear this
our prayer
let there be less truce breaking and theft everywhere
less swindling extortion and murder causing despair
God grant that
evil thoughts and unholiness are reduced
in us and also in all places
both here and abroad
God help us so less folly and drunkenness are
turned loose
and help lessen misplaced lusts not of the will of the
Lord
Let there be less of envies jealousies greed and selfishness
less of a kind of gainsaying unthinking rash stubbornness
less of
rejoicing in iniquity and impatience
less of irritability and less of
covetousness
Father God let there be less malice heartlessness and
arrogance
less hatred overall and less hatred of God and good persons
less excess love of self money and pleasure our lives to worsen
Lord let there be less absence of faith hope and endurance
less
absence of natural affection, the absence odd
less of ungratefulness
and less of lack of thanks to God
less of the absence of love and less
absence of conscience
God grant unto us and to all people everywhere
that there be a reduction in sins is now our prayer
Let there be
less excess of gossip and insolence
less approval of sin idle talk and
boastfulness
and less blasphemy and slander and less false witness
Let there be less lack of self control and unseemly behaviour
and
less insufficient obedience to mothers and fathers
Let there be less
deceit treachery and lack of forgiveness
and less of invention of ways
of committing wickedness
Let there be less implacability and rashness
less of the excess of strife and less of ruthlesness
less of
excess debate and less unmercifulness
less of brutality fierceness and
abusiveness
Sins we commit that weaken us and make us less able
to
catch the game that is spirit-giving and magical
and sins others
commit that weaken our ability
to hunt down this magical game are like
monstrosities
we are like soldiers at war with these monstrosities
who contest these lands where we hunt in prayerful rhyme
for that
Spirit yielding game that can be so hard to find
God help us war
against these monsters of iniquity
All I ask thee father God in this
prayer to you,
I ask in the name of Jesus whose name is
Yayzoos
Sport of Virtue Poetic Prayer
by David Virgil Hobbs
That God would grant unto all people
everywhere
excepting those too evil to be so blessed
that there be
an increase in virtue is today's prayer
Hear us Lord Father heed these
our prayer requests
For these virtues are like skills of athletic
conquest
that make us more proficient in the spiritual contest
more
able to be by your Spirit more possessed
more able to defeat enemy
forces unblessed
Which are the forces that reduce the number of
minutes
in our lives that we spend intoxicated by God's Spirit
the
forces that lower the level of intoxication
we are able to achieve even
in our exaltation
But all the while help us to charitably
understand
that though kind deeds can help someone feel blessed
such
acts of kindness done according to your commands
may not have made that
someone into a better man
but rather may have helped him to feel sorrow
less
help us all, God to be more content with the basics of
life
more steadfast and unmoveable in heavenly strife
more able to
acquit ourselves like men and be strong
not terrified, shaken or
troubled when things go wrong
Give us more endurance of hardness as
good soldiers of the Lord
help us to be less disrupted in our spiritual
lives
by worldly sorrows and joys by good or bad wives
less hurt by
persecution distress and famine and sword
And let not our concern for
those we are married to
divert us from good paths right for us set by
you
Help us God to be more spiritually minded and fit,
to follow
more closely the leadership of your Spirit
Let there be less quenching
of Spirit amongst wits
God make us more holy, more filled with the
spirit
more filled with the godly grace your power transmits
Let
there be amongst us and everywhere here and abroad
more praise fear and
service to the God we should adore
more rejoicing in God more
thankfulness to the Lord
Help us and all in climates both warm and
colder
to become more careful circumspect and sober
Help us abstain
from all appearance of evil
make our bodies more holy more conformed to
thy will
more worthy of being with your Spirit instilled
Help us God
to become more hardworking and diligent
and to lessen our part in
noisiness and entanglements
that contradict God's will and the
teachings of the prophets
Help us to be less improperly judgemental of
sins
and to become more approving of all excellent things
Help us to
increase in kindness, blessing and forgiveness
with regards to enemies
and persecutors among us
Give us more kindness longsuffering and
forbearance
more gentleness, tenderheartedness and patience
Help
us to be more peaceful empathetic and sympathetic
and grant that within
us there may exist non-synthetic
more love of other persons and of all
humans
more brotherly love and more love of good persons
more love
between wives of the world and their husbands
Let there be more prayer
offered for all persons
and more adherence to the dictates of
conscience
more good manners and good behaviour in everyone
Help us
to increase amongst us and all persons
virtues of blamelesness,
worthiness, and harmlessness
and cheerful mercifulness and
hospitality,
and help decrease conduct that harms others spiritually
Grant us God that people be more properly subject to
the
government powers truly ordained by you
and that diligence and
goodness of governments improve
Let there be more quantity and quality
found in all nations
in terms of wise and knowledgeable exhortation
More good ministering and teaching and education
more prophesying
of God's truths for edification
more helpful healing and godly
comforting of persons
more distribution of necessities to all,
especially to good persons who've answered your call
more relief
of the afflicted, as said Saint Paul
more of goodness, and of
righteousness and good works
more of the doing of the will of the Lord
on earth
Let there be everywhere more heavenly signs
more miracles
wonders and mighty deeds divine
more admonishment and abhorrence of
evil
more reproval of dark works done against God's will
more
anger against the enemy the devil
God our father insofar as your will
permits help us
so children show more godly obedience and honor to
parents
God grant that parents not be abusive to their children
that a better job of running the families be done
and that parents
improve as providers for their little ones
Grant among us and
everywhere, O God of good deeds
that we may all increase in the
virtues here described
so that we may become better spiritual
athletes,
and achieve greater success in obtaining the prize,
Your
great Holy Spirit that we want in our lives
I ask all this of thee God
in the name of Yayzoos your son
now known amongst mankind as Jesus
Christ of the christians
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@2005 David Virgil Hobbs
