My Critical Thought….

Remember this: Words and language matter. Be careful where and how you drive the Verbal Car. The meaning can end up anywhere-lost or found.

My thought process of life scenarios are in terms of hunting. People conducive to hunting understand a train of thought with experience. It is the application in lieu of scenario, or applied to it.

I have been asleep for several days with CNN playing in the background. I finally decided to get up. 

I have loved all sacred religious text with an appreciation because of a philosophy teacher. Given the content, especially when comparing, you find a lot that is the same and different. It can still be appreciated for each stand along interpretation. It is meant to be appreciated, not used for terror. Why would anyone want to use their religious text in such a contrary way to bring shame to their God?

The teacher makes all the difference. Bows to Miyagi.

Let us imagine a mountain goat or for others, your basic goat. Much like the sacrificial goat of yore, Goat is an idea. Goat is not an insult here.

Goat held the value of a human life in the religious text-in trade. Think of the sacrifice of Isaac, or Ismail by his father, Abraham. Angels intervene and off the ram goes in would-be subjugate's place.

What I have seen and heard in the media has cause for great concern.

There are attacks on the US POTUS for not having a plan, as demanded by Joe Scarborough from The Morning Joe. I had to force myself to watch. Mr. Scarborough’s form of interviewing the people on his show comes across as an aggravated assault on the viewer, by a person cross examining a person, already perceived to be a liar.

The POTUS is the goat being set to sacrifice. Yet, he will get intervention on a Sovereign's behalf. All he need do is wait for the calm within.

My critical thoughts on Mr. Scarborough’s demands to know the stratagem were questions: Why does media personnel need to know military, or executive strategies if the first reaction is to place those maneuvers on the global news. The global news then gives the upper hand to groups that these maneuvers are trying to counter?

My hunting thought is: Never freely tell them where you hide your goat, especially if you are hunting a goat-specific target.

This was illustrated by the airing of the extremist groups’ call to arm foreign followers with weapons and attack; free of charge, no need to apply, effortless utilizing of the News Media to advertise a terrible call to arms. 

In the News Media’s eyes this is reporting and validating the storyline of a religious extremist group, not advertising for them for free. Yet, the News Media passed that destructive message along like the river pours into a much bigger ocean. Who will pay for that?

The News Media told religious extremists, otherwise not in contact with the head, where the goats are located.

For politicians engaging in non-compassionate reactions of fear for the sake of their states by proclaiming no-entry to Syrian peoples fleeing their homelands, instead of being empowered to stand and fight, would you want to be treated that way? Is there not a better way to handle displaced persons than angrily, or giving little regard for women, child, and elderly people with nowhere to go?

My hunting thought is: Progression. You see people starving. You shoot a goat, but do not want to share because you are scared you are going to starve too. There is a limited supply of goats. What do you do? Watch people starve, with food in your bowl, or spread that goat out? Better yet, teach those people how to preserve goat meat and make it stretch. Better yet, help them realize you are all in that together, compromise, form a decent plan and spare as many people that you can while not making enemies.Sometimes, you have to let the animal pass. Draw in the one you want.

After all, that is what I see. Someone wanting to draw someone into a fight. A fight to martyr others for a cause. So it is martyrdom, not serving God, but selfishness.

There is also the perpetuation of the politicians running for office, who are not elected, to give their opinion of what the POTUS should be doing. You are not employed in that job yet. If you are holding or entertaining language that is derogatory to the support of your present POTUS, what will you do when you might be elected? How will you turn your personal prejudices on any group of people if it is detrimental to your campaign, or employ as the future president?

I see a president losing hope over the actions and behaviors of his constituents. I would say to that POTUS, do not lose heart. Everyone has a dark moment. Some of us have more than others. You will be lifted out by a very unique and special event.

Is this what America wants?

I say, swamp the whole lot of candidates and bring us someone with caliber. There doesn’t seem to be anything here.

Once more with feeling

None of the Presidential candidate elects for our future president are worthy; toss those bad fish back.

There is a proclamation of war by France; good on France. There should also be an understanding that religious extremism is a global problem and that requires more than one group, agreeing or not, to work together to solve that problem in a way to cause as little casualties as possible.

My hunting thought: It is called a driven hunt by location. Animals talk to one another; they look for food, water and shelter. To deprive them of that is to make them move in the direction they do not desire. Once that is taken away, they sit still for as long as they can, then they turn and fight.

Humans are no different.

When it comes to the News Media and Politicians safe in their beds or work, to call for troops to go into a zone and act as Stormtroppers, sacrificing themselves for other people’s safety-yet what those soldiers are seeing is selfish, greedy people calling to segregate and exert prejudice on a weakened people-what do those soldiers have in the way of example for selflessness and compassion when the ones calling for an angry response are not the ones suffering the work? The soldier has the right idea, but not the civilians frothing at the mouth to sacrifice someone, then later realizing that same soldier has no one to take care of them.

One of the ideals of the military is to serve selflessly the civilians and the world in times of peace and war. What message are we sending our troops? I am a selfish civilian, go fall on a sword for me while I take selfies, drink haterade, and go down and burn some businesses because I am upset.

I can see why there is no action to place a movement of troops on foreign grounds. Maybe the powers that be are trying to be smarter from earlier conflicts. Why should the powers that be continually be pressured to put soldiers at risk for the backlash to come on their decisions through News Media ready to uncover the truth at political shadiness or the appearance of? Who got the backlash for Benghazi? Who is being held responsible for intervention in the early stages of the present extremist groups’ evolution from some past point on the timeline?

Sad thing is, the News Media is driving this. When did the News Media become the weakest link and helper to extremist groups in the intelligence community by leaking as much information as they can scrape out the information coconut?

I watched some of the videos of the extremists. The individuals appeared to have a laughing smirk, much like someone who doesn’t believe in the religious text, more so than the idea at getting attention by harassing a world entity. To many times these people appear, by media standards of information passage, to be displaced persons living with the reality their lives aren’t going anywhere so, where do they find glory and fame?

On the other hand, instead of simply worshiping, a caliphate had to be formed in order to construct a cure for what they perceive as a beast against their religious doctrine that they must destroy. The West might look like Sodom and Gomorrah to the Middle Easterner, when considering some of the reports, there are shady thing just as bad going on in their prospective countries. Bad press is...bad press.

My hunting thought: Stop chasing imaginary dragons to kill. Practice your religion in peace.

Anything God or Allah wants to do, I am sure has the power to do it, there is no need for a human to take it upon him, or herself to intervene; that wouldn’t be Godly, that would be humanly. The Great Mystery most likely doesn’t want calamity stirred up.

What do I know of the Great Mystery? I go to sleep. I wake up. I am, you are, everything outside my perception is mysteriously awake, aware, and evident, if not illusionary.

When did the whole of existence become reliant on the written word in a sacred text, when the Great Mystery is transcendent to the verbal diatribes of man?

Yet, watch CNN’s dialogue on the Paris terrorist attacks. Watch the presidential democratic debate. It is there. People are more concerned on the use of a word. Hawkish became the pivot word. Stratagem became the pivot word. Refugee became the pivot word. Word meaning and usage was being used. We can’t even speak, or worship with language because of the distorted meaning of the word.

Once in my philosophy class, a proficient and critical thinking teacher, Professor Blackwell, who as a chaplain said some remarks. I gathered this from his words, “People now worship the Word more than they worship the God.” This isn’t an exact wordage, as words mean everything,but the meaning is clear. He also said, “You can tell the kind of man you are dealing with indicated by the sacred text that he carries.”

Stop making the goat into an ancient Oak Tree. They are already the same thing; divine.

People can’t see the entity behind the words, so the words become the embodiment of the entity. Yet, walk out your door. That spirit awaits, but what if you don’t live in a beautiful place, does it matter? If all you see is a place where it looks like they test the nukes, do you feel the same way? If not, why do you not change your environment and your way of thinking, or the direction your thinking goes?

My hunting thought here is: Contemplation in the mundane hours while you wait, bring about the greatest realizations, until you stop thinking, and you begin to experience Being.

Let the goat be the goat.

Your inner world becomes your outer world. If you are afraid of Syrian refuges, what are you really afraid of? If you disdain American living, what are you really afraid of? If we should only let Christians in, what is that really saying?

Question the Goat for what it is.

If you demand to know a strategy from your POTUS, do you have little faith in his ability to do his job? If so, would you like his job, and do you think his job requires keeping stratagem close to the vest? Do you think you should be given clear access to all information, when you are the informant for the side doing the damage? Should we sacrifice our compassion because of the fear? Should we sacrifice what America stands for because of bad people out of fear? Can we not show that fear will not rule our lives?

As a world, we shouldn’t be driven by evil men through a set-up to prove we are as bad as they proclaim we are. Instead, show who is the contrary one. Use the sacred word for our benefit to prove a point to others who might be targeted to be enlisted into their following.

Now the religious extremists dabbling in terrorism are the same as Isaac aka Ismail from the Quran, willing and ready to die for the vision of his father, Abraham, because of God’s commandment. How do we know this? 

Someone interpreted the word based on the vision. At the same time, they are the Goat, sacrificed to the vision. The conundrum here is being both, and not one, or the other. This dictates that there is no intervention on God, or Allah’s part. If so, is God, or Allah really not agreeing to this? Could this be more-a scenario built by humans with no will of God or Allah invoked? Good question.

Another good question is, how many times does this Ismail/Isaac scenario have to play itself out before someone realizes it is man-made. 

If an angel of God, or Allah comes and tells you to stop, would you? If someone comes to you and says, “I have a vision. Just stop what you are doing, it is wrong.” Would a terrorist stop, if that is the word, and the word is believed? Can anyone believing this stop the non-believer that doesn’t go by the word? Are you not held as much hostage by what is actually a selective believer or manipulator of the word?

As far as visions, God can use a braying jack ass to pass a message. 

Do you think eventually the higher power you worship will not show its displeasure if you have faith in this belief?

When you apply the victims of Paris, they are the sacrificial Goat to the idea, but there is no favor for the terrorists because they are hiding, or on the run.

If the Middle East wants to do something more devastating than total destruction, express and illustrate Peace for one hundred years on the world. Stop destroying. Stop hurting one another. Thrive and grow. Be something the Universe would be proud of. Express divinity through acts of kindness, compassion, and down right badassery in supplication to whatever God or Deity you chose to be an apostle to.

Just a suggestion.

Be the Human Being your God created you to be; spread that. 

Can we sacrifice the idea of the goat, in order to save the human being at the hand of the human being? We shouldn’t have to sacrifice the idea of the Goat, either.

The idea of God is not impressed by killing the idea of the Goat.

Trust me, I am one goat that is not worth it.

Written by: W Harley Bloodworth

Attempting Mundane or Heroic Feats

Remember this: When you make the decision to destroy records, both good or bad, you are destroying a stranger's hopes of knowing whom their ancestors are.

A photograph dated 1896 is sold at an estate auction in South Carolina with other photos bound in copper-colored fabric covered albums with metal trimmings.

The photographs travel to their new home. Only two photographs have names written on them. One is a death note of a woman in English. The other is a postcard-style photograph bearing text written in Japanese cursive. Both sit for years until someone decides to find their ancestors or have them deciphered.

The death note is passed in copy to a living ancestor who was having problems filling in the family genealogy.

The post card style photograph traveled with her, as if he were her ancestor, until she finally found two people, who together but in parts, translated the name of the person who penned the text.

His name was realized. His attempt became awareness.

Have you ever seen something and much later the thought of it gnawed at you gently, like someone was trying to nudge you into action? You couldn’t explain it but there was something there and you were to push the thought out into the world. We always say it is just thoughts, but what if it isn’t?

I haven’t experienced a good week of night time sleep lately. I am a troubled sleeper on occasion. I wish this wasn’t so but I know the cause of it most nights.

My waking thoughts have been intruded upon by the image of this oriental man. He walks around pacing and then comes closer like he is looking into a peep hole.

It could be my own subconscious that feels a need to bring him back from his unknown grave and point out something about what little of his life that I do know.

I did read something, now lost, of a letter to the current Meiji Emperor of that time ripping the current regime’s antics. He was a little rebel and had very verbal opinions on the state of how his world should be. I guess so, he lived there and it affected him and his people. You can’t hold in one’s opinion of tyranny forever.

The photograph shows the image of a man named Professor (Reverend) Yoshisuki Samuel Sacon. Yoshi means lucky or righteous and -suki means to like. He was righteous and well like for his pluck.

Professor Sacon took the picture in 1896 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. I thought him stylish in his wooden shoes and cultural clothing. The picture was mailed from Tsuruga, which is a Fukui Prefecture of Japan. He graduated Saint Drew Theological Seminary in 1895 in Brooklyn, NY where his address was 11 Dodworth Street. He traveled to Washington, DC and landed in Fresno, California where he was doing work with local Japanese immigrants.  

I called the local university and spoke to the Professor of Japanese Studies. She was very kind and I left a copy of the text with her so at her leisure she could try and translate it. She also sent the text to someone else but never got back with me on that. She translated that the photo was sent to someone because Professor Sacon had gotten busy but didn’t want to forget. He sent the image to the receiver. Given the information Professor Sacon was a theologian of Christianity, the current professor translated the word kami-gami, which refers back to the ancestor gods of Old Japan.
Kami-meaning Supreme Being or God and -gami meaning graceful or divinity. I am not trying to be politically correct on that as literal truths. It is just a reference point. He must have followed the Shinto religion or born into it.

One source, now lost to me, noted that Professor Yoshisuki Samuel Sacon was the first Japanese man to attempt to translate or revise the Japanese Bible, in particular the New Testament. I found some researched snippets for documentation on this fact.

The Christian Work and the Evangelist, Volume 19, page 309 stated, “Since the outbreak of the present war in the Far East, the Japanese Empire is so wide for the Christian evangelism as before. Consequently, the demand for the Christian literature increasing everywhere among all classes throughout the Empire” and “The Reverend Yoshi-suke Samuel Sacon of Japan is now undertaking the much needed revision in this city of ours, where he can more easily avail himself of an access to the libraries and all other necessary helps than in his own country. During his stay in the city he is making addresses to any congregation on the religious subject in Japan.”

                   

                    Rev. Y. S. Sacon

                    1296 Webster Ave

                     New York, NY

This next snippet was taken from the Printed Report by Drew University Library, page 7.

“From Professor Y. S Sacon of Tokyo, Japan, we received a copy of his translation of the Psalms in the Japanese language. It is his first volume in his heroic attempt to revise the translation of the Japanese Bible.”

Upon reading these different accounts, when Professor Sacon was in Fresno, California there was a written report where a pastor talks about how the local Japanese immigrants who practiced Buddhism was blocking the Christian attempt to recruit Japanese young men into their ranks. I thought this odd but is that not the way of all religions, to find more people to indoctrinate.

Yet somewhere in Professor Sacon’s attempts to translate the New Testament there were problems. For what little I did find on this man, his efforts were not fully realized by higher ups. There was a problem with the way the translation was being rendered. It was an issue of ideographs and characters in lieu of there being a literal translation of the bible’s message. Once again, let me reiterate the lack of a wide range of information to build a good case here on the part of Professor Sacon, sage that he was.

I almost laughed when the thought occurred to me that these Moral Oras thought Professor Sacon was going to secretly change the meaning of the Bible to usurp the current Christian regime through a slash of the ink pen here and there via character and ideographs. A little late for that because of King James and his versions and exclusions.

I really got into reading The Japan Daily Mail, let me tell you.

The Japan Daily Mail dated 9 Feb. 1907 on page 148 stated, “We published another page, the first part of a translation of the Epistle to the Phillippians, made by Mr. Sakan Yoshisuke, who has studied in America for some time and who is very strong of opinion that a new version of the Japanese Bible is called for. He proposes a new translation of the whole of the New Testament.”

In one of the reports of the newspaper a reviewer of Professor Sacon’s translations of the Epistle to the Romans, noted an attempt in translating a different meaning to the Word, to know or understand by writing this particular word with ideographs sometimes and with a character. Whoever this reviewer and his party were did not like this issue and wanted the work to move to Kiragama(sp?) or the whole bible to be printed in Romanji (I am not sure if this word is the correct spelling~probably not. The document was blurry. Maybe it was my eyes…who knows).

The word in question might have been shitte iru but I am not sure. Word aside I have looked everywhere on the internet for a revised version of The Bible by Professor Yoshi-suki Samuel Sacon.

I contacted the librarian at St Drew University. He sent me documents on file. Someone else had signed for them. I tried to contact the retired female professor on the papers but she was 80 years old. No one returned my mail or calls.

In my readings it was noted the Professor Y. S. Sacon's heroic intention of translating the Japanese Bible were unfinished. It never saw it's end with him.

I wondered what message I could render from this man pacing across my third eye. Could it be my own failed attempts that were never realized conjured in an oriental man’s appearance?

I attempted many things in my life to some success but some to a failure of sorts or unfinished business.

Does it make a difference what goal we put our energies to? How do we know it is the right goal? What if it starts off as a great experience but end in tragedy? Does that make memes on the internet relevant about being a lesson? What if I don’t learn from it or realize it ever? Am I truly cosmically screwed?

I don’t think it was the subject of Christianity or the play on words.

I could say it might indicate knowing a person otherwise hidden. Yet, it was the attempt regardless of success or failure that kept reminding me, as long as you are preoccupied by a goal, that goal can become your whole life. What about all the experiences on the outskirts of the goal? What about the people you passed by on your way to the goal that fell to the wayside as unimportant? What about being so glamoured or distracted by a goal that you never experienced organic sensation because you were so engrossed in the thought process? What if you were having sex but became disconnected from your lover because you were thinking of an equation or something? What am I saying? People stare at their phones all the time entranced by the little pixels on the screen. Those are the things passed by because the goal becomes all important. There is no reality except the goal’s end or is there?

We should all attempt to have goals and do things. Situations may arise to hinder those goals.

There was a message in there somewhere about fear, mistrust, and not having confidence in someone because the person or group feels the individual is an outsider even though indoctrinated and could corrupt the message being sent, right or wrong. In that era when war was an issue, it can be seen today with questions of national loyalty or past discretions towards people based on ethnic origins pertaining to location.

Imagine being an oriental man from Japan ministering to other Asians while being under the watchful eye of a European belief system that worships a God, where in your homeland it's ancestor gods or The Way.

It’s my belief that no matter how many religious foods you taste, you retain those elements of the recipe from the final product that make sense to you whether they are in or out of order or make sense to others.

I ingest all of it like a beast because of the end goal. You can call it Salvation, Nirvana, kicking the can, or the Happy Hunting Grounds. That Goal being: the Soul or Cell finding the end of its physical form and moving on as energy to the next life, whether celestial, finality or the Unknown. The information of your life is passed through your ancestors with every event of the DNA.

It could be the concept of awareness.

I don’t really know what Professor Sacon’s leisure time was like but for a man who could question the revisional needs of the Japanese Bible, he must have noticed something not quite right. He was aware at some point.

Could he have internally argued a foreign religious concept or merely wanted to find the bridge between two different religious concepts to marry them into one without sacrificing one or the other.

I reflect back on awareness. Be aware that you do have the ability to decide and attempt, for in the attempt you overcome fear and find courage to do something no matter the outcome; that outcome need not be the defining moment of your life to determine your value or worth. It is merely a preoccupation that society pushes to differentiate between worthiness and mediocrity. Yes, there will be people questioning you in suspicious or less than confident ways. Screw it and jump out the plane unless they try to stop you, then jump anyway.

As humans, we do not elevate the deserving element of humanity. We elevate big buttocks, shallow reality television families, and the world spins on gossip. Gossip could be its own religion.

The sad truth is for every crop of children bred and raised to adulthood, as a society the profane knowledge thought up a long time ago is hidden in books or not even passed on to the child. Children stop playing outside and now have become these societal clones moving and being controlled by inorganic screens that give them useless, destructive knowledge that rarely makes the world a better place.

I could also argue the individual that finally is aware of a problem then acts on finding a solution instead of always complaining about the error. There again the futility of speaking up and being ignored or over-ridden by Authority.

I can state now that I don’t feel completely satisfied with my interpretation of this because I feel some things weren’t revealed to me in meditation but that is okay because I attempted to resolve this mental issue in my head by writing about it. I have satisfied the issue to some degree.

You were worthy when you were born as you are just as worthy now.

Just attempt whatever it is and don’t overthink it. Don’t think at all just follow through. That is all it takes sometimes.

Grace has success.

In small matters

It is favorable to undertake something.

He may keep pacing until I am aware. 

Update: September 3, 2015. Received intelligence from Michiko Ito, Japanese Studies Librarian at the University of Kansas. After several tries at translation there is a break through. Ito reports some of the calligraphy text is from the Gospel of John 3-16. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." Isn't this fabulous. We must give Michiko Ito much thanks for efforts to translate this piece of personal calligraphy.

Written by: Angelia Y Larrimore

~Courtesy of the AOFH~