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On February 11, 2010 In The Republic
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When are you going to post some real substance. This whole blog reads like double-talk.
This blog and its content make no sense. The unfortunate thing is all of the attn this is getting. Maybe we should all stop posting comments as if any of us care about this bogus bunch of crap.
The attn is what they want. It makes them think they are actually on to something.
To the naysayers, I know that the “new” is always alarming and disconcerting to me. In my world, it is not the unknown that I fear because I cannot fear what I do not know; rather, it is the loss of the known that terrifies me. Ponder that for a moment please.
Regardless of your spiritual persuasion, there is nothing here by way of claimed modalities (seer stones, objects, talismans, revelations or diverse means spawning inspiration) that do not permeate every religious and spiritual road. One can hardly quarrel with the means by which these ideas are coming forth if you believe what is said in your religious texts.
With that said wouldn’t it be wiser for us, who are willing to open our mind and hear, to wait until the Higher Law is set out before we try to evaluate it? The Blog has only set the stage for the idea—wouldn’t it be better to allow the thought (the Higher Law) to be expressed before running to the trees and burning witches at the stake?
What is all your negativity about? We do not even know what the Higher Law is. Why won’t you allow the idea to be expressed before rushing to judgment and condemning all associated with it? You are not being asked to do anything or pay anything. In my life, many times I have happened upon truth while evaluating ideas that I ultimately did not agree with. I found that the key was 1) my retention of an open mind; 2) my willingness to learn; and 3) my strength to accept the “new.”
Now, I ask you, if God exists and if we believe his love for us is complete and without end, is it so strange to believe that ultimately he would help us organize our economic and political systems so that every child, in every nation, through multiple spiritual paths, could find and pursue his soul’s work?
No one is asking anything of substance from us here. We are only asked to ponder and think. Wouldn’t you like to hear some new ideas and a different perspective on what is wrong in our political and economic systems? Wouldn’t you like to hear something new about what it is in our government, at your job or business that just isn’t right and smothers so many? Then, I would propose that you sit back, read, ponder, analyze, test and then submit it in your own way for spiritual confirmation.
However, you might want to wait until the idea is submitted to you before you complete that process. The moment you judge, understanding ceases.
As to the pace or order at which way the Higher Law is being set out in the Blog –lets leave it alone. Lets assume that there has been considerable thought placed in how the Higher Law is to be revealed. I ask myself — why is it important that I hear and start to consider all that has been written as to history, etc.,before I get the substance? I have a few ideas.
Rich, I do not think that people are bothered with being “asked anything of substance”, I think people are frustrated by the fact that Jason interprets all of his experiences as being divinely inspired yet they most definitely are not.
In his defense it is probably a combination of his mental instability as well as The Adversary leading him further and further astray from the right path. It probably happened so slowly that he never even realized that his “God” stopped behaving like the same God that we read about in scriptures or hear about today in modern revelation. However, since God is unchanging it cannot be that God is the one leading Jason. Therefore, we do not need to wait until The Higher Law is published to know that what it will contain is NOT of God. There is nothing to ponder and pray about.
Can you honestly tell me that you believe God would “inspire” Jason to ask Sarah Brightman to perform a special concert for him and then had him waste 2 days of his time waiting fruitlessly at the airport for her? Do you really think that God inspired that trip? Or that God actually cares what type of furniture you have and wants you to spend so much money on the way your house looks that you end up having financial troubles? Or that God would cause little children to suffer from demons continually haunting their house? Or that it was preordained for Jackson’s life to be sacrificed because of the shortcomings of his family? Or that God considers suicide honorable under any circumstance?
Since Jason has decided to not respond to any of the comments people publish then maybe you can help me out with these questions.
Alex, how do you know or better yet, how could you know, whether what someone said that they received by revelation or inspiration is in fact divine, if you do not even know what it is you are evaluating?
You, in your e-mail are asserting that the idea, which has not even been detailed, that you do not know or understand, is false, not of God, and, is the result of mental illness.
Who, may I ask respectfully, has lost it?
In my spiritual journey, I am required to hear an idea or concept, study it out and then seek divine help in trying to see if it is true or if there are parts within it that are true.
Apparently your spiritual path comes along with an express lane, that allows you to hear a name or circumstance and then, even without being able to articulate the idea that is being suggested, you are allowed to jump right to a conclusion that the idea (which you still have not heard and could not articulate, let alone study out) is false.
You espouse that you KNOW it is false when unlike the author of this blog, you don’t even know what it is that you are damning.
It is a good thing that all of our great philospers, artists, authors, etc., did not use a blog to which you had access. The kind of appraoch you are embracing would have killed The Tale of Two Cities after the opening line because to you–how could something be the best of times and the worst of times. Maybe you should read a chapter or two and maybe the whole book–before you damn the same. What do you think?
Listen, with all due respect, spirituality was meant to be hard. It is taxing and it is hard to figure out. May I suggest that if this matter does not speak to you, you should seek other avenues. For me, it speaks to me and it helps me explore very important matters.
I welcome a forum where the discussion is centered on the ideas, the concepts and the application. There is where I will be helped, I am sure.
Why cast a blanket of negativity, criticism and lash out with personal slander over a matter you do not know and could not articulate to anyone reading this blog.
You are using the same means to indict the matter that you are mocking. You are saying somehow that because you are you, we should all listen to your uninformed, unstudied and baseless assertion that an idea you do not know or understand is false and the product of a deranged mind. Again, who, respectfully, has lost it?
If the work product I have seen is the product of mental illness or delusion, where can I buy some? Although the setting and circumstances are indeed unusual and “new,” the idea, the concepts that have been laid out for me in this Blog are interesting, believable and well thought out and insightful.
For me, I am going to read the next chapter, yes, the whole book, and then decide what I can use from it. I, for one, know that there is something wrong in the way we shape our businesses, our organizations, our governmental policies and business practices. I see every day the people that are stifled, unfulfilled and miserable because of it.
I say, give me as many ideas as you can in helping me figure it out and help me find my role in it.
I do not mean to be mean spirited and I do not mean to be personal. Thank goodness that truth withstands character flaws of the giver and the receiver. Truth stands on its own–it floats to the surfact. Why don’t we give truth a chance in this case,
There is enough negativity, summary judgment of people and things in this world. If it is false, it will die of its own weight. If it is tue, it will fly on its own accord.
Good luck Alex in your quest–I hope your path takes you where you want to go. Now, let the rest of us get on with trying to develop our path on the merits.
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At first I wasn’t going to comment on this site at all, but Justin emailed me about the prodigy artist Akiane yesterday and I just had to share the experience I had. I emailed this to Justin, Jason and Ryan a few minutes ago. (To give context, there was a specific reason I used the colors red, green and blue for the keys of the Repubic – it’s because they are the primary colors of white light (you can’t have white light without RGB and you can’t have RGB without white light)).
Hey guys,
I wanted to find out more about Akiane and I came across this video on youTube – which at first I didn’t know why I was watching it because for the first 5 minutes there are all these cheesy PowerPoint-type screen transitions that were kind of annoying me because it didn’t allow me to focus on her artwork. But I kept watching it for some reason. Then right after the 5 minute mark, Akiane starts speaking, and she says something very interesting…she says that each painting is inspired by God and many times she doesn’t understand the meaning, and then she specifically mentiones the Pyramids and how she doesn’t know why they are important and that she still has to figure out the meaning. I was totally like…oh my gosh that’s amazing…and then I realized when she stopped talking at about the 7:50 mark, my mind started becoming
absorbed into her paintings at a new level, almost like I was beginning to
understand some of the messages hidden within…I started understanding the use of her colors, and that in many paintings there are predominant Red, Green and Blue lights…and right when I realized I had begun to understand her paintings at a deeper level, I finally realized something amazing….they had chosen the Sarah Brightman song “A Moment of Peace” to play in the background.
Is that incredible or what?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_qMuLRq0g4&feature=PlayList&p=F3519C27DECF376B&index=0&playnext=1
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks, do we really need to pray about it?
Rich, I think that you should reread my comment because you are misunderstanding what I am saying.
If Jason had merely claimed to have been inspired with ideas of how to help the state of our economy/government then I (and I’m sure many others) would be more inclined to listen with an open mind. However, he has taken things to an entirely different level by claiming many of the things that he does, mainly that he is translating a book through the Power of God.
To simplify my point: I am not directly saying that The Higher Law is not true (because I have not yet heard it), but rather I am saying that 1-Jason Johnson does not have the authority from God to translate anything, and 2-Jason Johnson has no reputability since the “spiritual experiences” described on the this blog thus far are inconsistent with the character of God (refer to my list of questions from my previous comment for specific examples).
I would like to emphasize that you/Jason have yet to answer any of my questions.
In scripture it teaches “by their fruits ye shall know them.” Jason’s fruits are a house full of demons and frightened children ,a friend who took his own life, and a British pop-opera singer whom I’m pretty sure will be filing a restraining order in the near future. Also, speaking of Ms. Brightman, a quick google search will show you that, without trying to be judgmental, Sarah’s lead a less than honorable life as far as morality is concerned. I’m pretty sure that if God needed a “Goddess of the Stars,” there a better candidates.
The book of Galatians also teaches that the fruits of the Spirit are positive feelings such as love peace, and joy. If you were truly doing the work of the Lord these feelings would be present. Instead there is sorrow from the loss of loved ones, fear from the presence of evil spirits, and confusion as you wait for a pop star at the airport that never actually shows.
People don’t doubt the higher law because they’re close minded. They doubt it because anyone with even the slightest gift of discernment utter nonsense when they are presented it, even if at this point it’s fully “revealed.”Just as you don’t need to eat an entire cake to know that it’s good, you don’t need to drink an entire gallon of milk to know it’s gone bad.
Sorry there were some typos in the last paragraph, let me clarify:
People don’t doubt the higher law because they’re close-minded. They doubt it because anyone with even the slightest gift of discernment knows utter nonsense when they are presented it, even if at this point it’s not fully “revealed.”Just as you don’t need to eat an entire cake to know that it’s good, you don’t need to drink an entire gallon of milk to know it’s gone bad.
Sean,
Are you saying that Job must have been wicked or misled by Satan since his life was full of suffering and loss of life of his loved ones?
Are you saying that someone of noble spirit in the pre-mortal life is automatically going to make every correct choice in this life and never make mistakes?
Are you saying the feelings of peace and love cannot be present in spite of the attempts of Satan to destroy them?
You don’t have the gift of discernment if you haven’t prayed to receive it. So far I haven’t seen you testify boldly that your prayers have been answered and you have been explicitly told by the Lord that the Higher Law isn’t true. So until you do that, how about taking the counsel of the Lord and “judge not unrighteously…” Otherwise, you’re just spouting opinion in the guise of wisdom.
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RWP, I have asked God and it is not true! Now what? you going to tell me I didn’t pray right?
There is no peaceful feeling with your arguments. Why would I want to listen to someone who lashes out in anger? You also accuse everyone else as not understanding things correctly. Seriously who died and made you the smartest person on earth?
Or is that Jason’s next post? RWP is the God or Goddess of Knowledge
I don’t have the devil, and I don’t believe that the higher law is “true.” That is a pretty arrogant thing to say RWP. It seems as though you are reading way far into peoples comments. Often times the answer to prayer comes in the form of feelings. I have had to make many tough decisions in life, and what it has come down to is prayer and the feelings that I felt were right. It wasn’t a strong overwhelming feeling to do one thing or the other, but rather a thought to dwell on. It is up to us to make our own decisions, based on what we feel is right. If someone doesn’t think the higher law is divine in origin, then no one else has the right to admonish them because they don’t know what the other is feeling. I appreciate your insight, but saying that others have the devil is not in any way a good thing to say to others.
I’m not going to tell you that you didn’t pray. How would I know that? I won’t even tell you that you didn’t pray with sincere heart and with real intent, as is required for any prayer if you expect to receive an answer. Only you and God know if you did that.
I will tell you that I’m not angry. In fact, I’m quite peaceful about all this. If you’re not, maybe that’s more an indication of your state of mind than it is mine.
RWP, I believe you come across angry and condescending to everyone that reads this. Just like your last statement of ” maybe that’s more of an indication of your state of mind” is accusational and not peaceful in any way. As far as I am concerned Mary and Mary’s friend are right. check your peaceometer I think it is off.
@mary,
I’m not necessarily saying that anyone has a devil, certainly not just because you disagree or doubt. I’m specifically addressing the tone of certain commentators and their resistance to prayer. I’m raising the question–which is more likely the one under the influence of the devil?
There are a lot of accusations being slung here, many of which are from the people who say things like “do we really need to pray?” Interestingly, that sentiment is frighteningly similar to what the scriptures say is the devil’s language and influence. Conversely, there is nothing in this blog so far that could be considered a threat to anyone, and many people have felt themselves drawing closer to God by being open-minded and prayerful in considering it. So which seems to be under negative or evil influence?
I will disagree a little with your comment about admonition, however. I definitely don’t know what anyone else feels, what their experience is, how sincere they are, etc., but I know what mine are and I can make a sound doctrinal, scriptural argument to support the possibility of it. That’s what I’m doing. So far, no one who has opposed it has given any real valid reason why. No evidence of apostasy or Satanic influence can be cited other than “bad feelings” which can be as much prejudice as anything God given. (Remember, numbers of people left the church when Blacks got the Priesthood and more recently when the church came out in support of Proposition 8 in California…all of them because of “bad feelings.”) It doesn’t always feel good to have our paradigms shifted, at least not at first, but sometimes that’s exactly what the Lord has to do to us to keep us progressing.
Incidentally, I’m not trying to equate the Higher Law with any revelation for the church; just comparing the experiences that people have to anything “new.”
Anyway, I won’t ramble on any longer. I’m just trying to get people to think, to “study it out in [their] mind[s]” and then pray sincerely about it before snapping to judgment on it. What experience they have is out of my control as is their level of sincerity. That’s between them and God. But if I can challenge their presumptions and premises, I should and will, and if they can’t adequately defend them, they shouldn’t get defensive about it, they should re-think them. In all of that, we can certainly be respectful and civil and I think I have been (I’m not attacking anyone personally), but I’m not going to pull any punches in the name of “tolerance.”
Fair enough?
Enough said.