Helping Transgender People With People
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Posted:Nov 1, 2011 1:25 am
Last Updated:Nov 26, 2011 3:54 pm 3896 Views
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At first glance we may assume that a with mental problems needs the help of a whisperer. But, actually the whisperer's job is to help the with people who have caused abuse to the or people with people problems. There was a movie based on this experience.
Some of our are trans gender. They know who they are inside themselves. They know how they feel and what they want to wear. Some of our born in boys bodies know inside they feel like girls. The girl scouts accepts according to who they want to be or feel like they are. A boy who feel like a girl, dresses like a girl, is accepted as a girl by girl scouts.
The big problem of trans gender is not themselves but people around them telling them who they are suppose to be according to their body parts. The scripture says, "train up a in the way he should go and when older he will not depart from it." People sometimes interpret this scripture, wrongly in my opinion, to mean we are to make conform to our religious beliefs. This is not what the scripture says. A deeper and more meaningful interpretation would be as parents it is our responsibility to discover who the really is, with their gifts and personality orientation, and encourage them along the line of their genetic and gifted make up.
When someone is born with a gender identity mix up, is the to blame? No, we can not hold the responsible for how they are born, how they feel and know who they are inside. It is my unwavering belief that we, as a society, because of our collective consciousness progressing so much toward the negative attitudes of selfishness that we collectively have brought many problems on ourselves as a world body. There is no argument anymore that we are that on which we focus our thiking. This is not just faith. This is science, though faith was there first.
We need not play the blame game. Things are not going to get better for a while. Until we are so sick and tired of narcissism, we will continue to have personal, national, and world wide calamities that really rock the cradle of our world. The good news is we are beginning to talk about it. Rigid religion can be worse than no religion at all. I hate straight jacket, know it all, dogmatic religion. True religion, in my opinion, is first a heart religion full of sympathy, forgiveness, support and encouragement. Sinners always pay the penalty. WE don't need to add to their suffering. Rigidity is just as bad as no guidelines at all. Have a heart Jesus would say, but don't weaken God's guidelines either.
We are living now in a brave new world. It is not the world of our parents, or even the world into which we were born. Times are not just changing, they have changed. I am not forecasting more gloom and doom. I do think things will get better, but for a while we are going to have a bumpy ride, maybe even for the rest of our life. Science and religion are overlapping and will continue to learn from each other. In time they will be together as science can not deny God, and religion can not deny science either.
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All Saints/Souls Day Memorial Helpful
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Posted:Oct 31, 2011 6:44 pm
Last Updated:Nov 1, 2011 6:33 am 2708 Views
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The purpose of memorials is to connect with the past and make progress in dealing with it, honor those whose lives blessed us, and feel our sense of loss and gain in respect to the dearly departed. Today I attended a cemetery here in the Asian pacific tropics for remembering my parents and relatives, all of whom are departed. It was a good prayer experience for me. I felt some healing and conscience approval for remembering some of what all they did for me, and how hard they worked.
People should not be deprived of any respectful remembrance of others by way of lighting a candle, saying a prayer, making contributions in the name of, etc. Respect is always right and we just never give enough of it or even receive too much of it.
The times I have visited memorials and expressed some gratitude, it has always been a blessing. I would not want anyone to rob me of that, or others deprived of this positive experience.
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Seven Billion People... Lonely?
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Posted:Oct 31, 2011 3:48 pm
Last Updated:Nov 18, 2011 11:08 pm 2691 Views
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The seventh billion person was just born. Will this person feel lonely in his/her life? For me, feeling lonely is not how many people I am around, but how many people are around me. The paradox is first I need to be around people before they will be around me.
It is really easy to be around people. Just be nice, stay out of their business, converse on the subject, tell human interest stories, use commonly accepted manners that are in general use everywhere.
I am a student of culture. The differences in cultures are important, easy to learn, and make adjustments. Here in the Asian pacific area there are many cultures, and something good about each one. Our relationship skills determine our friends, if we even want friends. Faith and respect go a long way in managing our relationships with others.
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A Civil War Memorial
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Posted:Oct 29, 2011 7:52 pm
Last Updated:Oct 31, 2011 3:09 pm 3126 Views
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World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, the Unknown Soldier, Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, King, all have their national memorials in Washington, D.C. Yet, the largest war by far is our nations civil war which has no memorial to all the Americans who bravely fought and died. Our nation, though once temporarily divided, is now united. Memories still linger. The number of dead of the civil war equals all the other American wars combined.
Tuesday, November 1, is all saints day. It is a day to remember and respect the memory of the dead. People in Asia are traveling far and wide to visit their ancestral home and light a candle for their relatives who have died. The purpose of memorials is not to right wrong or place blame.
Maybe even after 150 years since the beginning of the civil war it is still not yet time for a national memorial. But, I believe that someday there will be a time for this. Today we get along well with former combatants Japan, Germany, Vietnam, Russia, and so why not our past civil war? In my opinion, a national memorial would help everyone.
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Confederate Flags Displayed or Flying?
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Posted:Oct 27, 2011 3:10 pm
Last Updated:Oct 31, 2011 3:25 pm 3451 Views
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The bloodiest war in American history, was, and still is the civil war. 500,000 killed, and many more wounded is still a sore spot in our nations history. This war preserved the US Constitution that guarantees free speech.
Putting the Confederate flag on license plates and flying the Confederate flag in the southern states capitals is an issue that seems to not go away. Should it be allowed? Freedom of speech is a right of everyone, but it seems to me that the majority of people decide if someone has this right or not.
Is this issue even a Christian issue? Maybe this depends on where in the USA we live? In the south, it might be approved. In the north, it might not be approved. Southerns will say it is their heritage and their grandparents are just being remembered. They will further say that they have no intentions of starting another civil war, but display the confederate flag as a memorial of the lives lost to everyone, the south especially. My guess is that the south is only using the confederate flag as a memorial. Is our country great enough to allow this?
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Why Marriages Are Crumbling
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Posted:Oct 26, 2011 12:17 pm
Last Updated:Oct 27, 2011 8:26 pm 2448 Views
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This was my response to Webling's [post 1766097] post.
There are two sides sometimes, if not most times, to every story. This is why we should not judge. From God's perspective many more details are visible and understood. I feel you very well presented man's responsibility to the relationship. But, what about woman's responsibility? Were there not two people making vows to each other? Women want as much, if not more, attention to the relationship after the marriage ceremony, as they received from the man before the ceremony. Men also need as much attention from women to the relationship after the ceremony as before. Both the man and the woman were somehow able to find the time to romanticize the relationship before the ceremony. It is at least as important to find the time after the ceremony.
In my opinion, marriage today is not only hard, it often is very hard. People forget that the apostles said to Jesus that it is not good for a man to marry then regarding Jesus view of the binding nature of a relationship of marriage that is dissolved only by infidelity. Jesus responded that this is not for everyone. I believe Jesus is saying that too many people get married when they should not. Paul, the Apostle, said marriage is for necessity, but otherwise stay single like him.
Marriage is honorable, but in truth many people, in my opinion, for many reasons can not honor it. I very much agree with you that a marriage breakdown is a tragedy of life changing, damaging proportions. Maybe we should listen to scripture and avoid marriage if possible. If not possible, we should surely pray for enough maturity to survive one and to be better off for the experience than more damaged because of it.
Loneliness is not easy to deal with. But I would rather deal with loneliness than hate which is almost impossible to deal with. With betrayal comes hate and with hate comes violence and with violence comes death.
Is there no good news? Not much, but there are many marriages that are good examples. Usually money, work, , maturity are not so much a problem for them as these things have been worked out between mature persons who are in love. Scripture advises us to establish our business and maturity before we ever enter into such a binding relationship as marriage. We were not born mature, or always gifted for business however. The Bible tells us if we are ready for marriage, then give it a go, but with caveats.
Jesus told us to count the cost before we commit. Look at the ridicule and laughter that is brought on when someone tries to build a house and then runs out of money, leaving the structure half standing. The edifice of a marriage is at least as important as a house. We really need to do some figuring before we begin to build. A house of marriage built on sand will not last. A house of marriage divided will not last. A house of marriage built on a solid foundation will last.
A marriage is more than just the absence of physical infidelity. When love is many years gone only to be replaced by smoldering hate what is there to brag about? Beware, be wise, be sober, be sensible, are good be's to keep in our bonnet.
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God's Mental Health For US.
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Posted:Oct 21, 2011 5:24 am
Last Updated:Oct 22, 2011 8:07 pm 2930 Views
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The agreement made at Mt. Sinai between God and the nation of Israel, who heard audibly God's voice speak to them as a nation, and the only time in human history that He ever spoke audibly to a nation, was to believe in only One God. Israel was surrounded by many nations at that time who worshiped many gods. To bring Jesus into the world He wanted a nation ready that believed in only One God.
Israel for many years kept this practice of believing in only One God. This was followed by many years of on and off again idolatry which resulted in the nation bringing on themselves many curses, and finally exile or expulsion from the holy land into exile at Babylon. Having confessed their grievous idolatry by the prophet Daniel, the few remaining Israelites left were allowed to return to the Holy Land and await the soon coming of the Messiah Jesus who would give them a new agreement from God.
The rest of the information given from Mt Sinai through Moses were gifts of insightful teachings above and beyond this world, that would form the conscience of the people and bless their lives. No one ever kept or even came close to keeping these teachings. Jesus was the only human being who ever fulfilled them. These teachings were already above human capacity, but to make matters worse, the Jews added many more teachings around them to supposedly keep people from violating the originals. This made insanity, mental instability, defective reasoning, a bad conscience, complete. These teachings called the law carried to extreme, made people mentally very unstable.
God never intended for His people to keep them perfectly. He wanted their practicing trust that there was only One God. This fact He expected them to keep. The purpose of these added laws was to be guides for better living, and be sensitive and ready for the arrival of the Messiah Jesus. God only required the people to keep and trust in the fact of One God. The extreme attempt to keep this fact and all the teachings drove them insane. They became mentally unstable, and their minds lost health. Evil was then able to seduce them back into idolatry as an escape from the enormous mental pressure they put on themselves from trying to keep perfectly all these teachings.
The new agreement made by Jesus is also based on trust but now in Him as Savior. He asks us only to keep trusting in Him and restrict daily evil promptings for us to focus on our self only, but love our neighbor as our self as a guide. Like the old agreement, the new agreement asks for only trust. If the teachings of the old carried to extreme made people go mad, the teachings of the new can, if carried to extreme, make monsters of people.
Old or new, all God wants or expects from us is trust. Then He wants us to study the additional teachings for our conscience formation, restrict evil daily, and cooperate with the Holy Spirit. Salvation and mental health is always based on trust. When we add to it, we create soon enough mental illness. The rest of the teachings of God are above this world, and are for conscience formation and behavior improvement only. The teachings of God as guides for better living never have been and never will be the basis of any ones salvation.
Trust is the only way to our home above this world. We humans are capable of nothing more. WE can not ever be mature enough, smart enough, wise enough, and live long enough to earn our relationship with God. He Himself has done everything for us except for trust. That is our freedom of choice commitment and the basis of our agreement between Him and us. It is just that simple. It is the basis of salvation and mental health. Trust and be saved, with mental health as a blessing.
May I note that this post, as my others, are my studied opinion. I claim nothing more and nothing less.
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