Numbers, they become
meaningless... Number so large,
it confounds, senseless...
Numbers so massive
it preoccupies spirits;
hardening the heart.
Life becomes
dead as things!
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On Materialism
Materialism is of the spirit of the world. It afflicts all classes of people. It is also indiscriminate in its desire to destroy the wealth of our nations.
Being rich and being materialistic have nothing to do with each other. It is not wrong to have a lot of material wealth.
Too less money is actually a form of physical evil. It's called poverty. Materialism when it is left to exploit this evil turns it into an organic indigence that in a nation creates division within our communities.
In many ways, it is desirable to be able to handle one's own temporal affairs.
Virtuous entrepreneurship require the vigilant exercise of prudence and prudence as a virtue is averse to either selfishness or recklessness in financial affairs.
Joseph of Arimathea is a good example.
Money in and of itself is not evil. It is the inordinate attachment to it that makes it so. It is these sinful attachments to the evil in all evil things that produce injustices in the distribution of the goods of the earth.
The possession of money and all its various material extensions is not immoral as long as it does not create distance between people and between people and God.
Because wealth is much more than these...
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The ascent of Country -
A Republic and her Liberty
can afford to be very forbearing - in her hope -
but materialism, once it becomes rampant,
is never a healthy pursuit for a city or for a nation
and shall soon imperil the well-being
of any egalitarian democracy.
- selah -
We must understand - that -
the happiness that is universally sought
by the heart of the children of Mankind
is not a material kind of happiness.
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The telling of names -
It takes about 5 straight months to say 1 million names with attention. Indeed these numbers, they matter.
These names, seemingly hollow now and empty of their substance, they matter.
These names now sought in silence, seemingly dead to the earth, they matter.
In the timeless realms of the spirit where all our names belong under one heaven before God, they matter.
For with voices clear as a bell these names resound as a chorus - imploring the timeless justice of thy own heart before the Throne of the LORD in Eternity to listen now to the telling of those numbers thou must never choose to ignore...
Indeed, these numbers - they matter!
And they matter more than the matter that serves the cause of every human life.
- selah -
In thy every pursuit of happiness in this world, may you never be found by God to have placed your love at the feet of Mammon.
For you will be made to account for the desire you have invested in every cent, every penny, you have ever held in your hand - all the material riches to the last atom that the LORD had cause to let pass through your own life - for your own sake, may those desires be good.
My Miyang, our Margot, and countless other human beings starved while across the fence there was an excess of bread.
