Individualism vs Collectivism

2021-10-10 - Sunday - Sunday School Log | Gab

Sunday school was on 1 John 5. I made one comment. 1 Jn. 5:2 referenced John 14:23. If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And we will see that. We can make friends with and network with and make our homes with like-minded soldiers of God. Salvation Army utilizes that terminology. To be like a team. Individualism versus collectivism. And collectivism can be seen in the sports world where people say we to refer to their sports team. It can be Borg mentality. Some of it can be good and some of that way and line of thinking can be bad or worse off. There is nuance in all of this. We can see the us thinking in history, in culture, in North Korea especially. I saw it in Vietnam. We saw it in families, tribes, neighborhoods, communities, clubs, religions, and the Olympics. We may see it less so in western worlds on average or in some ways. That is good and bad. Hard to summarize. But like tools, both collectivism and individualism has been utilized for evil. Both are good and bad. I don't mean Yin and Yang. I am not saying it is good to have good and bad. But life involves good and bad. The process of choosing good is what is good. We have freewill. We choose bad sometimes. We are bad times. We may be born bad. But we can be saved. We can be helped. We can change. I am reading a book mom got titled 52 Ways To Connect With Your Smart Phone Obsessed Kid by Jonathan McKee in 2016. Starvation in third world countries, especially in 2020, was caused by the United Nations and others. It is important to expose this. Matthew 3:17 talks about a voice from Heaven. I wonder how many times it might speak of voices coming from Heaven be it from God or whatever. I assume this came from God but I would study it. I know angels and demons spoke. But what about God speaking or voices speaking from the sky or was it in the head? Was it recorded in history books? Did the people there write about it? I compare 1 John 5:14 to a passage in Hebrew which talks about going boldly to the throne of grace. Understanding what is an idol and such is a good thing to study. Ted mentioned that. It reminded me of Exodus 20:4 which uses the word image to describe idolatry and everything. So within etymology, image is like the word photo and picture and everything. So, then I start think about art, television, movies, comics, cartoons, visual things, images, statues, things we see which we may worship or what have you. I am not going to say those things or certain things are bad or are always bad or have to be bad. There is nuance in what I am trying. I can say things can be bad or something. Linda Myers mentioned Keith Green or Greens who inspired teens and youth and people but especially teenagers towards oversea missions. Larry Mitchell said he met Keith. Perhaps they played together or something.

Build-a-School

2021-10-10 - Sunday - Sermon Log | Gab

One song we sang during worship talks about how better is one day in your courts than a thousand years elsewhere and that reminded me when I first heard that song, perhaps different version or style of that song or perhaps a similar song with similar lyrics, which I first heard back in 1999 at Word Of Life's (WOL) West Coast Camp (WCC) in Lassen Pines, California or that was at least my first summer there as a camper. I went there each summer from 1999 to 2003. So, we sang this song or similar songs at least one summer if not every year I was there at the very most. During offering and as part of the sermon introduction, Shawn played 2 songs on guitar and sung a little but it was mostly like a soundtrack, the first song was oh the wondrous cross or wonderful cross and the second song was holy is the lamb or worthy. Joanna talked to the children teacher man who also had his wife talked about a kid running the race. The other kids cheered him on. So, during the sermon, Joanna talked about seeing in other people a reflection within ourselves. Romans talks about that about how our hearts are like mirrors, that is the law is written in our hearts and that the law acts like a mirror. Without the love God, we can be consumed by the mirror, by hate, etc. Because light and mirrors are scary without a Savior. So, we walk towards the path of recovery together. But we pray for Christ to help us kind of thing. Otherwise we become leftist NPCs. But that is the natural state of man without God. That is who we are. So, we pray for Christ to redeem us from the inside-out. Linda talked about home schooling and such. I say give people options. Allow parents to customize classes for their children. Instead of just dropping kids off at government school, AKA public school, give parents the option to pick which classes. Perhaps a kid should be in one class at this one school and in this other class at this other school. Perhaps some of the classes should be online and other classes be taken at home or at a cafe or at somebody's house or other places. As mentioned in Sunday School class today, individualism can be good or bad or as I like to put it, individualism can be a potential step towards decentralization while collectivism is generally a mechanism and tool of centralization. And both can have benefits. Both can help. But the world generally becomes too centralized and everything too much and too often everywhere and in too many ways. Exceptions exist. I promote decentralization as an attempt to reach balance. We don't need to help people reach for more centralization because people naturally do that on their own. These are generalized terms and situations and everything that I am briefly mentioning here right now. There can be a time and place for different things. Return power back to the people.

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Can women get money but without men?

03:09 PM - Facebook

Trick question. What if the woman works and gets the money from other people including men? Technically speaking, money goes from person to person. So, regardless of whether a woman earns the money or gets the money, it can be said the money came from other people including men. In a fictional universe, a person could say money can be circulated between only women trading among each other but not in a mixed free market economy. So, it is more a question of how much money comes from who, where, when, how, why, through what, etc, etc. Like it is kind of complex, long story, but money is crazy and money is a bubble. I mean, the dollar has been a bubble. Not to be confused with real money or the desire towards gold and crypto and other things.

Question about fashion and women

03:14 PM - Facebook

A girl asked on Facebook if her bra ruined her photos. You could see a few centimeters showing of her bra. The ability to see or not see bras does not ruin photos. Only thing that matters is whether or not you want people to see it or not. In other words, it comes down to fashion, style, etc. Some people don't care and some people like it. That includes me.

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