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Created on: January 10, 2008 Last Updated: February 13, 2008
I dedicate this article to the great prophet, Elisha, who healed the sick and raised the dead. Also, to our modern medicine men - the doctors and to the greatest healer of us all - our creator or higher power. Last but not least, to my father who would have been a doctor if war hadn't prevented it.
Americans, wake up before it is too late. The land of the free and the home of the brave is being gnawed at by our enemy within. Although we need "hawks" to protect us, we don't need the kind of hawks that are money-hungry war mongers on the extreme right; and although I'm a hippie at heart, peace-loving doves on the extreme left who believe in turning the other cheek and being punched from both sides are just as dangerous. They must have a secret desire to die for the liberty of all people rather than go on living and watching people hate each other for no other reason than narrow-mindedness, lack of communication, and fear of people who are so powerful because they think they know it all and have the money to prove it.
I'd rather not have the power money can buy because I believe that the right kind of communication can straighten out this world and is more powerful than money by itself unless used for the right purpose.
Will America go down like other great world powers of the past or will she be brave enough to know the truth that sets ALL people free to be individuals and free thinking people .
All people have one Creator - history and lack of communication and narrow-minded people have separated people in the past, present, and will in the future unless people are open minded enough to solve the puzzle of history. When will the puzzle of history be solved?
I will tell you - when people stop thinking they are so righteous and when they realize that mistakes are not so bad - to err is human after all. When each person can express themselves in their own way without being condemned and their words twisted. When all people realize that the Mosaic Law was written for each individual to follow according to his own conscience and the true words of Jesus were not of sin, guilt, and fear but of goodness, truth, and beauty. Jesus was quoting the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 6:5 & Leviticus 19:18) when he said
that the two greatest commandments are "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy mind." This is the first and great commandment. And the second one is like unto it, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." On these
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