The Golden Rule, PeaceWorld Anthem

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LEARNER full text (2024)

PeaceWorld or death

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APPRENTI texte integral (2024)

Le monde paisible ou la mort

Transcript

WORLD WAR COVID
From WeaponWorld to PeaceWorld
Learner, begin 

The Golden Rule, PeaceWorld Anthem

On WeaponWorld, all alone in your faith
God’s answers are easy to miss
Though they are other people’s business, too
Unseen, unknown, from distant climes and times
Family, neighbors, priests, strangers in your face
Perhaps indifferent, hostile, lethal
They insinuate themselves without invite or permission
We don’t hear that often enough, even indirectly

11.  If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in Heaven give good things to them that ask him?

12. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Matthew 7:11-12, King James Bible.

 This should be the PeaceWorld anthem
The law of nations and of the people
Recited wideband as a public service every day
By every nation and media that permits it
Word will spread from those allowed to those forbidden
For PeaceWorld Learners ruled by (painful?) good conscience 

Obey the Golden Rule when you can
Shut up alone, pray the Lord’s Prayer 
Your one-on-one appointment with God
The Lord’s Prayer: maximum bandwidth two-way communion
Act of devotion, expression of naive faith
Hidden conversation and enlightenment
Expectation of miracle 
Multiply this prayer by billions of converts
Free to worship anything else they please
In exchange for this short, easy prayer
In any language they speak, not just Jesus’ Aramaic
Expect miracles of approval 

In the toilet, it is easy to pray alone, emphasis on alone
The closet Jesus recommended to year zero Jewish peasants
Was the shitter, alone in reclusion
Praying thusly, shut up alone to take a shit
That is more respectful of Christ’s intent
God loves your stink just as much as you
As I prefer my lover’s fart to the perfume of other lovers 

You think God respects silk robes?
Thousand-year conspiracies?
Candle-lit stone cliffs gilded with gold?
Disney worthy glass windows?
Billowing incense and empty ceremony?
More than your sorry monkey ass naked?
Offered up stinking to the Lord?

But forget it if you’re not nice to others
Nor pray as God tells you to
Those two: the law and the prophets
How much simpler can they be! 
If you cannot find a closed room
Homeless, under surveillance, in prison or a desert
Pray quietly in your skull
The room most closed to other human beings
God understands and will listen anyway

Oh, by the way. 
Psychopaths, sociopaths, criminals against person or humanity
Generally horrible people: you know who you are
You have an open invitation to pray this way.
You may benefit from it more that most
Like me, what do you have to lose?

Matthew 6:1-4.
Alms should be anonymous [in summary; well, duh! But difficult to do, these days]. King James Bible

 5. And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.

6.  But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet and when though hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

7.  But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

8.  Be ye not therefore like unto them, for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. 

9.   After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

10. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

11. Give us this day our daily bread.

12. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

13. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Matthew 6: 1-13, King James Bible.

No need to recite by the numbers; Jesus didn’t. “Forgive us our debts … debtors” [I prefer “trespasses … those who trespass against us”. Then there is “our sins … those who sin against us”; or simply “Forgive us … as we forgive.”] Take your pick or get creative in your own way. No need for religious perfection, prescription or persecution. No need for religious bureaucracy or morality police amateur and professional. No need for public religious devotion, loyalty or belief, especially not from officials. If confronted by those who impose on your belief, tell them exactly what they want to hear for as long as they want to hear it and get along with your quiet life. No call for martyrs 

Your faith links you to God. Let no-one interfere with it for any reason.

EN FRANCAIS
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