oH WELL, CAN'T AVOID rOHR YET i GUESS

 oH GOOD GRIEF.  rOHR POPPED UP AGAIN, OF COURSE, AND i STARTED LISTENING.  a TALK CALLED tHE sECOND hALF OF lIFE.  aND OF COURSE i KNOW THAT ANYTHING HE SAYS ABOUT DEATH IS GOING TO BE A HORRENDOUS DECEPTION BECAUSE HE THINKS EVERYBODY HAS THE hOLY sPIRIT AND IS SAVED DESPITE BELIEVING NOTHING HE NEEDS TO BELIEVE TO BE SAVED.  sO i CRINGE AT THE VERY TOPIC HE IS ADDRESSING.  

THEN HE SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT AW, HOW SUPPOSEDLY jESUS AHND tAUL BOTH DESPISED IT.  dIDN'T HAVE MUCH GOOD TO SAY ABOUT IT.  aS IF THERE'S SOMETHING INHERENTLY WRONG WITH THE LAW, RATHER THAN, OF COURSE WHAT pAUL SAID, THAT THE lAW IS hOLY, AND WHAT jESUS SAID, THAT hE DIDN'T COME TO ABOLISH THE lAW BUT TO FULFILL IT.  bUT rOHR MANAGES TO IMPLY THAT THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH lAW THAT MUST BE TRANSCENDED.  wELL, NO, IT'S JUST THAT pAUL AND jESUS BOTH KNOW THAT WE COULD NEVER OBEY THE lAW BECAUSE WE ARE BORN FALLEN, UNABLE TO OBEY, AND IN FACT BORN IN SIN ALREADY ANYWAY SO ALREADY UNDER THE lAW'S CONDEMNATION.  tHAT IS WHAT JESUS HASD TO SAVE US FROM, AND THAT IS WHAT pAUL IS ALWAYS TEACHING ABOUT.

hE WANTS TO RIB tEXAS FOR HAVING THE tEN cOMMANDMENTS IN FRONT OF THEIR COURT BUILDINGS.  oH GROAN.  hAVE YOU EVER SEEN A COURTHOUSE WITH THE EIGHT BEATIUDES IN FRONT OF THEM, HE ASKS?  oH GROAN.  tHIS GUY COULD GIVE ME AN ULCER WITH HIS UTTER CRAZINESS AND STUPIDITY.  

tHEN HE SAYS THE BEATITUDES ARE MANY LEVELS ABOVE THE lAW IN MATURITY.  oH GROAN.  yOU CAN FIND THE BEATITUTDES IN THE oLD TESTAMENT AS WELL AS THE nEW, THEY JUST GOT CONDENSED IN THE nEW.  mAYBE i'M EXAGGERATING A BIT, BUT THE lAW STILL JUDGES US, IT'S WHY WE ARE ALL GOING TO hELL.  tHE lAW DIDN'T STOP JUDGING US WHEN jESUS CAME.  tHE lAW WAS REVEALED IN THEoLD tESTAMENT AS THE LAW THAT RUNS THE UNIVERSE ESSENTIALLY.  iT STILL RUNS THE UNIVERSE.  jESUS HAD TO die TO SAVE US FROM ITS CONDEMNATION, IT NEVER STOPPED OPERATING.  hE CAME TO FULFILL IT BECAUSE WE HAVE NO HOPE AGAINST IT.  iT JUDGES US INEXORABL;U

tHE BEATUTIDUES COULD PERHAPS BE UNDERSTOOD AS THE POSITIVE COMMANDMENTS WHILE THE lAW OR THE tEN cOMMANDMENTS TELL US WHAT WE ARE JUDGED FOR, THE BEATITUDES GIVE US A ROLE MODEL FOR BLESSING RATHER THAN JUDGMENT.  i KNOW i'

 BEING A BIT SIMPLISTIC HERE BUT WHAT rOHR IS SAYING IS JUST DEMENTED.

aaGAIN, jESUS died TO SAVE US FROM THE lAW.  THE lAW NEVER STOPPED OPERATING, IT IS STILL OPERATING.  iF YOU DO THOSE THINGS YOU WILL BE PUNISHED.  yOU WILL DIE WITH THEM ON YOUR CONSCIENCE IF YOU DO NOT REPENT AND BELIEVE IN cHRIST.  oF COURSE THEY BELONG IN FRONT OF A COURTHOUSE.  iF YOU DON'T STEAL, LIE, COVET, MURDER OR COMMITADULTERY YOU WILL NOT END UP A CRIMINAL.  

lATER:  ok NOW HE JUST SAID NONDUAL THINKING IS BEING ABLE TO TWO TWO OPPOSING IDEAS IN MIND AT THE SAME TIME, OR TO BE ABLE TO TOLERTE A CONTRADICTION.  wHAT ABOUT THAT IS ANYTHING BUT ORDINARY GOOD INTELLIGENT THINKING?  hOW IS IT ANY KIND OF SPECIAL FORM OF THINKING?  sO AL HE MEANS IS HE WANTS EVERYBODY TO BE LESS DOGMATIC ABOUT OUR OPINIONS AND TRY TO GET ALONG BETTER WITH PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT VIEWS.  gEE, WHAT A CONCEPT.    hE'S NOT ADDRESING SOME CONCEPTS SO FAR THAT ARE SIMPLY IRRECONCILABLE THOUGH.  tHERE ARE CERTAINLY THOSE.  yOU CAN'T BE BOTH FOR AND AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE.  iT'S EITHER A GOO THING OR A BACK THING.  yOU EITHER HAVE IT OR YOU DON'T.    aND AGAIN HE'S CLEARLY A LIBERAL, THINKS cHE gUEVARA AND nELSON mANDELA WERE IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTORS TO THE WORLD.  yIKES.  

sO WHAT HE IS SAYING IS TRIVIAL AND OBVIOUS IN THE END.  bUT THEN HE SAYS HOW IT IS NECESSARY TO START DUALISTICALLY AND HAVE THAT CLARITY AND THEN TRY TO FIND THE NEUTRAL POSITION OR WHATEVER IT IS TO BE CALLED.  bUT THEN HE GOES ON THE CHARACTERIZE WHAT tRUMP SAID AT cHARLOTTESVILLE AS AN EXAMPKLE OF THE WRONG KIND OF NONDUALISM, OBVIOUSLY NEVER GRASPING THAT HE ID nd\ot SAY THAT THE NEO nAZIES WERE GOOD PEOPLE.  gOOD grief i'M SO SICK OF THAT ONE WHEN ALL IT WAS WAS A MEDIA SUBTERFUGE IN WITHHOLDING THE WHOLE SPEECH SO NOBODY KNEW HE ACTUALLY CONDEMEND THE NEONAZIS.  good grief.

nOW i'M AFRAID i'M RANDING IN A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE KIND OF DUALISTICN G THINKG HE HATES BUT i'M NOT SURE i CARE.

rOHR fINALE i HOPE

 wELL i THINK i'VE FINALLY HAD ENOUGH OF rICHARD rOHR.  i NEVER GOT A CLEAR SENSE OF WHAT NONDUAL THINKING COULD POSSIBLE MENAN AND i END UP THINKING ALL IT MEANS IS EIGHTER JUST REFUSING TO TAKE SIDES OR JUST REFUSING TO THINK AT ALL.  hE NEVER DEFINES IT IN ANY POSITIVE WAY HE JUST TREATS DUAL THINKING AS SOME KIND OF EVIL THING THAT ALWAYS PRODUCES JUDGMETNALNESS AND VIOLENCE.  wELL THAT IS SIMPLY FALSE, OR SO i HACE CONCLUDED.  tHINKING IS DUAL, THAT'S JUST WHAT IT IS YOU, YOU CAN'T THINK IN ANY OTHER WAY.  

aND OF COURSE rORH R HAS LIBERAL POLITICAL VIEWS.  HAT'S NONDUAL ABOUT THAT?  iT'S NOT.  iT'S TAKING SIDES.  

iF i HAD THE ENERGY i COULD MAKE A VERY LONG LIST OF FALSE DEFINITION S OF BIBLICAL CONCEPTS FROM rOHR.  hEVEN THE LAMB OF gOD, NOT THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB OF THE GOSPEL BUT SOME WEIRD IDEA ABOUT HOW A LAMB IS A MEEK THING.  tHIS IS ALL EVIL TO THE CORE.  aND IF YOU READ cHRIST, WELL IF YOU LISTEN FOR INTANCE TO THE GOSPEL OF jOHN IT SEEMS TO ME YUOU FIND jESUS SAYING ONE DUALISTIC THING AFTER ANOTHER.  yOU CAN'T DO OTHERWISE.

i FINALLY FOUND SOME OF cHRIS pINTO'S RADIO PROGRAMS ON yOU trUBE, NOTHING RECENT UNFORTUNATLEY, AT LEAST NOT YHET, ALTHOUGH SINCE THEY AREN'T IDENTIFIED VERBALLY WITH A DATE i DON'T KNOW IF i'D EVER HAVE ANY SENSE OF WHEN IT WAS DONE.  i HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT FROM ITS INTERNAL INFORMATION.

tHIS  ONE BY cHRIST pINTO IS ABOUT THE SOCIALISTIC VIEWS OF cATHOLICISM, ITS ANTICAPITALISM.  wELL OF COURSE, THEY ARE GOING TO OPPOSE ANYTHING THAT FURTHERS PROSPERITY IN THE WORLD ESPECIALLY FROM A pROTESTANT POINT OF VIEW.  cATHOLICISM IS JUST PLAIN EVIL AND WE'RE NOW SURROUNDED BY IT.  oF COURSE VERY FEW PEOPLE HAVE ANY SUCH IDEA ABOUT THSESE THINGS AND WOULD THINK OF WHAT i'M SAYING AS SIMPLY HATE SPEECH.  tHEY HAVE NO IDEA.  tHEY HAVE no IDEA.  tHEY MAY BE COMPLETELY CONSERVATIVE, ANTImARXIST AND ALL THAT AND HAVE no IDEA THAT THE cATHLLIC cHURCH IS PROBABLY THE DEEPEST LAYER OF THESE INFLUENCES IN THE WORLD.

cHRIS pINTO IS JUST NOW TALKING ABOUT HOW SOME CARDINAL SPENT A FORTUNE ON A HOUSE, AND THAT THE SOCIALISTIC VIEWS OF THE cATHOLIC cHURCH IS SIMPLY THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM THAT .....  LOST TRACK   IT'S THE SYSTEM OF THE mIDDLE aGES AND HE SAYS THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT TO GET BACK TO.  tHE SYSTEM OF THE dARK aGES SUPPORTED BY rOME.    aND NOBODY KNOWS THIS.  sO IT'S ALL GOING TO SNEAK UP ON THE WORLD IN THE gREAT tRIBULATION AS THE aNTICHRIST pOPE TKAES OVER.

i WIS COULD LISTEN TO pINTO ON HIS OWN WEBSITE BUT i CAN'T ANYW MORE, i CAN'T SEE WELL ENOYUGH TO KNOW WHAT TO CLICK ON

wELL, LET'S ADD SOME TERMS HE USES ABOUT DUAL AND NONDUAL THINKING.  EITHER/OR IS A DUAL TERM OF COURSE.  aND THE HE SAYS THINGS LIKE IT'S NOT BLACK AND WHITE IT'S ALWAYS A MIXTURE.  aND THAT JUST MAKES ME ROLL MY EYES.  sINCE WHEN IS IT NOT DUAL THINKING TO RECOGNIZE SHADES OF GRAY?  wE ALL ALWAYS THINK IN TERMS OF MIXTURES AND REALLY NOT THAT OFTEN IN TERMS OF STARK OPPOSITES.  aND SOMETHING ABOUT A NEED FOR CERTAINTY A LUST FOR ANSWERS.  wHAT?  i DUNNO, ALL THIS SOUNDS JUST PLAIN STUPID TO ME.  bUT ALSO, HERE NOTE THAT HE'S ALWAYS DEFINING WHAT HE MEANS BY DUAL, AND REALLY APPARENTLY CAN'T DEFINE NONDUAL THINKING.  mAYBE DUZ IT REALLY CAN'T EXIST IN ANY MEANINGULFFUL WAY?bLECH     aNYONE WITH A MIDDLING INTELLIGENCE THINKS OR CAN THINK IN PARADOXES ALL THE TIME, BLECH.  tHAT'S PART OF THINKING.  bLECH.  i READ THE cLOUR OF uNKNOWING WHICH HE TAKES TO BE SOME SPECIAL REVELATION OF NONDUAL THINKING.  wHAT?  sO THERE ARE THINGS WE CAN'T KNOW.  wE'RE NOT SO STUPID AS NOT TO KNOW that MUCH.  bLECH.

aND THEN THERE IS THE FACT THAT HE EQUATES JUDGMENTALNESS AND VIOLENCE WITH DUAL THINKING.  bUT OF COURSE HE'S THROWN OUT THE REASON FOR IT IN THROWING OUT gENESIS tHREE, THE STORY OF THE fALL AND oRIGINAL sIN.  nO IT'S GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH DUAL THINKING WHICH ;DOESN'T HAVE TO BE JUDGMENTAL AND VIOLENT AT ALL AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.  aLL THAT IS THE RESULT OF OUR FALLEN NATURE.  

sI \\\sO NOW i'M GETTING SO ANNOYED WITH THIS HERETIC IT'S DEFINITELY TIME TO stop.

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