I believed, but did not know God exists. Now, I am certain. I dreamed of information that I had no knowledge of, and thus, could not have come from my subconscious. Later, when frightful dread permeated my mind and body, a suffering that could crush a soul, as my husband underwent quadruple bypass surgery on October 8, 2012, the information provided Divine Comfort.
On September 27, 2012, I dreamed that my husband dropped me off at a building, but he did not get off the vehicle. I understood that he was going somewhere. He told me, "Just for two and a half hours." I went inside the building, and then turned my back. There were two sets of stairs, one going down and the other going up. They looked like a V, but I couldn't see the bottom. The flight of stairs going up is brightly lit. To the right of the stairs, floating, was my radiant Mother, followed by my smiling Father. [Both have passed away.] After Mom embraced me, I found myself on the other side of the brightly lit stairs, with my niece nicknamed Faith, telling her, “Grandma and Grandpa are with us.”
Upon waking up, I wondered if my parents were coming for me. Later that day, my husband’s cardiologist prescribed heart catheterization to determine if my husband needed a stent. On October 5, as my husband was wheeled into the Cath Lab, I wondered if the entire procedure would take 2 ½ hours. But not for long, the Doctor came out to tell me that my husband needed bypass surgery, later scheduled for the following Monday, October 8. While waiting for him to be taken to his room, a lady who was also waiting told me that her husband has had bypass surgery six years ago. I asked how long the bypass surgery took. She answered, “Two and a half hours.” Over the weekend, a Doctor from the Heart Surgeon’s Team came to my husband’s room. After she finished asking questions, I asked how long the surgery would take. She said that the anesthesia part would take around 1 ½ hours, and the heart surgery would take 2 ½ hours.
I am very grateful to science and technology, to lifesavers, who use their minds to the fullest, spending tremendous effort in perfecting their genius. Many thanks and kudos! God bless always.
I am reverently thankful to the Divine Comfort that I held on to during the terrifying hours. While I prayed, the dream where my husband said, "Just for 2 ½ hours", was with me, together with the faith that I will have him back, alive and well, after that. Many thanks, all-good and all-loving God, for embracing my husband, our family, and me, especially through the very difficult 2 ½ hours.
Prior to my certainty that God exists, the following is an example of what I have written, which evinced that, like Thomas Paine, my own mind is my own church, that I have held, like Thomas Jefferson, that my own reason is the only oracle given me by heaven, that I revere the most glorious gift from God: reason, and that the Primacy of Existence in Metaphysics has been my basis for my belief in God:
God is so Benevolent that the Laws of Nature are Absolute
http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2011/03/god-is-so-benevolent-that-laws-of.html
Morris is a MALEVOLENT LIAR as evinced in this video. Here are proofs that he subhumanly spouts lies:
"The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society... This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. All honor to Jefferson -- to the man, who in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecaste, and sagacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression." – Abraham Lincoln
http://www.kingsbenchletter.com/library/lincoln-tribute/
See more information here: "The principles of Jefferson are the definitions & axioms of free society.” – Abe Lincoln
See this video: Debating Slavery Clause in the Declaration of Independence: Second Continental Congress.
Logically & morally, one cannot be faulted for something outside of one's choice. Slavery was OBTRUDED on the Colonies by King George III. Thomas Jefferson INHERITED slaves. It was AGAINST THE LAW TO FREE THEM.
When he was 26 years old, chosen for the first time to be a member of a legislature, he submitted a bill for the EMANCIPATION of ALL slaves. As a lawyer in 1770, age 27, Jefferson defended a slave, saying: "Under the law of nature, all men are born free."
Facts - Thomas Jefferson's record on slavery:
1769: Chosen for the first time to be a member of a legislature, Thomas Jefferson made one effort in the House of Burgesses for the permission of the emancipation of slaves, but was rejected.
From Jefferson's autobiography: http://www.constitution.org/tj/jeff01.txt -
"In 1769, I became a member of the legislature by the choice of the county in which I live, and so continued until it was closed by the Revolution. I made one effort in that body for the permission of the emancipation of slaves, which was rejected: and indeed, during the regal government, nothing liberal could expect success."
1770: As a lawyer, Thomas Jefferson defended a slave, saying: "Under the law of nature, all men are born free."
"Under the law of nature, all men are born free; everyone comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author of nature, because necessary for his own sustenance." -- Thomas Jefferson: Legal Argument, 1770. FE 1:376
1776: He strongly condemned slavery in his draft of the Declaration of Independence.
"He (King George III) has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation hither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another." http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/declaration/declaration.html
1778: The legislature passed a bill he proposed to ban further importation of slaves into Virginia.
“Congress Again--and France: This first retirement was brief. In a year his wife died. Jefferson reentered Congress, throwing himself into the work of lawmaking, this time for the national government. Within two years he wrote some of the most meaningful state papers of the Continental Congress. Three reports were especially good: 1. On Government for the Western Territory, the basic document for the growth of the United States, in which Jefferson's effort to abolish slavery failed by one vote.”
http://history-world.org/thomas_jefferson.htm
1784: His draft of what became the Northwest Ordinance stipulated that "there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude" in any of the new states admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
1806: President Jefferson requested Congress to ban all slave importation to the US.
1807: As President, Jefferson signed a bill abolishing the slave trade: on March 3, 1807, as President of the USA, Thomas Jefferson signed a bill making slave importation illegal in the United States.
Thomas Jefferson defined Republicanism:
“I believe with you that morality, compassion, generosity are innate elements of the human constitution; that there exists a right independent of force; that a right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings; that no one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature; that justice is the fundamental law of society; that the majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest, breaks up the foundations of society; that action by the citizens in person, in affairs within their reach and competence, and in all others by representatives chosen immediately and removable by themselves, constitutes the essence of a republic…” - Thomas Jefferson
http://www.britannica.com/presidents/article-9116915
WITHOUT THOMAS JEFFERSON, THERE IS NO BILL OF RIGHTS.
“A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference.” – Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, December 20, 1787
http://www.britannica.com/presidents/article-9116913
The morality of sacrifice is of deceivers and tyrants, and its most sublime casualty is Jesus Christ, considered by Thomas Jefferson as the “greatest of all reformers.” Jefferson described the “benevolent” system of Jesus as “the most SUBLIME morality.”
With devious goals, the anti freedom call it sacrifice. The reality is: Jesus advocated against the “notion that a certain group or nation has a monopoly on human value, while the rest of mankind are properly slaves or mere barbarians.” Christ taught that every man is made in the image of God, thus, every individual soul is precious. Jesus advocated INDIVIDUALISM: the respect of individual rights. Consequently, the anti freedom brutalized him. To absolve themselves of their evil, and to pulverize His most sublime teaching, the anti freedom devised a malevolent scheme: tout the brutality perpetrated on Him as Jesus sacrificing Himself. Three goals are achieved with the morality of sacrifice: no justice/judgment to those who brutalized Him, His most sublime teaching is negated, and tyranny can continue to easily claim those devoid of self-esteem, i.e., those who do not think that every individual soul is precious.
My God is just, so I reject original sin, the doctrine that guilts people out in order to crush their self-esteem. My God is just, so I reject that Jesus sacrificed for me. Glorifying sacrifice is ungodly because self-sacrifice is masochism and sanctioning it is sadism.
Jesus also taught, "Love your neighbors as you love yourself." Sacrificing oneself is not loving oneself. So, self-sacrifice is not of Jesus. Sacrificing others is not loving your neighbors - this is not of Jesus. It is very clear that sacrifice is not a teaching of Jesus.
The MOST SUBLIME MORALITY
http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2011/04/most-sublime-morality.html
Sacrifice is giving up a higher value over a lesser one or over a non-value.
The virtue involved in caring for loved ones and doing the right thing is integrity: you love, so you care; you think it is right, so you do it. Since I love my kids more than I love myself, since I value them above all else, going without something or working hard for them is not sacrifice.
When Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty, or give me death," he was not sacrificing himself. He was saying that he valued his liberty over his own life.
New Jersey Declaration of Independence Signer, Abraham Clark, was dragooned to renounce his signature. His two sons, Aaron and Thomas, officers in George Washington's army, were captured and TORTURED. The British said they would release them if Mr. Clark renounced the Declaration and his signature. He refused. Since he and his sons valued liberty above all else, it was not sacrifice.
Selfish greed for my integrity
When I fight for Liberty!
http://ilynross.blogspot.com/2010/05/when-i-fight-for-liberty.html
"To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the FIRST PRINCIPLE of ASSOCIATION -- the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." - Thomas Jefferson
http://www.ilynross.blogspot.com/2012/04/principles-of-jefferson-are-definitions.html
Here is an article on President Obama’s silver spoon pronouncements, and Governor Romney’s response: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/romney-rejects-obamas-silver-spoon-comment/
Logically and thus, morally, one cannot be faulted for something outside of one’s choice, like the color of one’s skin or the wealth of one’s parents. Yet, President Obama touts a precept as despicable as original sin and racism: that the earned wealth of a parent dirties the soul of offsprings.
Vilifying Governor Romney for the wealth of his rags-to-riches Father is akin
To hating one because of the circumstances of birth like the color of one’s skin.
