The Invisible Limits
Last Monday I was struck by two pieces in the news/opinion aggregator I frequent. They weren't unusual by any means, but the topics are ones that are not addressed much. Each shared pretty amazing observations that few take seriously (which is precisely why they continue to periodically show up in some form), and they were from writers who are both very renowned in the financial punditry world. But because they are beholden to World operatives, neither could share anything close to the answer to the problems they elucidate.
Or I should say, as always, Anyone who is the answer.
The first was from Robert Samuelson of the Washington Post, and the title of his piece pretty much says everything: "We may be reaching the limits of economics." I like Robert Samuelson because he has lots of comprehensible and quite striking numbers to illustrate how much human sacrifice is actually going on out there. Oh, he certainly won't let on that it is indeed human sacrifice. His writing is more along the lines of "These numbers show exactly how awful things are in this area." In this piece he mentions several key questions that economists simply cannot answer, the most prominent one (paraphrased), "How much exactly should government do (spend, cut, raise, lower any number of financial instruments) to get people out working and producing and making things ever-so wonderful?"
Economists can't know the answer to that question, at least if they're still intractably tied to the World. Economists who live in the Kingdom and listen to the One Who Made Us To Begin With can answer that question. And much of it has to do with that second piece.
This one was by New Yorker columnist and author James Surowiecki, and his title says it all: "Greater Fools." He simply points out that as much as everyone hollers about Wall Street goofs messing things up for Main Street folk, it is truly the latter who are at fault. My dad always used to say "When you point your finger at someone there're always three fingers pointing back at you."
Yes, Main Street folk are just as foolish as anyone. But see, the World persepective stops there. Surowiecki can only go into the tired old ways average people don't know diddly about economics or finance. This is not news. What Kingdom people know is that it is not that they are foolish that is so destructive.
It is that they are sinful.
And while the World can indeed make a good case for people doing uncouth things, very few people ever bring up the fact that sin is not just saying an unkind word or gliding through the traffic stop every once in a while.
It is lying and murdering for the purpose of accomplishing human sacrifice.
Yes, I know about those three fingers. They've been pointed at me too. This is why the only way I can be freed from my well-deserved guilt and the punishment that goes with it is to put all of everything I have or think or feel into the hands of the One who died for me so I could live again.
The World offers its counterfeit Jesus to millions who worship it, and therefore require the federal government or the Federal Reserve banking system or the Roman Catholic network of tax-exempt 501c3 organizations to hammer away at spending or cutting or raising or lowering any number of value extraction instruments to pretend to make them feel good when all they are doing is laying them on the altar time after time after time.
The only way out is through Him, and fully committing to abandon the whole value extraction body of death and enter into value enhancement by sowing what God has given us into the lives of others. Yes, it does require the deft arrangement of fully terminating all those contracts with Caesar that signify one is still a sinner requiring neat and orderly human sacrifice services.
The other day my family and I went to see Toy Story 3, and in the lobby of the theater were two banners for the upcoming film Inception, hung on opposite sides. Each one had four people in seperate frames, each with a title underneath. The posters had different individuals on each except for one actor who appeared in both, the star of the film Leonardo DiCaprio.
His title was the same in both banners.
The Extractor.
Right now I know very little about the film, except that it is getting some buzz and looks like a film I'd like to see. For now I was certainly taken by the DiCaprio's character title. It is easy to see that people are intrigued by the idea of an Extractor.
I wonder how many of them know how much their value is being extracted as they breathe?
All of this was simply to introduce you to my latest, which gets into the distinction between the World doing its thing and what it would be like if people truly lived out the Kingdom doing its thing.
Or I should say, as always, Anyone who is the answer.
The first was from Robert Samuelson of the Washington Post, and the title of his piece pretty much says everything: "We may be reaching the limits of economics." I like Robert Samuelson because he has lots of comprehensible and quite striking numbers to illustrate how much human sacrifice is actually going on out there. Oh, he certainly won't let on that it is indeed human sacrifice. His writing is more along the lines of "These numbers show exactly how awful things are in this area." In this piece he mentions several key questions that economists simply cannot answer, the most prominent one (paraphrased), "How much exactly should government do (spend, cut, raise, lower any number of financial instruments) to get people out working and producing and making things ever-so wonderful?"
Economists can't know the answer to that question, at least if they're still intractably tied to the World. Economists who live in the Kingdom and listen to the One Who Made Us To Begin With can answer that question. And much of it has to do with that second piece.
This one was by New Yorker columnist and author James Surowiecki, and his title says it all: "Greater Fools." He simply points out that as much as everyone hollers about Wall Street goofs messing things up for Main Street folk, it is truly the latter who are at fault. My dad always used to say "When you point your finger at someone there're always three fingers pointing back at you."
Yes, Main Street folk are just as foolish as anyone. But see, the World persepective stops there. Surowiecki can only go into the tired old ways average people don't know diddly about economics or finance. This is not news. What Kingdom people know is that it is not that they are foolish that is so destructive.
It is that they are sinful.
And while the World can indeed make a good case for people doing uncouth things, very few people ever bring up the fact that sin is not just saying an unkind word or gliding through the traffic stop every once in a while.
It is lying and murdering for the purpose of accomplishing human sacrifice.
Yes, I know about those three fingers. They've been pointed at me too. This is why the only way I can be freed from my well-deserved guilt and the punishment that goes with it is to put all of everything I have or think or feel into the hands of the One who died for me so I could live again.
The World offers its counterfeit Jesus to millions who worship it, and therefore require the federal government or the Federal Reserve banking system or the Roman Catholic network of tax-exempt 501c3 organizations to hammer away at spending or cutting or raising or lowering any number of value extraction instruments to pretend to make them feel good when all they are doing is laying them on the altar time after time after time.
The only way out is through Him, and fully committing to abandon the whole value extraction body of death and enter into value enhancement by sowing what God has given us into the lives of others. Yes, it does require the deft arrangement of fully terminating all those contracts with Caesar that signify one is still a sinner requiring neat and orderly human sacrifice services.
The other day my family and I went to see Toy Story 3, and in the lobby of the theater were two banners for the upcoming film Inception, hung on opposite sides. Each one had four people in seperate frames, each with a title underneath. The posters had different individuals on each except for one actor who appeared in both, the star of the film Leonardo DiCaprio.
His title was the same in both banners.
The Extractor.
Right now I know very little about the film, except that it is getting some buzz and looks like a film I'd like to see. For now I was certainly taken by the DiCaprio's character title. It is easy to see that people are intrigued by the idea of an Extractor.
I wonder how many of them know how much their value is being extracted as they breathe?
All of this was simply to introduce you to my latest, which gets into the distinction between the World doing its thing and what it would be like if people truly lived out the Kingdom doing its thing.
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