Changing the World

If you want to change the world, you will hurt those around you.  

Really consider if the sacrifices you make them pay are worth it.

Controlling the Uncontrollable

We all have a serious self-control problem in our lives.  

We all have some kind of addiction.

We need to recognize it as a problem and try to keep it from hurting others.

Long Term Relationships

Great relationships happen with patience and forgiveness 
               (on both sides).  

If you cut off the people who irritate you,  you will be led to loneliness and misery.

Sacrifice

Nothing great and good ever happens without self sacrifice:

whether the surrender of personal goals for the sake of the community,
           
to the daily sacrifices of a parent in raising their child.

The Real Thing

Jesus' church is the one that welcomes sinners, not the one that arrests people for being different.
Jesus' church is the one that helps the needy, not the one that says "We don't want your kind here."
Jesus' church is the one that sees the benefits in being persecuted, not the one that sends out the violent to protect themselves.
Jesus' church is the one that loves all people, without exclusion, not the ones that picks and chooses whom they will love.
Only Jesus' church is a part of God's kingdom. Not the church that uses Jesus as a facade.

Freedom Lost

The internet offers real freedom in economics, including the freedom to give. It offers the opportunity for real democracy, and not just the power to vote for the very wealthy. It threatens to undermine the existing power, so the existing power must try to control it. We must not let that happen.

Greed is Normal

Whenever we are used to a certain culture, context or lifestyle that is "normal" for us. And if anyone tries to take away our "normal" we respond as if that is abuse.  Which is why the very powerful and wealthy respond so strongly and irrationally to people trying to reduce their ridiculous amounts of wealth and power.