Legacy of the British Empire.

Princess Diana.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky was a Zionist activist, orator, and writer who founded the Betar Movement. He was also a soldier who founded the Jewish Legion during World War I.

Jabotinsky (born October 18, 1880; died August 4, 1940) was born as Vladimir into a middle-class Jewish family in the Russian city of Odessa. At the age of 18, he left Odessa to study law in Italy and Switzerland, where he also served as a foreign correspondent for several well­known Russian newspapers. His reports and articles were widely read and soon became recognized as one of the brilliant exponents of Russian journalism. All his reports and articles were signed with his literary pseudonym “Altalena.” . . . continue reading 

President Ronald Reagan telling it like it is.

On the surface American Christians sound 'right' and justified vilifying Arabs, and those against Israel because of the Bible, and what is said in the Bible. It all incites self-righteous attitudes dipping its adherents towards a dogma, with a notion of supremacy over reasonable objections to the stance made by those in the so-called Army of the Lord.

Millions of American Christians cannot stray, with confidence, from the controversial reasons for saying, 'yea' to all aggression from Israel towards any perceived threat, or country against them; even if Israel started the misuse of power. The prophecies and stories in the Old Testament support the notion of 'right thinking' on this subject; meaning God is behind Israel and the Israelites are his chosen. This is the core of American policy towards Israel. New Testament philosophy began with this understanding of Israel's place in the Christian practice in the West. Despite the fact the first century followers of Jesus, who were accepted by Rome purposely worked to remove themselves from the vestiges of the progenitor of their new faith; today's form of Christianity informs the need to kill and take. 

This is perplexing, isn't it? 

The serious American citizen needs to look deeply into the Torah, the first five (5) books of the Bible, to gain a footing in the theology that allows our government to not intervene on behalf of the Palestine people. The average Christian needs to look closely at these justifications for a higher purpose: healing of their own souls, and release from the evil to whom (we) are devoted. For the slaughter and the taste of it; American foreign policy aims at Arabs and the enemies of Israel missiles, and gives financial support. The Israeli apartheid system designed around Palestinians to protect the Jewish systems of thought, and its contradictions comforts Jim Crow. Why would white Americans change for peace to take precedence over their predilections?

It doesn't make sense.  

So one last question remains: "How did conservatism, business, American dictatorial patriotism, and Christianity meld into one ideology?" We all need that answer. Without the truth as an answer, as soul singer, Curtis Mayfield sang, "If there's a hell below, we all gonna go!"  

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

5/25/18 

cartoon. "Please don't leave us... "

WOMEN in TERROR.

Joséphine Marcus Earp was the

common-law wife of Wyatt Earp.

IN the terror of being a woman in the Western world is the fact of white women's fear of white men prone to kill them at the core of the crisis. In the game to stay invisible, to a degree, and available for opportunities is the ever risk of forever being a sex object. It would be different in a society balanced by elements that coincide with respect and depth to the understanding of womanhood.

The simplest way of telling this story is to tell the truth. What flies into the proverbial fan is fear of the truth and ignorance of the core of the collective history behind this stage of the women's movement! Women will always be sex objects and just as well because men will always want to have sex with women, and women will always want men for sex! The attraction is natural. The danger in modern life in a variety of countries are the conflicts of belief and religion in conflict with the feeling of inadequacy men in these cultures have inside of them.

In the cultures, where the belief in the assumption of men's superiority over women, confuses the inadequate feeling undeveloped men nurse in the presence of women, hide the deep contradictions that became part of organized religions. These religions placed laws into the daily lives of its adherents that justified wrongs against women and worse developed a creed. Rape is justified by scripture, bad behavior towards women is justified in the story of Eve in the Abrahamic texts and practiced in lieu of disciplined training of the mind, the spirit and the emotions of men, who find a way out of expanding their existence into true power, deep knowledge and the awareness from controlling one's spirit!

Men are supposed to ground themselves with a series of questions beginning with innocence. "Who are the innocent, and who will protect the innocent?" Innocence is where all of us begin our living. How men develop contempt for women from a patriarchal religion is a mysterious deception from the evil place of not being truthful, and from not being themselves, in the deep context of masculinity! What isn't innocent in the innocuous cat call towards women embedded in the contradictions we learn living in the States? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (5/01/18)

YESTERDAY. 

Changing a tire!

Nana’s system for changing a flat tyre: 1. Get tools ready. 2. Flash your ‘motorist in distress’ knickers. 3. Wait for kind gentleman to stop and help. ~ anon 

Help my Unbelief.

There was a time in my life I searched for a wife intelligently. During this period I met Jehovah Witness women spreading their doctrine in tiny little group huddles, and occasionally a Catholic nun, or two who would peak my attention! I have stories about the one's from each camp who aroused me causing me to put in work to persuade the one I'd singled out to be my mate! To another person, it is a credulous request bordering on sacrilegious. To me, it was an untapped approach, a venture worth taking, a hunt prepared for over the preceding years stalking solitude.

In the end, I wanted to do things the old way. I asked my Grandfather Teacher to find me a wife.

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
2/12/18

Nun's unbridled passions are secrets. Well, that is what a lot of us men tell ourselves. I only had one real possibility of breaking through the shell of a Nun to find the shell hiding her core that needed the balance of a husband. If it weren't for the senior woman present in that small group of Nuns, I would have courted her, and possibly been her husband. That was a long time ago. I fared better waiting for Jan. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5/12/18 

the Advantage of Knowing.

"God's are not found in theories or systems of thought. They are deeply personal and intimately woven to one's own seed descent.

Ancients and ancestors used symbolisms as guides and sign posts though each unique one comes to the Gods, the multiverse and humanity in their own way. There is no forced uniformity nor is it valued as a social good. It may be useful in the early stages of pedagogy... though it will soon become obsolete when self mastery is attained.

Discussions or observations about God's is not a rejection of other beliefs here. It is instead a reminder to restrain oneself from imposing a belief system on anyone.

Ancients and ancestors caution against demeaning others in their beliefs. I am instead reflecting on many many attempts on my Soul sovereignty by people calling themselves christian. In reality it is a violence against my sacred responsibility to walk in my own truth." - Mereana Taki, October 8, 2017 

[This] painted sepia beauty in the space of light and colors is energy to be defined, not by words, but emotions and knowledge of self, and other ingredients we need to know each other and ourselves... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5/10/18

Please accept My advantage in knowing all gender realities. If you do, you can help anyone who is struggling. Leave Mother God out, and I am half a God, a solo parent struggling to support Her children. Why not let God in the Feminine directly support women? As a Mother, a unique Mother, I am capable of what no human mother can do. I want to Parent you. And if you want to add value and give more than yourself, allow God to dwell within you. When the heart of God is beating within you, this rhythm empowers the spirit world to support you.

Expect that God will talk to self, weighing options, considering a huge and massive amount of information for the most productive of outcomes, specializing in personal interest, whenever possible. Only God knows, when and where too much starts for you. But, being God, is fraught with problems if people deny the MOTHERING aspect of God, if they set me on a throne, only to hold the King's hand.

Human families are designed to seek advice from both Parental aspects of God. Because I am one, I don't have a problem ascertaining personality for Myself. However, if people trust God they can understand that the masculine aspect of God can commune with the feminine and the other way around. So, laying your burden on the doorstep of Heavenly Mother does not exclude Heavenly Father and all His perceived strength." - Adruma Victoria (5/10/18)  

ELDER TALK: Jesus, Belief and Practice

Many have stood at this crossroad with these questions relying less on scholarship, and the probes into the mystical teachings of this walk, and more on other's thoughts on the subjects you raised.

Your first question: "Baptism. Does it mean the Holy Spirit comes into a person automatically?" Your second question suffers with the first question in a tangle of dogma from various sects in Protestantism: "I thought confessing Jesus, as one's Lord and Savior, meant one was born again?" The last question you ask has the embracing fragrance of innocence and honesty. "So how can you get baptized and not get the gift of the Spirit, that I flat out don't get because the Holy Ghost is a gift after all your sins have been washed away through the blood. I thought a gift is just what it is: a gift!"  

My first inclination is to suggest you begin your study, in the Bible, accepting that it is a long process delving into this subject matter. Because the question is fundamental to Christianity. The answers should be more than passable understanding of its progenitor religion, and that worldview needs to be learned to have depth as a follower of these teachings! It is important to have depth with substance, and breaking the tradition of glib answers to profound questions follow Paul's admonishment to "Study to show yourself approved..." and follow suit with your own spiritual practice!  

In easier language, there is a nest from which the answers to your questions flew away from! From animal sacrifices to the quest in the first century Church to rid itself of the vestiges of its Hebrew roots, to the horrible centuries of blood conquest/missionary work, to the 20th century revivals until now; the answers to your questions have been altered by histories of actions, politics, and the business of slave trade maintenance. So, your answers are easily assessable in the Bible, but do you really want to explore the fundamentals of your religious belief, or do you simply want to be sure of your salvation?  

To honor the questions, I am obligated to honor the teaching style of the Rabbi Jesus, who was initiated into his role, into manhood. He comes from not what passes today as a way into the kingdom of God, but from a tradition steeped in probes into the Unknown, with the tradition of study and introspection of their holy books and rituals interlinked with the development of the abstract and the intellect simultaneously!  - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/18/17 

Love Hopes Above Abuse.

It is disconcerting the futile efforts to eradicate violence against women without delving deep into the spirit of the belief surrounding the practice, understanding its cultural and non-spiritual roots centered around what lurks within European culture. In American culture not venturing this way is indicative of an even greater set of fears... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3/16/18

Love between a man and a woman still exists...

the Ways we Understand and Don't.

The prowl begins in a posture.

A powerful woman has a way of looking out at the world that compels the best and the worst in a man to come out of hiding to seek light and expression. She is the beginning of a series of stories a father should share with his sons before and during their initiations into manhood! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

"[They did a study back in the eighties]. And they asked men, across the board, across races, if you could get away with sexually assaulting a woman, raping a woman in other words, and there's no possible way that you'll get penalized for it; [-] How many of you would consider doing it? This is just regular Joe, go to work with the kids. Seventy percent. Seven O, said if I could do it, I would do it."~ Joy Degruy Leary 


"Humans have been categorized as the top of the food chain, priding themselves on intellect and opposable thumbs, but true spiritual enlightenment cannot be obtained without understanding the predacious and feral nature that subsists." - Michael Scipio 

"You ask for God to give you a sign of his existence, so you ignore the obvious and then the spectacular comes into focus!" - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories photo by Roland Dawson. 

Quietly a sense of her femininity sits in a setting conducive to light, enlightened by a knowing of how things could work for a better understanding of relationship. It is compelling how powers work when engaged with truth and light! ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (Oct. 12, 2017) 

Torture of Black women was a continuation of the fabric,

the texture and the make up of European men. set in their practice of killing

their own weapon in God's name! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

What A Story!

The Sports Illustrated model issue in February in the beginning was suspected to be sacrilegious. Sports is one of the religions with an unfair amount of absurdity to its structure and as a practice: dangerous. The danger of this religion is the overriding contradiction it enjoyed for a long time that men declared in the spirit of domination! This empowering emotion took pleasure excluding women from the inner sanctum in front of the family TV on any Sunday!

When women stepped outside of their prescribed assignment: serving food and drinks and retiring to another room men would typically get upset because their mental focus on the screen was incapable of venturing in but one direction. When the idea of making bikini clad white models the focus of the holy text of 'the' American sports magazine for February, a lot of men were upset! That was what Playboy was for; not this publication! 

And then was the threat that wives would take exception at the growing excitement, and acceptance of this issue as sensual stimuli legitimized by the respectability of Sports Illustrated! What happened was a bonus! The issued became the proverbial pat upon the head! Wives decided to let their husband's this one pleasure, in part; I suspect, because it was very public. Without secrecy sensuality in this medium was given a status Playboy could not, did not have! Wives could live with this and be amused at the same time.

Over time, the monthly display of flesh in the sun during the worst of winter time blues was welcome and the models began to come from other ethnic groups, straying not far from the white standard of beauty.

It all comes together in this one publication. Western contradictions abound upsetting cultures around the globe. Despite the turmoil Europe created in the images and perception of Beauty, womanhood, and sex they've mysteriously taken over the images that dominate and control billions of people's concept of self in this monthly issue!

It is a powerful demon, at best. It comes alive much like Lazarus from the dead with each publication of the Sports Illustrated's swimsuit magazine, in February. What a story!

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
Jan. 22, 2018

Sports Illustrated model Genevieve Morton in the 2014 swimsuit issue.

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover has been revealed for 2015, and it stars none other than Hannah Davis.

Sports Illustrated model Ariel Meredith (2013)

Press Release

Dove ad released October 2017.

Dove 
https://www.facebook.com/DoveUS/posts/1493719354007207


Dove is committed to representing the beauty of diversity. In an image we posted this week, we missed the mark in thoughtfully representing women of color and ...we deeply regret the offense that it has caused. The feedback that has been shared is important to us and we’ll use it to guide us in the future. - Dove press release