"Is Kirk Douglas a Messianic Jew?" Real Question and the Answer Thereto

Far from it. Kirk Douglas is a Conservative Jew, and the USCJ is very Antimissionary.

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Wednesday's Blog Entry, In Case You Missed It...

If There's a View From Baltimore, That Was Probably Me...

But I couldn't blog from the UMBC computers, and won't be moving in my laptop until Sunday night. Maybe the UMBC internet network has blocked anyone from posting blogs altogether. Meanwhile, I'll at least try to blog if and when I can. Also meanwhile, the verses that are keeping me particularly afloat this semester are Proverbs 3:5-6 and 16:33.

On another note, I'm scheduled to take my final stats exam at Howard Community College in the morning. Just pray for me, and l'laila tov. Especially prayers for me regarding anything have helped to keep me afloat as well as has Scripture-- I still try to read the various parshot v'haftarot yom l'yom. 

Pseudo-Christian Liberals and Tax Deductions

To say the least, I figured that-- well, here we go again. Pseudo-Christian Liberals always try to do this kind of stuff. Here's what a George Soros-loving, Far-Left, Pseudo Christian proposed; and the rest of the conversation but his and my part in it will be censored. So for both our sakes will be his name (I'm not willing to get sued by a man who thinks that Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life" was a Republican and who endorsed that awful University of Indiana, Bloomington study against Bill O'Reilly.).


Read this like a phone call, because I'm just using what this man said to sum up what he believes-- and believes to the detriment of not only churches and schools like those of Chapelgate, but batei knesiyot and shuls, mosques and madrassas, and other organizations as well. By the way, I posted only a part of the conversation; the part where I refused to get goaded into an argument with this guy.


So this George Soros-loving, Far-Left, Pseudo Christian  proposed the following:




[Paraphrase of what he told a mutual friend] The charity tax deduction should be abolished. 
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 did I? I thought I proposed including religious organizations in said category.








 I propose excluding religious organizations from the category of an acceptable tax deduction. I believe that it infringes on the separation of church and state. I believe it attaches strings to religious organizations. Furthermore, I believe that it is grotesquely abused. I also believe I am going to get killed on this one.










It also frustrates me that many religious persons will defend Mitt Romney's right to use his church as a tax dodge and overlook his exceptionally immoral accumulation of wealth. He should be giving 90% of that away.




AS I said earlier, I believe it is showing favoritism to persons of religious belief. While I recognize the right of a holy God to show such favoritism, I categorically deny the right of a secular state, particularly under the guise of our particular system, to do so.




 in the moral sense.








 I think that charitable tax deductions should be acceptable when they are for some sense of the greater good, virtue in its historic sense.




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 if you are going to use WSJ, can I use HuffPo?






 Isn't he simply identifying a return to a pre-Jeffersonian situation?








Indeed. I think they should get. WE are in a massive deficit. Either we cut spending (and yes Reagan fans, foreign policy is big government and expensive), or raise taxes.










 not surprising. Why do you think these people support policies that would seem to so threaten their wealth?








And that, I believe, is where Jesus comes into play. If America's evangelicals would start loving people like he commands us to, we wouldn't have many of the problems that government poorly tries to deal with. But of course they do a bad job. What do we expect from something as massive and complex as the Untied States?




 agreed on Buffett.


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 the film in question was by Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson and Johnson fortune, and it was about the unethical nature of wealth perpetuation in the United States. He disowned her for being interviewed in it.
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[Me] I don't see why legitimate good should be taxed. As pointed out, the tax deduction is there to protect the religious organizations from the government and vice versa-- which is based on a 1954 law endorsed heavily by then legislator Lyndon Baines Johnson.




 indeed it is worth seeing! I would love to hear your thoughts on it.






[Me] I've said what I'm going to say.

I Have To Be Realistic And Prepare Myself For That...

This birthday emotional high is not going to last. The emotional high wasn't fully a high, either. I definitely had OCD/Anxiety flare ups during the night, for example. Also, the people who wished me "Happy Birthday", etc. today-- I have to be realistic, and I either have to hope that they're silent support throughout the rest of the year or accept that many of them are being what they think is on-the-surface polite and even interacting with me (just because they feel obliged to-- in other words, just because they're family, etc.).

I have to also remember that this world is full of other suffering, pain, etc. besides what I will most likely suffer in even the coming day. There are children such as Joshua and Jackson (who are rallied for on Facebook) who are suffering from childhood cancer, pneumonia, and other conditions and diseases. There's the Jewish community back home b'Ha'Eretz under threat every day from Egypt, Iran, even Russia and increasingly-Anti-Semitic Western and Central (along with some number of Eastern) Europe.

I could go on, but you get the point: as my birthday closes out, that there are some hard days ahead for me and others unless the Rapture comes within the next second or minute, or hour or so. 

Response to Charles P.'s Wonderful Question

"I often wonder about the souls of the unborn, and yet-to-be conceived, in the rapture.

"How do souls work? Is there a finite number of souls? How many souls will there be, from start to finish?

"If the rapture comes today, what of all the souls the souls that could have been here, had the rapture came tomorrow instead?

"What about pregnant women, how will their unborn children be judged; what if the mother had not accepted Christ, will the child suffer for the mistake of the parent?

"I hope the rapture comes in my lifetime, just so I can get some answers! :P"


To begin, the yet-to-be conceived won't be conceived until after the Tribulation. There are references to children in the Millennial Kingdom in Tanakh. I sadly don't have these references off hand or memorized, however. When I find them again sometime (if the Rapture doesn't come before I can find them again), I'll (G-d willing) post them in another entry.


As for unborn children, they-- since they haven't reached the age of accountability-- will, sadly for the mothers who are unsaved, be taken straight out of the womb and raptured in Heaven while the unsaved mothers are left behind and (in regards to their unborn children) childless. As far as Tanakh indicates, the soul isn't even created until during or after conception; so as I said, any yet-to-be-created souls will be created after the Tribulation whereas already-created souls will be (with the bodies that hold them) be raptured.


I hope that this answers your question, Charles.

What I Want For My 22nd Birthday, Including If I Can't Those DNA Tests From (And For) the Family

I want the Rapture to come. Can you imagine a tearless, painless, sufferless, burdenless world? There's a gift for the world-- or at least the Church in the world. But because of the Rapture, many of the world will come to see what they could've had if they had been only in the world; and salvation in any form at that point will be a gift-- whether they'll have to face being left behind, losing a loved one and having to know that he or she went to be with Jesus (Yeshua), or even being murdered by the Antichrist (Ha'Ish Asher Lo L'Mashiach) and calling out HaShem-Mashiach in his or her last moments.