Author: B. K. Neifert

Mark 13:51Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. 52Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
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The Negus and the Caucasian

There was once a great and powerful Negus, who ruled over the entire world. He spied his kingdom, and came upon a Caucasian man, one day. So, pretending to be among the poor of the kingdom, the Negus invited the Caucasian to eat fruit, so the Caucasian did. And the Negus, feigning to be a friend, but truly hated the Caucasians, for they were inferior he thought, offered him an apple. So, the Caucasian cheerfully took the apple, and being a cheerful fella, and knowing a thousand things, ate the apple from the bottom, with the entire core. The Negus curled his lips, and his brow scrunched, and he became furious. But would not show it. So, he left, and soon, decreed in his kingdom that an apple must be eaten from the sides, and no other law could do. For, his cohorts ran rampant, and rummaged the streets, and broke the houses, and set fire to the barns and wagons. They hunted the Caucasians, for theirs was the former empire. And they hunted, and then the Negus found the man whom he saw at first, and took him before his throne, with his royal scepter. And he said, "Take this apple, and if you eat it from the bottom, I shall kill you." The Caucasian shrugged, and said, "You do with power what we did, and worse." So he took the apple, and ate it from the bottom. He was put on the rack, and tortured for three weeks. And he died. But, he laughed while he died, saying "So it will be with you, with the Negus as emperor, for no law save one is his, and that is to eat an apple from the side." And the Caucasian spat.
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42 Proverbs



1. To reach proficiency at any discipline, one must listen to both novices and masters. For a novice might have one trick, and a master might have a thousand. To know them both, you know one thousand and one tricks.
2. If you are an intelligent man, work only with your mind. If you are a man of mean intelligence, work with your hands and your mind. If you are a dull man, work only with your hands.
3. Christians, you are salt and light: Therefore, hearken to Christ's Doctrine, and uplift the man who is burdened with many sorrows, be he Greek or Jew, Atheist or Polytheist, Christian or Heathen. Cheer him, do not curse him. For you are always cursing, and it makes a man who's seen God's face ready to call Him a liar on your account.
4. Christians, there is one command to you, and not two. Be mindful, the man who says “Love God” or the man who says “Love your neighbor” are only half a Christian. The man who says “I am saved by grace” or the man who says “I am filled with a burden for the poor and downtrodden” are only half a Christian.
5. Atheists, you do well to think there is a moral that is universal. Yet, you call it empathy, but shun discipline. This is why you are unwise, for there can be no empathy, where discipline is slack.
6. Hindus, your religion is good, until it teaches you there are men whom you must spite. There is only this life, and the next. There is no reincarnation, therefore, treat your neighbor like he were only going to have this one life, and you will do well.
7. Buddhists, I applaud your ethics, and moral upbringing, but then you surmount that life is only suffering. On that notion, I am Christian, for while I know life involves suffering, there is a great joy here, too.
8. Muslims, you are good folk, and hearty people, but too simplistic.
9. There are many laws, and many religions. Yet only one truth. Yet, men subjugated to only one way, is not good. For, men being diverse is a good thing for it makes life interesting.
10. When debating with a more intelligent man, probe him for knowledge if you must. Do not fear being humiliated by him, unless he carries with him the sword. For by your humiliation, you are rewarded with a new insight.
11. When debating with a man of equal intelligence, debate sharply, and remember to listen close. Make his arguments strong, before you make your arguments. And listen to every word.
12. When debating with a fool, know he will humiliate you. His words are comprehended by everyone, and at last, he is a mockingbird for none understood your dark speech.
13. If you fail in life, do not take it out on others. Who knows if your proverbs shall endure, and be like talents stored at interest in the treasury?
14. It is better to be poor, starving and near death, than feasting, knowing your entire wealth was borne on the backs of those you took it from.
15. Every generation perpetrates great crimes against humanity. And every generation thinks to have learned or restored their debts.
16. If you are at work underneath a mean man, listen to his words, for they are life. Though your superior is a wise man, and his superior a mean man, follow your superior, though mean or wise. Do only the task that is instructed, and what you have learned and go no further. And do what you have been trained to do, and no thing else.
17. If you understand a thing here, and a thing there, bring all of it to your employment. And listen closely... roam free and look for what needs to be done. Do not stand idly, unless the work is finished.
18. If you are a man who employs labor, do not make the entire job like it were given to a machine. Men are free... let them roam, let them make work for themselves. Yet, if they are untrustworthy or slothful, leave them. They are of no good. A man who cannot be trusted to his own designs, to do good work, is not one that is employable.
19. Always move on the job. But, at time of rest, stay still.
20. Marry a wife who is like you in most every way. Yet, she will be different and will cut off your childishness. And you will cut off hers. For you are two children, who come together and become one family of adults raising their own children. For the boy or girl does not become grown, until they marry. 
21. Gladden your wife's heart, and merry her amusements. Make her happy. Do things for her soul, for she may take you on an adventure you never knew. Occupy your time with things other than mating and business. Find time for things which friends do together.
22. If your wife have many friends, and they are not your friends, then you have enemies which you cannot defend yourself against. Yet, a good wife will have few friends and not many.
23. Find three true friends in your life, and if they are mad at you, leave them for a season. And find them again where you left them, and reconcile. They never change, truly, and remain who they always were at their core. Yet, if they change, perhaps you did not know them as well as you thought?
24. Regard your animal as if it were your friend. Be it a fish, or a kine, or a dog or cat. Love them, for they were given to us for companionship.
25. Wake up, wash, drink a few cups of coffee, eat a fine grain, walk outside, and let your eyes see sunlight. You shall be awakened for your work for the day's task.
26. Work within a few miles of home. Do not travel over large distances, unless you wish to lose what you have stored there.
27. There is a man who doesn't stay at home. He ought not find a wife. There is a woman the same. She ought not find a husband. They ought remain virginal, and purify the earth of their flesh.
28. All things on earth are combat. That is how the kings have made it. And that is why many are wounded. What can salve them, beside love?
29. To give to a leech, is to draw out blood. There is no good in a leech, so to reflect a man who will drain his father's stores and do no work for him or any other.
30. There is a man who labors much, but profits little. Such a man is also a blessing on himself and others, and in due season will cause all around him to flourish, and they know not how or why, though they will torment him with many unkind words.
31. There is a man who labors little, but profits much. Such a man is a curse on all around him, but himself. He causes all around him to get poor and needy, and his wealth grows, and his fields are joined, so the poor say, “Where is our homestead?”
32. There is a King who benefits himself, and by doing so, benefits all around him. He does neither good nor evil.
33. There is a King who benefits himself, and by doing so, ruins all around him. He does great harm.
34. There is a King who does good, but must do evil for that is his lawful authority, to do evil on this Earth for the sake of making peace.
35. Better to die poor, than be a king. For the king must murder and lead captive. That is his true business.
36. The King is rich, for in the next life he shall suffer much.
37. The Diplomat is rich, but his job is to make peace---like many men of God, this authority was not wasted, for the King is the Sword, and the Diplomat is the Shield.
38. Democracy is sound---yet who is the King in a Democracy? That is why they are so peaceful.
39. Merchants who act like Kings, are men who ought be hanged.
40. Great men are not born, they are not made, they are rather those who walk close to providence.
41. A grievous sinner must be forgiven, or he will have no reason to repent. Therefore, forgive him, lest his heart be fully committed to evil. Aye! That is why we have Christ, you know? For man is less likely to do this, but with God, all things are possible, even for a bad man to become a good man.
42. I looked under the sun, and saw one thing which was pleasing: To work, and eat from the labors you enjoy. Let thy servant drink the fine wine his feet had pressed, and eat the fine grains in your field, and a portion of the meat from thy cattle, and find time to please himself with his wife and children, and you will be a happy lord, for you will have a happy servant.

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My Doubt

I do believe in God. Rather, I know there's a God. My doubt is that He's good. My other doubt is that He will save me.

My  first doubt, that He is good: I love the Bible. I just don't know if the Bible is simply this joke God pulled on human beings, and was like, "Here's the rules, so now I'm going to crush you if you try to follow them." As that's the main point Christians seem to bring up, is that we're saved by "Grace" which ultimately throws away any responsibility. The Law is beautiful--if you understand it fully, and especially if you look closely at Paul's Epistles, it's a beautiful concept. That we're ultimately condemned to die under the perfection of the Law, but God chose to give us mercy. For what reason? Here is where Christians seem to fracture, most think that's all we need, is the gift of God's grace, and there's nothing more to it. Meanwhile, someone who truly desires to be righteous and loves the Law gets crushed by design under the Christian's teachings, who seem to blame suffering on the one who bears it---which is entirely contrary to both Old and New Testament teaching. So, I do not know if Christians have the word of God, and the Bible is false. Or if the Bible is true, and Christians are rather engaged in some worldly religion, about making oneself rich and ignoring the weightier matters of the Law, such as Mercy, Justice and Faithfulness.

My doubt that He will save me. I've made oaths, I've thought impure thoughts, I've almost become shipwrecked, and it's not for lack of wanting the faith, or trying. And I truly desire the fruits of righteousness, and the fruits of truth, but it seemed by manner of consequence, I could never find a true church that taught the full balance of the Gospel, and they all steered me away from what I truly needed. And listening to sermons, they seem to be accusatory of my condition, calling me out for the fact that I am suffering. I do, however, get great comfort in the Bible---as it seems to scream back at the Christians all the time, "The poor and sufferer and needy are who you must uplift! Sorrow is to be expected." But,  then the Christians scream back, "He's poor, and meek, and humiliated! Why ought we listen?" So, I don't know if I'm saved on that account, that nobody cared about my soul enough to show me the love of God and also discipline me. It was either too much love, or too much discipline. Which, I say that God's love and discipline are my reason for believing in Him...  but at the moment I feel hurt and pain and depression, because the entirety of Christianity seems to run aground, and there's no true preacher within 50 miles. So, I have the radio instead, and it seems they affirm the same message that to be saved, is to prosper in this life. And I feel unsaved because I have none of the things of this world, but rather shame, and confusion, and sorrow. But, then I read the Psalms and Prophets. Those do not shame me. And again I wonder, if God told a joke, and I was just not in on it.

The Dollar Bill

Upon the back, is the Pyramid
With the Eye of Providence.
Thirteen steps up the pyramid
Belay, thirteen steps to enlightenment.

Instinct
Needs
Selfhood
Others
Law
Nature
Freedom
Science
Geometry
Other Nations
Logos/Dharma/Tao/Reality
Providence's Order
God's Divine Love

The the eye is God's divine watch
Over the country, and its people.

Then, there is the Eagle, the Crest of the United States
And the Olive Branch and Arrows.
The Olive Branch the thirteen leaves of peace
And the Arrows the thirteen arrows of war.

Making Peace within Borders
Making Unity within Borders
Making a Shared Culture
Making a Shared Religion
Making Sacredness Respected
Making Community Strong
Knowledge of God and His Son
Knowledge of the Other Man's Need
Knowledge of Fortune's Blindness
Knowledge of Pleasure
Knowledge of Freedom
Knowledge of Beauty
Knowledge of Truth

Making Strife within Borders
Making Disunity within Borders
Making Cultures Confused
Making Religion Despaired
Making the Sacred Profane
Making Community Impossible
No Knowledge of God or His Son
No Knowledge of your Fellow Man's Needs
No Knowledge of Fortune and Her Blindfold
Knowledge of Pain
Knowledge of Despotism
Knowledge of Ugliness
Knowledge of Will

Seventh Day Adventists

Yeah, that's a cult. No doubt. Good work Matt. I had no idea. Let's put it this way, there's Poets and there's Posers. People who make "Prophecies" expecting them to come true, are just people trying to gain a following. 

The Hebrew word for Prophet is "Interpreter." I learned that from Baruch Spinoza of all people. But, generally, I think creatively reflecting on scripture, is different than trying to exert your own beliefs as if they were. Which, Ellen G. White crossed that line. Nothing I write is sacred... it's just sermons in the form of Poetry. If it all got burned tomorrow, it'd be a waste for me, as it wouldn't save souls. But, there'd be no loss to the kingdom. That I know of. I always say, if any scripture actually gets written, it will appear there in scripture, and nobody will have to do anything to it. God will do it.

My Friend Jonathan

Walking through the trees,
If you'd just walk one more mile with me...
But you wouldn't.
You unload upon me an accusation...
Yet, I know you can't read my thoughts.
That is a paranoia of mine,
But you knew nothing of what I actually thought.
Though I did tell you what I was thinking,
And you told me I was lying...
I was not lying my friend.

"Conservatives love God but not His law,
"And Liberals love God's Law but not Him."

We are two friends, knit together,
You say it is your idea,
I say it is mine.
I don't know which of us found the principle...
But many discussions with you have made their impact...
Must I go over every word and find what is yours
And what is mine?
What if both of us together have been iron sharpening iron?