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.
Western Empiricism
If Western Empiricism were only understood? Then, classrooms would build squares And test out the Quadratic Equation. They would cut their squares, and see The beautiful workings of geometry. They would do calculus, and find it precisely Forecasts measurements---they would test It with the forces of Gravity. They would see circles’ circumferences Were Pi, if the diameter of a circle were one. They would predict the volume of spheres; They would understand the reason spheres Are calculated, and they’d see by water displacement That the calculations are 100% accurate. They would, in remedial math courses, Learn algebra through physics and electricity. They would learn how electricity works By testing it in the classroom. They would measure velocity and distance and time. They would learn geometry through Euclid, And connect the limitations of physical reality. Instead, our students are bombarded by deduction Without any a posteriori understanding of why? Deduction within deduction, within deduction--- If one has perfect logic, yet not a fact to use with it, Then one can prove about anything--- So long as the logic is sound, it creates beautiful works of art. Yet, to understand the simple nature of reality Is to understand the subtle nature of how real world Events dictate the interpretation of history. That a word is as accurate as a scientist’s compass. Should we know history… See history… Understand Shakespeare for what he truly said, Not what we had liked him to have said; We would not pervert the science of the soul. For, the mere fact that we make a lovesong Of a man with his eleven year old son To be an erotic evocation of a gay relationship With a Duke--- There’s something perverted in our knowledge. The fact that Fantasia’s nudity is seen in perverted light; It means that someone must feel a cherub is erotic. Not, however, to see the metaphor of erotic lovemaking Which brings upon Cupid’s form from the womb. No… Cupid is erotic, Shakespeare is singing love songs about his son. Why I cling to my Bible is that it helps erase that nonsense An align my soul back to understanding things Without the perverted intrusion of sensualities Which ought not be interpolated into the text; Save that an individual is perverted beyond all measure. Yet, because we live in a perverted culture Cupid is erotic, and Shakespeare sings erotic stanzas To his eleven year old son Hamnet, whom the poem So clearly is talking about by reference a dozen times to death’s deparation.
The Battle of Oxford
For one hundred and eighty years The Boers and the Rebels fought wars For one hundred and eighty years The Boers and the Rebels fought wars Bloody and broken. Between gaps They would rest, and blood would spill out Upon the grassland’s ruby clay Of the African bush. Back, forth They would wound and maim, and so kill The Redcoat and Boer Warrior’s bled. On the final salvo, after Many years of slaughter, the Boers Took one last push into Redcoat Lines, yet the Redcoats repelled them For they were refreshed by a moment’s Hesitation from the Boer lines. Fifty-One hundred Rebels slain And Fifty-two hundred Boers lay Dead upon the open plains, heaped Into their rows, where the dead lie.
India
The cure kills. Bodies float down the Ganges Starved from the Locusts which wiped out Half of the crop. Meanwhile, being told to stay indoors, And not go into the market to avoid getting sick. A well fed individual has nothing to fear from it. But, a man told not to go to market, Told to wear a mask which costs a day’s salary--- They die for they’re blocked from access to food. Meanwhile, Joe Biden forces Americans to take vaccines; A hot meal is the best vaccine medicine can afford. And for over ninety percent of the world They are being blocked from having it.
The Reign of Science
Are we anymore free today With science as our guide? Are we any happier? Are we any more blessed? Are we any more satisfied by love? Are we less hungry? Are we sheltered more? Are the governments any more benevolent? Are the children any safer? Are the schools better? Is the child’s hope in the future any brighter? It seems five years of the reign of Science Has already crippled the Earth totally.
On the Inerrancy of Scripture
I spy upon the Earth the reverberating Circle--- There are Christians who lose their faith over A small detail wrong in our Holy Text. I say God doesn’t care about small details. Just the big Picture. Yet, with this there is an end to wisdom When the zealot, clinging to his faith, seeks scripture And sees the most minute detail wrong; “An Error!” And then the Atheist says, “See! If thou cannot “Trust God to make the Bible all inerrant, then thou “Canst trust a word the Bible doth say? Canst thou, now? “For if the Bible be inspired by God, how “I say to you, can you believe anything it “Says, if I find this little, innocuous thing?” I say, one ought to know God, and it won’t be a Problem. For, if one communes with God, God’s love will Show one the fact that our Bible is not a god Nor is it God’s flesh, nor is it God’s power. Words It is, transcribed by prophets, written by Jesus. But it is not the object of our faith. So what Kierkegaard says, that faith is more important than The object of faith, which for many Christians is The Bible. How do we know it is true? Because It speaks independent truths which man can find on Their own, yet no man, save God, was aught wise enough To find aught morsel of Wisdom’s objective truths. I spy upon the Earth the reverberating Circle--- There are Heathens who find god’s Paraclete And they believe they have found full revelation. Knowing power, they find themselves descending deep Into the recesses of dark idolatry. For, knowing power, they know not whether it be Darkness or light--- This is why one must couple truth And power--- for if they’re found independently Christians find all wisdom---to which there is an end; And wisdom not knowing God or tasting power Is as dangerous as Heathens tapping into it Like a thief. For knowing the Bible without first Knowing God denies the power and existence Of God. Yet knowing God exists, finding power, Is to know God, without washing in His clean blood.
Judas Iscariot
The portrait of a wicked man is such:
He, having blood money, throws it at the
Priests, where the silver coins spill onto the
Temple's floor. The Priests then persuade Judas
To accompany them, for it’s bloodcoin
And then they buy the Potter’s Field with him
To mock Jeremiah’s prophecy. Weak
Judas then realizes a prophecy
Has been fulfilled, and he hangs himself in
The field, where several two-days later his
Rotten corpse spills his purple guts.
Andrew
How many times has the LORD called you? Nay, just once? No, it's been multitudes of times In multitudes of different ways. He keeps calling you, until you follow him.
Messiah
I don’t say the Bible is inerrant, But our faith in it, like Kierkegaard said, Is more important than the object of The Bible itself. I still believe in it. Because if one read the metaphors, it Is clear that it is the Word of God, and God Breathed. I imagine Jesus telling His story, writing each chapter as His Book, to teach mankind about war and peace About love and hate, about right and wrong. Yet, would it not make sense that the news In Bethlehem reach Herod’s ears after The Prophet and Prophetess declared Him The Son of God and then King of the Jews? "They departed into their own country "Another way." Then they went to Egypt! Jesus was a young boy. It seems for Mary and Joseph to flee To Egypt, after Christ’s own lawful rites Would have to be after He was declared King. And David fighting off the numbers Of many men in battle, the point is That He won great victories, whether horse Or Chariot, or Footman it does not Matter. And perhaps Jehoiakim were A Mandela Effect, like Billy Graham. Or, it could be he was overseen by A regent.
Dear, Peter Boghossian
Dear, Dr. Boghossian Why do you feel the need to proselytize your belief? It seems like you believe that “Faith” is blind obedience to an archaic law. Well, I’ve studied history and it seems like that archaic law is the subconscious of man. Men inherently pattern themselves off of that law, whether we want to believe it or not. So, let’s get back to the fact that you feel it necessary to proselytize. Belief in life after death---in my opinion---seems paramount for human flourishing. Without it, our freedom has been severely diminished in the light of “Science.” Science, which tells us that a flu virus is serious enough to shut down civilization. We must suspend our freedoms in the name of science. You cannot blame that on religion. It is purely science. Second thing, since you are so big on empirical knowledge, what empirical knowledge says that men are half way between? That they can be both genders at once, just by feeling it? That seems more like faith to me, than the faith I ascribe to, which sees a man is clearly a man, and a woman is clearly a woman. Which, leads us to what faith is. Lao Tsu, Plato, and other philosophers had found it. In the Tao Te Tsing, Lao Tsu is speaking of an underlying substrate which exists beyond human perception or human ability to speak. Seeing that different languages speak different words for different concepts, the fact remains that the concept still exists. It, then as Plato would say, is embodied in the concept of Word or Logos. Take that one step further, what we find through Word and Tao is the teachings of Christ Jesus. That His teachings were preeminent, and spoke the most amount of truth. Seeing that I imagine Jesus teaching every word of the Bible, and telling stories of David, Moses, quoting the Law verbatim, what we find in that is still truth. Unfortunately, you’ve looked at two chapters in Genesis, and determined the whole Bible were false. And, certainly, a certain substrate of Christians believe in those chapters. And this is where the problems arise, is that you think of Christians as backward bumpkins believing the world were six thousand years old. Certainly, the great bulk of Christians know evolution is true, and know the Earth is old. It’s not something that makes us shutter, and when I think of God, I think of a being big enough to create the world. For, how many worlds are there? How many worlds has God created? It could be that we are in one world with a universe, and Genesis is talking of the Prime World, the first of God’s creation. Or, it could just be that God created our world---literally---as the book of Genesis describes. It was just like an author writing a book. At different times, the LORD took up the pen, in seven days, and ordered the universe. When game designers create RPGs, they create it in different ways. First are the environments, then the textures, then the animals, and finally the sprites are put in with their dialogues and stories. Why would God create the world any differently? This gets to the problem with your empiricism. Matter is being created with light---which seems to be a blaspheme---and seeing that particle physics are doubting the very universe we live in, the fact remains that we do not live on a two dimensional plane. Rather, it is faith---knowing the objective world, and seeing the invisible planes of creation and the ordering of the universe---that tells us the objective world is real. Because it must be---for if it isn’t, imagine the disorder and chaos that would ensue? And given this fact, imagine if Will were proven to exert power over the universe? How close they are to determining this, and then the entire house of cards fall for Western Empiricism. Yet, Western Empiricism works on the premise of a sound, grounded foundation. It must, therefore, look at ethical forms of technology and ethical forms of knowledge, that certain kinds of technology are dangerous, even blasphemous. And if we look at the world like this, it proves what Christ had already said. That the mountains can move with faith, and the trees. Not that these things are subject to will, but that faith is seeing the truth, the substrata of what is tangible underneath the artifice of words. Faith is more like algebra than it is blind. Algebra is blind, but it is a logical way of looking at the world which is proven through empirical data. Faith is this, only with morals. It is a moral algebra, which when understood to the most difficult aspects of Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics and Chemistry, it proves the ordering of the world, and a moral nature which must govern our ways. It proves itself above all other things, that there are certain things which are unnatural, and therefore unethical. That certain ideas ought not be entertained. Because it creates scientific disasters. And faith understands the moral reasons for this. It attains the ethical foundations of the world, and it proves itself because it creates happier societies. And if we fear death---for fear of death is a vice, which makes men unhappy---it is because men fear the afterlife. It is because they covet this life, and if all men fear losing this life, the fact remains that nobody will ever live it. And in that, unnatural states of technology will have to compensate for this, and create artificial realities and things which are false light. It will confuse the nature of organic reality, and trap people in Hell. For that is what hell is, I’m certain, is a technological prison, a hallucination of the dead body where nothing is real. And it is faith that finds the substance, and cures the paranoid delusions. Seeing the world for what it actually is, discovering the nature behind our artifices, that is what discovers the true reality, and Faith is seeing the moral nature of that reality and knowing the destruction aberrations of that moral nature create. And because of this, we are suffering under the aberration of faith right now, and this is why the world suffers. Or, perhaps why it rejoices while the common man loses the beautiful amenities that kept us happy. For, why does the world rejoice, and I mourn? Like Christ said? Because the world abandons all truth, even the most fundamental like Man and Woman, and they deny the power of Word and abandon even the Scientific Method for the sake of, what is in all reality, Witchcraft. And when science ceases to be science, and it becomes witchcraft, then we will know that it is against Faith, which is the Moral Algebra that if understood, helps man create beneficial patterns of being.