Melbagirl

[melbagirl2001]

The Humanity Party® has presented a simple, IMMEDIATE solution to Global Warming and Climate Change.

I challenge you to read it and explain to me why the solution wouldn't work IMMEDIATELY!

Climate Change—IMMEDIATE SOLUTIONS

Read here:

https://www.humanityparty.com/post/climate-change-immediate-solutions

[melbagirl2001]

Pearl Publishing LLC announces a Christmas gift to the world!

I can't wait for this amazing book!!

So, so excited. MERRY CHRISTMAS to you ALL!

"Pearl Publishing, LLC announces a Christmas gift to the world!!

Read the Rough Draft INTRODUCTION to the upcoming book titled:

A New American Scripture—How and Why the Real Illuminati™ Created the Book of Mormon

FREE DOWNLOAD HERE.

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Every experience I’ve ever had with Andrew Lebaron was so significant to me… they always will be. The first time I met Andrew he gave me a ride on his motorcycle and I kindddd of fell in love with him. He used to tell this story about how he got this leather jacket at a thrift store for like $5 and he wore that same leather jacket the entire time I knew him. He didn’t need much. He liked to sleep in his car. I remember how much he detested being white, American, and male for the reason that it just wasn’t fair to the rest of the world. Andrew cared about people enough to actually live that way, in absolute protest against money and superiority. For the entire next year after we met (or longer) we emailed back and forth. I used to ask what he wanted out of life, what his goals were. He said he wished he could go to college, learn other languages, travel, get better at guitar, and I suspected, find love. He was perhaps a little too honest sometimes but he poured his heart out and I did the same. We’d talk on the phone for hours and hours. We used to always argue about who could eat more, and at the end of it I’d always concede that mayybeee, if we ever tested it he would win, but only because he was larger than I was. Even though we never ended up dating it meant a lot to me that Andrew was still willing to put in the effort to be my friend. He was the kind of person who felt free by sleeping in a park with a homeless man, wanted to make a video with his friends about how to travel cheap, shocked me because he was willing to spend actual Christmas day with my family and I, gave me tours of SLC while running through the rain barefoot, showed us the greatest thunderstorm overlooking a city I’ve ever seen, told me to go to Gay Pride, and I did, spent hours researching gear and bought me hundreds of dollars’ worth to go with him to Europe after inviting me and didn’t expect anything in return…. Other than trying to convince me to work at Delta myself so I could get free flights too. When I met Andrew he was almost the only person around my age on the planet who believed what I did about the universe, and I’d always tell him how important that was to me, the fact that he even existed. It proved how worthwhile it all was because it was worthwhile to someone other than myself and I can’t say how much I needed that kind of a friend, a friend like he was. He mailed me physical copies of the Vote Anonymous posters he made so I could hang them up with him when he had the idea for his Delta university tour. He actually went to the rally in Europe. Whether or not it came of anything it will always have inspired me and given me new motivation and hope for humanity. He was my pillar of hope through the years. This is him when I once specifically got a layover so we could meet up for a few hours at the SLC airport, and he drove for longer than we had time to hang out. This is him when I gave him a tour of my city after he came all the way to Coeur d'Alene Idaho, over a 10 hour drive just because he told me he would visit. This is him after he got me the best gift I have ever been given, a passport so we could go to Canada together, and we went and it was amazing. My first ‘another country’ tour, of many that followed and many to come. Andrew’s goals never changed, I couldn’t stop thinking about that after I found out he passed away. He accomplished everything he set out to do. He graduated college, traveled the world, sang his heart out, learned Russian and Spanish, got married…who can say what else. I work at a grocery store as a cashier and lately every time someone asks me how I am I genuinely ignore the fact that my heart is incredibly broken, and I tell them I am doing wonderfully and I give them a great enormous smile before asking them about their lives. I was doing all that before, but I feel like I’ve woken up, like he woke me up and now I have a resolve behind the smile. No matter what happens, all of those people deserve every ounce of love imaginable. It’s a protest in support of humanity. Now I’m doing it for him because that is exactly, exactly what he would do if he were in my position, if say, he had lost me. Each day I see a lot of people who are very old, so I’ve also just been noticing how most everyone in the world is older and thinking about how much longer they have existed than he or I. It’s strange to think they’ve been around twice or even three times as long, and its stranger to imagine he would have ever been that old because it hasn’t happened for either of us. I wonder if they’ve possibly accomplished all of their goals like he did, or as much as he did in a mere 26 years.

[melbagirl2001]

Words from my daughter that touched my heart. I will miss Andrew.

[voicehumanity]

If Islam Is a Religion of Violence, So Is Christianity

The world’s oldest religions all have troubling histories of bloodshed. Singling out Islam is just Trump’s latest, hateful hypocrisy.

When the United States and other Western countries refer to themselves as “Christian Nations,” they are negating the separation of church and state, and relegating freedom of thought to freedom to choose a religion.  And when any politician states, “God bless the United States of America,” they are violating the value of the separation standard.

When Americans hear, “God bless America,” they automatically think of a Christian god.  But when they hear an Iranian say, “Allah bless Iran,” Americans cry foul and Theocracy.

Is there separation of church and state in America?  Does it exist anywhere in the world?  THumP® insists that it does not.

The Humanity Party® has outlined the three main components of ending worldwide terrorism as: 

1) Ending the legal possession of guns outside of a “well-regulated” military and law enforcement agencies; 

2) Ending poverty by providing the FBNL; 

and the most controversial, 

3) Ending all religion through free worldwide education and honesty.

Of course, people who believe that their particular god is watching over, upholding and “blessing” their country are going to be “up in arms” (Freudian slip intended) about the notion of ending religion.  

What THumP® means is that we must TRULY separate church and state … REALLY!  

Furthermore, THumP® does not suggest that anyone will be forced to abandon their religious beliefs, because they are individual and personal opinions.  But if people were more educated and presented with honest evaluations of religious history and its ancient sources, the people WILL BE MORE APT AND ABLE TO CHOOSE FREELY TO GIVE UP RELIGION for a more humane and logical way of viewing life upon earth.

Religious missionaries and solicitors are supported in their right to spread throughout the world with the intent of convincing a person of a particular religious persuasion to change to theirs, theirs being “God’s only true church.”  

But does a person have the same right not to believe, and insist that there is no god, and that religion is a means of control and inequality that has valued and enriched religious leaders?

How well would Atheist missionaries be received throughout the world?

How would a politician be received who said, “May our shared humanity and reason bless our nation”?

What if the United States became a nation of humans under one ideology: Humans Rock!  

What if a government existed under the religious mantra that each individual is the only god that exists; and that this god blesses the individual with free will and intelligence; and it is government’s obligation and duty to support, honor, and worship this ONLY TRUE GOD?

What if the two Greatest Commandments in the law, and upon which all law and the prophets hang were:

“Thou shalt love thyself with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.  This is the first and great commandment.  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

The fact and real truth is, when the New Testament was first written in the Greek language, the words of “Jesus” actually DID TRANSLATE AS “LOVE THYSELF.”  Why else would the second commandment be “love thy neighbour as thyself?”

The problem arose when religious leaders had the Greek version translated to fit their agendas.  The people would not support religious leaders with value and money if “God” wasn’t the intent of the love one should have “with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.”  If the individual was the intent, those who speak for God (all religious leaders) would lose their value … and their income.

Real truth: 

The man on whose life the stories of Jesus are based (whose actual name was Inpendius, a man who was born circa 88 b.c.e) TAUGHT THE PEOPLE TO LOVE THEMSELVES FIRST, ABOVE ALL!  Inpendius was a rebel, who, like Socrates and many before him, taught independence of heart and mind.  Is there any wonder why the politicians and religious leaders at the time had him killed?

… And this is what THumP® means by educating people so that they can make the choice for themselves to give up their religion for our shared humanity.

The Humanity Party® is a religion too.  It’s called the Human Religion.  

THumP® has the answers.  No one else does.

[melbagirl2001]

Separation of church and state

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[melbagirl2001]

Proposed Constitution for The Humanity Party

This new constitution is only a proposal and a general outline of desired changes that can be incorporated into the current U.S. Constitution. According to current constitutional law, if enough THumP™ Representatives are elected to Congress, then they can legally rewrite the Constitution. THumP™'s proposed Constitution can act as a guideline and suggestions for the new Congress to work with in establishing a new Constitution.

[melbagirl2001]

It's not what one knows that exalts the being, but in how one uses what one knows in treating and interacting with other people

Joseph Smith’s Authorized biography, chapter 20

[melbagirl2001]

Good for reference.

[melbagirl2001]

The Story of Ug and Thug

Gather around children, and let me tell you a story of where money came from.

This is the story of Ug and Thug.

A long time ago, long before the discovery of silver and gold, there lived a man named Ug.

Ug lived in a community of people who prospered well for that time, herding sheep, raising cows, and growing grain.

One day while Ug was fishing in a stream near his home, he noticed a shiny rock exhibiting its countenance through the crystal clear water.

“That’s a nice looking stone,” Ug thought as he retrieved it from its resting place.

As Ug pondered on the discovery he had made, he wondered what use this pretty rock could have. He decided that although the rock was beautiful, it served him no real purpose; so he threw it back. Now that he had discovered the existence of the rock, he began to notice that the stream bed where he was fishing was full of the peculiar looking stone.

Ug’s neighbor, Thug, was a lazy sort, and spent many a day down by the stream idly dreaming up ways he could get out of the responsibilities of work that were required of him by the community of people where he lived.

One day, Thug noticed the shiny rock that his friend, Ug, had discarded. “Hey!” thought Thug, “I bet I could convince Ug’s wife that this pretty stone is worth a mammoth meat pie.” (Something Thug loved to eat, but was too lazy to make himself.)

Thug took the stone and fashioned it into a trinket and gave it to Ug’s wife, who upon seeing it, immediately fell in love with its shiny attributes. She made Thug his pie, and couldn’t wait to show off her new trinket to her friends.

“Wow!” thought Thug. “If Ug’s wife liked the stone, maybe all the other women will like one too. I’ll never have to make another mammoth pie again!”

Thug went down to the streambed and gathered up all the shiny rocks he could and, when the other men’s wives wanted a shiny trinket like Ug’s wife, their husbands searched in vain for the rocks Thug had already taken.

The other women were distraught that they could not have a trinket like Mrs. Ug. These women began to pester their husbands until the pestering became unbearable.

The men went to Thug and asked him for some of his shiny rocks for their wives. “What will you give me for one of these rocks?” Thug asked. “I will build you a fence,” said one man. “And I will give you three cows to put inside the fence,” said another.

Soon Thug, the laziest man in town, had the best house, barn, fence, and animals in all the community. Thug spent most of his time looking and digging for the now “precious” stones. The more he found, the less there were for others to find.

It wasn’t long before Thug made a list of the things for which he could trade his stones. He divided his stones up into groups according to size. The littlest stones he traded for a cow, a sheep, or an ox. A bigger stone he gave in exchange for a new shed to be built on his land.

And the biggest stones well, these he kept for himself because he knew he could break them into littler stones that he could trade for practically anything he wanted.

Ug’s cow died and he didn’t have any way to procure milk for his growing children.

He asked his wife if she would let him have her trinket so he could trade it to his brother (whose wife had one but wanted two) for one of his cows. Reluctantly, Ug’s wife gave up her trinket so that her children could have milk.

Ug took the stone out of the trinket and traded the stone for one of his brother’s cows. Ug’s brother, Shrug, took the stone, which was way too big for just one cow, and traded it to another neighbor for six sheep and twelve bushels of wheat.

Ug’s brother never told him that his wife’s stone was worth more than just one cow. He knew his brother needed a cow more than he needed a stone that he couldn’t eat, wear, or sleep in; so he decided he had done his brother a favor. And for the favor, he would get more for the stone than what he gave for it.

This situation went on for some time. Before long, the stones were worth much more to the people of the community than any of their other possessions.

One wise man set up a little business by the bank of the stream where the stones had first been found. His wise premise was to help people save their stones and get more stones by lending them out to others in return for a bigger stone than what they had borrowed in the first place.

When this man lent out a stone that was the size of a walnut, he told the borrowers that they would have to pay him back a stone the size of an apple. When the bigger stone was paid back as agreed, the man would then chip off a little bit of the apple-sized stone for himself and give the person who had deposited his stone in the business a stone which was bigger than what he had originally deposited.

“What an easy way to get more stones without finding any, or trading anything for them,” boasted the man.

Since his business seemed to be successful by the bank of the stream, he called his business, The Bank. Soon the people of the community were spending far more time figuring out ways to get and trade stones than they were raising things to eat, making things to wear, or building houses.

It wasn’t long before there were lots of stones lying around that no one could eat, wear, or live in. The people began to die from hunger and the cold outside, or they were killed by someone wanting their stones.

Ug analyzed what had happened to his community, and called the people together and told them what Thug had done. He explained that Thug had taken advantage of all of them because he didn’t want to work like the rest of the community.

He made Thug’s name known throughout the land as a lazy con artist who took advantage of the peoples’ industry for his own good. His name has been infamous ever since.

It wasn’t long before Thug killed his brother for speaking against him; and because of Thug’s riches and power, no one dared punish him for what he had done.

So, you see, children, we invented money.  We made important in our lives.

Wouldn’t it be a nice thing if we gave everyone just enough money so that they would have a nice house to live in, so that they would have healthy food to eat, to have warm clothes to wear, to have medicine when they were sick, and to be able to go to school and learn everything that they wanted to learn?

Money can do these things.

Because we invented money … because we control money … we can make money do what we want it to do.

Wouldn’t you agree children?

But you know why we can’t make money do what we want it to do?

Because there are too many Thugs in the world.

[mortalhusk]