Factual Wisdom for the Age of Apostasy: A Book of Ruminations, Aphorisms, Sayings and Proverbs in Reference to the Issues of Life Associated with the Five Areas of Being Human

By Thomas D. Sharts, MEd

This book Factual Wisdom For the Age of Apostasy accounts for those issues of life synonymous with the five areas of being human (spiritual, physical, social, psychological and vocational) associated with living in an age void of truth and commonsense. Moreover, the book offers an analysis of these life issues from various expressive perspectives such as ruminations, aphorisms, sayings and proverbs.
It is the hope of this author that readers will comprehend how sacred life is in reference to safeguarding against willful ignorance, vanity, willful stupidity, cowardice and hatred while alternatively exploring and developing beliefs and behavioral lifestyles that promote the sanctity of life.
In truth, life is to be lived in such a manner that living is lifted up in glory so that each person on earth has an opportunity to achieve his/her life-giving purpose and receive/and allocate community blessings because of such a fact. Anything less than such a blessed experience are those persons that are living the living death, and certainly, the works expressed in this book find these kinds of lives and those machinations responsible for such debasing experiences a reprehensible outrage that must be excised from civilized social life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 4, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503577602

Thomas D. Sharts, MEd

Thomas D. Sharts is Department Chair of Social Sciences and Fine Arts with Northern Marianas College. Also he has authored the following books: The American Deception; The Poor Man’s Bible A-Z; Avant-Garde Sociology; The Five Areas of Being Human; Sunday School Lessons and Sermon Topics for Real Faith in the Real World; Building a NonProfit Entity, Organization or Agency; The Science and Art of Effective Secondary and Post-Secondary Classroom Teaching and Bipolar Sagacity. Mr. Sharts has eighteen years college teaching experience and has taught in higher education in both the United States and overseas. From 1999 to 2007, he was the Founder and Executive Director of Friendship Helping Ministries in Charlotte, NC. In 2002, he was the recipient of the Community Quarterback Award for Human Services Leadership as designated by the National Football League’s Carolina Panthers. Mr. Sharts interests are reading, writing, sports, and the visual and dramatic arts. He is also available for public speaking engagements or educational seminars in reference to sociological analysis on identified specific topics, business analysis, nonprofit creation and development, self-help analysis, etc. He may be contacted at [e-mail]

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Contents

On Meaningfulness

Obsessive Desires

Like Plants

Paranoia: The Perfect Analogy

I’m A Lazy Sucker

How Dubious

Forsaking Today

No, Really

Envy What?

Understanding

Solitary Man

Surprises

Isolation

Fearing The Unknown

Trouble Ahead

The Objection Of Rule

Power Can Turn Into Rust

How Many?

Finite Nonsense

Pretending Confusion

Castles To The Sky

The Royal Burn

Confessions Of A Christian

Sometimes The World

Everyone Just Doesn’t Give A Rip!

The Greatest Struggles

The Waste Of Sanity

No Faith = Bondage

Immaturity

Sometimes I Wonder

Drawing The Line

Subjectivity

Somebody’s Wrong

Lost Humanity

Peace

The Ignorance Of Tools

Wonderment

You Bet

Tell Me

Love Of A Thing

Tell Me How Many?

Three Great Pillars

Things I’m Not Thankful For

Life Is Pretty Lonely

Men From Mars

Wealthy Ignorance

Of Course It Is

Hope

Democracy And Social Reality

Christian Education

What Good Is It?

Embracing Deprivation

What Reason?

Mastering The Obvious

Duh

The Dubiousness Of Comparison

Insane Incongruency

Ramifications Of Boredom

The Great Equation

Oxygen

It Certainly Is!

Shadows And Glare

Fearing Success

The Internal Combustion Engine

Exhaustive Depletion

Yes Sir

Just Average Folks

Science And Myopic Perception

Face The Facts Jack!

Don’t Preach-Teach!

Environmental Tyranny

The Value Of Apprenticeship

Let’s Have A Bash

Look In The Mirror Sport

What Is Life?

My Fault My Friends

Lust For Blessing

Every Day Is An Investment

Under The Hand Of God

Faith To The Test

Indigency Asks

Self Is Not The Savior

Like Aids

American Vocational Reality

Self-Esteem Truth

Indict Me!

Lost Immersion

Introspective Government

Holy Delusion

The Robbery Of Lust

Stress

Getting Old And Ugly

Two Pillars Of Deception

Life’s A Paradox

Educated Confusion

Null And Void: Hello Africa

Unexpected Blessings

Hating Your Brother

Boaster: Heal Thyself

Artist Without A Cause

A Key To Community

The Power Of The Mind

Who Shall Provide?

His Eyes Are Upon Us

Pride

Information Use

The Holy Remnant

Knock It Off!

Believability

Likes

Self-Destruction

Jealous Folks

Three Things Will Please

Teach Commonsense

Three Great Mysteries

Haircut At Thirty

Why Are So Many People So Proud Of Their Minds?

Another Great Mystery

A Christmas Alone

Prison Aside From State Or Federal Prison

Material Goods Die

True Worth

Vanity

I Ask

Visual Chains

The Rebel Mold

Enthusiastic Premises

What Is Left For There To See?

The Lonely Walk

Being A Faithful Friend

You’re Weird Haven’t You Heard?

Blind Sin

Lustful Confusion

The Selfish Truth

The Democratic Joke

When I Was Young And Stupid

This Christianity

The Unbelief Of Professed Faith

Take A Guess

The Other Day

Jello

Blowing Yesterday

Vain Celebration

Steeples

Is This Man A Candidate?

A Dying Man

Worldly Trash

How Acceptable

Expectations

Usually Life Is Void

Hiding In Public

Salesmen

72 Degrees

In Vain

A High Price For Labor

Everyone Is Like A Coalminer

I Am Presently Nothing

Social Pressure

The Midst Of Immaturity

Whose Choice Is It Anyhow?

Handstand At Work

Sometimes I Wonder

Vocations

The Great Paradox Can Be Quite Confusing

Circumstances Lie

Not Enough Time

Phenomenal

For Fools

Life Is Strange

Common Wisdom

Deception

Greatness

The Secret Of Darkness

Cultural Cancer

Black Versus White

Man’s Greatest Enemy

A Classic Case

Profligation

Elusive To The Soul

Wisdom

The Pain Of Wisdom

Mental Illness

Why Is Johnny Still Living At Home At Age 27?

What Is The World About Anyhow?

The Accuser

Hard Feelings

Power Knows No Fear

Let It Be

Insults

Wake Up Dreamer

What Is True Prision?

Looney Tunes

Fraudulent Behavior

Being Nude

The Truth Of Tears

Sin Is So Relative

Whose Saga Is It Anyhow?

Life Is Precious

The Obvious

The Albatross Of Loneliness

Some Men Want To Play King

It Figures

Like A Horse Race

Out Of College

Being A Pauper

Shackles

Profound Things

Where Is Promise And Where Is Hope?

The Search For Truth

Hardly Thinking

Humilty Is Wishing

Define Power

False Hopes

Don’t Brag Too Early

A Serious Disability

The Theory Of Human Relativity

Important Men

Can A Man Really Have Dignity?

It’s Not Fair, Considering What He Knows

Moral Precepts

What Or Who Created It Anyhow?

Dreams

It Is Simply Toleration

Latent Evils

Who Can Avoid Love?

The Liabiltity Of Finity

Feeling Sick

Why Are We Born?

I’d Rather Love A Kewpie Doll

Yearning For Home

The Fear Of Truth

Stupidity

The Shortcomings Of Life

Ignorance Can Cause Confusion

Cultural Values

Define Insantiy

Mass Confusion

Over-Educated People

Satiated With Theology

A Redundant People

Growing Up

What Is True Humility?

Classic Inrospection

The Strength Of Christ

A Great Leader

Formula For Success

True Impediments

In Our Haste

Is This An Objective Analysis?

Ye, Right Sir!

The Problems Of The Nation

One May Ask

What Is Life All About?

Empty Promises

The Great Search

Listen For The Evidence

Media Is Not Glamorous

Suicidal Tendencies

Erosion

A Star?

Habits

The Chains Of Acceptance

The Truth About Love

The Heart Of The Matter

The Vanity Of Youth

Functional Relationships

The Truth Of Renting

Mind-Boggling

Define Music

Define Music Part 2

The Obvious

Anybody’s Guess

The Consequences Of Selfishness

A Serious Deception

Consuming Attitudes

Preaching

Civil Living

No Man

Imitation Theory

The World Is So Large

Is It Possible?

The Domino Theory

What Is The Will Of God?

Television

The Hypocrisy Of Knowledge

The Prision Of Time

The Crop Of Jealousy

Why Are Men So Proud Of Their Intellect?

A Great Leader

In The Future

Identity Crisis

The Beginning Of Renaissance

A Crying Shame

It Definitely Figures

A Difficult Question

A Remote Possibility

A Classic Case Of Compassion

Double-Edged Sword

True Evangelism

Trickle-Down Theory

Understanding

The Antidote Of Rhetoric

The Reality Of The Holy Spirit

Sunday Lip Service

True Worship

Who Is Worthy To Preach?

So What Is The Solution?

Split Personalities

Social Insanity

The Mysteries Of God

Lonely Wisdom

One Must Ask Questions

A Difficult Feat

The Ignorance Of A Confused State

If I As A Parent

A Dubious Exchange

Little Powerless Pieces

The Benefits Of Loving Your Dog

The Fake Syndrome

A Dubious Defense

Surprises

Idle Time

An Incredible Tragedy

Glory-Less Truth

The Great Provider

The Deceptive Stumbling Block

Mature Youth

Paradigm Of A Great Farce

The Uselessness Of Intelligence

Meticulus Parlor

False Hopes

The Opportunity Of Friendship

Funny To Hear

Symptoms Of Love Deprivation

Think About It

Frustrations

Anyone’s Guess

Release

Intellectuals

Sublime Fear

Please Don’t Ask Me

The Fear Of Fear

Preposterous Thinking

Impervious Nature Or Change

Elusive Utopia

Hope

The Ignorance Of Bitterness

Grasping At Air

Missing All The Fun

Blind Rule

Contradictive Statements

Life Is Strange

Historical Amnesia

I Have A Theory

The Prison Of Over-Education

Summing It Up

Ostentatious Nonsense

Scary Truth

Useless Suffering

Yellow Is Epistemologically Esoteric

A Safe Failure

The Misguided Truth Of Ignorance

What Good Is It?

Fear Of Exposure

Eco-Bondage

Professed Agnostics

Sooner Or Later

Health Care

The Evolution Of Too Much Democracy

Crisis In Education

On The Virtue Of Work

Welfare Reform

Confronting

Home

Trash The Hymnbook Folks

Sorry Tithing

Race Relations/America

Please Affirm Myself

Hey Shut Up!

Historical Vanity Binds

Two Masters

Where Do I Go Now?

I Need Nine Miracles

Seven Areas Of Common Sense

Lord, Teach Us To Live By Faith Not Only By Reason

Social Prison

Who Knows Why?

Define Leadership

For Crying Out Loud

Monogamy

Coping

Am I Crazy?

Train Thyself

Why Is It?

Hell’s Attitude

Captain Of The Ship

History

The Art Of Pussyfooting Around

I Like My Fanny

Utterly Pointless

The Central Issues

Addictions

Check It Out

Understanding Social Work

Methods For Realizing Incompetence:

What’s Bullshit?

Ecological Systems Model

Two Hours Of Worthless Hymns

So One Thinks He Is An Expert?

Is It Simply Love?

What Is The Purpose?

Government Social Programs

Leaders

Utter Blindness

Psychological States Are Spiritually-Based

A Crying Shame

The Neuroses/Psychoses Of Media

Hey Dude!

Y2k Bull

Misguided Dogmatic Parameters Bind The Needy

The Congruent Witness

Power Cannot Spare Demise

The Ultimate Conundrum

Teach Me Teach

The Value Of Human Life

The Rust Of Culture

Love Is Service

Pace Of Life

No Fear

We’re All Robots

Long Hair

Blind Ignorance

The Ignorant Are Ignorant

I Love Me

Who Knows Anything?

It’s Tough

There’s Shit On Their Faces

Screwed!

Genuine Educators

Negative Circumstances

Priorities

What Is This Christianity?

A Single Prison

No Lie

Ramifications Of Poverty

Divine Achievers

Meaningless Peasantry

Little Desires In A Little World

Moral Paralysis

The Great Dilemma

Underemployed People

The Civility Of Self Perception

Face The Facts Jack

Do You See Me?

Dreamers

The Weakness Of Discomfort

Social Comparison And Resentment

The Class Struggle

The Promises Of Tomorrow

Who Is His Keeper?

Expunged

That Great Ironic Day

The Failure Of Ideology

Rareness

Hot-Air Blowing In The Wind

The Aristocracy Of Vocations

The Great Waste Of Time

It Is Very Ironic

Apart From Tools

Why Do Men Become So Enthralled?

Phd Nonsense

Numbers

Descending His Throne

The Dearth Of Love

If He Is So Great

The Chains Of Vices

Frustrations

Anyone’s Guess

How Do I Find God Like This?

Latent Human Tragedies

Atialyas Syltas

Potential Evolution Of Social/Psychological Perception And Behavior

Lonely Nights And Lonely Books

Moving So Fast

All Because Of You

Four-Walled Prison

Skinny Little Man

A Freaking Zero!

A Great Leader

A Regretful Sacrifice

Time

Keep Your Pants On!

Buffalo, Ny: A Serious Prison

Trains

It’s All Eternal: The Philosophical Tenets

Working For $6.85

What Life Is About In 21St Century America

This Mess

You’re A Slave

The Art Of Stupidity

Twenty Points Of Hope

ON MEANINGFULNESS

Of greatest crisis in American social/cultural life is the sad fact that people are consumed with self. Consequently, what is needed now more than ever is for people to begin to dedicate their lives toward considering the possibility that there is more to life than the self itself. In truth, much of mass America’s social and psychological problems find their root causality in the basic fact that people cannot find meaning through self-indulgence. Therefore, what is needed is a revival to move away from self-service and toward the contemplation of the sanctity of the community. In truth, meaning derives through not only receiving love, but as a result of committed loving service towards others. Only when one begins to give away himself for the greater good of the community, will meaning commence and alienation and meaninglessness abate.

The profound endemic plight of the human condition is that we all face the familiar painful fact of alienation and anomie – whether factual or the perception of social isolation and meaninglessness. Nevertheless, so much of the real sense of our meaningless is equated with the fact that we all have vacated the sanctity and providence of our mother’s womb and now must daily face a hostile world - that in most cases - meets few of our needs, and in truth, reinforces little in reference toward our search for meaning. So what do we do? First, we must recognize that we are not alone in these equivalent experiences of alienation and anomie. Second, we must discipline ourselves not only to understand those social and psychological realities that affect our perceptions and behavior, but we must apply the same discipline toward the world community around us. Only then, can we begin to make sense of this confusing social mess that only serves to tear us down into undignified individuals – a people with little or no meaning and without reverence for the sacredness of life. Lastly, we must become participants in the healing process of others; implementing those requisite behavioral expediencies which attempt to help the mass alienated discover their way toward meaningfulness and dignity. In truth, without our participation in such social healing endeavors, life will remain not only meaningless for us, but the peoples of the world will continue to persist in their hostility simply because they do not understand the requisite approach toward realizing meaningfulness for themselves. TS 99

The more questions asked regarding a matter, the greater chance to know the facts concerning a matter. TS 06

Many people or enterprises fail because people fear asking questions and absolutely dread the answers to the feared questions posed. TS 06

With zero trust, there can be no hope. It simply cannot be. TS 09

In America when a consumer habitually uses a credit card, in most cases if he/she is a lower middle class person, he/she has no intention of ever paying the collective debt back. Hence, these stupid-ass cards need to be eliminated from economic life. If you don’t have cash to pay for material items or services, don’t buy them with high interest loans. TS 09

The pathetic state of political worthiness and power in the United States can simply be understood by examining the New York Times archived editorial pages dating back 40 years ago. Clearly, one will understand that the same social problems and their issues existed then with no political solution in sight, and the present state of affairs regarding the same social problematic issues remain unsolved. TS 09

What ostensibly is a major problem in the United States in reference to social, economic, cultural, political, and institutional life is the fact that money - not merit - buys access to power and opportunity. Until that fact changes, many worthwhile lives capable of bettering this country’s future will remain prisoners to a nation hell-bent on justifying injustice. TS 09

If the Devil is consistently contending with you, then you most certainly must be someone of true relevance. TS 09

So much so-called news worthy information - when closely scrutinized - really glorifies vanity. The world and its minions are always lauding their respective accomplishments while giving no thought to a tomorrow that is uncertain. Moreover, to hear some people tell it - having money in the bank is the end of all your worries or becoming someone of noteworthy fame means a life worth damn! Let me say this in response to such stupid notions: the Almighty Lord God examines all of our motives (including those many never seen nor understood by the naked eye or hearing ear) and of only any solitary value is what has been accomplished or made significant for the Almighty Lord God’s sake. All else is dross and utterly worthless: not only on judgment day, but also into all eternity. Therefore, do not be deceived and realize that your willful shameful poverty and self-denial in the present tense will actually serve as your guiltless witness guaranteeing your acquittal on that great future judgment day that will surely come. TS 09

If you remember anything at all during the course of your life remember this great fact: you really know nothing. TS 09

Every man should be wary of one great relational fact once he has had sexual relations with a woman; the hooks are now officially in him. TS 09

So many sinful behaviors are a symptom or consequence of another unknown origin yet to be discovered that is much deeper and complex than the symptom itself. TS 09

The measure of integrity and dignity of Christ so few people ever neither embrace nor understand. TS 09

Some symptomatic behaviors of vanity, insecurity, faithlessness and ignorance are: verbosity, un-forgiveness, bitterness, cynicism and nihilism. TS 09

To somewhat faithfully understand the love of God brings forth wisdom, inward healing, material blessing and divine protection. TS 09

In reference to our own unbelief, the great spiritual battle we face inwardly and outwardly relates to the fact that we as well as the world we contend with has an absolutely myopic comprehension of the love of God. TS 09

God created the universe and the earth so that some day in the eternal future - we will understand and experience more fully the infinite love of God. TS 09

The reason why I didn’t become a short-haired ass-kissing banker, lawyer, insurance salesman, stockbroker, financial analyst or doctor in order to have money in the bank, a split-level home with a happy pretty wife and two egocentric-laden kids that I put through college was because I have a conscience. TS 09

If one sells his soul for twenty years in order to put his kids through college how admirable and integrity based is that? Yet, such a case example comprises a massive lot of folks who also champion themselves as good people, Christian servants, and law-abiding citizens. However, I say, let Almighty God be the judge of such debasing fraud when the time has come to comprehend the eternal worthiness of what behaviorally has been done in this worthless earthly life. TS 09

Piss someone off and make a difference. TS 09

Too much worldly success without experiencing any of the Lord’s chastisement makes one a fool. TS 09

Too much of the US legal system and its process is criminal itself. TS 09

Before hate can be eradicated, we must understand the primary origin of why it exists to begin with. TS 09

Roll the dice in life and learn a lesson. TS 09

If one’s youth is gone and his prime pissed away, then of what left? TS 09

Why is it when I meet a really nice girl, I never see her again? TS 09

In our post-industrialized lives, we have far too many temporary social structural interactions with thousands of people that amount to absolutely nothing. TS 09

If you can’t think of anything at all to be thankful for, thank God you can do that. TS 09

How does one exercise faith in utter darkness? TS 09

In most cases, you don’t get paid for being merciful. TS 09

If you’re in trouble and you want to get out of it, then get some money. TS 09

Here I am at 46 years old living the life of a social outcast. In truth, it’s such a ridiculous case scenario when you consider it! I’m in this position because of the facts of xenophobia, persecution of my beliefs, jealousy towards my versatile talents and skills, and hatred of my physical appearance. Is God really bigger than man’s irrational bullshit? In my case, it doesn’t seem to be the case. TS 09

A man’s life void of pleasure is surely a train wreck in the making. TS 09

We lust for what we don’t have: what we wish we had and what ought to be. TS 09

If people don’t care about you when you’re alive, then why will they want any part of your legacy when you’re dead – especially if you’re poor? TS 09

Only the mercy of God allows one to endure a prison. TS 09

Where does one go to be heard? Where is justice in the land? Where and when does commonsense, justice, and mercy prevail over ignorance, willful stupidity, and vanity? As long as man reigns upon earth – never! TS 09

If all we do is worry about money, then how productive can we ever really become? TS 09

No single person willing to be loved deserves a fate of dying alone in a nursing home at old age simply because he or she never found anyone to love. That is the worst sort of cruelty. TS 09

Why would someone financially support something he/she didn’t believe in or support people that have no commitment toward him or her? TS 09

Lord, I appeal to you for wages never paid. TS 09

Lord, when do we get to dash with the fact that the chains that we once walked with are now broken? TS 09

Because the light of Christ is an offense to many – especially ignorant and vain people in power – I have been relegated to pariah status with poverty being my crown and irrelevancy being my robe. TS 09

Is not life in this physical body just weakness? TS 09

Sometimes it’s impossible to feel the presence of God. I don’t know whether it’s just a natural reality associated with being human or it’s just a fact of our guilt and worthlessness before him. TS 09

If I could rid myself of fear and guilt then what kind of person could I be and what kind of life could I live? TS 09

A man living life without leisure or meaningful pleasure is a man destined for self-destruction. TS 09

In the United States, the citizens who rightfully shouldn’t be paying their taxes are the poor; especially those who have no jobs and money to pay taxes with. Yet contrarily, self-proclaimed Reverend’s and erudite talking-heads are paying lawyers massive sums of cash to negotiate their tax evasive practices. TS 09

In a social environmental context of desolation, how holy can a man ever expect to be? TS 09

When closely contemplated, it’s apparent that almost all of material lifestyle choices of man lead to idolatry. So then if this is truth, then what’s the point of life as to why God gave man a physical body in the material world to begin with if his life would be laden by idolatry? TS 09

If a man loves his wife more than the Lord, then he is an idolater; if a man loves his children more than God then he is an idolater; so then, why have a family? TS 09

Who can love his wife or children less than God? How is this task realized? TS 09

The people I don’t like are usually the people who hate themselves more than I hate them. TS 09

Without consistent touch - whether spiritually derived through God or physically realized by human means – one becomes an animal – nothing less and nothing more. TS 09

When does the Lord see that our diligent overwork and investment of our talents is worthy of wages beyond eating canned chicken noodle soup and chapter 13 bankruptcies? TS 09

Genius without discipline is the worst sort of waste. TS 09

A person with less knowledge than you is certainly likely to become your enemy – sooner if not later. TS 09

Conceptualization is to place parameters around matter, abstractions or states of being in order to derive meaning. TS 09

Although we conceptualize time through the use of calendars, seconds, minutes, hours, days, and years, our inability to conceptualize a no beginning for time demonstrates how lame our ability to conceptualize actually is. TS 09

If God loves me, then maybe he’ll help me get paid. TS 09

Be aware of these facts: either God’s kicking my ass or the Devil’s kicking my ass. TS 09

We’re all mentally ill – the significant question is – to what degree? TS 09

Who can conceptualize and analyze the Love of God with any precision and how can it be attained? TS 09

All of created life even at the microscopic level has one common goal – to survive. TS 09

The quest for discovering and communicating truth should be the highest esteem we hold whether it derives wrath, rejection or applause. TS 09

Pornography usage is primarily related to procuring a sense of intimacy. TS 09

The man that trusts himself walks about in the greatest darkness. TS 09

The jobs in the United States that can support a person’s subsistence and savings needs are those that exalt self at the expense of human service toward others. Alternatively, a vocational life chosen toward human services usually means a life of poverty. Lord God Almighty, shame the utter stupidity of such an unwise culture. TS 09

Without trust, nothing can be created, nothing can be shared and nothing can be realized. TS 09

In America, historical achievements seldom pay the bills. TS 09

What truly is the primary enemy of God - whereby all human sufferings and hostilities derive as a consequence - is vanity. TS 09

All I ever wanted to see was that God is over all and that there really is something to live for after all. TS 09

Does vanity bring forth ignorance or does ignorance bring forth vanity? Nevertheless, faithlessness is the bitter outcome of both. TS 09

The issues of life don’t change no matter where you reside on the globe. Fear is still the order of the times while people live daily with the impending horror of disaster that ultimately brings death. In truth, our fears really definitively relate to the can and will we survive? phenomena because in fact, if we can’t survive, we die. TS 09

Lord, show us that you’re bigger than the futile economic systems that man creates that tyrannize humanity. Jesus, prove that you’re greater than worthless paper money; money not even fit to wipe our asses with. TS 09

The US dollar can’t be worth too much if the government prints money at will with no assets to back its worth other than the people’s stupid faith to believe that it has worth when it actuality doesn’t. TS 09

The question no one can face nor answer is: why am I poor? TS 09

How many useless jobs I worked throughout my adult life simply because of the post-industrialized cursed economy and the bullshit opportunities associated with it. TS 09

We are often plagued by the historical memory and facts of our missteps. TS 09

The Almighty Lord God created laws to demonstrate to us the fact of our wretchedness in being able to ever realize and implement pure love toward others on our own accord. TS 09

I’m not an evil person, I’m a survivor. TS 09

When there’s no plan – stay in bed. TS 09

Thank God there are some people in my life that I haven’t known long enough to distrust me. TS 09

Where there is love in its complete purity there is no law that can judge. TS 09

Sometimes it’s so hard to invoke the spirit of God within you when you have so much contending against you. TS 09

The questions are: was it all the Christians who trampled to death the guy working at Wal-Mart or all the heathens or both? TS 09

One of the worst facts of living alone is living with your sinful self and knowing the truth of where you’ve been and where you’re not going. TS 09

People say God is love, but how do you let a Wal-Mart employee get trampled to death before he’s even had his morning coffee? TS 09

Is forgiveness of our sins really conceivable or are we all deceiving ourselves regarding this matter? And why do we desire forgiveness anyhow, so we can continue onward in our wretchedness or because we truly aspire to be like God? TS 09

If I don’t even care for myself is it possible for the Lord to even care about me? TS 09

Without touch, we all become as worthless as a feral cat. TS 09

There’s so much information available to people that’s bombarding them 24/7 that they cannot ever know what really matters versus what does not mean jack! Hence we are a lost world with nothing to believe in; one that displays minimal compassion as a result of having no conscience toward the sanctity of life. TS 09

People say that God is love, yet millions experience lives of impoverished conditions and for those of us that care about their destitute lives, we cannot even access the resources necessary to alleviate and help heal the sufferings we so dearly recognize amidst these lot. So where is the love of God in that? TS 09

Will there be a Wal-Mart in heaven? TS 09

How do you lay down the knowledge of the fact of the hate that others have for you? TS 09

Whether you’re free of sin or bound by sin you’re never free from the curse of your aloneness and all the destruction it creates. TS 09

Can you really get paid for working even if you are on someone’s pay roll? TS 09

As long as you have a physical body you’ll never know peace; forget what your Sunday preacher says – this fact cannot be disputed unless you’re a fool. TS 09

You can save yourself and have nothing or you can serve the poor and have nothing. TS 09

You’re either a prisoner to your idealism or your realism, but both are useless in bringing you peace. TS 09

Industrial America has been in its grave since the late 1960’s. What is there left to save? TS 09

This frantic effort by the United States federal government to save its ill-fated economic system is comparable to a sex-a-holic that keeps his addiction alive in order to realize that one last orgasm. TS 09

For the post-industrialized lower class and lower middle class adult, it’s always been a life of low wages and meaningless work. TS 09

The evil people who rule over this nation make good people turn into criminals for the lack of meaningful employment and low wages. TS 09

Oh Lord, who hears the cries for justice to hold a hearing in order to advocate and vindicate the utterly debased and afflicted: those with no honor and zero voice simply because evil and injustice will not allow their presence to be heard nor seen. TS 09

As long as my affliction remains, it won’t matter whether my sins are gone or not, I’ll still be rendered useless. TS 09

If I’m a wretched and vile person it’s because I live without the basics to survive: I live without love; I live without compassion and mercy shown; I live without just economic remuneration for diligent work realized; I live without friends who care enough about me to stand by me when injustice rails against me; I live with my name being defiled as my story is never told nor understood; yet, through it all, I am expected to be like Christ. In truth, I am not like Christ and nobody I have ever fixed my eyes upon is like Christ either; so why account me to a standard of likeness no man can ever achieve? Is not that the worst kind of hypocrisy? TS 09

Perennial unemployment or underemployment experienced by an individual is associated with many social and psychological maladies that might assail him. TS 09

I think back to some of the people who mocked me the greatest and they’re already dead. They could not have known too much of worth if they’re not standing on top of the dirt. TS 09

I’ll I ever wanted to do in my adult life was work and be compensated well enough to meet my monthly obligations while living as a law abiding citizen. What a novel experience in the post-industrialized world. TS 09

Every New Year you hope you’re not the same person that you were the year before unless you have no commonsense. TS 09

I’ll tell you what; the atrocities of my historical sinful deeds have not received what they deserve. TS 09

As long as I have a physical body, I will always struggle to find God because of that very hindering fact. TS 09

The best of what remains undefiled and free from atrophy, entropy, and the law of thermodynamics are instructional words that are passed from generation to generation – whether communicated by voice or preserved in print. TS 09

One of the primary reasons why people lead idolatrous lifestyles or go back to forsaken idolatry is because finding God is so difficult. TS 09

I’m no fool, I’m sober-minded – the post-industrialized world is doomed to extinction. TS 09

If you don’t ever hear from people who are supposed to be your Godly friends then what does that say about you or for that matter them? TS 09

Now that my callow dreams are destroyed, maybe there is hope for me yet. TS 09

Unjust inequitable wages in the United States is one of the greatest sins of the nation. TS

The greatest story of courage is walking through this life with nobody. TS 09

If I sit in silence and my freedom of movement is cut-off - yet, in such a place - I cannot even know my inner self, then what a desolate state I must be in. TS 09

So many lives are destroyed as a consequence of pursuing ignorant and vain dreams. TS 09

If a man didn’t have a penis, his whole life would be far more peaceful, less wasteful and more organized. TS 09

When do we ever get to a place where we ask forgiveness for sin and never sin again? Is true repentance really possible? TS 09

If God’s not bigger than my poverty, then what hope is there? TS 09

If there are no jobs to be found, then what means exist for a man to sustain himself? God’s not going to be raining down manna from heaven any time soon; however, twenty dollar bills falling from the sky might be a requisite option at this time. TS 09

Having no lover and a meaningful/pleasurable sex life will serve to be a primary catalyst for motivating self-destruction. TS 09

If God cannot be found, then we crave and pursue sexual intimacy at all costs - usually with the wrong person or through various sexual deviant measures – and such choices serve as a central point of shipwreck for us. TS 09

When you lose everything materially but your physical life, what’s next - if the economic laws in place that caused you to lose everything - are still in existence? TS 09

If a man submits to the unjust folly of fame, what does that say about what kind of man he really is? TS 09

Am I a sinner or a survivor; that’s the question? TS 09

If a person steals to survive because he can’t justly work for a living either due to prejudicial discrimination or because he has a criminal record, is he a sinner or a survivor; and if he’s a sinner, who should apply his penalty – the vain/ignorant folks who know not such binding conditions? TS 09

Desolation is the Devil’s home. TS 09

The world is replete with and ruled by darkness. Yes, there are some light-bearers, but those lots have little or no influence upon changing the overall condition of darkness that rules over the affairs of men. TS 09

Is anyone ever so moved enough by the Holy Spirit of God to ask his neighbor about his welfare? TS 09

If I don’t even know my neighbor’s name and I have lived next to him for almost five years, what does that say about the kind of person I am or he is? TS 09

If a man has no lover, family or friends and no meaningful work, is he not already dead before he pulls the trigger? TS 09

How many people pray everyday seeking the guidance of the Almighty Lord God asking for assistance on behalf of their family or friends? Nay, most are either too exhausted to pray because of overwork, too entrenched in myopic egocentrism or simply too willfully ignorant enough to have a community perspective on life to give a damn. TS 09

The enslaving links that formulate man’s prison chains are: vanity, ignorance, hatred, jealousy, irrational fear, guilt and un-forgiveness. TS 09

Should a man called to a life of missions be filing for Chapter 13 Bankruptcy simply because he cannot be paid for his services rendered? If so, then nothing is more of a sorrowful example regarding the debasing stupidity that exemplifies the contempt the post-industrialized world has for stewards of Godly service. TS 09

What’s American society coming to when university educated people are envious of people who work at Wal-Mart. TS 09

The man with no lover, social life and meaningful employment might as well check himself into the county jail and make his status as prisoner official. At least he’ll have three squares per day and a place to sleep. It actually might be a quality of life upgrade. TS 09

Is there more to life than working these meaningless underemployed jobs surrounded by a bunch of ignorant fools that have no understanding of any opportunities that might actually be a quality of life upgrade? Lord, I’m exhausted and beyond my capacity to endure anymore physical, social, psychological and vocational debasement. When does the show go on and the main course be served - if ever? TS 09

The primary mission behind any educative process is to help. TS 09

I don’t know whether I hate myself entirely or just partially. TS 09

What the hell is peace? TS 09

As long as jealousy and hate remain amongst the human race, the Holy Spirit of goodness will never achieve its completed and destined work. TS 09

The physical human body entraps the soul and limits our ability to fully comprehend the mysteries of life in reference to creation’s inception, love’s purposes, the laws of the universe in relation to love, and the future hope of life itself. TS 09

If you think about it, every behavioral action we participate in to serve our physical bodies or to make an impact upon the material world could be deemed idolatrous; so what hope is there to ever realize acceptable communion with God? TS 09

How accountable our we in reference to idolatrous living if we have to work to survive and that thralldom of activity takes up most or not all of our time due to unjust wages? TS 09

If the factual diverse beauty of creation itself motivates us to lust or to consume what we see because of our adoration for the distinct object of creation, then whose fault is that? TS 09

If you want to make a difference in this world and you’re poor, expect to find yourself in the courtroom later if not sooner. TS 09

If a man believes in the salvation of God and does not see it or experience it, then what will his psychological state become? TS 09

Oh Lord, what is this earthly life all for? Is it just a means to another destiny of consciousness? However, if it is simply a place of judgment, then who can stand? TS 09

If one’s abilities are not wanted or needed, then why is he amongst the living? TS 09

What is love? I have not a clue. TS 09

You can aspire to give up worldly gain, but who’s going to take care of you when you do? TS 09

If I died tonight, it would be days before anyone would even find me – that’s how many committed friends I have. TS 09

You can get rid of your sins, but all that’s left afterwards is a massive empty void. People say, God will replace the loss with his love, yet, it has never happened in my case and not for a lack of trying on my part. TS 09

If all during my life, I had been paid for the actual labor and compassion I have completed and demonstrated, I wouldn’t be in the deplorable economic and institutional turmoil I face today. Where is the love of God in that case scenario? TS 09

Does the Godly man really have a future on earth? TS 09

People think Godliness means acting all humble and nice and never standing up for anything they believe in; wrong! Godliness means exercising the courage to stand for something that illuminates injustice and all kinds of evil; and in doing so, making some serious noise about it! TS 09

How can one have faith in a faith that cannot emancipate him from oppression and injustice? TS 09

If one’s past good deeds mean nothing, then justice does not exist. TS 09

I don’t want to lament any longer; I just want to know the salvation of the Almighty Lord God to defend justice. TS 09

You can’t reason with fools but fools run our lives. TS 09

If one is not a perennial personal marketing machine he is shit out of luck and can expect a life of poverty because of it. TS 09

Without meaningful work and the social and psychological rewards associated with such an occurrence, people’s lives experience a downward spiral in quality of life such as: being assailed with social rejection, guilt, fear, anger, and confusion. TS 09

If you try to live a holy life, the vain will surely work to bring you to nothing. TS 09

Having a shorthair cut or a bald-shaved head doesn’t make you a good person as some brainwashed state troopers or local cops might tell it. TS 09

Historians have earmarked an age of reason in the course of human history whereas the 21st century is the age of unreason. TS 09

If the willful competent person is unable to work, how is God glorified? TS 09

Lord, do you fulfill your promises for those sitting amongst the ashes of complete desolation? How could your delay to help under any such deplorable circumstance build one’s faith or develop a trusting relationship? Lord, this oppressive and hateful world has given you the opportunity to prove your love for me – yet, you withdrawal when I need you most; so why plague me with guilt when I must resort to idol worship in order to survive? TS 09

Lord, what’s the world coming to when the only useful purpose I serve on earth is feeding a feral cat? TS 09

Your mother loving you doesn’t pay the bills. TS 09

If you have no money, you have no future on earth - no matter if your mother loves you. TS 09

Poverty is the ultimate curse upon a man’s life because everyone finds him an anathema and assumes his destitute condition is 100% his own fault. Moreover, poverty destroys family relationships, friendships, work relationships and limits any educative processes for vocational growth. So where is the love of God at work in those facts? TS 09

Without any remuneration for excellence, all you have is an ass-beating. TS 09

With a debasing economic picture derives a population of people striving for mediocrity. Desiring to work at Wal-Mart in order to float your boat isn’t aspiring to become an engineer. TS 09

In the 21st century, if you cut-off a man’s transportation, phone and access to the Internet, he might as well stay home coiled up in a fetal position sucking his thumb waiting upon God to perform a miracle for him in order to survive. TS 09

How do you believe in faith in the midst of hopelessness? TS 09

The limit of your financial resources makes the world as small as it is not. TS 09

If the Lord judges and counts my emotional state toward anything, then I am screwed. TS 09

How does one appropriate faith without emotion? TS 09

Working so hard for nothing is like mining for gold on a glacier. TS 09

If holiness brings about poverty, then what hope is there to live a prosperous and peaceful life? TS 09

If you have lost it all, it’s more than likely you didn’t have anything worth a damn to begin with. TS 09

Most artists seldom get paid for their greatest inspiration or work – but many other less-talented souls get paid well for incompetence and mediocrity. TS 09

How much of our talents and aspirations remain in mothballs as we wait for resources or miracles in order to become something worth a damn? TS 09

You think you’re a Christian; then try being thankful sitting in the ashes of your destruction wrought by the Lord. TS 09

To be truly thankful on a consistent basis requires the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. TS 09

Industriousness without affirmation inevitably atrophies into idleness. TS 09

Some people attend church to validate what they believe but the only way you find out what you really believe is you go down into the pit and live in it. TS 09

If you want to have a good name, pay all of your bills on time and pray you can keep your job in order to do so. TS 09

Why work if you don’t get paid? TS 09

When do the Biblical promises of Christ’s teachings come true on our behalf? TS 09

Man’s inherent life-long problem is God is in heaven and he is on earth. TS 09

In order for social and/or personal change to occur, there must be the factual realization of progression for change’s sake. Without such visible encouragement, change will not be realized for long. TS 09

Without the mercy and power of God, there is no hope for humankind. TS 09

The way to realize world peace is to help people have the ability to eat on a daily basis. TS 09

Without meaningful employment that provides the majority of its citizenry with economic security and psychological health, nothing can be well with a nation. TS 09

Loving God while in the possession of nothing is the greatest expression of an adoring love that a person could hold for God. Yet, what man upon earth can attain this plateau of worship? TS 09

How does a man love God while in the midst of having no home, no lover, no family, no employment to meet his economic needs, and no sense of vocational purpose? He does not. TS 09

The only way a man gains victory over his sins is through the willful anointing of the Holy Spirit of the Almighty Lord God. Any other intended methods he implements will not succeed. TS 09

If you take a King off his throne and throw him in a solitary confinement dungeon for five years, he will no longer be a King but he will be insane. TS 09

And why do we labor and survive but to realize the hope and reality of healthier days replete with peace, prosperity, meaning and validation. TS 09

If you want to drain the energy from a man then leave him sit in a prison of isolation until he can