"Peace on earth, good will towards men is what we are told the the angels proclaimed. However their words are also said to have been: Peace on earth to men of good will is what was really said".
We never really ever discussed points of view with dad. There was no discussion of this one. Simply my unspoken agreement that I got the logic and reason truth of what he said when I thought about the subtle rearrangement of the words.
Peace only comes to men of good will.
The other thing my dad said in the 1950's was that there will never be peace in the middle east until Palestine has a homeland. Is a sovereign territory with its associated status among nations. That was long before the continued acquisition of its land by Israel.
Maybe the Christmas birth brought forth what some believe to be a God/man messenger to give or spread the seed of good will toward men to establish peace on earth.
The true key to peace is that all men first have the conceptual attribute of Good Will. A SuperParent object in my ObjectOriented way of thinking from which all children descend inheriting the attributes, messages and methods of their highest level Parent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Heard_the_Bells_on_Christmas_Day
The full lyrics are at the link. This is the crux of Longfellow's original poem:
"
- A voice, a chime,
- A chant sublime
Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
- And with the sound
- The carols drowned
It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
- And made forlorn
- The households born
And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
- "For hate is strong,
- And mocks the song
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
- The Wrong shall fail,
- The Right prevail,
.........
Last year, and maybe in past Christmas days I wrote of the Christmas Truce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
Here: https://2dollarjefferson.blogspot.com/2014/12/christmas-truce-1914.html
and
Here: https://2dollarjefferson.blogspot.com/2015/12/hoping-again-this-christmas-eve-2015.html
Both had a common base: The fundamental one to one person conceptual relationship expression of good will I call the most granular foundation on which to construct from the bottom up an entire conceptual operating system and all the things that it does to serve us all. From a single instance of all of us, that is what each of us are, relating socially to another instance of all of us. Applying this most fundamental one to one relationship upward through all of the increasingly social conceptual structures we create that are composed of each and every one of us to all of us.
Yes, I really do find the one to one relationship of physical and conceptual things to be a foundation to the understanding of all things. The universal rock upon which to build in either the natural world or all the conceptual ones we create. Even the world of monetary systems which which much of this blog focuses on but sees the implementation of other fundamental exclusive one to one relationships as the corner stone of our Social Operating Systems foundation of........everything really. It is the universal solvent to decompose any and all of them to their common one = one denominator on unity in the end.........
At the top......
At the bottom......
Starting anywhere in between and working either or both ways.....
This blog entry starts our looking at money and monetary systems and then take the bigger view of it in the bigger picture with a different way of expressing one to one, many to many, all to all relationships:
https://2dollarjefferson.blogspot.com/2012/12/rambling-thoughts-seen-and-unseen.html
I recall it now simply for this lyric embedded in what I wrote:
Your mind will take you far
The rest is just pure heart
You’ll find your fate is all your own creation
Every boy and girl
As they come into this world
They bring the gift of hope and inspiration
Feel the flame forever burn
Teaching lessons we must learn
To bring us closer to the power of the dream
The world unites in hope and peace
We pray that it will always be
It is the power of the dream that brings us here
This Christmas Eve is the darkest I have ever known. There is not yet "Peace on Earth to Men of Goodwill". Good Will among all men is on the decline as our Information Age shifts the trending nature and expressions of our actions from the physical domain to the conceptual domain. The trend shift from physical war as a means to acquire land, assets and power thru inflicting death and destruction to a conceptual war inflicting analogous injury of which the victims survive but at increasingly lower levels of survival. They are needed to survive rather than being exterminated because they serve the purpose of men that have and absence of Good Will.
Side bar here:
In this blog I start with the old school term meaning of "men" just because that is the way it was used by those conceptual angels as words placed in their mouths..by whoever originated the words. New school is not to use the gender word men as a universal encompassing all humans. In the last paragraph I fully intend the word phrase: "serve the purpose of men that have and absence of Good Will" to explicitly men "men". More explicitly the man named Trump. Men are, as my best friend consistently tells me, the ones that cause all the problems. That conceptual Operating System structure and its application with a gun in its hand is another matter.
Trump.
"Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
- And with the sound
- The carols drowned
It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
- And made forlorn
- The households born
Trump: 23 December 2016: And with the sound the carols (to be sung two days later across the land) drowned....
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/us/politics/trump-nuclear-arms-race-russia-united-states.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-tweets-apparent-call-more-us-nuclear-weapons-n699221
But hark the herald! A weak bleat is heard at the same time related to the same place where the dream of Peace on Earth was born. The weak bleat of abstention that has become the extent of proclaiming truth. A weak bleat over telephones. Not even with the dignity of a sit down public conference statement on such a vital and important matter. The world could well end with a similar bleated whimper. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/whimper A word that may be both a noun or a verb.
This whimper made on a Friday. The chosen day to release news that is intended to be no news. If news falls in the woods and nobody hears it...........
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/23/record-press-call-un-security-council-resolution-israeli-settlement
The brave stand for the USA to speak the truth of the UN resolution and abstain! I supposed the abstention will be phoned in too!
The position of Trump, reported 22 December:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/world/middleeast/donald-trump-united-nations-israel-settlements.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/trump-vows-israel-vote-161224040133216.html
"Israel rejects this shameful anti-Israel resolution at the UN and will not abide by its terms." said Netanyahu.
We are worried about Putin????
Netanyahu and Trumps new appointment of David Friedman is the real thing to be most concerned about.
http://www.juancole.com/2016/12/trumps-nominee-setting.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/us/politics/donald-trump-david-friedman-israel-ambassador.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/15/trump-israel-ambassador-david-friedman
This from Uri Avener really exposes Friedman: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/23/david-friedman-the-peace-wrecker/
Men such as these have no Good Will. Other men that abstain from applying it have an inadequate amount.
The way I see the writing on the wall and hear the herald is that Good Will is on a downward trend. It is at the stage where its proclamation is a whimper and the Siren Song of con men that have Self Interest in the place of Good Will in their hearts is luring us onto the rocks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren_%28mythology%29
Sirens also call warnings of great danger.....The Siren's Dong drowns out the roar of the water on the rocks that beat the drums of war.
The USA bravely defies Israel by abstention at the UN!
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-un-idUSKBN14C1IV
A brave whimper! A whimper that hardly beats the sound of silence.
Peace only comes to people of Good Will.
Good Will is not "given" to us.
Good Will is what we conceptually create out of nothing within our hearts and express with our minds by gifting to each other.
Merry Christmas is just a lower level conceptual Child of the Parent:GoodWill.
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