Who You Working For?

Rules For Radicals

Saul Alinsky

(One of several epigraphs on introductory pages)

"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which),

the first radical known to man

who rebelled against the establishment

and did it so effectively that

he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer."

Is The Womb A Safe Place?

"God commanded Hosea to marry a loose woman. She had three children (but not by Hosea--see 1:2 & 2:4). The second, a daughter, was to be named, "lo ruhama" לֹא רֻחָ֑מָה "no mercy."

The Hebrew term for mercy is rahamim, רַחֲמִים which is from the root word, rehem, רֶ֫חֶם which is the term for "womb."

The emotion of love, the "sensation of love," and mercy itself stem from the Hebrew term, "womb." The womb is a place of mercy. 

How damning it is that there is a vast number of "lo ruhama" today. These are those who are denied mercy in the "rehem" (the womb), the first place of mercy.

In the place where mercy is defined, mercy is denied to millions of unborn children."

- Scott Jacobsen 

Sacrificed Between Armies

This was an interesting History thread to follow. Wow!

First i read this in Plutarch (1st cen Greek Philosopher) this morning. In Plutarch's Morals. 

"Decius, the general of the Romans, anticipate it for himself, having piled up a funeral pyre between the two armies, and sacrificed himself to Cronos, dedicating himself for the supremacy of his country."

I asked myself, "Who is the Decius he is writing about, and is it true?" Keep in mind Plutarch is writing in the 1st cen AD, So it has to be an event in BC times.

Turns out it was Decius Mus became a Roman General in 340 BC. He indeed did sacrifice himself and a 1600's  painter moved by his story painted  a tapestry of him and his sacrifice. 

"Publius Decius Mus was raised to consular rank in 340 BC along with Titus Manlius Torquatus. Before they were to lead the army into battle near Vesuvius in the Second Latin War, both consuls had the same dream: one of them would have to sacrifice himself to gain victory. The oracle confirmed the truth of their vision and Decius Mus immediately offered himself to the gods, along with the enemy army. Victory was won for the Romans through the consul’s death."

Decius Mus Tapestry