JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

I think he’s right.  He got it from an early saint like Augustine or Aquinas, anyway, he was a Franciscan Saint from the Thirteenth Century.

He said freedom is not anarchy, but a freedom to achieve one’s calling.  Like the journeyman that becomes the master builder deserves his drink after the toil of a “career”.

When the tests are over, one becomes a practicing lawyer (if the fees are paid, you don’t really need a client to practice, a practicing lawyer studies after all, even marketing).

When the practicing is over, one has the freedom to live freely in that zone, after all, it’s where the practicing lawyer or master builder live now.  Women are building with the saints too, did I mention Magdalene? “A kinder gentler nation.” George H.W. Bush.

How can we as an American nation founded upon war between men, do that without women?

Musings of John Rubens

January 5, 2016

I like the fact that I’m so popular now as a member of The Commons’ Blogging 101. I’ve tried to stop some of the emails received from new members to Blogging 101 like myself, but they keep coming! About one every ten minutes.

It’s raining today. Not much else to do now. Mine as well comment. Pray, write and sip instant coffee.  I know, I stole that from Julia Roberts.  I do find I write to more people than without Blogging 101 which is a kind of test, a preparatory test. I kind of know what it must feel like to be a celebrity, politician or successful salesperson: every lead is attached to a person. I’m able to “touch” about 10% of the emails and like or post comments like this one to about half that many, the ones that incite me to write. A lot of giving is no gravy train, you have to load the cars first.

Blogging 101 has numbers for me that boost my ego.

Why not pray? Every bit as memorable as a rain-filled bongload and more. Which will be more memorable? Cherish the moment.

Re: Threshold binary impulses and their constituents.

From Kathleen Hays’ use of #TheEmeraldCity to describe NYC.

Thanks Clinton foundation! Good for girl scouts, good for scouting, good for America, good for the world. #GreenInitiativesIntertwine

I am in charge of how I feel and today I am choosing happiness.

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  @HollyTaylor1985 Save that quote. It’s the definition of not being addicted to a false god that tugs, preventing one from choosing the Way.

   
  

Source: Who I am and why I’m here

Jesus was not born by the time the Sisyphus myth was created in Greece.  Albert Camus, who wrote about Sisyphus in an essay, was widely known as an avowed atheist but scholars, intellectuals and teachers of all faiths appreciated his work, especially as a counter point to Sartre’s existential theories.  Camus is well known for his World War II era novel The Stranger (1942) and his beatnik era bestseller The Fall (1956) which won him a Nobel Prize for literature soon after it was published.  Resource: [amazon.com online, January 4, 2016].

See also other work of the author, John Rubens at https://johnrubens.wordpress.com

The anti-novel: Skyscraper Heavens (2015) is available at amazon.com or xlibris.com.

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