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Lily Portion for Today: Sunday February 11

Remember, the quality of a life lived – is a life lived for others. (Prayer: Your Highness Elohiym, grant me Your wisdom so that I may glorify You through living a fruit and meaningful life, for You and for my family, amein)

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“The rod and reproof give wisdom”

Pr 29

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Original Hebrew Scripture from Proverbs 23 Original Hebrew Scripture from Proverbs 23
"Be wise, and guide in the way thine heart."
חֲכָם וְאַשֵּׁר בַּדֶּרֶךְ לִבֶּךָ

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Thought for Today: Sunday February 11

We have the right to believe whatever we want, but remember, not everything we believe is right!

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What is barbaric?

Or, rather than what is considered barbaric, which is vast subject and in general not particularly interesting to me, let's ask instead what we ought to consider barbaric.
Is it to be contrasted with neatness and prettiness? This kind of thinking involves serious issues, and many outright sins. No: what is not pretty is simply not pretty, and can be downright noble.

Is the barbaric to be contrasted with justice, equality, balance? If in the sense of "everything in moderation", then no: in that this would also mean goodness in moderation, justice and injustice in moderation, and moderation in moderation: "everything in moderation" is either a poorly formed phrase or a delusive philosophy.

It would work though if used in the sense (which no one really uses it in) of the moderating of a moderator: control. This can indeed be applied to everything, including itself: "everything with control", everything measured and meet, doing what is right: to everything there is a season.

Incidentally, this cannot be done if you do "everything in moderation", as if you avoid extremes then it is completely by chance that you act appropriately: if an extreme is presented to you, a moment of truth, you will fail where it is most important that you act rightly. You may live in delusion for years because placid, undramatic actions just happen to be right for the majority of an uneventful lifespan. But, when touched by a crisis, the delusion will crumble, and the disaster that results can leave eternal scars.

You must have both, both moderation and extremes. You must have all the weights in the bag to balance the scales with the right one: matching moderation to moderation, and the extreme to the extreme: this is extremely important.

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There are some deep thoughts here so could take quite some time to work through.

From my view, barbarism is the act of applying unjustified suffering to someone else where there is no benefit to either party except a show of power by the barbarian. Vandalism, mass murder, burning someone's field, etc.

On"moderating of a moderator": Would the moderator truly be fulfilling their role if they needed moderating themself? Or do you mean the actual deed of moderating that a moderator practices, as that would make sense?

Can a person live their entire life in moderation? In my view, yes, if you are emotionless and don't care about much in life as even a brief outburst of laughter could be considered not to be moderate.

Also, if you don't stand for something in life then you will fall for everything. So, if you are moderate in your beliefs and don't want to hurt someone else's feelings all the time then you won't be outspoken in your own beliefs and just sit on the fence, so to speak.

Yes, we should be Spirit controlled, so no uncontrolled outbursts of anger. That doesn't make anger against an unjust deed wrong, it is the uncontrolled part that is wrong. A spondanious outburst of joy is again good as joy is one of the fruits...

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Lebanon has joined the war against Babel Israel this morning. Please keep in mind that all wars target civilians. All those who do not bow to Babel will be under extreme pressure and the people of the nations who refuse to bow will be punished, but not as bad as bowing to the Beast. It is a warning that if you fight back or go along, you will be punished. Who would you rather be punished by? Yahuah or humanity? I'll take the punishment from humanity. Remember the exile that you are grafted into and do not pick up arms against the Beast or you will get the same that you dish out. Blood for blood. If you kill with the sword you must be killed with the sword! We are one people in many nations.