Wheat and thistle

The reason of the State, we have wheat and thistle. Depending on prespective a person can be wheat to one and thistle to the other. I think Muslims see the Christians as thistle and Christians see Jews as thistle and Jews see Muslim and Christains as thistle. I geuss we are all thistle.

Thislte: any of the various prickly composite plant having showy purple flower heads.
Wheat: the grain of any cereal grass used in the form of flour.

I just looked up thislte for the first time and I have just gotten a new prespective. I had no idea that thistle had showy purple flower heads. I thought it was just a prickly plant like a weed that prevented wheat to grow. I geuss thistle looks good to the eye but it is not good to eat. I assume ( not to make an ass- out of -u- and -me-: I learned that from a great college professor I had years ago.) that thistle and wheat can grow together but thistle kind of looks like wheat but has pretty flowers but has no substance for humanity.

Here is a point when I admire individuals that do not live in the city and the have the ability to look at the growth rate of nature daily helping one to understand life better. Thomas Jefferson thought the United States should maintain a healthy population of free independent farmers. Who started the rumor of a country bumpkin? A farmer would know alot about the natural sciences, a tremendous grasp on the life and death cycle, and enviromentalism.

Do other religions have substance for a Christian. I think, yes. (I so want to see the interaction of wheat and thistle in a field.) For instance, I think the Buddhist concept of the Fourth Noble Trtuh that states the eight fold path: 1) right view 2) right intention 3) right speech 4) right action 5)right livelihood 6) right effort 7) right mindfulness 8) right concentration are very helpful for any individual.

On thing that has helped me is looking at the great religions of the world in a sequenchal order of time. Mohammed, "blessings upon his name" said that God has delivered a prophet to all people during various courses of human development. Humanity has been raised from the dirt to a status of divinity, losing that divinity, to becoming good, to engaging in evil. Humanity has osillated from low to high then high to low.

Divine truth: Every thing is weak, then strong, then weak again, it is the blessing from God that sustains us threw these cycles. A mountain is formed from a grain of sand and a mountain will become a grain of sand. A tree becomes a forest, then a forest becomes a tree. (Evolution, OHVA: who said God can't use evolution as a tool: How many stages of life did it take for dirt to become a man? beats me. Moreover, there is gold that is not mutable? Is humanity the same)

Personal, I always wonder am I thistle, so I remain quiet, and try not to be a showy purple flower (just learned this). For example, I have a hard time believing the story of Noah but then again many cultures have a story about a great flood. Then, I wonder about the two of every animal, then I think well if the two of every animal meant every domesticated animal then it makes since. From Noah's prespective the world was destroyed, how about someone on the other side of the globe? The Old testament is the story of the Jews the chosen people of God to deliver the ten commandments to the world, well he gave some other people the pyramids of Giza to give to the world, and so on and so on. Anyway, I geuss this is where I really start going into heresy, or maybe it was a while ago. So I remain quiet, and you have been warned reading these words.

Well, the United States gives me the abilty to ponder these concepts. An opinion is like an asshole and everyone has one. Regardless, if I am Wheat or Thistle the State protects me. "God Bless America and the ten amendments = the bill of rights." Citizens of the United States know these rights have been suspended at times. Some joker always has to start screaming fire in a burning building.