1 Corinthians 15:3-8

English Standard Version (ESV)

While I was listening to my favorite show, Fighting for the Faith, I was introduced to  Jovan MacKenzy a former member of a word of faith church and christian rapper who walked away his church and record label when he started examining the scripture and realize the preaching did not line up with scripture.  

Recently Mr. MacKenzy released a new album; The Narrow Road: Famine. The best of all he giving it away for free, still there is a button for donation.  One unique song is Triune God, Here he is able defend the doctrine of the trinity with sound biblical doctrine while in rime.

On a side note, Jovan MacKenzy demonstrates it not about beat or style but all about contentment.   

On 15 Feb I had a routine Colonoscopy, the week and months leading to it I was a wreck; my symptoms were irregular constipation and diarrhea, excessive gas.  Online medical sites offer a wealth of information but most of these sites pointed to one thing Colon Cancer. I have tendency for pessimism and phobia to where I falsely concluded I had a serious problem. I played the scenario over and over again I would be shown a picture of a tumor, biopsy will be performed and tomorrow you shall find me a grave man.

When I became aware from the fog of the sedation, the results were just hemorrhoids and minor issue enough that all I need is to change to amore fiber rich diet.  No cancer no life threatening illness.

My recent experiences make me wonder if the “cure” of Medical  Web site like the Mayo Clinic and Web Md. are worst than  the disease? For me, I have to conclude yes. The problem I am having is informational overload coupled by the fact the nether me or the commentators have the medical training or experiences to properly process the information   presented. In the wrong hand or with the emotional problem I am facing; medical knowledge of symptoms is devastating leading to unnecessary emotional turmoil, hypochondria and paranoia. While I do approve simple community advice like get screenings when to see a doctor,  but people should only trust competent medical professions in knowing when to see you doctor and diagnose your symptoms.    Online medical sites can be a trap.

As a Black male I am  sadden by the state of the Black Church: most of the time they preach false theology of holiness, word of faith heresy  or liberal theology with a good doses social “gospel”. It refreshing to listen to a pastor preach the Word, as he beakers and humbles us  with the law exposing our  sin and then  point to the Cross showing Christ died for our sin, of Christ propitiation  satisfying God’s rightful wrath poured out on Christ and in mercy, God clothes us with Christ’ righteousness. Indeed Voddie Baucham is truly deserves the name  of Pastor.

Imagine a World

Without Free Knowledge

To that I retort imagine a world where Knowledge producers are slaves. 

Knowledge is not free because that is most valuable is what is produced by the mind of men.

What is at stake is not Free Speech but the right of the producer to trade that which they produce, value for value again that how feel the intent is a license to loot. 

To this I leave two excepts form John Gault’s Speech form Atlas Shrugged

“The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live by values, not by loot, are traders, both in matter and in spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. A trader does not ask to be paid for his failures, nor does he ask to be loved for his flaws. A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms. Just as he does not give his work except in trade for material values, so he does not give the values of his spirit-his love, his friendship, his esteem-except in payment and in trade for human virtues, in payment for his own selfish pleasure, which he receives from men he can respect. The mystic parasites who have, throughout the ages, reviled the traders and held them in contempt, while honoring the beggars and the looters, have known the secret motive of their sneers: a trader is the entity they dread-a man of justice.

The source of property rights is the law of causality. All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man’s mind and labor. As you cannot have effects without causes, so you cannot have wealth without its source: without intelligence. You cannot force intelligence to work: those who’re able to think, will not work under compulsion: those who will, won’t produce much more than the price of the whip needed to keep them enslaved. You cannot obtain the products of a mind except on the owner’s terms, by trade and by volitional consent. Any other policy of men toward man’s poverty is the policy of criminals, no matter what their numbers. Criminals are savages who play in short-range and starve when their prey runs out-just as you’re starving today, you who believed that crime could be ‘practical’ if your government decreed that robbery was legal and resistance to robbery illegal.

To Cook, well played well played.

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.