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Hay-Ku of the Day (Peace Be with You)

Posted November 19th, 2011 by Richard Hay in God, Philsophy and Metaphysics

Choose Ye This Day (2011); "...choose you this day whom ye will serve..."Joshua 24:15 (KJV);Companion haiku: Choose ye this day whom ye will serve, the Spirit or the Tiger Nature.

A deified man
Must be crucified by those
Who deify him.

Carnal mind projects
Its Self-Deified Nature
Outside of Itself.

[Rich Note: It is suggested those who might be inclined to crucify "St. Joe" gaze into the Scriptural Mirrors that follow and search their own hearts and minds:

"Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man." John 8:15 (KJV)

"Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:" Luke 6:37 (KJV)

"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." John 8:7 (KJV)

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" Romans 3:23 (KJV).]

[Rich Note: With respect to any in whom the media’s feeding frenzy (at least in the Philadelphia area) has actually provoked a "lynch mob mentality” with regard to the Penn State tragedy: "Thank you for making Justice, Mercy and Compassion Plain."]

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RE: A Related Open Letter from a Double-Penn Stater on the Horrific Child Abuse...

Posted November 19th, 2011 by Richard Hay

For anyone who may be interested in hearing how a "philosophically, metaphysically, spiritually" inclined, double-Penn Stater might feel about the horrific, alleged child abuse case that involved the University, there's a serialized version of what evolved into a rather "cathartic open letter" (as well as a number of other related responses) in the comments section of this post on Gather that can be accessed at the following link:

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Here's the introductory portion of said letter:

[Rich Note: Pardon the self-indulgence here, but I feel compelled to share -- after much "nashing of teeth" (and more than a few vitriolic hay-ku) over a "blood in the water media frenzy" locally exacerbated by two sports writers who clearly have personal axes to grind with JoePa -- how at least one "Old Penn Stater" feels about what has been turned into a "national morality play" (of all things), to the great dishonor of many more then the original deserving few. (As it got quite long --it always does, doesn't it? lol -- it has been partitioned.]

(1) As a double "Penn Stater" (BS in Mktg 67 and MBA 76) whose father, mother, wife, youngest son and uncle all went to Penn State, and so one who relates to All-Things Penn State in an unusually "family way," this has been tough, really tough.

Certainly not one iota as horrific as it was and remains for the children and families directly involved -- who are the only "true innocents" in this evolving disgrace and tragedy -- but hard and hurtful, never-the-less (even as an admittedly "self-inflicted wound").

RFHay