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  • Wisdom is all we need to Find Happiness

    Wisdom is all we need to Find Happiness

    We are all involved in the pursuit of happiness, whether we like it or not. From our first step to our last breath, we are in the process of manifesting happiness, or in the pursuit of it.

    The Pursuit of Happiness is an essential human right. Both Confucius and Socrates insisted that well-being and personal growth were a major purpose of life, and a central goal of education. Thomas Jefferson and the founders of U.S. government recognized this.

    “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness“ is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence. The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their Creator, and which governments are created to protect.

    More than two hundred years later, our schools and universities are still neglecting these goals. We are so busy pursuing intellectual skills that we have neglected the pursuit of happiness. We have forgotten Aristotle’s warning: Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

    The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

    Marcus Aurelius

    Wisdom is all we need to Find Happiness

    Wisdom is the key, so where do we get it?

    Doing the right thing making the right decisions and choices are all very commendable but timing is of critical importance a right decision at the wrong time can even be useless. However, knowing when to do the right thing makes the outcome impact-full.

    Without the wisdom of right timing great efforts will end up being a colossal waste of human and material resources

    Wisdom is applicable to all areas of life therefore as the lord has shown us wisdom is indeed the principle thing therefore it is the core of making and achieving anything meaningful so in all that we do we must seek this priority called wisdom

    Prayer for Wisdom

    My all-wise God and father, the one that by wisdom has created the world and it has continued from age to age, what a privilege to be your child and to be created after your own image.

    Thank you also for the open offer to come to you to ask for wisdom when I lack it, what an awesome privilege.

    Thank you for all you are and all you do to endow me with wisdom, not wanting me to waste my life and opportunities to foolish decisions.

    I am grateful lord receive my thanks and praise.

    Please grant me the grace to use the wisdom you have put in me, to add value to my world and to honor you.

    Blessed be your holy name in Jesus name

    I have prayed for wisdom, and so it is!

  • Jefferson Bible and the Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth

    Jefferson Bible and the Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth

    Thomas Jefferson managed to achieve more remarkable accomplishments in his lifetime, than anyone I have ever heard about, except Jesus Christ.

    At a time when Bibles were imported from Europe and costs a month salary, he edited and published his own book in 1802, and it’s a masterpiece. Thomas Jefferson used a scalpel and a stack of Bibles, to glue and edit his own version. Now it’s the most valuable book in the world.

    In my opinion Jefferson was also an ascended master and the only man to have ever read everything of import, that was available at that time. He could read and write in many languages and was undaunted by any manuscript. There was nothing mysterious on earth that he wasn’t aware of, as his interests spanned every possible category.

    Actions define a man, not the words they say and Jefferson made a book with his owns hands and it is not named the Jefferson Bible, he would be insulted to know that’s what it’s called. The real name puts shame on some people who prefer down-play the value of it’s meaning, since even the Library of Congress was once upon a time the books of Jefferson.

    The Library of Congress was founded to house the collection of books donated by Thomas Jefferson to U.S. House of Representatives, and he knew it was priceless (even then). Now it’s a National Treasure and the Library of Congress is vast. In the beginning of my career the Library of Congress hosted Bulletin Board Servers, we called BBS in 1992 pre-WWW and allowed remote access to digital archives. By the people, for the people. Back then my first Domain name registration (investoffshore.com) was from the National Science Foundation and was free.

    The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, commonly referred to as the Jefferson Bible, is one of two religious works constructed by Thomas Jefferson. The first, The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth, was completed in 1804, but no copies exist today.

    Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States.
    Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States.

    The second, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, was completed in 1820 by cutting and pasting with a razor and glue numerous sections from the New Testament as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson’s condensed composition excludes all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural, including sections of the four gospels that contain the Resurrection and most other miracles, and passages that portray Jesus as divine.

    • Jefferson Bible 1. Jefferson correction: Detail shot- on the English clipping verse 38, TJ cut out “as”, 65 Recto
    • Jefferson Bible 1. Jefferson correction: Detail shot-iron-gall ink annotations on English clippings “out” becomes “up”, 6 Recto
    • Jefferson Bible Close-up shots of the binding idiosyncrasie (doubled over page )
    The Jefferson Bible at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

    Jefferson accomplished a more limited goal in 1804 with The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth, the predecessor to The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. He described it in a letter to John Adams dated October 12, 1813:

    In extracting the pure principles which he taught, we should have to strip off the artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them into various forms, as instruments of riches and power to themselves. We must dismiss the Platonists and Plotinists, the Stagyrites and Gamalielites, the Eclectics, the Gnostics and Scholastics, their essences and emanations, their logos and demiurges, aeons and daemons, male and female, with a long train of … or, shall I say at once, of nonsense. We must reduce our volume to the simple evangelists, select, even from them, the very words only of Jesus, paring off the amphibologisms into which they have been led, by forgetting often, or not understanding, what had fallen from him, by giving their own misconceptions as his dicta, and expressing unintelligibly for others what they had not understood themselves. There will be found remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man. I have performed this operation for my own use, by cutting verse by verse out of the printed book, and arranging the matter which is evidently his, and which is as easily distinguishable as diamonds in a dunghill. The result is an octavo of forty-six pages, of pure and unsophisticated doctrines.

    Thomas Jefferson

    Source: Wikipedia Jefferson Bible