I dont

 

agree with everything said but he's way more in line with whats is actually going on than what you hear elsewhere, especially with regards to:

The false narrative that the west is "winning" this war.

That there is a white nationalist component in Ukraine that we have assisted.

That The Russians are currently winning on three fronts:

1)  Strategically.

It's objectives can still be met (demilitarization, denazification etc) while the Ukraine position of taking back all lands prior to 2014 is simply never going to happen.

2) Militarily. 

Russians retreat to grow stronger and continue the fight. It's always been a tactic of theirs. They aren't afraid to hit ya, see what ya got, and then fall back and come at ya stronger. For all their success in their recent counter offensive the Ukrainians didn't really affect the Russian supply lines in any sort of meaningful sense. Ukraine has expended its resources and opportunities that it may have once had, and done so prematurely. They will simply not be able to continue to withstand whats going to be coming at them.

3) Politically. 

At the end of the day it will be NATO that will end up seen as the paper tiger.

He talks the same as I do a lot, about Russia can hit European capitols and the US with conventional "Hypersonics" that there is no defense for.  He doesn't think Russia will use a Nuke in Ukraine and I think they will if pushed enough but like he says, why use a nuke in Ukraine when you can take out the command and control centers in London, Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Washington etc.? It's exactly what is going to happen eventually.

He talks about "Dont be fooled by the way Russia went in "soft" in the beginning of the conflict." Ought to sound familiar if you've been playing along at home :-).

And at the end he speaks of what economy is going to be able withstand the funding necessary to continue to field munitions etc indefinitely. I'll give you a hint, it's not a country that hasn't been preparing for this for 14 years thats for sure.

Ukraine went through everything we gave them in September basically. 

Were gonna keep that up forever?

Very unlikely.

Anyways lol, 

lots of truth from a non mainstream narrative that largely echoes a lot of what I have been saying all along, including our support of the neo-Nazi element that is present in Ukraine. 

It's not "Kremlin talking points" its the truth.

    

Informative.

It's the truth your government doesn't want you to know.

Yup...

Hey honey

 

I love you baby.

I'm

 

 bout 100 pages into it and needless to say 

its pretty much right in my wheelhouse

 if you know what I mean

:-).

Just got a few to share :-).

"at some point in the past...the distance between neighboring galaxies must have been zero."

Stephen Hawking

"A Brief History of Time" p. 49.

(That means it had to have a starting point folks...)

"Robert Dicke, a leading Princeton University physicist during the 50's and 60's later explained why a finite universe elicited such knee-jerk philosophical opposition among so many scientist. An infinitely old universe "would relieve us," he said, "of the necessity of understanding the origin of matter at any finite time in the past." A finite universe, by contrast, would force scientist to confront uncomfortable questions about the ultimate beginning of the material universe itself. It also raised the possibility that the universe had begun in something like a creation event produced by a cause that existed independently of matter, space, time and energy."

(We live in a finite universe. Some people, including scientist, just cant seem to wrap their heads around such a concept.)

I know :-).

Great picture right? :-).

FIGURES 5 13

"The big bang theory predicts the existence of a low-level cosmic background radiation. For the big bang to explain the origin of galaxies, there must have also been small variations in the intensity of this radiation from the earliest stages of the universe. As the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite has scanned the night sky, it has detected these slight variations. This figure reproduces, in an enhanced black and white form, a famous color image of the night sky depicting these variations."

"...orbiting the earth above the atmospheric fray, it did indeed discover (Fig. 5.13) the predicted tiny variations in CMBR radiation.

These findings resolved one of the few remaining evidential challenges facing the big bang model and sealed the case from observational astronomy for a finite universe." It gave a snapshot of the seeds of galaxies just after the creation of matter itself. For many scientists these images were startling in their significance. As George Smoot, the director of the COBE program, who eventually won the Nobel Prize for his discovery, put it: "If you're religious, it's like seeing God."

That was operational from 89-93.

You are never going to find another creation account that matches up as well with cosmology as the bible does, you just wont because its the truth. And we have already done the why there is light on day one and day four thing previously... 

The more we know about our material world? 

The more we see God working in it.

More to follow im sure.

I love you baby.

Stop by I got plenty of food now :-).

Told

 

you before they did...

A looming Russian offensive

"Ukraine’s chiefs, in an unprecedented series of briefings, tell The Economist about the critical months that lie ahead."

"Those are not our words, but the assessment of the head of Ukraine’s armed forces, General Valery Zaluzhny. In an unprecedented series of briefings within the past fortnight the general, along with Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, and General Oleksandr Syrsky, the head of its ground forces, warned us of the critical few months ahead."

It ought to be telling you something by now...

Grand Rising Massive

 

My Sunshine.

I love you honey...

Song Lyrics

 

"New World Arisin'"

A new world arisin'

A new world's arisin'

A new world's arisin'

But that old world will fight you til your dying day

Old world will fight you til your dying day

In the morning when the sun comes up

I so want there to be hope

So hard to get out of my bed

And get to workin' on the killin' floor

Get up

A new world's arisin'

Get up

A new world's arisin'

Get up

A new world's arisin'

But that old world will fight you til your dying day

Old world will fight you til your dying day

Dying day

Dying day

I try to change my life

Try to right my wrongs

The old world has got its hooks in me

Tears me down the undertow so strong

Climb up

A new world's arisin'

Climb up

A new world's arisin'

Climb up

A new world's arisin'

But that old world will fight you til your dying day

Old world will fight you til your dying day

Dying day

Dying day

I can see the light of peace

Twinkling on the other shore

Every time we get close to the light

The fighting pulls us back once more

People taking to the streets

I guess they've had their fill

Of fighting, corruption and injustice too

They're pushing that stone up a hill

Push it up

A new world's arisin'

Push it up

A new world's arisin'

Push it up

A new world's arisin'

But that old world will fight you til your dying day

Old world will fight you til your dying day

Old world will fight you til your dying day

Old world will fight you til your dying day

Dying day

Dying day

When I was doing that last piece.

:-).

Happens all the time, just seems to follow me around.

Yup

The

 

point is?

The rest of the world knows wats up and is getting ready.

Were over here drawing down the SPR at historical levels.

Tryin to act like what we knew was gonna be coming all along aint comin.

Are ya ready?

Is your heart right?

Have you talked to your maker lately?

Do you have a relationship with him?

You on good terms?

Y'all talk frequently?

Never been a time like now...

on so many levels...

Do it today.

Accept Christ as risen Lord and Savior.

So

 

much going on.

I've read a lot of the stories so I'm just gonna kinda summaries and then post a couple of quotes from two different sources just to make a point.

So here goes. Belarus is moving tanks etc. to it's border with Poland and Lithuania. Russia flat out blamed us for the attacks on its airfields deep in its territory, they said the semi conductor chips in the drones were made here and that the drones used, used our GPS to navigate to the sites. Not something were hearing here why not? It's all bull shit but of course they're gonna blame us, it was the whole reason for the staged attack in the first place. Germany is sending tanks to Ukraine, something they didn't really wanna do and then they are gonna buy some of ours, I already told you about Poland getting it's first shipment of Military Hardware from South Korea. Were sending 1, as of my lst reading, 1 Battery of Patriot missiles. Much like Germany didn't wanna send tanks? We didn't wanna send that either. It takes a while to train em up so to speak and  guess who is going to do that? Yup, US more than likely. It should be a NATO team and they aint saying who or where right now. Germany is apparently sending some too. Why now? Expense mainly. To expense to just be shooting these things all the time. Last resort probably. As far as Moscow is concerned they are all fair game, wherever they are being trained, and who ever is doing the training.. Patriot Interceptor missiles are 3-4 million each BTW. A Patriot battery is capable of holding 32. Thats an easy $100 million. Each 32 shot. it's our best system, and can protect an area such as a military base, but not a city, and definitely not a country. Our best system with claims of 70% success (shoot down) rate although many doubt that and there's no hard verifiable kill rate available for the system. Point is? US, Germany? Poland? All doing things they didn't wanna do. Once article was talking about ammo production behind the Urals and I'm like they already did that a long time ago my friend, That article said something to the effect of, "...early jan, but probably Spring". 

Yeah, 

right...

Eyes that see...

Isaiah 6:10

You got em?

Etc...

This is Bloomberg?

Really?

NATO Eyes Boosting Air Defenses to Repel Drone, Missile Strikes

"Germany is also sending Patriot missiles to Poland after an errant Ukrainian air defense missile landed in a border village in November, killing two."

That has yet to be conformed by NATO's investigation. 

And why exactly is that going on a month now BTW? It was said to be "Most likely" an errant Ukrainian air defense missile and here is Bloomberg telling you like its an established fact and it's not.

Here again:

This time from 

 Foreign Affairs:

Russia’s New Theory of Victory

"...Surovikin, for instance, will sustain his campaign against Ukrainian infrastructure, a tactic that diverts both Ukrainian and Western resources away from Kyiv’s offensive operations. (The strikes also provide propaganda for Russia’s domestic audience, ghoulish as that may seem.) Such strikes have little downside for Russia; they are an asymmetric advantage. As the historian Lawrence Freedman recently noted, Ukraine does not have the capacity to similarly destroy infrastructure within Russia—Ukrainian strikes on Russian air bases notwithstanding."

(Again, they are reporting it to you as fact and the Ukrainians haven't claimed responsibility and we haven't said a word about it? 

The worlds largest nuclear power gets hit 122 miles from it capitol? At one of it's largest airbases? Capable of Bombers loaded with nuclear weapons and we dont have an official response? 

Over a week later?

God Speed everybody.

Journey well my friends...

Afternoon My Sunshine...

 

:-).

I love you baby.

I love you Honey.

Thank you honey, everybody...

Mostly Im thankful people put up with my stupid ass lol :-).

Truth.

I love you baby...

No need

 

Read The CIA 1983 Report About Transcending Spacetime With Your Mind

when you've done it already.

:-).

"Back in 1983, the CIA wrote an obscure report looking into the "Gateway Experience," claiming that an altered state of human consciousness may be able to transcend space and time. Decades on, the document has since been declassified and is now experiencing a resurgence on social media."

"an altered state of human consciousness may be able to transcend space and time."

(I'd count on it if I was you.)

"It essentially boils down to the CIA investigating the idea of inducing a profound out-of-body experience that could possibly tune into some kind of higher realm beyond reality."

(Really? Who knew? Where could that have possibly come from?)

“Fundamentally, the Gateway experience is a training system designed to bring enhanced strength, focus, and coherence to the amplitude and frequency of brainwave output between the left and right hemispheres so as to alter consciousness, moving it outside the physical sphere so as to ultimately escape even the restrictions of time and space,” the report reads."

(Like I said, count on it, if its what God has in sore for you? Youll experience it, but be careful getting there, its a lot rougher road than yiu could ever imagine and? like so many other things? if that is your sole intention? "so as to alter consciousness, moving it outside the physical sphere so as to ultimately escape even the restrictions of time and space." Then it will never happen.)

"As per the report, the universe is a complex system of “interacting energy fields” in which states are simply variations in energy. Human consciousness is no different, according to the report, it’s just a vibrational pattern of energy. Once "hemi-sync" is achieved, the report says, it can trigger an altered state of consciousness in which the vibration of a person’s consciousness is free from physical reality and tunes into this pure energy field."

("Pure energy field"...Who knew?)

"Drawing on ideas of quantum entanglement, the report claims it may be possible for human consciousness to profoundly alter the universe since reality is a holographic projection; the part encodes the whole. In this understanding of reality, everything is deeply connected in a matrix of interconnected energy vibrations, from your consciousness to the depths of the universe."

("reality is a holographic projection"..."We are 99.9999999999996 % empty space, walking around in 4% of what we have the tools to experience, with the most complex thing in the universe in-between our ears", I remember somebody sayin, yup, sure do.)

"This consciousness participates in the all-knowing infinite continuum of consciousness which is a characteristic of energy in the ever-present," continues the report. "Consequently, it is accurate to observe that when a person experiences the out-of-body state he is, in fact, projecting that eternal spark of consciousness and memory which constitutes the ultimate source of his identity to let it play in and learn from dimensions both inside and outside the time-space world in which his physical component currently enjoys a short period of reality."

(Couldn't have said it better myself. Laugh all you want, you gotta believe in miracles for real or they will never happen...)

"So, what to make of all this? No doubt the document makes for an interesting read, but it shouldn’t be treated as scientific, despite the scientific language and concepts it draws influence on. Many of the ideas in the report are drawn from real research, but when pieced all together, they aren’t testable. There are also a lot of questionable theories and leaps of logic chucked into the mix.

But hey, don’t let us stop you on your journey to the realm beyond this reality."

( "they aren’t testable." Well? theirs no need for some of us :-).

"But hey, don’t let us stop you on your journey to the realm beyond this reality."

(NP. It hasn't and it wont.)

The question becomes wat to do with such knowledge about such experiences?

If your just seeking them and not for the one who allows for these types of experiences to happen?

You'll never experience them.

Period.

So?

Wat to do for the Christian who has experienced such things?

Acts 4:18-20

Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John replied, “Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges! As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

"You be the judges! As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard."

And that's the truth.

You experience what some would call the "supernatural"?

You might live your life a lil differently from that point on.

Knowing what I do about cosmology, astronomy and quantum physics? I dont consider it outside the realm of our natural laws, quite the contrary, the physical laws that govern our existence seem to validate these types of experiences in certain types of individuals.

I'm never gonna shut up about it.

I literally cant.

Slave to Christ etc.

I love you honey.

So?

 

Were changing two tires on backend of a small ranger pick up truck.

Buddy says to put the jack right in the middle so we can lift the whole rear end up.

So we do and we get the tire off we needed, and were gonna get two and the one on the rear that's still on is going to go back to being the spare and were gonna get two new tires put the set on the rear.

So we get the tire off and I ask:

"Do you want me to let the jack down?" 

(I was thinking: why have all that pressure on it overnight? 

when were not getting the tires till tomorrow?

And he smiles and says:

"No, that's what they make em for to jack things up."

:-) :-).:-).:-):-):-):-)

I about died...

If yall only knew the fun we have somedays...

I got one more.

Buddy works few days a week at a local VFW post.

They threw away a neon Budweiser sign.

He asked if he could have it, they said sure they couldn't get it to work, had another coming etc.

So he takes it home, plays with the switch and gets it to come on.

He was talking about it in front of me and another friend and he says:

"I fixed it."

Other buddy says:

"Fix it?

You turned it on."

OMGoddness...yall just dont even know...and sometimes?

Thats a goood thing.

:-).

I love you honey.

Somebody

 here recently has been asking me to explain myself to them:-).

So they could understand me better:-).

So?

Here goes...:-).

Just your average everyday;

scientifically minded theist.

Sufi/Rasta inspired 

Christian Mystic/Apologetic

Polemicist

Visionary and Prophet. 

A "Blended" Historical Premillennial-Post Tribulationist, 

which places my hermeneutics 

smack dab in the middle of Literal vs Allegory.

"The problem is what you see as literal 

I see as allegorical 

and what you see as allegorical 

I see as literal, 

especially when applied 

to the books of Genesis and Revelation." 

An advocate for a more "Revisionist" 

(as in, "We need to reexamine some things we have been thinking of as settled long ago), 

and "Apostolistic" 

(Teach the word and preach the gospel, 

and live it such that others can see it in you.) 

church. 

Proponent of progressive creationism.

 A student of Theology, Astronomy, Cosmology, Quantum Mechanics, Particle and Astro-Physics.

An Amateur rock and roll historian and critic,

Avid NFL fan

I'm gonna say KY Bourbon Connoisseur these days, 

a step up from my days as an aficionado 

(How many times you gotta say how good something is 

before the experts do?

Or before it wins awards? 

It's happened three or four times, so I rest my case.)

and a  

sometime blackberry groin, 

jam makin,

 tie die shirt wearing, 

ex hippie wanna be

turned punk rock lovin, 

blues festival going 

middle aged 

pudgey bald guy 

who likes to wear Hawaiian shirts in the summer time , 

and happens to be more Stax than Motown, 

more Alman Brothers than Skynard, 

more Stones than Beatles,

 more thinkin mans/dad/classic rock/blues than anything,

really neither NASCAR or baseball anymore lol

 still more freeware than license keys, 

more sportster/cruiser than bagger/touring, 

more biker than motorcyclist these days...

who loves fancy sunglasses, Harley clothes, cooking...

Definitely more in the misfit biker/poet/starving artist camp than anything in suburbia etc...

"Otherworldly and vaguely threatening..."

Somebody said a while back.

I concur.

You know what I'm sayin Lol...

Peace, 

I love you baby.

Apologetics

Apologetics (from Greek ἀπολογία, "speaking in defense") is the religious discipline of defending religious doctrines through systematic argumentation and discourse.[1][2][3] Early Christian writers (c. 120–220) who defended their beliefs against critics and recommended their faith to outsiders were called Christian apologists.[4] In 21st-century usage, apologetics is often identified with debates over religion and theology.

Apparently?

 

Feb 19th...

" I'll put it to you this way, it's my belief that Putin probably only participated in the G8 so that he could figure out ways to avoid it sanctions some 20+ years later. He has outwitted and confounded four sitting US presidents ("W", Obama, Trump and Biden, 2 Dems 2 rep BTW).

That wasn't all he figured out how to do.

‘Huge, Missing and Growing:’ $65 Trillion in Dollar Debt Sparks Concern

"For researchers at the BIS, it’s the sheer scale of the swaps that’s worrying. They estimate that banks headquartered outside the US carry $39 trillion of this debt -- more than double their on-balance sheet obligations and ten times their capital. Accounting conventions only require derivatives to be booked on a net basis, so the full extent of the cash involved isn’t recorded on a balance sheet."

Almost like somebody mighta figured that out a few years back huh?

I mean 65 trillion doesn't exactly just show up overnight right?

Do ya think?

How could that have possibly have happened, "unintentionally"?

I know, I know, no possible way it could be the guy that made his country pretty much immune to sanctions? Planned for a war of attrition the West didn't see coming? Developed weapons the west didn't have? Sold off $ and bought gold and made his economy a lot more self-reliant than most. Undermined our elections, turned our freedoms against us, just on and on and on...

It couldn't possible have been him could it?

I'm just reminded of an old gangster movie, Goodfella. Guy owns a restaurant/nightclub, gangster hangout, one gangster dont ever pay (Joe Pesci) and he assaults' the owner one night when he asked him to. Owner goes to the  gangsters boss (Don, whatever) and says hey, we gotta do something about this, I cant go on like thi.? He ends up making the Don his partner in his establishment. Opps...now no gangsters pay lol, Don has access to owners lines of credit...maxes all of them out buying truckloads of liquor and food and then selling it at 50% of normal cost, who cares right? It's all free. It's all 100% profit, and when they finally come cause you cant pay your bills? You torch the place, you light a match and collect the insurance...

"They estimate that banks headquartered outside the US carry $39 trillion of this debt -- more than double their on-balance sheet obligations and ten times their capital. Accounting conventions only require derivatives to be booked on a net basis..."

"Accounting conventions"

Translation:

Well screw you any time we want once were good and ready.

That scene in that old gangster movie is the same exact storyline to me as:

QE led us to now, and now somebody somewhere sometime in the not to distant future...gonna light a match and torch this place, this isn't a crisis or a collapse this is the end of an economic system and its happening right in front of your eyes.

Do you not see?

" be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ "

Isaiah 6:9

"...banks headquartered outside the US carry $39 trillion of this debt -- more than double their on-balance sheet obligations and ten times their capital."

I mean they are even telling you whats going to happen ahead of time. They knew at least a lil bit ago...

I mean what exactly is the difference except there wont be any insurance collection in our particular situation?

Those

 

attacks?

Those reconfigured old russian drones the Ukranians used to hit farther into Russia than ever before?

Dont buy it. Info came from Russian Defense Ministry. Minimal damage.

False Flag alert. Big time.

More on all that tomorrow.

Piece is done just gotta record it and upload it.

And now this?

utin says Russia could adopt US preemptive strike concept

"Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow could adopt what he described as a U.S. concept of using preemptive military strikes, noting it has the weapons to do the job, in a blunt statement amid rising Russia-NATO tensions over Ukraine."

(It's why he is doing what he is doing and we know it.)

"For years, the Kremlin has expressed concern about U.S. efforts to develop the so-called Conventional Prompt Global Strike capability that envisions hitting an adversary’s strategic targets with precision-guided conventional weapons anywhere in the world within one hour."

“Speaking about a disarming strike, maybe it’s worth thinking about adopting the ideas developed by our U.S. counterparts, their ideas of ensuring their security,” Putin said with a thin smile, noting that such a preemptive strike was intended to knock out command facilities."

"He claimed that Russia already has commissioned hypersonic weapons capable of carrying out such a strike, while the U.S. hasn’t yet deployed them. He also claimed that Russia now has cruise missiles that surpass their U.S. equivalents."

("He claimed that Russia already has commissioned hypersonic weapons capable of carrying out such a strike, while the U.S. hasn’t yet deployed them." Thats not a claim, that's a fact. It's why he is doing what he is doing, he wouldn't be doing so if he didn't know he has the upper hand. One of their largest military airfields, just 122 miles outside of Moscow, gets hit, there are nuclear capable bombers there and the guy goes to the mic smiling talking about first strike capacity. Think about it for a second.)

"While Putin appeared to refer to conventional precision-guided weapons when he talked about possibly mimicking the U.S. strategy, he specifically noted that the U.S. hasn’t ruled out the first use of nuclear weapons.

(He is talking about Hypersonics, not nukes and he is gonna take out our ability to respond how we would like.)

“If the potential adversary believes that it can use the theory of a preemptive strike and we don’t, it makes us think about the threats posed by such ideas in other countries’ defensive posture,” he said.

"In Washington, advisers to President Joe Biden viewed Putin’s comments as “saber-rattling” and another veiled warning that he could deploy a tactical nuclear weapon,..."

(Who cares what they think? Domestic Oil Production gonna "ratchet up" and resupply the SPR anytime soon?  Thats what they said would happen. Then why even listen to them? They (Biden's advisors) either dont know whats going on so they cant tell you, or they do know whats going on and aren't telling you and neither scenario gonna affect the eventual outcome.)

“He doesn’t quite say we’re going to launch nuclear weapons, but he wants the dialogue in the U.S. and Europe to be, ’The longer this war goes on, the greater the threat of nuclear weapons might be used,’” Erath said.

(Yup...)

"Putin was asked Wednesday at a Kremlin conference whether Russia could commit to forswearing a first strike and responded that such an obligation might prevent Russia from tapping its nuclear arsenal even if it came under a nuclear attack.

“If it doesn’t use it first under any circumstances, it means that it won’t be the second to use it either, because the possibility of using it in case of a nuclear strike on our territory will be sharply limited,” he responded."

(If it doesn’t use it first under any circumstances, it means that it won’t be the second to use it either, because the possibility of using it in case of a nuclear strike on our territory will be sharply limited,..." It's exactly what I said applying the same logic to Hypersonics instead of Nukes. great, we got hit in a Hypersonic barrage, now were just gonna be able to unleash our nuclear response? Unlikely at best.)

Godspeed everybody.

More tomorrow.

I love you baby.

Lets Review :-).

 

The Cost Of Being a Disciple

(Emphasis on "Cost")

Luke 14: 25 - 35

25 And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,

26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

(Thats not exactly everybody :-). There are followers, believers, there were and are, "multitudes" there were the 70 ( Luke 10:1-23), there were the 12,  (Matthew 10) and the inner circle of Peter, John and James, brother of Jesus, known collectively as the Pillars of the Church. (See Revelation 3:12 :-), ought to ring a bell if you've been following along :-). 

Hate not meaning love more than me, 

HELPS Word-studies

3404 miséō – properly, to detest (on a comparative basis); hence, denounce; to love someone or something less than someone (something) else, i.e. to renounce one choice in favor of another.

Lk 14:26: "If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate (3404 /miséō, 'love less' than the Lord) his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple" (NASU).

[Note the comparative meaning of 3404 (miséō) which centers in moral choice, elevating one value over another.]

27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

(Mission get accomplished. Period.)

31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

(Or? In simpler terms from the NIV: "In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples. Period. No buts, no ifs, no nothing, period, end of story. If you're still in need of some type of clarification? See Matthew 19:21-22).

34 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

(Thats a whole nuther story all in its own :-). 

A different day perhaps but not here today.)

35 It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear."

Thats several criterion to be a Disciple:

1) Love Christ more than your family.

2) Love Christ more than your own life.

(Vs. 26)

3) Bear your cross and take after him

(Vs 27)

4) Finish what you start

(Vs 28-30)

5) Use a mind of wisdom

(Vs 31-32)

6) Renounce, leave, abandon ALL.

(Vs 33)

Sound like every Christian to you?

Yeah me neither.

Everybody has their spiritual gifts, they morph and change over time. It's our duty to figure out what they are and use them to the fullest extent we can.

And BTW?

Isaiah 6:9

 9And He replied: “Go and tell this people, 

‘Be ever hearing, 

but never understanding; 

be ever seeing, 

but never perceiving.’ 

In regard to vs 35 :-).

I love you honey :-).