The Christ-Man Chronicles: Actions Speaks Louder Than Words.
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In The Christ-Man Chronicles, Cooper-Giles posits a compelling argument for both clergy and politicians, and their social issues, which should manifest and morph into models of progressive change and enlightenment.
This book chronicles somewhat the search for bin Laden and Al Qaeda, the War on Terror, and the incidental attacks on Iraq in March 2003. The narrative also alludes to some reasons why there is much animosity and hatred toward America and some of its allies, especially so-called Israel, in the Muslim world. It affirms the double-standards, dubious, and often racist nature of Americas government policies in both domestic and foreign affair: particularly, its arrogant imperialistic attitude in dealing with Third World countries.
Nevertheless, Cooper-Giles proclaims that everyone has the conscious potent ability to become Christ-Men in their personal journey here on Earth with the discovery of ones divine mission and purpose, and the eventual understanding of being the person that one is meant to be: this knowledge is gained by distinguishing the difference between the illusionists and the creative value-producers around us!
Everyone should understand that they are made in the image of God, our Creator, as a distinct individual, who has a divine, a unique, and a separate soul-force different than anyone else on this planet
J. Lee Cooper-Giles
ABOUT the AUTHOR J. Lee Cooper-Giles is a lifelong political, religious, and social activist. He has three undergraduate college degrees: a BA in Black Studies and English, a BA in Journalism, and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Cooper-Giles grew up in a small town, Chillicothe, Ohio as well as New York City because his parents had divorced when he was five-years old: his mother who’d remarried remained in Ohio and his father, who’d also remarried lived in NYC. During these formative years, he was nurtured by family and friends, his church and community, the public schools, and the political, religious, and social issues at that time. Currently, Cooper-Giles is semi-retired while he still continues his artistic pursuits: painting and drawing, and writing as if he were an early 21st Century “Muckraker!”
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The Christ-Man Chronicles - J. Lee Cooper-Giles
Contents
Letter of Introduction:
Chapter 01:
Welcome to my ‘World’!
Chapter 02:
Leeches and Moochers - theUgly!
Chapter 03:
I Conceive, I Think, then I Know!
Chapter 04:
Neglected Communities - the Bad!
Chapter 05:
Real Silent Majority - the Good!
Chapter 06:
Everybody’s Problems???
Chapter 07:
Factual - the Good!
Chapter 08:
My Final Take…
This book is dedicated to:
My best friend, Rob Berger and family
My own family, Cooper-Giles clan
My sisters, Carol Jane and Lois Jean, and Aunt Mabel
and all
their families - my family
and in memory of my mother Helen, father Lee and step-dad
Don,
my Granny Cooper and good friend and mentor, Marjorie Bunch
McIntyre
Letter of Introduction:
I have known the author for nearly 20 years and during that time he has been a passionate, persistent and plainspoken advocate for justice and truth telling. The Christ-Man Chronicles flows as a natural continuation and intellectual exploration of his life’s passion.
In polite society, it is often suggested that two topics are off limits in conversation - politics and religion. Cooper-Giles takes on both of these areas with his finely tuned hypocrisy detector turned on high. The author’s spiritually well-developed sensibilities and a prose style reminiscent of the call and response of a Baptist preacher combine to form a unique and individualized voice of strength, experience and empowerment. Add an emphatic take-no-prisoners style, and a lively literary journey has begun.
In his latest book, Cooper-Giles posits that all people have the potential to be Christ-Men in their personal journey through the divine cosmic reality in pursuit of the American birthright of comfort and joy. Unfortunately, this is not an easy journey and there are many fools who stand in the way - conservative right wing fascists, leeches, moochers and illusionists.
This is not a book for the weak-hearted. He approaches the topic elbows out with opinions blazing. Cooper-Giles covers a wide range and travels from B. C. to Barack Obama with skill, finesse and great personal insight and intelligence. Every reader should walk away from this book challenged, but intellectually refreshed. Some of the books subjects, however, are not so lucky. The body count in his wake includes George W. Bush, who has totally screwed up America every way humanly possible.
This is not just another overheated opinion piece or impractical sermon from the mountain. Cooper-Giles has used his extensive and varied education and life experiences to write a powerful and well-supported argument for growth and change within the political and religious realms of the United States. Now it’s time for you to enjoy the fruits of his labors.
Friend, Rob Berger
Chapter 01:
Welcome to my ‘World’!
Since my, Cooper-Giles, life’s journey has recently been in the areas of communications/writing and education, and my lifelong journey otherwise has consisted of careers in the arts, in business, and at some non-profit community agencies, while also pursuing an education and knowledge in the domains of politics, world-religions, and the important civic and social issues that ongoing confronts our society; I have therefore finally developed this urgent need to reach out to others, which by the way is very much encouraged and prompted by some family-members and friends, to tell the story of my enlightenment. Thus, this somewhat journalistic letter-style newsy is to give you a brief outline or blueprint (not a memoir) of my passage from being an ignorant child into that of becoming a rather wise adult…
However, over-the-years, I’ve had some classmates and peers and family and friends, as well as collaborators and instructors and some very dedicated mentors and professors and teachers in every area of my endeavors, who’ve found my analyses and assessments, my involvements and observations and my sometime possible participations in these activities, and my always recording of the facts (reality) instead of the deceptions (illusions), often-times too controversial, too detailed, too opinionated, but always well-documented and very well-written communications and reports.
And finally in my early elder-years I’m really understanding the journalistic-mantra to do no harm but always tell the ‘unadulterated’ truth, whether negative or positive.
So let’s commence with this expedition; I promise you that the excursion is not very long; nevertheless, I hope you find the trip somewhat enjoyable and insightful???
So here goes!
By the way, although somewhat begrudgingly, I accept the realization that I, Cooper-Giles because of some external cajoling that I am a divinely chosen and ordained and a blessed sagacious truth-teller; however, I’m just one among many others in the diverse-myriad fields of discoveries and explorations. Each of us should strive to find our particular mission and purpose for being, only then will we - each and every one - discover the essence of who he or she is truly meant to be! I believe that I’ve finally made that discovery???
Another thing, I lastly also accept the fact I’m a 21st Century Muckraker
… So within the pages of this mini-book, I’ll try to be a VOICE for the people!
Muckraking is generally thought of as exposing corruption, especially in politics! However, my expositions at the start of this new century will be about presenting in an open platform and format in this and hopefully other forthcoming chronicles, the real, unaltered truth - particularly, accountability and honesty and transparency regarding the unbridled status, both pro and con, in certain areas and cultures of America’s institutions today. Within these pages, I will uncover some current traits about both the value producer, a Creator - the Christ-Man and the value-destroyer, a leech - the Fascist.
The Christ-Man is one who always attempts to bring untold happiness and value to oneself, while at the same time, enhancing the lives, the living standards and the welfare of others - this is done, at all times, with complete integrated honesty in every area of one’s human existence and with unconditional universal love for mankind and its environment. The Christ-Man is about what really is, Reality…
The Fascist, who’s a parasitic leech, operates under the guise of what appears to be, Illusion - he’s hypocrisy personified. He or she obscures reality and manipulates the people in order to accomplish his or her selfish ends - many such individuals inhabit the ranks of the Conservative- Traditionalist’s Clergy, the Status-Quo Establishment, the Media- Conglomerates, the Political-Sphere, and some other areas of influence in this great nation of ours.
You will Know Them by Their DEEDS… And that’s the ‘real’ Deal!
The Good: The Christ-Man
Christ-Men are those individuals, whom through honest insightful and meditative analysis and assessment, possessing many innate divine conscientious connections with a supreme understanding of their own divine image
and likeness as a cloned-image of the Divine realize that they are individually and spiritually molded by the Almighty - the first-breath-of-life
drawn by each person on this planet is the infusion of the holy spirit
implanted by the Divine into each viably independently born human-soul, who’s only answerable to itself and its own personal conceptual relationship to the Heavenly-Realm.
… And that’s the ‘real’ deal!
Most of us will never understand this somewhat simplistic concept and universal truth
because we’ve been constantly overwhelmed with a convoluted and diverse myriad indoctrination and brainwashing, sometimes dogmatically, and/or sometimes sanctimoniously done, or even more likely - a combination of the two, a hybrid. A combination that’s been inflicted into every area of our existence and experiences by all
the external-forces; that is, by our individual culture, our individual family structure, our individual community and our individual educational institutions, and our individual class and economic and moral and political and racial and religious and sexual and social affiliations and status’s imbued, NOT inborn or inbred, non-stop into our consciousness from the cradle to the grave
by these entities from outside our own consciousness.
All
of this dangerous and toxic-input are the numerous falsehoods, and injustices, and misinformation, and misrepresentation, and WMD (Weapons of Mass Distraction) concocted by the mendacious- parasitical-value, destroying
spin-doctors, who often are fascists — the illusionists.
This type toxic-garbage and the deadly psychological-virus’s injected repeatedly into the minds and consciousnesses of people, from birth to death, is the supreme and ultimate modus operandi (m. o. ) of the fascists, their whole-cadre of illusionists and spin-doctors, and corrupt legislators, and egomaniacal politicians, and the few good and many bad public- servants supposedly representing the interests of their constituency; however, these non-creators and non-producers representation does not really
extend to the majority-interests of their constituency-base, but instead they wholeheartedly embrace the agendas, the goals, the policies and practices, and without any hesitation whatsoever they absolutely and totally embrace the fascist-philosophy of how to character-assassinate, how to confuse, how to control, how to deceive, how to destroy, how to distract, how to fool, how to kill and murder and maim, how to manipulate, how to oppress and persecute, and how to exact violence and war: all
this they do for their own personal-self-interests and self-egomania, while also catering to the interests of some select group of elitists, other leeching and parasitic likeminded fascists!
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The essence of Christ-Man is one’s soul, which is divinely programmed to create and produce benevolent ideas and concrete things of infinite value to himself and for others, and in doing such, one’s primary mission and purpose in life is to always practice unconditional love and achieve supreme happiness - the essence of love is to celebrate all conscious life and be thoroughly happy. Thus, every human should forever strive to savor each day with joy and honor it as a divine precious gift. Also, each Christ-Man’s sanctioned mission and purpose on Earth is to be a creator and producer of principled values in one’s own right - the areas which enhances and uplifts the lives, the soul of oneself and that of others - this is the divine mandate for every Christ-Man.
Absolutely, no-one, whether a bureaucrat, a clergyman, a family member or friend, not even a politician and possibly some other external