THE THANKSGIVING TRADITION OF OCTOBER 03, 1863. ABOLISH SLAVERY

TO GIVE ‘THANKS’ TO THE HIGHEST GOD AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST ABOLISH SLAVERY

To give ‘Thanks’ to the Highest God American people must abolish Slavery. On Thursday, October 03, 2019 I ask American people to give ‘Thanks’ to the Highest God by abolishing Slavery. The United States was transformed into a ‘Slavedriver’ by President Bill Clinton on August 22, 1996, by signing into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PL 104 – 193) which denies the opportunity to the alien hourly wage earners to receive the monthly retirement income benefit after attaining the full retirement age of 67 years. In my analysis, an individual who has no right to his property, earnings, or income benefit is a “SLAVE.” Rudra Narasimham Rebbapragada Special Frontier Force President Lincoln proclaims official Thanksgiving holiday

To give ‘Thanks’ to the Highest God, the American People must abolish Slavery. On October 3, 1863, expressing gratitude for a pivotal Union Army victory at Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln announces that the nation will celebrate an official Thanksgiving holiday on November 26, 1863. The speech, which was actually written by Secretary of State William Seward, declared that the fourth Thursday of every November thereafter would be considered an official U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving. This announcement harkened back to when George Washington was in his first term as the first president in 1789 and the young American nation had only a few years earlier emerged from the American Revolution. At that time, George Washington called for an official celebratory “day of public thanksgiving and prayer.” While Congress overwhelmingly agreed to Washington’s suggestion, the holiday did not yet become an annual event. Thomas Jefferson, the third president, felt that public demonstrations of piety to a higher power, like that celebrated at Thanksgiving, were inappropriate in a nation based in part on the separation of church and state. Subsequent presidents agreed with him. In fact, no official Thanksgiving proclamation was issued by any president between 1815 and the day Lincoln took the opportunity to thank the Union Army and God for a shift in the country’s fortunes on this day in 1863. The fourth Thursday of November remained the annual day of Thanksgiving from 1863 until 1939. Then, at the tail-end of the Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, hoping to boost the economy by providing shoppers and merchants a few extra days to conduct business between the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, moved Thanksgiving to November’s third Thursday. In 1941, however, Roosevelt bowed to Congress’ insistence that the fourth Thursday of November is re-set permanently, without alteration, as the official Thanksgiving holiday. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lincoln-proclaims-official-thanksgiving-holiday A&E Television Networks

To give ‘Thanks’ to the Highest God, American people must abolish Slavery.

FOURTH OF JULY, 2019 CELEBRATION. MY THOUGHTS ON JONAH'S CAPTIVITY INSIDE A BIG FISH

FOURTH OF JULY, 2019. THE PLIGHT OF JONAH

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

FOURTH OF JULY 2019 CELEBRATION – MY REFLECTIONS ON JONAH’S CAPTIVITY

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

FOURTH OF JULY 2019 CELEBRATION – MUSINGS OF A SLAVE IN FREE COUNTRY

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

FOURTH OF JULY 2019 CELEBRATION – A SLAVE IN FREE COUNTRY: PLIGHT OF SENIOR ALIEN, #SENIORALIEN, SLAVE, NOT FREE. 

Fourth of July is observed as US Independence Day. This celebration calls for a study on the problem of Freedom in the World, and the problem of Freedom in individual human experience. I want to share the plight of Senior Alien (#SeniorAlien) living as a Slave in Free Country recognized as Champion of Freedom that values Individual Freedom and Personal Liberties.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July 2019 Celebration – A Slave in Free Country: FREEDOM IN THE WORLD MAP 

India is my country of origin. I left India in January 1984 due to a concern about my freedom after alienation or estrangement from my birth social community. I reached the United States during July 1986 to eventually experience that I have lost all freedom; I gave up freedom associated with my Indian citizenship and found that my existence is not dependent upon freedom but upon Divine Providence and Divine Grace. Do I have a choice? Is freedom an entitlement? Is there freedom in the Free World??? Freedom is it self-determined or is it determined by external causes???

The word ‘freedom’ has many meanings – theological, metaphysical, psychological, moral, natural, and civil. Freedom may mean enjoyment of personal liberty, of not being a slave, nor a prisoner, and it speaks about the freedom in acting and choosing. Freedom may imply the state of not being subject to determining forces. 

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July 2019 Celebration – A Slave in Free Country: Freedom in Free World: 

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

I arrived in the United States for I believe in the Motto of this Nation: “In God We Trust.” The New Testament Book, The Epistle of Apostle Paul to Ephesians, Chapter 2, verse# 19 speaks of my quest for freedom: “Consequently, you are no longer Foreigners and Aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household,”

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

I seek freedom to enter God’s household for I am not a foreigner, or alien. There is a promise in The New Testament Book, The Epistle of Apostle Paul to Romans, Chapter 9, verse# 25: As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;”

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

“Free World” is a Cold War-era term often used by the US to describe those countries that are not in the sphere of influence of Communist States like the Soviet Union, or the People’s Republic of China. The United States is the Leader of the Free World, and it is the world’s Democratic Superpower. In response to Communist China’s military occupation of sovereign nation of Tibet, United States to defend its own national interests and to combat the threat of Communist Expansionism, President Truman and President Eisenhower initiated programs in the 1950s to render assistance to Tibetan Resistance Movement to uphold principles of Freedom and Democracy in the Land of Tibet. John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States (1961-1963) created a military alliance/pact between the US, India, and Tibet to contain the military threat posed by Communist China. 

In September 1969, I made a deliberate choice to serve in India’s Armed Forces to face the military challenge and threat posed by China after her brutal attack of 1962 on India across the Himalayan frontier. On completion of my military training, I joined this US, India, Tibet military alliance/pact and was posted to Headquarters Establishment No. 22, a military organization known to the public as ‘Special Frontier Force’. I view myself as a very passionate defender of Freedom and Democracy. During years spent in India, I imagined that I had the freedom to choose and act and deliberately expressed this sense of personal freedom when I got married in January 1973. This personal choice had its consequences. It initiated a process of alienation and estrangement from my birth-related Hindu-Brahmin, the social community. The first blow to my sense of social identity and birth affiliation was delivered in May 1976 while I was at Armed Forces Medical College, Pune. By the year 1982, I fully recognized that I have no freedom to choose, or act without compromising my sense of self-respect, and self-dignity. For all practical purposes, in my estimate, I was transformed into a Foreigner or Alien while I was still serving my country as a Commissioned Officer of its Armed Forces. It undermined my ability to serve in the Armed Forces to defend Freedom of the Country while in my perception I existed as Foreigner or Alien. At that time, as the father of two young children, I felt that I have no choice other than that of leaving India to find a place in another part of the Free World. Now, I am conscious of the lack of freedom to make choices, or I may state that I am only free to make a choice that is foreordained or predetermined. 

In the drama of human life and history, do we have the capacity to choose our Life according to our Free Will? The issue of human freedom and Freedom in the World may have to be reconciled with God’s omniscience, and omnipotence. We must understand as to what extent the will of an individual can and does determine some of his acts. If a man is entirely dependent upon God’s power, can a man make bad, or evil choices? Do we need divine grace for both meritorious, and even terrible acts? How to define the problem of the universal supposition of responsibility for personal actions? Can there be Freedom in absence of Divine Providence and Divine Grace?

DETERMINISM AND FREE WILL:

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July 2019 Celebration – A Slave in Free Country: This Kid apparently has Free Will and can choose to get wet in the rain. He can also choose to remain under the shade and keep dry. This ability to choose is operated by an external contingency called rain. Does man have the natural ability to make choices in the face of all types of external contingencies? Plato held that actions are determined by the extent of a person’s understanding or reasoning. The New Testament Book, The Epistle of Apostle Paul to Romans, Chapter 8, verses 28-30 describe the concept of “Predestination.” Verse# 30 reads: “Moreover, those He predestined, them He also called; those He called, them He also Justified; those He justified, them He also glorified.” I live in expectation of finding this ‘glory’ in the eyes of God.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

The term Free Will refer to the power or capacity to choose among alternatives. It refers to the ability to act in certain situations independently of natural, social, or divine restraints. Will is the factor which turns human thought into human action and behavior. Existentialist thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre speak about the concept of radical, perpetual, and frequently agonizing freedom of choice. Sartre claims that man is “condemned to be free” even though his situation may be wholly determined. Behavioral psychologists hold the view that human action and behavior is determined by the nature of an external environmental stimulus. Sigmund Freud held the view that human actions are determined by hidden mental causes which control their actions; “You have an illusion of psychic freedom within you which you do not want to give up.” Freud recommends that this “deeply rooted belief in psychic freedom and choice” must be given up because it “is quite unscientific.” Man appears to be subject to the Law of Cause and Necessity or is governed by a doctrine of Determinism.

THE DOCTRINE OF PREDESTINATION:

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July 2019 Celebration – A Slave in Free Country: Saint Augustine (354-430), Doctor of the Church, founder of Christian theology followed the doctrine of predestination or divine grace that states God’s superintendence of the Whole Cosmos and everything in it.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July 2019 Celebration – A Slave in Free Country: Martin Luther (November 10, 1483, to February 18, 1546), German theologian, leader of the Protestant Reformation held the view that everything is determined by God from the beginning.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July 2019 Celebration – A Slave in Free Country: John Calvin (1509 – 1564), French Protestant theologian of the Reformation held the view that human free will is predetermined. While rejecting the role of free will, Calvinism maintains that God’s grace is irresistible.

Saint Thomas Aquinas held the view that God’s omnipotence does not include predetermination of human will. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that predestination is consistent with free will since God moves the soul according to its nature. Do I make my own choices while God foreordained my circumstances? Does God have foreknowledge of my reaction to His Choice? If God foreordained the circumstances, the choices, and the destiny of the person according to His Perfect Will, how to explain the exercise of free will? It appears to me that God may elect or predestinate the circumstances of a person and make a choice on His own initiative based on His knowing in advance the reactions of the person to His Will. Man’s free will is like the game of chess; man can make his moves while playing the game according to God’s plan while God is the second Player with whom man must contend.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July 2019 Celebration – A Slave in Free Country: The Hindu Temple, Malibu, Southern California. Is this the Temple in which I am destined to worship the LORD GOD? The New Testament Book, The Epistle of Apostle Paul to Ephesians, Chapter 2, verse# 21 reads: “In Him, the Whole building is joined together and rises to become a Holy Temple in the LORD.” Why does the Hindu-Brahmin community treat me as Foreigner and Alien providing an external contingency to take away my Freedom?

Rudranarasimham, Rebbapragada

Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.

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Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

Fourth of July, 2019 Celebration. My Reflections on Jonah’s Captivity.

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GOOD FRIDAY: SENIOR ALIEN DISCOVERS THE PASSION OF CHRIST

GOOD FRIDAY – SENIOR ALIEN DISCOVERS THE PASSION OF CHRIST:

Good Friday - Detached Devotion - Senior Alien prays for Blessings of Patience and Endurance.[/caption]

SENIOR ALIEN PRAYS FOR BLESSINGS OF WHOLE PATIENCE ON GOOD FRIDAY – WHOLE PATIENCE: TO KNOW, TO UNDERSTAND THE QUALITY, THE ABILITY, OR THE FACT OF PATIENCE, I PRAY TO MAN KNOWN AS JESUS, A NATIVE OF NAZARETH, GALILEE.

Good Friday is the Friday before Easter Sunday. It is observed in commemoration of the crucifixion of Jesus. Friday, April 19, 2019, is observed as Good Friday. I pray to Son of Man, a native of Nazareth, Galilee to know, and to understand the quality, the ability, or the fact of "PATIENCE." I am using the phrase "WHOLE PATIENCE" for Jesus clearly demonstrated His other supernatural abilities. Jesus had several options if He chose not to wait, not to tolerate, not to succumb, and not to experience the horrors of pain and humiliation imposed on Good Friday. Today, Senior Alien is beholding the Son of Man to learn the Art of Patience. I am "alien" for I have not yet entered the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

• WHOLE CHRIST – WHOLE LOVE – WHOLE REDEEMER:
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  GOOD FRIDAY – SENIOR ALIEN – WHOLE PATIENCE: GOSPEL IS OF VERY SPECIAL INTEREST TO MAN AS IT REVEALS GOD'S COSTLY PLAN FOR MAN'S REDEMPTION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.
  
  Good Friday is of very special interest to man for it reveals God's costly plan for the redemption of man. The word redemption means to release, or freedom from payment of a price and man's freedom or deliverance, or liberation involving the greatest possible depth of suffering. The price paying concept lies at the heart of redemption and hence it is a costly action. For man is a "SLAVE" to sin, to set him free, a ransom-price is paid. "For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many." (Gospel According to Saint Mark, Chapter 10, verse#45) The emphasis is on the giving of Life as a ransom. Good Friday is a completed act for Jesus paid the ransom-price. Jesus performed this action with Whole Patience. It is immaterial as to whom Christ paid this price. For man, the only concern is to experience the results of this full redemption by receiving God's grace and mercy through Christ and His Love. On Good Friday, Jesus had gone through the whole of human experience including the worst horrors of pain and humiliation.
  Endurance is the ability to stand pain, distress, and fatigue; it is the ability to resist and withstand suffering and hardship with fortitude and patience.
  
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  SENIOR ALIEN – GOOD FRIDAY – WHOLE PATIENCE: THE TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF JESUS ON GOOD FRIDAY. IT IS A LESSON TO HUMANITY, A TEACHING TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THE QUALITIES OF PATIENCE AND ENDURANCE. ROMAN GOVERNOR PONTIUS PILATE THOROUGHLY SCOURGED JESUS AND ASKED PEOPLE IF HE NEEDS TO PUNISH MORE.
  
  Endurance speaks of the ability to hold up under pain, to tolerate, to put up with, to bear pain without flinching. It is the Will, ability, quality, or fact of waiting without complaint. It demands steadiness, perseverance, self-control, resoluteness in the face of grave provocation. This ability to bear suffering results from firm sustained courage and it is a mistake to interpret endurance as cowardice. Jesus remained calm and unperturbed while people angrily shouted demanding his crucifixion.
  On Good Friday, the Son of Man was a picture of STOICISM displaying grit, and courage that refuses to succumb under any circumstances, courage that involves utmost indifference to personal pain and suffering.
  
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  SENIOR ALIEN – GOODFRIDAY – WHOLE PATIENCE: "THEN SOME BEGAN TO SPIT AT  HIM,  THEY  BLINDFOLDED  HIM,  STUCK  HIM  WITH  THEIR  FISTS,  AND  SAID, 'PROPHESY!' AND THE GUARDS TOOK  HIM  AND  BEAT  HIM ." BOOK OF   MARK, CHAPTER 14, VERSE#65.
  
  Good Friday - Detached Devotion - Senior Alien Prays for Blessings of Patience and Endurance.[/caption] SENIOR ALIEN – GOOD FRIDAY – WHOLE PATIENCE: TO WHICH LAND AND TO WHICH KINGDOM DOES THE SON OF MAN TRULY BELONGS??? IF JESUS BELONGS TO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, WHO HAS GIVEN THE AUTHORITY AND POWER TO MAN TO DEFINE HIS TERRITORY AND HIS DOMAIN????
  
  Good Friday - Detached Devotion - Senior Alien Prays for Blessings of Patience and Endurance.[/caption] SENIOR ALIEN – GOOD FRIDAY – WHOLE PATIENCE: IF THE SON OF MAN WAS CRUCIFIED ON GOOD FRIDAY, IT ONLY SPEAKS ABOUT HIS WILL TO REFRAIN FROM RETALIATION, AND FORBEARANCE. PEOPLE TAUNTED JESUS TO SAVE  HIS  OWN  LIFE  AND  TO  COME  DOWN.  HIS FORTITUDE IS NOT TO BE  MISTAKEN  OR  MISINTERPRETED   AS WEAKNESS. 
  
  Good Friday - Detached Devotion - Senior Alien Prays for Blessings of Patience and Endurance.[/caption] SENIOR ALIEN – GOOD FRIDAY – WHOLE PATIENCE: ON GOOD FRIDAY, ROMAN GOVERNOR PONTIUS PILATE OR HIS SOLDIERS POSTED A WRITTEN NOTICE ABOVE THE CROSS ON WHICH JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED.
  
  On Good Friday, Jesus was repeatedly taunted, mocked, and ridiculed by people, by criminals, by officials, by soldiers, by the high priest, King Herod, and Roman Governor Pontius Pilate. The ultimate act of indignity was that of calling Him, "THE KING OF THE JEWS" showing utter contempt for His failure to save His own life and get away from the Cross on which He was nailed.
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  SENIOR ALIEN – GOOD FRIDAY – WHOLE PATIENCE: ON GOOD FRIDAY, JESUS DID NOT EXPRESS ANY THOUGHTS OR FEELINGS OF SELF-PITY. JESUS SAID, "FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING."(THE BOOK OF ST LUKE, CHAPTER 23, VERSE#34).
  
  On Good Friday, Jesus did not rebuke the people who offended and punished Him. Jesus did not express any desire to retaliate against them and did not express any thoughts or feelings of Self-Pity. Jesus after His crucifixion said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."( The Gospel According to Saint Luke, Chapter 23, verse#34)
  ECCE HOMO – "BEHOLD THE MAN":
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• There is no easy cure, and there is no easy remedy for man's problems for man's problem is that of alienation or estrangement from his own true or real nature that God implanted in man while making man in His own image. Man lives as an 'alien' for man has lost his connection with his own LORD God Creator. The divine nature of the Son of Man becomes self-evident when man learns the Art of Patience and Endurance. I ask my readers to 'Behold The Man' and see His Patience, Fortitude, Forbearance, Perseverance, Calmness, Steadiness, Strength, Self-Control, and His resolute Endurance.
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  Good Friday - Senior Alien Prays for Blessings of Patience and Endurance.[/caption] On this Good Friday, I am sharing a collection of images that depict Jesus when Roman Governor Pontius Pilate presented Him to a mob of people who gathered outside the palace shouting to crucify Jesus. SENIOR ALIEN has no access to care or comfort while he faces the difficult problems of his simple, mortal existence. Senior Alien understands the proverb that instructs man to endure problems that cannot be cured.
  
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  SENIOR ALIEN – GOOD FRIDAY – WHOLE PATIENCE: IF PROBLEMS HAVE NO ANSWERS, IF PAIN AND SUFFERING CANNOT BE CURED, MAN TO KEEP HIS EXISTENCE HAS TO LEARN THE ART OF PATIENCE.