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Hall of Wisdom
A classic of Christian devotional
literature - meditations by a German
priest on the life and teachings of Jesus
A Journey into American Buddhism as a Way of Life
humanist ~ EXISTENTIAL ~ egalitarian
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The Universal Society of Existentialism Welcomes You
"the resources of the earth are to be shared by all"
Hon. Tom Shepherd, Chancellor
The Conscience of an Existentialist
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Be of one mind,
Having compassion for one another.
Be wise, stronghearted and courageous.
Be courteous, even when others are not.
Do not return evil for evil
That you may thus find peace
Tom Widmark Shepherd Life Center
~ reincarnation of Buddha & Jesus Christ ~
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Fascism in the Name of Religion: The Roots of Slavery
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A Journey into American Humanist Buddhism
What is American Humanist Buddhism? It is Self-Discipline
American Humanist Buddhism is not based on superstition. It is compatible with true democracy.
It is based on egalitarianism. All sentient beings are a part of one another. We share ALL.
Who Was Jesus?
Are you really a Christian? Or are you really a Jew?
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One cannot acquire riches without exploiting the labor of the poor - Jesus
Therefore a rich man or woman cannot be a part of my kingdom - Jesus
Those who pray where they can be seen by others are hypocrites! - Jesus
If you wish to pray, then go into a room where you are alone - Jesus
A man or woman that bears arms under any circumstances
is not worthy of my kingdom - Jesus
Yours truly, Tom Blaise de Shepherd a/k/a Tomas Blasco de Separdi
view of my friends & neighbors Marty Doane, Nancy Ettinger, Kathryn Meredith, Mike Kelly, George Walbert, Michael Goldberg, brother John & I: 1944
view of my mom, my gram and me 1946 view of me - 2007
Veroa Goodwin
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"existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero
without all the sanctions or support of religion or society" -- Anita Brookner,
British novelist and art historian
The Life of Nietzsche Kierkegaard The Existential Primer
The Conscience of an Existentialist - Shepherd
Kierkeggard is "The Father of Existentialism"
Kierkegaard's Life, Ethics and Religion
The Eight Basic Precepts
1. It is wise to avoid the use of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products and hallucinogens.
2. It is the responsibility of every educated adult to continue to educate one's self and to provide free education to others. Education shall be non-competitive, universal and free.
3. A predominantly vegetarian diet, supplemented with seafood and poultry is the recommended healthy diet of all people.
4. Celibacy is the only sane way to live.
5. Marriage is a private contract between two consenting adults for the express purpose of creating and nurturing a child or children or for the purpose of sharing life. Celibacy is a sign of intelligence.
6. Silent transcendental meditation is the recommended vehicle for achieving spiritual growth and wisdom.
7. Build houses, not prisons. Use tools, not weapons. Share the work and share the wealth. It is the right of every human being to not be deprived of home ownership. It is only when our relations with one another are fully mutual and egalitarian that we become free and balanced human beings.
8. There is only one race, the human race.
The Universal World Congregation of Father Tom Shepherd, also known as The Egalitarian American Free Gentile Congregation, is the creation of Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd, Chancellor and President.
The rite of Baptism is unnecessary for membership. The Kingdom of Peace is within you.
Psychiatry is viewed as a barbaric tool of the state, utilized to discredit, to disenfranchise and to exploit those who oppose existing forms of fascism.
The Nordic Universal Creed is recognized. All men and women are created equal, meaning they are to be treated as social equals. True democracy and spirituality cannot exist without absolute economic equality for all people.
The resources of the Earth are to be equally shared by the people of the Earth.
Militarism is non-rational and uncivilized. Militarism brainwashes young people in order to desensitize them to violence. It teaches them how to kill other people. A wise and brave man and a wise and brave woman solves problems with tools, not with weapons of any kind.
SOBER, RATIONAL THINKING IS THE KEY TO SPIRITUALITY.
Answer: It is a controversial manuscript created by Ancient Jews,
used to justify Jewish Supremacy and enslavement of the populace.
It is the basis of the Old Testament, Genesis through Leviticus.
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J.S. Bach Beethoven Brahms Chopin Debussy Handel Haydn Liszt
Mendelssohn Mozart Schubert Schumann Tchaikovsky Vivaldi
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The Music & Spirit of the Immortal Brothers Gibb
The Miraculous Mandarin - Hungarian Peasant Songs - Folk Dances
Biography of Bela Bartok
Note: Bela Bartok considered the trinity to be "clumsy folklore" that "enslaves thought."
He called the conception of God as a bodiless, everlasting Spirit, who has decreed
all that has happened in the past, and similarly ordains the future, to be a "muddled notion."
Jesus was a moralist. It was those who came after him that invented the trinity.. -- Bela Bartok
Bela Bartok Memorial House, Budapest
exposing racism, sexism and slavery of every variety
Note: Congregation Founder Thomas Mitchell Shepherd is the grandson of Missouri bus line founder John A.Snyder and of Oklahoma banker and oil baron Eugene Frank Blaise. He is the son of Dudley Eugene Blaise-Canterbury, Missouri, Mexico and Bolivia mining engineer, who abandoned the family soon after Tom's birth. He is the stepson of Charles M. Shepherd, a British-American power company executive, who repeatedly defiled Tom (as did Tom's Christian neighbors), prior to abandoning the family by committing suicide when Tom was 16 years old. Tom Shepherd is also the son of Hon. Clara Olive Shepherd, Church and civic leader and musical theatrical producer for civic organizations throughout the USA.. He is the son - grandson of Mabel Darlington Mitchell, Joplin civic leader.
Mr. Shepherd is a great great grandson of Hon. Ignace Hainer, jurist, journalist, linguist and secretary to the Premier of Hungary during Hungary's1848 struggle for freedom of the press, freedom for the serfs, and independence from the Austrian Hapsburg Empire. He was afterwards imprisoned by the Austrians for five months.
Following his release, Ignace Hainer came to America, where he was soon after appointed as a delegate to the National Convention, then to the position of professor of modern languages at the University of Missouri. He was asked to leave the Univesity during the Civil War because of his heroic opposition to slavery. He thus moved his family to "New Buda" (Garden Grove) Iowa, where he sojourned as a farmer, a teacher, a preacher, and as a member of the Decatur County Iowa Grand Jury.
Mr. Shepherd was baptised at six months of age, then schooled and confirmed in the First Presbyterian Church, Joplin, Missouri. He also attended Bible school at the United Hebrew Congregation in Joplin, then under the leadership of Rabbi Latz..
At the age of 12 he was confirmed in the Episcopal Church at the Parish of St. Philip the Apostle, Joplin, Missouri, whre he served as an altar boy and president of the youth group through high school. He was also selected to be citizenship chairman and president of a Council of Churches interdenominational youth organization, during which time he was highly praised for his leadership in cementing bonds between the American Episcopal Church and the African-American Episcopal Church in Missouri..
He attended the School of Philosophy and Letters of the National University of Mexico in Mexico City, the University of Missouri and the Univerity of Oklahoma College of Arts and Science and the Graduate College, where he concentrated his studies in philosophy, political science, sociology and regional and city planning.
He served with the United State Marine Corps Reserve and with the United States Coast Guard.
He voluntarily separated himself from the Episcopal Church in 1970 after he was threatened and persecuted by members of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Del Mar, California merely for expressing his opinion as a Sunday School teacher that killing -- even in times of state-sanctioned war -- is an un-Christian act -- a defiance of the words of Jesus.
He also objected to the clergy and other church leaders for their use of alcoholic beverages -- potentially dangerous narcotics and health hazards -- in the celbration of Holy Eucharist and for socialization purposes at church parish meetings and other social events and for the clergy's encouragement of younger people to emulate their self-destructive, parasitic lifestyle.
The Episcopal Church -- with its emphasis on public parayer, deference to the wealthy, ostentation, and indifference to the suffering of the poor and disadvantaged, has indeed made a mockery of the words of Jesus, claims Dr. Shepherd, as do virtually all Protestant and Catholic worshipers, worldwide.
Mr. Shepherd has since founded the Universal Free Gentile Congregation and the American Humanist Buddhist Fellowship,, based on his life investigations and experience.
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American Humanist Buddhism
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