'The gospels demonstrate the homelessness of Jesus lasting for the entirety of his public ministry.
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"From the greengrocer tree you get grapes and green pea, cauliflower, pineapple, and cranberries,
While the pastry-cook plant cherry-brandy will grant - apple puffs, and three-corners, and banberries -
The shares are a penny, and ever so many are taken by ROTHSCHILD and BARING,
And just as a few are allotted to you, you awake with a shudder despairing -
You're a regular wreck, with a crick in your neck, and no wonder you snore, for your head's on the floor, and you've needles and pins from your soles to your shins, and your flesh is a-creep, for your left leg's asleep, and you've cramp in your toes, and a fly on your nose, and some fluff in your lung, and a feverish tongue, and a thirst that's intense, and a general sense that you haven't been sleeping in clover;
But the darkness has passed, and it's daylight at last, and the night has been long - ditto, ditto my song - and thank goodness they're both of them"
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"The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to take up the case of City of Grants Pass,
Oregon v. Gloria Johnson to determine whether if, under our Constitution,
a local government can make it a crime to involuntarily live outside and unsheltered,
when adequate shelter is not available. The Alliance has issued a statement that the Court should not allow such a policy."
https://endhomelessness.org/blog/supreme-court-and-homelessness-what-the-grants-pass-v-johnson-case-could-do/
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/04/04/grants-pass-oregon-homeless-parks-josephine-county-public-spaces-camping-shelter/
He left the economic security he had as an artisan and the reciprocity he had with his family and wandered Judaea depending on charity.
Many of the people on whom he depended for charity were women.
Because his ministry took place in the vicinity of his disciples' hometowns, it is likely that the group often slept at the homes of the disciples' family members."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_of_Jesus
"Of the Four Evangelists, Luke emphasizes Jesus' homelessness the most.
Matthew 8:20 and Luke 9:58 both record a statement by Jesus in which
he describes his homelessness
by saying that
"foxes have holes
and the birds of the air have nests,
but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head."
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Foxes and parents, children, the elderly evicted, your mother, your son, our nurse, the neighbors uncle, why does a hit list omit your lord and savior, Grant's Pass, in a gestapo reality to force the unhoused away, to steal money they don't have with fines, to imprison the houseless, go back to the manger-----where it started, the virgin birth how gullible one is to accept that premise, and also trespassing, there with cow sheep horse and dog.
The lamb has it's hole and it's goon squad, the chicken has it's army of midnight torture gangs, they take your lone blanket from the houseless and make a noose.
The cat only good in the businessman fold when it's employed to kill mice, the cat in the drizzle eaves worthy of pitchfork agenda.
The former soldiers you took from school at 17 now try to survive hooked on escape medicine to dodge the nightmares from followed orders, massacres, hazing abuse and unspeakables.
Ferret the former grunt out from his shopping cart cartel, shame him, put him behind bars that the jailers earn their Home by, $500 a day the kind system eats from taxes on the working middle class, those teachers pushing inclusion abc and number satanism like addition, subtracting. Kick the shadowed clumps regardless of age, gender, kick the women hardest. It's what drives business.
A brick to the heart, get out, the lone command. Exit the city, ravens will pick the rags off the corpse that deserved no clothing, no food, no shelter. If the gangs sent by sheriff or owner of the gas station find your child, they'll be raised by strangers who share a sadist perspective, a bunk bed and bible, a flag to keep slightly warm with, a socket near the window to plug into with an alarm clock.
Houseless people are animals says your master, a question that the unelected in robes decide after free fishing trips and champagne spas with celebrity redacted. The many and overly housed act on their love for hatred of those they dominate, your father, your brother, the lady with the cardboard sign, the dirty thing with a bag of cans from what we swill on the sofa.
Hail Mary, Grant's Pass. An endrun around Jesus is always a good start toward finishing Religion.
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When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is taboo'd by anxiety,
I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety;
For your brain is on fire - the bedclothes conspire of usual slumber to plunder you:
First your counterpane goes and uncovers your toes, and your sheet slips demurely from under you;
Then the blanketing tickles - you feel like mixed pickles, so terribly sharp is the pricking,
And you're hot, and you're cross, and you tumble and toss till there's nothing 'twixt you and the ticking.
Then the bedclothes all creep to the ground in a heap, and you pick 'em all up in a tangle;
Next your pillow resigns and politely declines to remain at its usual angle!
Well, you get some repose in the form of a doze, with hot eyeballs and head ever aching,
But your slumbering teems with such horrible dreams that you'd very much better be waking;
For you dream you are crossing the Channel, and tossing about in a steamer from Harwich,
Which is something between a large bathing-machine and a very small second-class carriage;
And you're giving a treat (penny ice and cold meat) to a party of friends and relations -
They're a ravenous horde - and they all came on board at Sloane Square and South Kensington Stations.
And bound on that journey you find your attorney (who started that morning from Devon);
He's a bit undersized, and you don't feel surprised when he tells you he's only eleven.
Well, you're driving like mad with this singular lad (by the bye the ship's now a four-wheeler),
And you're playing round games, and he calls you bad names when you tell him that "ties pay the dealer";
But this you can't stand, so you throw up your hand, and you find you're as cold as an icicle,
In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold clocks), crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle:
And he and the crew are on bicycles too - which they've somehow or other invested in -
And he's telling the tars all the particulars of a company he's interested in -
It's a scheme of devices, to get at low prices, all goods from cough mixtures to cables
(Which tickled the sailors) by treating retailers, as though they were all vegetables -
You get a good spadesman to plant a small tradesman (first take off his boots with a boot-tree),
And his legs will take root, and his fingers will shoot, and they'll blossom and bud like a fruit-tree -
From the greengrocer tree you get grapes and green pea, cauliflower, pineapple, and cranberries,
While the pastry-cook plant cherry-brandy will grant - apple puffs, and three-corners, and banberries -
The shares are a penny, and ever so many are taken by ROTHSCHILD and BARING,
And just as a few are allotted to you, you awake with a shudder despairing -
You're a regular wreck
, with a crick in your neck,
and no wonder you snore, for your head's on the floor,
and you've needles and pins from your soles to your shins,
and your flesh is a-creep,
for your left leg's asleep, and you've cramp in your toes,
and a fly on your nose, and some fluff in your lung,
and a feverish tongue, and a thirst that's intense,
and a general sense that
you haven't been sleeping in clover;
But the darkness has passed, and it's daylight at last,
and the night has been long - ditto, ditto my song - and thank goodness they're both of them over!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grants_Pass,_Oregon
"The Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling by early July."
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