The tithe is for the widows and orphans, at least most of it. The pittance is for keeping the rabbis from begging. I just had this conversation with my brother. Most of the tithe was used for what welfare does now. The religious institutions still want their tithe but they don't want the responsibility of helping those little ones in need. The elders were supposed to visit the widow and orphans but they are relegated to door greeters and building committees. A sad state of affairs. If the temples of God were doing their part then we should give a portion to their upkeep. Are you reading my mail? Ha. We are on the same page.

I didn't make it to give my tithe this morning for because I needed to tend to my little one's needs. I think I was doing what I was supposed to be doing. I don't believe in a God of fear. Perfect love does cast fear out. I cast that monster out years ago. Thanks for your words of wisdom.

Words have their own, often untold, frequently uncovered history too. On the fear theme, within the past 80 years there was a neuvo definition of paranoia authored into widespread use - parlance, of popular culture ("conventional wisdom"..."public opinion") that this new meaning was expressly invented for: the ability to connect unseen events. This can be corroborated if one can find themselves a sufficiently aged dictionary, which, as it turns out, is increasingly difficult to do given the way such have been becoming endangered species; 'memory [w]hole'. One can imagine the difficulty presented to those kinds of people who have traditionally conducted themselves and their events in ways of evil, in ways that inherently makes it difficult for some other person to come along after the fact and uncover the perpetration of evils done in secret ......only for some rare person with this specific ability to come along and uncover and do this very thing. In recent history, it took one of modern society's more heady (pun intended) pop patriarchs - the fraud of a Freud, to manufacture paranoia into a disease of the mind that manifests in the person able to connect unseen events. Translation: society itself has been programmed with triggers to shoot the very messengers that attempt to deliver messages that speak of the evil in unseen, connected events.

Keeping with the theme of the original post, fear is a word that involves or invokes agendas that themselves are founded on a basis which the word is merely an acronym: F.E.A.R. False Evidence Appearing Real. This is not only representative of a clever acronym, it's an age-old multi-faceted industry, of which mass media - especially broadcast methodology, is, in the longer view of history, really a recent, come-lately advancement of the past 50-some years of development in an otherwise much longer, nearly unbroken march of development ongoing within this ancient industry. Just to name one fairly well known example - a real-life application, if you will, there is a loosley-formed, broadly-applied worldwide fraternal organization that is itself steeped in the exploitation & spread of fear as a means to an end (another acronym too); M.A.F.I.A. This word play is said to have originated in the 1500s with the man named Mazzini - the namesake of this word game that comes from the Italian language. The components of this particular word game make up a blood-oath wherin the taker swears to systematically use extreme methods of fear if and or when doing so will help protect the interests of a 'brother' or 'sister'. Those in the Mafia are historically known to avail themselves to the use of fear in the forms of gruesome death in order to sufficiently communicate this message as may serve their needs be from one event to the next. Dead is a word that itself can be seen as the reverse of live, that itself can be seen as AND literally is the reverse of evil.