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"Soul" Pride & Rape of the Planet The idea of soul may be an egocentric concept. It allows us to believe that there is life after death. It permits a self-indulgent sense of pride. It justifies our otherwise stupid actions. We seek dominion over the earth. We rape the planet. We may even have invented “God”. Thinking that God thinks humans are important is simply more egocentricism. 18 Reasons No One Needs an AK-47 to Kill Bambi Right to life is a wonderful phrase from a wonderful document . The phrase has been applied inappropriately to issues not connected to the original intent and meaning. Originally it was propaganda. Now deliberately deceptive politicians are attempting to apply it to such diverse modern issures as abortion, dying of old age, stem cell research, or living in a brain-dead, vegetative state with the help of machines. We all need to see what the world as it really is, not what you want it to be. 2809 Total Deaths, 96 So Far this Month on 10.26.06 and 811 Days To Wait What depressing numbers out of Iraq. Twenty-eight hundred nine troop deaths. Ninety-six deaths so far in 26 days this month. Eleven more days to wait see if the electorate has been bamboozled yet again. Eight hundred eleven days until our pompous Imperial King George, the Constitution Crusher, hopefully leaves office. Closer in time, I keep expecting and waiting for the October Surprise. Karl Rove’s version of, “I fooled you. I fooled you. I fooled you, again.” 666 and the Power of the Pen With the recent advent of June 6, (6/6/6) and the sudden appearance of news stories and TV programs about the number (numerology), the anti-Christ, and the Devil, I was recently asked by a reader of my book to explain again why I don't believe in Hell. The easiest answer is that I don't think God needs Hell. It was likely originally created by human beings as a prop useful in telling a campfire story. It wasn't much of a lie to start with, but by layering the story grew. A Celibate Cleric & A Blind, Deaf, and Numb Medical Doctor? What is really required to be an adequate priest, minister, or cleric? At the present time most clerics are about as useful as skin warts. It simply is not important whether or not clerics are men. It simply is not important whether or not clerics are women. A priest, minister, or cleric must regularly experience the transcendence, the ecstatic state, the strong spiritual part of the sexual embrace. A celibate priest is like a blind, deaf, and numb medical doctor. A Droplet in the Ocean There is a viable alternative to these patterns of corruption of religion. It is for each individual to accept personal responsibility for their connection to God. It is time to see through the camouflage to the truth of leadership of organized religion. It is time to see that absolute power corrupts absolutely. God will judge your actions when He calls you home to Him. He will savor your essence. You will once again be a droplet in the Ocean of God. You will have returned to God. A Giant, Steaming Heap of Unaltered Male Bovine Excrement with a Cherry on Top!, or A Thousand Words You have heard it a thousand times. It is a lie! A picture is worth a thousand words. It is a lie! No way could that idea even be remotely true. There is no way that some digital image that took the consideration, thought process, and decision powers of a moronic gnat is worth a thousand of my carefully crafted and chosen words. A single image conveys the same message as my thousand pearls of wisdom? One takes learning, skill, and considerable practice. The other takes only cash. A Noon Quickie There must have been a time when only God existed. God began to Examine Himself and Questioned Himself. God Conceived and Created the Totality of the Universe. I choose to believe that God did not create the Universe out of ennui or simple boredom. The universe was not uniquely created only for human beings. This is just human ego centrism. What you see of God’s creation is His creation as expressed through your eyes. Do not deny God. A Simple Successful Retirement Test Everyone who is on the long, slow glide path toward “the Golden Years” needs to plan ahead in many ways. One that is rarely talked about is the emotional-sense-of-self that simple activities adds to a person’s life. My lifetime of observation is that a person who retires to a rocking chair dies mentally or physically very soon afterwards. The active ones with various interests stay around much longer. This test is intended to help people do some simple planning for their future. A Time for Brutal Truth Isn’t it time for the citizens and countries of the world to take their heads out of the latrine and see things as they really are? Our Western civilization has had a religious and cultural war declared against it. That war has been going on for over fifty years. This is not a nice clean intellectual pretend war where no one ever gets hurt. This is a brutal war with guns, RPG’s, high explosives, and idiots running around with automatic weapons and swords. Abortion God gives us all free will. God does not discriminate against women. Attempts to limit a woman’s ability to exercise her free will to choose an abortion is not a part of God’s Plan. God will tell us all when He changes His Plan. No child should ever come into the world without at least a loving, caring mother. Women instinctively know that they are not fit mothers. I believe these women are right. There should be no limit on a woman’s ability to exercise her free will. After A Drought Comes the Rains How to get started in writing…write about what you know. Go back into your own life, remember with clarity. Remember your thoughts and feelings and experiences. This is what writers do. They call upon their own experiences, their feelings, and they use this material to tell stories. Here is one of mine. Just before my senior year I high school, my parents moved to Southern California, into the LA basin area. During the settling in period, they rented a cottage in Lawndale. Airline Travel Today This is a new subject of discussion at our home. Perhaps it is at yours, as well? When I’ve discussed it with friends and acquaintances, I get varying ideas. Mostly the complaints are not about having to remove one’s shoes, put carry-on luggage through an x-ray machine, or to walk through a detector, or being wanded, or even patted down. Aloha and Hello to Friends and Writers We are now initiating a new specialty content rich article directory web site service which has as its target audience three groups: writers, editors, and publishers. The press release is scheduled to go out today, Friday, January 10th, 2006 Please look at this web site at your leisure. Editors and publishers come to it in search of content. Sometimes they need just a little content. Sometimes they need a lot of content. Sometimes they are just hunting for a special writer. Aloha Writers In an article directory, essentially you put forth copyrighted free standing samples of your work. This could be a first chapter, or a segment of a story. It is an especially valuable way to reinstate material languishing in the closet, unseen, and lost forever. Unless you free it and edit it for the world to see. The important part is that each article must stand alone, and by itself. Your article is then part of the public domain available for use with copyright credit and attribution. Amish Shooting Gallery The Pennsylvania incident where five very young Amish school girls were murdered in their school room by a deranged gunman has again pulled out the very worst of propaganda to service a helpless point of view. “There’s nothing that we could have done to prevent this kind of incident from happening.” What utter bull manure! Yes, there are many things that could be done to prevent school shooting incidents of this type from happening. Some are simple. Many are not simple, but doable. An Image of God? If someone tells you that he knows what God looks like, run away as fast as possible. We humans seem to desire above all else to have an image of God. Our imagination is limitless. Many things have been chosen, or created, as images of God. Here is one of the more unusual choices. The spider. It turns out that this choice is not a new one at all. In its own way, the choice is logical, if not very heart warming. Animal Gods in Our Modern Life I don't usually spend much time worrying about religion, and God, and my relationship to Him. I thought I'd resolved my concerns a long time ago. I thought I had an understanding with God, and we didn't bother each other very often, or very much. I don't know about God, but I was comfortable with the arrangement. Animals as Gods We humans seem to desire above all else to have an image of God. Our imagination is limitless. Many animals have been chosen as images of God. This happened all over the world. It is still happening today. We just use the images differently. We use these animal symbols because they help us identify with the teams, or products, or Gods. Another Night of the Long Knives Now that George Bush has gotten total and absolute autocratic power to “disappear” anyone who simply disagrees with him, his policies, decrees, or his plans - when does the purge begin? Will you and yours be the targets of eraser teams or death squads? The Constitution is an inconvenience and nothing more than wishful thinking written upon an old piece of paper to these power addicts. Antichrist Part 3, “Antichrist? Didn’t he in the film, What was the name?” What we are really talking about is one of those great delusions that transfix humankind. It is a delusion that rivals anything ever produced by the extremely skilled computer graphics geniuses of Hollywood. Those workers are artists in creating a fantasy in which people gladly immerse themselves for escapism entertainment. A large part of what we will be examining is little more than wishful thinking. Thinking translated from generation to generation without a healthy dose of cold reason. Antichrist Part 4, Over the Hill Came the Cavalry Charge of the Angels The story of the Antichrist and the Second Coming of Jesus continues. People will be able to tell when His Appearance is Nigh. The Antichrist (the Bad Guy) will lead off the tale, do his “thing”. He will create havoc and chaos around the world. Then Jesus (the Good Guy) will lead the cavalry charge of the angels ( the rest of the posse) over the hill and save the day. The key in this story is in the creation by the Antichrist of havoc and chaos when he “arrives”. Antichrist Part 5, Early Christian “Cat and Mouse” Game The story of the Antichrist and the Second Coming of Jesus continues. I attempt to examine what is supposed to happen when Jesus comes again. First, its a little confusing. According to some, certain events are supposed to occur, and others leave it “cloudy” at best. As I understand the timeline, it works like this: during the period when the Antichrist is in charge, there will be world wide peace. No wars. However, there will be more and more restrictions on personal freedom. Antichrist Part 6, Belief and Bigotry In Part 6, I attempt again to examine what is supposed to happen when Jesus comes again. I also examine what belief in such events might actually mean. For early Christians, persecution lasted for centuries. It lasted until the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Until then there was no deliverance, no relief from constant tension, terror, anxiety, and deadly fear. Despite hope, deliverance never came. In the meantime there was a constant searching, a desperate searching for “signs”. Antichrist Part 7, Rapture and the Triple Catch 22 In this Part 7, I will bring this study of the Antichrist, “the Rapture”, and the Second Coming to a close. To believe in the Second Coming also requires a person to believe that one-half of the human race must die (they must hope that they are not a part of that half). These are not good odds. These deaths, an estimated three BILLION people, are just the prelude to, the result of the lead up to, the “last battle”. They hope it will happen in their lifetime. Are Children Really an Alien Species? Part 1 They act like it sometimes. I took a couple of courses from a professor from Oregon, whose name, I am sorry, I do not remember. He described children as little alien energy suckers. His theory was that they reach out to feed on adult energy like deep sea giant squid with long tentacles, drive hooks into your flesh, and then settle down to suck out your emotional energy. Are Children Really an Alien Species? Part 2 They act like it sometimes. I took a couple of courses from a professor from Oregon, whose name, I am sorry, I do not remember. He described children as little alien energy suckers. His theory was that they reach out to feed on adult energy like deep sea giant squid with long tentacles, drive hooks into your flesh, and then settle down to suck out your emotional energy. Are Children Really an Alien Species? Part 3 They act like it sometimes. I took a couple of courses from a professor from Oregon, whose name, I am sorry, I do not remember. He described children as little alien energy suckers. His theory was that they reach out to feed on adult energy like deep sea giant squid with long tentacles, drive hooks into your flesh, and then settle down to suck out your emotional energy. Are There Any Good People Left in South Dakota? I just read the horrific news. Abortion ban passed in South Dakota. Are there any good people left in South Dakota? If there are, let us help them leave. Let us begin by encouraging them to move somewhere else. Let us begin by encouraging every woman in the state to simply leave and not return. These characters have spent way too much time alone out in the grasslands with the sheep and cows. These characters have spent way too much time with their head deep in the whiskey barrel. Are You More Than Organic Fertilizer ? You must make choices. Your mistakes are as important as correct choices. You learn from both. God will learn from you about both your good choices and your bad choices. The enslaved can make slavery so much work that it becomes too expensive to continue. A dead slave is useless except as a few pounds of organic fertilizer. Organic fertilizer is easy and cheap to gather at stables. All life on Earth is a short term condition. Our unique task is to bring God new knowledge. Avoid Being a "Nag" Nagging is perhaps as instinctive as breathing. The problem is that it just does not work. Nagging is really a kind of “noise”, “a space filler”, used to fill quiet times when nothing else of interest is to be found to talk about. Nagging however builds in an emotional content that can get in the way of good teaching between parent and child. Basic Investing for the Small (micro) Investor The following is a letter I sent to my children in 2001. It is about investing and how to go about it. How to start. How to maximize safety. There is no free lunch. You do have to do some easy reading. You need to know this stuff to manage your 401k and your IRA. You might as well start now. Behind Closed Doors Don't ignore history. To think to do otherwise admits an ignorance of the behavior of many religions. Especially that of their leaders in the past. Please consider what is demanded in return. You have to be domesticated like goats and sheep. You have to be prepared to be shorn regularly. The answer to these all too common perversions of religion is to go underground. Being a martyr is not a necessary part of the requirements of God. Biggest Slapstick Joke Since Vaudeville Humans have souls. This may be the biggest slapstick joke since vaudeville. This egocentric idea allows us to lie to ourselves. It gives us a sanctioned license to “seek dominion over all of the earth”. We humans want desperately to believe that we are important. We want it so much that we could have invented the idea of soul. As as an after thought, we may have invented “God” to “create” our souls. A falsehood nested inside a falsehood. Lies can grow and grow with each telling. Bikini Churches, Part 1 Suffering Christians Depart Mega-Churches If the title describes your feelings after you get home from Sunday services, you are not alone. More and more Americans are returning home after canned religious experiences feeling vaguely dissatisfied. Their ears are “tinned” and their livers are liquified jelly. The “good vibrations” flowing through the internal organs have drowned the simple message of goodness. This has led to the rapid growth and development of Bikini churches that cover the essentials of religion. Bikini Churches, Part 2 Suffering Christians Depart Mega-Churches In a small church you are not overwhelmed by the press of bodies, noise, glitz, nor inattention to your personal needs. Your contacts and your interactions are limited. Generally, it is a difference for which we are willing, if we have the resources, to pay a premium. A religious event is no place to be swallowed by the whale of anonymity. A religious event is no place to be “lost” in the crowd. All that is left at some churches is to add sales of peanuts, hot dogs, and beer. Black Tuesday, October 17, 2006: U.S. Constitution Revoked For 791 years, ever since King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta at Runnymede, the crown jewel of English common law and later our own system of law under the U.S. Constitution, habeas corpus, has reined supreme. Now, because of their unnecessary fear of a few ragtag terrorists, a disbelief in, and an unwillingness to follow the Constitution, Republican lawmakers have overturned the single most important protection of law available to our citizenry. Boils in Your Bowels What then of justice? First, it does not exist. Second, it is an abstract idea, an artificial human construct. Justice is a symbolic abstraction which we invented. Perfect Justice, if it could ever be achieved would be self limiting, and terribly suffocating. Injustice is a normal condition. Injustice, power seeking, pleasure seeking, anger, pain, greed, suffering, and monument building are the basic fuels of human nature. Without them, nothing changes. They are powerful motivators. Building Boldness, Part 3: If You Think You Can Write - Start with Writing Basic Letters Perhaps in a letter you will do a better job of writing, and communicating. The following letter is an actual letter that I sent in response to a request for information. This is an excellent proving ground and opportunity to hone your skills. It costs you a little time and a postage stamp. If you have e-mail, forget the stamp. Most people are happy to get your e-mail letters. It is very good practice. Volunteer for a community service group. Volunteer to be the secretary. Building Boldness: If You Think You Can Write - Start with Your Local Newspaper You do not have to be happy when you write. Perhaps if you are unhappy, you will do a better job of writing, and communicating. The following letter is one that I sent to my local newspaper. This is an excellent proving ground and opportunity to hone your skills. It costs you a little time and a postage stamp. If you have e-mail, forget the stamp. Most newspapers are happy to get your e-mail letters to the editor. Bulding Boldness, Part 2: Have A Viewpoint: Write a Letter to the Editor You do not have to be happy when you write. Perhaps if you are unhappy, you will do a better job of writing, and communicating. The following letter is one that I sent to my local newspaper. Bully Every school has at least one. Our little country school had it’s as well. Dewhit was ours. Not because we wanted him, but because he lived in our community. Dewhit was known for his sudden outbursts. Dewhit was well on his way toward being our elementary school tough guy, obviously preplanning his stay in the State Pen, a bully, volatile, and the most unfortunate kid in our school - whenever he was there. Burn This Book: The Church, Women, and Celibacy If you do not have it within you to question yourself. Burn This Book. If all you want is comfort. Burn This Book. If all you want is to be left alone in your unconsidered beliefs. Burn This Book. If for you, the Bible is the actual words of God, and must be taken literally. Burn This Book. If you don’t understand the word version, at the top, where it says, The King James version of the Bible, then stop. Burn This Book. Burning The Dumb & Domesticated The strength of your faith is not the question. I tend to believe that your faith is already strong. Faith can be more powerful than any other emotion. Organized religion has purposefully committed unnumbered acts of sacrilege. False religious leaders hold out their hands expecting you to place your money in their hands. You dutifully look on like a dumb domesticated food animal. It is your life. You must decide for yourself how to live it. Bush, “Spreading Democracy” in the Middle East, and Shaking Hands "Spreading Democracy" is “W”’s latest lame excuse for getting us into a war in a country where we don’t belong. It is more home grown, domestic, political marketing bullshit. First was WMD’s. There were no WMD’s. Second was al-Qaeda. al-Qaeda hated Saddam. It was mutual. Both would have rather eaten rat poison than even talk to each other. Can You Believe It? I didn’t. Not at first. Osama bin Laden - Wanted Dead or Alive! Multiple million dollar bounty will be paid for an identifiable body in either condition. And the CIA halts, stops, and disbands the special unit dedicated to hunting bin Laden down? Just what part of Republican Newspeak is this? Are we just going to trust that eventually an informant on the other side will do a Jesse James on him? Cancers In Our Lives I am a retired person. I’ve been retired for 17 years. This also is an age where I’ve begun to notice that my friends and acquaintances are dropping off this mortal coil at an ever increasing rate. One of the principal causes is cancer. Che, Osama, and You The latest hoorah about the US Government tracking large financial transactions is much ado about nothing. First, the government has been doing this for many years. It is one of the methods used to track money laundering activities of organized crime. It really has not had much effect as the intelligent criminals simply found another way to transfer funds out of sight of law enforcement. Cheating Commandments If the individual has free will, he cannot be controlled or be given limits. The concepts are contradictory and opposites. Commandments from God are opposite to His purpose. A set of commandments is antithetical to God’s purpose. A set of ten commandments is a human concept, based on fear, and belief in the secrets and powers of numerology. It is Moses’ fault. Confronting the presence of God is not an every day experience. Children are from Mars: Are Children Really an Alien Species? Part 1 They act like it sometimes. I took a couple of courses from a professor from Oregon, whose name, I am sorry, I do not remember. He described children as little alien energy suckers. His theory was that they reach out to feed on adult energy like deep sea giant squid with long tentacles, drive hooks into your flesh, and then settle down to suck out your emotional energy. Chop Down the Oak Trees At life’s end, God measures your worth in terms of the learning you brought to Him. This is the “weighing in balance”. You can only graduate by dying. A parent has a responsibility and duty to the child, society, and God to encourage learning. Parents must guide their children in learning how to make choices. The oak tree of self doubt is a powerful emotion. The soul that God provides you is an insatiable black hole for information. God is the potter. Christian Troublemakers The Romans were tolerant of and protected all religions. What the Romans frowned upon was civil unrest and rioting. Christians were persecuted by Rome and across the Empire. This strongly suggests that Christians had become involved in, or had promoted, civil unrest. The various sects of Judaism may have fought in the streets of Rome against each other! Roman methods of justice were quick, reliable, and consistent. It kept criminals few in number and cautious. Christianity and Circumcision In Roman times, the new religion of Christianity was a really “tough sell”. The underlying culture was still strong. People were happy with the religion they enjoyed. The Christians were part of the Jewish faith, and new recruits were expected to comply with dietary laws and the rite of circumcision. This was a real test of conviction. Circumcision was given up as a severe public relations problem. Christians were being thought of as subversive and a threat to good civil order. Circumcision vs A Clean Penis Cutting the foreskins from the penises of infant male humans will not affect God. God will not look more favorably upon a child so mutilated. Circumcision is a con job. Circumcision serves no useful purpose. We only need to teach male children to clean their penis. Cleanliness is next to Godliness. A clean penis is Godly. Nothing you can do, or say, will affect God. God does not listen to the childish whimpering of billions of spoiled brats. Communion Participation in any religious rite is your choice. The symbolism and mystery of the Transmutation is moving. The rite, if performed sincerely, is deeply moving and can be important to the individual. Think clearly about what you are doing in communion. Eating your God? Religious cannibalism is symbolic cannibalism. Participating in an unusual rite makes that rite just that much more memorable and reassuring. Consequences of Doing Good Accept responsibility for your actions. Prayer, charity work or donations, a “good” life, and good works are not necessary. Likewise charity probably won’t hurt anyone. You do have to be careful about unintended consequences. Do you feed a man a fish, or teach him to fish? One without the other has unintended consequences. You can consider joining a local service organization in your community. You will be following the golden rule. Criminal Clerics & Blood Sucking Parasites God does not promise a long, or easy, life. God’s Plan only demands that you gain knowledge through experience. God’s Plan only demands that you are honest in self appraisal. God’s Plan only demands courage to do what you must. Don’t lie to yourself. Emotions are one of the strongest fundamental forces in the universe. As former fur bearers, human naturally detest blood sucking parasites. Crucified, Beheaded, or Burned Alive are Only Ways to Say, "You Lose." You must seek oneness with God, enlightenment, or nirvana within yourself. This is your “vision quest.” The truth of it is, that you will never know until you try for yourself. It may, after all, be an illusion, or a delusion. Being crucified, beheaded, or burned at the stake are particularly nasty ways to die. You might find yourself locked up in an institution, or medicated. You might find yourself wandering the streets a shopping cart. The name of this game is called persecution. Dawg, Part 1 Dawg, I remember. I’ve had a dozen since, but none taught me the lessons that he did. Maybe that is because he was the first “pet” that was really “mine”. Some people are examples of animal magnetism. I, on the other hand, am an animal magnet. They gravitate in my direction. I am not complaining. Life is infinitely richer with God’s creatures a part of it. Dawg, Part 2 It would be helpful to read Dawg, Part 1 also on this site, but it is not absolutely necessary. Eventually my dog, Dawg, and I had a big event. He touched me. He touched his nose to my knee and pulled in a big old sniff. That sniff was the real beginning of our relationship. Dawg was, I think, an ex-farm dog. Dawg, Part 3 It would be helpful to read Dawg, Part 1 and Part 2 also on this site, but it is not absolutely necessary. Dawg, had one habit that my Dad enjoyed. He would chase after our car whenever we left the house. Not other cars, just our car. When he got tired, he would go back home and be waiting for us to arrive when we got there. Dawg was fast, tough, and had plenty of endurance. Death & Blackberry Pie You are born. You acquire soul. You live. You die. What comes after? That is the first question. The second question is, "Who, or what determines the part after death? Do you get just one run at life? Do you have an opportunity for multiple chances? Could a second life be a reward? Could a second life be a punishment? Isn't it up to God? Delayed Decisions Equal Future Larger Disasters, Part 1 The latest weak-kneed, gutless international activity at the U.N. and elsewhere that led to the “cease-fire” between Israel and Hezbollah-Lebanon was a mistake. The problems are not going to go away. Hezbollah is not going to go away. Israel is not going to go away. All that has been accomplished is that the U.N. and other sob-sisters have given Hezbollah the opportunity to re-supply their troop numbers, arms, ammo, and rocket depots. Delayed Decisions Equal Future Larger Disasters, Part 2 The latest weak-kneed, gutless international activity at the U.N. and elsewhere that led to the “cease-fire” between Israel and Hezbollah-Lebanon was a mistake. The problems are not going to go away. Hezbollah is not going to go away. Israel is not going to go away. All that has been accomplished is that the U.N. and other sob-sisters have given Iran the opportunity to re-supply their Hezbollah troop numbers, arms, ammo, and rocket depots. Deposit Excrement, or Get Off the Pot; a.k.a. Fish, or Cut Bait In order to write, you must write. This not a puzzle. It is not a conundrum. It definitely is not an oxymoron. Simply, at some point, you must begin, like a kindergartner, to put beads on a string. Creation of a story by way of written language is accomplished with written words. You have been creating. That is the hardest kind of work. You need to recover from that hard work. While I use the word “write”, every author has the choice of how they will do their creative work. Donald and I Agree About Sudetenland I suppose that it is inevitable. Anything is theoretically possible. This, is however, one item that I truly never expected. I actually find myself in a single item of agreement with S.O.D. Donald Rumsfeld. In this one item, he is absolutely correct. There is a reasonable case to be made for a parallel between the Appeasement of the Nazis and asinine wish fulfillment ideas being promoted by some Western journalists, politicians, and social observers. Don’t Expect to Be a Pig in Mud Expect little of God. Your whole life is a flicker of a shadow of a hummingbird's wing in flight. God is not interested in your problems. Get out there and do you job. A nanosecond, of bliss in a lifetime is enough. Bliss is not a hot tub. Don’t expect to be a pig in mud. There exists a place for regular periodic meditation. Duck! Weave! Shift! And Hide! Duck! Weave! Shift! And Hide! ‘Tis the After Thanksgiving Christmas Shopping Crush! Spread your elbows, protect your toes. The mad rush is on, its Stampede Time! At Wal-Mart, Sears, K-Mart, Woolworth’s, and Target. Easy Killing: Best Argument for the Strict Regulation of Small Firearms Does God exists in all human beings? God gave you free will. God gave you a brain with the ability to think and reason. Know yourself. We need the experience of death. To understand death, you must actually touch the corpse. You must feel the absence of life and soul. You must actually touch the corpse before you can truly value life. This gives you the opportunity to value life. This one idea alone is the best argument I know of for the strict regulation of small firearms. Eight Good Reasons for Birth Control Intelligence has changed things. We now have better medicine. We live longer, far longer. Eaising children to the standard of success takes a lot more time, and money for every child. We simply cannot afford to have as many children as did our ancestors. To do so in today's world is not a good survival plan. Birth control is not just a whimsey, a choice for frivolity, it is an economic necessity for most, especially poor, families. Birth control is also a choice of free will. Enjoy God Like A Chocolate Milkshake Truth has no beginning and no end. Language determines thought. Study can lead to the Experience of Truth. It does depend on how you ascribe meaning to the words you use. You must experience God. You do not need to make magic, perform rites, or other claptraps of organized religion. You must experience a chocolate milkshake has the same result. You just do it. You need only a desire for the relationship with God to exist, and it does exist for you. Escaping Chains of Organized Religion The essence of religion is personal experience. In terms of that personal experience, there are no written rules of behavior for that experience. Human designed behaviors of worship are not God approved. Their purpose is to control you. As we live and have experiences, we will become different. Do not blind yourself by limiting your beliefs. Do not allow blinders to be fitted to you by others. A closed mind is a deadly weakness. An open mind is a deadly weapon. Evil & Capital Punishment Evil much more commonly results from deliberately hurtful actions by people. It is their actions that matter. It is the job of society to punish these persons for their hurtful actions. Society is not being protected to do its job safely. That job is to develop the economy and allow the safe rearing of children. Today’s prisons seem to be more like advanced training camps for stronger, smarter, more skilled, super criminals. Much of crime has become a free enterprise economic system. Faith is a Piece of Wood. Belief Is A String. Faith and belief are obviously related. How to illustrate them clearly so people can understand. Think of faith as a piece of wood. A stick. A rod. We are going to wrap a long string around the rod. This is called a spindle. Belief is string. Severe knotting of the string can result from mishandling. This severe knotting is called a snarl. We can reshape a rod of wood into a spool. The string can come off neatly with many fewer problems. Shaped faith, formed faith, controls belief. Faith Is A Refusal To Deny God Faith is being able to see God’s works around us. The mystery is our unwillingness to see what is before us. Faith is dealing with the hard realities. God insists these are more important than our wishes. Faith is a refusal to deny God. Faith is a refusal to deny God the Power to Do It His Way. Faith in God is based on the scientific method and is subject to proofs of sense and reason. Faith is believing Christ’s words, “Nothing is impossible to you.” Faith is confidence in God’s Plan. Falling In and Climbing Out Smelling Good I do not believe for one minute that George W. Bush had any ability, intention, or foresight to understand the geopolitics of the Middle East. I hope the fact is that George W. Bush at least has the smarts to realize that he has had the luck to fall into a fresh Texas sized cow pie and has a chance to come out smelling like a rose. He has a fresh, new, nasty Middle Eastern war, that he didn’t start, to call U.S. electorate attention away from our war of mistakes in Iraq and 2,558 U.S. deaths Families Are No Longer Important to America, the Tax Code Says So Children were once seen as a Blessing of the Gods. Parents with many children were seen as favored citizens. How the world has turned. Society has turned its face away from children and has instead begun to tax them. Governments tax something they wish to supress. In our modern world, children are not seen as very important. The tax deduction for children and their real costs, medical, dental, and education is a joke. We have lost our aim, our goals, and our future. Faux Religion and the Real Deal It is Sunday so you got up to an artificial alarm, got yourself through a shower, and got dressed. You ate something you didn’t remember five minutes later. You drove to church in a dazed state. You are now singing a familiar song. Why? You have repeated familiar prayers. Why? You dropped a contribution in the collection plate. Why? Was it because it is expected of you? Why? By whom? Are their expectations about you that important? Why? What have you achieved? Fearing God As a child I was taught to fear God. I was told to fear God in many ways, most of which were never explained. God was the fearsome unseen force that people talked about every Sunday. I never understood why I didn’t ever see God. Other people talked about seeing God, or at least seeing the light of God. I never understood why I didn’t hear that much about God on other days of the week, especially if He was that frightening and around all the time. Fishing, Vultures, Hyenas & Shotguns Leaders of organized religions are skilled, practiced, and very often college trained. They proudly call themselves fishers of men. What kind of fish are you? Your predator is here. It is a predator of predators. Predators come in many forms. Most predators of humans have learned to smile, and soothe your fears. The low-life human scavengers are planning to take advantage of you. Five Reasons to Believe in God It all starts with a belief in God. What logic and reason might we use to help us form our faith in God? What observable, logical reasons form and give definition to our belief? By what basis do we defend to ourselves our belief and our faith in God? What proofs of the existence of God are available? What might lead us to believe in the existence of a God. A God that created us as intelligent beings and all that is around us? Free Will & The Soul Carrier I believe that you are a container of soul. Only our souls are of God. Free will is the keystone of both faith and belief. Faith, to be real, must be put into action. Faith, to be real, must implement the golden rule. To do something with your faith, you must choose. You must exercise free will. For you to have free will means that the future cannot be known. God is not going to get personal with you. God’s gift to you is the ability to choose and believe as you see fit. Fresh Meat in a Den of Hungry Lions As soon as Moses came down the mountain, he was faced with the truth. We humans were already twisting and squirming. We were debating and weaseling. God sent us a reformer. From the very beginning of this reformation, we humans have been at our old habits. Jews were highly skilled linguists. They were skilled legalistic hairsplitters in their own right. The Greeks were long layering meanings of words. It must have been like throwing fresh throwing fresh meat into a den of hungry lions From Vision Quest to Bribing God Many religions have practiced this “seeking after God”. Sometimes it is a "rite of passage". Organized religion took these ideas, reinvented them, adding voluntary retreat from society, asceticism, and vows of poverty. All are attempts to incur the pleasure of God. Each is a kind of bribe to try to get something from God. They are attempts to force some kind of recognition from God. Some way to retain their power. Generating the Creative Moment That Conceives the Writing “Egg” If I knew exactly what it is, what causes it, and how to do it, I promise you that I would do it more often. What I do know is that I can see a word, a phrase, a sentence and it triggers an idea that expands like compressed foam. Sometimes it is a mental picture. It is a nanosecond flash of time . From that tiny beginning the rest grows like a mustard plant from a tiny seed. George and Tony Admit to “Some Mistakes” You and your fellow travelers admit to “some mistakes” and keep pointing to the “positive results” as if that was sufficient excuse for your own undisciplined, bullying, and morally unacceptable behaviors. It is as if you want and expect people to love you and trust you. Why in God’s name should they? You are not deserving of trust. Any trust and goodwill that you may have accrued in the past is long gone. It will take many years to regain it to the same degree that formerly existed. George Orwell Had the Wrong Date This administration has sailed the USS Hubris into uncharted and unrecognized international waters and managed to strike more mines, reefs, and shoals than Gilligan. Their swollen cranial balloons, unpunctured by scientific facts not found in King James, nor connection to common sense realism has bloated government expenditures run by an incredibly corrupt Congress and big business bribe handlers, a.k.a. lobbyists, into a new form of contorted and mostly unrecognized Orwellian nightmare. George W. Bush: Only 971 Days Left: It is barely enough time to finish the job. There are only 971 days left to painfully endure before the incompetent administration of the George W. Bush Presidency comes to a lingering, crawling, whimpering, and unbeloved close. Getting A Soul When does God attach a soul? First, please remember that we’re trying to use straight line steps of thought. Second, that I stated previously that the whole question of “soul” was an unknown. I agree that the whole question as to whether we even have a soul is an assumption. I believe that we do “get a soul” at some point. I just don’t know at what age. Give Israel Enough Time George, get Condi back in the States and keep her here ! It is too early for any negotiations ! The Israelis need more time. Yes, they have made a mistake or two. So what. They are fighting the dirtiest kind of war against terrorists who are imbedded in a civilian population that the terrorists have bought and paid for, body, blood, and soul. Even and especially the children. This is both cowardice and cynicism. Dead kids make for great agiprop and pulling world opinion their way. God Is Dead? God is dead. The whole idea is and was dumb. The real question is not whether God is dead. The question is, is He alive? Is God alive in any sense in which we humans could quantify, or could measure. Is God alive in any sense in which we humans could detect? This is likely doubtful. And, in fact, God may be so disinterested in us as individuals of our species that He could make very sure that we could not detect Him. How do you define lifeand death? Especially as it pertains to a Deity? God Is Evil ? Evil exists. Random chance events of nature. Chance events that are the result of free will choices of humans. Now apply these words: like, limits, happy, fear, misunderstood, and control to yourself. Are you wearing blinders? Do you try to deny God? God is neither good nor evil. Why should God “spoil” you? Why should God desire a rotten soul? God Will Not Jump Out & Bite You God does not seem to be listening. This does not mean you cannot pray. It does not mean that you cannot have a vision quest. Focus yourself on God. Control your breathing and relax. God is not going to jump out and bite you. You will no longer be able to hear the TV. You have begun to approach The Way, Oneness with God, Enlightenment, Bliss, or Nirvana. You will not be asleep. God Will Not Paddle Your Behind You want a brand of human created order. That will make you feel more comfortable. You are unwilling to limit yourself to being a part of God's World. You want God to treat you like we humans treat a puppy being housebroken. No matter how much you want it, God is not going to paddle your behind. Our God Given free will determines our choices. Our choices determine our actions. God's Hammer God is. The soul is. Death is simply a matter of time, place, and circumstance for all of us. Today is a good day to die. We are the tools of, and for, God’s purpose. Just so with God with a useful tool like a soul. Why should a soul not be used many times for different purposes? Our purpose is to be used by God. Between birth and death, is up to you. You are God's hammer. God's Petri Dish Even God is uncertain how the human experiment will turn out. He most likely has multiple back-up plans. God has plenty of time. He’s already got His Plan of evolution working for Him. He also has evolution’s great tools of diversification and competition working for Him. God is not good, nor is He evil. God is. God simply is. God is using human beings. It is our own free will that develops good and evil. God, Charity & the Camel God is not charitable. This idea is human delusion and egotism. If you protect a child from every hurt. If you protect a child from every decision. If you protect a child from taking independent action. The result is that he, or she, does not grow in self reliance. You are God's child. Why should God spoil you? A knife blade to be strong, must be hammered, then tempered in fire and water. Can a camel pass through the eye of a needle? God, Homosexuals, and the Military I have two main thoughts on homosexuality. (a) Homosexuals have been set aside from society because they were non-contributors to population growth. They decrease the safety of the state by not maximizing the population available to fight enemies. (b) Homosexuality exists on the bell curve of human behaviors. As God's mechanism of removing genes from the gene pool, encouraging such individuals in high risk activities as the military and wars may solve two "problems" with one situation. God, the Minimalist God also does things in small ways. He seems to exert minimal effort. God is persistent. God is patient. God is constantly Creating Hydrogen. He does this by the Force of His Will. When there is enough, God metaphorically “flicks His finger”, a la “moves a butterfly wing”, and creates movement. Movement leads to whirlpools coalescing into balls of gasses in sizes large enough to become stars. God is a minimalist. God, What Do You Want? Part 1 The problem with the examination of the God-Man relationship is that only one side of the relationship is available to us for study. Everything we think we know about God is our idea. Everything about our relationship to Him is based on underlying assumptions, speculations, history, belief, faith, hope, and fear. Man(kind) cannot ever “know” God except in terms that are understandable to us as human beings.
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