The Inevitability of It All

Many people have had their own slant on 9 - 11. People say that it could have been prevented, but of course it wasn't. You can't go on a Monday morning quarterbacking orgy forever. The fact is what happened is what happened. If we believe the scientists everything is predistined, including the winner of the Presidential 2008 election. It's not a question of "making the future"; it already exists. It's just a matter of waiting for it to be revealed to us. People say that outer space really isn't empty. It's just as filled with sub-atomic "strings" as the rest of matter. Scientists say this space "traps us" in time. Just to review what I consider the scientific up to date explanation of the subject, at some point twelve or fifteen billion years in the past, both space and time, as well as matter were created. There was no "empty space" in the remote past because there was no space. It didn't exist. Also there is no "infinite past" because it only exists to a finite point. Before this even the word "before" doesn't exist, just after the last moment in time to exist there simply "is no more". That day will come. God had to "ontologically" exist because the creation of time and space is "ontologically" prior to its existance. But we cannot say WHEN God created anything because there was no Time before God created it. It would be misguided to say creation was in the ultra remote past because neither the future nor the past existed till God created them. Both the future and the past have equal reality and validity and importance to God. It's just we don't know the future, now. Perhaps some psychic, if he tunes into the right cosmic vibration can sense it. Of course if he's genuine he won't be able to change it. Nothing has any free will; it's all an allusion. We have the illusion of free will. Those who think they have more freedom are not experiancing more free will but more illusion. The Hindus say that all life is an Illusion. This is not to say that it is false; mearly that we are experiancing something that cannot positively be proven. We cannot prove whether any other being is "sensient" as they say on Star Trek, be it biological or cybernetic or something other.

They say the secret of Beethoven in writing his symphonies is that the music had to have a sense of inevitability to it. I have heard you could reduce a whole Beethoven symphony to sine wave interfearence. Sine waves are technically graphs of the sine function in trigonometry but just think of them as those half circle things you see. In radio if you had one wave generated at 1110 kilahertz and another wave at 1115 or a five thousand cycle difference this would be said to be a modulated "beat frequency". I guess the theory behind what I'm saying is "The whole is contained in the part".

In the fall of 1970 George Harrison came out with the All Things Must Pass album. I think I can see why the Beatles didn't like that song. Some things don't come to pass, they come to stay forever. Back on September 12th. 1970 on a Saturday morning I discovered for the first time that my brother was a Born Again Christian; that's when he "Came out". There is no more taking back of that day than there is the taking back of September 11th. 2001. That disaster didn't come "to pass"; it came to Stay. It's still a reality after five years. Just like the break-up of the Beatles didn't come to pass, it came to stay. I've heard that George Harrison cut his hair just before that album came out. That was the symbolic death of the 'sixties. At just about the same time that album came out, Jesus Christ superstar came out. There were a lot of "those groups" those groups that Calvary Marinatha bands like to immotate that came out at that time, such as James Taylor, Bread, Cat Stevens, Elton John, and Badfinger. Other than the one hit song "No Dice" is a pretty wasted album from Badfinger. It was as if God were saying, "You've had good music for several years running; now I'm going to torture you with a lot of bad music". Death itself doesn't come to pass; it comes to stay. Life is the fleeting thing, and hence precious. Death is far less precious than life because it's permanent. I get a little unconfortable when I hear Born Again Christians say they can't wait for Death, and how great things will be once this life is over. Some may wonder what the saying "Artificial flowers cannot die and neither can a tombstone kill a feather" means. I'll explain it. Christians are always trying to be plastic. They seem to regard the emotions God gave them as somehow wrong, and they seek to, and succeed, in generating artificial emotions. Real people have real feelings. I'm a little tired of the line used by Christians, "Well, if you didn't have your own ego what I just said wouldn't bother you". I feel like saying, "The point is I do, and so I regard it as a dead issue". I was so often told by one spiritual adviser to "Die to self". That saying sounds more Bhudist than Christian but I was always hearing "Die to self" from this man. The second part of the saying is that there is something about life that death can't conquer, if you don't let it. Life is its own reality. Death may bigger and scaryer and more massive, but life has something that death cannot touch. People who are dead, like Christians, seem to always envy the rest of us, who are Alive. Life is in the Now and death is tomorrow and hence irrelivent to now. (Selah)

I want to talk just a bit about how bogus I regard early Church history as. I've thought about it and thought about it- - and have concluded that there is no evidence at all for Christianity for the first thirty years after Jesus' death. That means the Apostle Paul, if he preached at all, preached at a later date, perhaps the turn of the Century. The reason why I say this is because there is no secular evidence at all for Christianity's existance during that time. The first incident we have where church fantassy meats Reality is at the fire of Rome in 64 AD that was probably initially set by Nero, to make way for some new public buildings. However some say the fire initially began accidently in a faboric shop. But there are sources who say the fire showed signs of going out when unidentified people, and they could be Christians, went around setting new fires. This idea was broached by the "Barrabus movie" and I also read it in a book somewhere. So the first "Trials" Christians were on from Rome was not for "practicing their faith" but for setting Fires. We assume they were all fed to the lions but one major arena in Rome, where this was done, wasn't built till AD 80, after Nero was long dead. One powerful argument that St. Paul and that whole croud he hung around with, you know, Silus and Timothy and Luke, didn't live before 64 AD is because since Luke wrote Acts about 85 AD so he most surely would have recorded Nero's depravity and the fire in Rome. It's kind of too big a thing to ignore since it changed everything, along with the fall of Jerusalem, which is also ignored by Luke. Another fact I find puzzling is that the Christian Church was ALREADY IN ROME before St. Paul got there and I'd like to know how that came to be since he was the number one forerunner and "point man". I guess you could say the rise of Christianity was another of those "Inevitable" things. But a lot of people have seen Elvis alive and no massive churches have formed. I have to ask myself "What's the difference". There are those who say that Christianity was not founded by poor working stiff deciples but a group of rich "Illuminatti". There is an obscure early 2nd. century historian that starts with an H who reported that Dometian arranged for the relatives of Jesus to move to protected status by Rome. We hear from Paul of the "Christians in Ceasar's household". (Meaning Nero, supposedly) How did they get saved if they were already saved when Paul got to Rome? You see, I think there is a Roman-centric history of the early Church- - the "Catholic aspect" that people try and downplay. By the way the first time Catholic is ever used in a Christian writing is by Ignatius. Some say over half of his letters are bogus. I say all of his letters are bogus because I don't believe Ignatious ever lived. I believe he was a made-up composit being. Most of the description of his life, and there is very little of it at all, occurs several hundred years after he lived. He is said to have lived around the turn of the first and second centuries. There are those who say real Christian history doesn't begin untill about the year AD 160. I disagree with that only to say AD 135 is a more reasonable date. I believe the Church started in Rome and worked its way outward- - except for Egypt and I discuss that in "Escape from Egypt". Rather than the Beast of Revelation, Emperor Dometian may be the one who gave Christianity its birth. They say that Emperor Dometian was an outward Moralist who did all his sinning in private, just like Christians. I hope I have given you something to think about and hopefully, to investigate on your own. I've done that and looked at all the hints and pointers and where they lead, and where they don't lead.

Lacking in Moral Credibility

George Bush has squandered any moral authority he may have had right after 9 – 11. People point out that at that time the country was unified against the Talliban and that we had the goodwill and sympathy of the world. What did we do with it? They have released an official report as of yesterday saying what we had all long known that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the terror attacks of 9 – 11. The last time Saddam had met with any members of Al Qaida was 1995 and that Saddam sent a memo saying he openly distrusted Al Qaida and Islamic terrorists as a threat to his regeim. This ought to answer the question once and for all. Dick Chaney and others have repeatedly stated that there was a 9 – 11 connected to Saddam Hussein. Chaney will be on “Meet the Press” tomorrow and face tough questioning.

Innocent people have been kidnapped or “extreme rendered” and held for months or longer by the CIA. One Denver doctor was detained. There was another Moslem who was detained at the airport coming back into Canada where he lived. He moved there to escape the regeim in Syria. But with tears in his eyes he was told he was going to take a plane ride back to Syria where he knew he’d be tortured. Why would the United States conduct any business at all with Syria? I thought we were enemies. The Bush Adminestration had trashed any “moral authority” it may have had on the issue of terror. Now we’re dealing with Uzbeckistan, one of the most brutal regeims of all time, where they boil people in oil. Someone says they looked that up and says they got a recipe for rice pilof. I guess any sattalite nation of Russia in the old days would have been considered a “Freedom loving nation”. Today we know better. That man who spent a year in Syria was eventually returned to this country with never a charge being filed. Of course Bush wants to suspend important key principles of the Constitution to try these so called terrorists. Since the evidence is classified, not even the defendant is allowed to see it. So the defense is stripped of a key right to confront the evidence and people against them. This is the sort of court or “tribunal” Bush wants set up. We need to stop him now by voting democratic in November, to insure the next two years he knows that it’s the American people who are in charge and his actions are investigated.

Apparently they’re growing more opium poppies now in Afghanastan then they were five years ago. I’ve heard this charge repeatedly. At first they were saying that the US was allowing the opium because it’s better to grow poppies than to train terrorists. Now we hear that the Talliban, who formerly against the opium trade are now in favor of it. Also “our side” suffered an attack yesterday by the Talliban, so that they are not as weak and disabled as we thought. We can’t get anything right. I’d like George Bush to put out a list of things he’s accomplished these past five years to make us secure.

I had another of those dreams last night where I was in a mental institution. But we were traveling around the world through various countries. One night we stopped at a hotel-hospital in Libya, where our group was assigned quarters that started with a W in Arabec, and was associated with the colored red. The overseeing nurse or whatever was a nice lady and was also some sort of a researcher. It was just the lower level mail nurses that drove me up the walls. I was being given this drug. I felt as though I’d lived this whole dream before only this time the drug medication seemed higher. One side affect of the drug is that it made me a fantastic swimmer able to beat anybody with short jerky movements. I found also that my fastest swimming was in swimming backwards. There was some other protest leader against the whole program and I had the hope that perhaps this whole drugging thing might stop with exposure in the press.

J. EDGER HOOVER'S PRIVATE READING

Buddy Owens was fighting in the Pacific Theatre on a battle ship battling the Japanese in 1944. Buddy had recently received news that the only father he’d ever known, Martin Owens died of a heart attack while working on his oil rig in Oklahoma. The news possibly had a distracting effect on our sailor and he may have been making minor errors in judgement. It’s believed that one of these errors was the cause of a minor battle defeat one day when his ship took casualties from the Japanese. It’s believed that Owens put out a radio transmission at the wrong time. Buddy himself was injured. After consulting with his mother- - who laid this big trip on him about how worry about her son may have killed his father- - Owens subsequently took a military disability and was out of the war. There are people to this day who say that Buddy Owens exaggerated his injuries. Be that as it may in the fall of 1944 Buddy was enrolled in college at UCLA. During the first year or so of campus life Buddy was plagued by nightmares of his fellow comrades in the war getting their heads blown off. In the spring semester of 1948 Buddy’s hopes of graduating that semester were dashed when he discovered he needed one more accounting class to graduate and get his degree. At about the same period his mother hired an Astrologer who prophesized that if Buddy Owens didn’t meet a woman and get married this semester he might never get married. He had to act while Venus was still in the western skies. As June faded so did Venus as it slowly sang into the purple haze of sunset, and perhaps along with it Buddy’s hopes of getting married. One night while lying in bed he said “I’d sell my soul for that prophecy not to be right”. That summer Owens got a job working at a bank. In mid August he quit the job under questionable circumstances and got a job operating a fork life at a warehouse at night so he could take the classes he wanted that were only offered during the day. His mother expressed fears, “What if a twenty ton crate falls on you and you end up paralyzed from the neck down?” But Buddy would reassure her, “Mother, if I survived the Pacific, I can survive this job”. Since the death of Martin, his mother had become increasingly de-pendant on him because he was the baby brother and still not yet married.

On the first or second day of the new semester, it was believed to be around Bill Clinton’s birthday, he offered a coed a ride in his old car which was the laughing stock of the campus. Needless to say they fell in love and she fell under his spell, or was it visa versa. She was a feminist and to prove he was for the cause she urged him to do some-thing trippy a feminist would do. He decided changing his last name from Owens to Dutton would be a good idea. And it was so. Charles Dutton was his biological father who had ran out on them when he was a baby. Such a move appears flakey but feminists always do things illogical. (Like Patty Reagan changing her name to Patty Davis, Nancy’s maiden name) His mother was uncomfortable with the idea. After a short court ship they got married. In the presidential campaign Owens’ mother was a southern Democrat supporting a northern Republican in Dewey. Owens voted for Dewey but then regretted it that evening, as his wife has been for Truman because he was a democrat and more likely to believe in the things she did.
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The preceding was from "Standings". The following is from the "Yorkshire" file typed in August of 2004, and is under a bit of a fictionalized format where Howard puts an appearence after death, and we drag in the Federation. By the way I didn't know till yesterday that Russia calls themselves a "Federation" now. Sometimes the Orion Federation acts a little like the old USSR.
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OK, it’s after eight now. Frank hasn’t asked for more; Glen has. We continue. I asked Howard what his exact relation was to me and he began munching on a candy bar. I watched him for a while and then it dawned on me and I said, “You know they aren’t made by the same company now”. Just one change. This half sister of my Dad relative austensively had no children. She was much older than my Dad. At age fifteen she had a daughter Howard called Bernice, (not Ivey), who was his mother and she married a man Peter Richards, who was his father. (not “Burtrin”) The rest of the story in Tabloid is going unchallenged about an eldest son named Raymond dying of an “aggressively growing” brain tomer. The middle child was named Mary and the youngest child is Pete. The federation wanted me to agree to a statement. That my Dad was left by his natural father at age two, and that “Casey” married again to a man named Martin Owens, who worked on an oil rig in Oklahoma. And he died of a heart attack in the ‘fourties perhaps out of worry about his two sons in the military, Dad being in the South Pacific.

- - - - A Hebrew blessing: YVAN - EHT - NIOJ!

A Cheap Political Stunt

I presume this thing is working OK now. They were working on it earlyer this morning. George Bush is giving us all political whiplash pulling his own "September Surprise". After years of nothing now just before the congressional elections, Bush has produced fourteen prisoners who are responsible for 9 - 11 and other Al Quaida activity. In this political 180 now after months of saying how it was a horrible thing to disclose secret CIA prisons, which used torture techniques, now he's coming out into the open and admitting it. Now the pressure is on Congress to pass procedures for some military tribunal to try these fourteen prisoners, which have now been transferred to Guantanamo Bay. I thought they were going to close guantanamo bay. Bush is as much as saying that because we used these "alternative interrigation methods" including "water-boarding" these fourteen prisoners disclosed valuable information. I don't think the democrats should let the President "get away with" vindicating torture methods the way he has done. All of this is suspicious because the November elections for Congress are just around the corner.

Congress, for its own part doesn't have a very good record now. They get paid a hundred and sixty-five thousand or something. But this past year they were only in session seventy-one days. I bet the average C E O works more than that. Clearly they are targets for the charge of being a "do nothing congress". Now the democrats are in an all out push to get rid of Donald Rumsfeld, a move Ed Schultz criticised. This congress has apparently decided to table any action on raising the minimum wage from a low $5.25 an hour, where it has been for nearly ten years. It almost seems as if the Democrats want a terrible record to take back to the Voters so they can blame Bush or something. I guess that's their motive. Clearly in the eleven days they have left for this congress they can't do much in deciding the fate of these fourteen prisoners. We hear that their trials will be secret because they have classified information. As I understant it, the prisoner himself won't even be able to see all of his own trial because the evidence used to convict him is classified. Apparently three republican senators, including John Mc Cain, question the President's motives in wanting a resolution before the November election.

The President had a major embarrassment the day before yesterday. It seems as if Bin Laden's group in Pakistan has been given sanctuary by the Pakistani military. They have a peace accord where if the Taliban promises not to attack, the army won't try to root them out. How is the President explaining this major diplomatic failure? I don't know. Of course several days ago the "second in command" of Al Quaida was captured. I guess one has the right to ask, "Just how many Second in Command" do the Talliban have? If they've captured all these people it would seem we have taken a major step tword solving the terrorism problem. But nobody seems to believe that. I guess we should thank God we have a vigellent President and that Britain is vigellant to break up all these plots before they can be exicuted. You know- on the show Nova the other night, those building dezigners were acting as though another 9 - 11 could happen at any time instead of being a one time flook event. Who is right? I personally don't feel as though I am "In danger". I don't know how many people voting in November do feel endangered, and if they do that President Bush and he along is the one they need to turn to and trust to feel secore.

I am against both of the propositions now on the airwaves here in California, propositions 86 and 87. Prop 87 raises drilling taxes for oil in the state. I guess they call it a "severence tax" in other states. The thing is with that added expense, we will end up importing more oil from other countries and that will end up increasing gasoline prices in the long run. The "energy research" part of the bill seems dubious. Apparently there is no accountability. Proposition 86 seems like a boondoggle for Hospitals who can fix prices and suspend a bunch of regulations that would normally apply. And they rake in a lot of money for projects not related to smoking, but they get it from taxes on the dwindling number of smokers.

Brave New World

Today is September 5th. the start of school for most places. It used to be that school didn't start till the week after Labor Day but that was the old days. For many kids it will be a brave new world, for instance kindergartners, or going into middle school, or entering as Freshmen in High School or College. This younger generation has its oddities, of course. For one thing, so the experts tell us, winning and losing don't mean that much. It's important to message everyone's feelings and to get effusive praise for even a small accomplishment that would have been ignored in my day. Of course this is the cell phone generation. It's "The most watched over generation in history". Today's kids never experiance the sort of freedom my generation had as kids. They're always over-scheduled and checked up on by parents. If we believe some sources the homework this generation is saddled with is much worse. Doing homework over summer vacation would have been considered totally bogus in my day, but today's teachers get away with assigning it. I don't see how because once a class term is ended it would seem a teacher had no power over you.

Many of the things we predicted just months ago in "President Hillary" are pretty much realities already. Smoking is already banned even in your own car if there are kids in the car. Now there is talk of extending car seats to age six or something. Of course TV as we know it will soon become a thing of the past. In February 2009 the VHS analog stations will go off the air and the bands will be reclaimed by other more vital use. (perhaps national security) We have gone from the 3 by 4 aspect TV picture to the 9 by 16 aspect picture, broadcast at 720 lines progressive. This higher quality will soon become standard. Now they have HD digital radio. Your VHS tapes and your casette tapes are fast becomming a thing of the past, even though I regard these both as perfectly respectful mediums. Now they are saying even the CD is becomming a thing of the past as downloads take over. My question is, "Whatever happened to album art?" I guess that went the way of the TV theme song. Now we are all waiting for Vista to come out and those in the know say that early versions of it should be out next month, and they claim a lot of changes will be in it. If history is any guide, being a new version of an opperating system, it will probably be so bug laiden that numerous "fixes" will have to be offered. Of course the smallness of today's electronic devices is getting rediculous. Now they are referring to blackberry users who have to do it as "Crack berries".

By the year 2020 today's kindergartners will be in college. Lord knows what they'll be studying by them. There are so many bogus classes now. But by then according to Leo Le Port they will have computers that are as smart as human beings. According to Leo and according to some guy in the 1940's the test of whether a computer is as smart as a human is if in analizing text answers to questions, an expert cannot tell which answers were generated by humans and which were generated by machine. At that time, according to Leo, computers will be writing their own software. It seems that programmers, as smart as they are now, are incapable of writing software programs beyond a certain level of complexity, but they hope to "teach" this concept to the computers and have them write the software that will be necessary to run tomorrow's programs. Of course one of the end of the world scanarios is that an intelligent computer will cease control of the nation's defence system. They will no longer be entering launch codes and having a team of people in the holes turning keys to launch missiles, computers will do it. Of course already they have computers which anticipate the needs of human beings and "guess" what you will want or guess what you intend to do next. Leo also says there will be increasing links between human beings and computers with computerized prosthetic devices that hook into your neuro system and respond to your brain impulses. So as we said before, the line between biological life forms and cyber life forms will be blurred untill we come to what Leo referrs to as "singularity". This idea of a half human half computer walking around is still a little too Sci Fi for me. I guess in the year 2025 things will be different, but sometimes predicting the exact nature of the cultural changes so far into the future is difficult.

Back in 1986 they predicted all sorts of things for the turn of the century that didn't come to pass. Among these were that bathrooms would be called "entertainment centers" and every one would have a jacuzzi. They predicted we'd have vaccines for any kind of cancer by then. In reality as of now, 2006 they are working on gene therapy taking the body's own imune cells and especially treating them so that they attack cancerous cells in the body, and apparently they have had success with this procedure. If this turns out to be so it will mark a major breakthrough in cancer research. Nowdays we are fighting off aging every day. There will be people living to the year 2020 whom we never guessed would last that long. Now of course besides all the hair treatments and botox and lyfosuction and cosmetic surgery, we have things like taking hormones to stay young looking. Some people think this is horrible, I don't see why. I think they should make testosterone available to anybody who wants it- - because no other single substance could be more expediant to restoring lost youth. But people say sex hormones are dangerous because they encolurage cancer growth. But now they've got a cure for that so that eliminates that reason for not taking them. Other substances people take are human growth hormone and also steroids such as cortozone, which the body makes naturally anyhow, and is already a standard treatment for certail ailments. Personally, I think this whole athlets on steroids thing is way overblown. I don't see why "professionals" those who are paid to put out - - can't take whatever best enhances their performance, since that's what they get paid for. People don't pay to see "a fair contest"; people pay to see record breaking performance. The Olympics is one thing- - I can see the reasoning there- - -but I don't see why people in professional sports can't take cortozone or steroids, since these are substances the body produces naturally anyhow, and they can sure retard the onset of old age.

Of course we might not make it to the future if any number of flooky, freaky events overtakes us that they talked about on ABC last week. We could cross paths with a Black Hole. We may know the date of our deaths and unable to stop it. But before you fear being sucked into thirty-two pieces, keep in mind that way before that happens the mile high tides on planet earth will about wipe everyone out. Another unlikely event is a supernova of a neighboring star. They say the clossest star where this could happen is one eight thousand lightyears away. When that happens there will be two suns in the sky. First all the ozone will be burned off. Then with the ozone gone, the massive amount of gamma rays will kill every living thing right down to the cellular level. Another possability is that an asteroid could do us in. This would leave a five mile long crater in the ground and plunge us into sort of a permanent night blocking the sun. This is what killed the dinasaurs. Of course more likely than any of these are biological weapons or else global warming. We know all about that. But even the pessimists are saying it will be ten thousand years before one of these things does us in. Untill then we should see a lot of scientific progress. If the Star Trek people are right, we should isolate the "graviton" particle and invent the warp drive in just over fifty years. If and when that occurrs, it will revolutionize space travel. "String" theory and study of subatomic particles should be an upcoming field. On a recent earthlink mailing they had "Fourteen facts about Space you probably don't know". I recomment everyone download it and read it.

Profiles in Craven Cowardess

It is said that the one thing Satan can't synthesize, but wishes that he could, is courage. That's an interesting thought to meditate on. It is said that courage tests what men and women are really made of. We know when something is "The Real Thing". I was going to download a big photograph of Robert Kennedy to feature in this posting. He showed courage because he ran for President even after his brother was assasenated. He also showed courage in that he didn't back down from campaigning even after Martin Luther King was gunned down. History might be very different today had Robert Francis Kennedy survived. It is said that counterfeiters are successful because people are expecting the real thing and not getting it. If the Real Thing were not valuable, there would not be so many counterfeiters. In the recovery of "The Scream" painting yesterday, the criminals knew they had The Real Thing, but of course they were unable to sell it because of all the computer data banks. In Christianity there is the parable of the wheat and the tares, or as I say in my book, the wheat and the darnel grass. Now, there is nothing wrong with being darnel grass, so long as you don't try to pass yourself as wheat. I think if there is a distinction between the real and the fake among Christians, it's along the dividing line of Courage, ie. who has it and who doesn't. I have often said that the two biggest vices of modern Christianity is that they are cowards and hypocrits. Scripture tells us in the last day that it's the fakes who will be "taken" first. Scripture says "Wherever the corpse is there vultures will be gathered". People talk about the Rapture as being the be all and end all of Christian faith. And yet it's dawned on me that the reason why they cling to what well may be a falst doctrine (and a tracable Adventist offshoot hericy) is that these people are "Frightened of the Real World". They can't face it and they want to get away from it. It's funny when you listen to Christian music they are Johnny come latelys. I remember when I first heard my first disco Christian song. What a shock. That was in 1980. I heard my first "Christian punk" in early 1983. Now they have Christian rap. It seems as if Christianity is always playing the "me, too" game. They're always a follower and never a leader, like Abraham, Martin, John and Bobby were leaders.

I supposed if I were to venture who deserves the hottest places in hell and the least deserving of any mercy or appeal or even a hearing, it would be these people, and usually parents, who murder their children and then kill themselves. This is what I would call an extreme form of cowardice. Those kids have their young lives cut short and they get no hearing or appeal. Why should their parents get any? I suppose it would be a tad less hot for Andria Yates. At least she didn't try to kill herself after offing her five innocent children. At least she stayed around to face justice, such as it was. I don't know what goes on in the minds of these psycho parents, often estranged divorcees, who kidnap and then murder their kids and take their own life.

Ed Schultz is about the only host who is still on KTLK these days. The guy who replaced Al Frankin was a complete asshole, and I tuned in Rush Limbaugh to get away from him. This whole air traffic controler crisis has been going on, I suppose since the firing of air traffic controlers by Ronald Reagan in 1981. If Ed Schultz is right by the year 2010 75 % of the air traffic controlers on the job 25 years ago will have retired, and the thing is they are not being replaced. It seems in Philadelphia the union there had some terms crammed down their throat they really didn't feel confortable with. Now they have to work extra overtime, and under conditions of extreme fatigue. Excuses that used to be acceptable won't be any more. They are endangering the welfare of passengers, such as happened last week. We will be seeing a rise in "incidents" where controler error is to blame. There have been a lot of near misses in the skies over our airports lately. It was only a matter of time before the chickens came home to roost. So why do people agree to terms they are ethically opposed to? Why do certain construction firms agree to a cheaper grade of cable or steel in a project than was agree to, and may not even be legal but they do it anyhow? Strange as it seems it seems to be Fear. Fear of their superiors looking over their shoulder and wagging their fingers. They would rather endanger humdreds of lives than look their superiors in the eyes and tell them they're wrong. Now we hear the goal of the Bush adminestration is to privatize the whole industry. Perhaps if the Bush bragades can generate a sever enough manpower shortage- - somehow the solution will be to privitize, and give the account to Haloburten or some other corporation where the Bush people can make a nice profit.

There is a fictional case on a soap opera that merits looking at. There was a guy named Ethan who needed a job and his wife was leaning on him to get some mulah into the account. Suddenly a plumb case drops into his lap. There is a guy who was ripped off by the Crane Empire because of a pattened invention that was stolen by the Crane Empire and the guy wanted justice. Ethan turned him down. The reason given was that "Oh innocent workers may get fired if the case is successful and I can't be responsable for that". First of all he doesn't know that. He doesn't know if he will win the case, or if another attorney got it he'd win. But most importantly, if a worker sings up to work for an evil man like Allester Crane, they pretty much are taking a moral risk. The right has a point. Sometimes things happen. Corporations do go bankrupt. People skip town without paying their workers. If you go to work for a crook that's what you can expect. But all the man who brought the case to Ethan wanted was justice and Ethan was an attorney. But there is another cowardess factor working with Ethan. First of all Allester when he was alive used that excuse, "If you put me out of business millions of workers around the world will suffer". I doubt it. But Ethan was afraid of losing the love of Teresa, a woman he's had a lust problem with for years. Ethan let cowardess and his hormones get in the way of a rightious judgement. But you know- - God himself had a moral lapse in the Bible when Satan came to him and began making demands on him concerning his treatment of Job. And God decided even though he knew he should do the right thing, he really didn't want to offend Satan, only Lord knows why. Literally. Rather than offend Satan, God decided it would be better to allow evil to take place. If we could put an Ethan mask on God and a Teresa mask on Satan- - - well.

There is another case from the same soap opera. Why do criminals like to kill people for the hell of it rather than let innocent live. I guess robers are becomming more violent. Now if there's a bank robbery they figure it's best to kill the witnesses so they can't testify. Guns can make people cowards. In the Tieshia Miller case where the cops opened fire on an epeliptic who was dazed in a car- - people like John Kovel said "When you start firing the edreniline gets to pumping and you can't help yourself". I guess shooting a gun is kind of a sexual thing. There was a case here in LA where a guy was in a van and a rain of 112 bullets decended on him from all the cops in the area turning the street into the OK carrell. On this soap opera this guy named Spike was blackmailing a guy named Chris. First of all blackmailers are losers anyhow. Just call their bluff and stare them down. Right away they are disarmed. It's always escaped me why the things you have to do to appease a blackmailer are ten times worse than the thing he was going to rat you out for in the beginning. Why jump fron the frying pan into the fire? Chris should turn Spike in and face the music and redeem himself. Then he'll be able to sleep at night knowing he did the right thing. A clear contience is something people should value more. Chris was acting out of fear of Spike, when Spike is basically a man without power unless Chris give it to him. Spike's boss is dead. Now Spike is on his own, unless you enable him.

Well, it seems ABC has its own political stance to take to maintain its integrety. We heard on Rush today that ABC has this excellent 9 - 11 movie they plan to show next weekend on how Bin Laden became a problem and how the Clinton CIA had a chance to eliminate him in 1998 but they were told from headquarters that the adminestration would not back them. Bill Clinton has personally phoned ABC demanding that they edit out all the offencive segments that make his adminestration look bad. As for this blog I had the wrong name in a key segment I had to correct. I suppose the origional name might be a cause of discussion for some.

Finally I 'd like to talk about the Nazi haulocost. Dietrich Bonhoffer was one Christian, a Lutheran, who stood up against Hitler. He is revered as The Real Thing by liberals and conservatives alike. The church should be full of Dietrich Bonhoffers and if that were so- - Hitler would not have gotten to first base with his genocidal plans for the Jews. It's just a matter of looking at your moral compus and getting your ethical bearings so you know what to do. Even a pacifist should take up arms if the evil looming is hanious enough. Interestingly King Saul stood up against God in the Bible when Jehovah God wanted King Saul to comit genocide against the Amalikites and wipe them out, every last man, woman and child. King Saul wasn't ready to do that, and lost his kingdom over it. Joining Jehovah is kind of like joining the mafia. Among the things you have to sacrifice is your sense of morality. "Your morality is not your own; God owns everything". I don't know if there is such a thing as Jewish karma but if I were a Jew I'd look at stuff like this and ask myself the question "Is it true we take our morals from the people we associate with?" I'm not letting Jehovah off the hook here because it's in the Bible, affirmed over and over as the word of God over centuries. Is genocide ever morally justified?

Defining Perfection Downward

You know, the feminists are upset because of a doll that when you pull the string says, "Math is hard". This is somehow supposed to be a putdown of women. It isn't really. The big things that are really worth doing are going to be challenging. John Kennedy said upon deciding upon our space program said, "We're not going to the moon because it's easy; we're going to the moon because it's hard". Enter Jesus of the K F I show. Some of these people who talk about the "original Hebrew" can't always be relied upon. We are told the original Hebrew in the injunction "Thow shalt not kill" is in fact the word for murder. This would certainly make it easier for people to follow. It would have all sorts of implication about making war and such. Let me now squash this whole theory like squashing a bug on a wind shield. Isaiah 7 says "A young maiden shall conceive in her womb". Nobody translates it that way even though that's what it says in the Hebrew. The word in just about every translation you'll see is pronounced "Virgin". Christianity would collapse like a house of cards, otherwise. Jesus spoke this morning of war being necessary. This doctrine of necessity seems to pre-empt Jesus' thinking. In philosophy they speak of a necessary or essential attribute of something. It would seem that war, according to Jesus, is a necessary attribute of Christianity. Gobles or someone once said "The extermination of the Jews isn't a necessary evil, it's just necessary". John Lennon said, "Make love not war" but Jesus' doctrine distilled down seems to be "Make war not love". Jesus then went on this morning to talk about "turning the other cheak". Once Ghandi said this meant that is the Nazis entered England the people should engage in the same passive resistance his people engaged in in India. I remember when Chuck Smith once spoke of having vengence and the people applauded and I thought "Well, this is neat. A religion that supports vengence. This was different from the liberalism I'd been exposed to in my own church. Jesus says "turning the other cheak" means that if someone is verbally insulting you you don't escalate the conflict into physical violence. He says "smiting on the cheek" is an "insult" and nothing to do with any kind of physical assault. Jesus has defined perfection downward. The yoke Christianity imposes on people is a heavy one. In the Bible it says broad is the way that leads to Hell and many go there but the road to rightiousness is narrow and few there be that find it". Jesus also weighed in on the line "He who lives by the sward shall die by the sward". Jesus said that he told the deciples to pick up swards. But Jesus left out the scene later on when Peter drew his sword in self defence and sliced off the right ear of Malchis or whoever. The real Jesus said "Put away your sword". It would seem Jesus had "set Peter up" to make a point about non violence. In fact the real Jesus was so non violent he was prepared to see the whole nation of Isrial destroyed at the hands of Rome rather than take up arms in self defence. Jesus on KFI says "War is necessary" no doubt thinking of the current Iraq war. But in some ways George Bush and Pontious Pilate are alike in that they both occupied far away countries and used military force to "Keep the peace" and keep the land "safe from agitators". Jesus doesn't seem to be against war if it's an oppressor doing it. There is a Yoco Ono song called "There may not be much difference". There may not be much difference between Charles Manson and Pope Paul VI, if we press their smiles. There may not be much difference between Ghandi and Marolyn Monroe, if we bottle their tears. There may not be much difference between Pilate and Bush, if we look at their Imperialist asperations. Every time non violence is even hinted about with Jesus on KFI, Jesus goes into a major eulogy for War and it's virtues. He has defined perfection downward. There are no more Ghandi's allowed.

Jesus was asked by a middle age lady about mental illness. Here you really find out what is on Jesus' heart. The lady said she could understand almost every other malody but not mental illness because mentally ill people can't receive Christ. Jesus chimed in with his usual stock answer. "Mentally ill people have just as much an oppertunity to reveive me as anybody else has". Not so. Jesus also has said "If you're an athiest there must somehow be something wrong with you, you must have issues that are warping your mind", his point being that no "normal person" could possibly be an athiests so if you were one there had to be something "wrong" with you. What Jesus said next was amazing. He spoke of mental illness giving glory to God. He said "If you're a surgon you get glory from the pain and suffering of others in putting them right". His policy seems to deni the idea "Adversity is something that produces greatness, it just reveals it". According to Jesus, evil has to exist for Great people to be great. Otherwise they'd have no purpose. But from there Jesus says, "Therefore God gets glory out of other peoples' imperfections. I am great in that my glory is shown in other peoples' mental illness". It was at that point he totally lost me but his Terry Shibo remarks had been similar. He said "Why can't some people just be allowed to exist as they are". His point was that God gets glory out of someone else living as a helpless vegetable. Whenever there is a choice Jesus will always opt against doing a healing, despite how this flagurantly violates scripture. Jesus said something about "I originally made everybody perfect". His rationalle I guess is that since he's not responsable for their imperfection he's not inclined to do anything about it. Let's look at original sin. We are to believe that when Adam and Eve ate that apple it put the "seeds of evil" in nature. If this is so, why do most depictions of "The Fall" show nature all at once going to pot before the "seeds" even had a chance to work. Here's one for you. Adam and eve lived six thousand years ago. Dinasaurs lived 65 million years ago. They were destroyed by an asteroid that struck the earth. How did "origional sin" get into that asteroid in outer space 65 million years into the past as a result of Adam eating the apple? Romans 8 tells us "All of creation was subject to futility, not of its own will but the will of the one who subjected it". I take this to mean Satan. Satan predestined the Cosmos to evil. Indeed whoever has the power to predestine the Universe is Lord of it, and Satan is called "The lord of this world". So it would seem predestination is Satan's doing, and if it is, it's something we should logically fight and not go along with. Jesus seems to say "If sin caused something, it isn't my problem". This really is defining perfection downward. Jesus then asked the woman if she herself was mentally ill. This made me mad because these people don't believe you can be concerned about others. They assume you're as self obcessed as they are about themselves.

Churchmen define perfection down in another way. Jesus taught "Do not refuse one who would borrow from you". He also said "If someone sues you and takes your coat, give them your cloak as well". This sets the bar mighty high. However in the ditike (?) or apostolic teaching it says "Let the money you plan to give another sweat in your palms till you are sure whether they really deserve it or not". This writing teaches if you're a prophet and decree that a meal be prepared, and if you yourself partake in that meal, you are no prophet". This isn't even Biblical. Elijah came to the widdow of Zaraphath and she was about to eat her last meal before she died, and Elijah had the stones to say "First prepare me a meal, and whatever you have left you can eat". Today the in thing among Christians is to speak of "tough love". And don't give to another because they might be a "swine". Perfection is defined downward. Also when it comes to preaching the Bible scripture says "Be instant in season and out of season". What does Jesus of KFI say? He says don't preach to another unless your own life is perfect and your neighbor can see that. Basically he says to "put on a good act" for your neighbor. According to Jesus- - if you just walk up and start preaching- - - you should stop and seccond guess yourself to death.

In terms of that fraternity where a pledge died of a water overdose, this is just another reason why I hate fraternities. You go through all this humiliation and sometimes your life is in jeopardy if you drink too much alcohol or whatever. And what does it buy you? The loyalty of people who are jerks to begin with. I have at times wondered why God was ignoring all his promises to me in scripture. I thought that maybe I was in some "initiation phase". Of course that wasn't true. But O D ing on water illustrates that you can indeed die from something that's normally good for you, like water, like religion. As the Dylan song says, "I bargained for salvation, she gave me a lethal dose". Fraternities are supposed to be about friendship and fellowship but those brothers wern't showing much of that.

Progress and Retrogression

They say that we are progressing at an ever faster rate but I'd like to cast doubt on that assumption. Back in the Civil War they had two competing pattents for the machine gun. They never could decide as the years passed. President Abriham Lincoln wanted the machine gun but the army wasn't sure. I think it's perhaps divine providence that Lincoln didn't get his way or there would have been a bigger holicaust than there was in the Civil War because medical procedures hadn't yet caught up. Less than a year after the War was over the government approved the Gattling gun to use on the Indians. The time interval was very short. In 1879 Edison invented the light bulb. During the Cleaveland adminestration lights were installed in the White House. Cleaveland was elected in 1884, and I believe by that time Edison had already electrified Manhatton. In 1903 the Wright Brothers invented the airplane. It was just over ten years latrer they were using fighter planes in World War I. Did you know the first television was invented in 1929 by Farnsworth or somebody? The first TV stations came on in 1946 or seventeen years later. When I was in first grade they talked about "electronic ovins". Well, it was nearly twenty years before they were in widespread usage as microwaves. In the song "What do you want from life?" microwaves were seen as relitively new. Skipping ahead, the first computer was invented in 1944, the Mark I. The first computer you could buy was assembled from a kit you put together yourself, the Apple I in 1975. Are you starting to see a trend here? Computers really didn't become a household word till the early 1990's. In the early 'sixties they used solar cells for space satalites. Soon people thought these would be household items. We're still waiting and it's been over forty years. Certain inventions take longer and longer to reach the public. The pace is slowing down. Five years ago the fastest speed was about two gigahertz. Now it's perhaps three gigahertz, but even at that the machine "runs hot". We are reaching an upward limit of speed. We're still traveling at the same air speeds we were traveling in the late 1950's when jet air craft were first used commercially. Back when I was a kid it took over six months to go to mars or venus. It still takes that long. Certain things don't change. Darwin came up with the theory of evolution in 1859. Today this theory is running into more resistance than it did a hundred years ago. Instead of getting closser to our goal, we are getting farther from it.

It was the middle of June 1967 that Ronald Reagan signed the abortion bill for California. This bill was pretty much abortion on demand like we have today. I think abortion is less fashionable now than it was then. In those days we were in the "sexual revolution" I remember one time in October of 1967 when Hippies came to our church and they were praised by the congragation for their alternative life views. Also in June of 1967 we sent a craft to Venus. We really don't know a whole hell of a lot more about Venus now than we did after that mission in 1967.

On June 25th. the Beatles recorded "All You Need Is Love". This was done for a live sattalite program on a Sunday night. The only things that were changed were that John re-did the vocals, and Ringo did the drum roll introduction. The song was being played on the radio July 1st. or so. In those days the Beatles or other group could "get out" an album in a couple of months. This was certainly the case with "Rubber Soul", "Beatles for Sale", and even "Magical Mystory Tour". Today the average group seems to work a year and a half on an album, and often longer. So much for progress. I was hoping when Anthology II of the Beatles came out they'd show how they "layered" the recording of "All You Need is Love" but as it turns out they didn't even seem fit to include this song though John Lennon has said that this song would have made a good "last song" before the Beatles should have broken up.

What we really need is Love now. This was kind of a calling card of the Christian fundamentalists in 1970. It was a way we could identify them that they imotated what the hippies were doing. How different things are from today! Today when you think of a fundamentalist Christian you think of George Bush, or worse yet, Larry Elder or Anne Coulter. Today love is seen as a bad thing. Back then we said "make love not war". Today Christians say "Make war not love". If you have love you almost have to apologise for it and call it "tough love". Back then when Newark and Detroit were in flames we thought of it as "just as a natural part of the natural process in the liberation of the Black man". Today if you sit around and fanticize about something like blowing up buildings, the government arrests you and you're the trial of the decade, you're the Miami Seven. The only Al Kaida terrorist in the group was the government FBI agents prodding and pushing the group to admit they'd like to see something blown up. I don't know but I'd guess the minimum wage nation wide is about half of what it was in 1967. And so things have changed

It was a couple months ago that the roomer started that Iran would have the Bom in sixteen days. I guess we can thank God this isn't the case. It gives us more time. I guess we can see if the ABM system we have, aka. "Star Wars" or Stratigic Defence Initiative, works at all. Perhaps we can use it to shoot down a South Korea missile. If it works, perhaps we don't have to worry. In terms of other scientific developments, now they use mercury lights indoors, and yet I think the basic concept was pioneered in the late 1890s. Tessla is said to have done fantastic experimentations over a hundred years ago but I think his work was supressed. When my Dad was in college some teacher told the class that we had twenty-five years left of fossil fuel. 38 years ago when The Population Bomb hit the book shelves we were given dire scenarios of what would happen if the population growth of the planet went on unabaited. The problem isn't any less severe today; we've just decided we don't want to think about it. The same goes for Social Security. We have seen the danger signals for ten years but now it's not "politically wise" to even address the problem so we don't think about it. The first nucliar submarine the Nautelus was comissioned in 1954. Yet we have such a phobia of nucliar power today we can't wean ourselves away from gas and coal to produce electricity. There are times when you wonder whether solutions are being kept off the market. I think it's absurd that we still have these freeway traffic problems. We were talking about congested freeways fourty years ago but are seemingly able to do nothing about it. I think it's obvious we have got to get people to give up their cars in commuting.

Magic Mountain is 35 years old this summer and you've heard about how they are planning to sell it and turn the area into another real estate development. The Park was built to get people to move out to Velencia and Saugus but now that they're there the Park has proved too successful. Can you imagine they're going to bulldoze a theme park with seventeen roller coasters? But they say the land is now worth too much to use for something as frivelous as an amusement park. That's progress for you. Who would guess the song is true "These are the good old days"?

There is something in Julius Caesar about there is a tide which taken at the full leads on to victory. This is, you should "surf" nature and ride the currents for maximum gain. Martin Luther King talked about "Zeitguist" or spirit of the times. Believe it or not that's not a Nazi word. Certain events are "ripe" to happen, and that's when you have to look at the big picture and see where the Universe is leading manking. It may not be twords Peace, it may be twords War. Below are a couple of musings from two different files in July and August of 2004. Sometimes I sound so confused I sound like I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth. What I'm trying to say is that War is more likely than Peace, despite our best desires. The Jews looked to Jesus as Messiah, but he only promised "Not peace, but a sward". Thomas Jefferson said that the tree of liberty occasionally had to be watered with the blood of patriots. Karl Marx once said "In order to make an omlet, you've got to break some eggs. Those who say war is the answer would use the addage "You'll never know untill you try". We haven't had an all out World War in over sixty years, just like we haven't had any movement on the San Andreas fault in a long time. If you read my matereal you know that I believe the future is predestined. Tword the end of this blog I sound a more optimistic note but the fact is whatever we do for ourselves is predestined by the Universe. If the world is "sick" it needs to "volmet" to purge it's poisons. Botanists tell you that the most beautiful roses are developed by proper truning. Havent you heard the news? Forrest fires are caused by ecologists not allowing tree cutting. Along with the birth of the baby you also get the plecenta. An un-lanced boil could cause infection to the blood stream. It is written again in Julius Caesar, "Cowards die many times before their deaths. The vallient taste of death but once. If you are destined to die isn't it best to go down swinging that your karma might be served. War is the most efficient solution to the population explosion. For those of you who are simply "afraid to die let me offer this from our Saviour. "He who seeks to save his life will lose it and he who loses his life (in war) will gain good karma. It is said in the Bible that wine that is not regularly poured from vessel to vessel goes bad. This is what war does. I'm saying this because there's an outside chance something horrible will happen soon or in the year 2007. What war does above all is separate the talkers and the "posers" from the ones for whom war brings out true Courage. (Selah)

On “Lost World” they had a rerun of these demon invaders from the year 2022 that were involved in instigating a world wide nuclear holocaust. If kind of gets you to wondering whether there is actually going to be one. Various sources like Star Trek seem to be predicting one. Just on mathematical odds alone I’d say there has to be one some time. It probably will be the week after Chuck Smith dies- - about twenty years from now. We’ll all be older then. North Korea poses a real threat as I see it. The question is can the Bush administration luck out with diplomacy. Or will he just be another Chamberlain? And I don’t know all this stuff about the Communist menace being gone because the last time I checked my map, Red China was still there, and just as Communist. They just hide it now. But if push comes to shove I see no reason why China wouldn’t back North Korea. I think we have seen hints of that already. One of these days we’re going to have a crisis our President, whoever he is, can’t handle. I really am not up on all the latest missiles. We hear about the sidewinder, the tomahawk, and the discredited Patriot. We constantly hear about missiles malfunctioning. We con-stantly hear that the essence of being a good American is to fight in a war when ordered to, no matter what the merit. That’s none of our concern. How long is this John Kerry-itus going to contaminate our dialog on the subject? “I killed more in the war than you did”. The Larry Norman song goes, ‘In the midst of the war he offered us peace”. That just might be a hard deal to pass up if there’s substance behind it. You wonder at times whether there might not be a community of demons that are immortal, and they know that men are mortal and don’t live forever but they don’t care; they want release from what-ever Void they live in. And they hate mankind and want to destroy it. That’s the premise of today’s “Lost World” episode. My next conclusion may appear suspect to some. Therefore: if someone is going around screaming “It’s all gona burn” and “bring the War on” they have a demon in them. Clearly Jesus talked about “Were not those days short-ened no flesh would be saved”. It’s interesting he uses the word “Flesh”. Chuck must cringe when he hears that. George Burns as God said “The future is in your hands” and hinted he didn’t want us destroying ourselves. But oddly there are no Peace advocates today, except for the Pope. “Peace” is too closely associated with the word “liberal”.

You know, it’s the height of vanity to say you know the future. Let’s face it; Christians are pretty vain. I don’t think I’ve done any files on the future with either this computer or the old one. I guess since each progressive year for me has been worse than the one before since I’ve gotten this computer the future is something I haven’t wanted to think about. John Lennon said Christianity wouldn’t last, it would vanish and shrink”. He said ‘I don’t know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity”. John Lennon said “People aren’t turning out for God”. Obviously we’ve been in the throws of the Jesus Revolution these past 35 years. For twenty-five years the voting pattern of America became rather predictable. We’d be oppressed by a foreign power, and in most cases go to war, or bomb somebody, or in the case of Carter, vote a President out of office. This could go on a while. In the Arimid files I note I couldn’t venture to predict elections past 2007. I suppose something could happen like Bush getting assassinated and Dick Chaney could take over and go nuts declaring a military state and suspending the 2008 elections. But as Jesus would say “the end is not yet”. I’m starting to bore myself so I’ll pick up the pace. You know they say “Charity begins at home” so we need look no further for an example of Antichrist than my own parents. Neither has a spiritual bone in their body and they are both the perfect posers. Were James Dobson to evaluate their child rearing I’m convinced he’d give them a D minus, or lower. They have a love affair with the welfare state. Dad won’t fight for anything; he’d make the perfect passive Jew in Nazi Germany. In the future at some point religion will be done away with by statute. I’d like to ask John Lennon, “What would you think of a religion where the only outward sign of it is isolation from others but otherwise living a happy self satisfied life”. You can’t control people who are in contact with God, so God must be done away with.

Back in May of 1982 we sent a mailing to the media that predicted the lapse in medical care that occurred in the 1990s and today. The right drugs wouldn’t be given and treatment would be denighed for beaurocratic reasons. Later on we predicted there would be a World War- - a nuclear holocaust some time in the late 2030s. It is at this point, when God knows what has happened in between, that I believe the Antichrist, if there is one, will make his appearance. In the story the 2040s were portrayed as an oppressive period of areas chain link fenced off and guards everywhere and passes needed to travel from zone to zone, as the sun refused to shine through that was kind of a ghastly mustard green. But later on, about 2061 there would be some sort of religious revival. Didn’t the latest Enterprise say that warp drives were invented a whole hundred years before their year around 2165? And that at the time space aliens landed on earth breaking whatever “code of silence” there was. Heck, it could be space aliens brought the warp drive to the humans. People at the Orion Federation make no mention of a “warp drive” to get around. They either space fold or travel in the sixth dimension. And travel in general seems to be a guarded secret. The notion of space ships fanning out from a planet that “just became aware” is alien to the Orion Federation I know. But I think we can agree that Christianity won’t be around in those days.

Not a lot of whoopy- Just Straight Talk

Greetings to people reading this blog. You know if you've read my other meterial you may say to yourselves "You've expressed a lot of oppinions about Christianity but you haven't shed much light with your own relation with the Lord". Well I'd like to talk about that a little in this segment. There is a lot of misconception in the realm of the Christian Right as far as the media sees it. People say, "What we need is more religion today". Dennis Prager says that. He says religion for religion's sake is good for the moral fabric of America. And yet Dennis believes in legalized prostitution and abortion. Apparently some republican politicians have secretly done things which increased or supported the repression of the people in China, including forced abortions. Well back in the fall of 1977 I wanted to engage in some "Straight talk" with a certain pastor because I felt a wall was going up between us. If I see a comunacation problem I take steps to proactively solve it, and if it doesn't work, then I have my answer. I don't know who came up with the phrase "Straight Talk" first, myself or Gene Scott. Let's do a little "straight talk". There's a guy calling himself Jesus on the radio here in LA Sunday mornings that is doing incredible damage to Christianity. If you hated Christians and wanted to see them "vanish and shrink" as Lennon talked about, you would continue for this man to stay on the air. Then you have the Calvary Chapels. I wrote a book in the summer of 1980. You didn't imagine that. I spent two thousand dollars of my own money, which is money I could have used for other things in the future. Oddly the book was criticized for "Not being loving enough". I saw it as my duty to preach the Bible. It was a prophecy book and it got praise from both Christians and non Christians, and it was also criticized by both Christians and non Christians. I remember one Christian commented on the book, "It just isn't the way Chuck Smith would do it". I realized right then that Christianity was a religion of personalities and not ideas. I tried to to a prophecy book of "Chuck Smith Light" and it didn't work. People at the Calvary Chappels are famous for not giving any aid to a person undertaking an economic venture. Their philosophy is, "If the Lord is in it, it will succeed". They say that about so many things. Of course Chuck Smith and his Calvary minions are kind of like the Kentucky Fried Chicken of Christianity, with their unique blend of eleven herbs and spices. Someone learns to tell instantly whether it's a Calvary Chappel or a Calvary wanna-be. Gene Scott has stated that "Some fundamentalists are like a bunch of people with the same peculiarity supporting each other". Gene Scott has also said, "Christianity is just doing the same business on the other side of the street". Someone like Raul Ruis is so angry now. I can't listen to him. As a gang member they say he used to beat up people just for the fun of it. You hear that same redirected agression in his voice now. Are you getting a glimps of the way things are yet?

When I was a Christian I in philosophy debates defended the notion that there was the possability of a "Last Judgement" by some diety. I was ridiculed by the teacher. This teacher also downgraded a test because in an essay question I said that Maoism was a religion but Confucionism was not. He didn't like that. I used to state I was a Christian if asked. Only a few times did my gut tell me to keep quiet and things would go better for me. -and they did. I ran into a lot of friction from being known as a Christian. Friction I wouldn't have had otherwise. But one of the most illustritive incidents in my life occurred on Mother's Day 1994. I won't give you all the detales but the conversation was a real eye opener. This same pastor I just referred to was under attack because of something he did for which he got opposition. I happened to think the Pastor was right and loudly said so. I felt as if the group were ganging up on me and saying stuff they didn't even mean just to be against me and this pastor I was defending. Just a few months later this Pastor (no good deed goes unpunished) turned against me because of a letter I wrote where I said I felt "God" had lied to me about something. Don't ask me to explain that. Also in the year 1994 around September I read a book on the Shroud of Turen that stated after scientifically examining the cloth they conflused the pattern of the blood stains could only be made by a person who was still alive and not dead. It doesn't stop there. The Catholic Church didn't like that. So what they did was rig the carbon 14 tests in order to show that the genuine Shroud was in fact a phoney. The Catholics would rather say it's a phoney than admit that Jesus did not die on the cross.

I still stayed a Christian after this, but heard a searies of really bad sermons- - this time from a different church. Also I began going to a third church because there was a woman I liked who had two snall girls (girls are better than boys because if they don't look like you when you get married you can say it's because they're girls) and this woman showed every indication of being attracted to me. However is there was a small glitch. By this time I had another friend, a friend in a bottle. I would go out regularly in the evenings to the liquor and buy a two or three 22 oz. bottles of Mickeys. The woman had just left her husband because she was on drugs. Had I prayed and turned to God with my whole heart perhaps I could have found the will to give up the booze for her so she wouldn't have doubts about me. But then she finally moved out of the building, and all the women I knew moved out of the building. By 1997 I was thinking about this, and I got depressed. A number of new events came along in the first half of 1997. By now I had openly turned my back on Christianity so I knew I didn't have a right to pray. Some might say, "The Lord had turned me over to Satan that I might see the error of my ways", or something. It didn't work like that and I continued to drink more and more and by early 1999 lots of people knew that I had a problem. I'm not really at "War" with God. But you've read the abbridged version of everything that let up by no "No more Jesus" decision in 1996.

Some Christians wring their hands and moan, "Look at all the gay programming on television these days. Even That Seventies Show had gays in it last night. What's this world coming to?" It bothers me too. All I know is that the Devil is in the drivers seat and sometimes so they don't go nuts Christians just say "Thy Will Be Done". I don't believe "God" deserves a choice in some metters. I believe the issues are too clear. This is the lazyest Republican Congress we have had in the past sixty years. What are you going to do? Ignore it?

I didn't see the Lakers last night but I'm told they lost to the Suns in overtime. That does not make me happy. I couldn't even find the Lakers on the radio.

There is continued good news on the medical front because it seems that every day they are coming up with some new break-through. I kind of feel for the young people these days because they're having to grow up in a world full of old people. When my generation was young, they were the center of the world. Now that we are getting older, we are still the center of the advertizer's bid for dollars on the media.

Can you take me back where I came from
Can you take me back- -
Can you take me back where I came from
Brother, can you take me back
-----Can you take me back
Can you take me where I came from
Can you take me- - - Back

Next month something I never thought I'd live to take place is going to actually happen. Paul Mc. Cartney will actually turn sixty-four. Back then sixty-four was really considered old. These days eighty is the new sixty. These days is isn't grand children on your knees, they're probably your own kids given all the jerriatric sex there is out there with viagara and everything these days. A lot of people believe in the logarithmic theory of length of life perception. A four year old lives four more years and then he's eight and he looks back on four as a long time ago because it's half his life. He has to wait till he's sixteen for that phenominon to occur again. When Paul was half his age now he was thirty-two. If you can't remember when that was it was 1974 and he'd just released "Junior's Farm". For a log of younger people I might have well have said "Moonlight Serenade" by Glen Miller. For you, "Junior's Farm" and "Sally G" are so prehistoric they don't play them on the radio any more. But half of Paul's life looking back from age 32 would place him at the moment he first met John and joined the Quarrymen. (To me that sounds like a vastly longer period of time) My Dad introduced this logarithmic theory to me. But it breaks down after a while because I as a fifty year old can clearly remember when I was twenty-five. (If only- - ) But most five year olds cannot remember the time when they were two & a half and going through potty training. Life is a mystery. I used to believe that children were a blank slate and everything a parent did would mold their personalities. Back in psychology days we were told there was an "imprinting period" at about age three or four where you were "set for life". Your personality was moldable up to that point but from then on it was set in concrete. Then came along James Dobson saying that certain kids are inherently different from birth than other kids. I chafed at these words. They grated over me like sand paper because they went against what I believed. How can 'genetics" program your personality. Is that all we are is a bunch of biological protoplasums- - just a bunch of chemical reactions in our brain cells? There are mysteries out there. How come we live in a four dimensional universe but are as it were "trapped in time" and move through it- - however we do. What is consciousness? Is it an illusion as the Bhuddists day. What about "Cogito ergo sun". Doesn't a human being posess some exestential reality apart from his body. Doesn't he have, for lack of a better word- - a soul? At another point in my life I believed this without question. Once at the dinner table someone had mentioned if our parents hadn't gotten together the way they did we kids would never have been born" and I responded confidently, Well, you can worry about that but personally that doesn't worry me a bit. I know I'd be here". The conversation quickly shifted as to whether I was accusing my mother of adultry and I tried to explain myself. When I was younger I believed that the soul had an existance apart from the body. I also firmly believed that if you died in an accident or something you'd quickly pass to some other realm of existance. One time when I was in first grade- - it was 1957, I'll leave it at that- - I was walking home from school and taking a short cut through some tract houses. A bigger kid comes down the side walk with a gun. It was a rifel, I don't know if it was a "Davie Crocket" musket or whatever. He pointed the gun at me and I said "What are you going to do?", and the kid said , "I'm going to shoot you". And I had this thought, "Well, I guess I've lived a good life this time around". Earlier, in March of 1955, I can't tell you the exact circumstances because I'd be telling to much, but that's when events point to. At any rate I remember in one of my earliest memories thinking "I have a lot of different lives. Maybe I better get back to those other lifes, but I guess this one's OK".

In the last few days of April of 1984 at the Anaheim downtown library I came accross Ruth Montgomary's latest sequel to "Strangers Among Us". I was looking over the table of contents and had an immediate inpulse to turn to the chapter, "Seattle Surprise". You know "Jesus Christ's" favorite saying is, "God doesn't allow do-overs". That's a very interesting statement for our "Savior" to make. But if you only go around once in life, why spend it as a Christian? You know, I have paid a rather high price for confessing faith in Christ and becomming a Christian.

"Suddenly- - there's a shaddow hanging over me
--------I'm not half the man I used to be"

As a Christian you're supposed to get married at age nineteen, have two point four children, become a pillar in the church, and go on to see your children get married and see your grandchildren and stay with the same woman sixty years. It didn't happen that way for me. That "shaddow" of the wagging finger was over me. I was a hundred times afraid of death and dying after I became a Christian than I was before. I was basically a Christian from March 24th. 1976 through June of 1996 twenty years and three months later. I have come accross a statement I made on file then where renounced my Faith in Jesus, and said, "From now on, I'm stepping off the boat". I was going "off the plantation", to mix metaphores. Not that life has been any better after June of 1996 than it was before. In fact, it's been worse. In retrospect you might almost say disowning the faith was a mistake. But everybody "gets old" and those things happen anyhow. I guess you could say, "I gave Jesus my heart but he wanted my soul". But the thing is my soul wasn't His to take, and we both found that out. The soul belongs to God, so I guess Jesus wasn't God.

I started to talk about "Walk-ins" and Ruth Montgomary. First I need to explain why I'd even be drawn into such a bizzare concept of a more enlightened soul taking over the life of another. I covered some of this in files in late Summer of 2004. I believe rock lyrics are prophetic. I think "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" could be about me, especially the line, "You reached for the Secret too soon". As you know in November of 1977 I'm the person who coined the term "Ziggy's Air Command" based on just having bought the Ziggy Stardust album in early November 1977 because "News of the World" by Queen wasn't out yet. This was back when I was living at the "Keith Richards" Street house. (have you read the news?) On all the letters to the media I and two others wrote (Mark Campbell and Bill Gunderson) there was a Diamond kind of shaped like an airplane wing. This could mean a new "astro plane". To sidetrack for a moment- - the sixty dimensional realm is not a "plane" but more of a "portal" and the three dimensions you experiance in that psychic realm are the 6th. dimension itself, and also time, which you see "all at once" as though it were spaceial, and also whatever the "object focus" of the psychic portal is. I'm trying not to bore you but this takes time to explain. - - - I'm self conscious today because I told a family member to read this blog, and now they'll think I'm nuts.

Are Past Lives A Reality Or Myth?
Read Here to Find Out

Anyhow let's tie the two things together. Richi Vallenz used to have nightmares about the time an airplane fell out of the sky and crashed into his school. As you know Richi was (justly?) afraid to fly but he overruled his instinct and those to fly ratrher than take the bus and freeze that last fateful night. Richi's fate was decided by a coin toss, and Buddy Holly told him, "Tonight you're riding with the stars". We know his plane crashed in Iowa. But I wondered whether in a previous life I hadn't died in a plane crash. I remember one twilight zone episode where an airplane wing came through the roof and it had some cereal number on the wing. That image would haunt me as I lay awake at night. Later on I read the Elvis book by Albert Goldman and learned about two Blackwood Brothers who died in an airplane crash on June 30th. 1954. I guess that date flagged my attention. Besides the two members there was a "local lad", who is never again described. I believe I was that "local lad" and I believe I was sixteen. I've wondered why all of the really super old rock & roll songs are familiar to me but not the ones just semi-old. There's something about being by a river, the Mississippy. Perhaps I've just spent too much time at Frontierland in Disneyland, I don't know. There's just a "Memphis vibe" I get from reading Elvis books. I believe I was a teenager who died in a plane crash on the night of June 30th. 1954. But I also remember "dying" another time". I remember my life as Roberto Gonsolez as described in Ruth Montgomary's book. This is what I remember about that life. I lived in Bellview Washington. I lived in a house with a wood beam interior kind of like Grandpa & Grandma's old house. I renenber the living room was in the center of the house and the kitchen was at the north end. There was always a lot of activity in the kitchen, and some times little kids would be bathed in the laundry sink. Perhaps they were nieces and nephews. One time in May of 1951 I was looking up into the heavens in the evening and had this feeling of "going home". A few days later in late May of 1951 I, and two friends, the three of us took a hike southward in the forrest, ditching class. We stayed overnight in some cave and it started to rain and we got a little wet. The cave was kind of an indentation in a rock ledge. The next day I fell into some quicksand and I kept sinking deeper and deeper, and I think I died. At the last moment I threw my purple bandana up on the ground so that others would see where I was.

We're going long with this. The long and short of it is I think those two lives may have "swapped places". I believe I was the Memphis lad but in 1948 or so swapped places with Gonsolez, alias Robert Ranjal and for three years my consciousness was in his body, then in late May of 1951 at age thirteen I went back to my old body, which was the same age as Roberto in Bellview.

There is a certain amount of evidence that my IQ doubled from age three & a half to age four & a half. Besides the March 1955 reincarnation memory, the oldest thing I can remember was being in the bathroom with my mom and brother after a bath, and I being told I was four & a half and my brother was three & a half. In the summer of 1955 one of my Grandmothers lived in a white duples and she was 64. The other grandparents had recently bought a "new" old house after living in a ranch house, which they still owned. (It was a chicken ranch) My Mom would say to me in summer 1955 that grandpa and grandma had a new house and no longer lived at the ranch but I couldn't remember the ranch house then. (I have since been there several times) Just like when I was four & a half I can't remember being three & a half like my brother then was. I can remember my fifth birthday but not my fourth.

Abrupt change of pace. I play Beat the Clock with the computer because of that one time the screen crapped out while I was writing and I don't want that to be repeated so I type fast and only do the scantest reviews of what I have written. Below is a collection of Rock Songs. Can you pick the two that I just added to this list?

THE ROOTS OF ROCK Released June 29^th. 2005

Disc One

Sixty Minute Man (Bill Ward & the Dominoes)

Money Honey (Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters)

Tweet-dly Tweet (Laverne Baker)

Work with Me Annie (Hank Ballard & the Midnighters)

Rumble (Link Rey)

Rock Around the Clock (Bill Haley & the Comets)

Maybeline (Chuck Berry)

Tooti Fruity (Little Richard)

Blue Swade Shoes (Elvis Presley)

Why do Fools Fall in Love? (Frankie Linman)

Hound Dog (Elvis Presley)

Smokey Joe’s Café (The Robins)

Love is Strange (Mickey & Sylvia)

That’ll Be the Day (Buddy Holly)

Whole Lotta Shakin Going On (Jerry Lee Lewis)

Santa Clause is Back in Town (Elvis Presley)

At the Hop (Danny & the Juniors)

Get A Job (Cillauettes) (?)

Disc Two

Chantilly Lace (The Big Bopper)

Bird Dog (Everley Brothers)

La Bamba (Richi Vallenz)

I Only Have Eyes For You (Flamingos)

Harlem Nocturne (Artist?)

What’d I Say? (Ray Charles)

Sweet Nothings (Brenda Lee)

Walk Don’t Run (Ventures)

Angel Baby (Rosie & the Originals)

Surrender (Elvis Presley)

Blue Moon (Marcelles)

Hello, Mary Lou (Ricky Nelson)

I Know it’s gona work out Fine (Ike & Tina Turner)

My Bonnie (Tony Sheridan & the Beatles)

Twisting the Night Away (Sam Cooke)

Busted Surf Boards (Tornadoes)

Green Onions (Booker T & the M. G’s)

The Wedge (Dick Dale & the Deltones)

Disc Three

Shut Down (Beach Boys)

Little Latin Loopy Loo (Righteous Brothers)

It’s Over (Roy Orbeson)

Surfer Bird (The Trashmen)

Loui Loui (The Kingsmen)

Money (Beatles)

House of the Rising Sun (Animals)

All Day and all the Night (Kinks)

Play with Fire (Rolling Stones)

Gloria (Them)

Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bob Dylan)

Wooly Bully (Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs)

Nothing but Heartaches (Supremes)

The Midnight Hour (Wilson Picket)

I Feel Good (James Brown)

Liar Liar (Castaways)

Hanky Panky (Tommy James & the Shandels)

When a Man Loves a Woman (Percy Sledge)

We call this file Walpurgis tipping our hat to Bill Handel because we know how he loves witches. I just sent you-know-who an E mail. Randy Rhodes wasn’t there again. Reagan signed a bill abolishing the “Fairness doctrine” in 1987. One thing they used to do is run a news department with real news and not “Entertainment”. Now days news has to make a profit, or it won’t run. Today is the anniversary of the Kent State shootings. Back in 1970 it got better coverage than events now. Donald Rumsfeld got some sharp questioning at a news conference today. Of course the President is thinking of abolishing cameras at press briefings because they are sources for all these “News bites” you see. There is a new Watergate hotel scandal involving prostitutes.

I hope other people aren’t as bored by my blogs as I am by theirs. Perhaps I’m just not searching enough. I search key words expecting to find something juicy, but I usually don’t. Well, you know, May 19^th. isn’t that far off.