Perhaps due to our over-watching of Christian "movies" (though basically they are just desguized propaganda) we have gotten the notion "If things just get bad enough, at least when worse comes to worse and a crisis hits, the situation will finally get God's attention". This is the Pearl Harbor sidrone. Don't count on it. I remember thinking this when a really bad incident occured on October 8th. 1987 in my life. I remember thinking it also when one sibling was giving me a particularly hard time. Parents would say "Don't react yourself but let us handle the problem for you", and of course they never did. There is a truth in life that "sometimes a bad event is just a bad event". There is no "silver lining" or some result later on that somehow redeemed the situation. You see this illustrated in bold relief in the Gospells, where Isrial could well say "The Messiah will come when he sees there is no hope for our nation without him". Don't count on it. God would rather consign a race to living in doubt for 2000 years rather than be true to his word. Even the Bar Koplah (?) war was a possible sign to some that perhaps help is on the way, and for a while Isrial was actually winning. But in the end things were even worse than before the war. Now we are in an economic crisis. Many look to Obama as the new Messiah or something. We can always hope. We can hope that Obama is an agent of needed change for so many areas of government. Now Obama is promicing to have ever school kid hooked up to the internet, and to get the whole nation wired for broadband. But Obama also promised he was going to make rich people pay for it by hiking their taxes and now Obama is not going to do that. What Mc Cain failed to win at the ballot box, he is winning simply through Obama's weak resolve to be true to his word. One person at NBC said that perhaps they should hike gasoline taxes so we pay a one hundred percent tax rate on gas so that we are again paying four dollars a gallon "since we are used to it already". Hopefully this would "pressure" the consumer into "going green". The world is filled with unintended consequences so don't count on it. There were a lot of adverse "unintended consequences" to the Christian religion but don't expect God to care about it. Now auto manufactures have been taken down a peg or two and they are only getting half of the $34 Million they were asking for. People say of them now "Yeah they'll spend it all and come back begging for more?" Why couldn't I have used that argument when my church was asking me to increase my pledge? OH by the way, giving to charities is down 35% or so. We shouldn't be particularly surprised by this. Now we hear that the U S will be hit by some form of "weapons of mass destruction" by the year 2013. Whatever is destined to happen to this country, God already knows about it, but it's not telling anybody a word on how to prevent it. Many are saying that Obama is looking more and more like a conservative every day and this is like the second term of the Bush 41 adminestration or something. More and more you hear reason after reason why liberals should not be happy with Obama. Do you think Obama will stand up for the auto workers Unions, or will he negotiate their rights away? Who can say? Much as people would deny it, it would seem that economic recessions are like hurricanes or any other natural "acts of God" and you just have to weather them. Now we have gotten the worse report on jobs losses in a single month since 1974. There is no guarentee things won't get worse or even that the pace of the decline won't accelerate further. Thom Hartman has stated that the solution is to about double the national minimum wage and at lease give the least fortunate among us a shot at earning a living. We know if we used pre Reagan unemployment numbers, the unemployment rate would be about double the 6.7% they claim that it is now (or WAS at the end of last month) We obviously need massive government intervention and we need it quickly but I'm not sure this congress will give it to us.
Ten Inch EP "Six Pack" Produced by Mal Evans rel. December 6th.
A Song for Jeffrey (Jethro Tull)
Wall of Sleep (Black Sabbath)
40,000 Headmen (Traffic)
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Much Too Late for Good-byes (Julian Lennon)
And In Every Home- A Nightmare (Joe Jackson)
All The Young Girls Love Alice (Elton John)
There may be a double CD somewhere in the future but it could be months from now. Today is the anniversary of a lot of things in 1980. There's that woman who was injected with insilin by her husband who lapsed into a coma and finally died just lately. Laura was beginning to "slip away" mentally starting in December and by March she was back in an Institution. I think this was the week, or the first week in December when I received delivery on the Prophecy books I had printed up- - that I might have gotten myself in too deep money wise. Tomorrow of course is the anniversary of the assasenation of John Lennon by Mark David Chapman. Of course he said that John was a "sell out" who cared more about confort than protesting now. I could not disagree more strenuously. I don't think half the shit that came down with Ronald Reagan would have been near as successful were there the active John Lennon constituancy out there protesting and such. We would have John's speeches and commentary on everything. It's kind of a truh that certain "forces" can't triumph till other "forces" are first done away with.
In 1990 this is another anniversary. I was just learning BASIC programming at ROP and was enthusiastic about that. My parents did not seem to share my ebuliance on the subject. It was Sunday December 9th. 1990 that the Rev. Bill Halliday first comandiered our local church, and he has been there eighteen long years. It was a black day for justice and truth the day our church voted him in, with almost no questioning, as is the tradition of our church. Of course a lot of the membership had been and would continue to "vote with their feet" in the biggest mass exicuse that church had ever seen, such that after a few years membership was decimated. It is said all that is needed for Evil to take over is for good people to do nothing. I had been associated with that church a long time. Let's illustrate it this way: If we had gotten Nuked in the Cuban missile crisis of October of 1962, I would still have memories of this Church in the Afterlife, theology permitting. Our family started going to that church when I was eleven. In the first directory photo my mother was still taller than I was. (we were both standing) You know- - Joel Olsteen said this morning "Don't talk ABOUT your problems; talk TO your problems- and tell them that you have a God who is more than able to conquer them. I would like to believe that. One thing better than BELIEVING something is to actually have it happen (Selah)
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