Valuable Clues from Dead People

It's only fitting that we honor our American heroes on this Memorial Day, even people like me, who really aren't into that sort of thing.  Yesterday at the Nixon library there was a forty year reunion of all of the Prisoners of War who came home from Viet Nam forty years ago.  They weren't expected to be hailed as heroes because of what they heard, or the Communists had told them.  But they were heroes, and President Nixon gave them all due honor and held a gigantic White House dinner for them.  But they had to erect a tent on the south lawn of the White House to contain them all.  There were guest stars like John Wayne, Phyllis Diller and Bob Hope to entertain.  They say that these POW's were "given the run of the white house" so they were free to wander around and drink martinis in the Lincoln Bedroom.  Of course Bob Dole is a hero and FOX news interviewed him this morning.  He's aged more than seventeen years since 1996.  Bob Dole thinks Nixon was one of our best presidents who had ideas and was intelligent.  Of course the POW's understandably regard Nixon as one of their favorite Presidents.  Bob Dole said that congress is broken, and quoted Howard Baker as once saying "Leading the Senate is like herding cats".  Dole said that Newt Gingrich "Was good at starting the Revolution but was utterly incapable of leading, once we'd won", and I thought I heard him say "I'm glad he wasn't our party nominee last year".  Even the FOX reporters seemed sympathetic to the idea that extremists have taken over in congress.  Much of the FOX news show was taken up with the notion that it's crazy for Eric Holder to "investigate himself" because of the extreme conflict of interest.  Personally I stand up for the rights of any News Reporter, even one from FOX, whose rights have been violated.    I think it was Dick Derbin who said that "This President has always had a major problem with comunacation", and even Bob Sheefer in his closing remarks these past two Sundays, has come down pretty hard on the Obama administration - - the way he has handled this whole treading on the rights of the Press bit.  And even FOX reporters seemed sympathetic to the idea that "The President's policy on Drones should be reviewed by Congress".  And Bob Dole stated that this President should have met with republican congressmen in 2009 and just to get to know them on a casual basis with no pressure. 

 

We have a valuable new piece of information on the whole Messiah myth contraversey that has plagued the world for the past two thousand years.  I bagged the following paragraph last night we’ll get to in a second.  As you know that Bones alias John the Baptist told me that he believed in a Messiah that had died, who represented the true strain of the priesthood and not the corrupted Herodian temple bit.  Perhaps I read more into Bones’ words than were there at the time, and he could have been referring to the following Messiah figure who is called “The Teacher of Rightiousness” mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrolls, of all places, but hasn’t been talked a bit.  One gets a strong sense of Déjà vu when reviewing this whole “plot line”.  I read up on the Pharicees and saducees- - and one might wonder why I would say that the Satucees are the forerunners more than any other group of the Christian Church (obviously along with Marcion)   Here’s a little secret.  People change.   Just ask Tammy Bruce, Dennis Miller, or Laura Schleshenger whether they have “changed” in a lot less time than the hundred years we are talking about from about AD 30 to AD 150 or 140.   Despite the reading material of last night saying the Nazorites were opposed to meat or meat sacrifices - - - in the face of this - - we know that the Junta that eventually became the “Church Universal” or “Catholic Church” - - - preferred this designation of “Catholic” or “Universal” over and above the name of “Christian” itself.  And we know in the Catholic Church the mass is a ritual “sacrifice” that perisheners believe is literally “cared out again” each time it’s performed.  This is the breaking of the body and consuming the blood and the body.  Here’s a question for you.  If we believers “consume” the blood and body of a Dead Christ- - then he can’t be resurrected because he’s inside our bodies, isn’t he?  Rather than minimize the idea of the blood sacrifice- - the Church Universal as we have come to know it- - has it as it’s Central feature- - over and above any notion of a resurrection or an afterlife.  This would fit in well with Saducee theology.  (Selah)

Michael O. Wise posits that the Teacher of Righteousness was the "first messiah", a figure predating Jesus by roughly 100 years.^[9] This figure - whom Wise believes was named Judah - rose to prominence during the reign of Alexander Jannaeus, and had been a priest, and confidant to the king. However, he became dissatisfied with the religious sects in Jerusalem, and in reaction, founded a "crisis cult". While amassing a following, the Teacher (and his followers) claimed he was the fulfillment of various Biblical prophecies, with an emphasis on those found in Isaiah. The Teacher was eventually killed by the religious leadership in Jerusalem, and his followers hailed him as messianic figure who had been exalted to the presence of God's throne. They then anticipated that the Teacher would return to judge the wicked and lead the righteous into a golden age, and that it would take place within the next forty years. Wise explains that dating of manuscript copies among the Dead Sea Scrolls shows that the Teacher's postmortem following drastically increased in size over several years, but that when the predicted time frame failed to live up to expectations, his following dissipated rapidly.

Joe has an ethics book which includes “Lavaiathin” by Hobbs.  He is one of these people who have the classic “liberal collectivist mindset”, a basic cynic like Dad who believes that most people are basically bad.  Everybody but him.  Dad is cynical about conservatives to an extent that struck me as completely unreasonable at the time.  He buys into the self loathing aspects of Christianity, at least for the 99% who aren’t pasturing a church themselves.  He was cynical about me and very pessimistic about his own drinking- - regarding it, so far as I could tell, as an issue not even worth talking about.  And he was cynical about relations between me and my two brothers ever getting better.   If you are going to get on the Roman Empire for the decadency it turned into, remember that the last century of its existence, it was ruled by Christian emperors.  And if you are going to say of this country now, “Things are morally worse than they have ever been” then look whose running the country.  The tea party House or Representatives has basically been running the government since January 2011.  (and it seems longer)  I think the Roman Emperors rather liked the hopeless state of dependency the Christian Church laid on all the people, psychologically.  It doesn’t seem like becoming “A Christian Nation” changed them much. 

I got some valuable missing pieces of the puzzle concerning stuff Pink alias Syd Barrett was telling me in his April 9th appearence.  But I didn't consider it appropriate to give you the unedited version till now.  The part in green is new.   I was on computer doing the morning blog.  I announced that “Pink” alias Syd Barret- - had paid me a visit this morning and clarified stuff he’d said on April ninth.  For one thing there was this propaganda trash thing aimed at the Romulans of which I was the goat - - of Mal Evans interviewing me in early July of 1963 and my making a complete ass of myself not knowing anything.  But that Mal Evans has fired this guy from his immediate associates because of this action and other tasteless things he’s done aimed at Romulans   I'll just say that this Sunday morning in 1990 it was obviously Memorial Day and before heading off to Church, I recorded a good chunk of the "Beatles at the BBC" special they had on the radio that early morning.  I had heard this exact "exclusive" almost exactly eight years previously in 1982.  In fact the original recording of Beatles at the BBC - - took place beginning with June of 1963 for their own BBC radio program called "Pop Go the Beatles".  They would go in the studio to record four or five songs around three o clock in the afternoon on a Tuesday, and then play back these songs they'd just recorded the following Saturday morning.  According to Pink - - prior to this- - John Lennon was unhappy with the way he sounded singing in a more exacting studio setting.  (A live audience would be less critical)  One misconception I had was that Stewart Sutcliffe and Brian Epstein were really tight as far as being best buds and all.  But this apparently far from being the case, and Stu had doubts whether Brian was really the person they needed since he didn't seem to be getting that much done for them so far.  In April of 1962 the Beatles were promoted to The Star Club in Hamburg, which was the fourth club there they'd played at, and each successive club was an upgrade.

They didn’t get rid of the White House swimming pool but just built a room over it and now it serves as a secret underground compartment and politicions write graffiti on the walls, in seeming near total darkness. (?)  I wonder how much hashish they could store down there?  There was a debate on the Mc Laughlin group about whether schools should be mandated to have storm cellars.  I thought they were required but State Law has no such requirement.  But strangely I do agree with Pat Buchannon that it’s the responsibility of the State and more immediate governments rather than the over-reaching hand of the Federal Government to do it.  In terms of the economy now Mort Zuckerman is “getting his hopes up” we’ll have another economic crisis because he says “Bernanke is afraid to keep the money spigot on because it will only spawn investment speculative bubbles like we had in 2007, which I’m sure would make his day.  But it’s not going to happen.  Mort of clawing with his finger nails barely holding on to a hope this economy will falter.  In terms of that IRS head lady who pled the fifth after making a speech she was innocent of all charges- - it’s her perfect right to do so.  That’s our American system.   I have a problem with the Marenda rights wording of “You have the right to remain silent- - if you choose to give up this right, anything you can - - “.    My problem with it is- - I do not see how “keeping silent’ is a condition to being able to invoke this right as people on the right are now insisting.  As I read my Constitution you can say anything anywhere you want about yourself.  All the constitution states is that if there is any question you don’t feel comfortable with- - you have the right not to answer.  If cops respected this- - suspects could tell them to go fuck off- - and not even be put in the position to having to lie to a cop.  My moral guideline about this is, “If asked a question that’s none of the other’s business, the person asking the question has absolutely no right to in any way expect a truthful, informative answer”.

It’s the triple conjunction hour of three planets according to astronomers.  In Google Earth I saw these three planets close together but the thing is- - all three planets appear incredibly tiny in reference to the many glairing stars peppered all around them.  The sun at the present time is between Aries and Taurus, if you’re wondering.  The time of day and shadows control works wonderfully in the demonstration they show- - but on 3 D stuff you see yourself, the control is a little bogus, not showing moving shadows at all.  Of course you haven’t been able to change the date or get “planets in motion” since about 2007.   A conjunction of Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus is astrologically auspicious- - so we’ll see if there any positive cosmic developments.

Well I looked at the new Flicker because Leo Le Port mentioned it was a lot better now.  I’m not convinced of that.  To me it was more confusing.  However - - they seem to have gotten rid of all their old stand-bys and have all new photographs.  But I just didn’t know which direction I wanted to head in.  So I didn’t download any.  Wheel of Fortune is on now.

 

Amaheim And Garden Grove Close Marijuana Dispensories

Due to a state Supreme Court ruling, medical marijuana facilities in the cities of Garden Grove and Anaheim have just closed down.  The axe fell in Garden Grove a couple of weeks ago and those customers were referred to an outlet in Anaheim – only to be denied there.  However I don’t think marijuana is a remedy for bi-polar syndrome, just as I don’t think it would be a very good remedy for, for instance, vertigo.  Ten of the eleven dispenseries in the City of Anaheim had to close down today or be subject to fines or worse.  One dispensery is still open in defiance of the order.  Personally I think the ruling sucks.  And Mike Bloomfield chimed in from the “other side’ to express his disapproval saying “Those Anaheim police are really getting out of hand, somebody ought to do something about that”.    To me marijuana is an organic herb and as such ought to be subject to similar (meaning no) regulations such as mint or camimile or dandelion.  I think the closer we can get back to Mother Nature, the better.

A major bridge just collapsed in Washington State near the Canadian border.  There is a mind boggeling number of bridges that are no longer structurally safe in the United States.  We have seen an increasing number of these bridge accidents, and we will see more.  But these Oklahoma senators like Coburn maintain that “Since we just had a major disaster, we know that no other disaster will happen for a long time”.   These two Oklahoma senators first tried to deny disaster relief to their state but when informed that F E M A found funding for them said, “you see we got all excited over nothing”.   But to anyone with sawdust in their head, it’s plain that disasters do occur.  That’s why you need basements in every school, and personally I thought that was mandated by law in Oklahoma and was surprised to learn it is not.  Clearly there many infrastructure jobs that need to be done- - and there are many people who need the jobs, so I don’t wee why we don’t exercise a little common sense and bring these two needs together.  But the President has been stonewalled by the tea party anytime he brings up a jobs program.

President Obama made a major speech yesterday on terrorism, and how he intends to refine and focus our anti terrorist policies.  We are going to tighten the conditions under which we use Drone attacks, and the government is now placing “collateral damage” in single digits only.  They’re kidding themselves!  But the facts were reviewed and it’s clear that President Obama has been a lot more proactive in going after Islamic terrorists than President Bush ever was, and Al Qaeda has been decimated.  But the Republicans can only respond that “Our foreign policy is headed for disaster and soon the whole Middle East will be exploding.  It’s almost as if here these Republicans are trying to “talk a disaster into existence”.  As I said on that other page I’m really getting a little weary of all this military stuff.  Maybe you had this much military hype in the media during World War II, I wasn’t around them, but we have kept up the media hype for twelve years now.  Not that I begrudge honoring our veterans- - but it’s like the old saying “When you’re a hammer you view everything as a nail” and get tunnel vision.

This next one is music to my ears.  Scientists have discovered a use for the tobacco plant that is actually good for you.  They have just perfected a flu vaccine from the tobacco plant because they now have discovered that the tobacco plant has substances in it that actually stimulate the immune response of the body, and it’s easier to make in mass than culturing eggs.  We were talking about “therapeutic” a minute ago.  Well, I’ve found when you’re sick as a dog, the one activity you can engage in to make you feel at least “better” approaching “doing what you normally do” is smoking, and that’s saying something those times when you can’t keep anything in your stomach - - and the sight of food just makes you cringe.

Also yesterday they said that cockroaches are evolving.  Al yes “Satanic doctrine in demonstration”.  How the fundamentalists must hate reading their newspaper.  You see cockroaches have “lost their sweet tooth” because so many roach poisons are sweet because roaches used to gravitate twords sweet things, like ants do.  But now they have “learned” through natural selection that if you’re “into certain types of food” the odds of your impending death increases amazingly.  Now they are saying that tanning lotions with a rating of 50, don’t live up to that lofty claim.  Back in my day if you had a sun tan lotion with a rating of fifteen you really had something.  That means if you spend seven & a half hours in full sun (and who, for Christ’s sake does that?) then you get a half hour’s worth of sun tanning.  Someone like me doesn’t even have to even think of the possibility of too much sun till over an hour has elapsed, but I realize some of these albino blue eyed types among us are different.   Shifting gears, it seems that planes are falling out of the sky now because are fleets are getting older.  Atlanta was subjected to a rain of air craft parts a couple of days ago, and some wing part came right through some lady’s roof pretty much wasting her house, but luckily she was uninjured.   Charles Ramsey gets all the hamburgers he can eat for life in the city of Cleveland.  He must love that.  Personally I think ordinary American citizens besides “Joe, the plumber” should be given honor due them.

We waded through all the “fluff” on today’s soap opera to get to the last five minutes, the only time when anything significant happened.  Johnny Di Mira- - showed his grandmother Marlena the little secret he’d been carrying around with him.  No doubt Marlena’s ears perked up when he said ‘It’s a photograph and I think it belongs to Christine because she’s in the photograph”.  Then the little boy at last revealed this photo of Rosetta Stone implications for Marlena and what this photograph is able to “arm her with” in going after Christine.  It’s Christine and that Mugger obviously chummy- - - the same mugger who almost beat to death her step son.  As the lyrics in “Dear Doctor!” go - - - “There will be no Wedding Today”.

Speaking of profound revelations, Pope Francis came up with a real Lulu today.  The pontiff stated that people needn’t be Catholics or even profess faith in Christ, in order to go to heaven.  In fact, they’re now letting Atheists into heaven according to this Pope.  I’m surprised God just didn’t strike the pontiff with a lightning bolt right there.  According to Pope Francis, all you need do is to “do good works all your life” because God doesn’t care that much about “Faith” these days but is a lot more interested in “whether you are basically a good person”.  That doctrine is just fine with me, but were I were in any position of power within the Church, I’d never have had the balls to say such a radical thing.  Of course there is only one lone story about someone in the Bible that goes to Hell.  And he got there NOT because he “failed to profess Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour” but instead- it’s because he was greedy with his property and his wealth.  Tea party members shouldn’t be able to sleep that well after reading this indicting passage in Luke (somewhere in the middle) just as in the story of Nabal, it’s taught that “being a citizen of a country” even a wealthy one, isn’t free.  You have to pay your dues, and if you don’t God will be very unhappy, and we don’t want God to be Unhappy.

Bill Gunderson ave me a big build-up this afternoon because of something Pete Richards has attributed to me - - riding in his car on the way home from the bank.  This Latino neighbor was told “Marcus is like a walking map.  He knows how to get literally anywhere and give directions.”   Well, I added “Well I USED to be that way”.  Not so much now.  But you know- - I actually dream in Directions, as well as the time of year.  I think in geometric terms more than your average bear.  I think I got into maps and such as a survival mechanism because when I was in second grade I rode on the bus for a long ways getting to this special school- - and I’ve always been one of those people who likes to be aware of where he is going- - and how to get back once I get there.  I told you once on an errant Green Harbor outing- - one day we took a little “detour” to Fountain Valley.  I was probably the only one in the van who knew just how far afield we were.  Cindy Little was the only one who backed me up- - joining me in the complaint that it was going to take forever before we ever got back home.

Existentialists have forever asked the question, “And just WHAT is Reality?”  Because no matter how hard you try you have to in the end define “reality” by some measurable or perception yardstick.  And there is more than one kind of yard stick.  For instance we have said that Time itself is “sequestered” in Black Holes.  What this means - - is that there just is No Way we can even “say what is happening” either Time or Space wise, because we have no common point of reference.  We could say in general massive or big objects- - -  are by necessity - - in a slower time frame by Newtonian physics, and also the physics of sound and musical tones.  So if your wiener dog really perceiving “Time’ differently from you?  But you say “Well if he is, it’s just subjective and dogs do a lot of things quicker than humans”.    That is they eat, age, have sex, relieve themselves, and get up and lie down - - more quickly than do their human counterparts.   Now the religious community would have you believe that- - once you’re dead that time or if you will “karmic progression” stops, and freezes presumably at the moment you die.  But is there a form of existence where Time is not even necessary at all?  I can’t conceive of one, and neither could the author of the Book of Revelations.  But evangelists are insistant that such a “Timeless” state awaits us.   We have given you shadows or “images” to use the Dr. Levy term, for- - - what existence Could be like when you’re Dead, or “absent a biological life form”.  We have spoken of “Space” as not measured by feet and inches but rather of “Options” and “opportunities to change” or one might say maneuver.   Substance in that life is not made of the 103 elements known to scientists- - but rather- - may well be Generated by our own Mind.   Indeed when we speak of “karmic jousting” in the afterlife- - the tools we HAVE to fight that battle may be ones we ourselves Generate with our minds.  And as to Time- - if you don’t like “instant messaging’ down here- - everything is instant and telepathic up there.  In other words there is an Immediacy to literally Everything- - and the concept of “waiting around” may not exist.   So if we don’t experience Time- - as we do down here of “waiting” as we do down here- - then - - - there is something Else- - some “State of Being” that doesn’t exist here.   As we have intoned - - -  people can get used to anything - - even things happening backwards, or perhaps happening forwards, backwards, sideways- - and whatever else- - - All At Once.  (Selah)