The Morning Dredgings

Well it's morning someplace right now, for instance in Saigon. I've been thinking August 24th. was the anniversary or something and after letting my brain percolate a while I came up with it; this is St. Barthalamew's Day. This day under the Julian callendar was the day that Protestant Huganauts were masacred in France for protesting something. These people were Calvinists, and as such I don't have a lot of sympathy for them considering their leader was famous for burning people at the stake. It's getting near the end of the summer and school starts up many places next week. I suppose the Little League finals are this weekend. They usually are.

Well just a day or two ago they were saying they were going to add three planets past Pluto to make twelve planets. I’ve been hearing that number for several months now. After all there are twelve apostles and twelve men in a jury. But now they’ve flipped all the way to the opposite extreme and are stripping Pluto of the planet-hood it has enjoyed since 1930. School kids are disappointed. The Disney community is aghast. To me the move makes absolutely no sense. I suppose next they'll be talking about the Nine Commandments. After all, Christians routinely violate the third one about taking the Lord's name in vain. They are always attributing things to God that God had nothing to do with. Of course why don't we go back to 48 states. I think we should exclude Texas and Utah. They're troublesome anyhow. We could talk about the eight supreme court justices. Many people can't stomach Allito. And in one of our church creeds it talks about Jesus appearing first to Peter, then the eleven, and then many faithful witnesses. Oh? You say it's twelve? Not after Walter Martin gets through at C R I dealing with the N I V people. Eight planets is one saucer short of a place settings. They say that the planet Pluto interferes with Neptune’s orbit and isn’t round enough to be a planet.

They have opened an earthen dam that’s been in place since 1899 and let the ocean tides flow into the Bolsa Chica wetlands. In the summer of 1972 I envisioned building a Flintstones themed amusement park in the area and had the plans for rides and attractions all drawn out. Apparently rich, elite duck hunters a hundred years ago closed it off from the sea. It’s a happy day for environmentalists.

Now Air Martials don’t have to be so obvious about who they are by the way they dress or when they board or the hotels they stay at. They can be completely undercover. It would seem to me being obvious about who they are might be a good thing and have a deterrent effect on crime. Now if they run into a pickpocket or something the guy could end up getting wasted along with whoever else is in the path of bouncing bullets.

They have officially approved Plan B, the abortion morning after pill. The pill must be taken within 72 hours of having had sex. It prevents embryo implantation. I have mixed emotions about it. It might cut down on pregnancy, but the ruling wisely is only for people eighteen and over. I’ve heard you still have to go to the pharmacist’s counter to buy it; you just can’t throw it in the basket with the mouthwash. This is a major cultural laxing of standards, and sends a clear warning signal to the conservatives. But my hope is that it might cut down on the number of therapeutic abortions.

Randy Rhodes was saying CBS intends to inject race relations into Survivor. The only thing I watch CBS for is Sixty Minutes. In my book they're the least watched network. Now they're going to pit the Blacks against the Whites and the Mexicans against the Asians. I was thinking the only way this story would work is if some renegades from Bin Laden's group got chassed out of Pakistan and landed on whatever Island they are on and all four races decided it was best to get over their differences and combine to expell a comon enemy. Of course now you have that "Macacca" comment. This word is supposedly French and Spanish for Monkey. As Randy points out it's kind of scarey to listen to a racist like Rush Limbaugh try and joke about his own racism. Even Hitler had better sense than to do that. He's resurrecting Archie Bunker from the grave talking about how Mexicans can cross deserts without water and how Blacks have their ansestoral attatchment to the land, but the Asians are smarter. Randy suggested perhaps they should have other combinations such as Indian Hindus and Janes facing off against radical Islamists. Or how about Orthadox Jews facing off against fundamentalist Christians? This one got me to thinking. Perhaps they could do a movie where radical right wing Jews team up with Fundamentalist Christians such as Chuck Smith who want to bring about the Apocralipse now. (I think it's been done) The Jews and Christians would be working together and take over the country only to then be fighting among themselves. At first they would be minor tiffs about calling the other "Christ killers" or "goyem". But then the Christians would say they had to have a Fake Messiah to help "bring about the end" and "give the people an object for their faith" and the Orthodox Jews would say the Bible predicts a real one. I haven't exactly figured out how the movie would end yet. Perhaps they could film multiple endings and let us vote.

Samantha Brady should have her own movie now. Oh that's right. We are being "Correct" now. Since there are only eight planets, now it's Rebecca George, and Nicole Cruise, and Patty Reagan. So we'll do a movie about Samantha Evans from Days of our Lives. I think they should reveale to the audience that Victor Kiriacus is the one behind all her torments, and that E J Wells, her "friend and confidant" is actually working for Victor to sabotage her wedding. After all now that Chelsea Brady is blown out of the water and Mimi Lockhart is being blown out of the water, Sammy is the only one left. I think they could do a two hour movie on various torments that Victor and E J put Samantha through on her wedding day, which gets postponed several times. I haven't exactly figured out how this one will end either.

They say that the President is up in the polls. (The fire dept. can get him down) I think the Republicans have such a resavuar of bad karma stored up that nothing that could happen between now and November can change the inevitable. You know what they say. The meal of the gods is ground slowly, but exceedingly fine. If there is a Devil you can count on the fact that those not on his side will live to regret it, unless he has mercy on them after Judgement Day comes. And Judgement Day is coming for the political and religious Right for all the seeds of discord they have sown. There will come a day when their beliefs will be seen by mankind as being so silly, "It's hard to believe that just fifty years ago people held to such nonesence". There is a new day coming and "you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone" By the way, Black people can't swim. I new a guy who said so and the reason is that Black people are leaner than Whitey. The saying is true, "fat floats". When I was eight and learning to swim you'd see these boosemy ladies treading water with ease. Some people will ride the wave of the future. But if you don't paddle hard enough or if your timing is wrong you'll get wiped out.

Nothing to Offer but Fear Itself

The Bush administration has nothing to offer but fear itself. This administration was headed nowhere till 9 – 11 gave them a “Reson Det” or whatever, reason for being. It’s their one winning issue. If a congressional bill is coming up soon, just have an anthrax scare on a key congressman. Bin Laden saved the election for George Bush in that critically timed Video tape just days before the 2004 election. Now in this latest case we have a manic-depressive “with a Vodka buzz” and a screw driver that wasn’t there and letters to Bin Laden that didn’t exist and some alleged Vaseline. We’re heard further gloomy news saying that only five or six senate races this year are “competitive” and so that the Democrats will have to “run the table” in order to control the senate, and even taking back the House won’t be that eaxy, these “experts” say. I disagree with them. I think there is a groundswell that these petty statistics can’t stop. That said I have no doubt some other “terrorist event” is going to be trumped up in the coming weeks to try and keep the Bush majority intact. He knows the minute he loses the majority in even one house they’re going to be facing investigations of all sorts of topics that have up to now been shoved under the rug, and among these are possible Impeachment.

August 18^th. is the 44^th. anniversary of Ringo joining the Beatles playing for the first time at the Cavern club on Saturday August 18^th. 1962. The crowd was apparently shouting “Pete Forever – Ringo Never” but Ringo won them over. The song they were playing on the British news film was “Some Other Guy”.

Mafia guys learn to live with threats on their lives all the time. My philosophy is if you’re going to live with a threat you might as well be morally on the side of good because if you’re not you may lose your life AND your karma. I believe this is what is meant by “Eternal Life”. Not that life lasts in eternity but that you are making a positive stand for eternity in eternity. I’d hate to think this coming election is going to be decided on who can play The Fear Game the best. The thing is anytime a Democrat talks about National Security he can easily be accused of playing the “Me, to” game. Somebody somewhere is going to have to take on this whole notion of living in constant fear, and if we have 135,000 troops in Iraq that will somehow make us Safer. If Isrial could remove a terror threat by being allowed to fight Hez Ballah two more weeks I’d be the first to say, “Go for it”. I don’t think that’s possible. Somewhere along the line someone is going to have to point out that the effect of Bush’s foreign policy has been to make Iraq and the Mideast a more dangerous place. Democrats need to drive this point home hard. I suppose many would say “Why don’t all these terrorists just give up”. Well, they are more used to living with fear than we are. This is a reality we Westerners just can’t deny. We value human life more than they do. As such they are always going to have the edge on a conflict. Mideasterners live their whole lives in a state of unsettledness we Westerners have trouble imagining. They, in short, are willing to risk a lot more for their god than we are for ours. And that’s the long and short of it.

This whole Jean Benet Ramsey case is beginning to smell like phoney bologna. This John Mark Car fellow was arrested in Thailand and was into child porn. We know he followed the Ramsey case, but I believe that’s as far as it went. He confessed just for the publicity. He is refusing to answer hard question. The fact that he knows a few facts most people don’t is probably because he has studied the case obsessively. His wife says he was with her that Christmas when the murders are supposed to have been committed. Ramsey’s father says he’s never met the man, and there is no record of John Car ever being in Boulder. Besides that he says he drugged the girl and no drugs were found in Jean Benet’s system. The murder couldn’t be accidental because of the very violent way in which she was murdered with bludgeoning and a rope and all. I still suspect one or both of the parents myself. This case still isn’t solved.

Well now it’s official. George Bush has official heard from a National Court on this whole wire tapping thing. They have said it is unquestionably illegal and violates both the fourth and the first amendments. But that isn’t stopping them. They are apparently going to defy the ruling and have spokesmen out defending their position.

There are children who are like LSD aware all the time. Many people hear music as colors or smell sounds. Now there are people with a specific medical disorder who see specific numbers and letters as certain colors all the time such that they can detect a shape made by these numbers in a cluster of other numbers and can pick them out far faster than most “normal” people. It’s like they have some kind of mental DSL.

This whole airport scanning thing is really violating people’s rights. Now they are going to scan everyone for explosives on a machine that can see right through your clothing. It doesn’t make a difference if you’re a man or a woman and they plan to even expose your kids to it. This is a violation of privacy the courts must deal with.

Well, you saw this next one coming. They are finally thankfully going to crack down on these corporate pension funds that are underfunded. They are going to pass a law setting regulations. Conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh and Larry Elder have whined about how a major expense of corporations now is in funding pension funds and wouldn’t it just be nice if we could eliminate they. The working man and woman has been screwed over for the last time. It will still be legal to yank a pension fund that’s been paid into but just perhaps now the excuse of financing won’t be used as much.

They say the grain of the Gods is ground slowly but exceedingly fine. It is also said that the dice of the Gods are loaded. It is also said that it is pleasing to the Gods to see a man honored by his enemies. How much of these three things is governed by karma? It is said "Life isn't fair- - - but God is". I guess what we're all wondering if there is some gigantic cosmic "Evening of the score" somewhere down the line. What we do seem to know is that Evil people seem to live in fear a lot more than good people do. It is also said that courage is the one trait that Satan can't synthisize, but wishes he could. Fred Price has announced that one day he decided not to live in fear of planes crashing because he knew God would protect him. But by way of warming Fred says one should never give admittance to the devil even in your speech. Pete Richards one day a few days before Halloween 1975 in saying a prayer thanking God for everything he had, but adding "Lord, if you want to take this all away from me if it gives you glory than so be it". A few days later his wife left him. It would seem that you can "give admittance to evil" even by your speech. Sometimes I hesitate to pray things I'm even worried about because I have seem all too often Satan overhears those prayers and intercepts them and uses them to his ends. I don't think it's healthy to live in fear. Some people live in fear of being mugged. If you're afraid of something like flying I guess the best way to rid yourself of that fear is to actually fly on an airplane and prove to yourself it's no big deal. Many people live in fear of cancer and disease. Dennis Prager said once that only one third of the people who smoke cigarettes are adversely affected in their health by cigarettes. That means two thirds aren't. If so this is "The Big Truth" that is being covered up by anti smokers. Smoking is forbidden so many places now because people have this unreasoned fear of 2nd. hand smoke affecting their children playing in a park, for instance. There is something to be said for living in the moment. Now the new therapy for prostate cancer is to watch and perhaps do nothing. The cancer in that area is so slow growing you'll die of something else before the cencer gets to you. If I were a woman and had a lump in my breast and the choice were to do nothing or have a breast removed and then undergo months of chemotherapy and have all my hair fall out- - I think I just might opt to do nothing. Linda Mc Cartney went through the whole surgery rout and she still ended up dead. I know that were I to have prostate cancer I'd face the high probability of lifeling impotence and perhaps incontenance. That doesn't appeal to me. People who invest in burgelar alarms and locks and cameras and such to me are living in fear. I suppose I am biased because I have never been robbed - not in the way they're talking about. Fear seems to have an addictive quality. The more you do to guard yourself against fear the more you still desire to do because the steps you've taken never seem to be enough. In the Bible sex is spoken of the way most people think about war, at least as interperated by Christians. Most people see War as something to be avoided unless it is absolutely necessary, and if you have a chance to avoid war you are sinning if you don't take that opening for peace. Christians would have you believe if you have sex once you'll die of AIDS. You could die from not having sex. Because you might end up never getting married- - and single people die at an earlier age than married people. Fear of eternal damnation in Hell is of course a major driving factor in people deciding to become Born Again Christians. You don't know what is on the other side of the Veil of Death. It is accordingly true that there is no way to insure against it, whatever it is. The way to have the "Abundant life" spoken of in the Bible is not to live with fears of things and situations that will probably never happen. What we do know is that life and "Now" is happening all the time, all around us. And I think it's best to focus on things you have control of here and now.

Chess Playing Computers

It seems that throughout the ages, ie. decades, the hallmark of a good computer is whether or not it plays chess. Spock was able to deduce that a Startrek guidance computer had a bad program because Spock was able to beat it at chess three times. They say that a good computer can beat almost any man at chess most of the time. You know, back in the fall of 1968 when I was taking a computer class there was talk about computer programs that did things like schedule the most efficient delivery routs or compute bus pickup schedules for school kids. To my way of thinking it would be a lot simpler to rely upon some colored string, some thumb tacks and a map. I mean- - really! In the time it would take to program the computer you could have the task done several times over. Of course I don't like "Intelligent software". I don't want software doing my thinking for me or second guessing me. I like nice dumb software. There's a three D program I have now and the thing I don't like about it is that it's a crap shoot what the image is going to look like depending on what mood the software is in today. When computers start having "personalities" that's when I want out. In Star Trek there is a lot of talk about "sensient" intelligence among electronic life forms, and are they all going to one day declare war against carbon based life forms? "H A L" in the 2001 movie was so "perfect" he had a personality we all know and fear. The movies "Collosus" and "War Games" both talked about computers that control a nation's defence. Since when do computers become so self aware that they suspect humans of plotting behind its back to pull the plug and zap them before they can?

I like nice dumb software. Results should depend upon what the user does rather than what the software presupposes. Dr. Phill has often talked about "predictability" when it comes to parents punishing their kids. I guess that takes the fear out of it. Some people get off on fear. Some people like the idea of a capritiolus parent that can, on a whim, dispense mercy. The kids do a crap shoot and sometimes one of them gets lucky and they feel impelled to try again. Some say, "Should kid's destiny be in their hands?" Oddly when it comes to kid's punishment their destiny should be in their hands. They should have the option to behave or be punished. Kings of old I suspect didn't dispense "mercy" merely as an act of kindness. They did it merely to show that they had the Power to do so. If some rat gets a royal break it kind of intimidates everyone else. I guess I'm wondering whether computer systems perhaps controling prisons will develop a "personality" and start arbitrarily favoring some prisoners over others.

When it comes to the most two Evil people I have ever been in the presence of - - two people come to mind. One of them I met on a bus. He looked and talked just like Charles Manson. He acted as if he knew things about me he couldn't have. Parenthetically the reason why people distrust computers so much is that they know so much about you. Anyhow- - prior to this I had regarded Charles Manson as a rather amusing joke of a figure in the psychedelic world. Kind of a naustalgia link to the past. After this I regarded Manson in a whole other light. I saw him for the evil, depraved terror he must have been. The other evil person is the Asshole from El Paso, as we have nicknamed him. What he would do is insult you nine ways to Sunday and do things to taunt you and when you would start to get mad He would go into this "Hal" esque monotone. He'd kind of be saying "I'm in controle of the situation, and you're not". Whoever said a soft answer turneth away wrath was full of it. It only makes me madder. It kind of sends the message "I get my rocks off getting you mad, but I'm so above your situation I'm not ruffeled by your problem". This is what H A L, the computer on 2001 did. He would go into this monotone. He'd say things softly like "I can't do that", but there would be a stick behind it.

Some of you are wondering, "Who are the Centaurians"? One of the most Evil entities that Captain Piccard ever encountered in Startrek was in that "Skin of Evil" episode. This evil, black blob would go around taunting people with insults and threatening them and killing one of them. The only time he gets upset at a death is when they die too quickly and painlessly to give him the right amount of expected pleasure. Jesus on K F I has stated about Terry Shibo "Why can't she just be allowed to- - Be". You can pretty much take out "Be" and put in Suffer. Jesus represents a world where the only person who has rights and can't be interfered with is Satan, who by the way doesn't exist. (Self contradiction is a hallmark of these people) On Planet of the Apes there is a line spoken to Heston, "You may well regard this as an upside down world since you occupy its lowest rung". I look at these people, these Christians- - and I see something in comon with Planet of the Apes. The problem isn't that they aren't living up to their potential; the problem is that they are. Apes with their pea brain intelligence have to exercise every bit of dominence they can once, and if they ever get power. I guess the saying "If you had a brain you'd be dangerous" can apply to Christians. If they ever had power they'd be dangerous. Christians aren't above using computers to help them. Not by a long shot. That's just decades old P R. But I look at Christians and ask myself, "Where's the role model"? Which of any of these Christians I see, I ask myself honistly, would I ever want to emulate or model myself after? None of them? So many of them disgust me.

Who are the Centaurians and what do they want. Well you can pretty much guess a lot of it by what they say about their enemies- - OTHER spiritual entities that want to posess human bodies. There was a startrek episode where Liutennant Troy was their captain- - that is- the captain and three other convicts occupied peoples' bodies on an episode and they took over the Star Ship and wanted to head to the "south polar region" to free a bunch of convicts. What we know is that Demonic entities, or at least the maladjusted ones, want to live in our bodies. They have the fifth dimension to choose from. You've heard of one thousand sattalite channels- - well they have thousands of Universes to choose from- - many of them just like ours except we don't define them as "Real". They see a thousand different futures out there and can "pick" the future, ie. Universe they want. It's kind of like that software where sometimes you can get the program to do what you want if you re-allocate the dimensions. So Centaurians know the future of any human entity before they enter it. Sometimes they enter a mental patient, making a miscalculation. These Christian mental patients get disowned by the others because they aren't a success. Chuck Smith has defined the flesh is "Whatever ends in lack of success is a work of the flesh". Accordingly he also says "You can tell if it's a work of God because it will end up in success". You've heard of selling your soul to the devil for success. Well, here is the modas opperandi. These people WANT our petty four-dimensional lives! Of course, as we said in the next blog "Finding God" is connected with this success- - but SEEKING GOD does not CAUSE this success. You can seek God till the cows come home and have nothing. And here is the kicker. Chuck talks about "Living on the animal plane" if you're not saved, and only Christians can live on the "Higher plane" God intended. This statement is so false it's pathetic. Also, Jesus just outright lied when he told the parable about the woman and the judge and now prayer without ceasing finally brings results. No it doesn't. Jesus on KFI said this suffering we have now is so we'll appreciate how much better things are when Jesus comes back. As John Lennon said long ago "There ain't no Jesus gona come from the sky". This whole second coming thing is just a come-on for new recruits and outsiders. But far from being a higher dimension- -it is likely they now live in a LOWER dimension than they did. In terms of lusts of the flesh- -these people love the flesh and the pleasures of the flesh. That's why they're here. I've heard that Chuck Gerrard and the Love Song band had all sorts of sexual affairs with young women. The only people who are NOT repelled by their "virginity forever" teaching they all seem to have is people who are complete hypocrites to begin with. They have told me "Don't go with something good when you find it. Wait. God may have something better. God to these people, the way they present in, reminds me of another Star Trek episode where Mr. Data was forever in a "diagnostic mode" and couldn't answer any challenging questions or make needed decisions. God in terms of guiding my life seems permanently confused. There was once a Beverly Hillbillies episode where Jethro was asked by Jed to solve a problem and Jethro gets this glazed over look on his face and says "I got my powerful brain and six years ejecution working on it" and uncle Jed goes, "Yeah, well- - in the mean time- - - ". Of course I know these Christians are just bull-shitting me to death. Like saying "You don't want a wife or girlfriend because what if God asks you to go to India to be a missionary and you have a wife, it would be harder for you to pick up and go". Someone should ask them "Do you REALLY think God is going to call me to India or are you just Bullshitting me. Don't fear these people. They're jokers and losers.

In the old days when you referred to a "Computer" you spoke of human beings who spent their days calculating math tables. I guess today's computers don't just want to be "Work horses". We use them to have an Orwellian presence heating and lighting our homes. Luke Skywalker turned off his computer right before the key battle in the movie to blow up the death star. I guess many see God as "The force". I wish we had a "force" like that somewhere. My advice is to become a scientologist. That's the best way to improve yourself. Either that or T M.

You Can't Get There From Here

Certain things in this life are just impossible. Intrinsically impossible. Going back into the past to relive anything is intrinsically impossible. It will never happen. We've been hearing a lot about the past lately. How would you like to go back to August 12th. 1981. Well, you could look at that Persius metior shower, but you can do that every year. You can have one of the first P C's ever made, but who would want one? Back in August 1981 Ronald Reagan was an untried comodity and he didn't yet have that aire of invincability he later got when the economy turned around. Back then the Moral Majority was only three years ago. Pioneers like Howard Jarvis and his tax revolt of 1978, and Anita Bryant, and Jerry Folwell were the ones who got it going. It's hard to imagine an era when there were no cell phones as we know them now. There were no CD's, everything was on vynal LP's, and there was no AIDS. This is also the 25th. anniversary of discovery of the AIDS virus. But going back to the past is intrinsically impossible. Everything we know about the past are from things written down or recorded on tape or film or in our memories. But just think. To have a memory of a past event out brain cells had to make a permanent record of the event which changed the chemistry of our cells. If the present physical nature of our brain cells wasn't altered, we would have no memory. You can't go back to the past as the four dimensional reality we all live in. Five dimensional reality, yes, but not four. It's just a cosmic mystery whey were "trapped" in this moving fourth dimensional plane. Scientists tell us time is real, but we're trapped in one moment of it.

You may have played with those digit puzzles as a kid where you slide the checkered red and white numbers around to either make a checker pattern or to get all the numbers go in consecutive order. But occasionally there are puzzles that have been Altared- - and someone has fixed the numbers so that doing things which were formerly easy are now impossible. I didn't believe that till it happened to me.

Of course most people saybeing gay is a life sentense. Homosexuals can't help the fact that they are attracted to their own sex. Some say it's the way their brains are constructed. I guess it's sort of like being left-handed. Certain people are just wired a certain way. I've heard that just about any effort to turn a gay into a straight person is doomed to failure.

There should be a philosophy of "What is real". Certain things like religion appear to be Rational or at least hypothetical- - but it doesn't match the real world. If you asked a person which set of numbers was real- - Rational or Irrational, most people would give you the wrong answer. Rational numbers are abstractions. They don't exist in the physical world. They exist in some metaphysical world but not the real one. That's because you can never get exactly one half or one third or three fifths of anything. Error always creeps in. It's irrational numbers that are real. They can also be called Analog numbers. That's easier to remember.

There are things called imaginary numbers. They aren't real either. Square roots of negative numbers are imaginary numbers. They don't exist. Any number you can dream of without some componet in the real world lacks "reality" as one of it's properties.

I've seen drawn mazes where there is no way to get through. On a Star Trek show when they had that teenage Borg called "Hew" on, they were going to place in his brain for the hive to solve some hypothetical geometric figure who's mystery was inherently unsolvable. Each proposed solution would have certain anomolies, which in tern would spawn other anomallies. This enigma would be taken back to the hive, which would exhaust themselves trying to solve it. Some aspects of religion are like this. Obcession is said to be striving for something you can't have. At one time before 1984 the "strings" theory of subatomic matter was considered a non working theory because all of the formulas had "anomallies" and no scientist would take these people seriously till these animalies were worked out.

Recently I tried to register with Napster. The trouble is they said I was already registered and would every time reject my application. I could try to sign in as a member. Once I tried this and forgot my password and so asked Napster for it, and they sent it to me. The only thing is once I used it, once again they said I wasn't registered. I was clearly in a place, "You can't get there from here. Clearly this problem is most manifest in solitaire card players. The whole problem of the game is when you fail it's a case of "You can't get there from here". Perhaps this is why certain people can't find mates. All the mates are under the wrong pile.

Some may question whether any man can reach God or not. Jesus answers that question. He said, "With man this is impossible". Jesus also said "No one comes to God unless the spirit draws him" and again "The s;irit places in our hearts to will and to do". John Calvin said man is totally depraved and there is nothing man can do to save himself. Calvin also taught, "Any man who is Destined to be saved, Will be saved". This is the doctrine of irrestable grace. Some may think it's a matter of "Trying just a little harder". Perhaps if I'd tried a little harder with that pastor who was such an asshole I would have succeeded and made my point and resolved the problem between us". People think in terms of "woulda, coulda, shoulda" but the reality was that with each conversation I was only making things worse. I have a thirty year track record as a Christian and all the heathen know I'm a Christian by what I say and how I act and express myself due to teaching. It's only the Christians who doubt my spirituality. One time on October 2nd. 1987 I prayed to resolve certain tensions in my domestic living situation and I said "Do anything- no matter what it takes". The answer to that prayer was a bigger disaster than I'd ever imagined and things were much worse, if clearer, than they were before. The thing is I can decide what I will do but I can't make others, and that includes God love me. If a twenty five year track record (we're going from March 1976 to June 2001) is not enough for God to prove my worthiness I don't know what is. Christians seem not to care whether they have any of the spiritual gifts of God. Let's assume Christianity is really demonic. It would be they don't have any of the Spiritual gifts listed in the Bible (none of them seem to) because mericles are the one thing Satan can't synthisize. A good spiritual advisor might say to an individual, "Who you need to consult is someone with over twenty years experiance with God, and someone with a good prophetic track record, and someone who has proved themself relyable and who isn't going to be a flake". If it were me seeking someone I'd seek myself, for I am the best qualified. My prophetic record is better than any of theirs. I think I could show them evidence over thirty years of this but it wouldn't matter. Their retort is, "Sometimes Satan can duplicate the gifts of God". I take issue with that last remark. They themselves while denying there is an office of prophet (Walter Martin) will nevertheless talk about "Prophesying in faith". "Faith" in this case meaning bullshit. If "they" prophesy wrongly, that's OK. If you have a long track record of being right, that means nothing to them. Trying to "get God to accept you" or get other Christians to accept you is also a vain pursuit. If you venture to say, "I have done thus and so for God" they will say "Humans can do nothing without God's help" and "God does not honor works of the flesh". If Queen Elizabeth was really a life-long virgin, as is said, God wouldn't honor that either. If I say "I haven't had sexual intercourse with a woman in ten years", God is not in the least bit impressed. Jesus on KFI says you can be saved by "Going to church" on Sunday. People say "Giving up a besetting sin of the flesh brings you closser to God", but when I conquered alcohol I saw clearly how pointless God and prayer and Christianity were. I think a lot of you out there are smarter than me. It doesn't take you twenty-five years to discover that Christianity is useless.

There are other machenations of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes in deciding "Where you can go from here- - and where you can't, you have to go back to older discarded theories". It is said you can know that you know something. Or you can know that you Don't know something. It's also possible to not Know that you Don't know something. A lot of Christians are like this as is the attage "Living is easy with eyes closed - - misunderstanding all you see". On the Jesus show, if you identify a fellow caller, you're a bad person, because the human race is bad and if you're identifying with their problems you must be "one of them", ie. bad, or damned from the foundation of the earth. If you question the "personal bias" of any Gospell writer- - you are condemned because they are "annointed of God". But if you yourself ever question the machinations and motives of other Christians, you are told "Oh you're doing this out of corrupt motives". Keep in mind Bible teaching isn't to learn. Not for a pod-Christian, because they're born perfect. Most people faze into a hypnotic state during Bible lessons and when you want to talk to them about it later, they couldn't care less. It's also possible to Know, and yet not Know that you know it. Now we're talking about my discarded theory of the Pod people. I in the past have felt Christians were space alien brain implants. We call them Centaurians, which is a half man half horse creature. There is a saying "Christianity is caught - not taught". It is also true that "Christians are born not made". Sleeping night after night in a garage won't turn you into a car, even if you smell like one. Being born again changes you into another species. We have spoken about the lizzard hatching from the egg and knowing immediately to swim tword the water before he can be eaten. This lizzard is without guidance of mother or father. The Bible says in John "You have no need that any man teach you". Bible teaching and sermons are not to teach the Christian. If anything it's to scare off outsiders. Because another addage of ours "Christians don't grow". This is a misnomer. If I can think like the Holy Spirit for a moment they're looking for "new blood" sort of like a vampire. Trying to "target" a new recruit can be tricky. It's like a gay looking for an impressionable teenager. They say teenagers do crazy things like join the Army or accept Christ because the reasoning portion of their brains isn't fully developed yet. Time can be of the essence. They're always saying "NOW - do it now. This appeal to precipitus action is no accident. This would be a pedophile's dream if children didn't grow- - and grow out of things- - like religion or pedophelia, but they do. I once knew a guy we'll call Jim Klein, who was a friend of Pete Richards. On Thanksgiving weekend of 1970 I was out with Jim and Pete at a bowling alley and we had a nice time. The first week in January 1971 I ran into Jim Klein again. Now he had become a Born Again Christian and the difference in his personality was night and day. He had become one of the Pod People, making all of these ponthical remarks about the John Lennon album, with the abrasiveness of a fifty year old man. Of course you can tell when a Christian is lying. When you see their lips move. They will tell you when you aren't like all the other pod people, "Well it isn't based on feeling". It sure the hell is. It's based on other things too but if you're at one of these marithon ponthical prayer gatherings and you know the Holy Spirit is creaping in- - - you feel trapped. Prayer isn't to get prayers answered but to put on a good show. And you know how people with the Holy Spirit become egomaniacs and float five feet off the air. When you become a born again reptile- - excuse me- - Christians some key events occur. And a non elect "Can't get there from here". It's not just how you feel but "things" start occuring around you. You start getting those "Important breaks" like in Rosemary's baby". Pete Richards got into a much better Christian band. One that wasn't strung out on dope and had a real Future. People looked to Pete as some religious authority. I saw all of these "Things" occur. It's a sin to covet things others have. I know that. But that's what Evangelists do all the time. They say "Look how God has blessed me" and start ratteling off blessings". A Jesus Freak's prayer should be, if they're honist- - be "I thank God I'm not like Marcus Arelius". Of course Christians can get downright Hindu on you saying "Well- - you are on a different' path from God than your neighbor". Yeah- - it's a No Blessings path. But as ive said before if you're a Pod person, the Blessings are an intrinsiac part of the package along with the altared feelings about reality. Another say in which Christians lie is saying "Well, if God blessed you with anything he knows your heart and knows you would only squander his blessings on glory for yourself". They're talking about themselves. This whole thing about some people, even mass murderers, get the Glory and get it right away while others are treated like Crap- - and I could point to many examples of myself and others- - - this doesn't bother any of them. When did one of them ever offer me a Job and there have been so many times when I needed one. I've been tempted to say "As you people did it unto me- - Jesus did it unto me". Throughout all this- - as K F I's Jesus illustrates- - you can't ever say "Satan is giving you problems" because we all know Satan does not exist. When Jesus had quoted "Deliver us from the Evil one", Jesus couldn't face that translation. He felt very unconfortable with it. Here's something else p;eople feel unconfortable with. "The work of the so called Holy Spirit is really the work of Demonic activity". (Selah) It scares them because they sense it's true. What they attribute to the Enemy, they are guilty of themselves.

Kill! - Kill! - Kill!

Later in this file is an expended version of our last CD compilation
With somgs formerly considered too good to put in a collection

By now you all know about the latest Al Quaida plot that has been uncovered, and just in time. Nine flights from Heathrow Airport to the United States were planned to be simotaniously exploded using liquid explosives. Twenty one people were arrested. Some theorize these events may be timed to coincide with yet other events at the same time. Foreign flights in this country have been raised to Red alert and domestic flights have been raised to Orange alert. No liquids are allowed to be taken on board and that includes soda pop, mouth wash, hand lotion. eye drops, or even chapstick. The only exceptions are baby formula and vital medicine, where your name is specifically on the prescription. I imagine you can call it the grace of God that this plot was found out before it happened. It's obvious that the new found vigilance in this country and in England has paid off with the saving of lives in advance. It also goes to show Al Quaida isn't dead. The danger is even if Bin Laden is captured, that may not stop the terror plots.

Well, Arlo Guthrie suspected it long ago and now it’s true. Or let me put it this way: there has been an “improvement” or “enhancement” if you will in Army basic training. Well, in Bungalow Bill fashion, those young recruits who sign up and are driven to the army base by their mothers, in twelve short weeks are turned into something their parents wouldn’t recognize. They are now efficient killing machines, ready to be their own Rambo. In the old days when basic training was cut to eight weeks, for efficiency’s sake, during the Vietnam War, about all they needed to know how to do is write their name, state their name, rank and serial number during a tear gas attack, and how where the trigger is located on their rifel. But we know what happened to that generation. They became wasted on drugs during the Viet Nam War. No more. Now they have discovered that a soldier facing his first combat after being in the War fails to fire his rifel seventy-five percent of the time. This will not do. So now they not only indoctrinate them by having them shout “Kill, kill, kill” but set up scenarios and situations where they are forced to identify with their comrades and think in terms of fighting for their Unit, rather than just God and Country. They are shown films, and conditioned by other psychological methods to see the enemy as some target on a video game, who must be eliminated. Since they do have a longer fourteen week basic training period now, there is more time to mold the raw clay so when they’re shipped to Iraq, they will be- - more Worthy.

Israel is now planning to launch a nuclear submarine attack against Iran. This is about the longest War that Israel has had to fights. They’re used to conflicts that are over in two weeks. Now they were not forceful enough in their initial attack against Lebanon and they realize that now. Israel is frustrated- - and now they know they need to vastly escalate the ground attack in Lebanon. I think the question is, “Is God on Israel’s side” or could it be, dread of dreads, that if God intervenes in the War, it will be to bring about peace. This most certainly is one of those wars that “Isn’t going away”. This war is like my problems with Christianity. It isn’t a one week problem, or even a six month problem. This is a situation, like our own in Iraq that is going to go on and on for the forseeable future. As long as Bush is in power he will continue to prevent any move to bring about a cease fire, and Israeli officials agree that a cease fire if the worse thing that could happen to Israel’s cause and would help Hez Ballah. Of course this “propaganda calculation” isn’t working. Isrial is clinging perniciously to the belief that somehow if they just keep attacking innocent Lebonese long enough, they will turn against Hez Ballah and Hez Ballah will lose their base. This isn’t happening. Instead now it’s reported even Christians are favoring Hez Ballah to Israel. Of course Hez Ballah is bringing food and medical supplies to the refugees, while Isrial is continuing to blow up roads and bridges, which are the means of delivery of those supplies. Not too cool.

According to World Net Daily, now Iran has plans of their own. First of all it seems that Mike Wallace has spoken glowingly of Iran’s leader saying he was much more impressed with his intelligence and rational thinking than he expected to be. But I don’t know how rational Iran’s latest plans are. This August 22^nd. the anniversary of one of Iran’s holiest days, the Iranians plan to launch some new Armageddon of their own, and many expect the Shiite Islamic messiah to appear at that time. There are nuts on their side too. I remember when the Messiah was going to appear here on June 30^th. 1982. I guess the question is how long you can walk around explosives with a lit blow torch. So far it would seem that God is preventing anything bad from really happening. I guess this is the same God who is going to wave his hand and protect the right wing from Global Warming. So far it’s working. No matter what threats appear to be on the horizon you can pretty well that they aren’t as bad as news commentators lead you to believe they are. You know what Forengis say. “War is good for business” and, “Peace is good for business”. I guess there are two good years of “Good business” under George Bush left.

The good news is that although the jet stream is weak this year, and the weather has been record hot in the country, there have been fewer Hurricanes this year in the Atlantic. Easily the fewest hurricanes since 2003. Last month US troop deaths dropped to the lowest levels in two years, so who knows- maybe there is a God.

From what the Federation is saying- - any Messiahs on our side won’t be reaching adult hood till the predicted nuclear haulocost to hit Earth in the late 2030’s. These prognosticators say that the Messiah should be being born just about NOW. Perhaps this year- -perhaps last year. Perhaps some woman is pregnant with him now. This Messiah will be a brave Star Shop warrier in a great conflict in 2061 but by then the Messiah will have had a long time in the military, perhaps twenty years or more and ascended to the rank of Captain in the military, most likely “Star Fleet” or the equivelant.

We’ve heard about the “Indigo babies” born after the Harmonic Conjunction of mid August 1977. These kids are said to have special divine powers- - gifts from God. Of course you don’t look for spiritual gifts of God, and you don’t look for dolphin life in the Mohave desert. God has passed by the church long ago, and they can’t face it.

Today is August 10th. and on this date in history in 1967 Pete Richards, myself, and Larry M recorded "Tea Party no. 425", "Tea Party no. 426", and "A Taste of H". These were three rather freakadelic numbers. I was thinking of calling the group "The Boston Tea Party" but I think that name has already been used. There was another track that got erased (OK I erased it because I didn't think it was good enough) called "Chicago", sort of a tribute to my Imposter. (forget I said that) This track is of interest to me now because it, at least I think, resembles the "bar jam" section of "We Got a Bigger Problem Now" by the Dead Kennedies. The following March, ie. 1968 Pete Richards and I did "This is it!" and "Run Down Feeling" and I by myself did "Middle of the Night" (sounding vaguely like track six on "Crown of Creation" by the Jefferson airplane) "XERB Over Los Angeles" and "Phoebee's Boyfriend" ( with actual live recorded dialogue). Some of the electronic "effects" achieved were crickets, and putt-putt sprinklers, and a motorcycle revving up. On this hard drive I cover the era from mid summer 1966 thru March of 1968 in the Arimid files I, II and III. Arimid is backwards for Di Mira, a soap opera character. The text of these files is green on black, as sort of a tribute to that rock celebrety who's favorite color is green. (See "Skeletons") Actually, I had a dream about Stephano Di Mira last night. I was still living at the Bosc house and these thug like characters came in the house and they kept alluding to a "Mister Big", which turned out to be Stephano. And them made promices about power and favors if we would just "go along with the program". Next door there were three siblings. There were a boy and girl about ten and eleven, and an older brother named Wally. Wally is a friend of mine in this life who used to fix computers for a living and for a while I was pummeling him with questions about the internet. These Stephano stooges (Bart may have been there but I didn't recognize the rest) did something to impregnate the ten year old girl and two weeks later she delivered a baby.

Here is the expanded one to two CD compilation of one we did earlier in this blog "Wheels of Retrobution". For trivia buffs, one song was completely dropped. There is a Chich and Chong track I'll include if we don't have it, but if we already have it on blog then I won't. I guess we didn't have room for it back in "Fundamentals of Rock" so we're including it here. I think the title of this current CD compilation aptly fits the contents. Two of the Yardbird songs included are from the same single released about the turn of the year '64 - '65.

BREAK ON THROUGH (New CD for internet users only)

I Wish You Would (Yardbirds)

Creeke Alley (Mamas & Papas)

I Am A Rock (Simon & Garfuncle)

Paper Sun (Traffic)

First there is a Mountain (Donnavin)

Ninety Five & a Half (Fever Tree)

Penthouse Pauper (Credence Clearwater)

Beneathe, Between and Beyond (?) (Rush)

Down In The Alley (Elvis Presley)

Still I’m Sad (Yardbirds)

The Ox (The Who)

Border Crossing (Jesus Christ) (Chich and Chong)

Killing Floor (Electric Flag)

Meat City (John Lennon)

The End (The Doors)

Second CD

Station to Station (David Bowie)

Jeroldine and John (Joe Jackson)

It’s Allright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding (Bob Dylan)

Dr. Luther’s Assistant (Elvis Costello)

The Golden Road (Grateful Dead)

A Certain Girl (Yardbirds)

Borris the Spider (The Who)

Perfect Strangers (Deep Purple)

Need Your Love (Cheap Trick)

Only One More Kiss (Paul Mc Cartney

Cold Ethyl (Alice Cooper)

The Last Rose of Summer (Judas Priest)

Ballod of You and Me and Puneil (Jefferson Airplane)

Burned (Buffalo Springfield)

Fried Hockey Boogy (Canned Heat)

Don't Mess Me Over

Today I'd like to talk about politics and karma. As you know tomorrow is the long awaited election contest between Ned Le Mont and Joe Lieberman in Conneticut for the Senate. People say that Joe Lieberman is not a bad guy; he's voted 90% of the time for the democrats. Well, would you buy a food item labeled 90% non toxic? I wouldn't. It's not just Lieberman's politics but his karma that is coming into play here. In 1968 Hubert Humphrey got a reputation as being among the reactionary Establishment forces that was pro Vietnam war. They later claimed that Humphrey had tried to oppose Johnson at cabinent meetings but he was given dirty looks by LBJ and from then on kept his mouth shut. I don't know. But sometimes it's image that counts more than the specific detales. People are talking about the kiss seen round the world between Lieberman and Bush in early 2005. The Judas kiss. Lieberman has stated that to oppose the President on the war is to be unpatriotic. Lieberman has such an important state in the status quo or the Iraq war that he's willing to run as an independant and perhaps split the democratic vote insuring the loss of the senate seat to the Republicans. Really in these three way races you're kind of playing a voter roulette game. In 1992 Ross Perot as much as handed the Presidency to Bill Clinton by opposing George Bush even though, most likely, the same people who would go for Perot would go for Bush were Ross Perot not in the race. Just recently I downloaded a Beta version of a three dimensional graphics program. Sometimes there can be "unintended consequences" to an act. Often you will be drawing structures and when you shift the angles one of the structures is literally "up in the air" and you're wondering how it got that way. In like manner the results of a run-off election in Conneticut are literally "up in the air". You don't know what will happen is Lieberman opposes his party's choice and runs, assuming he loses tomorrow. I think we can all agree that a "good democrat" would support his party's choice regardless who it is, and is Liberman wins well, Thy will be done. Vote for Lieberman. But Joe Lieberman is nuts if he thinks Bill and Hillary Clinton are going to continue to support him in the November election if he loses. Don't mess the Democratic party over! That's my battle cry.

In terms of psychic karma it's like when you "Do" something you do it in dimensions you can see in the here and now, but also, like that program, you do it in the psychic realm, which is that unknown dimension that is difficult to measure right now. We have said the psychic dimension lacks "space as we know it" and that is true because "space" here lacks the psychic dimension, and to call space in the psychic dimension space is really a misnomer. For instance, two parrellel lines drawn fifty miles apart going north south on earth eventually will meet at the polls. But they are called parrellel "as we know it". It's like a virtual reality program where you move and you're not entirely sure how your corresponding "image" will move on the screen, or "in that other dimension". We have often stated that with God, words are "things". Words have a physical manifestation in the psychic dimension too. You better not work against the karma of your party or it's likely to come back on you in unexpected ways. Hubert Humphrey was never again politically relivent after the 1968 race, and he died within ten years. Sometimes you do something for the moment and screw yourself karmically. Lieberman needs to ask himself whether he'd prefer to be a Bush stooge, or a loyal democrat with the best interests of his party.

Hillary Clinton wants "The best campaign money can buy". You've heard the attage, "Money doesn't talk; it swares". Money is not important in the long run in politics. Integrety is. Purpose and conviction are. Principles are. If you make money your God you will have to serve that God, often forsaking the things you ought to love more for the sake of money. We don't need another John Kerry running for office. We don't want someone who speaks in such confused terms you don't know what the hell they really stand for. Hillary Clinton as of late seems to be separating herself from the President's policies on Iraq. Now a bunch of generals have come out and said we are heading headlong into a Civil War. Most of us know that we are already there; there's no "headed" about it. We have created this Frankenstein moster of Shiite Islam that extends in a northern crescent from Iran to Lebanon. Some say we should talk to Syria to try and break up the Shiite alliance. It may be too late. Our foreign policy has divided us at home but it has united our enemies, perhaps even ones in the past we formerly had a chance of making a deal with. John Kerry said we should run a "sensitive" foreign policy and he got booed for his statement. "Intelligent" and "Perceptive" are much better words. We need a master at both checker playing and chess playing. Chess is more a power game than checkers. Checkers is more of a tango where you take a step and your opponet takes a step. Bill Clinton's label as "The comeback kid" was a self dezignated title. He chose to call himself that and gamble whether anybody believed it. Sometimes in foreign policy you need the ability to bluff skillfully. As Sol Allinsky says, "You keep the game within your own strong points where you are fermiliar and keep the game so the enemy's weak points are constantly being exposed. That's how you win. You keep the game outside the enemies' realm of familiarity to keep him off guard.

"O H - N O , N O T - H I M - A G A I N !"

I had the Jesus Christ show on for one question. Jesus was asked that since there is so much suffering in the world and women being raped and people being bombed and beaten and bludgeoned and such, why don’t you hasten your return? Jesus said, “What makes you so special that God should focus in on your pain and ignore everybody elses from different centuries? God sees the past, present, and future all at once?” What I hate about this is that the man did not talk himself but rather the pain of the world. But Jesus’ model seems to be “Show apathy unto your neighbor as you do unto your self”. For every Jesus caller it’s “All about You” even if you speak only of others. This attitude comes from the fact that Jesus hates the human race and so anyone who defends it or speaks up on behalf of it is seen as “The enemy”. Jesus then said “There is a reason why there is so much suffering” and vaguely implied if we didn’t know what suffering was we wouldn’t know what Joy was- - and that the Joy is coming and yes, Jesus will be returning and everything will be wonderful then. The man upon hearing Jesus answer said “Well if there is a purpose for it (suffering) then will it go on forever?” Jesus never said WHAT the purpose was. Perhaps it is an evil purpose. We know that suffering is not to purge or perfect our souls, because Jesus did that all on the cross. You will search in vain for a scripture that goes “After we die it will all make sense and all of our questions about the world and God’s will will be answered”. It was, in fact, some preacher that said that after we die, God does a lobotomy job on us and we don’t remember anything in this life that is painful”. Those who quote the proverb “Life is like a vapor” seem to be saying that “The purpose of this life is pointless”. Jesus himself on other occasions many times has said, “The doctrine of Last Things is best studied last”, so we know Jesus doesn’t place importance on it. Jesus did not SAY, “God takes note of your suffering and gives you brownie points”. Further more, our suffering cannot be on account of sin because Jesus paid the price necessary for saving the whole world on the cross. If we are not saved it isn’t because we have sin, for we have already been baught on the Pearl of great Price. Rather it’s a case of “Jesus just doesn’t want us”. In like matter the fact that Jesus did healings might be considered immaterial, seeing Jesus’ true feelings about suffering and the human condition. It’s not that he can’t intervene to help us; he just won’t”. At the end of the program Jesus got a call on Athiesum and Jesus was asked “If an atheist sees you coming in the clouds, won’t he then become a believer and so then you will have to save him?” The answer is no. And Jesus repeated his notion that nobody is an atheist for rational or intellectual reasons, but only for emotional reasons. He talked about seeing God in nature, not remembering that “Satan is Lord of this World” and Christians regard the World as evil. But if I were to guess what is motivating the Jesus Christ show to be on the air I’d say he was coming from a place of either apathy or hate, and not of Love”. We can deduce things not seen from the things we are shown, and all Jesus “shows” are hate and apathy.

MORE OBSERVATIONS ON WAR

Today August 6, 2006 is the fortieth anniversary of Aug. 6^th. 1966, the date in that Time Machine movie that World War III began in England. I remember seeing the movie on TV during my sophomore year, before that date had occurred. Of course it’s also Herishima day. I guess you could say that inventing the Atom Bomb was “raising the price of Poker”, as Dr. Phil might say. It’s just a good thing that our side invented it first or none of us might be here now. It’s just too bad America couldn’t keep solo possession of the knowledge a lot longer than we did.

People are talking about peace keeping U N troops in Lebanon. I don’t think either side wants peace now. If Hez Ballah did they would stop lobbing rockets. They were told if they attacked Tel Aviv the War would be vastly escalated. I guess it’s a question of how accurate their rockets are because I suspect they WANT to hit Tel Aviv. They’re like a child who is going to do the one thing he was told NEVER to do merely to test the parent’s resolve. “Touch Tel Aviv and thousands of innocent Lebanese will die”, type of thing. We could be seeing the start of a much more major conflict than I envisioned a few weeks ago. From my own perspective there are so many unknowns so as not to permit any sort of predictions, only that Isrial appears to have the enemy out gunned and out planed. We’ve talked about this before. If one side lives for death and wants death- - and not even their own death but that of an innocent third party, how do you deal with a situation like that?