The Whole World Is A Hell Hole

"- - - and whatever it is that you are thinking of doing right now - - - - - Don't Do It"

The whole world is going to Hell.  This world is a hell hole.  It seems to be a very bad year for the Bull run.  The bulls are more agressive this year or something.  "It's always the long bull that gets you.  As long as you're running with the pack, you're good", according to one person.  The whole continent of Africa has since the dawn of time it seems, been a place of Moral Darkness.  Today you find people in high places- have lost all sense of basic human decency.  There is no sense of moral restraint of civility in any of the Halls of Government.  You can pray “Beam me up, Scotty” but God’s track record of answering recent prayers of mine has been pretty poor lately.  If you’re God, and also an Egomaniac you may reason to yourself “I am going to Allow the world to get worse and worse and when it gets bad enough people will cry out to Me- - and I will intervene and I will be Magnified.”  The trouble is- - that won’t Work- - if God never comes through.  Everything in this whole long paragraph- - is based on giving “The Faith Community” the benefit of the Doubt, which they don’t really deserve.   There almost seems to be “intelligently targeted” Evils out there.  It isn’t merely happenstance -  but there is- - - if you will “Intelligent Design” to this Evil, as if it were being stage choreographed.  You have this rocket launch war in Israel between Israel and Hamas where Tel Aviv has good shelters that hold a lot of people in case of attack, with some sort of advanced warning.  Israel also had that security dome thing that enables Israel to shoot rockets right out of the sky and yesterday, one rocket was stopped that was headed right for a Nuclear plant, which would have had disasterous results.  Why can’t both sides come to the obvious conclusion that- - like your parents told you when you were young “Just think about the consequences of your action before you do it”.   How is it that Gaza never runs out of Rockets?  Who is supplying them?   Of course the weather around the nation never fails to lead in the headlines on ABC news every night- - and falling big trees are a major cause of death.  We still have tornadoes and 100 mph “micro bursts”, which we’ve had here on occasion.  I don’t think the average person watching the news, and I include myself, has nearly enough empathy of just what it would be like for all of the lives of those people who had suffered such misfortune.   There is far too much moral compromise in the world.  Chuck Smith one time had a chief assistant who was gay and Chuck said to him ‘You let me run Costa Mesa and you can have San Francisco”.   There is a scriptural parrellel in Acts with this principle.  However it is my conviction (if I’m moral qualified to judge) that NO gay person should EVER be put in a position of authority as a teacher in the Christian Church.  That’s just too much to ask the average laity to “swallow” so to speak.   Moral compromise doesn’t work.  Some things are just plain wrong.  The Bible tells us "Christ is a stumbling block we encounter because we are spiritually Blind".  But scripture also says in the Law - "You shall not put a stumbling block before the Blind".   We are told that "God doesn't cause evil, he merely Allows it".  But scripture says that to Allow evil when it's in your control, is as bad as to be a Part of it".  When you morally compromise- - - you lose the High Ground.   (Selah)   There are times when even attempting Comprromise is silly- - and you will learn the hard way that it doesn't work.  Israel tried to stand on its head to cut a deal with Aarafat and the PLO back at the beginning of the two thousands and the PLO thumbed its nose at the offer.  Jennifer on the soap opera was so desperate to “make peace” with Eve, she offered her everything she asked for- fifty percent of all of the profits from Jack’s book and any resulting Movie deals.  But Eve turned up her nose at this offer so bent was she in revenge.  Jennifer’s attorney told her “We can defeat this deal that was struck ten years ago or whatever”.    Jennifer if she were true to Jack’s memory would not have offered Eve so much as a red cent, because to do so would have dishonored Jack.  She’s fighting not only for her own honor but his.  I myself am guilty of “moral compromise” in something I put in a blog late last week.  But if I tell you what it was by way of confession, I’d only make it worse.   This raises the issue of whether some sins should never be confessed because the mere confession would do more damage.  I have been approached by teenage girls to buy something at the quickie mart they shouldn’t have- - and being in the tea totteling frame of mind I was in then I did not bend to moral pressure even if it had scored me points.  Not to be in favor of child molestation or anything but - these child molesting priests that were later promoted to the rank of Cardinel by Pope Benedict XVI or whoever- - to not single OUT these Cardinals and say "These are the ones" is to draw attention to the whole Church in a negative light- - and to morally Taint all who knew these Cardinals.  It's like that House that was demolished in response to that Castro guy's kidnapping and molesting those three young women.  So now you forever have this gaping hole in the neighborhood and passers by say "Oh- - there is the place where those molestations happened".  So is it just Possible- - - a proposition you might say - - that some Secrets are like radioactive waste and go keep going Back to them and fiddling with them- - is only to contaminate yourself further?

  Sometimes the Rubcon is crossed morally- - and it opens a Pandora’s box.  Sometimes Evil comes seemingly out of nowhere- - like some fifth dimensional transfer.  Some people such as Chuck Smith and Neil Savedra believe in the law of limited good meaning if one person gets a blessing, it means that someone else has to suffer. Are not people who reason like this no better than Guy Woodhouse in Rosemary’s Baby?   Indeed there may be a “cosmic dream weaver” who weaves the threads of Fate in and out- - - as the Fifth dimension gets manipulated.  And someone else’s blessing is our present affliction.  Under what “script” did Mom have to go back to the Hospital?   Not to quote any more songs but "I've seen this Movie before, and I don't like the unhappy ending".  (Selah)  Marsha “fell out of bed this morning’ and had to go back to the Hospital.  In our World- - this country has suffered much at the hands of the Tea Party- - but does someone elses’ Blessing in a parrellel Universe- - make me feel any better.  Does it make me feel any better to know that in some parrellel Universe the Democrats have the tea party on the run?   Lucifer said to God in heaven “I cannot attack Job because you have him Hedged all about?”   So one should never compromise4 morally on Anything lest they put brieches in their hedges, allowing the Enemy to enter.  (Selah)  It’s like Halderman’s remark to John Dean of “Once the toothpaste is out of the tube it’s impossible to get it back in”.  

 But I want to talk about Jesus on the mount of Olives.  “I was there with Jesus Christ in his moment of doubt and pain”.  I would have been like Jennifer’s attorney- - of “This is NOT the time to roll over and play dead.  Your fate is in your hands, and your actions could have consequences you did not anticipate.”   Then I would show Jesus photographs of the dead bones of Jews who had died in the Nazi death camps” and say ‘Just like with Bryan Stowe and Frank Mc Cord”   I would not want it on my conscious that I had ANYTHING to do with this.  Would you?”   Jesus might well say “Oh, that’s right out of Ezekiel 37”.  And I would say “Yes it is.  But there are also the Crusades and it’s Christians that started that series of so called Holy Wars and not the Muslems.  There is the struggle between Protestents and Catholics in Ireland.  There is all the rampant superstition and hysteria about the Jews and witchcraft and all that stuff in the Middle Ages, resulting in the deaths of a lot of Innocents.  Jesus, do you really want to go through with what you are planning to do?  Because even if you are successful you will have failed and set far Worse things in motion.  Take a look at the world now.  Commerce is doing good.  People never had more rights in Rome.  People have never been so well educated.  Science and communication has never been better.  Do you really want to put all this at risk by having a vast segment of the World plunged into some sort of Dark Ages?”.   And I might even say ‘I can tell by the astonished expression on your face my presence here at this time is a surprise to you.  Why is it my presence here is unanticipated”.  Jesus said to me “I am very big on what IS- - but You are among the things that are Not”.    I said to him “Ezekiel said that Judah would be dwelling securely in a world of unwalled villages- - when an attack comes from the North- - and threatens to wipe them out, and Nukes are involved and it will take the Jews seven months to bury the dead- - and radiation is involved and they sent out men to mark the bodies for pick up by others, who are wearing radiation outfits.”.     Jesus said to me “Well there you are.  Now you know the future”.   But I responded “But the Israelis of my own time were wiser and learned from this scripture, and have been armed to the teeth- - and are prepared for attacks- - and have inflicted pain on those who would come against them”.   Jesus said “Certainly you know that Chuck Smith of your own time said that if Man wants to reap his own vengeance- - God is happy to let him- - and mess it up for minself, whereas if they had left it in God’s hands- - then God would be magnified in the land, as that scripture says”.   But I would respond, “You right now have the power to prevent the destruction of this City in a generation- - right here and right now.  The question is whether you love Jerusalem and the Temple more- - or you are more in love with your own Ego.   Some people whore themselves out for money, like Kate Roberts working as a call girl for Stephano.  But they say “But I was starving then so that’s all right” and they justify things that are clearly compromises.   You yourself call yourself a Christian.  Indeed you are The Christ.  Yet where is all this Christian compassion for the victims of Rome in Israel.  How many innocent people who have suffered at the hand of Roman Imperalism, have you identified with and spoke up for.  And is not failure to speak up for or to render aid to such people- - a sign of moral compromise on your part.  So have you in essence “Whored yourself out’ to a Catholic Church which does not yet exist?”  

This is a rather jitterey Wednesday afternoon right after coffee break.  I had heard that Dr Messina was here and names were called.  I went out to the courtyard and got one cup from Dora kind of at the end of the line.  I stood and looked in Dr Messina’s empty office and a second or two later the light automatically went off, which means he has been gone for some time.  Let’s just review what a disasterous week it’s been since Sunday after dinner.  I almost lost my debit card- - and other events at the store.   The computer crashed an hour or so later.  There was that exchange of remarks I overheard in the hall going the other way I was virtually positive was about me, and it caused me to curse God for reasons I won’t go into.  Then Monday afternoon that connecter cord between the camera and the TV just disappeared.  And nobody knows anything.  Tuesday morning I had misplaced that souvenir ticket.  That’s a minor one.  We then have the fact my appetite has dropped as a byproduct of the tension of the past several days- - and possibly losing weight, when I need to gain more.   And I learned the Accronis backup program not only isn’t backing up any files, but it’s as though it’s not receiving any commands at all and I’m locked out of my own program, like the thing has been hacked.  Then last night it was the phone call from Judy saying that Mom was back in the hospital.  I talked about that.  Then there were the two shirts suddenly missing.  How many incidents to you need?  And all the while- - you know this place gets an F minus for dealing with thefts.   Then there is the soap opera where Samantha and Kate pull off something any sane person would have regarded as impossible, to steal the company right out from under Stephano and Elvis, making it look almost too easy.  Then there is this creepy father from Benjamin and Jordan’s past- - and personally from his attitude I’d shoot first and save myself the trouble of even having to deal with him.