Well - - - You Try!

Tom Hartman's show has been picked up on KTLK 1150 and two other stations this week. He's a pretty tuned in liberal guy. He pointed out that the median age of that Iraq War Comission report was 71 or something and that the people who participated in that committee had questionable backgrounds. Today Tom Hartman informed us that he was a Christian and that Christ is a liberal. He talked about how the Christmas tree legond goes back to a time ten thousand years ago when mankind was just coming out of the ice age and sometimes "winter" lasted all year. Apparently there's a tribe in Vermont whose oral tradition goes back ten thousand years and they can remember all this. It seems as if one day as it approached the winter solistis and the Priest knew this because he had one of those many callendar stones- - he decided to go to a mountain and set a Christmas tree on fire in an effort to "re-create" the sun. Evergreen trees were held to have magical powers. In Egypt they did not have evergreen trees so they used palm trees. There is a lot of ZAC mythology (that's true) about various trees. Zachery lived on Palm St. when he was born because the Palm stands for new birth in Egypt. Zachery was born on September 5th. which is the maximum flood tide of the Nile in Egypt. On March 3rd. 1977 new live growth sprouted from a dead stump of an orange grove that had been that way at least ten or eleven months, since I moved in. Orange oil as you know is now used to kill termites. So the spirit of Zachery protects from termites. While at the Bosc house the owners had a beautiful Ash tree cut down, and palm tree frons sprouted in its place. This was taken to be a sign from Zachery. In England as you know they burn a Yule log on Christmas eve, which magically turns into a Christmas tree the next morning. My grandmother played off of this myth because after my dad and uncle went to bed my grandmother would trim the Christmas tree and the next morning my dad and uncle would awake and my grandmother would tell them Santa Clause brought the Christmas tree. As you know Mark Hartman is concerned because Santa Clause's home is threatened. If the Arctic Ocean turns to all water in the summer, Santa Clause will have no place to live. Ken Galliger had a guest on KFI last Saturday who said that only four polar bears have actually died in this alledged melting of the polar ice sheet in Hudson Bay. I had been felt that this sudden loss of ice was decimating the polar bear community. If Rush Limbaugh or Larry Elder were to comment on this they would say like an unemployed fifty year old who had been laid off, the Polar Bears just need to learn to adopt alternate hunting behavior rather than allow themselves to be killed off.

When George Burnes as God was asked if he had made any mistakes he said, "Avacados. I made the pits too big". "God" constantly seems to use the phrase, "Well, you try". God is big on the past and the present, but when it comes to things that haven't happened yet, God hasn't a clue, and this is why he's always doing these "tests". Because he doesn't know the outcome. Unlike Tom Hartman I find myself unable to believe in Christianity. Partially evolution is kind of an intellectual block. But more importantly is the FACT of Predestination. As we have said, scientists have now proved predestination as part and parcel of the Big Bang creation process. Under predestination everything God does is perfect in His Own Eyes. Under this theory there is no sin because there is no Free Will. Man is born totally depraved and utterly unable to help himself to better moral karma. That's untill Irrestable Grace comes along to those pre-elected to receive it. Again, though- - this isn't really "Classic Christianity". John Calvin's theology is at odds with the Bible. If you're a relativist you might say "I'm proud of my own morals and it's God that's depraved. Look at the state of the world. If this is the best God can do- - I'll go elsewhere in search of God." You know- - a lot of people think religion is trial and error. You "try something" and see if it works. Tom Hartman was just saying how FDR's slogan in 1932 was "Let's TRY a few different techniques. I'm not an idiolog; I'm a pragmatist. Let's wee what works" John Denver oviously met a God who said "well, you try". I guess Denver's whole role in the movie was TRYING to bring God's word to the masses. I'll leave it to you to decide whether he succeeded. George Bush now says he's on a "listening" tour and he's going to TRY something he hasn't tried before in Iraq. We'll leave it to history to decide whether he succeeds. People who are experimentive usually are not concerned about their place in history. John and Yoco put out a lot of strange albums in their day. They were TRYING out different sounds. I'm more grandiose than John. If I put out an album I'd want it to be recognized as a historical masterpiece in my lifetime. Rush Limbaugh has stated however (contrary to what I think) that "People who are obcessed with their place in History don't have their eyes on the present, the here and now, and don't see what NOW needs to be done about a problem. It may well be that some of the great Profiles in Courage, or profiles in history people, may NOT have been looking at the history books when they did their couragious act but were simply being "Led by the Spirit in the here and now". John Lennon has spoken of a good song as being led by the Spirit" and not a "make-a-song". John was kind of a believer in "If I turn on a tape recorder, the Spirit will Come". (and produce a masterpiece) Having said all this I would now like to describe "Classic Christianity" so you people know what it is.

First of all God when he began creating was as green as grass. He was ignorant about human nature. After all, he hadn't created it yet. God seems not to be in control of his creations but either by happenstance or deliberately- - allows Free Will to come in. God created the Angelic Host to serve and worship him. He created Lucifer as choir director to lead the music, and created him the most beautiful creature of all. You've heard "Pride comes before a fall". John Lennon said it, and the Bible also said it. Listening to an evening Bible Study around Labor Day I was struck by this whole Pride thing and then wondered, "Does that mean that God regards Beauty as a Mistake". Do we have to suffer through inferior worship songs through all eternity merely because the most Tallented person is working for the other side?" Martin Luther alledgedly said, "Why should the Devil have all the good music?". There was war in heaven and the hosts of angels on Jehovah's side outnumbered Satan and his demons two to one, and Satan and his demons fell from heaven. They landed on earth and they set up cities or "dwelling places" as Jeremiah informs us. But they persisted in their sin and God wiped them out and sent the Devil and his legion hosts to Hell. Technically it's called "tarterus" or a "holding place". We are told there there are "mists of darkness". It is to these fallen angels, or departed spirits (or demonic hosts) that Jesus preached to when he "Descended into Hell". There is nothing about "liberating" anybody in this passage in Peter. These were spirit beings and "immortals" as opposed to humans, which are called "mortals". God did not stoop to help immortals when they fell but did reach down to help fallen mortal man and to "redeem the world".

This redeeming of the world began by re-creating or "replemishing" the surface of the earth, and that word "replemish" is used. The whole Universe had become Evil and captive to Original Sin. But in this sea of Evil, God set aside an island of good, which is called Paradise, or the Garden of Eden. God made the animals and man. It is said that creating woman was a mistake. Legond has it the offending fruit was a palmagranet and not the apple. Creating woman did not immediately introduce sexual activity. Sex seems to have come about when man fell due to temptation of the woman and the serpent. God ran an experiment with man and it failed. After the fall it says "Man knew his wife". It would seem that God did not origionally intend sex but that "Man" would be happy there in the garden tending to the animals eating food from the Tree of Life". After the fall of Man, God instituted the Priesthood of Adam. This is something you learn about in really orthodox churches. In this capacity Cain didn't have his sins pardoned because he failed to bring about the right sacrifices to Jehovah. As such Cain wa damned before he even committed murder. Jehovah also instituted at this time the doctrine of blood atonement. This is that the Innocent can be bloodily sacrificed so that the guilty may be redeemed. Without this doctrine of blood atonement Christianity could not exist. Blood atonement was a fact from the git-go.

The angels were referred to as the Sons of God. Jesus shied away from the term "Son of God" preferring the term "Son of Man". This may be because in Genisis we read that the Sons of God had illicit sex with the daughters of man. Lucifer was a Son of God. In Job we learn that Jehovah took counsil from Lucifer. He not only dialoged with him but allowed Himself to be perswaded by Lucifer, even though he was "a liar and a murderor". As a consequence of Jehovah's ill advized behavior the Witness of God was compromized and Job suffered. Scripture was violated that states "Give no place to the Devil". This is yet another "mistake" God made. At the Tower of Babel we learn that God didn't want us working together to build an observatory. Apparently God feared man could get to Heaven where man was forbidden to go. So God caused diverse languages to occur so man would be diverse upon the earth, only to repent later that God had made man at all so decided to wipe him out in the flood. God instituted circumcision even though Dr. Deen Edell says this leads to a desire for oral sex and women prefer the sexual techniques of uncircumcised men. Was this a mistake to order circumcision? God made others. God wanted to see if Abraham would commit an act of murder that was clearly forbidden under Genisis 9:6. After Abraham raised the knife to kill his son Isac God said "I know NOW that you will do anything I say" -even if it's wrong. God made another mistake. Abraham's wife Sarah had told Abraham to get Haggar her hand maiden to bear a son for Abraham so that he have an heir as God promised. And it was so. But now thirteen years later Abraham pulls a "Sean Brady". As you know Sean Brady met a prostitute who helped and conforted him when nobody else did. She came to live with Sean. But now Sean's "wife" comes along (even though they were never married) and says to get rid of the prostitute. So Sean in essence says "I can't have sex with you any more, for you are a prostitute and I've gotten religion. Therefore I'm kicking you out of my house". This is what Abraham did with Haggar and her son Ishmeal. Ismeal was remembered by Jehovah God and he became the father of the Arab nations. So the Jews had to pay the bill for Abraham's sin of ingratitude. Were Sean to get the same deal, Willow, the prostitute should present him with a bill for her two months of sexual services. Let's see. At a hundred dollars a pop and sex fifty fimes that would come to a tidy piece of change- about five thousand dollars". But God made other mistakes. God is spoken of in the plural and in investigating the sin of Sodom and Gamorah says "Let us go down and see if the sin is alltogether as bad as reported, and if not, I will know it". After destruction, Lot's wife was turned to a pillar of salt. That was a mistake. Because the Hebrews believed in racial endogamy and so there was no one for Lot to have sex with. So Lot had to have sex with his two unmarried daughters, one night apart. So you have incest as the bi-product of divine wrath. Lastly I'd like to talk about King David. It is said "God has no grandchildren". I can see why. Because if his children DID have kids they would be so screwed up devolution would proceed at an unbearable rate. David's four children most often referred to are Amnon, who raped his sister, Absolem and Adonijah were rebels. Joab alias "Bones" in the ZAC followed Adonijah but not Absolem. Solomon was into pagon religion and at that time the "Sodomite" was in the land. (In a book the Secret Passage of the Lion, Solomon actually lived prior to David, for those of you mixed up in your history". But it would seem that like God, David had no children who were fit to be a shining example. A prophet said "As a result of your sin with Bathsheba, the sword will never depart from your house all your days". I wonder whether this isn't some curse against Christianity. For Christianity not only sex but children appear to be a mistake. St. Paul said "In these distressed times with Jesus coming back soon, it's better not to marry". This looks to me like another "mistake". It is said that in as much as Melchidizeck, king of Salem (Jerusalem, in Abraham's day) was without father and mother or descendants, so must the Messiah be. This ignores the fact that those in the know say the king of Salem was none other than Shem, the son of Noah and very much IN the geniology. People say Chuck Smith is really cold and detatched once you get to know him- - like his sons do. He's only following in the steps of our example, King David, who is revered, but the one thing he couldn't do is rear children. And yet the Messiah is said to be David's son. According to a Bob Dylan song, Mary Magdolane was pregnent (with a daughter, Sarah) at the time Jesus, the father, was crusified and "left town".

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Well, Quazimoto is ascenting those belltower steps even as we speak - step - step -step, and pretty soon he'll be pulling the rope on the Bush adminestration. That long awaited laboriously produced bi-partizan report on the Iraq War was finally released. As they say, they labored and brought forth a mouse. What a big bunch of nothing. Maybe I should buy the book. It's just a way to extend the Iraq War two more years and get more people killed, and them we can admit it was a fiasco. Rush Limbaugh points out that these people don't have any real authority to decide anything as they make their "79 Commandments". It's what the generals on the theater of war think that really counts. I'd like to hear from them. How can you trust a report that says the Iraq War is a "grave and deteriorating situation". It sounds like a patient ready to be toe tagged if there ever was one. As I have said previously the smartest thing we can do is to get out as expiditiously as possible and don't look back. Rush has even said that "We sometimes need to let the natural forces take over". Rush has also said "Peace comes after a war after one side has clearly defeated the other". The odds favor the Shiites. If so we can claim victory over the insergent supporters of Saddam and Al Qaida, can't we? Isn't that what we were fighting for to begin with. To expunge Al Qaida? If our enemies are fighting each other that means they won't have time to fight us. We are obcessed with 9 - 11. To tell you the truth I bet a lot of the younger fighters have forgotten all about that. Since they are mostly young, as young people do they will change and evolve and mature as the years pass. For Bush to say it's some conspiricy against him personally that they're fighting for - seems more than a little paranoid. Of course we know now that George Bush was a candidate for fetal alcohol sidrone because Barbra like to down the Scotch while she was pregnent with him, and many see facial features of fetal alcohol sidrone looking at Bush. The one thing President Bush doesn't do is think. He's like an obcessed sea captain out of a Bogard movie seeimg himself as the center of his own universe. He's unable to step back and assass what needs to be done for this nation in the next two years. What are our own needs? In some ways these conservatives are like an old fire horse that charge every time they hear the bell - not that they've ever served in the Armed Forces to begin with, but they act as though they had. I guess I'm personally getting tired of all these conservatives re-living World War II over again. The only thing is they never lived it the first time around. Most of them wern't born yet. So many people are always fighting the last war, or in this case, several wars back, over again instead of looking at the War that's ongoing now. There are economic inequities in the world - - and trade imballances. There is lack of pay for workers and child exploitation in countries we trade with. Harry Truman described War profetiering as treasonous, and Lord knows there has been enough of that. I don't know if anything will come of talking with Iran or Syria but skilled negotiators have been known to accomplish amazing things. If you watch Star Trek you know that. A lot of time its a matter of steering people twords your objectives giving them the illusion it was their own idea. To paraphraise John Kennedy, "All this may not be accomplished in the first one hundred days or the next one thousand days, But Let Us Begin". I personally am not worried about all those terrorists coming over here and "following us home". I think privately we are a technological inspiration to them and a psychologist might say that voiced hostility tword us is like a petulant teenager lashing out against her parents. Part of the problem I believe is that Bush is ignorant of Islam, as he is about so many things. Perhaps if he understood Islam better he could speak their language and have a successful pow-wow. I don't see negotiations with our enemies as something we have to do because we're afraid of war. Rather it's something that can be done to increase the overall enlightenment in the world. All these Islamic hysterics will play itself out as the years pass, and they see how pointless it all is. The thing is, if there ARE dangers out there in the Future it will probably come from an entirely unexpected source. These perals, if they come, will come because we in our obcession with the past are ignoring the present. Anyhow, these are my thoughts on the subject of war. People act as if the United States no longer had enormous power. I think we are a much more well prepaired nation than we were before 9 - 11. I think as a natural course of events we will continue to increase securety as ports and airports and ware-houses. If nothing else this is where Party competition can be a good thing.

I would like to speak briefly about stuff I've been reading about Calvary Chapel. You can find anything on line. About a month ago I read that Lonnie Frisbee, a one time assistant pastor at Calvary, turned out to be a homosexual and died of AIDS in March of 1993. But since 1971 Chuck Smith hasn't totally trusted him. Pete Richards indicated to me he didn't entirely trust Lonnie Frisbee either, but I don't remember why. Something doctrinal. Of course Pete Richards (to those of you who know his real identity) is another person that left the Calvary Chappel system under circumstances that are mysterious even to this day. Now there is another success story for Satan to gloat over. Chuck Smith's son, Chuck Jr. has been de-frocked as a Calvary pastor and his link taken off Calvary publications. This is a truely sad development and a major victory for Satan, if Satan hates the Calvary Chappels as much as everybody thinks. It seems Chuck Jr. has had religious doubts and depression that would sometimes come upon him. The other thing is that he liked to maintain a dialog with the homosexuals in Laguna Beach. Chuck senior is spoken of as having an illusion of bubbling friendliness, but off camera he can be rather cold and distant, not to mention un-caring. For the LA Times to get a hold of this story and put it on the internet really blows the lid off this family solidarity all the Calvary pastors like to project, giving the illusion that their kids have some sort of "Jesus gene". When you see falability in others it makes you realize you're not the only one with problems.

Allright. I dug deep into the asteroid cravases of my mind and came up with these songs, before the Romulans could steal them. This is disk four because disc three is another add-on that started off life like this one as an independant. It was either that mystory track on STP's second album or Star Wars closing credits and decided either way was geeky so I picked the one that would most blow your mind. I'm letting Nick write this text. Actually we decided to drop the number because these are long songs. I have Chelsea on Days of our Lives to thank for "Passion" and Randy Rhodes to thank for Dr. Feel Good. I guess we'll come up with a good cover picture for the todal dour disc boxed set one of these days.

I respond to most links I read but a blog commenter sent one yesterday I didn't hit. I guess you could say my radar antenna was going off. Most of the blog comments I've gotten have been a little off the wall. So far there haven't been any with what I'd call in depth comprehension. In terms of my physical appearance, in case Chelsea wants to know, I physically resemble Dr. Phill roughly, except I look about ten years younger. "What you see is what you get", as you-know-who says. Actually I think I'm starting to grow back my hair on top. The barber was spending more time yesterday than I expected. A couple of months ago someone said I reminded them of the Rev. Chuck Smith. I wish I had his charisma.

PARTY MIXER ("American Night" disc four)

Time and Motion (Rush)
I Get a Thrill (The Honeydrippers)
Change -Nothing Stays the Same (Van Halen)
Rock and Roll Is My Religion (Ozzy Osborne)
Pencil-neck Geek (Fred Vlasee)
Rape Me (Nirvana)
1999 (Prince)
Super Freak (Rick James)
Passion (Rod Stewart)
Even Flow (Pearl Jam)
Don't Speak (No Doubt)
Dr. Feel Good (Motley Crue)
I Need Some Time On My Own (Guns and Roses)
One Burbin, One Scotch, One Beer (George Thorogood)

Created In God's Image

“In order to win a championship

you must first Play the Game”

GO –GATORS

OK below we have a “reduced Christmas songs” version of a previous blog compilation that is scarcely recognizable from the original. What you notice right off is that the songs are a bit more recent. The back picture cover will be upside down with respect to the front cover.

A BRIEF INTERLUDE Disk 2 Snowflakes in Hell

Hell Bound Train (George Thorogood)

Midnight Cruiser (Steely Dan)

Am I Going Insane? (Black Sabbath)

Our House (Madness)

Spam! Spam! Spam! (Monty Python)

Yellow Snow (Frank Zappa)

Santa Clause and His Old Lady (Chich & Chong)

Snow for Christmas (Emerson, Lake, & Palmer)

The Four Horsemen (Metallica)

Keep Me In Your Mind (Scorpions)

Passion Play (Jethro Tull) (radio edit)

Pretty Penny (Stone Temple Pilots)

Night Rider (Electric Light Orchestra)

Please Come Home For Christmas (Eagles)

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (Elmo & Patsey)

Here are a few more Undeniable Truths

When I was in the hospital in Los Alametos those first ten days in early June of 2001, I often had detailed dreams such that I often felt “trapped” in my dreams and did elaborate things like go out and feel a brick pillar that was holding up the building just to prove that the dream was real and I wasn’t imagining it. I felt as though whatever Life I had before was gone and that this new “Dream” existence was the real one. You might say I had the Experience that the spirit and consciousness is real and that whatever “Life” you have can be defined as the psychological state of Consciousness. That your en-grams follow you from consciousness to consciousness. If you are now a giant insect, then that is now your life, your whole present reality. (Selah) The spirit can be defined as that part of you that is the Will and Consciousness and that when it is associated with a particular body, then that body can be considered your “house” or an extension of your spirit.

Perhaps the first thing that struck me upon entering Eternity, besides Ernest Hemingway there as my guide and realizing I knew him already, was that this was a place I had been to many times in the past already. It suddenly occurred to me that I had no need for anyone to explain to me anything, for I already knew everything about everything including why my life was, and would be messed up. What can you say? God is an asshole. Though I suddenly knew about obscure math terms such as hyperbolic trig functions and “Taylor Searies” equations and graphs, I also knew something else. I knew (a) that I couldn’t change a thing about anything that I knew and (b) that this was a place I could not remain in for long but would return to that blissful illusion that people describe as “Life”. I could think about things that were more future than other things but had no immediate conception of where I had just come from. I only knew “stuff” like that Mit Romney would be elected President of the United States defeating Hillary Clinton and that he would be nominated on the third ballot of the Convention and that would be a first since 1948 or so, and that he would be our first Mormon president. Ernest reminded me that the ZAC house was owned by Mormons in Las Vegas. I thought of the nuclear haulocost that struck in the late 2030’s and how it was inevitable that the conflagration come, and that trying to prevent it was like trying to solve a rubic’s cube puzzle in twenty seconds. It would an alliance between Iran and Kasacstan and Mongolia (global warming, kiddies!) that would set off The Bomb to prove a point. Obviously everybody knew it was a mistake from the moment that it happened but that didn't prevent certain other "chain reaction" world political events from occurring. Ernest Hamingway told me that my attraction to certain John Lennon Beatle songs in 1965 and 1966 and 1967 was due to narcicisum. He told me how and where I knew him from and also told me there were other truths I already knew; I just hadn’t thought of them yet. But I also knew that The Decider had caused the Big Bang to occur but had endowed certain parts of it with a Life Fource.

It is predicted that Ernest Hemingway will arise in the spirit realm as one of The Great Ones. The ancient Hebrews saw God as a plurality of people and not as just one person. It could be that “God” as we know it is a giant collective of all spirits who have ever lived or will ever live and that God’s will is a corporate composit of all of these. But that any Being “decides” only what it was Created to decide. But the ones who are Supreme arise from well aligned Karma and en-grams that help them or do not interfere with their karmic rise. That what is Good is defined by those in Power whether in Your opinion it is truly Good or not. That the powerful devas have a divine right to impose their sense of Ought and Justice on the rest of us. In this realm there is no time and no space and no matter as we know it. If you talk to a deva such as Ernest Hemingway for thirty minutes you aren’t merely wasting just that slice of a day, that you are taking it from evernity. One day this “Federation” will attempt to influence earth.

Jesus Christ never referred to Joseph as his father nor Mary as his mother. In the two instances in the Gospel of John where he addresses her he calls her “Woman”. When Jesus’s place of birth was being questioned by the Priests at Jerusalem, Jesus never said whether he was or was not born in Bethlehem. Jesus also neither confirmed or denied whether he was “born of fornication”. We know that at that time Jesus was not yet fifty years of age. How did he get so old? Many people asked Jesus where he came from and some asked where he was going, but he never gave a straight answer. All he said was he was going “Somewhere where you will not follow me”.

Christians are like packs of wolves. They feel secure in numbers. If you as an individual try to preach or practice Christianity as a witness to another you will fall flat on your face and feel like a fool. The way Christians get people to convirt is to see all the “happy” Christians around them and be given the en-gram feeling “Everyone is doing it so I better do it too”. Those acts which are of God and approved by God are those acts which God has predestined to occur regardless of anything. The certainty of their happening is metaphysically assured. Those acts which are successful are acts you do that are authored by God and the will of God. Those acts you attempt to do For God and which you fail act are considered works of the flesh and as wood, hay, and stubble destined to be burned in the Last Judgement. In order for anything to be accomplished it has to first be Possible. And with God only what is predestined is Possible.

Back around April 15^th. 1975 I had a nightmare that was long and drawn out and among the scenes in it were being chassed around some observatory by demons and of hiding in the crevaces of those telescope dome things. There was a brick courtyard area like Griffith Park or Cypress College. The dream took place in Africa on or near the Nile and there were Egyptian Shakspherian actors performing called “The Egyptian Water Company”. So many of the mysteries of Christianity stem back to Egypt. Behold St. Mark, the founder of the Coptic Church, and also Matthew are Egyptian. In Egypt the secrets of people such as Judas Iscariot and Pontious Pilate are revealed. Unless you are able to make a stealthful Exit, behold, you will lose the War. People attempt to interfere or invade the realm of Osirus, lord of the Dead and the realm of the Dead and take over and liberate that realm. They tell you Death is of all things in life most to be feared. But the truth is that Life is not a thing measured in length of time but rather the Present Reality and the Joy of Existance. These Christians life for death and tell you that once Death comes they will shine because at last they’ve encountered something in their lives that they’ve conquered. But in reality they spend their whole lives as slaves to the en-grams that made them and rule them. (Selah)

Before Marcion arrived on the scene the Holy Catholic Church was not nearly so anti-semetic as it was to become. Marcion was a heritic, but a heritic with whom the Church struck an unholy compromise with. For in the early days people ate freely from the Tree of Life knowing neither good nor evil, nor that the universe was evil as Paul states in Collosions referring to “The (evil) elementary powers of the Universe) In the beginning such theology was unknown. For Christianity was founded by a Jew. Philo of Alexandria. And his theology pervaids Christian theology. To say that Philo of Alexandria never knew Christ is like saying Ice never knew Water. It is an artful half-truthy. The apostle Paul spoke of “Christians in Caesar’s household” and he was not speaking of the time of Nero but of the time of Dometian, who was a closet Christian and despised by all good “Gods” fearing Romans. Paul wanted to be accepted by the Church at Rome. Paul’s letters were not gathered up one by one from all the churches of Asia Minor where he sent them. The letters were always a corpus of theology to be reverenced. There is no place I know of where you can find out how the several churches of Asia Minor and places like Corinth responded and interacted with Paul and his letters. Marcion saw Paul and Luke, who were probably quite old in his time but living contemporaries, as bargaining chips to gain access to control of the Church at Rome, by which all Religiosity and Piety is defined in the world, as in the saying “World Without End, Amen, Amen”. “All the world” is a destiny with its locus of Power eminating from Rome, which to this day contains many other secrets it guards with its very Life.

Wheels Coming off the Wagons

It was the summer before last and I was at this "day care" place, as they call it called Green Harbor and a guy named Larry responded to one of my innocent comments saying "Yeah, the wheels are really coming off the wagons around here". My last time at Green Harbor was August 1st. 2005, and if Valerie is out there, please ring in. We now have a national situation that qualifies in my mind as inexplicable. I had kind of thought that after George Bush and the Republicans got wiped out in the congressional races, and all the other races, that George would "See the light" like Gov. Swartzenegger did and realize he couldn't go on the way he'd been going but "get religion" and make some dramatic changes, like Nixon or any other president would. But what's happening is that expert after expert is telling us that the Mideast War is lost. If we try A then B will happen, chich isn't good. If we try C then D will happen, which is even worse. That type of thing. The only way that is really open to us now is the Exit door. Bush only met with Malachai for two hours. My guess is that if it had been a really fruitful meeting, he would have met with him five or six hours, and perhaps more than one day. I don't think we have any assurance that the troops that get trained by the Iraqi government will be loyal to our side. Indications are they will be either loyal to the Sunis, Shiites, or Kurds. We can't run a war like that! We have lost three thousand troops. Let's look on the bright side. That's a lot less than in Viet Nam. If we leave now we can save ourselves a lot of Misery. This war has now lasted just longer than World War II for America. That's long enough. Everyone is saying how the military is taxed to the limit, and I really don't think the American public will except a draft. In this current age of equality, that may well prove to be women, too. Are we ready for that? There is a Captain Queeg like obcessiveness to George Bush's thinking now. You know in the Bob Woodward book, Rumsfeld says he didn't want our troops to be bogged down in Iraq like as are in Bosnia and Kosevo. Larry Elder doesn't hesitate to criticize that war for its humanitarian goals. (According to Larry, genocide is not sufficient reason to go to war) Clearly there are other uses those 135,000 troops could be put to besides being in the middle of a Civil War. We are so without a clue we don't even know which side we want to win! How can we participating in the fighting of it? Give our troops the bext Christmas present they could hope for and make an announcement that we are pulling most of our troops out, "with all deliberate speed".

Anne Richards made such a great Keynote speech at the Democratic convention in 1988. We all mourn her passing. She said that George Bush was a man who was born on third base and thinks he hit a tripple. She also said that a dead fish stinks from the head down. There is no doubt that moral darkness pervaided the final years of the Reagan adminestration. That congress did something I hope the current congress does not repeat. I didn't know till yesterday that Dick Chaney was actually a congressman back then during the Iran Contra hearings and that he was minority chairman of the committee. The majority chairman was a man called Lee Hamilton. I remember that name because Bob Dornen had said that the senator reminds him a little of Abraham Lincoln. My curiosity was peaked. I also heard that Lee Hamilton was against abortion. He was pro Life. But Lee Hamilson has another habbit. He likes to roll over and play dead. This democratic senate newly elected in 1986 refused to take the bull by the horns are possibly bring impeachment charges against Ronald Reagan for treasonous acts. Instead Senator Lee Hamilton sought to be "Bi-partisan". So he gives Oliver North immunity and gives him a microphone to let him spiew his propagandistic garbage to the American People on TV. And he's allowed to wear his military uniform. Pathological liars don't deserve to be rewarded with Immunity and given a microphone. Of course they don't deserve being a Presidential pardon either, along with Poindexter. Lord only knows what William Casey knows. He took the easy way out. He died. There are stories of drug dealing along with the bit about getting Isrial to sell Iran missiles and giving the money to the contras. But Lee Hamilton decided to delete that portion of the final report. I just hope this current new congress doesn't piss away its oppertunity to get George Bush. I don't think they should make any promises of what they will or won't do. Keep your options open. Callers on 1150 say, "I don't just want to see George Bush impeached; I want to see him in jail".

The wheels are coming off the wagons for the religious right in this country. Chuck Smith must be popping a lot of Elaville and Prozac these days. I know depressed he gets about these troubled times. You know- the right wing is like a desease. My first exposure to it goes all the way back to July of 1965. I was in a pre Algebra math class at Crescent Jr. High and people were talking about Jeane Dixon and how infallable her predictions were, and how she had predicted a bad earthquake for California or Colorado in June of 1965. All of these people seemed to look to an "End of the world" scenario about the year two thousand. The seeds were planted in my mind. That fall in 1965 I heard my first sermon on Revelations, from Harry Green, who usually doesn't dabble in "last times" theology. I remember what he said. He said that there is just as much possability of retrogression as there is in progression in society. As a liberal I had formerly thought that the wheels of progress moved inevitably forward. A liberal or progressive does see things "moving forward". But not the reactionary. Many of them such as Larry Elder seem to want to turn the clock backward to sometime in the Victorian age. Of course if we can't have that there's the idea that God will look down on society and End It All out of sheer disgust. This belief in a sudden end of things is called nihilisum. It's a belief that whatever life you have now won't go on much longer. It's kind of a belief that global warming and the ozone layer don't matter really. It doesn't matter how many trees we chop down or Amazon forrests we wipe out because after all God will be there to bail us out, and besides, we won't be around that much longer so talk about what our children will face is irrelivant.

There's one guy out there who seems to think I can make nine hundred dollars and have "fun" in the process. Maybe I could get a currier job for a criminal like Sean Brady and earn a lot of money quick. There is another character I'd like to comment on from that series and that is Bonnie Lockhart. She's like a money vacuum cleaner. She's like Colonel Tom Parker. She's got this nack for being money grubbing but with a tallent for making any money she gets to disappear. She kind of reminds me of the soul of Christianity. Christianity says "give me love and total devotion". But after being around them a while it's like being around a vacuum cleaner. They just suck you dry. Any devotion or spirit you have- - they now have it. And they keep coming back and they want more. You can only pronounce your love and devotion to God so many times and never quite be believed, before it's one game you get tired of.