Your Ticket into Fantasyland

Hillary Clinton finally got into it a little with Berock O Bama in the democratic debate Tuesday night. O Bama said he didn't want to fall into the Bush trap of not taking with our enemies. Now I know we've said when you're at a seance you're not supposed to believe what demons tell you or rightfully even be talking to them, but foreign leaders around the World aren't demons; they're just flesh and blood people you have to communicate and dialog with to find out what is really on their minds. Hillary immediately saw a "Sister Soldier" moment and decided to position herself to the Right and do that famous Clinton triangulation thing. Clinton unlike O Bama didn't have the foresight to be against this Iraq war from the start like O Bama did. Why should O Bama be criticized because he turned out to be right? Hillary is letting that 29% die-hard Republican base call the tune to her campaign. She's in double digit lead. I'm voting against her. John Edwards has stated that when it comes to votes on actual issues, he's more pro woman on specific issues that women care about. They say 58% of the people will now accept a woman president. That means there are still 42% of the country that still will NOT consider a woman president. That's a poor base to begin with. The key question is how many of that 58% who ARE for a woman president will vote for Hillary. You know my position. I'd love to see a woman president. Are any women running? How about one of the more notible mature women such as Elizabeth Taylor or perhaps Jane Fonda. Now there's a candidate for you!

The federal government is now cracking down on medical marijuana that's held legal by the voters of a state, such as California. The people voted but in George Wallace's immortal words, "The federal government says you voted wrong". Why can't the federal government mind its own business? What happened to state's rights? Where is Larry Elder on this issue? He says he's a libertarian. You know my position. I think doctors should be free to prescribe marijuana. But I'd also like to see other hemp products brought back like Michael Benner talks about. Why can't we have hemp paper and save the trees, and have not only a higher quality paper than pulp wood but also introducing fewer chemical products into the environment.

There is a book author on Thom Hartman's web site that talks about "Imagine". Imagine a world where the trees are growing back and the environment is getting cleaner and oil prices have dropped to five dollars a barrel, and where the Government is actually paying YOU for the energy produced by your solar cells. "Tis a consumation devoutely to be wished".

There is another book author on the site who talks about Liberty a lot and speaks of men either as slaves to some system, or else in figuritive cages like a new monkey placed in a cage at the zoo. Some would say "The monkey should free his mind instead". After all all the other monkeys are socializing and eating their bananas and swinging from the bars and having a great old time. But here is this new monkey (I think his name is Pink) bashing himself against a wall trying to get out. Some would say he's a nowhere monkey making all these plans to get out and hopefully enlisting the other monkeys in his quest to escape- - "making all his nowhere plans for nobody". But just remember it's the nerds of this world responsable for a lot of progress.

Of course I'm an objectivist. I believe to be free you have to decide whether in fact you are a real hostage to some corporation or government or sociatal race or sexisum. Some things are in your mind and some things are real. For instance, some people view the two year old as a person who used to be free but now is having "No" shouted at him everywhere he goes and everything he touches. This kid isn't losing his freedom but discovering reality, just like a kid who's parents get divorced. It's the parent who seeks to keep his kid from growing up that is indeed keeping him in a cage. Christians at times remind me of two year olds throwing tantrums. They have rather childish personalities when you come right down to it. Dennis Prager once said he wouldn't mind his eight year old watching some pre school program- - I forget what- - it doesn't matter. You know the song, "You're telling all those lies, about the good things that we can have if we close our eyes". This is religion for you. And the ultimate way in which Christians close their eyes is when they turn off on life and embrace Death as the great Deliveror. They say they believe in Jesus as their messiah, but Death is their Messiah, the way dope is a druggie's messiah. You have certain "Dope pushers" and some of them are on TV like Sylvia Browne, selling death. Although I say if she's a charleton she's a good one. She never goes blank or is unable to answer any question. She answers every question the addict- - - poses to her. One thing I'd like to know about her is where she stands on this whole God and Jesus thing. I talked to that other Marcus (the real Marcus) around here and he said that the key nugget to come away from in Christianity is to do a good deed and not let anybody else know about it, and you will be Rewarded. I won't argue with that. I told him that I indeed im some brainwashed prisoner of sorts. I might actually be suffering from the Stockholm sydrone, defending my captors. Whenever I hear people like Thom Hartman talk about spiritual books and this Michael Benner "Ah hah!" moment and I'm told that's a "Born Again" experiance, I turn off. I've been programmed to believe in a very strict doctrinaire ritual. I know there are a lot of spiritual people from other religions around the world, even Moslems. I've never doubted that there were. As far as I know the Maharishi is a very spiritual man despite what John Lennon says. Marcus this morning said to me, "You're not a Christian; you're a scientist". In a way I felt proud when he said this, like Mr. Spock. He also suggested I read "Battfield Earth" by Ron Hubbard. I told him- - I believe that Science is in harmony with conservative thinking about God and visa versa. I'm anti dyspensationalist. These are people who say "God used to allow polygamy and having sex with your sister, but this is when mankind was in a learning experiance". I balk at this idea that God changes "perfection" to fit the times. If God is who the theologians say he's all knowing, omni present, and also immutable, ie. unchanging. That's where my head is at and that's the theology I was defending. Today's conversation made me realize how far I am from making a good Christian missionary. In a quest to climb Mt. Whitney I got winded in hiking to the top of a twenty story building stairwell. (Selah)

Since I am an objectivist I believe everything should make sense including the idea of the expanding Universe. If there's a way to catch people in a lie or inconsistency or leap of illogic, I'll do it. You say the universe is expanding? Where is it expanding FROM? If you say "The Universe is expanding from this precise spot", I tell you I'm going to be suspicious. Do you know what the odds are that of all the places in the known Universe - - this spot would be the center? If MY view of the universe is correct (previous postings) you may say I should be able to see evidence of THAT and preferably have a mathematical formula to back it up. If my view is correct there should be a ring around the heavens that is NOT expanding. The rest of it should be. Personally I think some scientists take leaps of faith. Look at all these survays they do saying this or that product is bad for you- - and then other people come along and say,
No, this product is actually Good for you". Some say, "Well, you know nobody can travel faster than the speed of light because Einstein said so in 1905. Well, Einstein didn't know about Black Holes that disprove that assirtion, just as the Catholic Church didn't know about the orbiting moons of Jupiter that disproved Their theology. Youall clear now?

In 1983 we came up with new wrinkles on the I Ching. The eight elements are as follows. To the east is fire which is light on the outside and dark on the inside. Fire symbolizes life. To the west is water or the Sea of Green, which is aqua color. This symbolizes death. It is dark on the outside and light on the inside. If the sea of green is the abode of the dead- - I think we can ask what it's made out of. As you know there are subatomic particles. If the "land" symbolizes the physical world than the sea has a more "liquid" subatance. They say that Nothing isn't really nothing but there is all sorts of "stuff" making up empty space. Could it be that the "stuff" making up the Sea of Green actually has something to do with the "stuff" the spirit or soul is made of? I don't know if the spirit or soul either exists and if it does exist does it have any provability? Sylvia Brown talks about "Spiritual" things a lot. For most readers you could well insert the word "imaginary" every time the word "spirit" is used and you just might be right. It's one thing to say that living matter has a "life fource" but doesn't that "fource" need the living matter to sustain it, and what if that living entity host dies? Doesn't the "life fource" die with it? But if there is a Sea of Green maybe it's made out of some kind of subatomic particles we can't see. If it is then by the very nature of Einstinian physics, the "space" it occupies also is different from our Space. (We said the same thing about anti matter) We know that things like quirks behave in "quirky" ways. They almost seem psychic. The laws of physics as we know them don't seem to apply to them. In ZAC mythology- - monsters and demons produced by our own mind are said to reside in this Sea. Now Sylvia Brown has her view of Death. To her you're either an "earth bound being" after you die or you "see the light" and "Go to God". She's calling it "God" now, instead of "The other side". As that Earthlink-link stated "With subatomic particles, all sorts of things become possible and perhaps Real that we don't think can be. In the I Ching there are other directions. Heaven is white and to the north and Earth is black and to the south. To the southeast is the green, which is thunder, or eldest son. This direction of thunder symbolizes Departure or "The Past" or "Temporary". The northeast is pink and is represented by Wood. This stands for "Arrival" and symbolizes The Future or Parmanency. To the southwest you have the Mountain and to the northeast is the "Joyous lake". The person starts in pergitory, according to this oft recited Mark Campbell myth, and you climb up the west side of the Mountain in pennance, and when you reach the top there are the Dancing Waters of the Disneyland Hotel and you know you're but a half mile away from where Zachery, the Messiah lives, or used to live, but this is sort of a "Christmas Day" experiance. The mountain is golden and the lake is blue. The mountain is the youngest son and the lake is the youngest daughter. The images are abasement and exaltation. May God bless to our understanding this reading of his own most Holy Word, (as the Rev. Harry Green used to say)