Just Tell Them Jim Didn't Say, "Hello"

[Editor's note. I screwed up badly on one place in this on the first draft. If you caught the blog in the first half hour maybe you downloaded it. It's kind of one of those things like owning an early Mono pressing of the Revolver album, which I own.]

KNOW IN THIS STORY - - QUITE A LOT

OF ASSUMPTIONS ARE MADE AHEAD OF TIME

Neil walks languidly into some throne room where Stewart Sutcliffe is seated behind a massive guilded executive's desk. "You again!" he exclaims, in an excited, almost panicked voice. "I thought I'd seen the last of you". Stewart speaks. "You mean you thought you had used me to suit your purpose and advance your carrier and then forgot about me and my desciples and go strike out on your own". Neil. "You know- - - I had my own following". Stewart. "I know about you and your five desciples. Demons seemed to follow you all around wherever you went". Neil: "I had a Deliverance ministry. " Stewart. "You mean people suffering from the Falling Sickness would have a fit in front of you and then you would say that the demon had come out". Neil. "I did other things. I taught about love and peace" Stewart. "You know the first time I looked into your freak blue eyes I knew you were trouble". Neil. "Oh I know you. You followed that Egyptian who said "Tear down this temple made with hands and in three days I will raise one up not made with hands". Stewart. "I don't believe the Temple of Herod is of God. That's why my ministry was accross the Jordan River. Neil. "Some day scripture will record that I was the greatest Messiah of them all and tabernacles will be built in my honor and hold worship every Sabbath". Stewart. "Today isn't that day" Neil. "I don't believe in End Times scripture. I believe "last things" should be studied "last" and preferably not at all. Stewart. "The prophet Daniel predicts that the end is coming soon and the doctors of the law have mathematically calculated the number of days - which are almost upon us". Neil. "Oh yeah. You and your Persecution shit. You tell your desciples "If you are persecuted in one town then flee to another. And you say that Egyptian guy you worship will come again and he is just on a long trip. Hell. How do you know he isn't dead? Has he written to you recently". Stewart. "Daniel teaches that the antichrist himself will walk into the temple and profane it". Neil. "Your beliefs are stranger than that. You believe valcanoes will erupt in distant lands and darken the skies and turn the moon to blood. I believe in the gospel of peace. I believe that every man can partake of the kingdom of heaven right on earth". Stewart. "Why are you here?" Neil. I'm here because obviously I died. Stewart. "how does that fit into your plans when you claim to offer eternal life? My ministry is alive and well on earth but you fell victim of the law, whereas I died honorably preaching the law to a King". Neil. "I had a great following. People all over idolized me." Stewart. "You were accused of scorcery by the saducees and put on trial and convicted. Then heralds were sent out to proclaim your crime and that if there be any man who thought you were innocent to them come forward. And nobody came forward and you were put to death by stoning as prescribed by the law". Neil. "Some day that won't matter. People won't care if I died. People have Faith. I always tell people faith is the most important thing and that if they had the faith of a grain of mustard seed they could do greater works than I." Stewart. "Sentamental hogwash". Neil. "One thing bothers me and that is now that I'm dead, why am I being judged here in this elaborate executive office by you and not by God?" Stewart. "Because God has allowed it to be so and I never question something God directly tells me". Neil. "You speak of your own vanity". Stewart: "Behold there are religious people who believe an Angel gave me my ministry" Neil. "I lay no claims such as that - BUT Some day great religious edifaces will be constructed in my name. They will see me as the most perfect being who ever lived who brought mankind into the light." Stewart: "Well then tell me "all knowing one". Have you ever heard of anti-biotics, penisslin, streptomiacin- - - for healing of infections? Neil. "infections of demons?" Stewart. "No. Infections of germ. Neil. "What is a germ". Stewart. "You are the great physician and you don't know what germs are. Oh - - that's rich!" Neil. "Nobody catches me in my words". Stewart. "If that were really true you wouldn't have been convicted and sentensed for sorcery - and be despized by the very people you claim to be the savior of". Neil. "I give people a meaning to their lives they never had before. People don't want knowledge which will pass away. People want to be assured their sins are forgiven." Stewart. "Then why don't you have a ministry of baptism like mine". Neil. "Don't be stupid. Who can compete with you". Stewart. "Do you believe you are smarter than me?" Neil. "Yes, I do. And I'm prepared to- - "Die?" Stewart interjected. Neil. "Perhaps I made an unwise choice of words. But yes. By faith I am smarter than you". Stewart. "By faith, huh. Tell me what Achems Razor is. What is the second law of Thermal Dynamics? Do you know what Pi is?" Neil. "I don't speak Greek". Stewart. "Define the term kilowatt hour. Do you know what a prime number is? What is the shape of this world we live on?" Neil. "I can answer that last one. The Bible plainly teaches the world is square and hangs upon nothing". Stewart. "What if you get to the edge of the square?" Neil. "Then you fall off the edge, I suppose". Stewart. "What is an algorithm? Sumarize for me the Pythagorean theorem. Define what a control test group is. What does the Greek word "Logos" refer to? What causes the wind to blow? Neil. "The wind is a manifestation of the Spirit of the Lord moving upon the earth". Stewart. "My analysis of you is that you display an Apalling Lack of Knowledge- - - About Everything". Neil. "Not all truths are true, but only those Truths which give glory to God the Father". Stewart. "I never heard that one before". Neil. "Is the Temple not still standing in Jerusalem?" Stewart. "Last time I checked". Neil. "How come it hasn't been thrown down as your great hero, the Egyptian predicted it would be? You know of course that Scripture predicts that the Second Temple will be greater than the first, because the Lord himself will inhabit it". Stewart. "I'm spent enough time fooling with you. I'm going to send you where I sent all the others". Neil. "Where is that?" Stewart: - - "To a big underground holding area where you will be given a white robe and a palm branch waiting for your Messiah to come to you". Neil. "I am the Messiah". Stewart. "Sure you are. Not when you've been waiting around for hundreds of years or longer for God to give you some sign, and there is none. Not when you're just one of a few million just waiting in a virtual grave- - - Till Hell Freezes Over".

AND NOW SOMETHING JUST ABOUT AS STRANGE

If you think I'm making book on tonight's NBA play-off, hell no. Some of you may be wondering why I didn't just borrow Sgt. Pepper from a friend and hear the whole thing. The answer is a big "I don't Know". I listened to Rolling Stones albums I didn't own, or the Byrds or "Rubber Soul". Why did I do a lot of things I did back then? I remember a few times I got reefer from somebody and then complained they were ripping me off, like it was oregano or something. Later on when I had tons of the weed at my disposal it cam down to my body chemistry. It just took tons of the stuff to get me off. I'll tell you one way I'd be different now if I were to go back to the High School era and that I'd be a lot MORE and not less paranoid about people's intentions, particularly members of my own family. Of course I played this little game with myself like there were two of us, and one of ME was a lot more paranoid than the other. The paranoid part of me wondered how the other half always managed to get more girls than I did. The other part or "impostor" part was much more of a "go along to get along" type and was a lot more into church youth groups and such. Perhaps you have observed strangely scitzoid or "inconsistent" reactions to certain events. Back prior to 1968 if there were any references for instance to Jesus Christ in my doodelings or drawings or whatever I did - - - it was positive. This would turn around completely in 1968. The "impostor" half of me was much more inclined to sit through a boring movie on TV is those around me seemed interested in it. One thing we know about "Jim" or "the impostor" half- - not from my life from that "Other" like millions knew about, was that he was into the blues in a major way. However this is somewhat of an exagurated myth is you look at it. He could have recorded anything he wanted to but seldom chose a blues number. And what few there were became increasingly sparse as he grew older. So it should be no surprise that in his next "walk in" life, he actually disliked the blues and didn't like "long jamming sessions", but was into progressive rock like Yes, Genisis, Kansas, and Styx. Of course later on he listened only to Christian rock. The trouble with Christian rock is that it's always X number of years behind the times. So if disco is in, they're still doing country rock. When punk was in they were doing disco, and in the 'eighties they were still doing punk when it had long since become out of fashion. One of Jim's sayings was on the subject of marriage. He would say, "Someone told me that if you got married and had an empty jar and every time you had sex you put a penny in the jar and did that for the first year. And then from then on for the rest of your life every time you had sex you'd take a penny out of the jar, that there would never come a time when you had taken all the pennies out of the jar". So what is Jim doing now? He gave up life as a utility pole climber long ago to become an attorney. But this was maybe fifteen years ago. All we know is that he and his wife have no biological children.