I know that smoking is on its way out. They don't smoke in Movie scripts the way they used to even as short as a decade ago. Someone said, "Only the bad guys smoke now". Mayor Bloomberg and so many other cities are making their whole metropolises "smoke free zones" where you can't smoke at a baseball stadium or in a city park or the beach or so many other areas. Smokers are becoming like the Jews under Nazi Germany with the noose slowly being tightened on them. People who have cell phones are in a whole other socio economic status from me. I couldn't begin to afford a cell phone and would have little use for most of their trivial devices or "Applications". So how did we survive all these years without these. Still despite the fact that people like me can't even count on enough to eat every day- - we are labeled pampered and priveleged and "entitled" by the Rich- - who see themselves as "victims of the government' who aren't allowed to "unleash the US economy". And then we have the whole gay marriage issue, which is a lot more age related than it is either economics or even politics related. I can't see myself as ever accepting gay marriage. If I'm a Christian I have to follow the Golden Rule. So I have to ask myself "Would I personally have liked it as a kid if I learned I was the only kid raised exclusively by either two fathers or two mothers? No. I thank God I wasn't subjected to that. I wouldn't like it one bit. So why in the name of God should I seek to impose that on any other kid or even those yet to be born? I don't know what kind of homosexual indoctrination is going on in the classrooms these days in kindergarten or in the early grade school years. All I know is they used to have that book "Heather has two Mommies". And the people are already gathering on the Supreme Court grounds like vultures awaiting the decision. Of course often these Justices play Devil's Advocate, so you can't tell from the audio course of the Arguments they often carry on the internet the same day. I thought it was a slam dunk for the conservatives in the whole Insurance Mandate case last June. Who can forget the brocolli argument? "Should therefore the government mandate that your buy brocolli at the grocery store?" From my vantage point it appeared the pro Obama crowd fell flat on it's ass. But in June we were all surprised and a little stunned. How apparently Justice Roberts is inviting some of his gay relatives to watch the proceedings, as if this some sort of Cue in Advance.
Well here is is with Passover due to start in an hour or so and the nation's heartland is still in the grip of a winter snow storm. Even people who are used to the cold weather are getting a little fed up with it and would like to see the green growth of spring. Personally I think people feel the same way about this economy. Money wise, the screws were tightened again on me this month when they increased my medical co-pay. It seems like the same news keeps getting cycled and recycled over and over again. Now here is the view as things were last Friday. - - - I didn’t like the attitude of this guy on KTLK
because he is too eager to excuse the child molesting priests and wonders why
the media even mentions it but wonders why the media just didn’t focus on the
charity work done by the Catholic Church.
He quoted an author who said it’s all the fault of the Vatican II
council that came out in early 1965 that reformed the form of the Mass. He says at that time they changed the
instruction in all the semenaries to include radical sixties liberal type
instruction that openly advocated gay priests and gay nuns. Suffice it to say- I don’t need to say what
garbage that is. And he wants us to
swallow it. It seems as if congress is going to ignore the
debt ceiling crisis and not approve a budget, but instead make it a priority to
go on Easter vacation. Like one female
from Founders said, “Sometimes the last thing you WANT to do is the first thing
you SHOULD do”. But Tuesday’s Supreme
Court arguments haven’t been canceled and people are already camping out on the
court grounds. That brings us to
Sunny on "Days of our Lives". He obviously knows his manhood is
threatened so now he’s a Violent- - Faggot, attacking Nick without cause perhaps trying to get Nick in trouble with his parole officer if he fights back too spiritedly. OK he's not your garden variety faggot who screws around with countless one-nighters with partners he doesn't tell Will about - - - picking up God only knows what kind of Sexual Transmitted Disease - - - he's an Angry - - loud-mouth faggot. It bothers me that the one normal person on that soap opera, the one who is actually acting responsably, the one who has faced up to his faults, who isn't screwing around with a lover who used to be his or her mortal enemy two months earlier - - the one who isn't tied to his parent's apron strings or who will be bailed out by Daddy's money if they should fall on hard times. The one who doesn't think his sperm is special because of his family's last name. HE is the one person on the series who is the most roundly villified by everybody else. “You can’t keep me and Will from raising your
wife’s baby. Why do you think you
are?” He thinks he’s husband and father
to be. And he is correct. I think Clowie has had enough of half way
measures and plans to murder Jenifer, as if that will make Daniel love
her. Is she completely batty? They say that the usual bright flowers are
not blooming in the local deserts this year.
The sap is not flowing in Vermont as it usually is by now, and the
cherry blossoms will be late this year in the nation’s Capital.
There are sometimes you run into a total jackass, even if they're on TV. There is that guy on NBC at three offering dating advice to women that I'll pretty much guarentee will lead to disaster. He suggests when a woman gets to know a man - - - in a bar or someplace, ask him questions he HAS to lie about, because he knows if he doesn't the conversation will end right there. Tip: Never put the man in a position where he has to lie. Because it's kind of like a drill sergeant barking orders to a recruit. The recruit has no choice but to bark orders right back, "Sir, yes sir!" Apparently before the relationship goes anywhere at all even at first contact, ask the man what his prospects are for the near future, and then ask him about his line time aspirations. And then ask him how well he gets along with his family. While you're at at it you might as well ask him what the diameter of his penis is both erect and regular. This host appeals to an impossible standard I doubt even the host himself was able to live up to when he was younger. The host states, "It's not at all improper to ask the man how much money he makes on the first encounter". Saturday
night Bill on his own turned it to “Cops” and we watched it for the hour. There was a segment on a prostitute in Las
Vegas and the arresting cop didn’t have zippidy-doo-dah to base any arrest for
solicitation on, but he kept saying “Stop lying to me’ when the woman never
varied from her story. With the police
the fourth and fifth amendments to the constitution are non existant, don’t you
know. Same difference you know. If you are of a paranoid mind set of "everyone's out to get me" you're going to assume the worst. Sharks attacked that guy in the under water cage because they smelled blood and went into a feeding frenzy. Just like when cops begin firing their guns based on as irrational of cues as the shark, they go into a gun firing frenzy unill they have emptied their guns. You know these women may find husbands who earn a lot of money. But I'lll betr you dollars to donuts their sex life will be nowhere. Worse than that their worst fears will come upon them because their husbands will spend their evenings with "A woman who really understands them" (Selah)
Engrams are different
from ideas. Engrams are by nature neither
true nor false in and of themselves. But
ideas based on knowledge- - are true and redeeming. The difference between
Knowledge and Wisdom is that Wisdom if often laden with moral imperatives and
injunctions more than actual information.
You can learn knowledge from others, but you generally have to acquire
Wisdom on your own. Knowledge is Truth
and the Truth will make you Free.
Christian pastors don’t want you to be Free but bound, and so they are
almost devoid of real Truth. If you form
a Belief about God based on something they said in an attempt to think “OK,
I’ve actually learned something” then they will shoot you down later when a
crisis comes and tell you “God doesn’t deal with people that way” or “God isn’t
like that”. What they have done is taken
a chain of cause and effect you thought you could rely on and just broken
it. So you are back to square one. I don’t have squat any more. You had believed a person “stood for
something” but now you know they don’t stand for anything. If you are in auto shop and the instructor
tells you “That part won’t fit” you know you now have to back up a step as if
you hadn’t taken the last one, and you are again faced with the problem of
which part DOES fit?”. When someone says “I want you to share some of
your ideas with me” such as an employee being called into an executive’s
office- - what he means is that “I want you to share your knowledge with
me”. Or in the words of Gordon Gecko,
“Tell me something I don’t know”. But
both ideas and engrams seem to at times “have a life of their own” and a Season
of their own, when their Time has come.
But nobody is calling these engrams or moral injunctions or imperatives
as “sensient”. It could be argued that
the Superego is what we as people are evolving into. It is the idealized self that looks back at
the end of our lives and tells us what we did wrong in the past. The ego is of a limited perception that
doesn’t “know all the facts” and thus is flawed in its judgements. People have certain “core beliefs” in my
opinion. Even though the circumstances
of my life have changed over the years there is a certain moral consistency and
pattern to my judgements and interactions and value judgements of the
past. I am not ashamed of these. All I’m saying is that I can’t be judged on
what I didn’t know at the time. It can
be said that the strongest friendships are held together through a sharing of
common values- - or even prejudices.
It’s these common values that enable to put yourself in the other
person’s position and “see things from his point of view”. Sometimes when you’re reading up on a
person’s life you read certain passages with a focus and intensity- - as if to
soak up every word because for some reason known only to your Soul, you deem
certain passages as much more important, than you view other passages. It’s as though you’ve read things and say
“this has actually happened- - and I need to refresh myself about the facts”
even though it’s in the life of some individual you’ve never even met.
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