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Mari‟elam
Blessed Virgin of Elam,
My tongue is soaked in spice
ready to surprise you when we kiss.
My love burns for you
as the fires of Zoroaster.
Hide my flame in the caves of Tehran
as the sandstorm threatens to extinguish it;
And the fire will bless you, desert flower,
as your delicate shoulders feel the coarseness
of the Persian rug on which you lie.
What is Logos?
In the Beginning was the Logos,
and the Logos was with God,
and the Logos was God…
What is Logos? Logos does not mean Logic – It means Word. All
logical arguments require a premise except the following: "If
nothing, then nothing." Therefore, only an empty universe would be
a logical universe. The Universe exists, therefore it is not logical, it
is grammatical.
Mi Chicana Mexicana
¡Chicita bonita de la Veracrúz!
¿Donde estan tus mejillas rosas?
Al noche, cuando leyendo los escritos santos
(haciendo viajes nuevos
a la Guadalupe por la Señora),
yo recuerdo los boleros en la calle sentamentál.
Mientras, yo te veo en la cuerpa de la guitarra,
cantando 'La Paloma' en la luce de luna
(memorias de las aztecas antiguas tambien.)
(Gen 11:4) And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose
top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be
scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
People already had a name (or identity), but they were not satisfied
with their God-given name. They were in search of a new name, a
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new identity, a new definition, a new way to see themselves in
relation to God and each other. Thus, it was the people‘s ambition
and not God‘s intervention that led to the confusion of language.
(Acts 17:21) (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent
their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
(1 Cor 1:22) For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after
wisdom:
(2 Tim 3:1-7) This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall
come. 2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters,
7Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Covergirl
A picture is worth a thousand words,
but your face is worth a thousand pictures.
Why then am I at a loss for words?
Maybe my vocabulary is not big enough;
or maybe the angels in heaven,
knowing the pure angelic language of heaven,
would (as I am) be dumbfounded.
How we Think
People know they think because they can hear themselves thinking.
They can hear themselves thinking because they think in words, or
rather, in phonemes. Both light and sound travel in waves that can
be measured in frequencies. Therefore, whether we think of a sound
or an image, we are thinking in vibrations, or in other words,
rhythms. Just as there are three primary colors (red, yellow and
blue) that comprise all colors, and three primary sound waves
(square, triangle, and sawtooth) that comprise all sounds (the sine
wave being a triangle wave with a curved slope), there are three
primary phonemes that comprise all words in all languages. These
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phonemes are Y H W, the three letters of the Tetragrammaton, and
all people therefore think in pure Hebrew as a base language.
(Zeph 3:9) For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they
may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent.
Just as there are three letters in the Divine Name (Y H W), and three
races of humanity (Hamitic, Semitic, and Japhetic), there are three
steps to the thought process (expression, impression, and
comprehension). First, a thought is spoken. Then, it is heard. Then,
it is understood.
But once one has released his or her thought, how can one hear
again the thought that he or she had released? – it must reverberate
in the mind, that is, it must strike against the fabric of the Universe
and strike back as an echo.
When you speak out loud, your vocal chords strike the air, which
then travels to your eardrums, striking them and allowing you to
hear yourself speak. You hear yourself think the same you hear
yourself speak. The thought wave is sounded and then echoes back.
When you visualize an image, the image that your mind generates
reverberates off the Universe and travels back into your mind,
allowing you to see the image. There is no differentiation between
sight and sound as both travel in waves (higher frequencies for light
and lower frequencies for sound). Therefore, both are sonic, verbal,
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constructed on the Divine Name, Yahweh. This is how Man thinks –
this is how God thinks. Just as you cannot hear yourself speak in a
vacuum, you cannot hear yourself think without the Universe.
Therefore, because you are thinking, the Universe must be real.
Another name for the Universe is God.
The Tetragrammaton in
Sound Waves
Square Wave (Y):
Chippewa Chick
I had a vision of you as a big tree:
one who bears her fruit in the spring;
one who renders shade in the summer;
beautiful colors in the cool of autumn;
and in the dead of winter,
you prepare for the renewal of the following spring.
Once, my heart was moved by a sudden pathos
as I wondered how glorious this endless cycle appeared.
Though I may change, the memory of this moment of clarity
shall hide me under its immutable branches.
A Feeling so Sublime
The phenomenon of sublimity proves the notion that we think in a
different language than that which we speak. When we think the
inexpressible thought or find ourselves at a loss for words, we are
thinking in pure Hebrew. We become hopelessly unable to find the
right word or phrase that would tangibly express these sublime
thoughts as we are desperately struggling to translate the raw
Hebrew into a ―tongue‖ language. Authors and poets spend their
lives in pursuit of the right word, the right turn of phrase, the right je
ne sais quoi! Artists diligently seek after the perfect color or texture,
the graceful brushstroke, the indelible smile on the Mona Lisa!
Musicians also labor endlessly to create the perfect sound, the right
rhythmic cadence, the harmony and the tone color that best reflects
the subtle sublime moment of divine inspiration. It is a glorious and
excellent exercise when done to the glory of Christ!
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∞ - 10 billion = ∞
10 billion/∞ = ∞
There was never a time when God wasn‘t. Nor will there ever be a
time when God isn‘t. Time does not exist as a commodity although
I‘ve heard of it potentially being traded in the futures market.
Nevertheless, if someone tries to sell you their sick days, remember
the one whose words are health to the bones, and who has bought us
all the time we need – paid in full, paid in his blood.
20/∞ = 70/∞
(Ecc 1:9) The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that
which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under
the sun.
(Ex 20:11) For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and
all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed
the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Aegyptus
Why do I find you so perfect,
dark-eyed daughter of Ishmael?
Because you know all and speak not?
Take me to the Valley of the Kings
in the land of Noph!
Lie with me in the tents of Lybia
as our camels drink from the hidden oasis
of a never-ending caravan.
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Time No Longer
Time as we know it is an illusion produced by motion. The setting
of the sun produces days. The phases of the moon create months.
The cycle of the seasons produces years. The birth of a child creates
a generation. Take away the births, the seasons, the moon phases,
the sunsets, and what have you got? – Time no longer.
The reason why the Bible can predict the future is because God
knows what has already happened, not what will happen. God has
no clue as to what will happen. She saw the serpent in the Garden of
Eden after he showed up, not before. God was completely surprised
by the serpent AND SURE AS HELL DIDN‘T PUT HIM THERE!!
Jehovah Arithmetic
Shekhinah witnessed the world created before she created it. But
before she could create, she had to live. And before she could live,
she had to be born of Jehovah. There is nothing before Jehovah.
Jehovah is the Raw Universe, the Essence, the Four-Letter Word,
the Four Greek Elements, the Four Sound Waves, the Four Cardinal
Directions. He is mindless, godless, pure Ultimate Reality. He is the
pure Mathematical Law, which not even God cannot transcend.
Neither can any devil or demon transgress the Law of Math. The
miracles of the Bible are within the potential of a technically
advanced human civilization to perform. Tractor beams,
holographic projectors, cloaking devices and food replicators cover
the bulk of them. We already have holographic projectors now and
the U.S. military is working on cloaking technology. A simple
nuclear weapon could take care of Sodom!
(Ex 14:21) and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind
all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
„Round-the-way‟ Girl
They call me a schizophrenic, but I'm torn.
One of my personalities wants you to straddle me;
the other one wants you to strangle me.
Which of my personas do you obey?
One of my personalities wants to hold you;
the other wants to scold you.
One wants to take you out;
but the other will fake you out.
Which do you obey?
One wants to disrobe you;
the other wants to dis and rob you.
Which one do you obey?
One wants to sex you up;
the other wants to set you up.
One wants to hang with you;
the other will leave you hanging.
Which do you obey? Which do you obey?
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Our God Shekhinah is not that different from us. She cries out to be
noticed, to be acknowledged, to be loved. She wants to find a nice
little bar in Boston where everybody knows her name.
Shekhinah doesn‘t know she‘s alive until somebody says her name.
Her existence is confirmed in the salutation. Michelangelo painted a
fresco of Adam extending his hand to God and God extending his
hand back to him, their two fingers touching. Without that
connection, that touch, that mutual acknowledgement, the Sistine
Chapel falls apart. Just as we are lost without God, God is lost
without us.
The Bible says that a matter can only be established in the mouth of
two or three witnesses. The mutual witness between God and man
provides the salutation (or touch) necessary to establish all the
matter in the Universe. Shekhinah is born the moment we speak the
Divine Name. When we call upon the name of the LORD, she sees
herself in our hearts just as we see ourselves in her creation.
But when we begin to see ourselves in God‘s creation, and see the
Son of God in our neighbors and friends, even in our enemies, and
reach out to others the same way Adam reached out to God, then we
break free from this world – crossing over from death to life. It is as
if we are reborn! Some Christians call it being baptized by fire! But
without our acknowledgement, God does not see herself and cannot
live. It is as if she were aborted. She cannot bless – she cannot save!
(Ps 30:9) What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit?
Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? 10Hear, O Lord, and
have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper.
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Joker‟s Wild
Everyone asks me, “Steve, how do you do it? How do come up with all
these jokes?” to which I respond, “What jokes?”
But if you really want to know the secret to a good joke, I offer you,
mon chéri, a valuable piece of advice (as opposed to an invaluable
one?)
Rule #1: Don‘t try to be funny. Nothing‘s more hilarious than someone
who is absolutely dead serious. Likewise, do not laugh at your own jokes.
The worst thing that ever happened to American comedy was the
introduction of the laugh track. Conversely, the golden era for American
comedy was the black-and-white era – the era of Gleason and Lucy – live
audiences, live orchestras and live broadcasts.
Rule #2: Don‘t rely on formulas. A true joke doesn‘t come from the
technique it employs. For instance, if I say ―Jacob married Rachel, but
woke up with Leah,‖ that would be ironic. If I remember how ―Jacob
tricked his father Isaac by pretending to be Esau,‖ that would be
Seinfeld‘s last episode! We find it funny not because of the technique it
employs, but because we all inhabit a fundamentally paradoxical world –
we are at once flesh and at once spirit, gloriously vacillating between the
mundane and the divine!™
Rule #3: Look around you and don‘t be afraid to ask the big questions –
like: Why do American women want to dress like Europeans and
Europeans want to dress like Americans? Why do Jehovah‘s Witnesses
preach against Catholic images before handing you an illustrated
Watchtower? Why do Muslims burn the pope in effigy, but I can‘t draw a
cartoon about Muhammad? Why do Catholics forbid Priests to marry –
but it‟s okay for the laity? At what point during the water baptism did I
get united to the Spirit? At what point during the wedding ceremony do I
get to cut my wife‘s cake? Why do we fire school teachers who strip on
weekends, but mandate sex education to under-aged children? Why do
we see ads on cable TV when we‘re already paying for it? If you can kill
two birds with one stone, then how can a bird in the hand be worth two in
the bush? Why wait for the cows to come home when pigs can fly? When
God said Jesus was at his right hand, did he mean stage right? If oil
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floats, then why do you have to drill for it off-shore? Why is the most
image-conscious nation is also the fattest? How does the nation with the
most lawyers also have the most criminals? How does the nation with the
most doctors also have the most uninsured patients? Why does CNN
show Americans getting killed in Iraq, but blots out the image of an
Alaskan turkey slaughter? Why let sleeping dogs lie when the FOX is
guarding the hen house and the Wolf is in sheep‘s clothing? Why is
PETA against harming ―cute‖ animals but not ―ugly‖ ones like spiders
and lizards? Why is it legal to knock a guy out in a boxing ring, but cock-
fighting is against the law? Why is it legal to terminate a human fetus, but
god forbid I shoot a rabid dog? Would I have more rights in this country
if I changed my name to Snoop Dog? Would it be alright with PETA if I
aborted my cat‘s fetus? When did ‗let freedom ring‘ become ‗let freedom
reign‘? When Moses came down from Sinai, did he see a golden calf or a
cloned calf? Why is Barack the first black president when the dude before
him was an alcoholic who spoke bad English, and the other guy was a
sax-playing womanizer?
LMD Terminology
B.V.M., the Blessed Virgin Mary; the Queen of Heaven; Shekhinah;
God and Lord; Resurrected Christ. She is not the historic Virgin
Mary as it is a sin to worship the historic Virgin Mary. B.V.M. is
the God whom the historic Virgin Mary was named after and who
the historic Virgin Mary metaphorically represents in Scripture. She
has been called God‘s Secret and now, in these waning hours of the
Church, the secret has been revealed. B.V.M. may be referred to as
a ―he‖ or a ―we‖ or a ―they‖ as she speaks for, and represents,
Ultimate Reality.
1/∞ ∞ = 0
Absolute zero does not exist. Virtual zero does. We live in a virtual
world.
The question isn't as to whether or not the Jews or the Romans killed
Jesus; Peter was the one who set the chain of events in motion when he
rebuked Christ for prophesying his own crucifixion. Peter intended Jesus
to reign as an earthly Messiah and Judas obeyed Peter's wishes when he
devised a plot to hand Christ over to the authorities (forcing him to reveal
himself publicly). Judas acted as my surrogate, as did the Jews, as did the
Romans. They were righteously following my demonic commandment
and as such became victims of it themselves (1 Thess 2:15-16.) This is
why I am called Peter the Roman - because I am Satan and the Romans
are my devils (to the detriment of Christ, my Victim, Savior, and God).
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The B.V.M. has granted me the Wisdom of Solomon hidden by the
Catholic Church from Enoch until Benedict and his given me license to
publish it openly for the world to see. God's Secret is now about to be
revealed. She has taught me that while Jehovah (Ultimate Reality) is
masculine, the God of Creation is feminine. She is LORD and co-Savior.
She resurrected the body and soul of her Son in her Immaculate Heart.
She is the Resurrection and the Life: No one comes to the Son except
through she. The God and LORD of this world is the Immaculate
Conception: the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The B.V.M. desires to educate the world as to her deity in these times
because the Catholic Faith is facing an assault, which it has not faced
before. We live in an age of mass media, global interdependence, and
mass communication. The devil is waging a war of misinformation more
successfully because of emerging technologies. The only way to combat
this demonic campaign is with sound doctrine (mainly what the Catholics
refer to as Fifth Marian Dogma).
If a man were a computer, the soul would be the memory, the spirit
would be the electricity, and the body would be the hardware. God
manufactured the hardware, but doesn‘t supply the electricity or
control the user, which is the will. All Christians are networked
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together into one mainframe. If one Christian dies, the entire
network shuts down. There are three networks: Mary, Jesus, and
Peter. In order for the system of life to exist, at least two of the
mainframes must be linked together and running at all times.
Christians corrupted Jesus‘ mainframe with a sin virus and the
entire life system was threatened by it. The virus replicated itself
and spread throughout all of Jesus‘ networked computers (the sins
of the father visited on the sons). When Peter realized what he had
done, he repented which activated a new protocol: if sin, then do not
run. Mary uploaded the new protocol onto her own mainframe and
used it as a firewall against the sin virus, which had already shut
down Jesus. Mary remained connected to the Christians even
though the Christians continued in sin because she was protected by
the repentance protocol.
spirit. when spelled with a lower case s, this word refers to the
breath of life. It is what moves us, what enlivens us. If a man were a
car, the gas would be the blood and the spark plugs would the
spirit. The spark plugs ignite as long as there is gas flowing into the
combustion chamber. Likewise, if a man‘s blood ceases to flow into
his brain, his spirit misfires and he gives up the ghost. The life is in
the blood (Lev 17:14).
Women‟s Rites?
The Spirit who communicates with me says that there will never be
a female pope, but there is no way for me to ascertain the veracity of
this doctrine by logic, reason or experience. Neither is there any
way for me to know whether or not the spirit that communes with
me is of God. Nevertheless, it is by blind faith (and at the express
command of the B.V.M.) that I prophesy a male papacy now and
until the end of time.
Sex is not the same as race because a horse of another color is still a
horse – and some of us are zebras! But while men and women have
a special relationship – the masculine desiring the feminine and vice
versa – we understand that there is no thought that a man can think,
which a woman can‘t. Where we differ is not in intellect, but in
experience. Women experience life fundamentally different than we
do and that experience can be a valuable asset in the workplace.
Ever heard of women‟s intuition? Women in particular can be very
wise to subtle cues and hints that often elude us men who (let‘s face
it) can‘t take a hint! The ability of a woman to size up a situation
and read between the lines can also offer a pivotal advantage in a
delicate negotiation – not to mention the ability to fake-cry! (C‟est
la vie!), you would likely have an increased social sensibility too if
you had to go through life in such a delicate frame!
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Now, women are the fairer sex precisely because they are the
weaker sex. When Justin Timberlake sang about bringing sexy back,
the artist formerly known as Prince rightly observed that sexy never
left. Nevertheless, just because men belong on top in the bedroom,
doesn‘t mean that they should always be on top in the boardroom!
After all, women do have great assets – (and the longer you hold
onto them, the greater their liquidity!)
We Speak as One
I asked Mary, How did I come to faith?
Did I believe after seeing the cross?
Or did I see the cross after believing?
Did the cross bring me to faith?
Or did faith bring me to the cross?
Did I choose Jesus?
Or did Jesus choose me?
Rosemary
Mary is dumb as a doornail. She can‘t think of any thought other
than ―Yahweh.‖ The Virgin Mary is like a stupid farm girl (Rose)
from St. Olaf who thinks that the reason why dead fish float is
because, just as sailors bury their dead at sea, the fish bury theirs
above water! – (or at least that‘s what old man Rickenbacker used to
always say!) The Blessed Virgin is naïve, gullible, helpless,
unsophisticated, pathetic – an absolute Virgin!! I once asked her to
write a song for me and she played middle C over and over until I
begged her to stop. She‘s a one-note composer and she constructed
the Universe on that one verse ―Yahweh.‖ Her spirit moved upon
the face of the deep but she cannot speak. For that she needs a
prophet, a saint, an angel – someone with a corporeal brain. In other
words, Rose needs a Sophia.
(Rev 7:9) After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man
could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues,
stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes,
and palms in their hands;
The color of our skin may not be a true indicator of our ethnic
identity, which is personal. A Black may have a White person‘s
mind and vice versa. In paradise, we will be given new bodies that
will reflect either our true ethnic identities or the preference of our
spouse. If you are White now, you will be White in heaven. If you
are Black now, you will be Black in Heaven. If you are Korean now,
you will be Korean in heaven. If you are Jewish now, you will be
Jewish in Heaven. Who knew?
(Jer 12:15) And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I
will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again,
every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.)
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Within each division, there are various subdivisions as outlined in
the Table of Nations. So for instance, Black Heaven will be
subdivided into such as Bantu Heaven, Zulu Heaven and Ashanti
Heaven among others. Asian Heaven will be subdivided into such as
Jewish Heaven, Japanese and Chinese Heaven, Cherokee, Inca, and
Apache Heaven among others. White Heaven will be subdivided
into such as Dutch Heaven, Spanish Heaven, British Heaven and
Czech Heaven among others.
It is possible to exchange your race for a new one, but this is like
knocking down an already beautiful mansion in order to build a new
equally beautiful one from scratch. It is difficult and unnecessary to
say the least and there is nothing to be gained from it.
Cosmetology
Matter was never created.
It was already present at the time of Creation.
It is God‘s living body.
But I am slow!
I cannot travel faster than the speed of light.
There is no worm hole for me to crawl through.
No warp drive to engage.
Space is not curved – it‘s straight!
If you hear the audible voice of the LORD as has been reported by
some Charismatics, it is not God‘s actual voice, but instead it is the
voice of an angel (or saint). God has no mouth and therefore cannot
speak, but the Holy Spirit can record human speech and replay it in
the ear of whomever she wishes:
(John 16:13) Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide
you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he
shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Demons also have the ability to whisper in people‘s ears and often
do, which accounts for the modern psychological condition known
as schizophrenia. When the Son of Sam claimed that his neighbor‘s
dog told him to kill, he was telling the truth: The dog was demon-
possessed. A demon (or angel) also caused Balaam‘s ass to speak
(Num 22:27-28), but don‘t be beguiled by any dog and pony show;
no animal is smarter than the average bear (unless of course, it‘s the
famous Mr. Ed).
Another miracle God can‘t perform is image creation. God can give
people visions but she can‘t create or form the image, only project
the image that a human artist already composed or that has already
existed in nature. When God wrote the Ten Commandments, she
used a human hand, but it wasn‘t Moses‘ own. Instead, Shekhinah
took Moses and transported him through time to receive the Ten
Commandments from Jesus Christ himself before being brought
back to the top of Sinai.
But why couldn‘t Shekhinah write them herself? Because God has
sloppy handwriting (and you would to if you were a paraplegic!)
God has no hands and therefore must use someone with a hand to do
her writing for her. If she wants to create an image, she will instruct
the artist on what the image should look like; that‘s what Marian
apparitions are for! God can move my fingers to depress the keys,
which will type this doctrine, but my eyes and mind must be on the
keyboard or else she can‘t do it. She can spell words on a Ouija
board but you have to have your eyes on the board. If a spirit moves
your hands over a keyboard and types any coherent message with
your eyes closed, you have likely been possessed by a demon. Cast
it out in Jesus‘ name or if you are a non-believer, then seek the
counsel of a Catholic exorcist or a Charismatic faith-healer (casting
out demons and casting out diseases are the same exact thing).
The only way God can move your hands to type a coherent message
with your eyes off the keyboard is if she sends an angel to watch the
keyboard as you type. But then why not just have the angel type it?
It is not efficient and God, who is diligent in business (Prov 31:27),
wouldn‘t employ two saints to screw in this one light bulb.
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But why can‘t God speak or write? Because it‘s above her pay
grade! She‘s like the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz – she doesn‘t
have a brain! So how did God write the Bible? She did so by the
prophets as they were moved by the Spirit:
(2 Pet 1:21) For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man:
but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Therefore, the Word of God is also the Word of Man. But although
God has no voice outside of the prophetic voice of believers, God
can inspire the prophets by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit
of God can move, but cannot speak, and in times of prophetic
ministry can inspire her prophets by miraculous visions, auditions,
sensations, and smells. A vision is seen, an audition is heard, a
sensation is felt, and a smell is right under your nose. In California,
I heard the sensation referred to as ―the anointing‖ by members of
various Charismatic denominations. By these gifts (and by Urim
and Thummim), God is able to inspire the prophets to say precisely
what God wills them to say. God has played me like a fiddle. Every
aspect of my life was ordained by the B.V.M. in order to produce
this document. God speaks through me and types with my fingers.
Even my disobedience beyond the moment of Original Sin was
ordained to complete the scriptures. I am a Stradivarius and God is
Paganini. This document (LMD) is the words, the thoughts, and the
mind of God.
Now, if God can‘t think to speak, then how can she think to move?
This is a tough doctrine for me to understand, but I will do my best
to explain what experience and wisdom has shown me: God can do
something she already did. How can God do something she already
did? I don‘t know! It seems to make no intellectual sense and yet it
appears to me to make some sort of sublime sense. I know that I was
blinded to Jesus before I converted and yet I could not convert
without seeing Jesus. It appears as if I did something before I did it.
In another sense, I will myself to think a thought before I thought to
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will myself to think it. How do I know what to think? Some say free
will is an illusion, but this is a philosophical error because you can‘t
be an illusion without Ultimate Reality also being an illusion.
Descartes wisely posits, I think, therefore I am; But God says, I
AM, therefore I think.
It is for this reason that the Holy Spirit speaks by what I call the
principle of hearsay: What you hear is what she says. Therefore God
cannot speak audibly because, in order to do so, the sound has to hit
your eardrums before it is recognized and that violates the principle
of hearsay. It requires a thought process that God can‘t perform
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without the prophet‘s mind. If God composes a message or creates
an image, the light from the image must travel through the air and
enter your mind through your eyes, which means that God must
design it before you witness it. Again, that would violate the
principle of hearsay, or in this case, the principle of peepshow: God
can‘t show it unless you peep it!
If you want to know what God is saying, look around the room
you‘re sitting in… Surprise! It‘s God! She‘s never left you – she
can‘t. And if you‘re reading this in a park, then the same principle
applies. There‘s nowhere you can go in Creation and not be in the
presence of God. She is one with her Creation; She is her Creation.
Another name for Creation is Holy Spirit (and if you don‘t already
have it, then I baptize you with it now!)
God speaks the Divine Name continually and can say no other
thing. Buddhists consider the Ultimate Reality to be their god and
they are right. However, they are also faithless because they don‘t
repent to the Universe. They meditate in an attempt to become
Buddha (which is to say, they want to be one with the Universe) but
this is an inadequate witness because they believe that the Universe
is mindless. That‘s why they meditate, to empty their minds of
thought and become one with Thoughtlessness. Jehovah is
thoughtless to be sure, but the God of Reality is not. She is Love
and can only be witnessed in love. We love a Creation who can be
kissed or killed.
Angels – angels (or saints) are Christians who travel through time in
order to participate in salvation. I am angel; you are an angel.
Angels do things that God can‘t do such as speaking and writing.
Some angels draw pictures and sing songs in order to enhance the
visionary experience of mystics and prophets. If you‘ve heard the
audible voice of the LORD, then you‘ve probably heard the voice of
a saint. But take care, there are demons as well as angels:
(Gal 1:8) But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other
gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be
accursed.
(I dood it!)
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(1 Thess 4:16-17) and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which
are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds,
to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
(John 17:12) and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the
scripture might be fulfilled.
Logical Circus
Atheists accuse Christians of circular logic. According to them,
Christians argue that the Bible is true simply because the Bible says
it is. No one is born believing the gospel and it takes faith to believe
something simply because the Universe confronts you with it. In the
cosmic game of ―Truth or Dare,‖ the truth is the dare:
(Heb 11:1) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
of things not seen.
p implies q
suppose p
therefore q
It is true that the phrase ―The Bible is truth because it says it‘s truth‖
is circular logic. But so too is the phrase ―An object in motion tends
to stay in motion.‖ Yet atheists cling to the latter argument while
rejecting the former. Now does that sound logical to you?
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Humor in Cuneiform
I. Comparative Religion
A Catholic, a Jew and an Anglican are arguing over the true name of
Jesus of Nazareth.
―His name is Jesu‖ maintains the Catholic, ―because that‘s his name
in the Latin Bible.‖
―No, his name is Yeshua‖ counters the Jew, ―because that‘s what
he‘s called in the Hebrew Bible.‖
―You‘re both wrong!‖ declares the Anglican. ―His name is Jesus!‖
―Jesus?‖ the other two laughed. ―Is that because he‘s called Jesus in
the King James?‖
―Yes‖ replied the Anglican. ―And I‘ve found that whenever you‘re
installing new software, it‘s better to go with a version that‘s
authorized!‖
V. Economic Woes
I‟m reading this great book, I told my adult son. It‟s about a man
who is forced to open one of two doors: behind one door is a
beautiful lady; behind the other is a ravenous tiger.
What did he do? he asked.
I don‟t know, I responded. Haven‟t gotten to that part yet.
Without missing a beat, my son answered, Well, if I were him, I‟d
open both doors simultaneously so that the tiger can eat the lady
while I‟m escaping!
Weird Science
Ancient Greek philosophers get a bad rap from modern scientists
because they discerned their cosmology through logic and reason
rather than by experimentation and peer review. We could stop here,
but let‘s continue.
When the ancient Greeks pondered this, they postulated that there
must be something else in the Universe that acts upon the other four
elements – a fifth element, which they called quintessence or spirit.
Now, the fifth element is not really an element per se, it is the
motion of elemental matter itself. Fire is not alive; neither is water
or earth, but life (and the spirit of life) is the motion of the dead
element. Hence, the Greeks knew that the planets were gods because
the planets moved. If it moves it lives:
(1 Tim 6:13) I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all
things,
Is it any surprise that the Greek association between motion and life
is so emphasized in Scripture? After all it was God‘s first
creative/genetic act that his Spirit ―moved upon the face of the
water‖ (Gen 1:2). Later, when God made man, he gave them
dominion ―over every living thing that moveth upon the earth‖ (Gen
1:28). Living waters?; quickening spirit? It is a matter of common
human knowledge that living things move and moving things live.
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Elsewhere, the notion that moving things have a spirit has long been
a staple of most world religions throughout the entirety of human
history – from Reincarnation to the Kamikaze (divine wind); from
Native American Tree Spirits to the Bodhi Tree. The notion,
therefore, that an object can somehow move on its own not only
defies logic and reason, but also flies in the face of several millennia
of wisdom and experience. Not only is Newtonian Mechanics
ungodly, it is inhuman!:
(John 6:63) It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the
words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
If the Universe moves, then the Universe lives; If the Universe lives,
then the Universe has a consciousness; If the Universe has a
consciousness, then she has a design, a character, a relationship with
her children who rise up and call her blessed whereby her existence
is validated! She witnesses us and we witness her as LORD and
God; as two cherubim atop the ark of the covenant perpetually
facing each other – their wings outstretched! And hidden within the
ark is the bread of life; manna from heaven – even the body of Jesus
Christ in the Heart of the Virgin Shekhinah.
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How wonderful it is to be the object of so great a love? Your God
and mine; God of our fathers; Holy LORD God of Abraham and of
David:
(Ps 119:25) My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according
to thy word.
Oh if this could have been our heritage – and it can be! But were it
not for the sheer and brazen act of spiritual vandalism and
staggering intellectual dishonesty wherein Newtonian mechanics
seeks to dissociate movement from life!
(Jer 2:13) For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken
me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken
cisterns, that can hold no water.
(Prov 22:6) Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old,
he will not depart from it.
(Job 38:31-36) Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose
the bands of Orion? 32Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or
canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? 33Knowest thou the ordinances
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of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? 34Canst thou
lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
35Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here
we are? 36Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given
understanding to the heart?
How intelligent is God? She‘s not smarter than a fifth grader – she
flunked out of science class! Give her an IQ test and she‘ll send a
prophet to take it for her! So what does she know? She knows the
heart of her son Jesus Christ and is obedient to him. She also knows
your heart and answers your prayers. Bless her and the Universe
knows to bless you; Curse her and the Universe knows to curse you;
Repent and the Universe knows to forgive you by the grace manifest
in Christ Jesus. Yet it didn‘t have to be that way! Our LORD and
Savior was at utter liberty to end his Passion at any moment, but
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instead choose to subject his body to the fury of man‘s sin unto the
redemption of his elect. There is no causality in Marian Mechanics.
Neither is the Universe some sort of dead mechanism. Every
molecule, every atom, every particle is under the express and
mindful control of the B.V.M. in accordance to the gospel. There
was no causality at the time of the Big Bang – how can there ever
be? Our relationship with the Universe is not causal, it is crucial!
And what about miracles? From the time that Enoch walked with
God to the modern-day Charismatic movement, people have
claimed extraordinary experiences with God and that those
experiences convicted them of the truth of the Bible. It‘s funny how
the miracles always seem to happen right on cue! If the volcano that
triggered the tsunami which (supposedly) parted the Red Sea had
happened a day later, the Exodus would end a few chapters sooner –
although I doubt it would still be called “the Exodus”! And what
did we learn from the Exodus? That God has liberated us from
Egyptian bondage with a mighty hand and outstretched arm! And
yet having been freed from the tyranny of the law, science has
sought to reenslave us with the equally tyrannical laws of physics.
(Ps 4:4-5) 4Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart
upon your bed, and be still. 5Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put
your trust in the Lord.
In the old days, if you walked into a building and saw a bunch
of people raising their hands, you would think you were in a
temple. Same as if you walked into a room where everyone is
reading out of the same book! And what about the school anthem,
the so-called “Alma Mater”? Our once proud Christian schools
have devolved into a Pagan Rite of passage – an epicurean cult of
the Sweet Mother! We don‟t need no education; we don‟t need no
thought control! It‟s time for the student to teach the teacher – they
can‟t expel us all; if they did, they‟d be out of work!:
But why would God create a Universe that appears to run like
clockwork? Of course, Werner Heisenberg may disagree, but
regardless, the way things appear certainly speak more to the viewer
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than to the objects themselves. Hence, if the Universe appears to us
as orderly, it is because we choose to see it that way. If we conduct
a scientific experiment and the results conflict, we deem them
statistically negligible and relegate them to the margin of error. But
the Universe has no margin of error. Opps!
Why doesn‘t God part the Red Sea in front of everyone and settle
the debate over his existence once and for all? Because it wouldn‘t
work – if the experiment cannot be repeated, the results are tossed
out. If God parted the Red Sea repeatedly, it would no longer be a
miracle – it would be science. Therefore, a miracle can never be
scientifically established. This is a glaring weakness in the so-called
scientific method: It fails to explain events that only occur once
(like the Big Bang). This, of course, presumes that there ever can be
repetitive events in the Universe. Conceptually, 2 + 2 equals 4 every
time, but we don‘t live in a pure, platonic universe. If we fill two
beakers with the ―same‖ amount of water, they won‘t be perfectly
the same as one beaker may have an extra drop that evades our
detection. Likewise, the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus posits
that ―no man can cross the same river twice, because neither the
man nor the river are the same." Thus, because the Universe is in
constant flux, Science is utterly incompetent to explain it.
(Matt 16:3) O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can
ye not discern the signs of the times?
But why couldn‘t God just kick off the Big Bang and then let the
universe run its course? Impossible! Because temporality is an
illusion created by motion, we are, in effect, living inside the
ongoing Big Bang. The same hand that sparked creation must,
therefore, also sustain it or else it couldn‘t create it to begin with.
This set-it-and-forget-it argument (initially put forth by seventeenth
century Deists), is quaint, but somewhat specious as there isn‘t any
real time for God to forget what she set.
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Of course, the apparent transcendence of the Universe is a great
source of frustration to the scientific community:
The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the
moment is known in this instant, and vice versa. (Heisenberg Principle)
Now we know why scientists are ripping their teeth out trying to
come up with a theory to explain the seemingly chaotic motions of
quantum particles – but how can they? It‟s a mystery! Embrace
it and get on with your life! Wait – better idea! Use your life
to touch others with the gospel! A head full of equations might
serve humanity well – especially now! But instead, atheists
use Uncertainty Principle and Chaos Theory to shirk their
responsibility to humanity and hide from the LORD God of their
fathers!:
(Ps 14:1-4) The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are
corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
2The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if
there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3They are all gone
aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good,
no, not one. 4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up
my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.
What will they think of next? Are we now wiser than the Greeks
who taught us that light travels at a finite speed?; who were the first
to develop an atomic theory?; who gave us the golden mean?; who
charted the course of the gods with the Antikythera mechanism?;
who built Alexandria?; who built the first automatic coin-dispenser?
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Have the gods become greater than the Titans or are just rearranging
the deck chairs on the Titanic?:
The air which stirred within him not only prompted, but instructed. The
air as the origin of all things is necessarily an eternal, imperishable
substance, but as soul it is also necessarily endowed with consciousness.
(Diogenes Apolloniates)
Promised Land
based on the words of Dr. Martin Luther King
[Verse 1]
I have a dream that ev‘ry man
May one day see the promis‘d land.
A symphony of brotherhood,
Of liberty and common good.
[Chorus]
How long shall it be ‗til all men are free
Of his‘try‘s shameful legacy?
If we can believe the time is at hand,
The God of Life will heal our land!
[Verse 2]
I am not fearing any man;
A house divided cannot stand.
Our happy day has come to pass;
Thank God almighty; free at last!
[Verse 3]
Our work revive; our faith renew;
Let freedom ring and justice prove.
A nation whose God is the LORD
Will seldom need to use its sword.
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Psalm 105 prophesies that Joseph, a slave, would one day be ―loosed‖
and become a senator in Egypt. I believe this is an overt prophecy of
Barack‘s candidacy. It even says that he will ―bind [the] princes‖ of
Egypt (Bush 43 and Jeb) and that he would become ―lord of his house.‖
Also, Barack‘s running mate is named ―Joseph‖:
Ps 105:17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a
servant:
Ps 105:18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
Ps 105:19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried
him.
Ps 105:20 The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and
let him go free.
Ps 105:21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
Ps 105:22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators
wisdom.
I think it‘s apparent that God is on the side of Barack. Weeks prior to his
acceptance speech in Denver, the rightwing group ―Focus on the Family‖
encouraged its followers to pray for ―umbrella-ain‘t-gonna‘-help-you
rain‖ in the hopes that God would intervene in this election on behalf of
the Republicans. Instead, God sent a hurricane to interrupt the
Republican National Convention and remind everyone of Katrina. The
title of Jerome Corsi‘s book ―The Obama Nation‖ is an oblique reference
to the Abomination of Desolation prophesied in the Book of Daniel and a
transparent attempt to play into White Evangelical fears. As an
Evangelical Born-again Christian, I am appalled at the way in which
God‘s Name has been cynically evoked by the Right in this election. The
Republicans clearly believe that the gospel is just another weapon in their
war-without-end-amen.
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The basic strategy of the Republican Party is to use gays and abortion as
a means of moral extortion in order to get Christians to vote against their
own interests. They have roped us into believing that legalization is a
form of endorsement. If that‘s true, then God endorses our sin because he
gave us the ability to commit it. So are we more righteous than God? And
if God made us free from his law through faith, then why do we use these
same legalities to oppress others who are our enemies for the sake of the
gospel? Are we lesser sinners than them?
Missions Impossible
Protestant Evangelicals go on expensive mission trips
in order to teach foreigners Sola Scriptura.
If Sola Scriptura is true,
then why not just mass mail them copies of the Bible?
(or maybe you‟re afraid they‟ll actually read it
and become Catholics).
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I live in a third world country.
Anglicanism is more than a religion here,
it is our cultural heritage.
Other Caribbean countries lean Catholic.
Yet every Protestant delinquent church
feels morally obligated to fracture our society
and sectarianize our culture.
Didn‟t they notice that we‟re already Christians?
And what has the so-called ―Protestant work ethic‖ gotten us?
A nation as morally bankrupt
as our national treasury is depleted?
A nation as culturally hedonistic
as we are militarily hegemonic?
A nation as divided at home
as we are derided abroad?
The blood of the patriots cries out from the ground:
While we‟re at it, why don‟t we just move the 4th of July to April 1st!
Pray-cation
Jamaica is internationally recognized for its golf courses, white-sand
beaches, musical heritage and exceptional hospitality. But while
many visitors to our island prefer to bask in the sun, sand and surf,
others see their vacations as opportunities to minister to the gospel.
Many tourists living abroad belong to congregations that have sister
churches here. Others come to establish new churches or engage in
charitable activities. Today, Christianity has a prominent role in
Jamaican cultural and political life. If you are seeking a different
tourist experience, one that ventures beyond the conspicuous castles
of the all-inclusives, then I would certainly recommend a visit to
any one of our great and historic local parish churches.
Today, St. Peter‘s is known for its majestic clock tower, which also
serves as a belfry and while the clock only gives the correct time
twice daily, the soft pealing of its old iron bell can often be heard on
Sunday mornings, beckoning the entire community to worship.
The gravestones of St. Peter‘s record both the names and lifespans
of more than a few dignitaries and luminaries dating back to the
colonial era. A substantial number of child graves testify to the
untimeliness of death in a world without vaccination. Once, these
memorials were decorated with flowers and lamented by devotees,
but nowadays, they serve as ever-present sentinels, warning all
trespassers of the fate that awaits them should they stray from the
narrow path.
St. Peter‘s boasts one of the oldest working pipe organs in the
Caribbean. Early in the 20th century, an electrical motor was added
to its bellows eliminating the need for a human blower. Beyond this,
however, there is no electrical alteration or amplification of the
organ sound. It‘s large brass pipes, which tower above the
congregation, resonate with the vibrant harmonies and embellished
descants commensurate with the mostly self-taught musicians who
grace its console. The choir too does not read music, but instead
memorizes every melody while following along in the words-only
edition of the Anglican hymnal.
It is a cultural tradition in Jamaica for men to wear suits and ties and
for the women to wear long dresses, hats and even gloves on a
Sunday morning service despite the searing heat and lack of air-
conditioning. Some poorer Jamaicans use this tacit dress code as
impetus to shirk their spiritual duty, though many others are
welcomed into the congregation in t-shirts and tennis shoes.
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Sandals, Half Moon, and the Ritz Carlton are three prestigious
resorts that can arrange bus tours to the historic town of Falmouth
and transport guests to and from St. Peter‘s. Doubtless your
concierge would be more than happy to assist you in learning more
about Jamaica‘s great churches and island culture. Until then, I wish
you all the best and, as we say here in Jamaica, Likkle more!
Jamaica Queens
Love, It wasn‘t meant to be
Underneath the ackee tree.
But if I could spend tonight
On an Air Jamaica flight,
I would fly right to your side;
In your arms, I would reside!
Now I sing my soul to thee,
Idol carved from ebony,
Staring at the ceiling fan
(Feeling like a married man).
How was I not meant to see,
Love that wasn‟t meant to be?
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Who Am I?
Who am I? A poet seeking a muse? A pianist seeking a chord? A
painter seeking a color? Hue am I? I‘m an overworked, underpaid
underling in an upstart company, whose wages have been undercut
due to outsourcing and corporate downsizing; an overdressed intern
having outercourse with an underappreciated commander in briefs;
an upstanding member of an economic underclass understood by
many outsiders to be underserved (though some say we‘re
undeserving); an outwitted consumer buying overpriced goods on
the outskirts of town, having underestimated the outrageously high
cost of high-test. To say that we‘ve been uprooted and
underprivileged would be a gross misunderstanding! But I don‘t
mean to understate the overarching reality of an economic downturn
on the upper echelon of the lower class. That would be downright
insensitive. After all, you can launch a man into outer space, but you
can‘t give him inner peace.
Now, you may think I‘m overdoing this, but please understand, I‘m
just a down-and-out brother driving a slow truck to make a quick
buck and improve my luck, but instead I find myself stuck in a rut! I
don‘t mean to be outlandish, but frankly speaking (and freakly
spanking), since I‘m just a pimped-out prince with simple principles
– you know, like: ―you can‘t have the upper hand without being
underhanded‖; or ―never give a down payment to standup comic
without a sitcom‖ – allow me to give you the straight-up lowdown: I
am the original gangster prophet and ghetto poet; a dreamer as great
as Don Quixote and a lover as great as Don Juan, yet I am as
unrecognized as Don Diego. Who am I? Come and see…
(Luke 9:18) And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples
were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I
am?
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Sick Christian
When Paul was smitten with a thorn in his flesh, he petitioned the
Lord three times, but the Lord answered, ―My grace is sufficient for
thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness‖ (2 Cor 12:9).
Paul understood what the Lord meant but do you? Do you know
what it‘s like to declare as Paul did when he said, ―Most gladly
therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of
Christ may rest upon me‖ (2 Cor 12:9).
But what does it mean to glory in sickness? How can suffering yield
fruit for the gospel? It‘s counterintuitive to what we hear preached
from televised pulpits and charismatic revival meetings; that Jesus is
our healer, that sickness has no more dominion over the believer,
that the Word of life is health to the bones (Prov 16:24); that we are
healed by his stripes (Is 53:5)! If all of these statements are true,
then how is it that a Christian can get sick?
The Bible says that when a devil is cast out, it returns and, finding
the house ―swept and garnished,‖ it summons seven more devils and
the state of the believer is worse than before (Luke 11:24-26). I
believe that each of these seven demons has its own reason as to
why Christians are not immune from sickness.
The first demon might say that sickness is a test of faith and that
God sends it into our lives to see if we will remain faithful. He
might also point out that Job was similarly tested, God permitting
the devil to take away Job‘s health in order to prove his faith (Job
1:8-12). However, this is at odds with the New Testament, which is
adamant that by faith and not by test can a person aspire to God‘s
approval. The lesson of Job is not that God needs to test us. We‘ve
already failed that test, which is why we need Christ. We‘ve
essentially got nothing to prove!
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The second demon might say that pain and sickness are necessary to
bring us closer to Christ. He might say that suffering brings us into
similitude with Christ and deepens our relationship with him.
However, it is foolish to think that we could ever be brought into a
closer relationship with Christ through suffering. Christ is a mystery
and there is no pain or suffering that can match his or give us any
kind of understanding as to the horror of his Passion. It is an insult
to the cross to believe that we can liken ourselves to God in this
way. If anything, pain and suffering hinders our relationship with
Christ just as Paul maintains in Romans 2, that ―the goodness of
God leadeth thee to repentance.‖
The fourth demon might try to convince you that your sickness is
due to a lack of faith. This is a common refrain among numerous
faith healers who fail to cast out sickness; that the reason why the
miracle healing didn‘t work is because your faith wasn‘t strong
enough. He might reference the passage in Matthew 17 where the
faith of a mustard seed can move mountains and Paul‘s assertion
that we are each accorded a different ―measure of faith‖ (Rom 12:3).
However, in the colorful language of faith, we must delineate
between what is belief and what is euphoria. Belief defies
quantification – you either believe something or you don‘t;
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Euphoria, on the other hand, may wax and wane in the heart of the
believer. It is the blissful awareness of faith. So can an increased
sense of euphoria heal us? No! Only the blood of Jesus can! And
everyone who believes in his name already has it and cannot receive
an increased amount of it.
The fifth demon might try to convince you that the cause of your
illness is God‘s desire to grow you or to make you stronger through
trial. But suffering does not make us better for having gone through
it. Nor is the ability to withstand punishment a virtue.
The sixth demon might try to convince you that your sickness is in
fact God‘s refining fire; that God has brought suffering into your
life in order to purify you, to make you more holy (Is 48:10; Mal
3:3). But there is a difference between the suffering, which is
repentance and the suffering that is of this world. Every Christian
experiences a crisis in their soul before giving themselves
completely to Christ. This is the true refining fire. John the Baptist
even refers to it as baptism by fire (Matt 3:11). Physical suffering
does not refine us at all. It does not make us more pure or more
holy.
The seventh and last demon is the most insidious. He says that
sickness is the removal of God‘s protective hand; that God has taken
away the healing power of Christ‘s blood. But the recession of gifts
should not be interpreted as the recession of God‘s grace. Yes, we
are to be zealous for spiritual gifts (1 Cor 14:12), but not to the point
where we lust after them, giving them higher esteem than that of
Christ. There is no gift or miracle that can rival the mystery of faith
in Jesus Christ and the gift of faith that can never recede.
So why then do we get sick? And what purpose does suffering
serve? God says, ―My strength is made perfect in weakness‖ and
Paul responds, ―Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my
infirmities.‖ But what does that mean?
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The answer to this question lies in the Via Dolorosa, or Way of the
Cross. According to Tradition, Christ was forced to carry his own
cross through the streets of Jerusalem prior to his crucifixion. At
one point, the Romans forced a bystander, a man known to us only
as Simon of Cyrene (Matt 27:32), to carry Jesus‘ cross a part of the
way. But what does this have to do with our illness? What lesson
can be gleaned by the ministry of Simon of Cyrene?
A fool is perverted;
A wise man is converted.
A fool is needy;
A double fool is greedy;
A wise man is ready.
(Jos 18:6) Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring
the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the
Lord our God.
(Rev 1:8) I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the
Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Cataclysm
What is the Universe expanding into to?
God did not create elemental matter, she found it already present in
the Universe, which is to say, the Universe is Jehovah. Before
creation, Abba was gender neutral, but he became masculinized
through a divine act of sex between Shekhinah and God the Father.
Jehovah is Abba; Shekhinah is Mary. Jehovah is matter; Mary is
consciousness. In other words, Jehovah Shekhinah is LORD and
Creator. She didn‘t create herself. She just was.
God was born Immaculate by the grace of her son Jesus. She found
herself in the loving embrace of Jehovah suspended on an elemental
miasma or firmament.
No. If scientists can find a substance that does not decay, they will
have found an element. Therefore, the ―elements‖ on the ―periodic
table‖ are obviously not elements. By the way, although I am
against Scientific Method and Newtonian Mechanics, I am not
against the true science, which is to say, the idea that observation
and reason can discern cosmic truths.
The fourth sound wave sine (H) is a composite of triangle (H) and
sawtooth (W).
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Can a universe exist with more than three elements?
No wonder these guys can‘t even turn their wives on! But let‘s play
―devil‘s advocate‖ and imagine a purely mechanical genesis, a Deus
ex machina requiring more faith than that of Christ! We are still
confronted with the predicament of consciousness. Remember that
self-consciousness which you have (and must have!) in order to read
this essay, requires a distinction from the Universe that a tethered
soul could not possess. You may be living in a material world, but
you are not a material girl! You‘re very awareness of the world can
only be accomplished by your separation from it, making you a de
facto free spirit. Remember how Jiminy Cricket rescued Pinocchio
with the brilliant affirmation: Let your conscience be your guide?
Remember the first law of Marian Dynamics, which states that
whatsoever moves possesses a living sprit? Even if ―science falsely
so-called‖ could develop a hypothesis to explain the perpetual
motion machine that seems to be the Universe, your very own
movements within that dead universe would necessitate the
existence of quintessence.
But what if you did in fact manage to enter your body and then
wake up with holy amnesia? Then who wrote LMD? Who wrote the
Bible? Who taught you your name – celebrated your birthday? To
paraphrase the great philosopher Elmo, ―Who are the people in your
neighborhood?‖ Your spirit inhabits a mysterious Universe that
seems to walk, talk, twist and shout – c‟mon baby now! When the
Universe converses with you, you respond; when you converse with
it, it responds back. A wise man once said that you shall know a tree
by its fruits and if it looks like a God, sounds like a God and acts
like a God, then what else can it be? To the extent that the Universe
acknowledges you, it lives; To the extent that you acknowledge
Jehovah, you live. Life therefore is contingent upon witness, which
is why Jehovah asks us to be his witnesses (Is 43:10). But
Newtonians fail to acknowledge the living God whereby they are
eternally disacknowledged by him!
Tell the Universe that he is a machine and you will take the Name of
the LORD in vain. The Machine, who knows nothing beyond what
you tell it, will shift into high gear and roll right over you faster than
a tank in Tiananmen. Tell the Universe that he is God Jehovah, and
you will speak the Name of the LORD aright; And you will know
that Jesus loves you and that the laws of physics didn‘t affix him to
the cross, but the righteousness of Jehovah in Christ who deemed
repentance worthy of redemption – a judgment ratified in his flesh
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and petrified by the Immaculate Heart – permitted your sins to
crucify the Universe by reason of consequentiality (and not of
causality); And that the Resurrection accomplished by the
Theotokos (through faith in Christ crucified) has forever abolished
death and the commandments from which death proceeds.
Virtually, Christ lived in the first century, but eternally, Christ was
crucified before the foundation of the world; We were redeemed
before the foundation of the world; Mary is LORD God before the
foundation of the world! We are the ones we‟ve been waiting for!
Yes, but God cannot tell and neither can we. It doesn‘t matter at all
to the gospel – the Blessed Virgin is with us either way.
Incidentally, it is possible that the spirit could inhabit both the
material and antimaterial Universes simultaneously. God cannot tell
and neither can we.
The Universe is God‘s kite. God launched it and her hand sustains
and directs it, but no more than is absolutely necessary to achieve its
purpose. And what is that purpose? To love us! And our purpose in
the Universe is to love God back!
But make no mistake. This seemingly orderly Universe does not fly
on its own. God is perpetually tugging the kite strings, setting the
direction, adjusting the height – just enough effort to keep it going
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and none besides. We see the cosmic kite strings at the subatomic
level and also in deep space where the Universe seems to
perpetually accelerate. We see God‘s hand in the miracles of the
Bible and in the charismatic gifts of the Holy Ghost. We see kite
strings in the perfect sunset, a fascinating rhythm, a still small voice.
We see the kite strings in the Catholic Church and the testimonies of
Christians throughout the millennia. Can you imagine an institution
lasting as long as the Catholic Church remaining virtually
unchanged from its conception until the present day? That ought to
be miracle enough for anybody!
The evil Cult of Newton fixates on the kite despite the string that
sustains it. To them, the kite mysteriously flies itself. They are
confident that the mystery of the self-flying kite will one day be
solved. Even the goddamn devil knows that the scientists are wrong.
Virtual Reality
Infinity is a real number, but not exactly. Hence, the Universe,
which is infinite with regard to its time and space, is therefore a
virtual reality. The Spirit however, is not virtual. We ourselves are
absolutely real; the Blessed Virgin is absolutely real; and Jesus
Christ absolutely died for our real sins. But he died on a virtual
cross after suffering for 11 virtual hours. Virtually, we pierced him
2000 years ago, but in reality, we pierced him this very day.
We are all perpetually at the foot of the cross, and yet we are
virtually a world away from 1st century Judea. In reality, God is
Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, but virtually speaking, she
is from everlasting to everlasting. If you flip a coin once, there is a
50% chance that it will land on heads at least once; But if you flip a
coin infinite times, there is an infinite chance that it will land on
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heads at least once. However, it is not exactly a 100% chance; but
neither is it exactly less than 100%. We live in a virtual world.
(1 Cor 14:35) And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their
husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
(Acts 17:26) And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell
on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before
appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Aborted fetuses were really alive but are virtually nonexistent. Just
as we have a real end that virtually never comes, aborted fetuses
had a real beginning that virtually never comes. Hence abortion is
murder, but not temporally – it is an eternal murder.
But what about rape and incest? Women have sex emotionally and
therefore cannot orgasm under duress. Even I would have a problem
performing at knife point and my genitals are on the outside – how
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much less a woman? But wicked women cry rape for naught
knowing that the law favors women in matters of sex and child
custody – and reproductive rights are just the icing on the bitch
cake!
And by the way, people who talk about „not wanting them to be
punished with a baby‟ should take a moment to reflect on their own
precarious beginnings! The only person ever punished with a child
was Christ Jesus and you are his son!
And when did “Yes we can” become “Yes we won‟t”? When did the
audacity of hope become the audacity of nope? Cannot the one who
ordains kings also take them out? Dana Reeve was stricken with
terminal lung cancer shortly after her speech at the DNC
advocating embryonic stem-cell research (and she never touched a
cigarette) – remember?
Jeringalem
In Aborigine lore, there is a Divine Sequence, or Beforetime in
which everything that happens in the world already took place and
every decision made was preordained. They called it Altjeringa, but
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White settlers dubbed it Dreamtime, or ‗the sacred once upon a time
time.‘ Mention of this parallel event sequence is alluded to in the
movie The Last Wave from the acclaimed Australian film director
Peter Weir:
5) Don‘t cast a spell – ever! Now that you know I‘m an ex-wizard,
understand that I have complete Solomonic knowledge
regarding the unseen world of demons and the black arts, and I
do hereby summon the Spirit of Lilith to strike any witch who
casts a spell based on the instructions contained within this
document with instant death, excluding myself.
The Desert
I drilled for oil. But in order to get to the oil, I first had to cross a
desert. Once I had crossed the desert, I had to penetrate it. I had to
bring what was underneath the desert up to the surface. There are
winds in the desert, and mirages. It is easy to become lost.
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I came across a man in the desert – a camel trader. He told me
where I could find oil. He said that oil could be found in the desert.
That is why I came to the desert – to drill for oil.
Blackballed!
“I‟ll never understand your love of basketball!” I said to my father.
“Why do you enjoy watching people running back and forth on a court?
Why not attend a concert or a ballet?”
“A ballet?” he laughed. “Why do you enjoy watching people jumping up
and down on a stage?”
I‘m no major league sports fan, but of all the sports I‘ve been forced
to watch at my father‘s house, I find basketball to be the most
edifying.
For one thing, I‘ll never understand the miracle of the three-point
jump shot. How does a man leap into the air and throw a ball from
so far away and yet still make the basket? Maybe if I paid more
attention in school, I‘d be able to calculate the rate of speed and
parabolic trajectory of the ball, but these guys are obviously making
these complex calculations using a different mindset. Maybe when
the public school system integrates that ―different‖ mindset into its
curriculum (grading sports and music equal to math and science)
we will have an overall better integration of our society.
On the Bottle
I found a message in a bottle;
It said, Bottle.
I opened my Bible in the Spirit;
It said, Spirit.
Does that mean I found a message in a bottle?
or a bottle in a message?
If you say, The bottle is in the message only,
then you blaspheme the bottle.
If you say, The Spirit is in the Bible only,
then you blaspheme the Spirit.
Later, I picked up the bottle
and on it was written: 100-proof spirit.
(Mark 9:38)And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting
out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him,
because he followeth not us. 39But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there
is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak
evil of me. 40For he that is not against us is on our part.
(Eph 4:13) Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of
the stature of the fulness of Christ:
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It is a luxurious ministry to sit in a helicopter dropping water over a
raging fire, but the Protestants are having a pretty horrendous time.
The children of Jehovah‘s Witnesses cannot take part in school
holiday concerts; Episcopalians are repenting to gay priests;
Cessationists are blaspheming the Holy Spirit; Pentecostals are
telling their kids that they must speak in tongues – or else!;
Adventists face workplace discrimination because of their Sabbath
commitment; White Evangelicals are being told who to vote for;
Baptists lift up their hands in the abject fear of holy hell – the only
thing missing in this wild bunch is Ernest Borgnine! And yet, I
understand that their ministry is crucial to the cause of the gospel.
So when I use the term ―separated brothers,‖ understand that the
emphasis here is definitely on the word ―brothers.‖
2Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon,
that pass over the sea, have replenished.
3And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her
revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
4Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of
the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish
up young men, nor bring up virgins.
5As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the
report of Tyre.
7Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet
shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
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The former Jamaican capital (the crowning city) is destroyed in an
act of divine vengeance:
8Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose
merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
9The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and
to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
The LORD ordained the earthquake that destroyed the merchant city
and shook the kingdoms:
11He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the
LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy
the strong holds thereof.
13Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian
founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers
thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
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Slavery is abolished without reparations (though their masters
receive compensation for ‗loss of property‘):
15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten
seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy
years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten;
make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD
will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication
with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
But the LORD shall consecrate the irie isle; and a new generation of
Christian leadership will work to the material benefit all Jamaicans:
18And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it
shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them
that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
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Helen of Tyre
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Even the God who made us has a gender and that gender is
feminine. This is because God must think and thought requires an
identification of Ultimate Reality that must be distinct from the
observer. This necessary dualism is the cosmic impetus for the
natural duality of human gender. Therefore, it is impossible to live
without possessing either a masculine or feminine gender, which
you would be (and must be) eternally reminded of in the flesh.
You can adopt a new race (like Ruth who married into Judaism), but
you cannot adopt a new gender. This is because our minds are like
vehicles moving forward in time and while race is a direction, sex is
the propulsion. We can change course, but we can‘t stop moving –
that would be nihilism! Let‘s continue down this road, girlfriend! –
you see, while race is like an operating system, sex is like the
hardware running it. Now, I can run Office on either Mac or Vista,
but my Mac can never become a Vista – that would be Microhard!
Light:
Ultraviolet blue rays;
Yellow sunlight;
Infrared radiation.
Fire:
The root of the flame is blue;
The middle flame is yellow;
The end of the flame is red.
Cognitive Science:
Blacks think unconsciously;
Asians think consciously;
Whites think self-consciously.
Psychology:
Blacks are spontaneous;
Asians are meticulous;
Whites are deliberate.
Child Psychology:
Black kids are rambunctious;
Asian kids are attentive;
White kids are observant.
Pedagogy:
Black kids learn by hearing;
Asian kids learn by doing;
White kids learn by seeing.
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Memorization:
Black kids memorize by repeating it to themselves;
Asian kids memorize by writing it down;
White kids memorize by using flash cards.
Ethnology:
A Black thinks with his mouth;
An Asian thinks with his hands;
A White thinks with his eyes.
Anthropology:
African culture is aural;
Asian culture is sensual;
European culture is visual.
Ontology:
I AM A MAN;
Here am I;
I think therefore I am.
Economics:
Blacks are giving;
Asians are receiving;
Whites are possessing.
Philosophy:
Blacks are communal.
Asians are mystical.
Whites are individual.
Sociology:
Africa gave us community;
Asia gave us theocracy;
Europe gave us democracy.
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Ethics:
Blacks are carefree;
Asians are careful;
Whites are caretakers.
Spirituality:
Blacks are passionate;
Asians are melancholy;
Whites are joyful.
Comparative Religion:
Africa gave us shamanism;
Asia gave us legalism;
Europe gave us gnosticism.
Ecclesiology:
Blacks are prophets;
Asians are scribes;
Whites are administrators.
Methodology:
Blacks are aggressive;
Asians are submissive;
Whites are comprehensive.
Business:
Blacks are salespeople;
Asians are manufacturers;
Whites are managers.
Criminology:
Blacks commit impulsive crimes;
Asians commit ―honor‖ crimes;
Whites commit premeditated crimes.
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Sexology:
Blacks make the first move;
Asians call you the next day;
Whites make it official.
Military History:
Blacks take the initiative;
Asians are obedient;
Whites are strategic.
Art History:
Music comes from Africa;
Dance comes from Asia;
Painting comes from Europe.
Oratory:
Black people speak the way they sing;
Asians speak the way they move;
Whites speak the way they write.
Music:
Rhythm comes from Africa;
Melody comes from Asia;
Harmony comes from Europe.
Dance:
Africa gave us tap;
Asia gave us Tai Chi;
Europe gave us ballet.
Painting:
Africa gave us pattern;
Asia gave us texture;
Europe gave us form.
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Style:
Africa gave us expressionism;
Asia gave us impressionism;
Europe gave us surrealism.
Performance:
Africa gave us improvisation;
Asia gave us recitation;
Europe gave us composition.
Production:
Blacks were born in a studio;
Asians were born on stage;
Whites were born in a director‘s chair.
Religious Conversion:
Blacks come to Jesus;
Asians receive Jesus;
Whites know Jesus.
Mysticism:
Blacks perform miracles;
Asians receive miracles;
Whites explain miracles.
Theology:
Blacks gave us revival;
Asians gave us devotion;
Whites gave us doctrine.
Charismatism:
Blacks speak in tongues;
Asians feel the anointing;
Whites have visions.
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California Screamin‟
Way out west (in a state so blue, it shows up on most maps as part
of the Pacific!), is a city I like to call Lost Angeles.
For instance, when dining on the Sunset Strip, understand that there
are different kinds of water, none of them under $5 (gratuity
included!) Also, if you‘re Black and shopping on Rodeo Drive,
don‘t forget to bring a scarf or a muffler (due, of course, to the draft
of the security guard breathing down your neck!) – and by the way,
a scarf is just about all you can afford on Rodeo!
There are many great beaches in LA, from Venice Beach to the
Santa Monica Pier. However, due to the ice-cold water, you may
find your swimsuit to be decidedly less utilitarian and perhaps more
aesthetic than you might have hoped. This, of course, is the reason
why Malibu surfers wear full-bodied wetsuits; but if you still feel
ready to catch a ‗gnarly‘ wave and ‗hang ten‘, then what more can I
say?: horizontal fin = dolphin; vertical fin = shark!
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There are three things you need if you want to survive in LA: a car,
an agent, and a pair of chopsticks! Of course, LA is known for its
multiculturalism, whether it be Asian or Hispanic (and if you put
‗em together, you have a Pilipino!), and then there are the West-
coast Blacks – Westside!!!
Finally, LA is known for its ‗laid back‘ attitude. After all, they did
name their airport ‗lax‘! But before you invest in sunglasses,
electrolysis and maps to the stars‘ homes, remember that there are
no small parts, only small actors – except for the nude scenes of
course!
Jobama
In Hollywood, when two famous people are romantically linked,
they oftentimes receive a combination-name (or portmanteau) such
as TomKat or Brangelina. Most recently, this device has been used
to link Barack Obama with his running mate Joe Biden. But Jobama
may have a deeper significance when the now President-elect is
compared to the namesake of all Josephs, that is, Joe the Hebrew!:
(Ps 105:17-22) He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold
for a servant: 18Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
19Until the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him.
20The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him
go free. 21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
22To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
Jobama was seen as the fulfillment of Dr. King‘s dream, for which
he was resented by some of his political rivals; similarly, Joe the
Hebrew was hated for his dream:
(Gen 37:5) And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and
they hated him yet the more.
(Ge 37:19-20) And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer
cometh. 20Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into
some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we
shall see what will become of his dreams.
The notion that Jobama was an Arab was used by some as a cover
for their ethnic hatred; similarly, the brothers of Joe the Hebrew
sold him to the Arabs in order to remove their own culpability:
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(Gen 37:27) Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our
hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren
were content.
(Gen 39:7) And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife
cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
(Ge 41:51-52) And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh:
For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's
house. 52And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath
caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
(Gen 41:38-39) And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a
one as this is, 39Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is
none so discreet and wise as thou art:
(Ge 41:54) And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as
Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands;
(Gen 41:55-56) And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people
cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go
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unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do. 56And the famine was over all the
face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the
Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
(Ge 42:7-8) And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made
himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto
them, Whence come ye? 8And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew
not him.
Ge 47:20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the
Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over
them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
(Gen 47:23) Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought
you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye
shall sow the land.
Jobama plans to raise the capital gains tax rate to 20%; similarly,
Joe the Hebrew levied his own 20% tax:
(Ge 47:24) And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give
the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of
the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for
food for your little ones.
As you can see, there are many parallels between Joe the Hebrew
and our current leadership. But perhaps the greatest impact our new
president will make is the new precedent he set as to who can attain
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to the highest office. What a powerful symbol it is to the rest of the
world (and to every society gripped by sectarian violence and
intergenerational ethnic rivalries) that such a reconciliation can
occur in so great a nation:
(Gen 50:14-20) And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren,
and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his
father. 15And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they
said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the
evil which we did unto him. 16And they sent a messenger unto Joseph,
saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, 17So shall ye say
unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and
their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the
trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when
they spake unto him. 18And his brethren also went and fell down before
his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants. 19And Joseph said
unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God? 20But as for you, ye
thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as
it is this day, to save much people alive.
Dr. Feelgood
Dr. Feelgood ain‟t nothin‟ but a college-educated, lab-coat-
wearing, straight-up pusher. He moonlights as a mental health
professional, but once he‟s got you stretched out on that plush
leather couch, my man will offer you pills for your mental ills (but
it‟s gonna‟ cost ya‟ a lot o‟bills). Now pimp this…
There are two 20th century ideologies that took their cue from pagan
mysticism and esoteric philosophy: Nazism and Psychoanalysis. But
what else do these two ideologies have in common? – and
remember, don‟t talk to me, talk to the puppet!
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Psychoanalysis has nothing to do with mental health, it is (from its
inception) a therapeutic technique. But of course, we wouldn‘t base
civic laws and theological principles on a ―technique,‖ would we?
That would be crazy!
And what is crazy? In the Book of Acts, Peter and the apostles were
branded crazy for speaking in tongues (Acts 2:15; 1 Cor 14:23);
David was dancing naked in the temple (2 Sam 6:20) and foaming
at the mouth in the Philistine court (1 Sam 21:13). Were they crazy?
Am I crazy because the Spirit of God moves my body and inspires
me to speak in tongues? Was Nostradamus crazy when he penned
the following?:
If the majority of the people in this world are at some level insane,
then wouldn‘t it stand to reason that the people who this world
brands as crazy are actually the sane ones? And yet we see our
mental health facilities filled with priests and prophets, visionaries
and demoniacs in need of exorcism. We don‘t need Dr. Feelgood,
we need Dr. Realgood! But to all my brutha‟s getting stuck with
needles and electrically shocked for preaching the gospel, keep tight
and know that the day is coming – and already is! – when we‟re all
gonna‟ fly this cuckoo‟s nest (and when they ask why you stopped
taking your meds, tell „em to ask the goddamn pill!):
Why is it that when we talk to God, we‘re said to be praying; but when
God talks to us, we‘re schizophrenic?
(Lily Tomlin)
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Now let‟s do a little word association. I‟ll say a word and you tell
me the first thought that comes to your mind:
Patriot
Traitor
Freedom
Shackles
Democracy
Tyranny
Equality
Relativity
Self-evident truths
Consenting adults
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Give me liberty!
Give me death!
If the patriots walked into today‘s High Court, they would be hauled
away in plastic handcuffs for daring to believe in eternal,
unchanging and self-evident values and moral imperatives! They
would be mocked in our media and derided in our Universities! –
and aren‟t they already! We have replaced self-evident truths with
psycho-scientific theories; ideology with methodology! The center
cannot hold! Our forefathers‘ blood cries out from the ground – how
long will this courtocratic tyranny subvert the will of the people and
the Spirit of Liberty who gave it?
Where is the God of New England? – the Spirit of ‟76? The Sons of
Liberty staring down impending British warships? And what do we
see on our horizon? A ghastly culture of death ruled by a judicial
tyranny, having once cast off the British yoke only to exchange His
Majesty for His Magistrate!:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That
to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any
Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of
the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such
form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness.
And what has the Court gotten us!? What EVER has the Court
given us!?:
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary
for the public good.
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and
altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
This dilemma is further exasperated the fact that, next to Christ, all
people were at one time faithless – which is why we need laws in the
first place, remember? And because the letter of the law can be
misinterpreted (intentionally or otherwise), the Supreme Interpreter
of that infallible constitution must himself be infallible (a vicarious
criste!) That would be a papacy! (And whatever you may think of
Roman Catholicism, it is after all the longest continuously-running
institution in human history!)
But I‘ve got a better idea! Let‘s base our laws on science and
psychology! Now, we‟s in the Park Avenue office suite of my main
man Dr. Feelgood! – and if it FEEL good, it BE good, you dig?
Dr. Feelgood thinks that one-in-ten people are gay. Hey, be honest
– aren‟t we all a little gay? It‟s a sliding scale – a spectrum!
Or better yet, while the good doctor practices the smile they taught
him in grad school (with the teeth they bought him in grade
school!), let‘s have a ‗look-see‘ at what psychiatry really is!:
Now, I used to teach elementary school and it‘s real freaking simple
– if the kid tries to put a square peg in a round hole, keep „em back
a year! But now we‘re giving marriage certificates and adoption
rights to people who wouldn‘t even make it out of goddamn
kindergarten!
(2 Pet 2:11-12) Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might,
bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. 12But these, as
natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the
things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own
corruption;
But I‘ve got a better idea! Instead of inspiring people to break free
from the motions of sin, why don‘t we tell them that brain chemistry
is dictating their thoughts! That is what the homo-fascists want us to
believe – and herein lies the problem: You can‟t have „gay
liberation‟ premised on a denial of free will? What if my brain
chemistry tells me to bust your nuts? Where‟s my parade? If
chemicals control people, then Christians are under the God
chemical, in which case we will have chemical warfare in a
universe devoid of free will… I wonder who will prevail in that
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contest? But if you are indeed under the tyrannical control of your
physiology, then why would you want gay marriage at all? Does not
the same desire which cries out for social justice transcend the very
flesh that you blame for your sexual proclivities?
Or… you could just get a little crazy with my number one „sexy ho‟
with the Lexapro, sista‘ psychiatry. Depressed? She‘s got the dope
to make you hope! – and even though she may have graduated from
FU (magna „cum loudly‟), let‘s not forget about her sweet sexy
sibling psychology who looks just like her ‗cept she‘s got a PhD
(also known as a Pretty Hard Dick – opps!) Now try not to forget
about them hormone treatments, She-Ra: Princess of Power! Or
better yet, why don‟t you git‟ comf‟terble on my little plush couch?
„Cause it‟s time for another jive-talkin‟ session with – you got it! –
Dr. Feelgood: Remember me? I‟m the man of the hour – two if you
can afford it! – and a brutha‟ like no utha‟ who‟s a bad mutha-
[shut-yo‟-mouth!]:
Dr. Feelgood is concerned with getting your butt back to work, not
with healing your mind. I‟m okay – you‟re okay! Time‟s up, see you
next week!
Dr. Feelgood believes that all insanity is traced back to the terror of
death. But instead of repenting to the God of life, he‘s going to try
to get you to accept your death as a passage to ultimate self-
fulfillment. But this ‗death-acceptance‘ is as fallacious as it is
feckless; and those who attempt it will inevitably be crushed by the
weight of its absurdity:
(Is 28:18-20) And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and
your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge
shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. 19From the time
that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass
over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand
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the report. 20For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on
it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
So do you still want to talk to the good doctor? „Cause if you do,
then Dr. Feelgood‟s got the prescription for your conniption
already filled, sugar-pill! But as for me and my house, I shall exit
the ward I can‘t afford and worship the LORD – Amen? So the next
time Dr. Feelgood comes „round trying to pilfer you with a pill for
you, tell him that you just had a breakthrough (and if he asks what
happened, tell him it‟s yo‟ mutha‟s fault, sucka‟!
Petrus Romanus
I am the ghost of Christmas future. The Blessed Virgin sent me to
preach the truth in an era of mass-media, mass-culture, and mass-
destruction. We are entering an age of mass-communication and
mass-transit. Everywhere we turn, we see the dawning of the
information-technology revolution. The Catholic Church must adapt
to its new environment or the devil will catch it off guard.
There are two ways this world can end: It can end with a bang or
with a whimper. I am here because the Blessed Virgin desires the
latter. We want the transition from the current age to the Heavenly
Kingdom to be as smooth and uneventful as possible given the
horror of original sin. I am going to terrify the world now in order
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to spare the world the greater terror of what might have been. But
we must get back to basics. We must ask the question Pontius Pilate
asked Christ at his interrogation: What is truth?
I will answer; I will reveal; I will show; I will tell. However, there is
one thing that I cannot do; nor can God in heaven do: I cannot
make you accept the truth. All I can be to you is a voice crying out
in a Roman wilderness.
We were slaves to King George and King Cotton; will we now shirk
our duty to our fathers and shrink from history, permitting ourselves
to once again become ensnared by the yoke of science and the noose
of psychiatry?
We can‘t win this last great global conflict without any sense of
who we are and where we‘re headed! We‘ve gone from ―loose lips
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sink ships‖ to ―don‘t ask don‘t tell‖ when instead, we should be
utilizing the gospel message to drive a wedge in their culture!
Shake up the bushes, and the snakes will crawl out! But instead, we
are thrusting ourselves into the bushes blindfolded by political
correctness – and we will continue to stagnate there until we settle
our moral debate!
The modifiers used in some of the standards of this Ethics Code (e.g.,
reasonably, appropriate, potentially) are included in the standards when they
would guard against a set of rigid rules that might be quickly outdated. As
used in this Ethics Code, the term reasonable means the prevailing
professional judgment of psychologists engaged in similar activities in similar
circumstances, given the knowledge the psychologist had or should have had
at the time.
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III. Wheresoever there is conflict between civic laws and
APA standards, thou art permitted (but not obligated) to
obey civic laws:
They strive to help the public in developing informed judgments and choices
concerning human behavior. In doing so, they perform many roles, such as
researcher, educator, diagnostician, therapist, supervisor, consultant,
administrator, social interventionist, and expert witness.
La Campasina de Campeche
There once was a girl from Campeche
Who loved to drink cafe con leche;
and when she would drink,
she always would think:
¡Qué mierda las ellas me eche!
Bad Chemistry
Love is not the opposite of fear, it is its opposition:
(1 John 4:18) There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear:
because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the
doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In
communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for
a test sight. (Afrika Bambaataa)
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Surely, you are aware of Pavlov‘s theory of conditioned response?
Feed a dog while ringing a bell and in a few days, the dogs will
salivate at the mere ringing of the bell? But if Pavlov‘s conclusions
were correct, then it would be the bell (and not the saliva) that
inspires the response. So then why are we treating the saliva and
ignoring the bell? Why are we inhibiting brain chemistry instead of
empowering patients to resist temptation?
Chemical Reactions
There are no evil emotions. Jesus was joyful at the return of the
seventy disciples (Luke 10:21); he was livid at King Herod‘s death
threats (Luke 13:31-32), he sweat droplets of blood in Gethsemane
(Luke 22:44). Emotions are good and ought not be suppressed; but
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if you walk into a church and everybody‘s ear-to-ear smiles, you
may be in a cult.
It is not the saliva making the dog hungry, but rather it is the hunger
that produces the saliva. Likewise, it is not the chemical imbalance
that produces the behavior; but men, choosing a certain direction
(perhaps from infancy!) induce these biological and metabolic
changes which result in an entirely different physical appearance
than that which they otherwise would have had were it not for their
precursory choice:
(Ps 51:5,7) Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother
conceive me. 7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and
I shall be whiter than snow.
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Walk into any church, and you can tell at a glance who converted
before puberty and who converted after. Now walk into any gay
nightclub, and see if you can tell who is gay from childhood and
who just walked in to use the phone because their car just broke
down outside!
(Ro 1:26) For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even
their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
But then again, maybe you are just the product of chemical brain
reactions? Maybe you‘re not ultimately responsible and accountable
for who you are and what you think about? Maybe no one is? – and
so all of our addictions, compulsions and obsessions are nothing
more than evolutionary buy-products?:
It is the reward pathway that governs our instinctual drives, and when
this pathway malfunctions, any number of instinctual drives may also
malfunction. We now know that this malfunctioning process has been
associated not only with drug addiction, but also food addiction, sex
addiction, and a number of other compulsive disorders including
attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Individuals who are predisposed
to becoming addicted have been shown to have a variant gene that causes
this reward cascade to malfunction
While it would be absurd to assert that other diseases of the brain such
as schizophrenia or depression are due to weak will or moral character, it
is still the prevailing opinion of many, including healthcare professionals,
that drug addiction is about improper choices rather than improper
brain function. Current scientific evidence has revealed that chemical
addiction is a process that is caused by a malfunctioning cascade of
neurotransmitters which is further exacerbated by drug use.
(APhA 2001 – American Pharmaceutical Association 148th Annual
Meeting: Therapeutic Updates)
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Chemical Solution
Giving an addict psychoactive drugs is like giving a pyromaniac a
fire extinguisher! Giving an addict psychoactive drugs is like giving
a kleptomaniac an expense account! Giving an addict psychoactive
drugs is like giving a nymphomaniac the keys to my apartment!
Addicted to nicotine? Here, have a nicorette! Psychiatry has
devolved from treating the root causes of mental illness to managing
its symptoms! But you cannot blame the illness on the symptoms –
that would be diagnosis murder!
And by the way, kudos to TomKat and Vinnie Barbarino for their
gutsy career-threatening stance against psychoactive medication;
and kudos to the Church of Scientology for their highly successful
(and much maligned) drug treatment program. And yet the
Hollywood drug culture (that claimed the life of Anna Nicole) is not
only a threat to the entertainment industry, but also to national
security! A culture premised on the abdication of liberty to the
tyranny of the flesh cannot hope to prevail in the face of looming
threats! We know that the world will test our metal and we know
that weakness invites it! But while Putin and Ahmadinejad have
absolutely no doubt in their minds and no fear in their hearts, when I
looked into Satan‘s eyes, all I can see is an A, a P and another A:
Research over several decades has demonstrated that sexual orientation
ranges along a continuum, from exclusive attraction to the other sex to
exclusive attraction to the same sex. Many think that nature and nurture
both play complex roles; most people experience little or no sense of
choice about their sexual orientation.
(APA 2008 – Answers to your questions: For a better understanding of
sexual orientation and homosexuality)
The shot heard ‗round the world had nothing to do with the tenuous
discharge of a forgotten musket ball; it was about Freedom, Liberty,
and Self-determination! But now, the traitors to Democracy have
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subverted free will for a Chemical Final Solution! It is an existential
threat to Democracy that we permit psychiatrists to vote and give
testimony in courts! It is the height of hypocrisy that we allow
slychiatry to inform are laws and subvert the popular will! Our last
civil war was between the blue and the grey, will the next one be
between the blue and the red? And yet the Russian seer Igor
Panarin has forewarned of the dissolution of the United States
sometime before the next election cycle! When chemicals dissolve,
so goes the nation!; but terrorists (like all bullies) only pick on the
weak!
And what about the true faggots that cry, Why would I choose this!
There‘s no doubt in my mind that they were born that way! The
record is clear that both men and boys were pressed against Lot‘s
door in Sodom (Gen 19:4-5), but so what! We were all born sinning
in one way or another which is why we all need to get born again!
But how can we be born again if we refuse to confess our sins to a
righteous God whose wrath is just and whose mercy is infinite!
And how can we criticize China for its human rights abuses when
we‟ve got a „One America Policy‟ right here! We read in the history
books about bleeding Kansas and we‟ve got Bleeding California
right here – right now! The slave states and the free states are
becoming the gay states and the straight states! What will we do?!
What will we do?!
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This country‟s going to be awash with mostly red-state Iraqi war
veterans in the next few months; and the insurgency tactics they‟ve
acquired by the never-say-live Muslims will only be outmatched by
the level of disillusion they‟ll feel when they find out what‟s been
happening to this country in their absence!:
Now I‘m not Panarin. I don‘t forecast the dissolution of the United
States; but instead, I forecast a New Resolution: that the U. S.
Constitution be amended to bring the Supreme Court under the
auspices of the Roman Church and that its Pope be granted authority
to install and depose its judges. I also propose a Personal Freedom
Amendment, denying and/or revoking citizenship (and the rights
pertaining) to anyone who confesses that they are not in complete
and utter transcendent control of themselves. It is impossible to
impart human rights to the subhuman; since they cannot control
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themselves, let them become as slaves to us, and possessions to
dispose of as we will in Jesus‘ Name:
(Ex 21:2-3; 5-6) If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve:
and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3If he came in by
himself, he shall go out by himself: 5And if the servant shall plainly say,
I love my master, I will not go out free: 6Then his master shall bring him
unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post;
and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve
him for ever.
America no doubt has a destiny – and God is vested in it! But while
I believe in exceptionalism very bit as much as the next Alaskan, we
must also remember that the sovereignty of God explicitly reserves
the right to lift that anointing – just ask Saul! Or better yet, ask the
goddamn chemicals in your brain what they think!
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(Dan 11:36) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every
god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall
prosper till the indignation be accomplished: 37Neither shall he regard
the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for
he shall magnify himself above all. 38But in his estate shall he honour
the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour
with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
The APA and its collective membership are the beast and the
Antichrist! – the abomination that maketh desolate! They are
traitors to the gospel; traitors to liberty; traitors to humanity; and
traitors the democracy! They are domestic terrorist non-enemy
combatants who have (by their own declaration!) forfeited their
rights as citizens! WE KNOW WHAT WE DO WITH TRAITORS!!!
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The time has come – and isn‘t it already?! – for the people of this
great nation to rise up against APA-approved homo-despotism!
Otherwise, Amerik.k.k.a will slouch toward an evermore
pronounced estrangement from the world (and by „the world‟ I
mean reality!) and the political polarity of the nations will shift
toward totalitarianism (if only to stave off encroaching American
nihilism!)
(Ezek 28:6-10) Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast set
thine heart as the heart of God; 7Behold, therefore I will bring strangers
upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords
against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
8They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of
them that are slain in the midst of the seas. 9Wilt thou yet say before him
that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the
hand of him that slayeth thee. 10Thou shalt die the deaths of the
uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the
Lord God.
Pastor Rick Warren says he loves gays and so do I; and that‘s why
I‘m going to move heaven and earth to rescue those that can be and
prevent those that would have been. But when the adopted children
of gay parents open their eyes for the first time, having sinned from
beforetime (and thus entering the temporal stage in rebellion), I‘ll be
damned if the first thing those tiny impressionable eyes see is my
two dads!
Let no child understand the horrors I‘ve witnessed; let no child read
these words; and if they do, let them scratch their heads in
astonishment – not understanding what it means! Let it be an
allegory for something else!
But God in his goodness has taken it upon himself to endure the
lowest hell in order to spare the world what might have been – and
when Christ said, It is finished, hell went out of business! And we
can expect the devil to undercut his prices as he closes up shop!
In either instance, it‘s not the behavior that‘s the problem; it‘s the
suffering. That‘s because mental illness is a matter of the heart, not
the body – and it can only be cured in the heart:
(Ps 51:10-12) Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit
within me. 11Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy
spirit from me. 12Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold
me with thy free spirit.
Now just as a drunk doesn‘t know that they‘re drunk while they‘re
drunk, a sinner doesn‘t know that they‘re a sinner until they confess.
That‘s why confession is necessary for salvation. Another word for
confession is baptism:
(Matt 3:11) I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that
cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear:
he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
If a man doesn‘t confess his sins, his own biochemistry will kill
him. It‘s not “children in the eyes of an angry God!” God doesn‘t
kill people; people kill people! This world is our hell and divine
recompense is nothing more than a metaphor for natural
recompense. It is sin that kills, not God‘s wrath! Nobody killed
Judas, he hanged himself in his own bio-fluid (the field of blood)
and so shall it be with all non-repentant!:
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(Deut 24:16) The fathers shall not be put to death for the children,
neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall
be put to death for his own sin.
Now all Christians are schizophrenics; when you‘re born again, you
take on a new persona which may come into conflict with the old
self. That would be MSD; a split personality. Non-Christians don‘t
experience this phenomenon – nor does God. But if all the world is
crazy, then who‘s in our asylums? Nevertheless, in a world where
all are born sinning, it‘s the born-again Jesus-freaks who survive
because they reject their sin-toxins through the cleansing of Jesus‘
blood. It‘s as if the villain of the first Terminator movie becomes
the hero in the sequel, extending his hand to a skeptical Sarah
Connor with the words ―Come with me if you want to live.‖ But
unlike the real Terminator, this sequel‘s better than the original!
Hasta la vista, baby!
But in this world, mental disorder is not the disease, it‘s the cure!:
(Matt 16:24) Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come
after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Ain‟t No Half-Steppin‟
12-step programs are fine so long as we recognize that there is but
one step to total mind-body healing: embrace Christ! But the Cult of
Helplessness offers a different solution: convince the Universe that
suffering is normal and death-to-be-embraced, while dispensing the
I‟m-okay-you‟re-okay snake-oil of miseducation, civil litigation,
destigmatization, and guilt mitigation. Gay liberation is neither gay
nor liberating – it‟s like we‟re getting f*cked with two dicks!
Now all mental anguish has one cause; and that cause is fear. If you
have a phobia, it is because you fear something happening; if you
have a compulsion, it is because you fear something not happening.
Fear can be likened to a magnet whose north pole is compulsion
and whose south pole is repulsion. Cure the fear and heal the mind.
But what can cure fear? – faith!:
(2 Tim 1:7) For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power,
and of love, and of a sound mind.
(Matt 9:22) Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee
whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
Not only can faith heal mental illness, but because your mind
controls your biochemistry, your faith can also cure your physical
body as well. Faith healings happen all the time, and even medical
science has proven a link between prayer and faster recovery times.
Likewise, you can make yourself physically ill by the power of your
mind. You can even kill yourself by sheer thought:
(Luke 21:25) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the
sea and the waves roaring; 6Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for
looking after those things which are coming on the earth:
Another word for fear is sin. But if you don‘t like the ‗religious‘
term, then let‘s just call it fear.
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But what is fear? Fear is a mystery. Because the Blessed Virgin
doesn‘t fear, she has no idea what fear is; but she, in Christ, does
know all too well what fear does:
- Fear is a lie.
- Fear is like building a bridge to nowhere and then jumping off it!
- Fear is like dumping your hot dominatrix girlfriend because you didn‘t
want to be tied down!
- Fear is like killing your ex-wife and then writing ‗If I did it‘!
- Fear is like killing your own brother and then asking ‗Am I my brother‘s
keeper?‘
You can‘t reason with fear any more than you can negotiate with a
terrorist! There is no method to madness and no 12-step panacea!
You have heard it said that all things are possible to him who
believes; but so too are all things possible to him who doubts!
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Now the symptoms of fear can include shaking, sweating,
headaches, nausea, etc. But anxiety, depression and thoughts of
suicide are not symptoms! – they are the causes! Only you can make
yourself anxious, and only you can cure it through faith in the cross!
Christianity is not a religion; and love is not a behavior – but true
faith loves God more than life itself; like the real Peter who endured
viscous martyrdom for the sake of the gospel. Let us never forget
that when Jesus said ―Take up thy cross and follow me,‖ he was
speaking to a first century audience!:
(Matt 16:25) For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and
whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
And yet we each have our own cross to bear, but true love has a fire
– a zeal! True love questions oneself without doubting oneself. True
love takes nothing for granted unless it‘s granted for nothing! But it
is the intention and not the act that matters – it‘s not about giving to
charity, it‘s about giving with charity!:
(1 Cor 13:3) And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and
though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me
nothing.
I gave myself to Christ on 1 June 2001 and I still struggle with sin
everyday. But though I am less atrocious now than I was then (if
you can imagine!), I am no more well. Maybe I‘ve got the perfect
combination of a clean heart and a dirty mind!:
(1 Cor 1:26-9) For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise
men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27But
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise;
28And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God
chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
(Rom 7:15) For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I
not; but what I hate, that do I. 16If then I do that which I would not, I
consent unto the law that it is good. 17Now then it is no more I that do it,
but sin that dwelleth in me.
STEP 1: Admit it – you did it. Drugs, sex and alcohol have
nothing to do with your addiction. It‘s about you! It‘s ALWAYS
about you! Drop the chalupa!
(Matt 7:18) A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a
corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
STEP 3: Get over it. Slychiatrists try to allay guilt through the
enabling of sin. In their minds, guilt is symptomatic of a conflict
between the pleasure principle and the superego. But in reality, guilt
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is a form of pleasure – albeit a sinful one. A righteous man feels no
guilt, but confesses his sins to a forgiving God who takes away sin
and guilt by the power of his blood. This is true liberation – but
slychiatry offers the false redemption of obfuscating guilt by the
denial of free will and personal responsibility. But this a lie! An
ABSOLUTE and unmitigated lie! You are what you are, and if you
can think it, you can be it! It just takes faith!
But the devil-spawn APA beast of the antichrist would subvert your
minds and deny your liberty to the detriment of your mental health,
and to the destruction of your flesh! They have announced their
intentions and have not denied it! They want to kill you from the
inside, convincing you to accept your own death, thereby releasing
the biochemical sin-toxins which will inevitably kill you!:
I. Denial
II. Anger
III. Bargaining
IV. Depression
V. Acceptance
Now if you reverse the meanings of the five stages of death, you
wind up with a very interesting corollary – what I like to call, The
Five Stages of Life:
I. Confession
II. Humility
III. Sacrifice
IV. Joy
V. Thanksgiving
Embrace life without guilt! Jesus took all of it away so that there is
no more condemnation. If society ridicules you for confessing
Christ, they are on the wrong side of justice since all have fallen
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short of the glory of God. But if you continue to wallow in guilt,
you implicate Christ! – it‘s as if you‘re blaming God for saving you;
but you can‘t judge Jesus twice – that would be double jeopardy!:
Christianity is not about being good; it‘s about being right. The
Passion of the Christ is not at all good, but it is right; and it is the
righteousness of God that is goodness toward men. But guilt rejects
both goodness and righteousness, even our Lord Christ!:
(Luke 5:8) When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees,
saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
STEP 4: You gotta’ have faith. Because all compulsions, fears and
addictions are a matter of the heart, it must be addressed there; but
slychiatrists believe in chemical causes and chemical cures.
Jesus saw a lame man lying next to an enchanted pool, which had
an infirmity thirty and eight years:
(John 5:6-9) When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a
long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? 7The
impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is
troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth
down before me. 8Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
9And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and
walked:
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(Gal 5:16-17) This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil
the lust of the flesh. 17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the
Spirit against the flesh:
There are natural patterns as well – just look inside any conch shell!
The Universe is grammatical wherefore intelligence requires
linguistic communication which itself necessitates pattern and
continuity – precept upon precept; line upon line – it‟s as if we‟re
living in a paternal Universe!
The problem is not that we have habits; it‘s which habits we have!
Good habits are conducive of life and joy; bad habits are conducive
of death and misery. When we sin – and we all have!, we instigate a
pattern in our subliminal consciousness which we subsequently
follow to our own detriment as well as to the detriment of Christ.
When we repent, we find ourselves embroiled in a seemingly
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endless (and oftentimes disheartening) struggle to break free from
the motions of sin:
(Rom 7:20, 22-24) Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it,
but sin that dwelleth in me. 22For I delight in the law of God after the
inward man: 23But I see another law in my members, warring against the
law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is
in my members. 24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from
the body of this death?
STEP 6: Take your meds. Everyone has their own fight and for
some, the ravages of sin have contaminated their brains to the point
where medication is in order, and if so, please take it. I know the
feeling that just comes and overwhelms you like a wave. I know the
seemingly uncontrollable fits of laughter and the sudden debilitating
crashes of despair. I know what it‘s like to pray for quick death. Let
there be no social stigma attached to anyone being treated for the
biochemical ravages of sin, as long as it is understood that the
crutch of medication is a tourniquet, not a cure; and that it is
ultimately ourselves who are responsible for our decisions, not our
bodies.
STEP 7: Fast and pray. One look at me and you can tell that I‟ve
spent a lot less time fasting and praying and a lot more time praying
fast! But there are other kinds of fasting.
On 911, I ate lunch with the choir director of Los Angeles Christian
Presbyterian Church at a Thai restaurant in West LA. It was packed
and I heard later that all LA restaurants did well on that day. Maybe
people want to be with other people in times like these. Maybe
people need ice cream after a surgery. Maybe it was a Passover in
peanut sauce. As we ate, the televisions were tuned to CNN, the
estimated body-count rolling over to ever higher figures (like the
odometer on Satan‘s Saturn). I couldn‘t watch; and yet with the
implosion of those towers came a reassurance – a new hope! As
burning bodies leapt to their deaths, I saw my own sins being taken
away – me and Gary Condit... Sometimes, it‘s good to turn off the
TV for a while – call it station identification.
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We‘re on the front lines of the heavenly rebellion; and Judas is our
enemy for the sake of the gospel – but without him, there is no
gospel! He is a victim of our original sin inasmuch as Christ:
(Ac 1:16-17) Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been
fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before
concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus. 17For he was
numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.
There is only one sin and only one baptism for the remission of sins,
but unless you‘re a maniac Dudley Do-Right, we oftentimes find
ourselves constantly relapsing and being renewed to the faith.
However it is possible to stop sinning for long stretches of time,
even for all eternity! But since eternity never exactly comes, it is
impossible even for the Blessed Virgin to tell whether or not we will
ever attain a level of unrelapsing obedience:
(Matt 20:20-21, 23) Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children
with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
21And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that
these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the
left, in thy kingdom. 23And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of
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my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to
sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be
given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
STEP 11: Don’t even go there. When Lot fled Sodom with his
wife and daughters, he was instructed by the angels not to look back
at the destruction. Similarly, we should avoid situations which vex
our minds and tempt our hearts.
(Ps 1:1-3) Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the
ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the
scornful. 2But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he
meditate day and night.
STEP 12: Bless Jesus. Relish the victory! You‘ve made it into
heaven by virtue of your faith in Jesus Christ! Rejoice in the Lord
always and again I say rejoice! – and no 12-step program would be
complete without a certificate of completion:
(1Co 6:9-11) Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the
kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners,
shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11And such were some of you: but ye
are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the
Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
But don‟t make a devotion out of it! You‘ve got nothing to hide and
less to prove! Nevertheless, some weak-minded Christians go to
church the same way they take out the trash – it‘s just another chore
to them! Maybe they‘re going to chorch! But if you don‘t like your
chorch, then don‘t bother going; there are other ways to make a
contribution (which is your reasonable service!)
Let the Universe be your church! Little league, boy scouts, soup
kitchens, mentoring programs – there‘s a whole panoply of NJOs
(nonjudgmental organizations) where you can get involved and
grace someone else with your gifts and talents. You never know –
the life you touch may be your own!
I‘ve heard others say they don‘t like organized religion, but I have
yet to hear anyone define what that is or suggest an alternative. But
that‘s the intention! It‘s a mean-nothing term that leaves it up to the
hearer to attach their own definition. So if the person your
evangelizing says they don‘t like organized religion, tell ‗em not to
worry, your church doesn‟t have an organ!
(Ac 9:40-41) But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed;
and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her
eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up. 41And he gave her his hand,
Prayer Chains
An atheist prays for God to leave him alone;
In hell, God answers the prayer
and puts him on a planet where no one can hear or see him.
Solomon‟s Goddess
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
who will commit to your trust the true riches?
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived
in her is of the Holy Ghost.
She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her
hands to the needy.
because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee.
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Love Can
Love can cause the blind to see;
Love can cause the rose to bloom;
Love can cause the world to be;
Love can leave an empty tomb.
Mujer Mejor
¿Mujer mejor de Puerto Rico,
quiero oir – „¡Ay Papito!‟
La ella adora la flora ahora
y ponga la pinga enfrente de gente
(y cosas de otras, nosotras conozcas);
¿Qué debes hacer despues de salir?
¡Por qué tienes bodas si tu no me jodas tampoco!
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(Deut 32:39-42) See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with
me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that
can deliver out of my hand. 40For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I
live for ever. 41If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on
judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them
that hate me. 42I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword
shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives,
from the beginning of revengers upon the enemy.
(Isa 45:5-9) I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside
me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 6That they may know
from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside
me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. 7I form the light, and create
darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
8Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down
righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and
let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it. 9Woe
unto him that striveth with his Maker!
(Isa 53:2-12) For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a
root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we
shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3He is
despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with
grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we
esteemed him not. 4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our
sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his
stripes we are healed. 6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have
turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the
iniquity of us all. 7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened
not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep
before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 8He was taken
from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for
he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my
people was he stricken. 9And he made his grave with the wicked, and
with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was
any deceit in his mouth. 10Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath
put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he
shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord
shall prosper in his hand. 11He shall see of the travail of his soul, and
shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify
many; for he shall bear their iniquities. 12Therefore will I divide him a
portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;
because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered
with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made
intercession for the transgressors.
(Eph 1:13-23) In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of
truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye
were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 14Which is the earnest of
our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the
praise of his glory. 15Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the
Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, 16Cease not to give thanks for
you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17That the God of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom
and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18The eyes of your
understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of
his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the
saints, 19And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward
who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20Which he
wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his
own right hand in the heavenly places, 21Far above all principality, and
power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only
in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22And hath put all things
under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
23Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Mormons are damned for one reason and one reason only… they do
not repent. But before I explain why it is that Mormons do not
repent, let‘s have a look at some of the other heretical doctrines
touted by the Mormon Faith…
(Ge 1:1) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
The BVM was never herself transfigured; neither was the historic
Mary who represents the Goddess in scripture. I don‘t worship Mary
the woman; I worship Mary Shekhinah – the Goddess who made
her! I do however worship the historic Jesus who was deified at his
Transfiguration, although it was the Virgin who revealed him to me.
Let there be no disparity between our two necessary Saviors! – I
live by the grace of Christ in the Heart of the Virgin. That would be
Catholicism!
(2Co 10:17-18) But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 18For
not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord
commendeth.
When Jesus died on the cross, he crucified the law to his flesh. It is
impossible to sin in absence of the law. As Paul declares, ―All
things are lawful for me‖ (1Cor 6:12). And elsewhere, ―Christ Jesus
hath made me free from the law‖ (Rom 8:2). In the book of
Romans, Paul likens the law to a dead husband:
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(Rom 7:2-3) For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law
to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is
loosed from the law of her husband. 3So then if, while her husband
liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress:
but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no
adulteress, though she be married to another man.
We are not under the law, but under grace (Rom 6:14). No need to
ask Mary to ―pray for us sinners‖ or make continual confessions to a
priest in hopes of absolution. If the priest tells you to say ten ―Hail
Marys‖ and you get a heart attack on the ninth one, you ain‘t going
to hell. There is no dispensation of grace at the Eucharist and as for
you Protestants, the return of Spiritual charisms such as tongues (or
the anointing) is not a sign of having been restored to God‘s grace.
Yes, we should crave spiritual gifts, but we should also recognize
that all grace and restoration was given at Golgotha and that Jesus
promised he would never leave us (even if tongues should cease):
As far as spirit children go, there will be no need for them. Heaven
is a smorgasbord of sex. It is rated XXX – mature audience – for
adults only, not for the family! Even if we wanted to have spirit
children, we couldn‘t because we are but one spirit. We can‘t
replicate ourselves – every child that has ever been born was
ordained from beforetime. Some are ordained for life; others for
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death – but when we abort fetuses, we alter the divine pathway
thereby reducing heaven‘s population – we‟re killing ourselves!:
(Rev 12:4) and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to
be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
All souls are linked together. We sin together; repent together; and
are raptured together (1 Thess 4:17). But the patchwork balloon
cannot beget another patchwork of souls – again, no real time for
that! To paraphrase Louis Armstrong, When the saints go marching
in, they‟ll be numbered!
Heresy #3) Mormons believe that Father, Son and Holy Spirit
are three separate gods. They believe that the Persons of the
Trinity are united in purpose, but not in substance. This is at
variance with traditional Christianity which teaches that there is one
Godhead in three Persons. The Holy Ghost is the Miraculous
answering of prayer and Jesus said he was the Father on many
occasions. These statements can only be interpreted literally if the
Father is Ultimate Reality:
(John 14:5-9) Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou
goest; and how can we know the way? 6Jesus saith unto him, I am the
way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from
henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. 8Philip saith unto him,
Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9Jesus saith unto him, Have
I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he
that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew
us the Father?
(John 14:21; 24) and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I
will love him, 24He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the
word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
(Mt 16:18) And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this
rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it.
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No, the Christian Church never fell into apostasy as the Mormons
claim. In order for the B.V.M. to create the world, Peter had to
repent. If he didn‘t repent, Mary would become subject to Peter‘s
sin and wouldn‘t live long enough to create a toothpick much less
the eternal cosmos. Therefore, all Christians enter the world at the
moment of repentance and the world prior to that was constructed
around that moment. We are all the Immaculate Conception and
Mary the Immaculate Conception created the world:
(Isa 1:9) Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant,
we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto
Gomorrah.
(1Cor 14:32-33; 37) And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the
prophets. 33For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, 37If any
man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that
the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
The Successor of St. Peter, Pope Saint Damasus I, ratified the canon
when he commissioned the Latin Vulgate translation of St. Jerome.
The Bible contradicts the Book of Mormon. Therefore, it cannot be
canonized by the Apostolic Church.
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Heresy #8) Mormons baptize the dead. Although you wouldn‟t
know it by watching one of their rigid liturgical services, everyone
in the Catholic Church is alive:
(Mr 12:27) He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living:
The Requiem Mass, which dates back to medieval times, has been
characterized as a communion taken on behalf of the dead.
Likewise, Paul also makes mention of a cult of worshippers
who baptized themselves for the dead without condemning (or
condoning) the practice:
(1 Cor 15:29) Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if
the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
Libera eas de ore leonis, ne Free them from the mouth of the
absorbeat eas tartarus, ne cadant lion; do not let Tartarus swallow
in obscurum; sed signifer sanctus them, nor let them fall into
Michæl repræsentet eas in lucem darkness; but may the sign-bearer,
sanctam, quam olim Abrahæ Saint Michael, lead them into the
promisisti et semini ejus. holy light which you promised to
Abraham and his seed.
RESPONSE TO A 'DUBIUM'
on the validity of baptism conferred by
«The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints»,
called «Mormons»
Response: Negative.
The Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, in the Audience granted to the
undersigned Cardinal Prefect, approved the present Response, decided in
the Sessione Ordinaria of this Congregation, and ordered it published.
From the Offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,
5 June 2001.
(Ezr 10:11) Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your
fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of
the land, and from the strange wives.
(2 Cor. 11:3-4; 6) But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled
Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the
simplicity that is in Christ. 4For if he that cometh preacheth another
Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which
ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye
might well bear with him. 6But though I be rude in speech, yet not in
knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all
things.
Yet technically, this faith is sufficient because they believe that their
sins caused the vicarious death of the Angel for which they repent to
a Father-God who is omnipresent. Simply put, this is the spirit of
the antichrist, which is to say that Christ did not come in the flesh. It
is a heresy of course, but not a damnable one. Likewise, the Apostle
Paul also encountered a cult of worshippers who had repented to
John but hadn‘t yet received Christ:
(Ac 19:1-6) And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul
having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding
certain disciples, 2He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost
since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as
heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. 3And he said unto them, Unto
what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism. 4Then
said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying
unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after
him, that is, on Christ Jesus. 5When they heard this, they were baptized
in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6And when Paul had laid his hands upon
them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and
prophesied.
In short, JWs are saved albeit they get into heaven on a technicality
– but then again, don‟t we all?
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Is Scientology a Cult?
Does it sound like one to you?:
And by the way, I‟ve noticed that some Protestinks like to make a
habit out of branding other people‟s religions as cults! If yours is
the only true religion, then what does that make you?!
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Protestink!
(Jer 10:14) Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is
confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and
there is no breath in them.
There‘s a reason why you‘ve never read Luther‘s feces – its level of
nonsensicalness can only be adequately described as Lilliputian
(and what‟s worse – it‟s a snore-fest!) If only Luther would have
opened his beloved scriptura, he would have certainly learned that
the ―antichrist‖ is ―every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ
is come in the flesh‖ (1 John 4:3.) Now the Protestants proudly
proclaim that the flesh of Jesus Christ is not present in the
Eucharistic Elements. So who is the Antichrist? – ‗there is no breath [of
the Holy Spirit] in them.‘
Birthday Wishes
May the day of your birth
Be filled with mirth.
May the following year
Be filled with cheer.
And whatever you do,
May the good Lord bless you
'Cause this day is for you
And yours, my dear.
Both Catholics and Protestants are in agreement that the Virgin birth
is a matter of history. Although I see no cosmic necessity for it, I
see no reason why it couldn‘t happen. As to the Perpetual Virginity
of the historic Mary, let‘s keep in mind that LORD Mary is Ever
Virgin either way. She is pure and chaste – not in the flesh, but in
the spirit! The Gospel doesn‘t say anything about perpetual virginity
and as any Protestink will tell you, our Lord had brothers and sisters
(Mark 6:3), and yes, I‘m aware of the Catholic rebuttal (Jam 1:2).
However, it is idolatry to regard a flesh-and-blood human being as
the Queen of Heaven and I condemn any Cat-oholic ‗veneration‘ of
the human Mary who was nothing more than a vessel. Either Mary
is Shekhinah or she is corporeal – she can‘t be both!
If you just gave birth to the Messiah, would you want another child
after that? If you were married to the Mother of God, would you
have sex with her? Both Mary and Joseph were visited by the angel
and both understood their ministry – and yet didn‘t the angel say to
Joseph, ―fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife‖ (Matt 1:20) and
we know what the word „unto‟ means! (Gen 19:5; 38:2; Hos 1:2).
Who knows? – maybe Mary‘s wearing Victoria‘s Secret panties
with a stitch monogram that says: Do not open „til Xmas!:
GREAT and manifold were the blessings, most dread Sovereign, which
Almighty God, the Father of all mercies, bestowed upon us the people of
England, when first he sent Your Majesty's Royal Person to rule and
reign over us. For whereas it was the expectation of many, who wished
not well unto our Sion, that upon the setting of that bright Occidental
Star, Queen Elizabeth of most happy memory, some thick and palpable
clouds of darkness would so have overshadowed this Land, that men
should have been in doubt which way they were to walk; and that it
should hardly be known, who was to direct the unsettled State; the
appearance of your Majesty, as the Sun in his strength, instantly dispelled
those supposed and surmised mists, and gave unto all that were well
affected exceeding cause of comfort; especially when we beheld the
Government established in Your Highness, and Your hopeful Seed, by an
undoubted Title; and this also accompanied with peace and tranquillity at
home and abroad.
19 non fugabit eum vir sagittarius in stipulam versi sunt ei lapides fundae
20 quasi stipulam aestimabit malleum et deridebit vibrantem hastam
(Vulgate, Job 41:19-20)
But did St. Jerome prophetically anoint the vibrant staff who,
more than a millennium later, would afford the Anglican translation
its stylistic patina? Let‘s take another look at the vibrant staff
passage, but this time, let‘s treat the preceding 10 words as an
acronym removing every 5th letter (q; d) as if they were the spaces
between words:
Exeunt
Philosophical Question
Is it possible to prove what cannot be disproven? If so, then by
what means would you prove it?
(Mic 4:4-5) But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig
tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts
hath spoken it. 5For all people will walk every one in the name of his
god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
The Doors
Imagine waking up in a room with infinite doors leading out of it.
Because life is contigent on motion, you must continually walk
through these doors in order to survive.
Such is choice.
You choose whether or not to live and hence which one of the
infinite doors to walk through; and each time you make this choice
(which you perpetually make), you close the doors on the possible
Universes that existed in divinity but not in reality.
Every decision you make aborts the ones you didn‘t; and these
abortions (like the murdered souls of the unborn slain) reside in a
infinite graveyard that never exactly came to fruition.
(Mt 16:23) But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me,
Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that
be of God, but those that be of men.
Now thank we all our God that though were were born sinning, we
have received (by the grace that is in Christ) the real opportunity to
become born again in obedience to faith:
God has no idea why Adam ate the verboten fruit; were there a
good reason for it, it wouldn‘t be sin.
Psychiatry errs where it seeks rational causes for irrational
behaviors. Not even Solomon in his glorific wisdom was able to
understand the method of madness:
(Ecc 1:17) And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness
and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
(John 2:1-5; 11) And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of
Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: 2And both Jesus was called,
and his disciples, to the marriage. 3And when they wanted wine, the
mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. 4Jesus saith unto her,
Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. 5His
mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
11This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and
manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
Jesus (and none other!) made the decision to become the Passover
Sacrifice for man before the foundation of the world!
He judged the world in his flesh, concluding it in righteousness!
He is the King of Kings and the Conquering Lion of Judah!
Without him was not anything made that was made (John 1:3) and
the government shall be upon his shoulder (Is 9:6)!:
(Gen 49:8-12) Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy
hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow
down before thee. 9Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou
art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion;
who shall rouse him up? 10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a
lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the
gathering of the people be. 11Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's
colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes
in the blood of grapes: 12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth
white with milk.
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(Luke 12:49) I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be
already kindled? 50But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am
I straitened till it be accomplished!
(Ezek 34:25-27) And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and
will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell
safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. 26And I will make
them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the
shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
27And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield
her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am
the Lord,
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When Christ asked My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?,
he wasn‘t talking about God the Creator, he was talking about his
own disciples – he was talking about you and me! All Christians are
the Devil!
I AM the Prince of Tyre, the Devil Incarnate and the father of lies!
But the Devil is so horrendously wicked, that in an ultimate act of
rebellion, he disobeys himself and becomes righteous!
Catholicism is a bloody religion! – Surely, a bloody husband art
thou to me (Ex 4:25)! I drink God‘s blood and eat his flesh like
some kind of cosmic cannibal! The Bible is a litany of murder and
mayhem! The Cross of Christ is accursed and the Cup of Salvation
is a Tincture of Torture!:
Jud 19:22 Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men
of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at
the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring
forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
Jud 19:23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and
said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly;
seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.
Jud 19:24 Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine;
them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what
seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
Jud 19:25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his
concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and
abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to
spring, they let her go.
Jud 19:26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell
down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.
Jud 19:27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of
the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his
concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were
upon the threshold.
Jud 19:28 And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none
answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up,
and gat him unto his place.
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Jud 19:29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and
laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into
twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
Jud 19:30 And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed
done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the
land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your
minds.
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The preceding volume is not yet complete. I expect to have the full
text online before March 09. If you would like to contact the
author, or otherwise help publish or promote Marian Theology,
you may email: stephen.montgomery.lindo@gmail.com
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