*If we ever experienced a problem anywhere, it came about, in some degree, due to certain wrong assumptions, either co-present with, or just prior to the given problem's actually taking place.
TENETS
* Unless you believe in God, the One, and or the infinite, every assumption is contingent.
* PROCESS (or if you prefer spirit, or activity) PRECEDES IMAGE. Image may, to some extent, (and sometimes almost perfectly) represent process. But process is always superior to and always more real than image. If process precedes image this might suggest also that mind precedes matter and energy.
* Everything we believe, or say we know, is based on a factual or value judgment. Both kinds of judgment always entail the other to some extent, and nothing can be known or exists for us without them.
* No fact or purported fact is true or false without someone to assert and believe it to be such. If an assertion or claim is deemed true or false then, and we are thorough, we should ask who is it that says so (or has said so), and what criteria are (were) they using? There is no such thing as "faceless" truth or reality -- at least none we are capable of knowing.
* You can't escape reason. If you aren't rational yourself, someone else will be rational for you; nor do their intentions toward you need to be friendly or benevolent.
* Every point of view and opinion has its truth to it -- even the most abhorrent and unacceptable to us. This said, we are naturally inclined to assume that some opinions have much greater truth to them than others. Even so, what little truth there is in any point of view must, at least at some juncture, and certainly with respect to issues of heated controversy, be justly and reasonably respected. Why? Because we would not be honest (and therefore not truthful) if we didn't.
*Ultimately, and when all is said and done, thought without heart is nothing.
* Most, if not all, of society's very worst problems arise from (certain) spirit people and those who listen to them -- whether the former comes in the shape of "God," angel, devil or what have you. It is these people who are most the source and cause of real unhappiness. If then you chance to have contact with such, while having (one assumes) overcome their lures, deceptions, and pretenses of benevolence and higher knowledge, I recommend that this (i.e. "unhappiness" or "unhappiness itself") is what you call them. Blame and curse them for (most) everything wrong; for it is it is they who have been and are the ruin of everyone and everything (that is, if anyone is or could be said to be so.)
I could not but notice -- you seem to have this uncanny penchant, indeed proclivity, to remind us of personal anecdotes, reminiscences, inside information and explanations of people you've known -- not untypically with respect to some criminal wrong-doing or malfeasance they were engaged in or made a part of. Even so, though you've been like this for a very long time obviously, it only just now occurred to me. Did you ever think that instead of gratuitously (albeit with all benevolent intention) providing us, day in and day, out with your latest inside scoop of things past and present you could finally get around to write and publish your memoirs instead? Or else have your own website or television show (you can certainly afford it) where all who cared to could hear and have your up to the minute running commentary on people and things which are really and mostly none of your business?
My candidate for Fourth of July song for 2009? Why, Jim Croce's "Time in a Bottle."
For about a year or more I have been posting a poem of mine at a rate of about once a month; so that some of you my readers may have noticed and wondered why I haven't done so for some time now. The reason is that I am working on a long, extended nature poem; which at my comfortable leisure I am adding to, amending and editing; much like one would devote oneself to an unhurried and ongoing hobby. Whether this opus will and ever actually realize final completion is not as yet entirely clear; but again, in case you wondered, this is my explanation and as such "where" my poetry has been of late.
If it should turn out to be the case that Michael Jackson, as some understandably suspect, was murdered then it stands as a not unlikely possibility that the murderers will throw out red herrings, false leads, and indeed themselves and or through (witting or unwitting) representatives will "contribute" to the investigation and make it seem that they are trying to help track down the culprit; when, of course, in reality their purpose is to confute, confuse and throw legitimate investigators off the trail. My own arm-chair hunch and suspicion is that some witchcraft person, perhaps and including a spirit person, was fixated with Mr. Jackson and the murder was, in a sense, a result of the former's obsession (which presumably was of a calculating and sadistic cast.)
Speaking of crime and law enforcement -- who do you think is more sophisticated, determined and clever -- the police at large or (big time) criminals at large? The answer to this can be not all that very difficult to see; it is the latter. Not that police or sincere people acting on the side of good and justice are inherently less competent than their rivals or opponents, but rather the problem is that society does not permit them to be be more capable, effective and proficient than they are; and since false religion, probably the most influential and obedience-commanding kind of religion that exists in society today, takes the view that this life is of no consequence and has been handed over to the devil to largely do with as he pleases (do-gooders, meanwhile, being ordered by a disembodied voice and entity from beyond to console themselves with going to "heaven"); with greater wealth and power frequently awarded and handed over to very corrupt or brainwashed people, it will then come as no surprise that there are few or none who are in a position of higher influence to insist that serious evil can actually be thwarted and defeated, or have any real clout or say in what ultimately goes on.
The SAME, but in downloadable .pdf format, zipped ~ (last updated 7/3/09) or Online .pdf version. (If using a dial up connection, right click then "Save As...")
"Oracles": 2008 (.pdf, zipped)
or .pdf
"Oracles": 2007 (.pdf, zipped)
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"Oracles": 2003-2006 (.pdf, zipped)
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Christ and Truth, second edition (.pdf zipped) ~ last updated 10/4/06 and in .pdf
* Peithology: The Nature and Origin of Belief, fourth edition (.pdf zipped) ~ last updated 9/2/06 and in .pdf
* A New Treatise on Hell, fourth edition (.pdf zipped) ~ last updated 9/10/06 and in .pdf
See also A Spirit People Primer,
Spirit People and Science Discussion Group/List, and, very importantly, my personal "Narrative" (.pdf zipped) ~ last updated: 9 Nov. 2008 and in .pdf -- and most recently "Appeal of 2008, and Re-Introduction to Sherman 'Narrative'"
* Calendar and Record of the Revolutionary War in the South: 1780-1781, FIFTH edition (.pdf, zipped) ~ last updated: 5/16/09 and in .pdf (use right click "Save As..." if you are using a dial up connection.)
* Poems by WTS, Revised Fourth edition (.pdf zipped)~ last updated 4/23/09 and in .pdf
Miscellaneous
"Single-handedly,
Fought both the League of Horror
And the Organization Against Freedom
For over a Decade,
AND beat them -- MANY times!"
This is my recommendation of things and people sundry which others may have missed. For some these will already be well known, but for others less so. It is for these last that the suggestion is proffered.
For the week of Sunday, June 28, 2009.
Sheep May Safely Graze...
May they?
Another recommendation of an album that originally came out, in the 60's or 70's, on the much beloved and esteemed by us Nonesuch label. There are, as far as I am aware, no purchase-able downloads of this CD; so (for the duration of this week at least) to give you an idea of what's on it, here are two sample highlights:
Your Choice
* These and more great tunes can be found at
The Contemplator *
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"Thank yoou, Mr. Feelix!"
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