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These past few days, I was occupied finishing up putting together, editing, and making ready for publishing my recent KDP endeavor. When done with the final touches, just yesterday I found myself browsing through some of online news pages and channels. This included the Fox news website. Among other stories there was included one about how there was a petition for a re-trial in the conviction of Scott Peterson for the death of wife and child back in 2002, based on the argument that one or more of jurors was biased going into the case.
In briefly looking the story over about the original abduction and murder, it drew my curiosity. What could possibly have been Scott Peterson's motive? It made absolutely no sense to me. Next I found myself watching most of the 6 hour documentary done by A&E via YouTube.
Inasmuch as at the moment I have other work projects to attend to, and for other reasons, I did not care to write a full or proper article of my reaction to what I subsequently saw and heard in the documentary. Consequently what follows are simply some notes and observations of things that came to mind, and which some may find of interest.
Although it is stated by one interviewee in the program that one had to have been living in far off Burma to not to have known about the Laci Peterson murder story, it so happened that I had never heard of it before, and which amazed me because I was and am pretty good at following news headlines. Why then I wondered hadn't I heard about this most unusual and sensational story? Again to make a long story short, one guess was that it was kept from me by the criminal spirit people/regular hench person group that was (and still is) harassing me. How could they have kept or concealed it form me? For brevity's sake, I just as soon not get into that just here. But if one grants that they had the ability to effect this, their motive in concealing the story form me, or so I surmised and surmise, was that because they and or friends of theirs were involved in the Peterson crime, and the people who routinely harassed me did not want to be reminded of that case while they were already occupied bothering me. In short, even hardened and violent criminals can only take so much of what they do or of their criminal ties and record, struck me as one possible motive for wanting me not to know about that tragic story from Modesto, CA.
There are other-worldly aspects to the Peterson crime that remind me of those same people I did and do have dealings with harassing me, such as:
* Scott Peterson's apparent fore knowledge of the loss of his wife (as reported by his girl friend.)
* The handling of the fetus by the murderers reminded me of how the new born kittens were ripped form the mother's womb in my own story. See my "Narrative," page 26, footnote 26 at .pdf
* A major problem with the whole case against Scott Peterson is that there is no plausible or ostensible motive for the crime, other than that he was psycho. After all, why such a brutal and gruesome crime just so he could go on dates with other girls? If it were as bad as all that, would not divorce have made more sense? That all being so, perhaps "these" people (or again associates or affiliates of such as who did and do bother me) somehow needed or wanted a victim. Scott was perhaps in debt to such, and it was suggested he lose his unborn child to pay them back. Debt for what? Perhaps, and this is sheer speculation, he was involved in the abduction death of the girl reported while he was in college; mentioned in the documentary. But if not this, something else that had him in debt with these people; caused him to collaborate in the death of his unborn son as payment; resulting however also in the loss of his wife as well (though this last may have been also part of the or as such necessary payment we hypothocate here.) That the crime occurred on Christmas Eve only contributes to the likelihood of criminal spirit people (and hench-person) involvement. If correct, the idea is that others committed the actual crime, and Peterson was only an accomplice by knowledge of it.
* The sometimes palpably absurd incompetence and in addition perhaps indirect complicity by the Modesto police and the later prosecutors perhaps suggest criminal spirit people tripping them up (via "magic" among other modi operandi) and or black-mail related duress and or intimidation.
My apologies for all this being only and merely so much desultory notes, but as I said, I have so much else to get caught up on, including recounting my own crime story and work on my new essay "On Reason, Morality and the would-be gods." Yet if anyone is interested in more on such conjecture as is proffered and suggested just here (for what it is worth), please contact me.
Although you allege that those wars which you speak of were excited through hatred of our religion, it would not be difficult to prove, that after the name of Christ was heard in the world, not only were they not increased, but they were even in great measure diminished by the restraining of furious passions. For since we, a numerous band of men as we are, have learned from His teaching and His laws that evil ought not to be requited with evil, [Matthew 5:39] that it is better to suffer wrong than to inflict it, that we should rather shed our own blood than stain our hands and our conscience with that of another, an ungrateful world is now for a long period enjoying a benefit from Christ, inasmuch as by His means the rage of savage ferocity has been softened, and has begun to withhold hostile hands from the blood of a fellow-creature. But if all without exception, who feel that they are men not in form of body but in power of reason, would lend an ear for a little to His salutary and peaceful rules, and would not, in the pride and arrogance of enlightenment, trust to their own senses rather than to His admonitions, the whole world, having turned the use of steel into more peaceful occupations, would now be living in the most placid tranquillity, and would unite in blessed harmony, maintaining inviolate the sanctity of treaties.
~ Arnobius (c.284-c.305), Against the Heathen (Book I)
...if fire, or air, or stone, or iron, or anything which men use against themselves for the purposes of mutual destruction— if it is not possible to pierce or divide these, because of the subtle nature which they possess, why should not rather Wisdom remain invulnerable and impassible, in nothing injured by anything, even though it were conjoined to the body which was pierced and transfixed with nails, inasmuch as it is purer and more excellent than any other nature, if you except only that of God who begot Him?
~ Methodius (815–885), Three Fragments from the Homily on the Cross and Passion of Christ
I saw this back in the 1980s on the local PBS channel. Like Lowry himself and his magnum opus, my feelings are somewhat mixed: there are things I like and others I don’t care for in this documentary, but overall my reaction is positive. I suppose one might liken them to a small pox inoculation, while it may make you sick, it cures you (or at least helps to cure you.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wma61_wfHqg&t=1349s
["Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry"]
Whence it is, that although by this figure He has willed to deliver the soul from corrupt affections, to the signal putting to shame of the demons, we ought to receive it, and not to speak evil of it, as being that which was given us to deliver us, and set us free from the chains which for our disobedience we incurred. For the Word suffered, being in the flesh affixed to the cross, that He might bring man, who had been deceived by error, to His supreme and godlike majesty, restoring him to that divine life from which he had become alienated. By this figure, in truth, the passions are blunted; the passion of the passions having taken place by the Passion, and the death of death by the death of Christ, He not having been subdued by death, nor overcome by the pains of the Passion. For neither did the Passion cast Him down from His equanimity, nor did death hurt Him, but He was in the passible remaining impassible, and in the mortal remaining immortal, comprehending all that the air, and this middle state, and the heaven above contained, and attempering the mortal to the immortal divinity. Death was vanquished entirely; the flesh being crucified to draw forth its immortality.
~ Methodius (815–885), Three Fragments from the Homily on the Cross and Passion of Christ
The Return of Groupon
Between being alone and being with them, I would saying being with them is infinitely worse. Indeed, merely to have known them personally is, in my opinion, one of the most anguish filled griefs and sufferings imaginable.
It's bad enough we have to occupy the same physical universe. But must they intrude on our private lives as well?
So that not only, if I were finally vindicated in public eyes and after all that has transpired these many years, would I NOT sue them for the billion in damages they owe me, but I would gladly pay them the same just to stay away from me.
Some think that God also, whom they measure with the measure of their own feelings, judges the same thing that wicked and foolish men judge to be subjects of praise and blame, and that He uses the opinions of men as His rule and measure, not taking into account the fact that, by reason of the ignorance that is in them, every creature falls short of the beauty of God. For He draws all things to life by His Word, from their universal substance and nature. For whether He would have good, He Himself is the Very Good, and remains in Himself; or, whether the beautiful is pleasing to Him, since He Himself is the Only Beautiful, He beholds Himself, holding in no estimation the things which move the admiration of men. That, verily, is to be accounted as in reality the most beautiful and praiseworthy, which God Himself esteems to be beautiful, even though it be contemned and despised by all else—not that which men fancy to be beautiful.
~ Methodius (815–885), Three Fragments from the Homily on the Cross and Passion of Christ
They tell the President that he has to do more about demonic possession, and presumably also those who lavishly subsidize it. (That was some home-made video set, now wasn't it?) Yet haven't I been urging the same for years?
For the cross, if you wish to define it, is the confirmation of the victory, the way by which God to man descended, the trophy against material spirits, the repulsion of death, the foundation of the ascent to the true day; and the ladder for those who are hastening to enjoy the light that is there, the engine by which those who are fitted for the edifice of the Church are raised up from below, like a stone four square, to be compacted on to the divine Word. Hence it is that our kings, perceiving that the figure of the cross is used for the dissipating of every evil, have made vexillas [royal battle standards], as they are called in the Latin language. Hence the sea, yielding to this figure [i.e., masts], makes itself navigable to men. For every creature, so to speak, has, for the sake of liberty, been marked with this sign; for the birds which fly aloft, form the figure of the cross by the expansion of their wings; and man himself, also, with his hands outstretched, represents the same. Hence, when the Lord had fashioned him in this form, in which He had from the beginning flamed him, He joined on his body to the Deity, in order that it might be henceforth an instrument consecrated to God, freed from all discord and want of harmony. For man cannot, after that he has been formed for the worship of God, and has sung, as it were, the incorruptible song of truth, and by this has been made capable of holding the Deity, being fitted to the lyre of life as the chords and strings, he cannot, I say, return to discord and corruption.
~ Methodius (815–885), Three Fragments from the Homily on the Cross and Passion of Christ
For he prevented their arrogance from raising itself higher, by becoming man; in order that by the body in which the race possessed of reason had become estranged from the worship of the true God, and had suffered injury, even by the same receiving into itself in an ineffable manner the Word of Wisdom, the enemy might be discovered to be the destroyers and not the benefactors of our souls. For it had not been wonderful if Christ, by the terror of His divinity, and the greatness of His invincible power, had reduced to weakness the adverse nature of the demons. But since this was to cause them greater grief and torment, for they would have preferred to be overcome by one stronger than themselves, therefore it was that by a man He procured the safety of the race; in order that men, after that very Life and Truth had entered into them in bodily form, might be able to return to the form and light of the Word, overcoming the power of the enticements of sin; and that the demons, being conquered by one weaker than they, and thus brought into contempt, might desist from their over-bold confidence, their hellish wrath being repressed. It was for this mainly that the cross was brought in, being erected as a trophy against iniquity, and a deterrent from it, that henceforth man might be no longer subject to wrath, after that he had made up for the defeat which, by his disobedience, be had received, and had lawfully conquered the infernal powers, and by the gift of God had been set free from every debt.
~ Methodius (815–885), Three Fragments from the Homily on the Cross and Passion of Christ