Friday, September 27, 2024

Alabama

                We all have skills, I guess. -- Simone Biles

This post is to all you man-loving bros out there who read this blog. I got no beef with you but just want to inform you that it really, really pays to work for women these days. Are you aware of what benefits you can get from women and the solstice? Here's a number to claim yours! Solstice Help Chat. If you serve more, I swear more will pay you back ten fold. 
The time is now for men to decide whether they will get with the program or not.  

Many of you guys are missing out in trying to go it alone; don't you know women control everything? You can't hardly sleep these days without some kind of insurance with women in place. Women control the banks and money; what will you do, try and bury it? If you want to do or find anything now days you have to do it with the woman-controlled internet. And you know women handle the food....... 

You can say I am sheltered and that I don't know what rough is. You can say I'm doing the day wrong. You can say I fell on my face in getting taken into the mental hospital-- i.e. that that whole spiel was all my fault. You can say I don't want to work. 

You could be right on some of those things but the truth is I'm really a pretty normal right-thinking guy like you. I'm just trying to do what's reasonable and practical without any ego trip or fanfare. I know my circumstances well and also don't want to get myself killed by trying to exceed anything. 

My story: I ended up in the mental hospital for a slew of reasons but mostly due to the following: an excessively bad family situation, a false economy, a recession, a bloated mental health system, inflated educational expenses and interest rates, people stealing from me, betrayal by many of my family and acquaintances, religious dogma I had embraced, some intense hatred and social prejudice towards grad students and lawyers, bad parenting and instruction throughout life, cyber bullying, heavy spying, a social funnel, psychological profiling, some mania in society, and a sinister secret combination that is mostly dead now but was trying to undermine us all. 

In other words, what happened to me was a once in a life time perfect storm. I think it could happen to anyone. And it IS happening now to many people nowadays so don't feel so smug and secure.

I had to work my way through college and graduated from undergraduate studies debt free. I worked as a teacher, in construction, in manufacturing, property maintenance, custodial, and in the law. I'm the only law student I know of who turned down summer legal internship opportunities to work at a manual labor brick laying job in construction (which by the way, paid more money ha, ha, ha). 

I only took out student loans for law school, which was a very costly mistake. During the recession that hit just as I graduated there were hardly any legal jobs available and the ones that were were horrible --or even worse, not for real. I defaulted on my law loan payments during this time but would have paid them down if I would have been allowed to. I merely went delinquent on one student loan repayment and they took me into the mental hospital.

Looking back, it was all planned out, my family and the sky were blocking my emails to other employers, and there was no work or opportunity anyways. I probably wouldn't have been able to find work with anyone other than with my crummy uncle who was a lawyer and was partially employing me, but was seriously trying to OWN me. After about a year, my uncle and I had a falling out and I couldn't find any other legal or other type work afterwards.

Well, that's enough info about me. I don't mean to tell you my whole life story but basically, all I'm saying is some of you bros really need to try not to hate me. Believe me, there's nothing to be jealous of. I didn't seek out any notoriety I have now. I don't have any vain ambitions to conquer the world. I also don't want to get rich R-ing. I just want to be free from all these mental health constraints and live out my life like a normal person. People in the world judging me for getting an education should take a step back and really try and understand is all I'm saying. Check out this song by The Tutors.  

Care is "the climb" and where it's at nowadays. And for both yours and my sake, care really needs to be done. Here is a helpful quiz and information to determine where you stand on therapy. Therapy Quiz. Remember these people say they are just trying to help.

I have mobility problems. I can't keep tags off me very long. Mental health people gave me brain surgery and unless I want to go through an extensive lobotomy and lose half my brain, I'll probably always be tagged in my brain. I can shut me down with heat waves and electrodes whenever my brain activity peaks. It is hard to do anything in secret because of this. 

I am too smart. I have no privacy. Everyone's trying to shoot my house and I can't go anywhere safely without a lot of help with me. I'm really not built for and able to do secret air jobs myself now. It is not my forte but I respect and appreciate those who do it.

If you risk your life for the day or a good cause you should be rewarded. The day I know is May Day and will turn any well-deserving guy. If you don't know what May Day is read about May Day celebrations here. Some of you guys ought to get with these May Day and hit them up sometime is all I'm saying. The girls I know have helped me through thick and thin and are rock solid warriors and beauties. They are some very good ones to serve and about as powerful as you are going to find. They deserve your loyalty and won't let you down.  

I don't believe in conventional marriage traditions. I think conventional marriage is false security, mental stagnation, and a crutch I don't need. I do believe every way should get their turn though. There are enough women to go around; we don't need to fight over them. You know it says in the scriptures, even Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedick. (ha, ha, ha)

So anyways guys, don't hate, I'm not trying to horde all the women in the world. The women also don't love me any more than they love you guys. I don't have any strings attached to these May Day women. I just want them to have ample hands and to be protected and safe. 

Have you all read this book, cause I have: The Testosterone Advantage: A Complete Guide to Male Hormonal Balance and Endocrine Health? Believe me, I know it's tough sleeping with all the testosterone that builds up, (I only wish I wasn't old now and had more left!). Here is a children's decor site that has a practical message for many guys concerning these problems. Unicorns, Mermaids, Fairies. Maybe some of you will buy this art message and put it on your wall! (ha, ha, ha)

I would do more of the physical work if I had the time, freedom and opportunity to. Right now I am forced into more of a delegating, organizational, leadership type role though. I am dealing with mass problems, both national and international. I work all day and still do not get to the bottom of all the people trying to attack me. Being prepared and developing my BU is therefore a necessity for me and my biggest calling in life. As things escalate and get bigger and bigger, BU is going to be my best defense. 

So anyways, this is the song I think I'm singing today. Sweet Home Alabama. I'm Lynyrd Skynyrd, you guys are Muscle Shoals. Our May Day is Sweet Home Alabama. 

Well, thanks for choosing to roll with me. I'll try not to let you down. Read this information if you have any doubts. Hot Issue. Remember it has all been planned out long ahead of time.

I just have to continue to stay ahead of it, bring my A game everyday, make you guys safe through BU, and keep this huge operation and machine rolling forward. I'll do my best to lessen the blank roll printing if you will do your homework and read this material on arbitrage futures I learned in college. Futures Arbitrage Contracts

Also, here is a news headline and youtube link you might like. Fat Tuesday  Parties don't last forever so again, I just want you to know I appreciate the support you guys have given me and continue to offer. We really do have some great women on our side helping us. Let's do what we can to keep these girls safe. 


Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Full Circle

"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."-- Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight movie

I had an epiphany the other day in the grocery store. I was looking at a can of Full Circle brand green beans and thought, "Hey, that's me, I'm going to go full circle." I talked with some people I know about this impression and they too think people are going to will it and that I will be able to go full circle in the future. I am now feeling more hopeful than ever.  

I got some very good reasons for this pretentious full circle idea I'm thinking now. First and foremost is the fact that the ruse is up!  Yeah, the bait has been taken, the lure has hooked, ..........and I'm no longer needed as a male gigolo in society anymore. (ha, ha, ha)  Like planned, Ariel came to my rescue when I was a helpless, stranded, wandering hobo, -- I'm now assimilated back into society.  I think it is safe to say that most people in their right minds today know their worst and most recent fears of technological anarchy and enslavement are only imaginary stuff of the movies for the good.  My star movie role as some electrified cyborg slave of the future is no longer warranted.   

Second, the movie Twelve Years a Slave, which came out in 2013, has been quite a revelator, and was not only about Sophie NorCal but about me as well. I hope like Solomon Northup in the movie, and Sophie NorCal, that I'll be able to get another chance at my freedom. 

No mistake of mine should be so permanent as to keep me in mental health slavery indefinitely. No cult-like group like the mental health system should be so powerful and persuasive. It probably still remains to be proven by me, but I just want to say I survived that school of hard knocks and am a much stronger person now. But I must say, it was a never-ending nightmare when I was going through it. 

Third, I think sufficient time has elapsed, that people have gained strength, and that we can force it now. It has now almost been that magic "twelve years" since getting taken into the mental hospital. You know, Sophie NorCal and Solomon Northrup were all released after twelve years had passed.

Fourth, I have learned my lesson. And I mean damn, I have learned my lesson. Whoever thinks institutions in society are overkill and redundant knows what they are talking about. I seriously feel like the mental health system here in Utah has been trying to treat me to death.

Fifth, I am a much more humble person now. I no longer think I'm John Wayne or God's gift to women. I have been punished with isolation these last few years for my pride and think I have thoroughly learned my lesson with that. 

Evil and maligning people have been playing me out, cutting off all avenues socially and exacerbating my single conundrum to an extreme-- so marriage is the one thing in my life that isn't in order right now. I do realize I am not getting any younger and am a single anomaly at 44 years old! 

All I can say is I am not going to get depressed or strung out about this problem and feel like I can't take on anything else until it is resolved- I got better things to do than worry. I'm going to marry for love and make the right decision on marriage regardless of how long it takes. I know I'm not a statistic, I'm not defective or handicapped, and that the future is wide open.

But frankly, I would be happy to be with any woman right now. The key I know now is to not stress the day out by being some cowboy kid and thereby need a woman-- because when you don't need a woman anymore, you will then find one. (ha, ha, ha)  And seriously, don't worry too much about this problem because I think I have actually finally found a wife. Yeah, her name is Lafawnda and she is a mail-order bride from the Orient. (ha,ha,ha) We are going to get married pretty soon here, I just have to make it happen.

Sixth, I'm sick of needles. I have had to drop my drawers and expose my fanny to so many shot nurses I can't even count them all. You can just call me a walking pin cushion of the mental health system now because pricking me with needles is mostly what they have been doing to me since 2011. But I swear, if I get booty juiced one more time I'm gonna kill someone. (ha, ha, ha) No seriously, on a scary note, I actually got a blood clot in my right arm from all the peanut butter shots they were giving me and could have died from an aneurysm.

Seventh, continuous progression has to be possible. I have heard from a prophet's mouth that the mental health system is not going to be done away with any time soon (dang it, I seriously thought it would be, we have put so much pressure on them!). So in other words, the system is not going anywhere and therefore has to adjust, flex, change, and spit out what it can't digest. It is such a corrupt and depressing system many people get trapped in it and never recover. 

I told myself I was going to progress and not be a victim to the mental health system. I have always felt like I was the exception to the rule and that I could do things my way. But we will see if all the monkeys will let go of their plastic banana and leave the monkey trap. If I have learned anything from all this, it is that we may very well have to force them to let go of their prize. 

Eighth, we deserve the rest. With the exception of this most recent incident with my son, mental health people have been answering to me, not the other way around. We have done much to right the Utah mental health system these last eleven years and the repercussions have been felt in many other places. Man, I swear I have the best people helping me.

Ninth, going full circle is not a new thing for me really, I have gone full circle in a lot of things already. I have gone from a selfish, rowdy kid to something less troublesome. I have gone from a prejudiced and judgmental person to something fairer. From materialistic to more liberal and content. From actively religious to something more moderate. Naive and undiscerning to discerning. Unteachable to more studious. Angry and rebellious to something more peaceable. Impure to more pure. 

Tenth, I don't care. I don't care what anyone says, I am going to heal from all this and move on with my life. I may have been weak in some areas at the beginning of all this but I have learned to cope with some very hard things now. I can't be kept in this condemned box forever-- God won't permit it in America, the land of the free. Like the New Hampshire state license plate motto says, I am going to "Live free or die." 

Eleventh, perhaps I can't marry with this mental health stigma hanging over me. It is a red flag to women, a sign of weakness, and an eye sore I can't cover up. Can you imagine being married and having to tell your wife you can't go with her to your daughter's soccer game because you have to meet with your psychiatrist? Daddy, why do the doctors give you shots? Umm.....

No, but really, I know it can be nerve-racking for women to buy a car with no warranty straight from the used car lot. Most people can't tolerate that kind of ambiguity. Only the discerning win in the car business really, but just for the record I have to say that all used cars aren't lemons and that a person can do very well for himself buying used. If you ask me, I think it's crazy to pay a sticker price. 

Well, it has been a long and yes, circuitous journey since stumbling into the mental health system eleven years ago. I have learned many things from it but I can't really say my experience in the system has been a blessing. It has been a long and seemingly irreversible stumble and life is much better at the lake. Yeah. 

Now that I have been force-taught all the dark things in life I think I may have the understanding I need-- but what I would really like to have is the freedom and privacy I once had before this mess happened to me. Yeah, I am now totally trackable, 100 percent on the grid, and sadly, more cyborg than human. I have so much metal in me now that I ought to go cash in at the local metal recycler. (ha, ha, ha) 

Maybe I'm just short-sighted and biased, but I really don't see how all the technological infringements on my freedom are necessary now-- for my personal welfare or anyone else's for that matter. I mean who's it gonna hurt to let some poor, lonely, crazy, cowboy with an imaginary girlfriend go free. Time will tell if the honest and good will live free and unfettered in this country. I really hope it won't be too much longer for me.

If I can't go live now and I suspect the answer is no on that now, can I please have one small victory? Please get this damn contraption out of my nose. I can't live another minute looking like the Avatar people! Thank you.

Well, I would really appreciate any support I can get in this full-circle crusade I'm on now. It may not take as much effort as you think to pull this all off-- they shouldn't be able to stop us from this, they shouldn't be able to stop the feeling in society. 

Remember, we are being hindered by a very small minority of ill people in the world. Do you know what happens to ill minorities in society? They get oppressed! (ha, ha, ha)  I just hope you all are well. Take care (and yes, you all really do do that!, thank you) and I will talk to you later.

Thursday, June 20, 2024

Food

Fasting is a natural method of healing. When animals or savages are sick, they fast.-- Paramahansa Yogananda

Ancient Wisdom: Remember not to bite off more than you can chew. 

Wise Proverb:  You can't con an honest man. 

Okay, I will throw this tidbit out about food for the above-mentioned people who fast--who won't be honest with themselves or God, and therefore starve themselves, foolishly thinking they can go in through the back AI door. The tidbit about food is this-- it's really, really, good or really, really, bad right now. This evaluation includes food from sources other than the grocery stores too.

If you're not looking with regard to food right now you are absolutely killing yourself and missing out on valuable life-saving nutrition. The good food has never been better than it is today. They have discovered amazing ingredients from around the world and are putting them in the good foods now. 

Food science, which can be both good and bad, is at an all-time high. A few months ago I wasn't looking and inadvertently ate some pasta noodles that had been switched out by sneaky people entering my house. I ate a whole pot of the noodles-- and man, I seriously thought I was going to die afterward! My mind couldn't focus, my breath was short, my allergies were acting up, my pee stung, my arteries were probably clogging and who knows what else it did to my eyes, mind, hair, and libido. I hadn't had any other problems with food previous to this and therefore didn't know just how bad it was. 

If any of you suffer regularly from problems similar to this, I feel for you. Know that you do not have to suffer though. You can always eat grass. ( ha, ha, ha) No, here's an idea, try and make a good friend for once-- there may be ways of coping until you can get to looking for yourself.  

There is a saying that I mentioned above that says, "You can't con an honest man."  If you rely on laxatives and enemas to get you through you know what it means to be conned. But if we were honest with ourselves and God would we have these problems? There is plenty of good food in the stores today. Look and live.

Sarah and Walter, I know you're in poor health and that most people have ruled you out as hopeless, Type II diabetes and cancer, but know there is still a way to repent of your excess. No, the answer is not weight loss pills or gastroplasty. The answer is not a Keto diet. The answer is God and in changing the very way you think about him. Be honest with yourself and Him and leave the ranks of the guessing, fasting, starving masses and join the certain. It's only going to get worse for you if you don't.

Well, I feel so blessed to live in this era of history. Thanks to the food gods and food industry workers the health for ALL people is improving! The food service people have worked hard to make food accessible and been so true throughout my whole mental health ordeal. Food is core and the food card really has done wonders for me in bringing people around! Thank these people so much.


Friday, June 7, 2024

Ya, I'm only 44!


Just realized something interesting today. I realized my birthday was not when my evil mother said it was. In fact, I was born in Washington State, not Utah. I was also born outside of a hospital and over two years later than my mother said I was born. So I'm excited today to find out that I am two years younger than I thought I was! 

I'm also a little sad though knowing that my mother placed me in elementary and high school classes with kids two years older than me. Physically speaking, being two years behind was a huge disadvantage for me in sports. I bet I would have played basketball at a bigger college if I had just had two more years in high school.

This never crossed my mind until just now. My birth certificate said I was older and I happened to be taller than most of the kids older than me anyway.  My mother knew how much I loved sports, why would she do this to me? This again proves once and for all that my parents were out to get me when I was younger and were undermining my potential from the very beginning. Academically/mentally this may have been a good thing for me though. 

Now I know why so many secret telephone agents over the years would ask me if I knew when my birthday was! This is crazy, I started driving when I was a reckless thirteen-and-a-half years old. (ha, ha, ha) I moved away from home when I was fourteen. And my mother just had to be sinister about my birthday-- she really made July 8th a curse for me in life! 
 

Sunday, May 26, 2024

Defying the Odds

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."  -- Oscar Wilde

Hi there, here are a couple jokes about psychologists that I read recently: 1) Freud: if it's not one thing, it's your mother. 2) I saw a psychologist who used to be a baker. He really knows how to analyze the cake. 3) Two psychologists pass each other in the hallway. One says, 'Hi!' The other thinks, 'I wonder what he actually meant by that.' (ha, ha, ha)

On a different note, I read something intriguing from the World Health Organization (WHO) concerning mental health patients worldwide. The WHO says, 67.3% of deaths among people with mental disorders were due to natural causes, 17.5% to unnatural causes, and 15.2% to other or unknown causes. The median years of potential life loss was 10 years. WHO also says 14.3% of deaths worldwide, or approximately 8 million deaths each year are attributable to mental disorders. 

In 1937 psychiatric inpatients in New York had a mortality rate 6 times greater than that of the general population of New York. Only a few years ago the WHO stated that mortality rates for psychiatric inpatients in the U.S. were 3 times that of the general population.  

Okay, so I am not going to challenge any of these WHO statistics and think they may all very well be correct. What I will challenge though is their applicability to me. As I have said many times before on here, and will repeat again, -- I'm not and never will be a statistic. Anyone who tries to predict, define, or stereotype me will be sadly disappointed. I think I am an exception to these mortality rates for the following reasons:

First and foremost, the world over the last 30 years has changed dramatically. With technological advances, a huge righting in society, and general global warming, we truly live in unprecedented times. The world has changed so much that past mental health statistics will not be a good predictor of future outcomes. 

In 1937 psychiatric inpatients had a mortality rate 6 times higher. Only a few years ago, that mortality rate had significantly dropped to only 3 times higher. I bet that rate is 2 times higher today. Mental health now supposedly affects 1 in 14 people. It has become so mainstream that my chances are greatly improved through the herd immunity effect. ( ha, ha, ha)

Another disparity I see in those statistics is the locations and times used. I do not live in New York State and this, thank God, is not pre-World War II, 1937. Mental health treatment varies widely between states and though Utah is one of the worst states in the nation to be slammed with a mental health commitment, it is not as bad as some eastern U.S. states or countries in Europe for example. 

When I was incarcerated in the mental health ward I could hardly relate with any of the patients there. The reason I think, is that many of those patients were in fact chronically ill, depressive, crazy, and psychotic. I am not being rude or vain in saying this-- Ra really is ill and is going to die much, much faster than me. These mortality statistics mostly apply to the bad mental health patients, not the good.

Still, I am a big target now and do have a ton of sick mental health freaks in society trying to shoot my house. But those are all being handled so, so, so very well by my friends. Throughout October 2023, I know I had about 55 people try and shoot my house as a kind of Halloween surprise. That wasn't the most I've had in a single month thus far, (you'd be blown out of the water if I told you just how many), but I must say, everything was handled perfectly those months and I was as safe and well as ever. 

Safety is my middle name now and I think I am very well prepared for it. Traveling is a risk everyone takes into their own hands and I think the roads are very perilous nowadays. I try to travel as little as possible. My friends have helped me find good housing and a very, very, very defensive place to live, so I think my chances of survival are greatly improved. 

Good publicity also plays a role. I don't search for things written about me online, but know that things have been written. Please thank those who have written; they don't know how meaningful their writing is. I feel like W.C. Fields when he wrote, "I drink therefore I am." 

As I just kind of mentioned, I am probably the last guy in the world who wants publicity-- but if birth or circumstances have thrust it upon me or if it works in my favor to write about me, my situation, or just mental health generally, then I guess I am all for it. Do tell people to be judicious and only write what is necessary. I would like to be anonymous as long as possible. Thus far my name, profile, and address have been handled very, very well. 

The general G is a major reason why I'm doing so well and why I think I'll survive. Many of the people who want to kill me don't have access to my location, a live car, or even live hands anymore. Some do though. The big thing they can try to do to me is mob me, but we have things protecting from that. So D is upon every high tower and every fenced wall in the land now. Thus far my friends and I have defied all the odds here and every sword that has been raised against us has been struck down.

Lastly, and probably the biggest reason I think I'm doing so well is my cows. (ha, ha, ha) Yeah, my cows have really been keeping me safe all these years.  Here is a beautiful poem from Robert William Service entitled "Cow." (ha, ha, ha) 

I love to watch my seven cows

In meads of buttercups abrowse,

With guilded knees;

But even more I love to see

Them chew the cud so tranquilly

In twilight ease. 

Because of my mental health record and the stigma associated with it, I sometimes have a hard time convincing people that I'm sane. When I do convince them it is an accomplishment but I still have a very difficult time getting them to believe I can survive against all the odds. They don't seem to realize I have a whole day assisting me. They don't seem to believe in technology and all the spiritual intangibles that I understand. The circumstances look too bleak to them and they don't believe any one person can go against the current government establishment like we have been doing for nearly twelve years now. These people are looking at things without the lens of faith and from a historical perspective though. 

And some of these people don't know what freedom is or at least want it that bad. I'm sorry, I just can't settle for any situation other than freedom. If my family, Ra, and the mental health system now stand in my way of technological freedom, mobility, right to work, mingle, marry, and live safely, I suppose I'll agree with what Robert Frost meant when he said, "The best way out is always through."

So just so people remember I told them this beforehand, God has told me I am going to survive this mess and outlive all the government harassers, Ra, my family, I-Dent, and my mortal enemies. Good is going to return and prevail in our society.

We have done much these past twelve years to show all the nay-sayers and doubters. But I am tired of trying to prove many of these blind, ignorant people wrong. I know I will go through all these problems in time but I can honestly say now I would like out of this "I US-frame" and mental health "commitment" box. It is on me like flies on shit.

I am so independent and set in my ways and attacked by so many bad people, that I wonder if I will ever be able to negotiate a loving relationship with anyone. I must say, I have held out a long time for the monogamous ideal but in the end, it could be too much stress to put on any one woman. For the last few years the love police have ruled and love has been stifled. 

But I think things are getting better now. Yeah, get this, almost all my family threats have recently fallen! I am ecstatic because their lay ban on me is over and I am now officially off the most dangerous and untouchable list! (ha, ha, ha)

So given these recent developments and a few of my constraints, what is the best way to proceed now? I am just thinking I need to hold onto all the ground I have gained or can gain now, but not spread myself so thin that I do not develop any one relationship well. I am going to build and prepare things here where I live now and not wait for marriage or a near-impossible escape to bail me out. I may need to move one more time in life to accomodate growth though.

I am also going to work for technological freedom from the tags, threads and I-Dent. I have kinda been housebound for a long time now, so just going someplace and talking to someone in person would be a huge accomplishment for me. I may need to work harder, exercise harder, juggle my finances better, break the ice, do the tags, secretly arrange things, swat the flies, have the stars align just right, buy some space, look and pray for my dear life when I shoot the gap, and lastly, all but cause a small mountain to fall to make it happen,-- but I think it is still possible. 

It has to be possible. Society is helping me tremendously now. They want me to be victorious. People are sacrificing to see it happen. It is going to happen!

God has brought me through a bad family situation, poverty, homelessness, problems with the law, mental hospitals, fiery furnaces, and needles, I think he will bring me through the isolation, the takers, the mobs, and the rest of it too. There are just things that I know and feel that maybe only I know, that I can't fully explain. I feel confident and have an abiding feeling that it's not my time to go now and that things are going to work out for me in the future. 

Please know there are many other reasons why I am going to be an exception to the mental health mortality rules in the future, but this explanation will just have to suffice for now.  

The poet Robert Frost once wrote, "In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on." Today I just want to thank all life and my friends everywhere for "going on" for me. Many of you friends I haven't personally met yet but am so grateful you have responded. I am often warned by skeptics that the love in society will eventually run out, that I will get old or less relevant, or that my friends will get completely and utterly exhausted somehow. But I don't see that happening right now. In contrast, The Zephyr Song by The Red Hot Chili Peppers explains exactly how things are going. 

People are living so much more morally now, are getting better, and are very conscious of the problems in the world today. There are also so many more of us than the opposition. Mahatma Gandhi once said, "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Here is a quote by actor Robert De Niro that I like. "It's important to listen to everyone because many people, you can get their input, but then finally, you have to make your own decision about what you're going to do. And that's what you feel, and that's the most important thing, I think-- the most important thing because that's where the uniqueness comes in because it's you, you've done it, it's your thing. It's not anybody else's. It's your choice." 

Alexandra Morton explains an important point in her book "Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us." She says, "Chronicling the passage of whales has led me to an understanding that we as a species, now sand at a crossroads. We can face the possibility of our own extinction and work to avert it, or we can flow the more traditional path of earth's organisms and fall blindly over the edge. If there's one trait that characterised human beings, it's the will to survive. This, I believe, will motivate us to work with the natural world rather than opposite it, which is all we need to do to give the children of earth--of all species-- the opportunity to thrive."

No matter our wealth, education, or standing in society, every one of us has the power to shape our future today. We can speak up and change public opinions. We can invent better ways of doing things. We can do things that make this world a safer, more habitable, and peaceful place. I just wish more people could see that we are building a whole new world here now. 

Yeah, today may be an enlightened time in history similar to just before the American Revolution in America when the founding fathers were getting together and discussing how to deal with the Tories and build and govern a new society-- separate, different, and freer than any society that existed then. I think we need to realize today that things don't have to be the way they were. Society can and is evolving. We can build smarter and fairer than ever before while still respecting and working with the powers that be. Here is a song by Eddie Vedder called "Society that mentions some important points.   

I know we can and will eradicate all the evil in our society in preparation for Christ's second coming and the millennium. Yeah, I think He will come when everything is prepared and ready, and we have rolled out the red carpet and are waiting to usher Him in to His throne. The scriptures say, "He cometh to declare glad tidings of salvation unto His people" (Alma 39:15) --and He is definitely doing that now. I know no man knoweth the hour of His coming but I am just looking at things and wondering what more needs to occur or could be done. Maybe we are getting close to His coming now.  

Well, it's exciting to see what's happening today and I really can't wait to see it all go down. With technology and the order that's in place, we definitely have the means to right things. We just have to do our small part. Let's keep things up and going, I think we're more than halfway to peace now! Please send my regards to all of you and wish everyone a Happy New Year this year. 2024 is going to be the best year ever!


Thursday, July 6, 2023

Lady Liberty

 "The future is as bright as your faith." -- Thomas S. Monson (Oct. 3rd, 2015)

Happy Fourth of July!  It was a good holiday for me this year; I have so many freedoms to be grateful for. I talked with Lady Liberty on the fourth and she said she was grilling chicken, not hot dogs on the BBQ. She also said she was wearing a black T-shirt with cut-off blue jeans shorts and some shoes that are a secret and that you have probably never heard of.  And she was wearing a touch of makeup, ahh!........... that could mean something bad for her, me, us or the both of us.  (But I don't purport to know anything about makeup, so I will refrain from elaborating on that). 

Some of you may be saying, Lady Liberty wears a toga and is a statue in New York City.  No, sorry, your totally wrong on that, she is not a statue, she is more like an active, living force of nature. Yeah, she is like lightning-- she's striking guys down with her killer body and stunning good looks. She's even cleaning up that cesspool city of New York. I know with Lady Liberty in charge the best days for us and this country are yet to come!

But seriously, about the touch of makeup Lady Liberty was wearing and/or the possible ice cream --I think it means she needs more eye D and support from men.  It's not easy grilling chicken for the fourth.  lt's not easy going against the sky. Let's all protect and help Lady Liberty, okay. 

I looked recently and about 30% of my ice cream came from women, 70% from men. One guy who is dead now (I got him, ha, ha, ha), was responsible for 90% of my damage from men.  U-fees got me 2% of the time Co-fees were the other 98% of the damage. It might be helpful for some of you to look and figure out just who is the culprit and who needs to be attacked. You will probably find that swomen aren't nearly as much the culprit as you thought they were!  

Well, I'm in such a good mood now, I feel like preaching something important to my family, friends and future generations. (so get ready for some false doctrine!) This could be the only untampered-with, written record I leave to my children, so I want them to listen up and take some advice. 

I think it is very important that all these people know and understand the power of the word of God. The word of God or scriptures, is where you go for answers. It is the living water and the bread of life spoken of by Jesus. Elder Robert D. Hales once said, "When we want to speak to God, we pray. When we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures." God doesn't really want us to look to others for guidance in this world. Instead, He wants us to follow Him through the words of Christ and personal revelation.

The Book of Mormon teaches about the word of God in this verse, "And now as the preaching of the word had a great tendency to lead the people to do that which was just-- yea, it had had more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword or anything else, which had happened to them-- therefore Alma (the prophet) thought it was expedient that they should try the virtue of the word of God."  (Alma 31:5)

Isn't it funny how sometimes we have sins in life that set us back and that for the life of us, we can't seem to overcome, despite the threat of death, poverty, isolation, depression, sickness and you name it? That passage in the Book of Mormon just told us how to overcome such problems.  We overcome them by immersing ourselves in the word of God. Jesus said in John, "And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).  It is amazing because when we hear or read the word of God it almost imperceptibly infuses our souls with power, light, knowledge and energy to overcome our human weaknesses. No matter where we start from, we can become perfect in Christ through diligent study and adherence to the word of God. It truly has a more powerful effect on us than anything else in this world. 

We do things backward in the world today. We try and correct problems through alternative means. As the apostle Boyd K. Packer stated, "True doctrine understood changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than the study of behavior will improve behavior .........That is why we stress so forcefully the study of the doctrines of the gospel." 

The word or doctrine of Christ gives us the power to change; repentance is how we change-- and repentance is a beautiful thing. It is a complete turning away from all sin. Note, I said a turning away from "all" of our former evil desires or tendencies. When we repent we humbly come before God and say," Lord I am sorry for my sins, I will not return to any of them again. I will do anything thou wants me to do right now, I will try my hardest, be 100% obedient and completely perfect going forward, what would thou have me do?" This is how you have to approach God every time. If you don't feel like you can make a prayer like this, repent, and pray until you do. If we come before God without reservations, ready and willing to do whatever is asked of us, being perfectly honest with ourselves and Him, we then find forgiveness, are made clean, and become right with God. 

We can and must repent like this over and over again throughout our lives to be rejuvenated and cleansed.  As J. Golden Kimball, once said, "Cut me off from the church? They can't do that!  I repent too damn fast." (ha, ha, ha) Indeed, it isn't about making mistakes in life, we all have our hangups, it is about how fast you truly, repent of your mistakes.  

God requires "all" our "might, mind and strength" to do his work. He says to thrust in our sickle and reap. You know the funny thing about sickles is they are somewhat blunt instruments. You have to use vigorous thrusts to harvest the grain. If you lackadaisically or half-heartedly swing your sickle you will just push the stalks of grain over, not cut them down.

The last thing I want to share is kinda funny. It is a comment by the prophet Brigham Young to the Latter-day Saints in the 1800's, soon after they began settling in the Salt Lake Valley.  He said, "The worst fear that I have for this people is that they will get rich in this country, forget God and his people, wax fat, and kick themselves out of the Church and go to hell. This people will stand mobbing, robbing, poverty and all manner of persecution, and be true. My greater fear for them is that they cannot stand wealth; and yet they have to be tried with riches, for they will become the richest people on this earth."

Huh, the saints can't stand wealth. They may fail the test of riches-- oh, please try me with that one, it sounds horrible. They kick themselves out of the church and go to hell. That's a good warning for all of us I think. I read the word kick as having something to do with, among other things, "kicking against the pricks," Kickstarter, and Kicking Wing. (ha, ha, ha, no just kidding, Kicking Wing was a character from the movie Joe Dirt.)

Anyways, if you think this quote is important and want to follow it, maybe start by looking at those people in the world who have everything and yet are humble and devoted servants of God. If you're not into following Christ, follow them. Then maybe, maybe look at those other people who have endured persecution or poverty or sickness and still remained true. The rich are more blessed than the poor though. (ha,ha,ha, that may be false doctrine there -- no, I don't think life is that simple.) Heck, life is so relative it really seems impossible to judge correctly, so maybe why attempt to. (ha, ha, ha, that's false doctrine too)  

What do they say, "The love of money is the root of all evil?" Let us resolve not to covet wealth and always be humble and obedient in whatever circumstance we are in and in whatever way God chooses to bless us. As Job said, "The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord."( Job 1:21)  Jesus said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God" (Matthew 4:4).  

In conclusion, I just think it's important to be humble and obedient when we are blessed with wealth-- not just when we are poor or going without. Please tell me why is it so much harder to remember God when things are going well for you and when you have everything that you need. 

We are all tested in different ways and in different things throughout life. Everyone has their own timetable for acquiring wealth. (And dammit, why doesn't God speed mine up ha, ha, ha). All that really matters to God is how obedient we are to the truths we have been taught in life. So cover your ears and be sure and learn as little as you can in life because then you are not as accountable. (ha, ha, ha).

Thursday, May 25, 2023

Stay Thirsty

"We ought to have the building up of Zion as our greatest object" --  Joseph Smith  

Been talking to my friend Cassi lately about her childhood in a white Mormon family in San Francisco Bay area. She has some horrible abuse stories to tell about her childhood there. I swear, I don't know how some people recover from abuse like what she mentioned to me and move on with their lives. When children are trafficked like she was, I don't know how they forgive and better yet, get even, with so many perpetrators. 

On average, abuse is being handled better today than in the 80s and 90s-- but the problem is still very common and the laborers are few. I have been searching for good organizations to donate money and time to in this area. I have found that nonprofit organizations in this field are not all the same and some are bad and further traps for the unsuspecting. But here is a really good one that I found:

The organization is called Safe & Sound, located in San Francisco, CA.  Their website says they are taking a comprehensive approach toward alleviating child abuse by "building communities that are responsive to the needs of children and families..... because together we can create a future free from childhood trauma where all children are safe, supported and loved." I think this organization is one of the leading organizations in the Bay Area as well as the country. Here is how I rate them:

Effort Level --9 out of 10, with 10 being the best
Use of Funds --9 out of 10, with 10 being the best
Leadership in the Field-- 9 out of 10, with 10 being the best
Difficulty/Weight of Problems Being Addressed in their Region-- 9 out of 10, with 10 being the most difficult
Comprehensive Reach in their Area-- 7 out of 10, with ten being the best

As you can see, I think Safe & Sound is doing an excellent job. The only negative I can find is their reach--they don't have the resources and manpower to reach all of the families and children that are in need in northern California and the Bay Area. This is critical because a rating of 7/10 means 3 out of 10 good kids suffering in abusive situations in the Bay Area still need to be reached. I'm sure Safe & Sound will find a way to address the needs of these kids eventually, but too many reported and unreported cases are falling through the cracks now and we need to help. 

Technology and an active day are making the world a much safer place today. It would be easy to let up now, think all is well, and say that someone else will address these problems eventually. I think what we need to remember is the simple and profound advice of the iconic Dos Equis beer commercial man of the 2000s. (ha, ha, ha)  He would always say, "Stay thirsty my friends." (And if you haven't watched these commercials look them up on this YouTube link, they are hilarious.)

So anyway, I think we can all do a little better if we try. Perfection is the goal and we can reach it. Hope you all are well, peace out and stay thirsty my friends.  

Alabama

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