Any One Home-On Planet Earth?

BACK TO BASICS (For those who havent yet embraced this history.

2009-10-20T07:38:00.000-07:00

Maybe this will help:I saw someone refer to this, when describing capitalism in one of the world and political discussion forums I frequent:

"I see it a lot like fire, it is great for cooking but out of control will burn your house down.. "

I say The political system has been “hacked” for years. They found the weak points and manipulated ‘results’, became better and better at it. I am not sure that it is repairable without a revolution. The web of corruption is so entirely embedded.Ross Perot looked like a chance for a fresh start, it fizzled away.Ron Paul came and has been buried as well as a few others.Many men who opposed them have been worn out and finally gave in, selling out for their “dole” Like, Would yOu say maybe, McCain......?

I still see a lot of potential for an economic collapse. To me it seems planned. Well engineered, a "controlled collapse". This may provide opportunity for a fresh start. Except for America has way too many stupid people who don't ‘know’ OR don’t want to know what is going on. This seems negative and mean doesn't it? and yet, it's "a" reality. certainly a possibility isn't it?

The trouble is the current world vested interests have acquired a lot of power that would survive intact even in the event of a crash. It is likely that the same gangsters will manage to regain control, even if we have a new start.."I see it a lot like fire, it is great for cooking but out of control will burn your house down.. "I have heard that before, and I feel just as then, such a perfect analogy.

SOome people hate this kind of message because it reeks of taking actual proactive responsibility for the world you live in, but first and foremost your own country. I see people constantly sitting back and talking about things but In reality just generally accepting most things, until whatever happens, happens (bywhoevermakesithappen). Then, I see a lot of sitting around and rationalizing why that result was meant to be or "best".

I have witnessed more than ever, “over rationalization” and justification for ridiculous aspects of our society & for a very long time. I would say it has gone beyond ridiculous & over-complicated. This is beneficial to the ‘perversion’ & decline because it lends itself to corruption & subjugation of the good, established common law.

"out of control will burn your house down.. "(Good post Natalie) That was great, succinct & generally common truth.

This system worked *!awesome!* for a very long time -even after we relatively conquered the basic laws (the Various forms) of slavery in this country. It took the European financiers and world elite powers many years, many and various techniques of assault to take apart the system of this country and actually seize it.

We can surely see why manipulative forces in the world would hate everything about this system. It is SAD that the utter ~current~ (& for 100 years) perversion of this system is nothing like what was meant for this republic.Bottom line: as bad as the current corruption and treason is in this system, we have something that very few other people including the saboteurs have which is: a political and social, as well as moral system in this world that has actually worked in most of its basic forms, certainly not least importantly: economically. Nothing in this world is perfect. This system is worth preserving. We should value our sovereignty to all reasonable levels. The bankers (central banks) are nobody's side show.

You must always remember where the power lies, not in politics, nor corporations but those who control the money. [Mayer Amschel Bauer] (1744 -1812), Godfather of the Rothschild Banking Cartel of Europe As Mayer Amschel Rothschild once stated:Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws.

Here another long statement reflecting the influence banks have in people's lives from J.P. Morgan source: in 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' (American Opinion Publishing), p. 218 Capital must protect itself in every way... Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.

The central banks have been running the show for more than a century, every war, every economic crisis, rise and fall of world leaders and political figures, and many aspects of our daily lives are dependent of this money hungry group of individuals that makes up the central banking cartel."The bankers are nobody's side show, you must always remember where the power lies, not in politics, nor corporations but those who control the money

"You might say: "What about the network of offshore banks owned by the CIA?" etc....Those are piggybanks compared to what there is.

~The bankers (central banks)Panic of 1907
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A swarm gathers on Wall Street during the bank panic in October 1907. Federal Hall, with its statue of George Washington, is seen on the right.The Panic of 1907, also known as the 1907 Bankers' Panic, was a financial crisis that occurred in the United States when the New York Stock Exchange fell close to 50% from its peak the previous year. Panic occurred, as this was during a time of economic recession, and there were numerous runs on banks and trust companies. The 1907 panic eventually spread throughout the nation when many state and local banks and businesses entered into bankruptcy. Primary causes of the run include a retraction of market liquidity by a number of New York City banks and a loss of confidence among depositors.The crisis was triggered by the failed attempt in October 1907 to corner the market on stock of the United Copper Company. When this bid failed, banks that had lent money to the cornering scheme suffered runs that later spread to affiliated banks and trusts, leading a week later to the downfall of the Knickerbocker Trust Company-New York City's third-largest trust. The collapse of the Knickerbocker spread fear throughout the city's trusts as regional banks withdrew reserves from New York City banks. Panic extended across the nation as vast numbers of people withdrew deposits from their regional banks.The panic may have deepened if not for the intervention of financier J. P. Morgan, who pledged large sums of his own money, and convinced other New York bankers to do the same, to shore up the banking system. At the time, the United States did not have a central bank to inject liquidity back into the market. By November the financial contagion had largely ended, yet a further crisis emerged when a large brokerage firm borrowed heavily using the stock of Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company (TC&I) as collateral. Collapse of TC&I's stock price was averted by an emergency takeover by Morgan's U.S. Steel Corporation-a move approved by anti-monopolist president Theodore Roosevelt. The following year, Senator Nelson W. Aldrich established and chaired a commission to investigate the crisis and propose future solutions, leading to the creation of the Federal Reserve System.

DO You have this?????????
Very, very good.
Read "The creature from Jekyll Island
Now we're cooking.
You can see where after this period, there are CONTRAILS leading all the way to TODAY-

Aarron Russo- FREEDOM to FACISM

2009-05-29T15:40:00.000-07:00

http://www.truthring.org/2006/09/aaron-russo-america-freedom-to-fascism-full/

I am sure you have seen this but just in case.
Very good stuff.

“We cannot be fixated on our desire to preserve and protect the rights of ordinary Americans”
President Bill Clinton March 11, 1993

WHAT?

“Legal opponents of President Bill Clinton were singled out for tax audits” -Paul Breslan, IRS Official, from court records.

The pages of History shine on instances of the jury's exercize of its perogative to disregard instructions of the judge. -U.S. V. Dougherty 1972

Pastor with guts chain mail

2009-05-29T15:36:00.000-07:00

Pastor with Guts

Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate. It seems prayer still upsets some people. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity, and called it
freedom of expression.

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Amen! The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is the Pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa and Korea . Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,'and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called 'One Nation under God.

God Bless America, today & forever.

Thanks for sending it Andrea,

I liked this. It’s nice to get something strong and prayerful instead of limp for a change.

I find this to be true so far; (Snopes and http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/a-conservative-view-point/2009/apr/19/a-pastor-with-guts/ )

We know that “religious” emails & things make many people uncomfortable, and I believe that “we *Christian’s” should bear some of the responsibility for this, only because of the tactics some well meaning people use to “share” the ‘word’ of GOD. *I use the term for myself loosely, since my belief’s are strong yet many Christians cringe at my version of ‘exemplification’ sometimes and that is the point: This practice of “judging others” has once again spread to the non-secular as well. So, Some Christians should be telling ourselves; “now I know how it feels”. Well, Lets try continue to leave the judging of our to ourselves to ourselves, and the judging of mankind on the whole to the LORD.

Thanks for sending it. I respect anyone who does not believe in GOD and yet who lives a good, kind and honest life out of a sense of responsibility. Others, (even some self described Christians sometimes) we know don’t have these impediments. I also respect politicians who can exemplify the values this country was built on and yet who know how to keep their extolment of these values within a healthy respect of others that may not share them (also exploited by some). We live in a time of hypocrites’ & hypocrite-(icizm).

The truth hurts those who don’t know how to deal with guilt, whether it’s first hand or the guilt of silence, while we watch sh_t-bags exploit the kindness and vulnerability of others for greed and personal gain.

They count on us remaining passive and docile while counting on the possibility that there will be no atonement or “accounting” at the end of this life. I know that GOD favors the meek however, I have to work very hard to remember this, as I am of the predisposition to deal with the world the in the very same way it deals with me (only with a certain amount of sincerity, integrity and circumscription of “passion”. Also, I mean try to deal fairly). This is viewed as a weakness to some ‘godless’ people.

"RAGE against the Machine"

2009-05-27T10:26:00.000-07:00

Before you even read it, yes Im pissed off, and thats never pretty.

From the Amazon Political forums:

You Might Be A Gun Control Advocate if......

http://www.amazon.com/tag/politics/forum/ref=cm_cd_et_md_aep?%5Fencoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1S3QSZRUL93V8&cdMsgNo=3&cdPage=1&cdSort=oldest&cdThread=TxSK9OPVHDC3D3&displayType=tagsDetail&cdMsgID=Mx208EG1POKIMCP#Mx208EG1POKIMCP

John Hruschka (JH) says:

"Wow--what an incredible compendium of fallacious statements.Don't get me wrong, I think the Constitution guarantees citizens the right to bear arms, but that list is a gigantic load of polemical crap.

*All you really have to believe, if you support gun control, is that the rights guaranteed in the Constitution are not absolute.*

(Note to Government and dumb lazy complacent fucks like this, from Juan Iota: Thanks for clarifying just how much of a constitutional idiot you are. You couldnt be more 'worng'. YOU, fuckbags arent supposed to be able to TAKE away GOD given rights. ITS US THE PEOPLE that give govenrment the rights THEY have. ALL OTHER RIGHTS ARE REMANDED TO THE law abiding PEOPLE.) I now return you to the rest of this ridiculous crap)

JH- "Remember, the right of free speech does not allow you to yell fire in a crowded theater and the protection against unreasonable search and seizure does not apply if you are suspected of a drug crime--so it is not rational to expect that the 4th amendment gives you absolute, unrestricted access to any and all guns."

My response in Thread:

JH-"Remember, the right of free speech does not allow you to yell fire in a crowded theater"?

Only because lazy, idiotic citizens have decided to entrust our "authoritie*d*" to rule that we are too 'f_ing stoopid' to know regardless of some jokester running around laughing and or screaming, whether or not a building is on fire, or to kick the crap out of, IF said idiot tries to endanger everyone else in the theater for no good reason.

Funny, that theater crap never used to happen a hundred years ago when it was ten times more dangerous.....

WOnder whats changed?

Theres a pattern here:
"its disruptive, so lets give up our rights", "its a danger so lets give up our rights", its expensive so lets give up our rights", its NECESSARY, so lets give up our rights"........

Wait, we dont have many left do we?

YES- We have ""EVOLVED"" to the point in society where we NEED "Authorities" to ensure that some (evolved) imbecile wont do something stupid like that.

JH-"Its Necessary""and the protection against unreasonable search and seizure does not apply if you are suspected of a drug crime--"

Because we have decided that its ok to take the rights from the law abiding, so that authorities dont have to find ways of being smarter, more efficient and more effective at catching crooks.

HOWEVER on the other hand, they dont want US "taking the law into our own hands".

Let the authorities take the easy way out by taking OUR fccg rights, and allow the crooks to rely on their igenuity.

YAY for progress!

These new things is turning out a great society, isnt it!

"We live in a time of technology and abundance, we dont need to arm ourselves any longer"

This country is chock full of lazy, complacent, docile wussie ass idiots.

Screw being "responsible" for your liberty AND actions, and holding others entirely responsible for theirs ..... just entrust it Alllllll to the "authorities"!

They will make everything alllll better.Right?

WAKE UP!

Come on, although ya try to discredit
Ya still never edit
The needle, I'll thread it Radically poetic
Standin' with the fury that they had in '66
And like E-Double I'm mad Still knee-deep in the system's shet
Hoover, he was a body remover
I'll give ya a dose but it'll never come close
To the rage built up inside of meF

IST IN THE AIR, IN THE LAND OF HYPOCRISY
Movements come and movements go
LEADERS SPEAK, MOVEMENTS CEASE
WHEN THEIR HEADS ARE FLOWN'

Cause all these punks
Got bullets in their heads
Departments of police, the judges, the feds

NETWORKS AT WORK-KEEPING PEOPLE CALMY
ou know they went after King
When he spoke out on Vietnam

He turned the power to the have-nots

AAND THEN CAME THE SHOTS!

Wit' poetry, my mind I flexFlip like Wilson, vocals never lackin' dat finesse

Whadda I got to, whadda I got to do to wake ya up
To shake ya up, to break the structure up?
Cause blood still flows in the gutter
I'm like takin' photos, Mad boy kicks open the shutter
Set the groove Then stick and move like I was Cassius
Rep the stutter step
Then bomb a left upon the fascistsYea, the several federal men
Who pulled schemes on the dream
And put it to an end
Ya better bewareOf retribution with mind war20/20 visions and murals with metaphors

Networks at work, keepin' people calm
Ya know they murdered X
And tried to blame it on Islam
He turned the power to the have-nots

AND THEN CAME THE SHOTS

WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! "

(theres a fire in our theater")

HOW LONG? Not Long, cause WHAT YOU REAP, is WHAT YOU SOW.

If you aint pissed, then GET,-GET pissed. Or get pissed on.

2009-05-12T12:22:00.000-07:00

If you aint pissed, then GET,-GET pissed. Or get pissed on.

Continually challenge those who endeavor to ruin this country. Continue to ask questions of those who are not worthy of our trust, yet who have SEIZED control of this country. DEFY the enemies of the FREE REPUBLIC. Consistently challenge the few good politicians who are left, to stand up and be heard. Those who would weaken this country are intent of keeping us divided and I tell you that THE ONLY HOPE THIS COUNTRY HAS LEFT IS UNITY."

You have no color, you have no culture. We have nothing if we don’t have each-other. Did you not here the call: “If you are not with us, then you are against us”?

These are the things a real patriot would be concerned with. This is what a real patriot would do, and not spend their time ridiculing fellow citizens. Especially when these citizens know in their gut there is something wrong going on here. The time since I said it was coming has ticked off almost 6 months. It is looming larger on the horizon now and even mild skeptics are beginning to see that what I said about Obama in the very beginning is true.

NO-ONE is more distressed over the fact that he is nothing more than the cousin of a pawn, another pawn for the forces who hate us and want to grind us into New World Order Fodder. This is because they KNOW DAMN WELL, that we will not go quietly into the night they have prepared for us. Americans will be relegated to third class, third world citizens very soon.

What did KRS-1 say? What did Griff say? What did Negron say?

Real patriots would want to know the truth without a shadow of a doubt. The skeptical shills live in fear, and nothing else. Do not let them turn this around on you. You seek the truth, as scary as it might get. Be brave Americans, don’t be afraid to challenge these **cks.

I am especially amazed at the people who find these statements "negative". This is reality, and not just one persons interpretation of reality. This is a big fat storm cloud coming- and you want to call the weather forecaster negative?

Tell the world, tell all the people who ridicule you for wanting truth: Be my guest, as you cower inside your cocoon in front of your TV praying it doesn’t come after you since you were a good proletarian supporter. Watch the videos if you can.

http://streamme.tv/video/911-Chronicles--Part-one--Truth-Rising

http://streamme.tv/video/I-m-as-mad-as-hell-and-im-not-going-to-take-this-anymore

http://videotubemax.com/video/STFic2M9vWc/REVOLUTION.html

There are untold numbers of people dying of terrible ailiments in New York because of the lies we have been told. Wake up brothers and sisters. Here Amerikka, roll around in it. I love you Nacy Pelosi, I love you Hillary, know I got a thing for ya Sarah Palin. Message brought to you by “AmeriKKan Idol-otry” and “Big Negga” ME cause I am not going to shut up until they come and shut me up. If we get the band started before they get us, then we will ring the message of truth, freedom and justice out to every human being we can reach.

FEARLESS AND PISSED F**KING OFF -is what I am today.

Flav: “They claim we bruddahs from the bottom of hell, -cause the black is back and its bound to sell. ““Picture us coolin out on the fourth of july, and if you heard we were celebratin, I say well why lie? Yo Chuck, the federals are tryin to pull a two-two-six on ya Gee, show-em whatcha got-show-show-em whatcha got”:

Chuck D: -This style seems wild

Wait before you treat me like a stepchild

Let me tell you why they got me on file

cause I give you what you lack

Come right and exact

Our status is the saddest

So I care where you at, black

And at home I got a call from tony rome

The FBI was tappin my telephone

I never live alone

I never walk alone

My posses always ready, and they’re waitin in my zone

Although I live the life that of a resident

But I be knowin the scheme that of the president

Tappin my phone whose crews abused

I stand accused of doing harm

cause Im louder than a bomb

Cmon cmon louder etc...

I am the rock hard trooper

To the bone, the bone, the bone

Full grown - consider me – stone

Once again and

I say it for you to know

The troop is always ready, I yell `geronimo

Your CIA, you see I aint kiddin

Both King & X they got ridda both

A story untold, true, but unknown

Professor griff knows...

“Yo I aint no toast” -Griff

And not the braggin or boastin and plus

It aint no secret why they’re tappin my phone, although

I cant keep it a secret

So I decided to kick it, yo

And yes it weighs a ton

I say it once again

I’m called the enemy - Ill never be a friend

Of those with closed minds, don’t know I’m rapid

The way that I rap it

Is makin-em tap it, yeah

Never servin em well, cause I’m an un-“Tom”

It’s no secret at all

Cause I’m louder than a bomb

(Count down):

Cold holdin the load

The burden breakin the mold

I aint lyin denyin, cause theyre checkin my code

Am I buggin cause theyre buggin my phone - for information

No tellin whos sellin out - power buildin the nation so...

Joinin the set, the point blank target

Every brothers inside - so least not, you forget, no

Takin the blame is not a waste, here taste

A bit of the song so you can never be wrong

Just a bit of advice, cause we be payin the price

cause every brother mans life

Is like swingin the dice, right?

Here it is, once again this is

The brother to brother

The terminator, the cutter

Goin on an on - leave alone the grown

Get it straight in 88, an Ill troop it to demonstrate

The posse always ready - 98 at 98

My posse comes quick, because my posse got velocity

Tappin my phone, they never leave me alone

Im even lethal when I’m unarmed

cause Im louder than a bomb

cause the “D” is for dangerous

You can come and get some of this

I teach and speak

So when its spoke, its no joke

The voice of choice

The place shakes with bass

Called one for the treble

The rhythm is the rebel

Heres a funky rhyme that theyre tappin on

Just thinkin Im breakin the beats Im rappin on

CIA, FBI -All they tell us is lies

And when I say it they get alarmed

cause Im louder than a bomb

Scott: I hope it fires you up like it does me, even for a little while- Sophisticated Bitches

"Why did the Chicken, cross the Oprah?" or, the KFC debacle.

2009-05-10T21:41:00.000-07:00

This is a letter I wrote to "Lawana" in Corporate at "K.F.C." after she had emailed me a .pdf (coupons) to pass on to several other people who had trouble getting them printed out before print out my coupons, with her blessings.

Remember me?

You did say to call you if I had any problems……… Would you take a second to give me the “official take” on this situation?

I seem to have been appointed new “spokesperson by proxy” for KFC in my circle of influence. After our pleasant conversation I was a hero for a whopping 24 hours or so, and now I’m being drawn and quartered. This is because the girls (separately) took their coupons (the ones you sent to pass to them and print myself) to their local Powder Springs franchise and were embarrassingly turned away! I now have an audience getting into the tens!

I called one of your local restaurants; they basically treated me like I had the plague. Assistant manager “Jose” told me that they want me to COME IN TO THE STORE, and fill out an information form for each coupon (that would be four), and that I should mail them away to then receive new coupons. I asked if the forms were available anywhere else to fill out and send in without making additional visits to the store, and I was told in no uncertain terms a flat, curt -“NO”.

I am not sure if these policy makers in your organization are hip to what is going on out here in the real world of kids, work, economy and the entropic nature of our society in general but: I haven’t the time to attempt to make special trips to the restaurant just for an “application session” to redeem my own in person & I don’t know too many people who do these days. I thought at first that I might be over-reacting, but I have run into many people who have the same feeling. At this point, I am wondering if I should even bother taking the ones I printed out, to the local restaurant here in Florida (Deltona).

To be honest; Up to now, other than the pleasure of making your acquaintance, I have a good amount of time, effort, a little printer ink invested & I am a little frustrated. I don’t mind paying for my food but my point is this:

If I invite you to dinner ‘gratis’ at my home, in an open attempt to gain your friendship and trust, should you have a right to be a little put out when I hand you an axe and compel you to split a chord of wood before dinner?

Just F.Y.I.: I am running into some very, very frustrated, upset people. Being that I am the curious type, I have taken to keeping a finger on the pulse of this issue in several circles. Many of them are unmoved by what some defenders of KFC are saying (basically that “people shouldn’t complain, because it’s free”, “KFC had no idea what the response would be”, “It’s all Oprah’s fault” (lol).

The point is, many people (like myself) are longtime, loyal KFC fans/patrons (personally I have never set foot in another “chicken joint”) The public take seems to be that KFC should not only have seen this coming, but shouldn’t offer something free and then plainly play “jump through these hoops” games about delivering on it regardless. This sounds hokey but what would “The Colonel” say about this display of policy and ethics?

My professional feeling is; amazement at the fact that such a historically marketing savvy, “survivalist” company as KFC could possibly be caught so “pants down” by this, and that there isn’t the depth in management there to handle this chaotic crisis on the fly.

I can tell you this: my initial feelings are that I won’t be visiting the store within the time period just to fill out a bunch of paper work. As much as I hate to sound petty; Next time I am looking to spend “out-eat” money, I will think twice about what I am experiencing.

As a savvy public relations marketing entrepreneur myself, I hope you guys have some awake and aware people on the ball, who will seize this and make it right before it hurts the company. If not, they should let you and I roll up our sleeves and get in there. SOMEONE is dropping the ball terribly! I would think, the company has about three days before this begins to stink pretty badly.

Thanks for the chance to express my opinion, and I hope you can appreciate why I took the time out of my schedule this weekend to write. If I were sitting in KFC’s ivory tower, I might just value hearing voices from the hordes that are thought out and reasonable.

Warmest Regards

Thomas Scott Negron

Anyone Home? -Knock Knock........

2009-04-11T09:26:00.000-07:00

I tell you now, this is the most sincere statement (ok, lets call it what it is: opinionated rant) you will ever receive from me. (But at least I tend to create my own and don't get much into chain mail, can I get some props for that?, No, arrrgh)

http://video.google.com/?hl=en

To me, this is absolutely nothing new but, (has manifested itself to be) the plain and simple truth. There are a few honest mistakes in this documentary, but they are small. On the whole, this is very, very real.

I have been waving this flag for well over 16 years now, since an (seemingly wise at the time) elderly man of about 70 something or so for whom I was doing a large land clearing, tree removal & trimming job, said he liked me, went into his house, came out and handed me a thick-red, paperback book back in 1990 or so. The book sat in my truck for about 6 months. It took me a year or more to finally get around to reading the damn thing.

- I felt as if I was reading a science-fiction or "made for movie" novel until it began to dawn on me, and I began taking him ( & the book) seriously. It was a defining moment in my life and shocked me awake. I have never stopped pursuing the information.

When the internet went live in 1993 in my little area, information began to immediately become more accessible, and the pace quickened. I began to realize that many of the things Wells cites as goals they would need to accomplish to undermine this country, our system and the progress mankind had achieved up to recent history had begun to be "endeavored". This included the purposeful erosion of family, spiritualism, ("religion", which in some ways is a fortunate thing because it is waking us up to other lies), erosion of our country's sovereignty etc. Basically, I am speaking to the good things about our country which made it strong, not the many things we needed to find solutions for anyway.I have discovered way too much and now wish I could go back to "sleep". I know that is impossible now, so I'm going to ride it out, but Ill never give up. The thing I like the least about this world plan is that no one thought to ask the people what they want. I dislike any authority who thinks they can and should make all of our decisions for us.I could care less what you call me, or whether you laugh at it. I just feel a deep responsibility to people in making sure this doesn't come as a surprise when they come to the realization that I did after reading that book. When I finally went back to speak with the old man, he was already gone. If you think that these are good things for civilization, I would LOVE to hear your views.

Maybe I could learn something? This is the book that old man handed to me

http://www.amazon.com/New-World-Order-H-G-Wells/dp/1406722626

http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/new_world_order_hgwells.htm

Maybe you recognize the author. If the truth is something different for you, please feel free to help me understand.

Now I'm hungry

2009-04-04T03:52:00.000-07:00

HEY-

I just couldn’t stand the torture and had to share it with you:

I was flipping through the channels desperately here at 5AM or so as usual.

Due to the fact that I dropped the remote and didn’t feel like reaching down under my bed to pick it up, I was watching animal planet. (Why? because as I said-It was 5am and I was desperately avoiding the infomercial 'waterboarding') or having to watch the same movie on AMC for the fifth time in as many days.

Anyway,

There was this dripping with drama to the point of making me ill- story about a deer fawn which mistakenly jumped into a reservoir, and was having trouble getting out. (I am opining it had something to do with the retarded design of the reservoir, but that’s a related story) They milked this feel good story for everything it was worth, now I mean really. It was worse than usual.

Then finally some guy (thankfully heard me) & just simply jumps into the water, catches the retarded fawn and pulls him to safety.

They got TEN agonizing, dentist drilling minutes of air time out of this, and I can only imagine from what the (hero) guy was saying, that he had finally just had enough. He wanted to put all of these “P.e.t.a. Pocket Party Pickles” out of their ever loving animal worshiping escapism-misery.
This way, they could have their "animal planet orgasm", and go obsess & lament over some skinny cat or handicapped gerbil-somewhere.

MEANWHILE, I am sitting here realizing that I just absolutely wasted ten perfectly good minutes of my life living an action- adventure- drama with a happy ending vicariously through a deer fawn, (that I imagine would have tasted really good after all that marinating).

The “AB-cruncher” never looked so good.

That’s when it came to me: A band name:

“PHOCK BAMBI”

(Or possibly)

“BARBECUE BAMBI”

I have a craving for venison all of a sudden. Maybe I'll just joing em, get a goldfish, and tell everyone "he is the daughter I never had".

CAPITALISM IS DEAD!

2009-03-27T02:40:00.000-07:00

THIS came into the discussion forums last night from someone whom I consider a friend, but I whole heartedly disagree with:

<”Capitalism, because of the built-in greed that it promotes, is a dead system. ">
Dead-nuts on the money.
“Capitalism, when presented with the opportunity, ate itself; Exactly as predicted."

I wrote in response, & I really feel compelled to share with you. If you like, I would really appreciate it if you passed it on. You may not agree, but I believe at the very least, its something we should think about. It could be more eloquent but Im not trying to paint the Mona Lisa, just trying to succinctly address this trend towards blame letting and self loathing we are in.

Response:===============================

I hate to say this: You couldn't be more wrong. "Capitalism" was infiltrated, sabotaged, chopped up piece by piece, then hauled off in the middle of the night by opportunists who were far from proponents of our democratic republic. These are not capitalists. These were relatives of the same guys who printed 1,000 dollars in fiat currency for every $100 worth of hard assets deposited.

Those who are responsible for gutting this country like a fish, snuck in and committed a coup d'état only because they preyed upon the hard working productive and industrious American system.Those who did this were not "capitalists" in the true sense of the word. They hijacked the definition.

WE in this country have lacked the stones to rip the country away from the grip of those who basically succeeded in getting a grip on it in the late 1800's early 1900's.

THE TRUTH is they had been trying to take control for years!

GREAT men- GIANTS tried to warn us RIGHT IN THE FACE of those who were trying to shut them up.

We were complacent and lazy. We were naive....... but that's where our responsibility ends.

Thats not cause for guilt, that is cause for reflection, self analysis and inventory-OH AND ACTION, not empty words and slight of hand tricks to correct our direction.'The greatest generation was still full steam ahead as late as 1960, and still we hadn't caught on to what world bankers had ALREADY done to initiate the destruction of this very dangerous country.

Our crime? Success and the American dream. Allowing to exhibit trust over our freedoms to people we thought were true Americans who would honor their responsibility to serve the public and would always strive to do the right thing. How can we believe people who directly and purposely defile their constitutional oaths?

Meanwhile corrupt bastards are here & out in the world committing crimes in every country on earth in the name of “America”. Almost every bit of this has to do with greed and corruption, something that has MISTAKENLY been attributed to "capitalism". Capitalism is a system where a man can start with nothing, and work his heart out, build a company and employ thousands of people and 'enjoy' this success. An opportunist instead of modeling this, will exploit every opportunity to take advantage of what those people have built and RAPE IT no matter who else it hurts or destroys.

I LOVE this country.
I LOVE this republic.
I hate the evil, corrupt monsters that have us so screwed up in the head, we are sitting around tearing each-other apart and blaming each-other, ourselves into American self loathing instead of kicking their arses out of the country and going back to the things that were working AWESOME, and avoiding the things that were NOT working.

NO guilt trips America.

We are not evil, the bastards who have taken over the wheel house and mutinied are. AGAIN I SAY; how can you believe people who directly and purposely defile their constitutional oaths?Don't give up. Its not over til its over and I can show you plenty of REAL examples of what socialism and oligarchic elitism is trying to sell you. IT'S NOTHING like what they say it is. Almost without fail that promise has never been kept.

I repeat: ALMOST WITHOUT FAIL, this "promise has never been kept anywhere near in its "entirety".

I HAVE to add one more thing.The only thing any of us should be ashamed about is the way we have "honored" the giants who have walked before us. They were not perfect men but they gave everything they had. (Andrew Jackson died with a musket ball lodged in his lung that had been there for years). I use him as an example because he was definitely a flawed human being, but he was a GREAT AMERICAN and a good, honest well meaning man to his last day.

They were ALL for the most part prepared to die in an effort to do what they thought was right, and FOR US....We in return could give a sheet about truly honoring their memory and legacy, instead we are defecating on their graves.

That's the only shame I feel for our country.

Remember these words?"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

I appreciate your time.

Warmest Regards
"Traveling East"

Juan F. Iota

2008-10-27T08:55:00.000-07:00

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa

I woke up sobbing today.

I am grieving for my beloved country and feel like I am watching a loved one die at bedside.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)

War of the World's

2008-10-21T09:30:00.000-07:00

Patriot Post newsletter I found.

Makes some very good points, but I don’t agree with the hard/far right stuff. I am beginning to realize that I am a “Liberal Conservative”, especially in the eyes of conservatives. The liberals always regard me with suspicion LOL.

Either way, I am still Republican to the core basics of what the country stands for, (A Republic!) and I believe you shouldn’t SHOOT the messenger. I’m only trying to share both sides of the picture as much as possible. Any time the Obama camp begins to make sense (real sense) I share those things too. What I don’t share, and am not willing to entertain is promises which are impossible to keep, regurgitated and repeated over and over again.

I am sorry but I am not that gullible.
Extreme Liberals, I love ya, but listen to my side of the story for one second,
The “Givernment” (my word people) is not to be trusted, period, right? So how and why continue to give all of our freedoms away, shedding the responsibility for vigilance.

All in all, I fear that our willingness to tolerate the ridiculous demands of the extreme leftist/socialists, (not you true in the flesh liberals) who certainly seemed to romance & influence those who were easily led away from both the more extreme American values, all of which I may not agree with and the most basic of American values MOST of which I completely agree with.

Many people who call themselves “liberal” have been easily led away because of what a “liberal society” (which ends up being revealed as socialism) offers but never seems to really deliver.

From where I sit, more extreme Liberals believe that they will still have all of the freedoms they still have left such as free market economy, while gaining all of these benefits and carrying less responsibility which is conveniently transferred to the "givernment" (this is my new term for our slave owner/puppetmasters) along with all of the decisions regarding our well being. If we continue to trade away our freedoms for a dole, we will be soon living on “reservations” similar to what the American Indians have endured. I truly believe this.

I believe in a sense that I am getting “kicked out of” the republican party because our values are parting ways. I also feel the same about the democratic party, which to me has always teetered on the brink of being “taken over” by those who want to destroy us. Think I don’t absolutely LOVE some of the great presidents? Kennedy and Lincoln are my favorites.

There is nothing wrong with Liberals. If they stopped attacking us “middle” or “Liberal Conservatives” long enough to truly listen to what we have to say, maybe they would understand and possibly even find common ground with why we feel that throwing caution to the wind and allowing the down slide of conservative America so chaotically wasn’t such a good idea.

I mean: Look at where we are now. You can’t possibly blame this mess (society, the erosion of the family) on conservative thinking.

You need to remember that “Liberalism” is a bedfellow to Democrats; they are NOT one in the same. There are conservative Democrats.

On the other hand.

Conservatives are bedfellows to the Republican party. There are Republicans who believe in Liberty, in fair play which means a level playing field.- That’s me.

“neo” or Elitist’s have “hijacked” the far right, and wage war NOT to preserve the good and solid basics of American values but to preserve the PROFITS & benefits from it.

Plain and simple people; That won’t do either.We allowed "liberalism" to slowly take away the freedoms we had in order to "spread the wealth", when simply and honestly leveling the playing field would work much better while preserving the incentive to be "self made" instead of living on “givernment” handouts. PLEASE understand that I am not against, or blaming nor am I willing to demonize liberalism or democrats. My belief is that the Liberal movement has been perverted or maybe hijacked to a certain extent (in the same way the conservative movement has been hijacked by (corporate elitist’s) to the point where even expression of faith in GOD, many liberties, and Liberty itself has become fair game. Reminds me of two people standing on one tree limb, opposed to each other so much so that they are both sawing the limb they stand on.The only real conclusion any intelligent person can come to is that this dismantling of our country and its values not only began many years ago, but it was much more carefully planned and thought out than any of us, even the most extreme "conspiracy theorists" dreamed of.

BOTTOM LINE:

Take American BACK now, or forever hold your peace.

We need to ask ourselves: Will McCain OR OBAMA do this for us?

Please don’t delude yourself. They are two sides of the same coin!

Juan Iota

Excerpt:

THE FOUNDATION
“In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate—look to his character.” —Noah Webster

“Under an Obama administration, it is not far-fetched to see the day when liberal federal judges decide that religious organizations must lose their tax exemptions should they refuse to employ homosexuals or others they regard as engaging in deviant behavior. Court challenges against those who believe homosexual behavior is sinful seem to be occurring with greater frequency... The aim of the gay rights lobby is to destroy all remnants of biblical values and societal norms. Gay rights advocates will take their agenda to federal courts as soon as sufficient numbers of liberal judges are there to give them what they want. Watch them vote in overwhelming numbers for Barack Obama. He is their future. This election is, among other things, about the future of the majority and whether we want this country to be shaped by the courts, or by ‘we the people’.” —Cal Thomas

LIBERTY
“The left subscribes to the French Revolution, whose guiding principles were ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.’ The right subscribes to the American formula, ‘Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.’ The French/European notion of equality is not mentioned. The right rejects the French Revolution and does not hold Western Europe as a model. The left does. That alone makes right and left irreconcilable. The left envisions an egalitarian society. The right does not. The left values equality above other values because it yearns for an America in which all people have similar amounts of material possessions... The right values equality in opportunity and strongly believes that all people are created equal, but the right values liberty, a man-woman based family and other values above equality.” —Dennis Prager

OPINION IN BRIEF
“Consider the magnitude of these problems or the sheer, dumb size of the institutions. Another phrase of financial usage familiar everywhere now is ‘too big to fail.’ But if something is too big to fail, isn’t it... too big? Look in any direction and what you see are institutions that are Too Big. Too big to fully understand, and thus too big to manage efficiently. Faced with Godzilla-sized problems, logic flees: If they’re too big to fail, the solution is... make them bigger! The big, fat government we know about, with its $2.942 trillion annual outlays. The problem of unmanageable public bigness is also seen in state legislatures in a condition of permanent nonperformance, as in New York, California or Michigan. We become numb to these outsized and failing public institutions, which grind in circles while the pols purport concern about massive, forward-crawling monoliths like Medicare, Social Security or public pension debt. By contrast, the starkness and hourly reporting of the financial crisis has made the dilemma of size impossible to duck.” —Daniel Henninger

GOVERNMENT
“The government is seeking to buy up shares in healthy, well-run small businesses all across America so it can get those businesses to behave as the government wants them to behave... But isn’t that how we go into this mess—with the government trying to get banks to make more loans? Just as one lie leads to another, imprudent government intervention in the free market leads to further imprudent government intervention in the free market. Each step of the way, we are told we have no choice but to do what the government wants us to do. The original transgression that led us to the current crisis was committed by elected officials in Washington who wanted to buy additional incumbency insurance for themselves by saying to voters: We will help you buy a house. They worked to accomplish this through legislation (such as the Community Reinvestment Act) that pressured banks to make riskier loans and through tax-exempt government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which started buying up riskier loans (so the original lenders did not have to carry the risk) and wrapping them into mortgage-backed securities (which mixed bad loans with good loans)... So we have gone from government pressuring banks to make riskier mortgages, to government-sponsored enterprises buying riskier loans from banks to facilitate even more risky lending, to government buying stakes in the banks themselves... What will be the next unprecedented measure government officials never thought would be necessary?” —Terence Jeffrey

“The major issue of this campaign is the direct political, personal and moral responsibility of Democratic Party leadership... for this unprecedented calamity which has befallen us. They tell us they have done the most that humanly could be done. They say that the United States has had its day in the sun; that our nation has passed its zenith. They expect you to tell your children that the American people no longer have the will to cope with their problems; that the future will be one of sacrifice and few opportunities.

My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view. The American people, the most generous on earth, who created the highest standard of living, are not going to accept the notion that we can only make a better world for others by moving backwards ourselves. Those who believe we can have no business leading the nation. I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose. We have come together here because the American people deserve better from those to whom they entrust our nation’s highest offices, and we stand united in our resolve to do something about it.” —Ronald Reagan

700 Billion $windle of the Century

2008-10-09T12:47:00.000-07:00

I read somewhere:

"Great. The financial system is melting down and the solution is welfare checks for people holding morgages that are underwater and that have no equity associated with them. How about sending some of those "desperate" people who lied about their income to get mortgages they couldn't afford to jail for fraud? "

"This insensitive and ignorant statement displays what propaganda intends.

What exactly do you know about the mortgage business? I am amazed that so many people are willing to willynilly blame working america for their "theivery". I could give this whole discussion forum an education on this issue. I assure you, the American people should not be demonized for this. This is a lame cop out.

I also want to say something about Welfare".

Many of you speak of it as if its evil charity given to murdering scumbags. I have been paying taxes since I was sixteen, -paying into this system. A few times in my life, in the past such as when I had a six month old infant at home by myself with no help or family near, and after I had already gone through 38K worth of my own savings, and when I was backed against a wall- I relied on the werlfare system to help me get through the rough times until I got my new single parenting act together.

I am not ashamed in THE LEAST for taking advantage of something that is there for a reason, something that I to this day help support.I propose that ONLY a selfish, insensitive scumbag will ridicule hard working people, who are either temporarily down and kick them for needing help. This same person uses the plight of the people to pretext reasons for giving government MORE control of our lives and then in the next breath disparages people who are having trouble making it on their own. If you think it cant hapen to you, that you couldnt possibly have had some kind of misfortune occur to you as a result of this sub prime debacle, I propose you are arrogant and ignorant, forgetting that it could have AND DID happen to many people of different classes, rich, middle class & poor as well. I have been working with homeowners, who are having trouble with these very issues for the past year or more. These arent theiving people, they are the salt of the earth. Its too bad many ignorant people want to give this money away, which will go almost directly out of the country rather than to US Americans.

High Noon here in the Republic United States of America

2008-10-09T09:31:00.000-07:00

If you don’t mind, "We use to be a culture of respect. Respect of fellow neighbors, family, and in generally each other was always an accepted social tenet/practice.
We simply have no respect, honor, loyalty and disgracefully not even for our on minds, body, and planet. IE: Our grandparents life was dramatically different from our own. You knew who your real friends were, you knew your neighbors, your children's teachers, your religious "leaders", etc..."
To postulate further: I have been noticing the trend towards this social environment since I was a very young man. Even when I thought some of the old school-era was being a bit extreme, I still had to agree with them: We were becoming a society of over indulgence, and we were being it seemed, "Egged on", encouraged by an unseen benefactor.
I noticed the "establishment" encouraging this behavior, and questioned it in my mind. The one recurring logical answer I have been coming up with all these years has always been: This is beiong done purposely. Someone WANTS to dismantle this country. We could spend a month contributing to a thread on this subject alone, but the point is:
TO sufficiently weaken and make pliable a civilization/society that was as strong as ours was, attacking all of the basic tenets which support it was necessary. The attacks on our solid foundation included programming young people to disrespect and disregard all of the reasons why if is so many of us (EVEN IF IT IS SEPERATE RELIGIONS) believe in GOD, They removed Prayer from our public lives, removed GOD from our books, banned any type of “creationism” consideration, removed the ten comandmants from our walls, etc.
We have allowed the system to take our children from us because it was much more convenient for us to allow it, while sent our second parents to work, and added another job to the single parents. They took them and began to brainwash them, while we just kept working more and more hours instead of spending all the time we can with our children. NOW our system has already expressed the legal opinion that “the State” (basically society) own our kids. WE DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN OURSELVES ANY LONGER. WE CAN FACE JAIL FOR REFUSING TO FORFEIT OUR CHILDREN FOR INDOCTRINATION INTO THE NATIONALIST SYSTEM. We just sat there and took it.
I have felt like an idiot fighting to get people to listen to me for years, faced ridicule attacks and such. TO see all of these things gathering momentum and happening faster (in real time) now doesn’t scare me as much as the anticipation of when I wasn’t quite sure I was right. (if that makes sense).
The point is: This has been happening for many, many years. If I am a kook, it’s because I saw all of this coming many years ago and refused to become "well adjusted to it". Its one thing to have to be a part of the society, but in my opinion, I don’t have to be compelled to be part of the sickness.
” It is no measure of ones health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society"-Krishna Murti
"For what good is it for a man to gain the whole world if he trades his soul away in the bargain" -Holy Bible

A Momentary reflection on a big chunk of the whole.

2008-10-06T05:56:00.000-07:00

I believe there is no worse feeling in life than investing years in a loving relationship or a friendship only to wake up one day and realize that your world isn’t everything you thought it was: Whether it’s personally, perceptively or both. In life, during it’s course, sometimes you repeatedly realize that a friend, or loved one has been all the time insincere and in the end may sell you out at any and sometimes every time. It is very difficult to understand. It shakes your world.

“Is it all my fault”? You ask yourself several times. If in the end, even you feel to a large degree justified, you realize there is more to the conflict within.

When it happens once, you think: "Shame on them". When it happens twice, by the same friend or love? Well it's the old cliché: "Shame on me". I recently realized that I had truly lost all the fight in me. I realized that if I didn’t re-invent myself, I wouldn’t survive long in what is SURELY coming our way in this current world, and very soon. I still may not survive, but I have decided I will go down swinging. This decision ended a phase of calamity within the calamity. I got some rest, recharged my psyche, took an audit of my life and made decisions to reapply myself in the areas of priority. I woke up around 4:40 AM few mornings ago renewed, feeling fantastic and ready to produce. Took a swim and sat down to work at what I have invested myself for the past 7 months in. and 5 hours later or so, I didn’t "have a job" anymore. Then I realized for the first time that it wasn’t what was sold to me, it was simply a job, and I was simply an employee, no matter what bullshit I had bought- (which is why I normally won’t work for anyone, but myself and if it’s with anyone, it’s usually someone I hire on).

Honestly? Devastating. I have had many business ventures, and several of them successful ones. I can remember making promises and/or agreements with people who went to work for me and I can remember never once going back on one of those commitments. I have lost money on contracts willingly to ensure completion of my obligation. Not Once in my recollection, have I ever made the decision walked away from a job unfinished! I am prideful of that, if not mush else. Out of the few things I have done in my life that I can be proud of, this is among them. While I can not evade the truth regarding many of my actions & mistakes in my life, both logical and ethical, my integrity in this area has been without failure. I have never said I love you, and not meant it, willing to prove it beyond just words. I have never betrayed a true friend and never will. I have never evaded a mistake I have made with a true friend by “silencing” (or doing away with) that friendship. I am very happy about this realization, and I declare that no matter what has been “done” or happened to me, it doesn’t take away from this integrity. No matter what mistakes I have made, who and what I have done wrong, I can still consider myself a good, loving friend. I have lost a friend whom I thought was true, but in the end I was kidding myself as I am prone to do. IF I didn’t have several true friends, whom I have been friends with for in many cases thirty years or more, than I might question myself more. I did everything I could. Nothing and no one is perfect, but there will always be something I can only describe as “honor among thieves” (not that we are thieves you understand). I must question: Is it the nature of true Pirates to sacrifice each other, forsaking any bonds to advance themselves? I grew up believing the opposite. Honor and integrity among Pirates? As far as I am concerned, there are certain things which transcend the changing of times. Love, respect, friendship, loyalty, honesty, fair play are among these. The questions of basic ethics are not in my opinion, a changing thing. When you invest yourself in a long term endeavor, and find out you’ve proceeded based upon deceptive tenets, it can be so very discouraging that it will bring you to the border of depression. Hard stuff to admit to oneself. It is also hard to swallow when that you know your fault in the issue, yet know deep inside that your overall premise is true and correct. You have no choice but to stand your ground. ( I mean, you could swallow your pride and be patronizing.) The best you can do is to HEAR, consider and hope to be heard. When and if you are silenced, YOU SHOULD understand that you have been validated in THAT alone. It doesn’t make it any easier to swallow, but you should still be a little prideful of your behavior. If a friend makes a commitment or pledge to another friend and doesn’t live up to that pledge or obligation, no amount of justification or shift in ethics will veil the contradiction. He will attack you, blame you, insult you, disregard and invalidate your efforts thinking "this is necessary because I am right. I know." Denying everything he has learned and benefitted from a supportive fan.

Have you ever asked yourself that given the dilemma of “jumping on the grenade, or allowing the friend or loved one to die, what would I do”? When you carry a flag, any flag, you have no expectations. Well, maybe a few. I mean, “Gunga Din” got a poem.

But back to “your friend”:

He must convince himself he had a reason to betray that commitment. As you watch the hypocrite build that house of cards, you watch your friend disappear, absorbed into the world he originally set out to conquer and change for the better until he is just another carpetbagger in a den of carpetbaggers. I once told a friend: "Be careful who you sleep with, when you wake up, you may find that you have lost your identity. You won't know where you end and they begin".
I say this: There is no lower form of life than one that commits and purports to want to change the world, right wrongs and help those who need help while all the time holding truly only their own self interest and gain in mind. You can only wonder about the type pf person who expresses nothing but hate and contempt for mankind in one breath, and extols his own capacity for love and desire to help these very same “poor morons” in the next.

It is extremely narcissistic to portray your perception of mankind as a flawed, mediocre or even pathetic race, and yet proclaim yourself elevated, separated from it. You can say all of the nice "politician" type’s words, phrases and clichés you like. You can copy and paste all of the famous quotes, pander and deliver lip service to all the right people who will pave the way for you to get what you want but in the end- every man reveals his true nature at some point.

Takers and givers, that’s what human beings are but mostly takers, There are very few who earnestly endeavor to find a balance among this entropic chaos, but balance is the true serenity in this life. A good agreement between men is a very important part of life among them, and so is the word of a man. Convincing yourself you are something you are not only convinces you, not those around you. In the end, you may be "successful" in gathering material wealth, but there will always be a price to pay from yourself, for doing so even if it is at the expense of others as well.

The way you treat people in this world says more about you than them, and will make you feel just the same about yourself, as you make them feel in one way, or another..... I could be wrong, but this is my observation. In the end, what is most important is I want to be fair. I hope my son has the opportunity to read these words in the way I mean them someday. I believe this world is changing drastically, and very soon, the world will have little in common with the one some of us older people have known. I believe the cliche' that: Soon, my father wouldnt even recognize the world we live in, certainly not the society.

I have decided I will spend every minute doing the most important thing I can think of: My son Thomas and I had a swim together at dawn this morning, and we discussed the universe. I am prayiong it will be one of those conversations he remembers for the rest of his days. I know I will. I believe this has been the second happiest dawning of a day in my life. I truly believe that regardless of how momentarily unhappy, unfulfilled, unsatisfied, and materially un-nerved I may be.

I could die a happy man today if GOD wills it. Contrary to what they want to tell you, there IS a creator, and we are part of that whole.

Everything beyong that is supposition.
I truly pray the blessings of the creator, the architect of this universe will be with us. “No matter what mistakes I have made, who and what I have done wrong, I can still consider myself a good, loving friend long. I have lost a friend whom I thought was true, in the end I was kidding myself as I am prone to do.”-

"It is no measure of one's health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society” - Krishna Murti

Liberty

2008-10-05T20:13:00.000-07:00

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. "

The Declaration of Independence - 1776

2008-10-05T12:44:00.000-07:00

Somebody wrote today: "Are you advocating the overthrow of the US government?
That's a pretty serious, Ayers-like view. I'd be watching out my front window for the black helicopters to be coming for you, dude.... "

She say's that as if it's nasty sinful treason, but I assure you, That is exactly what the Declaration of Independance is ALL about. Just have a quick read in this context:

"Gentlemen, Altho it is not possible to forsee the consequences of human actions, yet it is nevertheless a duty we owe ourselves and posterity in all our public councils to decide in the best manner we are able and to trust the event to That Being who governs both causes and events, so as to bring about his own determinations. "

"Impressed with this sentiment, and at the same time fully convinced that our affairs will take a more favorable turn, The Congress have judged it necessary to dissolve all connection between Great Britain and the American Colonies, and to declare them free and independent States as you will perceive by the enclosed Declaration, which I am directed to transmit to you"

As someone said:These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were men of means and education. They were resourceful. They had security, but they valued liberty more.

Unwavering, they pledged:

"For the support of this declaration, with the firm reliance on the protection of the Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."

by Thomas Jefferson

Declaration of Independance

"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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. "

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. "

-- "Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States."

" To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."

These men and women gave birth to, and gave you & I a free, independent American Republic, and........LOOK WHAT WE HAVE ALLOWED TO BECOME OF IT! - JUST LOOK WHAT WE HAVE ALLOWED TO BECOME OF IT!

Here is the rest of the document, just in case anyone cares to scan it. I just cant bear to post one part without the other:

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these ColoniesFor taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. -- And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.-- John Hancock

Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross, Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean, Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

The greatest country on earth?

2008-03-11T11:08:00.000-07:00

Last evening I had an exchange with a friend debater that went something like this:

"Libertine Libertarian says: T.S., just out of curiousity, have you lived in another country?"My point being, while I totally agree the US is not perfect many people do take for granted some things we enjoy here that other countries do not offer.I also agree our political choices are getting more and more less like choosing the best to be president, it has become more of voting for the lesser of two (or three) evils.

"Libertine Libertarian says: T.S., just out of curiousity, have you lived in another country?"My point being, while I totally agree the US is not perfect many people do take for granted some things we enjoy here that other countries do not offer. I also agree our political choices are getting more and more less like choosing the best to be president, it has become more of voting for the lesser of two (or three) evils.

My response is from the hip, and goes like this:

So, the fact that our system is still (maybe not, and maybe not for long) better than others is a reason to continue to watch it go down the toilet, and do nothing to correct the problems?We should at least hack off the cancerous, self serving bastards that are selling us out instead of continuing to allow them to hand us their co-conspirators to continue runningour country, dont you thing?

How could our citizenry become convinced that a guy like Ron Paul is bad for us, and people like McCain, Clinton and Obama are good? That may good friend, took some seriously slick & repetetive media mind control.

To give you a direct answer: I have traveled and lived in other places for months (6) at a time, but I have never been anything but an American citizen. Yes other places have their own negatives. So, toilet paper is hard to get: big deal. South America for instance isnt the most stable countries in the world, but there are many, many positives. Many countries in south America began aggressive programs to reduce dependency on oil BACK IN THE SEVENTIES. All this occured while the wealthy in our country wrangled our politicians into selling us out and remaining dependant on oil, while ALL independant inventors and developers of oil free technology were thwarted, hijacked and murdered, yes MURDERED.

As a result places like Brazil have (almost) All of their vehicles running on fuel blends using gasohol & ethynol and actually export oil instead of like us, being a hopeless addicts, bound to our keepers. It hasnt solved all of their problems, but then again, they havent been HANDING OVER THEIR NATIONS WEALTH TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES, MANY OF WHICH THEY ARENT VERY FRIENDLY WITH.

Yes nowhere on earth is perfect, but the old argument that "our country isnt perfect, but its still the best country in the world" is becoming more and more of a preponderance. It will soon be a joke even to us, as I am sure you are aware that people in Switzerland and Sweden laugh when they hear us go on and on about how great we are. I love this country enough to know when its time to stop trying to show off, and make believe our problems dont exist instead of doing something to solve our problems and really stay on top.

The globalists do not want this to happen, I assure you. Whats so great about a political system run by behind the scenes puppet masters who balance herding and mindcontrol on the people and trying to "appear free". Exposure to television and the constant thought programming has people accepting and allowing a little less freedom everyday in trade for our daily bread. I bet thet cant WAIT until we are unarmed. Then we will have absolutely no choice in our future, and it will be overtly suggested to us at that point.

Not only do I believe this will happen, I am guaranteeing it will happen within the next ten yearts or less.

This is unacceptable to me, as it was unacceptable to the many men who bled and died to make this a free and soveriegn nation. Im not talking about all the men who helped form this country and wrote the great and wise things (including the warnings to be vigilant!). Im speaking for the men who died under this flag from the revolutionary war, civil war all the way up until this morning in Iraq.. What do you want to say to them.... That you just thought it'd be ok to give a little bit of that freedom away because you thought youd be safer?

IF "it has become more of voting for the lesser of two (or three) evils."THEN I CHOOSE TO FIGHT EVIL wholesale.

I will not choose evil as consequence of not being given a choice.

Hey Libertine, I hope you dont take this as insulting to you.... I guess I just spilled it all out, but this really isnt directed at you as much as to all my fellow countrymen.... whether they like me or not, I see this as the writing on the wall.

They just jump right out of my mouth.

2008-01-20T12:16:00.001-08:00

"A critical examination never 'hurts' anyone except the patient" -Juan Iota

ANYONE HOME ??

2008-01-18T18:00:00.000-08:00

Someone posted this in "If Barack Obama wins" thread in the Amazon Forum today:

" Rakeem Bolden says: If Obama does win do any of you think he will get assassinated, casue it seems like everytime anyperson of color gets to much power thats what happens to them."

"Rakeem Bolden says: Oprah is not a threat, neitther is Micheal Jordan, Kobe, Shaq, and countless others. The difference is that he may be the president. And Bill I don't know who will do this one but I am leaning toward the whites this time although the blacks that killed Malcolm got help through the same ones that had something to do with the deaths of King and Kennedy.
No not paranoid I have no reason to be, but have people really changed that much since the 1960's. Everyone knows that a white man w/ power doesn't like a black man to have more power then him. Can you picture Obama on any U.S. currency or them adding his picture to Mount Rushmore, hell naw but they would have to do something big like that if he is the first "BLACK" president.To be honest if he wins and turns out like Bush or even makes one bad step, there will never be another black president again, and thats the truth. So lets stop acting like his skin color doesn't play an important issue here. Furthermore the "first step" for America to rid itself of racism is to acknowledge that its does exist."

" Caruso says: To Rakeem Bolden: I will never forget what a black women told me, long ago: She said that white men do not like black men, because, deep down in the white male personality, they are afraid that black men will "steal" their women. Is this why there are so many black males in jail and why they are not given good jobs, and drop out of school and why black women are easier for white men to deal with and employ for the reasons given above?"

"Everyone knows that a white man w/ power doesn't like a black man to have more power then him. "

Hmmmmmm.

"This is a perfect example of reverse racism, and "lets keep the rift going" logic.You mean, any white man will hate any black man who has more power than he has, simply because he is black??

Your racist stripe is showing brother, but instead of expressing it, you are projecting a straw man racist view, so youll have someone or something to target.

Lets get beyond that. Lets find some solutions to the problems, instead of letting "the man" keep us dumb and stupid, and HERE. When I say the "man" I mean: The puppetmasters, who seem to NOW be of several colors and creeds, who dont care, or mind a bit about selling out people of their own color, creed, religion, and nationality for their daily bread. I say, "we damn sure better get past all this petty crap, and NOW. If we do not, we will ALL be having this same coversation from behing prison camp bars."

Citizens of every color, creed, and religion; Cast aside your hate. Cast aside the old grudges and barriers. When people truly and sincerely love each other amazing miracles CAN happen. We can save this civilization. We can save this earth. ...........Be sincere, be color blind. BE HONEST. Speak plainly. Dont hold your fellow man to a standard that you are not willing to meet yourself.

Let us continue to communicate with respect, and without the need to insult. Lets keep our passions within DUE bounds.

I personally dont dig Obama, BUT if he does become president, I will give him my loyalty UNTIL and IF he proves himself to be the JUDAS that Bush and Clinton were both, and Bush SR, The REAL question is: Would Obama be a "just the same old" puppet if he is elected?

I PRAY with all my heart not. I want Ron Paul for president only because he is a constitutionalist, he wants to put a stop to many of the things that are a plague to this country and he doesnt care what it takes. That "extremism" is what we need. Is he doesnt make it, and its Obama? As far as Im concerned, if Obama DOES turn out to be sincere and DOES NOT- SELL US OUT LIKE THE OTHERS have. They better not kill him, because then they will have to KILL ME TOO because Ill be coming right behind him after them.

We all know, they will try and get him if it turns out he IS FOR THE PEOPLE. They will do it and blame it on "whitey, or some "lone, three named straw man". I pray to GOD we will be able to see, and know better.

-Spoken by a man, not white, and not black, but American.

Juan Iota

W.O.N. F.P.S."Tom Lehman"PGAGolf 96'-98'

2008-01-16T11:24:00.000-08:00

Online Golf Simulators, ahh the memories.

Alans comments about the Brits reminds me. Its a good time of year to remember things which bring pleasure, and this was definitely one of them.

Its late 1996 (August-Sept) My fiance had recently left, after having pulled a few stunts, and Eventually, after I told her "this is the last time we are going to do this". she bailed for good, leaving me with the baby & 99% of all the responsibility and costs involved in raising our son of roughly 7 months age. What followed has been the biggest roller coaster anyone could ever imagine, but there were a few things GOD did to keep me sane.

anyway, I was alone, raising an infant baby son. .

The Game:

One little thing was:

I happened to get this "Golf Simulator Game" Cd disc, from a friend of mine who owned a computer store. He gave it to me almost as an after thought....... What a trip.. Thinking of it now, Funny how the littlest things can end up meaning so much more than we think.

I took the thing home and installed in into my system and began playing around with it. It was fun, and funny, I pressed the "online play" selection just to see what would happen, and viola,,,,,,,, "please register a name and password to play". Then, it was "Logging into the "WORLD OPPONENT NETWORK"............

I was stunned.

I have always appreciated many things about the British. They are truly the type of people, that no matter how anyone can say "they are dry" as in sense of humor (not everyone can FULLY appreciate MONTY PYTHON's FLYING CIRCUS!, but my friends and I used to be sitting, ready at the tv when it came on.) Anyway; They truly are the very salt of the earth- "make lemonade from lifes lemons" kinda people.

One of my coolest friends for the past ten years or so has been this crazy Tea Drinking Crumpet eating Brit I met while playing "WON"'s (World Opponent Network)F.P.S.(Front Page Sports) "PGA 96'-98'Then Big Bad "EA Sports" bought them out and kinda ruined the cameraderie while "improving" the actual game. It's now known as "Tiger Woods PGA GOLF", but I was there with THE GANG from all over the world in the very beginning.

There was Scott, the one with the "Star Wars" nick name "Corellian"" or "Core"" one of the resident tech wiz's of the game., in Portland or Wash somewhere.

Swebbie (Steve Webb my much loved limey cue ball, tosser-bastard adopted brother to this day, and Angie "do NOT call me a tart" Harvey (JOE BLOGGS!!) who I love dearly but loves to bounce herself off of concrete curbs for some strange reason....(thats another story Vodka Orange and Redbullthankyou................................., and their kids, the "British Brady Bunch"! Hello you brats!), Dallise in Australia, Sandra (a multiple personality we havent figured out to this day but love), CittyCat (Debra Jo) in Tejas, Catdaddy, Tom Dooley up in Virginia, Tommy Girl (Renae) in Minnesota, ahh man Im trying not to forget anyone but there were SO many more I cant remember now since its been 8 years since EA Sports trashed us..

Then theres some of the master players (charters) that I eventually ended up being able to match, once I learned how to "Chart" (which involved the time consuming practice of precisely charting every single shot, club, wind condition and course in the whole universe of PGA Golf. which was pretty damn cool. We used to shoot like in the 20's UNDER par for 18 holes.. I must admit, it was pretty cool to be the absolute best in the world at something besides changing diapers.

It was a very rough time, as I said. Fighting for custody of my son, struggling to make ends meet and pay astronomical attorney's fees (But, its my son, and thank GOD I won the right to stay his parent. The judge said to my son's mommy, "Nope, you abandoned the household, so"no indian giving" & "Take backs" You left, so you deal with it.... .... ) . Anyway, back to the golf.... All the time I was about to go out of my mind, I could come home to my friends in WON....and play golf! There were triumphs, marriages, divorces, tragedies. We had deaths in out families. It seemed after awhile, when something was happening to one of us, all of us were worried and pulling for each other, even the major ass wipes. We even began meeting when we could, and playing real golf together etc. (I owe Tom Dooley a whipping, since he got me last time).

CHARTING:

It was a whole nother galaxy of play. Regular play was just as fun though, I miss it, especially since, the group of hundreds of people had become SUCH a group of friends, even the enemies came to miss each-other.

I may add; what a strange emotion to actually MISS, a computer game? Well, its the people.

These friends and foes definitely helped me get through a VERY lonely, shitty and difficult time in my life as a struggling single parent with no "night" life. My son is 12 now. It seems like a hundered years ago, when I would send boxes of twinkies to my good British friends in Hatfeild, and he would send all kinds of really cool curious "british" things here for our amusement.

MANY of my Golf friends I ended up meeting and are STILL very dear friends of mine to this day. Cittycat, Tom Dooley, Ive met and hung out with (Love you DEB!) Never met but still very close to and speak with Tommy Girl, Dallise, Up until a few years ago, even SANDRA!

But the best of them all, has to be the cueball I call Swebbie and his (then) fiance..... Damn what was her nick name OH YES..... JOE BLOGG??? LOL we can finally reveal the secret identity of JOE BLOGG.... roflmaopimp!

Anyway

He and his now wife live in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. I guess they call it; "Hertz". Steve Webb and Angie Harvey, I love you guys! And I miss the game. I miss the closeness of our friendships and how when something happened to one person, it hapened to everyone!

IT IS A SHAME that EA sports just shit canned us when we were done hekping them test bed whatevcer the hell they were doing. The new EA Sports games are great, but the "LOBBY's are so lame and impersonal..... I loved the ability for open chat and fellowship. I guess things change, but I WAS SOOOOO happy and SO lucky to "be there" and have experienced "World Opponent Network"'s "Front Page Sports, PGA Golf 96' through 98'.

You know, it feels really good to finally find a place to pay some kind of homage to something that had such a positive effect on my life for a few years back then near the "beginning" of the internet. (which for me was 1992)

Thanks for humoring me by reading this.

-Juan Iota

A.K.A. "Thomas_Scott" #1 in the world in "World Opponent Network" several times & for nine weeks straight in 1999 Until that damn SWEBBIE knocked me off the top. What a blast.

Ill never forget you guys.

Im founding "The 5%-ers Club"

2008-01-12T21:43:00.000-08:00

""Hmmm the 5%-ers Club". (Based on the premise some people have that "only 5% of the people" believe our government is capable of selling out, exploiting, ripping off, harming, killing, lying to and otherwise misleading it's public.)

Based on the debate of this very issue we are currently having in the Amazon "Political discussion threads" I'm an active member of, I spoke with a number of people today.

This reportedly small group of society is huge and growing every single day.

I asked each one the same question:"What are your feelings about 9-11?, What do you believe caused this. How does it relate to the current political and social climate in this country, and do you believe our Government is being honest with us?"

NOT ONE PERSON., NOT ONE expressed trust in these leaders or this current process. I didnt have to make any connections for them. I didnt have to bait or ask leading questions, almost every single one of them said that they believe something is wrong & being kept from them with regard to all of the events in the past 15 years and given the varying references, virtually every suspicious event was mentioned without fail. Specifically, feedback included the statement that; "Our government either had prior knowledge of, or a hand in"............. what happened in Manhattan.

Maybe someone forgot to tell the "truther bashers & skeptics"

The "95%-ers (truther bashers, skeptics, whatever) will say we hate our country. They will accuse us of "Hating the government" and this wonderful country.I say; this is the greatest country in the world. I love it with all of my heart. I renounce my anscestors countries. I am AMERICAN FIRST.

I am FULLY aware and believe with all my heart that the average person who works for, or has worked for this government in one way or another, such as myself are for the most part, the very salt of the earth. WOnderfully hardworking honest people with integrity who want to make a difference and want to serve mankind.

The problem is, that in every great country just like on a ship, there are RATS, and the RATS have taken over this ship. These Judas's have all but signed over ownership of this great republic and our future Gross National Product to some other unknown RATS in exchange for their (daily bread) reward, whatever it might be. They've plainly become corrupted and simply sold out the rest to p[reserve themselves and their posterity.

Some people refuse to believe this. I've seen it! dont want to believe it. They think they are somehow patriotic by doing what they are doing. They use words to make them and others feel like it is they who are the Majority. They shut their eyes tightly against the tide of obvious signs of sickness this country is exhibiting, instead they pick at the quirky extreme stories and cite those as proof that ALL of it is a lie, when they KNOW deep down inside they are wrong but they are praying and clinging to the premise that somehow they might be right.The way I see it, they can call me a kook all day long, as they join the cashless "1984" type society that has been long in the making; docile, entranced unfulfilled just siting around shaking their fists at or ignoring anyone who wants to try give them exactly what they ask for which is "proof, give them proof".... Screw em. Let them sleep.

"fascism is defined as - A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.

"The American Heritage Dictionary, 1983

Remind you of anything?

-JUAN IOTA

"To criticize one's country is to do it a service .... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism - a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals and national adulation."U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright

"Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth."

Ive been considering "taking up the pen" (writing).

2008-01-11T11:09:00.000-08:00

A New Manifesto ?

In any scenario where a society loses (or willingly gives away) its Freedoms, it is not simply some tyrant that rises up seizing control on any particular day, not any more, anyway. This process will always be a systematic network of people and thought reform, and exchange of values involved to make such a "Coup D'état " happen.

"Keep in mind that there are plenty of American citizens who have already bought too far into the current "cult" of complacent American society, and will actually be quite happy to see such a change take place here in this country." They will accept whatever comes as long as their "status quo" isn't disrupted. What those people fail to realize is the changing of hands happened a very long time ago while we were sleeping complacently in our beds, or playing with the latest new toys made of plastic.

There are any number of reasons people might want to see this happen (religious, etc...), but in the end it boils down to a small number of people who actually benefit in terms of their own quality of living, without any regard for anyone else which is just (greed) wealth, or power from such a transformation.

Most would never admit it openly (at least not yet), but they are out there. In the early days of Nazi Germany, there were the "Brown Shirts", who were basically just party thugs (but still civilians) who practiced such things as voter intimidation, control of resources, inhibit free travel and other types of harassment. All I'm saying is, there are plenty of people out there who do not want to see the truth uncovered.""

There is plenty of intimidation being practiced right now, right here in this "FREE COUNTRY".
In the past few years that I have become "a writer" of sorts, I have experienced a tremendous amount of intimidation, ridicule, abandonment of my friends and loved ones over some of the issues of the day (politics, religion, constitutional freedom and the interpretation of same).
I look around. I look at all of the people that I sincerely love and care about, many of who shake their heads "tsk tsk, please stop sending me this stuff"......

I guess I am a kook.

I have never viewed this as some sort of popularity or personality contest in the sense that I never wondered what people would think of me. When I decided to become a literary "Paul Revere" it was because thats exactly how I view myself. I'm no whacked out "conspiracy theorist". If I see a flying saucer, believe me, I'll make sure thats what I see before I tell everyone, who may have a certain level of respect for me (or not); "Hey, Guess what I just saw?"

I dont pretend to have all the answers, I just have what is now amounting to a s h i t load of questions which seem to be pushing all the wrong buttons on many people, including those whom I never for a minute would have thought could turn around and point a finger at me saying: "kook...., Stop it. Your causing a scene....".

Well, in defense of my often incendiary pen, I say:

""Who is the real kook? The person who has and raises questions, or the person who simply believes & accepts everything they are told? Typical tactic's used by modern tyrants are to label anyone who dares to "question authority" a kook unworthy of respect by society. THIS is step alpha in the dictator's handbook for silencing dissedence.

I have always thought that this vigilance is the most valiant of all traits in a patriot! In fact, this "revolutionary Rebel" spirit, was until recently something openly admired in this country. My how things are changing.

Im watching on TV here where the History Channel is comparing David Koresh (and all of his "Alleged atrocities" to Charlie Manson. Hmmm Speaking of "non-sequitors".

I have been raised to be, for the most part law abiding. My contention is that when the laws of the land begin to circumvent the very foundation for the health and well-being in a society, then it is time to be a law questioner, a law defy-er, and a law breaker if need be.

""This statement is the sum of my pretext, It's the essence, the very salt of the earth if you will, to being a Free American. Hell, a Free Human.

-Juan Iota

I give credit to "DT" for uttering the right words right when I had begun to write this statement here for my blog!--

RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!

2008-01-10T13:34:00.000-08:00

Im telling you guys: We are right in the middle of the swindle. Ron Pauls great performances in the debates have been all but ignored. Even some adversaries (people I know who are voting for other candidates) have said he did really well !! STILL, Television and print media are ignoring him.

Who is surfacing as the media darling? Obama. I dont dislike Obama as a person, I just dont trust his politics, and dont trust his loyalties plain and simple. In my opinion as a minority, theres no way Ill vote for someone who has already sworn alleigence to "his race of people" above the well being of his country. Either your an American for America or not. Im not even going to address the stupid a_s race issue here. I could care less. They are going to tuck away any candidate who isnt part of their NWO club. They are ignoring the will of the people, and will slide in someone who will pick up where GWBush leaves off. They are not going to just turn the country back over to us. I believe the NWO knows it wont be able to get a republican into the whitehouse, so they will stack the deck with a few lame horses, and aim to get either Obama or Hillary elected.

THOSE OF US WHO KNOW HOW CRITICAL THIS ELECTION IS will have to keep the name Ron Paul on our lips.

We will have to keep at it. We have a fight ahead of us.

Youll see.

Immigration, and rascism in general

2008-01-09T09:27:00.000-08:00

So on the "American" issue.

Either you are an American, or not: I consider myself an American of Spanish & Indian decent.

I don't hate white people or europeans AT ALL for what happened 200 years ago or more. In fact, I have a mild admiration for the civilizations which came out on top in a time and climate where it could have been anyone with a good plan and execution. Demonizing any one country or people for doing what "was done" back in those times is like demonizing "whalers" back in the whaling times. What did they know about conservation or the world? They were just fishermen making a living.

It seems to me, that the only thing we love more than "winners" is to hate them soon enough after.

What burns me the most day to day, is hearing the same old crying match over and over and over again about slavery. African Americans are very smart to play a card which works so well.

I would do this myself if I thought it had merit, but Puerto Ricans, as a minoroty don't seem to be able to get along long enough to agree on what to have for dinner much less agree on a political agenda. Frankly, often times I am embarrassed to watch most latinos riding the coat tails of the black (African American) movement.

The truth of the matter is that the amount of african slaves to the white man is paltry when compared to all the other slavery statistics through out history including their own (Africans as slaves to other Africans, Egypt, Ethiopia, Phonecia et alia). This is true whether you consider the empires of Afria geographically OR as a matter of color of skin. People buying into this load of crap are just looking for something to buy, and I admire African Americans for pulling off such a sales scam. I do not blame them a bit, it's being handed and taught to them. They are making it part of thier modern culture, and re writing history to validate it. What did you expect?

Maybe I should rewrite history for my people too?

Its the public who lend the credence to the whole preposterous issue by handing them this excuse as a viable free ride through society. It is my opinion, that this is weakening mankind as a whole.

Right here, and right now, I experience OVERT rascism every single day from African Americans who mistake me for a (the) white man. I'm being judged for my apparent appearance, all the while having to endure hearing about the unjust-ness of judging by appearance.

I am a pretty outspoken, unafraid person, so I say all the time "how hypocritical it is for someone who knows what rascism is, to be condemning it, while concurrently practicing it".

Then I might mention that I am Spanish/Latin, (or Latino as some of you insist) and all of a sudden "I'm ok with them?" That alone makes me rascist against anyone who practices that double standard bullshit. If I were a white man, I believe I'd start to become rascist just behind that. I do not blame white people who aren't buying into this shit, and who decide they need to be White, and proud.

Slavery was a sad but very real part of history, It isnt anymore, and that should be enough.
I'm sick to death of having to endure rascism from African Americans for something I had absolutely no hand in, not to mention the fact that neither did my ancestors. The people who are hanging on to it the most, are poeple who have something to gain from it. For example, my race of people (ancestors), the Taino Indian's, were completely wiped out by the Spanish (my other ancestors) and subsequent settlers. Our men murdered, entire culture erased, all lands taken, all riches plundered, country renamed. Do I get MY "fourty acres and a mule" eventually? Give me a mf break.

If this is a free country now (and I sure hope we dont forget about those issues) Then I am a product of my own efforts, no matter what anyone thinks of me. If I'm too lazy to go out and make something of myself, then I should thank no one but myself. If a black man can afford a bus ticket out of the ghetto, and does so, only to make something of himself, then all I have is admiration for him. The same man who wont spend the money on the bus ticket, but finds it more useful to use it to fund his crack business or any other illegal thing gets no sympathy from me. We all have a cable tow to bear. Make something of yourself and stop waiting around for a handout.Do you hear Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Peruvians, Egyptians, and others crying the race card and demanding the countries, and land back? Get fckin over it already. There are a hundred thousand Mexicans out there willing to work and make something of themselves, and only because some white idiots are helping them to make excuses for themselves do you see all this ridiculous protesting and stuff. An ILLEGAL ALIEN IS ILLEGAL. SEND THEM BACK. If they want to enter the country legally, then they have the chance. Otherwise they should be treated like anyother criminal PERIOD.The white people who have bought into the guilt trip and are out in front waving that banner are the most pathetic creatures on the face of this planet besides P.E.T.A.

WHY IS IT OK for only a MINORITY like me to say all this? If I were WHITE, would I be rascist?

Are we trying to make it an "Equal opportunity world"? or are we trying to "Make up for something by giving all of the advantages to any one people"? and IF SO, When is it OUR (Puerto Rican?Taino) turn? Do we get handed the silver spoon next?

KEEP IT.

Making the presidential elections a racial issue is a crime which will be perpetrated by the true hypocrits of out time. "Closet rascist's" bent on an agenda and willing to use any means for getting that agenda achieved, even if its a lie only to promote themselves. They truly could care less about anyone including those of their own race, much less other "monorities".

And so I say, what no one else has the balls to say once again.

Juan Iota

NoOneHome today, on planet earth.

2007-12-31T08:06:00.000-08:00

ONE IOTA?

I want to take this opportunity to honor a valiant soul There was a 35 year old homeless guy named Kelsy H. Ruiz that moved here from Honduras immigrating to Miami.

He lived on the streets as a homeless man sleeping wherever he could. Instead of stealing, selling drugs or taking advantage of others, he made every effort to work for his food and drink. Among other things he would help the female Colombian cuisine restaurant owner Malida Marreo in return for food and sometimes cash.

He would work and send money home to the Honduras for his family.One day when in proximity to the restaurant, Ruiz observed a man named Tyrone Clark attempting to rob the store owner.

The robber stabbed the female store owner while attempting to rob her and Mr Kelsy Ruiz stepped in & defended her fighting the robber, preventing further injury.The robber then turned on Kelsy stabbing him and leaving both victims literally lying in the middle of the street.I came by this story and thought to myself how many lazy selfish and greedy people there are in this world, and how many fewer are selfless brave and valiant if far from perfect, that when faced with the decision between doing the very difficult and dangerous right thing, and the easy zero-risk "nothing", they don't hesitate for a minute.

I realize this has nothing to do with the forum, and in particular, this thread but:

Something eats at me, when a soul who, however imperfect gives to the sum of humanity somehow gets struck down. although it bothers me, I understand the nature of the world & the beast. Its going to happen when you try to do the right thing. The saying "no good deed goes unpunished" is sadly often times true.It doesn't stop the good from doing good often times. They may lose their lives doing something good, but what Burns me up is when a good person falls, and leaves the earth "without a trace". Without some kind of remembrance, some tribute or honorable mention.So I just thought I'd take a minute to honor this young guy, and let him know that he isn't completely forgotten. I don't know him, never met him, but his name is on my lips today, and his spirit is in my heart.Kelsy H. Ruiz Rest in peace with the LORD, there are more here. We will do what we can.

-Juan Iota

Anyone home on planet earth?

2007-12-31T07:59:00.000-08:00

Juan Iota is my "pen name".

Full name meant to be: "Juan LeedleStenken Iota"

Theres a meaning to why I took this name. I have this fantasy of making a difference in this world before checking out.

This article is about the Greek "iota. "

Iota (uppercase Ι, lowercase ι) is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 10. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Yodh (). Letters that arose from Iota include the Roman I and J. Iota is pronounced yota by modern Greeks.
Iota represents /i/ (as in English beet). In ancient Greek it occurred in both long and short versions, but this distinction has been lost in Modern Greek.

Iota participated as the second element in falling diphthongs, with both long and short vowels as the first element. Where the first element was long, the iota was lost in pronunciation at an early date, and was written in polytonic orthography as iota subscript in other words as a very small ι under the main vowel, for instance ᾼ ᾳ ῌ ῃ ῼ ῳ

[edit] Common English phrase

The word is used in a common English phrase, 'not one iota of difference', to signify a meaningless distinction (lit. "not even a small difference").

The phrase derives from the introduction to the Antithesis of the Law in the Gospel of Matthew (a jot or a tittle), and became common in the theological debate which arose around the time of the First Council of Nicaea, regarding the nature of the Holy Trinity.

The argument centered on which of two alternative Greek words, differing only in a single 'iota' letter, should be used in describing Jesus' relationship to the Holy Trinity. One word, 'homoousios', would mean that Jesus was of the same substance as God the Father, and the other 'homoiousios', would mean that Jesus was of similar substance.

[edit] Symbol
The Iota symbol is used to generate a vector of consecutive integers in the APL programming language.
The lowercase Iota symbol is sometimes used to write the imaginary unit but more often Roman i or j are used.
In logic, the lowercase iota denotes the definite descriptor.

hmmm

Its been over eleven years now.

2007-12-30T15:16:00.000-08:00

Dec 20th 2007 It's been 11 YEARS!!!!?From this distant vantage point, the earth may not seem of any particular interest, but for us its different. Consider again that dot: That's here. That's HOME. That's US.On it, every one you Love, everyone you know, every one you ever heard of every human being who ever was lived out their lives. Every aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religion and ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar every supreme leader every saint and sinner in the history of our species.A very small stage in a vast cosmic arena; think of the all those rivers of blood spilled by all the generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of this one fraction, of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited, by the by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel upon the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner.How frequent, their misunderstandings, how EAGER they are to kill one anotherHow fervent their hatreds. Our COSTUMES, our IMAGINED images of self importance. The delusion that we have so privileged a position in the universe, by this point of pale light. Our planet, thus a lonely speck in the great cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in ALL this vastness there is NO hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is no where else at least in the near future to which our species could migrate. Visit? Yes, Settle? Not yet. Like it or not, the earth is where we make our stand it has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is Perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits. Than this distant image of our tiny world. To me it underscores our responsibility to be more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot. The only home we've ever known.

-Carl Sagan,

TO LOVE, AND LIVE IN THE HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND, IS TO NEVER DIE.

I can remember being taught how "electrons were classified as inorganic matter", how "inanimate" matter is classified as "without life".

I can remember immediately wanting to question that. Thats almost as funny as children having to teach us about "plate tetonics". Funny how we are slowly trampled from childhood. AT first by "grownups" who are intent on "killing our spirit". This unintentional process makes it easier to "protect, and keep an eye on us. This squashing helps in turning us into serious adults, then by our very selves our spirit gets worked over even more..

Get my "drift"?

I have always been of the opinion that We dont really know that an electron is inorganic, or that it doesnt initself, contain its very own part of the universe with its own stars, galaxy's and solar systems. we dont know the boundaries of the whole universe. Thats part of the wonder I have for our creator. I feel important only because I feel Loved and connected I can feel special without subscribing to the belief that I am supposed to know everything about, or control one single aspect of the universe EXCEPT my behavior, my emotions, my actions, and my passions. I can believe in a benevolent loving creator, a GOD who loves us, and still not have "proof" other than the knowledge that something this vast, this organized, perfect, indescribeably beautiful and wonderous could only have been created and not have happend by chance.

The Physics of 11 Sept 2001

2007-12-29T14:23:00.000-08:00

PHYSICS DOES NOT LIE...... IF we are Industrious & Astute and arent easily distracted by bullshit.

Greetings fellow citizens. Thanks to D. Jonesy While he appears a bit edgy and extreme at times to some people, he has earned friendship and respect from his contemporaries & allies. Free Thinkers usually do knock over a few glasses and vases around the house occasionally. That is a natural occurance when you lock a BULL (our FREE thoughts and dreams) in a china closet (the ever shrinking tyrannical thought process of the "powers that be").

They hate us and always have, because theres no f__king place to attach the puppet strings.

I hate them back and always have for trying to ruin a perfectly good planet, ALMOST as much as I hate any other "terrorists" "FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC"
Enough of that Rant.

Lets get to my favorite one. How in the hell do you (in this atmosphere & gravity) make "water pour up"?. OR; How does one; "throw an average baseball, with enough speed to develop the monumental potential energy to 'completely' destroy the bat all the way down to the knob of the handle, and itself".

NOW, this analogy should be backwards: How does the ball able to destroy the bat in the first place? Well, potential energy.

The only place this could come from is the increase in mass as a direct result of motion.

Energy = (m) X Acceleration

Without 'other' outside forces acting upon the ball ("explosives") this is otherwise impossible.

My scientific query eliminates many of the confusing variables. I like to try and compartmentalize things into "sub-routines". This is a trick I learned when trying to become a proficient computer programmer. The question (Ball vs Bat), can be answered quite simply:

Please express in mathematics, each collapse from initiation of collapse to completion. UC Davis HAS in fact done this, and in a really OBJECTIVE (and kinda humorous, for nerds) way.

Keep in mind, I constantly provide science form both sides of the coin. So I do NOT do "Abstracts" unless I provide links to their entirety. (part of my personal ground rules) I want to stress here, that after general theory and the basics of these in formula form, I get just as lost is not more, than other people do. My mathematics skills are equal to that of maybe a 7th grader.

The rest of my mind in my opinion, makes up for this weakness.
(orbital mechanics for instance; I can tell you HOW it works, but not exactly why)

http://trefoil.math.ucdavis.edu/author/C.Beck?c=physics.pop-ph http://trefoil.math.ucdavis.edu/ Makes me want to fill a bathtub with it and jump in.

Here are some links to engineering and science treatments.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5442 http://www.gnn.tv/threads/18598/Engineer_s_Remarkable_WTC_Collapse_Simulations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blevy http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_equals_MC_squared http://syracusecoe.org/symposium/2003/cd/presentations/Herbert.pdf

Heres one thats going to send you running to the drugstore: http://www.nucleardemolition.com/GZero_Sample.pdf

Disclaimer: I am not interested in "conspiracy theories". I leave that to my fried friend and ally David. He ties them up well, and his presentations are fantastic food for thought. I will say publicly that I do not agree with everything he has. So no one can ever accuse him and I of pandering one another. We are two opposites of the same person, and we happen to have some similarities in subtle sarcasm and insensitivity with regard to "Political Correct-ness" and "Religion". Of course I have my opinions.

He is critical of my opinions & findings. He questions my results even when they align with his theory. Thats a good man. Instead of broad strokes. I tend to be specific IE: do I think Oswald acted alone? HELL NO. Do I believe there were more than 1 shooter? Yes, because of my science, Im sure of it. I am careful NOT to >>>>Project<<<< into any case studies, but take the time to proceed one point at a time, until I have a consensus of details which either come to a cu=onclusion, or don't. This is what a scientific Approach / mind will do.

IE: I hear something under the bed. I shush up, and listen quelling my fear lond enough to activate the impulse of steering all of my available "ram" to my hearing feeling and seeing" senses. I am quiet for a minute, and listen. If I hear something under the bed nagain, and say catch a glimpse of shadow, I slowly (even though I am fearful) look under the bed. Either theres something there, or there isnt. Some minds will hear, & have a hidden fear and instinct there is something under the bed. They will turn up the music. They will turn away and look in a different direction. They will ignore this instinct, and ask someone else to look under the bed. IF someone says to them, "I hear something under the bed", they will argue with them saying "No, you dont hear anything". "If we ignore the noise, it will go away".

There is a lot more to this phsycological dynamic, but Im sure some will catch my drift.

Dynamic + Havoc = Dynavoc That is my latest word.

The professional skeptic, I have never been able to figure out so: Go Figure?......lol

Our purpose is a good one. Our efforts, however difficult are productive in the long run. Discouragement is normal and natural. Lets stay at it. With the moderators permission I will transfer some of my earliest scientific inquiries from the "other" forum to here. With no protests, you should see the initial question appear here shortly. Much work has been lost, but who cares.

Im a stubborn son of a bitch. I dont give up easy and I want to figure out what happened so no other fire fighters or Port Authority people like 35 year old <> get sacrificed for greedy shitty reasons. I didnt then, have never and still do not feel that what happened on 11 Sept was what we were being told was happening. I do not feel right, I trust my instincts, I trust my perception, I trust my life long interest in Physics and Science. I trust my many many years of experience. Just to avoid any doubt, I will post my qualifications here as soon as I write them down for anyone to examine. This way you will know how much or how little of a right I have to MY OWN opinion... Interesting concept in a "free society" isnt it?

_________________
T.S. Negron Curious Fellow.
Keen interest in Humanity, Physics & general theoretical Sciences.
Sword Bearer w/ plenty of faith and trust in GOD.
Aimiable, non-violent Musician whenever possible

Freemasonry or "Don't Believe the Hype"....

2007-12-26T18:40:00.000-08:00

"Life is a school. The world is neither prison, nor penitentiary, nor a palace of ease, nor an amphitheater for games and spectacles; but a place of instruction, and discipline.Life is given for moral and spiritual training; and the entire course of the great school of life is for virtue, happiness and a future existence. The periods of life, are its terms; all human conditions it's forms; all human employments its lessons. Families are the primary departments of this moral education; the various circles of society, its advanced stages; Kingdoms and Republics its universities.Riches and poverty, gayeties and sorrows, marriage & funerals, the ties of life bound or broken, fit and fortunate, or untoward and painful, are all lessons. Events are not blindly & carelessly flung together. ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Providence does not school one man, and screen another from the fiery trial of its lessons. It has neither rich favorites nor poor victims. One event happeneth to all. One end and one design concern and urge all men".

-Albert Pike, Morals Dogma ___________________________________________________
Easterly towards the dawn. GOD'S light.àI will travel

Ok,Here I am. My name is Thomas Scott Negron. I am a Freemason. Some of you know me fairly well by now, so, Judge me as a person, as you will. I am starting this thread to open a dialogue on Freemasonry. Ask me anything and I will endeavor to answer you HONESTLY.You can choose to get your information second hand, or you can go to a source knowledgeable, first hand. I am here to translate intent for anyone with an open mind to understand and learn from me. And I will surely learn from you. I will be accessible for anyone who wants to seek the knowledge I possess. It's absolutely nothing special. ANY good hearted, GOD fearing (meaning you believe in a creator or higher power) man or Woman will understand it. Very few are turned away from Freemasonry when they voluntarily come seeking it -OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL. Those who are turned away, are done so for good reason, and usually, they are the ones who get pissy and start the rumors, as you will soon learn.You will NEVER be urged or asked to seek the degrees of Freemasonry. That's one of the "secrets" I am authorized to give you. That is also one of the protected secrets of ancient & accepted Freemasonry. It has been in place since time immemorial so that only those seeking good and honest wisdom would know "the secrets".

Evil hearts stumble across this trap immediately.I am a Master Mason. I am also somewhat of an unofficial lodge "Freemasonry historian". I have been voraciously consuming ("organic" not processed) information on the craft for well over fourteen years now.My search in life for, & faith in GOD led me to ask questions such as: "Is this all there is to this life?""Is mankind truly evil by instinct?" The lessons of the one (King James Version, for me anyway) true Bible gave me Landmarks which I naturally and thankfully recognized in my search for Wisdom, and further instruction from the one who created us all.

I, although as wretched as any other average guy on earth have been fortunate enough to be born with a heart that truly seeks what GOD is willing to give me: Grace and Wisdom. In other words, I ache to improve myself as a person, as a father, as a man. This has not been easy.

GOD has blessed me. Lucky for me, because otherwise, my "wages" of average sins and endeavor would have surely brought me what I call: "squished like a bug" by now.You will notice that I always capitalize the word "LORD" & "GOD", This is simply to give praise, thanks and respect for that which I can barely grasp. It's a small way to show my faith and enthusiasm.

I am not a "GOD freak". I have always refused to run around beating up others with my Bible, or my belief's You can be snobby today, and tomorrow, have to eat every word right?

You will see me referring to "GOD" as the "Grand Architect of this Universe". I have been taught that this is because, there are many similarities for the creator in omnipotent religions, (a word you will come to know that I hate) and tolerance whispers that "he is called be several names" God, Jehovah, Lord, Allah, "The great Spirit"..... so who are we to say?Who are WE to say which is right, or which is wrong? The only specification Freemasonry makes is that; a freemason believes in one creator. That's it. How's that for "dogma"? There are reasons for this requirement, but that's something to cover for another time. Just ask me.I have earnestly researched and searched Freemasonry for the lessons I sought when I was led to Freemasonry by my own spiritual quest for knowledge and wisdom. As a matter of good fortune, I prayed for wisdom instead of riches. I have also searched for the evil many people accuse Freemasonry of being the true purpose of. I would be aghast, had I spent so much effort in such a noble cause, only to find that I had been part of anything evil much less a world conspiracy.

>>>>>>>>My findings have been very consistent.

99.99 percent of the terrible and untrue things which have been written about Freemasonry are copied from other writings. In almost every single case, they are modified just a little bit from their source to fit the context of the accusations, and form a piece of some otherwise unrelated puzzle, or agenda! Here ahead are several examples of what I am referring to. I will give you a perfect example of a severely out of context "quote" along with the plagiarizers' INSTRUCTIONS on how YOU should interpret the words. THEN I will supply you the text IN its context, so you may see what Pike means to convey.Keep in mind that Pike wrote Morals & Dogma at the behest of his constituents. It is a supplemental to the sublime degrees. It is a collection of the LECTURES and charges given to those receiving the degrees, which include WARNINGS of falling into the traps evil has laid out for us in our travels. This isn't some secret book spelling out what someone should believe. It's a collection of information including the good, the bad & the ugly of which MANKIND himself has been party to. Nothing more, nothing less. You want to know once and for all? I am here to help.I will receive neither money, nor other consideration for my efforts here. If you find that you want to give, Give to the truly needy, help children and widows. Give to help children with insurmountable medical problems. In this way, you are SUPPORTING ONE OF THE VERY PURPOSES FOR OUR FRATERNITIES EXISTENCE. I've seen very few of these "persecution" sites whose purpose and existence is for nothing more than their own personal material enrichment. This is an easy living for "beating upon a meek and passive victim". SURELY if Freemasonry were evil, would we NOT exert some of the very real and perceived "power" we possess, and wield it against these unsolicited so-called "enemies"?So, In the spirit of this forum thread:I will start with this letter I wrote in response to a website which demonizes Albert Pike & the book, Morals & Dogma. It was so blindly spiteful, in so many ways that I found it necessary to write and point out a few things:

This is just one website I surfed into. Note: Like this guy is here to save the world from us. The only problem is, HE is only willing to do so, if he can make money doing it. The site has 80% of its space prostituted for advertising income. Hmmmm....He begins by touting himself as really astute in knowledge of Pike, and "Morals & Dogma" saying that "most Masons have never read it". Hmmm a bit presumptuous at the least. Well Ladies and Gents, I (& most Masons I know!)have read it, in its entirety, and I am here to help you understand in in all of its various contexts'.

Heres the site:http://threeworldwars.com/dogma.htm

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While a prolific writer, Albert Pike is best known for his major work Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Masonry. Published in 1871 (no ISBN), this massive volume consists of 861 pages and 32 Chapters, covering each of the 32 Degrees of Freemasonry. While many consider it to be a Mason's guide for daily living, the truth is that not many Masons have even read the book, on account of it being somewhat difficult to understand. More than 75% of the book consists of historical records of ancient civilisations (inc. Egypt, Greece, China, India, Persia) and their superstitions and religious observances. At first reading Pike creates the impression of being well-read and extremely knowledgeable on his topic, until you take the time to read the preface. It accuses Pike of plagiarism throughout, stating that "he has extracted quite half its contents from the works of the best writers and most philosophic or eloquent thinkers". Is Pike really the genius we've been led to believe?Freemasonry Described by Albert Pike In Morals and Dogma, Pike wrote: "Masonry, like all the Religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be misled; to conceal the Truth, which it calls Light, from them, and to draw them away from it. Truth is not for those who are unworthy or unable to receive it, or would pervert it.... The truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason... every man's conception of God must be proportioned to his mental cultivation and intellectual powers, and moral excellence. God is, as man conceives Him, the reflected image of man himself..." 1

The next statement reduces the Masonic philosophy to a single premise. Pike writes: "The true name of Satan, the Kabalists say, is that of Yahveh reversed; for Satan is not a black god but the negation of God. The Devil is the personification of Atheism or Idolatry. Lucifer, the Light Bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual or selfish Souls? Doubt it not!" 2

WOW huh. We are baby killers then? Its easy to understand how people could pervert this work and manipulate it meaning when you can twist the context of whats being written, and expect no rebuke!

NOW Here's Pikes work:

Bear in mind that small "snippets" were taken from the lecture which follows. Please keep in mind: I have taken the copy of the true text from a website (a persecutionists website at that!) so Ill need to read through and compare it to the true text, to make sure no one is "putting words in Pike's mouth" as they are SO often prone to do! Anyway read with caution. Ask any questions you like.XIX. GRAND PONTIFF. (Ed note: this is the lecture for this degree.)
The true Mason labors for the benefit of those who are to come after him, and for the advancement and improvement of his race. That is a poor ambition which contents itself within the limits of a single life. All men who deserve to live, desire to survive their funerals, and to live afterward in the good that they have done mankind, rather than in the fading characters written in men's memories. Most men desire to leave some work behind them that may outlast their own day and brief generation. That is an instinctive impulse, given by God, and often found in the rudest human heart; the surest proof of the soul's immortality, and of the fundamental difference between man and the wisest brutes. To plant the trees that, after we are dead, shall shelter our children, is as natural as to love the shade of those our fathers planted.
The rudest unlettered husbandman, painfully conscious of his own inferiority, the poorest widowed mother, giving her life-blood to those who pay only for the work of her needle, will toil and stint themselves to educate their child, that he may take a higher station in the world than they;--and of such are the world's greatest benefactors. In his influences that survive him, man becomes immortal, before the general resurrection. The Spartan mother, who, giving her son his shield, said, "WITH IT, OR UPON IT!" afterward shared the government of Lacedaemon with the legislation of Lycurgus; for she too made a law, that lived after her; and she inspired the Spartan soldiery that afterward demolished the walls of Athens, and aided Alexander to conquer the Orient. The widow who gave Marion the fiery arrows to burn her own house, that it might no longer shelter the enemies of her infant country, the house where she had lain upon her husband's bosom, and where her children had been born, legislated more effectually for her State than Locke or Shaftesbury, or than many a Legislature has done, since that State won its freedom. It was of slight importance to the Kings of Egypt and the Monarchs of Assyria and Phoenicia, that the son of a Jewish woman, a foundling, adopted by the daughter of Sesostris Ramses, slew an Egyptian that oppressed a Hebrew slave, and fled into the desert, to remain there forty years. But Moses, who might otherwise have become Regent of Lower Egypt, known to us only by a tablet on a tomb or monument, became the deliverer of the Jews, and led them forth from Egypt to the frontiers of Palestine, and made for them a law, out of which grew the Christian faith; and so has shaped the destinies of the world. He and the old Roman lawyers, with Alfred of England, the Saxon Thanes and Norman Barons, the old judges and chancellors, and the makers of the canons, lost in the mists and shadows of the Past,--these are our legislators; and we obey the laws that they enacted. Napoleon died upon the barren rock of his exile. His bones, borne to France by the son of a King, rest in the Hopital des Invalides, in the great city on the Seine. His Thoughts still govern France. He, and not the People, dethroned the Bourbon, and drove the last King of theHouse of Orleans into exile. He, in his coffin, and not the People, voted the crown to the Third Napoleon; and he, and not the Generals of France and England, led their united forces against the grim Northern Despotism. Mahomet announced to the Arabian idolaters the new creed, "There is but one God, and Mahomet, like Moses and Christ, is His Apostle." For many years unaided, then with the help of his family and a few friends, then with many disciples, and last of all with an army, he taught and preached the Koran. The religion of the wild Arabian enthusiast converting the fiery Tribes of the Great Desert, spread over Asia, built up the Saracenic dynasties, conquered Persia and India, the Greek Empire, Northern Africa, and Spain, and dashed the surges of its fierce soldiery against the battlements of Northern Christendom. The law of Mahomet still governs a fourth of the human race; and Turk and Arab, Moor and Persian and Hindu, still obey the Prophet, and pray with their faces turned toward Mecca; and he, and not the living, rules and reigns in the fairest portions of the Orient. Confucius still enacts the law for China; and the thoughts and ideas of Peter the Great govern Russia. Plato and the other great Sages of Antiquity still reign as the Kings of Philosophy, and have dominion over the human intellect. The great Statesmen of the past still preside in the Councils of Nations. Burke still lingers in the House of Commons; and Berryer's sonorous tones will long ring in the Legislative Chambers of France. The influences of Webster and Calhoun, conflicting, rent asunder the American States, and the doctrine of each is the law and the oracle speaking from the Holy of Holies for his own State and all consociated with it: a faith preached and proclaimed by each at the cannon's mouth and onsecrated by rivers of blood. It has been well said, that when Tamerlane had builded his pyramid of fifty thousand human skulls, and wheeled away with his vast armies from the gates of Damascus, to find new conquests, and build other pyramids, a little boy was playing in the streets of Mentz, son of a poor artisan, whose apparent importance in the scale of beings was, compared With that of Tamerlane, as that of a grain of sand to the giant bulk of the earth; but Tamerlane and all his shaggy legions, that swept over the East like a hurricane, have passed away, and become shadows; while printing, the wonderful invention of John Faust, the boy of Mentz, has exerted a greater influence on man's destinies and overturned more thrones and dynasties than all the victories of all the blood-stained conquerors from Nimrod to Napoleon

Long ages ago, the Temple built by Solomon and our Ancient Brethren sank into ruin, when the Assyrian Armies sacked Jerusalem. The Holy City is a mass of hovels cowering under the dominion of the Crescent; and the Holy Land is a desert. The Kings of Egypt and Assyria, who were contemporaries of Solomon, are forgotten, and their histories mere fables. The Ancient Orient is a shattered wreck, bleaching on the shores of Time. The Wolf and the Jackal howl among the ruins of Thebes and of Tyre, and the sculptured images of the Temples and Palaces of Babylon and Nineveh are dug from their ruins and carried into strange lands. But the quiet and peaceful Order, of which the Son of a poor Phoenician Widow was one of the Grand Masters, with the Kings of Israel and Tyre, has continued to increase in stature and influence, defying the angry waves of time and the storms of persecution. Age has not weakened its wide foundations, nor shattered its columns, nor marred the beauty of its harmonious proportions. Where rude barbarians, in the time of Solomon, peopled inhospitable howling wildernesses, in France and Britain, and in that New World, not known to Jew or Gentile, until the glories of the Orient had faded, that Order has builded new Temples, and teaches to its millions of Initiates those lessons of peace, good-will, and toleration, of reliance on God and confidence in man, which it learned when Hebrew and Giblemite worked side by side on the slopes of Lebanon, and the Servant of Jehovah and the Phoenician Worshipper of Bel sat with the humble artisan in Council at Jerusalem. It is the Dead that govern. The Living only obey. And if the Soul sees, after death, what passes on this earth, and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, families, States, the World; and its bitterest punishment, in seeing its evil influences causing mischief and misery, and cursing and afflicting men, long after the frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten.
We know not who among the Dead control our destinies. The universal human race is linked and bound together by those influences and sympathies, which in the truest sense do make men's fates. Humanity is the unit, of which the man is but a fraction. What other men in the Past have done, said, thought, makes the great iron network of circumstance that environs and controls us all. We take our faith on trust. We think and believe as the Old Lords of Thought command us; and Reason is powerless before Authority. We would make or annul a particular contract; but the Thoughts of the dead Judges of England, living when their ashes have been cold for centuries, stand between us and that which we would do, and utterly forbid it. We would settle our estate in a particular way; but the prohibition of the English Parliament, its uttered Thought when the first or second Edward reigned, comes echoing down the long avenues of time, and tells us we shall not exercise the power of disposition as we wish. We would gain a particular advantage of another; and the thought of the old Roman lawyer who died before Justinian, or that of Rome's great orator Cicero, annihilates the act, or makes the intention ineffectual. This act, Moses forbids;that, Alfred. We would sell our land; but certain marks on a perishable paper tell us that our father or remote ancestor ordered otherwise; and the arm of the dead, emerging from the grave, with peremptory gesture prohibits the alienation. About to sin or err, the thought or wish of our dead mother, told us when we were children, by words that died upon the air in the utterance, and many a long year were forgotten, flashes on our memory, and holds us back with a power that is resistless. Thus we obey the dead; and thus shall the living, when we are dead, for weal or woe, obey us. The Thoughts of the Past are the Laws of the Present and the Future. That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant. That which shall live when we are dead, as part of the great body of law enacted by the dead, is the only act worth doing, the only Thought worth speaking. The desire to do something that shall benefit the world, when neither praise nor obloquy will reach us here we sleep soundly in the grave, is the noblest ambition entertained by man. It is the ambition of a true and genuine Mason. Knowing the slow processes by which the Deity brings about great results, he does not expect to reap as well as sow, in a single lifetime. It is the inflexible fate and noblest destiny, with rare exceptions, of the great and good, to work, and let others reap the harvest of their labors. He who does good, only to be repaid in kind, or in thanks and gratitude, or in reputation and the world's praise, is like him who loans his money, that he may, after certain months, receive it back with interest. To be repaid for eminent services with slander, obloquy, or ridicule, or at best with stupid indifference or cold ingratitude, as it is common, so it is no misfortune, except to those who lack the wit to see or sense to appreciate the service, or the nobility of soul to thank and reward with eulogy, the benefactor of his kind. His influences live, and the great Future will obey; whether it recognize or disown the lawgiver. Miltiades was fortunate that he was exiled; and Aristides that he was ostracized, because men wearied of hearing him called "The Just." Not the Redeemer was unfortunate; but those only who repaid Him for the inestimable gift He offered them, and for life passed in toiling for their good, by nailing Him upon the cross, as though He had been a slave or malefactor. The persecutor dies and rots, and Posterity utters his name with execration: but his victim's memory he has unintentionally made glorious and immortal. If not for slander and persecution, the Mason who would benefit his race must look for apathy and cold indifference in those whose good he seeks, in those who ought to seek the good of others. Except when the sluggish depths of the Human Mind are broken up and tossed as with a storm, when at the appointed time a great Reformer comes, and a new Faith springs up and grows with supernatural energy, the progress of Truth is slower than the growth of oaks; and he who plants need not expect to gather. The Redeemer, at His death, had twelve disciples, and one betrayed and one deserted and denied Him. It is enough for us to know that the fruit will come in its due season. When, or who shall gather it, it does not in the least concern us to know. It is our business to plant the seed. It is God's right to give the fruit to whom He pleases; and if not to us, then is our action by so much the more noble. To sow, that others may reap; to work and plant for those who are to occupy the earth when we are dead; to project our influences far into the future, and live beyond our time; to rule as the Kings of Thought, over men who are yet unborn; to bless with the glorious gifts of Truth and Light and Liberty those who will neither know the name of the giver, nor care in what grave his unregarded ashes repose, is the true office of a Mason and the proudest destiny of a man. All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid. The Volcano and the Earthquake, the Tornado and the Avalanche, leap suddenly into full life and fearful energy, and smite with an unexpected blow. Vesuvius buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in a night; and Lisbon fell prostrate before God in a breath, when the earth rocked and shuddered; the Alpine village vanishes and is erased at one bound of the avalanche;and the ancient forests fall like grass before the mower, when the tornado leaps upon them. Pestilence slays its thousands in a day; and the storm in a night strews the sand with shattered navies. The Gourd of the Prophet Jonah grew up, and was withered, in a night. But many years ago, before the Norman Conqueror stamped his mailed foot on the neck of prostrate Saxon England, some wandering barbarian, of the continent then unknown to the world, in mere idleness, with hand or foot, covered an acorn with a little earth, and passed on regardless, on his journey to the dim Past. He died and was forgotten; but the acorn lay there still, the mighty force within it acting in the darkness. A tender shoot stole gently up; and fed by the light and air and frequent dews,put forth its little leaves, and lived, because the elk or buffalo chanced not to place his foot upon and crush it. The years marched onward, and the shoot became a sapling, and its green leaves went and came with Spring and Autumn. And still the years came and passed away again, and William, the Norman Bastard, parcelled England out among his Barons, and still the sapling grew, and the dews fed its leaves, and the birds builded their nests among its small limbs for many generations. And still the years came and went, and the Indian hunter slept in the shade of the sapling, and Richard Lion-Heart fought at Acre and Ascalon, and John's bold Barons wrested from him the Great Charter; and the sapling had become a tree; and still it grew, and thrust its great arms wider abroad, and lifted its head still higher toward the Heavens; strong-rooted, and defiant of the storms that roared and eddied through its branches; and when Columbus ploughed with his keels the unknown Western Atlantic, and Cortez and Pizarro bathed the cross in blood; and the Puritan, the Huguenot, the Cavalier, and the follower of Penn sought a refuge and a resting-place beyond the ocean, the Great Oak still stood, firm-rooted, vigorous, stately, haughtily domineering over all the forest, heedless of all the centuries that had hurried past since the wild Indian planted the little acorn in the forest ;--a stout and hale old tree, with wide circumference shading many a rood of ground; and fit to furnish timbers for a ship, to carry the thunders of the Great Republic's guns around the world. And yet, if one had sat and watched it every instant, from the moment when the feeble shoot first pushed its way to the light until the eagles built among its branches, he would never have seen the tree or sapling grow. Many long centuries ago, before the Chaldaean Shepherds watched the Stars, or Shufu built the Pyramids, one could have sailed in a seventy-four where now a thousand islands gem the surface of the Indian Ocean; and the deep-sea lead would nowhere have found any bottom. But below these waves were myriads upon myriads, beyond the power of Arithmetic to number, of minute existences, each a perfect living creature, made by the Almighty Creator, and fashioned by Him for the work it had to do There they toiled beneath the waters, each doing its allotted work, and wholly ignorant of the result which God intended. They lived and died, incalculable in numbers and almost infinite in the succession of their generations, each adding his mite to the gigantic work that went on there under God's direction. Thus hath He chosen to create great Continents and Islands; and still the coralinsects live and work, as when they made the rocks that underlie the valley of the Ohio. Thus God hath chosen to create. Where now is firm land, once chafed and thundered the great primeval ocean. For ages upon ages the minute shields of infinite myriads of infusoria, and the stony stems of encrinites sunk into its depths, and there, under the vast pressure of its waters, hardened into limestone. Raised slowly from the Profound by His hand, its quarries underlie the soil of all the continents, hundreds of feet in thickness; and we, of these remains of the countless dead, build tombs and palaces, as the Egyptians, whom we call ancient, built their pyramids. On all the broad lakes and oceans the Great Sun looks earnestly and lovingly, and the invisible vapors rise ever up to meet him.No eye but God's beholds them as they rise. There, in the upper atmospere, they are condensed to mist, and gather into clouds, and float and swim around in the ambient air. They sail with its currents, and hover over the ocean, and roll in huge masses round the stony shoulders of great mountains. Condensed still more by change of temperature, they drop upon the thirsty earth in gentle showers, or pour upon it in heavy rains, or storm against its bosom at the angry Equinoctial. The shower, the rain, and the storm pass away, the clouds vanish, and the bright stars again shine clearly upon the glad earth. The rain-drops sink into the ground, and gather in subterranean reservoirs, and run in subterranean channels, and bubble up in springs and fountains; and from the mountain-sides and heads of valleys the silver threads of water begin their long journey to the ocean. Uniting, they widen into brooks and rivulets, then into streams and rivers; and, at last, a Nile, Ganges, a Danube, an Amazon, or a Mississippi rolls between its banks, mighty, majestic, and resistless, creating vast alluvial valleys to be the granaries of the world, ploughed by the thousand keels of commerce and serving as great highways, and as the impassable boundaries of rival nations; ever returning to the ocean the drops that rose from it in vapor, and descended in rain and snow and hail upon the level plains and lofty mountains; and causing him to recoil for many a mile before the long rush of their great tide. So it is with the aggregate of Human endeavor. As the invisible particles of vapor combine and coalesce to form the mists and clouds that fall in rain on thirsty continents, and bless the great green forests and wide grassy prairies, the waving meadows and the fields by which men live; as the infinite myriads of drops that the glad earth drinks are gathered into springs and rivulets and rivers, to aid in levelling the mountains and elevating the plains, and to feed the large lakes and restless oceans; so all Human Thought, and Speech and Action, all that is done and said and thought and suffered upon the Earth combine together, and flow onward in one broad resistless current toward those great results to which they are determined by the will of God. We build slowly and destroy swiftly. Our Ancient Brethren who built the Temples at Jerusalem, with many myriad blows felled, hewed, and squared the cedars, and quarried the stones, and carved the intricate ornaments, which were to be the Temples. Stone after stone, by the combined effort and long toil of Apprentice, Fellow-Craft, and Master, the walls arose; slowly the roof was framed and fashioned; and many years elapsed before, at length, the Houses stood finished, all fit and ready for the Worship of God, gorgeous in the sunny splendors of the atmosphere of Palestine. So they were built. A single motion of the arm of a rude, barbarous Assyrian Spearman, or drunken Roman or Gothic Legionary of Titus, moved by a senseless impulse of the brutal will, flung in the blazing brand; and, with no further human agency, a few short hours sufficed to consume and melt each Temple to a smoking mass of black unsightly ruin. Be patient, therefore, my Brother, and wait! The issues are with God: To do, Of right belongs to us. Therefore faint not, nor be weary in well-doing! Be not discouraged at men's apathy, nor disgusted with their follies, nor tired of their indifference! Care not for returns and results;but see only what there is to do, and do it, leaving the results to God! Soldier of the Cross! Sworn Knight of Justice, Truth, and Toleration! Good Knight and True!be patient and work! The Apocalypse, that sublime Kabalistic and prophetic Summary of all the occult figures, divides its images into three Septenaries, after each of which there is silence in Heaven. There are Seven Seals to be opened, that is to say, Seven mysteries to know, and Seven difficulties to overcome, Seven trumpets to sound, and Seven cups to empty. The Apocalypse is, to those who receive the nineteenth Degree, the Apothesis of that Sublime Faith which aspires to God alone, and despises all the pomps and works of Lucifer. LUCIFER, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darknesss! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual or selfish Souls ? Doubt it not! for traditions are full of Divine Revelations and Inspirations: and Inspiration is not of one Age nor of one Creed. Plato and Philo, also, were inspired. The Apocalypse, indeed, is a book as obscure as the Sohar. It is written hieroglyphically with numbers and images; and the Apostle often appeals to the intelligence of the Initiated. "Let him who hath knowledge, understand! let him who under stands, calculate !" he often says, after an allegory or the mention of a number. Saint John, the favorite Apostle, and the Depositary of all the Secrets of the Saviour, therefore did not write to be undertood by the multitude.

The Sephar Yezirah, the Sohar, and the Apocalypse are the completest embodiments of Occultism. They contain more meanings than words; their expressions are figurative as poetry and exact as numbers. The Apocalypse sums up, completes, and surpasses all the Science of Abraham and of Solomon. The visions of Ezekiel, by the river Chebar, and of the new Symbolic Temple, are equally mysterious expressions, veiled by figures of the enigmatic dogmas of the Kabalah, and their symbols are as little understood by the Commentators, as those of Free Masonry. The Septenary is the Crown of the Numbers, because it unites the Triangle of the Idea to the Square of the Form. The more the great Hierophants were at pains to conceal their absolute Science, the more they sought to add grandeur to and multiply its symbols. The huge pyramids, with their triangular sides of elevation and square bases, represented their Metaphysics, founded upon the knowledge of Nature. That knowledge of Nature had for its symbolic key the gigantic form of that huge Sphinx, which has hollowed its deep bed in the sand, while keeping watch at the feet of the Pyramids. The Seven grand monuments called the Wonders of the World, were the magnificent Commentaries on the Seven lines that composed the Pyramids, and on the Seven mystic gates of Thebes. The Septenary philosophy of Initiation among the Ancients may be summed up thus: Three Absolute Principles which are but One Principle: four elementary forms which are but one; all forming a Single Whole, compounded of the Idea and the Form. The three Principles were these: 1ø. BEING IS BEING. In Philosophy, identity of the Idea and of Being or Verity;in Religion, the first Principle, THE FATHER. 2ø. BEING IS REAL. In Philosophy, identity of Knowing and of Being or Reality; in Religion, the LOGOS of Plato, the Demiourgos, the WORD. 3ø. BEING IS LOGIC. In Philosophy, identity of the Reason and Reality; in Religion, Providence, the Divine Action that makes real the Good, that which in Christianity we call THE HoLY SPIRIT. The union of all the Seven colors is the White, the analogous symbol of the GOOD: the absence of all is the Black, the analogous symbol of the EVIL. There are three primary colors, Red, Yellow, and Blue; and four secondary, Orange, Green, Indigo, and Violet; and all these God displays to man in the rainbow; and they have their analogies also in the moral and intellectual world. The same number, Seven, continually reappears in the Apocalypse, compounded of three and four; and these numbers relate to the last Seven of the Sephiroth, three answering to BENIGNITY or MERCY, SEVERITY or JUSTICE, and BEAUTY or HARMONY; and four to Netzach, Hod, Yesod, and Malakoth, VICTORY, GLORY, STABILITY, and DOMINATION. The same numbers also represent the first three Sephiroth, KETNER, KHOKMAH, and BAINAH, or Will, Wisdom, and Understanding, which, with DAATH or Intellection or Thought, are also four, DAATH not being regarded as a Sephirah, not as the Deity acting, or as a potency, energy, or attribute, but as the Divine Action. The Sephiroth are commonly figured in the Kabalah as consti- tuting a human form, the ADAM, KADMON Or MACROCOSM. Thus arranged, the universal law of Equipoise is three times exernplified. From that of the Divine Intellectual, Active, Masculine ENERGY, and the Passive CAPACITY to produce Thought, the action of THINKING results. From that of BENIGNITY and SEVERITY, HARMONY flows; and from that of VICTORY or an Infinite overcoming, and GLORY, which, being Infinite, would seem to forbid the existence of obstacles or opposition, results STABILITY or PERMANENCE, which is the perfect DOMINION Of the Infinite WILL. The last nine Sephiroth are included in, at the same time that they have flowed forth from, the first of all, KETHER, or the CROWN. Each also, in succession flowed from, and yet still re mains included in, the one preceding it. The Will of God includes His Wisdom, and His Wisdom is His Will specially developed and acting. This Wisdom is the LOGOS that creates, mistaken and personified by Simon Magus and the succeeding Gnostics. By means of its utterance, the letter YOD, it creates the worlds, first in the Divine Intellect as an Idea, which invested with form became the fabricated World, the Universe of material reality. YOD and HE, two letters of the Ineffable Name of the Manifested Deity, represent the Male and the Female, the Active and the Passive in equilibrium, and the VAV completes the Trinity and the Triliteral Name, the Divine Triangle, which with the repetion of the He becomes the Tetragrammaton. Thus the ten Sephiroth contain all the Sacred Numbers, three, five, seven, and nine, and the perfect Number Ten, and correspond with the Tetractys of Pythagoras. BEING IS BEING, Ahayah Asar Ahayah. This is the principle, the "BEGINNING." In the Beginning was, that is to say, IS, WAS, and WILL BE, the WORD, that is to say, the REASON that Speaks. The Word is the reason of belief, and in it also is the expression of the Faith which makes Science a living thing. The Word, is the Source of Logic. Jesus is the Word Incarnate. The accord of the Reason with Faith, of Knowledge with Belief, of Authority with Liberty, has become in modern times the veritable enigma of the Sphinx. It is WISDOM that, in the Kabalistic Books of the Proverbs and Ecclesiasticus, is the Creative Agent of God. Elsewhere in the Hebrew writings it is Debar Iahavah, the Word of God. It is by His uttered Word that God reveals Himself to us; alone in the visible and invisible but intellectual creation, but in our convictions, consciousness, and instincts. Hence it is that! certain beliefs are universal. The conviction of all men that God is good led to a belief in a Devil, the fallen Lucifer or Lightbearer, Shaitan the Adversary, Ahriman and Tuphon, as an attempt to exlain the existence of Evil, and make it consistent with the Infinite Power, Wisdom, and Benevolence of God. Nothing surpasses and nothing equals, as a Summary of all the doctrines of the Old World, those brief words engraven by HERMES on a Stone, and known under the name of "The Tablet of Emerald:" the Unity of Being and the Unity of the Harmonies, ascending and descending, the progressive and proportional scale of the Word; the immutable law of the Equilibrium, and the proportioned progress of the universal analogies; the relation of the Idea to the Word, giving the measure of the relation between the Creator and the Created, the necessary mathematics of the Infinite, proved by the measures of a single corner of the Finite ;--all this is expressed by this single proposition of the Great Egyptian Hierophant: "What is Superior is as that which is Inferior, and what is Below is as that which is Above, to form the Marvels of the Unity." --------------------------------------------------Do you see the problems people like this poor sould has in understanding such deep work? Pike is saying: Satan will present himself as the light! Anyway, ask away.

T. S. Negron says:
Ok, that is a LOT of reading. So you can see why some of these problems exist.My letter to these people who used that excerpt out of context to demonize Pike follows:Good SirI have a few questions and comments.I JUST surfed into your website, and after reading only the first paragraph I am inclined to write that you are guilty of exactly the "plagerism" you cite for Pike.There were several glaring inaccuracies in that first paragraph alone. A reasonable, and knowledgeable man would immediately recognize that your site has an agenda and isn't interested in objective treatment of Pikes work in the least. I'll try to get through it anyway.Have you or anyone really close to you ever been a freemason? Have you ever really sat down and interviewed a freemason? You present yourself as someone who HAS read Morals & Dogma in its entirety. I submit that if you have, you did not understand it too well. (This is not to imply that you are stupid. It is in no way my intent to look down my nose, insult or degrade your efforts. I will assume that you have honorable intent, which is why I write to you in earnest) I have read the text several times over (admittedly, in between many naps).Morals and Dogma was written as a supplemental to the Rites. It is a collection of the lectures. Of course it will contain previously written material by other writers. That's the intent of the work my new friend.I bear you absolutely no ill will for your ignorance of the true purpose. I will express however that it is so endlessly exasperating that freemasonry's attackers display so little real in-depth knowledge about the craft, and yet are so obviously positive that they are right, even to the point of attack when someone with any knowledge of this subject attempts to correct the inaccuracies. I have found that 99% of the people, who help to spread the misinformation, such as you are, get this misinformation from some other written sources of misinformation.This is precisely why we don't make any attempt to "defend ourselves". I have found most of the time, it's pointless. In fact, I have been discouraged from this, by most of the elders in Masonry because of the fact that experience has taught them it hasn't been very productive. I am of the opinion that in order to allow understanding, we must be willing to be a bit more accessible, as long as we protect our so-called "secrets" from the evil tyranny of men. I tell you; these "secrets" are in plain sight. They are in the words YOU SKIPPED OVER. They are the basic gifts, the LORD-GOD, Grand Architect of this Universe has given us. We protect them from those who are blind and yet seek to blind other men from these wonderful "secrets". These secrets merely allow us to recognize another human who has freely taken the same obligation, and is committed to the same purpose as we. We can recognize him/her at night as well as in broad daylight. There is no further purpose than for the protection against persecution (which we experience anyway).People who believe (some) of the ridiculous claims you make are already convinced they have uncovered some kind of devil. I submit that its human nature to attack something which isn't easily understood, or is kept "secret" from others. Our ultimate example of tolerance should be obvious but instead, it's overlooked as a weakness, Pity.I am a sort of "lodge historian." I have been studying in earnest from the "inside" for years now. If I can ever help you to "uncover" the "evils" of freemasonry, I will be happy to do so, and will fulfill my obligation to mankind.

I would be happy to make a new friend, if you are willing to open your mind and perception just a bit.This is my duty, as I have "Promised" to leave the earth better than I found it for my existence.

so I will be available anytime for exchange.
Thank you all for bearing my postulations.
Warmest Regards
"Juan Iota" -My Pen Name

Knock Knock........Anyone Home?

2007-12-12T10:43:00.000-08:00

The year, 2007- End of Times? 2012?

I wake up asking myself every day how as a race of humans, we have even made it this far.

The way some of us treat each-other is purely evil. Nothing like Malice to separate us from any other form on earth and in the known universe. So much for the rise of civilization.

I always come back to the fact that it must be the will of our creator (whatever you call the Grand Architect of this universe) to allow us on this path, so close to the edge of complete disaster all the time.

And somehow we think were more evolved than plants & animals?

I had thought over and over about how I would begin to write these blogs.. What I come up with is "separate the issues, so its not just some pointless rant about how lame and backwards our race has come, or when the fall of civilization really began?

I usually don't even get that far.

When I began writing, Many of my friends and family told me what a fantastic writer and storyteller I was... Huh, Me?

most of my blogs were too incendiary for anyone. No one but my absolute closest friend(s) would provide me any feedback. Thank GOD for that little bit of encouragement too, not just ion that but in my life in general Instead, my family and friends began their slow backwards steps until very few stood ready to listen and exchange. Many of my closest friends from the past have abandoned our friendship, either not being interested enough in the subjects or what I personally have to say about them. Many of them requested that I not send them my "spam".

I wondered about this, and still do.

I wonder how they are able to deal with the fear and uncertainty without having the urge to share their feelings and opinions with others whom they care about. I wonder how anyone can have children and yet live like none of this matters anymore. Hope fully it wont all get out of hand until they are gone. When I sit down to write in the middle of the night, when everything is silent, I wonder what I am leaving behind for my son Nicholas. I wonder what would happen to me were I to just ignore and internalize all of these concerns. I mean, I pray about them (Yes, I do believe and have faith in GOD, but you may not like what I have to say about religion. Anyway, thats another subject/thread).

AT one point, I felt such a responsibility to all of the people I love, that I was willing to piss them off if I had to, if it meant insulting them to get them riled into seeing whats (obvilously to me) going on in this country. I read a book called "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

This book helped me understand how some people, smarter than I deal with issues such as these. That book helped me put some of these same things I have been dealing with into perspective. For instance, The sudden and untimely death of my father. The distance which has grown so vastly between myself and some of the best friends I ever had. I have always tried to mauintain those friendships. I had to grow and realize that it cant only be important to one of you, it must go both ways.

Another example: Until very recently, I thought I still had a responsibility to apply my business talents towards "taking over the world", and being financially wealthy. I was in a hurry to make up for lost time....... Boy what a putz. I am so glad I learned how to get rid of money! It would suck to have to be buried with it, and never have know what its like to just live a good life.

At Amazon's wonderful forum, I started several threads. The Raising of important no, critical questions has been met with such a venom that I had to learn my education about taking part in the forum threads on the run.

The baiting by trolls, the (what I call) "Fear Biters".... Little other wise intelligent people who have been so affected by the barrage of this sensory overload and materialistic "paint your own reality" society that they are truly living in an illusory existence. They also live in paralyzing fear, so they conform. They hide. They "Buy into it".

I have read: If the culture doesnt work, then dont buy into it. Those very words have always been right on the tip of my tongue. Thanks Morrie.

Now I know what it was like,to live in the early 1700's yearning to be free, knowing what evil was and knowing that there were only so many people who would stand up and be counted among the citizenry. Ive never been much of a coward actually way too confident. I had learned the technique of absolutely ignoring what everyone thought of me (to a fault) and to follow my instinct even when it was wrong (right off the cliff of course). Back to patriotism.

I took part in the thread called "Shame on you BUSH supporters!"
Nothing like baptism (we'll get around to religion eventually) by fire.

By the way:-
(Thank you Amazon, for listening to your public, and providing the forum even if it IS a bit censored)

Of course. Its no big deal to buy an American flag sticker and slap it on your truck. Being a Patriot in easy times isn't anything new. Its the few people who care enough, to be willing to stand up and say, Something is not right here. We want you to take down the veil. This is a public society. Government for and by the people right? I have begun to learn many things about my fellow Americans in the past few years. I am learning that there are plenty of people who realkly arent sharp enough to get past the brainwashing

Being a Ptriotic American these days earns you the right to be labeled as a "potential Terrorist threat" to your own country!

Complaining at the ticket counter in any airport can get you a ride on the "Taser Special" where dying in custody is not all that uncommon. Three deaths in custody in one month! Unacceptable behavior from any public servants in a truly free society.