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"My religion is Truth, my practice is non-cooperation with evil." - Gandhi

To the media: Remember that you have the power to control the message deliverd to the people. Whatever you speak into existence will occur. Be sure that your phrasing and the ideas you express reflect the vision you have for the future.

Favorite remarks from site user:

"Good job on keeping things cool and well spoken. Your website exhibits quite a bit of control - your adjectives could include evil bastards every now and again without being extreme."

and, regarding a piece I wrote for another purpose called

"The Privilege & Honor of Serving A Commitment"

"...statement is right on and could have been written by me, I have always felt this passionately about justice and equality! The sentiment expressed there is the only viable goal for humanity I think.

Art Linkletter was right.. except, people say the darndest things!

11/13/2002 pm - Remember when I said people will hear what I had to say about what's going on, reject it, turn away and then come back? They're coming back, saying "I've been reading the bible... did you know...?" Now I'm being asked to lead Bible study groups.

Ever tell anybody the REAL issue of why I'm so p-o'd right now?

Franklin was correct, that doesn't mean it's right. And Grubman, seems to me, is just typical of corporate America... and the ethic that's being taught to Americans.. do what it takes.

BTW... if any of you think there's been deception on my part... feel free to call me on it... oh but that would take communication. And we don't do that, do we. We just assume and judge. It's alot easier... and alienates people... it's so much simpler that way.

Notice, I never said my music skills were ready for primtetime, and when I thought I was being offered something, I was really candid about where I was at, wasn't I? I have an audience just like you guys. Different demographics and interests, though. You go for your numbers, I go for mine. I've said that many times, and it doesn't necessarily mean anything else than that.

Ya know, I had just about gotten over my anger, in general, when I realized I was being deceived. That golden retriever. Without the deception, I would still be on that path. Now, it's just one more thing to swallow. One more thing to drive me to what I'm going to do. Only, it makes me more sure than ever that it's the right thing to do.

Notice... except when I felt the impact of the deception, I did what I said I was going to do. I don't do the reports because I just can't decide what to say... And my "apocalypese report" is getting extremely detailed and in depth because it's got so many possible angles.

As for Pelosi... there's a reason I don't live in California... and it's not avoidance of anything. I have diffferent values. And that's not saying there's anything wrong with that. Except for certain talk show hosts from San Francisco :} Just jokin'. I'm just more moderate in most ways. The only radical thing about me, really, other than not caring about money all that much and a willingness to put my butt on the line and mj.

Ya'll can say whatever you want in your forum.. I can say whatever I want in mine. I don't owe you anything, you don't owe me anything.

I once said there was something funny about my boycott of a certain station.. the funny part was, they should have just ignored me. That's what's a good programmer would do. Make me prove the threat. Still, they showed a great deal of responsibility in making their changes. Ya gotta respect that. And they still have a great environmental section.

If you're mad at me for betraying you some how, I say, look in the mirror.

Like I've said, I don't have anything to hide, I haven't lied about any of my experiences, and the only regret I have that I wish I didn't have I is, once again, trusting people. That's my biggest fault. And it bit me again. I'm not going around acting like a big shot. I've had lots of unusual experiences... you don't even know the half of it. Someday, you'll read about crazy Eve, and the 3 way Linda Ronstadt and Jerry Brown connection... And yeah, I'm upset... but you don't see me going around on the front page downing you. Set your ego aside for the moment, and think like a surf. Then maybe you'll have a little more compassion for us little people.

What are you going to do when we aren't the little people anymore?

11/13/2002 -

Have any of the press considered that Iraq ordered Atropine because they fear the use of nerve gas by the U.S.? We dump it on them, who would believe the U.S. did it. Perfect cover.

On the Bin Laden tape... anyone bother to notice that he said his actions were in response, not offensive?

Any of you got the guts to reveal the lies of the U.S. Government?

Based on the logic of the Republican spokesmen, why don't we just do what Bush wants... declare world war and dominate by force. Beter yet, why not take all people who theorhetically just might possibly say a single word against Bush, and shoot 'em? Ya never know, I mean we could be a threat, possibly, in your wildest imagination. By all means, take the CNN tour of the oval office and make people love the tyrant even more.

You guys did what I thought MSNBC was doing... get people to watch and then indoctrinate them into the other way of thinking. Like the Bible says, there will be many deceptions.

I still win.

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11/12/2002 -

Epiphany & Synchronicity.. you have no idea how much I wish they'd leave me alone at times.

First, I want to say again that my Bible studies are not so much about religion as much as they are about understanding what's going on in the world and this country. I have to admit, it deepens my beliefs, but it really hasn't changed my mind about anything, except that I'm more sure of things than ever.

Day before yesterday, I harvested a jackpot, and didn't know it until this morning, because of something that happened yesterday. I also have another here, there and everywhere story about someone I haven't seen since 1967.

Today's revelation is also why I realized I can't take this section off the site. One of my 3 "manuals" requires it.

So, the other day, I was talking about fundamentalist Christianity, and differences between the new and old Testaments. All from the Winona Ryder movie. Weird. I had said, if we were really going to be fundamentalist, then we would take our prodigal sons and stone them to death. Straight out of Deuteronomy. Yesterday, Jack Burkman said more countries should use the death penalty on juveniles. Just a modern day adaptation of putting the prodigal son to death. That's one of the more interesting things I examine in all this... what is the modern day adaptation of certain "brutalities" in the Bible.

The one that really worries me has to do with Deuteronomy's description of instructions for war, specifically, the spoils of war... which includes killing all the males in a culture, and, if you see a woman you like, you get to take her. Not sure I want to discover that implementation. Those brutalities, of course, are very direct counters to the claims that Islam's Muhammad was a terrorist. Just as it would appear that the Bible doesn't have a problem with polygamy. Or divorce. Very interesting stuff. Sometimes I think that, more than anything else, in the Christian religions, I am really a Mormon but don't really know it. :} But I don't want 2 wives.

BTW, Springsteen's Song about Mary's Place... figured it out. Hand in hand with a Gabriel cut. That'll make the guys at Langley musical for a day. Then there's the old Sparks album... it's not significant, but they'd enjoy it alot. :}

Here's a question for you... if DEMS know that their problem in the last election was no message or messenger, why didn't they do something about it in the election? See, I'm having a real problem beleiving they have the savvy to get it together. Not intelligence, just actual willingness to develop a strategy. ( If I had voted for the Iraq Resolution, I could have easily spoken out against a war as well.) It's like, before I read The Prince, I was doing one of the chapters of The Prince. The one the DEMS should be using, just like Bill did. Like I said, I didn't know I was doing it. But I find I have excellent instincts in that area of politics... always have.

What I'm not good at... speaking of insincts... when I got back from Atlanta, and then had to deal with more "corruption" in my home state as well as marginally "unusual" other employment situations immediately after, I fully admit I was pretty frazzled and on edge. That's why I moved to Yosemite. I learned, through my childhood, how to tell when I needed to withdraw in order to protect myself physically and emotionally... I'm not saying it's a good thing, but resilience does pay off. When I feel defeated, I allow the feeling so that I can think through it until I resolve it for myself.

One of the things that came out of it.. because I love people deeply and unconditionally... and they actually have to prove themselves a danger for me to withhold that love or respond negatively or use verbal protective force... not theway most people operate... and I forget that at times...

Anyway... so when people do things that threaten me or betray me, they only really get one chance. That doesn't mean I won't work with them, but I likely will never trust them again. It very much has to do with numerous comments I've made lately... it's one of those conditions that throws me into... as I told GW, a nasty son of a bitch that you want off your back.. I 'm actually sad that the Atlanta and corruption stuff took some of the niceness off my veneer... what shows up as weakness in me is actually graciousness, which, these days, most people take advantage of. Just the way the world works these days. Creates for me the the distinctions friends, acquaintances, business associates and potential dangers. How I categorize people can change in a flash based on their behavior. And I'm pretty generous when making the judgement call. And it's rarely made based on whether people agree with me or not.

I'm a very loyal person. And I protect those who are loyal to me. I stand beside people, even when they make mistakes. I just refuse to break the law. If I do, it's by accident. Except, of course, for the times I smoke mj.

I also look at much of my basic upbringing as being very much like being in an austere military family. There's alot of good and bad to that. My other major influence, though has to do with living in the country, and around ranching and farming.

How do I put this properly?

When Stayner was in Yosemite killing people, I was living there. I knew the people he killed. When the DC snipers were on the loose...well, what I'm getting at is that I know that, in terms of psychological profiles, that my background would suggest a "loner's profile" and someone who could crack. But, it's just not the case. What has occurred in my life has been extreme. For the most part, I've actually always been a people person. I've only had one time in my life where I was prone to violence, and it was way back in 1978, and it was in defense of a black friend of mine who was being physically threatened. I have never owned a weapon (other than my pellet gun) because I decided if I lived somewhere where I needed one to protect myself, then it was time to move. But I was well trained on how to use them properly, and about the value of life. There are reasons why I've brought that background up on this site. Given what I've told you about what has happened to me since I opened this web site, I'll trust you to figure out why I made sure to bring it up when I have.

Because of the military orientation, and living in the country and raising animals, there are times when you have to do stuff that isn't pleasant. We raised many animals for food, and it was my responsibility to raise and butcher many of them. In the country, weapons are tools, not sport. Mostly. It was difficult for me, because I love animals. But, it's what you need to do for food.

One time, I received bad advice from someone... interestingly, the father of a CNN reporter (haven't seen hide or hair of him since I was 10, I went to school with his brother :}) gave me some bad advice, and my dog at the time, the first 1 I had after leaving home when I was young) got distemper. I had other animals. My car was at the shop, animal control wouldn't help by coming and putting it to sleep. And I had to put it to sleep... by hand. It was horrible. But necessary. I cried for a long time. But it needed to be done. And, similarly, I would never hold John Kerry's Viet Nam record against him. It's just part of reality. Like war. Unfortunately.

I wanted to tell that story, because I know it impacted some people. It impacted me, especially when all of a sudden, the focus was on Tacoma. I only live 30 miles away from there. I hope I've put some minds a little more at ease.

With that... I know it seems like I'm flip-flopping on my "thoughts and feelings" about DEMS and other associations.. the truth is, I am. There are many considerations, strategic, that are going thru my head these days... advantages & disadvantages, my way of doing things, other people's ways of doing things... making sure I don't allow myself to feel I'm among friends when I'm around business associates... all that kind of stuff... tempered by what my commitment is... to America.

I haven't done a newscast because the research I've been doing exposes some very sensitive issues... and "the deeper I go the darker it gets".. and in terms of evaluating alliances, and protecting myself while forwarding my objectives, I've been a little stumped on how to proceed... especially since I want to be accurate about certain things.

I'm going to go ahead and start the reports again, but they'll be pretty timid for a week or two. Just thought you might be curious.

One other thing... I found out about 2am this morning that some materials were sent out from my office yesterday... Just want you to know I had nothing to do with it.

Just saw Edwards at the Forum... I was curious about him. Close, but no cigar.

This thing about not over-reaching? And the social programs... watch as the economy and all go downhill, and just before the 2004 elections, he announces his FDR impression of a new deal.. That's why I've already started creating "my new deal". It'll be in the book.

I'm gonna clobber 'em with the "look to the past" thing. That was a hint, folks. Have you studied FDR, really? There are 5 or 6 other sub-plots from the past they're using, too.

7pm pt

Ah, come on, don't look so glum.. I'm not really all that hard to please or get along with... like I said long ago... "if you see a sleeping dog, kick it"... to do what I'll need to do, I'll have to have my own vision and plan, and I do... and I've got a killer strategy... like I said, I'll chew a few people out, and then we'll be able to have fun... and when I expose it, GW does it. And I'll be a DEM, and people will know it, but the party won't cause I doubt anyone will talk to me :}}} which will be to my advantage. I hope mainstream will ignore me for quite a while.

I'll announce between Feb and May. I may be a hermit, but I love crowds.. you have no idea. I'm one of the biggest hams ya never met. It'll be hard work, just the way I like it. I know ya'll can't quite figure me out, but, after the books... it'll be very clear.. and you'll know that, after all, I'm a real deal.. maybe not the real deal. But, a real deal.

Besides, I need to spend my time in the books, not here. What works for me here is it sets up like having a conversation.

Love the helmet.

John, excellent show.

Check out the declaration of citizens' rights. That will be the beginning of it all. That's the corruption that needs to be fully addressed most. I'm not at all saying all politicians are corrupt.. that part of the system is corrupt, and entrenches people. That's what's it's about, and what it's supposed to relieve. I don't want to hammer anyone (though sometimes it'll be necessary.)

"Dreams pass into the reality of action, from the action stirs the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."

wanting to believe... that nails it!!!

Gnight Love ya guys. Don't ever doubt it.

11/11/2002 - 2:30pm

I've spent most of my life empowering other people with my good ideas.. and I love having done that... if it didn't earn me any money or glory. But the thing is, I have made so many attempts to go thru Democratic channels in an appropriate manner.. I've left 3 messages at the DNC, more than a week ago... but, I suppose, like most citizens, I'm not important enough to be called back. Sure, it's frustrating, but typical of people who take themselves so seriously. But it's a good wake up call to remind me of the reasons why I've been doing what I've been doing.

Whether you find what I say useful or not... if you think I'm just arrogant or mentally unsound. See, I think ya'll are the ones who are arrogant... nonetheless, I'm tired of politics as it is.. and I'm not going to give away my real ideas to people who disrespect me and think I'm unworthy of their time. And don't know how to use them

So ya'll go take your polls and fool yourself into believing that you know what America wants... (it's like the unemployment rate... it only measures those with eligibility, not the actual unemployment rate) try to patronize them with your presentations about how willing you are to choose war over peace.. and by the way.. sometimes you have to use to war to achieve peace... (but not in Iraq at this time) So I'm shutting down this section of the site. Big deal, right? We'll see.

But I'll say it one more time. If you could lower yourselves for a moment to deal with a serf like me, you might just find out I have things to offer. You know my name, you have my number. I have all the forms, I have a network of activists, and I'm going to put them to work. I have an agent and a publisher.

I wish you well, and I hope you all can succeed at proving how important you think you are.. to yourselves. And, remember, I believe you all alienated me, not the other way around. If that wasn't true, I wouldn't have opened this website. Think about that, when you talk about that crazy guy at democraticfundamentalism.org And all the energy I've spent to support you, and all the energy I'll spend to defeat you. It's a shame. But it's your choice, not mine. And for the record, this is not vengeance or acting out of anger or anything like that. It's about doing what's best for the people of this country, and the world. I still think the DEMS have their hearts in the right place. They've just proven themselves to be ineffective and unresponsive. That's not my fault either.

You can take publications like Truthout, and all the other that do nothing more than pacify people by expressing anger... but like all the rest... there's no vision, just complaints. And all that pacification is what keeps them from taking real action and voting, and what keeps them following somebody who at least has a plan, even if it is a bad one. It really is a shame.

Ciao!

PS to Paul: Like I told Donahue... it's not the economy, it's corruption, then it's the economy. But you guys don't want to have to deal with the corruption part, do you? The tax cuts and cuts in government services are designed for 1 thing... to shift responisbility to the states, and relieve the central government... ultimately make the federal government irrelevant except for having authority over resources and military applications.

The classism occurs in that the ordinary citizen will be left with little or no opportunity to advance, all the while, the corporate interests consolidate their power. And then, like Bellafonte says, you can either be a house serf or a field serf. And that's not America.

OKAY, one more for Lou: Give the content away for a month or so, set up a membership or pay as you go basis, provide value added footage... it's the Microsoft method.. works everytime... Ya still got to add the the water to Dreyfuss commercial. And the only advisor I can find is God. I think he''ll work out.

Bye

11/11/2002 12:30am PT

First, an addition to the 11/8 comments. I made a remark a month or so about Shaquille O'Neill and some symptoms he was having... feverish, weak.. which caused him to miss his youth basketball camp in Florida. I made a remark to the effect that he should shut down his furnace system. I know that sounded strange... but since I've talked about a number of things that have occurred since beginning this web site, there is one more thing that relates to the Shaq comment. About 10 days before his illness... and I don't know what it was... I had 4 or 5 days where I was constantly ill.. and the only pattern I could find is that for some reason, my furnace never shut off, and I felt better if I went outside or opened all the windows in the house. I went to the furnace... discovered that the controls had been replaced with one that never shut off. The heat pump had been disconnected. And, I inspected the inside of the furnace and discovered modifications that vented the exhaust into the fan that pushed the air into the house. All in all, it meant that I was getting fed a great deal of carbon monoxide. Once I completely shut down the air system in the house, I was fine. I believe this was right after I stated that I had information regarding the CIA's involvement in the assassination of JFK. 2 days after that statement, a man who was the last of the initial investigators of the assassination to the Warren Commission died in a small plane crash in New England.

In the spirit of here, there and everywhere....

After the death of JFK, there was a woman in Carmel, California who became famous in the area of the conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy. I can't recall her name at the moment.. Mavery I think... anyway. I had a little audio/record & tape shop in Santa Cruz. And part of what I did there was repair cassette and 8track tapes, as well as do custom duplication of audio tapes for the City of Santa Cruz and the Sheriffs Department.

One day, a Sheriff came in with about 4 hours of audio tapes of telephone conversations.. the audio was so bad that I had to monitor the copying in order to maintain audible volume levels. The Sheriff insisted on sitting next to me the entire time. I'll add, when I billed Santa Cruz for the duplication, they wouldn't pay the bill because they had no record of the officer as being employed in any way in Santa Cruz. The tapes included a variety of conversations... with this woman and Marilyn Monroe... John Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, and a couple of other voices I didn't recognize. I'll only say that some of the conversations were before and after her death and his death. I was spooked by what I heard.

As Forrest Gump would say, "That's all I have to say about that".

Interestingly enough, I didn't really mean to use that quote, but the next thing I have to say actually has to do with a story I happened upon tonight while attempting to create the News in Review... for which there is plenty of News.... and, I've been doing some pretty intense research in the Bible and Torah in the last week as part of my research into what I call the apocalypse report, which I entitled partly tongue in cheek, partly as a hook for an environmental report, and partly in response to my Christian beliefs, further supported by my recent research.

Even the crown recently given to Putin for his birthday has the serious theorhetical potential for Biblical implications in Revelations... (just as the bombing of the World Trade Center is actually described in the Revelations. Really, it is. There's no mistaking it. And it could be just another repetition of history, but I don't think so.) Even the Bible, with a little extended research, states that the period of the Tribulations could begin and be interrupted or canceled, if you will, as society responds to ecological and environmental and biomedical degradation and catastrophe by returning to a more fundamentalist existence (but not like Jerry and Franklin say... what they preach is not in the Bible, unless you refer to the part where the beginning of the end of Gentile domination of the world begins to come to an end)

And, this sort of intellectual distraction that I'm going to describe has been why I actually took the last week off. I don't know of any time that I've been more hungry for information. At the same time, to put the rest of this in context, I have to say that I don't believe in coincidences, and I fully believe in synchronicity... I could say a few more things about that, but to preserve the perception of my sanity, I won't. I'll say that I've had numerous "epiphanies", akin to what I describe as massive reorganization of thought... I've heard lots of newscasters on many networks as well as newspapers talk in recent months of epiphanies, give descriptions described as being of Biblical proportions... and when I do research in the Bible, it fits. I'd sure love to compare notes with them all regarding what they call their epiphanies... maybe we could all do a book together called "The book of epiphanies"... :}

Nonetheless... so here I am writing this simple news report about a guy who's been harrassing Robert Zmeckis... about a script he wrote called Love and Evolve.... which is not all that unlike what I'm writing called "For the Love of the World"... and for about 3 years now, and most especially the last 5 or 6 months, I've believed that my life has been like a training that was to apply toward this specific point in my life, and this particular moment in history... in addition, I've just received an email from a man named James Twyman who describes that he is undergoing the same experience I am in that respect.. and in some ways, on a parallel spiritual level... the orientations and interpretations and perceived calls to action are different... which makes sense... He wrote a book called Emissaries of Light, btw.

In addition, I know of a woman who is an internationally known writer and spiritual (not necessarily Christian or religous) who has expressed this same thing over the summer. Further, for some reason, we ended up in a conversation about 3 years about how we have both felt compelled from a young age to become Pres of the US... with the same fear... that doing so would lead to assassination because of what would be introduced into the public conversation.

Believe me, this will all tie together soon...

Now, the man harrassing Zemeckis claims that he's Jesus. And, despite requests, he has refused to stop harrassing Zemeckis. I'm somewhat amused by that because if you understand about the second coming of Jesus because of actual research in the Bible, many inexplicable things would have happened that would have made the second coming pretty obvious. So they "diagnosed" the guy as bipolar, stuck him in a mental institution for a few days, and had a restraining order put on him to leave Zemeckis alone.

The strange part is, something unusual really is going on. Wish I could figure it out, and I will, but I don't have the whole picture yet.

On some station at some point, some announcer made a comment about how "all the answers are in the stars". In addition, if you study the common thoughts about the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, in the context of "no democracy has fully survived for more than 200 years", and compare that to the United States today... be sure to hold that thought.

So, I'm writing this story about Zemeckis. A few people will actually understand why I find it so interesting. And I walk into my bedroom, and there on the nightstand is a book... not mine.. called "In the Wake of the Plague" by Norman F. Cantor. A reputable author, a book that was on the NY Times best seller list about a year ago. If you go to page 66 of the book, it describes a scenario that is eerily the same as today, in which anthrax and bubonic plague were transmitted to humans through chimpanzees/monkeys, much in the same way HIV/AIDS was transmitted to humans sometime between 1930-1950.

More compelling, though, is the environmental and social condition. It included flooding such as is occuring now, earthquakes and volcanoes releasing "sour air" (radon?) , contaminated fish in the oceans (such as with Mercury).. and the eventual downward spiral of nations/cultures based on diminsihing food and business productivity related to droughts and destruction of crops by flood, as well as disease causing diminishing workforces, and eventually, the collapse of economies and government... as is what occurred with Rome... a more biomedical collapse than a cultural collapse.

In addition, it points to the Church as seizing the opportunity to identify these occurrances as a "punishment from God" as a means to "scare" the citizenry into more "moralistic" behavior. As well as generating a serfdom among plague survivors as a means to perpetuate the species and to rebuld the populations and cultures, and the description of the evolution of these cultures as "a nation of laws". And for a time, provided a basis for a more "rational" management of populations and environments. Certainly, you can see the parallels to what is occuring in the United States today. (Oh, please say you do :} Further, and you will see the relevance of this very shortly, it nearly required the adoption of creationism to complete the cultural transformation to religious domination. And. modification of the Bible to omit things like hoe to do faith healing and such, so that people would be dependent on their chucrch leaders.

I'll also assert that, whatever the impetus in numerous movies and books is in declaring we need to "change the future" based on the concept of history repeating itself... I'll assert that it is more of an opportunity to create the future, in a parallel yet opposite manner that actually breaks the cycle of repetition.

It very much relates to how I have said, from time to time, that I have a great deal in common with George Bush antithetically.. I may agree on what the issues are, but I would resolve and manage them in the exact opposite way. Many people could probably say the same thing. The question really is, would they?

One other interesting aspect of this is the fact that, in the times of the recurrance of the plague, which consistently reduced the population of the planet by 1/4-1/3 (a number directly associated with the tribulations described in the Bible), the only real way that people had to deal with the plague was through faith healing. In these periods is when the Bible was modified as a means to convince the people to conform to a particular mode of behavior and morals in a forced manner (as opposed to a free choice, the method provided by God)

Or, through quarantining nations from each other. In that light, it is fascinating that one of Al Qaeda's objectives in its global attacks on the US and other primarily Christian based nations is to convince them their only safety is to go home and stay there. And, thusly, to stay out of the affairs of other countries.

And now, to add an even more mystical bent, is the theory that makes sense from another approach, which is that virulent diseases and plagues may, in fact, be contained in dormant "pods" of bacillus and virus from the trails of comets and meteors. I know this sounds strange, but this is not my theory. There is some scientific evidence to support it. Again, these plagues were always preceded by unusual volumes of earthquakes and volcanoes and floods. And vertical infection.. meaning occurances of things like the Leonid meteor showers that are to occur November 19th (carrying these bacillus pods.)

That said, it's impossible to ignore that just a few weeks ago, two days in a row, "things",. presumably meteorites, crashed to earth... I believe it occurred in the western foothills of New Mexico or Arizona... and then 2 tourists from New Mexico traveled to New York, and were discovered to have bubonic plague. And the floods and volcanoes are happening. (I have not been able to find the news story of these meteorites)

(I can't help but wonder what was meant by the particular announcer in this respect about, the answers are in the stars, as well as another remark in an unrelated story/remark about "Who will protect us?")

I've stated many times that I'm a believer in synchronicity. Many of the experiences I've had recently, that have caused me to read so many books and write so much material, must be synchronicity. And I'll admit it's odd. To the extent that I use phrases like "I must be going nuts" inaccurately when I should be saying "I can hardly believe it myself", and in fact "I don't really want to believe it" or "I can't believe this is happening to me, and in fact, I wish it wasn't". The information and self realizations I've had... my epiphanies... were not things I was seeking to have occur or information I was seeking to learn.

An example: the other night, at the beginning of a Winona Ryder movie, a graphic was put on the screen displaying a Bible verse which provided the context of the movie. I still haven't located that passage. What it did lead me to was Deuteronomy... and explanations from the Old Testament regarding God's instructions on how to conduct war... The Song of Moses as "given him" by God in the famous meeting on the mountaintop when he received the 10 commandments (which is, without purposeful learning, is part of James Twyman's musical repertoire), and God's instruction to remind us that the source of wealth is from Him, and is for the purpose of his bidding by individuals who, if exercising free will in following the will of God, would use that wealth for his purpose. There was much more that is relevant to what is occurring in the world today.

Another example, I began studying the Bible lately because one day, I was watching a news program, and someone mentioned a Bible verse in a tongue in cheek manner. Just for the fun of it, I got out my Bible for the first time in many years, and was amazed at what I read. And I want to say up front, my conclusion ultimately is that I started doing things many months ago that are referred to in the Bible, that I believe are just part of me fitting into a repetition of history and not as if I am some Biblical figure... I don't think I'm Jesus :}... but what I did read in Ezekiel sort of showed that what I was instictually doing... before having read the Bible in this time period (not for 20 years, anyway)... was writing about what I've seen and experienced, what I see occurring in the world now, and my vision or rational projections of what would happen in the future, good and/or bad. This was based on factual information, (not religious or spiritual, at least at that time) A much as I found it incredulous myself, it made me wonder if I was someone in the Bible, in this point of time... known as the "Son of Man"... who would precede the second coming of Christ by causing first, world peace.

The Son of Man, by the way, is a guy who would be on earth like a normal person, who would have lived through many personal injustices and struggles, and who is instructed by God to write about what he's seen, what he sees, and what he believes would occur in the future.

It was particularly odd for me because I'd had this feeling since I was about 9 years old that "my purpose" in life was to cause world peace. This feeling was based on what I'll simply refer to as a religious calling, much as someone who feels called to be a minister. Or anyone else who felt compelled to do a particular thing in life... as what they were made to do. Some people are baseball players, some are veterinarians. I sort of made this deal with God and said, I give up trying to figure out what you want me to do... teach me what you want me to know, so I can do what you want me to do when the time comes. And, understand, I have always believed I was based in Christian values, but I have never considered myself religious, or felt compelled to evangelize or be a preacher.

I also can't help thinking about the fact that before I discovered these parts of the Bible, and saw myself doing these things as it described, I wrote a song called "In the End", and the chorus was "Who am I to say, that my lessons and my sorrows, won't turn out some day, some how, someway... So I'm coming out to play, to turn people into friends, in the end. In the end, it's the road that I must follow, in the end" Remember, I wrote that before I started studying religions.

So, all I have to say about it all is I don't understand the synchronicity at all... I'm just a guy... and I do what I do. I don't want to deny or claim anything.

But it all reminds me of a (ficitious) story of a town where people are acting in cruel and ungodly ways, and the religious leaders got together, and considered things, and at one point, one of them was spoken to by God, and God told him "The messiah is among you". So the brethren tried to figure out who of them was the Messiah. But, when they looked around, they didn't think any of themselves or the others could possibly be the Messiah... so they chose to adopt an attitude that served them and their desire to have people live in a just, moral manner. So they told everyone that, since we are made in God's image, that everyone is the Messiah, and to treat each other as if they were, because you just never know... and so they did, and the world became a good, moral place. Out of free will.

Now, the real purpose of this all was to pass on some interesting info on this book, plagues, Biblical implications... to clear up some misunderstandings and to tell those who I've bugged to answer the question... what is it you're supposed to tell me? I'm sorry if I bothered you. But I'm impatient with all the questions I have, and not knowing what I don't know. I understand wisdom is everywhere, but is there somewhere where there is a greater concentration of it? Or maybe you could just recommend a ton of books I could read. :}

All I really know is that I can be doing something, and come up with a question, and I'll look up, and suddenly the newscaster will be reading a story that answers my question.. or if the sound is turned down, it'll scroll across the bottom of the screen. I'll try to think of some entertainer's name, and it scrolls across the screen... I'll be driving down the road, and actually see the words on ads and billboards that provide info I've been wondering about. And stranger than that, I constantly say things, and the next day, something comes up that makes my random statement relevant. I don't understand it either. I wish I did. What I've concluded is that there's nothing to understand, there's only to listen, be open, to be, and to do. And allow God to direct me. Because everytime I think, let's see if I can predict something, I'm wrong. :}

And if you're one of those people I've bugged... please understand, I'm not trying to do anything... I've accepted you probably don't have a clue what I'm experiencing and that it must seem as strange to you as it does me. I've talked to 3 ministers and they just look at me funny too.

It's just like the guy who thinks he's Jesus... it's a pretty big leap of faith... I don't believe it either. But, just for the sake of arguement, what if he was? What if he was? I always remember my Baptist minister saying "What if Jesus came tomorrow, how would you know, and would you be ready for judgement?" Ya gotta admit, it's an interesting question.

PS: This isn't about overexposure to the news... Einstein said "Truth is in the details" Every article I read and see presents a few more bits of information... I don't listen to the whole stories... just the dynamics and the layers...

11/10 5pm pt -

Interesting how, after my 11/8 comments, that my satellite connection strength is down 5% due to weather, but the transfer rate has tripled. Thanks to whoever for getting off my line.

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