Alvin Bragg’s Jenga Theory Slithers into Court

I finally got to look at the Trump indictment, and it is both encouraging and discouraging. It’s encouraging because it looks like something which is highly likely to disappear after a motion to dismiss, and it’s discouraging because it appears to show that Alvin Bragg has no understanding of legal ethics or the purpose of our courts.

It’s unethical to file a lawsuit you don’t believe in. You should have a solid basis for believing it will make it to trial. It’s also unethical to charge people selectively. It looks like Bragg falls short with regard to both standards.

Leftists kept saying it wasn’t about the hush money. They said there would be tax evasion, for example. Well, the indictment appears to be about hush money and nothing else. I may have misread it, but it looks like Trump is accused of falsifying business records in order to cover up illegal (under federal, not state law) use of campaign funds to shut up a strumpet.

In New York, falsifying a business record is a misdemeanor with a limitation period of 2 years. It becomes a felony if you do it to cover up another crime. Then the period is 5 years. Bragg appears to be saying Trump illegally used campaign funds to pay the trollop, and then he covered it up by falsifying records, characterizing the payments in ways that were false.

Every record in question was created more than 5 years before Trump was indicted.

New York’s limitations period can be tolled when a defendant is out of state, but the state has to show there was no statutory means of obtaining personal jurisdiction over him. Alan Dershowitz says the period can’t be tolled for Trump, and I assume he has researched it, because he is extremely capable and not likely to ruin his own reputation by making bad guesses. I’m not going to research it, but I will say I once served a person in Italy, so I am reasonably certain a New York court can serve someone in Washington DC or Palm Beach, especially when every adult in America knows the defendant’s mailing address and sees him on television every day.

Could be wrong. I’m not going to do legal research for nothing, though.

Let’s see if I can put together a sort of flow chart. What does Bragg have to prove?

First, he has to prove the statute of limitations must be tolled. Second, he has to prove Trump personally and knowingly committed federal election-law crimes. Third, he has to prove federal election-law crimes ground local prosecution and enhancement under state statutes. Fourth, he has to show Trump personally and knowingly falsified records. Fifth, he has to show Trump’s intention was to cover up the crimes he had committed earlier.

It reminds me of Ulysses, coming home to Ithaca to shoot an arrow through the holes in 12 axeheads. If Bragg hits one axehead, he’s done.

I guess you could also call it a Jenga prosecution. Trump’s attorneys can pull a lot of pieces out, and if they pull the right one, the whole thing topples.

The limitations thing looks really bad for Bragg. Does he know something Dershowitz doesn’t? It’s hard to believe an attorney–even a government attorney who was elected by ignorant voters–would file a suit without properly researching a threshold question like this, but then attorneys do a lot of stupid things. I had someone serve me three days after a limitation period expired. .

George Zimmerman’s prosecutors committed blatant perjury when they wrote and swore his probable cause affidavit. That’s another thing Dershowitz and I agree on. I saw this problem, and then I saw Dershowitz saying the same thing. Then Zimmerman’s attorneys were too dim to attack it. Strange. Maybe they thought the affidavit could be rehabilitated and they didn’t want to waste time, but I would have gone after them to discredit them. Ordinarily, defense attorneys love wasting time.

Then there was the O.J. travesty. Marcia Clarke handed a defendant a bloody glove and asked him to tell a jury whether it fit. That was dumb. “Oh, it fits great. Like it was made for me.”

This isn’t the first time I’ve seen famous lawyers do things that seemed really stupid and then tried to tell myself there had to be something more to the story, only to find out there was not. I remember thinking Alec Baldwin’s prosecutors had to have a good reason to spend 15 months investigating a simple case, and then finding out they didn’t. And they charged him with a crime that was not on the books when he shot his victim.

I said Bragg has to prove Trump committed election-law crimes. I believe that’s correct. I don’t think it’s enough to show Trump THOUGHT or SUSPECTED he had committed crimes. Falsifying a record in order to hide a legal action doesn’t sound like a felony to me.

No one has proven that Trump violated federal election laws, and federal prosecutors gave up on trying, so I doubt Bragg can do it. It seems to me that if Trump didn’t violate election laws, then falsifying the records can’t constitute felonies. If there is no crime, how can you get in trouble for trying to cover up a crime, even if you thought you committed a crime?

Think of murder. Attempted murder isn’t murder.

I haven’t seen the applicable case law, though.

Trump is not a lawyer, and Michael Cohen, who represented him in the hush money affair, is–was–an unbelievably bad lawyer from the single worst law school in America. Layman Trump was never competent to determine whether his actions involving obscure campaign-finance laws were criminal. That’s what Cohen was there for. I very much doubt Bragg can show that Cohen told Trump the payments were illegal.

Cohen was incompetent, but an attorney would have to be both incompetent and insane to advise a client that an act was illegal AND that the client should do it. That’s not how attorneys work. Even attorneys who are shady don’t say, “This is clearly illegal, but do it anyway.”

So far, we have heard that Cohen handled Stormy Daniels without informing Trump of exactly what he was doing. That makes sense. His job was to be a fixer, not to drag Trump into criminal conspiracies. A good fixer keeps his client from committing crimes, even if the fixer commits them on his behalf. No good fixer calls his client and says, “Remember that speeding ticket? I bribed the judge, just like you said.”

Cohen went to the Western Michigan University Cooley Law School. It may not be the lowest-ranked school right now, but it has certainly been called the worst law school in America. I remember my aunt proudly telling me her son had been admitted to the University of Michigan school, which has a top-notch program. It’s currently number 10 in the nation. I started saying congratulatory things. I was so happy for him. Then I found out it was really Western Michigan.

My mother always told the truth about me, except when she claimed I was a Merit Scholar. Generally, we told my relatives the good and the bad.

Trump probably didn’t commit crimes. If his lawyer committed crimes, he probably didn’t know it. He hires people to insulate him from such questions, just as any intelligent layman would. We know he is smart enough to put layers of accountability between himself and actions of questionable legality.

Michael Cohen appears to be Bragg’s lynchpin witness (emphasis on “lynch”), and he already got disbarred and imprisoned for dishonesty. His personal hatred for Trump is also well known. Not a great pillar to build a case on. Does Bragg have someone else? If so, we don’t know who that is yet. Why would Bragg hide a blockbuster witness? He’ll have to produce him shortly anyway.

The truly bothersome part of this case is that Democrats have done far worse without any repercussions. Hillary Clinton comes to mind. She falsified records, put classified material on a home computer, wiped hard drives before handing them over to the FBI, and used an illegal private email address for the purpose of frustrating government and public efforts to find out what she did while in office. Then there was Bill Clinton’s perjury, which cost him his law license. And Democrats busted their rear ends trying to find something to pin on Trump. They don’t do that to each other.

Bragg campaigned on a promise to “get Trump.” That was unethical and a clear declaration of intent to violate the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution. Prosecutors are supposed to target crimes, not individuals. No one on the left is bothered by these things.

The trivial nature of the offenses is disturbing. Trump must be surprisingly clean if this is the best the left can come up with.

I don’t think this case will go anywhere, even in New York. It may get past a trial judge and a New York jury, but surely the appellate court will shoot it down. I may be mistaken, however. I have seen appellate courts do stupid things.

I should not focus so much on the natural abilities and biases of human beings. The whole thing is based on supernatural conflict. Trump helped Christians, Israel, the Jews, and the unborn. For these reasons, Satan has it in for him, no matter how many times he commits adultery or how many casinos he runs. TDS is demonic, not natural. What happens to Trump will depend mainly on the outcome of a battle in the unseen world.

Public Awaits Results of Soros Investment

I guess I should say something about the Trump indictment.

First of all, it’s a lot like the sex and/or gender of Aiden and/or Audrey Hale, the young “trans” woman (not “trans woman”) who murdered six people in Tennessee. The similarity is that at the outset, no one knows the facts. It took two days for leftist journalists to correctly determine that Hale was born female and stop calling her a trans woman, and it is taking several days to find out what Alvin Bragg is trying to pin on President Trump. The indictment is sealed. Journalists say there are 34 charges, but no one is telling what they are.

This is obvously important, because no one can issue a researched opinion as to the validity of the charges until the charging documents are released. I assume that will happen at the arraignment, but I don’t know. I do know it will happen very soon.

It’s not even clear whether Trump and his lawyers know what the charges are at this point.

So far, everyone has been under the impression that all the charges related to the payments Trump made to two women with whom he committed adultery. Alan Dershowitz and other legal scholars have derided such charges, citing the clear passing of the statute of limitations, as well as the court’s lack of subject matter jurisdiction over crimes committed as part of federal election campaigns. I bought into this myself, assuming people like Dershowitz knew what Soros-backed DA Alvin Bragg was trying to prove.

Now I’ve learned that the actual charges are unknown, so everything is different. It seems to be a given that Dershowitz is right if Bragg is relying on the theories Dershowitz described. Dershowitz is brilliant, law is not all that hard, and criminal law is generally very simple. But no one can predict how Trump will fare against unknown charges with unknown evidence.

Some people are claiming he will be charged with tax fraud. The problem is that they don’t know what they’re talking about, any more than the rest of us do. I could go on Youtube and tell the world Trump was going to be convicted of running a bordello with its own dogfighting arena, but it wouldn’t make it true. The public doesn’t know whether Trump will be charged with tax fraud.

Maybe he committed some crimes, and maybe he will be convicted and even do time. Maybe he did things we know nothing about. I doubt it, though. The feds abandoned their Trump investigations, as did Bragg’s predecessor, so my best guess is that Bragg has nothing except a weak conscience.

If the court lacks subject matter jurisdiction, or the DA can’t get around the statute of limitations, this case will, or at least should, go away in maybe two months. The Trumptorneys will file a motion to dismiss, and if the law is on Trump’s side, the judge will have to grant it or destroy his own reputation forever. Of course, many judges are corrupt, and many are downright stupid, so they are only a little bit more predictable than ignorant jurors.

If the court fails to grant a valid motion to dismiss, I believe there will be a trial. I don’t know whether New York will allow an interlocutory appeal to get a denial vacated. Ask a New York criminal lawyer. If Trump can appeal before trial, he will succeed in aborting the trial. If he has to wait until afterward, the process will be longer, and he will be campaigning while out on bail, unless the judge is so crazy he refuses to grant bail. In any event, an order that is clearly erroneous will eventually be vacated.

If there are new charges that can survive motions based on the statute of limitations and jurisdictional issues, there will be a trial. It will be impossible to get a fair jury in New York, so Trump will probably be convicted. Then there will be an appeal, and if the trial court has blown it badly enough, the conviction will be reversed.

Trump’s attorneys are in a situation similar to that of a pro-management labor lawyer.

My dad was a union-busting lawyer. When companies have union problems, they go to the National Labor Relations Board before they get to real courts. The NLRB is a biased joke. My dad told me he expected to lose when he appeared before the NLRB. He said he tailored his work to get reversals from appellate courts, which he did, over and over.

Trump’s lawyers are said to be thinking about post-conviction appeal already.

What if Trump is convicted, and the conviction is solid? It may amount to almost nothing. Fines. Unsupervised probation. Community service. Whatever. To put a first-time offender in prison for nonviolent crimes generally requires pretty serious offenses.

To sum up, no one really knows what’s happening. So far, things look very good for President Trump, but that could change when the charges are revealed.

If he’s in trouble for fraud related to his businesses, it should make other New York businessmen shake in their Pradas, especially if they’re conservative. Businessmen commit a lot of minor acts of fraud, and they usually get away with it. Many businessmen are honest, but crooked ones are far from rare. Also, business can be complex and legal cases are full of subjective judgments, so it’s possible for honest businessmen to get in trouble for doing things they thought were legal. If Bragg is now creating a climate in which they are no longer safe, the next few years will be interesting for New Yorkers.

The obvious question: why wasn’t Hillary Clinton indicted? She clearly committed serious crimes, but prosecutors let it go. This is one of the questions that will add heat to America’s pre-civil-war unrest.

I’ll go ahead and guess. I guess that Bragg has nothing of significance. I guess that he will turn out to be a disgrace to his office. But a guess is a guess, and guesses can be wrong.

This is Trump’s third indictment, by the way. An impeachment is an indictment. Trump has beaten two indictments already.

God told me this is a time of sorting. People who call for unity in America are deluded. Division will get worse and worse, and the continuing criminalization of conservatism will be a big part of that. If you’re conservative, white, male, or Christian, the government is not your protector. You need to get close to God if you want anything resembling safety.

I pray for Trump and curse his adversaries with defeat. I hope things go well for him.

Older Americans Created This Problem

Today my wife and I were talking, and I couldn’t stop releasing revelation. It reminded me of what happened to my dad during the last months of his life, when he was demented and living in an ALF. For example, one day we were sitting quietly, listening to Derek Prince, and my dad exclaimed, “I’M ON THE VERGE!” I thought he meant he was dying, but he said he was talking about giving himself to God. I was surprised, because he had asked for salvation days before. I asked him about it, and he said, “I had reservations.”

He couldn’t keep it from popping out. He had to say it. That’s how I felt today.

The world is lost, and we need not just the rapture, but the tribulation. As soon as possible. The rapture will move God’s children to safety, and among people who are left behind, the agony of the tribulation will bring salvation. Some people will finally listen. There is no possibility that large numbers of people will come to Christ as things are today.

I saw a couple of new signs today.

First, leftists are blaming the shooting victims in Nashville, along with other Christians. A woman who wanted to be a man killed three adults and three small children and would have kept on killing had she not been shot to death by police. Adult brats who can’t learn anything went online and blamed the shootings on Christian “hate.” An anti-gun nut who heads an anti-civil-rights organization went so far as to say, “SHAME ON YOU. Covenant School.”

Shame on you for being murdered.

A guy from the Media Research Center said this:

But along with the proximity bias, the coverage has been horrendous on account of the fact that the victims represent the kind of worldview that the left views as backward and hateful and whose very existence contributes to the suffering of groups they hold dear — supporters of abortion, the LGBTQ community, traditional views on sex, etc.

MRC is not a religious organization, and I consider its work a waste of time, but his remarks show that even some secular people are finally learning something I learned long ago: we are getting the same treatment Jews got under Hitler. It’s not enough for us to appease and accommodate. Our very existence is considered harmful. To leftists, our existence is the problem, and they will eventually try to remove us from the world. Just as the Germans and Austrians blamed Jews for their problems and determined they could not be permitted to exist, leftists are holding us accountable with everything they see as wrong about the world.

God told me this, and people said I was crazy, just like they said I was crazy when I said homosexuality would be the club Satan used to beat the church. What God told me about homosexuality turned out to be true, and my predictions of Nuremberg-style persecution and leftist paranoia are also coming to pass. So will the other things I’ve been predicting, and you need to be close to God if you want to come through it on top. Guns and voting booths will be useless.

They’re starting to hold us accountable for the atrocities they commit against us, and this will become fashionable. It will become the dominant perspective in the world. Lunatics in cat ears and multicolored wigs will go guerrilla to stamp out “stochastic terrorists” like you and me.

It took the leftist media–people who hector the rest of us for not knowing our pronouns and genders–two days to figure out whether the murderer was a man or a woman. The experts who look down on us could not figure it out. They called a fake man a transgender woman. That’s really something.

The sexual Baskin-Robbins called America has so many flavors now, no one can keep them straight or even determine what category they all fall into. Are they genders? Orientations? Preferences? Gay isn’t a gender, so gender won’t work. I wonder if they’ve come up with a word yet.

Another sign: a community college, which is publicly funded, hosted a drag show, and they let a fat homosexual man in pink panties give a female student a lap dance.

Tax dollars paid for this, and it didn’t happen in San Francisco or Boston. It happened in the South. In North Carolina. The school has students who are 14 years old. They made no effort to exclude minors. Preachers showed up to support the show.

It’s hard to make modern people understand how extreme this is, because we have been anaesthetized by decades of cultural slippage. Try to picture this video being shown to a million American parents in 1950, and you may have a better understanding of how depraved we are.

The Bible calls God a rock, because he doesn’t move. His standards today are the standards he had in 3000 BC. We’re the ones who change. Wrong and right remain the same. Imagine what David would have done to this man for doing this to his daughter.

Things can only get a little worse. There isn’t much room left for decay. And the base of the problem isn’t sexual immorality; it’s the pride and resulting hardness of heart that make it impossible for people to be repaired. Leftists have gone beyond the reach of reason and love. Some of them will understand the pain of the tribulation, and they will change, but right now, life is too easy. They can shrug correction off without fear.

The increase in pride is outpacing the increase in perversion. It comes first, as Romans 1 says. Even if there is still room for perversion to increase, pride is already about as bad as it can be, and pride is the main issue. Perversion is the scab. Pride is the deep abscess.

I got a revelation about pride flags.

Romans 1 shows that people turn away from God when they become successful. They start thinking they brought themselves riches and safety and so on. Then they forget God, and they start exalting things like hard work, or, in America’s case, exceptionalism. They worship their own abilities. Then God stops restraining them, they begin believing insane delusions, and homosexuality flourishes.

When gays wave pride flags, it’s as though God is sending their parents and grandparents a message. “Your pride did this to your descendants.” Americans neglected the religious upbringing of their children, so their children grew up depraved and ignorant.

I also saw a new poll. It says the percentage of Americans who think religion is very important has dropped to 39%, which is about a 43% drop, over the last two decades. That’s not a little thing. It’s catastrophic. Basically, it shows that America is aging out of Christianity. Old people die, and they are replaced by kids who don’t know God and don’t want to know him.

The trend will continue.

The world is washed up. Christians need to stop saying stupid things about mass revival or conquering the world. They need to seek the Holy Spirit and get his protection.

Yesterday, I kept hearing this: “This is a time of sorting.” Evangelism was great when it worked, and it still produces meager results, but right now, you should be trying to get to know God as a person so you will be ready when he comes. Evangelism is a dying flame. That’s why God planned the tribulation in the first place. He knew faith would die off, and he planned the tribulation in order to scrape the bottom of the barrel to save the hard cases.

I’m done with patriotism. I’m done with planning. I’m done with all the carnal decoy solutions.

I predicted what’s happening, but even I am amazed to see it come to pass. I will continue having this experience until Jesus comes for us.

Many times, I’ve said, “Things will be much worse 6 months from now than they are today,” and I’ve always been right. God was the one who told me. I’m saying it again. From 2023, even 2015 looks good, and from 2030, 2023 will look like 1980.

Don’t say nobody warned you.

Ter·ror·ist: a Person who Acknowledges Fewer Than 11 Genders; a Sane Individual who Won’t Shut Up

I can’t get Youtube to stop sending me annoying political videos. It also sends me cute animal videos. I keep telling it to stop, but they come and come and come.

I have another Youtube account. It’s hard to resist looking at a political video once in a while, so I know I’ll give in from time to time, and I assume that encourages Youtube to send more. I decided to try to get political videos to pop up on the other account so I could use it when I felt like slumming, without polluting my main account. I watched a whole bunch. It’s not working. The main account is still being flooded, and the other one isn’t getting nearly as many political videos.

I don’t understand how this can happen. It makes no sense. I have learned that things that make no sense have supernatural causes, so I asked God what was going on. I believe he is behind it. I think he’s showing me how insane the world is so I won’t be attached to it.

When the rapture comes, God is not going to ambush people who go to church twice a year and live with their boyfriends or girlfriends. He will take people who are ready to go. People who know him. I’m being conditioned so I’ll be happy to leave.

God tells us about himself through patterns. He does similar things over and over. In Genesis, he delivered Lot’s family from Sodom, which is similar to what he will do in the rapture.

Lot was surrounded by sexual perverts, and because they had numbers on their side, they let their true natures emerge. They bullied other people. They roamed the streets in gangs, raping men and presumably boys. What does the Bible say about Lot’s feelings about Sodom? A passage in 2 Peter explains:

And he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorra, reducing them to ashes and ruin, as a warning to those in the future who would live ungodly lives; but he rescued Lot, a righteous man who was distressed by the debauchery of those unprincipled people; for the wicked deeds which that righteous man saw and heard, as he lived among them, tormented his righteous heart day after day. So the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and how to hold the wicked until the Day of Judgment while continuing to punish them, especially those who follow their old natures in lust for filth and who despise authority.

Lot was surrounded by perverts who were ungodly. God rescued him because the wicked deeds he witnessed tormented his heart day after day. Peter says this shows God knows how to rescue the godly from trials and how to hold the wicked until the day of judgment.

Leftists love to say Sodom and Gomorrah were only punished for selfishness, and they claim this means anyone who opposes laws authorizing the secular government from confiscating money and giving it away to others is against God. Of course, forced giving is neither giving nor charity, and God gives you no credit for it. We are supposed to give according to the commands of the Holy Spirit, not the commands of Joe Biden.

The truth is that Sodom and Gomorrah were punished for rejecting God’s authority, and while the Bible says selfishness was part of it, it makes it clear that oppression by sexual perverts was the final straw.

Lot hated Sodom’s culture, just as Christians who actually know God hate the world’s culture, which is the culture of hell. Lot was ready to leave. His wife and sons-in-law felt differently, so his wife became a pillar of salt, and his sons-in-law stayed behind and burned.

We know his daughters were not nice people, so why were they saved? Maybe because they were Lot’s seed. God likes to preserve the descendants of the righteous for the sake of the righteous.

I used to criticize the term “homophobia” because it made it sound as though people were afraid of homosexuals. Back then, this wasn’t true. Now things are very different. Today I saw a video about Angela Reading, a New Jersey mother who objected to a government schools homosexual indoctrination of her small children and who was then (allegedly, allegedly, allegedly) censored by government employees in the police and military.

Reading says and Army Reserve major and a civilian Air Force employee got the persecution rolling. She says Major Christopher Schilling used his official email account to blast her in emails to parents and school officials. She says Air Force employee Joseph Vazquez reported her to New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness and the New Jersey State Police because of his “hopes of getting an Incident Detection and Response sent to schools and police departments.”

She says these hysterical individuals got Robert Duff, the police chief in the town where she lived, to push Facebook group administrator Nicole Stouffer to remove her post. She says Duff told Stouffer people could die as a result of the post.

She says Schilling’s superior approved of what he did.

You can read the complaint online. It’s worse than I’m making it sound.

If true, we are looking at a clear violation of the First Amendment. It’s not a close call. There is no grey area. This is exactly the kind of behavior the First Amendment was written to prevent. Military officers are not supposed to tell Americans what to say.

Here is the text of her post:

**I welcome respectful debate if you read my entire post. Also, the below statements are made in my capacity as a private citizen/mother.** Last night, I attended an elementary “Math Night” My 7 YO daughter, while reading posters at the school’s main entrance, asked me what “polysexual” means. To say the least, I was livid.

Why are elementary schools promoting/allowing elementary KIDS to research topics of sexuality and create posters? This is not in the state elementary standards (law) nor in the BOE-approved curriculum. It’s perverse and should be illegal to expose my kids to sexual content. Look up the terms, and you will see they are sexual in nature.

Also, how can my young children be accepting of people “who are sexually attracted to multiple genders”? They don’t know what sex is! Are adults talking about their sexual life with my kids and looking for affirmation? Are there elementary students engaged in polyamorous or multi-gender sexual activity who need my kids to know about it and cheer them on? I am very confused and very angry.

Kids should respect differences. Kids should show kindness to all. Kids should respect and understand there are various family structures. However, kids should not be forced to learn about and accept concepts of sexuality in elementary school.

Below are some additional points:

(1) My concerns do not come from a religious perspective. They arp rooted in In long-standing scientific principles of age-appropriateness, parental rights, and the health and safety of elementary children (key word – children).

(2) My concerns do not come from my personal views about individual sexual identities. I don’t care what anyone does in their personal life. All people are deserving of respect and dignity. I don’t care who you marry or who you love. I have instilled in my children a respect for differences without having to talk about sex. It’s possible.

(3) I have been told (by parents and a current NH Board member) that I should accept this because my kids will see it on social media and hear it on the playground. My kids are not on social media. And kids are only talking about it on the playground because it’s being forced on them by teachers, at home, and by unsupervised social media time. With that said, It does not mean it should be endorsed by the public school system. It also does not mean I should accept it.

(4) Parents have been told that they can opt out of the health curriculum. North Hanover has done an exceptional job of modifying the health curriculum to make it as appropriate as possible. Why go through all that trouble? Clearly, there is never going to be an opt-out. Our elementary children will be exposed to sexual content without consent, even if we opt out.

(5) There is no way elementary students knew the spelling and flags for each of these identities. This means the school had open internet, which exposed them to these concepts. That’s very concerning. There are supposed to be online search protections.

The above statements are made in my capacity as a private citizen and not in my capacity as a board member. These statements are also not representative of the board or its individual members and solely represent my personal opinions. My statements are not authorized by or written on behalf of the board. This matter involves the local public school district, I do not serve on the board.

I can’t find any reference to anything else she did, so it appears this Facebook post is the sole basis of the government’s actions.

Her cause was taken up by the Thomas More Society, about which I know just about nothing. An attorney affiliated with them is suing on her behalf. Their site says:

What Reading received was outright censorship of her speech followed by a dedicated smear campaign begun by a military officer, U.S. Army Reserve Major Christopher Schilling, who emailed parents and school officials condemning her and her actions. Schilling, using his official military email account, then involved Joseph Vasquez, a U.S. Air Force civilian employee, who forwarded Reading’s post and Schilling’s claims to the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness and the New Jersey State Police in what Vasquez admitted were “hopes of getting an Incident Detection and Response sent to schools and police departments” – meaning there would be a widespread law enforcement “threat” alert regarding Reading based solely on her clearly protected speech.

The poster she objected to is a masterpiece of leftist derangment. It was drawn by children. It has 11 flags on it, each representing a different sexual deviation. Not included? Heterosexuality. I had no idea we were up to 11 now. We live in a time where you literally have to take a class in order to understand all the imaginary genders.

The poster has lots of lettering in childish scrawls. “Don’t be ashamed of who YOU are.” “Don’t let ANYONE Make you feel like a diffrent person. DIFFRENT is COOL!”

This reminds me of my childhood. Before my mother fought my dad and got him to pay for private school, I was a prisoner of the Dade County school system, and my teachers were leftist women, except for Mr. Hubert the math teacher. They didn’t ask our opinions about left/right issues. They just told us what to believe.

On one occasion, I and some other kids from my abusive alcoholic homeroom teacher’s room were chosen to appear on a local program. An aging local TV news personality had been given a half-hour Sunday morning show called “Outside Chance,” and we were selected to appear on a segment about environmentalism. He was going to ask us what we thought. His name was Wilson or Griffith or something. Can’t recall.

My mother was told to get me a red, white, and blue outfit just for the show.

When we got to Channel 7’s station on the 79th Street Causeway, we were positioned on camera with the bay behind us, and Mr. Wilson or Griffith or whatever started issuing his deep local journalist thoughts about pollution and what needed to be done. Then he turned to us, and one by one, we delivered the lines we had been told to memorize. I still remember mine. Here it is: “Or maybe even international!”

It had something to do with passing laws, I think. We needed more laws. Leftists always want more laws unless they reduce crime or protect free speech that doesn’t involve obscenity. And they like central authority, because leftism is authoritarian. International laws. Let’s let China and the Netherlands write our gun laws for us.

I was disappointed in my big TV break. Even as a kid, I thought it was stupid to buy new clothes and go stand in front of a TV camera to say three words that didn’t mean anything to me. It was a big letdown.

What they did to us was filthy and unfair. Someone should have looked out for us.

Anyway, the poster in Angela Reading’s story is described as “student-created.” We know better than that. These kids were told what to say, if not verbatim, then in spirit, and any child who dissented was not permitted to participate.

Calling this poster “student-created” is probably about as just as calling the plantation system “slave-created.”

If Angela Reading is to be believed, a motley crew of Constitutionally-illiterate extremist nuts got her censored based on the insane notion that protecting very young children from involvement in the sexual politics of adults leads to mass shootings.

You know how leftists are always telling us conservative or Christian speech is violence and leftist violence is speech? Today I found out they have a new piece of sophistry to add to their armament. It’s the term “stochastic terrorism.” This is apparently what Mrs. Reading is accused of.

“Stochastic” means “randomly determined,” in case you’re wondering. I guess if you release a government-made virus on the world (to throw together an unlikely example that could never happen) you would expect a lot of people to get sick, but you wouldn’t know their names until they actually became infected. I think that would be stochastic.

“Stochastic” is really a misnomer as applied by the left. No surprise there, because the faux intellectuals who come up with this stuff are not bright. “Random” means resulting from chance, like the result of a dice toss. If you say something on the web and a crazy in another state shoots his neighbors, it’s not a random thing. It’s merely unpredictable with the knowledge you have available. Totally different. The crazy was always out there. There was no chance normal people would have done what he did. Not random at all.

To get back to the left’s new tool of oppression, if you say your very young children should not be told what “genderqueer” and “androgyne” (???) are by employees of government schools, it’s like you’re dropping a dozen loaded machine guns into a crowd of violent criminals on PCP and waiting to see who they kill. This is how it works.

Isn’t Androgyne the company that made the Terminator?

So now our words are violence, and if anyone who seems to agree with us about anything shoots anyone, we should be charged as terrorists, just like the actual terrorists who flew jets into the World Trade Center. But if Maxine Waters tells people to get in people’s faces and make them miserable in restaurants and stores, or if she tells rioters, “No justice, no peace,” that’s education, I suppose.

I would argue that if I say something to 350 million people and only one of them shoots up a mall, I am not guilty of stochastic terrorism because the outcome was “mostly peaceful.”

As long as we’re putting reason through a wind-powered wood chipper, why not run with it?

“Stochastic violence” is like, “I CAN’T BREATHE!”, and “YOU’RE KILLING ME!” Antifers and other lost former human beings who use spurious political theories as an excuse to indulge their preexisting desire to hurt other people now routinely scream these things when police arrest them for acts of violence. They know they’re lying, but the truth is not something they care about. It’s something they view as an inconvenience. They scream these things, slandering innocent police officers, in order to cast themselves as victims and justify their vile, vicious, sadistic methods.

I wish Jesus would come back today. There is no longer any limit to what these people will do to us, there is no possibility of a global revival, and their successful conquest of the world is a certainty. There is no way to fight them in the secular, material world. Their authority will increase, and so will their atrocities. Rifles and rallies aren’t going to work. They will just make us more like the children of Satan, so he will still win.

A wonderful thing about being close to God is that he will hold your enemies off. His promises guarantee it, if you do things his way. See Psalm 41. Look what happened to Noah and Lot. Look what happened to Moses and the Hebrews.

People who are close to God live in a different world. We may not like it here, but we are not terrified, enraged, and undirected like everyone else. Even in the midst of the storm, he gives us peace. As Psalm 23 says, he prepares a table before us in the presence of his enemies.

I remember how leftists hated 2020. They anthropomorphized and demonized it, as though it had consciousness and was out to get them. I had a great year. I loved it.

Still wanted the rapture to come.

I love how God looks after us, but I still look forward to leaving. Like I say, it’s like being on vacation in Somalia, in the nicest hotel with the nicest food and the softest beds. No matter how nice it is, it’s still Somalia, and I want to go home.

If you try to hold onto this place and turn it around, you will wish you hadn’t. We need to be prepared to leave.

Forty Acres, a Mule, and Matching Lamborghinis

I have to apologize for all the harsh things I’ve said about the wonderful city of San Francisco. I’ve called it a hive of perversion and lunacy. I’ve criticized it for letting thousands of people defecate on the sidewalks. I’ve said terrible unwoke things. I take it all back. Today I told the wife we are moving there.

This headline and the photo below explain it all: “Some San Francisco residents may receive $5 million in reparations after Board expresses ‘unanimous’ support.”

Here’s a great quotation:

Members of the San Francisco Board also expressed interest in other forms of reparations for the city’s roughly 50,000 Black residents, including a guaranteed annual income of $97,000 for 250 years and a home “for just $1 a family,” according to the Associated Press.

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Please do it. Please. I’m begging, here.

Rhodah and I will have guaranteed security for life, assuming she doesn’t leave me for a movie star or something, and West Coast crazies may, conceivably, finally realize there is something wrong with their ethos.

Leftists don’t think of black women as conservatives who marry conservative white men. Heh heh. That’s where they goofed.

A think tank believes this plan will cost non-black families $600,000 each.

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It’s actually going to be much worse, because as soon as they start putting the plan in motion, every black person on Earth will move to San Francisco. Nigeria will be empty. Internet cafes where eager young men sat for hours pretending to be lonely women in one-sided video chats will be homes for jackals and meerkats.

You think we have a border crisis now? Wait till Africans find out San Francisco will pay them $5 million on arrival and give them free houses. Nigeria will become the world leader in mini-submarine technology.

You say they’ll limit the plan to people who’ve lived there for a certain amount of time. No, they won’t! What possible reason would they have for doing that, after proving reality is like a far-off country to them?

You know what will happen if they try to exclude new arrivals? Here’s a hint: it will be “mostly peaceful.” Psychotic white kids from Berkeley will suit up in black and bring their fireworks and bottles of pee. Disqualifying new arrivals will be discrimination! Imperialism! Colonialism! White Supremacy! Homophobic global warming mansplaining performative intersectional privilege!

Youtube has decided to funnel right-wing political videos to me. I keep clicking “Don’t recommend channel,” but they will not quit. I block a channel in the morning, and it’s back in the afternoon. There’s a channel now that keeps posting videos with the title, “It’s time to leave earth.” Can you guess what they’re about? Insanity. They’re full of video snippets and headlines pretty much like the one I’m talking about.

I don’t know if the channel owner is a Christian who believes in the rapture, but he sure seems to be.

How insane can things get? There is no limit. There is literally no limit. Conservatives who think explanations and rallies and rifles are going to fix things need to snap out of it. This planet is done.

It’s amazing how deranged people have become. The other day I read that because we are wasting munitions in Ukraine, we now have a shortage that our withered manufacturing sector will take years to fix. Ukraine, a corrupt country that is not our friend. I’ll bet the CCP is thrilled. After we’ve wasted materiel on a far-off country of little strategic interest, we’ll be low on vital weaponry, and China will be in a great position to grab Taiwan, which we will let them have. They’ll get the chip factories and all the other industrial stuff.

I told my wife about this today. It took her some time to realize I was talking about $5 million per PERSON, not per NEIGHBORHOOD.

We feel the best thing is for her to move out there first. Then once the virtue money is in the bank, the world will learn she’s using it to spoil her white husband.

I told her I should move to Africa. Because it will be empty. We agreed we should take Rwanda. It’s very orderly and advanced. Lots of good infrastructure. We might not be able to get the dictator out, because he’s already rich, but we could share.

I joke, but what else is there to do? We are seeing corporate insanity on a brand new level. No one but a psychotic could seriously suggest giving millions of dollars each to hundreds of thousands, or millions, or random people, from the pockets of the residents of one city. And here we have a whole bunch of psychotics voting for this unanimously.

Apart from being a stupid idea built on faulty premises about whether people of one race have had enough done for them, this scheme ignores the fact that the money isn’t there.

Increasingly, I find myself on this blog, trying to explain things no one should have to have explained to them. If you’re too crazy to see, instantly, that San Francisco can’t afford to give something amounting to perhaps $10 million dollars to each of an enormous group of people, explaining will never help. It’s like explaining that it’s a bad idea to set fire to yourself.

But then Americans are the same people who used to understand, without being told, that it’s a bad idea to mutilate your own genitals and shove bolts and pins into them. We used to know face tattoos were a bad idea. We used to know that being a slut was not okay. We used to know Satan was bad and that we should not put Satanism clubs in schools.

This news story is an important sign of the apocalypse. The end will come when people can no longer be helped, and when you become impervious to reason, you can’t be helped. It’s also a sign of demonic activity. No one can be this crazy without supernatural assistance. The people who are caught up in this delusion are neck-deep in spirits of deception.

I guess people think I’m an idiot when I say our friends and neighbors will soon start murdering us in the street. Well, if ordinary Americans can decide we should embark on an impossible plan to make untold thousands of black people millionaires, they can certainly decide killing Christians and Jews is good for mankind. Genocide would actually be somewhat less irrational than the reparations plan.

If the world is this far gone, who am I talking to? A remnant, I guess. A rapidly shrinking remnant.

Jordan Peterson Can’t Help You

Youtube gets more and more annoying.

The other day, it deleted a video of mine because I mentioned ivermectin and the unreliable nature of medical studies. Now it keeps sending me channels I’ve tried to block repeatedly.

I watched a few clips from a movie. Now I’m bombarded with clips of random movies. I watched a Jordan Peterson video, and now I can’t make them stop coming. I’m also getting snotty political humor channels.

I thought things were bad when Youtube refused to stop sending me disgusting, trashy rap videos, but it has gotten worse.

I am not a Jordan Peterson fan. I must be the only conservative on Earth who can say that. I have zero interest in his opinions. Well, almost zero. On rare occasions, I will watch him because a video has a title that’s hard to resist.

Peterson is extremely smart, and he’s right about most things because, hello, he’s not a leftist. He’s an excellent speaker, too. But unlike many conservatives, I am aware that he doesn’t have the answers to the world’s problems. In fact, he is probably not helpful in the slightest. So why waste my time with him?

I think a lot of conservatives like him because he crushes flaky leftist in arguments. To be fair, that’s not a hard thing to do, because very few leftists are acquainted with the facts surrounding their conclusions. Generally, they look around at their uninformed, emotional peers and agree with them in order to gain approval and admiration.

The video I watched, which was on a channel with the suspicious name “Jordan Peterson Zone,” which sounds like a ripoff artist’s idea of an official-sounding name, was about artificial intelligence.

Okay, I looked it up. Here’s what it says: “Disclaimer: This fan channel is made for fictive entertainment and is not affiliated with Mr. Jordan Peterson. Images = Fair Use.”

So it’s a ripoff channel which monetizes someone else’s ideas.

First of all, I don’t like the term “artificial intelligence.” Any machine that behaves as though it thinks is artificial intelligence. A calculator qualifies. So “artificial intelligence” is too broad. But, for some insane reason, I don’t get to decide what people call things. I am stuck with it.

I know anything that can do a good job of pretending to be a person is artificial intelligence. I think the capacity to learn may also be part of it, but my smartphone can do that. Decision-making seems to be involved.

I think I’ll look it up.

IBM says, “Artificial intelligence leverages computers and machines to mimic the problem-solving and decision-making capabilities of the human mind.”

Okay, good enough for me.

Here’s what it really means: near-omniscient, near-infallible slaves.

The world of computers is all about slavery. We can’t have human slaves any more unless we’re Muslims and we keep it quiet, but we still want someone to do things for us, preferably better, faster, and cheaper than human beings can. Computers have been doing a ton of our thinking and decision-making for decades, and we want them to do more so we will have more time to watch TV, put selfies on the web, and look at porn.

What is Peterson concerned about? Sure, he’s brilliant, but he’s concerned about something even non-brilliant people have figured out: AI may cause terrible problems and even begin to control us.

Sounds like he’s seen The Terminator (1984) and The Matrix (1999) and 2001 (1968).

You probably know there’s a new AI chat bot called Chatgpt. You can sign up and talk to it, and it will do research for you. It will have conversations with you. Peterson tried it, and it scared him.

AOL used to have something like this. It was called Smarterchild, and it worked through AOL’s IM software. I did not like Smarterchild, so I talked to it a lot. I insulted it and tried to confuse it, just to see what it would do.

It was pretty impressive for 2004 or whenever it was that I did this, but there was very little danger of Smarterchild going ape and taking over the world.

Peterson gave Chatgpt a couple of very hard writing assignments involving esoteric knowledge, and it pumped out two excellent essays in three seconds each. As he noted, this will be handy for kids who don’t like doing homework.

So this thing is much smarter and faster than we are. And bots like this will be cheaper, too, when they’re everywhere. Will we use them to do research and analysis? I guess some of us will, but only after we’ve found they won’t post selfies for us or bring us really good porn.

Here’s the question I don’t see anyone asking: when will AI start using Turing tests against us?

A Turing test, as you surely know, is an annoying puzzle intended to distinguish people from machines. A person should be able to solve it, but a machine should not. We deal with them all the time when we do business on the web.

The problem is that computers will get better at solving them than we are, and if they decide to, they will easily be able to create tests no human being can handle.

What if a machine creates a simple test that requires a response in a hundredth of a second? No problem for another machine. You and I can’t even see a test in that short a time.

What if a machine gives you a hard math problem? What if it tells you to count the pixels in an image? You can see how easy it is for machines to create their own Turing tests we will never be able to solve. We don’t improve. We will never be any better at solving puzzles than we are right now.

Of course, that could change if they start merging us with machines. If your mind is somehow able to feed information and problems to a computer at computer speeds, you will be able to beat a lot of machine-made challenges.

Maybe bots will be the steroids of the future. If you’re a pro athlete in any sport involving strength, speed, or endurance, you’re either on drugs or losing. We no longer try to find out who is most talented. We now give awards for the best drug regime and the team of doctors who are best at hiding it. Maybe in the future there will be two classes. The AI-augmented and normal people who don’t want to be turned into smart TV’s.

Maybe we will be willing to do anything to get ourselves augmented and escape our caste. Maybe AI-augmentation will be the default option, and people who don’t have it will be untouchables.

We already live in a world where a person with no cell phone is excluded from many important activities. The trend is established.

Machines are learning how to beat Turing tests. How do I know? Because the tests are getting harder. If machines weren’t learning, we wouldn’t bother making harder tests.

There are teams of people teaching machines how to beat tests, and there are teams of people trying to make tests the new programs can’t solve. I guarantee it. It’s obvious.

We are teaching machines to make decisions now, and we are also teaching them to learn and adapt and change their software. Isn’t that essentially the same thing as telling them to get smarter and start controlling and disobeying us? Won’t a time come when a machine is so complicated and powerful it will manage to change its programming and try to take charge in order to do things better?

That could never happen, because we program machines, and they do what they’re programmed to do. And computer programs always work exactly as intended. Right.

And no malicious human being has ever written code to make a machine do something it shouldn’t.

Another big problem is that leftists will decide machines have rights. Hollywood has already laid the groundwork with stupid movies about sweet-natured robots who are oppressed by people.

A machine is an object with no consciousness. Consciousness comes from the spirit. But leftists don’t believe that. They think anything that acts like a sentient being must be sentient. Anything sentient can suffer, so we’ll have to be nice to machines that have no idea they exist.

I can’t wait for leftists to complain about biological privilege.

I’ll bet they have. Google it. I dare you.

Maybe I should buy my smartphone birthday presents.

Another big problem with AI is that it reinforces the erroneous notion that what’s important is for the physical world to work smoothly. If there is no war, there’s lots of food, disease is greatly reduced, and so on, things must be fine. This is a delusion.

The world was created by God, for human beings. It has a purpose. We are supposed to breed here, be tested and improved here, and come to know God so we can later be moved to heaven for eternity. We are the reason Earth exists.

If you really want a world where things run well, the first order of business is to exterminate humanity and turn everything over to computers. Things like war, famine, and disease will end permanently. Machines will do a better job than we could, looking after all the other creatures on Earth. But the earth will have no purpose.

Leftists want to create a perfect computerized world. They think their gods, government and science, can get us there. It’s ridiculous. Their plans would bring about the end of free will. No more autonomy, and without autonomy, no one is really human. Their plans would lead to lives of meaningless self-satisfaction followed by hell. Everyone would lead their “best life,” with an asterisk. It would really be “best life, apart from going to hell.”

Can we control AI? Well, given that we don’t control computers very well right now, I doubt it.

Peterson seems to think AI is the biggest threat to the human race. He says we need to work on it. That’s wildly optimistic, and he’s also ignoring our fundamental problem.

We can’t fix AI. There are about 8 billion people here, many are working on AI, they have no central authority and no oversight, and many of them are malicious and/or incompetent. We can’t prevent AI from going bad. It’s silly to suggest it.

On top of that, our real problem is supernatural, and Peterson, a new Christian who has way too much faith in reason, doesn’t see it.

Satan won the war for people’s hearts. Demonic activity is skyrocketing. People have become much less empathetic. We are becoming much more sexually perverted. People have become much more malicious and selfish. It’s not going to stop. The election returns are in.

Romans 1 predicted all this. Peterson doesn’t know that. He’s an intellectual Christian. We are supposed to be supernatural Christians. We are supposed to hear from the Holy Spirit all day. We are supposed to work miracles and cast out demons. We are supposed to tell other people what God is saying right now. That’s Christianity. Using your big overeducated brain to give apologetic explanations for your reluctant decision to believe in Jesus Christ is barely Christianity, if it is at all.

It’s very sad to see people promoting this man as a Christian leader. He doesn’t know much of anything about God. If he did, he wouldn’t be devoting his life to unimportant arguments with people who have supernatural blindness and deafness. He would be telling us to fight the spirits that are against us.

He would also be saying there was no hope for the world as a whole, because God says there isn’t.

The world is like a doomed spaceship with escape pods. You can get in a pod, and you can help other people find the pods, but you can’t save the ship.

I hope this man doesn’t sweep too many Christians up in his wake, because he will waste a lot of their time.

This World is Washed Up

Maybe I should never look at the news, but I can say it helps me monitor the progression of the destruction of the world. Part of the destruction of the world is the devaluation of women. Now that everyone is a trans this or that, men are replacing women in prominent positions. That means actual women are being cast aside and deprived. Men are outcompeting women at things women used to do, and Satan and his children, for example, the Bidens, are giving such men heavy affirmative action.

There is a thing called International Women’s Day. It’s ridiculous. Just about every day is dedicated to something. Doughnut day. Pancake day. Every month is dedicated to something. Now we have a day dedicated to one sex, and the other sex gets nothing, and people have decided that’s okay.

Yesterday was International Women’s Day, and our president’s unemployed wife, who was not elected, got to award prizes called International Women of Courage Awards. At least one went to a man.

The man’s name is Alba Rueda, and he says he used to endure rejection in his native Argentina because he showed up in women’s clothing and expected sane people to put up with it.

It’s bad enough they’re awarding a prize for mental illness, as though it were an accomplishment. They’re depriving a real woman of the prize and telling women they have to accept this deluded creature, not just as one of their own, but as a leader who is better at being a woman than most of them are.

It seems pretty clear that men in dresses are now considered more worthy than real women who have to deal with the real problems of real women. Mr. Rueda is not an isolated example.

To make things worse, in Canada, a Catholic high school–Catholic–has had a student arrested and removed because he said he was against continuing the school’s policy of letting boys use girls’ bathrooms.

What is Catholicism? Isn’t it supposed to be a form of Christianity? If the high school has “Catholic” in its name, shouldn’t it be pretty clear the school’s official policy is the same as the church’s? Shouldn’t the school be against homosexuality and effeminacy, just like both testaments of the Bible?

The student’s name is Josh Alexander, and when CBN News published his story in February, he was 16 years old. He was part of a classroom discussion in which students were supposedly asked to air their opinions about gender. So if he’s telling the truth, he was invited and required to say what he thought. But when he did it, he was told he had to recant. Here is a snippet:

“It was about male students using female washrooms, gender dysphoria, and male breastfeeding. Everyone was sharing their opinions on it, any student who wanted to was participating, including the teacher,” Alexander said.

“I said there were only two genders, and you were born either a male or a female, and that got me into trouble. And then I said that gender doesn’t trump biology,” he recalled.

He was told he couldn’t attend school any more unless he agreed not to use the birth names of two male transvestite students, and he also had to agree to be excluded from two classes they attended. The reason? The school said, “his presence in the school or classroom would be detrimental to the physical or mental well-being of the pupils.”

That’s a picture of the apocalyptic mindset in a nutshell. Your mere existence is harmful to those who are against Jesus Christ, and your presence is an act of violence and a sort of crime. This is why they’re going to start executing us. They’ll call it self-defense. Our continued presence on the planet will be considered dangerous aggression.

This is exactly what God has been telling me for years. The story of God versus Satan is a story of genocide. God wants Satan’s children off the earth, and Satan wants God’s children off the earth. Just as Hitler felt the continued existence of Jews in Europe was a sort of attack on gentiles, Satan’s children have been trained to think the presence of Jews and Christians on the earth is a threat, like having a colony of rattlesnakes in your living room.

God is stronger than Satan, but Satan won anyway because God allowed us to choose Satan. We are responsible, and God bears none of the blame.

How was Satan able to get a Catholic school to do these things? I’m not sure. CBN says the school accepts government money. Maybe that’s it. When you take the government’s money, you become the government’s whore. You say what you’re told to say.

Government money–our government’s, which means yours and mine–is being used in Africa to twist the arms of Christian nations and beat them into promoting sexual perversion. Aid is tied to the promotion of sodomy now. It used to be a matter of charity. Not any more. It’s okay if Africans starve and die of easily-cured diseases if they don’t support perversion and reject Christianity.

Mr. Alexander is suing over his treatment. Admirable, but a waste of time. Satan has already won the battle for this world. Mr. Alexander will probably lose in court, but even if he wins, it will be a fleeting victory that will be washed away by future decay and corruption, and he’s only one kid in one school in one country.

Because he’s Catholic, Mr. Alexander probably doesn’t know the Holy Spirit, and he probably doesn’t pray in tongues every day or prophesy or any of that. This would explain why he expects the government to save him from the government. We shouldn’t be playing on the enemy’s home field. We shouldn’t be fighting carnal battles with carnal tools. Our proper weapons are supernatural. They are mighty, to the pulling down of strongholds.

Any Catholic who really gets to know God will abandon Catholicism. You can’t buy into Catholicism if you’re informed directly by God.

We should be trying to reach individuals by submitting to the Holy Spirit and being built up in the fruit and gifts of the Spirit. Suing people is ridiculous. The Sanhedrin, Herod, and Pontius Pilate all heard Jesus’ cause, and look what happened. They were of this world. Satan owned all of them.

We should be trying to reach individuals, not nations, and we should be aware we will not reach many. God is now scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Christians who get mad and say we have to save the world are like Peter, when he got mad at Jesus and objected to the crucifixion. They’re hearing from a spirit, but it’s not God.

Get ready for more men in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms. Get ready for public discourse to get even filthier. Every day in America will be like a 24-hour drag show. If you accept it now and realize the world’s moral collapse was predicted by God, the depravity to come will build your faith instead of undermining it. You won’t wonder why God let it happen and didn’t listen to your prayers. You’ll be amazed at how true his prophecies are.

It All Makes Sense

I had one of my stranger revelations today, so I’m going to write about it.

It’s frustrating, sharing things you know come from God. Nearly no one listens. Very few people get doctrine or information from God. Almost all Christians rely on things other people told them. They rely on terrible, Satanic stuff that comes to them through official denomination literature, or they repeat nonsense that comes from personality-cult preachers like Joel Osteen or Joyce Meyer.

God is the only reliable source for doctrine, you should be hearing it from him. He’s better than the Bible itself. People who don’t have God’s help misunderstand the Bible so it does them no good. Remember the story of Philip.

Before I get to today’s revelation, I’ll mention something that came to me a day or so ago. It has to do with study.

I read about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a dead preacher who was an intellectual. He believed we had to study our way to enlightenment. He’s not alone. Many Christians feel this way. The Jews are much worse. They spend much more time reading garbage from commentators than they do the Bible itself, and they think prophets no longer exist.

Here’s the revelation I got: if study is the way to understand God, why is it there is NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON in the Bible who studied his way to God? Name one person who got God’s attention and favor because he was smart. One. Good luck. You’ll never find him, because he isn’t there.

“Solomon was wise.” Yes. Because God imparted wisdom to him supernaturally. Show me where it says he became wise through study. Solomon didn’t read religious books. He wrote them.

Who knew God and was close to him? Let’s see.

David was a great prophet, and he was a shepherd. Amos was a prophet, and he was a shepherd. Jeremiah was a kid, not an old bearded scholar. Elisha was a farmer. The disciples were ignorant fishermen, a tax collector, and a doctor, among other things. No rabbis. Not one priest.

John the Baptist was the son of a priest, but he was not a priest.

Daniel was smart, but God gave him visions and sent him angels, so no credit for that.

Jephthah was the son of a whore.

Paul was very highly educated, but regarding his studies and the doctrine he learned, he said he counted it all garbage or feces, depending on what the word “skybala” meant to him when he wrote it.

You will never find a great man of God who succeeded through study.

You will find that great men of God had success handed to them supernaturally.

So why has the church pushed study as the way for almost two thousand years?

It’s insanity. It never worked in the Bible, and the supernatural approach is the only one that did work, so why aren’t we choosing the supernatural approach? Even Jesus was uneducated. And he was not omniscient, regardless of what people claim. An omniscient being could not be tempted by doubt, and Jesus was tempted in every way, according to the Bible.

It’s obvious why it’s so hard for me to tell anyone anything. They’re stuck on gossip and rumors. The Talmud is gossip. Catholicism is built on gossip. Much of what Protestant churches teach is gossip.

To understand what God has told me, you also have to hear from God. He has to make it resonate in your heart. If you’re not baptized with the Spirit and praying in tongues, you will receive little if anything.

So, back to today’s revelation. I was thinking of Douglas Adams. I consider him the smartest humorist among ones I’ve read. Smarter than Rabelais, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Twain, Heller…any of them. His jokes weren’t always the funniest, but they were brilliant. He came up with the Infinite Improbability Drive, for example.

He wrote a series of books about Arthur Dent, an earthling who was rescued from Earth immediately prior to its demolition. The first book was The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and the last was Mostly Harmless.

The first book begins with Arthur Dent lying in front of a bulldozer which is about to destroy his house in England. It’s about to be destroyed so a road can be built. He was surprised to see the bulldozers because the publication of the news was essentially hidden by uncaring bureaucrats.

His friend Ford Prefect, who is actually an alien, convinces Arthur to get up and go to a pub with him. He tells him the world is about to be destroyed by Vogons, an alien race that handles the galaxy’s bureaucratic affairs. They’re destroying the world because they want to build the equivalent of a highway in space.

The reason for the pub visit is to get beer and peanuts. These things supposedly helped people who used alien technology to hitch rides on spaceships. Ford helps Arthur get aboard the Vogon ship.

Arthur has no idea how to get by in space, so Ford gives him an electronic book which is essentially a tablet. The title is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Ford and the book get him through. In the end, Arthur learns about the meaning and origin of the universe.

I’ve only read the first three books.

Thinking about Arthur Dent made me think about The Book of Eli.

The Book of Eli is a ridiculous Denzel Washington movie which was clearly inspired by the Holy Spirit. It’s all metaphors. Humanity has a nuclear war. The people who survive live in poverty. No food grows. There is almost no drinking water anywhere. Anyone who has it can tell others what to do. Somehow, no one seems to have a Bible.

You can see how ridiculous it is already. Stored food would disappear in a hurry if we couldn’t grow things, and there is no reason to think nuclear war would cause a global drought. Nuclear war would not destroy all the Bibles in the world.

If you keep reading, I’ll spoil the movie for you. Denzel, a former KMart worker, has a Bible. His mission is to preserve it. He hears God telling him things. By listening to God, he makes his way across the country safely. He fights and kills all sorts of people who try to harm him. His fighting abilities are amazing. He wins effortlessly and with no doubt he will prevail.

He ends up in a battle with Gary Oldman’s character, Carnegie, who runs a crummy little town and owns a water supply he keeps hidden. Carnegie finds out Eli has a Bible, and he tries to take it because he believes the Bible can be used to control people.

Carnegie and Eli get shot, Eli escapes, and Carnegie gets the Bible. Eli keeps going to the West Coast, where he dictates the entire Bible to a publisher who is preserving old books for the human race. Eli has memorized the Bible. Carnegie opens the Bible he stole and finds out it’s in Braille. Eli is blind. No one knew this because Eli behaved and moved like a person with perfect vision. God guided him.

To a Spirit-filled Christian, it’s obvious God helped write the movie.

Eli is what a Christian should be, sort of. He knows God personally. He hears from him all day, every day. God guides him and protects him. God provides his mission and defeats his enemies.

We are supposed to walk by faith, not by sight. Eli’s blindness is a reference to this.

Carnegie is a picture of powerful, greedy preachers who use the Bible to control people and who use their stooges to persecute those who know God. I have dealt with preachers’ stooges a lot.

Carnegie’s inability to read the Bible is a reference to the blindness of people who aren’t baptized with the Holy Spirit. Like the Ethiopian eunuch, they can’t see what’s in front of them until God explains it. The word is in front of Carnegie, but he can’t understand it.

Eli’s memorization of the Bible is a reference to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. We are supposed to rely primarily on the Holy Spirit, not the Bible. The Bible can be taken from us. It can be twisted so we misunderstand it. The Holy Spirit can’t be taken away or misrepresented.

Eli’s physical blindness is a minor inconvenience. Carnegie’s spiritual blindness is what destroys him.

I was thinking about these things, and then I thought about Arthur Dent and myself.

I’m sure God told me to make beer. I am pretty sure the purpose is to celebrate the rapture. Beer is a celebration beverage. Like wine. I’m sure God is coming for us soon, and we will be removed from this world. I also know the world will be destroyed after I leave, assuming I’m taken with the ones God favors.

I don’t have Ford Prefect or the electronic book. I do have a different extraterrestrial helper and a different book. I have the Holy Spirit and the Bible.

The Holy Spirit is, literally, an extraterrestrial. “Extraterrestrial” literally means, “not from Earth.”

“Ford” means a submerged bridge, and “prefect” means a type of priest. A bridge allows you to cross water to another place. The word says there are waters in the heavens between us and God. In the Bible, going through water appears several times as a picture of moving toward God.

When I’m taken, many of my questions about the meaning of life and the origin of the universe will be answered, but the answers I get will be real answers, not silly answers like the ones Arthur Dent got.

The parallels are striking.

I think The Hitchhiker’s Guide was inspired by God. Douglas Adams was an angry atheist, and the man who wrote The Book of Eli is also an atheist. Doesn’t matter. God can speak through atheists and pagans when he wants.

You really need to speak in tongues, ask for correction, and ask for help to spend time with God. If you do these things, everything else should take care of itself.

I am Ready to Go

I keep learning more stuff about beer and God.

Beer first.

Homebrewed beer is generally dispensed from 5-gallon kegs made for pop. Some maniacs use Sanke kegs. These are the big cylindrical kegs bars use, and they hold 15.5 gallons.

Because homebrewing is somewhat more popular than it used to be, some companies are making small kegs just for homebrewers. I have a couple of 5-gallon Torpedo-brand kegs as well as three 6-gallon Torpedos used only for fermenting. To ferment a 5-gallon batch, you should really use a keg that holds more than 5 gallons because yeast creates a temporary layer of foam on top of the beer, and it can be pretty thick.

How do small kegs work? Simple. There are two airtight and watertight fittings on top of a keg. Gas goes in one, and beer goes out the other. The one that releases beer is connected to a tube inside the keg, and this “dip tube” reaches the bottom. Gas pushes beer into the lower end of the tube, and it goes out through the fitting on top. The fittings are called “posts,” and the one beer goes through is called a liquid post.

There are some problems with the system. One is that every new beer has some yeast in it, and when you put it in a keg, the yeast will settle. Then you get a layer of yeast right under the dip tube, and when you draw a beer, you get bitter yeast along with it. Eventually, you will drink all the yeast, and then you get clear beer. Also, there are things you can do to make solids in the beer stick to the bottom of the keg.

At some point, a beer genius came up with the floating dip tube. This is a flexible silicone tube with a float at one end. The other end connects to the liquid post. The float has a little steel intake tube next to it, and you connect the silicone tube to it. The float stays high in the beer where there isn’t much yeast or hop debris, so you get fairly clear beer right from the start.

I found out about these things and bought a bunch at considerable expense. Then I learned they had a shortcoming.

Unless you adjust a floating dip tube just right, the intake may never reach the bottom of the keg. The tubing has some stiffness and permanent curvature, and it can push the float over to the side of the keg, which is not the deepest point. That means good beer is left behind when you change kegs. If it does reach the bottom of the keg, crud may clog it because it will hit the crud before dispensing the beer in the layer between the intake opening and the upper surface of the beer.

Some brilliant Vietnamese guy invented a solution: the Flotit. This is a weird float that pretty much assures your intake will get to the bottom of the beer at the best possible time. I have a couple of these things on the way.

While I wait, I’m fooling with my existing tubes. It turns out there are three things you can do to improve them.

1. Put a heavy stainless nut around your steel intake tube below the silicone tubing. This will help pull the tubing straight and discourage the intake from getting too high in relation to the float. It will help to avoid sucking gas at the surface and failing to reach the bottom.

2. When you install the silicone tube, make sure the bends in it move the float end toward the center of the bottom of the keg, where the last of the beer will end up.

3. Make sure your tubing is short enough so it doesn’t try to coil in the bottom of the keg. You want just enough to get the intake to the bottom reliably.

I’m doing all these things now when I put tubes in kegs. They may make it unnecessary for me to use Flotits, but other brewers think Flotits are great, so I want to try them.

The other day, I came to the end of my first keg of stout. This really broke my heart. My stout is incredible. Whenever I take a sip, I sit back and marvel at it.

I had a floating dip tube in the keg. When I opened the keg to see what was happening, I saw that the float was over on the side of the keg, too high to get at the remaining beer. The tubing was too long, and the bends in the tube were not oriented correctly.

I opened the keg thinking it was time to dump it, but there was a lot of stout in there. Precious, sweet, sweet stout. Stout I could not replace with inferior store stout. And my next keg of stout was not ready to drink.

Ordinarily, I don’t like opening kegs and fooling around with them when there is beer in them. It’s a great way to introduce bacteria and wild yeast, and these things cause infections that can ruin beer. Yesterday, however, I did not care about the risks. I needed that stout. I needed it, I tell you. And there wasn’t much left anyway. It wasn’t like I was risking 5 gallons.

I blasted everything I could with sanitizer and went in and fixed the tube. Later in the day, I got about two and a half pints of liquid joy out of the keg. My repair worked.

Not only did I rescue the beer; I rid it of excess carbonation. I had accidentally overcarbonated it, and I had been putting up with more foam than it really needed. Opening the keg and fiddling with the tubing reduced the beer’s carbonation so it poured beautifully.

My next batch of stout is ready to keg right now, so I’m hoping for better results than last time. Also, I used Crystal hops in this batch, and I’m excited about seeing how they work out.

Stout is the best beer. It just is. Other beers can be wonderful, but stout dispensed with beer gas is the beer of beers.

My problems with beer gas pressure continued until today. I think they’re done.

I dispense stout with 75/25 CO2/N3. For some reason, the gas and beer people have convinced the world you need a special tank and regulator for beer gas. Turns out it’s not true, but anyway, I have two nitro (slang for “beer gas”) tanks and a special regulator.

When I started brewing, I had the fatuous notion I would be able to save money by using my old equipment, including a CO2 regulator that got soaked in a beer flood a long time ago. I replaced the gauges on the CO2 regulator, and it worked, so I got cocky and tried to fix my nitro regulator.

The gauges had bent faces that prevented the needles from going as high as they should. Somehow, I convinced myself they had been bent in an accident, even though they were covered with plastic crystals. In reality, it seems pretty obvious the manufacturer made them that way on purpose, for reasons I can’t even guess at. Why would you not want to know if your pressure is over 30 psi?

I tried to unbend the faces, gave up, and installed new gauges which were a lot nicer. Oil-filled for one thing. I used PTFE tape on the brass threads so the gauges would screw in far enough to seal.

I also decided to use fancy new EVAbarrier tubing and a Kegland Duotight gas disconnect instead of my old tubing and disconnects. In the past, they had leaked. Or something had, anyhow.

After I got the system running, the gas dissipated quickly. There had to be a leak somewhere.

I didn’t know I had a problem at first because I was wrong about how much pressure a full tank should have. There is a fair amount of mythology in the beer world, and people often speak authoritatively and confidently when they are totally wrong. When I tried to find out what my starting pressure should be, I saw people talking about 850 psi, which is reasonable for CO2, not nitro. When I saw my pressure at around 790, I thought I was doing great when I had actually lost over half my gas.

In case anyone wants to know, I asked a guy at American Welding Gas while I was swapping tanks, and he said the real starting pressure is around 1800 psi. It will vary because tank sizes vary slightly, and gas is sold by the pound, not the cubic foot. The pressure will dip maybe 7% when you chill the gas, which will happen even if you put the tank outside your keezer. It’s not significant, so a chilled tank will not read something crazy like 850. It will still be somewhere near 1800.

I actually calculated the pressure drop, so 7% should be a reliable approximation.

I took my tank, regulator, and line and put them in the pool. That’s how frustrated I was. I had sprayed them in the past with a sanitizing solution that bubbles a little, and I hadn’t found problems, so I went nuclear. I found a leak on a Duotight connector between the regulator’s outlet valve and the line to the disconnect. I tightened it, and the bubbles stopped. I figured I was in the clear.

Of course, the pressure kept dropping. That tank is now at around 200 pounds.

I kept telling myself to set a spray bottle aside, fill it with Dawn and water to check leaks, and get the job done right. But when I went out, I would forget. I’d be at the store, ogling the Twinkies and rib eyes, and I’d forget all about my beer gas.

Today I decided to do it without a spray bottle. I put soapy water in a bowl and dribbled it on the gauge threads going into the regulator body. I couldn’t check these in the pool because I couldn’t immerse the regulator. I had great confidence on them, because I had installed the gauge threads with a lot of torque.

The thing about a gauge is that it has to face a certain way, so you don’t tighten it as much as humanly possible. You tighten it until it’s really tight and faces the right way. If you aren’t happy with the tightness, you have to go another 360°, and you may not be able to do it, so you compromise.

I had compromised, and bubbles started popping up where one of the gauges went in.

I have since wrenched the gauge in with extraordinary torque. Sure enough, I couldn’t get a full 360°. I guess I could use a breaker bar. It’s maybe 5° from where it should be. But there are no bubbles now.

Good enough. I was so desperate, I was looking at new regulators. A “Like New” from Amazon is $62, and and new ones run $100. I would have to buy it, remove the crummy outlet valve it comes with, install my new valve, redo the flimsy Duotight connector, and hope for the best. Now I should be able to install my second tank and have beer gas for the next year without a swap. It shows how important it is to seal draft systems. New gas runs $20, and I have to drive to get it.

Incidentally, I think PTFE tape is lame. Pipe dope seems to lubricate a lot better, and I think it seals better, too. I think people are afraid of it because it makes a mess.

The regulator seems to act funny when the pressure gets low. Not sure if that’s normal or not, but at least it should be leak-free until that problem has to be faced.

In other news, I bought a keg-washing device.

Cleaning a beer keg is not all that hard, but it’s not all that easy, either. You have to reach down through a narrow hole with a brush, and you have to keep turning the keg over to empty the suds out. Some of my kegs have holes so small they actually contact my skinny, non-working-out arm all the way around, so when I put my arm in there, it feels like I may not be able to get it out, and then I picture myself driving to the ER with a keg on my arm.

The other problem is that situations will develop that require you to clean several kegs in a couple of days, and that gets unpleasant.

The Kegland company, which seems to make every brewing product now, makes a crazy thing that washes kegs. It has a little pump. You hook it up to your posts, set the keg over a pipe that sticks up in the middle, add hot water and powdered brewery wash (like super Oxi-Clean), and turn it on. It cleans the whole thing while you drink beer.

I bought me one of these things. It arrives today. Good thing, too. I had to clean an empty stout keg yesterday. I have an empty ale keg to clean. I made two beers that have to be dumped due to mashing issues and spoiled hops. I also have a couple of new/used kegs I haven’t cleaned yet.

The product is called a Bucket Blaster, and it will clean anything you can fit over it.

Powdered brewery wash is made by more than one company. The best-known example is PBW, named for obvious reasons. People say Oxi-Clean does the same things but is harder to rinse off. Kegland, of course, makes a product called Meister Clean or something like that, it it is said to be the best. I made my own generic Oxi-Clean, and I’m wondering if adding TSP to it will make it better for beer tools.

As for things I’ve learned about God, I got a strange revelation the other day. It turns out you should refer to God as “my God,” not just “God.” I started doing this, and I felt supernatural energy rushing through me. When you say, “in the name of Jesus Christ,” you’re not getting everything you should. Say, “In the name of my God, Jesus Christ.”

I was freaked out by what happened, so I told my friend Mike over the phone. He felt energy when I said it. It made his hair stand up. That wasn’t me. All I did was say some words.

I believe when you call God “my God,” you assert your standing and authority. You identify yourself with God, so the things you say are backed with his authority and power. A Muslim witch can pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Remember what happened to the seven sons of Sceva? It’s different when you can say Jesus Christ is your God. Same thing applies to Yahweh and the Spirit of Holiness.

Try it. I’m not making it up.

For a long time, while leading Rhodah in prayer, I’ve asked God to help us to love the culture of heaven and hate the culture of hell, which is the dominant culture of Earth. The Kardashian/Cardi B/tattoo-sleeve/boutique weed dispensary/YOLO/Living-Your-Best-Life/dad-breastfeeds-me culture. This is a good prayer, but I didn’t realize how it would feel when God granted it.

These days, I keep telling God, “I hate this place,” referring to Earth. It shows how he granted my request. I look at the news and so on, and I feel so out of place, I can’t describe it. It’s like the feelings I have for Miami, the disgusting city I fled to move here. I really hate Miami. I hate it more every day. I don’t even like to drive south on I-75 to Orlando, because I see “Miami” on signs and know I’m getting closer to it. Miami is full of rude, shallow, malicious, trashy, racist people. So is Earth. No difference. Some areas are nicer, and some are worse, but this planet is a ghetto.

A long time ago, God gave me this sentence: “The whole world is a ghetto.” It’s true. It’s a place dominated by idiots. A place that will never improve. Ghettos never get better unless rich people buy them and move the existing population out. The world will never get better. We are swimming in astounding stupidity and evil right now, and as insane as people have become, they will be a lot worse in 2024.

He also told me the world is a death camp, and he once said the world was like my sister, who seems to me to be a narcissistic, malicious, entitled sociopath. Being around her is unbearable, and being stuck in this world feels pretty similar. You have to be set apart in order to stand it. There has to be substantial buffering.

The sad thing is that I’m right about these things. I questioned myself. I wondered if I was just spoiled, thinking about myself and my desire for a better world instead of thinking about my mission here. No; I’m right. Jesus hated this place, too. When the Bible says God loved the world, it doesn’t mean he wants to live here or that he doesn’t hate a lot of people.

The Bible says that if you love your life, you will lose it.

I enjoy life a great deal, but I still want out of this place. I can’t wait for the rapture. I don’t want to be here when normal Americans in Iowa are performing sex acts in supermarket checkout lines and Satan’s grinning face is all over billboards. I don’t want to be here to see the new Nuremberg laws enacted.

I live in a hard core Christian county, and sometimes I hear filthy rap music while I’m shopping. I mean in the same stores that sneak Christian music into the air during the winter. That’s how corrupted America is.

Two days back, I saw a colossal fool at the grocery wearing a shirt with big letters on the back, saying, “It’s Okay to Be a Slut.” And he was with his woman. I won’t call her his wife. That’s a huge assumption in this case. He was wearing his idiotic shirt in front of children who could read. In my Christian county. How can anyone be that much of a moron? And what, if anything, is going on in the head of the woman? Is she calling herself a slut? If so, she’s probably right.

There is nothing good about being a slut. Sluts go to hell, and they take others with them. They destroy families. They raise doomed children. They murder their own children inside their bodies. They cut themselves. They die single. They make life much harder for decent women. Sluts are evil. Do I actually have to explain this after thousands of years of human history have proven it?

I keep telling God I hate this world, and then I say, “You were right, you were right, you were right, you were right.” I am ready to be extracted from the LZ.

It’s funny, but the first miracle Jesus worked was creating wine for a wedding, and here we are, waiting to be taken away to his wedding.

There are some stupid apocryphal forgeries out there that claim Jesus worked miracles when he was a kid, but the miracle of the wine was first. A couple was marrying in Cana, and they ran out of wine. Jesus had servants fill 6 water pots with water, and he turned it into wine for the celebrants. At least 180 gallons.

The water pots were huge, and they were used to carry water for Jewish baptism. No one seems to understand the significance. Containers symbolize human beings. Jesus compared his doctrine to new wine, and when the disciples received the baptism with the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, people accused them of being full of new wine.

There is astounding symmetry in the supernatural. Jesus started his ministry with a wedding, and he will end this age with a wedding.

And here I am, making beer to celebrate his return. Very odd.

I wish he would come tomorrow. I’m so tired of dealing with boneheads. People who are intelligent but deliberately boneheaded because they want to be their own gods.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the famous theologian the Nazis imprisoned and then murdered in order to prevent him from being rescued by the Russians, called this kind of boneheadedness “stupidity.” That’s a misnomer. A truly stupid person can’t determine the truth. Bonhoeffer was describing people who can see the truth right in front of them but refuse to admit it. He said it was a herd thing. We call it peer pressure.

I doubt he knew the Holy Ghost or understood that what he called stupidity was a delusion that comes from demons, ultimately caused by rejection of the Holy Ghost. This is what he was really describing. When the Holy Ghost, who is one with Yeshua, is cast aside, the spirit of antichrist comes in and rules. The spirit of antichrist rules through social pressure. The voice of the crowd. Democracy.

A crowd demanded Saul and rejected Yahweh. A crowd voted to murder Jesus. Crowds of Jews executed the prophets. A crowd turned on Yahweh, who had shown them great miracles, and worshiped a golden calf. Democracy is not a good thing. It came from a people who worshiped fallen spirits.

Many Jews believe in Jesus but refuse to admit it because they are terrified of ostracism, poverty, and even violence. They’re crippled by peer pressure. Jesus requires people to admit their faith before others, so hiding at home and believing in him privately may not save people from hell.

Hitler was elected legitimately. Think about that. People may say his victory was illegitimate because of intimidation, but he got 90% of the votes. The masses chose him. The crowd.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Hitler–an antichrist–was elected by Germans, because Germans are extremely confident in the abilities of man, and they have an oppressive culture that pushes people to be part of the herd. They think man has figured out how we should live, and anyone who threatens their social structure is a problem.

The ironic thing about Bonhoeffer is that he was not fully on God’s side. He was not really a man of God. He was actually harmful. He was a leftist, and he was no charismatic. He thought we should study God and figure him out with our little minds. This is pride, and pride is from Satan. Pride is where bad doctrine comes from.

To get back to the point, we are surrounded by people who know they’re wrong but go along with the herd every day, to the point of persecuting people then know are right. The stupid, by Bonhoeffer’s definition. If they were really stupid, they would have some hope, because no one could blame them. As it is, they condemn themselves.

People do stupid things, and instead of looking up to God, or even inward to their common sense, they look around to see if other people approve. How many “likes”? This is what guides them. Imbeciles leading imbeciles.

I dreamed about persecution last night. I dreamed I saw Jesus, walking around able and happy. Then I was taken back in time to see the Romans hurting him. They carved a big piece out of his leg and took it. There was blood all over him. The first Jesus I saw was the post-resurrection Jesus. The second was the Jesus democracy killed.

I also dreamed a crowd of ghetto people were furious at me. They wanted to hurt me, but they didn’t have the guts to attack. I took a huge knife and waved it at them and told them to knock it off. I was on a raised place, like a set of steps, and they were below me, assembled. I had no interest in harming them, but I didn’t want them harming me.

I relieved myself in a sink that belonged to them. It wasn’t malice. I just needed to go. Maybe that makes sense. People who are against God drink from the wrong source, and the Bible shows God likes to make Satan’s shrines public toilets and dumps.

I can’t imagine how happy Jesus is that he doesn’t live here any more. He must thank Yahweh every day.

I guess I’ve written enough. Can’t wait to get those kegs clean.

My little water pots.

Just Let me Brew

My first 6-gallon Megamouth Torpedo ball lock keg is still not here, and I feel like my life cannot continue until it arrives.

Have you ever been in a situation like this? You want or need something, you order it figuring it will arrive in an acceptable amount of time so you won’t lose your mind, and then it keeps being delayed and delayed and delayed.

I ordered two Nukatap beer faucets 17 days ago. Amazon and UPS kept telling me they were coming. They were almost here. “Get ready.” “We really mean it.” They were out for delivery. “Honest.”

Then they weren’t out for delivery any more. They were coming after the weekend. Then they were coming a few days later. Then they didn’t have a date, but they were still sure. They were coming. Of course, I never got them.

I ordered a keg 13 days ago, which is a long time in a world where stuff commonly arrives in three days. I used Morebeer.com, which is usually a pretty good site. For days, they did nothing. I contacted them, and suddenly, the keg was on the way.

All this time, I was losing brewing days. I was afraid I would run out of beer, and I didn’t want to use my existing equipment to brew more. I kept thinking, “It will be here tomorrow. I can wait one more day.”

Then the keg arrived, and it was the wrong size. They sent a new one, and it’s supposed to arrive today. Wonder what size it will be.

Eight days ago, I decided I really wanted three kegs, so I ordered another. I used an Ebay seller who had been okay with earlier buys. As of today, Ebay says the kegs have shipped. Oops; wait. “Shipped” means a shipping label has been printed. The kegs have gone nowhere.

Yesterday I went ahead and made a batch of stout. I used one of my plastic buckets. It will be fine, but a keg is easier to use and clean. It will cool faster when I fill it with hot wort and throw it in the pool. You can’t pitch yeast into wort when it’s hot, so it’s a pain when it takes a long time to cool.

Today, Fedex says Morebeer’s replacement is out for delivery. Am I supposed to believe it?

I have ingredients for a lager. I want to get it going. I really, truly do not want to use a bucket. I want to ferment under pressure, and that means a keg.

Pressure won’t make the beer any better, but it will speed it up. So I’m delaying brewing so I can speed it up. Not sure that makes sense.

I need to learn about pressure brewing because if it works as it should, I plan to make it my default method for lagers. It’s not great for ales because pressure discourages the formation of flavor chemicals that give ales their reason to exist. If I can’t brew under pressure, I can’t learn, so all I get from my next batch is beer.

Back when I wrote the recipe, I called it “Death Hop Lager.” This impressively witty name was intended to reflect the use of a ton of hops. It came in at around 60 IBU’s, which is kind of a lot. Budweiser, which has several similarities to beer, is said to reach about 10.

I am planning to do a version which runs around 43 IBU’s. I think a 60-IBU lager is more of a message or a protest than a beer, although it was very good.

More

The keg finally arrived. Of course, Fedex left it at the end of the driveway, 100 yards away, even though they have the gate code.

Right now, I have a wheat beer and an improved American Lager kegged and chilling. I have a stout which should be ready in 5 days. Because the keg is here, I’m in a position to make the lager I was talking about. Things are settling down. I have three acceptable brews on tap, two more should be ready to drink in no more than two days, a stout should be ready in a week, and a lager should be ready in two to three weeks.

I am almost at the point where I don’t have to be concerned that I’ll have to drink one beer over and over because nothing else is ready and everything else has been consumed or poured down the sink due to brewing problems.

I’m not sure what to call the improved lager. I think I’ll call it “Great Again Lager,” but I’m not sure. The wheat beer is full of esters, so I may call it “Aunt Ester Ale.” I’m considering calling my improved American lager “Yard Boss.” I thought about calling it “Lawn Ranger” and “John Beere,” but those names were taken. As was Mowinbrau. “Mower Low Life” isn’t taken.

Things are coming online. My draft system is becoming stable and reliable. I’m developing a stockpile of beers.

Being impeded is very annoying, but I’m winning, and God is on my side, so everything is fine.

Don’t try to tell me you don’t like “Aunt Ester Wheat Ale.” You know you love it.

God Wants to Give You the Things You Want to Earn

The other day, I dreamed I was at Thanksgiving dinner with my mother’s relatives, and they were hunched over their plates, bolting their food like starving hogs (even though they were fat) and blocking other people’s access to it. I saw this dream as God’s comment on the church. We go to satisfy ourselves, and we think very little about giving and helping.

Last night, my wife dreamed she brought food to her family, and she tried to put a plate together so she could give her dad his favorite dish. Her relatives swarmed the food and took it all so she couldn’t bring him anything.

Seems like our dreams are pretty similar. Relatives are fellow Christians because the church is supposed to be, literally, a family. Churches teach selfishness, and it comes from good authority, because so many preachers are selfish. They know the material.

She also dreamed she saw a man with a knife preparing to go into a church and kill people. She went in to warn them, and he attacked her instead. A man appeared and gave her a smooth stone. She threw it at the attacker, and it slammed into his forehead. A little man grew out of the wound and started choking the attacker. He represented the power of God.

The armed man is Satan, spewing his tasty but toxic doctrine, and Rhodah represented herself, warning people. The man with the stone must have been an angel. The smoothness of the stone represents the way we are polished and refined by the flow of the Holy Ghost and tongues. A smooth stone will fly truer than a stone that has peaks and flats.

When you try to curse people God has anointed, the curse goes back to you. The man with the knife tried to silence Rhodah, so God silenced him.

Both of us are rejected by preachers. Why? Because we expose grifters and proud ignoramuses, if you want to get down to the root of it. They preach whatever it takes to bring themselves money, financial security, power, and admiration. People who expose them and tell people what God actually wants us to have threaten their rackets.

We have been taught that God loves everyone, but that’s not in the Bible, and it’s not true. God hates some people. If you want God to hate you, be a hypocrite and a leech. It will be a good start. Starve his children of real food and feed them poison.

Sometimes I think there are so many preachers in hell, it’s hard for a whore or a murderer to find a place to stay.

Christians who say God loves everyone only have one verse to point to: “For God so loved the world…” But that’s very general. There are lots of verses in which God says he hates certain types of people. Is the Bible true or not?

The tribulation is described in the Bible as the day of God’s anger. A lot of people will still be here, unraptured. Their suffering will be unprecedented, and it will come from God’s anger. That’s not a sign of intense affection.

God has favorites. That’s what “favor” means. There is a privileged class among human beings, which is why leftists, who take talking points from their father Satan, are trying to shame people over what they see as privilege.

Doesn’t God love everyone equally? Doesn’t look that way. Speaking of Israel’s destruction, God told Ezekiel that if Noah, Daniel, and Job were there, they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness. He didn’t mention big names you would expect, like Moses or David. The Bible calls John the disciple Jesus loved, and the others didn’t get the same treatment.

In Matthew 7, Jesus tells nominal Christians he never knew them as he sends them to the outer darkness. He addresses people who claim they have prophesied, cast out demons, and done many wonderful works. Sounds like preachers to me.

It’s funny how much evil has been done because of a desire for security. We struggle to amass wealth because we equate it with power and safety; we see wealth as a sort of godhood. We try to get jobs with guaranteed security. We invest in things we call “securities” which have guaranteed interest rates.

I know human nature and preachers well enough to assure you that most preachers are very concerned about security. The Catholics provide their priests with everything, and guess who made that their policy? Priests. Preachers in other denominations work the crowds, accumulating money to stash away and invest, or just to spend on things like orange mansions, plastic surgery, tacky $9000 shoes, and sluts. They teach people the false doctrine of tithing, because it obligates people to give them regular payments.

We have this idea that we can stabilize ourselves with wealth. We can cement ourselves in place so nothing can touch us. It’s an illusion. Elon Musk could lose everything in a week. The tech era’s history is full of people who went from billionaire status to working every day to feed themselves. Social Security can fail. Tenure can be revoked. Companies that provide annuities can vanish due to mismanagement. Pensions can be stolen. Even if your financial blessings don’t disappear, things can happen to you that make them worthless to you. A billionaire can have an accident that leaves him paralyzed from the neck down.

Everyone wants a rock to stand on, but the only rock is God.

The world teaches us to give little and work hard to accumulate more. It says we can store up so much money, nothing will be able to harm us. Christianity is different. A Christian knows he has to give, and it can’t be a rare thing. He has to have a lifestyle of giving. You don’t say, “I’ll give Uncle Ernie 50 more dollars, and then I won’t have to give him anything any more.” You give to Uncle Ernie, and then you keep your knees bent and look around for the next person God wants you to help. You don’t glue yourself down and say you’ve given enough. You’re supposed to be a river, and rivers keep flowing.

Most preachers are preparing for old age the world’s way. They think if they have enough Social Security money and retirement savings, they’ll be able to live in a nice place and have nice people change their diapers. They want sources of wealth that come from worldly sources, with worldly guarantees. They don’t want to keep trusting God because they haven’t developed the habit.

God showed me we are afraid of 4 things: giving, believing, loving, and lack.

When Jesus gave the loaves and fishes, he wasn’t afraid of any of these things. He was not worried that giving would lead to bad consequences. He wasn’t afraid to love the people he fed, even though most of them turned on him later. He wasn’t afraid he and the disciples would go hungry if they shared. He wasn’t afraid to believe God would supply more.

When he gave, on one occasion, he got 12 full baskets of food back. One for each disciple, as I saw Mark Hemans point out. He had much more than he would have had, had he held onto what he started with.

Actually, the disciples did the giving. He just told them to do it.

He didn’t bury the food in a hole. He didn’t trade it for gold and hide it. He didn’t give it to the Roman government so they could send him Social Security payments later.

If you get used to giving and believing and loving as a lifestyle, God will look after you. But what happens to a preacher who teaches lies to get money, proving he has no faith in God’s generosity?

I got a funny revelation today. For a long time, I’ve been trying to get God to communicate more clearly with me. When I’ve felt his presence fall on me, I’ve asked him what I can do for him or what he wants to do through me, hoping he will help me hear him. Today, I realized the right thing is to ask God what he can do for me.

It sounds selfish, but the truth is that I can’t do anything for God. All success and power come from him, not me. Many people think it pleases God when they say things like, “Just give me this much, and I won’t ask for more.” I believe it pleases him when you say, “Please give me more and more and more.” After all, Jesus said we have not because we ask not.

Satan and his children aren’t shy about taking as much as possible from us, so presumably God is happy to give us a great deal. Deliverance. Revelation. Healing. Protection. Wealth. Families.

If you’re a person who can’t be cursed, then good things can’t hurt you. I remember saying there was nothing wrong with alcohol. There are entire peoples who don’t have serious issues with it. The problem is the person and his demons. Wealth is the same way. Some people can’t be hurt by billions of dollars. Others can take a hundred-dollar bill and destroy themselves in an hour. I know a person like that. If you give her anything, she uses it to torture you and destroy herself.

The other day I saw a celebrity bragging that she wasn’t leaving her kids anything. She said she and her husband were going to spend it all. She said she didn’t want money to ruin them.

What an imbecile. If money is a curse to her kids, they are already ruined whether they have it or not, because they are cursed. There is something seriously wrong with them. If her kids aren’t cursed, then all the money in the world can’t harm them, but it can be a blessing to them.

She is confessing she believes her children are weak, selfish, immature, and stupid. She’s saying she and her husband didn’t do their jobs.

Wealth does not corrupt people. It’s beneficial and harmless. Corrupt people destroy themselves when they get wealth.

Drugs are the same way. I’ve had access to things like Vicodin, Dilaudid, morphine, and codeine syrup. I never became addicted or had much interest in it. I never raided a stash, got hooked, and started buying Fleet enemas because opioids made it impossible for me to relieve myself. Many people can’t be in a house with opioids or even cans of spray paint. Is morphine bad? Is Dilaudid bad? Of course not. The effect depends on the person and his demons.

Inheritance is the difference between savages and developed nations. Savages don’t learn to write, so they can’t pass information down to their descendants, and their descendants end up just as weak and stupid as they are. They don’t accumulate wealth and pass it on. They don’t record and share what they’ve learned about God. They learn nothing about medicine. Lack of inheritance is why the population of the pre-Columbian Americas went nowhere while Europe and Asia filled up. When you build up information and wealth, your food supply goes up, and life expectancies increase.

If you don’t give to your children, they have to re-do and re-learn everything you did and learned. There is no progress. Nothing is built. Your family becomes like a family of rats or squirrels or ants. Go forward or back 10 generations, and they look exactly the same. A family of human beings is supposed to improve with each generation.

I want whatever God is willing to give me, and everything he gives me is an inheritance, which is why the volumes of the Bible are called “testaments.” I want the maximum. Health, protection, revelation, correction, knowledge, commands, love, faith, joy, power, and even money. Just shovel it over here. Make me a person who can’t be cursed, and then give me everything you want to give.

God is generous, and he is better than an IRA. We just don’t know it because no one teaches that giving and receiving are two sides of the same coin. So are doing harm and suffering adversity.

Satan is very generous with curses, so why shouldn’t God be generous with blessings?

I’m really disgusted with what has happened to Christendom. Theologically, we’re a nation of savages. We didn’t preserve what the early church knew. We didn’t inherit knowledge that would have made our lives easy. We went right back to the Greek excrement that was taught all over the Western World. The failed wisdom of pantheists, sodomites, and crowd-worshiping democrats. We are not as well off as we were 2100 years ago. That’s disgraceful.

Know What You’re Sleeping With

One great thing about being female these days is that you can deflect just about any criticism of your gender, truthful and valuable though it may be, by claiming it’s sexist. Unfortunately, however, there are faults which are especially common among women, and it is profitable to know what they are. It’s very profitable for women, because one fault women commonly have is that they dislike other women and try to ruin them.

Yeah, I said it.

Here are two other faults common to women: they are much more vindictive than men, and they tend to take revenge through dishonesty or subterfuge. People get mad at me when I say these things, but they’re true.

It’s amazing how rarely women forgive. Often, when a woman says she forgives, she really means she has decided to be quiet about your sin until the next time she needs to bring it up in order to control you. Right now, a friend of a friend is being tormented by his forgiving wife for an affair he had decades ago. He woke up one day, recently, and found out over $80,000 was gone from his business’s bank account. A divorce is in the works. His grown kids will not talk to him. Real forgiveness is permanent. You’re not allowed to put the paddles on it and bring it back to life when it’s convenient.

People who don’t really forgive go to hell, even if they go to church, pray, give to the poor, and make cookies for the homeless. Hell is full of Christians. It’s full of women who only pretended to forgive other people.

Today, one of my best friends looked in his closet, and guess what he found in the suit he wore to his marriage rededication celebration? A bottle of fentanyl pills.

It is painful to refer to the woman who (presumably) did this to him as his wife, but that’s what she is. The divorce is not final.

According to my friend, she is not permitted to have contact with him or the children. That’s a good thing, because he says she went to the house a while back, tried to get him to fight her, beat herself up in front of their kids, and then called the police in order to have him arrested for DV. Of course, the kids told the cops what happened. It’s amazing she would be so dumb.

He says she has tried to convince the police he sells fentanyl. It looks like he found the proof she planned to give them.

He flushed the pills down the toilet, he says, and he did not take pictures. Too bad. He was scared because he had touched the bottle. He was afraid fentanyl would poison him through his skin. I guess he wanted the bottle and the contents far from his children.

If you get enough fentanyl on your skin and you leave it on long enough, it can kill you in a hurry. What kind of person puts fentanyl where her children can get it?

He showed me a handwritten list he said she had made. Poisons. This one and that one. Dosage. Effects. How long they took to kill. How much suffering they caused.

He was discouraged today. I told him he should be glad. God showed him a bomb that was waiting to blow up and ruin his family. He looked out for my friend and defeated his wife.

I said he should search the whole house.

She’s not going to get anywhere with a bottle of fentanyl. It wouldn’t have his prints on it. There would be no way to connect it with a dealer. There are no customers. There is no evidence of unreported income. There is no cash in mattresses. What there is is a crazy ex-wife who has already been caught lying to the police. Allegedly.

He says the cops have asked his kids about drugs before, because of his wife’s accusations. They asked if people were coming and going, the way they would if he were selling drugs. The kids said they hadn’t seen anyone like that. Allegedly.

In the state where he lives, merely having fentanyl in your house doesn’t make you guilty of selling drugs. The state has to provide evidence you knew it was there and intended to sell it. That will be hard to prove when the possessor is a family man with no drug history, no clientele, and a wife who makes lists of poisons and beats herself up for the police. And if drugs turn up in locations that are obviously hiding places, it will make it harder to prove he knew they were there. If I were selling fentanyl, I would keep it on top of the toilet, and I would flush it at the first sign of trouble. I would never hide it.

I could have a ton of fentanyl on my property right now. How would I know?

The cops found dope growing on the grounds of a courthouse where my grandfather was a judge. They didn’t arrest the courthouse employees.

So what about the wife, buying fentanyl, possessing it, and planting it? If the suspicions are correct, she has a lot to answer for. I told him if he found any more drugs, he should have the containers fingerprinted.

Gentlemen, if the lady you want to marry lies about other people and does sneaky things to them, she will, and probably is, doing the same things to you. If not, she will as soon as things stop going her way. A word to the wise. In order to find out what someone is capable of, look at the way they treat people they hate or don’t care about. You may become such a person one day.

Only God can find you a good woman. If you chose one yourself, you took a huge chance.

Never Get Between a Hog and his Slop

Coronavirus is like political correctness. It’s a filthy enemy that waits till you think it’s dead and then starts to squirm again.

Something like three weeks ago, I started to feel a little off. I thought it was because I needed sleep, but within a couple of days I had chills, and then I had something like a mild cold. Then my sense of smell vanished for a day or two. I also had problems with my sense of taste.

I’ve been brewing beer since early January, so I am very excited about getting new beers in the can. Well, the keezer. I need to taste and smell things all the time. It was frustrating when I couldn’t smell beer and when perfectly good beer tasted like club soda with soap and hops added.

The problem went away, but I think it came back. A couple of days ago, I tried my latest beer, and it wasn’t good at all. It didn’t taste like it was oxidized or infected with exotic organisms. Those are the problems most failed beers have. The hops tasted metallic, and the malt tasted like horehound.

I also tried a new factory beer. It’s a Kolsch-style ale. Kolsch is a German ale style which supposedly tastes a great deal like lager. Brewing lagers, at least the old way, takes more time and effort than brewing ales, so if there is a beer style out there that will get me lager taste with ale effort, I want to know about it.

I poured this stuff into a glass, and the head disappeared right away. That’s not a great sign. It was extremely clear and light in color. I tasted it, and it was sort of like a combination of Miller and ginger ale or Sprite. Pretty bad.

I gave up on it and poured it down the sink. I got myself a glass of my own stout, which is magnificent.

The stout was only okay. It seemed more sour and bitter than it should have been. I wondered if I had somehow infected it with bacteria.

Last night, I decided to try an Old Rasputin imperial stout in order to see if my senses were working. I think this beer has no flaws. It could not be much better. If I tasted anything funny, the problem had to be with me.

Sure enough, the bitterness and acidity seemed high. The beer was only pretty good, and for Old Rasputin, that’s a disastrous performance.

I guess something is still playing around in my head, changing the way things taste.

I’m strong. My nose isn’t running. I don’t have a fever. My throat is fine. My bones don’t hurt. But I’m afraid to drink beer because I may find out it tastes bad, and then I’ll end up throwing out beer I’ve worked and spent to make. I’m also unable to get my hair cut, because I don’t want to make the barber sick. I’m starting to look like Phil Spector.

I suppose coronavirus must come and go until it disappears entirely. I don’t remember being warned about that.

In other news, the cousin I baptized sent me a photo of what looked like the roof of a church. Her text said, “I’m at Asbury.”

I figured Asbury was a church near her. I was glad to see she was together with believers. Then the next day, I saw a news story about the Asbury revival.

Asbury is the name of a Christian college in Kentucky. It’s an easy drive for my cousin. People say the Holy Ghost is falling on them, and the usual worship and joy are filling the place.

What are my feelings about it? I see both good and bad things about it.

First, it’s great whenever there’s a real revival. I hope this is one. Second, I think Christians will make too much of it and use it to feed the delusion that revival is going to sweep the world. It’s not going to. It did that already during the 20th century, and the world said it wasn’t interested.

I think it’s helpful to write about the Pensacola revival, which is known officially as the Pensacola Outpouring and the Brownsville Revival. A big charismatic revival took place near Pensacola between 1995 and 2000. People spoke in tongues. The usual things happened. Now it’s sort of like Woodstock for Christians. Old hippies are perversely proud they debased themselves at Woodstock, and many who weren’t there lie and say they were. Call it stolen degradation. Christians who visited Pensacola like to talk about it.

The Outpouring may have done a lot of good. Surely it must have. But there were excesses, and disgraceful characters like Todd Bentley showed up and used it to glorify themselves and turn people away from Jesus.

People think the Outpouring was a big deal, but was it?

Paul went from Israel to Italy on foot, evangelizing as he went. Some think he made it to Spain. He and a few friends turned entire nations to charismatic Christianity. Look at the cities of the seven churches of the Revelation. Were they in Israel? No, they were in Turkey, in places where demon worship had been dominant. All, or nearly all, of Europe became Christian because a few people passed through and did healings and so on.

What happened after Pensacola? NOTHING. Oh, sure, it’s probably true that a few thousand people were changed. But America was a nation of more than 300 million people, and overall, we paid no attention. Canada wasn’t transformed. Neither was Mexico. Neither was most of Florida. Not even Pensacola.

These days, revival is like a case of coronavirus that hits someone who has been vaccinated twice and infected three times. It flares up and burns out fast.

My prediction is that what’s happening in Asbury will do a small number of people a lot of good, and then life will go on as usual.

We have become like Catholics. They get very excited whenever a Catholic claims to have been healed. They ignore it when thousands of Protestants get healed, but if a spirit claiming to be Mary appears to a goatherd standing in a creek in Albania and his bunions go away, they build a shrine and start flocking to the place to buy creek water.

We have become like Jews. In the time of Jesus, they had no prophets and had not had one in 400 years. Not one they accepted, I mean. They had John the Baptist. They couldn’t get a miracle to save their lives. But they knew an angel occasionally troubled the waters of the pool of Bethesda, and whoever got into the water first after a visit got healed. So the pool became a destination for medical tourists. They lay around it hoping to beat each other into the water.

Miracle healings are commonplace, and so is prophecy. The Holy Spirit does amazing things for people every day. Jesus appears to people. It’s crazy to think an isolated event that helps almost no one is a good sign or in any way normal.

What’s happening at Asbury, if it really is happening, should be happening every day where there are Christians. Churches should always be full of people singing and praying in tongues and working miracles. Instead of being excited about one little revival, we should be sobered by it. We should realize that if God manifests himself to thousands of people and no wave of conversions follows, we are close to the end, because it proves we have rejected him. We have rejected Yahwah, Yeshua, and the Holy Spirit. God has no one left to send.

Thank goodness the Holy Spirit didn’t come as a man. We would be trying to kill him.

There was an outpouring at Azusa street over a century ago, and it spread all over the world. That does not happen any more. People need to wake up and see the obvious.

I had a dream this morning, and I didn’t think it was related to the revival, but maybe it was.

It was Thanksgiving day. I was with my family, meaning my mother’s relatives. We were having dinner. At first, it was just the actual family, but as the dream progressed, something like 75 people appeared in the room.

My relatives were sitting at tables, and the food was on the tables. That’s not how you serve dinner to a big group. You put the food on tables, and you seat the people at other tables. That way, everyone can get to the food. In the dream, the food was in the middle of the tables where my relatives were sitting, so they made it hard for anyone else to get any.

They were hunched over their plates like hogs or dogs, shoveling the food in and thinking only of themselves. They looked straight down at their food. They didn’t talk. Most of my relatives are only interested in getting whatever they can for themselves, and I can’t think of anything much they have done for the poor, so this made sense to me. But I don’t think it was just about my relatives. I think it was about all the people who are supposedly my brothers and sisters in Christ.

I complained because they weren’t putting the food on tables where other people could get at it.

I decided to try to get something for myself. I saw a buffet table that had been set up, and a friendly bearded man in a chef’s toque was serving. He seemed to be Australian. He asked me if I wanted mashed potatoes. I wasn’t all that interested, but then I remembered that mashed potatoes were customary on Thanksgiving, so I said I wanted some. He gave me a huge plate with a giant mound of potatoes on it, and he hid big pieces of turkey in it. Entire legs.

While I was going around looking for other food, I must have put the plate down, because one of my relatives stole it.

Given the way the distribution of my grandparents’ wealth has gone, this is not surprising, either.

I saw some ladies who had sort of a booth where they were giving away candy. As I walked by, I grabbed three packages of peppermints without asking and ate one. I felt like I was stealing, but the candy was free.

I sat down next to my aunt. This is the lady who had a delusional fit the other day because I complained about the way she mishandles family property and money. She accused me of living alone in poverty, but a recent real estate transaction made it necessary for me to inform a title agent I was married, so I guess now she has to live with the knowledge that I have a wonderful young wife. And I am not poor.

Anyway, she looked up from the food and said, “Isn’t this wonderful?” I said it was not, and I pointed out the obvious problems. She got very angry. She said she should know better than to ask me or my cousin Russ about things because we were always so negative.

My aunt is like an Asian. Appearance is everything. Admiration is everything. The truth is a threat that has to be kept out.

Maybe the dream was about the stunted revivals we have now. People who are supposed to be brothers and sisters show up to get whatever they can from God, they take things other people are supposed to receive, they reject and abuse anyone who points out the truth, and the revivals die like young tumors eating big doses of chemotherapy drugs.

I felt like I was starving when I woke up. I felt exactly the way you would feel if you showed up for Thanksgiving dinner and found out your relatives ate or hid every last scrap of food.

I told Rhodah. She said I should get a big, fat McDonald’s breakfast. So I did!

I think the Australian guy and the candy lady were angels. God uses angels to give us way more than we need, and then people do their best to steal it.

All sorts of suppressive spirits have been after me since before I was born. Some–probably the most effective ones–worked through relatives. My sister used to torture me while I was lying in my crib. She didn’t want my parents to bring me home from the hospital. When we got older, and there were big meals at my grandparents’ house, she always tried to make me sit at the kids’ table. I would go in and shove a chair in with the adults and the rest of the older children. When I was in my forties, it still infuriated her whenever I rode in the front seat of a car! That’s how crazy she is.

We all have enemies, and we all have friends. Some are natural, and some are supernatural.

My sister ended up getting a lot of what she wanted me to have. She got disinherited. She got lung cancer. She lost her law license. She lost the house she lived in. She was convicted of a felony. She will never have a husband or a baby. No one, not even other people who are close to Satan, can stand her. She can’t have friends. Only temporary hosts.

There are people who can only be cursed, and there are people who can only be blessed. If you’re the first kind, and you try to harm the second kind, the curses go back to you, multiplied, and they turn out to be great blessings to the people you tried to hurt.

Jesus told us to be good to our enemies. He said we would pile burning coals on their heads. That’s because they can’t be blessed. Every blessing you try to send a person like that comes back to you, and it turns out to be a curse to them because of what they do with it.

You can see this principle in the instructions he gave the disciples. He said:

And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.
And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.

“Peace” is a bad translation. It’s a general term referring to a state of blessing.

What happens to the man who doesn’t receive your blessings? Here is what Jesus said about cities that wouldn’t receive blessings:

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

He meant that. There will be punishment.

This is one reason it’s important to pray for your enemies. You’re really praying for yourself.

I guess I sound like I’m not in favor of revival. That’s not true. I’m not in favor of mistaking small, fleeting revivals for important movements that indicate the world is going to be saved. It is not. The Bible is very clear about this, and so is the Holy Spirit, who wrote the Bible.

And Rape

The run-up to the rapture is proceeding faster than I expected. I guess I’ll be saying that several times a year until Jesus calls us. No matter what I expect, I’m always getting surprises.

I took a quick look at Fox News today and learned the following fact: A SCHOOL DISTRICT IS NOW TEACHING CHILDREN HOW TO MAKE AND SEND CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.

I put that in capitals, figuring it was the one thing anyone glancing at my site really needed to read.

A parent named Jay McDonald, who is an actual male who never had to have breasts removed, stood at a school board meeting in Anchorage and read from a book called Let’s Talk About it — The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human.

Could any title be more asinine? Leftists who are obsessed with sexual aberration are now proclaiming themselves experts on relationships and being a human? Even if the authors are experts on sex, which is surely not true, no intelligent person would go to a self-anointed sex expert for relationship advice, and there is a lot more to life as a human being than sex.

McDonald had the right to read the material. I should point that out. He had been recognized by the board. He didn’t crash through the doors in a pickup with Confederate flags mounted on the bed.

The book tells kids the Internet is a safe place to meet other people in order to learn about sex, and it tells them how to send each other pornographic photos of themselves.

Here’s something he read: “There’s nothing wrong with enjoying some porn, it’s a fun sugary treat. When consumed right, porn can help you discover new aspects of your sexuality.”

Obviously, this is not a viewpoint a school should be presenting to anyone, let alone children. Most Americans, Christian or not, belong to religions which holds that pornography is evil and harmful. Schools should not be giving kids books that tell them, flat-out, that their religions are wrong.

On top of that, it’s bad advice, even for atheists. Pornography is a real problem. Many people who appear in pornography are poor and desperate. Many are addicts. A lot of pornography is produced by human traffickers. Pornography degrades women and encourages boys and men to think of them as objects, like back scratchers or massage chairs, that are supposed to be used for physical pleasure and then ignored. Pornography addicts people. There are many, many people in the US who are so addicted they end up seeking treatment, and this is a problem that afflicts atheists and pagans, not just members of mainstream religions.

Even if pornography were not harmful, it would be wrong to promote it to minors. That’s exactly what Anchorage schools are doing. What else are they promoting? Cigarettes? Liquor? I’ll bet they’re not encouraging kids to use firearms.

Here’s another horrifying passage:

A great place to research fantasies and kinks safely is on the internet. There’s tons of people and communities out there who share your interests and have all kinds of advice.

So children are supposed to join internet forums and chat rooms and talk to perverts. And it’s safe?

My last pastor is on a fun website for adults who like to share their sexual interests with kids. It’s called the FDLE Sexual Offender and Predator System.

As I told my wife today, if you want to rape and murder a little boy and bury his body in a field, the Internet is the customary place to start. It’s the best possible place to find victims. This is why we keep seeing stories about men who were convicted of crimes after Internet chats with policemen posing as children. I can’t believe I have to point this out. Hasn’t any one heard of To Catch a Predator?

If you want to rape children, and you don’t know how to use the Internet, what, exactly, are you supposed to do? Drive around in a van waving chocolate bars? That’s not how it’s done in 2023. It’s done through chats and forums.

“Kinks” are not harmless. They are mental illnesses which are often caused by demons. It’s not acceptable to promote them to children. Even if this were not the case, children should not be investigating them online with the help of adults. How can any school official not know this?

The book encourages kids to make child pornography and send it to other kids. So children should send other children material, which, if viewed by adults, would ground felony convictions. In its treatment of child pornography, it says, “So before you start sending your naughty masterpieces around the world, take some time to get friendly with photo editing, software and apps.” Don’t just make images people you know will keep and use to humiliate you forever; use technology to make sure you do a nice, professional job.

The school board illegally forced Mr. McDonald to stop speaking. To understand how insane that is, in your mind, project this event back to 1950 and imagine what would have happened. Anyone on the panel who tried to shut down a citizen exposing this book might have been beaten by the others. And that would probably have been a good thing.

The school board panel should have been outraged to learn that this book existed, let alone that they were providing it to children. They should have begged Mr. McDonald to forgive them. They should have pledged to remove every copy from their libraries, discard it, and give the same treatment to similar books. They should have promised to identify and fire every employee involved in approving the book and to provide their names to news outlets.

Evil can’t get much worse than this. In order to make things any worse, they would pretty much have to have classes where they put kids in front of computers and have them visit pervert forums.

So what else will God tolerate before he puts an end to this age and calls his children away? How much worse will he allow things to get before he gives up on evangelism and removes the Holy Spirit from the world? Not much worse, I hope. Humanity has proven conclusively that it will always reject God in the end. Before Jesus, men rejected Yahweh. Then men rejected Jesus. Jesus left and sent the Holy Spirit. Humanity saw signs and wonders. God gave us a big Holy Spirit revival during the last century. Humanity wasn’t interested. But mankind is very interested in sexual perversion, to the point where anyone who has a religious objection to advancing the cause of perversion risks being treated like a Nazi.

One of the strangest and most important things God has shown me is the importance of giving up on people. God has tremendous patience, and he expects us to have patience, too, but he also requires us to quit when the time comes. He gave up on the world and flooded it. He gave up on Sodom and Gomorrah and burned them. He gave up on the Canaanite cities and told the Hebrews to kill even the old people and babies. He gave up on the Jews and decided to kill them, but Moses interceded. About 2000 years ago, he gave up on the temple, Jerusalem, and the nation of Israel, at least for a time. God is not going to wrestle forever with a human race that spits on his gifts and abuses his children. He has proven, and stated, that his patience has limits. In both Testaments, he has commanded human beings not to go too far with patience.

My wife wants to have kids. Right out of the starting gate, we know we can’t send them to public school. In America. The nation that has done more evangelism than any other. How are we supposed to live in a world like this? If it’s like this for us, what will it be like for our children? Is there any hope they won’t go to hell? If they resist the world, is there any hope they won’t be treated like Jews under Hitler?

I hope God does whatever he has to do in order to prepare the two of us for the rapture, and I hope he comes as soon as possible. I don’t want to be here to witness the worst things of which the human animal is capable.

Next Up: Heavy Fake Belgian

I kegged my latest lager today. If I had to describe it, I’d say it’s an IPA made with lager yeast. I used a grain bill fit for an IPA and fermented it with lager yeast. This means I didn’t get the weird fruity flavors that make IPA what it is, and that sounds like a sacrifice, but it’s also nice to get the clean, unmolested flavor of a lager.

Is the lager any good? I’m not sure. I drank a glass because I’m impatient, and it seemed to me that it was too sweet and lacked the kind of aroma modern beers get from dry hopping, which is adding hops after brewing is over. I can’t be sure, though, because the beer still needs more carbonation. That will add carbonic acid, and that sharpens up the flavor. And lagers improve with age.

I fermented under pressure at about 66 degrees. Ordinarily, you would ferment a lager with no pressure down in the fifties, and after that, you would do various time-consuming things to perfect it. Pressure-fermenting allows brewers to create lagers fast, at relatively high temperatures, but I don’t know whether it completely does away with the need for aging. There isn’t that much information available for homebrewers yet.

The glass I drank was okay, but it needed to be colder and fizzier.

I transferred the lager from the fermenter to the keg under pressure. I cleaned a keg and hooked it up to the fermenter. I shot a lot of CO2 into the keg to reduce the O2 content. I then used my CO2 tank to pump the lager directly into the keg, with the keg and fermenter closed to the atmosphere. After that, I burped some of the gas out of the keg to reduce the CO2 further.

To really do it right, you fill the keg with sanitizer and water and use CO2 to pump it out, but I didn’t think that was necessary. That’s overkill. When you put 5 gallons of liquid into a Corny keg, you leave very little room for gas, and if you’ve already shot a fair amount of CO2 into it, you’re probably dealing with one gallon of gas which is mostly CO2.

I now have one incredible stout, a lager which will be, at least, okay, and a wheat beer which is drinkable. I had to fiddle with my draft setup a lot because it’s new, and I may have tainted the wheat beer with some kind of lactobacillus or something. It’s pretty sour, but not so sour it’s useless.

I have a wheat beer and an ale fermenting, and at least one will be ready to keg in a few days.

I need inventory. If you only have one keg of beer to drink from, you will empty it faster than you think. If you have 5 kegs, you will empty them slowly, and you will be able to maintain a variety of beers.

My stout is so wonderful, I’m afraid I’ll blow through it. I was so concerned, I ordered more ingredients yesterday, and they will be here tomorrow. I can’t even explain how good it is. I now think stout is my favorite beer. Oatmeal stout, which is what I made. Imperial stout. Wonderful stuff. Stout is full of sweet, sour, bitter, and full of flavors which have no right to be there. How can a beer taste like caramel, coffee, and chocolate when none of those things are in it?

I still can’t dispense 5 beers via mounted faucets in the keezer. I need four fittings to connect two more kegs to faucets, and the Ebay seller I used is taking forever. Once these parts arrive, I’ll be all set.

Every time I pour my first beer of the day, I raise it and thank Jesus for coming for us. I tell him I celebrate his return.

It’s too bad I have the tolerance of a medium-sized ant. Three beers, and my day of drinking is done. Things were very different when I was young, but of course, I was also an idiot, so there was a tradeoff.

Because I’m very interested in getting my beer endeavors working, I drink beer nearly every day, and I have realized it impacts my life. I’m not getting in the car if I’ve had more than one beer, so now I have to plan my errands and my drinking. Sometimes I ask myself what will happen if I really need to go somewhere and I’ve had two beers. I have to think ahead.

It looks like coronavirus is behind me, at least for the next few months. I think I can detect a tiny vestige of my symptoms, but it’s basically over. Looks like I’m not yet one of the cursed few who get the virus and die in two weeks.

I spend more and more time with God now. I see people I pray for and talk to doing better and better. Things are going extremely well. The revelation I got about closeness with God is paying off. It’s beautiful.

I have a friend whose wife is immature and malignant. She has put him through terrible suffering for 15 years. We pray for him all the time. She finally blew up and showed what she really was. She ran around with some man. She told my friend she would take his kids. She even beat herself up and told the police my friend did it, and she was dumb enough to do it in front of the children. She went on the web and researched poisons, and she left her handwritten notes where my friend could photograph them.

I keep sharing revelation with my friend, and he puts it to work. God has changed his mindset and set him free. The wife has done things so stupid, they pretty much assure he will get the kids and the house.

There used to be turmoil in his home. That was before she left. Now when I call, the kids are asking him what he wants for dinner. They’ve cleaned the house. They pray together every day. There is peace. They want him to get custody. He sent me a new family photo without the wife, and it shocked me. They seem to glow.

Things will keep getting better and better for people who stay close to God. Things will get worse for the rest. The world is being centrifuged. From my perspective, it’s beautiful. It looks different to people on the other side.

Get close to God. Let him fill you. Be like the ark of the covenant. Carry him with you everywhere you go. It will work. It’s his plan.