Dreams Shaping Up

Interesting things have been happening lately.

For a long time, I have been frustrated by an incomprehensible problem: I am a Christian during the day, but in my dreams, that is not always the case. I do things in my dreams which I would not do during the day, without hesitation or remorse, and I don’t do things I would definitely do while awake.

How can things like this happen? You would think I would be the same person, awake or sleeping, but I recall having a dream where I did something I wouldn’t even desire to do while awake. I can’t remember what it was. Something that would hurt other people, like stealing.

Over the years, I’ve had a lot of dreams in which I was a Christian. The problem with behaving like an unbeliever in dreams seems to have been worse over the last year.

Last night, I had a dream where I was tempted by women, and I started to give in. For some reason, I stopped and used my supernatural tools. I commanded my flesh not to be interested, and I probably spoke defeat to the women and spirits that tempted me.

I don’t recall what happened after that. I think it worked. I’m just glad I made the effort instead of reacting like Larry Flynt.

I’ve been praying to God to help me to be a Christian around the clock, so I feel what happened to me was an answer to prayer.

I used to feel that all bets were off while I was asleep, and when situations I enjoyed presented themselves, I made the most of them. I conjured women for pleasure, for example; I made them appear. In retrospect, that seems a little bit like rape.

I have lucid dreams very often, and sometimes I have taken charge and forced things I wanted to materialize. I now realize iniquity is more important than sin. In other words, the inclination to do evil is worse than the sins we commit, so indulging it inwardly is not acceptable. It’s bad to fornicate while you’re awake, it’s bad to concentrate on sex while you’re awake, and it’s bad to sin sexually in your dreams.

Before Jesus, Judaism was more concerned with acts than motivation. God didn’t expect people to change their natures all that much. He only asked them to restrain themselves. Christianity requires us to change so we don’t desire to sin. You can’t do that if you sin internally all the time. It turns you into a whitewashed tomb, which is the term Jesus used for some religious Jews of his time. You will appear clean on the outside, but inside, you will be full of dead men’s bones (the spirits of demons).

I’m relieved to get this change. Spirit-led Christians aren’t like dieters who get “cheat days.” It’s not okay to sin on the weekends after being good all week. It’s not okay to sin in your dreams. You’re supposed to get free of the compulsion to sin, and you should never go back to it, because you open the door to fresh bondage.

We don’t fight demons. We pursue Christianity as though it were Judaism. We rely on effort, which doesn’t work. We think what we do matters, and we believe that what we want to do or obsess on doing means nothing to God. God gave us all sorts of power at the crucifixion, and we reject it. We want to earn his help or simply help ourselves. Ridiculous. If we could do that, why would God allow himself to be tortured to death in order to save us?

Gun people like to say a pistol is a tool you use to fight your way to a rifle. That’s because pistols are very poor weapons compared to rifles. Similarly, effort should only be a crutch you lean on until God gives you the ability to walk in his power. We hold onto effort. It makes us feel holy, like we’ve paid our debts to God. What does God say about our effort? In the Bible, he compares it to used menstrual rags. Hmm.

Imagine giving your son power tools, materials, and all sorts of instruction and then asking him to build a bird house. Then imagine he throws the tools and materials away and brings you not a birdhouse, but a pile of used menstrual rags he made with his bare hands. Will you be pleased? Probably not. But that’s SOP for Christians. It has been for centuries. We persecute anyone who teaches us to let God do things for us.

“Cheap grace!” “Word of faith heresy!” The responses are always the same.

Moses parted the Red Sea using words of faith, and God cursed him for hitting a rock with his staff instead of relying on words. As for cheap grace, what’s cheaper than the life of a cow or sheep? If I sin and I then kill a sheep, who suffers? Not me. It almost seems like the sheep should be the one who gets salvation. And killing a sheep doesn’t help the person you sinnned against.

God would rather have a birdhouse he essentially built for you than the nicest pile of used menstrual rags–created without his help–imaginable. He is not looking to outsource to incompetents. He is looking to make us extensions of himself.

Sorry for being gross, but God chooses his phrases for good reason.

If I could earn anything on my own or impress God with my works, I think I would know about it by now.

Rehab fails most of the time. Medicine fails every day. Self-help programs fail. Every February, most people who resolve to start working out quit going to the gym. We diet and get fat again. It’s very hard to change yourself, and if you change in one area, you will fail in others. Yet we still rely on our own effort.

I am glad I did the right thing in my dream.

In other news, I have been going over things God told me in years past. I have a Word document where I store such things, and I have a wrinkled printout for reference. For some reason, I left it in my laundry room for months. Yesterday I finally got up and dug it out. When I read it, I get power, peace, and revelation. I don’t know why I neglected it.

I’ve been going over it again. I’m always surprised to see the soundness of things I said about God long ago. I always expect to see terrible errors, but that’s very unusual. I’m doing much better now than I was in 2011, but the things I wrote back then still work. That proves they came from the Holy Spirit. I wasn’t relying on my imagination or listening to demons, like the authors of the Talmud, the Pope, or T.D. Jakes.

This is a big relief. One of the things God told me was, “I have built on a rotten foundation.” He was talking about my own efforts that preceded my decision to submit to him. I wasn’t supposed to be a lawyer. I probably wasn’t supposed to be a physicist or a humorist. I traveled down blind ratholes because I didn’t have God’s guidance. A lot of me has been wasted. At least I wasn’t wrong when I started writing God’s revelations down. Years later, that foundation is holding up.

The Bible uses “sand” to mean the ideas and ways of men. It uses “rock” to mean the ideas and ways of God. It uses “water,” including rain, to symbolize words and voices. The Bible says God’s voice is like many waters.

When you try to find your own way, you build on sand. Then the waters come from people and spirits, and your work washes away. When you listen to God, you build on rock, and nothing can move you.

To the extent that I have been listening to God and trying to comply, I have been building on rock. I haven’t had to go back to my list and cross things out.

Christians are generally weak. Can’t get a word from God. Can’t get a healing. Can’t get financial help. Can’t beat their enemies. Can’t cast out a demon. They play a game of rules instead of getting in touch with God and listening to him.

In the future, when harder times come, the rule-lovers will be unarmed. They will be like cities without walls. Sadly, many of them will be so in love with pride and martyrdom, they won’t have much desire to change.

It’s fine to die as a martyr when God is in favor of it. It’s a victory. Doing it because of pride is ridiculous and wasteful. It’s a defeat and a disgrace.

God wants to tell you things directly. He doesn’t want you to have to wait for a traveling preacher to arrive in order for you to be healed or to receive prophecy. You don’t have to be ordained. You don’t need a church building. You don’t need a giant hat with jewels all over it. If those things mattered, the Pope wouldn’t be a powerless socialist who spreads nonsense and fights God’s children.

God wants you, not the special people on TV. He wants billions of prophets. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you’ve done. He wants every one of us, close to him, like Jesus. He doesn’t want to have to send you messages through other people.

God’s organization isn’t a pyramid. It’s a line, with one level above it. There is God, and on the next level, there are all of us. God doesn’t need to delegate responsibility. He doesn’t need 5 or 6 generals who talk to 30 or 40 colonels who talk to 90 or 100 majors. We’re all supposed to be generals. There are no privates. The Bible says we should be like Christ, not Gomer Pyle. People on TV don’t outrank you. There are people living in trailers who have more power and authority than Joel Osteen will ever have.

If you have to go to church or pay to see a special preacher in order to hear from God, receive help, or get healed, something is very wrong. God is not a respecter of persons. He has no VIP room. We’re supposed to talk to him directly all the time. We don’t have to make appointments with Mary or the so-called “saints.” We don’t have to pay Benny Hinn to ask him for favors for us.

Satan passes power out liberally. He sends lowly, revolting spirits out with the power to make us ill, bend our thoughts, cause accidents, and so on. He gives impoverished people in ghettos and backward nations the power to cast spells and conjure spirits. Yet somehow we think God only works through celebrity preachers and religious bigwigs. Is Satan a more effective manager than God?

The big difference is that Satan’s followers don’t reject his power and persecute everyone who tries to distribute it.

People aren’t listening. Pride tastes like prime steak. Charity tastes like sawdust.

I look forward to whatever God tells me next. There is nothing like revelation that works.

Tweeting President Opens Embassy in Jerusalem

Trump continues to amaze.

God gave Israel (much bigger than the Israel we know today) to Abraham, and through Abraham and Isaac, he gave it to Jacob. Israel is Jacob’s name. He was named Jacob at birth, but God changed his name later. The Jews are his descendants. Abraham and Isaac gave rise to nations that were not Jewish. Israel did not.

Jerusalem is well within God’s original grant. It is the ancient capital of Israel. The Muslims became attached to it long after God gave it to the Jews. The Koran mentions a mosque Mohammed visited in a dream. It doesn’t name the location. Muslims decided the location was Jerusalem, and they built the Al-Aqsa mosque there, on Judaism’s holiest site.

The Muslims have a thing about taking other people’s real estate and putting mosques on it. It’s a way of marking territory.

The Bible contains a prophecy about restoring Israel in a day. Scoffers thought it was tripe, but on May 14 (today’s date) in 1948, it happened. The UN voted to give Israel to the Jews so they would have a nation and a refuge. Here is the prophecy, in Isaiah 66:8:

Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

The nations of the world have been reluctant to acknowledge Jerusalem because they don’t want to increase the price they pay for oil, and of course, they fear Muslim terrorism. Israel has gone along with this in order to have peace. They put ambassadors and embassies in Tel Aviv, and they allow Muslims to control their holiest site. Jews are not allowed to go there and pray. I can go there and pray, and so can Muslims. Not Jews. They stand outside the Western Wall, which is part of the temple’s foundation.

The Jews have wanted Jerusalem back for a long time. The restoration of Jerusalem and the temple is a recurring theme in the Bible. It’s even in the Revelation. Israelis celebrate a holiday called Jerusalem Day, to commemorate the recovery of Jerusalem from the Muslims after the Six-Day War in 1967. It also commemorates restoration of Jewish access to the Western Wall. Jerusalem Day is marked by the Jewish calendar, so the Gregorian date varies. It starts on the night of Iyar 28. This year, it came on the days of May 12 and 13.

Past American presidents have been too timid to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but now we have Donald Trump, the honey badger of presidents. When he was running for president, he said he would move our embassy to Jerusalem. Being Trump, he tries to keep his promises; he doesn’t know any better! He did what he said he would do.

Our embassy in Jerusalem opened today. It opened during a short period including the sabbath, Jerusalem Day, and the Gregorian anniversary of the reestablishment of Israel. Trump didn’t visit, which seems a shame, but he sent his Jewish daughter and son-in-law. Perhaps that’s appropriate. Israel belongs to Jews, not Christians.

Prophecy watchers must be scrambling to make sense of all this.

Many Christians believe Jesus will come back within 70 years of the reestablishment of Israel. On the Gregorian calendar, that would be today. On the Jewish calendar, the date (Iyar 5) has already passed.

In the book of Matthew, Jesus spoke of a fig tree, believed to represent Israel. Regarding his return and the end of the age, he said, “Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.” People take this to mean that the generation that saw Israel’s rebirth would not pass until Jesus returned.

Prophecy students believe that in the Bible, “generation” means 70 years. For this reason, many have concluded that Jesus has to return within 70 years of May 14, 1948. The problem with this interpretation is that he didn’t say he would come back within a generation. He said he would come back before the generation passed. A human being can live to be 120. Maybe longer, as we continue to pervert medical science. The generation that saw the rebirth of Israel should be here until at least 2068.

If he returns tomorrow, fantastic. I don’t think it will happen, though. I believe the rapture comes first, and I think I’m right about the generation math.

Trump does momentous things. He brought North Korea to the bargaining table (probably with the help of the unexpected collapse of their bomb-testing site), and now he has made the first real step toward restoring Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Love him or hate him, he gets stuff done. Can anyone seriously say God isn’t behind him? Obama traveled the world apologizing for America, and he accomplished very little, apart from increasing the burden of American socialism. Trump advocates for America, as an American president should, and his achievements keep piling up.

One wonders what Jews are saying. American Jews hate Trump. They always vote against their friends and appease their enemies. The Jews are the most suicidal race in history. They adore Obama, and he was a huge enemy of Israel. Now Trump has done something many Israeli Jews wanted to see. Will he get credit? Will American Jews start supporting him? No. Of course not. They will look for ways to discredit him. That’s a given. If Moses came down and put his arm around Trump and endorsed him, most American Jews would curse Moses and say he was an impostor.

Trump is catching it for having an evangelical preacher speak at the embassy opening. Papers say he sent a man who says Jews go to hell. Can we be honest? All Christians believe unbelievers go to hell. Jesus said it. I believe it. Are we no longer allowed to pray for the Jews or help them?

Muslim clerics believe all non-Muslims (and many Muslims) go to hell. Hard core Catholics believe Christians who are not Catholic (me, for example) go to hell. Jews believe Christian sinners go to hell. Can we get over it, please? Religions have different beliefs. Is this news? You don’t have to hate someone in order to think they’re going to hell.

I suspect that if the Muslims gave Jerusalem back, liberal Jews would be happy to let Muslim clerics speak at related ceremonies, even though Muslim clerics think Jews are going to hell AND should be exterminated. They believe all non-Muslims should be second-class citizens living under oppressive laws and special taxes. Is it really that big a deal if a man who rejects Judaism yet supports Israel speaks at these events?

Not unless you have Trump Derangement Syndrome.

I wonder if liberal Jews excoriated Cyrus for his idolatry when he decreed that the temple would be rebuilt.

There are some good deeds you have to do with no expectation of gratitude. There are good deeds you have to do in spite of a firm expectation of persecution. That’s life. I hope the Jews get all of Israel back ASAP, regardless of what some Jews may say about Jesus. I don’t have to be angry at people who don’t like Jesus. He can take care of himself. And it’s his will that Israel be restored.

Jews in Israel don’t always agree with American Jews (thank God), and they seem to like Trump a lot better. A big Israeli soccer team just put “Trump” in its name. A liberal Jew wrote a piece for an Israeli news site, trying to turn Jews against Trump and claiming he moved the embassy to please Christians. Go look at the irate comments from Israelis. One of them calls American Jews “JINO’s,” or “Jews in Name Only.”

A December poll said 65% of Israeli Jews thought Trump’s decision was good for Israel. Another poll showed that a plurality of Israeli Jews would prefer to see Hillary in office even though those polled thought Trump was better for Israel! Liberal bias dies hard.

I don’t know what will happen. I do know that when Cyrus dispatched Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem, the non-Jews who lived there took up arms against the Jews. There is nothing new under the sun. Arabs are already attacking Israeli troops, and maybe a new war will start. I don’t think that will happen, because Israel’s enemies are scared of Israel. If they had the guts to start a war, they would be doing it already. They wouldn’t wait for new provocations.

Maybe we’ll see more rioting and terror inside Israel.

One day Jews will start building the temple, and the mosques that are in the way will be taken apart and dumped in the desert. That will be a great thing to watch. Sooner or later, the trampling of Israel will end. God has never forgotten Jacob’s children.

I wonder what Trump will do next. I never thought I’d live to see a president who does so much.

“We’re From the Government, and we Want to Help”

I don’t read the news all that much these days, so sometimes I’ll read a story that interests me, and I won’t be aware of other stories related to it. Last month, I wrote about a story that said online DNA-testing companies were supplying information to law enforcement, but I glossed over the bit about the Golden State Killer.

Who is the Golden State Killer? You probably already know, if you are doing a better job keeping up with the news than I am. He’s a serial killer, serial rapist, and career burglar. Decades ago, he terrorized California.

Here’s what happened to him, or at least to the man the cops think is him. He’s an old man now. He was in his house cooking dinner. The police came in and dragged him away. The basis for the arrest: DNA his relatives sent to testing companies appeared to be related to DNA found at one of the crime scenes.

That’s amazing. This guy didn’t have a DNA test. He minded his own business and laid low, and the cops found him anyway because people who were related to him had THEIR genetic material tested. They used a company which makes results available to the public. Can you believe anyone would go for that?

What this means is that law enforcement may have genetic information about you, even though you’re a prepper or a Jesus freak who would never send DNA to a testing service. When I say they “have” the material, I mean someone else is maintaining the records, but they roll over and hand it to the cops so easily, it’s as if the cops themselves have it.

It’s a fascinating development. Only DNA works this way. The cops can’t tell anything about your bank account by looking at your sister’s account. They can’t tell where you live by looking up your aunt’s address. It’s only in the realm of genetics that personal information about your relatives equals personal information about you. And you can’t do anything about it. You can’t resist a subpoena. You can’t block the testing, the way you can refuse to provide your own DNA. You’re stuck. Exposed. You have no recourse whatsoever.

It’s obvious that I’m not happy about it. Here’s what people will say: “You want to protect serial killers and rapists!”

There are a couple of responses to that.

Here is one response: the framers of the Constitution, our legislatures, our courts, many of our corporations, our schools, and our police protect serial killers and rapists. It’s how America was designed. The framers thought it was better to protect criminals than to subject us to things like at-will searches. Our law enforcement agencies apply the policies of the framers every day. Banks, universities, hospitals, employers, and so on refuse to hand over private information unless they have no choice. Protecting criminals isn’t a new idea I just came up with.

Here’s another response: do you really want to go through life naked, even if it means we arrest more criminals? We’re starting to resemble the Borg. One mind, no privacy, no freedom…it would appear to make the existence of the individual completely pointless, apart from his contribution to the unfeeling colonial organism known as the state.

I’ll give you what I think is the typical answer to my question: yes. Most people would be happy to give up all privacy. Most people don’t know what their rights are and don’t care. Fill their food troughs every day and give them big-screen TV’s, and they will serve you.

One of the big myths about America is that our people love liberty. If that were true, we wouldn’t support socialist politicians. We wouldn’t be so quick to demand that the government regulate our behavior. Whenever something bad happens, news reporters put microphones in the faces of ignorant people, and the ignorant people say we need new laws.

Right now, you can’t sell a hamburger in the United States without putting the calorie count on the menu. That’s because of a law Obama pushed for. Telling people how many calories they’re eating is a great idea. Fast food joints should do it in order to make customers happy. But do we really need to have Congress force them to do it? Should we be threatening people with fines and God knows what else?

Americans generally don’t ask themselves whether laws are the best way to address problems. They assume it’s true, because they don’t care about freedom.

The other day I was talking to someone about this, and I suddenly understood why it was successful men that put this country together and drafted the Constitution. They were more educated than the rest of America. They understood the importance of freedom. Because they had money, they knew how hard it was to gain wealth, and they knew what it was to have something to lose. They understood that there is no freedom without capitalism and private property.

If servants and slaves had written the Constitution, it would have looked completely different. It would have looked like the Democrat platform. “Free” money for everyone. High taxes on people who create wealth. Lots of searches and seizures to make sure the evil “haves” paid what they owed. America would never have become a powerful nation. We would have been a weak, ridiculous country like Mexico or Honduras.

We used to have mainly capitalist immigrants. Boy, has that changed. Now we have a certain number of immigrants, but mainly, we have invaders who come illegally. They show up and start looking for welfare offices. They come across the border pregnant so they can force us to pay for their deliveries and coerce us into giving citizenship to their babies. We don’t get to check their criminal backgrounds. We don’t get to ask if they have money, education, or skills. We’re importing hordes of people who want to impose socialism on us.

We are moving toward a future in which rights are not sufficiently important to us to keep our system going. Statists care about unimportant rights, like the rights to smoke weed, engage in various sexual perversions, and have “slut walks,” but the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments mean nothing to them. America is filling up with ignorant, gullible, arrogant flakes who spend their time thinking about things like Snapchat and the Kardashians. They get their political opinions, which are nothing more than sound bites, from trashy, poorly educated entertainers. They are too stupid to protect themselves from tyranny.

Here’s what I think will happen, either not long before or soon after the rapture. We will have a big DNA database, and everyone will be in it. Social media will be compulsory. The Fourth Amendment will be repealed or whittled down to nothing by legislation and court opinions. The Second Amendment will go away. Government agents will be able to enter our homes and look at all our records at will. Almost all transportation will take place in self-driving vehicles which are tracked around the clock.

I don’t know whether we will be microchipped, but if we’re not, the government will have other ways to track us, with identification, 24 hours a day. They’re already doing it with our phones. The information is collected and stored by private companies, but Uncle Sam can get it.

The destruction of freedom will be wonderful, as far as the ignorant are concerned. Crime will barely exist. Our streets will be safe. Everyone will be vaccinated. Poverty will be greatly reduced. Traffic accidents will be rare. Things will look great on the surface, and most people will be content. This will be disastrous.

The disaster will be that human beings will think they’ve eliminated the need for God and obedience. We’ll be a big colonial organism that seems to do very well without divine help. We’ll have no dignity, but that’s okay, because human beings don’t really care about dignity as long as they get fed. Oppressive regimes aren’t always unpopular. Sometimes they have overwhelming support from the people. I believe that’s how it will be after we cut God out of the picture.

Christians and Jews will not be factors. We will be seen as infectious agents of discord. “The cause of all the world’s problems.” In the eyes of the somnolent sheep of the Beast, exterminating us will be like killing zombies who carry the plague. God will pull Christians out of the world, because leaving us here will no longer serve any purpose.

Once we’re gone, all hell will break loose, literally. Misery and pain will be everywhere, because the presence of believers is what restrains Satan and prevents God from releasing his wrath.

The Beast may be a man, but he will also be the hive-mind populace, which obeys him in a feeble parody of the body of Christ. The world will be united against God. Mankind will be like a tower of Babel built from human flesh. People themselves will fight God openly. Spirits will have convinced them they can win.

I enjoy the toys of Satan. I enjoy the information age. I like computer programs and the Internet. I like depositing checks using my cell phone, instead of driving to the bank. I’m not blind, though. We’re seeing the beginnings of a technological Goliath with 10 billion brains, held together and coordinated by the Internet.

Tech experts are very stupid. Perhaps “stupid” is the wrong word. They are not perceptive. They have very little insight. They have a very poor record of predicting how the world will react to technology.

No one understood how the Internet would change us in 1995. No one understood how smartphones would change us in 2005. Today, no one understands how total connectivity, including the Internet of Things, will change us.

We can’t resist candy and shiny things. I’m not descended from a monkey, but maybe my flesh is. Unsupervised, it thinks and acts like a monkey. I’m not my flesh, and through the Holy Spirit, God is giving me control over it. Most people are not heavily influenced by the Holy Spirit, and they don’t want to be. The monkey runs things, and spirits that hate humanity control the monkey. We grab at the pretty toys technology offers us, and we are too dumb to understand the cost.

Arthur Koestler compared the growth of the human forebrain, over centuries, to the growth of a tumor in a body. He said our mental abilities had grown, while our character had not. Basically, we have the same urges crocodiles have, controlling powerful human intelligence. He was wrong about evolution, but he was right about our problem. We are smart enough to get ourselves in trouble with technology, and we are too evil to fix the trouble.

Look at the nuclear arms race. Disarmament has never been possible, because there will always be a few countries that resist in order to gain an advantage, and they force the others to stay armed. Think of the danger we face. We can vaporize hundreds of cities, plus the ground under them, and the threat, which couldn’t be any worse, isn’t sufficient motivation for us to do the right thing.

Socialism sounds great on paper, but it doesn’t work, and the reason is human nature. People will not work hard if they’re not rewarded. Socialists are lazy, weak, and unproductive. Capitalism works because it harnesses self-interest. Capitalists work hard because they are compensated for it. Socialism would be wonderful, if we were good. We wouldn’t mind doing our best and seeing other people get the rewards. It will never happen, because we can’t change. A world of powerful technology looks great on paper, too, but it causes problems for the same reason as socialism. Our monkey nature causes us to misuse technology, and we will never stop unless we are deprived of free will.

Socialism will finally sweep the world when technology takes away our privacy, and therefore, our free will. Technology, with its constant surveillance and total control of wealth and movement, will make us slaves, and only slaves can make a socialist state work.

I doubt any of my close relatives have used DNA-testing services. They don’t seem like the kind of people who would do it. I’m not sure, though.

I have cousins who are caught up in the Mormon cult, and genealogy is one of their obsessions. Do Mormons do DNA testing? Could be. I doubt it, though, because DNA testing disproved the nutty Mormon belief that American Indians come from Israel.

I haven’t committed any crimes that involve DNA, so I’m not in danger of being hauled away at the moment. What if relatives of mine have done bad things no one knows about? My dad is 86. He has been around a long time, and he has done a lot of things. What if someone made a false police report in 1952 and didn’t name a suspect, and the cops kept evidence with DNA on it? What if he was present when someone else committed a crime, and he cut himself at the scene? What if he walked by a place where a child had been raped, blew his nose on a napkin, and threw it on the ground?

If you’re reading this blog entry, do you feel confident that no one close to you has a secret DNA could bring to light? Are you sure you won’t lose your inheritance after a midnight raid on a parent’s house? Is it possible your grown daughter might show up broke, with her kids, after the feds drop by and take your son-in-law away?

Crimes from the past are being dredged up after decades of hibernation, and the exposures won’t just harm the guilty. They’ll hit the people around them, too. Even when statutes of limitation have passed, disgrace, civil liability, and financial ruin will be on the table.

Someone in Hollywood should make a movie.

Here’s a fun question: what if you have a hereditary weakness, and it pops up on DNA tests? What if you apply for a job, and your employer’s investigators run a check with a DNA-testing company? What if you’re 60, you really need a job, and three of your grandparents died from severe heart disease in their fifties? What if one of your parents had Huntington’s Chorea?

In the past, once you got away with something without being identified, you were generally in the clear. You could repent, build a decent life, and move on. Now old misdeeds are bursting out of the grave to torment people.

Rebellion and lack of prayer create and feed disasters that grow out of our sight and then jump out and attack. It’s as though we were feeding monsters that live just below the horizon, like the monsters kids hear breathing under their beds. Repentance and prayer shrivel these things and neutralize them, and they create blessings that come to us and surprise us. There is always symmetry in the supernatural.

As our legal protection from disaster wanes, it is wise to increase our supernatural protection. Sow blessings in your future and pour Roundup on the problems you inseminated in the past. Legal protection was always an illusion, anyway. The only safety comes from God. Escape prosecution, and Satan will take it out on you some other way.

The world is getting tiny. Internet companies collect my secrets. Our neighbors watch us with drones flying over our yards. Government and private security cameras film us all day. The dragnet is closing on all of us, and many of us can’t survive the scrutiny. Sooner or later, the ubiquitous, perpetual observation will be like a thick, heavy body cast with a tiny straw through which we suck air, and the government will keep its thumb on the end of the straw, opening and closing it at will. We will try various reforms, but while they may delay the inevitable, they won’t keep it from happening.

The age of technological nudism has begun. Shade will be scarce, and there will be no sunscreen.

“You Named it After WHO?!”

I just don’t know what to say about this. The mayor of Jerusalem has announced that a square near the new US embassy will be named for Donald Trump. He’s the one who caused the embassy to be built there.

Are they TRYING to make people’s heads pop?

Jews hate Donald Trump. They really hate him. Maybe one in ten voted for him. As a nation, Jews are suicidal. They believe in appeasement and retreat. “You want land? Here’s some land. Are you done killing us? How about some more land?” Trump is ruining their determined secular efforts to give away their capital. Maybe when they’ve given every other piece of land away, the survivors can huddle in the square and chant curses at Trump.

The square is kind of disappointing. It’s small. Still, for many Israelis, it will have to sting, walking by the square and seeing that sign.

I wonder how American Jews will react. I should check Twitter.

Incidentally, I just found out how informative Trump’s Twitter feed is. I should have realized this, since about half of American news stories are based on his tweets. When you read his tweets, it’s like you’re reading the news a day in advance. Because you are.

God is going to preserve Israel regardless of how hard the Jews try to give it away. Leftist Jews won’t take it very well. I think they’re better at being victims than victors. It’s what they’re used to. They’ve trained for it. I assume right-wing Jews will be considerably happier. They’re much less suicidal.

Can’t wait to see the stories about the dedication ceremony. This will be interesting.

Except for Me

An interesting thing happened last night. I wrote about demons yesterday, and I saw one in my bedroom later.

I was sleeping, and I woke up and saw a tall, skinny female figure at the foot of the bed. Its head was maybe 7 feet off the floor, so it had to be hovering. I believe it was trying to look taller and more intimidating.

It had a shag hairdo that went down past its shoulders. I could not see its face. It was black, its gown or robe was black, and the room was dark. I could see light around its hair, as if light were illuminating it from behind.

I hate having my sleep interrupted by bad dreams and creepy experiences. It’s exasperating.

I got very angry and told this thing to get out of my house, and then I went back to sleep.

It seems like we have demons who are closely associated with us, like evil reflections of the guardian angels people talk about. I think that when you cast these things out, they act like jilted ex-girlfriends who can’t handle denial. They come back, like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction, trying to make you think you can’t get rid of them and hoping you’ll let them stay.

Demons and angels appear to have careers, just like us. They have assignments. Being cast out must be like being forced into retirement. It must be a disgrace that comes with consequences. I can’t imagine Satan being an understanding boss. He is too much of a diva. Letting him down must be like working for Diana Ross and being too slow to bring her her bottle of ionized water. It must be like standing too close to Patti Labelle’s luggage at the airport.

I think Satan is effeminate. It’s a feeling I can’t shake. He acts like a woman. Jealousy, spite, deceit, revenge, bitterness, an obsession with destroying those who reject him, combined with a sick craving to be with them…these are not masculine traits. A masculine spirit would come to you face-to-face and break your arms.

The feminine approach makes sense when your power is limited. When you don’t have brute force on your side, you have to weasel and plot. When you get more power, you can take a more direct and more masculine approach. In his book 23 Minutes in Hell, Bill Wiese said he was imprisoned with two demons who simply walked up to him, grabbed him, and tore him to pieces. Satan has more power in hell than he does here, so he doesn’t have to be coy. Up here he has a vigorous sales campaign going on, so he probably has to be careful not to queer it.

Satan attacks people when they’re asleep. Boy, is that a feminine tactic. Ask John Bobbitt and the other guys who share his fate.

I can’t swear the thing I saw was real, but I was definitely awake.

I can’t stand these things. I wish God would give me the power to twist their heads off. I wanted to get up and crush this thing’s skull. If I could, I would seek demons out and shred them alive, 24/7. Nothing is worse than a bully you can’t hurt. I truly hope they suffer when they’re cast out.

It’s interesting that the spirit and its clothing were black. Black is a very hot “color” among God’s enemies, the leftists. The townspeople in Sundance call the film industry folks who crowd the place every year “the people in black” because that’s what they wear. Black clothing symbolizes arrogance, power, and danger, and it has an anti-Christian feel to it. It seems like the more toxic and lifeless a religion is, the more likely its officials are to wear black.

Satan does a lot of work on the black side of the earth. Half of the earth is always blackened because it faces away from the sun. That’s where demonic activity is highest.

I have two relatives with serious demonic problems. Left to themselves, they close windows and keep their homes dark. They don’t clean. They make houses stink like crazy. Turn on a light, and they turn it off. Open a window, and they close it. Strange.

Christians don’t take demons seriously at all. I don’t take them as seriously as I should. I’m surrounded by these pathetic, poisonous things, like a man swimming in a tank full of sharks at night. I ought to be focusing more on fighting them and cutting off their food.

How many people do medical research every day? Millions, maybe? How different the world would be if we had that many people working to become supernatural warriors.

In related news, I’ve had a new development in my relationship with God. I seem to be able to get into his presence at will, instantly. I keep trying to remember to do it. I stay in his presence as much as I can. It’s a problem when I do it in bed, because I generally fall asleep in a few minutes. I can’t focus on God and also exert effort to stay awake.

One of the things I pray for is for God to help me and my friends stay in his presence as much as possible. I also pray for him to minimize the presence of counterproductive spirits and people in our lives. I believe he is giving me what I ask for.

I can’t say amazing things happen when I’m in his presence. I get huge waves of faith, and I feel very peaceful, but it’s not like lights shoot out of my head and dramatic background music comes on. The fillings aren’t falling out of my teeth and being replaced with enamel. I’m a real person, not an actor in a ridiculous catsuit in a Marvel Movie. Still, I want God’s presence. He makes good things happen whether I feel them or not. I’ve spent a gigantic amount of time in the presence of evil beings. I need to make a switch and stick with it.

The other day, counterproductive thoughts came to me. I heard some kind of filthy joke in my head. I shut it down instantly. I was not having it. Then I realized something: my mind is very clean now, compared to the mind I had even 5 years ago. I was amazed. I used to think trashy thoughts were just fine, and I didn’t think I had an obligation to do much about them. I didn’t think I had much control. How different things are now. We are responsible for our thoughts and feelings, and God would not hold us responsible if we didn’t have the power to change them.

Our filthiness grieves the Holy Spirit. He doesn’t want to be around dirty jokes, lustful conversation, hatred, and so on. Those things make demons comfortable. It makes sense that a person whose mind is cleaner would have more of God’s presence within him.

This new cleanliness is something I’ve been praying for. I knew I was grieving the Holy Spirit, and I wanted to stop. The Holy Spirit cures diseases. He teaches us things. He guides us to victory and success. He’s not merely an option; his presence is necessary. I wanted his help, and he only gives it on his terms. A man of God wouldn’t move into a filthy shack full of meth-addled bikers, yet we expect the Holy Spirit to move into us and share quarters with demons.

The world is nothing like the picture our corrupt, blind society paints. It is very different from our popular conceptions. The supernatural is what matters. Hard work and pride will get you nowhere. You can’t trust your heart. You don’t have what it takes to succeed. You shouldn’t follow your dreams. We don’t know how to live correctly. We are only familiar with the counterproductive crutches and Band-Aids we’ve been taught to use. Carnal tools are just crude compensation for the lack of Holy Spirit power. We don’t know how to live, because we’ve never seen anyone live the way God designed us to.

I look forward to being on the other side and seeing the truth clearly. I want to see the vile things that work against us. I want to know all about their organization. I want to talk to God face to face. I want to hear him confirm the things he has told me down here. When everything is revealed, a lot of people who ridiculed Christians are going to be put in their places. There will be a feast of crow. We’ll see people who laugh at God down here, talking very earnestly about demons and angels.

If things aren’t working out for you, you are probably using the wrong weapons and fighting the wrong enemies. Something to think about while you still have time to change.

Supernatural Blindness is the Rule, not the Exception

One of the main symptoms of demonic control–surely the most common one–is an inability to perceive the truth.

People think they believe what logic tells them to believe. The most emotional, least logical person I know loves to say, “I am a slave to logic.” This is a person who has excelled in a profession where the use of logic is key, so you can see why it would be easy to convince him all of his thinking makes sense. People think they draw conclusions through reason, but in reality, we believe what we want to believe, and demons have a lot of power over the desires, and therefore, the beliefs, of people who are not connected with the Holy Spirit.

Some conservatives like to say liberalism is a mental illness. This is true. Leftists are able to believe all sorts of inconsistent things; it’s why the left has so much internal conflict. Leftists think they are driven by compassion and other noble motives, but of course, anyone who knows their history knows they are angry people who turn sadistic and murderous when they get enough power.

Most conservatives are sick, too, and some of us are completely off the wall. There are conservatives who conflate conservatism with what they think is righteous racism. Conservatism has nothing to do with racism, but white racists tend to be conservative, just as non-white racists tend to be fervent leftists.

There are conservatives out there who still believe the birther theory, and some go father, claiming Obama was a left-wing plant, groomed from day one to assume the presidency in spite of his Kenyan citizenship. The state of Hawaii confirmed his place of birth, his mother was a citizen, and a 1961 Hawaiian newspaper had a birth announcement in it, but facts don’t matter to people who listen to demons. They will never believe Obama is a citizen.

Why am I writing about this? Because I just saw a news story so unreasonable, it made me think about demonic deception. A journalist named Greenblatt wrote a book about tyrants, and he compares Donald Trump to Shakespeare’s Richard III.

The story of Richard III is simple. He was not in line to wear the crown, so he killed everyone who stood between him and the throne. He was a completely evil person. He had no remorse or compassion. He came across as calm. He didn’t seem like an exceptionally angry person. He just wanted the crown, so he did whatever seemed likely to put him under it. His problem, more than anger, was an absence of love.

He was a bad person, but I don’t know if I would consider him a good example of a tyrant. A tyrant isn’t just driven by a desire for power (as Richard was); he is also driven by a desire to micromanage the lives of ordinary citizens. I don’t see that in Richard. Sounds more like Stalin or Castro to me.

No person with clear vision could fail to see the perversity of comparing Trump to a tyrant. A tyrant is a person who believes in all-powerful government. Trump is weakening the government and giving power back to individuals and states. He is against tyranny, although perhaps not sufficiently so to please libertarians. It’s impossible to be in your right mind and not see this.

1. Trump lowers taxes. Tyrants are known for increasing them or, in the case of leftist tyrants, confiscating some or all of the people’s property.

2. Trump is trying to reduce the government’s infringement of our Second Amendment civil rights. Tyrants take arms away from people and curtail their rights.

3. Trump is in an open war with the deep state, an ossified, securely entrenched complex of unelected bureaucrats who have tremendous power over us, and whose interests conflict with those of the nation and the administration which is supposed to manage them. Tyrants don’t get rid of oppressive bureaucrats. They multiply them. Think of Goebbels and Beria.

4. Trump made a rule that the government can’t add new regulations without getting rid of old ones. What kind of tyrant does a thing like that? Picture the Sheriff of Nottingham pulling a move like that. It would ruin the Robin Hood myth.

People have pointed out that Robin Hood was conservative, by the way. He robbed tax collectors and gave back to the taxed.

5. Trump instructed the IRS to stop enforcing the Obamacare tax, destroying the extraordinary, tyrannical new power Obama gave that agency.

I feel like I could go on all day.

You have to wonder what acts Trump has committed that could ground a charge of tyranny. My best guess is that the simple act of taking office suffices to stir up the libel. Accepting his Constitutionally sanctioned office after a reasonably fair election, and requiring enraged leftists to accept his authority, must be tyranny.

The anti-Trump character who wrote the book says Trump’s insistence on loyalty makes him a tyrant. That’s crazy. Tyrants insist on loyalty from every citizen. Trump merely demands loyalty from his underlings. That’s just a management style. It may be an excess, and it may be caused by a character flaw, but it’s not tyranny.

Is he saying Trump, who is clearly a champion of liberty in his professional life, is a tyrant solely with regard to those close to him? That doesn’t seem to be true. He has great relationships with his kids, and they would be the first ones to turn on him if he were a tyrant in his personal life. He’s an adulterer, sure, but that’s not tyranny.

If you want to see a politician with a truly tyrannical mindset, you have to look no further than Barack Obama. He forced us to buy medical insurance. He armed the IRS. He pushed socialism, which is inherently tyrannical. He wanted to take away our civil rights in the area of gun ownership. That’s classic tyranny. He did more to gut the Fourth Amendment–an anti-tyranny law–than any president in history. He sanctioned the killing, without trial, of American citizens by our military. He tried to prosecute at least one journalist. Where are the leftist journalists his tyranny upset? A few exist, but they have been marginalized.

It’s remarkable that conservatism has become associated with fascism, which has traditionally been the hallmark of leftist regimes. Communism is fascism, and it’s a leftist system. It infected about half of the world. It still controls China, where you can’t open a church because the government has taken over the religion business.

Doesn’t anyone remember the USSR? People couldn’t travel inside the country without permission. They couldn’t leave without permission. The state murdered them and turned them into slave laborers for doing things like writing pamphlets. How about Cuba? In Cuba, you can go to jail for buying or selling a steak. Slavery is still practiced in Cuba; the state makes slaves of dissidents and forces them to do disagreeable labor. Every neighborhood has government stooges who keep an eye on everyone and turn them in when they violate Cuba’s fascist laws.

Many people think the word “fascism” only applies to right-wing regimes. That’s crazy. Look it up. It’s an extremely ill-defined word. It means “authoritarianism.” It’s not tied to any particular system.

The definition may change to favor the leftist interpretation. Dictionaries used to be useful reference tools, and that’s still true if you use dictionaries written decades ago. Lexicographers used to find out what the correct meanings of words were and record them so we wouldn’t stray. Now they look around to see what ignorant people are saying, and they change legitimate definitions to match our errors. Merriam-Webster just changed the definition of “assault rifle” to include semi-automatics. Try selling a semiauto to any military organization on earth. They’ll laugh you out of the room. They’re strictly civilian weapons, and civilian weapons are not assault rifles.

Perhaps liberal scholars who edit dictionaries are changing the definition of fascism, but in the world of 2018, what’s in the latest dictionary and what’s correct are two different things.

Trump bears little resemblance to tyrants. Obama and Hillary Clinton are much more tyrannical, and Bernie Sanders is definitely a tyrant. Yet Trump, the person who moved our embassy in Israel to the ancient capital of Jerusalem, is the one who gets compared to Adolf Hitler.

Christians have ruined the world. We had a powerful supernatural religion which connected people to God and brought them wisdom, healing, love, provision, and safety, and we exchanged it for Catholicism’s ridiculous system of life-sapping, pathological rules. We turned Christianity into a game with a scoreboard. All that mattered to us were our violations and our forgiveness. We threw away real power, and we threw away the God-given ability to perceive the truth.

If we were still pursuing the Holy Spirit and the inner transformation he brings, we would be able to see the truth, and we would be able to help others see it. You can’t see the truth without supernatural help, because the forces that prevent you from seeing it are supernatural. If people were Spirit-led, they would agree about everything. God is consistent. He tells everyone the same things.

We’re supposed to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, and that’s a baptism which doesn’t necessarily occur at salvation or during water baptism. We’re supposed to pray in tongues every day. We’re supposed to live in a state of confession and cast demons out of ourselves and each other. Every single one of us is supposed to hear from God. We’re not supposed to rely on ignorant old men in bizarre costumes, mumbling through lifeless rituals in gaudy cathedrals.

Our leaders should be setting us free, but they put additional chains on us. The Pope doesn’t know anything about God. T.D. Jakes doesn’t know anything about growing in Christ. A few lost people make their way to the top of corrupt human organizations, and suddenly we think they must know something. The high priests, who are probably in hell, taught in a big shiny temple, and the public adored them. Jesus didn’t spend much time there. He had to teach in streets and in people’s houses.

Most Christians don’t believe in demons. Most Christians who believe in demons think they’re rare, and that they only appear in crazy people. Many Christians think it’s an insult when other people suggest they have demons. We don’t admit we are controlled by demons. We think we’re too good. Because we don’t acknowledge the spirits that run us, they get a free pass to remain in us and invite friends. We develop sick lifestyles in which we share ourselves with them, like roommates sharing apartments. We get sick and die from things caused by spirits that should be cast out easily. We get worse with age instead of better.

I love it when God tells me I’m infected with a demon I didn’t know about. It’s an opportunity to be free of a problem I didnt’ recognize. I don’t find it discouraging or insulting at all. I wish he would give me a typed list of all of them, along with a list of things I need to do to get rid of them permanently. There is nothing like the feeling of relief when one of these things leaves.

Another problem: Christians think a demon only has to be cast out once. Completely wrong. They come back. The Bible calls Satan the Lord of Flies. What do flies do when you shoo them away? They leave for a while and come back. Because we don’t understand this, we get set free, and then our demons return, and we think we’re still delivered. Sometimes we have attitudes and behaviors that keep letting them back in.

Do you think the Pope is telling people about this? Of course not. He has no idea. He’s too concerned about spreading socialism and weakening our objections to poisonous habitual sins. Fighting fallen angels and demons is his job. It’s the sole reason for his office to exist. He has no clue.

Have you ever taken a problem to the government? Sometimes they help, but often they do virtually nothing, or they make things worse. Asking the government to solve a problem can be like adopting a leopard to get rid of your mice. That’s what taking your demonic issues to most preachers is like. They are useless or worse. They work for demons, themselves. How can they be expected to know how to fight their masters?

Priests will actually tell you to pray to saints, which is prayer to evil spirits who hate you. They’ll give you medals to carry. These are idols, and they are connected to demons. No wonder miracles are so rare in the older churches.

You can’t get anywhere with God if you’re relying on help from a Mary action figure on your dashboard.

Christians are obese. We are addicted. We are unable to stop sinning. We are filled with lust and hate. We are mentally ill. We are unsuccessful. We are worried. We are diseased. We are deformed. We lose battles with wicked people who don’t have God’s favor, every day. Somehow, we manage to reconcile our lifestyles of utter defeat with the victorious path the Bible describes. And we think we’re the ones who know the truth!

Prayer in tongues changes things. Like the rudder of a ship, which keeps it on course, a Holy-Spirit-guided tongue guides us out of error, ignorance, and slavery.

Most of us can’t or won’t pray in tongues. We think it’s demonic or that God decided to quit helping us 1700 years ago. Some of us think it’s optional, as if we get to decide which parts of God’s program we should accept. Some people know prayer in tongues brings us closer to God, and they reject it because they don’t want to be that close. They enjoy carnality too much, and they’re afraid God will take control away from them and change their lives in ways they won’t like.

We love struggling and suffering. We love thinking of ourself as shining martyrs whose failures are actually victories. God told me this: “We become proud through struggling in the flesh.”

When you tell God you don’t need his help, or that you don’t want his charity, you might as well be spitting on him and telling him you want Satan to win. God is a rich father, and he wants heirs who receive fortunes they did nothing to earn. No one has ever earned his help, and he is willing to give it to the lowest of the low. Pedophiles, rapists, Satanists…to God, they are not disposable trash. They are prime targets for redemption. The first person he saved was a criminal hanging on a cross.

God wants to cleanse us miraculously and to live inside us and communicate with us. He wants to heal us physically and give our minds rest and peace. We aren’t receiving these things because we rejected his system. People who accept the system have lives that are very different from those who think they have to earn everything.

The world is insane these days. People can believe anything. We fine people for refusing to say men are women. Many Americans think we shouldn’t screen people who enter the country, which is so absurd it shouldn’t even be considered debatable. We have socialist priests, in spite of socialism’s long history of hostility toward God. We have Jews who vote for liberals and rail against conservatives who are their only friends. Craziness is everywhere, and it will get worse. The only people who will have any immunity will be the Spirit-led, and everyone else will do their best to silence us and kill us (as they always have).

The Holy Spirit is the only protection we have from a complete loss of reason, and it doesn’t look like many of us are going to get to know him.

Justice League Expands Frontiers of Unintentional Comedy

Yesterday I made the grave mistake of watching the movie Justice League, featuring scantily clad female role model Gal Gadot, star of the ludicrous Weinstein-tainted abomination known as Wonder Woman. I am here to give my objective, unemotional review. I will start by posting a photo of the unintentionally hilarious DVD-box photo. I think I know what Batman is saying in this picture.

“I can’t believe I ordered the volcano shrimp.”

Look at that. The Flash looks like a transvestite on his way to a rave. Cyborg looks like someone trying to escape from a crushed Fiat in a junkyard. Aquaman resembles a homeless person getting ready to fend off imaginary snakes with a broken umbrella. Batman appears to be distracted by severe lower-GI distress. He needs to visit the Bat-room (old joke). Superman has a thousand-yard stare, as if he’s asking himself if he’ll ever be in another movie where he isn’t wearing blue rubber long johns.

Did Ben Affleck even look at this picture before he signed off? Maybe he was rude to someone in the PR department, and this is his reward. They should have done a product-placement deal with Pepto-Bismol.

If you (correctly) thought Wonder Woman was a dumpster fire on a train headed for a bombed-out bridge, you will think equally highly of Justice League. It is a bountiful smorgasbord of ineptitude and inadvertent humor (the only kind of humor in the movie). It represents the final dregs squeezed out of the dessicated sponge known as the mind of Joss Whedon.

Incidentally, is it necessary for Joss Whedon to be in charge of EVERY comic book movie? Isn’t it bad enough that he IS the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Now we’re running from him when we watch DC movies. He’s like the annoying alcoholic aunt that ruins every family gathering (“Who told Joss? Can’t you people keep your mouths shut? OH, NO! HE FOUND THE COOKING SHERRY!”).

I watch virtually no network TV, but until recently, I recorded every episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which is a Whedon operation. I had to delete it from my DVR’s series list. I couldn’t take it any more. Every week, they jumped a fresh shark.

“Hydra is gone. Hydra is back. SHIELD is shut down. Now it’s in business again. Whoops. Hydra is gone again. FOOLED YOU! IT’S BACK! Bored? We’ll cut Yo-Yo’s arms off with an electric Frisbee.” It’s like Whedon went on vacation and filled the writers’ office with confused janitors. As I’ve probably said before, I almost expected Scrappy-Doo to join the cast.

Is that reference too obscure? The Scooby-Doo show was terrible. It had one script. A mean guy has a hidden treasure, and he dresses up as a ghost to scare people away while he looks for it. Message: there are no such things as ghosts, kids! Cool kids are atheists! Now make sure you eat plenty of colorful dye and table sugar for breakfast every day.

The show was always bad, but when they really ran dry, they invented Scrappy-Doo, a grotesque Scooby Mini-Me with a tiny, stunted body and a big giant great Dane head. I would call him the Wesley Crusher or Leather Tuscadero of Scooby-Doo. Not an asset.

Whedon was also cramming the S.H.I.E.L.D. show with way too many Hispanic characters. Okay, we get it. You hate Trump. It’s very important to you that other people think you feel real bad about white privilege. But your show looks like a mariachi band. I keep expecting them to break into “La Bamba.” Can’t you find an American Indian or something? If he keeps it up, the show might as well move to Univision and use scripts written in Spanish. Then they can fight a real privileged, white, blue-eyed male villain: Jorge Ramos.

When the movie starts, Superman is dead. Maybe he looked at the script and decided to swallow kryptonite. Anyway, he’s dead, and the world is a mess, because one eccentric in a blue catsuit was solely responsible for our well-being. The whole world is moping.

In the midst of the misery, cheery optimist Batman develops a paranoid hunch. Someone out there is about to try to end the world.

YAWN. Can we have ONE movie where the world isn’t about to end? Can’t we have a movie where, say, Pennsylvania is about to end, but the rest of us expect to come out okay? I realize the stakes have to be high when you spend several hundred million dollars on a comic book movie, but audiences get tired of seeing film directors play the global apocalypse card every week.

Spider-Man movies managed to be bearable without involving the fate of the entire world. Just saying. It CAN be done. Provided you have an imagination and you occasionally think about something other than the mortgage payments on your latest villa on Lake Como.

The first evidence that Batman is right is an attack by what appears to be the Tin Woodsman’s fairy godmother. No lie. It’s one of the worst movie creatures in history. It’s a metal man with little foil wings just about big enough to get a turkey (other than this movie) off the ground. Look.

“I’m here with a quarter for the Tin Woodsman’s loose tooth.”

This is what minions do for money between Despicable Me films.

Batman rounds up Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and a guy called “Cyborg.” Wow. Neat name. How long did it take to come up with that? He should have a sidekick: “Really Strong Guy.”

Cyborg is a man whose dad exposed his dead, mangled body to a magical cube in order to bring him back to life. The cube got rid of most of his human parts and turned him into a robot that sulks. Kind of like a titanium teenager. Only one part of his real body is left: a small amount of his head. It’s like Whedon went to the effects people who made Ultron and asked if they had any cheesy prototypes they would part with cheap.

I think I could have designed a better Cyborg myself, using Microsoft Paint. This is one of the few cases where the plastic action figure will probably look better than the actual actor.

Cyborg has no personality. If he ever had a personality, it must have been removed by the same cube that replaced everything except one side of his face. What is his remaining pound or so of meat good for, by the way? A real cyborg is a human being with mechanical parts. This guy is C-3PO plus one third of Mister Potatohead.

Like Wonder Woman, the movie features a battle in which the Amazons, the greatest female warriors in history, are crushed effortlessly, in a few minutes, by a hostile force. It’s because they happen to have a cube like the one that screwed up Cyborg. The villain, an old white guy named Steppenwolf, appears in their fortress and steals their cube. As usual, they fight in highly credible gold bikinis, proving women are powerful and capable and not just sex objects. Yeah. Most people don’t know that the SEAL team that took out Bin Laden wore gold bikinis.

Somehow men will be to blame for this. We are always to blame when women degrade themselves.

Remember; Harvey Weinstein had to sign off on everything.

Wonder Woman’s Wonder mom decides to call her for help, and as the leader of a sophisticated nation of elite forces, she uses some sort of ancient signal fire…because Amazons are too stupid to have cell phones! The Amazons aren’t very good at engineering. And it’s an island where everyone is female. Math is so hard! They need a big strong man!

In backward countries such as America and Russia, military forces use primitive inventions such as tanks, jets, and rifles. The brilliant Amazons ride around on horses, bearing advanced weapons far beyond our inferior testosterone-based technology. They fight with bows, arrows, and pointed sticks.

Who, exactly, are they supposed to fight, riding horses in circles on a tiny island no enemy can get to? Can someone explain this to me? Drop one MOAB, and you own the place. And if you don’t want to fight the Amazons, all you have to do is sail around their island.

It may sound strange for a man to say this, but I actually got tired of staring at Gal Gadot’s rear end in this movie. In one scene, her butt filled the entire screen…while she was talking to someone.

“Mr. Weinstein! Let go of the camera! The union won’t like this!”

They should have called the movie The League of Gal Gadot’s Extraordinary Behind, Thighs, and Crotch, because the camera focused on her pelvis over and over. It amazes me that filmmakers would play voyeur with a character who is supposed to inspire young girls to reach their potential. Well. No it doesn’t.

Ben Affleck looks like what he probably is: a borderline-obese old man who never works out, packed like sausage into a tight rubber suit that strategically shapes his loose meat so it moves to areas ordinarily filled by muscles. He walks like he’s wearing one of those sumo suits people put on in bars, or like a dysentery patient trying to make it to the toilet in time. In all seriousness, I don’t think he can put his arms down. He has no new toys, because DC Films only had SEVERAL YEARS to think them up. He has no superpowers. He needs to go back to the cave and think about retirement. He could get himself a nice cave in Boca Raton.

As for Aquaman, he’s a mean drunk with a bunch of trashy tattoos. He looks like the guys who spend half of their lives working on county farms and the other half on welfare. I could really see him appearing before a judge on a domestic violence beef involving his own mother. I think I saw him last year, in a crew of roofers who worked on my house. He never talks to fish once during the movie. There goes his big gimmick.

You should see the costume he fights in. I’m pretty sure it’s a bullfighting suit. Why aren’t our soldiers taking advantage of this new technology? It’s great camouflage. For battles that take place at Liberace’s house.

Lois Lane is a catastrophe. Henry Cavill is 35 and could pass for 25. He is in incredible physical condition. Amy Adams (Lois) is 43, looks older, and is quite hefty for a woman being paid millions to look good. If you gave me her salary to appear in a film, I think I could find it in my heart to lay off the Ding Dongs for a month. Why is she in this movie? The Lois Lane character shouldn’t be middle-aged or overweight.

It’s impossible to believe Henry would be attracted to her. I’m not. If she started talking to me in a supermarket checkout line, I’d begin inching toward the parking lot. I’ve actually done that.

Here’s the story that drives the movie: Batman, whose voice mysteriously changes every time he puts on his mask and eye makeup (?), assembles the team so they can battle Steppenwolf, and somehow we are supposed to be impressed, even though their best efforts bother Steppenwolf about as much as you or I would be bothered by enraged fruit flies.

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER the only way they can beat Steppenwolf is to bring Superman back to life so he can do it for them, which explains why Henry Cavill is on the DVD box. Superman kicks the compost out of Steppenwolf with very little help from the Justice League, which makes you wonder WHY THEY ARE THERE.

Whedon’s liberal paranoia is transparent and insulting. The first major villain who appears on the screen is an old white guy with red hair, who wants to bomb civilization back to a “holy” age. Gosh, Joss, who could you have had in mind? The second big villain is the Nordic-looking Steppenwolf, who has a German name and wears Viking-like horns to drive the point home.

In an age where the only serious threats to man’s existence are Islam and North Korea, Joss Whedon is trying to save the world from white men who believe in God. This movie must have been a hit in Riyadh and Pyongyang. Wait…do they ALLOW movies in Pyongyang?

Even more disturbing…the real REAL villain of the movie is a trinity. Steppenwolf’s plan is to gather and unite three magical cubes. I’m not kidding. When they get together, they exude some kind of force that transforms the world into a place where it’s okay to admit Bruce Jenner is a man and where you can buy AR-15’s from vending machines that also sell Bibles.

When Steppenwolf assembles the cubes, he says, “Praise to the unity. The three as one.” Sound familiar at all? Praise? Hello? What kind of people use that word with regard to three powerful entities which are one? What religion could Whedon be sniping at here? So hard to guess.

Steppenwolf’s tin fairies serve him without absolute obedience. Gee. Is there a supernatural being who is surrounded by legions of servants who are commonly depicted with wings? It sounds so familiar…

Joss Whedon is not just an atheist; he’s a proselytizing atheist. He says it’s “very important” to understand that there is no God. He says that now, while he’s fairly young and expects to live a few more years. What he will say when he’s about to die may, and hopefully will be, different.

I don’t think he’ll be a factor much longer. His work is not going well. He must be having some kind of crisis. The crap dialogue in this movie is like something you would expect in fan-created Youtubes. Whedon has scraped the bottom of the creativity jelly jar once too often. There is nothing left. When the characters try to sound dramatic and inspired, they merely sound like Whedon mumbling cliches and platitudes into his mattress as he scrambles to meet a production deadline. He could be replaced easily by a Clever Comic Book Movie Dialogue Generator app. Maybe he already has one on his gluten-free iPhone.

The older I get, the sillier Hollywood seems.

John Wayne never fought a battle. William Shatner is five feet, six inches tall and has never left earth. Humphrey Bogart weighed about 120 pounds and couldn’t even beat up his wife, even when he tried. George Clooney is a college dropout, and the colleges he dropped out of are about as prestigious as barber college. Burt Reynolds is bald, and he was bald when he made his big films. Arnold Schwarzenegger is about three inches shorter than he says he is. Vin Diesel wears elevator shoes. All the action scenes we’ve seen in movies like Star Wars were actually filmed in front of big green screens in very quiet rooms, and the actors looked stupid, yammering about things that clearly were not there.

It’s all make-believe, and it’s just as silly as what kids do when they tie towels around their necks and pretend to be Superman. Batman, King Friday…what’s the difference?

I used to manage to suspend disbelief much better than I do now. These days, when I see grown people running around in superhero costumes, I feel an urge to ask them to hold out their bags so I can give them candy. Ben Affleck looks like a horse’s ass in his Batman rig. The inexplicable McGruff voice is the cherry on the sundae.

A recent news story said we have 14 more superhero movies on the way. That’s the current outlook; more could be scheduled later, depending on how desperate Hollywood gets. Critics are getting tired of them. Maybe audiences will follow. I can’t wait to see the trend end. I admit, I have enjoyed many of these films (especially the bad ones), but they’re not good for us.

I suspect Satan is behind our superhero obsession. After all, he and his friends created real superheroes. We call them demons. Loser angels with no future impregnated women, who, being women, who were probably very impressed by them. You know how women are. They always compete to land the captain of the football team, even if he’s a guy who, in four years, will be driving for Uber in his mom’s car.

Their offspring were beings with great physical stature and strength and the character of rats and hyenas. It is said that they ruled over human beings and even ate us. God killed their bodies, and now they roam the earth as doomed spirits, giving us cancer and starting fights and so on. It may be that in the future, people who are possessed and empowered by demons will appear to be real-life superheroes, and they may wear silly costumes (just like priests and cardinals) and demand worship. If they do, we will already be prepared to serve them. We already know how to make and distribute superhero merchandise.

Superheroes teach us pride. They teach us that flesh beings can be special and powerful in their own right. This is not true. All power and authority come from supernatural sources. If you want God’s power, you can’t run around in a ridiculous costume with a big “S” on it and call yourself “Superman,” which implies superiority. God fights people who have that attitude. In the eternal scheme, they are losers.

I will probably watch more superhero movies before I’m done, as long as they don’t cost me more than $5.99. It’s a guilty pleasure. It will be fun to see how many times the earth and/or the universe will be threatened with total destruction this year.

New Info on Stone Prevention

I wonder if I should have written about Trump yesterday. I don’t want to write about politics too much. I know government is a false god, and I know Satan wastes our time (our lives) by getting us to scrap in the political arena instead of focusing on prayer and repentance. Nonetheless, I also know God put Trump in office as a favor to his children, and I know the ridiculous attacks on his administration constitute a mass tantrum on the part of Satan’s offspring.

I believe Christians should support Trump and pray for the defeat of his enemies. I speak defeat to Mueller and the rest all the time, in the name of Jesus.

When I write about Trump, there is generally a supernatural angle to it. With that said, here I go, on an almost completely secular tangent.

Maybe 10 years ago, I noticed that my right side hurt. I thought it was a muscle pull. It turned out to be my gallbladder. Over the years, it has caused me some annoyance, including a few attacks I would go so far as to describe as painful. I have spent a lot of time researching gallbladder problems, trying to find out what I had done to cause my issues and what I could do to fix them.

I learned that doctors had ZERO INTEREST IN PREVENTING AND FIXING GALLBLADDER PROBLEMS. This is almost literally true. Here in America, we have a grand total of one gallbladder medicine that works. It’s made from bear bile, and it’s too expensive for people to take regularly. Doctors don’t prescribe it. Instead, they cut people’s gallbladders out, as if God made a mistake by installing them in the first place.

When a doctor removes your gallbladder, he performs a low-risk surgery which pays well for the time spent. It’s much easier than trying to fix the problem, and it’s profitable. Doctors have very little incentive to change their approach, so they don’t. They feel that surgery IS the answer.

Problem: it’s not the answer. You need your gallbladder. It aids in the digestion of food. Your body will adapt to its absence, but it’s not as good as having a functioning gallbladder. Another thing to consider: REMOVING YOUR GALLBLADDER WILL NOT NECESSARILY GET RID OF YOUR GALLSTONES OR PAIN.

How about that? You can have gallstones and pain without a gallbladder! It’s not even rare. It happens a lot. The stuff that turns into gallstones comes from the liver, not the gallbladder, which is just a receptacle. The stones can form in places other than the gallbladder.

Imagine how stupid you would feel, having your gallbladder removed and putting up with diarrhea and so on, and they having a gallstone attack.

In Europe, they use a supplement called Rowachol to get rid of gallstones. It’s basically olive oil, menthol, and some other aromatic substance. I forget. You can make your own Rowachol if you buy the ingredients. People say Rowachol works. I tried it, and it seemed to work for me.

If my understanding of the situation is correct, European doctors consider gallstones treatable, and American doctors don’t even try. Perhaps I’m wrong, but it sure looks that way.

I got the idea that my own problems might be the result of my personality problems, and that means my spiritual problems. I read that some doctors think eating when you’re angry can cause gallstones. I have had a problem with my dad provoking me over and over during meals, so I worked on that, and I asked God for help with the way I responded to provocation. I also thought Miami might be to blame, because to live in Miami is to be provoked nearly continuously. It’s that kind of place.

Here is what I think about provocation and anger. If we are indwelt and led by the Holy Spirit, we should be very hard to provoke, but it’s still a bad idea to be around irritating people and situations, and there is nothing wrong with ridding yourself of annoying people. Even Jesus avoided contact with his persecutors.

That’s my spiritual take on the matter. To get back to the physical, this week I learned something new. I can’t believe I didn’t find out earlier. I read that gallstones (and possibly cancer) may be caused by “slow intestinal transit.” In plain English, that means you’re not pooping soon enough. It means you delay your trips to the can.

Gallstones are made largely from cholesterol synthesized by the liver. When you put off a deuce mission, substances in your intestines pass through the walls and into your blood. Some researchers believe these substances stimulate your liver to make more cholesterol, so you get gallstones.

How about that?

It kind of makes sense. Doctors say many gallstone victims are fat, female, forty, and fertile. Women are more likely to have constipation issues than men. They’re embarrassed about defecation and related matters, to the point where it sometimes amounts to denial, so I suppose they are more likely to procrastinate.

I knew a woman who was unable to use the toilet if anyone except herself and her husband was in the house. Her husband and I knew, or at least assumed, that she had bowel movements like the rest of humanity, and presumably she knew this, but when I was present, everything locked up.

As for fat, well, fat people have a lot more stuff in their intestines, and they probably eat more junk that stops them up.

Forty? My guess is that it’s a factor because older people eat more and move less.

When I was a kid, I was taught that people have to control and train their bodies. You don’t go to the john when your body tells you to; you do it when it’s most convenient. You don’t leave class or whatever. You definitely don’t ask your dad to pull over when he’s determined to set a land speed record while driving you to see relatives; he will make you go in a shoebox. You grit your teeth and overcome. Apparently, that was really bad advice.

The whole topic is pretty gross, but if the researchers are right, it could save people needless pain and surgery.

Without going into specifics, I’m making an effort to change my habits. I am listening to my body. I don’t have gallbladder pain, but I can tell my digestion is not perfect. Might as well do what I can.

Maybe the researchers are wrong, but their theory sounds more plausible to me than the far-fetched explanations I have heard in the past.

I Just Want 5 Minutes Alone With This Jerk

God told me something the other day, so I will pass it on today. I was putting groceries in the car and thinking about something unpleasant I had to deal with, and I heard, “I am tasting my own punishment.”

What this means is that I, myself, ordained the problem I was going through. I didn’t wave a scepter and say, “On May 1, 2018, because of this unrighteous act or thought I had on an earlier date, I will have to perform the following unpleasant duty and be inconvenienced.” I didn’t do that, but it was as though I had. I had failed God in various ways, of my own free will, and it was catching up to me.

I was dealing with one of my dad’s dental appointments, if you want to know. I had to drive him to the dentist, sit in the waiting room during a cleaning that took forever, listen to a boring report from the hygienist, receive burdensome instructions from her, take my dad to the grocery store, and then drive home. I was told to make sure my dad did certain things when he flossed, so now I have a new, perpetual duty which will not be easy to perform.

Telling my dad to do anything was nearly impossible when he had all his faculties. Now it’s worse. If he wants to cooperate, he may remember to do it. If he doesn’t want to cooperate, he will forget every day, over and over.

I realized my burdens would continue to increase as long as my dad lived. That’s daunting. Presumably, right now, things are better than they will ever be during his future. At least until he has to go to an assisted living home.

Where would I be, had I listened to God back in the 1980’s? I would have built a better foundation. I would have a wife to help me with my problems. I would have fewer problems to begin with. I would have better supernatural weapons to fight my problems. I would not be a caregiver for a person who hates Christianity and contemns God.

God blesses people who obey him, and he gives them lives of victory and peace. He doesn’t heap burdens on them. We heap them on ourselves.

Sometimes my dad says he’s sorry I have to deal with his problems. I’m not sure why he does that. Maybe it’s because he didn’t get involved with his mother’s care when she started to decline. It may be that he would be extremely resentful if he were in my position, so he assumes I am resentful, too. I do experience a certain amount of momentary resentment on occasion, because his attitude is often poor and because he put himself in his current situation through a lifetime of deliberate choices. Overall, however, I see what I do for him as necessary, and I never complain about anything except when he does things that make my job harder.

I don’t hate my situation, and I don’t think he should apologize when I have to do things for him.

His mother had a hereditary aorta deformity that resulted in an aneurysm. It ballooned up, and stagnant blood accumulated in it. Somehow this caused neurological problems in her lower body. They fixed the aneurysm, but she had to have her legs amputated, and not long after, she died. I don’t know too much about it. I didn’t go to her funeral. I suppose I should have, but I felt very detached from her. It was like hearing that a neighbor’s mother had died.

I just looked up the date, because I didn’t remember when she died. That shows how little she was involved with me. She didn’t send Christmas or birthday gifts to my sister or me.

I am not close to my dad’s family. They have had very little to do with us over the years, and my dad didn’t show much interest in reaching out. Later in life, he started to take them on occasional fishing trips, but in all honesty, I think that happened because they wanted things from him. He had a big boat in Miami, and he had done well for himself, so he provided the opportunity for free vacations. It may also be that they hoped for some recognition in his will. I believe that had he been less prosperous, we would heard almost nothing from them. We used to go multiple years without hearing a peep. I suspect that he invited them on trips partly to show off.

Here’s a story. My dad owned a beach house on the gulf. He invited his relatives to visit. They arrived before my parents did. When my parents showed up, the house was full of groceries.

My aunt and uncle gave my dad the grocery bill. They had saved it for him. My mother never got over that.

Another story. My grandmother was a widow when she died. She had a few possessions. My dad’s relatives went to her apartment and cleaned it out. We received two items chosen by the relatives: a crystal angel and a porcelain horse. These had been gifts from my dad. My mother put them in front of me, told me they were our inheritance, and told me to pick one. You can find the same angel on Ebay for under $35. I only keep it because I would feel guilty if I threw it out.

My dad paid for the funeral.

I like my dad’s family for the most part, but I am aware that his relationship with them is very bad. They would probably disagree, because the relationship is cordial, but anyone who has a healthy relationship with relatives should be able to tell the situation I’m describing is abnormal.

My dad has a married sister, and he had another sister who died following a period of dementia. I can’t name all of my first cousins from the second sister and her husband. I don’t know where they live. I don’t know how many kids they have or what their names are. At least one of the sons is dead. I didn’t go to the funeral. I know the other sister’s son died many years ago. I didn’t go to his funeral, either. He has a sister. I don’t know her married name. I don’t want to look her up or get to know her. It would be awkward.

I’m digressing.

My relationship with my mother’s family was good, so I have some notion of duty to kin. When your demented father has to go to the dentist, or his bathroom has to be cleaned, you don’t run off and hide in a strip club. You don’t berate him or expect him to grovel, either.

Would I do these things for my remaining aunt? No. She would not expect it, and I am no closer to her than a stranger who works at a nursing home.

I’m not a martyr. That’s where I’m going with this. Things aren’t that bad. At the same time, things are not what they should have been, and I am to blame. If I had been aligned with God at an earlier age, I would be somewhere else, doing different things, with different people around me.

A friend of mine didn’t get to know God until she was middle-aged. She doesn’t have any kids. That was a choice she made. She regrets it now. She says God told her, “You are not late.” That must be a nice thing to hear. I am late. I acknowledge it without reservation. I am very late. God doesn’t have an obligation to turn back the clock and give me another chance. I’m glad he’s willing to help me make the most of the leftovers that remain.

Mary Isn’t Alone

I watch Youtube for religious purposes, and Youtube’s algorithms keep recommending videos it thinks a person with my interest in God would like. I see a lot of recommendations for videos from One for Israel, a Messianic Jewish organization. A lot of them feature debate intended to debunk the anti-missionary arguments of mainstream Jews.

I am leery of getting drawn into the debate-centered approach to Christianity. Generally, it’s boring and carnal, and it’s a heavy-duty time suck. Still, I do end up watching some of One for Israel’s material. Their videos are generally fast-paced, and many of them are testimonies, not debate.

Their videos are real eye-openers. They are produced by Jews, and they are aimed at Jews. This means they provide a Jewish perspective on Christianity and Judaism, and they reveal a lot of things Gentiles generally are not aware of.

Yesterday I saw a remarkable video about mainstream Orthodox Jews who pray to dead people. I thought this was a Catholic/Anglican/Orthodox thing, but it looks like many Jews do it, too.

Long ago, there was a respected Jewish sage named Bar Yochai. I know practically nothing about him. I do know he’s dead. He was a kabbalist, which means he studied bizarre Jewish mysticism. Like Madonna, only presumably with smarter teachers. Religious Jews go his tomb, set fires, dance, and pray to him for help.

This is remarkable. Remember what happened to Saul for communicating with the dead? It wasn’t good. Communicating with the dead is a sin according to the books of Moses. The Bible says people who do it are detestable to God.

You can go to a website and pay Jews to take your prayers to Bar Yochai’s tomb. Look it up. No joke.

The notion of asking dead people for help is disturbing to me. These people are lobbyists. Like the lobbyists in politics, they supposedly have superior connections to an individual in power, and they use their influence on behalf of others. Can you imagine anyone thinking heaven has lobbyists?

If you’re Catholic, you probably can. I should not have asked the question.

I remember a testimony from a person who said he visited hell. He said he could hear all the thoughts and feelings of the spirits around him, even though they were countless. I think he was telling the truth, and I think God can hear like that, too. I don’t think God is only capable of listening to one person at a time. I believe he can hear you just fine without an attorney to come before him on your behalf.

The Bible confirms this. It says God is near to all who call on him.

I have dead ancestors in heaven. Do I really need to prompt them? If they have any ability to influence God on my behalf, aren’t they doing it already? Unlike me, they are now perfect beings with perfect hearts. It’s a little presumptuous of me to assume they aren’t helping me in every way they can.

If I were in heaven, and I had a son or daughter who needed help on earth, and I were permitted to talk to God about it, I would do so without being asked. Common sense, right?

Here’s something interesting about this. Jesus told the common people of his time that the religious leaders were whitewashed tombs full of dead men’s bones. Now, in at least one case, his words are literally true!

There are Jews who worship a rabbi who died recently. His name is Menachem Schneerson, and he was the leader of a sect called the Lubavitchers. They thought he might qualify to be the messiah. Then he died without changing the world. This was a big blow, because one of the talking points they use against missionaries is the assertion that the messiah can’t die before accomplishing his mission. They say that if Jesus were the messiah, he would have brought peace on earth while he lived.

Schneerson died almost 24 years ago, and some of his followers won’t let him go. They call him “messiah” and pray to his dead body. It has caused a schism among the Orthodox.

Orthodox Jews say the messiah won’t be divine, so it’s weird that any would pray to this man.

Jesus died, but he’s quite a bit different. He’s not your typical dead person. He wasn’t buried (after the resurrection). He manifests himself to people all the time. He visited me twice. He showed himself to dozens of people before he ascended. Praying to Jesus is fine.

Interesting stuff.

I saw another neat video. In it, One for Israel addresses a common criticism of Christianity. People ask why prominent rabbis, whom they respect, haven’t accepted Jesus. Answer: they have. But once they accept him, they cease to be respected rabbis, and according to the current regime, they cease to be Jews at all.

This reminds me of the propaganda gays put out. Clergymen who rape boys aren’t homosexuals! They’re “ephebophiles” (who commit homosexual rape). Prison rapists and other men who have perverted sex supposedly aren’t homosexuals, either. Bad people can’t be homosexuals, apparently. People who think Jesus is divine can’t be Jews. They are transformed into Gentiles, instantly.

Here’s an example. Daniel Zion was a respected rabbi in Bulgaria. He persuaded the king not to give Bulgaria’s Jews to Hitler, so they were not exterminated. That makes him a hero of Judaism, but it’s also awkward, because he believed in Jesus. As a believer, he can’t be a rabbi or a Jew.

Why don’t more people know about him? In 1949, rabbis in Israel declared him insane. The reason? He believed in Jesus and still wanted to be a rabbi.

That’s some catch, that catch-22! He got the bum’s rush when he converted. You can’t be a major rabbi who believes in Jesus, because a major rabbi who believes in Jesus is insane, and insane people have to be removed from their positions.

The Soviet Union used to use this tactic on dissidents. They put them in mental asylums. They had a point. In the USSR, you had to be nuts to take on the government.

That was humor. It’s an old joke. They were not crazy.

The video provides a list of other rabbis who believed. Such people have their careers terminated, and they lose their influence. How can anyone complain about the absence of knowledgeable Messianic rabbis when it is literally impossible for a Messianic to remain a rabbi?

I find the whole thing fascinating, because it lines up with my new understanding of the way supernatural beings work to erase their enemies on earth. It’s not enough to punch someone in the face, take away his wealth, give him a disease, or put him in prison. You have to destroy his reputation, and, if possible, arrange it so future generations have no idea who he is.

Of Jesus, Maimonides used to say, “May his bones be ground to dust.” The bones of the dead proved the dead had existed. They were preserved. Jews were not permitted to destroy them. Many religious Jews have called Jesus “Yeshu,” which means, “May his name and memory be blotted out forever.”

Like Elijah, Jesus still has his bones. He ascended. It would be hard to grind them at this stage.

Satan concealed the evidence of the millions of Jews who followed Moses in the desert. He tried to get rid of the bones of all Jews during the Holocaust. He goes after the reputations and memories of Jews who accept Jesus. He gets Christians fired from positions of power.

You should watch the testimonies of Jews who convert. Their families don’t just disagree with them. They say they’re dead. Often they pretend they don’t exist.

This is the future of Christians in America. We’re headed the same way. We deny Jesus all the time, and we punish his people. We deny him every time we support homosexuality in order to get along with people or protect our wealth.

Debating about this stuff is not very productive. Either God opens your eyes, or he doesn’t. If your eyes and ears are closed, all the proof in the world won’t matter. Pharaoh rejected God even after the many miracles of Moses and the ten plagues. I do not debate with people. But I do try to speak the truth even if it bothers them. The fact that you are offended by what I say does not mean I’ve done anything wrong.

A friend of mine told me God showed her that she wasn’t supposed to concern herself about how people dealt with the things he told her to say to them. That’s their problem. God’s children just deliver the mail. What you do with it once we give it to you is 100% on you.

I don’t know if One for Israel is accomplishing anything with its somewhat argumentative videos, but the information is important.

Wherever the Body is, There the Vultures Will be Gathered Together

I wonder if other conservative bloggers are writing about Michelle Wolf.

I won’t check, because I don’t do blogs any more. I don’t read them or link to them. It’s not a rule. I just find the whole thing boring. They don’t link to me, either. I assume people lost all desire to be associated with me when I started writing about God. That’s what happened with my real-life friends, and it makes sense that bloggers would behave the same way.

That’s a good thing, though, because I don’t have much in common with political bloggers now. They would just exert a counterproductive pull on me. We’re not supposed to be unequally yoked with unbelievers (or backsliders), so it would be foolish to try to keep pre-repentance relationships at the same levels at which they originally functioned.

Michelle Wolf is a comedian. I never saw her before this weekend. She appears (or appeared) as a regular on The Daily Show, which may explain my lack of familiarity.

TV talk show comedians behave very bizarrely these days. They spend a huge amount of time savaging the President, conservatives, and Christians, with extremely serious intent. Uninformed people treat them like pundits and legitimate sources of information. Then when the comedians are held accountable, they say, “Why are you bothering me? I’m just a comedian!”

Pretty cowardly!

“Live by the sword, die by the sword, you hypocrites.” That’s the message I would send them.

Wolf appeared at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner. I’m not using capitals because I’m not sure if that’s the official name of the event. She generated a Youtube about 20 minutes long. She spoke for quite a while.

It’s not clear to me why she was chosen. Maybe Stephen Colbert and the other high-profile talk show comics weren’t available. Maybe they won’t take the gig because President Trump doesn’t show up.

In the past, presidents have attended the dinner. Republicans attended out of a strange sense of duty. Democrats attended in order to be worshiped; it was not a hard decision for them. Trump doesn’t go, and I support his decision 100%. I have never understood why favor-currying conservatives go to events where they stand no chance of being treated civilly. They show up at events like this, hoping to be admired for courage and fairness, and they end up looking like idiots, trying to seem like they’re not offended and laughing insincerely while being showered with abuse.

Ann Coulter made the inexplicable decision to attend a celebrity roast. I think the victim was Rob Lowe. Maybe it was Chevy Chase. Anyway, you can guess what happened. The tormented souls who spoke at the show spent a huge percentage of the time ignoring the guest of honor and spewing bile at Coulter. Then many of them refused to laugh at her jokes, trying to make her look like a flop. Then our unbiased, fact-driven news industry completed the assassination by asserting that she did, in fact, bomb.

After the event, Coulter complained about the mean spirit of the event. What? It was a roast, not a prayer vigil. Forty years ago, roasts were good-natured productions during which people who seemed to like the guests of honor said mildly provocative things about them. That’s not how it works now. A modern roast generally consists of a stream of gutter comics with floundering careers, heaping vile abuse on celebrities they don’t care about and sometimes hate.

I knew roasts were disgusting. Somehow Ann Coulter was surprised. And TV is a huge part of her job!

It doesn’t pay to spend excessive time in the company of people who want to destroy you. That is common sense. It’s true that refusing to appear at the correspondents’ dinner could be expected to make journalists angry. Is that something Trump needs to worry about? It’s like Netanyahu worrying that Mahmoud Abbas will be angry if he doesn’t send him a card on Ramadan. They already hate Trump. They can’t hate him any more than they already do, and they are already doing their best to ruin his life.

Bush II worked way too hard to appease the left (probably because he’s a bit of a leftist in his personal life) and it always made him look foolish.

I just Googled to see who has appeared in the past, and the dinner doesn’t seem to attract big-time comics. It appears they never get a big name. Not lately, anyway. Since 2015, they’ve had three minor Comedy Central figures (“minor Comedy Central figures” seems redundant) and one lesser SNL alumna.

Now that Trump doesn’t go, one would expect the dinner to be even less attractive. When an adversary shows up at an event the President snubs, it makes him or her look like a jilted ex-girlfriend, sitting alone at a restaurant with a photo of the oblivious man who moved on to greener pastures. Only Clint Eastwood can make that work.

I’ll bet agents and managers advise bigger comedians not to go.

That would certainly explain how Wolf ended up in front of the cameras.

Here’s the big story: Wolf’s act was revolting. I watched a little. It was gross. It was annoying to watch, but I also felt embarrassed for her. Her material, much of which was weak as comedy, was obscene.

Every man has known an otherwise-attractive girl who repelled people with trashy or sexually explicit talk. A lot of young women try to ingratiate themselves with young men by trying to duplicate their locker room talk, and they sometimes do it so clumsily and excessively, it drives men away. Men laugh about them behind their backs. Women like that come across as needy and mentally unstable. That’s the feeling you will get if you watch Michelle Wolf. She shot for Ricky Gervais and hit Andy Dick.

There are some women no self-respecting man are willing to escort, simply because of the potential for embarrassment.

The journalists supported her. They laughed and played along. Why? Because they are hard, cynical people, and Michelle Wolf’s degrading performance is a taste of the America they hope to create. In their vision for America, this is how the correspondents’ dinner should be. Decency is something they don’t understand, although they mimic a sense of decency whenever they talk about a conservative’s sexual sins.

When you look at Wolf’s monologue, you are looking through a time portal. This is how people will speak at all sorts of public events in the near future, and our journalists will find it “refreshing” and “honest.”

Where did America go? It’s gone. Remember the place where you could sit through a TV show with your grandmother and not hear slang terms for genitalia? Remember when it was illegal to appear nude on the sidewalk in Times Square? America has never been a truly clean and moral country, but there used to be a lot of lines we didn’t cross. Not any more. Now a young woman with a college education can be paid to speak like a common whore at a televised function full of people who should be dignitaries.

That’s how things are in April of 2018, and things will never be this good again. They will continue to worsen.

God keeps showing me things about the culture I’ve absorbed and made part of myself. I’m partly responsible for Michelle Wolf. I worked hard to cultivate a dark sense of humor and to disseminate its fruit. I strove to say the vilest things I could imagine, especially in private. I even said these things to myself inwardly when I was alone and there was no one around to impress. You become what you imitate.

I listened to vile music created and played by vile, degraded people. I watched, approvingly, the filthiest comedians. I packed garbage and rot into myself as hard as I could. I even wanted to become part of the excrement distribution apparatus. I sent applications and material to TV shows. I made some disturbing podcasts. I wrote books with regrettable language in them. Thank God no one who was capable of promoting me successfully noticed my abilities. I could have ended up like Andrew Dice Clay or Kathy Griffin, poisoned by self-worship and the illusion of success. I would never have stopped. I would have propelled myself to greater depths.

It’s terrible when people succeed at things that destroy them. Elvis fell off a toilet and died exposed on the bathroom floor, obese, tormented, and full of drugs. Michael Jackson withered away and became increasingly eccentric and perverted until he had to be drugged in order to rest, and then he died in disgrace. Bill Cosby was given a free pass by the liberal press for decades while he had his way with sedated women and destroyed their lives, and now he may very well die in prison. Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Liberace, Hunter Thompson, Chris Farley, John Belushi, Howard Hughes…the devil’s talented proteges often don’t end well.

I used to feel like I had come a long way in the kingdom of God, but these days I feel like I’ve barely started. I’m still full of worldly ideas and desires. The contamination of the world occurs in layers, and I’ve only scraped off a few. The better I get, the more I see how bad I am!

When God shows me the evil in myself, I am better able to see the evil around me, and I become more disconcerted by the condition of the world. Things are much worse than we realize. Jesus wasn’t kidding; Satan truly is the god of this world, and he is now the god of America, not just places like India and Sudan. Decency appalls us. We are ashamed of it. We think evil is cute. We sponsor it just as hard as we can. Look how any people watch the Kardashians and listen to rap. America made Lena Dunham rich. If that doesn’t make you want to throw up, what will?

This morning in prayer, I kept thinking how I missed heaven, even though I had never been there. I want to be in a place of love and peace. America is immersed in an unending storm of cruelty and arrogance. The winds never die down. I am sick of it. But I earned my place here. At the moment, I can’t say I belong anywhere else.

What crass horrors will we witness before the next correspondents’ dinner? You have to wonder. The preceding year was worse than the one before, and that one was worse than the one that preceded it. All sorts of debased spectacles are hidden in the wings, waiting to be pushed onstage.

How can we fix this nation for God when we already think we’re doing great? How can you treat a disease if you think pus and scabs are healthy flesh? I’ve been praying and asking for correction for a long time, and I’m still a mess, so I wonder what hope there is for people who want absolutely nothing to do with God.

I don’t think better times are coming. The supernatural balance of power has moved too far in the direction of evil. A positive feedback loop has been set up, and we are reinforcing our faults too strongly to be expected to recover.

All I can tell you is that you should look out for yourself and the people you can reach. Some Christians say those who believe the age is coming to an end accuse feel-good, optimistic Christians of rearranging chairs on the Titanic. I suppose we do. To extend the metaphor, it seems to me that our own job is to hand out life preservers. The ship is definitely going down, and most people will sink with it, but there are still a lot of individuals who can be saved.

I don’t know if I should go live in a hole or what. The cultural gangrene is closing up over our heads.

Your Cousin’s Fraudulent DNA Test May Be Your Downfall

I always say the end of free will is near. The government and the tech industry are destroying privacy, and privacy is essential to the exercise of free will. If someone is always looking over your shoulder, and you know it, there will be many things you simply can’t do.

God created the world to be a place where people could get away with evil, at least in the short run, because freedom to do evil is essential to free will. Man is making it harder and harder for us to do evil and for us to do things that are not evil yet for which we would be punished anyway.

Here’s a great example of the things mankind is doing to destroy free will. DNA-testing companies are giving customers’ information to the cops, so if your dad took a test for fun, and you’re a burglar who left a cigarette butt at a crime scene, the law may get your dad’s information and use it to locate you.

It sounds like I’m standing up for burglary, but I chose that example out of a hat. The DNA trap could get you if you do something good, which the government doesn’t want you to do.

The fundamental premise of leftism is a perverted reflection of the fundamental premise of Christianity. We believe everything God does is good. They believe everything the government does is good. I exaggerate; they’re against certain governmental actions. But they trust the government to take care of us, and they think privacy is outmoded. They think we should all belong to a communal organism and share information with each other like cells in a body. They say things like, “If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn’t mind.”

That’s the sort of thing the Nazis used to say when they searched homes. The fact that you can’t make them understand the fascist nature of their stance shows how deluded they are and how little they know about history.

Leftists don’t like privacy, and leftists are more powerful than the rest of us, so privacy is going to vanish whether we like it or not.

The amazing thing about the DNA story is that you don’t have to be involved in order to get nailed. Related people share lots of DNA. The government doesn’t need your DNA to find you. They just need a relative’s DNA. When they find the relative, they look at his family, and you’re done.

It’s a lot like Google Contacts. Even if you don’t give them your phone number, someone else will. They’ll put your name in their list. Then Google has it, even if your number is unlisted.

My dad has a Facebook account. I looked at it, and Facebook was suggesting he “friend” a tenant. Why did Facebook think he wanted to do that? I figured it out. Facebook has his email address. It has her email address. It knows they have corresponded. It thinks they might be friends. Maybe the cops will call my dad if she knocks over a liquor store.

It’s a wonder any crime goes unsolved these days, with all the information the cops can access. They can get the DNA stuff. They can get cell records to tell them where you’ve been. There are toll records that keep track of your car’s location. There are mysterious, unlabeled sensors beside our major highways. There are cameras on many traffic lights. Lots of private businesses have cameras that face out. I’m not sure why cops ever leave the office.

I believe the feds are letting criminals go in order to conceal their data-mining power. I believe the feds and possibly state cops locate many criminals very quickly, using illegally obtained data, and then they refrain from apprehending them until they can concoct alternate explanations for their successful manhunts.

Often they’re open about using new data sources to capture people, but I’m sure there are many cases in which they kept things under wraps because their methods were too outrageous for public consumption. There are probably many cases in which they chose not to pursue criminals because there was no plausible way to explain how they were caught.

It’s human nature. Human nature is like gravity. You can’t fight it. It always prevails in the end. Hospital employees stole George Clooney’s medical records for fun. Someone leaked part of Donald Trump’s tax return. Put people in charge of sensitive information, and some of them will abuse the power.

A sad sidelight on the story: DNA tests are garbage. You send them your dried spit, and they tell you you’re half Italian and half Polish. Then you send the same spit to another company, and suddenly you’re Irish. The tests give the same DNA different results, so when your little cousin does one as part of a history project, she does nothing of value for herself, and she puts the rest of the family in a giant database the government doesn’t have to pay to build or maintain.

The tests are worthless for telling you where your ancestors came from, but they’re great for telling the cops who your relatives are.

A friend of mine was arrested because he drove a car with no registration. It was dark. Traffic was light. He wasn’t doing anything to attract attention. A cop caught him anyway. Why? The cop had a scanner that looked for tags the system had flagged. Think you’re safe because the little decal in the corner of your tag is too small for cops to pay attention to? Think again. Machinery is doing their work for them.

My friend wanted to move the car 20 miles so he could work on it at home and get it licensed. He couldn’t afford a tow truck. He only intended to drive the car illegally once, when traffic was light. He ended up with big legal troubles. He didn’t know he was under surveillance every time he got on the road.

I wonder where I’d be if the government had caught me every time I did something illegal. I’d be in solitary for the rest of my life as a repeat offender. Speeding: 20000 offenses. Parking illegally: 1000 offenses. Blowing up a dead chicken in a public place as a prank: 1 offense. Various littering charges. Putting questionable materials in dumpsters. Crimes involving fireworks. Picking my feet in Poughkeepsie. I’d never see the light of day again.

In the future, everyone will have to be perfect, all the time. That will be interesting.

There’s nothing we can do about it, but I suppose it’s good to be informed.

Wonder What Ward Cleaver was Hiding

The world has gone completely nuts. Bruce Jenner is a woman, and Bill Cosby is a convicted rapist.

He was not convicted of “rape.” The language of the law is not the same as the language of everyday life. Cosby was convicted of “indecent aggravated assault.” According to the relevant Pennsylvania statute, this means he penetrated someone who didn’t consent or who didn’t have the ability to consent (unconscious, underage, etcetera).

It appears Pennsylvania doesn’t have a statutory crime called “rape,” and that “indecent aggravated assault” is the term they use. I’m not a criminal lawyer, so I don’t know all that much about criminal offense nomenclature. I know someone who is accused of raping a child, and the charge in his case is “lewd and lascivious molestation.” I don’t know if any jurisdiction has a crime called “rape.”

Anyway, “rapist” is the correct term, based on the Pennsylvania statute. Penetration without consent is rape.

Journalists all over the US are now relieved that they don’t have to type the word “alleged” over and over when discussing Cosby. They can just say “rape,” “raped,” and “rapist.” Cosby can’t sue them for defamation. Not that he would. He didn’t sue obscure comedian Hannibal Buress when he started the snowball rolling by saying Cosby was a rapist.

Remember that? It’s interesting to consider it, because it reveals the true cause of the Cosby prosecutions. Rape wasn’t the problem. He had gotten away with rape, and he was enjoying a peaceful old age, to be followed by a quiet death and a huge public funeral full of weeping and praise. The problem was that Bill Cosby criticized young black people for behaving badly. He said young black men needed to pull their pants up. That’s what set Buress off, and Buress got people Googling. Then the public turned on Cosby, and up popped Gloria Allred and the rest.

Here’s what Buress said:

“Pull your pants up, black people, I was on TV in the ’80s. I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom.”

Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby. So, brings you down a couple notches.

Oddly, Cosby’s problems weren’t the start of the #MeToo movement. Buress called him out in 2014, and #MeToo started in 2017, with Harvey Weinstein. Somehow a billionaire or near-billionaire entertainer got called out for something many, many people in his business were doing, and everyone else kept on groping and molesting. There was no groundswell of accusation or repentance.

If Bill Cosby had joined Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, and if he had spent his weekends raging at white people through a bullhorn, would he be a convicted felon right now? No. I’m sure of it. People knew he abused women, and they weren’t upset enough to do anything about it. Almost no one cared until he ran off from the victimhood-establishment plantation.

Cosby was safe until he turned on people who assumed that, as a black man, he was a true victimhood believer. He broke with the left on an issue, so he got pummeled. That’s normal. Somehow Weinstein got nailed while he was still out there bloviating about gun control and every other ill-conceived leftist notion imaginable. That’s not as normal. And Weinstein was even more powerful than Cosby, so you would think he would be harder to take down.

Maybe the attacks on Cosby softened the targets that succeeded him.

I had no idea Cosby had done bad things when I heard about Hannibal Buress. I didn’t know Andrea Constand had sued him in 2005, even though the news had been on the web. The big-time press must have ignored it, just as they’ve ignored Al Sharpton’s defamation, his incitement of rioting, his refusal to pay his just debts, and his tax evasion.

Buress isn’t happy that he became the face of the Cosby posse. I don’t know what he expected, since he made the accusations in more than one appearance. I suppose he must have had some very lonely times since the avalanche started. A lot of black people will support any successful black person who is accused of a crime, and they will not be kind to whistleblowers. I know a lot of black people, and they tend to defend such individuals and try to prove white criminals get much better treatment.

Some black people complain because Dylann Roof was arrested peacefully while a number of black criminals have been killed during apprehension. They fail to take note of the fact that Roof surrendered without any resistance. That makes a difference.

It doesn’t ALWAYS make a difference. A very violent black criminal named Markeith Loyd was arrested while crawling to the cops on his belly, and one kicked him in the face and crushed his eye. A chopper was shooting video, and the camera operator zoomed way out and moved off of Loyd as soon as the beating started.

Anyway, there have probably been a lot of parties Buress wasn’t invited to.

It’s very sad to see someone Cosby’s age, who was formerly respected and admired, go out like this. He’s going to appeal, but he’ll probably lose, and he is still open to all sorts of civil litigation. His status as a proven rapist will make those cases easier to lose.

Remember how we used to see him? I didn’t enjoy his show because when I watched it, I felt I was being beaten with a PC strap (“Black people can be rich and intelligent! Moms are smarter than dads! Kids are smarter than dads! New York is a great place to live! New Yorkers know more than everyone else!”), but generally, Americans loved him and thought highly of him. In retrospect, he looks very different, and it’s disturbing that he chose to play a gynecologist.

It’s amazing how short-sighted and evil we can be when the Holy Spirit isn’t guiding us. Cosby is an intelligent, talented man, yet he established a lifelong pattern of a type of abuse which is not only cruel and prurient, but cowardly. It is extremely disgraceful. He was also extremely reckless. You can’t do what he did, over and over, and not expect repercussions. I can’t believe he made his bad decisions on his own. He has to have spirits egging him on. No functional human being is that crazy without help.

I’ve done things I can barely believe I did. I know what it’s like to do something so stupid you look back on it and can’t understand what was going through your own mind.

Weinstein is probably next. He has a trail of accusers, and the cops are actively preparing at least one case.

Shear Coincidence

Something weird happened in the wee hours of yesterday morning. I had a strange dream, followed by a strange event.

I always have strange dreams. Last night I dreamed I was acting in a film about an Italian family. I think I was playing an older male. Possibly an uncle. I don’t remember the details of the film, but I know it was your typical Hollywood non-Mafia Italian tripe. All the family members were eccentric and frantic. They talked with their hands and couldn’t shut up. It was a little like Moonstruck.

In the film, I was about 70, and I looked nothing like myself.

Night before last, I dreamed I had a cyst on my back, and it was a whopper. Imagine half a golf ball shoved under your skin. In the dream, I was lying in bed when I discovered the cyst. I reached behind myself and felt it. I started grabbing it and wrestling with it. I think I tried to squeeze the contents out. The cyst came loose from my body but stayed under my skin, and I pushed it down my side until it disappeared somewhere low in my abdominal cavity. I was concerned that it would come back, because it was still in me somewhere.

The strange part follows. After I woke up, I happened to touch my neck, and I couldn’t find a little cyst that had been with me since the age of 16. I wasn’t thinking about the dream. I didn’t remember the dream until I touched my neck. When I felt my neck, I thought God had healed me.

Then later on, I found the cyst again. It was very small, but it was there.

Does the dream have meaning? I do not know, but it’s strange that the thing with my neck happened the same day.

Coincidentally (or not), while I was looking at Christian material on Youtube later in the day, I saw that Tom Fischer had a video in which he healed someone of a cyst. A young woman had a cyst on her back. He said something peculiar: problems in the area of the back are often associated with worry about money.

I assume he must know something, because he has been traveling the world healing people free of charge for something like 8 years.

I do worry about money. I hate worry, and I fight it supernaturally and get free of it for long periods, but it comes back. I’ve been put in charge of everything my dad has, and I was already in charge of what I had. If there is ever a financial problem, it’s on me.

There is absolutely no reason to worry, because we have more than we need (and when you know God, there is never a reason to worry), but right now we have some real estate I want to get rid of, and that means cash is tied up and unavailable. In order to avoid lending my dad money or going into assets I want to leave alone, I have to watch his expenditures closely. Or maybe I don’t have to, but I do it anyway. I don’t want a giant unexpected bill to force me to break cash loose.

Are my groundless financial worries the reason I’ve had several cysts on my back? Search me. Interesting, though.

In other news, God showed me some more things. I will bore you with a digression about the way law works.

When a lawyer takes a case, he looks at laws, and he also looks at old cases in which judges have made decisions. Those decisions are like new laws. If a judge decides a law against littering means you can’t grow turnips in Nebraska, then that’s what it means, and lawyers are free to cite this rule to other judges to make them do what the lawyers want. The preexisting rulings are called “precedent.”

Often, a lawyer will have to create what a professor of mine called “an articulated rule” made up by combining various laws and bits of precedent. Let’s say one case says you can’t grow turnips in Nebraska, and another case says dairy cattle improved with turnip DNA are actually turnips. A lawyer whose client doesn’t want someone raising turnip-gene cattle in Nebraska will put the rules together.

God provides rules and principles that can be combined, just like terrestrial laws. Example: “He who finds a wife finds a good thing,” plus, “they that seek the Lord will not want any good thing,” means God will provide wives to men who seek the Lord. Presumably. If the Hebrew is consistent.

Actually, it is consistent. The word translated as “good thing” is the same in both cases.

Years ago, God told me this: “Authority comes from time spent in the presence of the Lord.” This is one of the reasons I try to pray in tongues as much as I can. When you pray in tongues, God prays through you, so you are always in his presence.

Yesterday, God told me this: “All peace comes from authority.”

I can’t believe I didn’t know that. It’s very obvious once you consider it.

Think about criminals. They live outside of authority. They may appear tough and intimidating, but they are afraid of everyone around them. If you’re a criminal, everyone you associate with is a potential witness. Each of them has his hand on the flush handle and can send you down the drain at will. Now think about law-abiding people. Generally, they have little to fear. A law-abiding person can insult the police and throw them off his property. Who has more peace? Obviously, it’s the law-abider.

The Bible says, “A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.”

If you have authority behind you, you have someone more powerful than yourself, protecting and supplying you. You can’t fail unless the system you represent fails.

This reminds me of the story of David and Goliath. I recall a preacher saying words to the effect that David thought Goliath was doomed because he didn’t have God behind him. The Bible backs that up.

If you look at the story in 1 Samuel 17, you will see that David, a skinny kid with no training or armor, looks down on Goliath. He says, “For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?” He thought Goliath was a loser and an idiot.

When he says Goliath is uncircumcised, he means he has no authority from God. Circumcision was the sign of a contract between God and Abraham. It obligated God to help Abraham’s seed. Goliath didn’t have that, so he was on his own. Goliath looked big, but in reality, David was the giant.

When David approached Goliath, Goliath cursed him in the names of his false gods, trying to give himself authority and support. David said he was going to kill him so people would know there was a God in Israel. He was going to kill him to demonstrate that Israel, not the Philistines, had real authority.

David was anointed. Samuel had poured oil on him and anointed him king. Anointing equals authority. An anointed person has God’s full support.

If you have God’s full support and you know it, you should automatically have peace.

If you pray in tongues and do whatever else you should do in order to spend ample time in God’s presence, you should have authority and, therefore, peace, regardless of how things look. As I said recently, God told me this: “It doesn’t matter.” He meant that my circumstances weren’t important; no matter how bad things looked, prayer in tongues would fix everything.

I need to redouble my efforts. Every time I fail in my obligation to pray enough, I get tense, and things don’t go as well as they should. It’s as though I’m spraying weed killer and pesticide when I pray in tongues. When I quit, the bugs march in, and the weeds grow.

To switch topics, I got some more understanding about correction. I am very concerned about my character. Take a look at this passage from the Revelation:

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

I don’t want to endanger my salvation. I know I have some doors that need to be shut. I can’t look at the above list and say I’m in the clear, so I’m keeping it in mind and praying about it. Apart from the salvation issue, I just don’t like what I am. It’s like living in a dirty house. I want relief.

I saw something comforting in Matthew. I was thinking about Christians who aren’t going to make it, and I remembered a certain passage, so I tried to look it up. Here it is.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Because I’m a bad Bible scholar, I didn’t find this passage at first. I came across this:

Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

That’s an interesting passage. It’s as if it were written with TV and megachurch preachers in mind, not to mention the popes. The world is full of clergymen who exalt themselves and treat people like fatted calves, and one day they will all have to account for themselves.

Look at the part about meat. That’s what made me feel better. The Lord will be pleased with those he finds giving his household meat.

What does meat symbolize in the Bible? Strong teaching. If you go to a megachurch, you get what the Bible calls “milk.” They tell you how to get saved, and then they go off on irrelevant tangents about money and positive thinking. They’re like people who adopt babies and give them milk for a while and then starve them instead of moving them on to meat.

Jesus said hard times would come before his return, and he said, “And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!” He didn’t just mean parents. He was referring to churches full of adult babies who have never been fed meat.

You need to eat meat in order to know how to fight Satan and his children, and if you follow Joel Osteen and T.D. Jakes, you wouldn’t know meat if you saw 30 tons of it in a packing plant. When the end comes, strong Christians will be praying, blessing, and cursing, with power. They’ll be receiving help and correction. The megachurch babies will be reciting feel-good mantras and donating even more money to churches, hoping they can buy God’s assistance.

Jesus said he would tell such people, “I never knew you.” That makes sense, because he was talking about people who don’t spend time in his presence.

I was comforted by what he said about meat, because whatever my failings may be, I am trying to provide meat to people, free of charge. I am trying to tell them things, based on my experience as a witness, that will get them past the foolishness and helplessness of the feel-good, Mammon-worship crowd. Maybe that will count for something when I have to answer for what I’ve said and done.

Final thing, and this is another swerve: I got a revelation about wool.

The Bible calls us sheep, and we should be looking at what it says about sheep to understand ourselves. The Bible also calls hair “glory.”

For a long time, I’ve had the notion that hair symbolizes the things that grow out of a person who is close to God. When you pray in tongues, it’s as though hair grows on you. Samson was not allowed to cut off his hair. When he did, God’s glory and presence left, and so did Samson’s protection and strength. When Jesus appeared in his transfigured form, his hair was like pure white wool.

I was thinking about that today, and I wondered: what happens when you don’t shear a sheep?

I looked it up, and I found the answer. A sheep in Australia dodged the shearers for several years. He was finally caught, and when they sheared him, he lost 89 pounds. Domestic sheep don’t shed their wool.

That interested me, because I think glory is something you have to give to God. When you walk with God, you can’t help having glory rub off on you, but it’s toxic in large amounts. It causes pride. Look what it did to Satan.

Absalom, the son of David, had a similar problem. He was close to David, and he became very proud, even though he wasn’t anointed. He tried to take David’s throne.

The psalms say a blessed man’s children will speak with the enemy in the gate. Absalom sat in the city gate and intercepted people who were friendly to David. They went to Israel to have David serve as a judge in their disputes. Absalom told them David hadn’t deputized anyone to hear their cases. He turned them against David by saying that as king, he would make sure people got justice.

He also slept with David’s wives and publicized it.

Absalom’s hair grew like crazy, and he only had it cut once a year. He was apparently very proud of it. When he was sheared, his hair weighed about 5 pounds.

When Absalom became a fugitive, he died because he got caught in an oak tree as he rode under it. His head, with all that hair, got stuck in it. Oaks are said to represent righteous men.

What happened to him is a little like the story of the ram that appeared when Abraham was excused from sacrificing Isaac. It got its horns (symbols of power) caught in a bush.

God showed me that pride has weight. Whenever you decide you can handle things on your own, and that you deserve credit, you’re picking up a weight. Credit comes with obligation. If you made something happen, you’re expected to keep it working. The more things you credit yourself for, the more weight you have to carry, and the less God does things for you.

A sheep that isn’t shorn is like a person who gathers glory to himself instead of giving it to God periodically. He ends up trying to carry a load he can’t deal with. All real success comes from God’s favor, not from our silly talents or our ridiculous hard work. Think about the story of Jacob and the striped sticks by the watering troughs.

The TV guys and the priests and popes with the $500 hats have a glory accumulation. It’s a problem. God didn’t intend for us to have ranks. He wanted every one of us to be a general, and he wanted us to give him all the credit for our deeds, so we would not be poisoned and weighted down by pride.

One more tidbit: sheep that aren’t sheared become wool-blind. Wool grows over their eyes. The world is full of Christians who can’t see past their own glory.

It’s wonderful how all of these things make sense when God explains them to you.

Your Existence is Offensive

Today during breakfast I watched a Youtube video about a woman who said she was experiencing demonic activity in her house. The manifestations she described weren’t subtle. It wasn’t the usual, “I have a bad feeling when I’m in this room.” She said she saw orbs of light in her house, and she presented a photograph. She said she saw a demon scurry into her child’s room.

The video got me thinking about my dad, who suffers from dementia. I did a little Googling to see if caregivers and doctors had stories about demonic activity in dementia patients. I figured the stories had to be out there, because medical people see supernatural events all the time.

I didn’t find any of the material I was looking for. Instead I came across a lot of links belittling people who believe in spirits. I should have expected that. Satan controls the minds of cruel people who abuse believers, and he loves using them to humiliate believers and shut them out of society.

I used to participate in a caregiver forum. I quit because the people were obnoxious to me. I didn’t push Christianity on them. They got angry at me over other things and kept accusing me and trying to put me on the defensive. This is something that happens to believers. People whose eyes are still closed attack us and drive us off, and sometimes it’s because we should never have gone near them to begin with. When you turn to God with serious intentions, your friends WILL start to disappear.

Today while I was Googling, a link to that forum came up, and I looked at it.

Some poor woman was caring for her mother. Her mother started talking in a voice the woman described as “demonic.” She said things in a language the caregiver could not understand, and then she said, “Who was that?” The caregiver asked the forum members if a demon could be involved.

An angry, unbelieving lady with some sort of position of authority piped up and “corrected” this woman, assuring her that Alzheimer’s was purely physical. Another character piled on. There was criticism of caregivers who believed in the supernatural, and the term “elder abuse” was invoked. The idea is that if you believe in demons, as Jesus and the apostles did, it is abusive to permit you to care for a demented parent. I think this notion will gain great power soon. I believe the state will eventually start taking demented parents, disabled relatives, and adopted or foster kids away from people like me.

One has to wonder how the system will function without us. Many, many nurses, technicians, and nursing assistants are Christians, and their prayers and presence help make the system run.

It’s remarkable how life has changed in the last quarter-century. Hatred of Jesus and Christians has become very overt. Our human adversaries (the puppets of Satan) used to show restraint. They were a little afraid of us, as they should have been. Our numbers were greater than they are now, and we were less ashamed of the God we believed in. These days the picture is different. Homosexuals are allowed to marry, and support for homosexual marriage has grounded a tsunami of antichrist activism.

Liberals love to talk about tolerance; this is what unpopular people do when they’re in the minority. Islamist Muslims do it as official policy. Now leftist are on top, so they openly work to rid the world of us. Right now they’re only working to rid the world of our beliefs, but eventually, as the Bible predicts, they will resort to execution. Oddly, they will be filling heaven at their own expense.

Murder is a strange and misunderstood concept. I think religious Jews understand it better than we do. Gentiles think murder means physically killing other people without legal grounds. Jews believe destroying a person’s reputation with words is murder, too.

In the latter sense, religious Jews have worked to murder Jesus, among their own people, for a long time. Many call him “Yeshu,” which is not his name. His name is Yehoshua, and the short form is Yeshua (Joshua, in English). “Yeshu” is a Hebrew acronym which means, “May his name and memory be blotted out.” It’s a curse, and presumably it is spoken and written with the hope that it will take effect.

Some Jews claim Jesus was the reincarnation of Eisav (Esau), who was an evil man who opposed Israel (Jacob). They support this using kabbalah. If you rearrange the consonants in “Yeshu” (not his name), and you add another consonant, you get a word that could be pronounced “Eisav.” Seems like a stretch, but there it is.

If you rearrange the consonants in my name, and you add a consonant, and you change the vowels, you can get “Love Satan.”

Religious Jews seem to understand that if you want to destroy a person whose influence is evil, it’s not enough to kill his body. You have to make people forget his ideas and, if possible, his existence.

Murder is a supernatural idea. It comes from the supernatural realm. The earth is the site of a supernatural, genocidal war. On one side, there are the children of light. On the other, there are the children of darkness, also known as the children of Satan. The children of darkness are always working to rid the earth of the children of light and their ideas.

God has destroyed the children of darkness directly in the past. He sent the flood to get rid of them, and he also killed the firstborn of Egypt. He killed the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. He told the Jews to kill every single Amalekite. He had Haman killed, and to show that genocide was on his mind, he had Haman’s 10 sons killed along with him, so Haman’s seed died. The Jews believe that when you kill a man, you kill the nation he would have sired, and this principle is demonstrated by God’s response to the murder of Abel. God said Abel’s “bloods,” not “blood,” cried out to him from the ground. He was referring to Abel’s descendants.

We serve a genocidal God. That sounds bad, but the race he is destroying is poisonous and without hope. It’s too dangerous to be allowed to survive, so he created hell and the lake of fire to contain it. Also, you can choose not to belong to this race at any time. You can always accept salvation and serve God, so you shouldn’t complain when you end up where you sent yourself.

Heaven is the perfect example of successful genocide. While the children of light spend eternity in a purified world, the children of darkness and the supernatural beings they serve will be imprisoned far away where they can’t be seen or heard, and it will be as though their very spirits no longer existed.

The Nazis were children of darkness. They built death camps which were parodies of God’s temple, and instead of sacrificing animals, they sacrificed Jews and their other enemies. Their genocidal impulses came from the spirit of Antichrist. The Jews are precious to God, and they have an important place in prophecy, so the Nazis and their father, Satan, tried to get rid of them. He also wanted to get rid of their memory. This is why he had the Nazis burn their synagogues and remove their tombstones.

If the Nazis had succeeded, the existence of the Jews would have been covered up over time, just as the physical evidence of the 2 million people who walked with Moses in the desert has been concealed. Satan had the Nazis burn Jews in order to destroy even their bones. He didn’t want future generations asking who the bones belonged to. No wonder. Look what Elishah’s bones did; they raised a man from the dead. And God used a field of dry bones to symbolize his dormant servants who would one day be brought to life and filled with power.

We see the same thing happening today in America, except Christians are the main victims. We are being driven out of commerce and public discourse. Merely saying Caitlyn Jenner or one of his fellow female-impersonator puppets is a man can get you fired from a job. Saying same-sex marriage is wrong can put you in bankruptcy court with no hope of resuming your career.

Sex offenders are sometimes offered chemical castration. This means they keep their genitals, but they are filled with drugs that are supposed to emasculate them psychologically and take away their lust. What’s happening to Christians is a lot like that. We are often permitted to participate in society on the condition that we cease behaving like Christians. We have to stop proselytizing, testifying, and even mentioning our faith. It’s a kind of living execution, and if it goes far enough, it becomes eternal execution. If you let yourself be pushed far enough by the spirit of Antichrist, you can lose your salvation. So mass murder, or at least coerced spiritual suicide, is already here, in a spiritual sense. The children of darkness are making us hollow ourselves out so nothing alive remains inside us.

All over the world, Christians are being murdered, physically. Muslims systematically hunt them down and execute them. Often, they are offered the alternative of spiritual suicide. If they repent and join Satan’s Islam cult, they may be allowed to live. But to be allowed to live in apostasy is to die forever, because repenting of Christianity brings damnation and eternal agony in the company of damned spirits.

One day, they will start murdering us in America, and they will offer us the living-suicide alternative.

In a way, Christians have more hope than Jews. Anti-Semitic genocide will resume, too, but unlike Christians, Jews won’t be able to save themselves. At least I don’t think so. Christianity is merely a choice. Jewish identity is physical; it’s genetic. You can renounce Jesus, but you can’t stop being a descendant of Abraham. Many Christians will save themselves from execution by accepting damnation, but Jews probably won’t have that option, except for a few who serve the enemy. There will always be kapos, until Satan decides he doesn’t need them.

The Nuremberg Laws were soft genocide. “We’re not killing you; we’re just purifying our professions.” “We’re not killing you; we’re just firing you from teaching positions in order to protect the youth.” “We’re not putting you out of business; we’re just putting signs up so people will know they’re buying from Jews.” The persecution we see now in America works the same way. “We’re not forcing you to recant; we’re just preventing you from offending other people by mentioning your faith at work.” “We’re not starving you; we’re just taking this particular career away from you.” “We’re not censoring you; we’re just refusing to let you use our social media platform.”

They’re painting the floor, and they always tell us there’s still a place where we can stand, but that place is getting smaller and smaller, and one day they’ll paint it, too.

The children of darkness are very bold about destroying Christians now, but they’re still afraid of Jews. Jews are generally leftist atheists, and during the last century or so, they have taken the suicidal position that the state is their messiah and protector. Something like 90% of American Jews vote Democrat in our national elections, even though liberals are their enemies and conservatives are their only friends.

It looks bad for the left to attack Jews directly, because leftists love to tell us Hitler was conservative and all Christians and conservatives are Nazis. Leftists are fairly gentle with Jews right now, but they’ve found a safe surrogate target: the political nation of Israel. They’re also going after “bankers,” which is code for “Jews.” While they wait until it’s safe to go after Jews directly, they will do their best to devour the Jewish nation, like the red dragon in the book of the Revelation.

Leftists are amazing. They support every conceivable type of sin and perversion, and they attack God openly over and over, yet their support for Muslims is as solid as granite. In Muslim nations, homosexuals are imprisoned and executed, women are treated like livestock, and theocracy is the primary goal and the whole point of earthly existence, but American leftists are doing their best to help Muslim nations destroy Israel.

Why are they comfortable with this level of cognitive dissonance? Because they are under the control of spirits that hate God.

Everyone is influenced by spirits. Some Christians are led primarily by the Holy Spirit. Most people, including most Christians, are led primarily by spirits that oppose God. Spirits can distort reality and pervert reason with ease; after all, they cause mental illness, including psychosis. This is why it’s so hard to evangelize. People who don’t believe in God are irrational, and the irrationality is supernatural. Reason didn’t create it, and reason can’t tear it down.

My dad has never known God, so he has been controlled by foreign spirits all his life. He has done astoundingly counterproductive things, without regret or self-examination. If demons have corrupted his ability to think, it’s no surprise. Only God preserves mental health.

It’s terrible to realize there are millions of people in America who are in the same boat, and that if our nation had good spiritual health, we could heal them without drugs. It’s worse to realize human beings who mean well hate the very notion of supernatural deliverance. It’s sad to see people persecuting the only individuals who offer real hope.