American Parents Made This Happen

If Charlie Kirk’s barbaric, infantile killing has resulted in any good, it is that American adults are now being forced to look at the Satanic culture of our wrecked educational system.

Teachers and other school employees are making the news all over the country for celebrating Kirk’s death. It’s not a fringe phenomenon. It’s a tidal wave that covers the entire United States.

Even in conservative areas, the people who run our school system are usually leftists who hate Christianity and capitalism, and who bully students into supporting the left’s hatred or at least remaining silent.

The irony of educators publicly supporting a school shooting should be obvious even to leftists, but demons control the perceptions of people who don’t know the Holy Spirt, and they give them disdain for the truth.

God has said, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Satan agrees. That’s why he captured our educational system.

I suppose there will be scattered improvements, but overall, it will get worse. It’s nice to see that some people are outraged, but when the dust settles, leftists will still be in charge of your kids, and they will keep doing what they do. It probably won’t be long before the dominant position in American classrooms as that the firing of teachers who celebrated Kirk’s murder was an outbreak of fascist persecution.

A Firearm is Nothing to be Ashamed of

Two days after Charlie Kirk was shot, I have learned I am now allowed to carry a firearm–not just a pistol–openly in at least 32 Florida counties. The relevant court ruling was published on the day of the shooting.

That is certainly interesting.

For a long time, I have suspected that God has chosen to allow Americans to arm themselves. Gun rights have been expanding, and it seems inexplicable to me, absent a supernatural explanation.

Why would God support the proliferation and carry of firearms? I don’t know, but I can make guesses.

1. There are a lot of people here who aren’t doing a great job of receiving God’s direct protection, but he would still like to give them a chance against those who hate Christians and Jews.

2. The tribulation is coming, one of the features will be bloodshed, and the weapons the raptured leave behind, along with those possessed by others, will facilitate it.

People say Florida is a gun-friendly state, and overall, I believe that is correct, but when it comes to open carry, we have lagged behind fierce right-wing strongholds like Washington and Delaware. In fact, Florida was so backward (Or is it forward?), we were in a 4-state group along with California, Illinois, and New York. Right there with us: the crime-free paradise known as the District of Columbia.

How did we get to open carry so quickly?

A local political candidate named Stan McDaniels decided to stand beside a busy road, waving a copy of the Constitution while carrying a pistol that was clearly visible. He was trying to pick a legal fight, and he succeeded. He was arrested and prosecuted. This happened in Escambia County, in the panhandle. About as blue as a ripe tomato.

He said he wanted to take the issue to the United States Supreme Court, but that was never necessary. The Supreme Court doesn’t block open carry. Florida legislators and courts are the problem.

McDaniels was convicted and sentenced, and following his own plan, he appealed. The First District Court of Appeal ruled in his favor, and our Attorney General is not going to fight. In fact, he is thrilled.

Imagine where we would be if DeSantis had lost the election to Andrew Gillum, the homosexual pervert who was found unconscious, naked, and lying in vomit in a hotel room where he and two other homosexuals went, along with performance drugs (Trimix) homosexuals inject into their penises. Imagine the kind of attorney general we would have.

It’s embarrassing for a lawyer to admit, but I am somewhat confused about the law’s status at the moment. I never practiced much in state courts. Let’s see if I can unravel this. My legal opinion is worth what you’re paying for it, so don’t trust me.

Based on a 1991 Florida Supreme Court decision (Pardo), where there is no conflict among circuits, a ruling by one DCA is applicable to lower courts (trial courts) statewide. If there is a conflict, however, a trial court adheres to the position of the appeal court in its circuit.

The McDaniels ruling does not conflict with any other DCA rulings. Unbelievably, it was a case of first impression. What has the NRA been doing with our money all these years?

Conclusion: open carry is now legal everywhere in Florida. Problem: some jurisdictions are waiting for the decision to be finalized, so liberal counties may continue arresting people. That means the only people who can exhale with confidence are within the 1st DCA’s jurisdictional area.

The state has a certain amount of time to appeal the decision. That’s not going to happen. When the period lapses, the law will be binding on every trial court in Florida, with no weasel room for blue counties.

Could there still be a conflict eventually? I guess so. Maybe there are cases currently on appeal in other districts.

I believe these cases would have to be in the appeal process right now, since trial courts can’t send new ones up. They have to dismiss.

The 1st DCA has direct jurisdiction over 32 counties, and sadly, I’m not in one.

My sheriff has proclaimed he will not enforce the open-carry law, and so has the relevant city PD, so now I can go to Walmart with an AK slung over my shoulder if I am so inclined. Unless Walmart posts a sign, in which case they have the legal authority to make me put my gun back in my car. Regardless of the ruling, private citizens and companies have the power to ban guns on their property and thereby offend all sorts of people who like exercising a critical civil right.

Can they ban open carry while permitting concealed carry? I don’t know. If you can ban tank tops, I guess you can ban open carry.

You can tell I’m happy about the ruling. Because I want to display a rifle at Walmart? No. Open carry has an obvious drawback. It has a deterrent effect, but it would put me in a position where I would have to be extremely attentive to my surroundings in order to keep criminals from trying to take my gun. It also disturbs snowbirds and yankee transplants needlessly.

When I carry in a front pocket, I make it very difficult for a criminal to figure out I have a gun, and I also make it hard for them to take. They can’t just stroll by and snatch it.

The Second Amendment is crippled when open carry is banned, because the founders expected us to be able to carry military-grade firearms, suitable for militia service, in public. That means long guns. You can’t conceal a rifle, and Florida’s concealed-carry laws banned concealed rifles anyway.

I’m happy about the ruling because there are many situations in which open carry is appropriate, helpful, and/or important. I’m also happy because a dumb and highly technical law is a bear trap for well-intended citizens who should not be turned into felons because they’re not great at parsing statutes.

The open-carry law has been used as a tool to persecute good people who didn’t think they were doing anything illegal. It was a “gotcha” law. We shouldn’t have laws like that.

I may have violated the open carry law, and I’m an attorney. Open carry is legal on private property. I may have carried openly, illegally, while mowing my yard. In the past, I thought a little strip of property outside my fence belonged to me, and I may have carried while mowing it. That would have been a felony, because I later found out the land belonged to a neighbor.

A neighbor on another side voted for Biden, so he and his wife can’t be trusted to respect my civil rights. What if one of them had seen me out front with a Glock 20 in a Miami Special shoulder holster?

The practical answer is: nothing. My sheriff would have laughed at them if they had called, and no local prosecutor would have gone forward with the case had I been arrested. But I would have been guilty. There are 23 million people in Florida, not all are in sane counties, and even if I was in no danger, other people surely did the same kind of thing, and they could have ended up in the hoosegow.

Although my county is outside the sweet zone for now, because my sheriff and the biggest city police department have already proclaimed their intention to ignore open carry offenses, I am covered, at least in unincorporated areas and the largest metro area. I don’t know what the cops in the tiny towns and cities will do, but it seems safe to guess nearly all of them will go along.

There are only two other town departments here. One is currently letting the sheriff handle law enforcement, so no problems there. The other serves the town where I buy groceries most of the time. I have carried big knives openly there, because this has never been banned. No one cared. I would guess the police department is so small, they don’t think much about press releases regarding changes in the law.

It is interesting that the open-carry law applied to guns but not knives. A big knife is extremely dangerous in a crowded place.

I have been inconsistent, carrying a gun in my pocket and a knife visibly. I wasn’t very concerned about having the knife taken. I live on a farm, and a sheath knife is much more convenient than a folding knife, so I like carrying one. I didn’t think of sheath knives primarily as weapons, but that’s what knives are, regardless of the intended use.

The State’s Attorney’s Office for my county has not issued a statement about open carry yet, but I think I can guess where he’ll come down, assuming he wants to stay in office.

I don’t plan to carry openly, but smart people make some effort to know the law. I might need to carry openly some day, so I should know the law beforehand instead of Googling feverishly under stress.

If there is a funny side to all this, it is that some blue counties got caught in the ruling directly because they are 1st-DCA counties. The county to my north, Alachua, is home to the University of Florida, and it is heavily infected with the woke mind virus. I would guess dramatic performances are in the works. Maybe students and employees will splatter themselves with organic non-GMO ketchup and lie down in groups.

Gadsden County is overwhelmingly black and liberal, and it is also under the 1st DCA’s jurisdiction. Florida State University and our capital are in Leon County, and it is also suffering from the blue flu.

I feel like making predictions. I think that if I go to any big store this week, I will see somebody carrying openly. I think very, very few people will do it. Mainly isolated activists who feel like celebrating.

Will our new freedom result in a crime surge, as liberals are surely predicting? Of course it will, because the ban completely prevented criminals from carrying openly while shooting people, and every state that has open carry is like Mosul on a bad day. Not.

It may help some criminals plan, and there will surely be guns snatched from foolish people who carry behind their backs and so on, but overall, it will reduce crime. That’s my prediction.

The knowledge that some civilians carry concealed weapons does a certain amount to discourage crime, but criminals are generally stupid and impulsive, so some need a stronger hint. I think seeing people carrying weapons will put the fear of God (or at least Gaston Glock) into many of them.

I doubt Florida will start to look like Somalia, with shiny rifles on display everywhere. Normal states that already had open carry don’t have this issue.

The ruling was handed down by a male judge and two girls. I wonder what feminists are saying about them today. I know many are busy celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk in front of his wife and small children, so they may not have noticed the ruling.

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I thought I was right when I said the McDaniels case was a case of first impression, meaning the issue of whether Florida’s open carry ban is unconstitutional had never been considered by a Florida court. Was I right? I’m trying to decide. It comes down to hair-splitting; the reason lawyers have to go to school.

I have since learned that a 2017 Florida Supreme Court case, Norman v. State, held that the open carry ban did not violate the US or Florida constitutions. But there is a twist.

Norman was decided before the US Supreme Court’s ruling in Bruen. In that case, the court did away with a balancing test that was used in Norman. The McDaniels panel referred to this in its opinion. No balancing test, no ban.

So is the McDaniels case a case of first impression or not? The issue of the constitutionality of the ban has been considered before, but the issue of the ban’s constitutionality in view of Bruen has not. Far as I know. If you want a solid answer based on serious research, pay me.

It looks like I was wrong to think McDaniels was a case of first impression because the constitutionality of the ban had already been confirmed, but it’s still a case of first impression because it considers the issue of whether Bruen invalidated Norman. Different issue.

Gun-unfriendly counties outside the 1st DCA’s geographical area are now claiming there is a conflict between the circuits, because the 4th DCA, which decided Norman, upheld the ban. That seems disingenuous (lawyer talk for “dishonest”) to me.

The definition of the term “first impression” seems to be under attack.

I always say this: a law doesn’t mean anything until a court decides what it means. Most laymen don’t know this. If Congress passes a law saying it’s illegal to pick your nose in church, and a federal judge in Chicken Bend, Arkansas, says it really means you can’t open your gifts on Christmas Eve, it means you can’t open your gifts on Christmas Eve, within the court’s geographical jurisdiction. At least until a higher court disagrees.

Courts have been known to misconstrue laws on purpose, in bad faith. This is why there were two Brown v. Board of Education cases. The holding in the first forced Southern states to implement desegregation “with all deliberate speed,” and dishonest judges pretended that meant “very slowly.” The second case cleared this up.

Courts misconstrue laws on purpose, and so do prosecutors and the police. I think the counties that reject McDaniels are out of order.

In any case, it’s the law right now in the 32 counties under the 1st DCA’s jurisdiction, and it will remain so unless other jurisdictions manage to find a way to generate a conflict and get it before the Florida Supreme Court. Even then, it looks like it will probably be affirmed.

The Loving Left Strikes Again

It’s the Sixties in America all over again, just as many people on the left would have it; they think the disgraceful Sixties represent the peak of American civilization. Political assassinations of private citizens are back.

As far as I can tell, you have to go back to Martin Luther King and Medgar Evers to see anything like the Charlie Kirk murder. Leftists tried to murder Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump (twice), and a leftist tried to kill Republican legislators playing softball, wounding Steve Scalise. Also, a conservative nut named Vance Boelter murdered Democrat politician Mark Hortman and his wife and shot Democrat John Hoffman and his wife a number of times. But I can’t recall anyone going after a private citizen the way the killers of Evers, King, and Kirk did. As Charlie Kirk liked to say, “Prove me wrong.” I don’t know everything.

I suppose you could count the kook who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband, although that was a lot like attacking Pelosi herself. It happened in her house.

Going after government officials is, sadly, almost normal. Shooting people for debating at colleges is not.

I wouldn’t count Malcolm X, since he was murdered by his own kind. A black Muslim shot him for exposing Elijah Muhammad’s corruption.

I’m not such a fine person that I get weepy over every celebrity murder, but I was very disturbed by the news of Kirk’s death. It wasn’t just the death of a man; it was a milestone in our nation’s decline to self-destruction. It made me feel hopeless and powerless. Not for myself or my family, but for America and the world.

I was starting to work on my utility cart when I heard about Kirk. I was going to replace an axle seal and bearing. When I heard the news, all desire to get anything done and left me. I had my wife put our son in the car, and we drove to Sonny’s, where I had a cheeseburger while I considered the state of the world.

The Kirk shooting is remarkable in that the intent was to stifle speech and nothing more. Kirk did not hold office. He did not have the power to do anything to anyone. He didn’t run a ruthless, dishonest insurance company that ruined countless lives. All he did was argue with people, a hundred percent peacefully, and work to get Republicans elected. He was shot to prevent Americans from hearing conservative and Christian beliefs and to make it harder for J.D. Vance to win in 2028. He was also shot to terrify other Republican speakers and thinkers so they would stop doing their jobs.

I wonder what Candace Owens, a mother and wife, is thinking today. She’s an antisemite, and I don’t support her, but that doesn’t mean she should be shot on her way into a college auditorium. I wonder what the people at Accuracy in Media are thinking; they put sign trucks on college campuses, exposing Hamas supporters. I wonder what every member of every conservative or Christian college organization is thinking. Also, I would guess that insurance executives are even more nervous than they were last week.

Events will be cancelled. Careers will be redirected. People who would otherwise have tried to join Charlie Kirk with their own crusades will find other things to do. The shooting worked. It will make it that much easier for leftists to flood the world with their Satanic ideology. The resistance has been damaged.

Leftist public figures will not be chilled at all. They will go about their lives as though nothing had happened. That should disturb people. If the left is morally superior or equivalent to the right, why is it that only conservatives and Christians are being impacted?

Why was Kirk shot? According to the murderer, it was because he was against the transgender myth and he represented fascism. The rifle has been found, and the remaining cartridges are engraved with words revealing the cowardly killer’s motivation.

Fascism is definitely a problem in America, because many mainstream leftists are now shameless fascists. Charlie Kirk was an enemy of fascism.

The murderer gave superficial reasons for the killing. The real reason is that Charlie Kirk is more or less aligned with Christians, Jews, and Israel. He was helpful to people God cares about, and he spoke out for Yeshua, so Satan sent spirits to kill him. Satan doesn’t just go after people like Stephen and Paul. He goes after Christians who aren’t very strong. He goes after people who help Christians. He goes after people who agree with us about certain things. He goes after people who sort of look like Christians.

I consider Charlie Kirk a legitimate Christian martyr for two reasons: he was a Christian, and he would not have been shot but for his association with Christianity. I don’t consider him a minister or a man of God.

A friend of mine thinks Kirk is a great Christian because he acknowledged Yeshua at his appearances and defended the faith in debates. That’s not correct. Charlie Kirk was an ambitious man who depended on his own skills to advance political beliefs and, less centrally, to support Christianity. He didn’t prophesy, heal the sick, work miracles, or cast demons out of people. He was a carnal Christian. Debate is carnal.

Debate is not a legitimate tool of salvation. Take it from someone who is very good at debating and whose father was also very good. I debated with my dad for perhaps 40 years, debunking his irrational unbelief and hostility toward God, and I got nowhere. Then the Holy Spirit touched him as we listened to Derek Prince videos in an assisted living facility, and he came to Yeshua without my help.

Debate usually pushes people farther away from Yeshua.

Paul knew this. He was a brilliant student. He studied under Gamaliel, a top religious teacher of his time. He was zealous. He was definitely capable of argument. He told us he considered his studies and pre-salvation efforts to be feces.

He said this:

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Paul healed people, cast out demons, and prophesied. He was bitten by an adder and shook it off into a fire, unharmed. He visited heaven. Charlie Kirk was no Paul.

If argument produces a convert, it will usually be a weak or invalid convert. If argument can bring you in, it can pull you back out, and only the Holy Spirit gives people saving faith. The Bible says so.

Kirk belonged to a Calvary Chapel branch. I am familiar with this brand. I have been to their churches. I know people who have belonged and left.

They permit the activity of the Holy Spirit, but they don’t encourage it, and they don’t consider it essential to an optimal walk with Yahweh. It is essential. Christianity begins with the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit, and he perfects it.

None of this matters to Satan or leftists. If it looks like a Christian, it should be killed.

Kirk was a truly exceptional debater. I saw him work a few times on Youtube, and it seemed like there was no topic he couldn’t discuss masterfully. He could think on his feet. He didn’t get flustered. But debating is not an activity that interests God very much.

The disgusting feminist website Jezebel paid witches to curse Charlie Kirk in August. Looks like it worked. Witches have gathered repeatedly to curse Republican presidents. Have you ever heard of witches blessing conservatives or cursing leftists?

Torben Sondergaard has posted a video about Kirk, labeling him a martyr. I think he may be exaggerating Kirk’s Christian credentials a little. He also says Kirk “laid down his life.” My wife saw that and said it was not true. She is right. Yeshua laid down his life. Paul laid down his life. Kirk’s life was taken unexpectedly. He didn’t see it coming, and he would never have sat down in that chair if he had.

Torben is right about one thing: he says we should expect more killings of prominent Christians.

Of course, Christians are murdered all the time. A few days back, Muslims killed 60 in Nigeria. Torben spoke as though murdering Christians were a new thing. It’s not. But murdering us in public in America is new. That seems to be what he was referring to.

Leftists really want to kill us. They are not kidding when they go on the web and fantasize about it before the public. They truly mean it, just as Germans and Austrians wanted to kill Jews in the 1920’s. They’re just waiting for sufficient permission and approval. Those things have nearly matured to the critical point.

Tiktok is now full of videos showing joyful leftists celebrating the murder of a decent man in front of his two small children. One leftist says Kirk’s daughter is safer now that her father is dead. People are literally dancing.

An MSNBC commentator has been fired for blaming Kirk, on the air, for his own murder. “MSNBC” means “Microsoft and NBC.” It’s not a network that operates from someone’s kitchen.

In other news, the MSM has been covering for a genocidal black criminal who murdered a white Ukrainian girl on a mass transit train. He murdered her because she was white.

You must have seen the story. He sat down in a seat behind hers. He stood up, took out a knife, and started stabbing and slashing. He slit her throat, and she died. The he walked around and explained his crime. He said either, “I got a white girl,” or, “I got the white girl.” It’s not clear.

The dead woman wasn’t just white; she looked like a model from a Nazi propaganda poster. She had long blond hair and fair skin like porcelain. She was very beautiful. She was exactly the kind of person you would expect a whiteness-hater to murder.

The murder took place on August 22, and the MSM buried it. The story just came out. If you Google it, you will find multiple sites claiming there is no evidence he said he had killed a white girl. “No evidence” and “without evidence” are things the MSM likes to say when it wants to raise the bar too high and debunk the truth. Unfortunately for the MSM, there is video of the killer speaking the words they say he didn’t say. I’ve seen it.

The murderer, Decarlos Brown, is a career criminal with a dozen or more felony convictions. His mother (no word from dad, of course) says he is mentally ill and the system failed him.

Demons told him to go after white people. Somehow, we are associated with Christianity in the minds of Satan’s children. The truly disturbing thing is that respected media outlets concealed the story (as they concealed the murder of 60 Christians) and then lied about the killer’s confession, which was already in front of the public on video.

We–Christians–are not going to get a fair shake. We have never gotten a fair shake. As God said through me, “The world hates me.” Trusting and depending on the world are very bad ideas.

No one should know that better than Torben Sondergaard. When a state television station offered to film his ministry, he thought the platform would be a big help to God, and then he was victimized with a hit piece so full of lies he felt he had to flee his country.

There was such outrage in Denmark, the government passed a law about casting demons out in front of children; it is now considered child abuse.

Yeshua cast a demon out of a child, and he resurrected a child. The Danes would have had him arrested, just like the Jewish priests who arrested Yeshua and had him murdered.

Look for things to get worse. If you want protection, draw close to God. Get to know the Holy Spirit. Get serious. Try to be prepared for the rapture. See if God will help you move away from leftist areas. We are outnumbered, not just by spirits, but by our friends and relatives.

Curses work against people who are not close to God, so the closer you get, the safer you will be.

Incidentally, I am hearing weird theories about the shooting. Someone told me he thought it was a professional hit job.

There aren’t really any professional hit men, except in intelligence agencies. The idea that you can go to Facebook Marketplace and hire a multilingual genius martial-arts-and-firearms expert who knows how to make radio-controlled bombs and ricin is absurd. It’s not a real career because it’s not sustainable. There are thugs, usually clumsy, who kill people as part of their work, but there are no Jackals or Jason Bournes. They only exist on screens.

I was told the shot in the neck was intentional, to represent silencing a voice. That’s not true. The weapon was a crusty old Mauser in 30.06. It is probably a 5-10 MOA weapon. The shot was fired from around 200 yards away, by a college-aged person who probably doesn’t have a lot of training. He wouldn’t shoot for the neck. He would have shot for the chest and hoped for the best.

It is not likely the murderer took the time to have his rifle rebuilt or that he made ammunition for it, and you would pretty much have to do those things in order to hit someone in the neck with a .30-06 from 200 yards.

A real marksman would probably have picked something easier to shoot, like a precision rifle in 6.5 Creedmoor. You can buy a sub-MOA rifle off the shelf, do zero modifications, use factory ammunition, and shoot very well with 6.5 Creedmoor. It’s smarter than using your ancient, unique Mauser with cartridges you have personalized for the police.

I have a rifle that shot 22 consecutive rounds at or below 0.75 MOA at 100 yards, and I used three different types of factory ammo. Then I had to quit because it was raining.

I think the murderer is a confused, vicious young man who wears women’s underwear and loves Karl Marx. Occam’s razor.

Thank you, God, for the rapture. If I’m not here when it comes, I thank you for saving the people who will be.

“Thanks for Nothing” Would be too Kind

Gloria Copeland is dying from dementia. My wife told me.

She is the wife of prosperity preacher Kenneth Copeland. He is 88. He says he prevented his hair from turning gray by telling it not to, and he also says he and God have a deal which will keep him alive until 2056. He says he will die on his birthday at the age of 120.

While he was announcing the deal, he compared himself to an old car that had been restored, and he said certain parts had been repaired.

He also tells a story about being short of breath while getting on one of his expensive airplanes. He said he sat down and prayed, and God told him he was giving him a new heart.

He now has a pacemaker.

I used to love Kenneth Copeland back in the 1980’s. I didn’t know any better. He mixed the truth with very seductive lies, and he was an excellent speaker. I had had supernatural experiences, so I was looking for preachers who were in the same boat, so they could teach me. I was not able to sift out the truthful ones and discard the liars.

Things got worse when I got a supernatural healing by listening to Copeland. When I decided to find a church, I got a flu-like illness that persisted for weeks. I heard him say I should pray for healing and keep saying I was healed, so I did that. I was tenacious. One day, I walked into the kitchen, looked into the freezer, and saw a dark shape fly out of me and into the freezer. Then it turned and flew out of the house through a closed door. I was instantly healed of all symptoms.

It was my misfortune to get a powerful bit of truth mixed into a gruel of lies. The healing was wonderful, but it gave me the false impression that Copeland was a man of God.

It seems ironic that I got healed and the Copelands have not. I don’t think either of them seriously expected anyone who listened to them to receive a miraculous healing.

Copeland has a protege in Africa. His name is David Oyedepo. He apparently claims to have the same deal with God. He says he will die at 120. He is 70 now, so keep an eye on him for the next 50 years.

I used to listen to Gloria Copeland, too. She is also a fine speaker. Unlike her husband, she has always exuded a false aura of class and serenity. On first examination, she seems wise, mature, and gentle. Now that I think about it, I’ve seen Buddhists who come off the same way, and of course, they go to hell.

The self-righteous act is one of the most annoying thing about Buddhists. You’re supposed to be enlightened, so you act enlightened, and if you make a career of it, people pay your bills and treat you like royalty. And every truthful, perceptive person who gives you the emperor’s new clothes treatment is sloughed off as unenlightened and in need of a few more incarnations.

To be a successful Buddhist authority, you just have to smile constantly, trying to look benevolent, and pretend you’re not as upset as everyone else. That’s really true.

Another great thing about the job is that you never have to answer a question or give intelligent input. When someone makes a remark about Buddhism to you, you can grin and close your eyes, say something like, “Who can make the wind orange?”, or just say, “Yeah, mmm,” in a dreamy voice.

There is a mildly famous lady from Texas who does this act beautifully. She has a calm, hypnotic voice. She doesn’t show signs of irritation or anger. She gives ridiculous advice, like “Stop doing.”

People give her roses at her appearances, and they stand in awe and stammer rehearsed speeches about their own enlightenment process, trying to make it look like they’re “in” with the awakened one, just like she is. They work hard to say the right things, fearing she might expose them as unenlightened.

But, you know. Who can make the wind orange?

To get back to the Copelands, Gloria doesn’t know what’s going on any more. She looks fine. Always elegantly dressed and made up, as in the past. She can talk. But she has to be led around, and people have to explain simple things to her.

If she were not the wife of a billionaire or near-billionaire, she would be in a memory care unit. She will get worse and die soon.

Like many or perhaps all prosperity preachers, Kenneth Copeland has not healed anyone.

Yes, I got a healing, but I was on my own. He never prayed for me. I’ve never been in the same building with him.

I saw a recent video of Gloria Copeland with her husband. Her condition was startling, but it didn’t startle me as much as this: her husband was on the verge of tears as he spoke to her. I was shocked to see that Kenneth Copeland loved anyone other than himself and Mammon.

He makes his living making gullible people poor and buying himself airplanes he doesn’t need while they move in with their kids or go on welfare, so it was reasonable to assume he had no heart at all.

He knows perfectly well that he has destroyed countless lives. The lives of people who had less than he did and gave it to him.

It made me think of my sister, who used to send him money. It may seem odd that a narcissistic sociopath would support a ministry, but then the ministry taught selfishness, and sending money was a way to get admiration, which narcissists love.

Ever notice how sweet and full of admiration salespeople are when you’re buying expensive clothes or jewelry? That’s how crooked preachers and their employees treat people who give them a lot of money.

My sister gave preachers money. Then she quit. Kenneth Copeland’s people called her. They said they were worried about her. They didn’t worry when she was sending them money.

She was going broke fast, because she shopped but did not work. She could have used some cash to repair her house. Although it would not have helped her, a real minister would have offered counseling.

Not one ministry offered to give her back a single penny.

She gave to John and Lisa Bevere. I will give them this: Bevere’s mother called and seemed concerned. Somehow I ended up talking to her instead of my sister. I can’t recall whether I prayed with her.

They didn’t send a refund, however. They weren’t around later to help fund her cancer treatment or rehab expenses. My sister was there for the Beveres. They weren’t there for her.

“Minister” means “servant.”

I don’t know what to think of Bevere. I drove him around for a while when he visited Trinity Church in Miami. I still have his cell number. He seemed pretty sincere, and I don’t recall him pushing for offerings. On the other hand, he was a youth pastor under Benny Hinn, and he was involved in Joyce Meyer’s company. I won’t call it a ministry. He pals around with some truly slimy and dangerous preachers.

Doesn’t the Bible say God’s children should give? If that is true, why is it that when we connect with celebrity ministries, we expect them to take a lot, but it doesn’t occur to us that they might give us anything, even if we have given generously to them in the past?

The disciples had to choose deacons because they were so busy helping the poor.

T.B. Joshua’s ministry gave a lot. When my wife and I took our son to his first pediatrician, we picked a Nigerian. Somehow, we ended up mentioning T.B. Joshua to him. He told us that when his father got married, T.B. Joshua gave him and his wife 40 bags of rice.

Where is my sister’s rice, Mr. Copeland?

The charitable efforts of Joshua’s church were extensive and generous, and he lived in a modest house.

Kenneth Copeland is not very likely to live to be 120, and he will probably be a widow by 90, so living to 120 would really be a punishment.

I won’t prophesy, but I will predict. Copeland’s health will take a downturn, and he will realize he’s going to die. Then he’ll tell the world he decided to go ahead and be with his wife, deal notwithstanding. Either that, or he’ll give up public life and abandon his flock, because he never cared about them to begin with.

Yeshua spoke about religious Jews who were like the Copelands:

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

The Bible says a lot of scary things about those who swindle and those who oppress the poor. It says if you give to the rich, you will come to poverty.

Having your wife lose her mind and die is a very harsh punishment, but when you consider the hordes of people the Copelands and their friends have impoverished, it seems very lenient to me. Ananias and Sapphira were struck dead for much less.

In any case, Kenneth Copeland’s plans and his rich old age have been spoiled, and what’s in store for him afterward is much worse.

The world is really filthy. Most people have no interest in Yeshua. When you try to find him, people who claim to represent him do their best to make sure you find Satan instead. If you’re in one of the old churches, that’s about the worst of it. If you’re in a charismatic church, they also do their best to make you poor. It’s amazing that anyone gets to know God.

God Tells Everyone the Same Things

Last night before my wife and I prayed for other people, I asked her how she was feeling about the way things were going in the world. She said she felt detached.

That’s exactly how I feel.

Her sense is that this world is not a place where we can be accepted and build a future.

You turn on the TV or the PC and look at the world, and what do you see? Homosexuals, including cross-dressers, protesting in favor of Hamas, which has been known to throw homosexuals off tall buildings. Millionaire sluts rapping about their genitalia, saying things so crude, even a sailor would be grossed out. Satanists and witches praying aloud before government meetings. Transvestites reading stories to kids in libraries and schools funded by taxes. Many non-Muslim members of the United Nations accusing Israel of genocide for defending itself against…genocide. Public protests, some violent, against businesses that are Jewish but not affiliated with Israel.

Lesbians in colorful sashes, pretending to be priests, running large organizations that pretend to be Christian churches. Demoniacs vandalizing electric cars because Elon Musk helped a Republican get elected. Violence against Republicans that has become routine. Transvestites performing a big percentage of mass shootings for reasons they seem to be unable to articulate. Ads for Jaguar cars featuring sexual deviants but no cars and no normal men.

My wife watches a family on Youtube. Supposedly, this is a Christian family. She tells me they used to pray and talk about God on their channel.

Yesterday, I saw a video in which they dropped their daughter off at Berkeley, which stands out among schools dominated by left-wing insanity. They were thrilled for her. They toured her dorm floor. They went into the bathroom. It’s unisex. They thought it was funny that their daughter would be using the toilet and showers with young men.

If this is what Christians are like now, no wonder unbelievers are delusional.

I can’t send my son to Berkeley or any other far-left academic nuthouse. Any mainstream university, in other words. Imagine what they would put him through. Lectures about whiteness and patriarchy. Lectures about transphobia. If he stood up for his beliefs, he would be the most persecuted student on campus. He could never fit in or be treated fairly. He would be a target, and he would get low grades from vindictive instructors. He would be excluded from opportunities. He would receive negative recommendations. He would probably be thrown out of classrooms.

We had lunch at Costco yesterday. Costco is pretty woke. They gave us weird cup lids intended to discourage straw use, and they provided paper straws that leak and get soggy. To protect the sea turtles from plastic. In a country that dumps zero garbage at sea.

Before we visited Costco, we took my baby son to the dermatologist. They gave me a tablet so I could tell them his history. They wanted to know his gender identity. This is the second provider that has done this to us. A pediatric facility asked what my son’s preferred pronouns were.

“Detached” is the right word. We are now like disaster tourists. We are here. We observe. We can’t join, though, and we don’t want to stay. It’s like having a day pass at a mental asylum.

Both of us are aware there is no future for our family here within the system. We will live out our lives as outsiders.

This isn’t the old America. I watched World War Two veterans talking about their experiences the other day, and by modern standards, some of them sounded like religious fanatics. Mainstream guys. One said an angel had appeared to him to tell him he wasn’t going to be hurt. That kind of talk used to be considered normal.

The other day, I saw someone on the web suggesting that really smart people should be working to solve hard problems for society. Cancer and so on. As though able people owed society something. Not true.

I thought of what Yeshua said: “The poor, you will always have with you.” More broadly, he meant that the world’s problems were not going to be solved.

Mankind is cursed. It’s in rebellion. Things aren’t going to go as they should during this age, because we consistently reject the only source of real, enduring blessings. We will never have clean, cheap, inexhaustible energy. We will always have disease. We will always have violence and poverty. We will never stop doing the things that cause our misfortunes, so there is a limit to what we should do to fix the world. It’s a treadmill.

Secular solutions have some importance, but our main obligation in life is to expand the kingdom of heaven. Look after your own soul. Do what you can to help others become like Yeshua. Give to people who need help. Deliver people from demons and work miracles if God permits. You’re not really obligated to work 16 hours a day in a lab, trying to synthesize a chemical that obliterates every kind of tumor or cures AIDS.

Mary was right, and Martha was wrong.

It’s more important to help one person go on to eternal salvation than it is to fight global problems which are not going away. Salvation is permanent and priceless. Fighting worldly problems is Whack-a-Mole.

It’s hard for people who are close to God to position themselves so they have the power to do what unbelievers think is good. If you’re a genius Christian, and you try to do groundbreaking cancer research, Satan will probably see to it you end up assisting incompetent DEI hires or teaching biology to bored high school students. Satan’s kids blackball Christians.

It’s even hard to make headway in churches. I tried to work as an armorbearer. I created fantastic food for a church kitchen. I tried to get into prison ministry. I helped drive poor people to church. I shared revelation with people. My pastors and many of the other volunteers treated me like a troublemaker. They crippled and shut down programs. They promoted sychophants and nincompoops and made sure I was always an outsider.

I can’t complain. John the Baptist was a priest by inheritance, and instead of taking a position of honor in the temple, he had to live in the desert and eat bugs. Religious people beat Yeshua and had him murdered, and they murdered the prophets as well as many Jews who believed in Yeshua. A secular Jew whose father built the temple murdered John.

If you belong to God, you can’t join the herd. If you’re part of the herd, and you think you belong to God, you are deluding yourself. It’s normal for Christians to serve Satan and the flesh while claiming they’re sold out to God. Look at Chris Pratt. I could make a long list.

We always want to have our cake and eat it, too, and we are better at lying to ourselves than lying to other people.

My wife and I feel as though the end is just about here, so it doesn’t matter much what we do. America has fallen away for good. But does that mean the rapture is close? The area that is now Turkey used to be the boiler room of Earth’s Christian activity, but it went Muslim, and the world didn’t end. Europe took over the lead role in spreading the gospel, and then it turned on God, and the world didn’t end. Should America be different?

I think it is, because there is no other part of the world that can take our place. When Turkey fizzled, Europe took over. When Europe fizzled, America took over. All the other countries and continents have already been evangelized heavily, and they are not making progress. We’re not going to see China or Africa or India take America’s place.

When Europe faded, the US was ready to step in. Nobody is ready to step in now that the US is spiritually almost dead.

Chris Pratt is an interesting case. Unbelievers in Hollywood love him. He’s a nice guy, and he doesn’t make waves. That last part is important. Satan’s kids often take up for Christians who don’t make waves. If you actually accomplish anything, they go after you.

Pratt makes movies that endorse fornication. The characters aren’t Christians. God isn’t involved in the scripts.

Come on.

He’s a nice guy. A goodfella. A good old boy. Tamed and declawed.

I feel like the world is stuck, like a car that has run out of pavement and gotten stuck in mud. We seem to have reached the end of a journey. None of it seems to matter.

I don’t feel like attending to home repairs, yard work, or my other responsibilities. I don’t feel like planning. I don’t feel like watching our spending.

If the county had forced me to sell my house so it could be demolished, and I were outside waiting for someone to pick my family up and drive us to a new home, I wouldn’t run back inside and start painting the kitchen.

Maybe things will change, the rapture won’t come during my lifetime, and I’ll feel differently about the future. I hope not, though. It would be wonderful to be raptured and forget about this place.

No Wonder God Laughs

Am I the only one mystified by the AI boom? What is the purpose of making AI available to everyone who has a computer, free of charge? Why are they giving it to us for nothing? Where is the money coming from?

Google provides very annoying AI blurbs to every person who uses the search engine, without being asked. Many people look for ways to make this stop. The “feature” is called “AI Overview,” as you surely know. In addition to facts, it delivers erroneous woke lectures no one asked for. It is programmed to shame people who are correct.

It is clearly an effort to indoctrinate and pull people away from capitalism, common sense, and Christianity. We all know the Google kids are far-left social engineers who are against Yeshua; that is not news. But when did they become so militant they were willing to invest billions in a brainwashing feature that doesn’t seem to bring in money?

Why did it even occur to them to include lectures on morals and behavior? It’s very obvious that a person searching for a dry cleaner or a good hotel doesn’t want lectures written by fringe kooks.

Imagine if encyclopedias had done this. Your curious child looks up spider monkeys and gets an article shaming everyone who ever bought a product that came from a rain forest. No one would have bought them, and a set would have weighed 300 pounds.

AI is extremely expensive to produce. You probably know that “data centers” are popping up all over the US. I don’t know about the rest of the world. These are huge facilities full of computers hooked to the web. They consume gigantic amounts of electricity, and I have read they also need a lot of water. Who pays?

I’m not paying. I use Grok, ChatGPT, and Google AI (the one you actually request), and I have never paid a cent. The money must be coming from somewhere.

I suppose I should ask AI.

After a lot of babbling, Grok says:

In short, you’re not paying because companies prioritize growth over immediate per-user revenue, subsidizing free tiers through investors and high-value customers. If you exceed limits or need advanced features, that’s when payment kicks in. This model has fueled AI’s rapid spread but raises questions about long-term sustainability amid rising energy demands.

Grok also says businesses will pay for AI, subsidizing the rest of us. It says that for now, the money comes mainly from existing tech companies and investors.

By the way, you can fix your browser so you don’t see AI Overview. It’s like physically ejecting an angry, demented hippie from your living room.

Interesting fact: Google just reduced the frequency of AI Overview intrusions due to consumer annoyance. People don’t like being scolded. Wow. Who could have foreseen that?

The data centers I’ve seen in photos look like enormous, out-of-place warts on the landscape. They remind me of the machine-built structures we saw in the Matrix movies. They also remind me of hostile spaceships I’ve seen in movies about alien invasions. They seem threatening. Their presence announces the arrival of their age and proclaims that they will eventually cover a lot of the earth’s surface.

Basically, they tell me humanity’s ludicrous, pathological efforts to create shared omniscience will increase and become extremely oppressive.

I believe I’ve received revelation about technology.

To begin with, Satan has no Holy Spirit. Unlike God, he is neither omniscient nor omnipresent. Through the Holy Spirit, God can broadcast all sorts of things to all Christians. He fills us with information. He debunks disinformation. He gives us the gifts and fruit of the Spirit: wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, tongues, interpretation, love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, humility, and self-control.

Most people who call themselves Christian don’t get much of this. Most churches reject the Holy Spirit. It’s all available, though. God hasn’t changed.

If Satan wants to copy the Holy Spirit for evil, he has to rely on agents that are sent. Little spirits and people. He can also use things like the printed word, video, and audio.

Through technology, Satan has been building his counterfeit Holy Spirit. He uses phones and the web to indoctrinate, slander, curse, tempt, instigate, and so on. Electronic connectivity has been very helpful to Satan in his efforts to corrupt us and harm us.

Consumer-level AI is a big leap forward in Satan’s efforts to control our minds and emotions. It can disseminate Satan’s wokeness around the clock, even to people who have no interest in it. It can generate the illusion of a reasoned consensus that is actually a tapestry of lies and distortions intended to make people reject holiness and God and rely on machinery and other people’s apish conceits.

We copy the Internet slavishly. We get our slang, which is a powerful indicator of whom we follow, from the Internet. We follow disgusting people just because other people follow them. We buy things people recommend on the web. We migrate to and away from Internet platforms along with the herd. As AI does its work, our beliefs will become more and more homogeneous. The Internet will play the tune, and the world will dance, like Orwell’s Proles, exercising in front of their telescreens.

Technology helps fill us with demons. We can get porn free of charge around the clock now, and it gives demons the power to enter us. We get types of porn other than sexual porn. We get cruelty porn. Violence porn. Pride porn. Covetousness porn. We get secular entertainment which seems harmless yet fills us with demons. Even the news helps them get in.

Smith Wigglesworth said this about newspapers: “If I read the newspaper I come out dirtier than I went in. If I read my Bible, I come out cleaner than I went in, and I like being clean!”

That is still true today. Think of all the lies we’ve been told.

Reagan didn’t do anything for AIDS sufferers. AIDS is a big problem for heterosexuals. Tawana Brawley was raped by white cops. George W. Bush, not local politicians, was the reason for Louisiana’s poor response to Katrina. George W. Bush invaded Iraq to take the oil. There were never any weapons of mass destruction. Iraq never had enough uranium ore to create weapons. Polar bears (aquatic) are drowning because the ice is melting. Oil is running out. Ethanol is good for the environment. Paper bags are better for the environment than plastic. Obamacare will save you money. George Zimmerman is a murderer. Michael Brown was a good boy who didn’t attack the police. Antifa doesn’t exist. Donald Trump is in cahoots with Russia. Donald Trump defrauded banks. Kyle Rittenhouse is a murderer. Donald Trump is an antisemite. Joe Biden isn’t demented. Joe Biden is sharper than ever. Donald Trump is demented. Joe Biden never discussed his son’s business or met his contacts. Voter fraud is rare. Homosexuals don’t prey on teenaged boys. Transvestites are women. There is a famine in Gaza. Israel, not Hamas looting, is the reason some people can’t get food. Gazans are innocent victims of Hamas. Israel targets hospitals.

The Holy Spirit tells everyone the exact same things. There are no opinions in heaven. There is only the truth. God has no opinions. Through the Holy Spirit, he fills his people with truth. He is against the ridiculous notion of “healthy debate.” Where there is debate, someone is wrong. God is righteous, which simply means he is always right. Because he wants us to be righteous (in one accord with him and each other), he tells us the same things.

Satan is somewhat different. He doesn’t always tell people the same things. He creates Christian denominations that disagree, along with other religions. He tells some people to be atheists. He gives people differing and conflicting believes and urges. At bottom, though, he is consistent in that he always tells people things that bring disunity and pull them away from the Holy Spirit.

AI has started behaving like a god you can talk to. I think everyone has thought about talking to God and getting answers on demand. This is something we crave. We love seeing people do it in movies. With AI, now you can get answers to all sorts of questions, very quickly.

Yesterday, I asked a question about a brewing machine I bought, and AI gave me a brilliant, long, detailed answer that could have been written by an expert brewer. It read as though a human being with a personality had written it. It took a few seconds.

AI generates wrong answers all the time, but it also generates excellent answers that would take human beings hours or days to create.

It is trying to simulate omniscience.

By simulating omniscience and a global consensus, AI is applying the main tool of the spirit of antichrist: peer pressure. Satan works through the voice of the crowd. We are supposed to look up for guidance, not to the side. By preaching wokeness to billions simultaneously, Satan is creating an astroturf consensus that will drag people into its wake. We are herd creatures, and Satan uses that to destroy us.

To belong to God, you have to be willing to be unpopular on Earth. This isn’t my opinion. It’s God’s truth. He said it himself.

AI is being used to take people who don’t know the Holy Spirit and merge them into a shoddy replica of a global consciousness. Like Star Trek’s Borg. The data centers are like big nerve clusters that generate and disseminate the thoughts, emotions, and desires new generations are generally going to adopt.

I don’t know if you will own nothing and eat bugs in the future, but thanks to technology, you are very likely to be even more of a conformist than you are now. People who will read this will generally be against God, and such people will be obsessed with fitting in and being popular.

If you think human beings can fix the world, you disagree with God.

I don’t understand people who crave popularity, but apparently, it is one of humanity’s strongest drives. I saw an old video of high school students a day or two back, and when they asked kids what they were most afraid of, they mentioned not fitting in. That amazed me. How can that be anyone’s biggest fear? It’s sick.

If you have to be afraid, be afraid of God. Failing that, pandemics. Nuclear war. Car wrecks. Death. Disease. Poverty. Heights. Clowns. Being afraid you won’t be popular is evil, and it says there is something badly wrong with you. You have no moral anchor.

Everyone has a certain amount of desire to be accepted, but it shouldn’t be the center of your being. I don’t want to know people like that. They are disgusting, not to mention dangerous. They will always side with the crowd against its victims. They turn on people they claim to love. They are born liars and traitors. They’re like the kids who turned their parents in to Hitler, Stalin, and Castro.

I suppose this explains the “likes” craze. People will do things for worthless likes which they would not do for their own children.

Leftists are promoting the creation of a huge communal human organism. We are all supposed to be part of it, sharing the same beliefs and drives, working together to achieve left-wing goals created through central planning. It’s inexcusably naive. It’s practically psychotic.

I don’t want to be part of the communal organism. You can’t be part of the communal organism and also be part of God’s family. The communal organism will always pit you against Yeshua, and you owe him complete loyalty.

It will be interesting to see what happens as the data center plague covers more and more of the earth. Human individuality appears to be on the way out.

The Long View Must Prevail

A thoughtful reader asked whether it was possible I was depressed. The answer is yes, and I appreciate the question, which helped me consider the issue.

I was completely miserable during the last two days. My friend Marvin was dead, my faith was under attack, and a loving member of my household, with whom I had interacted nearly every day for 29 years, was gone, leaving a gaping hole, like a crater where the living room once was.

Something I had dreaded and dreamed about for years, which I had fought as hard as I could, had happened. My emotions were drowning me.

It made me think about Job. All the children he had hugged and loved as babies, and for whom he made daily sacrifices, had died in a moment, and his body had broken out in boils. He said, “the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.” Although his misfortune was much greater than mine, I think I understand the nature of what he felt. I don’t think he was talking about the boils. He wanted to save his children.

I am not habitually depressed, though. That hasn’t happened to me since the ordeal I went through as a graduate student, when I was away from God and pumped full of ADD drugs, socially isolated and watching my dream slip away from me despite my best efforts. That was almost 30 years ago.

I have sometimes said I was depressed by proxy, however.

I have a great life. My relationship with God lifts me up above the turmoil, worry, and failure that are inundating most people. I know I’m saved. God answers my prayers over and over. I have a wonderful wife and son. My health is good. I don’t have to work. I live in an area full of warm, kind Christian people.

On the other hand, I see the world collapsing around me. Satan won the popularity contest, and even in formerly-Christian countries, people are turning to Satan in droves. Here in America, our culture is hateful and nauseating compared to the culture of 2000, and the farther back you go for comparison, the worse 2025 looks. In videos about the 1940’s, people who were considered normal then seem like those who are considered religious freaks today.

I can’t help people. Not many, anyway. No matter how good things get for me, I can’t get other people to listen to my testimony and give the Holy Spirit a try. I have to sit back and watch them destroy themselves needlessly. I know it won’t change to the point where the tide goes the other way.

I coined the term “depression by proxy” to describe this situation. Depressed people have no hope for themselves. I have no hope for the world.

God clearly agrees with me about the world. He told us the tribulation was coming. He didn’t say it might come. It will happen.

I would be much happier if I were not surrounded by people who are doomed, but I am not depressed. Not ordinarily. I was depressed this week, and I was depressed when my other bird died, but these were brief intervals. I haven’t gotten depressed when human beings died.

One mark of depression is predicting your own future irrationally. I have been doing this to some extent. I predicted that I would be stuck here for the rest of my life, watching other people crash and burn, and I thought it would be very hard to bear. Now I am leveling off. I realize my prediction about other people was correct, but I also know God will not allow me to be miserable on a chronic basis. Depression is the opposite of joy, and the Holy Spirit provides joy. It is named as one of the fruit of the Spirit. I feel it today. It displaces grief.

I don’t feel great, but today is much better than yesterday, and things will get better as God supplies me.

My Boys Went on Ahead

Today I took a box out of my spare refrigerator, took it to an animal hospital that does cremation, and said goodbye to my little friend Marvin. I did not open the box. I have also thrown out nearly everything that had anything to do with her or my other deceased bird, Maynard. I don’t want that stuff around me. I threw out food. I threw out vet bills. I deleted emails from vets. I didn’t keep their bells or toys. Just photos and videos, as well as a few old feathers.

The hospital says Marvin will be part of a communal cremation, and then the remains will be scattered on a horse farm. I hope that is true. I can’t say it actually matters, because Marvin is not in that body.

I have lost other pets, but losing a parrot is worse. A dog is likely to be with you a dozen years. You expect a dog to die after a short time. Marvin was nearly 29 when he died, and Maynard was 30, and they were fairly young. To say I was used to having them around is an understatement. I expected them to outlive me. I felt as though they would always be there, like the walls or the floor.

My habit is to greet Marvin by exclaiming “MARV!” as I come in the door. I used to greet both birds. Now I walk in the door, and I realize no one is there, and no one will ever be there again. The greeting sticks in my throat. I keep walking.

Last night I got up to use the bathroom. To avoid disturbing the baby, I like to leave the bedroom and walk past the kitchen. I always say something to Marv along the way. Not any more.

We went to a fried chicken joint today. Usually, we ask for containers for scraps for Marvin, which he loved. Not today.

For the first time since early 1991, parrots have absolutely nothing to do with my life. That is so strange. I have old books on parrots. I belong to parrot forums. I’m used to thinking a lot about parrot food, toys, and cage upgrades. Instantly and forever, that ended.

It’s like losing a hand. You feel you can look over and see it whenever you want, but it’s not there, and it will never be there again.

A life without parrots.

I was going to take Marvin’s cage to the dump. I gave away my other cage after Maynard died. I started feeling guilty about throwing out Marvin’s cage, so I put it on Craigslist in the Free Stuff area. I thought there might be some little bird out there whose owner could not afford a decent cage.

I got emails right away. When I asked the senders what kind of birds they had, they had nothing to say. I asked because I didn’t want scammers to take the cage and then try to sell it at thrift shops or on Facebook. Three senders didn’t answer, and one admitted he wanted to flip the cage.

Of course, none of the senders admitted they didn’t have birds up front. The whole business made me feel very bad. I didn’t need to have people try to take advantage of me on this particular day.

Now, for the next two days, I am stuck with a cage I will probably have to take to the dump. I can’t get rid of it until Wednesday. Maybe someone who actually has a bird will get in touch.

As for me, I do not feel good at all.

My faith has been attacked. I stood on the word of God, and then Marvin died. I felt faith when I prayed for her, and it didn’t work. I have been talking to God, asking him to help me know what’s real and what isn’t. My wife and baby son depend on my relationship with God. It has to be sound.

I am more tired of death than ever. I can get new pets and meet new people, but I will still see more deaths, so it’s an imperfect solution.

I would say I want death for myself, to get me out of this world, but that’s not true. I don’t want to die, and I would never, ever harm myself. I just want to leave. I wish Yeshua would come get us. I want to move to a place where things that go well. A place less like Omaha Beach.

Today in one short car trip, I saw sick people and crippled people. I saw poor people who clearly didn’t have it together. I kept thinking about how much suffering there was in the world, how little I could do about it, and how I was going to keep seeing it. I know what I’m in for. I could conceivably live another 30 years, and the world will be as it is now or worse. Will I ever be able to do anything real for people? I keep asking God to use me to heal people. I would love to heal people’s children and even their pets, so they would know this world doesn’t have to win. I sound like Holden Caulfield.

I am blessed, but those around me keep dropping. Being blessed is wonderful, but if you live among people who suffer horrible fates, it’s natural to want to be somewhere else where things are different.

God has said, “A thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee; only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.” Sounds wonderful at first glance, but who wants to see other people destroyed over and over?

If it were not for my wife and son, I would be glad to leave this minute. My family is my only reason for choosing life.

When my dad was alive and I was single, I wanted to see him saved, and I wanted my pets to be taken care of. Other than that, I was happy to leave whenever God called me. Now my dad is dead and in heaven, and my pets are presumably with him. But I am still attached to this miserable planet by my family. I have to watch out for them. I have to prepare them. They are surrounded by enemies, natural and supernatural. They are swimming in a sea of lies. Abandoning them is not something that could ever be on the table.

I hope my friends and relatives do well on Earth, but I would not stay here just for them. Maybe that’s a flaw. I care more about my wife and baby.

I’ve also thought a great deal about what a bad person I’ve been and how I’ve let my loved ones and pets down. I don’t like thinking about it, but correction is like free money. I won’t turn it down. I wish I had done less evil.

I will surely feel better as time passes, but I don’t think the weariness will ever leave me. The future of this world is dim. I don’t expect the constant flow of bad news for humanity to stop or even stop accelerating.

I don’t think I’ll have much reason to mention my birds in the future.

“Marvelous” is Long for “Marv”

My sweet little buddy Marvin just left us. It was around 3:15. I had just put him in the car to take him back to the animal hospital. He was one day short of his 29th birthday.

This is something I have always dreaded. I have had many dreams about it. Now I don’t have to worry about that any more.

He was the funniest bird ever. He had incredible empathy. He read my moods. He adored me. He was far better to me than I could ever have been to him.

I didn’t deserve Marvin. This is for the best. Parrots were not created to be pets. They live too long. They’re too smart. They love too intensely. It’s better that my little friend is with Yeshua. I wish I could be there, too. I am so sick of death. I am sick of watching people destroy themselves and not being able to get them to listen to me when I try to help them. I wish Yeshua would come get us.

I don’t think Marv suffered much. He never seemed to be in pain. Even today, when he was declining, he wasn’t sad.

I may have caused this. Bad diet, maybe. Not enough sun. It’s impossible to know.

I will never have another parrot again. I don’t want the guilt of buying a pet that needs more care than I can give and which will probably outlive me. The only exception I would make would be for a rescue bird that needs a lifeline.

I wish little Doug could have known Marvin. He should have inherited him.

I call Marvin “he,” but he laid an egg when he was 26. I could never get used to “she,” and Marvin didn’t care.

I must have kissed him ten thousand times. I blessed him every morning and every night. I rubbed him all the time and told him not to worry. I held him to my face and thanked him for being here.

Yesterday he was not so sick. I took him out to weigh him and hand-feed him, and although he was weak, he refused to get off my hand. I blessed him and kissed him and thanked him again and again for being here; being mine. I asked him to stay a little longer.

I talk to him all the time instead of talking to myself. Sometimes I find myself doing it out in the yard, where he can’t hear me. I’ll have to stop now.

Thank you God, for all my undeserved blessings. Thank you for rescuing my baby bird from this horrible world. I can’t wait to be with him again, along with Maynard and all the people I know who died in Christ.

His toys, possessions, food, and medicines are on the way to the dump. I don’t want to see them. I will get rid of his cage as soon as I can.

I have contacted someone about communal cremation. I can’t bury him here. It would kill me to walk past the grave over and over. I don’t want to see his ashes. They will be scattered on a horse farm.

It doesn’t matter. He won’t be there. He is already in heaven, where he belonged from the start.

If You Don’t Want Roaches, Take the Trash Out

Derek Prince was an extraordinary preacher. He died in 2003, and I still learn things from him.

Yesterday, I saw one of his videos, and I learned that Yeshua never called Satan “the god of this world.” I didn’t learn that directly from the video. In the video, Prince said Paul (not Yeshua) had called Satan the god of this age, not the god of this world.

People like me believe that God has broken history into distinct ages. I don’t claim to belong to any particular recognized brand of Christianity, but I would say I could be considered a dispensationalist. It appears that the history of humanity, prior to the return of Yeshua, is like a week of thousand-year “days.”

Abraham existed around 4,000 years ago, and it looks like that was the start of the age of the Jews. They were God’s main representatives on Earth. Then came Yeshua, and that began the age of the Gentiles. After this age ends, we get a thousand-year Messianic Age, during which Yeshua is present on the earth in the flesh and rules as king.

God likes the number 7, and it appears to be associated with completeness. Seven days per week. Seven millennia for humanity. Seven Spirits of God. The seventh millennium will be a long sabbath, like the seventh day of every week.

Eight seems to be associated with new beginnings. Jewish boys are circumcised on the eighth day. God saved 8 people during the flood to repopulate the world.

In 2 Corinthians 4:3-4, the King James Version says:

But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

This is not correct. The Greek calls Satan “the god of this age.”

Yeshua himself called Satan “the prince of this world,” not the god.

There is some debate as to whether “god of this age” refers to Satan or Yeshua, but I think it’s safe to say it has to be Satan, because Yeshua is the God of all ages. It would be odd to call him the god of a particular age.

The Greek version of 2 Corinthians 4:4 makes more sense than the English translation. Satan won’t be in power forever. He’s an upstart, and he has to be slapped down eventually.

I believe the two millennia since the crucifixion have been the Age of the Gentiles. During this time, God revealed himself to billions of Gentiles through Christianity. Most Jews were expelled from Israel, the temple was destroyed, the Jews were dispersed, and mainstream Jews haven’t accomplished much of anything in the way of spreading the knowledge of God since before Yeshua. Meanwhile, the handful of Jews who accepted Yeshua and the baptism with the Holy Spirit evangelized millions, and Gentiles who believed them evangelized the world.

I complain to God a lot about this age. Humanity has become like a rotting trash heap. We give power and praise to astoundingly filthy people. This, in formerly Christian countries. We think abomination is good. All fornication is abomination, not just homosexual acts. Cross-dressing, idolatry and witchcraft are abomination. Pride and swindling are abomination. So is oppressing the poor. We are now solidly in favor of most of these things.

Increasingly, we are convinced we can solve all our own problems. We are like the college kids who keep telling us socialism will work if we just do it right. We never learn. We want all the blessings life has to offer, but we want them on our own terms, not God’s. We want sexual sin and pride. We want idolatry and drugs. We want to make up our own rules.

I believe the principle of rapturing doesn’t just apply to the rapture. It’s really just holiness. “But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself,” as Psalm 4 says. When God lifts the people who love him off the earth and leaves the rest behind, he will be pulling that which is holy away from that which belongs to Satan.

When God tells you to give up secular entertainment, rapturing you away from it, he is making you holy. When he helps you to hate pride and love humility, he is making you holy. When he helps you spend hours praying in tongues, he is making you holy. He is preparing you for the big jump.

This process also brings you blessings and protection. It puts you inside God’s hedge with him. The word says, “Whosoever breaks a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.”

There is a wall or hedge around you right now. You’re inside with God and humility or Satan and pride. If you’re with Satan, through rebellion and pride, more bad things will happen to you, and you will miss out on blessings. Things that may seem harmless, like listening to secular music or watching movies, can put you inside the wrong hedge.

I think clinging to worldly culture causes things like cancer, dementia, poverty, miscarriage, birth defects, accidents, attacks from criminals, and just about every other type of misfortune. We tend to think bad things should only happen to those who do things like murder, rape, and theft, but there is no Biblical basis for that idea. I think showing your kids Disney videos or watching filthy Hollywood shows and movies will suffice to attract harm.

When Job wondered why his family had been killed and his body had been disabled by disease, he named all the harmful things he had not done. He included looking at young women. Sounds harmless to us, but Job apparently understood that it was dangerous. Try and sit through a week of TV without seeing a woman dressed like a whore.

Job wasn’t ignorant. He lived for hundreds of years. He knew things we don’t know. If staring at young women was dangerous, what about all the other things we consider normal?

At my last two churches, they played secular music to convince the kids Yeshua and church were cool. I wonder how much damage they did. I remember seeing the old fool Steve Munsey dance to Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” on the stage at Trinity Church in Miami. That song is about a woman who had sex with a man in order to get him to marry her. It’s about abomination. Nobody in the Trinity hierarchy heard from the Holy Spirit, so they saw nothing wrong with Munsey’s antics.

This is normal in 2025.

I have found that the more God renews my heart and helps me feel love and empathy, the more I hate this age. I hate the suffering and failure. It makes me wonder how God, who is love itself, can stand it.

We harden ourselves and make ourselves get used to the suffering of those around us. I don’t think God wanted us to do that, but it’s a normal survival skill. We laugh at things that would have brought our grandparents to tears. I’m a huge offender. I made a deliberate effort to cultivate that type of sense of humor. I didn’t think it mattered to God.

I often pray for God to show my family evil. For example, I ask him to show us the worthless people around us, and I ask him to rid us of them permanently. It seems like he has come through. Lately, I have been asking him to show us the Spirit-led people around us, so all the exposure to the others won’t destroy our morale.

People in formerly-Christian nations are pursuing curses now, like never before. We get more and more loathsome. I find it oppressive now. I keep asking God to come now and rule.

John, who was closer to Yeshua than anyone, said this at the end of the Bible: “He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”

He was talking about the end of this age, which the Revelation describes. It’s about the decline of man, the rapture, the tribulation, the millennium, the battle at the end, and the New Jerusalem. He was telling us Yeshua had said surely, he was coming quickly. Just like me, John said, “So be it. Even so [quickly], come Lord Jesus.” John was sick of this place, too.

I have about had it with this place. I want the rapture to happen now. Today. This minute. Barring that, I have to stay as close to God as possible, because that is the only way to have the blessings, protection, and strength to tolerate this place. It’s like living in a big building with adults who run around smearing poop on the walls and furniture. Enough.

Marvin has had some ups and downs with his medical situation. He got worse a day or two ago, so I had to drive him to a hospital in Orlando. His condition has been a very unpleasant ordeal for me. It has gone on for two weeks.

I prayed on the road in both directions. I was thinking about how miserable this world is and how I still had to stay here for a while. I was trying to have faith for Marvin’s recovery.

I got stuck in a traffic jam on I-75, and I found myself behind a semi. In the dirt on the back of the trailer, someone had written, “Bee [sic] the good. You are ENOUGH! Don’t quit. Pray for my Aunts Susan + Shelly. It’s gonna be okay Love God.”

Cars and trucks were shifting positions, but this truck kept ending up directly in front of me. I had to sit behind it.

It made me think of Belshazzar’s feast. Belshazzar and his pagan buddies were in Babylon, getting drunk using the sacred vessels of God’s temple, and a finger appeared and wrote, “You have been weighed and found lacking.” As my wife put it the other day, “not enough.”

The writing on the truck used the same word. “You are enough.” I took it to mean that though I was not very good, I was doing well enough to get God’s help and make it in the rapture.

I found that and the assurance that things were going to be okay very comforting. I prayed for Aunt Shelly and Aunt Susan, and my wife and I prayed for them again last night.

What Belshazzar went through was like the rapture and tribulation. God’s protection left him suddenly, and he was destroyed.

Today Marv is doing better. I got a call this morning. He’s on a better antibiotic, and he has capable people looking after him. I am planning to move him to UF as soon as he seems strong.

I don’t know when the rapture will come, but the way the walls are closing in, it can’t come fast enough to suit me.

Democracy Eats its Children

I sometimes watch Alan Dershowitz on Youtube. For anyone who doesn’t know who he is, he was a law professor at Harvard, and unlike many professors, he has practiced law. He has defended some unpopular people, including Claus von Bulow, Jeffrey Epstein, and O.J. Simpson. People think he’s a bona fide genius. I haven’t seen any evidence of that, but he is at least very sharp.

Dershowitz, as should be obvious from his last name, profession, and accomplishments, is Jewish, and he is an ardent supporter of Israel. That last part is just common sense. Israel is every Jew’s lifeboat.

He has been a liberal all his life, and he claims he’s a liberal now, but he’s fooling himself. He refuses to use fake pronouns. He uses the term “woke” derisively. He criticizes “leftists” constantly, as though there were a credible distinction between “liberal” and “leftist.” I guess he’s saying he’s one of the “good ones.”

He has taken a step a lot of people have taken on their way to admitting they’re conservative: he has left the Democratic Party.

Dershowitz is 86, so he does not have the problem a big percentage of our population has. He knows America has not always been what we see now. He has witnessed an enormous change, and it dismays him. Unfortunately, young people are very uninformed these days. If no one says it on Tiktok, they don’t know it. I recall shocking a millennial by telling him Caitlyn Jenner was a male Olympic Decathlon winner whose picture used to be on Wheaties boxes.

Dershowitz is not happy about the antisemitism tsunami that has inundated the world. He is not happy that our academic institutions, which were havens for Jews for a few decades, are now hotbeds of Haman’s mental illness. He isn’t pleased that so many people attended an anti-Israel protest in Sydney, they covered the bridge that spans the harbor. He is disturbed to see the press repeat Hamas propaganda, uninvestigated, as though it were truth handed down from God.

I would guess that the thing that upsets him most is seeing the Democratic Party turn antisemitic. This was obvious to many people a couple of decades ago. Dershowitz has only noticed it recently, and that after having his nose rubbed in it repeatedly.

I don’t think anyone who saw the famous voice vote at the 2012 Democratic National Convention has an excuse for not realizing the Democrats were against Jews as well as God himself. Far-left eccentric Antonio Villaraigosa led the vote, and the purpose was to have “God” and “Jerusalem” included in the platform.

Villaraigosa and his masters and mistresses expected the vote to be a formality. They thought they would get an overwhelming “yes,” and that’s why they permitted the vote to be televised instead of doing it in private.

The crowed voted “no” very clearly, three times, and boos filled the venue. Villaraigosa understood what had happened, and he was caught flatfooted. He looked around to see if his handlers had any orders for him, to get him out of an awkward position. Then he lied, declaring the ayes had won.

You can’t be for God and also support tearing apart living babies. You can’t be for God and support fornication and perversion. You can’t be for God and hate Jews. This is all pretty simple.

Right now, Dershowitz is complaining because Senate Democrats, including Jewish Bernie Sanders, are calling for America to rethink its support of Israel. They just tried to block sales of arms to Israel.

Sanders used a very telling phrase: “the tide is turning.”

Here is part of his official statement, in which he speaks for the majority of Senate Democrats:

By a vote of 27-17, the members of the Senate Democratic caucus voted to stop sending arms shipments to a Netanyahu government which has waged a horrific, immoral, and illegal war against the Palestinian people.

The tide is turning. The American people do not want to spend billions to starve children in Gaza.

Gazans are not actually starving, as many videos show, and whatever lack they are experiencing is the fault of Hamas, which continues to maintain an immoral, unjustifiable war instead of surrendering for the good of Palestinians. Hamas also loots aid shipments and keeps ordinary Palestinians from benefiting.

What is the significance of the expression “the tide is turning”? It describes the process by which a mob turns against someone. It describes the effects of mindless peer pressure, uncontaminated by information and reason.

In the Bible, bodies of water represent large numbers of voices. Human beings. The Sea of Galilee symbolizes the world. The fish the disciples caught symbolize the saved. When Peter sand into the Sea of Galilee, the purpose was to show that without direct support from Yeshua, it was not possible for a Christian to avoid sinking back into the world and living under its sway.

The Dead Sea represents hell.

There is a flood washing over the world, submerging it deeper and deeper into Satan’s kingdom. It’s a tide, just as Bernie Sanders said.

The spirit of antichrist works through crowds. Crowds are not supposed to rule, but they have a long history of seizing power anyway.

If you have read the Bible, you know God is against democracy. Yeshua is the king of kings, not the president of presidents. He’s not a committee with members selected using quotas to make sure there are enough lesbians and illegal aliens. No one elected him. He was appointed by Yahweh, and the motion was seconded by the Holy Spirit.

Biblical crowds usually did the wrong thing. Two crowds of perverted homosexuals tried to rape men in the streets of Sodom and Gibeah, and the Gibeah mob raped an innocent woman to death. Dathan stirred crowds up against Moses. A crowd made and worshiped the golden calf and danced naked around it. A crowd made the decision to have Israel ruled by a secular king instead of accepting God’s priests and prophets. A crowd voted to have Yeshua tortured to death, after Pilate found him innocent. A crowd stoned Stephen to death. Crowds beat the apostles.

Generally, the good things people did in the Bible were done by individuals, often with resistance from mobs.

Exodus 23 says this:

Do not follow the crowd when it does what is wrong; and don’t allow the popular view to sway you into offering testimony for any cause if the effect will be to pervert justice.

That’s The Complete Jewish Bible’s translation.

Democracy is mob rule. In order to have a voice in the running of a country, all you have to do is be born. You can be a worthless, malicious person. You can be mentally retarded. You can be psychotic. You can be a Satanist. As long as you’re breathing and you haven’t been convicted of a felony in the recent past, you get to rule.

When Bernie Sanders talks about the tide, he is invoking the authority of a great unseen crowd. “Everyone says.” “Everyone is doing it.” “The consensus is.”

That’s the language of Satan, who is the spirit of antichrist; the god of mobs. When you can’t get something evil done on your own, you motivate the crowd, and then it gets done. This explains things like riots, gang rapes, and Kristallnacht.

Drawing authority from the crowd absolves you from blame, and it frees you to act on your ape-like urges. “I looted Louis Vuitton, but everyone was doing it.”

As to the tide of antisemitism, it is going global, and the crowd will win. Like my wife says, “Satan always gets the popular vote.” As a comedian said in a Babylon Bee video, hating Jews is cool now, so antisemites who have been hiding in the shadows are outing themselves.

Whenever you hear the word “cool,” you should be aware it was coined by the spirit of antichrist. It’s a helpful term that assists people in accepting and rejecting things without a serious rationale. Being uncool is scary to most people.

UK Prime Minister Keir “Two-Tier Keir” Starmer says the UK is going to recognize Palestine as a real nation unless Israel lets him dictate its actions in the Hamas war. As dominoes go, that’s a big one, but it should surprise no one. By and large, the British are against Christianity and Christians. Christianity is the main reason there are still any Gentiles who support Israel.

Most UN members recognize Palestine. About 75%. The UK will still be an important victory for Satan.

Dershowitz is fighting antisemitism, and while he claims he’s religious, he’s using the wrong tools: secular opposition. He writes books. He does videos. He makes speeches.

He should be looking for his Messiah, getting to know him, and trying to get supernatural enlightenment and protection for his family and any other Jews who will listen. The secular approach won’t work here any more than it worked in Austria and Germany.

Even the divine approach won’t work. Not because it’s ineffective; it’s the most effective approach there is. It won’t work, at least for Israel and Jews as a whole, because God has already foreseen that it won’t.

Zechariah plainly said all the nations of the world (not just Middle Eastern powers like Persia or Babylon) would turn against Jerusalem. That means Dershowitz is going to lose his war. He also said the women would be raped and half of the city would go into captivity.

Zechariah said that after the future sacking of Jerusalem, which is a larger picture of what happened on October 7, the Messiah would come and fight for Israel, personally. He said the enemies of Israel would receive terrible punishments. Their flesh would consume away as they stood, and their eyes would consume away in their sockets.

Zechariah also said the Jews would then recognize their Messiah, whom they had pierced, and mourn. After that, the Messianic Age comes.

Israel is not going to come around in time to prevent destruction, but there is no reason why Alan Dershowitz can’t accept Yeshua, get to know the Holy Spirit, clean up his ways, and get protection.

Yeshua spoke of this time, saying Jerusalem would be “trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” That has already happened.

The Greek word translated as “times” is kairos, which means a proper time, like a correct season. It is used to describe times of harvest, and that makes sense, because Yeshua will return when the Gentiles are no longer giving him a big enough harvest of saved souls to justify continuing the age. He will harvest whoever is ripe, and the age will end.

It’s interesting. The Jews enjoyed about 2,000 years as the spiritual leaders of the world. Abraham’s time was around 4,000 years ago, and the crucifixion took place about 2,000 years ago. Since Christianity began, the Gentiles have turned against the real gospel and accepted various Satanic decoy gospels.

To me, it looks like the Jews had their “times,” and now we have had ours.

They blew it. We blew it. But most of us still look down on the Jews and express amazement because they made a mistake similar in magnitude to the one we make every day in rejecting the Holy Spirit. We’re so smart; not like those slow-witted Jews. With all their Nobel Prizes.

It’s about time for Yeshua to return and put things in order. The Messianic Age has to come, and if the past is any guide, it should come after 6,000 years of Biblical history. Right about now, in other words.

When the rapture comes, I hope Alan Dershowitz isn’t still off course, making another useless podcast or writing another unhelpful book.

One More Chance, Please God

This is a tough day.

Marvin, my sweet little feathered buddy of 28 years, had some seizures last night. I had to hold him and consider the possibility that he was dying in my hands. Seizures can be caused by things that are reversible, like low calcium levels, but they can also be caused by worse things.

I did what I could for him last night, and he pepped up and started playing with his toys, but in the morning, he was weak, so I took him to the animal hospital at the University of Florida in Gainesville. That is where he is now, having tests and receiving care. I have been praying and commanding the illness to go. I have been speaking blessings over Marvin.

My county is extremely conservative and full of Christians. Gainesville is different. A typical university town, it is a hotbed of white-hot socialism, Trump Derangement Syndrome, DeSantis Derangment Syndrom, imperialist feminism, perversion, wicca, and, presumably, antisemitism.

My wife and I got into the car with Marv, and of course, our son had to go, too. The people at the hospital took a long history and started work quickly. They were very nice to us.

I was highly distraught last night, and I was only a little less upset this morning. Having harm come to one of my pets has always been one of my worst fears. I lost my cockatoo, Maynard, 4 years ago, and it was very, very painful. Now Marv is having problems.

It’s terrible when something you have feared and fought to prevent for decades comes to pass.

I speak blessing over Marvin twice a day, and we include him in our daily prayers. I try not to do anything to open myself or my family to dangerous spirits. I think this is the best a human being can do.

When we left the hospital, my wife asked me if I had noticed something. She saw several women who helped us, including a veterinarian, and every single one had a huge septum ring hanging out of her nose.

She didn’t see the receptionist, who was an older woman. I believe she didn’t have a ring.

Anyway, it was very disturbing to be told that 80% of the women who helped us had these off-putting ornaments. They looked like they belonged to a cult. It really bothered me. I felt like I had just discovered that I was living in a horror movie.

A septum ring is supposed to be a way of expressing your individuality and your contempt for conformity, but in reality, nothing says you’re a conformist like a septum ring.

My son, true to form, blew out in his car seat, so my wife had to use the “family” restroom to clean him up. There was a women’s room and an everything room, but there was no men’s room. I suppose that was a deliberate insult.

My wife was hungry when we left, so we went to a nearby pizza place. It was a dirty little place with good reviews.

We had to stand to order, and then we filled our own drinks and waited for the food. When I got our drinks, I couldn’t find the straws. The lids had weird openings in them, much larger than would be needed for a straw. I realized the obvious, but hoping against hope, I asked where the straws were, and a young black man behind the counter told me they weren’t allowed to put them out where people could see them. He said, “It’s kind of weird.” I nodded and told him I understood.

While we were waiting for our food, a couple of big young ladies in long dresses came in and sat near us. The dresses were very similar. The kind of thing you would imagine Auntie Em and her friends to wear back in Kansas. I think they may be called prairie dresses.

The women were not good-looking, and they had big feet. They didn’t appear to be wearing brassieres. They had fairly large breasts that needed, but lacked, support. One of them was wearing what I would call gladiator sandals. They had no makeup on. One of them had sideburns, which I failed to notice at first. I thought she had just combed her hair down in front of her ears.

They looked bizarre, dressed so oddly and so similarly. Like they had just escaped from a Mormon commune.

Soon after they came in, my wife let me know they were both men.

This shocked me. Ordinarily, trans-whatevers are obvious. I wasn’t in the mood to be observant, and I guess the sagging breasts fooled me.

The smaller guy had a great big septum ring. I believe the other guy had one, too, but I’m not sure.

A feeling came over me. It said, “This world is lost.” I realized my family lived in a precious bubble. There are children of darkness where we live, but the Christian population is very large, and the wicked haven’t been able to take over. It’s an unusual place. Gainesville is more typical of America. Although it’s small, the university’s presence gives it a culture like a big city. Most Americans live in and around cities, and almost all cities are lost.

No men’s room. No straws unless you ask for them. A hog ring in almost every nose. Men proudly wafting around in frumpy cotton dresses with little or nothing underneath. This is my country now.

Importantly, such people control the university; a type of portal just about every American is required to pass through if he ever expects to be successful and accepted. Going to college has become like joining the Freemasons. It’s like becoming a Mormon in Utah. You don’t have to do it, but expect to be blackballed if you don’t.

American kids think they have to go to college, even if they’re going to become cops or Burger King managers, and nearly every college is controlled by perverts, socialists, witches, minority members who hate whites, antisemites, militant atheists, man-haters, America-slanderers, backers of Islamist terror, and every conceivable type of pagan. “You want your child to be a success? You have to give him to US first.”

It’s like putting your baby through the fire to Moloch, except the baby comes out alive with a diploma that entitles him to a fair shot at employment as a fungible cubicle occupant.

America is done. It is absolutely finished. It’s nice that Trump won, but it doesn’t mean the climate or the trend has changed. If the Democrats hadn’t put two vegetables in a row up against him, we would be looking at a fourth Obama term. America will probably elect a Democrat in 2028.

I told my wife we have no place in this world.

I had this feeling that our situation was like living in America while we were at war with Japan, supposedly in the Pacific, and suddenly noticing that people around us here were Japanese and looking forward to taking over.

I told her about the plot of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

People have decided they don’t need God in order to have pleasant lives. Worse, they have decided God is an obstacle. They have decided he is evil and that the world will progress and suddenly make a great leap forward (to borrow a phrase) when the world is rid of Christians as well as Jews.

Somehow Muslims aren’t considered problematic, in spite of mutilating girls’ genitals with kitchen knives, beating women for going outside with their faces uncovered, and murdering and hypocritically raping homosexual men.

I don’t know why the people we saw bought septum rings, apart from conformism. Maybe one or two of them think they’re close to God, and adopting a signature adornment of the children of darkness was just error. But seeing so many of them made me feel as though I were in a horror movie, waiting for someone to send an attack signal through the rings and yank the wearers into battle by their noses. A huge swarm of nose-ringed Agent Smiths.

To say I felt left out was an understatement.

It’s normal for younger people to make the mistake of altering their dress and appearance to upset older people, but it is very strange to see so many of them choose exactly the same ornament, as though they were threatened with prison time if they didn’t comply. Back in the Sixties, young people made all kinds of ill-conceived fashion and grooming choices, but there was way more variety. There was no single accessory nearly everyone felt compelled to wear.

While I thought about these things, I thought about the way my prayers have changed. These days I keep saying, “Yeshua, please come back and rule the world.” I want to cavalry to come save us. The waters are rising around us, and I don’t know how we are supposed to carve out futures for ourselves here. I don’t want us to become like Christians in Rome under Nero and Domitian.

As I was thinking about these things, I started to feel great peace about Marvin. I want Marvin to come back home and spend more years with us, but on the other hand, this world is a very bad place, and if God has decided Marvin should not have to be here when things get worse, then that’s how it is. Even a bird should not have to suffer here more than is necessary.

In somewhat-related news, I heard from my aunt the other day. The one who has been so abusive, and whom I believe uses the stubborn unsold remains of my grandparent’s estates to enrich herself and her family. She called about selling an inconsequential piece of land.

She couldn’t have been nicer. She behaved as though she had never attacked and insulted me, and she clearly expected me to act as though it had never happened.

I was polite.

She wanted to know if I still had my wife, which was a jarring question.

Now that I think about it, I guess it makes sense. I think her has been married three times. I have met three wives. There may have been others for all I know. Adultery and divorce are like musical chairs in her area. In most places, you ask a man how his wife is doing. In Eastern Kentucky, you ask if he’s still married to her.

My wife will have to sign things in order for the lot to be sold. Ostensibly, this is how she came into the conversation. My aunt asked if she were here with me. In America, I think she meant.

She asked about children, and I told her we had a son. She asked for photos, so I sent a couple, and she said he was “the cutest baby,” which is actually true. She asked if she could forward the pictures to her daughter, which was fine by me.

Before she hung up, she said it was good talking to me.

That could be the Parkinson’s talking for all I know. She has admitted she has some dementia because of it, and maybe she doesn’t remember insulting me and telling me she was going to do whatever she wanted with my inheritance regardless of my wishes. Strange thing for a fiduciary to say.

She likes bragging about her family; people whose relationships with me she helped end permanently. She told me she had an enormous grandson who was being recruited by Harvard for football as a high school sophomore. Harvard actually does that, although Ivy League schools don’t offer athletic scholarships.

My aunt’s family has had the misfortune to fall under the spell of Catholicism, the quasi-pagan and dominant branch of nominal Christianity. Her daughter married a Catholic, and my aunt converted. The city where my cousin lives has several prominent Catholic high schools dedicated to producing pro athletes, which is an extremely perverse goal for a Christian organization.

I don’t believe or disbelieve her. I don’t know what the truth is. This is the same aunt who said her daughter was likely to become Miss Kentucky, which wasn’t anywhere near true. She also said her son had been accepted by the University of Michigan’s prestigious law school when it was actually the University of WEST Michigan, which is the single worst law school in America. He ended up going to the second-worst.

Maybe the boy really is being courted by Harvard. This is not a school known for good football teams, so it wouldn’t be that remarkable if a big, smart kid who was playing pretty well in the 10th grade seemed like a fine prospect. They can’t get really good athletes because they all go elsewhere.

My understanding is that his dad is an accomplished individual and a good family man.

It amazes me that any Christian allows his son to play high school or college football, and no Christian should be in the NFL. Football takes a toll on the body, it causes brain damage, most players don’t get rich, most who get rich lose their money, it develops negative character traits like aggression, competitiveness, materialism, and pride, and it subjects players to armies of aggressive sluts. Combine all this with the fact that college and NFL football only exist because of gambling, and it’s a very unwholesome picture.

I thought about the horrible atmosphere at Harvard. I would not be happy if Harvard wanted my son. I want him to have a business and investments, and I want him to have a wonderful Christian wife and Spirit-led friends. I don’t want him to be tormented and assimilated by sick, vicious freaks for three years and eight months at my great expense.

She said another grandson was getting degrees in anthrolopogy and archaeology. I said, “I guess he’ll be a professor.” I thought that sounded positive.

Try and imagine a field more worthless and anti-Christian than anthropology. And archaeology sounds like employer repellent to me.

I had to take anthropology as an elective while I was getting a physics major and a math minor, and I found the whole business contemptible. The professor taught us made-up, implausible, unclever theories from a thin paperback text, and my studies for the entire semester took up less than one day. The final was a multiple-choice test. I got an A for breathing. Physics took about that much work every week. Physics was so hard, math seemed like a gut major in comparison. I spent about 4 hours a week doing homework for multiple advanced math courses, and I put in several times that much work for physics.

These things I say are literally true. Even good physics students are often unable to finish their homework, and my math courses, while hard by college standards, at least generated homework people could reasonably be expected to complete in a few hours a week.

With math homework, you quit when you know the problems are solved. With physics, you quit so you can get three hours of sleep before showering and going to class. You hope everyone else did as badly as you did, and usually, they did.

At the University of Texas, as a grad student, I asked my quantum professor about a particularly hard problem he had given us. I found it so hard to finish the math, which, I believe, was a long string of vector operations that would be easy to fumble, I bought a program called Mathematica and made my computer do it. I didn’t know if the result was right. I felt panicked.

He told me he hadn’t been able to do the problem. He asked me what I had come up with. True story.

His CV says he got his master’s at Cambridge with first class honors. Cambridge is where Newton and Hawking worked. Couldn’t do the homework he assigned.

His name is Fitzgerald. He’s still there. I should fly out there and egg his house.

Anthropology is just gossip, like the Talmud or the theories aborigines made up around campfires to explain their universe to their children. Giving your life to it is an appalling waste. It’s an insult to God, like playing golf. It says you have no idea how valuable your time here is.

It’s like going to college to become a phrenologist.

It also challenges the creation story, which is factual.

I’ll give you an example of anthropological science. You can Google to find out the actual details so you can repeat them in a comment as though you’re smarter than I am, although I’m actually just too lazy to check. A theory named after someone who may be named Hanson or Hansen says that people close to the equator have dark skin and long limbs, while the opposite is true in colder regions. Well…Eskimos. Mongolians. Thais. Indonesians. Slavs. Scandinavians. Amazon Basin Indians. See if you can see how they violate the theory. That’s some great science, that is.

Archaeology is a legitimate field of study. My main problem with it is that every time shaky research tends to discredit the Bible, it is lauded as proof, and then years later, the research is always discredited, after the damage is done. And academics who have been shown up don’t make any effort to inform the public. People keep quoting their nonsense decades later as though it were fact.

By its very nature, archaeology is incomplete. We have only dug up a tiny fraction of what’s out there. But archaeologists love to draw firm conclusions based on fragmented evidence.

These fields are bad choices. You shouldn’t pay for your kids to throw away years of their lives so they can become Uber drivers or do data entry, which is where liberal arts people often end up unless they become academics and try to join the opposite sex. Or they go to law school.

My mother got a degree in social work, so she had to become a realtor. You know those people you end up talking to when you call Mastercard about a charge you don’t recognize? Liberal arts majors.

If you want to have a revealing conversation, get together with a bunch of college graduates at least 35 years old and ask them what their majors were and what they do for a living. See how many of those history majors became historians. See how many of those philosophy majors became professional philosophers.

I don’t know this grandson. His name was not familiar to me because my family’s interest in including me in anything dried up and fell off years ago.

The family I loved and treasured lives only in my memories. He must be my aunt’s son’s son. I don’t know his siblings’ names or how many of them there are. I couldn’t pick him out of a lineup. I hope he finds a career that pays well. We prayed for my aunt’s whole family last night.

College should serve some purpose, but I would estimate that for most kids, it does not. I think most college kids major in fecklessly-chosen dead-end fields. The lofty notion that learning for its own sake justifies college rings a little hollow when the learning can cost half a million dollars and leave you years older, penniless and in uncancellable debt, filling out applications at Marshall’s and Walmart.

Liberal arts degrees made little sense even before the Internet, but now you can stuff your head with all sorts of knowledge all day for nearly nothing, so why would you pay someone thousands to tell you what Huckleberry Finn and Pride and Prejudice were about? And then end up not reading them and cramming from Cliff’s Notes.

Before I gave up secular entertainment, I saw some clips from a movie called The Company Men. It’s about a company that built ships. The white collar employees weren’t brilliant naval architects and engineers. They were unremarkable people who did work anyone could do. Negotiation. Sales. Submitting TPS reports.

Future AI targets.

America’s manufacturing base collapsed. Nobody wanted to build ships in America. The company cut lots and lots and lots of jobs.

Ben Affleck played a young executive who made 6 figures, had a nice house the bank owned, drove a Boxster the bank owned, and belonged to a country club. He was cocky. He thought he was important and too valuable and just plain wonderful to fire. Then they canned him without warning, and after being rejected by a long list of potential employers, he ended up getting a pity job from his brother-in-law, a carpenter.

I watched this movie and thought, “What do you expect to happen when you get paid a ton of money to do a job anyone else can do? What do you expect to happen when you’re not remarkable, you got a liberal arts degree, and you never developed any actual skills or learned anything useful?”

If this were a real company, the people who had important skills and knowledge that couldn’t be picked up in a month by a random Circle K clerk would have kept their jobs to the bitter end. If the company had gone under, other companies would have gone after them. They wouldn’t have chased the sociology or art history majors.

A doctor can always find work. An accountant can always find work. A guy who writes conjecture-filled papers about Sumerian poetry is not so blessed.

To circle back around to the point, I don’t see how anthropology and mainstream archaeology could have any importance to a Christian. They promote all sorts of faulty anti-Christian notions, and to make it in these fields, you pretty much have to buddy up to people who hate your religion. I don’t think an informed Spirit-led Christian could want anything to do with these fields.

My cousin the lawyer is not Spirit-led. That is obvious. The most reasonable guess is that his son is far from God and never had a chance to get to know him. I have a feeling law school is in his future.

I feel extremely distant from my family. They live in a different universe. Nearly all of them are in real trouble, but they don’t know it. I wish I could help them.

When my dad died, I took his ashes to Kentucky to be buried. He had an astonishing testimony of conversion and reconciliation with God. At the sparsely-attended viewing, I told the whole story to my cousin the lawyer as well as his wife and another male cousin. Didn’t make a dent. My aunt wasn’t there, but I’m sure I told her the story by phone, and she only got worse after that. One cousin visited me for Christmas the following year, and I baptized her in my pool, so I have hope for her.

I have heard from the animal hospital, and at the time of the call, Marv was perking up. They had run a number of tests. Marv had eaten a little. They seem to expect him to make it through the night.

What a privilege it has been, owning that sweet little bird. I have been a miserable excuse for a caretaker. I hope God sends Marv home to me so I can do better and better every day.

The Rapture Starts Within You

Today is an unusual day. The alarm baby failed to go off. I had to wake up on my own.

Usually, at least an hour before I want to wake up, I hear burbling and cooing sounds behind me, and I roll over to see a little head about 6 inches away from my face, with two happy little eyes staring right at me, like I’m the sky and it’s the Fourth of July. It’s the heir apparent, who has yet again conned his way out of the bassinet and onto the bed.

After this comes a certain amount of squeezing and poking the baby, who literally screams with joy at the top of his lungs. Both of his parents have loud voices, and our genes have done their stuff.

The message is clear: this guy does not yet fully understand the rottenness of the planet he came to.

Having a son has taught me all sorts of things. One thing it has taught me is that adults understand how filthy and cruel this world is, even if we deny it to ourselves every day. You can see this in the products we create for babies and the advice we give each other.

Just about everything sold for babies is covered with comforting images. Puppies and kittens. Lion cubs sitting on clouds. Flowers. Little frogs who look overjoyed to see us. Pastel colors are the norm.

We are obsessed with helping babies relax. Products say “soothing” on their labels. Experts create videos telling us how to relax babies and make them feel safe.

The songs we sing to babies are delusional. Mr. Raccoon took a walk to the meadow to dance with all his bunny friends. Stuff like that.

Why do we do this? Because we know this world is vile and that we are in grave danger every second of our lives. When we tell kids to relax because everything will be okay, we’re lying to them to keep them from understanding the world until they’re strong enough to stand living here.

We don’t put unicorns and happy bunnies on our own things (most of us), because it would be pointless, but we dedicate a tremendous amount of effort to relaxation. We go to spas to relax. Catholics go on retreats. Pagans meditate. Lots of people get drunk, smoke weed, and use narcotics. Christians pray. We create products that are supposed to relax us.

Why do we do these things? There is a need; thats why. If the world weren’t a terrible place, we’d be relaxed already.

It’s amazing how often we make ourselves stop looking at the ugliness of the world. All through the day, we are confronted with murder, war, disease, accidents, crime, and so on, and, realizing there is nothing we can do and that we will not be able to function if we keep focusing on danger and evil, we choose to think of other things. This isn’t the way a healthy world works.

God has told us what a world that functions correctly looks like. Here is what he said through Isaiah:

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Through John, he said:

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

This is what the world will look like after the tribulation, when Yeshua rules here in person.

Religious Jews claim Yeshua can’t be the Messiah because these things haven’t happened yet. They believe the Messiah will not be killed and then return, but that’s wrong. The Bible clearly says he will be cut off. Jewish scholars have made up a lot of spurious interpretations of prophecy to justify their bad decisions and to absolve their forebears of the sin of killing Yeshua as they killed other prophets.

Modern Christians would hate Yeshua if he returned, and Christians persecute people who hear from the Holy Spirit, so it makes no sense to single Jews out, especially given that no Jew who took part in the crucifixion is alive now.

It’s strange that we don’t persecute Italians, when Romans were the ones who scourged Yeshua and nailed him to the cross.

Imagine a world where you don’t have to lock your doors, create passwords, take vaccines, support armies, carry a gun, or buy insurance. Imagine walking through Harlem at 3 a.m. and being greeted by friendly people instead of being sent to the hospital or the morgue. Imagine a world without Muslim terror or Islam. The world we have now is repulsive.

I hate this place more every day. It reminds me of moving out of Miami. Miami got to where every day there was oppressive and distasteful, and then one day I drove away and put it behind me. And I never missed it. I hate Miami more now than when I left, and I haven’t been there since 2020. If a friend of mine gets married or has a funeral in Miami, I will send flowers and stay here.

As much as I love the county where I live, I hate the world, and I feel like I’m holding my breath until the rapture comes.

Now I have a wife and a baby son, and I have to look after them in this nasty place. My son is innocent. He is full of joy. He loves his parents. Worse, he trusts us, even though we can’t save him from all suffering. My heart aches to protect him. Having a family makes the world seem even more foul.

I have quit looking at the news and secular entertainment again. I tell people to avoid secular entertainment because it brings curses and evil spirits into homes, but I was looking at Youtube clips of movies, and I realized this was hypocritical. The farther I get from my connection to filth, the more God restores proper perspective, and the better I understand the depravity of the world.

When I think of human depravity, I always think of a story I saw on Yahoo News. The Kardashian sisters had a contest. Two of them were arguing over whose genitalia smelled worse. They provide samples, and the third sister was the judge. And a national news outlet covered it, just like it would have covered groundbreaking for a skyscraper 70 years ago. As if it were normal and acceptable to put such “news” in front of the public.

Mind you, the Kardashians made the press cover it. Journalists didn’t magically realize they were sniffing each other. An insider had to tell them. The Kardashians had someone call around and tell the press they were smelling each other’s crotches. That’s the kind of people they are.

The public didn’t rise up in arms. No one protested outside Yahoo headquarters. No one marched to have the filthy Kardashian show canceled. No one called for fasting and prayer. These things would have happened in a healthy nation. If these revolting sluts had had their contest in 1950, the ensuing scandal would still be famous today.

Now, female entertainers rap about the wonders of their infected private parts and those of their many partners, and their garbage becomes major hits parents let their kids listen to. Kids have smartphones, and they send each other homemade child porn all day. Parents pay deranged doctors to castrate their sons, and about half of Americans get furious when anyone says it’s wrong.

The generations that understood decency are mostly dead now. My generation is depraved, and the ones that came after are much worse.

I’ve noticed something about environments with a high turnover rate, like schools. Consider an elementary school with a fiery 6th-grade president who promises change. Do the teachers worry? No, they sit back, smile, and wait. They know the problem student will leave, and the students who follow will have no idea he ever existed.

Satan works the same way. He comes between generations. He convinces stupid kids they’re smarter than their elders. He cuts young generations off from the accumulated wisdom of earlier generations. The world has had many reformers. Abraham, Moses, Samson, Josiah, the prophets, Yeshua…their reforms generally get undone after they go. The people who remember how things are supposed to be die.

This may be hard to believe, but Americans didn’t always avoid and make fun of older people. The phenomenon of hating our elders and repudiating their teaching is so new, they popularized a term for it in the 1960’s: the Generation Gap. I used to hear this term all the time, but I’ll bet there are very few 40-year-olds who have heard it. Now, we accept the fact that young people consider “boomers” stupid and backward, and we assume earlier generations felt the same way about their elders. It’s true that people have always complained of differences between generations, but the hostility and contempt we consider normal now are aberrations.

Satan had to have the Generation Gap in order to convince Cher’s mentally-ill daughter to have her healthy breasts amputated. The extreme and accelerated moral deterioration we see now couldn’t have happened so quickly without a change in the way we saw older people. Satan had to get us to defecate on everything valuable and embrace everything that is full of pus and poison.

I don’t think today’s young adults can possibly comprehend how young people were worshiped during the 1960’s. People a few years older than I was lectured and scolded their elders. Showbiz pea-brains marveled at the genius of youth, because there was good money in juvenile rebellion. People who should have had better sense treated conceited twentyish simpletons as though they knew all the answers. College kids celebrated terrorists and communists, but we thought the children would lead us to the Age of Aquarius and everyone would get peace, love, and free dope.

Many older people got involved. It was pathetic. Actors and singers from earlier years saw their fan bases vanishing. They realized they were becoming figures of ridicule. They put on idiotic Sixties clothes, tried to sing rock songs, and imitated the spastic, forced jerking that passed for dancing among children and college kids. Cary Grant started taking LSD and telling people it would solve their problems.

Young people are supposed to sit at the feet of the old and absorb everything good that they know, so they live in victory and don’t repeat the devastating mistakes of their predecessors. In the Sixties, university presidents groveled before screaming, vicious, spoiled morons in bell-bottom pants and tie-dyed shirts, apologizing for the accomplishments and virtues of two thousand years of Christian culture.

Now the same basic thing is happening again, and the people groveling learned their behavior from the Sixties.

It’s a shame young people can’t see how their grandparents behaved in 1968. They can’t see how stupid and silly they were. If they could, they might have less respect for fashionable idiocy and more respect for wisdom that stood the test of centuries.

It’s impossible to make people understand the profundity and breadth of modern depravity if you can’t make them understand America as it once was. They think, “Okay, Boomer,” and they continue wallowing joyfully in disgraceful, ungrateful, unteachable ignorance.

Deep in their hearts, they know their ways are wrong, and they know the world is a mess, but as long as they can smother the truth and prevent it from filling their thoughts, they will keep doing what they do.

Kids think boomers ruined the world by preventing what kids call progress. That’s wrong. We ruined it by promoting it. We just seem like we’re against it when we are contrasted with the nuts and brats of today.

Sometimes I feel like I should do nothing but pray for the rapture and tribulation all day.

Next Progressive Move: Replace “York” with “Nuremberg”

Years ago, God showed me that when human behavior makes no sense, it means there is a supernatural reason. We think our natural intelligence guides our decisions, but in reality, we are surrounded by demons that push us all the time, and only people who are led by the Holy Spirit are safe. This is why we have seen insane behaviors like the massacre of the Jews by two of the world’s civilized and advanced countries.

Jewish people are generally atheists, and very few know their Messiah or the Holy Spirit. They are also high-priority targets for Satan because God has a special place in his heart for them. As a result, they are under heavy demonic influence, and they exhibit bizarre self-hating and self-destructive behavior. This is particularly true in politics, where they have helped their enemies a great deal. For example, they supported the communist revolution in Russia, and then Jews in the USSR endured decades of persecution.

Here in the US, Jews commit gradual mass suicide in polling booths every year. For a long time, it has been very clear that American leftists have become enemies of Jews, and it is equally obvious that the only powerful friends Jews have in the world are American conservative Christians, yet Jews continue to perceive conservative Christians as closet Nazis, and they hold onto the perverse belief that leftist politicians are their saviors.

The Jews are the smartest people there are. Testing has proven it over and over. Their accomplishments prove it. Natural intelligence hasn’t helped them figure out politics. They are blinded by demons because they can’t hear the Holy Spirit, and many religious Jews think their Messiah, who has made it plain he wants to save Israel, is a sorcerer who boils in feces and semen in hell.

Now it looks like they are going to assure the election of a New York mayoral candidate who hates Israel, supports a movement that drives the beating of Jews by the general public around the world, believes the Twelfth Imam will rise and take over the world for Islam, and intends to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu for some reason or other if he ever visits the city.

New York is a giant leftist bedpan where Democrats have a 6-to-1 advantage, so there is no possibility a conservative will win the race. That makes it a contest among leftists, and Zohran Mamdani has already won the Democrat primary, decisively. Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams plan to run as independents, but if they had any chance of winning, they would probably have beaten Mamdani in the primary.

Jewish voters make up about 13% of the electorate in New York City, so there is no way Mamdani won without widespread support among Jews. This should not surprise anyone. Jews are prominent in the pro-Hamas movement in America, so no one should be shocked that many of them voted for someone who advocates for pogroms.

Mamdani endorses the slogan, “Make the intifada global.” For millennials who don’t know anything, I’ll point out that “intifada” is a term that was used in past decades to describe the practice of attacking, beating, and killing random Jews in Israel.

Deceitful apologists, many Jews among them, claim it describes peaceful resistance, but I was alive back when the term was first popularized, so I remember what really happened. While there was peaceful resistance, there were also riots, murders, beatings, and many acts of terrorism against innocent Jews. This is what people my age recall when they hear the word. This is what we saw on the news.

Calling the intifada peaceful is like using the phrase “mostly peaceful” to describe domestic-terror riots perpetrated by BLM and Antifa. Every riot is mostly peaceful. World War Two at its height was mostly peaceful. When violent conflicts occur, the actual violence is generally concentrated to small areas; 9/11 was mostly peaceful. Calling the intifada peaceful is like having a single huge cancerous tumor and saying you are mostly well.

In Europe, the word “pogrom” is used to describe activities consistent with the intifada. A pogrom is a violent attack on Jews and/or their property. During the rise of Hitler and World War Two, and even afterward, Europeans in Germany, Austria, and even some non-Axis nations popularized pogroms.

This is what Mamdani supports, openly. It wasn’t leaked by a witness to private conversations. It doesn’t come from a “hot mike” moment. He is happy to stand in front of cameras and say it.

He also endorses the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” This is literally a call for ending Israel and ridding it of all Jews. Israel stretches from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, and Palestine does not.

Antisemites like to claim they oppose Israel’s actions, not Jews as a people. That’s a lie. Intifada isn’t limited to Israel, Israelis, or the Israeli military. It’s aimed at all Jewish people. Random pedestrians in traditional Jewish garb. Anyone who wears a yarmulke.

It’s like the “pro-Palestinian” movement in the US, which has manifested in protesting Jewish (not Israeli) businesses and terrorism against Jewish (not Israeli) individuals in America.

I think Mamdani will win, and it will be a lot like the moment at the 2012 Democrat Convention when, in a voice vote, attendees voted overwhelmingly against including the terms “God” and “Jerusalem” in the DNC platform. Antonio Villaraigosa presided over the vote, and when the crowd voted, he knew what it had voted for. He looked around for help from his superiors, and then he lied and claimed the vote had gone the other way.

To honest observers, this was a pivotal moment, because it put the Democratic Party’s blossoming hatred of God and Israel on full display. When Mamdani takes office, leftist Jews will have their noses rubbed in the antisemitism of the political faction they support as though it were God.

New York should be a shocking spectacle after Mamdani takes over. Battles between ICE and the police. Mobs at tax-funded grocery stores. Real groceries shutting down. Perverts ruling the city even more than they do now. Jews afraid to go outside. White people concerned that they’re next, as they pay taxes expressly aimed at them in violation of federal law. But most Jews will continue voting for Democrats. Of that, you can be assured. Short of building crematoriums, there is nothing the DNC can do to alienate them.

New York City has the second-largest population of Jews, after Israel. If this can happen in New York, how can anyone be safe in our other cities?

Grieve Bad Company Instead of the Holy Spirit

This morning, I prayed for more internal rapturing.

I believe there will be a rapture. I believe God will literally remove his children from the world when he decides the abuse they put up with is no longer acceptable when juxtaposed with the number of new salvations they produce. After that, the tribulation will come. The harshest period of evangelism in the history of the world. People will be tormented so badly, those who can still be saved will drop their pride and pretense and go on to be with God. The rest will prove themselves incapable of changing, and they’ll go on to burn.

Those who belong to God will get some relief. Being around useless people is vexatious.

I also believe people who will be taken in the rapture will be ready because God will have worked inside them to cut their ties to this world. They will be eager to get out. They won’t be popular. They will be disgusted and wearied by the world’s culture. They will love God as a person, and they will love being near him. They won’t just obey rules and hope for the best. To me, this is internal rapturing.

A lot of Christians seem to think God will reach into the seats at porn theaters and filthy rap performances and pull people out just because they participated in altar calls in years past. They think he’ll grab people who support abortion, disgusting perversions, pride, and socialism. They believe he’ll take lukewarm people who are full of earthly ambition. All of that is wrong.

One of the great things about my life is that God has separated me from society. He got me out of Miami, which is a disgusting, sinful, coarse, lowbrow city, and he moved me to the reddest, most Christian county in Florida. He gave me income without work, so I don’t have to network with other lawyers and keep my Christianity stifled in order to avoid trouble. He gave me a wife who knows him. He helped me shed horrible friends who weren’t friends at all, and he replaced them with people who know him.

When I prophesy, I keep hearing him say he is destroying the world’s ways in me. I’m all for it. I can’t change myself, but I do want to be changed. I want more internal rapturing.

Today I prayed about it, and later on, while I was thinking of other things, I started deleting electronic contacts.

My wife and I have a WhatsApp group I created so our friends could keep track of her delivery. We kept the group going, and people like seeing updates on my son’s progress.

I think of WhatsApp as a texting app, and I always say I don’t have social media accounts, but to some degree, WhatApp is a form of social media. It allows you to post “status” updates that vanish after 24 hours. This never appealed to me until recently, but my wife posts statuses, and sometimes my friends do.

I started posting a few things. Then I saw that someone I knew from my last church was looking at my statuses, and she posted a few of her own.

We were friends. She said all sorts of things that made her seem passionate about God. But she was also sexually provocative, and she posted odd things on Facebook. For example, she called her brother her “side piece.”

She and her husband had marital issues, and afterward, she started putting up Instagram photos of herself in bathing suits and exercise clothes. I don’t know if her kids saw them.

I guess things are going badly for them again, because she just put up some statuses of herself, and they didn’t look promising. In one, she was doing a sexually suggestive dance with her teenage son. In another, she was in her car in a bikini and cutoffs, with the zipper of the cutoffs pulled down and spread. She was shaking her breasts. She had a big tattoo on her belly, and it continued under her bathing suit, so it’s a crotch tattoo.

She is looking for a husband. I posted a status consisting of a photo of my son. Later, I blocked my view of her statuses.

Today I thought about her, and that’s why I started deleting contacts. I have known this lady for 15 years, and I deleted her. She is not going anywhere with God soon, and I don’t need to see her lewd videos.

I’m not angry with her, but what am I supposed to do with a friend like that?

In law school, I had a friend who was very seductive. She told me about her bedroom adventures with multiple people. She loved the perversion series Queer as Folk, and she got me to watch it. I thought it was gross, because it was. She said I was homophobic.

She ended up moving to LA and becoming an entry-level employee at a big talent agency. She borrowed money from me while she was getting established, and I never saw it again. Women don’t repay loans. I visited her there once, and her friends were off-putting. Snippy gays. Shallow people. The kind of LA people who often wake up on other people’s couches and chairs.

She visited South Florida once and took me to lunch, and I told her how I had changed. I told her about my new life as a reformed Christian. She said she could see I had peace, and she was glad for me. She clearly was not interested in making a change in her own life.

On one occasion, she called me and said she was pregnant. She talked about how a child would derail her career. She wanted advice. I told her I couldn’t go along with abortion. When she asked why, which surprised me, I said I was a Christian. That made her angry. She said, “So am I!” She had her baby killed.

She ended up working as a minor network executive. I just looked, and it appears that after that, she became a freelance TV producer. That sounds like gig work. She is credited with 4 shows between 2016 and 2021, for a total of 44 episodes. At present, she is the president of a production company that has been around since 2019 and hasn’t gotten much of anywhere. It was started by a B-list movie star.

She wanted to be a big player. It seems like she sold herself out for a pretty small payout.

I’ve known her for 31 years. I like her. We got along well. We had a lot of fun. I deleted the contact today. It’s final. It would be very hard for her to locate me if she wanted to reestablish contact, and I won’t be looking for her, so she’s gone.

I deleted other nominal Christians. Our relationships had no future, so why not? I won’t see them again here on Earth, and I probably won’t see any of them in the afterlife. There is no point in continuing to invest myself in them.

While I was deleting contacts, I thought about the prayer I had prayed a little earlier. God was granting my request. I was being raptured internally.

The world has gotten so old; so polarized. I can’t believe God will let is wait much longer. There seems to be so little left here for his children.