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April 2006 |
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April 1, 2006
Government, the biggest April Fool's joke. Every April Fool's Day, we expect those involved in unnecessary, fraudulent cash flows to say "April Fool! Now, we're giving you all your money back.” Our naive thoughts lead toward thinking that the Post Office will refund a quarter for every letter we've sent, approximating what we'd have paid if mail delivery was privatized. We think our local school board will return three fourths of all the property tax we've ever paid because that's amount they intentionally, and unnecessarily, took from us to put into their employees' pockets. We expect the EPA to admit that they’ve been making up all kinds of alarmist frauds and that they’ll send us a check for all the goods and services we've had to pay too much for. Innocents that we are, on April first, we expect refunds on gasoline tax for all the roads that weren't fixed, and for all the money wasted on unnecessary roads. We even think they'll be sending us a check for all the damage done to our vehicles by bad roads. On April first, we think someone will send back all the illegal immigrants. But, every April Fool's day that comes and goes only sees more practical jokes played against our bank accounts. It's likely that, on this earth, we'll never be made whole from what the merry pranksters have cost us, but that's what Judgment Day is for.
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 Living Truth Catholic Fundamentalists think that the Second Person of the Trinity is living truth. He is the perfection of the human program. He is so powerful that He can reprogram us by being in our thoughts, if we let Him. It pays to think about Him. The thoughts that we think while He is in our minds are changed, just as a cup of hot water is changed by the presence of a tea bag. He even changes the structures that think our thoughts. Mental structures are aligned, like iron filings near a magnet. As this process proceeds, our bodies follow the changes in our minds, and are put to work in new directions in accordance with The Programmer's will. Those whose souls, minds, and bodies are aligned carry this process to its logical conclusion, death and destruction inflicted by those in love with lies. We should learn from them, be inspired by them, and ask them to pray for us that we may love the Programmer more than what was programmed and be closer to Him.
Thursday, April 6, 2006 Trinity St. John reports that "In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God and The Word was God". Catholic Fundamentalists see "God" as Programmer and "Word" as the fullness of the Program in the living person of Jesus Christ. What St. John says, in Catholic Fundamentalist terms, is: "In the beginning was The Program and the Program was with The Programmer and The Program was the Programmer." Where's the Holy Spirit? He's in there, too. The Programmer and the Program are only two of the same Being's three aspects. The Holy Spirit is the actual process of Programming. It is shown by "was". That verb represents the Holy Spirit, third co-eternal aspect of God. Catholic Fundamentalists see The Trinity as Programmer (Father) , Program (Son), and Programming (Holy Spirit). As a verb, it goes between Program and Programmer, fully completing them. Without Programming, Programmer and Program would not be One with each other or work with the rest of Creation. The Trinity separates Christianity from religions that only see a duality of good and evil. In Christianity, there a Trinity of Good, Good, and Good. Catholic Fundamentalists especially understand that all evil comes from the choices of created beings who misuse their free will to invent ideas to separate men from God and from each other. Love them. It is their only hope.
Friday, April 7, 2006 Destructive Vanity The less wretched of the lost souls are motivated by the thought that they are, in some vague way, helping when they join a cause that praises them for being in it. They look not so much for truth as for popularity. A deep insecurity drives them to identify with the loudest voices. Most of them seek to do good without getting their hands dirty, spending much money, or doing anything more strenuous than occasionally pulling a lever in a voting booth. That's all the other side needs them to do. Constant repetition of a few changing lies keeps them on board with what they're supposed to believe and convinces them to vote accordingly. New lies convince them that they're up-to-date. They believe that a quick adoption of a new lie is an indication of high intelligence. Intellectual ability drops as vanity increases. Vain brains are so crippled by conflicting beliefs that they are incapable of sustained rational analysis. Catholic Fundamentalists believe that God doesn't help them because they won't ask Him to. Vanity keeps them from thinking about basics like truth and love. They believe their lies are truth and their hatreds are a helpful form of love. Praying for them is about all we can do.
Saturday, April 8, 2006 The Fathers of The Church As the original Apostles were martyred, many perversions of Christianity were introduced. False "gospels" were invented that pretended to be "Christian", but which supported heresies that were profitable to their inventors. Each of us has a tendency toward sin, and some of us are more attracted to some sins than others. In fact, at times, many of us can love one or two sins while hating the rest. Each heresy is both manifestation and justification of the sin that attracted its followers. The Fathers of The Church kept it's teachings on the straight and narrow. They did a miraculously good job. There has never been a Church teaching that contradicted what the Founder taught. The Church Fathers had an extended family to guide and protect. The best protection is closeness to Christ, and early accounts show that The Fathers of The Church provided guidance that could only have been divinely inspired. If you haven't read St. Eusebius's accounts of the first centuries, please do. Comparing that time to this is all the proof we need that The Fathers did God's will. If it were not for The Fathers, our ancestors would have never converted, and we would be living in the unending pain of paganism. We can see around the world that pagan religions are particularly painful for women and the poor.
Monday, April 10, 2006
Judas is still plotting with earthly powers The other side has concocted another of their ongoing plots against the holiness and sanctity of Christ and His Church. This one is years in the making, beginning with the "discovery" of a "new gospel", followed by its translation and all-media publicizing. The stories purport to be "fair" and "look at both sides of the issue". What that does is put lies on a parity with truth. That is their goal. Catholic Fundamentalists immediately look to the source, the National Geographic Society. We remember that this is the same group that, back in the early 1900s, reported that the new Communist government of Russia was "an enlightened step forward" even as gulags and intentional starvation were beginning. If you want to think as the other side wants, and see pretty pictures at the same time, the National Geographic is for you. In fact, St. Eusebius, writing in the third century, was familiar with many false "gospels". They were frequently written by those who saw the possibilities of personal gain by inventing their own variations of Christianity and who could obtain funds for their expensive, hand-written proliferation of outright fraud. Today, the expensively coiffed broadcasters of such drivel utilize self-important academics, many angry that they have been "overlooked" for so long, to put forth the desired point of view. That point of view is ever the denigration of truth and the exaltation of lies. Pity them, pray for them, and ignore them. Their motives are neither the search for truth nor the salvation of souls.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 The French among us. The American people are divided in two parts. One group is worried and insecure. They organize to demand job security. They are greedy for tenure, automatic raises, generous pensions, and the best possible medical care. These Americans are like the French, fearful of free markets, insecure about their own abilities, and tending to be lazy. The rest of us work in the free market. We have no job protection except what we earn. We have no value except what we produce. We have no job security. We are Americans. Self-reliant. Courageous. Bold. The French-Americans are weak and timid. They lack self-confidence and courage. The dumber of them, on the leftist fringe, hate the rest of us. The smarter among them understand how important it is to have a hard-working majority to support them. They know it's important to keep part of the economy private. It keeps them from having to compete with smarter people, who, if they didn't gravitate to challenges of the free market, would be after them and their jobs. And, as we meet the challenges of a free market in which we have to satisfy our neighbors, while being viciously taxed to pay for the better salaries and pensions of those who tax us, we give the French-Americans a source of mostly free sustenance. We free-market workers who aren't supporting revolution are in great shape, theologically. If we're not Christians, we should be. It's absolutely stupid to not get Heaven Credits for forgiving those who trespass against us.
Thursday, April 13, 2006 Cash flows The basic law of Cash Flows: Most human activity is devoted to the redirection, guarantee, and expansion of cash flows to oneself. Most legislative activity exists to regulate cash flow direction and quantity. Cash flow redirection and expansion exists on every level of human activity. The babysitter who wants to earn a quarter an hour more is the same as the billionaire looking for a new oil field. Catholic Fundamentalists understand that the babysitter who takes "lost" quarters from beneath the sofa cushions is morally similar to the billionaire who slant-drills into another's oil field. When both babysitter and billionaire consider the words Moses brought down from the mountain, "Thou shalt not steal.", our society is a better one.
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 How should cash flow? Cash should flow to those who provide goods and services their neighbors freely choose to purchase. Many private sector cash flows are clean and directed by the free choice of those involved. Coercion makes money dirty. Dirty money first contaminates, and eventually kills, its recipients. Taxation coerces money from taxpayers. In democracies, even pretend ones, citizens have the notion that they are able to exchange coercive officials for those who will protect individual rights. As we see some taxation as theft, we see more clearly. Theft is the diverting of cash into the pockets of those who reward their own physical or political strength with another's work. Those who take from others always become cruel. Cruelty is the hallmark of Communism, Socialism, and all lesser organized crime. Unfortunately, some people are unable to earn money in a free market. Such lost souls have to be taken care of. It used to take the 10% tithes of believers, collected and distributed by priests, rabbis, and ministers to maintain such people. Now that charity has become a government project, it takes coercion to maintain a growing number of people who do not produce goods or services that anyone would freely choose to buy. Cutting off cash flows to those addicted to obtaining what they have not earned is difficult. Few elected officials are up to it. So, democracies are eventually replaced by Caesars. Sometimes, that works better. For awhile.
Friday, April 21, 2006 Nice to be nice. One of the most commonly used words to describe someone is "nice". "Nice" precedes "guy" almost automatically in many conversations. We are trained to like "nice" people. Many of us want to be thought of as "nice". We're anxious that other people think that we are "nice". Most of us spend a large part of our lives wanting to appear "nice". We live in a world that values "niceness". "Nice" people are easy to get along with. They are easy to be around. No sharp edges. No uncomfortable truths, no blatant lies. We can watch as "nice" people turn their country into a tyranny rather than stand up for what they believe. Yet, who knows what "nice" means? "Nice" comes from the Latin. The early root is "nescious". It means "ignorant".
Monday, April 24, 2006 As we sow, so shall we reap. Recently, several large search engine companies helped the Chinese government crack down on dissidents. They provided software so people who spoke out for freedom could be hunted down. After these freedom-seekers were caught, they were brutalized by the police. They were pummeled with clubs and beaten with batons. To get an idea how they suffered, slam your hand in a door. Hard. When the Chinese police finished beating,kicking, and stomping them, they were put in front of a Communist judge. They were sentenced to hard labor. Imagine digging a ditch for twelve hours, being fed a bowl of rice, and sleeping on a concrete floor with, maybe, one thin blanket. Winter and summer. All us should think about spending a day like that,interrupted with beatings. Then, we should imagine seven days a week for twelve years. A few conservative Congressmen criticized the American executives who made such agonizing punishments possible. One Congressman asked the executives: "Would you have helped the Nazis find Anne Frank?" Of course they would. Catholic Fundamentalists have an ideal punishment: sentence each money-crazed American executive responsible for this suffering to exactly the same punishment they intentionally inflicted on others. If our government won't, God will.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 I John, 5:5. Who indeed is the victor over the world Jesus Christ is the most bizarre person in history. He requires belief in a completely different reality. His commands to "love your enemies" , "to do good to them that hurt you", and "render onto Caesar that which is Caesar's" show that He is utterly different from all others. If we are Christians, we believe in the Virgin Birth, the Trinity, everlasting life, and a whole host of things that distract us from the world God programmed for us. The more we believe, the more we value God than gold. As we move closer to God, we pay less attention to the things of the world. Old attractions lose their allure. Pleasing our Maker becomes more important than pleasing ourselves and others. Believing in Jesus is such a bizarre feat that each Christian is a living miracle. We have been, by some great power, lifted above the world. As we see some of those around us desperately clawing for programmed entities, we see how much greater The Programmer is. We can be nothing but grateful.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 Distance from the center. We can picture The Programmer in the very center of what He programmed. Then, we can imagine a large circle around Him. It's easy to visualize a still larger circle around that, and larger concentric circles around that. Each circle around The Programmer symbolizes a degree of faith. Its distance from The Programmer reflects the amount of truth within it. Catholic Fundamentalists believe that the Roman Catholic Church most perfectly embodies God's Truth and that it is in the circle nearest Him. The next-most faithful faiths are comprised of those Christians who believe in The Trinity. They are in the second circle. The circles beyond get farther from The Programmer exactly proportionately to amount of error in their systems. Beyond that, things get fuzzy. That's why pays to move closer to God. Friday, April 28, 2006 Everything important depends on how much we love God. Days were programmed to give us opportunities to use our free will. Every day, we choose to think a thousand thoughts. Each thought we chose to think brings us closer to God or farther away from Him. Likewise, every word we choose to say shares one of those thoughts with someone else. Each word either brings us, or our listener, closer to, or farther from, God. We decide to do hundreds of things each day. Many of those decisions take us closer to, or farther from, God. If we awaken, and think of God, our thoughts will be focused toward Him. If we pray throughout the day, our thoughts tend to stay with Him. As we try to guide our thoughts, our words, and deeds are directed toward Him, and by Him. To think of Him is to grow closer. Thoughts, words, and deeds reflect His presence in our lives. Our souls are happier. Our chances of going to Heaven are increased. |