2011/03/16 – The Anti-Christ Has Come!

 

Who is the Antichrist, and why are people taking to You Tube to tell us who he is? At the time of this blog post, there are 66,100 search results about the Antichrist on You Tube, all with differing views about who it is. There’s Prince Charles, various Popes, Barack Obama, reptilian shape-shifters, Adolph Hitler and many others over the centuries. and in fact, the source material for the concept of the Antichrist comes from the First Epistle of John, which stated under the mistaken impression that the Day of Judgment was about to occur

“Young children, it is the last hour, and, just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now there have come to be many antichrists.”—1 John 2:18.

The Epistles, or “letters” of “John” (the name has been traditionally attributed to “John,” although we simply do not know who wrote these letters which were targeted to the community this “John” belonged to. The major upshot is that there were break=aways and splinters in that group and these letters were meant to hold the group together while warning of false teachings from heretical teachings by “Antichrists.”

“Many deceivers have gone forth into the world, persons not confessing Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.”—2 John 7.

So really, an “Antichrist” is someone who denies that Jesus didn’t have a body, but only appeared as a “phantom,” because spirit was thought to be pure while the material flesh was considered “evil” or “fallen,” which is a conception that comes down from the ancient Greek Orphic religious philosophy and latched onto the early Christian tradition. Also, these letters were written with the expectation of Christ’s immanent return, which failed, of course, to take place. Thus we have had a long history of Antichrists and projected Doomsdays that haven’t occurred (with the possible recent exception of northern Japan), and various beings identified over centuries, including Napoleon and Muhammad Ali, but never, to my knowledge, has a woman been identified as an Antichrist! By a black American Christian minister!

In this “sermon,” James David Manning, PhD (unaccredited), claims that  Oprah Winfrey is the antichrist and Barack Obama is the false messiah. Sigh. Look at his pulpit. Why does he have the emblem of the Royal Arms of England???

Faithful readers of my blog know how I fear about black Americans who embrace the slave master’s religion of Christianity, but Holy Moses! This guy takes the proverbial cake. With his exhortations to “Run, children, run,” he reminds me of the well-meaning but possibly mentally ill preachers I was forced as a child to watch every Sunday on the pulpit exclaiming for all they were worth that the End Times were upon us, any day now, and high time, too! I believed it until one day I looked at all those sad faces and decided God couldn’t possibly care for anyone if he let these good people down. Then again, it seemed like we were all gripped by differing degrees by a collective spell of madness. The spell broke for me one night after fervently praying for the “Holy Spirit” to touch me and nothing happened! And I stopped “believing.”

Then again, there was a kind of empathy I felt for these people and I did briefly consider becoming a minister myself, but I had read too many books and the Christian religious fervor within me faded away forever. Good thing, too. Because for the Grace of nobody, I could have ended up a Looney Tune like Rev. Manning.

 

2011/01/31 – Doubt

 

When did I first doubt myself? The first memory I possess is when I was a little boy of six years old and involved in my first fight with another kid across the street. It wasn’t much of a fight, and I don’t recall the details, but I was humiliated in front of all the others kids that were watching and I ran inside my house crying my eyes out. I wasn’t hurt or beaten up or anything like that, I was more angry and shocked than anything. Angry at myself for not standing up for myself and shocked that “fighting” existed! I stood behind the screen door with tears on my cheeks and looking at the other kids playing without a care in the world. In a moment, and I didn’t have the words to express it, but I knew I was never going to like those kids who laughed at me. I was something less. For the first time, I felt depression, like the world had gone black and would never be the same for me again.

The secret was out, I was a coward and didn’t want to understand or even care about fighting.

A year later I went to Catholic School and learned about the Bible and Jesus and God and all the saints. I did not Doubt the existence of any of that stuff, since I took it all as something obviously real, since everyone around me considered all of it true. Especially the grown-ups. I loved participating in Mass every morning, listening to the mysterious sounds of Latin falling from the droning lips of the old Father, holding a golden chalice that held the Blood of Christ.

Father Thomas was a young priest who was assigned to my school (St. Vincent de Paul) when I was in the second grade. I thought he looked like a movie star or President Kennedy, young and handsome. I thought it was neat that we had the same last name. Then I realized that there was a Saint Thomas that was one of Jesus’ Apostles.

Then I learned that St. Thomas was also called, “DOUBTing Thomas” because he would not believe that the Lord had come back from the dead unless he could put his fingers into Christ’s wounds. According to the Gospel of John, when Jesus finally appears, Thomas is convinced and says, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus replies to the effect of that it’s cool to believe what you see, but it’s even greater to believe in things not seen.

However, I can excuse Thomas for DOUBTing since how many people come back from the dead. Thomas then was just being common sensical. But I have DOUBTed myself ever since that day when I ran home crying because I let a kid hit me. It is a pattern that I let repeat throughout my life ad nauseam. If there’s a problem, then run away. Or walk away, because somehow, I have programmed myself to do exactly this. I have everything I need to be an effective and directive being, but I accepted and allowed DOUBT destroy all of me. I have allowed DOUBT to give me permission to hate myself, and I don’t know why. It’s crazy.

 

Earlier today I felt like I was falling: literally, falling down some hole into the earth. What brought up that feeling? DOUBT. It’s like DOUBT freezes me in my tracks, makes every step I take forward, I take  a step back. Anyway…

 

Doubt has been my companion throughout all my life. Giving up because of Doubt was my modus operandi as I struggled through life. I didn’t graduate from college because I got involved with an older woman who I ended up marrying because I was “grateful” that a woman wanted to be with me. I walked away from my first real band because I didn’t think they wanted me anymore. I walked away from my wife because I wanted to do something than be a working stiff and a father married to a woman I didn’t love in a small, fucked-up, rural town in southern Ohio. I ended up creating something of my own and of worth when my next band became very popular. After several years I left because again, I didn’t want to do it anymore. Instead of defending my point, I quit. Was it Doubt? I had no doubt as a singer. None. But I wasn’t a musician. And I didn’t believe that I could play well.

Once again, I had doubted myself.

Then I went back to Ohio after leaving LA because I DOUBTed myself in being able to survive in California after my car was stolen. I was taken back by an old girlfriend, but I DOUBTed I loved her because I was more interested in her friend, who was more my “type.” SO I left and went to stay with my sister in Illinois, but I left because I DOUBTed myself there, as well. I couldn’t get a decent job and I was being harassed by the same type of kids I though I had left behind in high school. So I went back to my first wife so I could just have a place to live.

I had written and drew cartoons and worked on them to find a publisher. I felt I was getting better, but I still wasn’t satisfied. I did get a rejection latter from Kitchen Sink Press saying that my work was within the top 5% of the submissions they received, but couldn’t “take a flyer” on unknown talent at the time. He also said to keep submitting. But did I? No.

I was tired of being out of work, so I landed a truck driving job and spent the next two years away from home. It was pretty nice. But after two years I was fired because I had too many accidents. I was relieved because I didn’t believe I was a good truck driver, anyway. I was planning to leave my wife anyway, so I settled in another town. I was trying to get back together with the girl I came back to Ohio to, but she got mad at me when I told her that my wife had gotten pregnant. So I was all alone, trying to get my cartoons written and drawn. Drawing wasn’t a problem. I just didn’t have anything to say. So I began to Doubt myself as a comic strip artist. Eventually, I stopped drawing altogether. I gave up. I had nothing to say…

After two years of being alone and working minimum-waged jobs, I went back to my wife again. I just wanted love in my life. I didn’t realize that I wouldn’t any such thing from this woman or my children, just as I didn’t get any love from my parents. So I always searched for it… never finding it for long. Always disappeared over time. After another two years, I left the wife for good. Why, because I couldn’t stand her and wanted a single life again.

Of course, I didn’t meet anyone for a year, but then I met and went out with two wonderful women who both ended up dumping me. Both times I could see the end coming, which was interesting. I had Doubted my ability to “hold on” to them.

So I worked for years climbing up the ladder in the local print shops in town. I got to be pretty proficient within my skill set and was finally feeling good about myself, making money and eating out all the time. I eventually married again, but I DOUBTed the marriage would last because I secretly promised myself as soon as I wanted out, I would leave. After six years, I did just that. I should have left after four years, but I wanted to give her “another chance.” I left her because I wanted to get back with a former girlfriend who I thought wanted me back. It was a great surprise when I found out she had no idea that I wanted her again. She had no intention to get back with me. So I gave up in trying to get her back, and I  just went on…

I fought against the IRS because I found a flaw and an argument in the tax system. I fought for several years before I gave up. I DOUBTed that I could take on the system and win.

Eventually, I met two women on the internet dating sites. Very similar in nature and temperament. I ended up dumping them both. I Doubted that I wanted to be with them.

 

I got a job at a print shop that paid fairly well, but Doubt crept back into me because I had to do the work of three people some nights, and I kept making mistakes. The Doubt I experienced ended up costing me my job.

I ended up being out of work for six weeks before getting a very relaxing job at the Library. Exactly what I needed. Then, Desteni. Ka BOOM! I entered process, and the rest is history, as they say.

Doubt sometimess still plagues me. I can’t stand the Doubt anymore. Doubt has been with me for a long time, and in writing it all out, I can see why. I suppose the reason for Doubting some things I do is because everything in the past that I have tried has eventually turned into a fuckup, and I mean EVERYTHING. A legacy of failure. Which is what Society demands. But after working with the Desteni material, I am fostering much more self-belief, and it is quite a refreshing way to live, compared to my early, Doubt-filled days.

2011/01/21 – The Gnostics

At the same time I was involved with the New Age stuff in my twenties, I became more interested in Gnosticism. It was a broad subject to research, and it took me years to go through all the different schools and movements within Gnosticism. For you that do not know what this Gnostic movement was about, the history books claim that it existed before the time of Christianity, which afterwards became a prominent heretical movement within the 2nd-century Christian Church.

There were all kinds of figures and schools and streams of thought that made up what is called Gnosticism. But there was more or less a thread that ran through most of it: this world of suffering must have been made by angels or an evil or  crazy  God. They did take the cycle of life apart and found that there was nothing “divine” about an existence where life fed off life. Well, nothing “divine” about the physical world, It was considered to be evil. Surely, this evil world must have been created by an evil and incompetent god. So they created metaphysical systems which mapped out and explained how it was done. I won’t go into it here, but all of it is readily available online.

This perspective delighted me because I saw the world in the same way! It was a horrid waste of life and time. Evil always seemed to win out, every time! The people were always slaves and exploited. Kings claimed Divine Right and weak must buckle under to the strong and it’s always been that way. It’s really something that those spiritual rebels were able to see that there was something fundamentally wrong with the set-up in existence. Most other would say, “It’s God’s Will,” and try to justify the bullshit. The Gnostics didn’t. They called out God and they were eventually hunted down and eliminated.

Another aspect of the Gnostics that I liked was their mode of salvation was “knowledge.” Knowledge of what was up was likely to save your immortal soul. The only “sin” they considered of avoiding of course, was ignorance. Ignorance of the insane God that the dupes unwittingly worshipped as the “good” God was likely to get your hide tacked to a metaphysical tree. While I didn’t believe that there existed an evil god that created an evil world, the argument was for me, well played. When I watched the Matrix for the first time, I was convinced it was based on Gnostic themes.

So the program was based on acquiring secret knowledge and self-knowledge. This acquisition of  secret  knowledge appealed to me, too. The jackpot in Gnosticism was a claim that there was a spark of the “True God” of the universe that was secretly inside each being. This idea, and many others would be recycled into Swedenborgian, New Thought and New Age systems 18 centuries later.

For example, the spirit was considered supreme and the body; evil matter. The Gnostics totally rejected the physical as worthless… as an “abortion.” This classic Gnostic idea the Body/Spirit split came from Pythagorean and Orphic religious systems, and was recycled down to us through the centuries until the development of  Theosophy, New Thought and New Age movements.

As I looked at the Gnostics through applying the Equality Equation, it makes sense that the movement died out. The poor Gnostics couldn’t go all the way with their rebellion. They couldn’t go past their perceived need to have a “God” to give a being a proper context. They rejected the God they thought created the world, but still wanted to chase after “Divine things,” variously conceived “higher” “Alien” God that had no part of  creating the world. They couldn’t remove themselves completely from the  God Construct. It was no surprise that the Gnostic faded out and became totally irrelevant. They didn’t have an answer to deal with the world as it was. Their solution was to reject it and unite with their “higher self” to enter Heaven.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to delude myself into believing that by acquiring “secret knowledge,” I could save myself.  It didn’t save the Gnostics because knowledge is limited. I didn’t realize that until all are “saved,” nobody is saved. Or safe. My personal wish to find an answer to the problems of the world did not consider everyone within it, just like the Gnostics. There was something within me that wanted to deal with the world as it is, I just didn’t know how to work it out. It never occurred to me to look at the simple, all-encompassing answer of Universal Equality. Now that I do see it, I can help myself in dealing with this world by showing others the same thing, and for that, I’m grateful for recognizing, before it was too late, the futility of “secret knowledge.”

2011/01/18 – The Divine Plan?

I used to read all Neale Donald Walsch’s “Conversation With God” books back in the day. Loved them. It didn’t bother me that every time I popped into the New Age section of my local Borders or Barnes and Nobles I was assaulted by the merchandising colossus it became with the attendant CwG calendars, CwG notebooks, CwG cards, CwG meditation books and CWG videos and greeting cards and whatnot. I suppose I first got into the CWG books because I had read channeled material since the late 1980s and thought there was something to the things these “spirits” were trying to tell us. I wanted to absorb the information that was presented and do something with it, and I was looking for answers that were not forthcoming: why was the world such a horrible place for most people, and why did it seem that the good was no match for evil. There didn’t seem to be an answer out there that could change anything in any meaningful way at all. Only methodologies of self-improvement or being “at peace” in a fucked-up world.  By the time reached The New Revelations book around 2002 or so, I had already considered the idea that whoever or whatever was behind channeled books like Conversations with God were deliberately not telling the entire story, or even a story that made much sense.

King of the Angels: Kirael

I just couldn’t quite put my finger on it until I sent out for a book called Guide to the Unseen Self by Fred Sterling and “Kirael,” a “seventh-dimensional being who claimed to be King of the Angels. I listened to Sterling’s webcasts online from his Honolulu Church of Light, and he would always allow “Kirael” to speak. The topic of the day was the coming of the Great Shift , some sort of evolution of consciousness that would change everything. So I ordered the book due to the title, the Guide to the Unseen Self. But after I read it, I was totally disgusted. Were these beings twisting my melon, or what. There was absolutely NOTHING but recycled New Age – New Thought hooey. If i hadn’t spent 20 years researching esoterica, I might have been fooled by what was being presented was an original, pace setting book. I think I actually threw the book away. I felt like I had been duped. But I was too frightened to fully accept that there was some sort of deception going on. It remained a lingering doubt. The only reason I kept at it was by virtue of a single White Light experience that couldn’t deny. But I sure as hell doubted.

The Joker in the Pack: Crimson Circle’s Tobias

Kirael and other channelers promised the Great Shift was near. The Crimson Circle site which promulgated Geoffery Thoppe’s spirit guide,”Tobais,” promised  their followers a “Quantum Leap” would occur for years before stating in 2007 that the Quantum Leap (of consciousness) had indeed occurred. Only it was the “Old Energy” being removed in favor of the “New Energy” which would somehow provide “new potentials” for beings. I began following Crimson Circle in 1999, shortly after it appeared online. Again, it took years of going through all the extended New Age baggage and symbols before I got sick of it as well.

I remember the day I stopped taking Tobias’ message seriously. I was sitting in my wife’s room listening to the latest CC podcast when Tobias suddenly described a dimensional scene of spirits feeding off the energies of those present within the gathering. “It’s okay. Let them feed,” he slowly intoned. I was thinking to myself, “What the hell is that about? Why are these guides allowing entities to feed off of people?” I listened to one more podcast and then stopped. It felt pointless, and I didn’t trust any of it anymore.

Which brings me back to Walsch. Over on the Spirit Library site, he has a running blog; the latest is something called “Way to the Soul.” In it he makes a remarkable claim:

The problem with Life is that we do not understand it. And that it why it has become so problematical.

Very little in Life is working the way it should be working, do you know that? I mean, it wasn’t meant to be this disruptive, this disjointed, this disappointing. It was never intended to be this difficult or this injurious or this challenging.

“It wasn’t meant to be this difficult?” You see, that’s what I thought, too! Surely this hell hole we laughingly call planet Earth wasn’t part of God’s Divine Plan? What in the hell are all these alleged ascended do-gooders doing with making this world a better place?

Short answer: nothing. They talk to certain people and some of them become fabulously well-to-do. Like Mr. Walsch. Who after all these years talking to and writing down the transcendent wisdom of Almighty God,  and he doesn’t have any more of a clue to do about this world than you do. If you return to the CwG books, you will why; because there’s really nothing there but recycles platitudes and recombinant and discredited spiritual teachings. It should bother you that God is so derivative and lame. And inconsequential.

2010/10/22 – Deceived by Belief

The Persistence of Consciousness is one of the major beliefs of the New Age and other strands of modern metaphysics. This belief proposes that consciousness continues to exist after death. In Ancient Greece over 2500 years ago in the West and centuries earlier in the East under emergent Brahmanism, the idea arose that a single principle was behind and supported reality. The Divine Mind. A Celestial Consciousness so vast and encompassing, all objects, including you and me, move through its endless halls as its thoughts.

The Divine Mind

The history and metaphysics of the Divine Mind has given being who have heard of it, a foundation to rest upon the myth of consciousness, and the parade of philosophers going back to Xenophanes,  complained that gods were not necessary to explain the natural world and that men merely fashioned gods after their own image. He remarked that if horses or oxen possessed hands, they would create gods after their own image as well. Against the Pythagoreans, Xenophanes said the doctrine of reincarnation could not be verified since no man had ever proven such a process to exist and thus was just an opinion based on hearsay to be rejected.

What Xenophanes wanted was a God without human qualities. A god that was perfection and singular. But what other qualities could Xenophanes God would possess?

For one, this God would have Perfect Knowledge of all things. Another attribute would be that this God was immovable and within this motionless state and without any effort, caused all other things to move with It’s Mind. Xenophanes’ God was a God of Supreme Consciousness, much like the deity Brahman which had long been worshipped in post-aryan India and very similar to the rational and organizing knowledge of the Logos of Heraclitus or the divine intellect of the Nous of Anaxagoras. There was never any direct experiences of the Divine Mind. The philosophers presented it as a theory.

If a theory sounds reasonable enough, people tend to believe in the theory as truth. For example. many proponents of the Theory of Evolution miss the theory part and wholeheartedly embrace Darwin’s idea as fact. This essentially human talent of confusing fact with fancy was even known to philosophers like Xenophanes who, ironically, just went along and did the same thing of producing a theory of the Divine Mind that sounded logical enough to later influence Plato, Aristotle in constructing their own imaginary systems along the same lines, repeated and modified and elaborated upon up to the present day.

The reflexive nature of  consciousness would seem to be limited by its own mechanics and properties. projecting itself into infinite space, magnified into titanic proportions and reflected back to self as an image of what some have called “God,” who would then be the mind looking at itself from the void.

Over the centuries, various philosophers have tried to take seriously the conception of a Divine Mind and map out its attributes and powers. But they had one, little problem. They were just making it up as they went along! That is, essentially, the problem with the philosophy of the mind (and the Abrahamic religions) within its metaphysical aspect. Doomed ideas floating about within the infinite oceans of consciousness, unprovable abstractions taken as truths by generation after generation, given life through texts and academic traditions.

New Age Beliefs

The New Age has been taken in by this myth of the persistence of consciousness. The idea of the Divine Mind comes directly from New Thought tenets formed in the middle of the 19th century by Phineas Parkhurst Quimby and later by his former patient and student, Mary Baker Eddy, who went on to found the Christian Science movement. But it was the Indian sage Swami Vivekananda, Rudolph Steiner, Helena Blavatsky’s and Alice Bailey’s channeled material and others who provided the foundation of the myth of the Divine Mind for the modern New Age Movement. Figures such as Jane Roberts and JZ Knight became famous and 1987′s Harmonic Convergence burst onto America’s media landscape to such an effect, that be the end of the 20th century, the New Age was America’s third largest religion.

In the 21st century, the New Age has become known for its cheesy commoditization of spirituality. The New Age belief that Indigo Children are special, exceptional children with ‘spiritually-evolved” natures, has made lots of money off of books and videos despite the absence of any empirical evidence that such children actually exist. The term, Indigo Child, was first coined in 1982, by Nancy Ann Tappe in her book, Understanding Your Life Through Color. [1] How did Tappe  come to write her book? On the”belief that color influences every aspect of life” [2] From this belief, a whole market was formed that is unnecessarily affecting the lives of an untold amount of children who are going to grow up thinking that they are some master from a planet that’s going to deliver World Peace. Hey, that would be nice, but it’s just another way beliefs can fuck things up for everybody.

An older belief that nobody can ever prove (Thanks, Xenophanes), is that once we die, we will enter a spiritual plane filled with enlightened beings and angels and masters and whatnot. In the New Age movement, this idea comes chiefly from channeled material. The problem the New Agers don’t seem to have noticed, is that the positive-sounding, mystically – delivered words such as, “Love is the greatest force in the universe,” come from a place where we cannot verify the truth of such claims. These “beings” also claim (among other things) that Ascension of beings from the physical to the supernatural actually happens. But we have never seen this take place with our own eyes. The channeled messages propose a belief of a spiritual realm that cannot be proven, especially by the channels themselves, who have no recollection what the being channeling said. No recollection and no verification. When one realizes that most channelers receive training for years (like Abraham’s Ester Hicks), one can’t help being suspicious. Maybe what’s channeling is the result of  a split personality. Maybe what they’re saying is what the channeler wants to believe. Maybe none of it is real. Maybe we create myths to believe in and amuse us so we don’t have to take responsibility for the world. Maybe what we are talking to is our own reflected consciousness. How unfortunate for the believers; they were deceived by belief.

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[1] http://www.skepdic.com/indigo.html

[2] http://www.sentienttimes.com/04/feb_mar_04/color.htm

2010/08/21 – A Monograph in Defense of Equality Part 3

Equality or Liberty?

Opponents of Equality will defend their position that although they accept the existence of a common bond brotherhood between human beings that reveals similarities, it is the differences between any two people which makes the principle of Equality too weak a premise to build a society upon. While the opponents of Equality will regard it as a quaint though impractical notion, they will pay lip service to the concept and place it alongside other universal notions such as Justice, Liberty and Free Will to be formed as part of a “moral” and “ethical” framework. This is how the author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson can be given credit for the lofty philosophical statement of “All Men Are Created Equal,” while escaping criticism for being a typical elitist slaveholding colonialist. We realize now, despite the best efforts of public school miseducation, that the elite colonialists actually meant that, “All White Male Landowners Were Created Equal,” and everybody else existed only to serve their wishes.

It is no wonder why the elites would disparage and ridicule an egalitarian-based society. They may be pathological in their bloody single-mindedness within their domination of others, but they are not crazy!

They realized quite early that any talk of Equality would be controlled and used rhetorically and emotionally to channel responses of public opinion of the presentation of these lofty ideas while cynically having them accept their own program of institutionalized inequality. Economic Equality was never considered as it was incompatible with the generation of great wealth by the elite, which had the outcome of  creating a necessary division between the elites and the lower classes while using the middle class as a buffer as protection against the poor. [1] Equality is incompatible to the “wheeling – dealing” style of Capitalism. Equality is incompatible with the use of Free Will. Equality is incompatible with ideas of “Freedom.” Thus it has been given a lower status as a Universal Principle within the Social Contract by those who control and manage the flow of ideas.

Although the corporatism of Late Capitalism allows for “pulling oneself up by the bootstrap” Horatio Alger mythology on a piddling scale, the fact that once locked out, the disenfranchised most likely will be trapped within their poverty permanently. There is simply “not enough” money to go around to assist them. Besides, Capitalism needs a certain amount of people to be locked out of the system for it to remain functional.

Forget about money for a moment… there is also not enough “Liberty” to go around, as well. And here we come to the great divide between Equality and Liberty. “Give me liberty, or give me death,” was the famous Revolutionary War slogan attributed to the patriot Patrick Henry that supposedly encapsulates the American declaration of liberty. Liberty is more valued than any other Universal in America, and it is a handy measurement for establishing the limits and irrelevancy of Equality.

It has long been massaged into the brainpans of Americans that without Liberty, one is always subject to the leash around the neck that inhibits and restricts human action. The application of “Liberty” alleges that one has the “right” to be free from restrictions imposed by any lawful or unlawful order. It is important for the Capitalists that this “Liberty” be given Top Billing in society, because one can’t turn a profit without having the liberty to do so. You can’t make money polluting the air and the soil without having the liberty to do so. You cannot establish sweatshops in impoverished Third World countries without having the liberty to do so. This All-Important Liberty is too precious to be overturned by Equality.

However, once Equality is given priority over Liberty (which, in all truth, doesn’t really exist due to the limits imposed on free choice of the individual through the agreed-upon laws and regulation of society), none of the above “liberties” to devise methodologies of economic enslavement would be allowed. And here Equal Money economics is to be considered preferable to the current special – interest economic system that only exists to provide the most wealth for the fewest people. This condition of privilege for the few would be transformed into granting the same privilege for all.

Yes, it is true that the legal enforcement of Equality curtails and places limits on individual liberties, but mostly those that would rob and exploit others. To appeal to “Freedom of Choice” in allowing one to do as he wishes will do no good, for Free Will cannot truly exist if the Free Wills of others are overridden by the clever and devious beings who’s actions would cause their exploitation. That Equality must override Liberty to ensure the equal treatment of all beings should not cause one to doubt Equality’s validity or make it less worthy in our eyes. We maintain that it is through cooperation, and not through competition, that shall make Mankind achieve that which has always eluded us; a peaceful, harmonious world built on the Principle of Trust and Honor, where everyone is considered a friend and not an opponent to be defeated in vainglorious battle. Every man, woman and child can indeed be given the equal opportunity to become their fullest expression, but only if we remove specious and deceptive cries for the primacy of Liberty, used by those as a dazzling, white cloak concealing their true, deceptive and self-interested purposes at the expense of others.

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[1] This idea (and other methods employed by the American elite to use the middle class for its own purposes) is discussed several times in Howard Zinn’s extraordinary work, A People’s History of the United States, Perennial (HarperCollins), 2001.

2010/08/19 – A Monograph In Defense of Equality Part 2

1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 
 2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 
 3And they said one to another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 
 4And they said, “Come, let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” 
 5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built. 
 6And the LORD said, “Behold, the people are one and they have all one language, and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be withheld from them which they have imagined to do. 
 7Come, let Us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” 
 8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off building the city. 
 9Therefore is the name of it called Babel [that is, Confusion], because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Genesis 11:1-9 (21st Century King James Version)

The biblical story of the Tower of Babel is interesting because it shows the reaction of an alarmed and jealous Yahweh looking down suspiciously at the works of a united people. While Sunday school teachers have played God’s spiteful act of confusing the language of humanity as a just punishment for the hubris of a people’s of wanting to “make a name,” there is the strong implication that Yahweh felt threatened as was in fear a collected whole of people, and this was apparently too dangerously close to becoming self-sufficient for Yahweh’s liking. We may have been created in God’s image, but He will be damned if He’s going to just let us become Him.

People who rail against the notion of Equality or economic equality are cut from the same cloth as our LORD. They cannot stand the thought of everyone having as much as they have. They’ve worked hard for what they’ve got. They don’t need something that they see as a direct challenge to the meaning of their lives. If you have to take from someone else, it’s only because someone is going to try to take from you. It wasn’t your idea. You just accepted this as “the way things are.” And that “way” is that  everyone must go through the same wringer of survival-purchase as you have (no matter where you start off in life, but if you have the head start of being born to the right set of parents, then so much the better), and if you survived it, then you should be entitled to your rewards. Those who can’t get out of the blocks due to factors beyond their control, well, sorry. They must lose, because this life is only meant to be enjoyed by the winners. And the losers must die or fuck off. Preferably die or fuck off somewhere where we can’t see them. And you will feel justified because your anti-equality point of view is reflected in the bible (one of the remarkable and enduring brainwashing gadget of Western Civilization) many, many times.

In the Babel story it is clear that Yahweh does not want a unified world where oneness is present and all agreements are directed by one point of working together for the common good. No, God wants division, confusion and separation – all the better to rule over others. “As above, so below.” The same sickening spitefulness and fear of manifested Equality that filled Yahweh with cosmic revulsion is present within today’s winners of the survival game. For they know on some level what they have gained was gained at the expense of others. The winners of the survival game cannot allow the others who they’ve beaten to be given another chance. Those who are defeated must remain defeated, they must continue to suffer because if they were worthy, they could have been winners too. Without losers, the victory of having “won” is rendered hollow. So the winners must stand and the losers scattered across the face of the Earth. It would seem what is really being defended by the opponents of Equality is the winners’ right to continue their oppression and destructions of the losers. Equality within an economic would not allow the winners to continue as they have, and that is unacceptable. The meaning of Equality must be trivialized instead.

2010/08/13 – 21 Laws of Manu and How the LOA Abuses Life

2010/08/03 – 20th Century GURUS Sai Baba, Osho, Chopra, Siva Baba and the LOA

2010/07/03 – Why Did Jesus Have To Die?

This question always bugged me as a kid sitting in church in those damn, uncomfortable pews. I was always squirming around trying to get comfortable. Anyway, I couldn’t figure it out. Here was Jesus, the Son of God (who to my 12 year-old mind made him stronger than 1000 Supermen) who allowed himself to be nailed on the cross by a bunch of mean, stupid people who didn’t know any better. Why? It didn’t make any sense. He could have made everyone “good” or “happy,” and miraculously created enough food out of thin air for everyone to eat. But he didn’t. And what’s more, I was taught in Sunday School that Jesus told his followers that he would return soon. But he didn’t! Nothing added up and I was beginning to think this Jesus story was a scam.

As I matured into an adult (although my ex-wives would disagree that ever happened), the questions didn’t go away – and after a long, hard look at the question, I finally figured out that Jesus really didn’t have to die.

Jesus didn’t have to die for 2 reasons; (1) He disrespected his own ‘Godhood” in allowing himself to murdered by a bunch of ignorant, cowardly and abusive human beings instead of keeping his life and sorting out the situation and bringing equality and peace to the world. If ‘God’ really wanted to do something about the terrible state of the world at that time, why couldn’t ‘He” come up with a scheme that was actually effective? For 2000 years we have seem that the Death of Jesus contains no moral force that directs humanity to consider each other equally or in peace or in brotherhood. His death has only been used as mind control, domination and money. Nothing good has ever come out of Christianity – it’s always been a den of thieves fighting over all that money.

(2) The act of sending Jesus to clean up the mess made by “God” in creating a world filled with limited, superstitious and easily controllable beings should say something about this ‘God,” character. In the Old Testament, “God” is cruel, vindictive, jealous, spiteful and not very bright. “He’s” more like a child than a supreme being.

There has been much theological smack talk going around about how Jesus proclaims a “God of Love,” who only asks for faith and belief. I don’t much change between the “Gods” of the Old and New Testament. There is one thing that carries over from the OTinto the NT: Child Sacrifice. “God” sends Jesus as a sacrifice just as “He” instructed his followers to do several times in the Old Testament: Here in the book of Exodus 22:28-29

“You shall not delay your fulfillment and your flowing.

“You shall Give Me the firstborn of your sons.

“You shall do this to your ox and to your sheep: Seven days it will be with its mother. On the eighth day you shall give it to me.”

“Giving” here is obviously refers to child sacrifice for the appeasement of “God.”

Num 18:14-15 Every חרם in Israel shall be yours. The first issue of the womb of all creatures, human and animal, which is offered to YHWH, shall be yours; but the firstborn of human beings you shall redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem.

(the Hebrew “חרם”  refers to the destruction of people and things to a deity. ‘Redeem’ is sacrificing – giving the life of the being back to “God.”[1]

In Ezekiel 20:25-26: we have

Moreover I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances BY WHICH THEY COULD NOT HAVE LIFE; and I defiled them through their very gifts in making them offer by fire all their first-born, (aka the Ovens of Moloch) that I might horrify them; I did it that they might know I am YHWH.

Thanks, Zeke, for making that clear. “God” mocks “His” limited, stupid and worthless creations and spitefully gives them instructions, which due to their limitations – they cannot hope to follow – just in order to keep us from having “life.” Sucks to be a human when “God” is such a jerk.

So maybe Jesus didn’t have a choice. For reasons only known to “God,” Jesus (who being part of “God” means “He” ultimately sacrificed “Himself”) had to die. But remarkably, nobody seems to pick up the fact that Jesus’ death has had no effect in changing human beings nor did it make a better world. More suffering than ever followed – and 2000 years after the fact, Black people as religious mind-controlled victims are still waiting for the White Man’s Jesus to return to take us all to Heaven to a fate where “God knows what” will happen to us.

Maybe LUCIFER REBELLED FOR A GOOD REASON.

Just sayin…

[1] Friedman RE. Who Wrote the Bible? San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1997.