My Life - So Far

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If a Rising Tide lifts all Boats- -
- can anyone say, "Julian Lennon"?

"Dick, it looks like we were wrong
The wild Bear will attack unprovoked!

They say that the conflict between Russia and Georgia is “going from bad to worse”. Even though Georgia called a one sided truce, Russia has kept up the bombing and what they are after is that key oil pipeline. It would seem that Russia is not interested in a small brush back of Georgia but is intent on a major conflict, with every possibility of expanding into a major world conflict. One thing we can say is that for every day this crisis goes on I bet Mc Cain will rise one point in the polls against Obama. Start counting. President Bush told Vladimir Putin he is “very concerned about it”. I hope the President’s response goes beyond “concerned”. We’ll stay tuned.

As you know there were these roomered campaign commercials calling Obama “The One” as some sort of a semi-divine epithet. Let me just remind you that this term of “The One” goes back to Pythagorean Gnosticism. People don’t know it but the concept of moral devolution or you could say “karmic entropy” was applied first to God Himself. There was this creative force that eminated from a certain point. (The Big Bang?) But as Gods began creating other gods and these gods created yet other gods- - -finally one of these gods spawned Jesus “who was created a little lower than the angels”. Here you have what’s known as the concept of the redeemer or “The Bridge”. Ron Hubbard talked about this in a 1967 tape I have of him, on how since he was the “first goer” and crossed the bridge successfully, that the rest of mankind is now able to cross the bridge and get back to “The One”. As you know the fourth of four in our roster of Messiahs, was that Apolonius guy who lived in western Turkey. It was quite some years ago that I entertained the notion that belief in a Messiah originated somewhere other than in Palestine, and western Turkey is a prime candidate because interestingly, that’s where all the churches are that have the best and oldest historical record of existence. As to whether this Apolonius is the same derivative as “Sol Invictus” or Unconquored Sun or “invincible sun” can be up for debate. We know that other than being a Pythagorean Gnostic, that Apolonius taught that God could not be reached through prayer, but by becoming spiritual ourselves. This is where we get the story that Apolonius ascended into heaven when he died. Trying to find an accurate biography on this man is tricky because this is a life heavily overlaiden with myths. I did a whole blog post dedicated to this man. I told you I was reading Corinthians yesterday. I was looking for the text where Paul said “Now we all have Knowledge” referring to this spiritual rebirth that occurs after you successfully cross “The Bridge”. Of course the Pope Himself has become known as the pontiff or bridge. You’ve heard that joke about having a special telephone at the Vatican where you can place a phone call to God for an exorbanate toll of ten thousand dollars. One day a Jewish embassador was showed this phone at the Vatican and he said “Oh we have one of those phones in our country. But the charge is only twenty cents. It’s a local call”. I think I’ll take a smoke break now.

The next thing I did last evening was look more on the sons of Judas of Galilee who was famous around the turn of the century so to speak. What I found was that you can get the entire text at one site of both “Jewish Antiquities” and also “A History of the Jewish War”. I thought I had hit a gold mine, however even in this mother lode you have to do a lot of shoveling to get to the gold and I didn’t find what I was looking for. It was largely on account of the breakdown of “Books” and “Chapters” is so detailed that even the period peramaters like from the death of so & so to the death of so & so –people I’ve never heard of. I never even found any reference to this Messiah referred to in Acts who lived in 44 AD. But I did learn that two of Judas’s sons, James and Simon, were put to death by the Romans. I knew that Judas has a lot of sons and the vast majority of them had names of the brothers of Jesus, all except Joseph, I believe. There was a Thaddius, whom scholars say is the same as “Jude” or Judas. I’ve read this in Bible commentaries. This is not the Judas in the Bible, but “Jude” has a Bible book attributed to him. Luigi Cascioli spoke of a “John” who was also a brother, who did miracles and hung out at the sea of Galilee. You may remember that there was a town “built on the edge of a cliff” whose text resembles the Bible- - except that Nazareth is not next to a cliff. Cascioli points this out as an area where the Bible kited a text from another source.

Bill has “At the Movies” on but apparently there is a lull in new movies coming out because “Batman” now has been number one for a record-breaking fourth weekend.

Many may say of my last posting that I am as nutty as that black guy on Sixty Minutes who has to take ten pills a day of a powerful anti-psychotic drug and even at that this man is fighting a losing battle with holding on to his sanity. This black man that Sixty Minutes had on isn’t just suffer from some mood or bi-polar disorder, he is off the tracks and over the cliff whacko, even when he’s on his meds. One of the more “insane” statements, I suppose, was when the man said “I know I have bad thoughts and when I’m dead and in the grave I know dead people continue to have those bad thoughts”. This is akin to Linda Hammer’s statement many moons ago about when she was thinking of committing suicide a friend told her “If you do that, all you will have left is the pain” and I said in a few files back “If you have an abcessed tooth that is driving you crazy, the logical thing to do is to pull it, and then the pain will be gone”. In spite of everything I have said recently, the most logical supposition is after you die will have no subsequent memory of ever having lived this life, if you’re even conscious at all.

They spoke of the “Icon lift” or “a rising tide lifts all boats”. What they mean by this is that if this corporate raider buys a stock you also own, and the price gets jacked up, now only Icon himself but you and every other share holder will benefit from the lift in equity value. Of course certain names come to mind where the boats must sail in some special kind of holy water or something. You’d think my life would be more prosperous due to the people I have been in proximity with like the local Calvary Chappel. I was a member and attendee there from the second week of their existence for the next 25 years or so. One would think this would be of benefit to me. Other names come to mind like Pete Best. There is one TV film that has Stewart Sutcliffe saying that it was important that none of the original Beatles, which included Pete, leave the group or be replaced.

You’d think were this “proximity effect” or “rising tide” phenominum correct than the Palestinians should be “honored” to be in proximity of living in the shadow of such a country with a world class air force as Israel. Unfortunately it hasn’t worked out all that well for these people – Barbra Bush not withstanding. All of this prestiege and “glory” hasn’t exactly shown down on the Palestinian people. Israel is still entertaining ideas of bombing the Iranian nuclear plant. But they admit that it will be tough and they admit that “They’d rather find another solution”. But Israel is like me. If we lose one war we are caput as a nation. Astrological indicators are that indeed Iran will be a growing threat as the years pass and will have to be dealt with sometime.

The following was typed Sunday August 10th.

This is Sunday August 10, 2008 and today’s question is what incident of somewhat significance occurred on this day in 1967. This file is likely to be a little long in the tooth. I think I’ll start making each file longer. I had Joel Olsteen on this morning and he was talking about not giving up when you’re almost upon your goal and yet you don’t know it. There’s just one more bend in the trail. On KLOS before dinner they were playing “Take Me to the River” by the Talking Heads. And the D J said that that song was thirty years ago. That’s enough to make you feel old and the fact is that we are all getting older. I was reading the Bible out of Corinthians just before dinner, and they rang the bell early. And Paul was saying “Even if all the others don’t accept me as an apostle, I know that you do”. That’s what you call living in a world of hope. Most people can’t go through life like that “as a majority of one”, as they say. We had turkey and stuffing for dinner and all three meals all four of us regulars including Yvon have been at the table. We had chocolate ice cream for desert. And I was looking around the room once again musing how I have been at this place longer than at least ¾ of all the people there. Not that I recognize every single person, but I’m pretty sure even the people I don’t know weren’t there when I arrived. A person’s thoughts tend tword things like “I don’t want to be the oldest standing person in this place and get some kind of a comemoritive honor for that on my seventieth birthday in 2020. Of course now it’s old people who listen to KLOS and the D J’s are kind enough to mention other old time rock stars who are still active. I had Jesus Christ on briefly after seven before breakfast. He field one call about how the Devil is really like a mouse with a flashlight, and as such can be ignored. Keith Green had that song about the devil, “Nobody believes in me any more” but I guess the lyrics don’t apply any more. Jesus had his usual message about how we have free will and how our destine is in our hands alone. Of course the truth is it’s been so long since I’ve had a real theological discussion with “those Christians” I guess even mentioning the topic as often as in my do in my blogs is a little silly. But as I said higher up in this file, subatomic particles just may be the gateway to the sixth dimension or something. Because they keep “finding new ones” all the time even though in chemistry class we all thought we had learned everything about the atom there was to know sixty years ago. But it seems as we keep “probing into things” we keep finding new stuff, or at least stuff we believe is there. But we also know from Einstein that the nature of matter determines the type of space that occurs around it. So to rephrase the Eagles song “What kind of space have you got?” Will “things ever change” or will our science, like our politics and cultural morays be frozen where they were eighty years ago, never to change? The way I see things from here our theoretical science is so far ahead of the rest of society the vast gulf seems to be growing all the time.

I had the Mc Laughlin report on last night and it was mainly dial twereling in the evening. I even had “Cops” on the last twelve minutes or so. I woke up but was out of cigarettes and so couldn’t go out for a smoke. We had oatmeal for breakfast and I went over to the cart for sugar. We had toast and a fried egg. Richard lent me a cigarette before breakfast. After breakfast I took the hike down to the ARCO station for Waves, and they were open. Bill had “This Week” on but the show was inconsequential. I had various Beatle stuff from nine to ten including stuff about George Martin. I went down for coffee at snack time. Leo Le Port stated that fewer people use search engines on the internet like Google than they do E mails, and only half the people who use the internet use search engines. This is something I absolutely can’t believe. We had B L T sandwiches for lunch and beets and cantaloupe.

Isac Hayse, the composer of the “Shaft” theme died today. He was 65.

That famous red earth natural arch in Utah - - is gone. It collapsed this past week due to weather and erosion. That has to have some cosmic significance. ABC news is saying that Obama ought to have a leg up with evangelists’ votes this fall, for he is a man who feels comfortable talking about religious values, as opposed to a Republican candidate, who doesn’t. It could be that the impenetrable veiled wall of evangelism is cracking like an ice berg - -perhaps in the light of the coming cosmic tide.

The only rasson why Riley Hunter would not want her baby’s DNA tested is that she wants to keep John Edwards under a cloud of suspicion. St. Paul says he has no problem associating with heathens who sin, but he won’t even be corgal to a Christian who sins. This is kind of a variation of the term, “put on a friendly face to outsiders to lure them in, but people who actually get to know me know that later on it’s a whole different story. Channel 4.4 still has old stuff that was taped before the Olympics and today it was wrestling. They also had water polo I was bored by, women’s mountain biking, and beach volley ball, the later two were done in pouring rain. Last night it was men’s gymnastics and the usual stuff on FOX later.

Dean Edell says that by the year 2040 that eighty percents of us will be overweight and in some cases, every member of certain classes such as blacks, Chicanos and women will be overweight. They keep moving the standards lower like the limbo bar so that now if your cholesterol is over 200 you’re considered in dire need of medication. And if you ever on blood pressure medication, you know you’re committed to it for life.

If they didn’t show political campaign adds during the Olympics, we in California would never see any at all. I don’t know about you but I’m a little sick of being taken for granted these past twenty years. We’re still waiting for them to release the official party platform and I’ll download it when it comes. We are still waiting for the vice presidential choices of both candidates only to be assured that both of them will be dull. I still think they must flash some subliminal image at people in the voting booth like “Coca Cola” in movie theaters- - to have made people vote for Mc Cain and Obama. It looks to me that both of them are a couple of losers and were these names mentioned, say, three years ago as candidates, they would evoke yawns of boredom. They better “put on a good show” at the party Conventions in a few weeks, a few l o n g weeks, if they’re getting my vote.