"There Ain't No Life Nowhere!"

I would like to open today's posting
with an invocation we all learned from our Lord
as small children
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Heavenly father great and good
We thank you for our daily food
Bless us even as we pray
Guide and keep us through each day
Amen

You better strap yourself into the chair for this next story because you're going to be shocked. And if I were you I'd have the nitroglycerin capsules handy. You've all heard about the plot of Double Indemnity, the movie. Well, this one goes that plot one better. People are used to the concept of a company providing health care for its employees. That way in case of industrial accident or something, an undue burden is not placed on the family. But over the past twenty odd years, what you don't know is that it's been routine for business to take out whole life insurance policies on their employees, in total secrecy. The employee victin doesn't apparently even need to take a physical, because of the way congress under Ronald Reagan rewrote the laws. And the company also can use equity in those policies to do with whatever it wishes, and tax free. They can do tax defered investments, or they can use that money to take out more whole life policies on yet other customers. Not only this but the Face Value of the policy is tax free for the company after you die. The people you work for are betting literally on your death. And it doesn't even matter whether or not you are still working there. People will say that taking out a policy on total strangers or neighbors or whoever is patently illeagal due to the obvious conflict of interest, like if your neighbor were to accidently fall off his roof putting up his antenna. But they changed all the laws to make everying OK and legal. It's truely an upside down moral world we live in. People's personalities are turned on their head. The ID now reigns supreme and the "Adult" is compelled to do the bidding of the ID and as for the superego, that is dead and burried. And so it has been since Reagan.

The Obama administration still wants to micro-manage everybody's lives. Now they even want to nationally legeslate a few extra weeks to the school year, so that our kids don't fall academically behind other nations like Japan. Also they want other federal laws passed like a national anti texting while driving law. Apparencly recently they have moved to ban flavored cigarettes so that children are not tempted to start smoking. And now they want to put volume governors on I Pods and other listening devices so that people won't go deaf, like they did recently in the E U. They think people are so stupid they can't watch for those things themselves. Of course some places have laws that resturants post caleries on all of their menu items. And they banned the use of trans fats in frying. People in Washington apparently think we all must be stupid, as if their record on Capitol Hill was so brilliant.

President Obama went to Helsinki to try and get the 2016 Olympics for Chicago, even though people in Chicago only narrowly favor even hosting the Olympics by a vote of 47 to 45 percent. This is hardly a mandate. And there are protests groups in Chicago actively opposing bringing the Olympics to Chicago, but instead having them in Rio de Jenero. This would be the first time a South American country hosted the Olympics. Apparently this decision will be coming any day now.

Sarah Palin has an autobiographical book out already. One wonders how she had the time to even write a book so quickly because she only resigned as Alaska's governor two months ago, in late July. It's called "Going Rogue - An American Life" or something. Palin filed forty vendetta charges against one Trooper she had a grudge against, and the thing was thrown out of Court. These are bizzare times when ex Vice Presidents, and even Vice Presidents on losing tickets can afford so much sway with the media. It would seem that Sarah Palin's campaign for President in 2012 is already in full swing.

People may think I am inalterably opposed to the idea of an After Life. All I've really said is that we don't know what happens to our consciousness after you die. And to make plans on what we don't know that interfere with the enjoyment of this life - - makes absolutely no sense to me. There are logical alternatives to Heaven, or Hell. Have you considered that this whole life we are living might be a long, elaborate dream dreamed by a Higher form of Life? It's something to consider. Born Again Christians take it as an immovable item of faith that reincarnation can't possibly occur and they point to examples of it being really stupid. How much "stupider" are these examples than the idea of going to Heaven, which the Bible tells us virtually nothing about in terms of hard facts. Name almost any comon belief about Heaven and it's probably not supported by one verse in the Bible. Scientologists have been very interested in the en-grams of small children, and even the unborn. People who have studied the matter have determined that even newborn babies have definite personalities. Their mental "cognition" is much more complex than we formerly supposed. If our personality is in our genes, how come identical twins often have very different personalities? How to small children gain their "self identity" so quickly. Why do small children have such fixed beliefs about certain things adults might regard as "silly". These could include belief in ghosts or possibly reincarnation menories or odd references to other people and other places where they haven't been. At the other end of life - - venturing beyond is a little harder to demonstrate. I quoted the Jimi Hendrix life of "There ain't no life nowhere", which is a double-negative, which means there is life Everywhere. In our frame of being, proving "Nothingness" in a positive sense of "experiancing" it, is a little tricky. Some of the earliest references to the beliefs of the Orion Federation alude to a belief in Osirus, king of the Underworld. As such the Federations claims to have conquered Death, but I really can't say how. If you stay alive forever as a living Will energy force, then like water acting on rock, you can in time sculpt your own future. It's always possible, of course, that this life is all there is. However Born Again Christians use terms such as "dying to self" where a living person is supposedly to think of himself as dead. This injunction of Born Agains more resembles something Charles Manson would say, whether than mentally sound psychology. Also they want to put a "start date" on your existance. The motive here is as old as the Chinese. They want to "pre-date" you in time, so that THEY will forever be superior to you in time. The whole of assigning a fixed date for the Beginning of your life is one step closser to turning yourself into just another one of their "lab projects" where they can fanticize that they Created you.

Living In Reality's Limitations

I hope you all had a good weekend. I had a lousey weekend. Channel eleven on my TV stopped coming in Sunday. I guess the station is doing one of their legondary cuts in transmission power. The other time it lasted from June 12th to June 30th when the station again began coming in. But that wasn't my only problem. Due to the insistance of my family and a certain member in particular, I am now going to a different dentist, and this one found more problems with my teeth and a bigger bill, thankfully for me not to pay. Someone once said that people are inclined to believe in conspiracys when they feel a lack of control of the events of their own lives. If you're going to say that, do you want to scratch out the word "feel". I get so tired of people saying "so and so is insecure" meaning NOT that they ARE in an insecure position but that they FEEL insecure and that it somehow isn't REAL. The list of things that some people don't call real would blow your mind. Today I managed to spit the hook on a financial matter. A lady wanted me to go buy her some cigarettes and she gave me eighteen dollars. But I knew the bill would be at LEAST nineteen from a reliable source, so finally she just said "I'll get someone else to do it". Of course the whole subject of my smoking has again come into the limelight. Other problems presented themselves in the course of the weekend. One was the text of some family letters between two people who are both now dead, and these letters pose some disturbing questions I'd like answered. Also my modem has been playing mind games with me by showing three and not four lights making me think the internet was out on my computer. It used to always show four whether the computer was on or not.

In government Randy Rhodes recited the same sad litiny of events on the national scene. This Max Baccus bill and its connection with the "game of six" is in the news again. As I understand it, it's three democrats from conservative states, plus three republicans. The blue dog democrats are voting like republicans nowdays. When they were in power the republicans wanted "the nuclear option" where they would pass bills by a vote of 51 senators. As Randy tells it the democrats and liberals never even got to testify on the record so their words would be recorded. The republicans had a definite problem with this. They rammed through measures like nobody's business when they were in power. Now that the democrats have sixty senators, we'll still behaving like a minority party and above all it's republicans we need to please. They are defining all the issues, as well as all the terms. If indeed we only have a year left in power, you would think our side would make the most of it. Also today Randy talked about the 9 - 11 comission and only spending three million dollars, when for instance Whitewater was being investigated the Republicans spent forty million, with nothing at all to show for all that expenditure. President Clinton had to opperate under a very different set of rules from President Bush. There are gaps and holes a mile wide in the 9 - 11 investigation, giving it a grade of about D - , were you to assign a letter grade. None of the real issues were satisfactorily dealt with, and nobody even believes the scenario of events put forth. Witness were being yanked off the stand during their testimony for fear they might say something- - dangerous, that would involve having to answer more than a few embarrasing questions.

Our reaction to Iran is excessively slow and sloth like. If indeed Iran is as dangerous as I believe they might be, we need to vastly speed up our response timetable, with military action definitely an option, and soon. Why not "take care of the situation" now, while there is still something that can be done to nip their nuclear ambitions in the bud? Hitler got valuable time to advance his plans in the 1930's due to the slowness of the Western nations to react to the clear and present danger Hitler posed.

In Federation football the Federation are the X's and Alcyonne are the O's. Tbe X stands for dynamic power and the O stands for imposed limitations. Sometime you can win against your enemy merely by imposing limitations on him, and trusting that he will not go beyond them. As Thom Hartman says, in economics, even the winners only win because the rest of us agree to be "limited". We all agree we won't rob banks or hold the rich up in their transport of money. We agree to rig the table so that they win every time, and agree to limit ourselves to a perpetual disadvantage. We agree with patent laws which a few isolated and perhaps undeserving people very rich. We agree to turn Wall Street into a gambling casino with bizzare options that were never legal before. It is if we played football with different yard markers for their side verses ours, and that we moved the goal posts around at will, and gave their side five downs for every turn while our side settled for three. And we agree to have the referees to have selective blindness never seeing what our oponet does that's against the rules. There is a very profound truth about poor people Dylan once gave voice to, "When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose". There is something about human nature that if you go too long without "winning" you get restless and "Make yourself another set of rules" again to quote Dylan. And the other side just might not be happy with these "new rules" if you decide to play the "game" where you are terrorist and the other side plays the part of the "rich, scared capitalist". But to quote a psycho therapist, the game only "works" if both sides agree to the "roles" they are playing. This axiom of psychologists thus gives the true terrorist a permission slip that he might not have obtained any other way.

Obviously the previous paragraph was speaking in the abstract and the hypothetical. I have asked myself on occasion, "Do you think your harsh remarks about Christians last week put out a lot of negative karmic energy?" First of all I have control to influence very little. The things I said last week were ongoing realities whether I actually SAY them or not. Do I have it personally in for James Dobson? No, I don't. In fact I think that had he only started his ministry ten years earlier than he did, when I was young enough to be helped by him, Dobson could have been a useful ally. The observations of people like Dr. Phil and Dobson- - are quite ofter right on, and to the point and address problems squarely. Lord knows my own family never did this. I would be the first to say that "In some other lifetime, in some other world" me and Born Again Christianity may have been the best of friends. But in this lifetime it just didn't work out that way. If the axiom is true that "to allow something to happen is to endorse its occurring" then to me this creates a lot of Explaining that God will need to be doing in the afterlife. Personally I have doubts as to whether he is up to it.