Making It Up As You Go Along

There is more commentary by Moe Kelly about FOX news and their marked political bias.   Moe Kelly points out that the minute a news commentator makes you aware of their personal views, it ceases to be news reporting and has ventured into something else.  Yet virtually all the time FOX reporters take pains to remind you where each of them comes down on a particular issue.  Apparently they have dress codes for women reporters to highlight their sexuality.  They’re in the business of pandering to the audience and not informing them.   We have Magen Kelly and this assertion of here that Santa Clause and Jesus are both of historical validity and that both Santa Clause and Jesus were White, meaning blonde haired and blue eyed.   Megan Kelly doesn’t see what’s wrong with “Blacks feeling uncomfortable” - - “about an obvious historical legacy” or whatever she calls it.   A white Santa Clause would never come to “the hood”.  I think we all know what the image of Santa Clause is all about.   These people forget that Santa Clause goes all over the world, supposedly, and not just to White European countries.  And even the term “White” isn’t a race or “ethnicity” to begin with, but it’s really a state of mind- - and not a healthy one.   The book of Revelation does indeed describe Jesus with a skin of “burnished bronze” and with “hair like wool” and I don’t think they’re implying he’s wearing a wig.    But now we hear that Othello was a Black Shakespherian character played by Whites.  Judas, of course was played by a Black man in Jesus Christ Superstar.  Personally I think that’s cool.  After all it’s time one of Jesus’ disciples got a little “Soul”.  And Cleopatra was an Egyptian woman planed by a white, just as white actors in westerns routinely played the parts of Indians.

Then we come to Donald Trump and the birthers.  Donald Trump was asked why he doesn’t regard Ted Cruise as unqualified to run for President and Trumps response is “Well, I’ve heard that Cruz was born in Canada but I don’t know about that.  Trump says, “I don’t regard that as a proven fact” when clearly it IS a “proven fact”.  It’s like Dr Levy or Judy when confronted with the economic accomplishments of Bill Clinton and Franklin Roosevelt respectively say “Well, I don’t know about that”.    So Trump doesn’t believe Cruz’s Canadian birth is a “proven fact” but he also will say “since it’s not a proven fact that Obama was born in America” and he believes all birth certificates are hoaxes, for this reason then- - Obama should be singled out for scrutiny whereas John Mc Cain’s birth certificate has not been publicly presented and yet Trump would not question John Mc Cain’s fitness to become President.  But these people have nothing else- - and I could go down a whole extensive list of unrealized fears about President Obama, starting with that legendary three AM phone call- -and how a Barock Obama would respond.

But of course FOX news keeps obsessing on all of the stories mobody cares about any more.  For instance there is talk about “Fast and Furious”, a gun running operation during the Bush administration involving the Mexican government.  The goal apparently was to “create a gun crisis that would spike demand for gun regulation”.  Believe you me we don’t have to “create” any gun crisis; we already have it!  Then there is the ever present Bengazi crisis, which has pretty much finally - - died a natural death.   Then we have this bit about President Obama not saying the words “Under God” in the pledge of allegence, and this has been thoroughly documented to be false.  And now we have the coverage of Nelson Mandella’s funeral.  But of course the last thing the news media will do is remind us of the actual significance of the day.  Rather they fixate on President Obama shaking hands with Raul Castro, when Nixon embracing Mao Tse Tung’s regeme in early 1972 was a far more radical departure from tradition.  But it wasn’t shiek for the Republicans to criticize Nixon back then.  Of course now it is shiek for them to attack Nixon because the EPA and other agencies were formed during his administration, and there was even talk about Health Care and a negative income tax. 

STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS   Few of us writers have anything truely that original to say.  Not even Einstein's theory of relativity was entirely unique to him.  The famous formula he uses for additions of volocities- - - came straight from someone who was trying to VALIDATE the ether theory, which Einstein himself rejected.  A lot of what Einstein had to say on the subject comes straight from Isaac Newton.   In terms of my own writings and my famous "star-burst" symbol,   this idea or concept is not my own invention.  I got it from watching television.  This is the idea that before there was Time as we knew it, anything that exploded "out" in the course of the Big Bang- - had NO PRIOR PERAMATERS to guide it- - in terms of either time or space but primarily Time.  Therefore - - like coinage during a time of anarchy - - none of it was of a fixed value, as such, in our minds.  We are in the TIME we are simply because it's where WE ARE at the moment.  The concept then of parrellel universes - - is a derivative of this basic concept of original chaos.   Now we come to Jesus.  Moe Kelly would tell us to a historical certitude that Jesus existed and died under Pontious Pilate.   But not so fact.  Irenius, a Church Father revered by most all denominations- - states that Jesus was crucified and sentenced to death under Emperor Claudius "sometime when Jesus was in his forties".   What is the significance you ask?  We just said that Irenius' theological credentials cannot be questioned.   If this is true- - what are we to make of someone like Josephus saying Jesus died in 30 AD under Governor Pilate?   Since Irenius lived eighty years after Josephus, surely he would have gone back and looked at historical documents to validate his facts.  The pressure from his piers alone would be enough to force a correction in this misstatement of fact.  (Selah)   That is - - UNLESS - - the statement hadn't been written yet.  Now we come to Justin Martyr- - who comes in-between the two at 150 AD.  What does HE say???    Strangely little to support the "historicity" of an event Moe Kelly so charishes.   I speak to Moe not out of condescension but as one thoughtful, intelligent human being to another and to invoke the Bible, "Come now, let us reason together".   So in a 26 page document I downloaded from Justin addressing the Greeks about Christ and the supremecy of Christianity- - - in those 26 pages how many times is the word "Pilate" employed.  NONE.  The cord crucified and sentenced are in fact used not at all.  Twice the word "Died" is used.  Once as part of the word "Studied".  The other one is most interesting.  Justin accuses the Greek culture as being a bogus one that does not go back nearly as far as people were saying.  Justin is actually accusing writers of forging documents and putting other people's names to them.   You know what they say about people who live in glass houses.   So there are no uses of the words "died" or "crucified" or "sentenced" or the word "Pilate".  We have said previously that words such as "tomb" and "stone" are not there.   We are told Justin's writings are key as an early witness of the validity of Christ's existance.  Just as "valid" as anybody living a hundred years after the fact can be.   This will come as a shock to Moe because he's heard all his life- and so have I- - and it's in the Apostle's Creed we used to recite every week, that Jesus "Suffered under Pontious Pilate, was crucified, dead, and burried".   Taint necessarily so.  People are sometimes so bent on what IS in a certain document because they were "looking for it" they fail to "notice" all of the things that are NOT there.  (Selah)   To get metaphysical for a moment once more- - we think SPACE is this "metering out of measurement" and is somehow fixed and inviolate.  We know what stationary is- - - and we "know" that two things cannot occupy the same place.  But with things like "event horizons" and a Newtonian sense of relevity Reality- - just don't commit yourself too soon on this belief.

On a personal level as you know I was looking forward to NOT being broke the rest of the month like I was last month because I wouldn’t have haircut expenses this month.  Well think again.  Mary Jane called us into the office to get a trim because they want us to look presentable for tomorrow night’s party,  and I don’t mean in Seattle.   First I excused myself to go out and get a cup of really hot coffee from Dora in the courtyard and then I returned.   I complained to them my lamp doesn’t work- - or barely so.  It seems less significant to these people that your lamp won’t turn on- - but if you have a few hairs out of place at the gathering with friends and loved ones, this is a major crisis.

Yesterday afternoon, I think for the first time, I went on line to revolve the lifeline thing hanging over my head from the phone company.  So far as I know it’s the first time I have ever conducted any official “on line business” apart from any snail mail or land line phone interaction.  Everything went snoothely.   Most all commercial agencies have secure incrypted web sites- where your information isn’t in peril of being hacked.