What Is The Worst Kind of Corruption?

Judges hold the key to freedom.  Police are sometimes overzealous and have guns.  Politicians could sodomize each other for all I care. I don't believe politicians have had any sort of sovereignty since Obama took office, not like what happened when Bush Jr. was in office.

People feared Shrub because he was borderline dumb and he had the legislature by their balls. Obama may have some accomplishments, yet some of them I imagine are faked, such as the slaughter of Osama bin Laden.  President Obama's asshole commentary on the economy leads me to suspect that because it is so full of distortions that it is essentially lies.

Politician or judge are among the worst kinds of corruption, and it really depends on who is in the position of power that determines which is the worst kind.  Serving on the Supreme Court is a life sentence, and under our borderline corrupt Supreme Court, there is potential for some really bad decisions.  However, I think 5 to 4, that vote that wins usually reflects my opinion though most opinions I agree with and they are better than 5 to 4 decisions.  If that wasn’t the case I think that would be very horrible.

Under Bush Jr. we had the horrible Patriot act and the even more horrible Patriot II act.  I remember those times being paranoid.  The legislature was in power then, and I feared them for no other reason than the amount of poor decisions they made.  That was when the economy was in a downward spiral.  Currently, President Obama is doing a good job remaining composure, such that the Union hasn’t crumbled.

Under Obama though perhaps I should fear him like a leader, I just don't.  As far as a judge goes, I have only been called to do jury duty once and they didn't take my panel. That is the closest I have been to a courtroom in my life.

I do know what it is like to be locked up for mental illness.  After a few weeks it got boring.  I felt trapped.  However, I would liken that sort of lifestyle to living in a city.  I don't like the city; all eyes are watching so it would seem.

**** Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan – Aslan Finds the Real Jesus

Perhaps, the greatest insight of this book is right at the beginning.  Reza Aslan refuses to accept Jesus as Christ, something that is completely absurd, and looks deeper into developing who Jesus was based on what we know, what we don’t know the great supposition that Jesus is really only Jesus of Nazareth, and not some sort of deity or Christ.  That is Jesus is Jesus of Nazareth and not Jesus Christ.

This book is full of wonderful insights to Jesus of Nazareth.  My major criticism of Zealot in Part 1, chapters 1-6, is the overuse of names of ancient times, using them as if they were commonly known among us modernists of this century, and discussing these people, as if we might even find out who they where if we googled them.

Really, I don’t know of any other work where the information in part 1 is available.  I have never come across much of any of it elsewhere, to gauge my opinion of it fairly.  In fact, part 1 could have probably been made into a book by itself, all the while elaborating more on the various characters of the text, if there is anymore text available.

I come as a fairly knowledgeable person, reading this part 1, as a non-Christian, and even still it practically puts me on Mars.  I am not used to these words.  There were many capital letters to nouns, proper nouns that I am unfamiliar with.

In Part 1, Reza paints a picture that is hard to verify even without some grand library.  It is a picture that maybe someone like they highly decorated and great scholar Bart Ehrman would readily recognize.  However, for me, not knowing who each of these seemingly unknown and new entrances to the theological playing field at the time of Jesus is quite overwhelming.  I won’t criticize Zealot so much as to say that the reader probably won’t even get the crucial main ideas because of the difficulty knowing enough to criticize what Aslan is writing about in Part 1.

Part 2 is information that I don’t know cold, but most of which I am familiar with.  Reza Aslan did a really good job with this part of the book.  If there was any way to fix this book, it would be to be able to distill part 1 and part 2 into a single part.  However, that much I don’t believe is possible due to missing information.

Even though this work comes almost 2,000 years after the fact, I would say that it is as relevant to the teaching of Jesus as any work in the New Testament.  I almost see this book as the nearly the Final Testament, as what more could be done in the study of Jesus of Nazareth, such that we can put him in his proper place, as an intelligent Zealot from the underclass looking to change the face of Judaism, as well as gaining a following of poor Jewish folk who probably identified with Jesus of Nazareth as a person from a tough background, such that his early followers probably took because Jesus was born into impoverished circumstances and his followers wanted his story to be the one that was told, instead of that of rich priests.

Frankly, a part of me thinks that the reason Jesus despised what was going on in the Temple so much is that he was jealous of the money that was being made there, and would have accepted a priestly job if he were given one early in his life; late in his life though this was impossible, as he was a committed zealot messiah against the religious establishment; the Temple priests were his enemy, and he hated them for their wealth because it seemed that he was born into an unjust world.

Like part II, part III is also familiar, but I think it doesn’t even do justice to the start of the Christian religion cult, which really began under Constantine, with his vision, and the teaching of Jesus that Jesus said he had not come to bring peace, but that he had come to bring a sword.  Constantine’s sword is the true story of how Christianity began as a religion.  Christianity would have burned out like other cults without Constantine and his ethnic cleansing for the sake of “Christ.”

I Didn't Write This, But Preventing Animal Cruelty Is Very Close to My Heart

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September 12, 2013 Dear Craig, You can call me "Andy." It's not my real name. But since I'm an undercover investigator for The Humane Society of the United States, I have to keep things anonymous. As for my work, that's a different story. My job is to bring the darkest cruelties against animals out into the light for all to see. Today I want to tell you about one mother pig at a factory farm in Wyoming. Watch her story, and then please make a gift for animals like her. When I found this sow one day last April, she was lying on the ground -- her legs were swollen and covered in deep gashes. She had sores all over her body. I tried to give her food but she wouldn't eat it. When I touched her legs she recoiled in pain. The people responsible for her care did not even leave her water. But, I caught a few drops of water from a nearby hose and brought my hand to her mouth. All of a sudden, she lifted her head and lapped up the water. With all the strength she had left, she inched her way toward water -- for what might have been her last drink. See this sow's story -- then please make a gift to help stop this kind of animal cruelty and many other forms of animal abuse. It pains me to think about how she came to be in this condition. She was just a number to the people running this facility, a unit that wasn't producing. There were many -- too many -- other horrors at this facility. Workers punching pregnant mother pigs, drop-kicking piglets like soccer balls and smashing them into concrete floors. My job is to document these abuses for one reason: to expose them. And it's working. As a result of this investigation, seven workers at this factory farm pleaded guilty or were convicted of animal cruelty. And, we've worked with more than 60 major companies -- including McDonald's, Burger King, Costco, and Target -- to announce that they will stop using small, metal cages in which breeding sows are confined for almost their entire lives. This is tremendous progress, but there's still so much work to be done. Craig, will you make a gift today of $35.00 -- or whatever you can afford -- and help us continue our work to create a better world for all animals? Together we will confront cruelty wherever it exists, taking on the individuals and industries that profit from animal suffering -- from people who mistreat dogs in puppy mills, to those who club baby seals to death in the name of fashion, to corporations that abuse animals in factory farms. Thank you for everything you do for animals. Sincerely, "Andy" Undercover Investigator The Humane Society of the United States

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Utopian Atheism: A Threat to an Age of Peace

One of the greatest threats I see to entry to the Messianic age, what is referred to as the 1,000 years, in the book of Revelation, is the idea of the noble atheist.  “Noble atheists” don’t believe in Gd because they see everything that is bad that has happened in history as the result of human faith; things such as the Crusades, the Inquisition, and more recently the Holocaust.  IMHO these horrors have everything to do with Gd, and that there are winners and losers.  The righteous receive rewards.  The wicked are eventually punished or cut off.

The concept “noble atheist” is the idea that if we could just rid humanity of god or God in every way, because there is not Gd according to atheists, then we could achieve some sort of utopia.  This is the ideal to atheists that is unlike other utopias in that it is more like what atheists might term normal living through not associating Gd to life’s ups and downs.

My fellow friends, this is not what Gd wants for us and I don’t believe that He will tolerate all noble atheists, as some of these people, like Christopher Hitchens, will probably just grow angrier and angrier at Gd until their punishments become unbearable, leading them to death.  They won’t even know that the stones thrown from the heavens, nor their followers know that the stones thrown at them from the heavens are due to their deeds because they have wronged the Almighty.

Eventually, Gd will not tolerate the idea of the noble atheist, except for maybe the secular humanist, because these people are cut off from Gd’s word, the Bible.  As Ravi Zacharias said, “Without the Bible, the world would be without a compass.”  Now I know he, Ravi, is a Christian.  However, there are a lot of Christians that do a lot right, and just a little wrong.  I know that I have associated Christianity as being one of the great evils of our world, and that Hashem is the only answer to Christianity, but that is not to say nothing good ever came from Christianity.  Hopefully, Christians will come to see that Judaism is the only way, and that Jesus does not represent, “The way, the truth and the life,” at all for Talmud includes, “Jesus is in hell where he is boiling in hot excrement.”

1,000 years, Book of Revelation, Atheists, Hashem, Christians, righteous, wicked, secular humanism, Ravi Zacharias, Talmud, Crusades, Inquisition, Holocaust, utopia, Christopher Hitchens

Syria and Russia - Not Our Allies, Not Even Close

I don't care who does what on whom in Syria because both the Regime and the Rebels are our enemies.

The whole deal with Russia is a distraction. Russia is not our ally, so what will Russia do during chemical weapons inspections; flip a quarter. The odds are 50/50 and not only that, they shouldn't matter.

It shouldn't matter because we shouldn't be the world's policeman when we are starkly in debt. We need to stop making excuses for ouselves to raise the debt ceiling, and get things under fiscal control.

I am surprised that President Obama is still pushing for war despite Russia's action. I would have thought that he was looking for a way to back out of the chemicals weapons corner that he put himself in.

One of my Facebook friends posted the following truth that I think is very important before we go into this war, and why we should not go to war, even for a short period.

Mish Shedlock notes the quote of the day goes to Abby Martin who says "We're killing Syrians to Show Syria that Killing Syrians is Wrong.". I (my Facebook friend) would modify the quote slightly to: "We're killing Syrians to Show Syria that IMPROPERLY Killing Syrians is Wrong."

Judaism and Creationism: What Came First, The Chicken or The Egg?

It is said that Adam and Eve were created with the appearance of being 20 years old in the Garden of Eden.  How can this be so?  If Gd created the universe with the appearance of age, isn’t that deceptive?

The very meaning of deception is to create something that looks a certain way such that one would only think that it would be a certain age through analysis.  In the answer, there is an unfolding of the very meaning of age.

The world was made not with the appearance of age, but with the appearance of perfection, because the L-rd Gd would only create something perfect, and leave it to us to keep it that way.  And, He promises that eventually earth will be like it was in Gan Eden.  The only requirement is massive amounts of righteousness.  Gd did not make a world where Adam would look at a tree and think, wow that tree looks old.  That was not the intent.  Gd’s intent was for Adam to look at a tree and think, not about its age, but just simply, “Wow!!!  That looks perfect!!!”

We know this because the L-rd Gd is good.  His ways are worthy of emulation.  Because Gd is good we can know that the world was not created to deceive us that the world was old, and aged.  That would be an action not attributable to a Mighty Deity.  The Almighty Gd created the world to look perfect in an ageless way.  We humans often place too much emphasis on the beginning and ending of things such as life cycles.

Torah does not lead us to believe that things were created with the appearance of age.  However, Torah does lead us to believe that the world was created in a state of perfection, Gan Eden.  Things where not created with the appearance of age; they were created in their ideal state; something time does not know.

Chances are that we didn’t grow up in the Garden of Eden.  The world we grew up in was imperfect.  However, that perfect way that we probably never knew was outside of age because usually we associate age with death and dying, but yet the Garden of Eden had neither of these things.

In Judaism, our souls are eternal, such that birth is merely a state of the soul.  As time passes, we gain deeper understanding to the world at birth, so it is true that birth is an earlier state of life, and that infants aren’t born with much more than they need to know, and primarily what they do know revolves around motivating parents or care takers to feed them and change their dirty diapers, etc., through crying.  However, it is such that before we were on earth we did not know of age, and we came down to earth, and suddenly time became a very important issue of our lives; in fact for most of us, too important!  Our slavery to the clock in fact is one sign that we live in a fallen and imperfect world.  Gan Eden didn’t last long!

So, looking at a perspective; did the chicken come first or the egg is that chickens were created before they came into being, before time, as what we would call before an earthly state, but that the first chicken came to earth at a state of the universe known as the Garden of Eden where everything was perfect.

It is such that probably Gd probably started with a flock of chickens some with their eggs ready to hatch in the Garden of Eden with grandiose splendor.

2nd Why I Say That I Am the Messiah

A part of the reason why I cleave to the idea of being the Messiah is because I have bipolar. I gave up on the cyclic idea of, "Now I am manic and the Messiah, and then when I am not feeling so good saying that I am not the Messiah." There will always come another time when I think that I am the Messiah, so I will own it and I will wear it on my soul.