Maxims Fall-Winter 2024

Maxim 1: Jesus said, “And why call ye me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not the things which I say?”

Maxim 2:  Everyone is practically like a toddler these days, and locked and loaded with greed an attorneys.

Maxim 3: The 10 Commandments aren’t written because we wouldn’t know them without it. It’s written to remind us of those things, when we are wont to forget.

Maxim 4:  I like the David types. Will kill 30 serial killers with the swing of a spear, and weep over their damned souls. I’m a Jeremiah type. A weeping prophet who is victimized by his culture.

Maxim 5: I don’t want fortune; I want self control. I don’t want fame; I want peace.

Maxim 6: Maybe God knew He made the world a little too broken, and wanted to take it upon Himself?

Maxim 7: Just about the only thing I can’t write about is myself.

Maxim 8: This world could never fit its purpose. That’s why we are in need of a better one.

Maxim 9: I am not infallible. Christians, we have to work together, to know the Word of God. The Spirit will teach us all things. All Scripture is God Breathed and Profitable for teaching, but we need to know Who that Scripture represents, and interpret it through that lens.

Maxim 10: I am not Saint Judas Son of James. I am just a writer. That was a character I used for inspiration of [my] poetry.

Maxim 11: Live in a Swing State. You get the best of both worlds and none of the excesses.

Maxim 12: The books I write are for wisdom, not my own prosperity.

Maxim 13: You're not going to create a Eutopia by getting rid of religion. Just a weird and backward mess, where nothing, and nobody really matters except yourself and your own gratification.

Maxim 14: So a flower blooms in winter by a lack of summer rains, does a child bloom prematurely by a lack of parental love.

Maxim 15: My mission is just to prove you can believe on the Gospel, and be intellectually honest as a smart person.

Maxim 16: If we see all our differences, handicaps and quirks, we forget what humanity all has in common.

Maxim 17: I studied science. When science starts to be imaginary, it’s no longer science, but delusion.

Maxim 18:When you can't tell the moral difference between man and animal, there's not much further your conscience can fall.

Maxim 19: They say college students can't read. To read War and Peace, while in jail, it took me two weeks, of waking up, and reading until I went to bed. I think this may be part of it, is that to comprehend you have to read slow. I did that twice.

Maxim 20: I have searched far and wide for meaning in this life. I found at the end there is nothing. So, hope in a better world, for even if your lover were the fairest of 10,000, your work bountifully prospered you, your wisdom sagastic, and your food tasty, it doesn't compare to the riches of what's to come. And if you had half that, you could call it a good life.

Maxim 21: If Israel showed restraint in their war, there'd be no more Jews. If HAMAS and Hezbollah did, there'd be no more war.

Maxim 22: It's like the world's turning into a bunch of bratty kids fighting over a toy.

Maxim 23: I like writing books and poems. Just leave me to my imaginary worlds, and let me comment on the real one. That’s all I want in terms of power.

Maxim 24: Power scares me. The more you have, the more likely you are to use it wrong.

Maxim 25: At the end, the purpose to life is simply this: to hear, "Well done good and faithful servant." For, there is nothing in this life, the more I see, worth having beside eternity some place better.

Maxim 26: The world's for the youth.

Maxim 27: A silent sage never heard, is better than a boisterous fool who does great exploits.

Maxim 28: My goodness… people find every joy and make it a controversy.

Maxim 29: The simplest utterance of a dull mind, can be more profound than a thousand philosophers' wild grasp at truth.

Maxim 30: Sometimes I really wonder if people actually understand what they're saying.

Maxim 31: There's comfort in liturgy. That's why the Anglican church ditched Jesus and kept mass. Most people's personality type makes them crave ritual and order. They like the empty platitudes and stale bread and bad songs but not God. They have a form of Godliness but deny His power.

Maxim 32: Let's just choose to have sex for the bedroom and married couples; abortion classified as murder unless medically necessary; and transgenderism a backward faux pas that some strange people do sometimes but we just don't talk about it, and certainly don't make a mainstream topic. And the same goes for gays, too.

Maxim 33: Brandon, to a Korean Man criticizing his science fantasies: "Okay, you win. None of it works. But if it did, I tell you what people would actually do with it."

Maxim 34: If you have faith, you're saved. If you're saved, you do good works. {} Therefore, if you have faith, you do good works.

Maxim 35: Sunday School was literally the only place I learned sound Theology. It's not right to teach kids calculus or make them read Crime and Punishment before counting and their abcs.

Maxim 36: Progress must first be inspired by the arts, and then come through the sciences.

Maxim 37: Emerson said of Plato, his philosophy is this, "Things are knowable." That is the bases of all true philosophy, religion and science. Not only the physical, but ethical, too.

Maxim 38: Nihilism doesn’t liberate the artist, but imprisons them in mediocrity.

Maxim 39: From all philosophers, what they’ve found and distilled to be true, Jehovah beat them to it.

Maxim 40: Howard Hughes said every man has a price. He would be right. My price is just to let me think what I want, say what I want, and create what I want, with as little threat to my religion and provincial life as possible.

Maxim 41: Frustration is a subtle sign of doubt.

Maxim 42: Looking at a test for NPD it asked, "Are you a modest person?" And the answers were "I am basically a modest person," and "Modesty doesn't become me." So, I put the test down and didn't take the rest of it, because I had no answer.

Maxim 43: You need God’s mercy. Because without it, we’d be caught in a hellish storm.

Maxim 44:  I’d almost say the wisest [things] are said by [the dull minded], as there’s no subtlety, nuance or deception. They just tell you how it is.

Maxim 45: For knowing how to succeed at life, ask a dull mind. For knowing about a hypotenuse, ask a scholar.

Maxim 46: The intelligent make society happy with science and art. The simple enjoy the fruits of intelligence as much as the intelligent enjoy the fruits of the simple, which is labor.

Maxim 47: The natural ideas of man are dull, and they sleep within them, but when awoken, are a ferocious terror.

Maxim 48: You take the three wisest men and sit them at a table, you find out they are not so wise.

Maxim 49: The modern Academic seems to forget the story of Elijah, and the story of Josiah rediscovering the Law. All their questions could be answered, by actually reading the Bible for what it says, and not by tracing strange etymologies.

Maxim 50: Petrarch did the impossible, and made me despise my own poetry, by sounding like his.

Maxim 51: Excessive stress can cause a sickly, late blooming flower.

Maxim 52: War is theft.

Maxim 53: Flowering trees in November are the result of too early a fall.

Maxim 54: We go to heaven when we die, and if we didn't our lot is most miserable.

Maxim 55:  The phrase, "Flowering trees in November are the result of too early a fall," isn't in scripture, but it's still true. We go to heaven when we die, and if we didn't our lot is most miserable.

Maxim 56: There's a reason why Disney's worst movies from the 90s are so popular today. Not a very flattering one, either.

Maxim 57: Most people who claim to read the original Hebrew of the Old Testament, also do weird things analogous to finding the mystical meaning and similarity, in words as different as "Boiling" and "Bowling".

Maxim 58: One of the testaments to the Bible's verity, is its complete lack of sentimentality. It has absolutely no illusion about life.

Maxim 59: You can draw many to Christ through His life and ministry, but there must proceed the power of grace, too.

Maxim 60: A "Christian" Nation, ruled by anyone beside Christ, is not my ideal State. But, Christian morals are good, and need to be accepted voluntarily and understood.

Maxim 61: For all my brothers out there, heaven is better than having one of the fairest as a wife, and 20 kids, and pot roast every Tuesday and reading every classic novel. For my sisters, heaven is better than a man who looks like James Dean as a husband, who farms with horse and plough, and looks you in the eyes and listens to your every word.

Maxim 62: It's amazing how Public Perception trumps logic every time, and even the most absurd detail can make a strong argument, even so far as the detail proves nothing or its exact opposite.

Maxim 63: That's not right to link fortune and righteousness, because fortune is blind.

Maxim 64: An artist's true best comes from joy, not sorrow.

Maxim 65: Romance is not the foundation on which morality is derived.

Maxim 66: Hope makes you a far better person.

Maxim 67: It seems many Christians desire this life and its treasures, and forget entirely the next.

Maxim 68: Therapy teaches you to harden your heart. Christ teaches you to open it.

Maxim 69: Everything has number involved with it, from chemistry, to geometry, to physics. It's just the numbers work in proportion and relation to each other by equalities.

Maxim 70: Don't ascribe to psychic powers and giants, what can be properly explained through counterweights, pulleys and leverage. 

Maxim 71: If you can lift a two ton rock with a metal lever and 200 pound man, you can create net gains of energy, more than you put into it.

Maxim 72: Maybe we are just at another Babel, where man was made retarded, so they couldn't understand the objectivity of math or language anymore?

Maxim 73: If you have a bird in the hand, and let it go to catch another, you'll be left with empty palms.

Maxim 74: Readying to write my philosophical treatise, I realized I had already made it in The Wisdom of B. K. Neifert.

Maxim 75: I don't want to be bad, I just am bad. And that's the Gospel, is that God will make us stop it, if we want Him to.

Maxim 76: If there is one thing the world can learn from me, it is how to slay the monster within, through Christ.

Maxim 77: Man doesn't understand eternity.

Maxim 78: Saw a woman who looked exactly like my Aunt on Frasier, and three times I saw Kamala Harris, on Switched at Birth and in the Hospital. And I saw a certain rich man who looked like my best friend. There are look alikes out there, stunningly similar... do not be deceived by a cheap imitation of me, should one exist. I have no top Canine Teeth, which is called Canine Agenesis.

Maxim 79: I distrust anyone who says with a straight face that Finnegan's Wake is anything more than silly babble.

Maxim 80: Cantos by Ezra Pound and Finnegan's Wake are two books that ought not have been written.

Maxim 81: Ulysses is a decent novel, with some pretty phrases. I don't know what any of it means, but it's pretty.

Maxim 82: There may be ten people in the world who actually understood Ulysses and three crazy men who understood Finnegan's Wake.

Maxim 83: One of my strangest personality traits, is that I actually like stale coffee.

Maxim 84: Accept that having meat and bread on your table, milk and tea in your fridge, a roof over your head and people to live life with are more than many billions of other people will have. But also have hope. Hope makes you an infinitely better person.

Maxim 85: I think to be on God’s side, peace has to be more interesting than war.

Maxim 86: I familiarized myself with Wagner, and understand from it, never let go of your desire for love, not even for the world.

Maxim 87:  People respond to you, when you wrestle with your demons and not theirs.

Maxim 88: Treat the Bible as a primary source, because all evidence shows it was written during, or shortly after those events.

Maxim 89: When you know why 1 + 1 = 2, then nobody can tell you otherwise.

Maxim 90: I sometimes think the deeper we get into wisdom, the more we lose the simplicity of the Gospel, which is simply to love our neighbor and God, and allow Grace to cover us.

Maxim 91: It is my custom, when I sit down to read the Bible, to read an entire book of it. Or, as much of one book as I can. Isaiah, for instance, I will read 30 chapter of in one sitting, usually, and the Gospels 12. Corinthians or Romans I will start and finish.

Maxim 92: Psalms are a book of poetry, of which I flip through, usually, and read what I feel is inspired for that day.

Maxim 93: All good writing comes from witness.

Maxim 94:  It's strange, how intelligent people are liberal, but great sages aren't. The common man recognizes something hidden from the intelligent, but revealed again to the truly gifted.

Maxim 95: The Wizard of Oz means we have all we need within ourselves already, and prayer is just a way of drawing that water from the deep.

Maxim 96: The Wizard of Oz is simply about God being a placebo, and faith being a tool to bolster people's confidence.

Maxim 97: I believe in God. And always will. Not for what He can get me in this life, but that He justifies its pointless cruelty.

Maxim 98: The major difference between literature and film, is film has no substance, while literature is built from it.

Maxim 99: Film is meant to be escapism, while literature is meant to ground you in what's real.

Maxim 100: Rod Serling wanted film that was literature, but the medium is too shallow to contain it.

Maxim 101: Twilight Zone is brilliant.

Maxim 102: The beauty of film in the Golden Age of Hollywood was it was more like literature, driven by dialogue.

Maxim 103: Modern film is so bad, because everything is told through action, and not narrative.

Maxim 104: A stage play is an element of literature, because everything is done through the imaginative art... nothing is done through effects.

Maxim 105: You see depth at a theater, and people's breath. While in film you only see their afterimage. 

Maxim 106: To elucidate my point: Ferris Bueller's Day Off is good, because there are no consequences. That is film's primary mode. A book would start with the lawsuit, the friend's suicide, and the life exposed to humanity's cruelty, fractured lifelong friendships and focus on Ferris' glib and antisocial tendencies, and how one carefree day of youth transformed him. 

Maxim 107: That’s a fundamental problem [to be] elucidated, that murderers, thieves and liars are more trusted than police. Gangs are not justice. You have to understand that. Before you can have true justice.

Maxim 108: As is often, you find lies divided between both camps.

Maxim 109: Christ didn’t conquer Rome with legions, but with blood shed from martyrs. The evil is so thick, that has to be what happens now. And my blood or poverty is good.

Maxim 110: A master I am not, but like a Michelangelo's body, I freely paint my verse.

Maxim 111: Good, you could write for all ages and not suffice it. But you know it, I think. We all do.

Maxim 112: The great irony of our age, is there's a market for dog shit but not fine crafts or antiques.

Maxim 113: You’re allowed to be wrong. It’s when we forget that, America will turn into a tyranny.

Maxim 114: Just do your work, enjoy doing it, and don't care who you piss off.

Maxim 115: I work from 9:30am to 11:00pm. It's just that I enjoy doing it. Even if not paid yet.

Maxim 116: Sometimes I wonder if the things we fight over, aren't the things that make people so interesting.

Maxim 117: That's interesting Tolkien wasn't inspired by Wagner. That means there's a source that both Wagner and Tolkien shared in common. Probably the Poetic Edda.

Maxim 118: You are saved by faith, not works. It is God who saves you, and directs your steps, through desire for His Love. That is what saves you. Nothing else.

Maxim 119: Feminists are just female sociopaths, who use society's weak spots to manipulate people, and put men in compromising positions.

Maxim 120: Do what you want. Delete every word I wrote. Make the world gross. I don't care anymore... I have Jesus, and will forsake this world for Him.

Maxim 121: Just conscience. That's the only argument that can work in the end. Atheism preaches acceptance and tolerance of sin, which runs contrary to our deepest desire. Which is for God's rest.