Gateway 2000

In 1997, my computer had 16 Megabytes of ram.
It had three point five gigabytes of hard drive space.
And a 200 Mega Hertz Processor.

The computer I'm using today---
Windows 8, from 2013,
In 2023;
Mind you it was top of the line for its day---
Has a missing key that flung off
When my dad threw a piece of paper in a tantrum.
The keyboard also doesn't work---
I'm typing on my fourth keyboard
And it's a wireless with a mouse and keyboard combo---
I use Bluetooth frequently to listen to Pandora.
My computer has 8 Gigabytes of Ram
2.4 Gigahertz of Processor speed
And a modest Terabyte of Hard Drive Space.
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Scientology

To be honest,
I come upon the least literary topic
I have ever taken up.

One thing mystifies me,
But also arouses a passionate disinterest---
It falls in line with the cult of personality
Associated with Kardashians and Kanye---

Why do I even know about Scientology?
A cursory thought, 
One I have given very little to,
Having more important things to think about,
Is it curious that rich people
Wish to save themselves with their gold and silver?
It seems to be the most obvious point,
Is that the rich have a strong desire
To save themselves with their money;
And the perfect cult to trap them
Is the one which tells them their money
Directly saves them.

Yet, everyone talks about how abusive it is---
Obviously because they like to trash religion---
Obviously everyone compares it to Christianity,
Which is like comparing hypodermic AIDs needles with bread,
And I fully understood it the moment I heard of it.
The thing that interests me,
Is how interested you are in it.
It is simply a scheme of yours
To find fault with all gods,
And you are so transparent for it being the case.

Why Tom Cruise and Will Smith
Become adherents to it
Is the obvious foible of wanting their riches to save them.
And a man, spinning a yarn about aliens---which do not exist---
Gets these Hollywood Celebrities to spend bookoo bucks
To have their sins forgiven;
Which the Catholics once tried,
But was swiftly chastised with the Protestant Reformation.

Theology Summed Up Simply

The Bible is a recurring story. First, there is the Paradise. (The Garden, Zion, The Golden Age of Augustus). Then there is the fall, where sin casts them out of the Paradise (The Apple; Orgies, Idolatry and Disobeying the Sabbath; Adding to the Law of God and Making Merchandise of Religion). Then there is the captivity. (Adam and Eve are sent to the Earth; Samaria and Jerusalem are sacked by Sennacherib and Nebuchadnezzar; Jerusalem and the Temple are Destroyed by Titus), then there is the restoration, (Man is reconciled to God through Christ Jesus; Israel is Restored their Captivity through God by Cyrus' Decree; Christ's Second Coming Destroys the Captivity of Rome [40 Years as Told by Ezekiel].)

All of the Bible follows this plot. Samson, Moses, Israel's sons when they place Joseph in Captivity, David, Paul, Elijah, Jeremiah, Solomon, Hezekiah. It seems no great personage escapes this pattern.

In short, there is paradise, then the besiegement, then the tearing down of the walls, then of the captivity, and then the restoration, and then the rebuilding of the walls and temple and security. The story of Zion, the Daughter of Zion, is our story. The Daughter of Zion begins in Paradise, and then her people sin and in their sinful affluence grow corrupt and decadent. Finally, it arouses the suspicion and ire of other nations, and they come and besiege the kingdom, and tear down her walls and violate her peoples. Then with the walls broken, the people go into their captivity, where they toil and wait for their time to return (some, like the stubborn Israelites in the desert 40 Years, never return; but some are like Caleb and Joshua, or Daniel and Jeremiah). Then, a decree is set forth and God's wrathful decree is nullified by the Mercy of God. And the peoples are restored to Zion, where they in a slow rebuilding, return to the joys of paradise.

A Biblical Timeline of Evidence Corroborating Scripture:

Unknown – Flood myths appear on every continent and in every ancient civilization, including the Americas, which would be impossible, had not the Flood actually happened.

1950bc – The Lipit-Ishtar, which has a law on it, number 27, that Abraham followed with Hagar, that God told him to ignore. Abraham corresponds to this in the Genealogical record.

1800bc – Wadi el-Hol, found in Egypt, shows the earliest alphebet resembling that of proto-hebrew.

1750bc – We see the influence of Abraham on the laws of Mesopotamia, in the Hammurabi’s Code, where some of the Hebrew laws in the Torah are first found. Which is likely, also, the reason Sumerian Legends contain Biblical material, was an original source penned by Abraham.

1420bc – The Temple of Soleb has the name of Yahweh inscribed in Egyptian Hieroglyphs, and shows Bound Hebrew Slaves on the Pillars, making mention of the fact that the Israelites were wanderers in the land of Egypt before they were enslaved.

1330bc – The Cult of Aten begins, which corresponds with Moses in the Genealogies. The Cult of Aten was an unexpected conversion to Monotheism by the Pharaoh of Egypt, which likely occurred as a result of the miracles performed by Moses. Also, Moses’ genealogical record lines up right with it.

18^th Egyptian Dynasty – Egyptian Chariot spokes are found off the coast of Nuweiba beach, and many more like pieces remain under the Red Sea.

1250bc – Joshua’s Altar. In Joshua’s Altar there are Kosher animal ashes, along with the lead tablet described by the book of Joshua, and it is situated at the rear face of mount Ebal. It is even in the pattern of a Jewish Altar, with ramps instead of steps. Also found at the same dig site are mentions of King Hezekiah (Circa 790bc) and Jeremiah (Circa 600bc). The tablet has both El and Yah in it.

1050bc – A fragmented clay artifact is found in Khirbet Qeiyafa, containing Hebrew Mnemonic verses and the Tetragrammaton, of interpretive transcriptions of the law. On the pot, it talks about being charitable to slaves, and judging them mercifully, and a rebuke against idolatry.

840bc – Tel Dan Stele records the death of King Jehoram, and reveals that he is from the HouseDavid—a Portmanteau of the Dynasty’s Heraldry.

597bc – The Nebuchadnezzar Chronicles are a direct reference to the Jewish Captivity, of Babylon sacking Jerusalem. Ezekiel had already been taken captive, along with Israel, therefore, the captivity had already begun. Ezekiel records the Sack of Jerusalem and how bad it will be. As well as Jeremiah the Prophet.

537bc – Edict of Cyrus, which records the restoration of the Jews back to Israel.

100bc – The Great Isaiah scroll was transcribed, and still has the prophecy of Isaiah 53, detailing how a man’s soul must be offered as a sin offering. Predating Christ by at least 130 years.

31ad – Christ sweats blood, and dies of a heart attack. The Gospel record shows Christ sweating blood, a condition called hematohidrosis, which happens because of severe stress, and also a heart attack, when His side was punctured with the spear, water flowed from the wound. Which is from a pustule sack developed around the heart during Pre-Cardiac Arrest.

31ad – Under the Emperor Guangwu, of the Latter Han Dynasty, there is record of the Darkening of the Sun which happened for three hours during the Crucifixion. In the records, twice it is declared, “A man has died for the sins of all the people. Man from heaven died.”

Sandy Beach

Papias, by your calculation,
There will be twenty-five sextillion
Souls saved, and each soul
Shall save ten-thousand,
Until the last ten-thousand ten-thousand
Grapes bear their twenty five baths of blood.
Interestingly, you're not out of the ballpark
Of what scripture said would be saved---
That is one human being for every grain
Of sand off of the coasts of all the world's beaches.
That number, respectively,
Is 7.5 sextillion---
Even to hypothesize sextillions
At 90ad, is miraculous enough.

Atrimis

"Off to the Hyperborean sea,
"Fly oh ships, to avoid the Valkyries' war.
"The fire spreads across firmaments,
"As the men and women cannot come home.

"We are distracted by it by the Baals.
"The voyagers look beneath them
"And see the arms of the giants in Jotunheim,
"Beneath the circle of the Earth."

I hope you're right.

Stanford, you are the Peanut Gallery.

Aphorisms Winter 2023

Aphorism 102. One poem can answer a thousand more questions about history, than a thousand stones.

Aphorism 103. Most great thinkers have gotten something simple wrong.

Aphorism 104. A wise man looks for his errors, but when he finds none, he shudders.

Aphorism 105. I can't believe it, but I understand Kanye.

Aphorism 106. It took about 200 of the most brilliant minds in history to cause 200 years of flourishing. How many Years of suffering will four million so called experts create?

Aphorism 107. "Some claim Homer was literate." Okay? Award for the stupidest statement the internet had ever made. Who, exactly, says he wasn't?

Aphorism 108. Maybe more black men and women need to read Malcom X, instead of instigating race riots and making everything about skin color.

Aphorism 109. Neil Degrasse Tyson, for all our disagreements, is a man I respect.

Aphorism 110. The media fiddles while America burns.

Aphorism 111. Hate is just a vitriolic form of love. Just like Self Hate is a vitriolic form of Self Love.

Aphorism 112. No one is more mature, than one who has a disinterest in themself.

Aphorism 113. Every instance of hate I ever saw, was actually suppressed love. Including Racism.

Aphorism 114. There is no hate more cold, than disinterest.

Aphorism 115. There is no hate more hot, than to feign disinterest.

Aphorism 116. The most irritating thing about a person, is the boundaries they set that prevents us from fully expressing who we are. Yet, without these boundaries, there ceases to be peace.

Aphorism 117. There are good oranges, Bertrand.

Aphorism 118. Stanford, you are the Peanut Gallery.

Aphorism 119. Nostradamus was just a poet, who knew no one would buy his fantasies, unless they believed it.

Aphorism 120. I would rather Nostradamus studied as a first rate poet, rather than a third rate prophet.

Aphorism 121. Let people study my work, the way I study Nostradamus. As a vessel for ideas, not as a gateway into viewing the future.

Aphorism 122. An old Native American Proverb said to have lightning in the hand, rather than thunder in the mouth: But, if all you have is thunder, remember it can cause an avalanche.

Aphorism 123. I pretend like I believe the lies, so I can find other problems they don't even know about. If these issues are taboo, then these other ones you never even thought of ought to be interesting, and catch your ear.

Aphorism 124. Ms. Arulpragasam is a smart cookie.

Aphorism 125. The beautiful thing about Freedom of Speech, is that I don't have to be a lawyer to tell you what you are free to speak.

Aphorism 126. The deceptive thing about today, is the plutocracy of a degree dictating what you are allowed to say you know.

Aphorism 127. A lawyer does law. A physician proscribes medical treatments. An engineer builds complex structures. A degree is necessary to do law, to proscribe medical treatments, and to build complex structures.

Aphorism 128. If I study law, that does not make me a lawyer. If I study philosophy, that does make me a philosopher.

Aphorism 129. Where expertise is actually needed, then a degree is actually needed. Where unrequired, it is unrequired.

Aphorism 130. To have a license to practice law is to ensure a defendant has a fair trial. To have a license to go kayaking is a way to tax.

Aphorism 131. To need a license to drive ensures the roads are safe. To need a license to serve food is a way to ensure only the rich can eat.

Aphorism 132. To need a license to practice medicine or accounting ensures the security of health and wealth. To need a license to distribute food to the homeless ensures the homeless starve.

Aphorism 133. I once told a Police Officer that I am a Sovereign Citizen because he wished to arrest me for talking to him. Little did I know that term was already appropriated by far right-wing nationalists.

Aphorism 134. To lie and deceive is not what's protected under the first amendment.

Aphorism 135. If I have an opinion or belief, I am allowed to have and share it. That is what's protected under the first amendment.

Aphorism 136. To be wrong is not a criminal offense.

Aphorism 137. The current mindset of Americans is to specialize everything, so nobody can speak, except those rich enough to buy the education needed to make them incapable of uttering anything.

Aphorism 138. Modern education consists of teaching everyone everything, except the truth.

Aphorism 139. Truth is kept in old books, where the modern pedant scoffs and tells you not to look there.

Aphorism 140. A Theologian once claimed there are new questions today. I don't see that, but only a presumption of the answer.

Aphorism 141. The questions we ask today have obvious answers, while the answers we seem to agree upon are all bold faced lies.

Aphorism 142. If they make you question what Gender is, they can then tell you the answer for the meaning of life.

Aphorism 143. Obviously, the modern scholar believes what's specious, and scoffs what's true.

Aphorism 144. Wherever I had ever found an obvious truth, I also found an educated man saying it wasn't right.

Aphorism 145. I trust older sources because they didn't lie to themselves. So they also won't lie to me.

Aphorism 146. According to Papias' calculastions, 25 sextillion souls will be saved.

Aphorism 147. According to my calculations, there will be seven septillion human souls.

Aphorism 148. There were once estimated to be fourteen sextillion grains of sand in all the world's beaches. And there was once estimated to be seven septillion grains of sand underneath all the world's oceans.

Aphorism 149. If there ever were a creature like me in history, it would be Hans Christian Andersen.

Aphorism 150. To have the opposite life of Mr. Anderson, where I have a wife but remain unknown until my appointed time, would be happy.

A wise man looks for his errors, but when he finds none, he shudders.

Most Great Thinkers Have Gotten Something Simple Wrong.