Author: B. K. Neifert

Mark 13:51Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. 52Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.

Aphorisms Winter 2022-2023

Aphorism 1: Would God be just if He didn't wield the sword?

Aphorism 2: Incendiary rhetoric is closer to agreement, than disinterest.

Aphorism 3: To be curious about your opponent in debate is the most sincere disregard for their argument,---for you fully and unequivocally understand and reject it.

Aphorism 4: A sow likes to wash in the mud. You can't nature it any differently.

Aphorism 5: Postmodernism is a corrupted literary method that worms its way around all truth.

Aphorism 6: With godlessness comes foolishness.

Aphorism 7: To preach the gospel to the poor, without having fed them first, is to kick a dog lying down.

Aphorism 8: Nobody becomes the villain from the outside. Remember that.

Aphorism 9: If you ever want to know yourself, look at the people you date. Seven out of ten times, you're exactly the same people. The other three, you're on your way to becoming so.

Aphorism 10: Vengeance makes a life sore.

Aphorism 11: One tends to hate whomever is exactly like themselves, but different in the slightest ways.

Aphorism 12: We hate only what we fear in ourselves, especially when we see it in others.

Aphorism 13: If anyone wishes to understand my disdain for homosexuality and identity politics, it's that I have tasted those apples, and understand how rotten they were.

Aphorism 14: The conservatives are turning out to be exactly who the left portrayed them. That doesn't bode well for the left, who I know are exactly what I portray.

Aphorism 15: We have two brands of kool aid. One blue rasberry and the other cherry. They're both poisonous.

Aphorism 16: Kanye can say anything his little heart desires and will always have flying monkeys to clean up after him.

Aphorism 17: We are all shocked when the writer of Black Skinhead praises Hitler. I do not hate the man, but wonder why he is famous, and I am not.

Aphorism 18: I am prejudiced against Gay people, and Transexuals---Becaue I've tasted at least one of those, and do not like the idea of it being normalized.

Aphorism 19: The most shocking thing I'd ever seen, was a person likening a rebuker of Pedophiles to Nazis, and the rebuker then affirming Nazi behavior. I found the dichotomy we all are being forced to choose from.

Aphorism 20: I went to jail for what I did as a fourteen year old, not to then turn around and see it legalized.

Aphorism 21: Let my fame be like the scent of Lebanon.

Aphorism 22: A generation rages against their ancestor's peace.

Aphorism 23: Oh, my loves, you will have the world and we will see what you have done to it.

Aphorism 24: I was raised in peace---it is all that I know.

Aphorism 25: If I were King of the world, I would be like Cormac: cursed by my own people and my corpse drifting down the Boyne.

Aphorism 26: I would cast my Crown to obtain the promise of salvation---but, I have no crown to cast save a second given name.

Aphorism 27: If I must give up all my writing, I would in a heartbeat to obtain God's gift, my desire.

Aphorism 28: Abraham did not have to give up Isaac, but he was just about to.

Aphorism 29: God is not a woman.

Aphorism 30: XX and XY. When there are other letters, let the gonads decide.

Aphorism 31: A man with a womb is possible, but ought not be the rule by which we base society.

Aphorism 32: "Castration and masectomy, to deceive like a pirate."

Aphorism 33: God came to me in vision, and found me unlike Aquinas---He asked me why, and I told Him I wanted the treasure of won souls. 

Aphorism 34: A fool is always interested in minute differences, or what is grotesquely disfigured.

Aphorism 35: The wise are always interested in similitudes, and what remains consistent above all else.

Aphorism 36: There is such a fool who wishes only for uniformity while there is also such a fool who sees no thing which binds us together.

Aphorism 37: Phi is inherent in nature though many a fool will look for it exactly---that is why they are fools. 

Aphorism 38: There is nothing exact in nature.

Aphorism 39: Pi is inherent in nature, yet if we've found a perfect circle, we will know a man had made it.

Aphorism 40: π & φ are irrational numbers, whose similitudes are found throughout all of nature.

Aphorism 41: Looking at the many ways in which Phi manifests, it's no wonder it discovers itself in nature.

Aphorism 42: Phi is found in nature because it is structurally sound, and bears a symmetry which creates balance.

Aphorism 43: Logos is the thing itself, not the words which are used.

Aphorism 44: To understand a thing is difficult, but it is more difficult to understand a thing, without universal laws.

Aphorism 45: The piano is tuned more in line with symmetry, and only after we understand that, do we then fine tune the instrument.

Aphorism 46: To throw away the generalizations of the past, is to throw away the foundation of an education.

Aphorism 47: The world is only as bad as we make it.

Aphorism 48: There is an antagonism against knowledge in modern day, which will lead catastrophically to a new dark age.

Aphorism 49: Our generation has reinvented the wheel and decided an octagon was far enough.

Aphorism 50: A radical, off-axis line, which then grows, but forms a perfect hemisphere. That is Euler's Identity.

Aphorism 51: I don't care about ordering my adjectives in a standard, English way. You can understand it just the same.

Aphorism 52: Google is like the narcissistic parent, who punishes or rewards their child with fame.

Aphorism 53: I have built a cathedral, but they wanted an office complex.

Aphorism 54: Enjoyment of ideas leads to less debate.

Aphorism 55: To understand an idea, is not the same as accepting it.

Aphorism 56: To be offended is to allow your mouth to betray your ears.

Aphorism 57: Many times I have seen a room riotous in agreement, yet also sorely err.

Aphorism 58: Frivolous debate can take a good friendship and ruin it.

Aphorism 59: Be in agreement with your intimates, and you will find peace.

Aphorism 60: Be in agreement with your enemies, and you will find little scorn.

Aphorism 61: Intolerable ideas scorn the poor, kill the innocent and advocate artificial procreation.

Aphorism 62: I do not advocate the destruction of human life, but make no mistake, I am no pacifist.

Aphorism 63: There is no such thing as a war crime; it is exterminate the enemy or be exterminated.

Aphorism 64: Do not go to war over petty things; understand the Bible speaks plainly about it, and if your enemy does not deserve that punishment, the war must be averted.

Aphorism 65: Children are slaughtered in war.

Aphorism 66: Women are slaughtered in war.

Aphorism 67: The Elderly are slaughtered in war.

Aphorism 68: The man who goes to war, sees humanity uncensored.

Aphorism 69: I have never known war, save in the intellect---I caution anyone who'd want to know it first hand.

Aphorism 70: There was prolonged peace from 1976 to 2000. There was disturbance from 2001 to 2019. There is now great turmoil from 2020 to today.

Aphorism 71: Everything's an exception, but everything also follows a rule.

Aphorism 72: I do make generalizations; only from those, can we find truth.

Aphorism 73: A species leads to a subspecies.

Aphorism 74: If we defined a frog and toad based on the stage of a tadpole, we might have defined a basic evolutionary step.

Aphorism 75: An eggplant is not a berry, but a strawberry is---if we understood this, we'd have discovered evolution

Aphorism 76: I see a world being created where everything is so rigorously defined, that one must have a doctorate to even know what a phalange is.

Aphorism 77: The youth generation want all the periphery subjects taught, but call the primary subjects racist. So, they wish to learn about African Slaves resisting their captors, but don't wish to know what factions fought in the civil war.

Aphorism 78: You can't teach everything--- which is why you only teach the most fundamental.

Aphorism 79: Maya Angelou was a good poet---like Eliot or Pound, she had her indulgences, but what artist doesn't?

Aphorism 80: I'd like to see Maya Angelou added to the Western Canon, and all the Journalists removed.

Aphorism 81: A number is a ratio, but a less advanced mind will not grasp the utility of not teaching it so.

Aphorism 82: I find some idiots are in complete confidence of everything they say.

Aphorism 83: I find most idiots are in doubt.

Aphorism 84: I find the greatest of all idiots is the one who knows something, which isn't true.

Aphorism 85: A wise man of below average intellect is preferable to a foolish genius.

Aphorism 86: At some point knowledge must be taken with faith, as all things come into doubt the more you probe them.

Aphorism 87: Socrates was a wise man, but not as wise as Confucius.

Aphorism 88: Confucius was a wise man, but not as wise as Mo-Tzu.

Aphorism 89: Mo-Tzu was a wise man, but not as wise as King Solomon.

Aphorism 90: Solomon was a wise man, but never as wise as Christ.

Aphorism 91: Guru Nanak was a wise man, and wiser than Chanakya.

Aphorism 92: Ptahhotep was a wise man, and wiser than Guru Nanak.

Aphorism 93: Mencius was a wise man, and wiser than Ptahhotep.

Aphorism 94: Lao Tzu and Plato were both wise, yet unobtainable for most.

Aphorism 95: The fool is taught to never generalize. Likewise, the fool is taught to never see exceptions.

Aphorism 96: If I seem racist, it's only your racism.

Aphorism 97: If I seem sexist, it's only your sexism.

Aphorism 98: If I seem homophobic, it's because my fears are realized.

Aphorism 99: A feminist in Mumbai or Shiraz I stand behind.

Aphorism 100: Racism exists now, when it didn't ten years ago.

Aphorism 101: To know Christ is a lens which gives 20/20 vision.

The Mercy Dog

How strange is the war
Which trepanned the heads of men, women, children.
The mercy dog wanders the battlefield of the Somme;
There he lays dying in no man's land.

It is a strange thing, to contemplate.
The dog, the brown of a German's hair,
A hound shaped body, or a mastiff's,
And its red cross upon its shoulder.
It wanders, sniffs out blood
For men---this is the strange thing
See how strange it is
That a man lays dying from the wound
He took from another man---
Why do these men kill?

For Kings, Queens, Democracies,
Autocracies, Panopolies arrayed in rows
Firing mustard gas, its licking smoke
Maddening Prufrock, who probably should have died.

Yet, this man lies dying on the battlefield,
An Irishman, taking a wound in the head.
The mercy dog comes to him,
Lays down, as a bloody hand scratches behind its ear.
Soon, the fingers draw lifeless white,
And they stiffen.
The dog moves to the next body.

How strange it is, that men do this thing.
It is an alien thing that armies move across frontiers 
And the obdurate faces of men having raped, murdered, stolen, killed,
They stand in their glimmering rows.
Afterward, their friends are lying dead upon battlements
And the Mercy Dogs, the Chestnut Mastiffs,
Wander to the wounded, wagging its tail
And what a wonder it is, to lie dying on the battlefield
To see life will leave you listless, to where will you go?
Heaven? Hell? You have fought in war...

The dog lays beside you, or it takes your cloth
To retrieve it to the medics, and lead them to your wounded corpse.
It is strange, know how strange it is,
That the man lies there, having been hurt by his fellow man;
He dreams of his Beautiful Redhead
The one he never had
The one he never made love to
The one... it was made his God.
Will he have her in the afterlife?

The dog licks the wounds of the dying man,
Its antiseptic tongue licking away the soreness by its breath
And where does the soul of those slain go
On the battlefield?
Young virgins, only twenty years old
Who have shed blood before the virginal flower?

"I do not want any kingdoms
"Or strange worlds vast...
"Simply, my only desire
"Was to have her naked body in my arms,
"And yet, I die never having shared in the warmth;
"I know not amatory's sting,
"And I die."

A Critique of T. S. Eliot

Eliot adumbrated a modern era, where art was at its most foul, so that experts couldn't live off of their craft, and marketing teams and those who wrought sheer bathos could. As is the old maxim, throw enough shit against the wall, and some of it will stick. Well, we have a wall covered with fecal matter, but underneath it is a compost heap. Like Ezekiel digging through the wall in vision, we see grotesque creatures being worshipped, and the sun, and sin... but what we do not see is an elevation of the proper elements of artistic endeavor.

There are men and women, whom only at four or five years old, could compose masterpieces rivaling that of contemporaries and charlatans who have worked in their fields for half their lives. Should such an individual be laid to the wayside, and pursue other careers? While someone who has not talent, earns their bread from throwing the fecal matter against the canvas, by babbling in tongues?

Simply put, in a market economy, there needs to be art and artists. As, what else will the common lay occupy themselves with, during their periods of rest? What will edify them? What will teach them the mysteries, and educate them long past their schoolings? As all art is a cycle, of rebirth, but Eliot's critical methods celebrate a poor work of art. It is not a good work of art. Sure, the language is pretty... but it is bathos. Eliot the poet is a supreme champion, but Eliot the literary scholar has destroyed art. 

Simply put, if the novel dies, so does the movie, so does the music, so does poetry, so does the sculpting... and then there is left a rich fanatic hording wealth for wealth's sake, and not even the edification of art. A billionaire buys for obscene amounts of money font on a blue canvas. And then truly gifted artists struggle... they end up as warehouse workers, or postmen, or line cooks, and nobody ever learns of their genius. Simply, they have an audience of one. And this is not fair to them.

A gifted writer, ought to write. A gifted painter ought to paint. A gifted reader ought to be an academic. Anyone who can understand Ulysses, ought to be in the elite of academics, but for I---having written difficult books too--if Ulysses is a stepping stone, utter banality was the heap which it descended into.

It's a simple matter of markets. Those competent to work at trade goods, if this is their genius, ought to work their genius, and the populace ought to purchase it. Not by threat, or force, but simply by the genius of the work itself. It is only fair, and without this, there are artists who can sculpt David and they end up working as a waiter, or a prostitute for a multi billion dollar company.

Not everyone can do art. Not everyone ought to do art. But, unfortunately, with Mr. Eliot's critical method employed, the very people doing art, are the ones who shouldn't be. Those succeeding are the very fools who should probably be working as waiters, or servers, or prostitutes for billion dollar companies. As, that's what their talents employ. And there's no shame in it, if the artists are making a living off of their talents. But, instead, in this kingdom, it's reversed. The exact worst people are being celebrated, those who market, those who conform, those who gauge an audience and sell them what they want. Or, there's the obscenity of such artists making urinating mannequins or sitting thirty ton boulders on top of a pillar. Which, is not art.

Analysis of Ezekiel 20

1. On that day, Ezekiel was confronted by the men of Israel. 

2. And the LORD Spoke to Ezekiel. 

3. He asks those who come to him why do they enquire of the LORD? 

4. He then asks Ezekiel whether he will judge them. 

5. In the day which the LORD lifted Israel and called to them, saying, "I am your God."

 6. In the day He lifted his hand to them, to bring them from Egypt into a Land Flowing with Milk and Honey. 

7. The LORD told them to cast away all of their abominations. For us, those would be our tablets and cell phones, and computers and televisions, or strange wives and children, or whatever else causes us to stumble. 

8. But Israel rebelled, and would not listen to God, by throwing away their abominations. So the LORD said He would pour out His fury upon them, in the midst of Egypt. 

9. He made known to them their sin, and the LORD wrought their calamity. 

10. He brought them into the wilderness, where the generation would perish.

 11. The LORD gave them His statutes and His judgments (The Ten Commandments). 

12. He gave them the Sabbath (Jesus Christ) as a sign between Him and us, that we should know that He is the LORD. 

13. But the house of Israel rebelled, and would not walk in the LORD's statutes. They despised His judgments WHICH IF A MAN DO, HE SHALL EVEN LIVE BY THEM. This phrase recurs throughout the entirety of the chapter, therefore let a Christian be warned not to do them, but rather to follow the statutes given by the Apostles and Jesus. 

14. The LORD wrought it for His name's sake, so He would not be polluted before the Heathen. 

15. He lifted His hand to them in the Wilderness, and swore they would not enter into Zion, God's rest. 

16. Because they despised the LORD's judgments. This is why, and they would not walk in His statutes, and polluted their rest in Christ Jesus. Their hearts went after their idols.

17. But the LORD spared us, and did not make an end to Israel in the Wildernesses. 

18. They were not to walk in the statutes of their fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile themselves with their idols (A clear indication that the Law had changed---what was the statute, and the judgments of the fathers of Israel, but the Mosaic Covenant? They are at this point broken in their covenant with God, therefore, perished in His wrath. Therefore, the idols of Israel become the ordinances of Moses, and also the sacrificial offering of their children to Sin.  

19. The LORD said "I am the LORD Your God, Walk in my Statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them." The words of Jesus, the Law prophesied in Jeremiah, the New Lump of Clay. 

20. We Hallow the Sabbath by keeping faith in Christ, and that shall be a sign between we and the LORD to know that He is our God. 

21. But even in this, the children rebelled against the LORD. They walked not in Christ's statutes, to abstain from the Old Covenant, and they did not keep the judgments of Christ, but they polluted the Sabbath. And the LORD said He would pour out His fury upon them. 

22. But, the LORD had mercy on His children for His name's sake alone. 

23. He then scattered the nation of Israel to all the nations, due to their lack of faith. 

24. Because they rejected his statutes, and had polluted their faith in Jesus, and their eyes were on their father's idols (the Mosaic Covenant; and the Altars of Sin); 

25. the LORD gave them over to the statutes which were not good. He gave them over to Law and not grace. They should not live by those laws, but the LORD gave them over to it. He gave His people over to the curse. 

26. And He polluted our gifts, because we caused our children to pass through the fire, and the LORD sought to make us desolate. 

27. Therefore, Ezekiel is telling Israel that their fathers have blasphemed and committed trespass against God. 

28. Because when He gave us rest, and the land which He had promised to us, we saw every high hill, and all the trees, and offered our sacrifices there; by doing the things of the Mosaic Covenant, by Sacrificing on the Altar of Sin, we had provoked God to anger. 

29. The LORD asked "What is the high place where you go? And what is the name called Bamah which is here unto this day?" Bamah means high place, let the reader understand, that by worshipping God through the ordinance of Moses' law, we are offering a sacrifice that is unpleasing to the LORD. He desired Mercy, and not Sacrifice. 

30. The LORD asks if we are polluted after the manner of our fathers? Do we worship their idols, and sacrifice to their calves? Do we trust in their ordinances, which the LORD decreed are not good? 

31. When our sons are offered through the fire, when we offer our gifts---our Sons are the sacrifices we offer to God in obedience to Legalism, let the reader now understand---should the LORD be enquired of us? If we offer a lamb, or offer a goat, it is like we broke a Dog's neck. The Mosaic Covenant is not pleasing to the LORD, for Israel broke it.

 32. Our hopes shall not come to pass, because we had rejected the LORD's rest. We will be as the heathen, who serve wood and stone---the wood pulp of pages and ink---

33. Surely the LORD shall stretch out a mighty hand, and pour forth fury upon us, for disobeying the Sabbaths' rest. 

34. And we will be scattered among the heathen, and God's mighty hand and stretched out arm shall pure fury upon us. 

35. And the LORD shall bring us into the wilderness, and there the LORD will plead with us, face to face. 

36. Just like the LORD pled with us at Sinai, so shall He plead with us at Mount Zion. 

37. And he will cause us to pass under the rod, and will bring us under the bond of the Covenant. 

38. And He will purge from among us the rebels that transgress in this way, and will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the Land of Israel. REPENT OF LEGALISM BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! 

39. AS for the house of Israel, serve every one his idols, if he will not hearken unto the LORD, and blaspheme him by dishonoring His rest. He who offers an ox, is like he who murders a man.  

40. Serve the LORD, and He will accept your Firstfruits, and your oblations, and your Almsgiving, and your Praise. 

41. And if you repent of the Law, and honor the Sabbath's rest, it will be like a sweet savor, and he will bring you out from the people, and gather you from the countries where you have been scattered, and he will be sanctified among the Heathen. 

42. And I shall know that the LORD is God, when He brings me into the land of Israel, into the country for which he lifted His hand to give my fathers. 

43. There we'll remember our ways and our doings, and what we have defiled ourselves with, and we will loath ourselves for the evils we have committed.

44. And we shall know that He is the LORD when He has wrought with us for His name's sake, not according to our wicked ways (For we have obtained mercy through Grace, and not Judgment by the Ordinance of Sinai). He will not do with us, according to our wicked ways, nor our corrupt doings, o we house of Israel. 

45. Moreover the LORD spoke unto us, saying, 

46. "Set my face toward the south, and drop my word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field: 

47 "To the Forrest of the South "Hear the Word of the LORD "Thus Saith the LORD God, Behold I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree; the flaming flames shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein. 

48. "All flesh will see that the LORD had kindled it, and it shall not be quenched." 

49. And Ezekiel said they said of he "Ah, Lord, they ask me if I speak in parables?" Yet Jesus spoke in Parables. Those who are the trees of the forest of the south, are those who yoke themselves to the Old Covenant in this age of Grace.





48 And all flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.

49 Then said I, Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?