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.

The Wizard of Oz

Baum writes in a diction similar to me---
Similar in thought, word and deed---
Wrought with allusions to scores of books
Mark Twain, Edmund Spenser and some Fairy Taled nook---
C. S. Lewis had read it too,
And so had Eiffel 65 it's true.
The Lion is a coward because he's mean
The Tin Man has no heart, because he cannot love she
The Scarecrow has no brains, but has a dull wit
Yet the lion fought back the hordes
And the Tin Man also wept.
Witches do not live in civilized lands
The Emerald City is so green, I understand.
On chapter 11 I half way have finished
Now I see the book and movie are oh so different.

The Tower of Babel

The kings all came in conference
For the Tower of Babel fell---
Men had no common heritage
Or common tongue so all could tell.
They could not understand through context
What a word meant in its time.
They did not know the theory
They did not know the reasons why.
They spoke, then, through emotions
And not through conceptual things.
They spoke to each other through feelings
And not through heady weeds.
A poet was made poor one day
For this was what had happened---
Enthymeme, Calculus and Infinity
Had all been but forgotten.

Thus the kings in genocidal rage
Wished to purge the dull from the Earth.
But a wise poet rose up and claimed,
"No, for they still have human worth.
"Do not kill these poor creatures
"For they have love within their soul.
"They may not understand or know
"But good and bad, they still have in their throws
"Of toil upon this great earth
"They may find thought is a nuisance
"And communicated ideas they may find very truant.
"But recall, they are men, and men are good and wise
"If they know how to love each other, we shall keep them all alive.
"For, they need to know good from woe
"And know God's very law.
"For they know not how to understand the world
"So they need faith more than all.
"They need to push toward God in heaven
"And find Him all the same...
"They need the words of Jesus and to make them their good king.
"Over their lives, they shall reign, and be with blessed thoughts
"Of laws which they do not understand, but follow without fault.
"Love your neighbor, be kind to all, and merciful to a man
"And to turn the cheek to smiters, and not war in other lands.
"And this poet could retire, unknown and not understood
"If all mankind worked together, and loved more than shook
"The leaf of books like bread, they listened to the heart.
"Man could love each other then, and need not be very smart."

The American Decline

 It was those Yale Safe Spaces, and coming off of Jerry Sandusky. And the Freddy Grey murder. And the Bill Cosby thing, that shocked the Black Community because he was practically the success story and standard, showing they could have the American Dream too. The real start of it was the Free Love movement in the 60s, Vietnam, then the Drug War and no warrant searches, Columbine, then 9/11, the Patriot Act, Iraq being so prolonged and damaging the economy, then the things I talked about above, and then Covid and the Alex Jones Lawsuit. Next who knows. It's just a long train of bad leadership since Eisenhower. Most of it driven by the media.

Song of Songs

Song of Songs. Yes, dating is biblical. There's no boundary on true love. In fact, Solomon, taking the woman into his harem, is kind of made to be the bad guy, stealing from the shepherd his true love, which the Shepherd has to win back like a stag jousting for his doe. The Shepherd and Shulamite even go out into the fields to make love, as she escapes the harem at night. Pretty sultry stuff... and romantic.

The point being, when it's real you know, and nothing's going to stop you from being with that person, even a whole king and his court.

Which is also why the Psalmist says, "I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not stir up or awaken love until it is ready!" because the passion is hot, and if it's stirred for the wrong person, can be heartbreaking. So guard yourself, too, from falling in love, unless absolutely right.

Solomon loves her for her body, but the Shepherd for her soul. That's important, too. That's why the Shepherd fights, and beats him. As if there were no passion stirred, a man cannot fight for his suitor, because A: she doesn't want him and B: he doesn't love her.

My Life at 18

Was hot, had a shot with a few supermodel looking girls, was just beginning to get serious about writing books, had a good job that paid about 30,000 a year, had a decent friend’s group, was about to pay my way through community college… then my grandfather died; I got back together with my ex, who then may or may not have been cheating on me as she had excessive interest in the boys across the street; and I learned about conspiracy theories, so I had a mental break down, got paranoid, assaulted two teenagers, and then got fat, and then confessed crimes I committed at 14, got put on a sex offender registry, and none of my books sell for anything, am applying for social security, with no car, and the only thing to show for my life is those books nobody will read.

On Narcissism

I can honestly say I don't know anyone like this. I know some selfish people... but nobody to this extreme. But what I've always noticed, is narcissists use the word Narcissist and Boundaries. "Oh I just realized XY is a narcissist," Really? Is my first reaction... I think it's six to one, half a dozen the other in that case. I just know from experience... the people going hunting for narcissists and talking about setting boundaries, are themselves the most likely narcissists. Normal people don't think about things that way.

Not you: I know you are hurt, but you don't accuse people. You try to love them.

Christianity and the Founding Fathers

The core group of Founders were Diest, and they generally accepted religion as a whole as being beneficial--though probably never actually studied some of the weirder things that can happen. At that time, people generally thought all religion was for moral guidance, and they would prefer it to Atheism. That much is true. But, certainly, they would have no qualms with a Hindu or Muslim or Sikh, so long as they stuck to the principles of civil government. They wouldn't appreciate abortion, homosexuality or transgenderism, though.

Like, they want religion to be safe, because it teaches you a set of moral values, that restrains the population from doing evil. They also don't want that religion being set up in the government. They want religion to be a personal choice, and something that governs man's heart, and not the society's. As many of them felt religion was a personal journey--being that a lot of them were Masons--and they felt religion was a personal experience, which is why they carefully craft their words to say "Religion" and not "Christianity". But, they had the highest respect for the doctrine of Christ, there can be no doubt about that. They preferred Him to all others, but many of them probably took it as a moral framework, and didn't actually believe He was the Son of God.