Bertrand Russell

Good is independent of God.
Yet, Good requires God's judgment to be understood.
Just like God's judgment is necessary
To judge the world and all of its cruelty.
And also to reward all of those who are good.

Jesus' teachings--including hell--
Are perfect and unerring.
Without belief in Jesus, there is no knowledge of good.
There is no knowledge period, if Christ's words are not taken.
As, all things come into doubt without faith.
Even the universe, even gender, even good and evil.
All things must be sustained on a kernel of faith
That it is so.

God gave this world over to the devil
To rule as a Monarch for a time.
In the cosmological scheme,
There are still Christians alive
From the days of Christ---
Surely you know that.
They can live one hundred years
And still be alive to see Christ's return
As time, Bertrand,
Is not linear.
We all experience this life at once
As the earth and heavens shake,
And the cursed figs that would not sprout---
Because it was not in season---
Does not Christ control the seas?
Yet the tree would not obey him,
Just like the people of Israel.
Thus, they were cursed, for having
Rejected Him, even though it was not in season.

Christ calls Himself "Rabbi".
Why is this?
Because He is our teacher.
He is, in a Postmodern sense,
The lens which gives us twenty-twenty vision
And lets us see clearly in the dark;
And if color blind, he even gives us our color vision---
As science has corrected that through glasses.
He is a perfect lens.

I do believe some true part of you has survived;
And what is famous of you is a folkstem;
A liar. I believe some part of you survived
And your soul, much like mine, is travelling
In this infinite expanse of times and universes.
Somewhere, maybe perhaps we will meet;
But your arguments are all the same tired ones I've heard.
I've prepared for all of them
And this is a cursed time we live in.
Which is why suffering is greater than peace.
Throughout all time and space
The entire worlds are quaking and thundering
Under the war being fought by Michael and Lucifer.
God's holy angels have cast the demons to the Earth---
It is our job to patiently bear this with endurance,
And obtain our crown.
Even if it means abandoning everything,
Life, home, wife, child, father, mother, brother, sister,
Husband, land, fame, fortune...
Because there is evil and it must be destroyed permanently.
If not, there will never be an end to the suffering

To Black Americans

Let me first speak,
As though being rebuked by one of your Poet Laureates,
Who called me racist.

I am not racist.
I simply know the issues you face
Having learned it from black men
And also being faced with the same limitations.

I don't think racism existed for most of my life.
I rarely, if ever, heard a racial pejorative.
I never saw racism
I don't think, if you're honest,
You did either.
From about 1976 
To 2016
I think it's fair to claim
That the specter of racism was defeated.

What brought it back, was a few events
Which I will offer to you.
Simply from an academic standpoint,
I don't mean to lecture you on things
That you will feel you have more knowledge of.
Though, I submit, that if you're honest
You'll see I am spot on.

In 2009 Obama held his Beer Summit;
To which, the arresting officer was rebuked
Publically for an arrest. As wrong as it was
This started a public perception about police
That they were somehow biased and targative toward Blacks.

What followed, was in 2014 Bill Cosby
Was arrested for date rape, and this started a chain reaction
Which disenfranchised the Black Community
And their seated state in society.

Then what followed was the purported Jussie Smollett
Incident, where he wrongly accused a phantom of racism.
Which stoked flames amidst a brewing Crisis
All amid Donald Trump's reelection campaign
Where the Black Lives Matter slogan became popularized
And a marginal and fringe issue became embedded in the cultural conscience.
Stemming from the Beer Summit in 2009.

These are the facts. Whether you want them to be, or not.
I grew up in the 90s and 00s, and I never saw racism.
I had black students attend my school who were unharassed;
Even celebrated and very popular.
This was true in most rural and suburban schools.
There was great interest in black culture due to Eminem's involvement 
In Rap, people were divulging a lot of respect for the Black Community
And prejudice was nearly extinguished.
Then, the seed of doubt was planted in Americans
And Obama didn't mean this---I'm sure---
But the Media drives the perception of Americans
And creates mass hysterias over nothing.
Just like how our groceries were supposed to have
Gone up extremely high, when they simply didn't.
Just like Covid was a mass hysteria,
When it was simply a moderately severe flu.

Embedded in this, will be called "Racism".
It is not racism. It's simply the truth.
A truth you need to know, so we can have peace again.

There is racism now. Lots of it. 
People who previously weren't racist
Now are the most flagrant.
It is a media hysteria,
It is a perception being falsely created.
Just look at the statistics for Black men being shot by the police.
You'll see your answer, as I know many black conservatives have.

I speak this from love...
I want you to flourish.

Pyramids

The reason there are pyramids
On different continents,
Is the same reason there are sleds
And feathered arrows
On different continents.
It is not a conspiracy
Of an ancient, Aryan civilization
Which academia is hiding.
It is because what's possible
Will always produce similar structures
Of Logos.

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."