A Wise Story

There was a wise man
Who took thirty silver coins
And laid ten at a brothel,
Ten at a bar,
And ten at a temple.

At the brothel,
One of the whores saw the coins
And thought it might be someone's
Life savings, thus, she held it,
And when the man returned,
She said, "Is this yours?"
The man replied,
"Yes!" stunned that someone of such ill repute
Would hold onto his ten shillings.

At the bar, the same thing occurred,
Where a man, seeing the money on the floor,
Took the money and hid it in his pocket.
There, the man came back
And was handed the ten shillings.
He was even more perplexed.

Then, at the temple,
One of the zealots in ecstasies of delusions,
Saw the coins on the ground
And thought it an answered prayer.
They took it, and put one in the offering plate,
And kept the other nine
To purchase their family's needs.
The man, coming to the church,
So thrilled about the other two in his experiment,
Thought for sure his money would be returned.
It was not.

Though this story is not true,
We ought retain our faith regardless.
For, in Jesus' day, was it not Tax Collectors and Sinners,
Prostitutes and Vagabonds he dined with?
Do not let your wisdom cloud your judgment.
Anything is possible in this world
By chance and circumstance.
Rather, hold onto your faith, regardless of others.

2.0

I read Dale Carnegie to learn how to love others.
Not how to exploit them for my gain.
I needn't self help, because I do not wish
To go anywhere. I do not wish to improve upon my worldly status.
I do not wish to earn millions of dollars.
I wish, and it will happen,
For my work to earn me a living.
Do I know whether it will happen?
No.
Do I have faith that it will happen?
No.
Do I believe that it will happen?
No.
But, God is just. It doesn't matter what I believe.
If I worked, there will be payment.
If I crafted, and did so with skill,
He will cause me to find an audience.
Does my will have any effect on whether I manifest my destiny?
No.

The Law of Attraction is Black Magic.
It is the Mystery Occult.
It is the thing I hate most in life.
For, there are billions of uneducated people
Who have no hope of ever attaining even a tenth of what I have.
Not through all their effort,
Not through all their work,
Not through all their motivation and belief.
Yet, I, being gifted with intelligence,
Being gifted with time to hone my skill,
Being gifted to build up a repertoire of work
Can some day help them improve upon their lives.
And that good intention is my only magical incantation.
Built from the Proverb,
"He who devotes his work to the LORD, shall be established."
What devotion is there to the LORD?
To give, and to unburden the captives.

That is my Law of Attraction.
That if I improve my character---
Not learning how to pleasure the woman,
Learning how to charm the woman,
Learning how to trick her, and twirl her, and use psychological shadows---
And learn how to love the woman,
I shall find her for my heart is prepared for her love.
If I prepare myself for a lover,
I prepare myself for loves.
If I prepare myself to love others,
I prepare myself to love no matter if I find love or not.
For, homelessness after having created masterpieces like mine...
If I need to be homeless, then so be it.
For, I deserve my portion for working.
Even a slave gets fed so he can continue to work---
Yet, I am not, nor was I ever a slave.
I am a free man.
And as a free man, I ought to be unhindered
To eat and enjoy the bounty of my labor
Which is to find wisdom under the sun.
Should I give my wisdom to another,
That makes me his slave.
And I live in a land where such a thing is illegal.

FMNR

Let us call it
To Greensale.

Pronounced "Green-Sale."

Derived from the word in Nigerian for "Desert".
asale.

Conjugated

Greensaling Pronounced (Greensailing)
Greensald Prounounced (Greensawld)
Greensals Prounounced (Greensawls)

Meaning for atypical conjugations are to make it as natural as breathing for farmers to restore forests anywhere. It cannot be any more English, therefore, any more a part of our natural language.

Columbine

If we could have remained as lighthearted
As I did that day---
In my classroom I turned Columbine into a comedy.
For, I knew it was just human nature...
I knew that it was not so serious.

Yet, the news pushed the story
Traumatizing everyone in the nation.
Like they did with 9/11
Like they did with Covid...

School shootings were not so serious to me.
Neither are serial killings.
Neither are rapes, or robberies
Or any of the other random acts of violence.

Humanity errs, and it is true that
Men have done cruel things from the beginning.
Would I be afraid of Turks ramming babies with bayonets
If I lived in England? 
On the frontiers of any society,
There is mischief.
In schools, there is mischief,.

The whole of it is quite simple, really.
If we had a whole catalog of the sins
Committed by man on his brother
We'd have a list of evil that would be inexhaustible.

Therefore, evil happens in this world.
It is as true to human nature as good is.
There have always been evils;
Spreading the news of it does not fix the problem.
It only spreads the vanity of fear in wavering hearts.

"I lost my teesh," I said,
Pretending to be an old man.
The old man was shot;
The only one old enough to remember.
So with him, it seemed humor died
And America began the path to becoming afraid.

For, didn't even Jesus remark on the tower falling
Or Herod mingling the blood of victims with the sacrifice?
His words are not to let yourselves be shocked by it
And not to let it rule over your joy.

Nigh the Fall

Nigh the fall of every Civilization
The babes are seen as food.
The men and women begin to lust after themselves.
The society begins to obscure gender.
The culture no longer understands love, but becomes vicious.
Property begins to dissipate.
Men are not appalled at murder.
Nor are they appalled at rape.
Children become vessels for expiring lustly desire.
Divorce begins to appear en masse.
Virginity is no longer prized, but is considered base.
Adultery increases, and women and men do not stay faithful.
Your fellow citizen begins to spy upon you.
Men will report on men to authorities for naught.
They will oppress the poor and the stranger.
They have no communal days of rest.
They forsake their traditions and holidays.
They muse of rebellion.

This is a short list, but what is observed by me
When I study the patterns of civilization.

Native Americans,
Japanese,
Chinese,
Europeans,
Russians, 
Aztecs,
Tribes in Africa,
Persians,
Babylonians,
Egyptians,
Arabians,
Incans
Canaanites
Jews---
The pattern exists across all human cultures I've studied.
If men begin to behave more like animals than men

And are not conquered,
Or starve themselves,
Or enslave themselves by corrupt governments 
Or create dark ages,---
They live at the frontiers as brigands and can enjoy none of the benefits of peace.

The Sins of Native Americans

Two Spirit
Cannibalism
Patricide
Senicide
Killing the Mentally Handicapped and Mentally ill
Genocide---they would time to time systematically wipe another tribe out, and would pogrom white settlements;
Slavery
Rape
Murder
Theft
Infanticide
Child Prostitution
Human Sacrifice

These are all things Native Americans historically did.
White Culture deemed all of it illegal,
If not, you wouldn't have gotten half of Western Literature.
Check your illusions.

To Man, then God, then Science

The first Reich was the Greek and Roman age,
The second Reich our Christian Roman age,
And the third Reich a Heathen Roman age.

The first believed in satyrs,
And believed in petty gods;
It believed in nymphs, centaurs
Cyclops and giants;
Monsters, and feared the wilds.
Its philosophy was pleasure;
Its morals based on class.

The second believes in Christ
And believes in one, Triune God.
It believes in saints, and prophets
Angels and demons,
Man, and it studied the wilds.
Its philosophy was to find order and love
Its morals humane, and impartial.

The third will believe in dragons
And believe in mortal gods;
It believes in wolves, and fairies,
Giants and beasts,
Machines, and it will destroy the wilds.
Its philosophy is to do what will;
Its morals unforgiving and by caprice.

The first was by man, and of man,
Saying above all else, "Honor thy Father."

The second is by God, and of God,
Saying above all else, "Love thy neighbor."

The third will be by machine, and of machine,
Saying above all else, "Do what thou will."

Sonnet in 10 Minutes

Across the reeds of the African Gate,
Where Moses drifted passed the gator's gape,
The fertile nest of Cleopatra's reign
Where Octavian and Caesar there lay
With cherry breast of the Beauteous queen,---
War my beloved, would there be rapt with green
Reeds dabbed in bloody, purple bands of strings
When Caesar entered as a King of Kings.
There, Ptolemy's young corpse was to be lain
By the Nile's waters, as the flocks came
To drink up the waters stained with the blood---
That once Moses had caused to flow in floods---
Now they drink unaffected by the war
While Kings' blood was shed by man's utmost curse.

Dissonance from the World

I. Philosophy

It is vain.
What does it teach
Save that "God is dead?"
It teaches truth cannot be found.
It teaches love is for the self.
It teaches pleasure is all there is.
It teaches there is no good.
It teaches to suffer blindly.
It confuses what is obvious.
It creates an idol.
It causes its practitioner to doubt.

It is vain.

II. Philosophy

But, when it grasps truth
It strengthens faith.
For, it is "Love of Wisdom."
And its truths point to Christ.
They toil over arcane mysteries
Yet, Christ being our Rabbi
Can let us unravel it for them
All the good thinker knows
Is Christ.

III. Desire

Also, I have become acquainted with the world's love.
Para mores are common.
Which is better?
Loveless marriages with paramours
Or husbandless women
Raising fatherless children?
For order's sake, the former
A cuckold at least loves
What he mistakenly thinks
Are his spawn.
They grow non the wiser.
The woman pledges 
Her undying love
Yet eats from another table...
Another vine.

It is a sad world
We live in, where no one
Truly ever could find love.
A sacred gift:
It always was perverted.

Let the damed play
That game, and never
Know true joy.

IV. Love

Marc and Erin could not even 
Conceive of the word
"Paramour". Their love was so strong.

Anyone who has truly loved
Would be offended
AT the mere thought of
Whatever the world has
Done to love
To make it not
Universally understood.

The love I know
Is so sweet, and real.
It trusts, never fails.
It is a friend; I read that
Somewhere in some great
Thinker's words.

The romantic seeks either
The nobler passions
Or she seeks the instinctual passions.

Man, by instinct, is a wicked creature;
Thus, I look to my nobler
Passions; what pleasures I felt
And needn't remorse.