Aphorism 151. One day, everyone's sins will be as naked as mine.

Aphorism 152. Skeptics are appalled Abraham, yet I was taught the moral was he didn't sacrifice Isaac.

Aphorism 153. "God will provide," and He did.

Aphorism 154. Philosophy is the love of wisdom, not blind skepticism.

Aphorism 155. The skeptic is more blind than the man who has faith.

Aphorism 156. "Love your neighbor as you love yourself," does not mean you ought to love yourself so you can love your neighbor.

Aphorism 157. No one lacks self-love.

Aphorism 158. Suicide is an act of self-love, not self denial.

Aphorism 159. Hamnet is Romeo.

Aphorism 160. Prescient thoughts come from seeing it before.

Aphorism 161. No Mary Sues, info dumps, expositions or purple prose; show don't tell, start where the action is, don't use helper verbs... Follow all that advice and what do you get? Absolutely nothing.

Aphorism 162. Experiment with form not because you ought to, but because you want to.

Aphorism 163. Write how you want, just make sure it says something.

Aphorism 164. War and Peace had essays interrupting the narrative. It is the best novel ever written, bar none.

Aphorism 165. How do I know what Illuminism is? Because I read it in Tolstoy.

Aphorism 166. If you're interested in Freemasonry, they sit around and talk a bunch about geometry and tell old ghost stories.

Aphorism 167. America was created by Freemasons. It dies by Kings.

Aphorism 168. My complete knowledge of Freemasonry comes from a college student and Tolstoy.

Aphorism 169. America's most influential founders were not Christians. However, this does not mean they censured Christianity.

Aphorism 170. Separation of Church and State is good, until the State separates morals from State.

Aphorism 171. Farts are funny.

Aphorism 172. The Dark Ages were dirty, and that's not a myth disseminated by Victorians.

Aphorism 173. I find it amusing how the "Dark Ages" are no longer "Dark", like some malevolent force wishes to return us there.

Aphorism 174. Life was better when it was "After Death" and not "Common Era".

Aphorism 175. Theft, if you're poor, is still theft. What someone worked hard to create does not automatically belong to everyone.

Aphorism 176. Imagine you spent your whole life building something, and someone else came and said, "That belongs to me." That is essentially the moral problem with modern Democrats.

Aphorism 177. Imagine you were poor, and there was no work available to you. And then some rich, fat man judged that you were lazy. That is essentially the moral problem with modern Republicans.

Aphorism 178. Imagine there was a mountain, yet so many people repeated it didn't exist that everyone believed it. That is the problem with Atheism.

Aphorism 179. Imagine there was a teacher who was kind, yet His adherents decided to be cruel? That is the problem with Christians.

Aphorism 180. Imagine there was also a teacher who taught right from wrong, yet His adherents thought it merely a suggestion. That is also the problem with Christianity.

Aphorism 181. Buddhism appeals to narcissists.

Aphorism 182. To sit idly and tolerate suffering is the full sum of Buddhism.

Aphorism 183. Gurus always inculcate in the Western Mind the full extent of their teachings; which usually leads to disaster.

Aphorism 184. I am not a guru. I am not a moral philosopher. And I can't be a sage because of my writing. Rather, it's Christ... That's who you should really listen to.

Aphorism 185. Poetry is the act of reflecting on someone else's thoughts. Not your own.

Aphorism 186. The Tao Te Tsing can enlighten you. Yet, I've found enlightenment to be vanity.

Aphorism 187. What enlightened me, was the concept that words have meaning---it is not the words but what they mean. That is what enlightened me in Lau Tsu.

Aphorism 188. Christianity is the only religion that has proof.

Aphorism 189. Miracles do exist. They are not formed by a faulty memory.

Aphorism 190. You spend a whole life reaching Nirvana to forget the pain of those around you.

Aphorism 191. Buddhism makes sense to me. It is most popular in densely populated regions of the world where there are multitudes of poor. In the end, it's just a way to bear the grief.

Aphorism 192. If Buddha were wise, he would have used his wealth to enrich the people, rather than selfishly sate his own desire.

Aphorism 193. Muhammad created a book to do statecraft.

Aphorism 194. If the Bible were created for statecraft, it would have been much simpler.

Aphorism 195. It is said that the Bible is inconsistent. I read it every day. It is not.

Aphorism 196. Moses failed.

Aphorism 197. My religion is to comfort the weak and downtrodden. That was Christ's religion, also.

Aphorism 198. Had it not been for the book of Mark, I would not have kept my faith.

Aphorism 199. Had it not been for Jesus' stories and sayings, I would not have kept my faith.

Aphorism 200. In the end, I look at Jesus and say, "I hope He is God." I find no other who would suffice.

Dear,
Dr. Pinker

I will sidestep your saying archeology does not support scripture. It does. I will sidestep your argument that science does not support scripture. God is omnipotent.

What I will say, is that in your interview with Penguin you said, "This world seems to be exactly what the world would seem, if there were no God. Good men suffer, and bad men don't." I paraphrase. But that is the summation of why you don't believe in God.

I wrote you an email, saying, "This world is exactly what you would find, if men had no fear of God." I hope you infer from that where my argument will go.

Religion is not a noble lie. It is not something, like Plato posits, that men create to help regulate the populace, and allow for the most amount of happiness. It'd be easy to go that route, with severe amounts of doubt, but the tangible proof only can affirm what the Gospel teaches. The concrete historical evidence and the actual factual evidence. However, I've written about that evidence to other writers, whom I have published the correspondences.

However, what you said about creating justice for the purpose of helping people make choices---is that not why there is hell? And if bad men were to go unpunished, what would prevent them from making this Earth a hell? Men are unable to rationalize---without religion---the effects they have on others. Most religions were creations of men to help men get along, and so build societies which could work. Because the general Laws found in most religions are paralleled across all cultures and civilizations, with many exceptions.

Yet, without God---and you should know, as a Jewish Man---Who would ultimately judge, as that is what God means in Hebrew, isn't it? Is "Judge". And without fear of Him, what restrains a man from accomplishing all his desire on the innocent? Obviously a conscience. Yet, many cultures had their consciences removed---some even by religion---so to what effect does this have? Tangibly, scientifically, we see as many appeals to authority and law as there are civilizations. Yet, the human heart already comes wired with knowledge of equity. Where does this come from? And the worst individuals are those who see the abuse given to them, and then go out and try to rectify it with their own brand of justice. Is there no other one worse than this? Then the man whose only law is one appealed to himself? Therefore, Who is it that arbitrates the holy law? It must be God. As there are many pointless abuses caused by Human Justice which ought to be obvious. And when every man walks according to the justice he creates in his heart---what can there be but war? And in that, is why it seems like God is absent. Because men have gone astray from His law, and the cause of that is hardness of heart and unbelief. And a refusal to accept the entirety of His law. Which men, given free agency by God, can choose Him or not---as that is the only choice. And by not choosing him, they choose to live by their own standard, and thereby create enormous amounts of suffering ipso facto. 

My rebellion is form; I defy the generation herefore me.

Beatniks created it; I will kill it. I, a rebel poet, too.

American poets are slaves to stupid forms; what's wrong with Haikus?

Dear,
Spinoza

A mechanical god, one with nature, the laws of physics and the laws of morality---impersonal, unaffected, is not a god. Lucretius is my current muse. And I love every verse of his. Every part of his poems, masterfully translated into my language, is beautiful. The entreaty to Venus, or love, the entreaty to abandoning religion because of its immoral nature. These are things I cautiously accept as true. However, though morals, science and nature are self evident in itself, this is not god.

You say God is impersonal, and does not interact with human beings. I completely disagree. Every aspect of my life proves there's providence behind it. Sometimes I'm amazed at how well God listens to me. Sometimes I'm even paranoid that some force malicious is listening to me, and bringing to bear all my prayers. But, that's not so. Rather, God does interact with men, He does change and bend the laws of physics, and He does have a personal relationship with His subjects.

It may seem narcissistic to believe that God listens... when in fact He actually does. And blatantly, I see your god being believed in in the end days. And a great disorder it will create. Because, there's one problem with your theory. Just one. If there is no one to judge---and morals are self evident---why follow them? If no consequence will fall eternally upon the brow of a man who rebels---certainly, men like Genghis Kahn and Nero had far more exorbitant pleasures than any men in history. The Aztecs, likewise, committed cannibalism without censure. It was praised.

While Lucretius is right, that religion is often a guise to the worst kinds of evil---so would an evil of sorts be created by believing all god were, is the forces of the universe. For, then nothing but man could make man accountable, and therefore, law---whether benevolent or not---would be the sole arbiter. Thus, naturally, rich men would be better suited for this system than the poor. The prideful than the humble. The warrior over the worker. Some may say this is always been--- True. But, it ought not be. And because it is, something must hold it accountable, otherwise the outcome is misery for the masses, and sublime pleasures for the few who rule them.

With that, I've studied history, and it seems to me that God had shown the Laws we ought to live by in three stages. First, with Hammurabi. Second with Moses. And third, with the Messiah Christ. And each dispensation, the law was revealed slowly, never changing but rather reaffirming the truth. For, in Abraham's day it was simply the invention of law that needed to be. In Moses' day it was the necessity for man to have relationship with his Creator. And finally in Christ, it was the necessity of understanding men are Sabbath Breakers, and need to be forgiven. 

With that being said, the law hasn't changed. In the Torah, it says a man guilty of innocent blood ought to stop and change his ways, and he will no longer be guilty of innocent blood. With that, God will change and rend the times and laws and seasons to place you far away from the old man, so that you forget him completely. For, that is the mystery of the Prophets and law, is mercy. And God---being far more advanced in mind than any of us---is the only one who can arbitrate and therefore cleanse our souls from wrongdoing. For the world is apt to judge so harshly that a summary offense will become a fatal fault, and a flagrant capital offense will be considered perfectly justifiable. And should either offense be made, God will cleans that offense from man with the Blood of Christ, therefore, making that man like he had never sinned.

If nothing proceeds from nothing
And matter is created through light---
Then it is perfectly logical
That the first thing God must say is
"Let there be light."

For the light proceeds from God,
And by light all matter was formed.
Therefore, God is the eternal force
From which all other things spring.

If the Omniverse is eternally recurring,
And multiverses merge within multiverses,
And universes are constantly being formed and dying,
And the Big Bang is an eternally recurring thing
Throughout the infinity of Space and Time,
Yet Time is a relative construct,
What exists outside of the known dimensions of Space/Time?
From there, it is where God said,
"Let there be Light."

For here, eternity is different
Than where time does not exist.