Fahrenheit 451

Upon reading the novel, it dawned on me that Ray had felt that way in 1960. He'd seen it. And, I, in 2022, feel that way. It is the alienation of any genius---that is the ethos of the book.
Yet, the insidious thing about Fahrenheit 451 is that the dystopian doesn't actually censor books. It's far worse than that. It censors creativity. It censors openness. It censors genius of any kind.
That's the thing about it. I feel that way right now, but it is rather the social awkwardness of being what I am. If that were made illegal, and it were a crime to think, a crime to be open, a crime to be different, that's the insidious nature of Fahrenheit 451. Not just the burning of books---which is bad---but the outright denial of one's right to think, act, believe, experience. 

There are certain people with High IQs, and most scientists and scholars are among them, who having the elephant memory they do, cannot piece together information to create new ideas. There are such individuals with extremely high IQs which are incapable of creativity.
Then, there are people like me, who have a high IQ, but have extreme openness, extreme creativity, extreme existential intelligence. Who, would certainly be the figure Fahrenheit 451's society censored.

I feel that encroaching sense that it may be coming soon. But, I do not wish it, to. But, there are two kinds of geniuses. Mathematical, and Linguistic. Mathematical geniuses have the ability to do arithmetic. They have the ability to edit books meticulously, for no punctuation or grammatical errors. They remember like an elephant rote rules, formula, traditions,---and they are very intelligent people. Ask them anything about protocol or a certain duty they will be able to tell you down to the exact letter. That's probably why I didn't do well in Boy Scouts.
Yet, creative geniuses---being that we are so rare actually---have another ability. That ability to piece together thoughts, and weave them, and express them. To make new from raw materials. To rediscover ancient philosophies and traditions.

It may just be the difference between intelligence and wisdom. Yet, when I look at a fireman, I see Ray Bradbury's creature. I see Guy Montag. I saw in the woods a fireman, one who worked for a fire company, and the soulless determination, the thoughtless trample through the woods without even looking at the bluebells in full bloom to his left---rather, he was determined to accomplish some arcane goal.

Christ is very strange, as a godlike figure, in that He inverts the traditional values we assume when we think of conservatism. Unemployment, aimless wandering, long diatribes and discussions, parables,---Christ lived as a man of words, and He told us to live the same. Because, obviously, determination and desire to reach a goal thwarts the wisdom. Of rubbing dandelions on your cheek, of opening your mouth and catching the rain, of stopping to smell the flowers. These are utterly human things, and by seeking to accomplish a goal, by mindlessly driving ahead for the attainment of a reward or occupation, one does not appreciate the things they see. They, like Mildred, get ensconced in a play about nothing.

And the problem is so many people are like thus. So many people, instead of being creative, are not able to be creative. There are intelligent people who cannot be creative. There are intelligent people, conversely, who cannot do simple arithmetic. Like myself. Though maths were my better subject in school---I hated reading---it still didn't change the fact that I was better off as a philosopher than a mathematician. I never learned math past algebra, and I never got into Quadratic Formulas or exponents until College. Literally, I never saw a quadratic equation until my second year at college. Yet, I was proficient enough at the basic rudimentaries of math that I could get a 100% on my first Math Test without a calculator. My grades actually declined the more I required a calculator. But that doesn't stop the fact that I am inconsistent at math.

What use is there for a philosopher? Namely, that is the question Fahrenheit 451 asks. What use is there for contradictory wisdoms from numerous books? What reason does a man like me, falsely state that all summer leaves begin as flowers? Perhaps to take notice to it. As, most leaves look like flowers---if not outright are flowers---in their beginning stage, while unfolding from the bud. Yet, some haughty scholar, will do like they do with Aristotle some years down the line. "All trees do not flower."  One of their more tender students will chuckle at the insidious misrepresentation of my thoughts, and then think "You miss the essence of a flower." If you can look at the oak bud when it's first unfolding, and see it has a consistency much unlike any leaf I'd ever seen. Or, that the ant has four legs. Of course, we like to think of insects as having six legs---when, indeed, their first two legs are protracted to use as arms when the insect is stationary. How many other such observations have we  mistakenly discredited in the past? And what wisdom does the past have for the future?
Fahrenheit 451 is the outlawing of thought, the censoring of aberrations, the dictum that only the present knows best, the belief that all things must be literal. And with that, we lose our sense of who we are. And really, what Fahrenheit 451's society outlaws, is humanity itself.
Let it never come to that.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451, with Afterward and Coda. Del Rey Books, 1996. Text.

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.

A Rebuttal of a Thief and Liar

An Analysis of Isaiah 14

1. The LORD will have mercy on his yet, unrepentant people. Jacob is the name of Israel, before being bestowed the blessing. Before he had to wrestle with Christ, and therefore, receive the inheritance. The nations will cleave to Jacob, and Israel will be set in their own land.
2. Those who enslaved Israel will be taken captive. Those who have made Israel a prey, and have made them slaves, will be taken as house servants and slaves to the House of Israel. A fitting end for them.
3. In the day when the LORD gives Israel rest from his fear and sorrow, and restore him from his slavery,
4. Israel will take up this "Proverb" against the king of Babylon. He will say, "How the Oppressor ceased!"
5. The LORD will break the scepter of Wickedness, and the staff of rebuke.
6. The man, King of Babylon, who smote the whole earth with continual rebuke, and ruled the nations in anger, will be persecuted, and none will hinder his descent into destruction. They will be glad that this man falls.
7. When the King of Babylon is fallen, the whole Earth will be quiet, and at rest. It will break into singing.
8. The trees and firs of Lebanon will rejoice that the King is defeated, the one who oppressed the world with his evil decrees. They will sing that there is no ax which is lifted up against them.
9. Hell moves up to meet him. Hell will swallow him whole, the one who oppressed the Earth, and would not leave men be at rest and quiet at their work. It is speaking of Satan, drawing its archetype from the King of Babylon who would rule over the Earth. A physical domain.
10. Those in hell will speak to the King of Babylon, "Have you become like us", is what they will say. Even the proud destroyer who has subdued all nations will be in hell, like one of the fallen and those who suffer torments.
11. The King's pomp, his splendor, has brought him down to the grave. The worm is spread under him. The worm a type of death.
12. Lucifer is a name given to Satan in the King James Translation---the Son of the Morning Star. This epithet was given at first to Egyptian Pharaohs and is now, here, being related to the Babylonian King, who likely would call himself the "Son of the Morning Star." It was a common epithet kings would call themselves, those kings who were known as "Baalim", kings who wished to be worshipped as gods. The tradition is ubiquitous around the ancient world, and did not originate in Greece. It originated in Egypt, and likely carried over to all kings who wanted to be worshipped as gods. It is also foreshadowing the captivity of God's people, their oppression under the yoke of Babylon---some seventy years before Babylon took Israel captive; interestingly, this seems to be written after Hezekiah showed the treasures to Babylonian Princes, but the prophecy was written under King Ahaz, therefore, it is literally prophesying when Hezekiah would meet with the Babylonian Princes and showed them the kingdom's treasure. God prophesied from that moment, that Babylon would take Judah captive since the Babylonian Princes had seen the treasures of Israel in their full sum. Lucifer is fallen, likely a demonic entity which inhabits kings, and causes them to oppress their people and have themselves be worshipped as gods.
13-14. Here it's detailing the pomp of the Babylonian Kings. They wish to ascend into heaven, and be seated at God's throne. They believe themselves to be the rightful heir to God's throne.
15. And it says that this entity and the kings shall be thrown into hell. I have some recollection of Nebuchadnezzar making the people worship the bronze statue. Making himself a god, for the people to worship. And again with Daniel, being thrown into the lion's den for not worshiping Nebuchadnezzar. Both times were God's people protected, yet also, both times God's people chose death rather than life, if it meant following after an idol. The reference to the "Morning Star" is likely a harkening back to Egyptian captivity, relating Nebuchadnezzar to Pharaoh, which Ezekiel will actually do. And Ezekiel will also liken this same entity to the King of Tyre.
16- 17. The same entity, Satan, which caused the whole earth to tremble---foreshadowing the great tribulation---will be cast into hell. He will be sucked down into hell, and the beings within hell will all say to themselves, "Is this the man who caused all the nations to rue? Who caused all men to suffer? Is this the man who lopped the bough, and destroyed like none other before he? He who had no mercy, and would not let the prisoners be free?" And here's a definite reference to Pharaoh. Pharaoh famously would not let the Jews go to their homeland, and the "Morning Star" is referring to Pharaoh. Babylon and Egypt are being typed together, as the Bible will do often with the nations. It links Moab, Tyre, Ziddon, Ammon and Philistia as principalities directly ruled by Satan; often making Satan the literal head of those states, as well.
18-19. All the kings lie in glory at their house. But, he is slain as one of the uncircumcised. His carcass is "Trodden under feet". He is killed ingloriously. He does not die in the full comfort of his kingdom. He dies, rather, the death of a worthless man. Many kings were killed this way in history. Alexander was embalmed alive, they say. Jezebel was thrown out of a window, and eaten by dogs. Absalom was hung on a tree, and gutted. Agamemnon, who I think is Nebuchadnezzar, was said to be avenged by his wife, for the slaying of Iphigenia. We have historical, Biblical, and mythological deaths of kings who acted unjustly.
20. The King of Babylon would not be set with the kings in burial. He will, rather, be slaughtered ungracefully, and be a corpse trodden down in the mire.
21. Even his children will be destroyed. They will not inhabit the land.
22. The LORD will cut off the remnant of Babylon, son and nephew. Even the nephew. There will be none in Babylon who survive, of the dynastic family. They will be all slain, which was fulfilled by Cyrus when he gained possession of the city. Cyrus won Babylon with his good will, and this verse here proclaims that the regency was killed off to the sum, down to the nephew and son.
23. The LORD will sweep it with the Besom of Destruction. My name means "Broom" which is another word for "Besom." I'm particularly happy about this verse, that it's one of the few verses in the Bible which relates to my name. That, and Elijah slept underneath a Broom Tree. But, the LORD will sweep away Babylon with a broom of destruction. Probably a pronged one, with metal thongs.
24. And as the LORD proposed it, it will pass. The LORD brought Jesus, prophesying Him in Genesis. In perfectly clear and unambiguous terms. Prophesied him in Exodus, by causing Israel to roam the desert in the pattern of a cross. Prophesied Him in the Law, by saying one set apart from the people must surely die---many other such prophecies, both in the Torah, the Prophets, and the histories.
25 - 27. Now the work calls Assyria the same as Babylon. In truth, they both had the same effect. They both were called upon God's people, to destroy them for their wickedness, and when the destruction was over, they were to be destroyed themselves. It isn't at all faulty to view Assyria and Babylon the same, nor Assyria and Syria. They were all agents of Satan, used to confront Israel and Judah in their time of sin, to cause them repentance. The LORD has purposed victory for those who believe in Him. That's the sum of it. He was faithful to bring Jesus. He'll be faithful to sweep Babylon away with the Besom of Destruction.
28. Confirming that this is indeed a prophecy. One of the nuances of scripture, that a bunch of scribes rushing to compile together couldn't fake. Ahaz was the king before Hezekiah, and the prophecy relating to Babylonian Captivity was before Hezekiah, who would famously show the treasures of the whole Kingdom to Babylon, and thus give them the notion to attack Judah some seventy years later. Dating this segment at Ahaz is something that a rushed compiling of scripture by a dozen or so Persian scribes couldn't recreate. It's too nuanced, and would certainly be more literary, and therefore more probable, to date the prophecy during Hezekiah. A rushed compiling of scripture to suzerain a satellite Persian State couldn't manufacture such nuance. Also, if it were true, why would Nehemiah have servants of Persia defying the king's orders? If the Jews were created on the spot by Persia to be suzerained, would the other nations attack a Persian dominion, after just being released from Persian rule? It would seem to foment another war, if such were the case that Persia was building a Satellite state in Jerusalem. And why, if it wished to create a myth of a Messiah, would it not do so for the Arabs, too, who were belligerents in this conflict? And, if the Bible were plagiarized, how could such contemporary details exist, such current politics, to place Arabian belligerents against Jerusalem? It seems, rather, the Bible is authentically the Jewish religion.
29. I believe this refers to today. Palestina is the realm of the Philistines, therefore, it is prophecying of the current conflict we have today. The rod which smote them will be broken. But, they are not to rejoice, because God will have judgment against them, too, in the latter days.
30. At the end of this conflict, when Satan's dominion is brought down, the poor will live in comfort, and they will lay down in safety. Their roots will not dry up in famine.
31. The city of Palestina---the seat of the Palestinian Government---will be dissolved. I only need let the reader imagine what this is referring to.
32. The LORD founded Zion. It shall survive. Jerusalem shall survive, and the city of destruction shall be destroyed, which oppresses Zion's borders.

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."