Dear, Ben Simmons

Dear,
Ben Simmons

Wear your team sweatshirt when you go to your games. You make millions of dollars. I have no issue with you succeeding. I have no issue with you being sensitive. I am, too. I can only imagine being an object of public ridicule. However, Ben, you make more in one year than most of the Basketball Fans will make in a lifetime.

Have a little self respect when you go into a game. Not self esteem. Not pride. Just, respect yourself enough to wear your Nets Jersey at the game, or your team sweatshirt. I wasn't booing you, until I saw you wear a Hockey Jersey to a Basketball game. That signals to me, that you just want to get traded again.

Remember Cleveland hated LeBron when he left---and he came back and won them a championship. I hope to have you back in Philly some time. But, don't throw away your career, and don't get vain and selfish. Don't skip games for booty calls. And remember, you're being paid for something that, frankly, I could never do.

I have no bodily intelligence. I physically can't do what you do. You're in an elite group of people who can be professional athletes. And you live in a country where that's possible. Not many countries can you make a living off of Basketball---or writing. Respect the position you're in, and do it with honor. You're not making minimum wage. You're a professional Basketball player.

Sincerely,
A Fourth Generation Philly Fan

P.S.

And we just wouldn't be Philly Fans if we weren't allowed to call it how we see it.

Euclid’s 35th Law

Intersecting Chords Theorem---
Again I have encountered something
I cannot understand.
It's as plain as day that this works.
I had it proven to me
By Presh Talwalkar,
Yet, my mind is incapable of knowing why
It works as a first principle.

How can anyone say God doesn't exist?
If God is infinitely wiser than any man---
I don't know why this simple axiom works...
I, like you,
Have to rest on faith that it does...

Errata---
I do now understand Intersecting Chords Theorem.
It is not the lines which are being measured as equal
But the segments of the circle as a whole.
However, some minds cannot attain to this knowledge
Therefore the previous is still a cogent argument.
And there are many things my mind cannot attain to, as well.


Aphorism 101. People come so close to finding truth, and then start adding to it their own ideas.

Aphorism 102. The age old problem with mankind, is they find a truth, and think they've found it all.

Aphorism 103. Pythagoreans and African Sages have a lot in common---finding a rational foundation for truth, they begin to make it into a religion.

Aphorism 104. The problem with scientists, is that they assume because they understand it, they can understand humanity.

Aphorism 105. Humans change with the seasons and times---no one point in history is like any other, therefore, what social science we discover is valid only for today.

Aphorism 106. There are overreaching truths across all time and history---one of them, is to never underestimate the intellect of predecessors.

Aphorism 107. Black and white people are equally brilliant.

Aphorism 108. Black and white people get stuck in the same pitfalls.

Aphorism 109. Asians and North Africans are better developed than the Western World because they retained filial respect.

Aphorism 110. Black Africa and North Africa are two different worlds.

Aphorism 111. There is more in common between the White race and the Black race, than the White race and the Asian races.

Aphorism 112. Women are smarter than men, but lack the judgment men do.

Aphorism 113. What distinguishes between a Lawyer and a Judge is that the Lawyer knows the Law while the Judge knows when to ignore it.

Aphorism 114. A woman is an intelligent creature, yet a man sees what is right.

Aphorism 115. The Law, if it is unjust, ought to be overruled in judgment.

Aphorism 116. Men are born knowing right from wrong.

Aphorism 117. Women are born knowing right from wrong, yet deceive themselves quite easily.

Aphorism 118. A woman who is wise, is often one who wants a family and recognizes her shortfallings.

Aphorism 119. I've met several dozen wise women, and each of them wanted a husband more than they wanted a career. Yet, what was equally true was each of them had careers thrust upon them for their wisdom.

Aphorism 120. Gay means happy.

Aphorism 121. Sick people ought not be in authority.

Aphorism 122. A eunuch with silicon breasts is nigh the highest levels of government.

Aphorism 123. I counsel for peace; sometimes war is necessary for there to be peace.

Aphorism 124. Ukraine, fight bloody and win. The whole world is depending on you.

Aphorism 125. I do not hate Vladimir Putin; nor do I believe he is evil. Rather, I think the times are evil, and a war was inevitable.

Aphorism 126. Life was good in China and Russia until the world went bat.

Aphorism 127. Tyranny is everywhere---there is no good guy right now.

Aphorism 128. John Bunyan said "Slut."

Aphorism 129. I believe in prophecy and revelation happening right now.

Aphorism 130. Satan was at war in Christ's day. He is already on the Earth. We ought not despise him nor revile him. He is instrumental in the destruction of God's enemies.

Aphorism 131. Christians, do not fear Satan or the Mark of the Beast. Fear, instead, Christ and His divine judgment.

Aphorism 132. I hate no one.

Aphorism 133. There is a rational foundation for truth which is established in Christ Jesus.

Aphorism 134. Solomon says not to be overly wise---so, I continue to write books.

Aphorism 135. I hope I store my wisdom for my own benefit, and not merely to enrich another.

Aphorism 136. One of the worst conditions of life, is to have found knowledge, and passed it on to someone else so they would become wealthy.

Aphorism 137. In my dream I felt Christ's calloused hand pleasantly marking me out for salvation.

Aphorism 138. The most dangerous part of being human, is to have never truly been in love.

Aphorism 139. Christian mysticism is a cloud without water; it is a confession without a miracle.

Aphorism 140. I believe one can find God through a healthy romance---knowing it is good, one can never then say there is no such thing.

Aphorism 141. Homosexuality is wrong because it is selfish.

Aphorism 142. I've never met a homosexual with my notion of love---to them, it's just a chemical reaction. And for that, they will be damned.

Aphorism 143. Love is man's highest ideal.

Aphorism 144. A man or woman who loves does not let themselves feel aggravation.

Aphorism 145. Picking on your lover, or teasing them, is a sign that you ought not have chosen them.

Aphorism 146. A loveless marriage is a curse---it is still wrong, in this instance, to get a divorce.

Aphorism 147. In marriage, your fidelity is important. It sustains the healthy love of all around you, even if you do not have infatuation for the one you are married to.

Aphorism 148. The best kind of marriage is one where love is created, not one governed by capricious whims.

Aphorism 149. Love is melancholy.

Aphorism 150. There is nothing better in this world than a happy marriage.

Matthew 11:13

Matthew 11:13 says, " For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John."

Until John. The prophets have spoken in the Old Testament concerning Israel, and the prophesies had their literal end when Jesus said, "It is Finished" upon the Cross.

The way we use Old Testament Prophecies is to gauge the world we live in today, and measure it up to Christ's standard. Jeremiah, and Ezekiel and Isaiah, for instance, have good teaching lessons about civilizations which abandon the truth. Micah and Hosea have good lessons about individual conduct, which our lives, according to Hosea, ought to line up with. 

The Old Testament is God's Judgment, and Christ is the Redemptive Power, the restoration of our soul, being saved from the condemnation of the Law. And written into works like Micah, are beautiful verses such as, "In the day that your walls are to be built, in that very day, the decree shall be far removed." Meaning, those of us who have made the mistake of yoking ourselves to the Old Covenant for salvation, will be redeemed through Christ, who is the prophetic restoration called for in Nehemiah and Ezra.

The "Last Days" in Old Testament prophecy refer to the days leading up to and shortly after Christ's resurrection. Meaning, that our restoration is found through Christ, and our redemption from the Law is also found through Christ. 

It's a surprising verse, but it's one of utmost importance. The Old Testament's revelation is finished, completely, in Jesus Christ on the Cross. The destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, and the Roman Siege of Israel were the final moments of Old Testament prophecy. And we are now in a new age, where our revelation comes from Christ, and Christ alone. Our revelation comes through the Apostleship, and not through the prophets in the Old Testament.

However, this does not mean that the Old Testament is false. It discovers the world's judgment, and brings condemnation on those who are not in Christ Jesus. Those who are fallen, or filled with iniquity, the prophets of the Old Testament call forth judgment on, even entire nations, tongues and tribes.

Therefore, we as Christians can use it, to understand God's judgment, but that judgment is not yoked upon our necks. We have escaped divine judgment, and are called to obey a lighter covenant, one in Christ's blood, to the purification of our souls through affliction, until Christ Jesus restores us like Job.

Jesus Never Said

Jesus never said Homosexuality was a sin
Yet, he said "‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’"

Jesus never said anything about abortion
Yet he said, "whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me."

Jesus never said anything about being the only way
Yet Jesus said "I am the way and the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me."

Therefore, what the evil ones say Jesus didn't say,
He said, and more, with much compassion on we sinners
To die for us, and thereby, transfix our sins to the grave.

I Am Done Writing Poetry

I want to be done---
But there's so much work to do.
My brother says I am "idle"
Because I can't fold laundry;
I can't saw wood;
I can't paint a room.
I tell him about Onesimus.
"So you looked it up."
Not exactly---
I had read Philemon
And typed in Onesimus.
I then went down a rabbit hole.
I thought maybe my reader would
Like to go down it with me.

Writing books is endless---
I do not wish to write and write,
And never earn a living.
That is what they wish for me.
I love my family,
But they are possessed with a demon
Which deems my credible work as useless.
I---says my brother---do not contribute anything to society.
No... I just discover the laws of Morality and Nature---
I communicate them to you.
You, my readers---
Who will soon be many---
Will see. I have discovered secrets.

The secret I am most interested in,
Right now, is the principle of Algebra.
There are yet mysteries I am unknown of.
How, I will bet, the reason there are two answers
To a square root, lies in the axioms of Pythagorean Theorem.
Or, really, of empirical data. As, that's how Maths are invented.

I say "Invented" but can maths truly be "Invented"?
In the narrow sense, I guess they can---
In so far as our knowledge will never be complete.
But, any invented math is not a math I am a friend to.
Unless the math is rooted in the truth---
Rooted in Logos---
I wish to have nothing of it.

I wish to have a friend in Richard Dawkins and Jay Vernon McGee.
I wish to tether Christians to reality,
And dissuade them from magical thinking.
As, the Farmer's Almanac clearly proves the Earth is a Sphere.
There can be no doubt about it.
Thus, Christians, the Earth is Old, and Evolution is true.
This doesn't say God can't exist.
It also doesn't say Jesus cannot be that God.
This silly debate rages---
And I've seen less converts
And more refugees
Made from it.
I don't think Dawkins or Tyson are mad about Christianity,
But rather the fact that Christians deny clearly established science.
Ought we?
I've seen God when I died---
He does exist.
I miraculously was reconstructed when I arose out of the waves.
I saw Satan in his black hood on the beach---
I've seen a woman heal a deaf girl
I've seen rivers run as blood
I've seen children's eyes go black as pitch.
Just, I'm leery of falling into the trap of simplistic faith
That Genesis is somehow to be interpreted as literal history.
Some of it, yes.
The tower of Babel I like to think is a crude Space Elevator.
The Flood has historical significance---and I don't think it was a tsunami.
As, then why would both Japan and Mesopotamia have it? 
Two tsunamis? Three? Multiple tsunamis?
Less than likely. I think there actually was a global flood.

The world is shrouded in mystery.
Philip K. Dick---as smart as he was---
Was delusional.
And when I start believing in science fiction concepts
So do I become delusional.
I believe, therefore, it's not true.
As, why would something true cause delusions?
That's where I would disagree with scientists.

Simply put, I don't know everything.
But, I try to be as thorough as I can.