1. The Sin of Guido Guido is in hell; for his deception sapped Palestina's walls. Ulysses and Guido had both purged cities So deception gained the walls. Ulysses Troy and Guido Palestina; Then they slaughtered and utterly destroyed. Ulysses used the Trojan Horse; Guido the Papal Promise. Yet, Dante, remember who was right in their war. The Pope wished to unify Europe and end the bloodshed. So with Ulysses he defended the right of the marriage vow. Tom, the sluggish Prufrock... Did he gain his lover through deception? 2. A Satire on the American Sentence American poets are slaves to stupid forms; what's wrong with Haikus? Beatniks created it; I will kill it. I, a rebel poet, too. My rebellion is form; I defy the generation herefore me. For when poetry has no chains, only then can it truly be free. 3. The Feuding of the Heroes I watched the feud of two great cities: Prometheus stole the thunder, And Thalaba prophesied the war. Prometheus blasphemes like Fucci In the Circles of hell, being imprisoned And bears his great grief with patience. Thalaba, watching Prometheus steal Jove's thunder, warned of great demise. Thalaba prophesied blood, and the rain Of putrid gore, and the oceans turned to blood. Prometheus threw his lightning, For he ruled the Earth and all within it. The two, in great war, flit their powers So the thunders roared with flashing lightning And the oceans turned to blood, While the Earth quaked violently. The Poets in their prophetic powers Spoke their curses one toward the other. I, Thaddeus, watched, trembling in fear. The war was great, the allies were gathering. There was the Buck of Rylstone Who knew the science of the feud, And the Mariner with his fleets, Blown here and there, and everywhere. Then, there was Prometheus and Ozymandias Firing their bolts of lightning like the Queen of Hell. The fleets of the Mariner, and the Stags rid Into battle; Thalaba, thy wisdom! Yet, Prometheus said of you That thou brought shame; Thou enlarged the fetters of free men! I, the poor man in his sackloth Witness the battles of great prophetic might. The words of curses fire in their heated throws; I am too frightened to read them. 4. The Only Way Science Could Logically Prove God Does Not Exist If science said that at the base of everything Were atoms, and those atoms were immutable Unable to change, but were consistent, and could not be broken down Any further. Then, the universe were truly infinite. If there were not a single bit of choice, And all things were created by an infinite chain of cause and effect. If there were no beginning to the universe, and no end. If there were no true communication; but rather, Men were limited to only their rational minds' And its experiences, if energy were created, If an atom could not be broken down to smaller parts, If force did not exist in the universe; By that I mean, all things would be a causal chain Of matter interacting with matter, And matter were solid, and not comprised of any void, If the universe were expanding into empty space Which existed for eternity. However, none of these assumptions are proven true. Rather, just the opposite I'm being told. Therefore, I can logically presume God exists. How I rationalize it to my God Is He's the best one of the lot of them. 5. Hitchens It's true that a moral statement Could not be made by a Christian That couldn't be made by an Atheist. That's because morality is self-evident. God exists to pardon us, when we haven't Fully committed ourselves To what we already knew inherently. And if we decide not to accept His pardon He exists to bring upon men the recompense Of their own ill will. 6. Pocahontas How can we even know the truth? If history is deliberately lied about And written accounts are ignored... And oral stories are more weighty Giving justice to the Jamestown Massacre... Let's look at the facts. Pocahontas and John Smith were very good friends. Given the rivalry between the Pilgrims and Powhatans It's more than likely Pocahontas saved John Smith's life. It's almost entirely fabricated that Pocahontas was kidnapped And her dying in England---and I'm not sure she did at this point Because the historical details never remain the same--- Is license for the Natives to slaughter 300 innocent people? The Powhatans were cannibals As was true for almost all Americans both Northern and Southern Natives; And Pocahontas kept the peace between the two factions. Given these factual details, It's almost certain the modern story being taught is a fabrication Of revisionist historians, and the actual truth Has been lost if not outright and deliberately destroyed. This is what happens when you mix politics and history. When I studied this in 2020, I saw what seemed more truthful. That Pocahontas saved John Smith's life by laying her head in his lap, That the two had a sort of paternal relationship---as ten year old girls recognize kindness in a man--- That Pocahontas likely wasn't kidnapped, which likely did not lead to the Jamestown Massacre... It may be true that Pocahontas got smallpox or fever in London But that's not the settler's fault. That is simply nature. Furthermore, it's almost 100% unlikely that Pocahontas was the reason for Jamestown's Massacre. As John Rolfe, her husband, and the Shaman Tomocomo accompanied her to England. 7. My Righteousness I have tried to do what's right And I only do what's wrong. At my best, with every bit of my heart Given to the task, my righteousness Is like a filthy cloth plugged Into a menstruous woman. I can do no good. Only God can. 8. Logos; A Tanka That which is. Language, It is what was said. In math It is what's measured. In law, it is what truly Increases peace and pleasure. 9. The Communist The Communist In a flourishing capitalistic country One sees the milk flowing in the streets; One sees the honey dripping from the sidewalks; One sees the pancakes on every street corner. One sees free napkins, free utensils Abundant waters in the deserts, Lush forests, clean water, Sterile hospitals. They think to themselves, “Why not share this wealth with the world? “For, I go here, and there, and I have abundantly; “Why does the rest of the world suffer? “Why, do I, having this affluence, still suffer?” Thus, mistaking the abundance Like it were freely created energy; Materialized atoms from magic, They wish to disperse this to everyone. And in doing so, a man's work is stolen from him. Thus, the motivation for producing such wealth Is abolished, and outlawed; Property, work, pleasure... It belongs to all, even those who haven't labored for it. Thus, mistaking this abundance--- As a child I was wasteful, and thought the abundance was Free, and would last to eternity...--- They believe they can materialize it for the world. Yet, they forget that it is labor which creates it... Thus, a man's labor supports him And it is a man's property that gives him satisfaction. But the communist wishes to abolish property, Therefore, all incentive to work; Therefore, none work as hard as they could. It is work which produces from materials The surplus we enjoy. And when work is outlawed Because property is outlawed; And a man is forbidden to work on his own home, It happens that workers are sluggish, or work is outlawed. Thus, stipends become more numerous, And the supplies which the stipends purchase Become less available. To wit, men live in squalor. This is more miserable than the most lavish poor In our Capitalism. For the poor are well fed In America. The only thing America must do, Is to not hinder the poor from finding meaningful labor. 10. It Would Be A Sin God, to me, Must exist. For without Him All would be immoral. It would be a sin If God would not Judge... A Sin If there were no Heaven or Hell. In short, It would be a sin If God did not Exist. For, who would then Recompense suffering? 11. Save Yourself and Us The impenitent thief said "Save yourself and us." Meaning he was not guilty of theft. Why would a thief say, "Save me" If he rightly hung upon the cross? This is something to warn a generation of vipers. 12. 1561 Crosses and Crescents fight on the sun Like Foo Fighters; oh, the bloody thing they foretell. The compass points to the West, And St. Paul's Cathedral is smitten with lightning. Paul's letters had contrived division In the Church; thus, the crosses do battle. Both fall smoldering to the Earth. For, this division will bring doubt to the world again. 1/21/22 13. The Nephilim From Jotunheim came the circular shed Which flies here, there, in the communist wasteland. She arrives on the shores of the rising sun. A phantom, a nonentity, Technically not existing, She lands, with her beauty. The wise Shaman recognizes Her as strange, so places her back in her shed And she drifts back to see Never to be seen again. 14. Without Faith Without faith All there'd be is delusion. 15. The Demon of Reason? The demonic is contra reason; Yet, TEd's Barney affirms the miraculous. It is conscious that the Miraculous exists. Where do you get that image? I wonder. The Demon of Reason makes there be no defined Male or Female gender. The Demon of Reason makes there be lockdowns For a virus. The Demon of Reason believes Homosexuality Does not hurt anyone. The Demon of Reason believes poetry Is subjective. The Demon of Reason calls math Racist. The Demon of Reason says Syllogism Is illogical. The Demon of Reason contradicts Himself, when he himself is based off of a demon. As you can see, the Demon of Reason Is not reason at all; It is the whim of tyrants And the false reality they wish to enforce. So a germ was discovered? Are we not forbade from living life Because of fear? If one believed in heaven or hell They'd have no fear. The Demon of Reason erases miracles from history. Hannibal's army, their shields sweat blood while the sun grew black as pitch when in battle with Rome. The rivers ran like blood after the sacrifice of four virgins, which then the General retrieved Feritrius, by which he turned toward the East and prayed to God. Xerxes had a dream to conquer, which he dismissed, and thus, his kingdom was stolen. The crosses did battle over the sun. Even the Demon of Reason itself, is a real demon. 16. The Kid The Kid said, "Whoever's ashamed of the Gospel "That same person God will be ashamed of." How hard was that to understand? Yet the pious affluence of the nineties Comfortable, and wealthy, and lacking nothing... Thirty years later, that mocking has grown louder And the world has grown cold. 17. I would rather live poor, Out on the streets Than lose God. 18. Why I Am not Sikh I I am not Sikh Because, while all of its values are true, There is a season for war. There is a place for evil. There is a place for suffering. If a nation will oppress you, you must kill it. If a man is evil, he deserves evil to be done to him. Suffering can be a call to repentance, and bettering one's own moral character. And if all those things we hold in common, Then the last thing I will say is that I am a sinner, And I, just like you, need Jesus' forgiveness. II Also, I cannot believe all paths lead to God. Many paths are outright immoral. Islam teaches men to lie, Buddhism teaches men to suffer, Hinduism teaches men are inherently superior or inferior, Shintoism and Zoroastrianism say Evil and Good are both gods, and each are strong as the other. Paganism believes all the gods are at war, and are never in agreement. Christian Cults usually view life as bad, and will prescribe unnecessary rules, Judaism is too hard to ever follow, and its laws will bring every man to condemnation; as it ought, Atheism and Agnosticism are just wrong; I've seen too many miraculous things to believe God does not exist, Most Cults like the Semitic cults or Egyptian cults preach things contrary to good---in fact, they tell one outright to do evil--- None of these paths seem noble enough to lead to God. Rather, Christ, He seems the only credible God to have ever spoken, And as a man in history, we know He spoke. I find it the only moral way God could reveal Himself to the world, If God exists---and God does exist. Therefore, men will be without question as to what is demanded from them. All religions of the world do not have Jesus Or the forgiveness of the cross. 19. Divide by Zero One divided by Zero is infinity, Because it is broken up into infinite parts In order for it to divide into nothing. 20. Redeeming Love Erin looks like Abigail Cowen--- There she is, sexualized for Adult Christian fashion. Humping, spitting out jiz. The fetishizing of the Red Haired woman; It was my thing. I did it first. But Christian Hollywood stole it from me. I would never call myself a Christian writer. A Christian. A Writer. But I'm not writing Christian fiction. It's like smoking outside of a church When you spit jiz on camera And call it a "Christian Movie." Or a Preacher who drops the F Bomb During mass. It's irreverent. Do not take the plough and look back. At church, or handling holy things, You don't take a dump, do you? You dig a pit outside the camp. If you dream and spritz, You wash your clothes and are unclean for a day. You don't go into battle, you keep yourself set apart From others, for there is uncleanliness in you. You don't mix leaven in with the sacrifice. In short, when you are devoting something To God, you don't mix sin into it. The Doobie Brothers did "Jesus is Just Alright With Me" We don't call them Gospel. "About Time" mentions Jesus as LORD. We don't air it on PureFlix. Tolstoy created the most convincing argument for God's existence. We don't laude him as a Theologian. Understand there is a time and place for everything. I'm sure "Redeeming Love" is a good movie. It just ought not be a "Christian Movie." 21. Christopher Hitchens The first and second commandments Are the most important. For, only the God of the Bible has the true morality. Only He can have the true morality. Therefore, one must worship Him. We do not take the Name of the LORD in Vain... Either in Anger, or in Deception. In anger, because one must have reverence. In deception, because one must not deceive others, by claiming to speak for God if God had not spoken. The Sabbath is made for economics, and it means one must rest in God's work. If there is no rest, there can be no joy. One must honor their father and mother---for we see in China that this works And we see in Asian societies that this brings wealth and fortune. It works. Thou shalt not kill---save in war. For, if men didn't fight wars, the Nazis would be in control right now. And the Canaanites were far worse than Nazis. Thou shalt not commit adultery, because sex is the most powerful force in the universe. It creates life; and when we assume that life is unwanted, that is the most unhappy circumstance. That force ought to be wielded like it could kill. Thou shalt not steal. So you think this is self evident? While thousands of militants believe theft is moral? It's here, Mr. Hitchens. What did your standard produce? Complete anarchy. And communist societies made it legal to steal---they forbid property to be held, and say the State owns it. Legal theft. So you're wrong, Chris. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor---for this would create the most insidious harm if men, in a custom of law, were given no penalty for perjury. Coveting is the root of all other sin. The danger is when we do not obey God's commandments. For when we don't, misery appears on the Earth. For as adultery runs rampant today, no one can find love. And your ten commandments are so shitty, that they're being practiced today to a T And all there is, is a backslide of civilization into unrelenting madness. 22. Awakened Sadness He parrots wisdom From some two thousand sages, Yet he learned nothing. What a vain thing philosophy can be. The hypocrite has many words. 23. I Agree with Sam Harris I agree with Sam that morals can be scientifically explained. Just, from everything I know about those morals, It will mirror precisely what the Bible had already said. And because of that, I believe in the God of the Bible. 24. American Beauty The Russian Orthodox chaunts are beautiful. But, it was said, "America has nothing comparable." I disagree. American Blue Grass Gospel and the Slave Hymns Are, to my ears, just as beautiful. 25. Logos in Pentameter There is an order to the universe. We see it in axioms of algebra. We see it in Moral Philosophy. We see the logic of all algebra Predicts real world objects and physics. We see in the Object of ideas That they can be perfectly understood. We see Christ's Law does create happier And freer States, where all humans flourish. 26. The Snake-ape Audiences love it. Is it an ape? Is it a snake? No one knows. Is it a metaphor about man? Or, is it simply a fiction without a metaphor? The flying snake-monkey becomes a god. It despises man--- Is it truly conscious of its own potential? Had I written the story, The snake-ape would be a metaphor About man's progression. How science made him into a "God". And subsequently the vanity of it; The pretension---as any thing which calls itself a god Is pretentious, and must be pretentious. The snake-ape would first start in the wilderness, And evolve into a creature which could fashion instruments That give it flight; power over fire. Instead, the snake-ape becomes wiser than man? It becomes a metaphor about ancient traditions Needing to be accepted by man So they are not consumed with science? I'm sorry, but I don't worship a snake-ape. Those who do, had eaten the hearts of mankind. So, one puts forth an utterly foul interpretation for god And preaches to me how we need it? Rather, I'd want men to be atheists So they could at least discover that there is good With the precise measurements of scientific instruments. Then, at least, we could better compare what we've discovered And see it matches up with one particular God Of a people so small, so minute, yet given the mysteries of the moral universe. For, men will ultimately discover there is need for law; They might even go so far as to purge all unlawfulness by pogrom. Yet, it's Christ and His mercy. That is what man need attain So he can be truly happy. 27. Some Evidence for Jesus Why would Abraham want to sacrifice Isaac, if not a picture that God would provide a sacrificial lamb? Why would Leviticus condone human sacrifice in Leviticus 27:29, when such sacrifice is unlawful? Except in the context that it meant One Devoted to God? That Being Immanuel? Why would Nehemiah tell the people to eat fat? From what I understand that's unlawful. Unless, it was to establish that the Jews were in waiting for a New Covenant? Why would Abraham be told, "Your Seed shall bless all nations?" Who is that Seed? Jacob didn't bless all nations. Rather, it seems quite clear that by Jacob, all the nations of the world were condemned to die. Why wouldn't "Almah" or "Maid" mean "Virgin"? Don't some words have two meanings? And if they do, wouldn't it make sense that a Virgin give birth to the promised Hier, whose coming would destroy Assyria? Rather than a harlot? I've heard it said that the woman was a harlot, but then that's only if you don't interpret the word "Almah" as "Virgin". What is the "Newly Created Thing" referred to twice in Isaiah? Why does it tell you to forget the old? Who's Soul is to be made an offering for our sins? Who was "pierced for our transgressions?" Why must we kiss the Pure, the One Begotten by God? My Bible says "Son", but you translate "Bar" as "Pure". So, obviously it makes more sense that the word be translated as "Son". Because a "Son" is Begotten. Why are there two everlasting covenants? Why did Jeremiah proclaim a new covenant? Why did Ezekiel say "Arise" to dry bones? If there is not a resurrection? Why did Zechariah name Jesus as the Messiah twice? As, Uzziah tried to reign as both priest and king, and was stricken with Leprosy. Why is "Joshua" in this instance, allowed to reign as both priest and king? Why did Job want a mediator between him and God? Why did Xerxes receive a dream that sounds like God's voice in Herodotus? Why did the conquering of the Aztecs look exactly like the Prophetic campaign of Joshua? Why did at the same miracles occur? Five hundred Conquistadors would defeat armies upward of five to one hundred thousand without any aid. Plagues descended which did not touch the Conquistadors or most of their armies? If the Aztec used inferior weapons, and that's why they were severely beaten, why did La Triste Noche happen? Why, in 1561 in Nuremberg, did two crosses do battle over the eye of the sun, and St. Paul's Cathedral was struck with lightning? Why is there a picture of the Dragon from Revelation on a Hindu Temple, and why does it look like an alien? How did Milton predict Atomic Bombs and the movement of the Universe, and also predict Postmodernism? Why does Orion have a sling and look like David? Why is there a giant figure---looks like a five year old's drawing---that raises up on the horizon in the direction of Orion's sling? Why is there a triangle in the summer, called the Summer Triangle, and there's an arrow at the one point of the triangle, and it points to a cross at the other? Why is the North Star very dim, when it used to be taught that it was one of the brightest in the Nighttime sky? Why does Cassiopeia look like a woman giving birth? Why is there only infinity existing in vacuum? Why does math work, and prove itself in the real world, even out to the most obscure equations? Why are we able to communicate? Why do all of the greatest sages in history come to ideas similar to that of the Bible's? Why do poets like Virgil and Lucretius find truths, logically prove them, and those truths are what the Bible had said? Why is faith called the "Evidence of things unseen, and the substance of things hoped for."? Why did the Hundred Years War and Black Plague follow a time period where a Pope was martyred, and Homosexuality was normal? Why is Christ's law in Matthew 5 - 8 so self evident, if He is not God Come in the Flesh? Why is Isaiah 53 in the Dead Sea Scrolls? Why doesn't the Nebuchadnezzar Chronicles prove Judah was a principality prior to Babylonian Captivity? Why does the Tel Dan Stele give verbatim the most obscure Biblical detail, and it gets it right? How does a feather evolve over even a trillion years? Can a frog turn into a toad, unless God made it so? Why did the Hammurabi's code get established right where the Biblical Genealogies date Abraham? Why did Hebrews worshipped God's Son before Christ? Why were El and El's Son worshipped in Mesopotamia at the time of Hammurabi's Code? Why does Moses line up with the cult of Aten in the Biblical Geneologies? If God were real, why wouldn't He reveal Himself? Why are there miraculous events described in Roman and Greek Historians which directly correspond to places where God would work? Such as Hannibal's invasion of Rome the sun blackened and the shields sweat blood, or the Sacrifice of virgins turning rivers to blood and made a moondog? Are we to believe that didn't happen? Why did George Floyd's monument get destroyed by lightning? Why does the complete History as given by Ancient Astronaut Theorists sound like it was describing demons instead of aliens? Why are there so many myths and stories that resemble one another? Why does every civilization, on every continent, have a mythology about a global flood?' If all things are vibrations, and Word is a vibration of air, and Jesus is the Word Who holds all things together,---what, exactly, can science do except prove that Jesus is the Word? Why would aliens demand human sacrifice, if they were not demons instead? Who would ultimately hold mankind responsible for all the suffering it created, if God did not exist? How could a man ever be forgiven without Christ? If sin must be punished, how else could a man escape Judgment unless that punishment were placed on Immanuel? Will you make the decision to accept Jesus as your personal Lord and savior, and will you repent of ALL sin. 28. Hugo de Masci It means, "The Bright Mind of a Servant "Who is a Master Craftsman." I'm afraid it is not the name Of the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It is an epithet of the author Who is humbly proclaiming what he is. 29. 1566 In Basel, the Black Globus flew Over the earth, and crashed and burned. Why? To warn we Christian Men and Women Not to divide ourselves into Protestant and Catholic. For if we did, the world would crash and burn. 30. Statues Lady Liberty is not the tallest statue. In oppressive regimes, they make them tall. China, Myanmar,---India has one. What does it mean? French artisans made Lady Liberty To spit in the face of tyrants. All other statues of the world Were created by their governments. Ours, was a gift given to us. We did not erect it out of hubris. We were gifted it because we are free. It was not the gift of one government to another. It was the gift of oppressed men, To memorialize our freedom. Let us remember this. The height of the statue makes no difference. Rather, by whom was it bestowed? Is it a symbol of oppression? Iron being stolen from the poor? Or is it an act of love given by oppressed men As a monument of freedom?
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A Proper Poem; Satire on the American Sentence
American poets are slaves to stupid forms; what's wrong with Haikus? Beatniks created it; I will kill it. I, a rebel poet, too. My rebellion is form; I defy the generation herefore me. For when poetry has no chains, only then can it truly be free.
My Little Pagan
How far you have ventured into the world of Rome; How many beautiful things have you there unearthed? You believe Ovid's report, of Romulus, et Ramos torn from Greece to Italy's peninsula. There they founded a Grecian Empire, built From Greek and Etruscan mortar and Roman might. For on the cusp, my dear, of Education's joy You shall rediscover that Grecian influence Over Rome. The religion, the architecture The art, the culture. It will click, and be foundations For a rich and deep understanding; the truth of Rome. Like I when I forsook Paul's Words, now understood The Hebrew Roots of the Christian's joyous light yoke. For now I understood both; how truth moves to truth. For, the joy of freedom is that you may be wrong. The joy is that you are allowed to make mistakes. The joy is, no government shall oppress thou to Believe. It is your choice---yet, one day you shall find The truth, and rubicund shall appear on your face And your public declarations shall be made queer. Yet, let no one scorn you for it, or ridicule you. For that is freedom---to pursue truth-learning's joy. For, it shall be a new discovery for you Like the world itself had discovered the truth For the very first time. And that is learning's joy.
Analysis of the Redbreast Chasing the Butterfly, By William Wordsworth
One of the most interesting things was observed by me, while doing an analysis of this poem last night. The fact that Wordsworth transposed his Shadow onto the Robin. Making the Robin equal to a "False Prophet." The text is clear... And I'd believe he's talking about Robert Southey, and possibly insinuating a superficial relationship between the two of them; at the end, he clearly says to either commit to the friendship or "Leave him alone." It's almost, however, like Wordsworth is transposing his shadow upon the Robin---as who the figure is is only speculative---there's some non compos mentis moments in the poem, where there's an allusion to misbehavior happening with children in the leaves. Where he gets this, is likely material from dealing with his shadow... as I struggle with imagery of the same. Just in different ways. The poem struck me, as in my own poetry, there's this figure who's like the shadow. I make him into a doppelganger, and I understand him through Biblical Turn of Phrase such as Micah 7 where it says that "Our sin will be cast into the sea" or in Isaiah 53, where the poem literally says that Christ burdens our "Contagion" which I believe means something like "Daemon." The Shadow element of the soul, which the great poets touch upon. Even Bob Dylan has touched upon this shadow; the universal figure of the "False Prophet"; so has Byron, whom Child Harold's Pilgrimage is about his very shadow. There is a strain of great poets to be talking about this enigmatic figure. In Hosea it says "Death is more prosperous than his brethren." This figure is ubiquitous throughout all poetry. It may just be the Daemon which Christ subdues for us. The burden which Christ carries within Him, according to Isaiah 53. Because Wordsworth is struggling with this deep imbedded evil. The truth is, Wordsworth struggled with Schizophrenia, and judging by my own dealings with it it normally is when our shadow comes into conscious thought, and the "Daemon" is consciously touched. Which causes the sickness of the soul, and thereby, creates the paranoia. Yet, the "Daemon" is burdened by Christ; the sin nature in all of us, which is capable of having "Covered with leaves the little children,/ So painfully in the wood?" and there's a question mark. It touches upon my conscience latent reminiscing of the Daemon... either projected outward or inward. In Wordsworth's case it is projected outward, into a persecution delusion. In my case, it's projected inward, into a Doppelganger delusion. In either case, we split the Shadow into an individual separate from ourselves. A lot of great poets do this, split the shadow self and lay accusations upon him. The closer that shadow is to our own person, the more we understand ourselves to be in need of Christ. Yet, it is the figure of "Death" which Wordsworth is talking about. Death is Who Jung called the Shadow Self; Our Sin Nature; or as Isaiah 53 puts it, our "Contagion" or "Daemon". Wordsworth, William. "The Redbreast Chasing the Butterfly." Poem Hunter. https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-redbreast-chasing-the-butterfly/. 12.17.21. Web.
The American Civil War
The American Civil War
So, you all listen good, now you hear? Here’s a story about a war for American independence, yet we’ll all know at the end just what independence was won. You see, there was first Andrew Jackson, who claimed that Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness was America’s highest ideal. Yet, Abraham Lincoln found it mighty ornery that a war was fought for the American Slaves, and they were still poor. So, Honest Abe rallied his Costs to a mighty outcry against the Cents, that being Old Hickory’s government.
So Honest Abe had his men from the Coasts rally to their cause, and the good Ol’ Cents, who had less troops, but more true grit, rallied their men from the Mainland. The people of color, so said Honest Abe, needed to be freed from the tyranny of the Cents. Old Hickory replied that they had equal opportunity, and rightly he believed it. This is where we got into some trouble, was that both sides believed they were right. In truth, if I may put in, for I’m good old Patrick Henry, I saw no reason for war. Yes, the poor little blacks were a little poor; but it was the Costs policies that made them poor. The Cents, however, stripped every bill passed through congress of its good charities, and there we got into the fact that what I fought for so long ago was no longer believed. Men should have plowed their fields and eat. Instead, they made laws all day long, and it cost about one hundred thousand good, fine men and women. I, on the other hand, sat in my lonely abode watching the cannon flashes at night. Sometimes one of those cannon balls would darn near smash into my barn, or take out my wind chimes. But I was in no danger. They tried to draft me, of course, but I would not be drafted, for I said, “I see two United States here, and one of them has to win. I’m not fighting for either one, as I like the ideas of one, and also the other, but hate them both the same.” So, they left me at my house, and here I wrote this story.
So, there was the story of Bonnie and Clyde there reaping a storm in the West. They were Costs, and they took some men’s bread, and thought it a good thing to give it to the poor. They were Robin Hoods, of course; just outlaws, so they thought, but they made men poor and put them in the poor house. For what? So that the poor could eat, yet the poor couldn’t eat, so their little robberies were for nothin’ that I saw. I heard them out there where Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday found them. These two were a stickler for Justice, and once put a man in prison for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The poor man had a tissue he owned at the local bar, where a man was shot dead. That tissue, they said, was the damning evidence of their sin, so they locked him up. Where that man is, I don’t know?
The two, Doc Holiday and Wyatt Earp, had a blood lust, too, and they’d shoot up outlaws all the time, yet Bonnie and Clyde weren’t going down so easily. They racked themselves up in the local bank, where Wyatt and Doc had them hunkered down. Old Doc called Bonnie and Clyde to come out, when Clyde took his Colt ‘45 and shot four shots that killed Doc Holiday down in cold blood. Wyatt drew his gun, and fired three shots, hitting Bonnie in her breast, dropping the woman, not after she let off fifteen with her Tommy Gun. Wyatt and Clyde were the two standing, and took to the street, where Wyatt drew his pistol in the open air, and five shots rang. There, Clyde fell, not before Wyatt burped up a bubble of blood, staggered around in the misty dust, and fell with a clink of his spurs. Twenty-seven shots were fired in that town, and four men killed.
Paul Bunyan, another Cent, was out working in his forest, when Henry Ford came by with a proposition. He said, “I’ll give you a day’s salary to come work at my steam shop. All you need to do, their friend, is give up your axe and come work with me.” Paul, being a man, and his ox Babe, refused. So, now you see, Ford got the better of him by making a steam engine that cut down his whole forest. Now, Paul and Ford got into a heated lawsuit, which Ford won quite easily, and there was old Paul Bunyan, who could chop down a tree with one swing of his axe, and lift it on his shoulder. So, he took to a test of strength, where he and Ford would match wits in the forests. There, Paul and the machine started, and went all day. Paul chopped down one tree, the machine chopped down two. Paul chopped down three trees, the Machine chopped down four. Paul chopped down seven trees, the Machine, well, it chopped down more. So, it came that at the end of the day, Paul was sharpening his axe; he whittled that axe down to a splinter, and there was Babe, heaving. Old Paul stood up once more, and dropped dead, after a whole day’s of chopping the forest. The Machine, there it sputtered, and heartbroken Babe moaned on the river side, where she fell into the water. The machine hacked up a bolt, and there it crumbled. Ford, though, could care less about it, for the man Paul Bunyan was dead. And there, my friends, if I may weigh in once more, was the point where American industry died. As, Paul didn’t want to work for Ford, and wanted to warm himself with the logs he cut down; no idol ever made of them, for he was an honest man. Yet, poor Paul fell quite dead that day because he couldn’t out match the machine. One of him, an exceptional man, was not enough to match a thousand of Ford’s machines. And, here Ford is today, making more of those, so that where is Paul Bunyan these days? Ford lied, and said he was the Cent. In truth, a Cent was killed by a Cent, for the good working man Paul Bunyan was outdone by the Captain of Industry Ford. And here, we still see Ford to this day with Paul as his own hero; yet, it was his machine that broke him.
Jessie James, now, was a reckless outlaw, who’d murder for no reason. In his eyes, this was the American way, a Cent of the ages. For, he’d go out and do what he thought, a great liberator; of what, nobody knows? He’d go running his mouth at everyone, thinking he had this as his freedom. He’d run his mouth, run it quite often, you hear. He’d pick fights with the local barkeep, he’d pick fights with the local tavern owner. He’d argue all day, and truly believed this was his right, to be free of speech. One day he killed a man in cold blood, and then went running from the law, believing himself just in the killing because he had a beef with the man. So there came Al Capone one day, a Cost as would have it. The Costs and the Cents had no problems working with each other, as the bloody war took American lives. Here Capone set Jesse to work. There, Jesse would drive his Model A through the streets, robbing banks, shooting men dead, when one day Capone, he saw, was rich. For Capone was a bootlegger, and Jesse James was an Outlaw. So, the two made their rounds, and Jesse extorted some riches from Capone, which got Capone as mad as a wolverine in heat.
Jesse, though, was shot down one day on his run to a bank by none other than Capone; as it was, Jesse, Capone didn’t like was spilling secrets; as Jesse was no stranger to recklessness. A murderer, a robber, but a man with a cause. Capone needed his secrets kept, so shot that man dead. Yet, Jesse was outspoken about Capone’s prohibition, as Jesse believed wholeheartedly that Alcohol should be legal, yet one day Jesse talked about a shipment of guns going to the Costs, which Capone was running to support the war. Jesse, a tried and true Cent, exposed the thing, but was shot down by Capone with a Tommy Gun. Capone then had the weapon hidden, but no sooner did he hide it, that Pecos Bill, that highbrow American Ideal, a Cent tried and True, rode in on the moon as his horse—kind of like a bucking stallion you see, for he never would blow a kiss to it—and lassoed that Capone and hung him up there on the corner of the moon. There, you see, if looked wide at night, will see a good old Capone hanging off the crescent; I say, such a thing was oddly amusing.
Good ol’ Johnny Appleseed, though, was a good man. A Cost. He saw a dearth of trees when the war was blowing them all to splinters. So, good ol’ Johnny went through the countryside planting them, planting them, planting them. The President at this time was Theodore Roosevelt, of the Costs, and he built parks for Johnny to plant, and other trees. Goodly gardens he made, goodly gardens.
There was also Lewis and Clark, Cents by right, who like Johnny didn’t care much for the war. So, they moved to the countryside, and there pioneered a Settlement called St. Brandonsburg—which lived by that good parchment—and was neutral in the raging Civil War. There men could live without war, farm their land and swim in the rivers. The merry little town was named after a patriotic hero who himself didn’t like the days he was seeing, and spread the message with his songs. For St. Brandon, that rigorous patriot, didn’t taste of death, but rather is the one writing this song you see, a true Patrick Henry.
There once also was a man named Davy Crockett, a Cent. He was for the Cents no matter who listened, and good ol’ Henry Ford, and good Ol’ Hickory were his heroes. His country could do no wrong. Crockett was a frontiersman, and there he was caught at the battle of the Alamo, where nine thousand Costs rushed him from California and New Mexico. So, the legend has it, Crockett fought till his dying breath; He loaded a shot, and fired, and dropped five men. He used his knife there to skin some Costs. Yet, at the end of the battle, there lay Davy with the last of his men, all wounded and full of pride. A Texas Flag flew, with an American Flag underneath. Good ol’ Crockett understood something right before he died, I’d like to think: It’s the states that were given their rights. Rightly he knew that, but Henry Ford and Wyatt Earp were no good scoundrels. So rather than fight for his country, he took up the Texas Flag and raised it high on a banner, with the American Flag underneath. There, he saluted his flag, and with his beaver pelt on his head, and his deer skin leathers, and moccasins, there Davy died, last of the fighting men, with nine thousand Costs lie dead around him.
George Washington, a grand man, saw his fellow Jesse James, and the notorious things he slandered his country. So, Washington wrote a message to Andrew Jackson, pleading with him to end the war. Jackson, of course, was driven into blood lust, where he challenged Honest Abe to a dual, and there shot him down through the head—for he went crazy. This was why Theodore was the new president of the Costs, but Old Hickory was thrown into a blood lust, as, rightly, Ford was his Vice President, and the word of Davy dying for the Texas Flag got him mad as a hatter. Washington, a rightly man, sent his letter to Old Hickory, but this was nothing good. For Old Hickory heard none of it, but liked good ol’ Jesse James. Pecos Bill, where was he? The good ol’ Pecos Bill had died the moment Hickory shot that Honest Abe dead, and Washington was crying a shame about the war.
Folk, I see you’re wondering what this is about, aren’t you? Well, what I’m going on about, this Patrick Henry you see, is that we don’t live in a time for revolution. Why would you want honest and bad men to die? For, wars do these things, good ol’ Paul being killed by his own, and Davy dying for the wrong flag? Yet, I say there’s more to my story friends. I’m not quite finished yet.
William Penn loved Sacajawea and her people. Yet, he saw that his people needed land. So, he had a covenant with them, that as far as a man would walk, that would be his land. Good ol’ William died long before the war, but Sacajawea’s people were hard pressed by something new. For, aren’t we all just Sacajaweas? There went Penn’s sons, running instead of walking, and here they got all of our land, all of our livestock. I personally had nowhere to live, if you must know the truth. William was a Cost, his sons were Cents, and there Sacajawea and I sat on my old hickory rocker, and here we talk some about what ought to be done. Her, she says I should write this silly story. Me, I say nothing can be done, as there William Penn died a long time ago, and his sons came in his place. Married his daughters to Henry Ford, and I have to say, the crisis now is pretty high minded. My father told me this story, and I figured I ought to too. As the cause of this war was Penn’s sons, so long ago, running, and their sons running faster. Where’s good ol’ Patrick’s money? I can barely put bread on my table, you see. I just sit here, eating the lemon and onion grass, with the Milk and Honey I get from my bees and cows. Not much grass grows these days, but they eat the thorns, so said the Prophet. And I enjoy writing my little stories; as, I suspect that this war was for the worst, but I’m still here. I’m also not complaining; I just have an ugly truth to tell, and that’s the truth of our war. Penn’s sons, running to overtake Sacajawea’s people; all the poor are her people, and so the Costs had their claim. Yet, look who died? So foolish, I’d say, yet even with all of this, the war’s not over. No sir ee, it’s not over yet.
Casey Jones was a good ol’ Cost, who was under the thumb of Henry Ford. There, Casey ran his train double the time, shipping the guns and alcohol, but always was on time. One day, good ol’ Casey gave a sweet kiss to his wife, and a song was sung in his head, “This is your journey to the Promised Land.” Casey didn’t think much of it, but Casey had a whistle on his train that he built, so that Casey would never hurt nobody on his runs, for he didn’t like how fast he flew for that Henry Ford, nor Al Capone. Casey, the day he died, was driving at full bore down the train’s track, and there, good ol’ Sam Weber saw a train parked on the locks. Casey yelled with all his might, “Jump Sam, Jump!” And Sam Jumped, but good ol’ Casey stayed on the train, and hollered his horn, slammed on the breaks, and there the engine squealed, where Casey was killed when his train hit the caboose. Casey died that day, taking with him the Alcohol of Capone and the guns of Ford. Though, Casey had no real motive for doing it, other than to save a life. Casey once saved a child on the Train Tracks, and there he tried to slow down his country some say, but he couldn’t, for that train traveled too fast, and Casey knew it, but being a hero for his punctual nature, he then became a hero for saving lives. So, that’s the story of Casey Jones, A Cost who just did his job, and the speed of the trains were what killed him.
So, this is the end of my story. The war ended at the death of Casey Jones, for the whole reason for the war was all twisted up and foul. For good ol’ Casey was there, running his shipments for both Capone and Ford, and ol’ Hickory heard of the man’s death, and that his guns were on the train, and Roosevelt heard of the report, that one of his men was killed shipping bootlegged booze. Thus, Casey’s life ended with the stopping of that train; so did the war, as both side’s goods were on it. And there Casey died, and the people found it better not to war over such things, as a man like Casey Jones, Paul Bunyan, Abraham Lincoln and Davy Crockett died.
So, my friends, if you must know the purpose of this story: It’s just a story. As I rightly am a Patrick Henry, and I cry, “Give me Liberty or Give me Death.” Rightly, I’ve had my liberty to write these stories, and the real culprits I hope you see aren’t Roosevelt and Hickory. It’s that Capone and Ford, as I’m still sitting here poor, and with nobody, as I write this story, and rightly, I ought not be so. So, whose side am I on? I’m a Cost, and that’s where Patrick Henry always will be; but I’m no Cost who would take up an arm against such a thing, as is just the way of the world; and good men have a tendency to die when wars begin, as the war we have to fight is one of talk; otherwise, the war won’t ever stop until a good man gets caught in the snare, and he ends up telling us how stupid we all were.
Neifert, B. K.. My Collected Writings. Kindle Direct, (C)2021. pp. 50 – 57.
On Empathy; Poems Fall and Winter 2021 – 2022
1. Phenomenology I I suppose I'm undisciplined in the mystery. To me, it is no great achievement to say That men have different experiences. It's what common experiences we share; That is far more interesting to me. As, my subject of interest is ontology; Not phenomenology. I am most interested In what we share in union, rather than what Makes us different. 2. Theology, Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology I believe in a simplistic vocabulary. Theology has its eschatology, Christology, and a monopoly on Hermeneutics. Philosophy has its ontology, epistemology, metaphysics. Sociology has its, Marxism, Feminism, Diversity and Inclusivity. Psychology has its self love, bias and worldview. Esoteric constructs... Each a rabbit-hole which you go down and never arrive at a truth. What's more important to me is the useful concepts. Word, Id, Libido, Ego, Super-Ego, Anomie, Weltschmerz, Thanatos, Eros, Love, Agape, Truth, Catharsis, Cathexis, Husband, Wife, Form, Archetype. Empathy is important. Experiencing what others experience. The sum of Word is how Word communicates and helps us share in one another's experiences. Freedom is that men get to go down their rabbit holes. In this society, I am as free to pursue God as another is free to pursue wealth. And another is free to pursue health. And another is free to pursue lovers. Men can create their terms--- Can espouse their views--- Build their worlds--- Express their thoughts. The thing I see in society--- The true cancer--- Is that nobody wants to listen. If we did, we might not be as enamored by our differences And we might be enamored by our similarities. Few pursue thoughts;--- Few chase the world found in other's eyes. We're always thinking when dealing with a person That we are dealing with a species different than ourselves. Perhaps in modern day we are--- That disunity is creating the pathologies we see. 3. Phenomenology II What I experience is nothing interesting to me. Experiencing what others experience, That is a bit more interesting to me. My Book of Prose Poems makes more sense--- Yet, I had already begun to figure for it. I read Byron and Yeats to understand their thoughts. To experience their thoughts. Ought I change the word of Phenomenology With Empathy---I think I will. To experience other minds through their writing--- To know them through their words. To listen and share in other's experiences. 4. Putting on the Armor of Christ I dreamt: Satan attacked. His force tried to kill me. I could feel the pressure Of his demonic strength. I pushed back, Stood up off my bed And drew my sword of the Spirit's Word, Picked up my shield of Faith, Girded my belt of Truth, I placed on my Chain Mail of Righteousness I placed upon my head my Helmet of Salvation I put on my Stockings of the Gospel's Message I placed on my aegis of Righteousness, I placed on my shoes of Evangelism, And put on my gauntlets of Charity. I raised my scutum, And parried back at the force with my gladius. I could feel him constricting me like a python. I parried again; then again. Finally, I stabbed him in the belly And he died a slow death. 5. New Thoughts I asked God for a new thought. Something new, something interesting. Something to occupy my mind. And I had found Phenomenology. The experience of witnessing a green flash--- Rather, it's not as important to me As the writer who witnesses it And communicates it. And by communicating it I feel what she felt. To feel what she felt--- To know the Green Flash upon the horizon. It is more of an experience to me That I see it through a writer's eye. For, if I see it, I feel one way. If she feels it, I feel her way. And I do. For, the beauty of communication The liquor of our words Expresses the feelings. I feel their liquor. I feel their drunkenness. I experience their experience. And to me, this is valuable. As much as Logos can communicate truth--- As much as logos can communicate peace. What's more impressive is that Tolstoy Made me feel the gift of childbirth And made me feel the gift of marriage. And other writers, too, In my book of Prose Poems Or Byron or Yeats Or Ovid, make me feel the ancient Liquors which I shun. And safely I navigate them Without having sinned. And I understand their liquor... Yet, know the feelings are false. That is how I know, O wise ones, That your ways are hollow. 6. Low Content They make ruled notebooks. They sell them. Make twenty-thousand dollars a month. It just shows how everyone wants to be heard--- Yet, nobody is listening. They eat up Amazon's ISBNs--- Unethically, they use the service to no purpose. Amazon makes more money from them than me, Yet the product gets destroyed by influxes of ruled notebooks. It reminds me of the Bolsheviks, Who would give the communist peasants Their little coloring books to paint. And then, to satisfy their creativity, They would sell it back to the state. It's evil. What of my KDP books? I spent years building them Good content; strong material, Using the service for what it's built for. Yet, with all things comes abuse As thousands look to make a quick buck And slop up free ISBNs from Amazon. It's a shallow world. Cacophonies of guineas squawking Yet none wish to wonder at the world And understand it. It truly is sad. 7. I Smelled Cabbage Where nearby there were children locked in rooms with playgrounds, I could smell cabbage. I remember the smell described in an old book. I guess the proverb goes, "Do not oppress the stranger in the land." 8. The Cult A Westerner visits a Guru And finds "Enlightenment." I had experienced enlightenment while reading the Tao Te Tsing; It is the very tapping into the ether of existence. It is seeing the substrates, The ether of our world. And its invisible strings. Cults, Rather than point to this objective phenomena, Find it and then Say, "I am its source." Verily, cult leaders have pointed To many objects in the past And said "This is the source." Pythagoras with Geometry. Many malignant individuals, themselves. Hindus cows. Rather, there truly is something real Which can be tapped into. And only one of those leaders Ever produced sanity in His followers. Because he could satisfy By raising from the dead. He could satisfy by healing the blind. He could satisfy by being perfect and without a single stain of sin. The danger is that something true exists... We can, indeed, find it. Easterners called it Tao. Westerners called it Logos. Jews call it Faith. The experience is true. But, when its source becomes conflated With an idol, that is when there is spiritual abuse. 9. Blasphemer Victor, you filled the Circus Maximus; You put to judgment your brethren. Then, you said, "Love is but chemicals "Life is but bioelectricity "The many waters of the rivers "Are only sourced by the rains! "There is nothing miraculous about it! "How I hate sentiment "How I hate the poets "Who idly sing their heresies! "How I hate the minstrels who tell their tales! "Unless it is found in the book "It is of no use to anyone! "Burn everything to the ground "Except our Holy Roman Empire!" The Christians looked at you Constantine--- Within your empire--- You maximized your Circus' stables You filled the country with many dreams. Yet, the religion you dogmatized And denied the evidence of God. Rather, you said, "I hate it when these mundane things "Are made into miracles!" Thus, nobody had known God for a thousand years. 10. 11. Fairy Tale Stories are universal But men have finite minds. It is no mystery Why the same story emerges In several hundred places. I do not believe it evolves From one singular tale But rather, the tale emerges Independently in multiplicities of places at once At the time it is needed. 12. The LORD Revealed Himself The LORD revealed Himself Through history. First in Hammurabi's code By Abraham. Second by Moses With the Law and Prophets. Third through His Son Jesus Christ. The first revelation of the Trinity Was the Spirit Through the Animism and Paganism; Men accessed Him through the Paraclete. They found Him in the waters, In love, in the mountains, In the forests. They first communed with the Holy Spirit. Then, the Law came through Moses And the Father was revealed. Jehovah-Jyra. The Law, first scattered abroad To the four corners of the Universe, Was codified by Moses. And it was given to the Jews To reveal the full nature of God And His laws. Then, came the Son--- He Who solidified the Law And sealed its gaps. He Who was the mortar Between the bricks Which sealed it. He also gave men the liberty To be absolved from their sins. For, the last revelation of God Was Mercy. 13. Not to the Wise A wise and intelligent man Often loses sight of faith. An unwise and dull man must live by it. For intelligent men rely Upon their own faculties More than dull men rely upon theirs. Dull men must live by serendipity, Therefore, they see the Law of God works. They do not question it, For by not questioning it--- For they cannot, for they are without the ability to--- They go through life happily. Intelligent men, we must peer into every statute And understand why it is written so. It's why so very few of us ever attain To Eternal life, as the Faith required Is far less difficult than understanding God's eternal law. Men cannot understand the law entirely... Not even I. For, that is why Faith must be present In a population, for if mankind judges And is the sole determiner of what is right or wrong I am afraid we find ourselves making perilous mistakes Which lead to a rotting core and overall unhappiness. 14. Hitler Was Not A Christian; and Here's Why There are numerous quotes of Hitler Saying he is Christian. They were all lies. The nation was Christian. And it was suffering a crisis of faith. So, Christianity was used to gain nationalistic sympathy. Hitler, however, like the entire Nazi Party, Despised Christianity. They were Heathens. What Hitler was going to do, Was gain power, and then wipe out the church. He wanted to establish a third Roman Empire. First was the Grecco Rome. Second was the Christian Rome. And Hitler wished to establish a Heathen Rome. Hitler was no more a Christian than Nero. But, like Nero he had the populace's love And could do anything, and used his influence to build up a broken Germany. Hitler's end game was to eradicate Christianity. Yes, Christians can be fooled And that is why I believe the Antichrist will be voted in by Christian Men and Women. 15. This Is Exactly What I Hate Mozi and Mencius are perhaps the two philosophers I find myself agreeing with the most. I find most of what they say to be common sense. However, when Aristotle is diminished for the sake of Mencius I cannot begin to fathom what political motivation this entails. I would like to burn down the institutions that say, "Aristotle is wrong." He was not wrong. Do Mencius and Aristotle conflict? Can science discover human motivation? Freud, actually, had a more accurate psychology Than either Mencius or Aristotle. Yet, we're told Freud was a lunatic Whose only contribution to psychology Was the Oedipus complex. There's some truth to the Oedipus complex--- Men and women seek mates which resemble Their parents. I could go further, but it would be unlawful to speak. In the words of St. Paul, when I was in heaven That is the unlawful words to speak. Must we diminish truth because a white man discovered it? Or a Jew? Or a Chinaman? Or a Native American? Or a Black Man? There's truth which roaming tribesman find on the veldts of Africa--- A simple philosophy of sustenance, and the joy and satisfaction of the hunt. Innocent those people are, probably the most innocent on the entire planet. And they believe their soul goes with the Son to heaven; That is the extent of their religion. Even they find truth. The most primitive men in the world. Let us not erase history. Aristotle was correct--- In many ways, he was correct. Like any man, in many ways he wasn't, Though most of the time, what he said in principle were true. 14. Yes Though the Brandon you referred to Is not me, Yes, I believe that a Fetus Has equal the value of a human life. How, though, logically, Does that make me pro choice? Your reasoning doesn't make any sense. I saw you on Ben Shapiro's Video. I'm Brandon, you addressed me. Whoever is out in the public, That certainly is not me. I'm starting to believe that Doppelganger thing is true. 15. I Affirm Christianity I affirm Christianity Because it affirms what's good about life. I do not believe Rome converted to Christianity Because Constantine decided it would be best If the state were Christian. Rather, rampant hedonism existed at that time And men wanted an ascetic religion. They chose Christianity Because it affirmed there was a place for pleasure; And that life is good, and that man and creation are not accidents. The core of my Christianity is the liberty I have to enjoy this Earth; Yet, I see it is sin which steals from me that liberty. I'm quite odd that way. Many I talk to see the asceticism of Christianity And find it abhorrent; Yet, I've wrung my lips with hedonism And chafed my throat with its burning liquor. I lived a licentious life And found nothing equal to the serenity I have today. Thereby, Julian tried to turn the kingdom back to Greek Fables But, Christ was found superior to all of it. 16. White Guilt The White Race has advanced humans To the place we are today. Primarily, because we occupied the most fertile lands, The climate required us to innovate to survive, Was warm enough at the right times to cultivate farming And was resource rich enough, and had access enough, To the ocean so we could build ships. It also was the culture that adopted Chrisitanity Which is the most advanced system of morals Considering it is the only true system of morals. If Blacks occupied Europe--- Which they certainly could--- They would have done all that whites did Good and evil. As, the Aztecs were far more advanced than Europe was In certain regards--- But, Europe had one thing which made it advance past the Aztecs. And that was constant wars amongst itself And the desert kingdoms to the south. It also had Christianity, which benevolently taught White culture mercy. Blacks, having all the same systems--- Would certainly have created an enlightenment Would certainly have coupled Christian morality With Rational Empiricism. Certainly, Blacks would have been the ones Who owned whites as slaves. Humans are not different from one another--- Land, religion, oceans, forests, soil content How much a culture must war to survive,, These all cultivate in cultures similar ideas And patterns, for those patterns exist to be discovered. And because those patterns exist to be discovered It necessitates that human beings, Given the philosophical background, Will all do similar things based on those conditions. Whereby, culture is dictated by the soil And the culture's religion. However, there is a certain cruelty in white civilization now That hadn't existed in the past. It is the same barbarism found in the Norse Gods The same animistic tendencies---- They are divorced from Christianity Thereby, are regressing into their natural state Which is total barbarism. As, given unlimited resources And no moral authority A culture indulges in every vice known to man. And then it tries to say that vice is what brings about happiness. What ultimately happens, Until the whole world is itself unjust and wicked, Another culture comes and sweeps the previous culture under the rug. To which, White Civilization is regressing into barbarism as we speak Which, much like the Norse, could only steal from other cultures The sustenance, and had no recourse to sustaining itself. Thus, the natural state of White Culture is piracy. At our highest, is the Enlightenment and Christianity coupled Into a force which built the happiest civilizations in history. Without them, I don't believe freedom can exist. 17. Logos A dog is called a dog It is called a perro It is called a Hund It is called an ur. The Logos is what makes it a dog. The old ancient myth of the Elephant Where five blind men touched it And speculated on what it was, One blind man thought it was a snake Because he touched its tail; One blind man thought it was a tree, Because he touched its leg; One blind man thought it was a rope Because he touched its trunk; And one man thought it was a stone Because he touched its trunk. The Logos is when you stand back And see it is an elephant which the blind man touches. Also, there is what is just And there is what is unjust. The Logos is what is just. Also, there is what is spoken And the Logos interprets what is spoken. 18. The Farting Angels Mega Church pastors speculate on spiritual beings Doing fleshly things, like texting on phones and farting Before God's throne room. There's a silliness to this, which betrays their vision of God. Do I believe that Jesus may have farted with the Apostles? Most certainly, but Jesus had a flesh body--- Erby, He passed gas. Angels, by reason of their being spiritual Do not fart--- nor can they, otherwise they'd have a flesh body Again. The disorder of it, that we think of God's holy throne as a riotous Circus, rather than a holy place, is blasphemy. Jesus certainly had a sense of humor--- And being that He was God manifested in the Flesh, It's very possible that Jesus farted and laughed. I see nothing sinful in meditating on that--- But, in God's Holy Throne, where no flesh can penetrate; Where there are spirits and sanctity, There couldn't be such a thing. Rather, it is the idol put in place by Bethel Of a Jolly God, who bumbles like one of the stooges Jolly and filled with bouncing like a cartoon. This is not the God I worship. The God I worship sent plagues into Egypt, And crucified His Son. He is very serious--- Loving, but sober. He is not a man, nor are His angels. The Son has resurrected flesh Which does not subsist on fleshly foods now But on Holy foods. Therefore, what Bethel is teaching Is not God, but an idol created by hands. 19. The Poor Will Always Be Among Us He plays monopoly. And then he says, "The poor will always be among us "Because the poor think like the poor." I say, "No---look at the board your rich dad taught you on.--- "The poor are poor because there are limited resources "So rich men "Join field unto field" "By mere chance of a dice roll "And the other six players go bankrupt." 20. Justice Justice exists To allow the most amount of happiness For righteous people. 21. Happiness Machines Arguing what might be my last debate With an old, friend who taught me The value of listening... He brought me to a documentary of a king Who sought to silence our Shadows through art--- The very worst he did was endorse smoking cigarettes. I agreed with him, the methods employed Could be used to the population's detriment; I even agreed that the frustration created by Social engineers was wrong. I agreed with him those very psychoanalytic Methods employed by Bernays could be used to cause great harm. I agreed to the last breath of agreement... But, to say that Freud's nephew was a bad man I could not. He made prominent his uncle--- Well, literally made his theories famous, Enriched the United States population Along with himself in everything he did; He enriched his uncle.... I could not agree on that point. I could agree on everything else we talked about But when I got to the bottom of the issue, I would rather rich men be like Bernays Seeking to bring everyone else up to their level Than be like Soros and bring everyone down. 22. Pythagoras Says It has been one of my pet peeves That when I intend to be silent I am always harassed for an answer And receive no meaning. Pythagoras said to say, "Silence is the first stone in Wisdom's temple." I find this satisfactory. It is the perfect response For it will satisfy the selfishness of your interlocutor And give them no response while appeasing them That they are being listened to. However, listen with sincerity and not condescension Otherwise this will not work. 23. Logos The Logos Humans subconsciously Operate on a code of ethics inherent in our nature Called the Logos. When that code begins to break down The society breaks down. When strange questions arise About simple matters, Such as "What constitutes Gender?" "What role does monogamy play in society?" "When ought I get a divorce?" "Does God exist?" The Logos governing that civilization Gets warped, and the society ceases to be cohesive. What ultimately collapses society is that when the Logos is not trusted The civilization breaks down morally, And other kingdoms will swoop in and take it over. Or, the society will be given into rampant corruption, chaos, tyranny and general unhappiness. I suspect the time Christ will return Is when no country on Earth understands the Logos. And when all men are sophists. 24. Potential The preacher looks at Christ Who hung on a cross. In such a pathetic situation; Helpless, forsaken. He sees his own fabulous life. "Jesus didn't reach His potential." Is what he tells his audience. I think the sermon ought to be How sometimes we're called For a purpose other than worldly success... For, if potential is to overthrow the Roman Empire, And that were Jesus' potential, Then thank God He did not fulfill it Otherwise every man woman and child Would have needed to be slaughtered along with Caesar For God's wrath was not yet appeased. Sometimes, it is exactly the fulfilling of our potential, The conquering of Rome, the charging into battle, That causes us to be objects of God's wrath. And sometimes, by living a life for God We do the very least in terms of worldly success But acquire the greatest riches in the Kingdom of Heaven. 25. Bones of the Saints They dig up the saint's bones in Britain To prove once and for all some Englishmen had black faces. Rather, it was Africans who went on evangelical missions To Britain to spread our wonderful Savior's tale. Just as the Bible says, they dig up the bones of the prophets--- Now, they use them to push their unholy agendas. They get disputed, too, by angry men. Rather, can we not just revel in the fact That Augustine was from Africa, And He colonized Great Britain with Christ? For, without Christianity, Britain would still Be a barbarous state, living in hovels and sticks. 26. On Grace The Old Testament law is like a Pennsylvanian Speed Limit. Grace is the liberty to go about five to seven MPH over that limit; For, if you didn't, you really couldn't. It is also like an egregious offense against the limit Like going forty-five MPH in a fifteen MPH zone And the officer, seeing how hinky you are, Decides to let you off with a warning. However, if you don't learn from your warning, And continue in your sin, you will be thrown into prison. 27. Ricky Baker He stands on the corner. He gets shot, robbed and is dying. He calls 911. He tells the operator that Jesus loves her. A black man shot a white man. It doesn't make national headlines. But, this isn't about that. There was no racism. This was not about race. This was about the love of money. This was about a man, Waiting for his bus, Being killed. Take it to heart, So the end doesn't come. He is hidden in the LORD's wings. Take it to heart, The merciful man dies, And take it to heart that it is to hide him From God's wrath. Take it to heart. God's mercy is shown to him for eternity now. He is hidden from our woes. Take it to heart, Bring nigh the judgment of God So the seat of violence is put far away. 28. My Creeds The first creed to my faith--- So none are in question about it later on--- Is the Athanasian creed. Reading it for the first time in years Was like waking up from a dream. So many stupid thoughts run through Christianity today And to see it concisely stated all that I believe Nothing added, nothing lacking. Second is the Nicene Creed. The most beloved verse is that Jesus descended into Hell. For, if Jesus did not descend, Then why make him ascend? "It is finished" is the Hebraic covenant. Nothing more. All is accomplished at the cross. Thirdly, I believe in the Apostles Creed. The most simple version of my faith, The cant is among the most beautiful poetry In the Liturgical English. Like the LORD's Prayer It feels right---because it is right. This is my Christianity. Let no one question it Because it is the Christianity of Christ And His true church. 29. 30. Romans 4:5 Yet, James says, "I will show you my faith "By my works." Paul means works of the Law. Paul means works of Judgment, Of condemnation, of executing the justice of God. That is what Paul means. As James clearly says, "Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, "and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, "and I will shew thee my faith by my works." The scripture cannot contradict. When Jesus said, "It is finished" He meant the Hebraic covenant Given to Moses. That law was broken, and severed, So now men live by Grace And the law accordingly given to them And imprinted upon their conscience. It is true, that in the end of the age Christ will bring in both good and bad To His kingdom, for those called Had rather gone to their own designs. And they will be left outside the Wedding Feast While Death, wearing no garment, Will be cast into the outer darkness. Paul is speaking, in Romans 4:5 Of works of the Law. Not works of Charity. A Christian is compelled to do charity As is commanded by Jesus When He talks of separating the Sheep and the Goats. If the heart of man is worthy of acceptance, It will choose Christ wholly And commit to Him like the Athanasian Creed states. If the heart is unworthy, it will be separated from God By its sin; therefore, the Heart of man determines Whether it will accept Grace, or forsake it. For, what Paul is stating Is that it is not a work of our own Which causes us to be chosen by God But rather, it is the condition of our heart Which allows the choice, and nothing else. 31. Eternity Hell is for eternity Because Christ came and died. All who reject His love Have eternally said "Depart from me," To God Almighty. How can God save a soul Who rejects Him? 32. Apportionment In God's Word There is perfect apportionment. There are three Christians. One has five talents And invests them, Making five converts. Another has two talents, And invests them, And makes two converts. Another Christian has one talent, But never uses them to spread the gospel. Finally, the first man gets five cities. The second man gets two cities. And the third man, having a city, Must lose it, and thereby give his city to another. So, the city goes to the first man, For the third man was promised a city, But never used his talents for the sake of Christ's Gospel. 33. Bart Ehrman, New Sophism Scholar The Gospels weren't written by the apostles Because the Apostles were "Unschooled" men, And the gospels were written sixty years later? Yet, people learn new languages all the time; And it's not impossible to teach old men how to read and write. Also, Luke was an Eyewitness to the accounts of Acts And Luke is the same writer who wrote both Acts and the Gospel of Luke. We know Luke was not an eye witness to Christ's ministry, Most Christian Scholars agree, But he was an historian. Mark, also, was not an eye witness to the ministry of Jesus, And most scholars agree to that, too, But he wrote in unrefined Greek which was controversial Because it was very ungrammatical. Also, Matthew might have been about twenty when he lived with Jesus And being a Tax Collector, he would have known how to write; I think, otherwise he wouldn't be able to collect taxes. Also, John, being the latest Gospel written, John could have probably lived to a ripe old age of 120--- People did it then, they do it now--- And he might have later learned how to write As having something so important to say, They might have been encouraged a little bit on how to write Greek; Wouldn't you say? Also, same thing with Peter, and James and John And the rest of the Apostles. Your premise, Mr. Ehrman, Is that it's impossible to learn how to read or write As an adult. Being that these men converted people of all social classes to Christianity, Couldn't one of their converts have taught them all how to write? If that's the sole basis on not believing that the Gospels were written, Then you're just plain brassheaded. Also, you sign your name to your books, don't you? That may have been an idiolect of address Used exclusively by the Gospel Writers. 34. I Dreamt the Earth was Flat I dreamt the Earth was flat. Ever since, I've doubted the Earth was round. Yet, people have been to space. People have been to Antarctica. People have sailed the Pacific Ocean. Because of this, I have to trust those who know. Do I have evidence that the Earth is a Sphere? Yes. He's called Neil Armstrong. For both Atheist and Christian, When Atheists claim to have studied Evolution We ought to believe them. Yet, when Christians say they've seen Something good, we ought to believe them. 35. His Eye is on the Sparrow I watch a beautiful woman--- Conservative--- Brought to tears. Her cohorts are telling her, "Women working depreciates wages." I'm a master of old literature. I've studied the Amish. Women have occupation And historically have always had occupation. The Basket Weaver in my favorite fairy tale, Or making bread to sell at market, Or canning, or weaving blankets and quilts To provide supplementary income to the household. The Wise Woman in Proverbs Works... I don't think the issue is women entering the workforce. I think the issue is how far away the workforce is from home. What the Amish have is work Which springs from the ground And complex preservation methods. If the woman doesn't work, Or plough as is said of the Daughter of Zion, Then the household cannot sustain itself. The issue is the American idea of work--- A place where one signs away their freedom of speech and religion To eat. While HR and Public Relations Arbitrate the holy distribution of the company's wages. Women have work;--- They have historically always worked. Men, never until several decades ago, Had need to travel a thousand miles a week Just to accrue a subsistence. All of God's children have a right to work And eat. Because remember, It was the children of the sixties who disobeyed their parents. Their fathers were miles away for most of their lives... The generation is getting hopeful, however. Computers will bring work back into the home; At least this is my hope... But, if fear resolves to trap us indoors And computers resolve to foment this change Then Let there be only the soil to provide our substance. 36. The Only Way Science Could Logically Prove God Does Not Exist If science said that at the base of everything Were atoms, and those atoms were immutable Unable to change, but were consistent, and could not be broken down Any further. Then, the universe were truly infinite. If there were not a single bit of choice, And all things were created by an infinite chain of cause and effect. If there were no beginning to the universe, and no end. If there were no true communication; but rather, Men were limited to only their rational minds' And its experiences, if energy were created, If an atom could not be broken down to smaller parts, If force did not exist in the universe; By that I mean, all things would be a causal chain Of matter interacting with matter, And matter were solid, and not comprised of any void, If the universe were expanding into empty space Which existed for eternity. However, none of these assumptions are proven true. Rather, just the opposite I'm being told. Therefore, I can logically presume God exists. How I rationalize it to my God Is He's the best one of the lot of them. 37. Hitchens It's true that a moral statement Could not be made by a Christian That couldn't be made by an Atheist. That's because morality is self-evident. God exists to pardon us, when we haven't Fully committed ourselves To what we already knew inherently. And if we decide not to accept His pardon He exists to bring upon men the recompense Of their own ill will.
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Within the Sandglass; Poems Summer 2021
1. Providence O, Providence's mighty hand struck down The bricks of rebellious sons and 'twas found. God need no man to prove He exists. Shot Down were the bricks with lightning, of George Floyd. Let his name now be made to ever rot In hell, for the power of God, annoyed Broke to rubble the emblem of black hate. Another is to go up, God, please also, this, break. 2. Commitment Start a journey with one foot upon the soil Which is soft to tender soles, And walk a mile, or two. The road becomes like gravel, and then the sand Sears the feet with blazing heat. How one walks that road, and knows at the end of it Are riches and honor. A thousand times One throws themself down upon the road Crying, "Not another step!" Yet, a breeze blows past the cheek And again one stands, and walks. Thou walkest because thou ought to. Commit thyself to the path. To wander backward is foolish; Or to take another path would lose oneself upon the way. So, walk until thy heart beats like a drum And walk until every muscle aches. I walk, because I have chosen my path And know one day I shall find my oasis. 3. Bone Wars Penniless, penniless Two geniuses were made. What man, being wise Doth with perfect knowledge Guess first all presumptions true? For a mistake, friends were made enemies--- A moot mistake of pedantic dragons. The sky is like the fumes of a furnace's smoke The embers dashed upon the mountains. The lightning flashes, the thunder's war, The eerie Indian Rain casts ember's glow upon all things Enshrouded by smoke. Criticize me for a mistake I made, But know I am not a god. For the wickedness of the feud Was theft, bribery and violence For the sum of fortunes made by digging up bones. Flash twice, thou lightning, For two wicked foes The thunder rolls. I am imperfect, and should a man Pour over my work to find A detail wrong or a comma splice... A "then" spelled for "than" or vice versa--- Do not be like Marsh and steal from me. Do not pedantically search my words for a place to pounce. I am not like Cope. I shall weep bitterly For the fire in my heart would dim Like the sunset's furnace. The smoke of my cloudy sky would be snuffed out. I have tried with all my prowess to give the summation of my thoughts. For, I am a poet, not a historian. I am a poet, not a scientist. I only speak what is the science of the soul... What are the Forms lying beyond this world. And my science is accurate. It decries the hidden wisdoms of the world. 4. Cursed Islam What is religion, if not a purifier of the heart? If religion teaches you to curse Or if religion teaches you to hate Or if religion teaches you to deceive What use is it? If religion teaches you to subjugate If religion teaches you there are races greater And races lesser, if religion teaches you That anything beside the Heart IS what God looks upon for judgment What use is it? What religion must force converts And kill and threaten And tell its people to lay up hatred in their heart What use is it? It is a cursed religion. One which I hate. In the Bible, God, when He lives upon the Earth The God of the Jews and Christians, When He reigns for one thousand years He will permit all faiths to exist; Yet, the knowledge of His law will be preeminent For it is even above His name. God, for Him to be just, Must hold truth above even His own holiness. That is why Christians are taught never to lie While Muslims, their faith is a lie. 5. Megan Fox Mysticism, Christians trying to find an answer--- She did not go to hell. Nobody smirks after being there. When I went to hell I saw a satyr with a spear As the sinews in his thigh muscles Bowed under the weight of his muscular physique. He was red, the perfect color for hiding in the night, And his horns were like a greased hair cut. And his face. He had a face. This creature was ready to smash my skull in And place me in a prison Until I called out to God And He raised me out of that pit. I had hoped the story were true. Nothing would add to her beauty But chastity. Nothing would add to her beauty But wholesomeness. But, she is filthy as she ever was And no, Megan, you did not go to hell. 6. Fairyland A war between Christendom and Paganism Is that text Fairyland. Baal, Athena, Thor, They battle Brittos, Beowulf, Joash. Pagan myths circle the brow And heroes must defeat it Within that very thought. The lustful Greeks, the violent Nords, The inhumane Canaanites; The Manichean Zoroasters, The Materialism of Babylon; Paganism is found in many forms And my heroes must do aught battle with it. For, as Chesterton said, There is one rival to Christianity And that rival is Paganism. The age of the epic is not dead; For religions encompass philosophies And there is only one philosophy Which produces love. All else must be fought with mortal combat And Eternal Rewards dolled out to those Who cling to God like Jacob did the Christophany. For, there is only one God, and he is Jehovah-Jyra. 7. Where I Came From Robots were friendly. Chip, the local nurse bot At the General Hospital Meandered about and piqued my childish curiosity. It could think, move, it was as human As any man I'd met. There were no smart phones. Man was at peace; The stars shined bright. The grocery store Had a coffee grinder And about thirty varieties of beans. It wasn't racist to portray Indians; It wasn't racist to portray Black Folk; It wasn't racist to portray Quakers. They were iconic imagery. Stories were at their peak; The best ones were being made. I was taught a hundred tall tale and fairy tales Iconic of the American Mythology. That was my education; Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and The Three Bears,--- We sang patriotic hymns at the beginning of every class. We said the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America Which was a republic, under God. The Ten Commandments were written on the Statue of Liberty. They were on the pillars of courts. There was no internet. Bugs Bunny was on every day, For about two hours a day. Elvis was bigger than the Beetles. There were ten channels on cable. And most of all, there was love. 8. Abide the Snow How I love Thee, oh Stately King The worlds seen from Thy peak. Beneath Thee, Thy black Princes' tor Gather by the valleys for war. It, the breath of Heather Blossoms Stain the rocks with liquid crimson; The Princes reign above the lot Of men, who upon earth, the gods They have all stopped believing in. Thus, Mount where the Nard Flower's sin Had grown, and the harlot's love washed Thy foot, Thy fragrant soils soft,--- Thy Statehood beams upon the breadth Of all worlds and cloudy hex. Thy peak is worshiped for its height; Princes beneath Thee ready fight; And the steeples of thy Welkin Ring, for Thou art the very vault in View of those who see Thy splendor; And raiment of the Prisms wore Thou upon kneck and ivory knape--- The sash of Thy Kinghood---irate That the very dogs Thou wished good Sought to steal from we poor our food. 9. A Tale of Two Princes I heard a preacher once preach A sermon on two princes: The story goes as so: The crown prince had a list Which, for his joy, was promised to him. He had no expectation for the things on that list Prior to the King and Queen promising him the things On that list. The second prince, Being far more popular among the people For his sunny disposition, Had nothing promised to him. He, too, had no expectations; And the King loved him more than the crown prince. Thus, when Michaelmas came The two princes were bestowed with gifts. The crown prince, who was promised everything on his list Was given two things from the list. Looking for the others--- For they were semi-precious stones Which he liked--- He became sad that the thing he was promised Was not given to him. The second prince--- Whom the whole kingdom loved--- Was given coal. And the second prince said, "Ooo! I can make this into diamonds "If I press hard enough upon the coal." And the whole kingdom was stunned That the prince who received coal Was celebrating that he could make diamonds From his coal. Thus, they became wary of the crown prince. So, the King---having laid out his plan Very carefully, to defame the crown prince And bring honor to the second--- Took the coal from the second prince And gave him diamonds to replace the coal. Then, he distributed among the kingdom How honored the second prince was For receiving coal and doing a dance for joy. However, the semi-precious stones Asked for by the crown prince Were all he asked for--- There was no other request he had And the whole kingdom had promised him everything on his list Down to the last sum. And he had only received a twentieth of what he asked for. And he wept that the promise made to him was in vain. Thus, the crown prince absconded his crown And gave it to the second prince Whom, having the sunny disposition Was happy for getting coal for Michaelmas. Later on in life, The crown prince grew to be a wise man And the second prince to be a foolish man. For, the crown prince never received aught That he asked for. The second prince, he received everything. The crown prince grew strong, he grew wise He labored on his princely duties--- Knowing that the kingdom belonged to his cousin--- While the second prince spent the riches Obtained by the crown prince. For the crown prince had obtained many riches Yet the second prince ate all the riches up--- If there were even a gem able to be bought By the crown prince's labor, The second prince was the one who received it. The crown prince, having worked hard For his salary, was perplexed. "Why did all the riches go to my cousin?" And, lo, it was because he was the king? So, the crown prince was saddened by this That all of his labor was spent to feed the second prince On his worldly lusts. The crown prince, though, Had time to understand what he would do with the profits. He, happy his crown was stolen, Will be a benefactor for the people. This was what he set his heart to do. For though the crown prince asked, And did not receive aught he asked for from his kingdom;--- Rather, he was scorned when he asked And given only a partial sum--- He was thankful that his wretched cousin Had the crown and not him. For, remember, he only wanted semi-precious stones; And his cousin wanted diamonds. Thus, the crown prince worked upon his princely duties Peering over all wisdom, to divine a strategy To save his kingdom from the barbarian onslaught. The second prince, he was allied with the barbarians. It came to, that the kingdom fell But the crown prince escaped with his life. For, he had accrued wisdom in his poverty--- For he was now poor, for all the sustenance he gained Was given to his cousin--- And thus, through the roughness of his life He attained a true knowledge Which the second prince had not attained. And, had he received the semi-precious stones He may not have acceded the office he did obtain Which was as a counselor to kings With wisdom, honor and glory. Though, his kingdom still hated him He had attained to the truth which could have saved it. 10. My Science My instrument is mind; My measurement is meaning. I ponder upon the Words spoken by the prophets And come to accurate conclusions. Yet, the precision--- Words can be too precise. For, it is the accuracy of discovery Which finds true meaning. If the words were precise--- Not even the definitions Of these scientific terms are--- They would carry no meaning. For, some concepts are too dificult To write precisely. Yet, that doesn't mean we cannot be accurate In interpreting them. 11. The Lotus Tea Upon the frailty of the lotus petal He plucks it to make his herbal tea. He then causes those who drink to forget. It, a tea with herbal essence Rot-grey in color, sickly; It is color of all men's skin; Sometimes darker, sometimes lighter, Regardless of how long it is steeped. It is poisoned by forgetfulness. Wars, heroes, ancient causes Are all forgotten by those Who drink the lotus tea. Where are the prophets; Where are the peacemakers: Where are those who listen? 12. Cow Tools; by Gary Larson I hath never seen the cartoon--- Yet, I hath heard it described. The joke, thou reader, Is thy reaction to it. 13. My Sympathies with Shakespearean Sonnet My love, when I first met her, she had a Face like that of a man's; her hair was foul--- She and I had not a semblance of play; She was boring, and had no word to rouse A glimmering thought or interesting Conversation by which made me smile. Then, I met him whom friendship would soon bring The conversation my heart had, mild, Wished to make. Wisdom he would teach me, right Yet dark and mysterious. So, her face I left, though her womanhood I aroused--- I learned that friendship was far more innate Than breasts, womb, skin and amatory's cowl. Thus, for true love I will patiently wait. 14. My Wasted Breath What is my voice among a thousand amateurs? What is my voice to those whom I've offended? Among the amateurs and social justice wariors My voice is drowned out by the Siren's who rent The hearts of the seamen to lusty show of song's breath; To the coves they die, and are dashed to pieces Upon the reefs. Amateur and offended left No place for my songs to be harked or heeded. What is my voice among the Siren's? All for souls They sing, their asp like bodies and naked breasts Upon the serpent's slough, and they sing of nothing old But what is new and in their hearts, which sings of the West The vacuous Gnosis of Mnemosyne, to which truth Is found only in Cholesterol, isolated In singular mind and sympathies uncouth. What is my voice among the sirens? It is Wasted. 15. Vignette How many words do I see? Master poets lose themselves in the din. Fortune's wheel Turn to formulaes Of money, markets And robotic algorithms Of buzzing hashtags. It is not a fun game; I do not enjoy it. I do not enjoy trying to find out What the masses want to hear And telling it to them. Truth is my unicorn. And when none believe in it--- A thousand songs are sung But noone truly listens. The Skalds sing of the virtue of silence. Of wit, and those who have it; If you do not, to stay silent. For speaking out of turn is foolish. Yet, that silence--- It is all I can think about now. To listen--- But it's hard because so few have aught to say. There are a thousand poets in my eye--- I unravel the scroll. Is it beautiful? Or is it the song of the modern age? All wishing to have their say--- Yet none saying. 16. Illusions A charming conversation tattles about The quiet book store---of bass and alto. It's deep, sincere. Nothing they say interests me. But, it is wholly interesting to them. And that interests me, because it is good. It is something I wish people had often. Finding their class, their clique, through buzz words Which aligns them to each other's world. It is not gossip. It is not crass, nor base. It is not about money or sex but Common interests. And the boredom sets in. Not mine, but theirs---the chinwag disrupted By their better angels, to enable work. "This is the only good Fleetwood Mac song." Now they are speaking about common interests; Common enemies. Common hatred. Kyle comes in, and they are bored. I am not. I listen, I interpolate, I hear... Illusions. Now they speak of stories... Are they visions? Are they real? Illusions? Like when the tv seems to know my thoughts? Illusions interrupt my meditation Which are equally interesting to me. 17. Logos Those of the Beautiful Race--- The Ethiopian with thy beauty--- Aristotle tried to relegate you To a slave for lack of Logos. There is nothing inherent in you That can steal this gift from you. However, if the Cracker steals it--- And they do---then men of all races Will be subject back under a yoke and bondage. For understanding is the foundation of our freedom And without it, there is only force. Without it, there is only war. And powerful men and women--- Black, white or brown--- Will steal from us, who are less fortunate--- Our voice. Understanding, wisdom It is anyone's gift who seeks it. Do not revive the sins of the past By burning with fire the very Word Which will set you free. 18. Aristotle's Slave I am free Because I understand. ❦ All are slaves Because they refuse to listen. 19. Good Art Art which skill had wrought, Whether natural; romantic: Affirming volition or fatalism: Whether Ugly or Beautiful: So long as it captures the truth And is wrought with skill, I call thee art. Truth is antinomy. It mends contradictions; It plays with the war between light and shadow. 20. Imagine I can... And it's one of my worst nightmares. I've imagined there's no heaven I've imagined there's no hell. I've imagined there's no possessions It's far worse than you can tell. I've imagined there's no countries And all were under the brotherhood of man. There'd be no freedom to die for There'd be nothing but the Brotherhood's hand. I Imagine all would be silent And imagine his song enforced. I Imagine all things were given By the Brotherhood of Man's gun's force. I have imagined the lyrics I have thought about his song. To me it's an anthem of despair And it can only go so very wrong. Men are all so different. Men are not all wise. To force all men to conform And never share their lives It would be the most boring world One with only peace: For men would live in silence And there'd be no children playing in the streets. Sometimes what divides us Is the very best of this world. What men fight and die for Is the greatest, valued pearl. If men were wholly thoughtless If men were wholly slaves Then John Lennon's world Would be there to all men save. His world cannot contain us For men are so very diverse... To force all men as converts To a world which censored verse... It wuld be the hell I fear most It would be a world untrue. It would be a world of peaces All held together by tyranny's glue. I say it couldn't work out... It is only a dream... For blood would be the War Shout With "Peace" fought for in the streets, He was only a dreamer... Not a wise man you see. For I can imagine a world of peace With religion and countries... It would be ruled by our Father And His glorious Son. He would not be a Tyrant And we'd all have our blessed freedoms. A field to pasture; A few friends to love. Food in our stomachs And men would live by good. For verse is my most cherished right To write and to read the words Which men have fought and died for And without them, it couldn't be much worse. I believe in poetry. I believe in good. I believe in freedom. And on that hill I stood. John Lenon's world's a pipedream One which knows not how things work. And I know if you really imagined it It wouldn't be as good as it once looked. 21. Gifts A gift given, is often ill received By those who are pugnacious and rude; Only if the gift were exchanged for another gift. If a gift were given with no thing in return Suspect the gift, for men are generous But will not often give a gift without expectation. Yet, if you give gifts without expectation, Do not hesitate to receive a gift on return. It is more rude to refuse the gift Than to give one without expectation. 22. Yin and Yang Yin; Yang, Both possess half of truth. Both are Atheists. Yin possesses knowledge of dark substances Of man and mankind's inner clockwork; The higher and lower organizations of patterns in existence; The nihilism of men who've abandoned truth. Yang possesses knowledge of the higher principles Of choice, compassion and universal love. He knows it is a fact that nihilism is illogical; that morals are certain; A fact of life,---that more joy is attained through law. Solomon knew both of these Were the ways of finding God. Yet Yin walked circumspect upon the earth And was kindhearted to all she met; Knowing great darkness abounded. Yang walked foolishly upon the earth And was vengeful toward all who had stumbled; Knowing good, he could not see the evil in himself. 23. Warfare A wight may be a righteous man, And a beast a fortunate son. Wicked beings may torment a soul Of whom true righteousness had won. For fortune's not the hallmark's brand Upon the heart's red, burning coal, Which marks a man for Godly things Or raises him above the fold. A righteous man had demon's sting Which raised him above his soft bed. The pangs of ill-wrought anguish rose Him midair, anguished and in dread. Yet this man is a righteous son He had done no wrong thing untrue. For demonic oppression, wot I, its source’s not always you. 24. Why From my dad I learned the language of Freud; Learned the stock markets would one day fall; That the housing market was like a steroid; I learned how to predict the future’s laws. From my mom I learned the facts of life; I learned that man was man, and a woman woman. I learned love conquers all of life’s strife. She called me a philosopher, and that would stand. My mind was a garden of wars and dialogues; It was filled with lusts for adventure’s safe In my child’s play. Never had I heard demagogue’s Tongue, never had my mind been influenced by hate. My best friends taught me play, structure and wisdom. My apparition of love taught me the purpose of life. My country taught me the value of freedom. My apparition of love taught me to seek a wife. Like Chateaubriand or Milton I fell in love with her, The idea, the perfect form of woman played her part: Her ideal was there to ever in my imagination ensure That my purpose would serve to chasten the heart. I read over fifty of the timeless classics, I pursue the secret certainty in geometry. I have seen highest goodness in love’s charming hex; I have tasted the lowest evils by hatred’s calumny. I have seen both the highest goods and lowest ills; I have studied the art of Word for fifteen years. I have known what it is like to kill And to wake up from that nightmare’s fear. I have a science of the soul exact and true. I understand men both good and bad. I understand what drives me and you I only wish not to be a passing fad. 25. Uzziah Stately Priest, of the order of Melchizedek; King, and Priest, honored champion of the meek: Uzziah, remind me of gluttony, of wealth, of honor How it is unbefitting for man to take the role of Christ. Christ, Healer, is not his Surname, but his office Who could heal thee from thy leprosy. Yet, you, taking the office to perform the priestly duties As King, the offices were separated for a reason. Only the Lion of Judah, the Messiah, the Son of David Has the right to perform both the rituals of sacrifice And the rituals of cleansing, and the rituals of divine statehood. No other may possess this spiritual role of Priest and King. That is why, Uzziah, when you went to burn incense upon the alter You were stricken with your disease. For a feeling overcame you---one which is not yours--- To cleanse thyself from thy wicked deeds. When this ritual is to be performed by the priest And thy ritual is to be performed of the King’s. Even a king’s office is under the smiting hand of the LORD That there are holy sacraments given to both kings and priests And their offices, of man, ought never be mixed. 26. Proof Christ is He Had I a talent, And I a skeptic, I would bet Christ an Eastern Mystic. Had the Western Philosopher a talent, And surely he is a skeptic, He would bet Christ a manifestation of Greek Philosophy. I have a talent, And I am no skeptic, I will bet my soul that this conundrum proves the universality of Christ's teaching; How a homeless, carpenter's Son could find all truths on his own Without an education. West and East corroborate His claims And prove He is God manifested in the Flesh. 27. The New Covenant Eternal is the LORD's love for Israel. It is deeper than the Planc Length. It is wider than the Twelve Universes; Aye wider than all Universes man can discover. We possess the LORD’s Word upon our heart The knowledge of good and evil. As sure as the stars and sun ordain the Seasons As sure as the Earth’s foundations never can be reached So is the LORD’s love for His people Eternal. 28. There Were Beasts There were beasts, Who cautiously arrived At a delicatessen of human food Which lay upon the forest floor. The animals would take bites; Never did they eat the whole portion. There’s wisdom in this. Both that the wild beasts Were cautious to give up their freedom For easily trifled upon meat; But also, that they ate To what filled them, and no more; Also, that they left the morsels, Perhaps for fear of predators, Or perhaps by Godly design Which they understood Was right, and honorable, To eat the portion enough for oneself And leave the portion enough for others. 29. Western Civilization's End Seven men piously sit, Arranged in a circle Discussing the matter of truth. Each gives their discourse, And each discourse arrives closer and closer to the truth. Finally, the last man speaks, And He finds the very face of God. Then, a degenerate man enters into the party Has that last man abused, And with the last man's absence, initiates an orgy. Several months later, A new civilization arises from the ashes of the last. 30. The Best Cover Letter Ever Writen? Benedict Cumberbatch reads "The Best Cover Letter Ever Written." I like words, too. But only if they mean something. Austere words, which communicate man's inner demons. Blistering words, which scathe human iniquity. Righteous words, which are pious and just. To me, casuistry is verbiage which “Crackles, Sparks, Pops,” Is “Gluttonous, Voluptuous, Gelatinous and Toady.” Finding “Demimondes” when you could simply say, “Flapper”. Sexy is a good word, because everyone knows it. But describing the woman’s sumptuous lips; Why not just call them kissable? Oh, I love words, when they speak the truth. When they vacuously “Tinkle and Tick and Creek and Crank” It sends chills up my spine, and I want to vomit. I hate those words; they are gaudy excesses. Give me an excursus describing Stirling Engines And build a society to the stars; colonize Andromeda’s Galaxy, Speculate on the Quasars; theorize about gravity and the grave. Words are my Aegis, and my mien is sullen when “Salacious, scandalous, and suave” Words are guarded at the gates of the Orthodoxy of Svengalis who deem Grammatical Sentences as obsolete. Man is man. Woman is woman. Casuistry, Sophistry, Postmodern messes Trick the existentialist generation Who find meaning from nowhere… And they like the thrill of “Suck, tongue, lick, lavish”. I have nothing base to say. I deal in the realms of Philosophy; The higher forms The archetypes of civilization; The meanings and nuances of all life And the Sphere we live upon called the Earth. Am I a better writer? If that is good writing, I am the worst. Yet, my writing means something And that is all I ever intended it to be. 31. TEd-Talks Justifying its abuses. Almost like the millions slaughtered Were necessary. Remember this about communism. It says, “Everyone has food.” No. Everyone does not have food. Troops come into your silos, steal your grain, And then give you a little cake of cornmeal. For that cornbread, you lose your voice. For that cornbread, you lose your work. For that cornbread, you lose your property. And still, yet, you are hungry. 32. A Critique of Communism Your work is stolen. Your voice is stolen. Your freedom is stolen. All so you can eat a piddle of bread And drink some filthy water. The government shingles your roof So after three years of its leaking Someone comes, and tacks a nail with hammer. Or, you do it yourself. But, hide it! Hide your self-reliance! Burn communism to the ground Peoples of communist nations. Take up your guns, And kill them. Spill their acrid blood into the sand. Kill their children. Kill their elderly. Do to them what they did to you. 33. I Envision Two Paths I envision two paths. The first is slavery. The second is poverty. Either the state takes care of you. Or you cannot take care of yourself. The shining example that was capitalism Was a man had the recourse to take care of himself. However, when the machine takes away the man's means Of taking care of himself, he ends up needing the help of the state. And when the man ends up being helped by the state He is imprisoned by the State's stipend And he can never make himself free. The solution is a field to till, A garden to tend to; A horse for a blacksmith to shoe. Yet, that would require work which far too many are incapable of. So, God I hope you come soon. 34. The Preacher's Magic Oh, tongue, thou art mistaken. The preachers preach on the magic Word, which brings fortune or despair. Yet, I know what thou mean, my LORD. The tongue can bless---how how it can bless. It can bring happiness, joy, peace, comfort. Or, the tongue can curse. It can shake a man’s faith In himself, and his own paths. And given this, the curse sets one on a path To hardship and despair. And the tongue sets one on a path To prosperity the more it blesses. For, encouragement lightens the heart And discouragement makes it weighty. Yet, the tongue which speaks truth It is the tongue which will be rewarded. For, sometimes curses are spoken To bring a soul to repentance. And sometimes blessings are spoken To bring a soul to despair. Sometimes, a hearty rebuke---a curse even--- Is far more just than a blessing spoken In flattery. 35. The Nordic Magic No, their spells do not interest me. Speaking softly to a leech will Not make them less likely to bite. But, to know their minds, what concepts They felt important... Love, boating, Sharpened swords and spells to ward off Etins, Alfs and Dwarves; to control The misfortunes of burning homes; To have will over turbulent Waves, winds, swirling grey clouds and rain; It speaks lots to what the culture Thought of on a daily basis. Yet, it is equally true that Christianity made them more Prosperous by settling them; For the strong Jewish customs of Shepherding and Farming replaced The material lack they stole. 36. The Wisdom of Jordan Peterson There is no more room for creative people. We are a pain. No more room for the bard. No more room for the carpenter. No more room for the baker. No more room for the whistler, The musician, The painter, The toy manufacturer. The writer, The poet; The novelist--- No, novels must be written By a collaborative on market trends--- No more drummers No more stringed instruments, No more worship, No more books, No more readers, No more architects, No more gardeners. No more folk art, No more playgrounds. No more toy guns or hula-hoops. No more army men or matchbox cars, Only aphantasia. No, the only work that is left Is the manager. And the laborer. And that is because the majority of people are so. No more gingerbread houses, No more vellum, No more calligraphy, No more ballads, hiakus or odes, No more surrealism, No more cubism, No more realism, No more philosophy, No more, unless its figuring out The next way to make money. Jordan, reevaluate yourself. This is what you believe in right now. You’re a patron of the arts? Yet, you can’t support this modern capitalism if you are. No more quilters, No more afghans, No more photography, No more card tables with the hinge And patterned like a Chess Board. No more nursery Rhymes, No more fairy tales, No more cookery, No more paintings held in high esteem. No more black or Indian faces on the cardboard design--- No, everything is mapped out. Scientifically designed for the most use. Created specifically for your viwwing pleasure. Best meant not to offend, best created to make the most amount of money. And creative you are, it is only so far as It can make money. Everything scientifically designed to produce the most--- The pink chosen because it calms, yet later it excites and annoys. The Blue abandoned because it looks cheap. The green used in abundance because people think they’re intelligent If they prefer that color. Chosen for their own vanity. I like blue. And yellow. And Purple. Chess hacked from computer engines. I’m done. 37. Through His Eyes I Saw Through his eyes I saw Myself; Oh one who destroys, My eyes were like thine. I saw my very worst night. And my greatest victory. His lips and my foul Fingers called me Antichrist. Yet I shall soon win! 38. The Bluebird We artists are the Blue Bird; Red chest; we wear the sky as a raiment. Sell Outs, Marketers, Editors... They are the Blue Jay Which dig in their beaks Wetting our feathers with blood. They come, knowing only how to consume. We Blue Birds come, only knowing how To sing and be beautiful. Unfettered nature favors the Blue Jay; Yet from where I come from The Blue Jay is a pest While the Blue Bird is a lovely gift of God's creation. Build us our little homes Which the Jays and Crows cannot fit. For, soon enough we will no longer Be an endangered species. 39. The Queen of Poets O' the Queen of Poets The wretched Kings decry... Sword of Damocles unsheathe; The Queen of poets sings her Coda While she is yet a nursing babe. Her speech has yet to form… Yet, truth was on the lips of babes Like none ever seen so far. Kings, fear thou this, The poet’s heart who fears thee. For if the Queen of Hearts cannot sing her odes Then freedom dies. Sing. Sing Queen of Poets, And like the Blackbirds of Ireland Have your songs be heard! 40. Is Faith an Illusion? A wise man once said Faith was like smoking a cigar Faith was like listening to a symphony Faith was like butter. That unbelief were like cigarettes That unbelief were like a gramophone That unbelief were like margarine. Yet, I still perceived doubt. T. S. Eliot wrote Ash Wednesday. The greatest confession of faith in history. There were no apologetics. It was simply put, that God was known to Eliot In the moment he wrote it, And Eliot cried out to our God Saying for him never to forget. That is faith. We are at one point wretched, worthless sinners. And afterward we are cleansed. We may cuss, smoke an occasional cigarette Or write a blasphemy in our books. But, we know God Because God is in our lives. We know ourselves before God And we know ourselves after God. And we say, “Because I do not hope to turn again.” For in that is the emotionally weighted truth That before we were exiles, Hopeless, and suddenly we find life. And through our lives we increasingly And bitterly And sweating and crying and hoping against all hope;--- Our prayer intensifies, To where it was first a whimper And then it transforms into a heartfelt cry of belief. That is what faith is. 41. Spies Spies, spies They are everywhere. Have an idea They make you despair. Do not believe it? Just ask the police. What we know Is the least. They stop my books They stop your crafts; Have an idea And they'll watch your back. I knew it was true But today it was confirmed. Spies rule our lives And it makes my stomach churn. The walls are not the LORD's. 42. On Yin I watch thou speak... Always on destiny Always on causation. Turning wheels are man’s mind; Gears, leavers. What is bad is bad. What is good is good. Bad men are bad men. Good men are good men. There is no choosing for either. The lesser things go to war; The religious things are merely a product Of things upon things upon things upon things. Years, upon years, upon years, upon years. Line upon line upon line upon line. Here a little, there a little. I listen to you speak Relegating man, analyzing him as if man were a beast. Yet, your brother Yang Sees the soul within a man And attributes it to science. It is a soul nonetheless that he sees--- He sees the good, the volition, the capability for order. The rational mind. He plainly sees what is good in man. You see it, and say it is religion’s job to order it. He sees it, and says religion hinders it. I see it, and say it is a little of both. Yet, Yang is wiser then thou for seeing it. Thou seest it, and claim it is irrational. It is not. It is wholly rational. More pleasure comes from it than not. I silently look at both things And say, “God created it.” Neither can prove, nor disprove, God. Neither rational morality Nor irrational morality. For morals are rational--- It is just also true that most men cannot understand why. Sages spend lifetimes striving for one solitary truth. And when two sages find it, Then they war among one another. It is not that either’s truth is any less true; Only that both men cannot conceive of the other man’s truth. Both truths are true. And both men, knowing their truth, War with the other. I, I look to Christ. He was a genius superb above all other men. Godly intelligence; I read Moses, seeing the most controversial laws Are a wellspring of life. I do not conform my thoughts my own mind's redundancies But rather base my truth on what proven systems there were. And I say, “How is this?” And they surely come to reasons which I could never find on my own. Even the darker subject of war. Hammurabi was only a genius because God provided for him law; Yet, not all laws were found. Moses was a genius because God provided for him law; Yet, grace was not found. Christ was a genius, never having studied, He was God, He found all which man could under the sun And spoke it in parables. Even eternity is wisdom;--- For without it, what cautions a man to gain everything And to do great harm? What man, without the capacity for forgiveness Has reason to do what is good? None rational. That man must die. And if he does not die He can only build an empire of blood. I look to your speech, Yin, And I say, “There is half of wisdom, “Yet your brother has a half, “And I have the whole. “Yet, I only have the whole “Because I have a teacher. “You two do not; “You see half of all wisdom “And forget the other’s half; “Thus, you eternally strive with one another “And do not see the truth.” 43. Two Rocket Ships It was said If men sent two rockets To outer space; one were Atheists with Modern Science And the other Christians. They both would colonize their planets. The first would cease to be men at all within a generation. While the second would find pasture and retain what made humans noble. 44. Sleep Paralysis His bed quakes; He awakens To the sight of The Nephilim. The Giant is muscular, His eyes are black; He wears leotards; He looks like a Mohawkan. I believe it. Sleep Paralysis opens The eyes to the demonic world. Yet, the apparition Is called “Michael.” It is not Michael. It is a Giant. The Giant vaporizes; The shade disappears. Then a diviner is called. The diviner speaks Of the familiar spirit. It was his familiar spirit. Now it is another’s. 45. Swear A famous evangelist In World War I Kills men--- Thou Shalt Not Kill. I say the occasional Naughty Word Which offends--- Thou Shalt Not Have Any Filthy Conversation. In the first case, They were fighting Raping Huns. In the second case I’m fighting Postmodern lies. Some men need to be killed And thereby break the commandment. Some men need to be offended And thereby break the commandment. I see in both situations it is necessary To suspend the rules, for the greater purpose Of winning a war. 46. Thomas Kinkade I understand everything I need to know about the art world By its disdain for artists like Thomas Kinkade. Pretentious--- Art belongs to everyone, Yet they want it to be exclusive. Art feeds the artist But they want them to starve. The fact is his works are beautiful. The man was no saint. This is for certain. However, it takes superb intellect To understand the imagination. The works are beautiful--- He truly is a master of light. God truly did bless him. Though, a lesson is found in his life; To walk humbly upon the earth And not to be vain nor deceitful. To not exploit others. His paintings were brilliant. They were not kitsch. Modern art is actually kitsch Appealing to the Bathos and guttural Churning of the four biles; It is false medicine; It, rather, mistakes a leech for sutures. 47. Am I a Peg Shebna, Ozymandias--- Is my writing a tomb? Do I stand with my city of poetry To watch it crumble? Are the Bishop’s words Spoken of me: I act, “I Am”? Is my wasted breath for my own glory? Or, am I a peg, Which when the weight bears down upon it I one day break? 48. The Steel Man If I didn’t believe in God Then I might believe It's morally objectionable to Abstain from sex with a woman on her period. Smoking Marijuana is morally superior to smoking tobacco. Abortion is perfectly fine. So is homosexuality. So is forcing your child to have gender reassignment surgery. That women are superior to men in virtue and judgment in every way possible. That speech ought to be controlled, so as not to offend anyone. That there is no such thing as objective right or wrong. That there is no such thing as good, nor evil. That competition is ethical, and the only way to progress the human race is to transcend it, and therefore make man into a machine. That people are born either good or bad, and nothing can change them; they’re inherently what they are as their DNA makes them. That it’s okay to divorce if you’re unhappy in the relationship, and the people you hurt in the process ought to get over it. That monogamy is an illusion. I would believe Self Love is more noble than Selfless Love. I might believe that there’s no way to interpret a difficult passage. I might believe that sex before marriage is morally obligated. I would think life is about fun, and getting the most out of it, even at others’ expense; for, it’d be ignoble to do things that I don’t want to do. I might believe that people who can’t work ought to be sterilized or killed. I might believe that people ought to receive stipends, rather than work. There are many other things that I would believe if I didn’t believe in God. And remember these are all common beliefs of atheists. 49. Oh, thou violinist, my easterntwin “Oh, thou violinist, my easterntwin “I wish to kill you, for you are conjoined “To me without my consent. “How you play there, Bach, Beethoven, Paganini “Mozart, Williams;--- “Oh, I loved your music. “How I loved the songs, which in rapturous throws “Did I listen to you fiddle. “Yet, now that you are with me for nine months “I wish only to sever you. “I wish only to sever you from my body “And thereby crush your skull “And sell your organs. “I hate you, oh violinist “Chapped to my body; I who sustains you “Wishes only to cast you into your grave.” 50. She Weighed Fifteen Stone The contraption sat, A mechanical Machine, which told truth. The very fact truth Could be told by it Proved God does exist. For truth is true, she Weighed at fifteen stone. Numbers of matter, Two hundred and ten Pounds are fifteen stone. Yet, there is that which Is weighed; Atheists Get caught up in the Number theory. So, It is,---Humanist Philosophers find Moral principles Are measurable, Yet they fail to find The complete picture. That, Jack, is why we Need Christ. To sort it Out, and show us how to live. God, being good, set An example, taught Lived and died for us. The reason we know He is God, is truth Was found by Him. Which, Men, the great sages, Had found radical Bits of, but Christ found Them all. That is why We call Him Teacher. What is measured of Faith, was completely Found by His allwise Flourishing brow. 51. The Interpretation of Desolation Row The first stanza is Bob Dylan witnessing the race riots and is reflecting on American Racism. The second stanza is a man being rejected by an easy woman. The third stanza is about the end of the world, when the stars and moon are darkened, what people will be doing. The fourth is about a woman deciding to join the clergy, and thereby never experience life. The fifth is about a man with a false sense of intelligence and a robin hood complex, who was famous long ago for an obscure talent, but lost it due to drug addiction. The sixth is about a psychologist with patients who are involuntarily celebate, and that's the problem with them. The seventh is about a priest encouraging a man for courtship, but ultimately he will fail because of the preacher's bad advice. The eighth is about the military industrial complex, how spy networks and insurance agents work in tandem, and oppress those who "Know Too Much.” The ninth is about intellectuals who argue among one another, and the pop ideologies which divide them. The tenth is Bob Dylan receiving a letter from an old acquaintance who mentioned the people he sung about in this poem. The Desolation Row is the depression caused by these situations. 52. The Road Taken Two roads diverged in a verdant wood And I being one traveler took the level one. Yet, upon the willow’s grove, where the oak and elm Had stood, I turned my way back And took the path with the sharp hill. Before the open girth of the path, A yellow caution sign had been placed. And I, knowing the easier path would lead to bad health Took the more difficult path. I sturdily marched up the grade And felt my body strengthening. And then it dawned on me when I crested that glorious hill That sometimes it is safer to take the more difficult path. 53. Universe 25 Sodom and Gomorrah. Canaan. Israel. Babylon. Persia. Greece. Rome. Sodom and Gomorrah. Canaan. Israel. Babylon. Persia. Greece. Rome. Overpopulation? No. Idleness. Yes. Sin. Yes. The solution is work, Creativity, Self reliance. Law. 54. My Near Death Experience I was in the waves of the ocean Body surfing. One wave came, And overwhelmed me. My back had been taken to my head And I snapped. A green aura Surrounded me, and the feeling of peace. A voice spoke to me. "This is the feeling you like." What's next is unutterable. I asked Him, “Are there any other religions.” He said, “Not for you, no.” I said, “What about for anyone else?” God said, “No. Only Jesus Saves.” I then remembered my life, And He told me, “That was the past.” I said, “I want to have a wife.” God said to me, “I am your Husband.” I then asked Him, “Can I go to the Kingdom?” The LORD said, “No, you haven’t received treasure.” Then I said, “I wish to receive treasure, “More treasure than anyone else.” And the LORD said to me, “I will allow it,” and I was taken up out of the waves And my split back was set back into place And I could feel my body rearranging into its normal fixture. In the background I could see a hooded figure Who saw me, and then flashed away. The hooded figure was my mortal enemy. I asked, “Who is that?” To my girlfriend. She said, “That’s nobody.” And I was back. 55. White Guilt Never was the happy so divided Than the day they sat upon their bench; The Giant spoke to them, towering--- Look upon thy children, are they not different? Indoctrinate them in savagery, like my heritage. The little one cries over the violence of thy race Upon my own. Why dost thou dare to give them home When they are so different from thee? These children ought to have starved to death Or be given to those of like skin. Was it thy guilt that caused thee to love thine own children? 56. Cross Examined Upon my search, I have seen men striving to do good. And I found that strife has created great harm. Men would rather look inside themselves Where they find the utmost assurance that they are good. Then they destroy trying to conform mankind to the model of goodness In themselves. It is simple. Mozi proved the Golden Rule was logical. Yet even he had gotten things wrong. Jesus--- His moral teachings were perfect. No other genius in history can say the same. He told men to call Him teacher, and nobody else. I saw an evangelist struggle to understand An Atheist’s remarks that good and truth are self evident. These same individuals want to prove the Earth is young And that we had not evolved from apes. My doctrine is that we are only apes--- Yet too many have been into the void and seen what I have seen. The women who found the idol of Shiva was thrown back into this world Cruelly. Christians simply do not get it. So many of us have been indoctrinated in the existentialist claim Of their being no objective value. I speak as an atheist today, when I was an atheist, That I could see there was objective truth. I could see there was good and evil. I ought not concern Christians to disenfranchise faith in it As the result of this ministry of nihilism has spun the world Into chaos. We preach the Gospel. The Law must be self evident Or else there can be no God. And the law is simple: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” “Love others, as you love yourself.” The first commandment is fulfilled in the second. The bitterness---as I read my atheist character--- Of this nihilism is that it's taught as an alternative to Christ. When, Christ can only be God if His law is self evident And the words He spoke independent of Him. That even if He did not exist, these laws were still true. And when we see the laws He preached were true We find ourselves approached by the solitary wisdom That an abjectly poor Carpenter’s bastard had found truth; And not only found it, but all of it. That this man, who couldn’t possibly have been educated, Discovered something that many of the great sages had only come by Through much learning. And when you find this, The case begins to be ever more strong that Jesus is the Christ. Men are not capable of finding truths so potent on their own; Without help from others. Men are not creative enough. Not even I. And I find myself at the first piece of wisdom I’d ever found. Truth is self evident. Good is self evident. Nietzsche and the Existentialists were wrong. It takes a fool hardened by philosophy to not see it That there is meaning to life; And that meaning is to love others in the way we ourselves want to be loved. And that solitary truth is why Christ became our teacher. And how we know He is God Come in the Flesh Is that He taught truths which were self evident And persuasive enough to convince any rational mind. And if we’re honest, The preacher talked about this dirty old rapist--- The boogie man of the modern age, Is the Hitleresque rapist which all know is wrong. For the only two morals today are do not kill and do not rape. Yet, the greater morals are found inherently true By the discord we experience today--- And knowing that we are imperfect It becomes clear that we need a savior. Not because meaning must be found in the Bible But because the Bible described self evident meaning Which can be found independent of it or God. 57. Pop Music I am haunted by a vision. There is ample land. There is ample seed. There are ample waters. Yet, because of wars, All of this has disappeared. Men live in domes Where the sky is iron And the ground is bronze. Israel is protected by Iron Dome Which is a dome And not a missile system. Outside of the domes Are dirt, bare, deserted wastelands. Trillions of men live in termite clustered houses; And they ready to fight the domes. To bring down the domes’ wall. Outside, there is communism. Inside there is Utopian capitalism. Outside, the men are sticks; They are tiny men, feral, With breast implants and orifices; Genderless, sexless, raceless… Techno Cyber Punks--- A homogeneous blob Fed by injections. They swarm the pleasure domes Getting destroyed by nuclear weapons And their blood becomes rain. 58. A Sorry State He pointed at the plate And said, "That's your freedom." 59. A Conversation with India I look at those starving in your country And I look at the food in mine. I see you want the freedom---so they say--- To earn a living and eat. What you fail to understand Is that America was once much more Than a place where your freedom was to be fat And drive a car. Freedom meant saying what was really on your mind And speaking against the government. Freedom was knowing that your stuff wouldn’t be rifled through By government agents, or that you wouldn’t be spied on. Freedom was the right to fight against the government if it ever crossed those boundaries. You should read Roseau. The freedom of this country was that censorship was against the rules. Monopolies were against the rules, also. The Sherman Act made sure of that. Kids, in the 1980s would smoke cigarettes in the school hallways. It was common for companies to hold picnics. You could swim in the river or lake--- There wasn’t safety equipment everywhere Stifling you, or treating you like you were some kind of fool. Lawsuits were uncommon. I could say “Retard” I could say, “Faggot” I could say an offensive joke. If it truly crossed the line, people would reprimand it. They wouldn’t cancel it. YouTube, as you know, had anything a man could imagine on it. It was the golden age of information. I could publish anything---hypothetically, though this was never proven--- And I could make a living off of it. I could challenge the government. I could speak words of insurrection and not be investigated. And nobody would bother me. I don’t feel I have that freedom anymore. My only freedom, so said my brother one day, Is to eat. That was my freedom. And how slowly that freedom is being taken from us As prices for everything go up--- What was once a forty cent candy bar Is now two dollars. What was once a dollar soda bottle Is now two dollars and fifty cents. What was once a dollar a pound meat Is a four dollar a pound meat. What was once fourteen bags of groceries Is seven. I want you to have the freedom I experienced. I want that for you more than anything. I know, watching me---it’s my delusion--- You saw an entitled snob who chased Veplow all around the playground. I don’t want you to starve; I want you to have work. If it’s creative, artistic, manual labor, data entry, healthcare, craftsmanship, cookery, Whatever the job is you have, I want you to enjoy it, And be satisfied by the blessings of good government. I invite you to read Roseau. You had a Communist Revolution. It left you desolate. You had a Capitalist Revolution And your freedoms were taken away. Work is paramount; So is entertainment; So is ample food and clean water, Sewage systems, electricity… I wish you had what I had. It’s my greatest wish that the whole Earth was satisfied by the blessings I’ve had. Unfortunately, my country is not the ideal nation anymore. Does one exist? Perhaps it ought to; Words cannot hurt someone. Yes, people made fun of me But it was a common thought that I despised Dodge Ball from my friends. I did not. I loved Dodge Ball. The thing I despised was the selfishness, bitterness, arrogance and unkind nature Of all my peers. Which I took on their bad qualities. I suppose America is falling for that reason. But, I invite the whole world to take what we had, And build for themselves the kind of society I enjoyed. Ideas ought never be censored;--- Pornography; Violence; That might be best censored. But, then again, what is real is something immoral If it’s being sold as entertainment. Real sex, real violence, real life. Stories are meant to supplement reality, not be reality. 60. Pro Choice "Come, let us reason together. "The poor are scum upon the Earth; "And suffering---there is no way "To lift oneself out of suffering. "Poor should be thrown into chambers "And gassed; their bodies burned. "For, they are victims of this oppressive culture. "We ought to harvest their organs "And use them in our cosmetic products. "If a child or man is unloved--- "Rather than show them love--- "We ought to carefully weigh their "Benefit to society--- '"Their mourning, it brings down others, "And my soul is hurt by their mourning--- "And we ought to destroy them. "Rip open their cranium, and harvest their brains. "For, if one is a victim, "We ought to kill them. "For, that is the ethical, "And merciful thing to do." 61. History I read the Bible for what it had said And I found all we know of history Is scribed in those pages’ plain English ink. Yet, when I confront a skeptic, she points To the same evidence I had found. She Says, “Look, this proves the Bible is errant.” It’s simply a shift of nouns, a pagan Mythos, a long line of strong Satanic Divinations, maddened by poetic Intrigue just like my own mythologies. And I find the simplest truth is, they wish The Jews, who worshiped Baal, to have only Worshiped Baal, yet what they claim already Was said in the Bible. Yet, postmodern Analyses, and a defiance of Plain English supplants Baal for Jehovah. But it begins to appear that Hubaal Is a lie, yet the maddened scholars think He is more ancient than the Laws of God. Which, one need only look at Christ’s pure Word To know that what He spoke was self evident And therefore, making it more ancient still. 62. Phillies I, a Fourth Generation Phillies Fan Sit in the darkness of my room; listen To the sounds of the TV. My friend hates Me in that moment; I am bitter. Sleep Doesn't come easy. For my friend hates me. I hear it in his voice; I see it. Stained Is my voice to his ears, and he and my Family watch the Phillies. Bryce Harper hits A walk off home run. I feel no joy. For I offended him, just like my mother Was offended by the truths I uttered. I cannot but speak the truth, and now I, Seeing my team have the year I prayed for, Cannot enjoy it; my heart's bitterness For those I love and their hatred at my Words---where does it come from? I do not know. My life is like this season of Baseball; Triumphant Highs, Magnificent lows. All Is torn assunder in my wretched Heart. Bryce is worth thirty million dollars. Yet, am I? I do not know, for what I Love is my family and friends, and country; So I sit in darkness, solitude; Wait Yet the age's wisdom is the trophy Goes to thieves, the robbers, the murderers. Maybe a thief had joy in the ballgame But even if there were joy in it, I Sit nearly in tears---I wonder about My vision, my righteousness; I sometimes Wonder if the Earth were flat; I don’t know. All I know is this, that I listen to The sage today, after emailing Him, and I find my prophecies foolish. Yet, there is a peace. Though I am scolded For having the prescience to see futures And to know the dark course society Goes, I know this is what the Gospel preached. 63. The Four Noble Truths Sometimes the path to suffering Is the path to greater joy. Sometimes, striving against Evil--- Which causes temporary pain--- Is better than meditation. Sometimes, feeling self love And its endorphins aroused by Blank minds Is not the noble path. Sometimes war is necessary. 64. The Ferry To Hel The young King stood upon the shade-filled river Styx And argued with the Ferryman about crossing. The Ferryman, secretly, the young King’s sire, Had a wicked grin creak across his wrinkled, gray face. “I have slept with many men’s wives, o thou proud king.” The king, with wrath, opened up his mouth in judgment; “Let me cross the river Styx, into hel, the land “Of Giants.” But the ferryman would not. He cried, “O, you’ll travel far from thy wife, so unfaithful!” The King spoke, “I have slaughtered many Nephilim!” The Ferryman creaked a smile most severe. “I “Will not let you. For if you cross, you shall lose aught! “Thy wife shall sleep with any wight, and thy joys fail!” The King, knowing the old Ferryman’s exploits, glared. “My wife is faithful, you lie!” Yet the ferryman With a devilish grin, said, “I will not let you.” 65. Of Sound Mind It was said by Lewis that Jesus must Either be insane, or the Son of God. It was said by good G. K. Chesterton That Christ had proven his sound mind's subtlety. I say that Christ was a Genius, who poor, Surpassed all the sages of history. 66. Apollonius of Tyana Surrounding her is cloudy divination. She learned from India, Egypt, Canaan The mysteries of the purple occult. Then, was she raptured? A perfect philosopher? Before the Judge, whose sharp sentence was death Did she disappear into the gold abyss? Or, is it as one true prophet said, Christ is wedded to death? To conquer it.--- Knowledge of the certainties of this life, The certainties of the algebra, of All matter which is governed by its law… Did this make the perfect philosopher? Then, I, entwined by death, like the Fable’s Hero, wish to be so and disappear At judgment. 67. The Foes of the Red Cross Knight Oh, thou Red Cross Knight With the Daughter of Zion As thy bride; she rides upon the lion. So, you first find yourself at odds With Morpheus, and then Duessa. You see thy lady sex the Spright. Then, you must fight Sans Foy And you must fight Sans Joy And you must fight Sans Loy. You must fight a false Love. You must fight a false Joy. You must fight a false Loyalty. These three brothers hate you For you slew them, one after another. One after another, after another. Then, you must fight the Beast; Pride, Idleness, Gluttony, Lechery, Avarice, Envy, Wrath. Beneath the House of Pride Is the Mithgarth-Worm eating away Swirling amidst the floorboards. How many enemies can you face? How many foes can you fight? How many can be those defeated fears? 68. For'tuna and Kairos How many have been wasted by thee? Men, who made thee the goddess? Women, who abandoning home throw their lot? For, aren’t thou just a lot, thrown? Thou art without justice, or the scales. Thou dost not weigh the balance, And give fortune to the good. Thou distribute, like a lot, Thy blessings. Men, wary, seek thee And search for thy brother Kairos; And in Kairos they await for thy German love. Worshiping Kairos and For’tuna The two lovers---and seizing upon They take For’tuna as their bride. Yet, how many souls are wasted Never seeing Kairos, never being blessed By the lottery of For’tuna? Whom, their unholy romance brings with it The savors of purple silk and crimson velvet. The savors of a dozen spices in every pot; The fat of a roasted suckling and corn Never lacking. And the man who gains For’tuna as his bride, the man who captured Kairos, that man grows ever so cold And he ends up in hell. For he says, “Jehovah has so blessed me with wealth, “And these miserable lot of fools “Do not work, and are lazy. “That is why they do not obtain wealth and favor.” However, it is the lot which brings man His state in life, and nothing more. If one man is born into a kingdom with guns And another man into a kingdom with swords; When they war, the former kingdom shall always win. If one man is born into a kingdom with wealth And another man is born into a kingdom with dearth It is For’tuna and Kairos who reign over them. However, a sturdy hand which sets upon the plough Shall never lack bread, water or any good thing No matter aught the kingdom he has been born into. Whether slave or free, the man who quietly works Upon his labors shall have continual feasts. 69. Our Burnt Offering Aye, Christ had gone to hell. The Father, Who is Christ, Was with the Thief on the cross In Heaven. Yet the second Person of the Trinity had descended Into hell, as is prophesied. Christ, like the sacrificial lamb’s Body, was broken. And like the Lamb, He passed through The fires so the priests and sinners could eat. What was finished Was the Levitical priesthood And the veil to the temple was torn. For, could there be forgiveness If Christ did not rise? Why rise, if death is the supreme accomplishment? Would Christ have died, Had he ascended into heaven? Nay, but He would be among the living in heaven. Had He need to ascend in Bodily Form To the Father, if His Soul were taken to paradise? Why rise at all, if Christ did not first descend? For, the prophets say Christ descended into death Not that He raised into life, And the Father, Who is Christ Jesus, Presided in heaven, while the Son Wast in hell, suffering torment And collecting the souls of She’ol Whom would make covenants with Him. 70. The Tragedy of Love Love has had the tragic past To be first, embarked on by two Who, with the passion broke The skin of pleasant womb And flower petals meet. And indulgent in amatory’s Naked touch, was quaffed For the allure of paramour’s touch. Then, love had been a vile thing Which censored from the lay Was called most wretched and worthless thing; A vile state of unhappy charm Which struck a boy or girl And would cause their life such great harm. For, worst was when loveless wed The man or woman would find the naked breast Of lover, and undawned their raiment They fell to lusty show of love’s Chemical bliss. And therefore, Love was sacrilegiously vile In the eyes of man, as a thing uncouth And cursèd, which ruined marriage vows. Then, once again, love unbridled Was to be forsaken once again When man and woman through emotion’s bliss Would fornicate one with another Their vile prick dipped in the ink Of woman or man, which love became A chemical once again, never to have been committed To one or the other---nay, just a vile thing Forsaken, indulged in, callously forgotten Once it dimmed and the two in heated sweat Found the chemicals at last had disappeared They leave one another, looking for the blasted heat With one again, leaving children to the dogs. It is all sacrilege. 71. Vile Thou didst make the Shakespearean Sonnet Be a song about homoerotic love, Of a man and his eleven year old, dead son. How much more foul is this queer science Which cannot interpret a man’s verse? Of a heartbroken father, singing over his son’s hearse? No, instead, you make it the foul love of he and a duke; Yet, read the damn thing, and its true meaning In light of this, Will make thou puke. For how dost thou change the fatherly advice Of a sire to wed a wife? If not a father's fatherly love to a son, Thou disgraceful fiends would make it vice? 72. The True Shakespearean Sonnet He was married to a black woman. He loved her very much, in soul But was not physically attracted to her. They had a son. Their son died. Shakespeare wrote in succession His fatherly advice to his deceased son. He was conflicted on not having a sire And his advice to his son was to wed So he could produce offspring And thereby continue his family’s legacy. He didn’t express his love to his son Except in his sonnets, where a careful ear Would see the true sense in what they meant. Almost humorously, he predicted His work would be misinterpreted Even defied; and the shocking thing Was his family was a mixed race family. This is the true Shakespeare. He was not gay. He was a father mourning a son And in love with a black woman. 73. Paraclete I listen to Hindu mantras And I see, in part, a veiled revelation Of the Spirit of God. I believe other religions wholly find God; They find God’s spirit, For if they couldn’t, Then it would not be true, “I was found by a nation that did not seek me.” However, God’s spirit upon the Earth Is available for all who seek God; Yet, for eternity---save one is abjectly poor--- For true knowledge of salvation, One need to know Who God is. I cannot but confess that other religions Have mingled and found the Spirit of God. I can feel power in Hindu mantras--- But, it is worldly knowledge. It is not knowledge which leads one to eternal life, But rather it leads one to eternal damnation. For, the LORD says, “All who enter not by the gate “Are thieves and robbers.” Meaning, men find God But without entering in through the Shepherd’s Gate They are but thieves who have stolen Paraclete; And thereby, they have not known Him fully But rather one person of the Trinity. For, only by knowledge of all three Persons Of God, can one attain to the riches of eternal salvation. Upon the earth, many find Him, But they do not know His name And without knowledge of His name There can be no salvation for any. And the reason for this is Christ's teachings. No religion, save Christianity, Has a full revelation of God's law, First given to Abraham in Mesopotamia, Second given to Moses in the deserts of Canaan, And third and finally revealed by the Son of God Himself, Jesus Christ. For without this full revelation One mingles with God perverse spirits of demons--- For every religion either propagates lies in their holy text, Or outright sin. And that is why one, To be saved---for finding God does not mean you're saved--- Means one must accept Christ and all that He had taught. For we call Him "Teacher." Not Vishnu, not Muhammad Not Buddha, not Darwin, nor even Moses if one cuts from the Word of God All that Christ had taught. First and foremost, it is Christ who gave Pure truth, and unadulterated, which no other man in history can claim. Christ alone is our teacher--- And some men, searching God, Find Paraclete, but without knowing His name There can be no life. 74. Divine Power Three divine powers exist. Wisdom, Paraclete and Love. Wisdom is the ability to interpret and understand. Paraclete is to commune with the presence and power of God. Love is love. I believe anyone can find these--- Christian or not. But, each of these come from, and are evidence of, God. The name of God is what saves. And only the name of God. One can mingle with all knowledge, All power and all love, But without knowing Who God is, There can be no salvation. For, only Christ has spoken the words of truth. Only Christ has given the perfect command for life; To embolden the power of God--- For, if one mingles with God’s power The fullness of the divine power points to the Words of that Crucified Christ. 75. The Okay Hand Sign Conspiracy theorists say it’s “666.” Leftists call it “A Symbol of White Power.” Yet, when I see Indians make the hand sign From an entirely removed region of the world, I tend to think it a natural hand sign That probably has some universal significance. Most likely, it’s the most opposite of a threatening posture That the hand can make, so naturally, We are built to do this when we’re trying to communicate That we are intending to appear nonthreatening. Which is a great symbol That the Black Lives Matter movement, Subconsciously, intends to make violent Every tic of peace, in order to Elicit the Racial Ragnarok And 2pocalypse Our Racist belligerents so desperately covet. 76. Una Thou Daughter of Zion Una, thou Daughter of Zion;--- Let I never be unchivalrous to forget thee. The Lion is killed for you; The Law is slain for you, Laid on the body of Asland--- He is killed by false Loyalty Who rapes thou away. Duessa, that potion mistress Medea, Walked beside me, yet let me escape her When I see hell is in the house of pride. She rides six of the Heads of the Thirteen By the Seven Heads of the Nile Dragon, That Mithgarth Worm Who eats away at our Tree of Life, Which holds our worldly plane in the air-- It feeds, so let I never forget thy beauty Lest the Earth fall to the World. 77. The Folly of the West It's a question being seriously asked right now, "Are mathematics invented or discovered?" If this question is seriously being entertained, Then the education system has failed miserably. The fact that Pythagoras had discovered a theorem Which we still use today, and the algebra we use Is proven in all areas, including physics and engineering, Shows that Mathematics are not invented. They are discovered. Even number theory is discovered. Base Ten or Base Twelve or Base Seven May be an example of different languages, yet they will always Come to the same conclusions, no matter what system is employed. Any invented mathematics cannot be called mathematics. This question just proves how ridiculous the current education system has made our kids. 78. Lil-Nas Shoes Christians scream about a shoe with blood in it. While they dance in ecstatic fervor, They babble like lunatics in the presence of non believers, They draw Enneagrams, They ascribe magical powers to essential oils, water and blood, They think grace gives one license to sin, They sing chaunts like that of the Occultist hymns, They play with spiritual powers, like a rebellious teenager does with Axe Cologne and a lighter, They do things with spiritual things that even the most hardened Pagan wouldn’t dare--- What’s my comment on the shoe? Fix the log in your own eye, before you bother about the mote in your brother’s. 79. Jesus Christ Is Come in the Flesh What this means--- So you can't call me a False Teacher, Collin--- Is that Jehovah God Came, by the Virgin Mary, And conceived the child Christ. Within the very body of Christ Dwelt God---fully God. The Flesh of God, God’s Word becoming flesh, Was Christ fully. Christ was not a cup. His flesh was as much God As the Father of Lights. The very Word of God became flesh And tabernacled among men. God, then, was crucified by Pontius Pilate Died, and was buried, And on the third day he raised from the dead. He then ascended into heaven In the resurrected Body, And there He is seated by the right hand of the Father everlasting, Amen. That Christ still has a body, this is evident; And He will return again, to judge the living and the dead. I speak the full manifestation of the Flesh of God in Jesus Christ As is said by John the Apostle, “He who confesses the LORD Jesus Christ is Come in the Flesh “That Spirit come’th from God.” 80. Hamnet Hamnet, you are the Young Man. You died. Your father spoke of you in your wild throws Of romance with a young woman. And she, you had blessed wed If not for the reeling throws of time Which because of thy mixed race Thou wert killed for courting her. Thus, grief thieved thy father William Who sung of your lovemaking To immortalize you. Thou wert Romeo. 81. Messiah I don’t say the Bible is inerrant, But our faith in it, like Kierkegaard said, Is more important than the object of The Bible itself. I still believe in it. Because if one read the metaphors, it Is clear that it is the Word of God, and God Breathed. I imagine Jesus telling His story, writing each chapter as His Book, to teach mankind about war and peace About love and hate, about right and wrong. Yet, would it not make sense that the news In Bethlehem reach Herod’s ears after The Prophet and Prophetess declared Him The Son of God and then King of the Jews? "They departed into their own country "Another way." Then they went to Egypt! Jesus was a young boy. It seems for Mary and Joseph to flee To Egypt, after Christ’s own lawful rites Would have to be after He was declared King. And David fighting off the numbers Of many men in battle, the point is That He won great victories, whether horse Or Chariot, or Footman it does not Matter. And perhaps Jehoiakim were A Mandela Effect, like Billy Graham. Or, it could be he was overseen by A regent until eighteen. 82. Andrew How many times has the LORD called you? Nay, just once? No, it's been multitudes of times In multitudes of different ways. He keeps calling you, until you follow him. 83. Judas Iscariot The portrait of a wicked man is such: He, having blood money, throws it at the Priests, where the silver coins spill onto the Temple's floor. The Priests then persuade Judas To accompany them, for it’s bloodcoin And then they buy the Potter’s Field with him To mock Jeremiah’s prophecy. Weak Judas then realizes prophecy Has been fulfilled, and he hangs himself in The field, where several two-days later his Rotten corpse spills his purple guts. 84. On the Inerrancy of Scripture I spy upon the Earth the reverberating Circle--- There are Christians who lose their faith over A small detail wrong in our Holy Text. I say God doesn’t care about small details. Just the big Picture. Yet, with this there is an end to wisdom When the zealot, clinging to his faith, seeks scripture And sees the most minute detail wrong; “An Error!” And then the Atheist says, “See! If thou cannot “Trust God to make the Bible all inerrant, then thou “Canst trust a word the Bible doth say? Canst thou, now? “For if the Bible be inspired by God, how “I say to you, can you believe anything it “Says, if I find this little, innocuous thing?” I say, one ought to know God, and it won’t be a Problem. For, if one communes with God, God’s love will Show one the fact that our Bible is not a god Nor is it God’s flesh, nor is it God’s power. Words It is, transcribed by prophets, written by Jesus. But it is not the object of our faith. So what Kierkegaard says, that faith is more important than The object of faith, which for many Christians is The Bible. How do we know it is true? Because It speaks independent truths which man can find on Their own, yet no man, save God, was aught wise enough To find aught morsel of Wisdom’s objective truths. I spy upon the Earth the reverberating Circle--- There are Heathens who find God’s Paraclete And they believe they have found full revelation. Knowing power, they find themselves descending deep Into the recesses of dark idolatry. For, knowing power, they know not whether it be Darkness or light--- This is why one must couple truth And power--- for if they’re found independently Christians find all wisdom---to which there is an end; And wisdom not knowing God or tasting power Is as dangerous as Heathens tapping into it Like a thief. For knowing the Bible without first Knowing God denies the power and existence Of God. Yet knowing God exists, finding power, Is to know God, without washing in His clean blood. 85. The Reign of Science Are we anymore free today With science as our guide? Are we any happier? Are we any more blessed? Are we any more satisfied by love? Are we less hungry? Are we sheltered more? Are the governments any more benevolent? Are the children any safer? Are the schools better? Is the child’s hope in the future any brighter? It seems five years of the reign of Science Has already crippled the Earth totally. 86. India The cure kills. Bodies float down the Ganges Starved from the Locusts which wiped out Half of the crop. Meanwhile, being told to stay indoors, And not go into the market to avoid getting sick. A well fed individual has nothing to fear from it. But, a man told not to go to market, Told to wear a mask which costs a day’s salary--- They die for they’re blocked from access to food. Meanwhile, Joe Biden forces Americans to take vaccines; A hot meal is the best vaccine medicine can afford. And for over ninety percent of the world They are being blocked from having it. 87. The Battle of Oxford For one hundred and eighty years The Boers and the Rebels fought wars For one hundred and eighty years The Boers and the Rebels fought wars Bloody and broken. Between gaps They would rest, and blood would spill out Upon the grassland’s ruby clay Of the African bush. Back, forth They would wound and maim, and so kill The Redcoat and Boer Warrior’s bled. On the final salvo, after Many years of slaughter, the Boers Took one last push into Redcoat Lines, yet the Redcoats repelled them For they were refreshed by a moment’s Hesitation from the Boer lines. Fifty-one hundred Rebels slain And Fifty-two hundred Boers lay Dead upon the open plains, heaped Into their rows, where the dead lie. 88. Western Empiricism If Western Empiricism were only understood? Then, classrooms would build squares And test out the Quadratic Equation. They would cut their squares, and see The beautiful workings of geometry. They would do calculus, and find it precisely Forecasts measurements---they would test It with the forces of Gravity. They would see circles’ circumferences Were Pi, if the diameter of a circle were one. They would predict the volume of spheres; They would understand the reason spheres Are calculated, and they’d see by water displacement That the calculations are 100% accurate. They would, in remedial math courses, Learn algebra through physics and electricity. They would learn how electricity works By testing it in the classroom. They would measure velocity and distance and time. They would learn geometry through Euclid, And connect the limitations of physical reality. Instead, our students are bombarded by deduction Without any a posteriori understanding of why? Deduction within deduction, within deduction--- If one has perfect logic, yet not a fact to use with it, Then one can prove about anything--- So long as the logic is sound, it creates beautiful works of art. Yet, to understand the simple nature of reality Is to understand the subtle nature of how real world Events dictate the interpretation of history. That a word is as accurate as a scientist’s compass. Should we know history… See history… Understand Shakespeare for what he truly said, Not what we had liked him to have said; We would not pervert the science of the soul. For, the mere fact that we make a lovesong Of a man with his eleven year old son To be an erotic evocation of a gay relationship With a Duke--- There’s something perverted in our knowledge. The fact that Fantasia’s nudity is seen in perverted light; It means that someone must feel a cherub is erotic. Not, however, to see the metaphor of erotic lovemaking Which brings upon Cupid’s form from the womb. No… Cupid is erotic, Shakespeare is singing love songs about his son. Why I cling to my Bible is that it helps erase that nonsense An align my soul back to understanding things Without the perverted intrusion of sensualities Which ought not be interpolated into the text; Save that an individual is perverted beyond all measure. Yet, because we live in a perverted culture Cupid is erotic, and Shakespeare sings erotic stanzas To his eleven year old son Hamnet, whom the poem So clearly is talking about by reference a dozen times to death’s deparation. 89. Combat Wombat I've built an entire empire through poetry; Established through logic the principle that words Have meaning. Yet you topple it down By refusing to listen. You attack a brother in Christ. Let me defend him. My words have bite, and I know my wisdom seeps into your soul. You'll say, "Dude this guy is crazy, "His words don't seep into my soul. "He's a religious nut job with a blog." And then you'll mention my criminal history. Let me just say, that riotous past is why I Know you're wrong. There isn't any sin I abstained from in youth; And I know full well your every thought. Subconsciously, they ream in me... I understand your arguments better than you do. Why is Homosexuality disgusting? Because it plainly perverts our perceptions about reality. By skewing the common discourse with foul notions, It makes no man have a sense of purity. Words wholly unsexed become scandalous. Shakespeare sings a catamizing hymn to his son; Fantasia's cupids are erotic---I've heard it said. The Bible has no clear interpretation. Anyone who reads the Bible knows you're plainly wrong. But your smugness... Homosexuals can't help themselves? Then neither can a pedophile or rapist. Why have laws at all, if people are bound to their sin Genetically, and have no way to escape it? It seems the Gospel is moot, now, For the whole point of the good news Is that doesn't have to be true. How many gays want to be gay? Used to be none of them; Now it's hip, and in the by and by And it's noble. And because of that The knowledge of the past is entirely perverted Homosexuals aren't always catamites, I'll give you that. But they surely are sodomites. The Bible condemns sodomy. In its literal translation, it categorizes Sodomites The same as Catamites. Sodomites are anyone who have sex Beyond penetrative vaginal sex. And even that can clearly be a sin If it's eaten by a paramour---which is another word the Bible uses. Look it up. And the Bible has a clear interpretation. It is the story of Israel becoming a people, And then sinning through Idolatry with Abortions, Sodomy and Paramours. The Bible says that quite plainly. Then God brought Babylon to Israel's walls; Here, as a matter of history, We have actual evidence that Babylon did this. They besieged them, And then the besieged city's people had to eat their own shit, If not their neighbors. Surprised I cuss? "No," You say. I'm crazy, you say, you say, you say. No... I'm just tired of people like you Perverting everything you touch. I spend a lifetime finding the meaning of the greatest literature in history. And you, your whole generation, Sweeps it away with one blatant, ignorant sweep. Why is homosexuality wrong? Because it clearly makes people unable to understand one another. Simple proof is every lie you uttered. And Christ is the restoration of that great siege. He is the restoration of His people; The Shepherd back to the Promised Land. 90. Thoughts on Prufrock Haunted like I always am by Prufrock, A vision... Loveless, unsentimental, Obtuse--- Successful for a time And waning into your elder days You are no longer famous. You are "Counselor to princes." Looking like the fool... Balding, thinning, deluded by magic. I've seen it in many academics. So caught up in knowledge, So inured by philosophy that love is like Prufrock's lovesong. In and out they go, talking of Michelangelo... A subject high and mighty. Yet, it does not seem to interest Prufrock. Why doesn't Michelangelo interest him? Inured to beauty--- Likely you stare at blank walls, and jagged lines. Michelangelo no longer interests you. Do you believe you're like Lazarus? Do you believe you're like John the Baptist? Grasping for an answer... A false prophet, giving divisive counsel to the king. Balding, thinning... I'd rather be impoverished, And like a monk compiling my odes Than become you. I'd rather hold onto Eternal Life. As Eliot said, "Let me never turn again." You made a public denunciation of me and my faith... You are he, that Prufrock. Balding, deluded and inured by your countless studies. Ensconced in the dullness of Academia. Obtuse. Sometimes ridiculous. I simultaneously see you as the most vile man I can imagine... A loveless psychopath murdering, "A time to murder; a time to create." In the collegiate world, or whatever world you walk in, Your insomnia, your meandering through crooked streets Seeing the shadow cross your room. The yellow smoke reminiscent of Agent Orange Reminiscent of Mustard Gas. Muzzles, mustard gas... For some reason you think you're Lazarus. For some reason you think you're John the Baptist. Holier than thou, a martyr. I have a mental image of you, in your rolled up khakis, Yet walking on the beach searching for Mermaids. You drown yourself. Let me never be you. I never want to be you. Deluded, ensconced in study; Unloving, uncharitable... Maddened by philosophy, Maddened by Aristotelian Ethics. You dabble in poetry, Like you were Yeats or Tolkien. You think you were the Oxford Don, You teach your class, Your sing your liturgy of "Breasts!" Like you had just recited Southey; Filling the Stadium at Coventry With adoring fans. Your erotic poetry, Like Endymion, Feigns a greatness, Yet falls on ears like a guttery does eyes. At the very most, You are a sub par poet Who's enjoyed his brief time of fame... Working in the hallowed halls of Academia--- Unkind, unmoved by any great sympathy. No... like so many scholars You are not enthralled by Michelangelo. You cannot enter into the fray, The ecstasy--- He is overrated. That is what you think. Jubilant, triumphant shouts over what could be mankind's greatest artist, And it does not excite you; Unlike a child who sees it for the first time Who speaks for days, upon days, upon days. What's more honest is the child's curiosity. But, you stifle it... Show your class a Joan Miro For he you find worthy. Does that even excite you? The guttural banality of stick figures And geometric shapes? I'd say like a prude, like a simpleton, Like a pompous ass, you dote over it. For it tantalizes your toddler like mind. 91. Rashomon He doesn't prove witnesses are unreliable But that modern culture is filled with liars. 92. Some of the Evide3nce I've studied the Genealogies in scripture. And they are very, very, very accurate. Abraham---if you tally up all of the years--- Lived right at the forming of Hammurabi's Code. The cult of Aten was founded---and you can do this yourself I swear---right when Moses lived. For those who say the Jews didn't exist Because scholars see evidence of Baal worship In Canaan---the Bible says that the Jews forgot their religion many times. The Bible says that Israel worshiped Baal for most of its existence But the Southern Tribe of Judah stayed for the most part faithful. We know there was a Southern Tribe because the Tele Dan Stele--- An Archeological relic---has written on it Verbatim that Judah had lost a battle, And on that stone was written the portmanteau Housedavid Which this pagan king had won a victory over. Meaning, Judah was indeed a kingdom. Yes, the Bible was recompiled in Persia On its most recent draft---but the Bible Claims so when it says several dozen times, "As it still is to this day." Meaning the Histories were transcribed After Cyrus had restored Israel back to Canaan from Babylon. Cyrus, who was prophesied in Isaiah to be the restorer of Israel's Captivity Some 200 years beforehand. I've already established that Israel was a people Prior to the captivity, so it can only be that the religion Was preserved. It is also recorded that Babylon sacked Jerusalem In the Nebuchadnezzar Chronicles--- Which is another historical fact. So, it cannot be claimed like it sometimes is That Israel or Judah weren't kingdoms prior to Babylonian Captivity. As for the flood--- Every culture around the world Has a myth about the global flood. As for Christ's existence He most certainly lived. The Vatican has record of His census And it has His death certificate Which the Jews had forged to try and claim Jesus was not the Messiah. Also, there are references to medical conditions As yet unknown to the ancient world in the New Testament. Jesus sweat blood. It's a condition called "hematohidrosis". And Jesus died of a Heart Attack, because When He was pierced, water flowed from His wound. This is consistent with a heart attack Where the water lining of the internal organs is damaged. This also could only occur if Christ had truly died. As for the resurrection, Men who had personally known Jesus Were willing to die over the testimony that He raised from the dead; They were crucified, burnt, impaled, Stoned, suffered persecution For the testimony that He had risen from the dead. Men will not suffer long for a lie. They just won't. But, these men suffered and died, So they must have been eyewitnesses to His resurrection. As for the record in Genesis, God is all powerful. The rest of these facts should overshadow Any insipid doubt about how God could create the world in six days. God is God. Meaning He can turn water into wine Raise the dead, heal the blind, deaf and mute And that also means alter time and matter. He changed simple H20 into the magnificently complex chemical composition of wine. Any doubt to the matter of how God could have created the world Is a un-imaginative assumption. God conceived Christ through a Virgin Which is prophesied in the scripture. Also, Christ's crucifixion and death are prophesied In plain terms, in Isaiah 53 and Psalm 2 and 22. The fact that God was going to change the Law is prophesied in Jeremiah 31. It's also true that in Deuteronomy, the curses Over Israel were fully satisfied by the captivity and sacking of Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar; Which is a matter of historical fact, preserved in the Babylonian scrolls of the Nebuchadnezzar Chronicle. Isaiah 53 is verbatim in the Dead Sea Scrolls Meaning it, too, existed prior to Christ. Meaning the prophet did actually predict Christ. As for the morality of Christianity It is proven independently by Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Mozi, Confucius, Lao Tsu, Maimonides, And many other great sages in history finding aspects of the Christian truth. It was revealed in part through many religions, which veiled the truth as they mingled with God Unknowingly, but was fully revealed by God through direct communion with Prophets. God, to be just, had to reveal His law through His prophets. So, He first revealed it through Abraham, Inspiring what academics have called the "Cult of Righteousness" To then Moses who chiseled them down upon stone And finally Christ, God Himself, spoke the full revelation of God's Law. This was so none would be without the knowledge of what is demanded from man by God. For, if God were good, and seeing it takes geniuses to find even a small portions of moral truth, God would have to reveal Himself through revelatory visions to men and women Throughout History to inspire Law. And He did just that through the Prophets and Moses, and finally through His Son Jesus Christ And the Apostles. For, the morality laid down by Christ is quantifiably the best in existence, and it is testable; It produced the happiest civilization in history, For as that civilization fell away from its belief in God It had gotten ever worse, until now it is like the rest of the world. This is the evidence that God is Jesus. 92. Notes on the creation of Astille Looking at my villain in Hail Britannica. I find the prefix in French, "a" which means without. I find the suffix "lle" which means she. Yet, of the "sti" I found it rooted in a Danish word. Yet, that cannot be, though it has to be, As the word means "Path" And it must be why I chose it. But, I remember precisely looking through French Prefix and Suffixes Somewhere in my Dad's French Book To come up with the Portmanteau. And so I come up with "Astille." Pronounced " 'a stee yuh" Yet. I had found it in a French Dictionary And it wasn't Danish. Perhaps I chose the Danish word To portmanteau with the French To say Astille was not Danish, So she was not the right path. Very strange mystery. But, when I was creating her name, I was looking over French Etymological suffixes and prefixes To create a Portmanteau. Though, I wholly remember making Astille's name Fully of French origin. Which is a great mystery to me How this could possibly have happened. 93. Odinism and Hellenism On my bookshelf are works such as the Poetic Edda Ovid's Metamorphoses, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Virgil's Aeneid and Horus' Odes and Epodes. Like Lewis I'm tempted---yes, it's a temptation--- To reconstruct them. However, with all religions--- Pagan included---there are moral aberrants. In Odinism, particularly, it was the religion of the Nazi Party. But, more imperatively---the more enticing religion--- Is Hellenism. Yet, at its core is sin and passion. It was told to me by a beloved person That Dionysius was Satan---or the Greek Satan. Deriving a meaning for Satan, That Satan is imbued with passion, sexuality, drunkenness. I have to say that Ovid is full of beautiful scenes. The Pagan religion enticing the flesh. I could never be swayed to Odinism, as it's racist--- But, Hellenism I could be swayed to it for its focus On beauty and passion. In fact, it was my religion as a child. Not literally, but in all the passions I had Pan and Syrinx, or Byblis' love for Caunus Came closest. I was unbridled--- Much was my proclivity toward passion. And that is what the Greek Religion is Is a celebration of human passion. Feeling the liquor of pure emotions--- Whatever is their source. In my adulthood, I realize that this was precisely The dirty thing I abhorred most. I was overwhelmed with Peace--- And that peace came from loving Jorgia. Not to say that Jorgia was my God--- But, that the feeling of Peace became The highest form for religious emotion. It's the thing I'm bringing men to in my writing. I find in the Christian religion--- Its mythology, its architecture, Its music, its painting, its worship Its religion, its cultural impact, That it best reflects the peace I found through Jorgia. Prior to that, I had not known it--- I was much like Ovid's depictions Filled with enraged passions. It was in effect my religion--- That of Eros, but Jorgia brought me knowledge Of something deeper than Eros. She brought me knowledge of peace. And imbued in that peace came direct communion with God. It was far superior. So, I reject Hellenism and Odinism Odinism for the reason that it killed 14,000,000 people On its last manifestation. Hellenism because it is the religion of the world As it exists today---and that religion is passion Without recourse to law. 94. The Root of Atheism The atheist sees evil And says, "A Good God would never "Create suffering." I look at Genesis, The very book atheists nitpick, And understand man had acquired Judgment. With this knowledge, Man understands right from wrong, Therefore, deserves to suffer. For, a crime committed by a dog Is not damnable. For it does not know Why it commits sin. Thus, man must be reminded That this world is imperfect; That is why there is evil. Because our lives are purposed To attain to a better life. And this life can never be that better life. 95. Fool The top nine most inconvenient verses In the Bible---so an Atheist proclaimed--- He unfolded nine of my favorite verses. Jesus called the Pharisees fools. So what? They were fools. Just like you're a fool. Yet, he who calls his brother "Raca" That is "Worthless fellow" Which translates into "Fool"--- I'm sorry, did I just chink the first third of your video? Jesus whipping the Temple is a fulfillment of prophecy. "My house has been made a den of thieves." And even Jesus displays wrath. Sorry. I'll get to the rest later, but you're not going to like what I have to say. Yes, Christians cannot sin. That is, they cannot commit cardinal sins. As John says, probably somewhere nearby that same chapter, Is that there's a sin leading to death, And a sin which does not lead to death. The second, Christians do often. The first is impossible for a Christian, For the Holy Spirit prevents them, Even in some scary supernatural ways. Which leads to the last. I have seen amputations healed. A guy's finger once appeared out of nowhere, And it was amputated the day before. And I have seen a few people raised from the dead, Actually, I've seen blind, deaf mutes healed too. Those inconvenient verses Build up the whole testament to my theology. And, for the last one. The law shall not pass. It's still in effect today. So that those who do not obey it Will be sentenced to death. So, as Jeremiah says, There will be two unchanging covenants. The Old Covenant and the New Covenant. Which, if you don't partake of the New, You automatically are condemned under the old As the Old is a universal law which binds all men To God's holy standard. While the second is a mercy. All Christians have sinned, and have fallen short of the glory of God. All Christians deserve a death sentence. Until Christ's blood washed them, Which they became sinless, And sealed with the Spirit full of grace. 96. Ezra and Nehemiah The most wild conjecture I can make to validate modern academia's theory about the Bible true Is that Isaiah II convinced a bunch of Completely ignorant people that they were Jews And then somehow got a license From the king to go to a remote Desert in the middle of the earth. So, if hypothetically the Bible were written in Persia, And just thrown together with a bunch of Random historical texts, some impromptu prophecy And some Sumerian Mythology thrown on top of that; Where was Ezra and Nehemiah written? Obviously, it had to be written by the Jews After the fact. And, it catalogs the rebuilding Of actual walls, the rebuilding of an actual temple;-- And then there's protectorate kingdoms of Persia attacking them Constantly, who verbatim know these people are Jews. At the very least, it would be suspect--- That this invented race in that invented moment Would come to find the ruins of a city Which was conquered seventy years earlier. And then, the surrounding people Knew this invented race, And decided to harangue it. There's a lot of assumptions. Most likely, the Jews had an actual historical Scripture, an actual lineage of kings from two separate kingdoms, With a Law infused with Oral Traditions written down by Moses--- Whether they were Sumerian, I'm suspect to think That the events were shared by many cultures, As most things which are true are--- So, these stories were preserved by Moses And handed down to the Jews in accordance with their Torah, and the Bible really were written over the succession Of 1300 year prior. I'm even apt to believe The verse about Cyrus were in the original Isaiah text; As, certainly, Jesus is in Isaiah too, in the most literal terms In the 53rd chapter. It's not hard for me to believe, at all. What's harder to believe, Is the series of strange, misshapen events That don't conform at all to what we know about basic human psychology. 96. The Revolution The most beautiful movement in history. It freed every slave. It gave every man, woman and child a voice. It prospered billions. It made its poor fat. It made skin and gender moot. And then three hundred years later A counter revolution arises Led by the very tyrants Whom we freed ourselves from. It wants to revive Feudalism. It wants no one to have a voice. It wants the billions to have no self reliance. It wants all malnourished. It uses Gender and Skin color as the weapons to revive it. 97. John MacArthur Did not the Priest wear the ephod? A congregation, to symbolize the service John had given his church And the good shepherding, Have given him the five thousand dollar watch. For every thing under the sun there is a time and season. He did not purchase it himself, And wear it out of vanity. His flock had rewarded him For his service. For every deed under the sun There is a time and season. A time to kill. A time to heal. A time for a priest to wear a symbol of his good work. A time for the priest to sell it, and give the produce to the poor. Truthfully, it would be unloving and rude To reject the gift, or to sell it. Does one, after receiving a good gift Go off and sell it? No, for such would be an offense against the giver. John, you're not a hypocrite for having the watch. That is Christian Pharisaicalism that would scorn you for it. Christ Himself allowed Mary Magdalene to pour her costliest perfume On his feet. If we are to lead by His example, For shepherding a flock as well as you, A gift is nothing excessive. Do not sell it. 98. The Pharisees It is just like this people to Tempt the priest and say to him, “Give up your gift and ephod "And give it to the poor," Rather than to admonish him of his affluence And say, "Thou must give of that to the poor." 99. Oscar Wilde As much as I sympathize with him. As much as I am him. My sin was unacceptable. I deserved my two year sentence. And I bore it with patience. I deserved my ten year sentenced And still bear it with patience. Without justice, men are in danger everywhere. I would be horrified, if in an effort to exonerate me Men made my specific sin acceptable. I would rather bear it patiently, As a cross. I may be made fun of I may be made a laughingstock--- To wit, I already am. I see the furrowed mien on the neighbor's faces. I see their disapproval of me. But, I am not so flagrant that I would Strut around with my sin, Telling all that they must accept me. What I did was wrong. And what he did was wrong. It was the habitual unrepentance of it; That is what caused the great distress. I do not want a world where what he nor I did Is made into a normal thing. I bear my shame with humility--- I understand it. I would have no other way of men For what I did was wrong And inexcusable. That is why I confessed it in the first place. Because it was wrong and inexcusable. 100. On Judgment A wicked man destroys himself For he excuses the sins of his own soul When he finds those sins in others---thereby, He allows those same wicked men The opportunity to slay his soul. This is different than mercy. When a sinner makes an affront Upon one's self, and one has the Justice to overlook the offense And thereby excuse it. It is also different than gossip. One ought not meddle in affaires Not belonging to them, nor be Enraged by the stories of others' sin. For justice is not found through gossip.
The Number of the Beast
XξÇ The X for six hundred Means one signs. The Csi is the name of Allah, and is sixty Which one signs their name to. The C is the symbol for six And is what the currency symbol will be. It is also 666, or two thirds a man. Israel uses Base Ten Math, And .999 is equal to one in base ten math. .666 is equal to two thirds. The Mark is a multitude with their spirit divided from their soul and body. The name of the beast is Sin. Sin was the Babylonian God Whom the Babylonians worshiped, And replaced Samas whose laws were like Yahweh's. Sin worship required the virgins Defile themselves in the town Square Before they could ever be married. Allah is a derivative Of the Moon Goddess Sin, Whom the Babylonians Worshiped Right before God wrote their destruction upon the wall. Allah was the name of an Arabic Moon Goddess Deriving its meaning from the goddess Sin. Therefore, the name of the beast is Sin And the number is two thirds of a human being; A human being with their Spirit divided from their soul and flesh. It will be a Crypto Currency Implanted in the forehead or right hand.
Is Faith an Illusion?
A wise man once said Faith was like smoking a cigar Faith was like listening to a symphony Faith was like butter. That unbelief were like cigarettes That unbelief were like a gramophone That unbelief were like margarine. Yet, I still perceived doubt. T. S. Eliot wrote Ash Wednesday. The greatest confession of faith in history. There were no apologetics. It was simply put, that God was known to Eliot In the moment he wrote it, And Eliot cried out to our God Saying for him never to forget. That is faith. We are at one point wretched, worthless sinners. And afterward we are cleansed. We may cuss, smoke an occasional cigarette Or write a blasphemy in our books. But, we know God Because God is in our lives. We know ourselves before God And we know ourselves after God. And we say, “Because I do not hope to turn again.” For in that is the emotionally weighted truth That before we were exiles, Hopeless, and suddenly we find life. And through our lives we increasingly And bitterly And sweating and crying and hoping against all hope;--- Our prayer intensifies, To where it was first a whimper And then it transforms into a heartfelt cry of belief. That is what faith is.