Freedom.

Isaiah 49
It's been a rough 3 1/2 years.

"Reading is Fundamental"

Continuing right along, it's time to discuss the possibility of more books (not included in the traditional Protestant or Catholic canons) being the inspired word of our Creator.

Let's take a peek at The Book of Mormon, including both historical and archaeological angles, which are both incredibly important.

First, I am going to make a couple of definitive statements:

1) The plates in question are going to be unearthed and studied intensively.
2) It is a well-known fact that people tell lies and half truths all of the time, for their own selfish reasons.

That being said, let's entertain (without ever seeing the plates in question) the possibility that some of these books are indeed canonical, and are the inspired word of God. I am going to highlight a few books that got my attention. They include 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, and Jacob.

What theory could possibly explain Native American genocide on a wide scale, and the American (Israeli) principle of Manifest Destiny?

Could it be a failure to accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

It's a point worth pondering, and it's something that will be discussed properly at length later.

I'll redirect my attention toward the controversy surrounding the Talmud, because it merits some discussion.
Some notable ideas explored inside:

1) Pedophilia is an acceptable practice.
2) Jesus is currently in Hell, being boiled in a pot of excrement.

Too much discussion surrounding this is steeped in Antisemitism, but these are discussions worth having in our society.

I must also make the observation that the Sabbath is indeed Saturday.
It is a simple truth.

Another simple truth?
Only men are supposed to pastor churches.

The Unitarian Universalist belief system is simply and fundamentally not biblical.
It is actually heretical.

One last point before ending this letter?
Your personal business is between you and God.
There is no need for a middleman.

By the Book.

I'd like to take a moment and discuss what most Christian churches consider to be their canon.
Not out of boredom or the mere need to be provocative, but because it is necessary.

After some self-admittedly limited research (but rather thorough analysis), it appears to me that most of the Catholic bible is canonical, and there may be some books existing outside of this collection that are canonical as well.

How do you sort through what seems to be mass confusion, disarray, and sometimes even anger?

Sober spiritual assessment, prayer, and a meeting of minds who are genuinely interested in finding the truth.

We start with the principle that a book cannot be canonical if it is inconsistent with the principles already existent in the rest of known and accepted scripture. It's a very simple rule of thumb.

We can begin, for example, with the Book of Judith.

One may quibble over the details of this particular story (potential transcription errors), but what can one potentially glean from past historical events that actually did take place? What can this tell us about the battle over climate change that has taken place even within the past year? (Yes, climate change is real. Yes, it is anthropogenic, but "anthropogenic" takes on an entirely new context here.)

Another book I care to highlight for discussion right now is 2 Esdras.

This apparently canonical book of prophecy seems to reveal some meaningful discussion and insight concerning the Apocalypse, and even the Reptilian nature amongst other things.
To me, there seems to be a smoking gun here, but further discussion seems to be warranted.

We can talk more later concerning matters like these, but our time seems to be limited.

"Imagery"

These examples will help to provide an idea of who I am or where I am going.
Some are Holy Spirit-inspired works, and some are not.
This will be disambiguated at a later point in time.

Focusing on the Most Pertinent Film and Game Examples First, of Course.

Stay Tuned
Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist
MK Ultra
Manufacturing Consent (Our politics aside, this is a brilliant study in media manipulation and propaganda.)
The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive Part I
The Secret Life of The Manic Depressive Part II
Command and Conquer: Red Alert
The Mask
Bruce Almighty
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Afro-Punk
Separation Anxiety
Maximum Carnage
QuackShot
Mega Man
Phoenix
Superman
Captain America
Spider-Man 2 (Or just Spider Man in general)
Richie Rich
Storm
Head of State
Seinfeld
Cable Guy
Liar, Liar
Star Fox
Beethoven
The Other Sister
Beavis Butthead
Dig Dug
Flowers for Algernon- "Charly"
Lover Come Back 
Jumper
Kindergarten Cop

 Books

Low Intensity Operations
The Genius Factory
The Mask of Sanity
Give Me A Break
Angels Don't Play This HAARP
The Anglo-American Establishment
The Grand Chessboard 
Encyclopedia Brown
The Turner Diaries (Non-Promotional)
Night 
The Cay 
Z for Zachariah 
Lord of the Rings
The Peter Pan Syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up
Our Band Could Be Your Life 
Beverly Cleary
The Pigman
Catcher in the Rye 
Little House on the Prairie 
Rats of NIMH 
The Odyssey
A Man Called Ove
Black House
Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA

 
Christian Classics

End of the Harvest
Something to Sing About
Tyler Perry
Final Exit
Second Glance
Invisible Enemies
The Apocalypse Collection
The Omega Code
The Moment After
Carman: The Champion


Now, Other Favorites.


Thursday: Kill the House Lights (DVD)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Rookie of the Year (No, I'll never be able to throw 100+, but you're missing the point here.)
Top Gun
The Sixth Sense
Home Alone
Men In Black
Angels in the Outfield
Dumb and Dumber
The Rocky Series (1-5)
Forest Gump
The Green Mile
Martin
Mean Girls
Misery
The Ringer
Jonathan Slocumb: Laugh Yourself to Life
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Coming to America
The Dark Knight (Or just Batman in general)
Harriet the Spy
White Chicks
Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
Anchorman
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Rush Hour 2
James Bond
The Big Bang Theory
House M.D.
Family Matters
Inspector Gadget
Remember the Titans
Big Mamma's House
Rocko's Modern Life
Pete & Pete
Shrek (1-3)
Wolverine
The Hulk
Undercover Brother
The Austin Powers Trilogy
A Christmas Story
Chappelle's Show
Animaniacs
Looney Tunes
Dr. Dolittle
Beauty and the Beast
Moneyball
The Flintstones
The Jetsons
The Fifth Element
The Sandlot
Scooby Doo (Films, Cartoon Series)
Happy Gilmore
Mr. Deeds
The X-Files
Step By Step
Roseanne
Behind Enemy Lines
The Office
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Films and Cartoon Series)
Star Wars Series
First Kid
Star Trek
Toy Story
Saved by the Bell
iCarly
All That
Sister, Sister
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 
Burn Notice
American Dad
Daria
Ghost Dad
Independence Day
The Apostle
Meteor Man
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Chariot
Saved!
The Truman Show
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
The Left Behind Trilogy
Field of Dreams
The Mighty Ducks Series
Lottery Ticket
Heavyweights
King of the Hill
Cool Runnings
Ghost
Rudy
The Replacements
Hardball
Fred The Crime Dog McGruff
Petey Greene- How to Eat a Watermelon
Y'all Got Some Milk?
Hardcore Dancing Came From Hardcore Metal Like Slipknot
Flea Market Montgomery
Omazing Grace
Recess
Superstar
Japanese VCR Prank Call
Antoine Dodson
The Jetsons
BAPS
Eek! The Cat
Dr. Phil Prank Call (Crying Woman) 
The Cleveland Show
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? 
All That 
The Adventures of Pete & Pete 
Johnny Quest
Wacky Races
Doug
The Angry Beavers
Ernest Goes to Jail
Hangin' With Mr. Cooper
Top Cat
Colt 45
Ol' Dirty Bastard (Free Money)
Kelly- Shoes
Clarissa Explains it All
The Powerpuff Girl
Can't Hardly Wait
The Fugitive
Mars Attacks 
The Drew Carey Show
Married With Children
Mask
Underdog
Rob & Big
Celebrity Deathmatch
Dodgeball
Leeroy Jenkins
Honey Brown- Ain't Nobody Got Time For That
Popeye
Walker, Texas Ranger
Swat Kats
The Waterboy
Malcolm in the Middle
WoW Freakout
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
The Wonder Years
Webster
Legally Blonde
Edward Scissorhands
2 Stupid Dogs 
Rikki Tikki Tavi
Problem Child
Save the Last Dance
Ghostwriter
The Hughleys
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
The Steve Hightower Show
The Pursuit of Happiness
Beakman's World
Freakazoid
In Living Color
Bambi
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything!
Transformers
Jungle 2 Jungle
Two and a Half Men
Anger Management
Remember the Titans 
The Beverly Hillbillies 
Everybody Hates Chris
Everybody Loves Raymond
The Jamie Foxx Show
The Incredibles
Slylock Fox
Hey, Arnold! 
Panic at the Disco! 
Care Bears
Yogi Bear
The Game 
Rugrats
The Jackson: An American Dream
Meet the Parents
Reba
The Pest
The Wizard of Oz
The Wiz
Hammerman
Columns 
Gex  
Modern Family 
Friends
The Proud Family 
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Dexter's Lab
Jem
The Brave Little Toaster
Chicks Dig the Longball
Beavis and Butthead
Joe's Apartment 
Hellfest 2003
Scott Pilgrim Take on the World
Osmosis Jones
Salute Your Shorts
Go On
30 Rock
Castle of Illusion
The Parent 'Hood
The King of Queens
Spongebob Squarepants
Good Times
A Goofy Movie
Blank Check
The Flintstones
24
2012
Space Ghost 
Boston Beatdown: See the World Through Our Eyes
Fire in the Sky
A League of Their Own
Minority Report
Mission Impossible
Without a Paddle
Archer
Mr. Bogus
The PJs
Futurama
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Pleasantville
Zoolander
Franklin 
16 Candles 
Harry Potter 
Perfect Strangers 
The Boondocks 
Tiny Tunes Adventures
The World of David the Gnome
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Swimfan
The Muppets
50 Tyson
Felix the Cat
Wanda Sykes
Iron Man
Glee
Speed Racer
Lord of the Rings
Magilla Gorilla
Pokemon
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
Coolio- Gangster's Paradise
South Park- "Naggers"
Biker Mice From Mars
RV 
My Wife and Kids 
Rockin' With Judy Jetson
Shrek
Sailor Moon
Jingle All The Way
Pillow Talk
8 Simple Rules 
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Blossom
Hellboy
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Drumline 
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Shallow Hal
Even Stevens
Peter Pan
Harvey Birdman 
David Blaine Street Magic
The Amazing Racist- Offering Black People Free Trips Back to Africa 
Whopper Freakout
The Longest Yard
Reno 911
Evan Almighty
Ip Man
National Security 
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 
The Venture Bros.
Beavis and Butthead Do America
Flip 
Walk the Line 
Of Mice and Men
The Early Edition 
The Pink Panther
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 
ShamWow Commercial 
Signs
Free to be You and Me
Three Ninjas
Lost in Space 
Little House on the Prairie
The Nanny
Freaky Friday 
Cheers 
Golden Girls 
Hitch 
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Gattaca
Battlestar Galactica
My Brother and Me
Radio Free Roscoe
Average Homeboy 
Hair
The Da Vinci Code
Circle of Fury
Over the Top 
X-Men: The Last Stand 
A.I. 
The Seventh Seal 
Monkeybone
Joe Dirt 
Spider Man and X-Men in Arcade's Revenge
X-Men First Class


Obamaphone Lady

Chris Rock:
N*gga Please
N*ggatrol 

Bubb Rubb and Lil Sis (Yeah, I got 'em on my car...)

Ogre Battle (LARP)






Big Dog (Overview)

Case Studies- Bipolar Disorder

-Mania
-Depression






I've provided a site (for those 18+) to peruse as well, as they may be inappropriate for minors to be exposed to.

Click here, please.

"The Mask of Sanity"

I'd like to share a chapter from another book that has been highly influential in my life, and that would be the seminal work "The Mask of Sanity," written by Dr. Hervey Cleckley.

I'll share chapter 40, titled "The Clinical Alcoholic" for further clarification.

"The term clinical alcoholic is chosen for convenience to signify the large group of
pathologic drinkers who are still making some genuine effort to adjust in normal life but
are using drink to escape reality which they cannot quite face and, by a vicious cycle,
making themselves steadily more inadequate to face this reality. Such drinkers may, in
several respects, be contrasted with the psychopath (antisocial personality) just as the
non-alcoholic neurotic contrasts with the psychotic patient.
 
Like the psychopath, their drinking is not primarily for pleasure or has at least
ceased to afford much pleasure. They often give a strong impression of drinking to
avoid sober self-appraisal or some other aspect of reality. With alcohol they can remain
a little more comfortably and longer in the false world of fantasy or in analgesia. They are often introverted people, often tenderminded and shy. Alcohol enables them to be less self-conscious and to make their way with greater ease into the social group. They become more and more disabled for real life, and reverses due directly or indirectly to their alcoholism accumulate, making it ever
more urgent for them to escape into the numbness of drink.

To a certain point this picture is not unlike that of the psychopath. Perhaps the
psychopath sometimes arrives at his life scheme by way of phases almost identical with
those of some neurotic drinkers, and perhaps the neurotic drinker may regress to levels
at which he can be plainly recognized as a psychopath. Some of the patients described
here as partial psychopaths might be placed by some observers in the class of neurotic
drinkers.

For the purpose of drawing a useful distinction, however, the following points
are offered:
Often the neurotic drinker wants to get well. This may not be obvious, but with
proper psychiatric treatment it may be possible to obtain sincere cooperation. Although
the neurotic drinker lacks insight and often cannot get well by his unaided efforts, he
retains a capability of gaining insight, and good improvement is often possible under
treatment. The psychopath's actual conduct when drinking, and sometimes when sober,
is bizarre, often shameful and shocking, and actively damaging to himself. In the neurotic drinker such tendencies, if present, are much less pronounced. The neurotic drinker on his spree is unintentionally destroying his chances for success and happiness, but this does not appear to be his fundamental aim; his fundamental aim apparently is to avoid facing his failures. Although this aim may be present in the established psychopath, it is not easily or regularly discernible. The latter appears to be driving primarily at evading, or ignoring, or destroying life itself, that is to
say, life in the sense of social attainments and subjective integration.

Drinkers who can be classed as neurotic show better capacity for insight and may
come voluntarily to seek treatment or may be persuaded by relatives to do so. The
psychopath will not come voluntarily, except when he seeks hospitalization to avoid
legal action, and he cannot be persuaded to carry out sincerely any therapeutic program.
To summarize, then, it may be said that the neurotic drinker is capable of insight
and wants to get well. 

The psychopathologic picture is more readily comprehensible in
terms of cause and effect and, under favorable conditions, is perhaps reversible. The
psychopath, on the other hand, despite his superficial appearance of being a normal
man, shows in his whole behavior pattern deviation and disorder that seem
fundamental. His real drives, when one tries to surmise them from his reactions, strike the observer as foreign to ordinary human impulse. The process, if reversible at all, is not ordinarily found to
be so. Apparently there is no latent insight that can be aroused or sincere desire to
become well or, rather, to become like other men. I do not mean to state dogmatically
that the psychopath's illness is irreversible but merely that in my own experience it has,
in typical cases, proved to be so. It may be said that the process of schizophrenia as
compared with hysteria is relatively less reversible, that it ordinarily brings about a
greater and deeper disintegration of the personality. Despite this fact, schizophrenics
often recover. Perhaps the psychopath, too, can recover. Perhaps some generally
satisfactory means of treating him can eventually be devised.

Taking the group of chronic alcoholics as a whole, we are likely to find here
people in whom the excessive drinking is a common symptom of underlying disorders
that vary widely in type and in degree somewhat as we might say that fever may arise
from a bad cold, measles, pneumonia, tuberculosis, meningitis, and other differing
illnesses too numerous to list. Alcoholics Anonymous, whose excellent work it is appropriate to mention here, has, in my experience with this group as a whole, appeared to be one of the most
valuable therapeutic agencies available. Many gravely maladjusted patients in whom
alcoholism was at the same time a disabling symptom and a secondary but major causal
agent in disastrous life patterns have, through this agency and its program, made
changes and progress that with no exaggeration can be called remarkable. Some
patients whose behavior and emotional attitudes definitely suggested the psychopath's
disorder have to my knowledge not only avoided for years the disabling effects of their
former drunkenness but also other unrewarding and antisocial activities. Whether or
not these were psychopaths in the full and deepest sense is not a question that can be
answered confidently. It is my belief that this type of disorder, like all other psychiatric disorders, may
be seen in almost limitless variations of degree and severity. 

We see the utterly disorganized schizophrenic who has for twenty years been on the worst ward of a state hospital, and we also see schizoid reactions and limitations that persist for decades in
people who continue to be self-supporting and to a considerable degree socially
competent. I recall one patient who has expressed to me delusions typical of full-blown
schizophrenia over some years and who is still an able worker with many pleasant social
relations and recreational activities. Many more come to mind whose delusions are less
extreme but who for decades have manifested autistic withdrawal, oddities, emotional
distortions, and impairments consistent only with a schizoid reaction. We also see manifestations identical with those of full-blown schizophrenia in every respect except their transiency. A 30-year-old man who, after taking a small dose of testosterone, experienced not only hallucinatory sexual and spiritual sensations within himself but also in others will serve as an excellent example. Vivid delusions were very prominent for approximately a week. These included an absolute conviction that all virtuous women at the mere sight of him caught the impact of magic, glowed with a fire
both erotic and holy, and were visibly transformed. It was also his belief that this
caused harlots who might sense his powers a block off to run up alleyways in shame.
 
For several days, through false perceptions, he specifically "felt" men and women some
miles away responding viscerally, intellectually, and spiritually, and in diverse ways, to
what had miraculously become incarnate in his person. After being psychotic for a
week and without specific treatment, he regained insight, lost his schizophrenic
symptoms, and has for a number of years remained entirely free of them. In the other disorder, that of the psychopath, I believe there also occur similar variations in chronicity, in severity, in completeness, in depth, and in every other respect. Although malignancy and irreversibility seem typical of the psychopathology as we meet it clinically in its advanced or long fixed forms, outwardly similar behavioral and characterologic patterns sometimes prove reversible. 

Few, if any, features of the full psychopath are more impressive than his inability to respond with consistent acts or in other ways that would indicate deep or genuine desire to change his situation. In
therapeutic programs it is characteristic of him not to make valid or persistent efforts to
cooperate. In their relations with Alcoholics Anonymous, psychopaths sometimes show
at first what seems extraordinary zeal, sincerity, and promise, only to reveal after varying
intervals that the whole matter was only a sort of prank or lightly taken adventure in
versatile careers of self-ruin.

Fundamental points in the Alcoholics Anonymous system of group therapy and
self-reorganization are the following:
1. The need for a most profound intention (an authentic and major desire) to
overcome one's disability.
2. The necessity for extensive and basic changes in attitude and orientation at the
core of the personality.

At both of these points we find in the full psychopath an almost uniquely
unfavorable situation. Although I know of nothing available today that can be counted
on to succeed regularly, the evidence has suggested that Alcoholics Anonymous may in
some cases affect favorably latent resources very difficult to reach by most methods in
patients showing reactions that may have something in common with those of the
typical psychopath." 

In almost 5 years of experience in Washington, I can say without a doubt that the town is indeed, well, "crazy."