6/30/14

Petri Dish- $0.60
Turkey Baster- $1.00
Cell Phone Bill- $60

Raining hail upon a thieving sperm bank?
Priceless.

"Seven"

The mere mention of the phrases "Anti-Christ," and "Tribulation" seems to bring a dark, brooding cloud over any conversation in which they are alluded to.

What can we know about this 7-year time period?
Not everything, but you may be surprised at what we can know about it.

Let's begin after terrible apostasy spreads and "he who letteth" (2 Thessalonians 2:7) is removed from the situation.

That would be me.

Any supposed treaty meant to bring peace between Israel and her Arab and Muslim neighbors will not transpire until I am called home to meet my maker. This smooth-talking deal-maker will not arrive on the scene publicly until this does happen.

Halfway through this 7-year time period, something goes terribly awry.
Seemingly out of nowhere, The Abomination of Desolation, or the prophecied incident that will take place at the Hebrew temple in Jerusalem, takes place. The Anti-Christ will will declare himself God, and demand to be worshiped as such.

His brainwasher and propagandist-in-chief?

He will be commissioned to initiate a mass public declaration of loyalty, servitude, and devotion to the Anti-Christ through terror and brutality.

Anyone in any area under the Anti-Christ's control who does not agree with this spiritual proposal will be persecuted or killed.

I know personally how unpleasant living with an active cybernetic implant can be.

(Not only will these persons suffer from the same neuropsychiatric tics that I do, but in addition, they receive the added bonus of specific plagues meant just for them. The Bowl Judgments of the Day of the Lord. We'll get to that later.)

The next waypoint in the story is World War 3, or the most destructive and deadly war in human history, erasing 1/3 of the world's population.

It will be a war of conquest, in pursuit of land and riches.
Against recalcitrant regimes in the Middle East, Africa, and (possibly) the Indian subcontinent like Jordan, Egypt, and Ethiopia.

There aren't too many ways to kill several billions of people.

Nuclear weaponry (a flying, cylindrical object with writing on it, 30 ft. x 15 ft.) is an obvious choice, but my research turned up other possibilities like VX gas. 

The inhumanity and foolishness of man can be astounding at times, which is precisely why the United States will gladly be sitting this conflict out.

After much thought and consideration of American foreign policy following the national tragedy on 9/11, something didn't sit quite right with me.

Criticism of the Iraq war is nothing new, and much speculation has persisted about why we actually went in in the first place. The entire case was based upon a foundation of falsehoods and hysteria generated by the likes of Neo-Conservatives associated with the likes of Project for a New American Century (As quickly as possible, Iraq was reverted back to USD.)

One may understand this from the standpoint of a pure profit motive, but I posit that something even more sinister (somewhere, someplace) might have been at play here.

Contempt for the Ba'ath Party seems to have no end.

President Obama hankered for a war in Syria like no other, nevermind the disastrous potential of chemical weapons falling into the hands of radicals.

What could this really all be about?

My theory is to clear the pathway for World War 3 (troops will cross the Euphrates River).
I simply believe that Saddam, his sons, and the Ba'ath Party stood in the way of that goal, and they had to go.

Hopefully, this comes off as legitimate institutional analysis, and not a conspiracy theory or just outright cynicism concerning the human race.

2 1/2 years following the Abomination of Desolation, (at the last trumpet) the Rapture will take place, with Christ receiving his bride unto himself for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

This is the last year (the Biblical "Day-for-a-Year" principle is at work here) of human rule on planet Earth.

All believers who have accepted Christ as their personal savior and have not accepted the mark or worshiped the Beast (persons who will have been waiting faithfully for Christ's return instead of allowing themselves to become consumed with foolishness or pleasure) will not be subjected to God's terrible wrath on the Day of the Lord. Once the rapture takes place, God feels no need to hold back.

The Vatican itself ends up one of the targets of destruction during this year, as well.

Unfortunately, due to lust for power, greed, and outright heresy, we human beings seem to prove more and more each day that we are incapable of governing ourselves.

Mercifully, Christ comes to clean it up.
Then, how about a pickup game of Baseball?

Love, peace, and grace unto you all.

The Unveiling.

Greetings in the name of our Lord.

As the summer swelter begins to kick in in my area, I wanted to briefly discuss a passage in scripture that I have never seen or heard anyone attempt to interpret. That passage would be Revelation 10.

What could it possibly mean, and what is its significance as the first seal of the Revelation is opened?

What could the attributes of the angel (verse 1) possibly represent?

"Rainbow? It must have something to do with floods or Noah or something."

Not so fast.

Cloud = Flying saucer
Rainbow = LGBTQ status
Face = Moon
Fire = Weapon of war (Phoenix)

An individual associated with all of the preceding attributes on the other side of the equal sign.

The angel's attributes described in verse 1, as thoroughly explained unto John, contain the pieces of information demanded to be "sealed" in verse 4.

They describe an individual elucidating the unveiling of the mystery of God.

Revelation 10 is simply explaining the current, modern expansion of knowledge concerning sexual orientation and human gender as expressed in the Bible itself.

To go from people believing that if you happen to in any way identify with LGBTQ status meaning that you were somehow "possessed", to acknowledging that many people do in fact identify does wonders for many struggling or commonly ostracized people. People who may feel isolated or that no one seems to understand them.

Th significance of the rainbow (which in modern contexts I find promotional of naughty behavior) was simply sealed up until today. It did not hold the same (or any, for that matter) cultural or political implications that it does today.

It's just a matter of fact.

Many people from all stripes and from all walks of life can and have identified.
People like me. 

Want to know something?
Simply ask.

"The Turner Diaries"

I wanted to take a few moments today and share the Introduction by the Publisher of an extremely controversial publication titled "The Turner Diaries."

Why?
Why would I even attempt to bring up or read something so toxic, divisive, or seemingly irrelevant?

Because it isn't irrelevant.

A few years ago, my interest was piqued as I saw myself at the center of a racial/cultural clash involving both parts of my identity: Hebrew and African-American (75/25. I did not know that I was of Hebrew origin until 2 years ago).

Both elements are a part of the cataclysmic clash described therein that seem so hate-filled and violent that it doesn't seem so far removed from fiction. Knockout games are sweeping across the country during a time of much upheaval and distress, as we all seek to protect and preserve both ourselves, our families, and those we hold dearest.

Hopefully, we will all learn to make sure that this love and attention seeps its way down into the way we treat members of the American family who may not look or sound much like us. Maybe the only thing that we have in common is that we both hold our fork in the left hand, or use a Mac instead of a PC.

I found myself conflicted.
Both simultaneously sucked in by the storyline and conversely nauseated by the content.
I had to put the book down and stop a third of the way through because it disturbed me too much.

Although I do not aim to put any more money into the coffers of the author, or to in any way encourage this type of toxic thinking, I will tell you what the reasoning is.

1. Realize what is happening out there today.
2. Realize our need for collective change, healing, and understanding going forth.

Thank you.
I leave you with the Introduction by the Publisher, Lyle Stuart.



"There are some people who are born to do unpopular things that need doing. I seem to be one of them.


When I announced that I would publish The Turner Diaries in a trade edition for sale through bookshops, the response was awesome. I was denounced from pulpits. I was attacked in a letter to retail book chains by Morris Dees and his Southern Poverty Law Center. This is an organization that has monitored neo-Nazi antigovernment groups for more than a decade.

I happen to admire and respect Mr. Dees. But when you have lived for what seems to have been thousands of years, you come to understand that those you admire may not always be right.


I have fought censorship all of my adult life. To me, the most precious of all rights in this marvelous country called the United States of America is the freedom to think, write, and say whatever is on your mind, subject to the laws of libel. That freedom also extends to thoughts that are stupid, ignorant, or incendiary.


No one needs a First Amendment to write about how cute newborn babies are or to publish a recipe for strawberry shortcake. Nobody needs a First Amendment for innocuous ideas or popular points of view. That's point one.


Point two is that the majority- you and I- must always protect the right of the minority- to express the most outrageous and offensive ideas. Only then is total freedom of expression guaranteed.


The Turner Diaries is a dreadful book. It is ignorant. Even its author boasts, "It offends almost everyone; Afro-Americans, feminists, gays and lesbians, liberals, communists, Mexicans, Democrats, the FBI, egalitarians, and Jews. Especially Jews: for it portrays them as incarnations of everything that is evil and destructive.

That quote is from the author. Now, this is from me. Let's clear away some of the smoke.

How do I feel about blacks? One of the two closest friends I've had in my life was black. I led a rebellion against Jim Crow while in the Air Corps in World War II. After the war, my wife and I had to slip out of Lynchburg, Virginia at 2 a.m. because rocks were being thrown through our windows and mobs were gathering. I'd had the temerity to give a talk in the auditorium of the local (black) high school, the Paul Laurence Dunbar School. And I'd said things that deeply offended and aroused whits Southern manhood such as assuring the student population that "The Bible and biology agree that man is of one blood..."

The problems of crime, drugs, and poverty in black communities have spread crime to all neighborhoods. There's an ironic poetic justice to this. It's the natural outcome of the way we so-called whites have disenfranchised and exploited black people for a couple of centuries.

How do I feel about gays? I'm totally comfortable with my own sexual orientation which happens to be heterosexual. But I have no objection to others doing whatever makes them happy, provided they do it with consenting adults.

How do I feel about Jews? I'm an atheist. My father was an atheist. But my grandfather was Jewish. He ran a religious Jewish school in Vienna. Although I don't feel a particular identity with any religion, I'm perfectly comfortable saying "I'm a Jew" when confronting a bigot. (Nor do I have any qualms about punching his head off.)

The Turner Diaries is a bigoted book. For that reason alone, should it be suppressed? Should it be kept out of the hands of Middle America? Is the disease that it contains so infectious that anyone reading it will catch a dose of bigotry and hatred?

I don't think so and I hope not. But that is the risk that one takes in making this book widely available. We live in a dangerous world and in dangerous times. We live in a world where some leaders are tyrants and others are power-hungry hypocrites. We live in a world of unimaginable cruelty. We live in a world of corruption and selfishness.


But we live in a nation where we have a right to know. In our nation, at least, we have that precious, though often delicate treasure. And that's what what makes our nation the place where many groups of oppressed people want to live.

When I was a young man, there was a great furor when a major book house published Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. Not only was this terrible document going to fall into the wrong hands, but Hitler was to be paid royalties on its sale!

Even in my teens, I had the instinct that, of course, this book should be published. Of course it should be available to all who want to read it. People should be able to judge for themselves Hitler's dangerously sick plans and ideas and how seriously we should take them.


I feel no less strongly about The Turner Diaries.
This book is full of hate. It reflects those who hate other humans simply because of their religion or the shade of their skin. The haters are invariably people who suffer a serious lack of self-esteem. Their insecurities crave the desperate need to feel superior to those they fear. And those they fear, they fear largely because they don't understand them.


According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Turner Diaries provided Timothy McVeigh with the blueprint for the Oklahoma City Bombing.


If for no other reason than that, it has become a historic document. But alas, there are other reasons.

The author, a former university professor, started to write some fiction in 1975. He finished in 1978. What he wrote, expressed his view  of what he believed the world would be like in decades to come. He'd written a book-length novel.

The Turner Diaries is that novel. Unlike hundreds of novels which are published and quickly drown in the sea of small sales each year, this one captured the imagination of gun fanatics and rednecks. It quickly became an underground bestseller.

More than 185,000 copies were sold, and, to the best of my knowledge, not more than a dozen or two of  these were sold through bookshops.

The Turner Diaries came to the attention of the Justice Department in 1985 when a band of antigovernment terrorists, calling themselves "The Order" and modeled on the group of the same name in the book, committed a series of murders and bank and armored car robberies in an attempt to start a violent revolution.

Even then, the book remained inaccessible to the general public.

The author wrote me to say: "If the Turner Diaries had been available to the general public...the Oklahoma City bombing would not have come as such a surprise."


For a long time, I've known that groups like the militia and the Freeman are not merely beer-drinking gun-toting patriots whose only joy is to shoot rabbits and deer.

They are, for the most part, people who have failed in our society. They lack something emotionally or economically or psychologically. They hate the United States government and want it overthrown now! They hate and fear authority ranging from the president to the local judges and sheriffs and drug enforcement agents and even simple government clerks. They want to kill them all.


That perennial nut case, G. Gordon Liddy, let their tiger out of the cage when he advised these groups that government enforcement officers may be wearing bullet-proof vests so it was best to aim for their heads.

These people are dangerous. Many of them could be considered certifiably insane.

We don't need censors to protect us. We're an intelligent people. Most of us have the good sense  to know what to believe and what to reject. But we do have the right to know what the enemy is thinking.

This book will tell you that. In ways it may infuriate you. In ways it may make you want to throw up.


Should we know what inspires these people and shapes their values?

"Yes!" I say, and "Yes" again.

Finally, I'd like to commend the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression. Its president, Oren J. Teigher responded to Morris Dees when the latter attacked me for planning to publish this book.

Teicher said in part: "As outrageous as the content of The Turner Diaries may be, we believe that even offensive and objectionable material is protected by the First Amendment. In fact, as you certainly understand, we do not need a First Amendment to protect the popular and the non-controversial; it is the unpopular and controversial that requires our vigilance." 

Teicher added: "People from all sides of the political debate...seem to want to interfere with other having access to ideas with which they disagree. In the spirit of free expression...I'd suggest a far more appropriate course of action would  be to expose and debate those ideas in a concerted effort to make certain that truth emerges."

My sentiments exactly!


Sincerely,

Lyle Stuart