Thoughts/OpEd Page 3
From a Christian Perspective; From a Drummer's Perspective
(and lately, the Spring of 2020, an American's perspective)
Some thoughts, some ideas, some concepts, some principles to contemplate.
(scroll down for new entries)
(hi-lite, copy and paste any links or hi-lite and right click)
200. Rush, R.I.P.
201. Right, Left, Where Are You?
202. Sam Adams
203. Chick Corea, R.I.P.
204. The REAL Energy Loss Story
205. Recovery and Drumming
206. Congress and God
207. "You Can't Prove God Exists"
208. Governor Kristi Noem
209. Everything As Usual?
210. Watching It All Fall Apart
211. TEXIT
212. Masks are Gone! Well, sort of
213. John MacArthur/ Freedom of Religion
214. The Wealth Production of a Virus
215. Satanists Sue Texas
216. CDC - A 2% Mitigation!!!
217. A Tony Williams Compilation
218. Gergo Borlai
219. Are Leftists Really Going to Destroy America?
220. My Love Affair With Bronze
221. Dr. James M. Tour
222. The Art of Drumming
223. Sexist Drummers?
224. Changes: Websites and Life
225. The Sea and the Waves Roaring
226. DAW For Beginners!!!
227. Camille Bigeault
228. John Ratcliffe, UFOs, and Prophecy
229. Satan Shoes
230. Music School TV
231. 47% No Affiliation
232. Will We Really Go Back to Normal?
233. Encouragement
234. Nothing is Nothing
235. Are We At War?
236. The Great Divide
237. Oh, Yes. The Truth is Out There
238. Death
239. Legend Flatlines
240. Doom and Gloom, Anyone?
241. Listen!!!
242. Drum Solo CD on the Way
243. Demi Lovato
244. Is UFO Hysteria Next?
245. Jonny Kolbl - A Very Talented Man
246. Distrokid
247. Here Comes the Fear...
248. Concepts for Solo Drum Set CD is Here
249. Crop Circles
250. Revolving Doors
251. Told You So
252. No Causal Link?
253. Akiane Kramarik
254. Harry, Harry, Harry
255. A Gun Problem in Providence?
256. No Sale Yet
257. Evidence
258. Shot in the Foot
259. What is LIFE?
260. Only 6% Truly Believe
261. UFO Wars
262. Happy Memorial Day
263. Max Roach Solos
264. The Pillow Guy Fires the Kill Shot
265. Was Jesus an Extra-Terrestrial?
266. Making Drums is Not Always Fun
267. "The Termination Event"
268. The 180 Days Close in
269. The Twining Memorandum
270. DrumSoloArtist.com
271. Are UFOs in the Bible?
272. Cascadia
273. The State of the Music Industry
274. 180 Days for THIS? Of Course!
275. What's Wrong With Modesty?
276. Drumist Daniel Humair
277. What If Government Killed?
278. Who Owns... Well, Everything? Just 2 Companies.
279. Some Headlines
280. Alien Races?
281. If You Doubt ET and Christ Are One, Read Rael! (NOT)
282. "God is non-binary."
283. The Blessed Hope
284. "The Cosmic Hoax: An Expose" Documentary
285. A Doctor That Will Drop Your Jaw
286. Drum Compilations YT Channel
287. Is America Still "Beautiful?"
288. Riccardo Merlini
289. Who Has a Voice?
290. Harris: Vax = Bible Truth?
291. America is Racist! (???)
292. Hackers, Criminals, Fraud. Beware!
293. Eric Clapton is Not a Doctor
294. Scientific American?
295. There is No Such Thing as a Bad Sounding Drum
296. What is a Police State?
297. Another New Study
298. Uh, Oh. The Israeli's Throw in a Monkey Wrench
299. Wait! A Policy of No Regret? 1984 Lives!
300. These Questions Cannot Be Asked Enough
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200. Rush, R.I.P. - February 18, 2021
No, not the band. The radio titan.
The first time I heard Rush was in 1988. I was doing a seminar in CT, staying with some friends. I was at the house, put on the radio and as I switched channels I heard a voice. It was obviously not a DJ voice. I had never heard something like this before, other than preachers on Christian radio.
This was political talk. ???
That was my first exposure to Rush and "talk-radio."
At the time, he was beginning his program in New York. He also had a female producer who would chime in now and then and make comments. I found the program fascinating. It was far more than a guy talking about political stuff. He had a definitive slant. God, family, country, freedom, liberty, Constitution, rule of law, strong military, strong free market economy, all stuff I really hadn't had much exposure to, politically speaking. I did not get into politics, except as it affected religious freedom and freedom of conscience issues. I didn't like politics because I have no respect for politicians. I found them to be then, what I see most of them as today: professional liars and compromisers.
Rush also had very distinctive entertainment in the way of political humor/parody stuff. Some of it was brilliant.
I was cautious with all the "Talent on loan from GooodddD!" schtick. He seemed to believe in God, at least as a concept. I was pretty sure he did not have a real, personal connection to His Creator and Savior but, that was a spiritual matter and one not connected to the program intent, near as I could tell. Over the years his comments about God seemed to deepen and at the close of his life he mentioned Christ was a serious element of his life. Facing death can bring that kind of decision making into a much more decisive focus.
Everybody knows who Rush is. His conservative views, what he meant to millions of listeners. The thing that I write this blog for is the vitriol from Rush antagonists and detractors. If EVER one could see "haters" in action, it is Leftists. Some are apparently so acidic and downright mean and nasty, comments are turned off on some of the videos speaking about his passing.
If someone told me Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer or some other Leftist politician passed away, trust me, I'd be thankful their influence in D.C. came to an end BUT, why on earth would I go to YT channels and make disgusting comments about them? They are dead. Their families grieve. Their friends are sorrowful.
Are people just plain stupid?
Glen Beck mentioned the last 15 years have grown into nothing short of Leftists slicing your throat and leaving you to bleed to death in the street; different from what political discussion was in previous times. I agree. Even on my own YT channel, which is just about drums and drumming, contains vicious comments by people. Why? There is no reasonable answer. They do it because they can, and/or have no civility in their upbringing, no social graces at all. Even animals think before they growl. They process information and decide on friend or foe. People today, especially Leftists, and I mean that, even despite morons and their comments among the Right, Leftists betray every, single premise they want everybody else to adhere to. The hypocrisy is outrageous.
I have come to believe Liberalism is a mental illness of some kind. Literally. Real, true, diehard Leftists seem void of common sense and civility. They speak before they think. Or, they think, then they lie, because they cannot allow their actual intentions to be known. They are anti-American and know the majority of Americans would reject them. They prey on the numb minds of those who depend on them and while they call Trump an instigator of violence, they are on video, time after time, event after event, occasion after occasion, actually, literally cheering on violent intentions of various groups and mobs. Apparently Trump's lawyers brought forth some of that evidence at his impeachment hearings before the Senate. The Democrat's charade collapsed. They want American's guns but, they hire armed guards to protect them. They don't want a wall to protect America's borders but, they want a fence around the Capitol to protect them, along with National Guard troops all over the place, as they continue to pump the lies about January 6th. They want you to shut up about Jesus Christ and God and morality, while they are into schemes and plans to bring you down, in any way they have to, to silence you, if you dissent from their lunacy: the ends justify the means.
Over 800,000 people watched or took part in the President's Day rally for Trump. Biden got around 40k watchers of his speech on YT. And you want me to believe this frail, old man with an obvious mental illness, and probable nasty sniffing of females issue, got 80,000,000 votes to run the nation from the Oval Office? Yeah, right. Biden needs God. The Left needs God. They just will never own up to Someone they need to be accountable and Responsible to for every thought, word, and action that comes out of them.
Rush's passing just shines a brighter light on the sickness that is cascading through America. It's sickening to watch.
If Rush was evil, as the left claims, the Left is absolute darkness.
I did not always agree with him but, Rush, rest in peace.
The first time I heard Rush was in 1988. I was doing a seminar in CT, staying with some friends. I was at the house, put on the radio and as I switched channels I heard a voice. It was obviously not a DJ voice. I had never heard something like this before, other than preachers on Christian radio.
This was political talk. ???
That was my first exposure to Rush and "talk-radio."
At the time, he was beginning his program in New York. He also had a female producer who would chime in now and then and make comments. I found the program fascinating. It was far more than a guy talking about political stuff. He had a definitive slant. God, family, country, freedom, liberty, Constitution, rule of law, strong military, strong free market economy, all stuff I really hadn't had much exposure to, politically speaking. I did not get into politics, except as it affected religious freedom and freedom of conscience issues. I didn't like politics because I have no respect for politicians. I found them to be then, what I see most of them as today: professional liars and compromisers.
Rush also had very distinctive entertainment in the way of political humor/parody stuff. Some of it was brilliant.
I was cautious with all the "Talent on loan from GooodddD!" schtick. He seemed to believe in God, at least as a concept. I was pretty sure he did not have a real, personal connection to His Creator and Savior but, that was a spiritual matter and one not connected to the program intent, near as I could tell. Over the years his comments about God seemed to deepen and at the close of his life he mentioned Christ was a serious element of his life. Facing death can bring that kind of decision making into a much more decisive focus.
Everybody knows who Rush is. His conservative views, what he meant to millions of listeners. The thing that I write this blog for is the vitriol from Rush antagonists and detractors. If EVER one could see "haters" in action, it is Leftists. Some are apparently so acidic and downright mean and nasty, comments are turned off on some of the videos speaking about his passing.
If someone told me Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer or some other Leftist politician passed away, trust me, I'd be thankful their influence in D.C. came to an end BUT, why on earth would I go to YT channels and make disgusting comments about them? They are dead. Their families grieve. Their friends are sorrowful.
Are people just plain stupid?
Glen Beck mentioned the last 15 years have grown into nothing short of Leftists slicing your throat and leaving you to bleed to death in the street; different from what political discussion was in previous times. I agree. Even on my own YT channel, which is just about drums and drumming, contains vicious comments by people. Why? There is no reasonable answer. They do it because they can, and/or have no civility in their upbringing, no social graces at all. Even animals think before they growl. They process information and decide on friend or foe. People today, especially Leftists, and I mean that, even despite morons and their comments among the Right, Leftists betray every, single premise they want everybody else to adhere to. The hypocrisy is outrageous.
I have come to believe Liberalism is a mental illness of some kind. Literally. Real, true, diehard Leftists seem void of common sense and civility. They speak before they think. Or, they think, then they lie, because they cannot allow their actual intentions to be known. They are anti-American and know the majority of Americans would reject them. They prey on the numb minds of those who depend on them and while they call Trump an instigator of violence, they are on video, time after time, event after event, occasion after occasion, actually, literally cheering on violent intentions of various groups and mobs. Apparently Trump's lawyers brought forth some of that evidence at his impeachment hearings before the Senate. The Democrat's charade collapsed. They want American's guns but, they hire armed guards to protect them. They don't want a wall to protect America's borders but, they want a fence around the Capitol to protect them, along with National Guard troops all over the place, as they continue to pump the lies about January 6th. They want you to shut up about Jesus Christ and God and morality, while they are into schemes and plans to bring you down, in any way they have to, to silence you, if you dissent from their lunacy: the ends justify the means.
Over 800,000 people watched or took part in the President's Day rally for Trump. Biden got around 40k watchers of his speech on YT. And you want me to believe this frail, old man with an obvious mental illness, and probable nasty sniffing of females issue, got 80,000,000 votes to run the nation from the Oval Office? Yeah, right. Biden needs God. The Left needs God. They just will never own up to Someone they need to be accountable and Responsible to for every thought, word, and action that comes out of them.
Rush's passing just shines a brighter light on the sickness that is cascading through America. It's sickening to watch.
If Rush was evil, as the left claims, the Left is absolute darkness.
I did not always agree with him but, Rush, rest in peace.
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201. Right, Left, Where Are You? - February 19, 2021
I have used the terms Progressive, Liberal, and Leftist to describe elements of American citizenry and civil servant positions and agendas in America and the world. I would be considered on the Right, probably the far Right. Is that accurate?
Each and every sector of the populace can get railroaded into a segment of society they do not really belong. Others escape the segment they should be placed in, for various reasons, not the least is an apostate Press, which, itself, is way Left. They used to deny that. Now, believing the numbers are on their side, they openly admit it.
Let me post what I mean by the terms, and you see where you fit.
I'll start with an "American." That is simply a legal citizen of the nation. Ideologically, it has meant someone who adheres to the Founding documents and laws put forth as the ruling element of what America was founded as, a Constitutional Republic.
A certain percentage of "Americans" now believe the Constitution is old, worthless, bigoted, racist, and all the rest, and wants it abrogated. Others see it as a 'stretchable' document that can be manipulated to address new situations and needs Americans face. I believe it should be taken as it reads. I would be an "Originalist." Rules exist to modify it, if need be. I believe in the rule of law. No one is above the law. Majority cannot do away with the law. Majority rule is a Democracy. That is not what the USA is. It employs aspects of democracy when electing civil servants but, America is not a Democracy, by definition.
Those on the Left have issues with everything "America" has stood for. There are degrees to their "Leftism."
Let me address the Right first. I already stated the basic principle the Right stands upon - the rule of law, the founding documents, just enough democratic policy to get people elected to office, while the nation functions within the "limited" role of the federal government, state constitutions limiting the role of state government, i.e., elected civil servants, or in colloquial terms - politicians. The rule of American law LIMITS the authority of politicians to rule over free Americans; free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness: rights and gifts of God, the Sovereign of the universe. That would be the God of the Bible.
Some on the Right believe the basics. Further right are those who would like to see God literally brought into the fabric of governance, somehow. The farthest right include those who would like all government abandoned and people left free to live however they chose, as long as they stay "civil," or not. Just depends on how they define their own freedom, without the rule of law to define it. Leftists that want police departments defunded and reduced now see the folly and foolishness of that position. That is anarchy. They are anarchists. Common sense and logic keeps that position where it must stay, if we want order. Chaos results from the lack of law. Chaos exists in American cities where the rule of law has been cast aside. Those that exist on the far Left use violence, as well, to gain their positions in the chaos they start. They are few in number, really, both sides, regardless of how the mainstream press likes to call anyone and everyone that believes in the basics, the far Right, and allows the far Left freedom to pursue anarchy without comment or criticism. Believe in God, in the Protestant or Catholic persuasion? Believe in Christ and His literal return to Earth someday? Believe in the Bill of Rights, especially the first 4, you are far Right extremists, radicals, a danger to an intelligent populace. That is the opinion of the far Left. Unfortunately, far too many in positions of power believe like that. They are few but, they have control.
Most people, both sides, stay down the center of the road, all things considered regarding daily life. Live, let live, stay out of my face, I'll stay out of yours. I'll abide by the rule of law, unless unjust laws are made and prevent me from pursuing life, liberty, pursuit of happiness within the confines of the rule of law. It's a solid house that has withstood time and tempest for more than two centuries.
Leftists like the idea of government control. The further Left you go, the more government control is their belief and agenda. They believe, for some odd reason, politicians have more insight into life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, than the general population. They are "Elitists." A Leftist wants everything under their control, to one degree or another. They know best. I must bow to their wisdom. I do not bow to such an ideology therefore, I am a radical, right wing, extremist. I disagree with their assessment of governance. I am extreme, to them. They disagree with my understanding of the role of government and they are right. They are never wrong. Therefore, bow. If you will not, you will be marginalized however we must gain and remain in control. Then you have degrees of what are termed as socialism, fascism, communism, dictatorship, the absolute rule of man. God is removed. Man gains absolute control. "1984." Orwellian dystopia. Those high, those low, no in between. In America the middle class are the majority and they are in the way of Absolutists, those who want absolute control of everything American, even if they destroy every principle of Americanism in the process. Those in the middle class must be marginalized and reduced to the low. If you cannot see that happening, if you do not see that happening, you have somehow been blinded. The evidence is so overwhelming it staggers the mind of the common sense American watching freedoms and liberty reduced more and more each and every year. How is this happening? Mostly, the marketing of terms and classifications. Again, tell people a lie long enough and they will finally believe it.
Washington, D.C. is called a swamp because it is a muck and madness of more and more control by elected civil servants, defying the rule of law, the Constitution, Bill of Rights, common sense, and logic, and God.
Most politicians are attorneys, hence the language and enormity of their constant laws; more laws than anyone in D.C. knows the number of. That is a literal statement. Look it up. I have. Nobody knows exactly how many laws exist on the books of record in America. Add state and local and you have numbers approaching "astronomical."
Leftists love laws. They love their idea of the rule of law. Laws governing anything and everything, with them in control. The GOP is just about as Leftist as Leftists are. Washington, D.C. is made up of Republicrats.
People on the Right want less interference by elected civil servants. Deal with a military, borders, and ONLY the money you absolutely need to keep things moving forward to protect Americans from unjust laws and enemies at the gates, and that means domestic enemies: "all enemies, foreign and domestic."
So, where do you stand? Right? Left? Forget center. There is no such real place when it comes down to the role of servants and law in a society. You either believe the laws the Founders wrote and the principle of the rule of law, or you do not. You either believe America is a Constitutional Republic or you do not. You cannot say, I like some of the Constitution and Bill of Rights but, I refuse to live by some of it, and still call yourself an American. You aren't. Not be definition. "Middle of the road" is not really a safe place to be. It implies a little of the right and a little of the left, which leads to what we now have in religion and the world - confusion. In the Bible confusion is called Babylon. Babylon is anti-God in control. Babylon is man-control. Is there confusion in America right now? Is the Pope Catholic? Well, there you go. Millions of Catholics do not believe the current Pontiff is a true Catholic. Why? Again, the rule of law, the role and rule of doctrinal truth, as you once formed your institution around.
Now, we all see definitions changing. Marriage is no longer defined, by Leftists, as a union between one man and one woman. Sex is no longer defined as male, or female by Leftists. Borders mean less and less to Leftists. Unless in their hypocrisy they want borders around their own homes, and the Capitol. Leftism is hypocrisy on parade. It has to be, because the ideas of the Left, if followed completely, will lead to the destruction of the Republic, which is their agenda. Hence Leftists, hard Leftists, not the true extremist (all law and government abandoned) are enemies, domestic enemies of the Republic.
I admit things can overlap. There are no hard definitions for societies categories. I have often said I am too liberal for conservatives, and too conservative for liberals. That does not mean I am in the center. It does mean I am an individual. Individualism is one of the foundation pillars of Americanism. You have a right to be you, as long as you stay civil. The rule of law only goes so far in influencing a populace. Music is one of the places the rule of law generally does not go. Art. Art can be so offensive to some, they want the law to stop the offense. Seems to me, why the offense exists is the greater matter. If someone wants to put a crucifix in a glass of urine and call it "art," so be it. That is not art to me. It's offensive. It's ignorant. I also believe you have a right to be offensive. If you try and put an unwilling person in a tub of urine, you cross the line. The law shall address your incivility. The Left seems to love offending people of religious faith. Well, not Muslims. Why is that? That's another matter. There is a definitive reason.
I am no threat to anyone. My ideas go no farther than the rule of law allows. I am on the Right. Not the radical Right because I believe government is a necessary element to order in society. I believe in limited government. I believe what the Founders developed and put in place, by virtue of the understanding of the world they had, and it still applies and it still works, if left alone to work without government interference. You might not believe as I do and believe I am radical but, I am not going to attempt to silence you, cancel you, marginalize you, or anything but, appeal to you in a rational, reasonable way. Leftists, no. Leftists want freedom and liberty to cancel me, silence me, marginalize me because I am dangerous to them. They use the liberties they hate. That is why I believe Liberalism is a mental illness, void of common sense. My ideas are dangerous to their control over people. I want people to think for themselves. They want to think for people. Group think. Hivemind. No individualism. No liberties from God. Rights come from man, smarter than the rest of us. If you believe that is a safety in America, you need to understand some simple truth and common sense.
I have already stated in previous blogs, Leftists are my enemy, enemies of the Republic. They are a danger to freedom, liberty, the rule of law, life, liberty, and pursuits of happiness all legal Americans should enjoy.
If you are a Leftist how do you defend your beliefs based from the principles of Americanism? You cannot. Therefore, you must remove me so you can change America.
The battle rages. I hope to God you lose.
Each and every sector of the populace can get railroaded into a segment of society they do not really belong. Others escape the segment they should be placed in, for various reasons, not the least is an apostate Press, which, itself, is way Left. They used to deny that. Now, believing the numbers are on their side, they openly admit it.
Let me post what I mean by the terms, and you see where you fit.
I'll start with an "American." That is simply a legal citizen of the nation. Ideologically, it has meant someone who adheres to the Founding documents and laws put forth as the ruling element of what America was founded as, a Constitutional Republic.
A certain percentage of "Americans" now believe the Constitution is old, worthless, bigoted, racist, and all the rest, and wants it abrogated. Others see it as a 'stretchable' document that can be manipulated to address new situations and needs Americans face. I believe it should be taken as it reads. I would be an "Originalist." Rules exist to modify it, if need be. I believe in the rule of law. No one is above the law. Majority cannot do away with the law. Majority rule is a Democracy. That is not what the USA is. It employs aspects of democracy when electing civil servants but, America is not a Democracy, by definition.
Those on the Left have issues with everything "America" has stood for. There are degrees to their "Leftism."
Let me address the Right first. I already stated the basic principle the Right stands upon - the rule of law, the founding documents, just enough democratic policy to get people elected to office, while the nation functions within the "limited" role of the federal government, state constitutions limiting the role of state government, i.e., elected civil servants, or in colloquial terms - politicians. The rule of American law LIMITS the authority of politicians to rule over free Americans; free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness: rights and gifts of God, the Sovereign of the universe. That would be the God of the Bible.
Some on the Right believe the basics. Further right are those who would like to see God literally brought into the fabric of governance, somehow. The farthest right include those who would like all government abandoned and people left free to live however they chose, as long as they stay "civil," or not. Just depends on how they define their own freedom, without the rule of law to define it. Leftists that want police departments defunded and reduced now see the folly and foolishness of that position. That is anarchy. They are anarchists. Common sense and logic keeps that position where it must stay, if we want order. Chaos results from the lack of law. Chaos exists in American cities where the rule of law has been cast aside. Those that exist on the far Left use violence, as well, to gain their positions in the chaos they start. They are few in number, really, both sides, regardless of how the mainstream press likes to call anyone and everyone that believes in the basics, the far Right, and allows the far Left freedom to pursue anarchy without comment or criticism. Believe in God, in the Protestant or Catholic persuasion? Believe in Christ and His literal return to Earth someday? Believe in the Bill of Rights, especially the first 4, you are far Right extremists, radicals, a danger to an intelligent populace. That is the opinion of the far Left. Unfortunately, far too many in positions of power believe like that. They are few but, they have control.
Most people, both sides, stay down the center of the road, all things considered regarding daily life. Live, let live, stay out of my face, I'll stay out of yours. I'll abide by the rule of law, unless unjust laws are made and prevent me from pursuing life, liberty, pursuit of happiness within the confines of the rule of law. It's a solid house that has withstood time and tempest for more than two centuries.
Leftists like the idea of government control. The further Left you go, the more government control is their belief and agenda. They believe, for some odd reason, politicians have more insight into life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, than the general population. They are "Elitists." A Leftist wants everything under their control, to one degree or another. They know best. I must bow to their wisdom. I do not bow to such an ideology therefore, I am a radical, right wing, extremist. I disagree with their assessment of governance. I am extreme, to them. They disagree with my understanding of the role of government and they are right. They are never wrong. Therefore, bow. If you will not, you will be marginalized however we must gain and remain in control. Then you have degrees of what are termed as socialism, fascism, communism, dictatorship, the absolute rule of man. God is removed. Man gains absolute control. "1984." Orwellian dystopia. Those high, those low, no in between. In America the middle class are the majority and they are in the way of Absolutists, those who want absolute control of everything American, even if they destroy every principle of Americanism in the process. Those in the middle class must be marginalized and reduced to the low. If you cannot see that happening, if you do not see that happening, you have somehow been blinded. The evidence is so overwhelming it staggers the mind of the common sense American watching freedoms and liberty reduced more and more each and every year. How is this happening? Mostly, the marketing of terms and classifications. Again, tell people a lie long enough and they will finally believe it.
Washington, D.C. is called a swamp because it is a muck and madness of more and more control by elected civil servants, defying the rule of law, the Constitution, Bill of Rights, common sense, and logic, and God.
Most politicians are attorneys, hence the language and enormity of their constant laws; more laws than anyone in D.C. knows the number of. That is a literal statement. Look it up. I have. Nobody knows exactly how many laws exist on the books of record in America. Add state and local and you have numbers approaching "astronomical."
Leftists love laws. They love their idea of the rule of law. Laws governing anything and everything, with them in control. The GOP is just about as Leftist as Leftists are. Washington, D.C. is made up of Republicrats.
People on the Right want less interference by elected civil servants. Deal with a military, borders, and ONLY the money you absolutely need to keep things moving forward to protect Americans from unjust laws and enemies at the gates, and that means domestic enemies: "all enemies, foreign and domestic."
So, where do you stand? Right? Left? Forget center. There is no such real place when it comes down to the role of servants and law in a society. You either believe the laws the Founders wrote and the principle of the rule of law, or you do not. You either believe America is a Constitutional Republic or you do not. You cannot say, I like some of the Constitution and Bill of Rights but, I refuse to live by some of it, and still call yourself an American. You aren't. Not be definition. "Middle of the road" is not really a safe place to be. It implies a little of the right and a little of the left, which leads to what we now have in religion and the world - confusion. In the Bible confusion is called Babylon. Babylon is anti-God in control. Babylon is man-control. Is there confusion in America right now? Is the Pope Catholic? Well, there you go. Millions of Catholics do not believe the current Pontiff is a true Catholic. Why? Again, the rule of law, the role and rule of doctrinal truth, as you once formed your institution around.
Now, we all see definitions changing. Marriage is no longer defined, by Leftists, as a union between one man and one woman. Sex is no longer defined as male, or female by Leftists. Borders mean less and less to Leftists. Unless in their hypocrisy they want borders around their own homes, and the Capitol. Leftism is hypocrisy on parade. It has to be, because the ideas of the Left, if followed completely, will lead to the destruction of the Republic, which is their agenda. Hence Leftists, hard Leftists, not the true extremist (all law and government abandoned) are enemies, domestic enemies of the Republic.
I admit things can overlap. There are no hard definitions for societies categories. I have often said I am too liberal for conservatives, and too conservative for liberals. That does not mean I am in the center. It does mean I am an individual. Individualism is one of the foundation pillars of Americanism. You have a right to be you, as long as you stay civil. The rule of law only goes so far in influencing a populace. Music is one of the places the rule of law generally does not go. Art. Art can be so offensive to some, they want the law to stop the offense. Seems to me, why the offense exists is the greater matter. If someone wants to put a crucifix in a glass of urine and call it "art," so be it. That is not art to me. It's offensive. It's ignorant. I also believe you have a right to be offensive. If you try and put an unwilling person in a tub of urine, you cross the line. The law shall address your incivility. The Left seems to love offending people of religious faith. Well, not Muslims. Why is that? That's another matter. There is a definitive reason.
I am no threat to anyone. My ideas go no farther than the rule of law allows. I am on the Right. Not the radical Right because I believe government is a necessary element to order in society. I believe in limited government. I believe what the Founders developed and put in place, by virtue of the understanding of the world they had, and it still applies and it still works, if left alone to work without government interference. You might not believe as I do and believe I am radical but, I am not going to attempt to silence you, cancel you, marginalize you, or anything but, appeal to you in a rational, reasonable way. Leftists, no. Leftists want freedom and liberty to cancel me, silence me, marginalize me because I am dangerous to them. They use the liberties they hate. That is why I believe Liberalism is a mental illness, void of common sense. My ideas are dangerous to their control over people. I want people to think for themselves. They want to think for people. Group think. Hivemind. No individualism. No liberties from God. Rights come from man, smarter than the rest of us. If you believe that is a safety in America, you need to understand some simple truth and common sense.
I have already stated in previous blogs, Leftists are my enemy, enemies of the Republic. They are a danger to freedom, liberty, the rule of law, life, liberty, and pursuits of happiness all legal Americans should enjoy.
If you are a Leftist how do you defend your beliefs based from the principles of Americanism? You cannot. Therefore, you must remove me so you can change America.
The battle rages. I hope to God you lose.
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202. Sam Adams - February 19, 2021
Samuel Adams. Know who he is? These days most associate the Revolutionary War patriot with a beer company.
Samuel Adams was a great man, like many who Founded this nation.
"If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them."
Think Sam Adams would put up with Democrat dictators ruining their economies and the lives of millions of free citizens because of a propped up "pandemic" of the same danger as a serious case of the flu?
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.
Maybe Sam Adams is responsible for the exposure of the policy of the dumbing down of Americans.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
That is the sentiment, the principle, of the true American. We do not seek to cancel you, to remove you, to marginalize you, to silence you. We leave you free to live elsewhere, where the principles of Americanism will not disturb your need to depend on government agents and money from the taxpayers taken to support limited government, not a welfare state. We were slowly, now swiftly being forced to depend on government for everything, to bow to the dictates of elected civil servants as though they are kings and queens.
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Tell it Sam. 250 years before BLM, Antifa, the 99%, and other tireless, irate minorities who claim freedom to set fires that are supposed to free us all, regardless of who they hurt, ruin, and destroy. When shall we see the tireless minority who shall fight back with truth and principles that can ignite fires of true freedom and liberty in the minds of Americans most needing it at this time?
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
And there is the remedy for tyranny. Patriots arise and take control from air-head and or wicked tyrants and wannabes, bent on remaking America into a place of their own despicable, corrupt image.
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.
Cheated we were. Fraud, lies, corruption, contempt for the rule of both national and state laws, total disregard of our civil Constitution, and our spiritual Constitution, the rule of Almighty God and His truth, for anyone who shall seek it. A non-president gained office through TOTAL artifice. Now he seeks to place America in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, so weak of mind, the Vice-president is already handling affairs of state he is not mentally capable of addressing.
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffused and Virtue preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders.
And so goes the dumbing down of Americans. The Communists will not need to fire a shot. America shall fall of its own weight of ignorance and debauchery.
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.
So, why do Leftists seek to take away the rights of firearm protection from a free people with rights granted of God? Because an armed populace cannot be easily controlled. Every tyrannical regime in history seeks to disarm the populace first; sword, rifle, does not matter. Take the ability to defend themselves away, the use of a traitorous army or police state gains quick control. They must take away those firearms that can actually repel an attack with repetition. No automatic weapons. Then semi-automatic; which is nothing more than a single shot firearm with the trigger pulled as fast as you can. Once they are gone, the single shot rifles and pistols. Once they are gone, what, Americans should defend themselves with knives from the chopping blocks? Only traitors seek to disarm Americans, even though risk exists. Freedom and liberty always engages risks, because people are free, including those sick of mind and soul. To disarm those law-biding citizens because of the few mentally disturbed, especially when authorities KNOW these individuals are disturbed and consistently allow them to slip through cracks of red tape and those incapable of practicing their own jobs, is tyranny. It is nothing BUT, wolfish tyranny, with a sheep face.
Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.
This would seem to be a prophecy for America, where morality is now a thing of the past; an old fashioned, strait-laced relic of ancient, superstitious times. The Leftist is beyond them. They are modern and free. Aldous Huxley's, Brave New World is what they want and seek to hoist on all Americans. Liberty for them but, not all who seek to exercise freedom of conscience and not be forced to use their arts and gifts to support practices they consider an abomination, by virtue of the Word of God.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
Pursuit of happiness, to the Founders and original patriots, was the right to own property and to defend it. Yet our Supreme Court has sided with those businesses who seek the government to take land from property owners, "for the good of the people." Eminent domain it may be called but, no patriot would ever seek to take property from someone where other options exist, regardless of the desires of American or foreign business interests.
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.
Do you think it can be stated with greater force? How? If we allow despotism and tyranny to exist, we pronounce doom on ourselves and our nation.
These are the words of a man who understood the principles of Americanism.
Would that all professed Americans understood them.
Samuel Adams was a great man, like many who Founded this nation.
"If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them."
Think Sam Adams would put up with Democrat dictators ruining their economies and the lives of millions of free citizens because of a propped up "pandemic" of the same danger as a serious case of the flu?
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.
Maybe Sam Adams is responsible for the exposure of the policy of the dumbing down of Americans.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
That is the sentiment, the principle, of the true American. We do not seek to cancel you, to remove you, to marginalize you, to silence you. We leave you free to live elsewhere, where the principles of Americanism will not disturb your need to depend on government agents and money from the taxpayers taken to support limited government, not a welfare state. We were slowly, now swiftly being forced to depend on government for everything, to bow to the dictates of elected civil servants as though they are kings and queens.
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Tell it Sam. 250 years before BLM, Antifa, the 99%, and other tireless, irate minorities who claim freedom to set fires that are supposed to free us all, regardless of who they hurt, ruin, and destroy. When shall we see the tireless minority who shall fight back with truth and principles that can ignite fires of true freedom and liberty in the minds of Americans most needing it at this time?
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
And there is the remedy for tyranny. Patriots arise and take control from air-head and or wicked tyrants and wannabes, bent on remaking America into a place of their own despicable, corrupt image.
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.
Cheated we were. Fraud, lies, corruption, contempt for the rule of both national and state laws, total disregard of our civil Constitution, and our spiritual Constitution, the rule of Almighty God and His truth, for anyone who shall seek it. A non-president gained office through TOTAL artifice. Now he seeks to place America in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, so weak of mind, the Vice-president is already handling affairs of state he is not mentally capable of addressing.
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffused and Virtue preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders.
And so goes the dumbing down of Americans. The Communists will not need to fire a shot. America shall fall of its own weight of ignorance and debauchery.
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.
So, why do Leftists seek to take away the rights of firearm protection from a free people with rights granted of God? Because an armed populace cannot be easily controlled. Every tyrannical regime in history seeks to disarm the populace first; sword, rifle, does not matter. Take the ability to defend themselves away, the use of a traitorous army or police state gains quick control. They must take away those firearms that can actually repel an attack with repetition. No automatic weapons. Then semi-automatic; which is nothing more than a single shot firearm with the trigger pulled as fast as you can. Once they are gone, the single shot rifles and pistols. Once they are gone, what, Americans should defend themselves with knives from the chopping blocks? Only traitors seek to disarm Americans, even though risk exists. Freedom and liberty always engages risks, because people are free, including those sick of mind and soul. To disarm those law-biding citizens because of the few mentally disturbed, especially when authorities KNOW these individuals are disturbed and consistently allow them to slip through cracks of red tape and those incapable of practicing their own jobs, is tyranny. It is nothing BUT, wolfish tyranny, with a sheep face.
Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.
This would seem to be a prophecy for America, where morality is now a thing of the past; an old fashioned, strait-laced relic of ancient, superstitious times. The Leftist is beyond them. They are modern and free. Aldous Huxley's, Brave New World is what they want and seek to hoist on all Americans. Liberty for them but, not all who seek to exercise freedom of conscience and not be forced to use their arts and gifts to support practices they consider an abomination, by virtue of the Word of God.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
Pursuit of happiness, to the Founders and original patriots, was the right to own property and to defend it. Yet our Supreme Court has sided with those businesses who seek the government to take land from property owners, "for the good of the people." Eminent domain it may be called but, no patriot would ever seek to take property from someone where other options exist, regardless of the desires of American or foreign business interests.
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.
Do you think it can be stated with greater force? How? If we allow despotism and tyranny to exist, we pronounce doom on ourselves and our nation.
These are the words of a man who understood the principles of Americanism.
Would that all professed Americans understood them.
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203. Chick Corea, R.I.P. - February 21, 2021
I was in my YT channel a few minutes ago, checking out posts, and saw in the side bar that Chick Corea passed away. I am shocked. I am saddened. He was 79. So many are passing from what I consider the greatest generation of exploration in modern music - the 60's and 70's. I didn't know he was ill. What a loss.
Chick Corea, his music, his whole on-stage persona, was instrumental in my development as a musician. Return to Forever was a must have band in my record collection, as well as recordings from his other bands and other works of his. Playing along with Lenny White was a daily ritual back in the 70's for me. RTF had a catalog of music that was both challenging and fun and exuded the happiness music can bring about. Some great goosebump moments came at the hearing of Chick's compositions. He had a tremendous flare for drama and excitement in his compositions. Wonderful beauty, and of course, his Hispanic roots. Those roots made his music unique back then, much like McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra's Indian influence, or Weather Report's world influences, or Jean Luc Ponty's Euro influences. Other distinguishing marks fusion bands had back then, separated each one by their sound. All genres tended to have bands that had those unique qualities back then.
Steve Gadd's work with Chick was definitive. When Dave Weckl came on board with the Electric Band a whole new world opened up for me. Serious technique. All the drumists Chick worked with were great players.
His older works with many of the Jazz greats. While I was never a "straight Jazz" fan, per se', I have some recordings that were classics then, and remain so, and shall remain so.
There was a time when composition really meant something in Fusion and Chick was at the top of his game in that regard. It is one thing to come up with a riff and then everybody takes solos off it but, Chick and other Fusion bands back then, had real compositions, and they were fantastic. Real, instrumental story telling.
I cannot believe he is gone. This is a sad day. The music world shall be much less without his presence in it. He was a giant. An absolute giant in the world of music.
Rest in peace, Chick Corea. Few can possibly leave behind such a tremendous influence and body of work, as you.
Chick Corea, his music, his whole on-stage persona, was instrumental in my development as a musician. Return to Forever was a must have band in my record collection, as well as recordings from his other bands and other works of his. Playing along with Lenny White was a daily ritual back in the 70's for me. RTF had a catalog of music that was both challenging and fun and exuded the happiness music can bring about. Some great goosebump moments came at the hearing of Chick's compositions. He had a tremendous flare for drama and excitement in his compositions. Wonderful beauty, and of course, his Hispanic roots. Those roots made his music unique back then, much like McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra's Indian influence, or Weather Report's world influences, or Jean Luc Ponty's Euro influences. Other distinguishing marks fusion bands had back then, separated each one by their sound. All genres tended to have bands that had those unique qualities back then.
Steve Gadd's work with Chick was definitive. When Dave Weckl came on board with the Electric Band a whole new world opened up for me. Serious technique. All the drumists Chick worked with were great players.
His older works with many of the Jazz greats. While I was never a "straight Jazz" fan, per se', I have some recordings that were classics then, and remain so, and shall remain so.
There was a time when composition really meant something in Fusion and Chick was at the top of his game in that regard. It is one thing to come up with a riff and then everybody takes solos off it but, Chick and other Fusion bands back then, had real compositions, and they were fantastic. Real, instrumental story telling.
I cannot believe he is gone. This is a sad day. The music world shall be much less without his presence in it. He was a giant. An absolute giant in the world of music.
Rest in peace, Chick Corea. Few can possibly leave behind such a tremendous influence and body of work, as you.
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204. The REAL Energy Loss Story - February 22, 2021
This is criminal behavior. This is a monstrous atrocity as bad as anything I have experienced since moving to Texas.
Texas had been able to feed power to other states. HOW did this happen? How did Texans find themselves freezing and facing power bills increased from $50 MWatt to $9000 a megawatt hour!!!
This link is to a document of the Federal response to Governor Abbott pleading for energy, a week before the cold struck the state, to ease Federal restrictions on power consumption and emissions controls. Read for yourself the absolute despicable attitude of the Federal government towards Americans.
Texas was denied using power available. Texas was forced to purchase power from other sources, which were allowed to spike costs by 10,000%.
The cabal's reach into your life is despotic. If this does not enrage you, you are a zombie.
Gov. Abbott is a coward. The Texas legislature are cowards. Texans should be marching in the streets and demanding, absolutely demanding every single elected civil servant that went along with this tyranny should resign, immediately. The Feds should have been told to go pound sand. Texans froze because Texans allowed themselves to be controlled by the Federal government back in the Obama administration. Did that Communist not tell Americans in his first campaign that if elected and his policies put in place, the price of electricity would rise? Do you know the Chinese government owns THOUSANDS of acres of American land they are building wind farms on?
Texas secession anyone?
And sources involved in Texas' power grid are saying more is coming in July and August. This is not just tyranny. This is criminal. This is murder. Fifty people are dead. Industries crippled. Power and water is still not on for 100% of Texans.
ERCOT (the Energy Reliability Commission of Texas) has been allowed by previous Texas administrations to exist and be controlled by people that do not even live in Texas!
The Feds are the enemy of Americans. They are the enemy of the Republic. The longer this goes on, the worse things will get. Third world existence is coming.
Miss Trump yet?
https://www.scribd.com/document/495189508/DOE-202-c-Emergency-Order-ERCOT-02-14-2021
Texas had been able to feed power to other states. HOW did this happen? How did Texans find themselves freezing and facing power bills increased from $50 MWatt to $9000 a megawatt hour!!!
This link is to a document of the Federal response to Governor Abbott pleading for energy, a week before the cold struck the state, to ease Federal restrictions on power consumption and emissions controls. Read for yourself the absolute despicable attitude of the Federal government towards Americans.
Texas was denied using power available. Texas was forced to purchase power from other sources, which were allowed to spike costs by 10,000%.
The cabal's reach into your life is despotic. If this does not enrage you, you are a zombie.
Gov. Abbott is a coward. The Texas legislature are cowards. Texans should be marching in the streets and demanding, absolutely demanding every single elected civil servant that went along with this tyranny should resign, immediately. The Feds should have been told to go pound sand. Texans froze because Texans allowed themselves to be controlled by the Federal government back in the Obama administration. Did that Communist not tell Americans in his first campaign that if elected and his policies put in place, the price of electricity would rise? Do you know the Chinese government owns THOUSANDS of acres of American land they are building wind farms on?
Texas secession anyone?
And sources involved in Texas' power grid are saying more is coming in July and August. This is not just tyranny. This is criminal. This is murder. Fifty people are dead. Industries crippled. Power and water is still not on for 100% of Texans.
ERCOT (the Energy Reliability Commission of Texas) has been allowed by previous Texas administrations to exist and be controlled by people that do not even live in Texas!
The Feds are the enemy of Americans. They are the enemy of the Republic. The longer this goes on, the worse things will get. Third world existence is coming.
Miss Trump yet?
https://www.scribd.com/document/495189508/DOE-202-c-Emergency-Order-ERCOT-02-14-2021
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205. Recovery and Drumming - February 27, 2021
I just wrote this on the recording blog and feel the necessity to place it here on the Thought page, as well, with a touch of editing.
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This is more of a medical comment than a recording comment but, it all fits together.
If you know anything about strokes, you know sections of the brain are deprived of blood and oxygen and tissue is damaged. The damage may contain elements of detriment to facial and limb movement, speech articulation, memory, and other negative effects. Death is the ultimate danger. On the other hand, some feel death would be preferable to the life lived post-stroke.
I do not know where that 9mm spot of damage is on my brain. I do know my speech is fine and my limbs seem fine. What is not fine is my thought processing; the nanosecond decisions drummers make when thinking about what to do next, in constant fast thoughts and coordinated response.
In recording the solos I have these short, I mean seriously short blank spots in my thinking but, in the nanosecond of time nothing is happening, I lose that element of flow and mess up my movements or drop a stick or something and a take is ruined.
I try again, and get a little farther, then it happens again. It's the blink of an eye. Some days I just have to get up and walk away.
While solos often contain the riffs drummers come to know and love to use, solos also contain a tremendous amount of improvisation. You need to think fast. At least, for the things I am used to doing, I need to think quickly. If I were the type of player, that slowly flowing stream of movement like a Mel Lewis-type of style, the need to think quickly diminishes.
Consider a Gergo Borlai, a Damien Schmitt, a Ronald Bruner, Jr., or any player in the upper zones of speed and fast movement in drumming history. The necessity for neurons to fire information across the brain's networks of connections at tremendous speeds is an absolute necessity. Everything they do is a thought, a processed thought, before the action takes place. It is a slander to drummers being placed in a lesser category of musician in previous times. Fast players of other instruments generally address hands. The drumist also has feet involved. ALL of that movement must be processed in the brain before the actions of the limbs takes place. People do not realize the speeds of that which takes place inside us. Blood moves at 200 mph. The speed of thought is almost incomprehensible.
I know the cells in the hippocampus area of the brain, dealing with emotions, memory, and such can be replenished. Research continues to show other areas of the brain do not replenish cells. When they die, they are gone. My speech and movement returned to me. I gratefully thank God because so many people having strokes do not recover or, take years to recover damages done to the brain. I know the more I play, the more I exercise, the more my body is forced to make changes to address needs. In some cases, stroke damage is irreversible, and that is a tragedy that effects more lives than just the person stricken.
The other day I did a solo in one take. I had warmed up a little longer before I did it. Catch 22. The longer I warm up, the more vital energy I use up and get tired, if not even weak, which affects my playing during a take.
I'm half way through the solos/tracks. This entire experience has taken on other elements I never experienced before. You sit down, you play. Before the stroke, probably done in a few days. After the stroke ... I do what I can, when I can, however I can. I'll finish when I finish.
DO NOT take your health for granted. Do not treat your body in any other way than the temple it was created to be treated like. Do not make it a garbage disposal, a trash can, not caring what goes in. It matters. It is THE most complex system in the known universe, 1-2 trillion specific regenerating cells and information working to do things that do not happen in any other processes known to man.
People from 18-80 have strokes every year. A stroke is the #3 killer of Americans. 140,000 people will have a stroke this year. Every 40 seconds someone will have a stroke. I never thought about it. It hit. Now, I am back on track. It could have been monumentally worse.
I carry on, aware.
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This is more of a medical comment than a recording comment but, it all fits together.
If you know anything about strokes, you know sections of the brain are deprived of blood and oxygen and tissue is damaged. The damage may contain elements of detriment to facial and limb movement, speech articulation, memory, and other negative effects. Death is the ultimate danger. On the other hand, some feel death would be preferable to the life lived post-stroke.
I do not know where that 9mm spot of damage is on my brain. I do know my speech is fine and my limbs seem fine. What is not fine is my thought processing; the nanosecond decisions drummers make when thinking about what to do next, in constant fast thoughts and coordinated response.
In recording the solos I have these short, I mean seriously short blank spots in my thinking but, in the nanosecond of time nothing is happening, I lose that element of flow and mess up my movements or drop a stick or something and a take is ruined.
I try again, and get a little farther, then it happens again. It's the blink of an eye. Some days I just have to get up and walk away.
While solos often contain the riffs drummers come to know and love to use, solos also contain a tremendous amount of improvisation. You need to think fast. At least, for the things I am used to doing, I need to think quickly. If I were the type of player, that slowly flowing stream of movement like a Mel Lewis-type of style, the need to think quickly diminishes.
Consider a Gergo Borlai, a Damien Schmitt, a Ronald Bruner, Jr., or any player in the upper zones of speed and fast movement in drumming history. The necessity for neurons to fire information across the brain's networks of connections at tremendous speeds is an absolute necessity. Everything they do is a thought, a processed thought, before the action takes place. It is a slander to drummers being placed in a lesser category of musician in previous times. Fast players of other instruments generally address hands. The drumist also has feet involved. ALL of that movement must be processed in the brain before the actions of the limbs takes place. People do not realize the speeds of that which takes place inside us. Blood moves at 200 mph. The speed of thought is almost incomprehensible.
I know the cells in the hippocampus area of the brain, dealing with emotions, memory, and such can be replenished. Research continues to show other areas of the brain do not replenish cells. When they die, they are gone. My speech and movement returned to me. I gratefully thank God because so many people having strokes do not recover or, take years to recover damages done to the brain. I know the more I play, the more I exercise, the more my body is forced to make changes to address needs. In some cases, stroke damage is irreversible, and that is a tragedy that effects more lives than just the person stricken.
The other day I did a solo in one take. I had warmed up a little longer before I did it. Catch 22. The longer I warm up, the more vital energy I use up and get tired, if not even weak, which affects my playing during a take.
I'm half way through the solos/tracks. This entire experience has taken on other elements I never experienced before. You sit down, you play. Before the stroke, probably done in a few days. After the stroke ... I do what I can, when I can, however I can. I'll finish when I finish.
DO NOT take your health for granted. Do not treat your body in any other way than the temple it was created to be treated like. Do not make it a garbage disposal, a trash can, not caring what goes in. It matters. It is THE most complex system in the known universe, 1-2 trillion specific regenerating cells and information working to do things that do not happen in any other processes known to man.
People from 18-80 have strokes every year. A stroke is the #3 killer of Americans. 140,000 people will have a stroke this year. Every 40 seconds someone will have a stroke. I never thought about it. It hit. Now, I am back on track. It could have been monumentally worse.
I carry on, aware.
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206. Congress and God - February 27, 2021
I received an email from a friend addressing the story that took place on the House floor dealing with the statements of Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL), and the response from Rep. Jerry Nadler. The story is all over the place. The link below if to the article my friend sent me.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/gods-will-no-concern-congress-top-democrat-nadler-derides-god-video/
Mr. Steube stated that America has forgotten God, is confused, and the nation will reap the results, that it already is. Mr. Nadler responded:
“What any religious tradition describes as God’s will is no concern of this Congress.”
I am posting some of my response to my friend here, with further thoughts. There is more to this than meets the eyes of both sides of this issue.
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There is, of course, a double edge to this sword.
The position of the Sovereign of the universe being established in the fabric of American life is there from it's founding and writings of the Founders. The number of books from them and on this subject must number in the hundreds. I believe you can see the other side, though; the potential for the other edge to rear up it's blow.
We know the small time of trouble may be sliding into place. 80 million Americans had an election literally stolen from them and D.C. is terrified, which shows in the narrative they continually push of Jan 6th, and N.G. troops and razor wired fences surrounding the Capitol. They have been caught, big time. They know it. Americans know it. They know the potential of Americans rising up to reclaim their Republic. They are wicked. They are not stupid, for the most part. They know they must control the narrative, and control D.C. at all costs and push as much of their agenda through, as possible, as quickly as possible.
The disgusting nature of D.C. laws and agenda will take its toll on Americans, all Americans, really, because the vast majority of all Americans are not radical Leftists. Like here in TX and the storm. Loss of power was the result of Leftist run commissions and deals with power companies. The backlash was so great five of the commissioners from ERCOT resigned. Four of them are not even Texans, and one them is Canadian!
The Equality Act is a one-sided abomination. I'll call it what it is, from a biblical viewpoint but, therein lies the issue.
We know the time will come when politicians will secure public favor by yielding to a demand for religious concerns and laws. While I have expressed my beliefs that I do not see that happening anytime soon, I do see a process developing where Americans are going to rebel, in great force, and tell D.C. they have had it. Those kinds of actions will loosen the hold elitists have on their agenda. The wicked only think of themselves when trouble arises. Rats scatter. Most pols in D.C. are airheads. They are puppets run by handlers. History shows no regime can withstand total backlash from a nation's people. Can't be done. Americans really do not know the collective power they have. They will find out when they are pushed to the wall and say, 'Enough.'
Maybe.
Our generation is getting old. The next? It is unlikely they are not going to rise up. The generation after them is collectively being distorted and primed for control through educational programs and electronics and such. So, while I see potential I also see reality, and yes, a time of "the goddess of reason" may be upon us, which again, is a great detour from where prophetic lines should and could have gone a century ago.
Nadler's response is not defacto wrong. It sounds egregious on its face but, in fact, no religious tradition's position on God's will can be determined by Congress. We do not believe the RCC's traditions of God's will, nor some Baptists, etc., etc. They do not subscribe to ours. It's a fine line that basically addresses only some of the second table of the law. The first table is totally out. That addresses man's duty to man. The second table of the law addresses man's duty to his fellow man. The 9th and 10th commandments cannot be codified. Congress cannot address thought. That is God's alone to address. At one time, the whole Law was addressed by early leaders in America, and radically abused, and Madison and others jumped in and brought it all down and established the Bill of Rights. Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Nothing could be more plain. D.C. is chiseled with statements about God, law, freedoms and liberties. Statues and buildings. It's all over the place. I was amazed by it all when I visited D.C. many years ago. Nobody living in that city can possibly be ignorant of the position the Founders had about God and government.
I'm guessing Nadler is just a secularist and has no use for God, one way or another but, like I say, two-edged sword. The fine line between separation of church and state and separation of God from state are two different things. Both Steube and Nadler are correct. The nation must not forget God, the Author of man's inalienable rights. Nor can it establish God's will by man's laws, when everybody has a different notion of what God's will is, plus those who do not recognize God and still are free Americans, who can be involved in its politics and law-making. We are not a theocracy. A very fine line exists that has more to do with America's churches and their influence and the nation's spiritual condition, than America's politicians and what they regard or disregard concerning their limitations of power. If everybody in America was a Christian, I mean a real Christian by virtue of changed heart and mind, despite problems that would arise because of sin and sinners, think of what D.C. would function like as a result. That is not the case, of course, and as God is pushed aside and forgotten, the nation sinks deeper into the swamp. The world is sinking.
SCOTUS determined when life begins and abortion is upon us. Seventy million babies. SCOTUS does not have the right or authority to determine that. Society did not rise up. They should have. They didn't. American society never rises up. It did for the civil war. Not since, save for the 1960's civil rights movement, and that still has its tensions, especially with the actions of the BLM org, etc. Otherwise, only radical Leftists rise up in America. Generally young radical Leftists, guided and propelled by statements from their radical elders. The Tea Party was as close as a real movement for the rule of law could get and it was co-opted by deep state agents and basically they fizzled it out. Trump had more people at his rallies this time than four years ago. MAGA support was through the roof with Americans who love their country. Half a million people showed up in DC for Trump's last rally. It was co-opted by Leftists, admittedly so, even, as they led the events at the Capitol, along with corrupt Capitol police and other nefarious agents, and yet the narrative has been controlled to blame Trump. How can this so easily take place? God is not part of America's program anymore.
The wickedness is beyond the pale at this point. Democrats, especially those claiming faith, are hypocrites beyond comparison. They are not ignorant of American history. They just have a totalitarian agenda. This is not to say hypocrisy does not exist in the GOP. It obviously does. D.C. is, after all, a filthy swamp. How few actually live by principle there is anybody's guess.
The Equality Act, if passed, is going to push tens of millions of Americans, maybe 300+ million Americans, all ages, all beliefs, to a breaking point. As Jefferson said - our rights will expire or revive in a convulsion. Time will tell what happens but, it may be a ways off yet. A generation or more. Maybe not. I really do not know.
"What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Stephens Smith (son in law to John Adams), 1787.
How many Americans know that statement? How many are familiar with the entire letter and how it mimics our times, right now, this very year? How many truly understand the issues facing us? That is the only way people and heroes shall arise.
I see a bowl of scrambled eggs that God, alone, sees the atoms of, and where it is all going in the current scheme of things. It could explode in any direction. It may sit and rot.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
UPDATE - I see the Equality Act was passed. It is an attack on the First Amendment and on women. One would hope the Senate will turn it down. I also found out there was bi-partisan support for an alternative Bill - H.R. 5331; The Fairness for All Act. It provided protections for all Americans based on their own convictions within the law. Nobody would be forced by the government to do anything against dictates of conscience. Obviously that Bill was rejected but, depending on the Senate, HR 5331 might be accepted if the E.A. is rejected by that body.
None of this is politics as usual. It is both a worldview and spiritual war, as real as any war ever fought. I am despised because I am a Christian and a Patriot, that believes in Jesus Christ and the Bible, and the Founding documents and the rule of law, a Constitutional Republic of the United States of America. Those who despise me seek to terminate my inalienable rights granted to me by God, the Sovereign of the universe. They are not Americans. They can call themselves anything, and slip and slide from one nomenclature and handle and description they prefer but, Americans DO NOT take rights away from Americans. It is that simple.
If someone wants to paint themselves purple, marry a banana, and pray to a fence post all day long, let them. DO NOT attempt to force me to hire that person. NOBODY has special rights. We all have the same ones, religious convictions being one of them: freedom of conscience. When that is put down, NOTHING BUT tyranny exists, nothing but persecution shall come, nothing but blind and wicked despotism can be in power.
Prayer is one weapon to fight back. Appeals to the Sovereign to step in and put down His enemies that have had decades and decades of warning from both pulpit and podium to turn back. They have rejected appeals. Evil never relents. It must be stopped cold and driven back.
I have written enough about civil war. Now it is just a matter of whether or not one will be fought to save the Republic, or whether the Republic collapses into fragments, or whether the Marxist Leftists gain total control and destroy it all for something else, destined to fail, by the observations of history.
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207. "You Can't Prove God Exists" - February 27, 2021
Have you ever wondered how much music has been written to give honor and praise to God, the God of the Bible down through the last 6,000 years? Add to that any music that has been composed to do the same for other deities mankind has or still does believe in.
Have you ever wondered how much music has been composed to honor ... nothing? If everything came from nothing; that somehow nothing produced everything through an expansion of a hot dot, and lots of time (and a whole bunch of mathematical theories), how many compositions have been made to honor ... nothing? Time. Call it the deity of Time. Call it Naturalism, Materialism, if you like. How many songs and symphonies have been composed to honor Nature as that which is everything but, controls nothing because it is all an accident, it has no control of anything. It just is. Ever heard any songs about that? I suppose there may be some.
Someone comes to me and says, "You cannot prove God exists." So? In reality, I do not need to prove God exists to me. I have experienced God. I was an atheist. I was recreated, changed, born-again in 1979. I have my proof. I experienced salvation. I experienced a peace that literally passes all understanding. I experienced a joy and a love that is beyond anything I have ever experienced before. I became a changed human being, in minutes, literally. I went from an enemy of God, to questioning my beliefs over a period of, maybe a couple months. I wrote to a church address on a Bible study I somehow received in the mail. A Bible worker came to my home. Eleven days after I met him, in one intense moment, I gave my life to the Deity of the Bible, the Creator and Savior, and the reality - though I have had severe ups and downs in the last 42 years - remains intact.
I have Bible prophecy, wherein events were foretold centuries before they happened. The march of empires, or lives of various people, including, most importantly, Christ, the Messiah, the Creator God, come in humanity to save it from sin, from fallen humanity, from the curse. You begin putting all that info together and you begin to realize the odds of all those things happening, coming to pass, faultlessly, are astronomical.
Despite those who worship at the throne of Nature and the Time god, I also have nature as a testimony to a Creator's existence. Everything we see: the design, the order, the beauty, the majesty, the wonder, the complexity, the vastness of it all, tells me it is not possible for it to be an accident and frankly, you cannot prove God does not exist.
Science does not prove or disprove God. The purpose of science is not to prove the existence of deity. The purpose of science is to discover what things are and how they work. In science you have both believer and non-believer who do science every day. Both sides discover things. Both sides invent things. One side wants the other shut down. Even though there is NO empirical, observational, testable, repeatable proof that everything came from nothing, if I believe a Creator put it all here, I am an enemy of science. How can that be when some of THE greatest minds in science down through history were believers in God, the Creator?
Those who say, "You cannot prove God exists" miss the point, entirely because, I ask, "How do you explain it all, with proof: from science or anything else?"
The 'crickets' become a symphony.
The best they can offer is a story of their own. It is not science, by definition. Their belief in origins defies all known observable science. If they want to believe it, so be it. Don't tell me I have to accept their faith in the Time god, the god of accidents they bow before. Not happening. Been there, done that. It is worthless to help anything of a moral nature, and life does consist of morals, or would the atheist like to live in a world where no morals exist. Man, think of that paradise. No morality. Do as thou wilt. A real "The Purge." Oh, yeah. Great fun. Take away conscience and morals and we have ... the animal kingdom. But, we are not animals. We are humans. We did not develop from an ape-like creature. There is zero proof of that. Just more stories. Sadly, there are animals that behave better than some humans. Is that okay with you? Morals come from religion. Take them away and the planet becomes a zoo.
Do you also know, I do not need to explain what God does, does not do, and why or why not? You think you can handle that? Talk about foolishness. Whatever concept one has about deity, if it/they are no smarter than a man, how can it be, by definition, deity? Belief demands I cannot know what God knows, so I cannot possibly judge what God does or does not do. I know the Bible tells me someday all questions shall be answered, all shall be revealed. All shall be shown, and those who love God will say, "Just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of saints!"
God says to me, Did I change you? Yes. Do you believe? Yes. I make no promises for a life without pain. Do you understand that? Yes. Everybody sins and comes short of My character. Do you understand that? Yes. Will you follow and come to Me regardless of how many times you fall? Yes. Do you believe I can change you fully and give you victory over that which defeats you? Yes. Than have faith, My faith, and just keep marching.
That is quite reasonable, to me.
I'm not going to overthink it. There are more things I do not know and understand than that which I do. I cannot give my faith to you. You cannot take it from me. I love you, because God loves you. You may hate me. You may seek to harm me in any number of ways. I have hope, though. I am a prisoner of hope. I believe a better day is coming, one that turns into eternity. Why on Earth should I believe in your questions and need for proof when I have mine already? That's the best you have to offer? Seriously?
I'd rather watch Hummingbirds and believe they are anything BUT, an accident, a series of mutations, the end of thoughtless, directionless, purposeless, mindless time, that could not possibly put together prebiotic chemicals to form life. I can easily believe a Creator made it all than believe in something so empty and void as life from nonliving, unguided, undirected chemicals in a pool of hot muck.
Please. Do let us have common sense.
Have you ever wondered how much music has been composed to honor ... nothing? If everything came from nothing; that somehow nothing produced everything through an expansion of a hot dot, and lots of time (and a whole bunch of mathematical theories), how many compositions have been made to honor ... nothing? Time. Call it the deity of Time. Call it Naturalism, Materialism, if you like. How many songs and symphonies have been composed to honor Nature as that which is everything but, controls nothing because it is all an accident, it has no control of anything. It just is. Ever heard any songs about that? I suppose there may be some.
Someone comes to me and says, "You cannot prove God exists." So? In reality, I do not need to prove God exists to me. I have experienced God. I was an atheist. I was recreated, changed, born-again in 1979. I have my proof. I experienced salvation. I experienced a peace that literally passes all understanding. I experienced a joy and a love that is beyond anything I have ever experienced before. I became a changed human being, in minutes, literally. I went from an enemy of God, to questioning my beliefs over a period of, maybe a couple months. I wrote to a church address on a Bible study I somehow received in the mail. A Bible worker came to my home. Eleven days after I met him, in one intense moment, I gave my life to the Deity of the Bible, the Creator and Savior, and the reality - though I have had severe ups and downs in the last 42 years - remains intact.
I have Bible prophecy, wherein events were foretold centuries before they happened. The march of empires, or lives of various people, including, most importantly, Christ, the Messiah, the Creator God, come in humanity to save it from sin, from fallen humanity, from the curse. You begin putting all that info together and you begin to realize the odds of all those things happening, coming to pass, faultlessly, are astronomical.
Despite those who worship at the throne of Nature and the Time god, I also have nature as a testimony to a Creator's existence. Everything we see: the design, the order, the beauty, the majesty, the wonder, the complexity, the vastness of it all, tells me it is not possible for it to be an accident and frankly, you cannot prove God does not exist.
Science does not prove or disprove God. The purpose of science is not to prove the existence of deity. The purpose of science is to discover what things are and how they work. In science you have both believer and non-believer who do science every day. Both sides discover things. Both sides invent things. One side wants the other shut down. Even though there is NO empirical, observational, testable, repeatable proof that everything came from nothing, if I believe a Creator put it all here, I am an enemy of science. How can that be when some of THE greatest minds in science down through history were believers in God, the Creator?
Those who say, "You cannot prove God exists" miss the point, entirely because, I ask, "How do you explain it all, with proof: from science or anything else?"
The 'crickets' become a symphony.
The best they can offer is a story of their own. It is not science, by definition. Their belief in origins defies all known observable science. If they want to believe it, so be it. Don't tell me I have to accept their faith in the Time god, the god of accidents they bow before. Not happening. Been there, done that. It is worthless to help anything of a moral nature, and life does consist of morals, or would the atheist like to live in a world where no morals exist. Man, think of that paradise. No morality. Do as thou wilt. A real "The Purge." Oh, yeah. Great fun. Take away conscience and morals and we have ... the animal kingdom. But, we are not animals. We are humans. We did not develop from an ape-like creature. There is zero proof of that. Just more stories. Sadly, there are animals that behave better than some humans. Is that okay with you? Morals come from religion. Take them away and the planet becomes a zoo.
Do you also know, I do not need to explain what God does, does not do, and why or why not? You think you can handle that? Talk about foolishness. Whatever concept one has about deity, if it/they are no smarter than a man, how can it be, by definition, deity? Belief demands I cannot know what God knows, so I cannot possibly judge what God does or does not do. I know the Bible tells me someday all questions shall be answered, all shall be revealed. All shall be shown, and those who love God will say, "Just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of saints!"
God says to me, Did I change you? Yes. Do you believe? Yes. I make no promises for a life without pain. Do you understand that? Yes. Everybody sins and comes short of My character. Do you understand that? Yes. Will you follow and come to Me regardless of how many times you fall? Yes. Do you believe I can change you fully and give you victory over that which defeats you? Yes. Than have faith, My faith, and just keep marching.
That is quite reasonable, to me.
I'm not going to overthink it. There are more things I do not know and understand than that which I do. I cannot give my faith to you. You cannot take it from me. I love you, because God loves you. You may hate me. You may seek to harm me in any number of ways. I have hope, though. I am a prisoner of hope. I believe a better day is coming, one that turns into eternity. Why on Earth should I believe in your questions and need for proof when I have mine already? That's the best you have to offer? Seriously?
I'd rather watch Hummingbirds and believe they are anything BUT, an accident, a series of mutations, the end of thoughtless, directionless, purposeless, mindless time, that could not possibly put together prebiotic chemicals to form life. I can easily believe a Creator made it all than believe in something so empty and void as life from nonliving, unguided, undirected chemicals in a pool of hot muck.
Please. Do let us have common sense.
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208. Governor Kristi Noem - February 28, 2021
Okay, so, yes, once again I know my site is about drums and drumming but, last year hit me hard and my sense of being a citizen of this nation developed into more than I have ever felt before. So, yes, I'm a player of the instrument, drum set, but, I also live as a Christian in land sharply divided and close to collapsing. If I cannot comment on that on my own site, well, I shall, regardless of favor or not.
Kristi Noem is "hot." I see that a lot. Frankly, yes, her political star is rising hot, and she is a very attractive woman. I have mentioned her on my blog before. Her obvious statesmanship, her patriotism, conservative values and political stripe place her high among governors in America. She is very much disliked by main stream media, which, for me, puts another feather in her hat. To watch them attempt to trip her up and watch her hold her ground with ease is entertaining, in a very sad sort of way.
My wife watched her speech at CPAC. She had not seen her speak before. She was very impressed and implored me to watch the speech. I watched it last night. It was in the same range, tone, and content as other speeches and interviews I have seen her give.
Some may see Noem as "hot" but, I see her as very cool, and that is her defining feature as an elected civil servant.
She obviously takes care of herself. She carries herself well. She is very articulate but, thee thing that truly impresses me is her calmness. She is deliberate, staunch, solid and that calmness places her as the obvious next President of the United States, IF (big if), she accepted the nod, and I see plenty of people nodding her that way, and IF (big if) current worthless, cowardly, traitorous RINO's are moved out of their controlling positions, and IF (biggest if), the voting system can ever be trusted again. Right now it is obvious a Republican will NEVER be president again, and for most of them it doesn't make any difference. They are all Democrats to one degree or another but, especially will a Conservative Republican never become POTUS again. Not that Trump is a Conservative. He's a patriot businessman and did more for the nation in four years than any four presidents combined. He is the keynote speaker today at CPAC today. I'm not going to watch. I don't see it will make any difference. Personally, I see he had the chance to save the union with some serious moves he chose not to take. And here we are. People will stand and cheer and give him standing O's and all. So what? Is that supposed to stop the torrent of executive orders coming from the non-president's shaking pen in hand? Is that supposed to stop Democrat Marxist Leftists from undoing everything Trump did in his four years? No. If the rigged voting system is not decidedly torn down, elections are meaningless from this point on.
If people think they can fix this with meetings to talk about the next generation of GOP candidates, they are dreaming. They are in political fog banks.
The state legislatures cannot be trusted to follow the laws of their own states. The judges cannot be trusted. That includes the judges Trump sent to SCOTUS. I mentioned here that Barret is not a Conservative, as did any others out there who did some research on her. Same with Kavanaugh. Both went awol on cases addressing the vote fraud. I mean, at least listen to the evidence people have. Nope. Cowards. Maybe deep state held anvils over their heads or their families heads, I don't know. Nothing would surprise me but, that said, did the Founders go forth to fight the mightiest army on earth, knowing it could cost the lives of wives and children? Yes, because freedom and liberty come with sacrifices and prices paid; the highest prices.
Anyway, back to Noem. She seems a real person, while most politicians are fake as plastic bomb shelters. She seems in control, and that is paramount in all situations a president will, must face. Calm, in control.
Her record, though young in SD, is backed by just about everybody in the state. People from all over the nation are moving there. I have looked into it. The term for governors in SD is four years, and two consecutive terms can be taken. Eight years from now she'd be plenty young enough to go for POTUS. Of course, in SD, you sit out a term and you can run again and do another 4/8 year term. It's been done. So, maybe she's happy to just be governor for 8 years and go back to ranching and maybe try again. I reckon she'd be the first to say career politicians is not what the Founders had in mind, though. Term limits are so necessary to save the Republic it is a #1 priority, and the movement for a Constitutional Convention to do just that continues to gain ground.
Obviously, if you have been here reading these blogs you know I believe no politician can save America. Only God can. Only people turning to the Sovereign of the universe just about every State Constitution acknowledged for the rise and maintenance of the Republic to begin with, can save this nation now. Krisi Noem would be a sound investment in civil service for the nation, though. Time will tell how it all plays out for her.
She'd get my vote.
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It's been some hours since I posted this but, I'll add this. When Governor Noem gets the nod to run for POTUS, she should choose Tulsi Gabbard as her running mate. If Gabbard, a Democrat, of the normal variety, chose to run as VP, with their family backgrounds, involved in family businesses, and Gabbard with her military background, both of them highly likeable, and both being real Americans, despite political differences, if they could work together on an America first agenda, stopping all the wars, stopping political lunacy driving D.C., and doing their best to bring people together for the good of the Republic, I would guess 75% of all Americans would support that duo, maybe more. Only the real diehard base of each party might object but, if the fools running their parties could be kept out of the picture, they'd win in the biggest landslide in American history, which means bigger than the landslide Trump just won.
Just sayin.'
Kristi Noem is "hot." I see that a lot. Frankly, yes, her political star is rising hot, and she is a very attractive woman. I have mentioned her on my blog before. Her obvious statesmanship, her patriotism, conservative values and political stripe place her high among governors in America. She is very much disliked by main stream media, which, for me, puts another feather in her hat. To watch them attempt to trip her up and watch her hold her ground with ease is entertaining, in a very sad sort of way.
My wife watched her speech at CPAC. She had not seen her speak before. She was very impressed and implored me to watch the speech. I watched it last night. It was in the same range, tone, and content as other speeches and interviews I have seen her give.
Some may see Noem as "hot" but, I see her as very cool, and that is her defining feature as an elected civil servant.
She obviously takes care of herself. She carries herself well. She is very articulate but, thee thing that truly impresses me is her calmness. She is deliberate, staunch, solid and that calmness places her as the obvious next President of the United States, IF (big if), she accepted the nod, and I see plenty of people nodding her that way, and IF (big if) current worthless, cowardly, traitorous RINO's are moved out of their controlling positions, and IF (biggest if), the voting system can ever be trusted again. Right now it is obvious a Republican will NEVER be president again, and for most of them it doesn't make any difference. They are all Democrats to one degree or another but, especially will a Conservative Republican never become POTUS again. Not that Trump is a Conservative. He's a patriot businessman and did more for the nation in four years than any four presidents combined. He is the keynote speaker today at CPAC today. I'm not going to watch. I don't see it will make any difference. Personally, I see he had the chance to save the union with some serious moves he chose not to take. And here we are. People will stand and cheer and give him standing O's and all. So what? Is that supposed to stop the torrent of executive orders coming from the non-president's shaking pen in hand? Is that supposed to stop Democrat Marxist Leftists from undoing everything Trump did in his four years? No. If the rigged voting system is not decidedly torn down, elections are meaningless from this point on.
If people think they can fix this with meetings to talk about the next generation of GOP candidates, they are dreaming. They are in political fog banks.
The state legislatures cannot be trusted to follow the laws of their own states. The judges cannot be trusted. That includes the judges Trump sent to SCOTUS. I mentioned here that Barret is not a Conservative, as did any others out there who did some research on her. Same with Kavanaugh. Both went awol on cases addressing the vote fraud. I mean, at least listen to the evidence people have. Nope. Cowards. Maybe deep state held anvils over their heads or their families heads, I don't know. Nothing would surprise me but, that said, did the Founders go forth to fight the mightiest army on earth, knowing it could cost the lives of wives and children? Yes, because freedom and liberty come with sacrifices and prices paid; the highest prices.
Anyway, back to Noem. She seems a real person, while most politicians are fake as plastic bomb shelters. She seems in control, and that is paramount in all situations a president will, must face. Calm, in control.
Her record, though young in SD, is backed by just about everybody in the state. People from all over the nation are moving there. I have looked into it. The term for governors in SD is four years, and two consecutive terms can be taken. Eight years from now she'd be plenty young enough to go for POTUS. Of course, in SD, you sit out a term and you can run again and do another 4/8 year term. It's been done. So, maybe she's happy to just be governor for 8 years and go back to ranching and maybe try again. I reckon she'd be the first to say career politicians is not what the Founders had in mind, though. Term limits are so necessary to save the Republic it is a #1 priority, and the movement for a Constitutional Convention to do just that continues to gain ground.
Obviously, if you have been here reading these blogs you know I believe no politician can save America. Only God can. Only people turning to the Sovereign of the universe just about every State Constitution acknowledged for the rise and maintenance of the Republic to begin with, can save this nation now. Krisi Noem would be a sound investment in civil service for the nation, though. Time will tell how it all plays out for her.
She'd get my vote.
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It's been some hours since I posted this but, I'll add this. When Governor Noem gets the nod to run for POTUS, she should choose Tulsi Gabbard as her running mate. If Gabbard, a Democrat, of the normal variety, chose to run as VP, with their family backgrounds, involved in family businesses, and Gabbard with her military background, both of them highly likeable, and both being real Americans, despite political differences, if they could work together on an America first agenda, stopping all the wars, stopping political lunacy driving D.C., and doing their best to bring people together for the good of the Republic, I would guess 75% of all Americans would support that duo, maybe more. Only the real diehard base of each party might object but, if the fools running their parties could be kept out of the picture, they'd win in the biggest landslide in American history, which means bigger than the landslide Trump just won.
Just sayin.'
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209. Everything As Usual? - March 1, 2021
350,000 people will be born today. 150,000 will die.
I see fewer and fewer people wearing masks. Finally, people have either learned the truth of masks and gotten some common sense or, are just tired of them, even as fear factor Fauci tells people to wear two of them. I feel sorry for those whose jobs depend on them wearing masks all day long.
More states are sending children back to school. Other children are put in little tents, spaced six feet apart, to play in the school band. LUNACY on parade.
Science means nothing anymore, even as powers that be shove ridiculous "science" down our throats to control us. There are no longer male and female, and little children can decide what they are, and change as time goes by, and they can choose anything from a dozen different ... categories of human physical existence. Men don't have periods and birth babies but, no matter. Women do not produce sperm but, no matter. Prepubescent children can choose what they want to be, and be given drugs to pull it off. If you do not see a sick confusion in that, you are sick and confused. Seriously. Common sense tells me that. I don't need science.
BTW, how is the feminist movement supposed to operate with any credibility if there is no such thing as a female?
March is here. Spring is around the corner, though some big winter storms can hit and dump a ton of snow.
President Trump spoke at CPAC. Told everybody what they wanted to hear. I didn't watch. I've just seen headlines.
The non-president's feeble physiology is getting worse and worse, and frankly, as I have stated before, it is elder abuse. He won't last a year.
The nation is trying to put "the steal" behind it. Not those who understand its import on all things American rule of law but, those who are too tired, worn out, cowardly, scared or whatever to do anything about it. The steal shows us exactly what the condition of America is - so woefully corrupt it has become a faint shadow of its former self. It is not America anymore. It's a complex web of criminals and corruption at every level of governance.
Governor Cuomo is no longer necessary to carry on the Covid despotism so, his head in now on the chopping block. Imagine his shock to be so high and now, so low. Democrats and those that run the Democrat Party, used him, uses them all, and when done, if there's any loose strings, you cut them off. He's hired a criminal attorney.
Natural disasters have become so common they hardly draw any attention anymore.
UFO activity has now become legit. At one time only weirdos saw them (I was one). Now, Trump gave the cabal 180 days to put it all out there. Will they? Debatable but, the Navy, the CIA, and other agencies have put info out there and legitimized what thousands always knew: they know what they saw and the government has lied for 70 years. People now expect their government, their elected civil servants to lie to them. It's a joke, a political cartoon, the stuff of late night talk show host monologues.
We know the corporate Press lies, is engaged in telling anything to keep people disinformed of things against their agenda, and well-informed, saturated with info they want people to believe. 24/7 they choose to pound what they want and leave real news out in the cold, hoping it will freeze to death and drivel away.
The essence of Patriotism, of Americanism, of truth and justice has softened so much I saw an editorial written by someone at one of the alt news sites stating those Conservative news outlets now muting and censoring talk about election fraud or Covid fraud should be given a pass because if they don't, YouTube will cancel them and too many lives would be impacted by people losing their jobs. Well, job loss, income loss, families to feed and bills to pay are always a pressure pot. So is death. The death of millions of soldiers, police officers, fire fighters, and all first responders fighting the good fight everyday, has generally been the reason everybody is willing to fight but, not anymore. Death to preserve freedom and liberty is no longer on the table. Losing a job is no longer on the table. How could death be on it?
From my perspective I see America is gone now. Some would say, I'm crazy, foolish, ignorant, stupid or any other terms thrown out towards those who see one and only one direction to save the Republic. Well, two. A turning towards God and/or, secession. Hopes of pushing out GOP RINOs so Conservatives can take over the Party is ridiculous. Do you think those in control want to lose their careers and jobs anymore than those too fearful of speaking truth are? Seriously? They have the power and control and the money and you think they are going to be pushed out by the heartland? CPAC was filled with speeches towards that end. Good luck with that.
As near as I can tell from world history the ONLY way corruption is brought down is when the populace rises up and puts it down. That's it. Or, a populace moves out and goes somewhere else to establish freedom and liberty, and then they end up with their own problems of lies and corruption. It is a vicious, human revolving door. It's called sin. Can't escape its influence. Not possible.
It should occur to us that truth, freedom, liberty, living by conscience and rule of law are tenets of something that must be vigilantly and perpetually guarded or it falls. Human nature just cannot hang on to ideals past a couple generations and then fatigue sets in, and the wicked always seem to have more energy and purpose and ideas to gain control than the righteous have to maintain the walls.
Christ said His kingdom shall never fall, nothing will bring it down. That is true. His kingdom is not of this world. That which is of this world, including the United States of America, will fall, will collapse, will come down, one way or another. The USA is so young, too. It's a child compared to other nations around the world. Its place, its corruption came so quickly, as well. It has a destiny. Satan has worked very hard to derail it.
America will fulfill its prophetic destiny somehow, someway, some day. I saw it all happening, coming into place back in the 80's. Then, everything seemed to come unglued. Multinational corporations now have more power than governments. Technology corporations have more power than governments. The World Health Organization, as corrupt an outfit as any out there, controls the planetary response to a virus over 99% of people that get it will not only survive but, not even know they have it, in their survival of it. They shut down the civilized world with nothing, NOTHING more than poor predictions and fear mongering. Think of that.
"Everything goes on as usual" is a constantly changing goal post. Nothing is usual. Many realize it. Most do not. They just go with the flow. Those who try to point things out are marginalized. The cabal cannot have voices of truth gaining influence. What is truth? Pilate asked that of Christ. Logic says the way that conversation ended, may as well lie. No. Exactly the opposite.
I know the world is coming to an end. That's as obvious as a train wreck. Bible prophecy is what it is, says what it says, and will happen, regardless of what the Devil and man try to do to circumvent the Authority of the Living God. The end is coming. Call it slow, call it fast, call it hedged in and on a detour by corruption in the churches of the world, whatever. Doesn't matter. The end will come. A remnant shall rise. Christ shall return. God is in control.
Do you know where you fit into it all? I don't. I used to. Time and life have changed that. Getting older has changed that. A stroke has changed that. Circumstances and conditions have changed that. I don't know what is going on. I only know it isn't going to go on perpetually. That I am totally, absolutely, unequivocally sure of.
Read a Bible. Make it your Bible. And get ready, get ready, get ready. I hear the footsteps of an approaching God.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I see fewer and fewer people wearing masks. Finally, people have either learned the truth of masks and gotten some common sense or, are just tired of them, even as fear factor Fauci tells people to wear two of them. I feel sorry for those whose jobs depend on them wearing masks all day long.
More states are sending children back to school. Other children are put in little tents, spaced six feet apart, to play in the school band. LUNACY on parade.
Science means nothing anymore, even as powers that be shove ridiculous "science" down our throats to control us. There are no longer male and female, and little children can decide what they are, and change as time goes by, and they can choose anything from a dozen different ... categories of human physical existence. Men don't have periods and birth babies but, no matter. Women do not produce sperm but, no matter. Prepubescent children can choose what they want to be, and be given drugs to pull it off. If you do not see a sick confusion in that, you are sick and confused. Seriously. Common sense tells me that. I don't need science.
BTW, how is the feminist movement supposed to operate with any credibility if there is no such thing as a female?
March is here. Spring is around the corner, though some big winter storms can hit and dump a ton of snow.
President Trump spoke at CPAC. Told everybody what they wanted to hear. I didn't watch. I've just seen headlines.
The non-president's feeble physiology is getting worse and worse, and frankly, as I have stated before, it is elder abuse. He won't last a year.
The nation is trying to put "the steal" behind it. Not those who understand its import on all things American rule of law but, those who are too tired, worn out, cowardly, scared or whatever to do anything about it. The steal shows us exactly what the condition of America is - so woefully corrupt it has become a faint shadow of its former self. It is not America anymore. It's a complex web of criminals and corruption at every level of governance.
Governor Cuomo is no longer necessary to carry on the Covid despotism so, his head in now on the chopping block. Imagine his shock to be so high and now, so low. Democrats and those that run the Democrat Party, used him, uses them all, and when done, if there's any loose strings, you cut them off. He's hired a criminal attorney.
Natural disasters have become so common they hardly draw any attention anymore.
UFO activity has now become legit. At one time only weirdos saw them (I was one). Now, Trump gave the cabal 180 days to put it all out there. Will they? Debatable but, the Navy, the CIA, and other agencies have put info out there and legitimized what thousands always knew: they know what they saw and the government has lied for 70 years. People now expect their government, their elected civil servants to lie to them. It's a joke, a political cartoon, the stuff of late night talk show host monologues.
We know the corporate Press lies, is engaged in telling anything to keep people disinformed of things against their agenda, and well-informed, saturated with info they want people to believe. 24/7 they choose to pound what they want and leave real news out in the cold, hoping it will freeze to death and drivel away.
The essence of Patriotism, of Americanism, of truth and justice has softened so much I saw an editorial written by someone at one of the alt news sites stating those Conservative news outlets now muting and censoring talk about election fraud or Covid fraud should be given a pass because if they don't, YouTube will cancel them and too many lives would be impacted by people losing their jobs. Well, job loss, income loss, families to feed and bills to pay are always a pressure pot. So is death. The death of millions of soldiers, police officers, fire fighters, and all first responders fighting the good fight everyday, has generally been the reason everybody is willing to fight but, not anymore. Death to preserve freedom and liberty is no longer on the table. Losing a job is no longer on the table. How could death be on it?
From my perspective I see America is gone now. Some would say, I'm crazy, foolish, ignorant, stupid or any other terms thrown out towards those who see one and only one direction to save the Republic. Well, two. A turning towards God and/or, secession. Hopes of pushing out GOP RINOs so Conservatives can take over the Party is ridiculous. Do you think those in control want to lose their careers and jobs anymore than those too fearful of speaking truth are? Seriously? They have the power and control and the money and you think they are going to be pushed out by the heartland? CPAC was filled with speeches towards that end. Good luck with that.
As near as I can tell from world history the ONLY way corruption is brought down is when the populace rises up and puts it down. That's it. Or, a populace moves out and goes somewhere else to establish freedom and liberty, and then they end up with their own problems of lies and corruption. It is a vicious, human revolving door. It's called sin. Can't escape its influence. Not possible.
It should occur to us that truth, freedom, liberty, living by conscience and rule of law are tenets of something that must be vigilantly and perpetually guarded or it falls. Human nature just cannot hang on to ideals past a couple generations and then fatigue sets in, and the wicked always seem to have more energy and purpose and ideas to gain control than the righteous have to maintain the walls.
Christ said His kingdom shall never fall, nothing will bring it down. That is true. His kingdom is not of this world. That which is of this world, including the United States of America, will fall, will collapse, will come down, one way or another. The USA is so young, too. It's a child compared to other nations around the world. Its place, its corruption came so quickly, as well. It has a destiny. Satan has worked very hard to derail it.
America will fulfill its prophetic destiny somehow, someway, some day. I saw it all happening, coming into place back in the 80's. Then, everything seemed to come unglued. Multinational corporations now have more power than governments. Technology corporations have more power than governments. The World Health Organization, as corrupt an outfit as any out there, controls the planetary response to a virus over 99% of people that get it will not only survive but, not even know they have it, in their survival of it. They shut down the civilized world with nothing, NOTHING more than poor predictions and fear mongering. Think of that.
"Everything goes on as usual" is a constantly changing goal post. Nothing is usual. Many realize it. Most do not. They just go with the flow. Those who try to point things out are marginalized. The cabal cannot have voices of truth gaining influence. What is truth? Pilate asked that of Christ. Logic says the way that conversation ended, may as well lie. No. Exactly the opposite.
I know the world is coming to an end. That's as obvious as a train wreck. Bible prophecy is what it is, says what it says, and will happen, regardless of what the Devil and man try to do to circumvent the Authority of the Living God. The end is coming. Call it slow, call it fast, call it hedged in and on a detour by corruption in the churches of the world, whatever. Doesn't matter. The end will come. A remnant shall rise. Christ shall return. God is in control.
Do you know where you fit into it all? I don't. I used to. Time and life have changed that. Getting older has changed that. A stroke has changed that. Circumstances and conditions have changed that. I don't know what is going on. I only know it isn't going to go on perpetually. That I am totally, absolutely, unequivocally sure of.
Read a Bible. Make it your Bible. And get ready, get ready, get ready. I hear the footsteps of an approaching God.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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210. Watching It All Fall Apart
Watching a completely divided nation fall apart is interesting, to say the least. If it weren't for my stroke and getting better, I'd probably be a lot more upset. At my age, knowing time hastens on apace, and a dusty bed is closer on the horizon, it just doesn't pay to get bent out of shape. Like me, millions of Americans realize there is nothing they can do. Nothing but, watch the corruption turn the swamp into a total cesspool.
That isn't to say, I do not get upset and raise my BP a little, or a lot, as the case may be. I just know the elements that drive a nation forward or backward are beyond my control. This is the territory of God.
Looking at headlines is like looking at a political comic book. Or better, political cartoons. It is hard to fathom anyone with any amount of logic and common sense would never think of a Dr. Suess book as racist. Then I see a headline that these 6 books the publisher/distributer has removed from its list are selling for hundreds of dollars on Ebay. Stupidity made things collector's items in minutes.
Frankly, I remain mystified how children are getting away with telling the adults how to act, what they can and cannot do. In supposed institutions of "higher learning" the kids tell the adults how to run the schools. Forgive me but, if you do not see irony in this train wreck you must be a parent of one of these snowflakes.
The non-president and his political party spent FOUR YEARS DOING NOTHING BUT ATTACKING DONALD TRUMP. Now, he and they are doing the exact things they chastised, berated, accused, and attacked him, relentlessly for. It is an amazing display of hypocrisy I have never beheld in my lifetime.
The vast majority of Americans see this insanity taking place, NOBODY in any position of authority speaking out on it, and we are all wondering when is America done? It cannot go on like this, obviously. Those who hate America and are swiftly working to bring it down, are winning.
There are no champions. There are no heroes. There are no people rising up to inspire a wave of true patriotism and fight that can make a difference. Logically, America is going to crack and fall. Into what, I do not know.
Now, as I say, over and over, God is in control. I know people coast to coast are pleading with Him to do something to stop the madness. I have also posed the premise, why should He? America is reaping what it has sown, something many of the Founders knew would happen, because it always does happen when people become complacent. Eternal vigilance or complacency. That's it. I have written about the four waves. We are in the wave of corruption now. How long it will take to bring America back to another rise of liberty after it falls is anyone's guess. Maybe it will no longer be the United States of America. Maybe it will be and/or be called something else. A lot can happen in a year, can't it? 2020 will be remembered as the year foreign powers began to take control of America. Politically, medically, financially, morally, technologically, name it. Some outside power and money is behind it now. A little man named Fauci became emperor. A mentally disabled, old man became president through total corruption and criminal handlers. Billionaires and technology giants controlled the information highway. Kids ruled the streets, knocked everything down, set it all on fire, and the adults called it "peaceful protesting." The venerated FBI leader releases a statement that no non-Trump supporters were part of the Jan. 6th attack on the Capitol, when there are videos, and personal testimonies online, on social platforms of those very people BRAGGING they not only took part but, instigated it.
You cannot make this stuff up. Morons are running America.
NO nation has stood down through history when things become a think tank for selfish, useful idiots.
It may be I shall not be around to witness the fall of the greatest nation in history. My children will be. Certainly grand children, should I have any. On the other hand, the way things are going, unfortunately, I'll still be alive.
That isn't to say, I do not get upset and raise my BP a little, or a lot, as the case may be. I just know the elements that drive a nation forward or backward are beyond my control. This is the territory of God.
Looking at headlines is like looking at a political comic book. Or better, political cartoons. It is hard to fathom anyone with any amount of logic and common sense would never think of a Dr. Suess book as racist. Then I see a headline that these 6 books the publisher/distributer has removed from its list are selling for hundreds of dollars on Ebay. Stupidity made things collector's items in minutes.
Frankly, I remain mystified how children are getting away with telling the adults how to act, what they can and cannot do. In supposed institutions of "higher learning" the kids tell the adults how to run the schools. Forgive me but, if you do not see irony in this train wreck you must be a parent of one of these snowflakes.
The non-president and his political party spent FOUR YEARS DOING NOTHING BUT ATTACKING DONALD TRUMP. Now, he and they are doing the exact things they chastised, berated, accused, and attacked him, relentlessly for. It is an amazing display of hypocrisy I have never beheld in my lifetime.
The vast majority of Americans see this insanity taking place, NOBODY in any position of authority speaking out on it, and we are all wondering when is America done? It cannot go on like this, obviously. Those who hate America and are swiftly working to bring it down, are winning.
There are no champions. There are no heroes. There are no people rising up to inspire a wave of true patriotism and fight that can make a difference. Logically, America is going to crack and fall. Into what, I do not know.
Now, as I say, over and over, God is in control. I know people coast to coast are pleading with Him to do something to stop the madness. I have also posed the premise, why should He? America is reaping what it has sown, something many of the Founders knew would happen, because it always does happen when people become complacent. Eternal vigilance or complacency. That's it. I have written about the four waves. We are in the wave of corruption now. How long it will take to bring America back to another rise of liberty after it falls is anyone's guess. Maybe it will no longer be the United States of America. Maybe it will be and/or be called something else. A lot can happen in a year, can't it? 2020 will be remembered as the year foreign powers began to take control of America. Politically, medically, financially, morally, technologically, name it. Some outside power and money is behind it now. A little man named Fauci became emperor. A mentally disabled, old man became president through total corruption and criminal handlers. Billionaires and technology giants controlled the information highway. Kids ruled the streets, knocked everything down, set it all on fire, and the adults called it "peaceful protesting." The venerated FBI leader releases a statement that no non-Trump supporters were part of the Jan. 6th attack on the Capitol, when there are videos, and personal testimonies online, on social platforms of those very people BRAGGING they not only took part but, instigated it.
You cannot make this stuff up. Morons are running America.
NO nation has stood down through history when things become a think tank for selfish, useful idiots.
It may be I shall not be around to witness the fall of the greatest nation in history. My children will be. Certainly grand children, should I have any. On the other hand, the way things are going, unfortunately, I'll still be alive.
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211. TEXIT - March 3, 2021
"Texit," is, of course, like other "exits;" a take on "Brexit," the coined term for the British exit of the UK from the European Union.
A Texas GOP legislator is planning on placing a bill before the TX legislature, that the people of Texas be allowed to vote on a referendum for the state to secede from the Union. Of course, there is NO union between states that want to abide by the Constitution and lawful, transparent, honest elections, and those that could not care less. The "Union" no longer exists, by virtue of monumental corruption at every level and office of government.
And now, Allen West, the GOP Party chair, says, Sure, let the people vote. It's in the Sate Constitution. Follow it!; causing people to go apoplectic over his comments. In seeing about the story it took me 6 pages of search hits to find a story not associated with the main stream media's instant attacks and twisted commentary on it. Man, the msm can lie and twist and pervert the truth. It's astonishing to read how they put a story together.
Lots would go into this, and it all has to be taken into consideration. A backed currency, a military, three branches of government, with all the people necessary to run a nation, and given the size of Texas, larger than a bunch of Euro nations, and its generally strong economy, everybody here knows Texas could pull it off. And many are scared.
You see THIS time, it is not about state's rights to do something wrong, as was 1860 and wanting slavery. No, no. This time it is about state's rights to do something RIGHT - follow the Constitution and the rule of law already in place!
Works for me.
I don't like living here. I have mentioned it many times. The incredible heat, humidity, dirty air, and dangerous critters make it a place that, for me, often seems like another planet. I had to come to Texas to realize you cannot walk outside in your bare feet. Between the Fire Ants and the Velvet Ants (which are wasps), you just do not do it. I suppose that applies to other hot, southern states, as well.
On the flip side, while I have constantly cringed at Texans all masked up and abiding by Fuhrer Fauci's ceaseless fearmongering, they do seem to have a more positive attitude towards the Constitution, at least up here. The closer you get to Austin, the more Leftists you encounter, including at the State Capitol. Abbott, I suppose he's better than many governors but, I've been disappointed in him, especially in the last year with the Covid nonsense. Governors should NEVER be given the authority to shut a state down. Never. People must be left free to decide health and business issues for themselves, as was the case in South Dakota, as well as Sweden. Abbott made choices that demolished small businesses and families. He began to relent sooner than most but, the damage has been done.
Now that I am here and probably stuck here, if the people vote to secede (I would), I'd have absolutely no sense of loss. I want inalienable rights granted by God, respected. I want the Constitution followed. I want elected civil servants to understand and abide by Constitutional limitations upon their governance of the people who elect them to serve, not reign. If I can have real and true freedom and liberty and rule of law, I'll put up with the heat and humidity and the critters, and a car being dirty the second day after you wash it.
TEXIT!
Bring it on.
A Texas GOP legislator is planning on placing a bill before the TX legislature, that the people of Texas be allowed to vote on a referendum for the state to secede from the Union. Of course, there is NO union between states that want to abide by the Constitution and lawful, transparent, honest elections, and those that could not care less. The "Union" no longer exists, by virtue of monumental corruption at every level and office of government.
And now, Allen West, the GOP Party chair, says, Sure, let the people vote. It's in the Sate Constitution. Follow it!; causing people to go apoplectic over his comments. In seeing about the story it took me 6 pages of search hits to find a story not associated with the main stream media's instant attacks and twisted commentary on it. Man, the msm can lie and twist and pervert the truth. It's astonishing to read how they put a story together.
Lots would go into this, and it all has to be taken into consideration. A backed currency, a military, three branches of government, with all the people necessary to run a nation, and given the size of Texas, larger than a bunch of Euro nations, and its generally strong economy, everybody here knows Texas could pull it off. And many are scared.
You see THIS time, it is not about state's rights to do something wrong, as was 1860 and wanting slavery. No, no. This time it is about state's rights to do something RIGHT - follow the Constitution and the rule of law already in place!
Works for me.
I don't like living here. I have mentioned it many times. The incredible heat, humidity, dirty air, and dangerous critters make it a place that, for me, often seems like another planet. I had to come to Texas to realize you cannot walk outside in your bare feet. Between the Fire Ants and the Velvet Ants (which are wasps), you just do not do it. I suppose that applies to other hot, southern states, as well.
On the flip side, while I have constantly cringed at Texans all masked up and abiding by Fuhrer Fauci's ceaseless fearmongering, they do seem to have a more positive attitude towards the Constitution, at least up here. The closer you get to Austin, the more Leftists you encounter, including at the State Capitol. Abbott, I suppose he's better than many governors but, I've been disappointed in him, especially in the last year with the Covid nonsense. Governors should NEVER be given the authority to shut a state down. Never. People must be left free to decide health and business issues for themselves, as was the case in South Dakota, as well as Sweden. Abbott made choices that demolished small businesses and families. He began to relent sooner than most but, the damage has been done.
Now that I am here and probably stuck here, if the people vote to secede (I would), I'd have absolutely no sense of loss. I want inalienable rights granted by God, respected. I want the Constitution followed. I want elected civil servants to understand and abide by Constitutional limitations upon their governance of the people who elect them to serve, not reign. If I can have real and true freedom and liberty and rule of law, I'll put up with the heat and humidity and the critters, and a car being dirty the second day after you wash it.
TEXIT!
Bring it on.
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212. Masks Are Gone! Well, sort of - March 4, 2021
So, as I mentioned, Gov. Abbott finally pulled down the mask mandate. Even though plenty of Texans not only refused the mandate but, haven't been wearing masks for months, the state has reached medical "herd immunity" and "cases" are slowing way down.
Now remember, before I carry on, there are dozens and DOZENS of studies, and THOUSANDS of health care professionals all over the world who state and show masks do not stop the virus beyond larger droplets from sneezing or coughing. The average particle size of the virus goes right through the best masks like paint thrown at a chain link fence. I have posted so much (and nowhere near all) of that evidence, which I just copied and pasted from news sites around the globe, that looking at anyone wear a mask for protection from the virus, especially in their own homes, cars, and outside in the fresh air, it is obvious the program of mis and disinformation and fear mongering worked so well, it crushed the economies of a large part of the civilized world and made free people slaves of despots and fools, and obviously wannabe dictators, so full of themselves they ruined their own nations and states with their idiotic tyranny. Yes, I speak plainly. I've had enough. Had enough a year ago as I watched this debacle grow into the biggest takeover of humanity in human history.
Despite Abbott declaring masks are no longer mandated necessary (wear them if you want to), 13 companies in Texas are retaining their own mandates for employees and customers. I'm going to link an article and copy and paste statements from some of the companies.
https://trendingpolitics.com/13-woke-corporations-fighting-back-against-texas-mask-mandate-repeal-knab/
(emphasis mine)
TARGET
“Target will continue requiring guests to wear masks in all of its stores, the company’s spokesman said, adding that the big-box retailer also required all store team members to wear masks at work, and provided them with reusable and disposable masks,” Fox Business reported.
You have to love that. "Guests" and "team members." I went to a Target a couple months ago. I wore no mask. Nobody on the team said anything.
STARBUCKS
"Starbucks will continue to enforce a storewide mask mandate, WSJ reported."
“The company is committed to playing a constructive role in supporting health and government officials as they work to mitigate the spread of COVID-19,” Starbucks said in its July statement.
I'm confused. First, how do people drink coffee wearing a mask? Do you constantly have to pull it down, which means handling it, over and over? How do you support health officials who say NOT to touch your mask? How do you support government officials (guided by healthcare professionals), who have dropped the mandate, by keeping a company mandate in place? Third, a couple hundred million people, or more, wearing masks since last March/April, did not mitigate the spread of the virus in America or anywhere else, did it? All we saw for all of 2020 was a rise in "cases" even as the death rate, spiked by corruption of facts and figures, stayed below other far worse public health threats in the last century. So, the company is committed to keeping in place a protocol that does not work. Leftist, anyone?
MACY's
“Relaxing common-sense safety protocols like wearing masks is a mistake,” said Jason Brewer, vice president of Communications and State Affairs at the Retail Industry Leaders Association. Brewer added that undoing the policies would “unfairly put retail employees back in the role of enforcing guidelines still recommended by the CDC and other public health advocates.”
What definition of 'common sense' requires people to breathe in their own stale air for eight, ten, twelve hours a day, even outside? How is it common sense to disregard the statements of THOUSANDS of doctors, even dentists, and other health professionals around the world, trying to put out the truth that masks do not work, and can be harmful, and fearmongering Fauci stated the same a year ago? The CDC has been anything BUT consistent throughout this entire mess.
Abbott made the declaration based on health advocates in Texas, not the other side of the world in the W.H.O. The CDC has made so many glaring admissions of screwing this situation up it could fill a booklet.
TOYOTA
The company is looking into but, has no immediate changes to put in place, according to Fox business news.
HYATT REGENCY HOTELS
Same. And it should be mentioned (you'll see a link in the article) HYATT apologized for jumping on board a stupendously ridiculous conspiracy theory that the stage at CPAC contained NAZI imagery. The company that designed the stage also designed them for Biden and MSNBC. The company contributed 98% of donations to Democrats. You cannot make this stuff up.
CVS
“CVS, which began mandating masks at all stores nationwide in July as more scientific data emerged showing that face coverings help slow the virus’s spread, will continue to require them, a spokesman said,” WSJ reported. “He said CVS will continue to follow federal health guidelines.”
This is so incredible I can only shake my head. WHAT scientific data? Where can this be seen? There is NO scientific data showing masks slow the spread of the virus beyond droplets larger than the smallest mask weave. If the claim were true, this should have been over last year. Now, Fauci says wear 2 masks! Why? Because one does not work!
WALGREEN
They shall continue their policy, as well.
AMC
The theater chain will continue their mask policy.
GM
“We’ll keep our COVID-19 safety protocols in place to ensure we continue to protect our employees,” GM spokesman Patrick Morrissey said.
Masks do not protect anyone from virus particles smaller than all mask weaves, which is the majority of virus particles in the air. If someone has the virus and has gotten noticeably ill, coughing and sneezing, what are they doing going to work?!
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE CINEMA
Never heard of it but, they'll keep their policy going, even though the company has filed for bankruptcy. Yep, the mandates sure helped their company prosper and stay afloat.
ALDI
“For the health and well-being of the communities we serve and for the protection of our employees, we will maintain our current nationwide policy requiring all employees and customers to wear a face covering when shopping in our stores. We will continue to assess any new guidelines issued by the CDC, and will keep our customers informed of any future changes.”
Not only has it been unequivocally proven masks do not work in stopping almost all typically sized virus particles, if you leave masks for "face coverings" the odds go down dramatically. I mean, seriously. Cotton T-shirt material and all the rest of the "fashion conscious" spread stoppers out there?
I fail to see how people can be so wrong and truly believe they are so right. Of course, that is exactly what the Bible states about the end of time. Enemies of God thinking they are doing God's service. So, it can happen and will happen. Regardless of the easy access to truth, people will believe lies when they are told them often enough.
H-E-B/CENTRAL MARKET and KROGER
Both are keeping mandates in place until all workers can receive the vaccine. Is that mandating employees get the vaccine??? You could not pay me enough to work at a place that thinks it can make health decisions for me like that. That is absolutely revolting.
I told my wife yesterday, I believe, based on the evidence, common sense has been lost by the majority of Americans. It has to be. Studies now show more young people have committed suicide than caught the virus with any serious effects. The rate of survival from all cases, worldwide, is OVER 99% recovery. Most people who get it will never even know it, their symptoms will be so mild. Yet people have allowed themselves, their families, their businesses, and their nations to be controlled by medical morons and/or tyrants. How did this happen?
Is it the influence of television, movies, and other forms of entertainment? Has it literally skewed reality for people? What is it? What causes such mass-hysteria and willing obedience?
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." That is what God says in His word. It's a principle that never fails to bring about its horrid results.
If your source of education and information is not solid and true, making shipwreck of a life, a family, a business, a nation, and the world is a given. It's coming.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Now remember, before I carry on, there are dozens and DOZENS of studies, and THOUSANDS of health care professionals all over the world who state and show masks do not stop the virus beyond larger droplets from sneezing or coughing. The average particle size of the virus goes right through the best masks like paint thrown at a chain link fence. I have posted so much (and nowhere near all) of that evidence, which I just copied and pasted from news sites around the globe, that looking at anyone wear a mask for protection from the virus, especially in their own homes, cars, and outside in the fresh air, it is obvious the program of mis and disinformation and fear mongering worked so well, it crushed the economies of a large part of the civilized world and made free people slaves of despots and fools, and obviously wannabe dictators, so full of themselves they ruined their own nations and states with their idiotic tyranny. Yes, I speak plainly. I've had enough. Had enough a year ago as I watched this debacle grow into the biggest takeover of humanity in human history.
Despite Abbott declaring masks are no longer mandated necessary (wear them if you want to), 13 companies in Texas are retaining their own mandates for employees and customers. I'm going to link an article and copy and paste statements from some of the companies.
https://trendingpolitics.com/13-woke-corporations-fighting-back-against-texas-mask-mandate-repeal-knab/
(emphasis mine)
TARGET
“Target will continue requiring guests to wear masks in all of its stores, the company’s spokesman said, adding that the big-box retailer also required all store team members to wear masks at work, and provided them with reusable and disposable masks,” Fox Business reported.
You have to love that. "Guests" and "team members." I went to a Target a couple months ago. I wore no mask. Nobody on the team said anything.
STARBUCKS
"Starbucks will continue to enforce a storewide mask mandate, WSJ reported."
“The company is committed to playing a constructive role in supporting health and government officials as they work to mitigate the spread of COVID-19,” Starbucks said in its July statement.
I'm confused. First, how do people drink coffee wearing a mask? Do you constantly have to pull it down, which means handling it, over and over? How do you support health officials who say NOT to touch your mask? How do you support government officials (guided by healthcare professionals), who have dropped the mandate, by keeping a company mandate in place? Third, a couple hundred million people, or more, wearing masks since last March/April, did not mitigate the spread of the virus in America or anywhere else, did it? All we saw for all of 2020 was a rise in "cases" even as the death rate, spiked by corruption of facts and figures, stayed below other far worse public health threats in the last century. So, the company is committed to keeping in place a protocol that does not work. Leftist, anyone?
MACY's
“Relaxing common-sense safety protocols like wearing masks is a mistake,” said Jason Brewer, vice president of Communications and State Affairs at the Retail Industry Leaders Association. Brewer added that undoing the policies would “unfairly put retail employees back in the role of enforcing guidelines still recommended by the CDC and other public health advocates.”
What definition of 'common sense' requires people to breathe in their own stale air for eight, ten, twelve hours a day, even outside? How is it common sense to disregard the statements of THOUSANDS of doctors, even dentists, and other health professionals around the world, trying to put out the truth that masks do not work, and can be harmful, and fearmongering Fauci stated the same a year ago? The CDC has been anything BUT consistent throughout this entire mess.
Abbott made the declaration based on health advocates in Texas, not the other side of the world in the W.H.O. The CDC has made so many glaring admissions of screwing this situation up it could fill a booklet.
TOYOTA
The company is looking into but, has no immediate changes to put in place, according to Fox business news.
HYATT REGENCY HOTELS
Same. And it should be mentioned (you'll see a link in the article) HYATT apologized for jumping on board a stupendously ridiculous conspiracy theory that the stage at CPAC contained NAZI imagery. The company that designed the stage also designed them for Biden and MSNBC. The company contributed 98% of donations to Democrats. You cannot make this stuff up.
CVS
“CVS, which began mandating masks at all stores nationwide in July as more scientific data emerged showing that face coverings help slow the virus’s spread, will continue to require them, a spokesman said,” WSJ reported. “He said CVS will continue to follow federal health guidelines.”
This is so incredible I can only shake my head. WHAT scientific data? Where can this be seen? There is NO scientific data showing masks slow the spread of the virus beyond droplets larger than the smallest mask weave. If the claim were true, this should have been over last year. Now, Fauci says wear 2 masks! Why? Because one does not work!
WALGREEN
They shall continue their policy, as well.
AMC
The theater chain will continue their mask policy.
GM
“We’ll keep our COVID-19 safety protocols in place to ensure we continue to protect our employees,” GM spokesman Patrick Morrissey said.
Masks do not protect anyone from virus particles smaller than all mask weaves, which is the majority of virus particles in the air. If someone has the virus and has gotten noticeably ill, coughing and sneezing, what are they doing going to work?!
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE CINEMA
Never heard of it but, they'll keep their policy going, even though the company has filed for bankruptcy. Yep, the mandates sure helped their company prosper and stay afloat.
ALDI
“For the health and well-being of the communities we serve and for the protection of our employees, we will maintain our current nationwide policy requiring all employees and customers to wear a face covering when shopping in our stores. We will continue to assess any new guidelines issued by the CDC, and will keep our customers informed of any future changes.”
Not only has it been unequivocally proven masks do not work in stopping almost all typically sized virus particles, if you leave masks for "face coverings" the odds go down dramatically. I mean, seriously. Cotton T-shirt material and all the rest of the "fashion conscious" spread stoppers out there?
I fail to see how people can be so wrong and truly believe they are so right. Of course, that is exactly what the Bible states about the end of time. Enemies of God thinking they are doing God's service. So, it can happen and will happen. Regardless of the easy access to truth, people will believe lies when they are told them often enough.
H-E-B/CENTRAL MARKET and KROGER
Both are keeping mandates in place until all workers can receive the vaccine. Is that mandating employees get the vaccine??? You could not pay me enough to work at a place that thinks it can make health decisions for me like that. That is absolutely revolting.
I told my wife yesterday, I believe, based on the evidence, common sense has been lost by the majority of Americans. It has to be. Studies now show more young people have committed suicide than caught the virus with any serious effects. The rate of survival from all cases, worldwide, is OVER 99% recovery. Most people who get it will never even know it, their symptoms will be so mild. Yet people have allowed themselves, their families, their businesses, and their nations to be controlled by medical morons and/or tyrants. How did this happen?
Is it the influence of television, movies, and other forms of entertainment? Has it literally skewed reality for people? What is it? What causes such mass-hysteria and willing obedience?
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." That is what God says in His word. It's a principle that never fails to bring about its horrid results.
If your source of education and information is not solid and true, making shipwreck of a life, a family, a business, a nation, and the world is a given. It's coming.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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213. John MacArthur/Freedom of Religion - March 5, 2021
"John MacArthur Urges Christians Not to Support Religious Freedom: 'I Won't Fight for Idolatry'
"Milton Quintanilla | Contributor for ChristianHeadlines.com | Thursday, March 4, 2021
"Pastor-teacher John MacArthur of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California recently argued that supporting religious freedom is idolatry, The Christian Post reports.
"On Wednesday, MacArthur delivered a State of the Church Address in place of this year’s annual Shepherds Conference, which was postponed because of “ongoing litigation" and "recent threats" from the state. About 3,000 men were expected to join.
"During Wednesday’s address, MacArthur urged evangelicals to stop creating alliances with non-Christian groups in pushing for religious freedom arguing that it’s unnecessary.
“The Gospel offends the sinner and seeks to break the sinner’s comfort and contentment by bringing him into the stark realization of the eternal judgment of God,” MacArthur explained.
"He noted that evangelicals “have become like Peter” because “they are looking for alliances with Satan that they think somehow can aid the Kingdom.”
“I told our congregation a few weeks ago that I could never really concern myself with religious freedom. I wouldn’t fight for religious freedom because I won’t fight for idolatry. Why would I fight for the devil to have as many false religions as possible and all of them to be available to everyone?” he asked.
"Despite religious freedom having wide support amongst Americans, MacArthur noted that Christians will continue to be targeted by “the hostility of sinners”.
“Well, people would say that’s a terrible thing to say. What about Christianity? Christianity advances whether there is religious freedom or not,” he asserted. “And there’ll always be religious freedom for all the lies.”
"The 81-year-old pastor and author explained that “every false religion is going to be free because it’s linked to the kingdom of darkness that operates in the world. And Christians, whatever the label of religious freedom might be in its broadest sense, Christians are always the target even with religious freedom, of the hostility of sinners.”
"To drive home his point, MacArthur pointed to the Apostles who “turned the world down with no help from it. No social action. No alliances.”
“The evil kingdom of darkness hates what God loves and loves everything that God hates, and the kingdom of darkness is never a friend to the light,” he contended. “Even rulers have exchanged the truth of God for a lie. … They function under the liar Satan himself who [is] the liar and father of lies. There is absolutely no reason for us to make any alliance with him.”
"MacArthur also cited multiple Bible passages highlighting the church’s mandate, including Ephesians 5:5-8:
“For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. Therefore, do not be partners with them. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord,” the NIV version of the Scripture says." "
https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/milton-quintanilla/john-macarthur-urges-christians-not-to-support-religious-freedom-i-wont-fight-for-idolatry.html
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I placed the entire article here for context. I believe this man's position is one of the most foolish I have ever seen from a professed Christian, a leader in a part of ... well, there's the rub. I believe Mr. MacArthur is confused. Confusion is Babylon, and there are things that Mr. MacArthur believes that are not Scriptural. That very circumstance affects how such theologians come up with their ideas.
I have no problem with not making alliances with antagonists in the world, in some attempt to help the Kingdom. The Bible says what it says - do not yoke yourselves with unbelievers. Do not be a friend of the world, when they are enemies of God and thus we become enemies of God. As MacArthur states, the Bible is right there, pronouncing a war of light against darkness.
There are plenty of Scriptures to that end. But, there is another side to this coin. John MacArthur believes Christians should vote. He endorsed people voting for Trump or any "pagan" that will do the least harm to the church. He also said no Christian could ever vote for Biden.
The only way you legally vote is by being a citizen of the United States. We are free and have inalienable rights granted by God in this Constitutional Republic. Is MacArthur stating what God has granted us, in a nation not run by a theocracy but, principles of the kingdom and just laws, nonetheless, should be abandoned?
People say Trump, well, Trump said he'd be the Christians best friend ever. Was he? Honestly, there was much he could do to stop the traitors in their tracks and chose not to do them, which handed the nation over to anti-christian, diehard secularists and traitors. So, which column does John MacArthur get a check in? Yay or Nay?
Christians are citizens of a Kingdom, not of this world. That said, the Founders established America to be a place where anyone can come and be free from persecution for their beliefs, which there has been plenty of since the Puritan Pilgrims landed here. I have mentioned I am a Sabbath keeping Christian. I have been for 42 years now. At one time in America, Sabbath keepers, in Tennessee, were put on chain gangs, their property taken, their lives shattered. Believers from many other professed Christian faiths have suffered persecution in America, even after the Bill of Rights was established. We have seen harassment, oppression, even persecution of professed Christians all throughout 2020, including MacArthur's church!
Tell me, why on Earth should Christians who are dual citizens (here and above), not care about religious freedom when God granted it to them? Of course nothing stops the gospel. It has often been stated the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the gospel. Does that mean we should not stand with our non-believing neighbors who want freedom to worship clouds if they want to? Of course not. That is ridiculous. The Bible says to seek peace with all men. The Bill of Rights establishes peace with citizens of good faith, letting all have freedom to live their lives as they choose, as long as they stay civil and abide by just laws. What part of American history, jurisprudence, and freedom and how to protect it, does John MacArthur not understand?
Just because "the gates of hell" cannot prevail against the church does not mean the Gospel does not go forward when there is peace and liberty, and freedom of conscience is enjoyed. I would remind Mr. MacArthur that God allows all mankind to walk whatever direction they choose: to Him, or away from Him. He gives all FREEDOM. Freedom is a good thing. It needs to be protected. Bible societies have sent out tens of millions of Bibles and tracks to the entire world from free America. Christians are not to seek persecution. God forbid. If and when it comes, by faith we stand our ground but, inviting it, in some misguided attempt to categorize and push away the lost, who have the authority to abuse power and persecute God's children, is just plain dumb, and very dangerous. Telling people they are sinners in need of a Savior is one thing. Telling the members of Christ's kingdom they need not concern themselves with working with anyone who will keep religious freedom and liberty intact in America is not wise, especially when such friendship can draw someone into the kingdom of God and find grace for a dual citizenship, themselves. We are after all, ambassadors for God.
I hasten to add, the Bible mentions a lot of people, from kings to paupers, non-believers, who helped God's people attain freedom in one way or another down through biblical history, not the least of which would be Rahab, the woman of Jericho who helped the Hebrew spies; Cyrus, the Persian king who enabled the Jews to go free, and a king further down the line, Ahasuerus, who signed the documents of freedom for the Jews to return to their homeland and live as an autonomous nation again; and how about Simon, of Cyrene, compelled to carry Christ's cross, and imagine how greatly blessed he was to do so.
I may have misunderstood MacArthur's position. Perhaps better clarity will come as this address is commented upon in the days ahead.
As for me, God gave me an inalienable right, a right I cannot be alienated from, and I aim to keep it as long as I can, and would stand side by side with anyone who wants to protect freedom of conscience in America.
Perhaps Mr. MacArthur should ponder the nature of war beyond that between light and darkness; wars that have put men and women of varying faiths or no faith, side by side, to fight for the all the freedoms Americans enjoy.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
That is a freedom worth fighting for, and worth joining with others to fight for. If freedom ceases, America ceases. If America ceases, we are in for a world of hurt that God made provision for, so it need not be.
Persecution will come sooner or later. Inviting it is wrong and not promoting religious freedom is wrong. America was built on it.
"Milton Quintanilla | Contributor for ChristianHeadlines.com | Thursday, March 4, 2021
"Pastor-teacher John MacArthur of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California recently argued that supporting religious freedom is idolatry, The Christian Post reports.
"On Wednesday, MacArthur delivered a State of the Church Address in place of this year’s annual Shepherds Conference, which was postponed because of “ongoing litigation" and "recent threats" from the state. About 3,000 men were expected to join.
"During Wednesday’s address, MacArthur urged evangelicals to stop creating alliances with non-Christian groups in pushing for religious freedom arguing that it’s unnecessary.
“The Gospel offends the sinner and seeks to break the sinner’s comfort and contentment by bringing him into the stark realization of the eternal judgment of God,” MacArthur explained.
"He noted that evangelicals “have become like Peter” because “they are looking for alliances with Satan that they think somehow can aid the Kingdom.”
“I told our congregation a few weeks ago that I could never really concern myself with religious freedom. I wouldn’t fight for religious freedom because I won’t fight for idolatry. Why would I fight for the devil to have as many false religions as possible and all of them to be available to everyone?” he asked.
"Despite religious freedom having wide support amongst Americans, MacArthur noted that Christians will continue to be targeted by “the hostility of sinners”.
“Well, people would say that’s a terrible thing to say. What about Christianity? Christianity advances whether there is religious freedom or not,” he asserted. “And there’ll always be religious freedom for all the lies.”
"The 81-year-old pastor and author explained that “every false religion is going to be free because it’s linked to the kingdom of darkness that operates in the world. And Christians, whatever the label of religious freedom might be in its broadest sense, Christians are always the target even with religious freedom, of the hostility of sinners.”
"To drive home his point, MacArthur pointed to the Apostles who “turned the world down with no help from it. No social action. No alliances.”
“The evil kingdom of darkness hates what God loves and loves everything that God hates, and the kingdom of darkness is never a friend to the light,” he contended. “Even rulers have exchanged the truth of God for a lie. … They function under the liar Satan himself who [is] the liar and father of lies. There is absolutely no reason for us to make any alliance with him.”
"MacArthur also cited multiple Bible passages highlighting the church’s mandate, including Ephesians 5:5-8:
“For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. Therefore, do not be partners with them. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord,” the NIV version of the Scripture says." "
https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/milton-quintanilla/john-macarthur-urges-christians-not-to-support-religious-freedom-i-wont-fight-for-idolatry.html
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I placed the entire article here for context. I believe this man's position is one of the most foolish I have ever seen from a professed Christian, a leader in a part of ... well, there's the rub. I believe Mr. MacArthur is confused. Confusion is Babylon, and there are things that Mr. MacArthur believes that are not Scriptural. That very circumstance affects how such theologians come up with their ideas.
I have no problem with not making alliances with antagonists in the world, in some attempt to help the Kingdom. The Bible says what it says - do not yoke yourselves with unbelievers. Do not be a friend of the world, when they are enemies of God and thus we become enemies of God. As MacArthur states, the Bible is right there, pronouncing a war of light against darkness.
There are plenty of Scriptures to that end. But, there is another side to this coin. John MacArthur believes Christians should vote. He endorsed people voting for Trump or any "pagan" that will do the least harm to the church. He also said no Christian could ever vote for Biden.
The only way you legally vote is by being a citizen of the United States. We are free and have inalienable rights granted by God in this Constitutional Republic. Is MacArthur stating what God has granted us, in a nation not run by a theocracy but, principles of the kingdom and just laws, nonetheless, should be abandoned?
People say Trump, well, Trump said he'd be the Christians best friend ever. Was he? Honestly, there was much he could do to stop the traitors in their tracks and chose not to do them, which handed the nation over to anti-christian, diehard secularists and traitors. So, which column does John MacArthur get a check in? Yay or Nay?
Christians are citizens of a Kingdom, not of this world. That said, the Founders established America to be a place where anyone can come and be free from persecution for their beliefs, which there has been plenty of since the Puritan Pilgrims landed here. I have mentioned I am a Sabbath keeping Christian. I have been for 42 years now. At one time in America, Sabbath keepers, in Tennessee, were put on chain gangs, their property taken, their lives shattered. Believers from many other professed Christian faiths have suffered persecution in America, even after the Bill of Rights was established. We have seen harassment, oppression, even persecution of professed Christians all throughout 2020, including MacArthur's church!
Tell me, why on Earth should Christians who are dual citizens (here and above), not care about religious freedom when God granted it to them? Of course nothing stops the gospel. It has often been stated the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the gospel. Does that mean we should not stand with our non-believing neighbors who want freedom to worship clouds if they want to? Of course not. That is ridiculous. The Bible says to seek peace with all men. The Bill of Rights establishes peace with citizens of good faith, letting all have freedom to live their lives as they choose, as long as they stay civil and abide by just laws. What part of American history, jurisprudence, and freedom and how to protect it, does John MacArthur not understand?
Just because "the gates of hell" cannot prevail against the church does not mean the Gospel does not go forward when there is peace and liberty, and freedom of conscience is enjoyed. I would remind Mr. MacArthur that God allows all mankind to walk whatever direction they choose: to Him, or away from Him. He gives all FREEDOM. Freedom is a good thing. It needs to be protected. Bible societies have sent out tens of millions of Bibles and tracks to the entire world from free America. Christians are not to seek persecution. God forbid. If and when it comes, by faith we stand our ground but, inviting it, in some misguided attempt to categorize and push away the lost, who have the authority to abuse power and persecute God's children, is just plain dumb, and very dangerous. Telling people they are sinners in need of a Savior is one thing. Telling the members of Christ's kingdom they need not concern themselves with working with anyone who will keep religious freedom and liberty intact in America is not wise, especially when such friendship can draw someone into the kingdom of God and find grace for a dual citizenship, themselves. We are after all, ambassadors for God.
I hasten to add, the Bible mentions a lot of people, from kings to paupers, non-believers, who helped God's people attain freedom in one way or another down through biblical history, not the least of which would be Rahab, the woman of Jericho who helped the Hebrew spies; Cyrus, the Persian king who enabled the Jews to go free, and a king further down the line, Ahasuerus, who signed the documents of freedom for the Jews to return to their homeland and live as an autonomous nation again; and how about Simon, of Cyrene, compelled to carry Christ's cross, and imagine how greatly blessed he was to do so.
I may have misunderstood MacArthur's position. Perhaps better clarity will come as this address is commented upon in the days ahead.
As for me, God gave me an inalienable right, a right I cannot be alienated from, and I aim to keep it as long as I can, and would stand side by side with anyone who wants to protect freedom of conscience in America.
Perhaps Mr. MacArthur should ponder the nature of war beyond that between light and darkness; wars that have put men and women of varying faiths or no faith, side by side, to fight for the all the freedoms Americans enjoy.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
That is a freedom worth fighting for, and worth joining with others to fight for. If freedom ceases, America ceases. If America ceases, we are in for a world of hurt that God made provision for, so it need not be.
Persecution will come sooner or later. Inviting it is wrong and not promoting religious freedom is wrong. America was built on it.
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214. The Wealth Production Of A Virus - March 6, 2021
Every morning, Every evening, Ain't we got fun
Not much money, Oh but honey, Ain't we got fun
The rent's unpaid dear, We haven't a bus
But smiles were made dear, For people like us
In the winter in the Summer, Don't we have fun
Times are bum and getting bummer, Still we have fun
There's nothing surer, The rich get rich and the poor get poorer
In the meantime, In between time, Ain't we got fun
Doris Day sang that song back in 1951, three years before I was born. The lyric underlined has been a point of understanding for the human race since the invention of currency. Why is that? Simply because of human nature and a biblical principle - "The love of money is the root of all evil." Having and using money is not evil. Spending money is not necessarily evil. Loving money, the continual desire to get, to have money, to have wealth, that is the problem for fallen man.
Research has come to light that in the beginning of the "pandemic" the world's 1000 richest men lost a lot of money. Yet from March till December, the world's richest men have not only recovered that lost money but collectively made 3.9 TRILLION dollars, while 200-500 million people joined the ranks of poverty. The 10 richest men on Earth increased their wealth by 529 BILLION dollars.
https://oxfam.app.box.com/s/m7lab231vgyee3hti2qigu8qvc6o9wd1/file/764213341297
How did they make all that money? Production of things purchased online. Internet sales. Various medical supplies and pharmaceuticals. Vaccine production. Even private jet production. When the airlines shut down, with travel banned, apparently "worldwide sale of private jets soared." I'm guessing the pun is intended.
Now, I am a believer in capitalism and free markets. I do not believe government should prop up any private business. Administrations and politicians have put their noses into private industry for many decades and the results are continually bad for citizens/workers, and small business owners. Why? Because politicians have interests in all kinds of lines of business, BIG business.
We now exist in the confines of a planetary oligarchy. The Bible predicted it:
"Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. - James 5:1-6
Those who rule the world will meet with disaster some day; if not in this life, then the day they face God for anything they have done to to take advantage of, to neglect or hurt their fellowman. It is interesting that gold and silver do not rust. Yet God says their wealth will become worthless when He addresses their love of money at the expense of those they rolled over to get it.
"In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? " Isaiah 2:20-22
The problems for humanity made through wealth are ancient. God will, indeed, have His say someday, soon enough.
I also state I do not believe the wealthy should be taxed at any higher rate than anyone else. Just because someone is wealthy is no reason to tax someone more. What economic principle, what rule of just governance in a free-market society backs such a policy? None. Taxation is simply the powerful controlling everybody else that does not have a seat at the power table. So, the wealthy play hardball. The powerful take their money and spend it however they like. The oligarchs handle and control politicians who will do their bidding in ways that make them more money. They buy and sell politicians like businesses. It is a business for them. Round and round it goes. Deeper and deeper gets the swamp. Nowadays, the wealthy have entire buildings filled with lawyers and accountants and investigators to find any and all weaknesses they can exploit in men, and loopholes to keep from paying ANY taxes. I have been shocked to find out how many major companies pay no taxes. There is absolute need for a straight and fair tax system for all, and people have come up with them and they get shot down. Why? Because the power to tax is the power to control.
Do you know there are businesses that set up charities they contribute to and that money comes right back around to their businesses?
The systemic nature of corruption in this world is a sign of the times. Americans should be the happiest and most settled people in the world because of the principles of freedom and liberty and property ownership they are guaranteed. Yes, disasters come, as Christ said, the poor you shall have with you. But, Americans bounce back. Why did the "pandemic" change it all? Why have previous decades of wealth production for so many Americans come to nothing, again? Because of criminals who violate laws, who live above laws, who connive and manipulate lawmakers, who find weaknesses and exploit them to their advantage, who see life as a game, with no eternal consequences. These are the people who believe they have a right to control you, to demand you live by their ideologies, like mandatory vaccinations, what you should and should not eat or drink, and a host of other lunatic ideas they want to foist on humanity "for their own good." No. For their good. Always for their good, their benefit, their power and control.
In the morning, in the evening, they had their fun.
They clocked their time by stocks and crime. They had their fun.
There's nothing surer, the rich will fall while the poor get purer.
In the meantime, in between time, they had their fun.
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215. Satanists Sue Texas - March 7, 2021
It isn't often I see something that scrunches my eyebrows and drops my jaw. I saw something this morning that did and feel compelled to comment. As I've said, there's more to life than drums and drumming, and if I can't get into that stuff on my own website, what's the point of having one? Just an indulgence for a hobby? Nothing wrong with that but, since my discoveries of the facts about 9/11, in 2009, my world changed dramatically, my worldview expanded to practical issues of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness beyond issues of religious liberty.
This happens to be a religious liberty issue and it's a whopper.
The Satanic Temple of Texas (Dallas, Ft. Worth, and Houston), have filed a lawsuit against the state addressing their rights of abortion as child sacrifice ritual, and laws Texas has in place which violate the Temple's membership's religious liberty in that process.
You know I'm a Christian. You know I am against abortion for reasons I have stated here. For me it is a simple matter of life. Americans have rights to life, liberty, and property ownership (pursuit of happiness). All Americans, including unborn ones that people choose names for, make rooms for and decorate for, buy clothes for, operate on, before birth, if necessary. The unborn can be named a king or queen before birth. Saying that baby is just a fetus, a mass of tissue, is ridiculous. And that view of "just tissue" before birth is now creating a shadow over the elderly as nothing more than old tissue before death.
A cell is a literal, complex factory, a city of life. There is nothing known to man so complex as a living cell. Egg is life. Sperm is life. Life is already there in those cells. When sperm and egg join together an incredibly complex process begins, where ALL the information of what the human being will be, as a living organism, begin to develop. Did you know that? ALL of the information, all the instructions, all the blueprint of what the child will develop as in the womb and beyond are already at work when sperm and egg join together.
Why do you think Leftists are so drilled into steel when it comes to believing, without ANY scientific, observable proof, that life arose from random chemicals? Because, if it did, life is not sacred. Life is an accident, nothing more. We live. We die. That's it. There is no Creator, no design, no sacredness to life. That is all man-made claptrap. We are nothing but, a walking bag of chemicals. If you believe that, you set yourself up for destruction by those who do, most certainly, see you that way, and you are nothing but, canon fodder to those who desire to control this world. Oddly enough, these same wicked minds choose to worship Lucifer, outright, by name, by practice, by rituals and writings. It has all been documented. Secret societies. All of it. Evil. Total evil.
When women say, "My body, my choice," they are actually wrong. It is not their body. They are carrying another life form, another body in their body, and were it not for safety processes the Creator placed in the development of the child, the woman's body systems would attack and destroy the new life form, as an invasive entity. It is a fascinatingly complex and mindboggling saga that takes place in every union of sperm and egg and what transpires from that point on. The sage begins even before the joined cells are conceived. What the parents are, what the grandparents are, the great grandparents, all of it is in the information that shall make the child.
One of the reasons I have expressed my beliefs about the culture of Heavy Metal in my blogs, and asked a lot of questions is because in the Christian faith, and most others, the existence of an evil progenitor and opponent of that which is recognized by humanity, in general, as good, exists in all religions. Why on Earth would musicians have so much Satanic imagery and message in their profession, when everything that is wrong with this world is the decision and war Satan makes upon God? Lucifer is a fallen angel. He is a liar, the father of lies, a murderer, a deceiver, the adversary of God, of Christ, of all humanity. THAT is reality. Some will say, that is your reality. It is not the reality of everyone else, so, don't shove your reality down my throat.
That is fine where faith comes in but, where life and liberty comes in, and the laws of a nation that recognizes an inalienable RIGHT to life, granted by the Creator, if you disagree with those rights, find another nation to live in. Nobody will stop you.
Marxist Leftists, following the lead of their chosen rebel, Lucifer, just like Saul Alinsky stated in the beginning of his book, Rules for Radicals, have gone to war with life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, of individualism, of everything that Americanism stands for. They successfully pursued a goal, and, as Barack Obama stated before he was elected, the goal was to fundamentally change America. Fundamentally. The core, the foundation, the engine that runs the nation was to be changed. They are enemies of God, of America, of Americans, and all free people. The ultimate goal of Lucifer is to be like the Most High, to rule, to dominate, to control planet Earth. He has his pawns in the game. He has his children of malice and destruction. We have watched them for decades, for centuries, for millennia. In America, the decision to allow a woman to terminate a life growing within her now reaps what it sowed.
How will Texas address this unbelievable lawsuit? This stone of death has rolled down the hill of American life for sixty years. It has and continues to crush everything in its path, sacred about life.
Do Satanists now have a right to terminate a pregnancy as a premise of religious ritual protected by the Constitution? Could anyone, with any knowledge of American history and the Writings and lives of the Founders, propose they meant religious liberty for Satanists to practice their "faith" in Satan, Lucifer, whatever you want to call it, that determines to take life in the name of religion? Seriously? Have we forgotten those men lived closer to the ages of inquisition and persecution of religious "heretics" and knew, first hand, the despots who practiced it, both in the Church of Rome and Anglican church, and other ignorant Protestant churches, as well as earlier Puritan churches? God forbid!
There is a paragraph from the linked article I place here and I believe -
"So, there you have it. Abortion as a religious ritual. Calling those who disagree with you vulgar names. An infantile focus on one’s own body at the expense of everyone else’s. Denying the science of biology, genetics, DNA, and even sonograms, under the banner of science. Killing your own child while chanting “by my body, my blood, by my will, it is done.” Infanticide as merely another religious viewpoint. All of these positions as well as the third and fifth tenets of The Satanic Temple. Sounds stunningly similar to the Democratic Party platform, doesn’t it?"
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/mar/6/satanists-sue-for-religious-right-to-ritual-aborti/
The world is at war. The universe is involved in a war. It has been since Lucifer rebelled and a third of the angels joined him. It is not just a spiritual war. No. Just look at the streets of cities in America still burning. Look at the dead of the ages from wars. Look at the statistics of the 60-70 million babies killed since the Supreme Court made an unauthorized and wickedly stupid decision in 1973. They have continued to make decisions that are destroying the Republic and the lives of millions more Americans.
The overwhelming reality of what has taken place in America sees these odd and strange and shocking realities within this Satanic Temple vs. the State of Texas lawsuit. The entire planet will be watching this one. The entire universe will be watching this one. I can only believe its outcome will effect the whole world in some prophetic and close-of-time way.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
This happens to be a religious liberty issue and it's a whopper.
The Satanic Temple of Texas (Dallas, Ft. Worth, and Houston), have filed a lawsuit against the state addressing their rights of abortion as child sacrifice ritual, and laws Texas has in place which violate the Temple's membership's religious liberty in that process.
You know I'm a Christian. You know I am against abortion for reasons I have stated here. For me it is a simple matter of life. Americans have rights to life, liberty, and property ownership (pursuit of happiness). All Americans, including unborn ones that people choose names for, make rooms for and decorate for, buy clothes for, operate on, before birth, if necessary. The unborn can be named a king or queen before birth. Saying that baby is just a fetus, a mass of tissue, is ridiculous. And that view of "just tissue" before birth is now creating a shadow over the elderly as nothing more than old tissue before death.
A cell is a literal, complex factory, a city of life. There is nothing known to man so complex as a living cell. Egg is life. Sperm is life. Life is already there in those cells. When sperm and egg join together an incredibly complex process begins, where ALL the information of what the human being will be, as a living organism, begin to develop. Did you know that? ALL of the information, all the instructions, all the blueprint of what the child will develop as in the womb and beyond are already at work when sperm and egg join together.
Why do you think Leftists are so drilled into steel when it comes to believing, without ANY scientific, observable proof, that life arose from random chemicals? Because, if it did, life is not sacred. Life is an accident, nothing more. We live. We die. That's it. There is no Creator, no design, no sacredness to life. That is all man-made claptrap. We are nothing but, a walking bag of chemicals. If you believe that, you set yourself up for destruction by those who do, most certainly, see you that way, and you are nothing but, canon fodder to those who desire to control this world. Oddly enough, these same wicked minds choose to worship Lucifer, outright, by name, by practice, by rituals and writings. It has all been documented. Secret societies. All of it. Evil. Total evil.
When women say, "My body, my choice," they are actually wrong. It is not their body. They are carrying another life form, another body in their body, and were it not for safety processes the Creator placed in the development of the child, the woman's body systems would attack and destroy the new life form, as an invasive entity. It is a fascinatingly complex and mindboggling saga that takes place in every union of sperm and egg and what transpires from that point on. The sage begins even before the joined cells are conceived. What the parents are, what the grandparents are, the great grandparents, all of it is in the information that shall make the child.
One of the reasons I have expressed my beliefs about the culture of Heavy Metal in my blogs, and asked a lot of questions is because in the Christian faith, and most others, the existence of an evil progenitor and opponent of that which is recognized by humanity, in general, as good, exists in all religions. Why on Earth would musicians have so much Satanic imagery and message in their profession, when everything that is wrong with this world is the decision and war Satan makes upon God? Lucifer is a fallen angel. He is a liar, the father of lies, a murderer, a deceiver, the adversary of God, of Christ, of all humanity. THAT is reality. Some will say, that is your reality. It is not the reality of everyone else, so, don't shove your reality down my throat.
That is fine where faith comes in but, where life and liberty comes in, and the laws of a nation that recognizes an inalienable RIGHT to life, granted by the Creator, if you disagree with those rights, find another nation to live in. Nobody will stop you.
Marxist Leftists, following the lead of their chosen rebel, Lucifer, just like Saul Alinsky stated in the beginning of his book, Rules for Radicals, have gone to war with life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, of individualism, of everything that Americanism stands for. They successfully pursued a goal, and, as Barack Obama stated before he was elected, the goal was to fundamentally change America. Fundamentally. The core, the foundation, the engine that runs the nation was to be changed. They are enemies of God, of America, of Americans, and all free people. The ultimate goal of Lucifer is to be like the Most High, to rule, to dominate, to control planet Earth. He has his pawns in the game. He has his children of malice and destruction. We have watched them for decades, for centuries, for millennia. In America, the decision to allow a woman to terminate a life growing within her now reaps what it sowed.
How will Texas address this unbelievable lawsuit? This stone of death has rolled down the hill of American life for sixty years. It has and continues to crush everything in its path, sacred about life.
Do Satanists now have a right to terminate a pregnancy as a premise of religious ritual protected by the Constitution? Could anyone, with any knowledge of American history and the Writings and lives of the Founders, propose they meant religious liberty for Satanists to practice their "faith" in Satan, Lucifer, whatever you want to call it, that determines to take life in the name of religion? Seriously? Have we forgotten those men lived closer to the ages of inquisition and persecution of religious "heretics" and knew, first hand, the despots who practiced it, both in the Church of Rome and Anglican church, and other ignorant Protestant churches, as well as earlier Puritan churches? God forbid!
There is a paragraph from the linked article I place here and I believe -
"So, there you have it. Abortion as a religious ritual. Calling those who disagree with you vulgar names. An infantile focus on one’s own body at the expense of everyone else’s. Denying the science of biology, genetics, DNA, and even sonograms, under the banner of science. Killing your own child while chanting “by my body, my blood, by my will, it is done.” Infanticide as merely another religious viewpoint. All of these positions as well as the third and fifth tenets of The Satanic Temple. Sounds stunningly similar to the Democratic Party platform, doesn’t it?"
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/mar/6/satanists-sue-for-religious-right-to-ritual-aborti/
The world is at war. The universe is involved in a war. It has been since Lucifer rebelled and a third of the angels joined him. It is not just a spiritual war. No. Just look at the streets of cities in America still burning. Look at the dead of the ages from wars. Look at the statistics of the 60-70 million babies killed since the Supreme Court made an unauthorized and wickedly stupid decision in 1973. They have continued to make decisions that are destroying the Republic and the lives of millions more Americans.
The overwhelming reality of what has taken place in America sees these odd and strange and shocking realities within this Satanic Temple vs. the State of Texas lawsuit. The entire planet will be watching this one. The entire universe will be watching this one. I can only believe its outcome will effect the whole world in some prophetic and close-of-time way.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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216. CDC - A 2% Mitigation!!! - March 8, 2021
As I have stated, I am so sick of the compounded lies, liars, agenda-driven lunatics, and all the rest of the BS associated with Covid, I had to stop looking at it all. I'm sick of it.
That said, I came upon this today and I'm putting it out there. Not only are more and more dentists treating mask wearing illnesses, which can even compound the problem of Covid if one has it, but now, the CDC releases another shocking revelation that for some reason they see as something to trumpet like a success!
Here is one paragraph from the latest releases. Read it carefully:
"During March 1–December 31, 2020, state-issued mask mandates applied in 2,313 (73.6%) of the 3,142 U.S. counties. Mask mandates were associated with a 0.5 percentage point decrease (p = 0.02) in daily COVID-19 case growth rates 1–20 days after implementation and decreases of 1.1, 1.5, 1.7, and 1.8 percentage points 21–40, 41–60, 61–80, and 81–100 days, respectively, after implementation (p<0.01 for all) (Table 1) (Figure). Mask mandates were associated with a 0.7 percentage point decrease (p = 0.03) in daily COVID-19 death growth rates 1–20 days after implementation and decreases of 1.0, 1.4, 1.6, and 1.9 percentage points 21–40, 41–60, 61–80, and 81–100 days, respectively, after implementation (p<0.01 for all). Daily case and death growth rates before implementation of mask mandates were not statistically different from the reference period.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm
2%! Not even a 2% mitigation of case or death rates from mask mandates!!! The entire world was shut down, in some places still shut down, billions of people affected, still forced to wear masks and the entire BS program made no difference in rates before the mandates!!!
In March of last year Fauci stated mask wearing was not necessary. A year later? Wear two masks!!! Why?! Mask wearing does NOT STOP the virus or mitigate its spread in any real world case scenario necessity.
These devils, and I mean that with all sincerity, these devils almost destroyed the civilized world with their fearmongering and Draconian despotism, and they are still having an influence when they should be locked up, or at the very least totally disregarded as the enemies of a free society that they are!
You think I am upset? You have no idea. Watching people everywhere around me wearing masks in their cars, outside in the fresh air, fearing for their lives! Insanity. Insanity and irrationalism created by the WHO, the CDC, Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, and the rest of these elitist creeps. That is exactly what they are: dark, creepy, agenda-driven madmen.
Like everything else falling into the pit of Marxism around the world, 2020 was the greatest establishment of control ever foisted on the human race. And still, they come right out and tell us everything they have done made no difference; certainly nowhere the necessity for all their lockdowns of humanity and total disregard for freedom and liberty and the rule of law; not God's law, not national laws but, their own laws, made on the fly.
EVERY SINGLE elected official on the planet that pushed these mandates should apologize to the world. They will not. No. Governor Cuomo, of NY, while being accused by six women now, for improprieties, and his own people saying they fudged the numbers of deaths associated with his putting all the elderly into nursing homes where what, 15,000 people died of the virus, being asked to resign by people in his own party, thumbs his nose at everybody and plants his political feet in concrete; he's not going anywhere unless they force him out. Well, will they? Doubtful.
The wicked are gaining more and more control. Why? Because mankind is heading into more and more darkness, just like Isaiah saw it - Darkness covers the Earth, and gross darkness the people.
The corruption seems to be building exponentially around the globe. As the Bible says, law is cast into the street.
It is the time of the end, dear Reader. Everything is being turned out of its order. As it was in the days of Noah, as it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, so shall it be when the Son of man returns.
Common sense should be telling people to be extremely careful who and what they trust but, the world hastens on apace to its climax.
People think Christians who believe in the second coming of Christ are off the wall. Wrong. I am on the wall, hanging by a secure nail into strong lumber on a house built on Rock. The houses made of sand, they are coming down, in their assured wisdom they are smarter than God, they are more powerful than God. They can control the world with just statements. They do not need facts, data, real science, evidence, or anything more than outlandish numbers of death, because, they know best, and they have convinced the majority of the world they know best.
Yeah, we'll see when they scream and howl like banshees when they face Christ coming in glory to save His people from their wickedness gone viral. THAT is the deadly virus on EARTH. Sin. The lies, the manipulation, the usurpation ... the promises! The world was promised, wear masks for a few weeks and we'll kick this thing back. A year later, wear two masks! At least enough people have awakened to tell these devils to go pound sand, we're getting back to life. Would that the populace of the entire world put the fear of God into these elitists by rising up and saying, ENOUGH!
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
That said, I came upon this today and I'm putting it out there. Not only are more and more dentists treating mask wearing illnesses, which can even compound the problem of Covid if one has it, but now, the CDC releases another shocking revelation that for some reason they see as something to trumpet like a success!
Here is one paragraph from the latest releases. Read it carefully:
"During March 1–December 31, 2020, state-issued mask mandates applied in 2,313 (73.6%) of the 3,142 U.S. counties. Mask mandates were associated with a 0.5 percentage point decrease (p = 0.02) in daily COVID-19 case growth rates 1–20 days after implementation and decreases of 1.1, 1.5, 1.7, and 1.8 percentage points 21–40, 41–60, 61–80, and 81–100 days, respectively, after implementation (p<0.01 for all) (Table 1) (Figure). Mask mandates were associated with a 0.7 percentage point decrease (p = 0.03) in daily COVID-19 death growth rates 1–20 days after implementation and decreases of 1.0, 1.4, 1.6, and 1.9 percentage points 21–40, 41–60, 61–80, and 81–100 days, respectively, after implementation (p<0.01 for all). Daily case and death growth rates before implementation of mask mandates were not statistically different from the reference period.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm
2%! Not even a 2% mitigation of case or death rates from mask mandates!!! The entire world was shut down, in some places still shut down, billions of people affected, still forced to wear masks and the entire BS program made no difference in rates before the mandates!!!
In March of last year Fauci stated mask wearing was not necessary. A year later? Wear two masks!!! Why?! Mask wearing does NOT STOP the virus or mitigate its spread in any real world case scenario necessity.
These devils, and I mean that with all sincerity, these devils almost destroyed the civilized world with their fearmongering and Draconian despotism, and they are still having an influence when they should be locked up, or at the very least totally disregarded as the enemies of a free society that they are!
You think I am upset? You have no idea. Watching people everywhere around me wearing masks in their cars, outside in the fresh air, fearing for their lives! Insanity. Insanity and irrationalism created by the WHO, the CDC, Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, and the rest of these elitist creeps. That is exactly what they are: dark, creepy, agenda-driven madmen.
Like everything else falling into the pit of Marxism around the world, 2020 was the greatest establishment of control ever foisted on the human race. And still, they come right out and tell us everything they have done made no difference; certainly nowhere the necessity for all their lockdowns of humanity and total disregard for freedom and liberty and the rule of law; not God's law, not national laws but, their own laws, made on the fly.
EVERY SINGLE elected official on the planet that pushed these mandates should apologize to the world. They will not. No. Governor Cuomo, of NY, while being accused by six women now, for improprieties, and his own people saying they fudged the numbers of deaths associated with his putting all the elderly into nursing homes where what, 15,000 people died of the virus, being asked to resign by people in his own party, thumbs his nose at everybody and plants his political feet in concrete; he's not going anywhere unless they force him out. Well, will they? Doubtful.
The wicked are gaining more and more control. Why? Because mankind is heading into more and more darkness, just like Isaiah saw it - Darkness covers the Earth, and gross darkness the people.
The corruption seems to be building exponentially around the globe. As the Bible says, law is cast into the street.
It is the time of the end, dear Reader. Everything is being turned out of its order. As it was in the days of Noah, as it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, so shall it be when the Son of man returns.
Common sense should be telling people to be extremely careful who and what they trust but, the world hastens on apace to its climax.
People think Christians who believe in the second coming of Christ are off the wall. Wrong. I am on the wall, hanging by a secure nail into strong lumber on a house built on Rock. The houses made of sand, they are coming down, in their assured wisdom they are smarter than God, they are more powerful than God. They can control the world with just statements. They do not need facts, data, real science, evidence, or anything more than outlandish numbers of death, because, they know best, and they have convinced the majority of the world they know best.
Yeah, we'll see when they scream and howl like banshees when they face Christ coming in glory to save His people from their wickedness gone viral. THAT is the deadly virus on EARTH. Sin. The lies, the manipulation, the usurpation ... the promises! The world was promised, wear masks for a few weeks and we'll kick this thing back. A year later, wear two masks! At least enough people have awakened to tell these devils to go pound sand, we're getting back to life. Would that the populace of the entire world put the fear of God into these elitists by rising up and saying, ENOUGH!
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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217. A Tony Williams Compilation - March 9, 2021
As you have seen if you have perused the site, Tony Williams was a major influence on my approach to drum set artistry. Even though I was aware and heard Tony when I was young, I never really "paid attention" as I did when I was re-exposed to his playing in my later 30's.
I came upon a compilation of his playing and soloing on YouTube and felt the necessity to share that link here. It is a 2:22:41 video. I had to leave a comment about it to the poster. He should receive an award for such a compilation. It's an invaluable look at one of the absolute greats at the instrument. As recognizable a "voice" as any in drumming history. You will watch his early ideas manifest themselves with even more intensity and determination as his years moved along.
Rarely will you see a player drop such passion on drum heads. His later kit, the yellow Gretsch, had cast hoops. I have read that Tony used 2B sticks. That's heavy wood. I mean, he put dents in his Remo Black Dots. If I played with that much power I'd break sticks more frequently than I do. True, I generally use my own Maple or Birch or other specie sticks but, even the Hickory he used. I cannot believe he doesn't shatter his sticks like chalk the way he pounds his drums. Make no mistake, when Tony Williams stated in a magazine interview, "I learned to make every stroke count," he meant it. The explosive nature of his playing leaves its mark on anyone who watches him do his thing. It's a combination of Jazz, Rock, African rhythms, and other influences. He played with Miles. He loved Hendrix. He had a lot of influences upon him, as did so many players growing up in the 60's.
Many of us talk about the "weak hand." Tony didn't have one. His left hand was as monstrous as his right. You watch the stuff he was doing back in the late 60's early 70's and, like Buddy Rich's incredible control in his left hand, and Billy Cobham, who learned to play an opposite lead hand and put his ambidexterity to amazing use, Tony's left hand was phenomenal. His right foot was an absolute Gatlin gun, bunker buster. His coordination between hands and feet remains challenging for anyone trying to do the stuff in 5 that he did, effortlessly.
I watch, I listen to Tony and it helps me to understand the nature of musical, percussive passion, just as much as technique. Tony clicked his sticks a lot. I never saw him drop any sticks (he does towards the end of the video collection). I do. A lot. Different factors play into that. Of course, anyone who gets used to playing the same set-up for years and years, day in, day out, gets movement memory into the mix. I tend to change things up and hitting something 1/2" out of place can send a stick flying but, I used to really get upset clicking sticks and not playing perfectly clean. I learned that, if Tony clicked sticks (and others I heard over the years) I can live with it. You begin moving around quickly on a large set, back and forth and all, and it becomes inevitable. Perhaps it was the way Tony held his sticks that increased their volume if struck together, I don't know but, never have I ever heard Tony click his sticks and found myself thinking anything other than amazement at his solos.
Tony was not a big guy but, his playing was that of a great giant. Players, audiences were mesmerized by his playing, and also energized. His solos, even though they tended to use the same favorite strokes of his (like all drummers do), took you on a terrific percussive journey. The video is playing in the background as I type, and I hear all the familiar patterns, rudiments, and phrasing that made Tony, Tony.
The video is a true, education experience. If you know Tony, you'll appreciate the work the YT poster put into this presentation. If you do not, you literally have no idea what you are missing in the investment of time in your craft. Every drumist must hear Tony Williams to have some sense of music history and his impact on the world of drum set artistry.
I generally know Buddy, Ginger, Carl, and Billy when I hear them. Others, too, such as Dennis, Alphonse, Lenny, Dave Weckl, and players that found themselves in many different musical vehicles, not just one band for a career. I must say, though, in any musical atmosphere Tony's voice is so recognizable: his sound, as well as what he does with it, is as unique as it can get in the world of drums. I use the present tense because his playing remains alive today. It will never cease to have an impact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDyKpN9js0
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218. Gergo Borlai - March 11, 2021
Gergo Borlai. That is a name you would not forget. It belongs to a Hungarian drum set artist, now living in Barcelona, Spain. He spends a great deal of time in America, as well.
I have written about the five players that seemed to influence my own approach to playing the most. I have written a few things about others. I'm going to write about Gergo because his influence, inspiration, and stature continues to grow.
I have mentioned Gergo in my blogs before this, of course. Is he the "best" player in the drumming universe? Well, no, because there is no best. People like to create "best" lists. I hate them. They are foolishness. There is no set of standards or benchmarks by which to judge. All ears, all minds have different likes and dislikes. Nobody "speaks" to everybody. I'll get that out of the way and get down to business here. If there were or could be an actual best list, though, Gergo would be on it.
Many would say, regardless of benchmarks or standards to judge, Gergo meets them all. I would not argue that. Near as I have seen, there in nothing the man cannot play. No style, no speed, no coordination he cannot master. What is Gergo Borlai?
Over the years I have seen players described as a force of nature: Buddy Rich, Billy Cobham, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Art Blakey, and others. Gergo Borlai seems more a force of NASA. His technique seems beyond description as anything organic or natural.
My first exposure to him was on YT, just something I saw around 2008, 2009, in the side bar. It's a video of a Jazz group, I think a trio, playing in some ancient pub with stone walls and such. I looked for the video to refresh my mind of details and can't find it. Maybe the poster's channel is gone, I don't know. The drummer took a solo. Eyes open wide is an understatement.
I mentioned the video to players on different discussion forums. Nobody had heard of him. Today, he plays all over the world, deservedly so. I have seen most all the videos on YT of this man's ability. I could use any list of nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs to state what the man does with his mind, and four limbs. I say mind because, he is the epitome of the thinking man's player. He seems to absorb things, swirl them around, and out comes his own version, more technical, more alarming than the original.
His speed is now legendary. There are players who can move as fast but, with Gergo, it is so precise, so machine-like, with a stamina that defies physiological boundaries. No area of his sets seem off limits for reach at lightening speeds.
His coordination is astonishing. He seems to, not just have two hands but, two brains that guide each of them. Many players have great coordination. I could name quite a list. With Gergo, he has this ability to play like a jack hammer with one hand, and light as a feather with the other.
He plays everything from a 4 pc to a 7pc kit. He varies his cymbal arrangements. I have never seen him miss something, or miss-strike something. His precision is Swiss watch level.
When the Gospel Chops movement came along, Gergo saw it, invested some time in it, mastered it, and took it to new levels.
If you watch the really earlier stuff on YT, when he was much younger, you see the speed and stamina but, watch things over time and you see his abilities growing, especially his precision and speeds at which he moves around his sets. An obvious maturity has developed in him. Every solo seems to have something different in it. I go back to his mind and the way he thinks as he plays. He refuses to stay in one place, no small feat for any musician with time under their belts. Many find a comfortable place and stay there. It's easy to do. Gergo just keeps moving higher.
He began playing at 3 years old. He began playing professionally very young, won awards in his homeland, released his first album at age 17, and he just keeps getting "bigger." He gets on a stage and just drops jaws all over the place. Not many want to be on the same stage with him. I have seen him with looks on his face where a player pulled something off he had not seen or heard or tried before. In one "battle" Virgil Donati took a swipe at a fill that just stopped Gergo in his tracks. So, his equals exist out there. He is not deity, despite comments to that opinion you can see on the web. If he has equals at some things, nobody surpasses him.
His smile is bright and as friendly as it gets. His playing is even brighter. Even when he shows strain, he still makes it look rather effortless for him. How does he do it all? Well, needless to say the man is blessed with fast twitch muscles he has been developing since a very early age. I don't know how much time he spent practicing to develop it all, and how much time he spends today but, he has been blessed, no doubt.
I don't read drum magazines like I used to and I imagine he has made it to front covers of most of them by now. If not, that's just ridiculous.
Despite his abilities, there are still people who have not heard of him, largely owing to the phenomena of not being in a very popular band and what that does for any musician's career and notoriety. He does mostly Fusion and Jazz gigs, two genres just not as popular as they once were.
I mention Gergo here because I believe he deserves all the exposure he can get. He is just a monster drumist. If you have never heard of him or seen him play ... regardless of what video you pick with his name in it, his skill set will impress you, of that I am sure. Even if speed is not your thing, nor Jazz, or Fusion, or "chops," and all, Gergo plays all music so well, with exquisite time, he makes anything enjoyable.
I doubt he'd get a call for a Country gig but, I have zero doubt he'd approach it with ideas that could only make the music better in some way.
I wrote to him one time, via his YT channel. He personally replied. Nice guy, too. He's humble, approachable, and accolades keep piling up.
Gergo Borlai. Check him out.
I have written about the five players that seemed to influence my own approach to playing the most. I have written a few things about others. I'm going to write about Gergo because his influence, inspiration, and stature continues to grow.
I have mentioned Gergo in my blogs before this, of course. Is he the "best" player in the drumming universe? Well, no, because there is no best. People like to create "best" lists. I hate them. They are foolishness. There is no set of standards or benchmarks by which to judge. All ears, all minds have different likes and dislikes. Nobody "speaks" to everybody. I'll get that out of the way and get down to business here. If there were or could be an actual best list, though, Gergo would be on it.
Many would say, regardless of benchmarks or standards to judge, Gergo meets them all. I would not argue that. Near as I have seen, there in nothing the man cannot play. No style, no speed, no coordination he cannot master. What is Gergo Borlai?
Over the years I have seen players described as a force of nature: Buddy Rich, Billy Cobham, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Art Blakey, and others. Gergo Borlai seems more a force of NASA. His technique seems beyond description as anything organic or natural.
My first exposure to him was on YT, just something I saw around 2008, 2009, in the side bar. It's a video of a Jazz group, I think a trio, playing in some ancient pub with stone walls and such. I looked for the video to refresh my mind of details and can't find it. Maybe the poster's channel is gone, I don't know. The drummer took a solo. Eyes open wide is an understatement.
I mentioned the video to players on different discussion forums. Nobody had heard of him. Today, he plays all over the world, deservedly so. I have seen most all the videos on YT of this man's ability. I could use any list of nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs to state what the man does with his mind, and four limbs. I say mind because, he is the epitome of the thinking man's player. He seems to absorb things, swirl them around, and out comes his own version, more technical, more alarming than the original.
His speed is now legendary. There are players who can move as fast but, with Gergo, it is so precise, so machine-like, with a stamina that defies physiological boundaries. No area of his sets seem off limits for reach at lightening speeds.
His coordination is astonishing. He seems to, not just have two hands but, two brains that guide each of them. Many players have great coordination. I could name quite a list. With Gergo, he has this ability to play like a jack hammer with one hand, and light as a feather with the other.
He plays everything from a 4 pc to a 7pc kit. He varies his cymbal arrangements. I have never seen him miss something, or miss-strike something. His precision is Swiss watch level.
When the Gospel Chops movement came along, Gergo saw it, invested some time in it, mastered it, and took it to new levels.
If you watch the really earlier stuff on YT, when he was much younger, you see the speed and stamina but, watch things over time and you see his abilities growing, especially his precision and speeds at which he moves around his sets. An obvious maturity has developed in him. Every solo seems to have something different in it. I go back to his mind and the way he thinks as he plays. He refuses to stay in one place, no small feat for any musician with time under their belts. Many find a comfortable place and stay there. It's easy to do. Gergo just keeps moving higher.
He began playing at 3 years old. He began playing professionally very young, won awards in his homeland, released his first album at age 17, and he just keeps getting "bigger." He gets on a stage and just drops jaws all over the place. Not many want to be on the same stage with him. I have seen him with looks on his face where a player pulled something off he had not seen or heard or tried before. In one "battle" Virgil Donati took a swipe at a fill that just stopped Gergo in his tracks. So, his equals exist out there. He is not deity, despite comments to that opinion you can see on the web. If he has equals at some things, nobody surpasses him.
His smile is bright and as friendly as it gets. His playing is even brighter. Even when he shows strain, he still makes it look rather effortless for him. How does he do it all? Well, needless to say the man is blessed with fast twitch muscles he has been developing since a very early age. I don't know how much time he spent practicing to develop it all, and how much time he spends today but, he has been blessed, no doubt.
I don't read drum magazines like I used to and I imagine he has made it to front covers of most of them by now. If not, that's just ridiculous.
Despite his abilities, there are still people who have not heard of him, largely owing to the phenomena of not being in a very popular band and what that does for any musician's career and notoriety. He does mostly Fusion and Jazz gigs, two genres just not as popular as they once were.
I mention Gergo here because I believe he deserves all the exposure he can get. He is just a monster drumist. If you have never heard of him or seen him play ... regardless of what video you pick with his name in it, his skill set will impress you, of that I am sure. Even if speed is not your thing, nor Jazz, or Fusion, or "chops," and all, Gergo plays all music so well, with exquisite time, he makes anything enjoyable.
I doubt he'd get a call for a Country gig but, I have zero doubt he'd approach it with ideas that could only make the music better in some way.
I wrote to him one time, via his YT channel. He personally replied. Nice guy, too. He's humble, approachable, and accolades keep piling up.
Gergo Borlai. Check him out.
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219. Are Leftists Really Going to Destroy America? - March 12, 2021
Facts and figures are now established. It is statistically impossible that Biden could have won the election. Let alone all the facts regarding fraud and all, it is just impossible that Obama won with the statistics he had which, when weighed against the statistics Trump had, much better than Obama's, and then Biden's, far worse than Obama's? 81 million votes? Not.
The corruption and disregard for the rule of law, local, state and national. The harassment of those who are blowing whistles on it all, by the FBI, totally corrupt itself, at least at the top, and other agencies determined to make sure the election is not investigated or given a day in court. Even judges that have made decisions to check into things in a couple of swing states are being harassed. It is absolutely disgusting. It is not American, and this is no longer America. It's a third-world banana republic.
More people have crossed into the nation across the southern border in three months than in the last four years under Trump.
I told you gun control was coming. That happened yesterday. Increments. They shall disavow their oaths to protect the Constitution in increments until all rights are gone; at least those rights that pose a threat to the Leftists now in control.
Elections have consequences!!!
The price of gas is rising swiftly. Food prices. All consumable goods are rising. Honestly? I don't know how a family of four does it. I see the receipt for food, and what little is in the shopping cart and figure there must be a mistake. There's not. Well, yes, the mistake is putting Leftists in control of things. They destroy whatever they touch. And the turncoats in the GOP helping them just adds disgust to the picture.
Joe Biden was obviously mentally ill during the campaign. Today? I told my wife he reminds me of Tim Conway's old man character, shuffling along. It was obvious he would not make it even six months in. Harris will be POTUS well before this year is out. Then the destruction is really going to pick up steam.
It all makes me wonder what kind of anvils are being hung over people's heads that such corruption is taking place. What does deep state have on everybody? Maybe it is all just money and position. Bribes, promises of position in the "new" government coming. Will not even Democrats recoil at what is happening? They have to buy food and gas, and electricity like everyone else. Some Democrats are speaking out. Nowhere near enough. The buyer's remorse began almost the first week and yet, it seems to have softened. Are people just tired and have given up? That is always the ploy. Wear the people down. Weaken their resolve. Once that is done, they are controlled so much more easily. Their fight is gone. They hang on by threads and going into debt for another 2 TRILLION dollars, another $69,000 in taxes for every American and their families is just a number on somebody's computer. Americans will take the handout, even if it means financial collapse down the road. The Leftists mean to crash America and have it become a branch of the EU. The North American Union. Will they be successful? Will they really ruin the greatest nation in history, that has provided more wealth and stability for its citizens than any in all time? Logically, yes, they will do it because they are mad with power; hateful human beings with inner mandates to control everything and everybody. They are sick people pointing fingers at everyone but, themselves. It is always someone elses problem, someone elses fault, responsibility, and accountability, not theirs. Leftists are dark souls.
Will God step in? Millions are praying it be so. Like I have said, I don't know as the great Sovereign will. I believe He is going to let America reap what it has sown.
There have been movies and TV programs that have been predictions of this, more or less. I have mentioned that before. Dystopian futures, bleak, desperate, dangerous. In America? Why not. You cannot throw out God, and rule of law, and freedom and liberty and expect things to stay stable. The only way stability comes and stays is by violence, physical retribution for dissenters. That is coming.
I say it again. How can civil war be avoided?
The corruption and disregard for the rule of law, local, state and national. The harassment of those who are blowing whistles on it all, by the FBI, totally corrupt itself, at least at the top, and other agencies determined to make sure the election is not investigated or given a day in court. Even judges that have made decisions to check into things in a couple of swing states are being harassed. It is absolutely disgusting. It is not American, and this is no longer America. It's a third-world banana republic.
More people have crossed into the nation across the southern border in three months than in the last four years under Trump.
I told you gun control was coming. That happened yesterday. Increments. They shall disavow their oaths to protect the Constitution in increments until all rights are gone; at least those rights that pose a threat to the Leftists now in control.
Elections have consequences!!!
The price of gas is rising swiftly. Food prices. All consumable goods are rising. Honestly? I don't know how a family of four does it. I see the receipt for food, and what little is in the shopping cart and figure there must be a mistake. There's not. Well, yes, the mistake is putting Leftists in control of things. They destroy whatever they touch. And the turncoats in the GOP helping them just adds disgust to the picture.
Joe Biden was obviously mentally ill during the campaign. Today? I told my wife he reminds me of Tim Conway's old man character, shuffling along. It was obvious he would not make it even six months in. Harris will be POTUS well before this year is out. Then the destruction is really going to pick up steam.
It all makes me wonder what kind of anvils are being hung over people's heads that such corruption is taking place. What does deep state have on everybody? Maybe it is all just money and position. Bribes, promises of position in the "new" government coming. Will not even Democrats recoil at what is happening? They have to buy food and gas, and electricity like everyone else. Some Democrats are speaking out. Nowhere near enough. The buyer's remorse began almost the first week and yet, it seems to have softened. Are people just tired and have given up? That is always the ploy. Wear the people down. Weaken their resolve. Once that is done, they are controlled so much more easily. Their fight is gone. They hang on by threads and going into debt for another 2 TRILLION dollars, another $69,000 in taxes for every American and their families is just a number on somebody's computer. Americans will take the handout, even if it means financial collapse down the road. The Leftists mean to crash America and have it become a branch of the EU. The North American Union. Will they be successful? Will they really ruin the greatest nation in history, that has provided more wealth and stability for its citizens than any in all time? Logically, yes, they will do it because they are mad with power; hateful human beings with inner mandates to control everything and everybody. They are sick people pointing fingers at everyone but, themselves. It is always someone elses problem, someone elses fault, responsibility, and accountability, not theirs. Leftists are dark souls.
Will God step in? Millions are praying it be so. Like I have said, I don't know as the great Sovereign will. I believe He is going to let America reap what it has sown.
There have been movies and TV programs that have been predictions of this, more or less. I have mentioned that before. Dystopian futures, bleak, desperate, dangerous. In America? Why not. You cannot throw out God, and rule of law, and freedom and liberty and expect things to stay stable. The only way stability comes and stays is by violence, physical retribution for dissenters. That is coming.
I say it again. How can civil war be avoided?
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220. My Love Affair With Bronze - March 13, 2021
I believe God made trees. I love wood. I love wood colors and grain patterns. If I could, I'd have drum sets with an outer veneer of every beautiful wood grain on the planet.
Grain patterns, especially those considered valuable, come from weather and stress. Too little rain, too much rain, unseasonably hot or cold; all these things affect the way the tree grows year by year. When a log is sliced for veneer, ripples and other effects can be seen. Put moisture on them and they "pop." Hence, looking at pictures of boards or veneer when wet when you go to purchase. The dampened wood mimics what it will look like when finished with whatever finish product one chooses.
All that said, and having been making my own drums for 30 years now, I know drums are drums when it comes to shells and sound, for the most part. I might be able to get a lot of different looks but, not sounds. Not because of drum shells, anyway. More deep, more shallow, more thick and dense, those things affect the sound more than anything else. Take away the heads and you have no sound at all.
Now cymbals, that is another story. When it comes to sound and variations within the theme, bronze can produce a range of tones that sting, shimmer, glisten, explode, roll, float, swirl, and soar. Nonsense, you say? Well, such a love affair with bronze is only tempered by my wallet.
Cymbals are made from Bronze. God made the Earth with lots of things in it. "The Bronze Age," around 2000 B.C., was an age of bronze in European and Asian life. You dig the Earth and ores are exposed. Bronze is made from percentages of copper and tin, and other metals can be melted in, as well, for sound production, tool production, armament production, building construction, etc.
Cymbal making is an ancient practice. Cymbals are mentioned in the Bible. A prominent individual in the Old Testament, Asaph, and his family, was the orchestral director in King David's court and he taught his sons to make and play cymbals.
Regardless of the drum sets I have owned or made in my life, each set always has more cymbals than drums. I love cymbals. Their range of tones, if captured correctly on microphones, is quite wide. The dominant pitch, then all the overtones and undertones.
The art of cymbal manufacture in our modern age can be both ancient and very modern, using hand hammers and the highest tech machinery made. Drums can come in a size range of 6" to 26" normally, for set playing but, also much larger for symphonic/orchestra work. Cymbals generally range from 6-26" and sometimes up to 30 inches. Then there are the gongs, the tam-tams, ranging all the way up to seven feet in diameter. Such gongs are so powerful, standing near one when struck can literally effect your body organs. There are, of course, finger cymbals, and other specialized instruments, like Crotales; a range of tuned disks.
I had someone on my YT channel ask me about doing videos on cymbals. My video series on drum shells continues to draw attention, mostly positive attention, thankfully. I have no beef or misgivings about cymbal companies and the way they advertise their merchandise. They make no statements of super-hype about bronze and sound. The parameters are basically set in stone for everybody. Smaller, higher pitch. Thicker, higher pitch. Hand-hammered, more variations of tonal character, while also reducing volume and frequency range. Machine hammered, more consistency and copied sound character, cymbal to cymbal, being brighter sounding and a little more volume.
The thing with bronze is the ratio of copper and tin and other metals in your formulas. Such a wide range of sound character and personality is produced. Now, I admit, for the average person a crash cymbal is a crash cymbal. The same for plenty of drummers. A ride cymbal, a crash cymbal, a china cymbal, hi-hat cymbals, splash cymbals, and accent cymbals are the basic variations on the theme. Orchestral music has another field of hand-held cymbals we have all heard struck together. Within that theme of actors can be produced dozens of variations. Add sticks or mallets and the individual playing them, and the range of tones increases exponentially.
There used to be one major cymbal company, Zildjian, producing the ancient Turkish sound. Today, dozens of companies exist all producing instruments with variations on the themes of pouring, casting, hammering and lathing the bronze disks every cymbal starts out as (save for sheet bronze cymbals, which can also be very nice sounding instruments), to the development of tonal characteristics. That range is something I really get into.
I never met a drummer married to his bass drum. Maybe a favorite snare drum. His ride cymbal, his hi-hats, oh yes. Drummers looking for "the one" can be as intense as human relationships. Just the right amount of "ping" and spread, and bell tone, the right amount of "chick" and wash and clang. And I could find plenty of players who would say they love their ride cymbal more than their wife or husband! It's a far more stable relationship.
I jest ... well ... sort of. Suffice to say Bronze can be a mesmerizing influence in the life of a drumist.
A lot of players, probably most, use cymbals from one company. I use instruments from seven, currently. And from different lines within each company. No, one company has the soundstage of instruments I hear in my own musical mind and price range from my ever decreasing wallet. I own more used cymbals than new ones. I can clean them up to look like new so, makes no difference to me. If I had the funds I would increase my experimenting and experience with bronze musical instruments. For many, some of my cymbals would be worthless. I have modified them in some way. That's okay. I don't own cymbals to resell them. I own them to play them.
Consider each cymbal has an edge, a bow (the curvature of the shape in the disk), and a bell. UFIP, an Italian company, pours their molten bronze into a mold which they spin, which they claim makes a cymbal sound a little different and I have found that to be completely true. Even if the differences are not great, they are significant. They shape their bells thicker and they are just gorgeous sounding. I love their Class Series of cymbals. They also have their own, distinctive lathing process they put on that cymbal line. If you have never heard a UFIP cymbal you should check them out.
Paiste is a Swiss company that has more alloys than drug store candy bars. Their Signature line is made from their own, special alloy and they produce such a beautiful tonal range that is exquisite.
Those two are my favorite cymbal lines.
I have never owned a Meinl cymbal, made in Germany. All the other companies out there, large or small, make their molten instruments from B20 bronze, which is the standard for top of the line instruments. They all, pretty much, have the same tonal range and "personality" that Turkish quality, if you will. The company branded Camber, made cymbals of what they called nickel-silver, a very glassy sounding alloy. I picked up an old ride of theirs a couple years ago. I used to use a 22" Camber crash-ride in Legend back in the 70's. They have a pretty cool sound.
I have been modifying cymbals since I was a kid. I cut them down, pop them inside out, re-lathe them, drill holes in them, repair them, everything but, re-hammer them. I've never gotten into that.
Right now I have a range of cymbals from 4-22" in my recording set-up, 64 instruments in use, including a 40" tam tam. Almost half of them are splashes, hats, and accent cymbals. To those who see that as extreme, consider a piano. 88 keys. Nobody plays them all at once, or even all of them in a performance but, they are certainly nice to have if you desire to use them. To go further, much further, consider keyboard players. One keyboard, possibly hundreds, thousands of different sounds, and that is one keyboard. Nobody bats an eye at that. I see cymbals the same way. A fluttering butterfly to the sting of a bee, a light rain to a tempest, a smooth stream to a pounding surf, a gentle breeze to a tornado. If I had the space I would add more instruments. For me and bronze, it's all in there.
The Creator loves His creation, He made things and buried them and man digs them out and refines them and adds value to them and they serve him in life. Musical instruments made from that which the Earth produces, along with man's ability to melt and shape and mold are all part of God's plan for the benefit of mankind. Far too often we pervert God's plans. Still, in His mercy, we abide, century after century, millennium after millennium. In all the chaos of war, the darkness of selfish, grievous agendas, in all the descent of man into a deeper abyss of sin, there is still sound and music and enjoyment.
Hallelujah. Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in the firmament of His power.
Praise Him for His mighty acts; praise Him according to His abundant greatness.
Praise Him with the blast of the horn; praise Him with the psaltery and harp.
Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; praise Him with stringed instruments and the pipe.
Praise Him with the loud-sounding cymbals; praise Him with the clanging cymbals [the cymbals of joy].
Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Hallelujah. Psalm 150:1-6
Grain patterns, especially those considered valuable, come from weather and stress. Too little rain, too much rain, unseasonably hot or cold; all these things affect the way the tree grows year by year. When a log is sliced for veneer, ripples and other effects can be seen. Put moisture on them and they "pop." Hence, looking at pictures of boards or veneer when wet when you go to purchase. The dampened wood mimics what it will look like when finished with whatever finish product one chooses.
All that said, and having been making my own drums for 30 years now, I know drums are drums when it comes to shells and sound, for the most part. I might be able to get a lot of different looks but, not sounds. Not because of drum shells, anyway. More deep, more shallow, more thick and dense, those things affect the sound more than anything else. Take away the heads and you have no sound at all.
Now cymbals, that is another story. When it comes to sound and variations within the theme, bronze can produce a range of tones that sting, shimmer, glisten, explode, roll, float, swirl, and soar. Nonsense, you say? Well, such a love affair with bronze is only tempered by my wallet.
Cymbals are made from Bronze. God made the Earth with lots of things in it. "The Bronze Age," around 2000 B.C., was an age of bronze in European and Asian life. You dig the Earth and ores are exposed. Bronze is made from percentages of copper and tin, and other metals can be melted in, as well, for sound production, tool production, armament production, building construction, etc.
Cymbal making is an ancient practice. Cymbals are mentioned in the Bible. A prominent individual in the Old Testament, Asaph, and his family, was the orchestral director in King David's court and he taught his sons to make and play cymbals.
Regardless of the drum sets I have owned or made in my life, each set always has more cymbals than drums. I love cymbals. Their range of tones, if captured correctly on microphones, is quite wide. The dominant pitch, then all the overtones and undertones.
The art of cymbal manufacture in our modern age can be both ancient and very modern, using hand hammers and the highest tech machinery made. Drums can come in a size range of 6" to 26" normally, for set playing but, also much larger for symphonic/orchestra work. Cymbals generally range from 6-26" and sometimes up to 30 inches. Then there are the gongs, the tam-tams, ranging all the way up to seven feet in diameter. Such gongs are so powerful, standing near one when struck can literally effect your body organs. There are, of course, finger cymbals, and other specialized instruments, like Crotales; a range of tuned disks.
I had someone on my YT channel ask me about doing videos on cymbals. My video series on drum shells continues to draw attention, mostly positive attention, thankfully. I have no beef or misgivings about cymbal companies and the way they advertise their merchandise. They make no statements of super-hype about bronze and sound. The parameters are basically set in stone for everybody. Smaller, higher pitch. Thicker, higher pitch. Hand-hammered, more variations of tonal character, while also reducing volume and frequency range. Machine hammered, more consistency and copied sound character, cymbal to cymbal, being brighter sounding and a little more volume.
The thing with bronze is the ratio of copper and tin and other metals in your formulas. Such a wide range of sound character and personality is produced. Now, I admit, for the average person a crash cymbal is a crash cymbal. The same for plenty of drummers. A ride cymbal, a crash cymbal, a china cymbal, hi-hat cymbals, splash cymbals, and accent cymbals are the basic variations on the theme. Orchestral music has another field of hand-held cymbals we have all heard struck together. Within that theme of actors can be produced dozens of variations. Add sticks or mallets and the individual playing them, and the range of tones increases exponentially.
There used to be one major cymbal company, Zildjian, producing the ancient Turkish sound. Today, dozens of companies exist all producing instruments with variations on the themes of pouring, casting, hammering and lathing the bronze disks every cymbal starts out as (save for sheet bronze cymbals, which can also be very nice sounding instruments), to the development of tonal characteristics. That range is something I really get into.
I never met a drummer married to his bass drum. Maybe a favorite snare drum. His ride cymbal, his hi-hats, oh yes. Drummers looking for "the one" can be as intense as human relationships. Just the right amount of "ping" and spread, and bell tone, the right amount of "chick" and wash and clang. And I could find plenty of players who would say they love their ride cymbal more than their wife or husband! It's a far more stable relationship.
I jest ... well ... sort of. Suffice to say Bronze can be a mesmerizing influence in the life of a drumist.
A lot of players, probably most, use cymbals from one company. I use instruments from seven, currently. And from different lines within each company. No, one company has the soundstage of instruments I hear in my own musical mind and price range from my ever decreasing wallet. I own more used cymbals than new ones. I can clean them up to look like new so, makes no difference to me. If I had the funds I would increase my experimenting and experience with bronze musical instruments. For many, some of my cymbals would be worthless. I have modified them in some way. That's okay. I don't own cymbals to resell them. I own them to play them.
Consider each cymbal has an edge, a bow (the curvature of the shape in the disk), and a bell. UFIP, an Italian company, pours their molten bronze into a mold which they spin, which they claim makes a cymbal sound a little different and I have found that to be completely true. Even if the differences are not great, they are significant. They shape their bells thicker and they are just gorgeous sounding. I love their Class Series of cymbals. They also have their own, distinctive lathing process they put on that cymbal line. If you have never heard a UFIP cymbal you should check them out.
Paiste is a Swiss company that has more alloys than drug store candy bars. Their Signature line is made from their own, special alloy and they produce such a beautiful tonal range that is exquisite.
Those two are my favorite cymbal lines.
I have never owned a Meinl cymbal, made in Germany. All the other companies out there, large or small, make their molten instruments from B20 bronze, which is the standard for top of the line instruments. They all, pretty much, have the same tonal range and "personality" that Turkish quality, if you will. The company branded Camber, made cymbals of what they called nickel-silver, a very glassy sounding alloy. I picked up an old ride of theirs a couple years ago. I used to use a 22" Camber crash-ride in Legend back in the 70's. They have a pretty cool sound.
I have been modifying cymbals since I was a kid. I cut them down, pop them inside out, re-lathe them, drill holes in them, repair them, everything but, re-hammer them. I've never gotten into that.
Right now I have a range of cymbals from 4-22" in my recording set-up, 64 instruments in use, including a 40" tam tam. Almost half of them are splashes, hats, and accent cymbals. To those who see that as extreme, consider a piano. 88 keys. Nobody plays them all at once, or even all of them in a performance but, they are certainly nice to have if you desire to use them. To go further, much further, consider keyboard players. One keyboard, possibly hundreds, thousands of different sounds, and that is one keyboard. Nobody bats an eye at that. I see cymbals the same way. A fluttering butterfly to the sting of a bee, a light rain to a tempest, a smooth stream to a pounding surf, a gentle breeze to a tornado. If I had the space I would add more instruments. For me and bronze, it's all in there.
The Creator loves His creation, He made things and buried them and man digs them out and refines them and adds value to them and they serve him in life. Musical instruments made from that which the Earth produces, along with man's ability to melt and shape and mold are all part of God's plan for the benefit of mankind. Far too often we pervert God's plans. Still, in His mercy, we abide, century after century, millennium after millennium. In all the chaos of war, the darkness of selfish, grievous agendas, in all the descent of man into a deeper abyss of sin, there is still sound and music and enjoyment.
Hallelujah. Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in the firmament of His power.
Praise Him for His mighty acts; praise Him according to His abundant greatness.
Praise Him with the blast of the horn; praise Him with the psaltery and harp.
Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; praise Him with stringed instruments and the pipe.
Praise Him with the loud-sounding cymbals; praise Him with the clanging cymbals [the cymbals of joy].
Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Hallelujah. Psalm 150:1-6
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221. Dr. James M. Tour - March 13, 2021
Usually every Sabbath I'm watching or reading about creation; watching presentations by creationists, going to their websites, maybe writing about what I have come across, on forums. I don't go to forums anymore. I've done a lot of witnessing on them over the years.
Aside from biblical creationists I also check out those in the Intelligent Design movement. Their approach is different, from a different perspective, even if many of them are, in fact, creationists. Many are not. They all just see that the world and universe we live in looks designed, and the science shows accidents for life from non-life are not possible, if even drastically, statistically, impossible.
A couple years ago I came upon a speaker whose passion for his work, and his passion for his beliefs are a firebrand. I had not seen anyone speak with such conviction and force before.
His name is James Tour. His PhD is in chemistry. He's a world-renowned chemist. All kinds of published articles, inventions, patents, companies, and such. To say he is an accomplished academic and scientist is an understatement.
He is converted Jew. I was an atheist. We became believers about the same time, 40+ years ago. As much as he loves Christ, his take-no-prisoners science is something to behold. Yes, He believes. No, he does not use his faith to explain what he believes about life and where and how it came into existence. For that, he uses science; the science of chemistry. Anybody stating life arose from non-living chemicals is just lying to you. I mean, he just comes right out and says, "They have no clue."
He actually takes no hard, fast position on creation, as far as age of the Earth and all. He just believes God created it, and the universe and believes science lays out a very fair presentation why that conclusion can be drawn.
He has drawn more and more attention because of his presentations and straight-line talking. With the attention comes more and more attacks. Nobody likes being attacked. We all desire fairness and equity and honesty. Why can't everything science discovers be on the table? It's science, not religion or religious faith. It's chemicals, rocks, bones, and all the rest everybody looks at and researches. Nobody has a better edge on bones found in dirt.
Dr. Tour has retained his prestige, as more and more people in the scientific community see him as a real thorn in their side. He just stands his ground and invites anyone to tell him he's wrong, and if you do, have the science to back it up.
I share him here because he's made a definite impact on me. If I had no science to speak, I'd still be a believer because I have an experience no science can explain or do away with. With science, as with so many presenters in the I.D. and Creationist camp, my faith is just reinforced by more evidence than my own experience.
This is James Tour's YouTube channel of his videos. More info about him can be seen there. Watch this man and see what you think. If you believe life sprang from non-living chemicals in a primordial soup, Tour will challenge your thinking and will back you into some corners science declares you must face, to stay honest about it all. If you are a believer in creation and a Creator, what Tour shares will amaze you as to what the Creator has done, even if he does not state that right out, and how life is truly in His hands.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UColdwL6T062LNo65OHngXAQ/videos
Aside from biblical creationists I also check out those in the Intelligent Design movement. Their approach is different, from a different perspective, even if many of them are, in fact, creationists. Many are not. They all just see that the world and universe we live in looks designed, and the science shows accidents for life from non-life are not possible, if even drastically, statistically, impossible.
A couple years ago I came upon a speaker whose passion for his work, and his passion for his beliefs are a firebrand. I had not seen anyone speak with such conviction and force before.
His name is James Tour. His PhD is in chemistry. He's a world-renowned chemist. All kinds of published articles, inventions, patents, companies, and such. To say he is an accomplished academic and scientist is an understatement.
He is converted Jew. I was an atheist. We became believers about the same time, 40+ years ago. As much as he loves Christ, his take-no-prisoners science is something to behold. Yes, He believes. No, he does not use his faith to explain what he believes about life and where and how it came into existence. For that, he uses science; the science of chemistry. Anybody stating life arose from non-living chemicals is just lying to you. I mean, he just comes right out and says, "They have no clue."
He actually takes no hard, fast position on creation, as far as age of the Earth and all. He just believes God created it, and the universe and believes science lays out a very fair presentation why that conclusion can be drawn.
He has drawn more and more attention because of his presentations and straight-line talking. With the attention comes more and more attacks. Nobody likes being attacked. We all desire fairness and equity and honesty. Why can't everything science discovers be on the table? It's science, not religion or religious faith. It's chemicals, rocks, bones, and all the rest everybody looks at and researches. Nobody has a better edge on bones found in dirt.
Dr. Tour has retained his prestige, as more and more people in the scientific community see him as a real thorn in their side. He just stands his ground and invites anyone to tell him he's wrong, and if you do, have the science to back it up.
I share him here because he's made a definite impact on me. If I had no science to speak, I'd still be a believer because I have an experience no science can explain or do away with. With science, as with so many presenters in the I.D. and Creationist camp, my faith is just reinforced by more evidence than my own experience.
This is James Tour's YouTube channel of his videos. More info about him can be seen there. Watch this man and see what you think. If you believe life sprang from non-living chemicals in a primordial soup, Tour will challenge your thinking and will back you into some corners science declares you must face, to stay honest about it all. If you are a believer in creation and a Creator, what Tour shares will amaze you as to what the Creator has done, even if he does not state that right out, and how life is truly in His hands.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UColdwL6T062LNo65OHngXAQ/videos
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222. The Art of Drumming - March 16, 2021
Last night, I watched a 4 hour presentation called, The Art of Drumming. I watched it online. I don't know if it was something from British television or what. I didn't watch the closing credits, if there were any.
It was in four segments. Steve White, a player I had not heard of, hosted and narrated the presentations. The title conveys the subject matter. It is not so much a history of drumming but, the art of it. Mr. White mentioned there are thirty different players on board for commentary, most I was familiar with, who get into what they play and why, and where it all came from, for them. I found that to be pretty interesting. Actually, I found the entire presentation pretty attention-holding. It held my interest, even if some sections confused me for lack of mentioning certain players in history but, seeing as that was not the subject matter, I kept that aside in my own mind, until the end.
Because of my own background, the next morning, of the thirty I remember Ian Paice, Chad Smith, Steve Gadd, Dave Lombardo, Bill Ward, Gene Hogland, Mike Portnoy, Billy Cobham, Ginger Baker, Hal Blaine, Steve Smith and a few others that offered commentary. I suppose if I sat here all day I might remember all 30 but, not necessary. The presentation definitely had a wide array of genre representation.
I don't know when it was filmed. The programs was done before a few players passed away - Ginger, Hal Blaine, and Neil Peart.
For me, the most interesting parts where the comments and demonstrations by Thomas Lang and Dave Weckl. They gave Thomas quite a bit of time to get into the art of drumming as it applies to limb independence. One might think of others to represent a segment like that - Terry Bozzio, Marco Minnemann, and certainly Virgil Donati but, I'm sure scheduling issues came up for the filming of such a presentation as this, and Thomas is obviously of the top notch mathematicians to get into the subject. He's a very articulate fellow as well, and does a fine job. Steve Smith did some nice stuff, too, as he always does. Dave Lombardo is a player that surprises me every time I see him on something. He's known, mostly, for Metal but, the man has a seriously wide field of influences and talents under his belt.
Steve White mentioned "lists" are rather meaningless, for the same reasons I have no use for them but, at the end a list of 20 of the most influential drummers, regarding the art of it, are placed, based on the opinions of the 30. I held on and didn't have a serious disagreement with it; well, I did, actually but, I know the list represented the personal opinions of the commentators so ... it is, what it is.
Although it was not a history list, it would be extremely difficult to leave out players in history who put the instrument on the map. To leave out Tony Williams and Carl Palmer seemed egregious to me. Not because they were big influences on me, personally but, when it comes to the art of drumming, the two had enormous impacts, and still do, especially seeing Carl playing at full steam in his 70's. Tony shocked the drumming world at such a young age, and developed a style so recognizable an entire generation of Jazz Rock players, Rockers, Jazzers, and every genre under the sun was somehow influenced by him, even if they don't know it. Palmer, the greatest technician Rock music ever saw, combining all the elements of Jazz and Classical in his portfolio, was mentioned as an aside for someone on the list when it comes to Progressive Rock.
Then you have very influential players regarding the art of drumming, that influenced all the players named in the program and the commentators. Baby Dodds, Papa Jo Jones, Sonny Greer (who was Carl Palmer and Neil Peart - just look at old photos of his drum set-up - before they were born), Elvin Jones, Max Roach (who made soloing an art, in and of itself), Kenny Clarke (who changed the way drums were played, literally, when it came to time and four limbs involved), and I could add others, too, like Art Blakey, and Joe Morello, an obvious candidate for the art of playing in odd time, and a definitive influential element in the playing of many on the list. How these players did not make it to the list is beyond me. I am not even a listener of Jazz in all its genre classifications and I am aware of these giants who carved out how a drum set can be played. There would have been no Gene Krupa or Buddy Rich (both mentioned on the list) without the influence of the early innovators, and I know plenty of the commentators would be very familiar with these players.
Still, the presentation had merits for getting into the instrument and how things have changed over time. Again, though, if time becomes a subject matter, than history must, as well. That's the only thing I felt was thin in it all. The art of drumming cannot logically be separated from the history of drum set performance.
Like I said, it's four hours long. I saw it on Bitchute. A more abbreviated version is on YT. I saw it in the side bar and checked it out and a commenter there mentioned the entire thing is on Bitchute. That may have been the first time I have been to the bitchute website.
Check it out. It's worth your time.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/EoHa8fSydXL8/
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223. Sexist Drummers? - March 17, 2021
Let me get this out of the way first. Right now, this generation is having a meltdown about science and facts of nature.
Everything that procreates are male and female. Humans are now having confusion over this. They shouldn't. Men produce sperm. Women produce eggs. Women give birth to new generations. The day a man menstruates and gives birth and a woman produces sperm is the day I will believe anybody can choose their own sex. To deny the obvious is to live in your own mind, not outside of it, in a real world to see, all around us. It is an incredibly sad time in human history when people cannot even deal with the sex they came into life with. That was decided when the sperm met egg, in the coding information for every cell in the developing body. To tell me there are not two sexes but, I don't even know how many people have come up with, is the height of confusion, and a definitive sign of the biblical prophetic times we live in - Confusion: Babylon.
Women have been warriors for ages. Women have been hunters for ages. Women have been leaders for ages. Women have done just about everything men do for ages, as queens, tribal leaders, religious leaders, etc. That is just historical fact. Not as many. That is a simple matter of the roles God has designed and chose for humans. The Bible is filled with women in positions of great influence and impact in human events, though.
Modern Western culture, and others, have tended to have issues with women in positions of leadership and public exposure, save for actresses and entertainment, which has a whole encyclopedia of psychological "stuff" going on there. Men rule. Women stay home and give birth and take care of children. Women began fighting against that set-up in the 18th century. A lot of it went radical and still is. I am not a "feminist" that sees no difference between men and women.
The modern Olympics began in 1894. Women began competing in 1900, six years later.
Because of obvious differences in size and strength, women have yet to compete with men in most sports, especially contact sports. That's logical. Even at that, girls have begun to play with boys in baseball, and all padded up in football before serious strength and impact issues come into play, as well as hockey and other sports.
Now (yes, I'm going there), we have biological males transgendering to females and competing in female sports and it is causing a furor nationwide, and should be causing a furor nationwide, as people with even a lick of common sense see the problems.
Well, wait a minute. If there is no such thing as a sex at birth, if multiple sexes exist, not just two, why the upheaval? It's just humans competing. No sexes. No differences. No performance advantages, right?
Even if science and nature didn't have its position to tell, common sense would.
Women, females, gifts from God, have generally been thought of as they which operate with more gentle attributes. Anybody that had a tough mother knows that only goes so far. Think lioness, mama bears, whatever. Women are different from men, though, in obvious ways, and also have a lot of the same characteristics in many ways, as well. Balance.
"Man, I thought this was supposed to be about female drummers?"
It is, and I am going to try and lace some things together.
The world is literally filled with artwork depicting women playing hand drums in ancient times. The Bible mentions Mariam, sister of Moses, and other women playing timbrels (hand drums, tambourines) in praise.
For those of that are younger, female drum set players have been around a long time. My memory goes back to Karen Carpenter, known a lot more for her gorgeous voice than her playing but, she did the job for her duo with her brother and the rest of the band. Other female players had exposure in the 70's. I remember guys wondering how these players went through the "blisters and callous stage." Then I remember more female drummers coming forth in the 80's. And on it has gone. The web is filled with sites of lists of prominent female drummers. They have their own drumming magazine, Tom Tom. They have their own contest/festival - Hit Like A Girl, with different categories of age and specialty.
Female drummers had a place in Jazz and Big Band way before the 60's and 70's. Viola Smith was called "the female Gene Krupa." Others were in the big league of Big Band, too; not as well known.
Bobbye Hall played on Motown hits.
Like I said, regardless of how young you may be, the web is filled with info on the history of female drummers.
My point would be, why are they still called "female drummers?" Are their female cellists? Female violinists? Female pianists? Did the world of Rock music cause this distinction of gender musicians? Female guitarists, bassists, and drummers. Rock was a male world? Why?
Think about this. Rock was a 'bad boy' activity. Don't even think to challenge that. Any of us living back then knew it simply by the reaction our parents had to it all, even before the Beatles. God forbid girls should get involved in it. Well, they did, and it's all history.
I watch Cindy Blackmon and Terri-Lynn Carrington with enjoyment. I don't think of them as female drummers like a category. They are females. They play drums. They also probably cook, do laundry, and take care of their children, along with their husbands who cook, and vacuum, and take care of the children.
My viewpoint may have something to do with how I was raised. My mom and dad did everything together. I mean everything. They owned two restaurants together. I watched them do dishes together, cook in the kitchen together, do yardwork together, paint the house together, go antiquing together, shop together. They did everything together and I didn't see male or female roles, save for physical strength issues. Even when my father was down in the basement making something, like furniture, my mom sat on the cellar steps and watched him. He helped her sew. I watched him help her lay out sewing patterns. That was my life, watching the two of them.
I realize drumming is a very physical activity. Early Rock drumming, 50's, 60's and 70's and those years in Jazz, as well, Be Bop and all, had endurance issues that most felt females could not really handle. We were wrong, and time has showed that, from even before, when we were ignorant of females that played drum sets before Rock came along.
I have no real use for the chicks who like to show off their bodies in sexual ways. What is the point? Even Sheila E. has stated she regrets her days as a sex-object drummer behind Prince. That was a long time ago and one might think women had grown away from that, yet, I see on Youtube videos of the sexiest drummers. Cleavage and drumming have zero to do with each other. Of course, I am guessing males put those videos together.
I'm tired of seeing "female drummers." I'm tired of seeing the questions about what it's like to be a female drummer. I mean, C'mon. How many decades have to pass before the subject is moot? Is it because males do not really want females in their modern music world? Are they the ones keeping the difference in place?
There will never be as many female drummers as male drummers simply because it is a very physical instrument and not as many females are going to get into it, as a musical instrument. There is a difference between the sexes, physicality being one of them.
Do you think there will ever be as many male ... well, would you call them seamstresses? What would you call them? Seamsters? Do men wear clothes and sleep in beds? Why don't more men sew clothing, make quilts, do needlepoint? Some do. More women will always be into that because of their nature as lovers of beauty in ways different than men.
Balance. Balance is what we need and these days everything seems so imbalanced, illogical, and ill-fated we can only look with amazement at it all. The human species, the most intelligent and dangerous life on the planet, is coming to an eventual end. No balance, no life. Simple as that.
I believe playing a drum set is a path to balance: physically, mentally, emotionally, and even spiritually, for me. It is for more and more females, as well. They are drumists, no different than anyone else that gets into the instrument.
Welcome aboard.
Everything that procreates are male and female. Humans are now having confusion over this. They shouldn't. Men produce sperm. Women produce eggs. Women give birth to new generations. The day a man menstruates and gives birth and a woman produces sperm is the day I will believe anybody can choose their own sex. To deny the obvious is to live in your own mind, not outside of it, in a real world to see, all around us. It is an incredibly sad time in human history when people cannot even deal with the sex they came into life with. That was decided when the sperm met egg, in the coding information for every cell in the developing body. To tell me there are not two sexes but, I don't even know how many people have come up with, is the height of confusion, and a definitive sign of the biblical prophetic times we live in - Confusion: Babylon.
Women have been warriors for ages. Women have been hunters for ages. Women have been leaders for ages. Women have done just about everything men do for ages, as queens, tribal leaders, religious leaders, etc. That is just historical fact. Not as many. That is a simple matter of the roles God has designed and chose for humans. The Bible is filled with women in positions of great influence and impact in human events, though.
Modern Western culture, and others, have tended to have issues with women in positions of leadership and public exposure, save for actresses and entertainment, which has a whole encyclopedia of psychological "stuff" going on there. Men rule. Women stay home and give birth and take care of children. Women began fighting against that set-up in the 18th century. A lot of it went radical and still is. I am not a "feminist" that sees no difference between men and women.
The modern Olympics began in 1894. Women began competing in 1900, six years later.
Because of obvious differences in size and strength, women have yet to compete with men in most sports, especially contact sports. That's logical. Even at that, girls have begun to play with boys in baseball, and all padded up in football before serious strength and impact issues come into play, as well as hockey and other sports.
Now (yes, I'm going there), we have biological males transgendering to females and competing in female sports and it is causing a furor nationwide, and should be causing a furor nationwide, as people with even a lick of common sense see the problems.
Well, wait a minute. If there is no such thing as a sex at birth, if multiple sexes exist, not just two, why the upheaval? It's just humans competing. No sexes. No differences. No performance advantages, right?
Even if science and nature didn't have its position to tell, common sense would.
Women, females, gifts from God, have generally been thought of as they which operate with more gentle attributes. Anybody that had a tough mother knows that only goes so far. Think lioness, mama bears, whatever. Women are different from men, though, in obvious ways, and also have a lot of the same characteristics in many ways, as well. Balance.
"Man, I thought this was supposed to be about female drummers?"
It is, and I am going to try and lace some things together.
The world is literally filled with artwork depicting women playing hand drums in ancient times. The Bible mentions Mariam, sister of Moses, and other women playing timbrels (hand drums, tambourines) in praise.
For those of that are younger, female drum set players have been around a long time. My memory goes back to Karen Carpenter, known a lot more for her gorgeous voice than her playing but, she did the job for her duo with her brother and the rest of the band. Other female players had exposure in the 70's. I remember guys wondering how these players went through the "blisters and callous stage." Then I remember more female drummers coming forth in the 80's. And on it has gone. The web is filled with sites of lists of prominent female drummers. They have their own drumming magazine, Tom Tom. They have their own contest/festival - Hit Like A Girl, with different categories of age and specialty.
Female drummers had a place in Jazz and Big Band way before the 60's and 70's. Viola Smith was called "the female Gene Krupa." Others were in the big league of Big Band, too; not as well known.
Bobbye Hall played on Motown hits.
Like I said, regardless of how young you may be, the web is filled with info on the history of female drummers.
My point would be, why are they still called "female drummers?" Are their female cellists? Female violinists? Female pianists? Did the world of Rock music cause this distinction of gender musicians? Female guitarists, bassists, and drummers. Rock was a male world? Why?
Think about this. Rock was a 'bad boy' activity. Don't even think to challenge that. Any of us living back then knew it simply by the reaction our parents had to it all, even before the Beatles. God forbid girls should get involved in it. Well, they did, and it's all history.
I watch Cindy Blackmon and Terri-Lynn Carrington with enjoyment. I don't think of them as female drummers like a category. They are females. They play drums. They also probably cook, do laundry, and take care of their children, along with their husbands who cook, and vacuum, and take care of the children.
My viewpoint may have something to do with how I was raised. My mom and dad did everything together. I mean everything. They owned two restaurants together. I watched them do dishes together, cook in the kitchen together, do yardwork together, paint the house together, go antiquing together, shop together. They did everything together and I didn't see male or female roles, save for physical strength issues. Even when my father was down in the basement making something, like furniture, my mom sat on the cellar steps and watched him. He helped her sew. I watched him help her lay out sewing patterns. That was my life, watching the two of them.
I realize drumming is a very physical activity. Early Rock drumming, 50's, 60's and 70's and those years in Jazz, as well, Be Bop and all, had endurance issues that most felt females could not really handle. We were wrong, and time has showed that, from even before, when we were ignorant of females that played drum sets before Rock came along.
I have no real use for the chicks who like to show off their bodies in sexual ways. What is the point? Even Sheila E. has stated she regrets her days as a sex-object drummer behind Prince. That was a long time ago and one might think women had grown away from that, yet, I see on Youtube videos of the sexiest drummers. Cleavage and drumming have zero to do with each other. Of course, I am guessing males put those videos together.
I'm tired of seeing "female drummers." I'm tired of seeing the questions about what it's like to be a female drummer. I mean, C'mon. How many decades have to pass before the subject is moot? Is it because males do not really want females in their modern music world? Are they the ones keeping the difference in place?
There will never be as many female drummers as male drummers simply because it is a very physical instrument and not as many females are going to get into it, as a musical instrument. There is a difference between the sexes, physicality being one of them.
Do you think there will ever be as many male ... well, would you call them seamstresses? What would you call them? Seamsters? Do men wear clothes and sleep in beds? Why don't more men sew clothing, make quilts, do needlepoint? Some do. More women will always be into that because of their nature as lovers of beauty in ways different than men.
Balance. Balance is what we need and these days everything seems so imbalanced, illogical, and ill-fated we can only look with amazement at it all. The human species, the most intelligent and dangerous life on the planet, is coming to an eventual end. No balance, no life. Simple as that.
I believe playing a drum set is a path to balance: physically, mentally, emotionally, and even spiritually, for me. It is for more and more females, as well. They are drumists, no different than anyone else that gets into the instrument.
Welcome aboard.
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24. Changes: Websites and Life - March 18, 2021
I have this website. Not a lot of people come here. Some contact me to say hello, being a fan of Legend, or seeing it wondering if I am online, have an online presence, maybe someone like an old friend. I have this website for a few reasons. Those reasons change, too, as time moves along.
Forty-two years ago, on this date, I became a Christian. I gave my life to Christ. To say my life changed that day would be a colossal understatement. I began reading more than music magazines and Classics comic books. I began studying the Bible for hours a day. I read other writings, by other Christian authors, as well. Television went by the wayside more and more. Movies, too. I began a radical change I seemed to have no control over, and I am one not given to big changes. I find them a hassle and less than necessary. In this case, though, having been an atheist for years, I flew into high gear so fast it startled everybody around me, including people I met in church. Church. The only time you'd see me in a church building was a wedding or funeral. All of a sudden I was living for church meetings of one kind or another. I attended public evangelism meetings, a prophecy seminar, and observing it all it began to fill within me that I needed to do that; I needed to tell people, publicly, the Good News of Christ and truth and prophetic events unfolding. I began doing Bible studies with people and three years later I held my first prophecy seminar. I went from sticks to holding the Word of life, hiding behind my drums to standing in front of groups of people, large or small, speaking to them. The change was drastic and astounding to anyone who knew me.
Bear in mind I was in Legend when this change began, in the studio producing our first album, the first of a good four or five we had material for, and a whole trunk of ideas for the future. Next thing I know a battle began in my mind between that world and citizenship in another, the body of Christ. The Bible says old things are passed away and all things become new. I was experiencing that and it shocked everyone; the band, my parents, friends. They thought I was going crazy. I felt like I found true sanity.
I left the band. I sold my drums to pay for the loan we took out to produce From the Fjords. It was on my shoulders and I had to do anything I could to make the payments because my parents co-signed the loan. It was a difficult time. I washed dishes. I worked with a landscaper. I ended up getting a job as a carpenter. It was a whirlwind. Seemed that way, anyway.
The more I studied, the more convinced I became of two things: that signs were telling Christ was coming soon, and that apostasy was in the church. I began speaking to both issues. The church leaders did not appreciate my take on things happening in the denomination I joined. A battle developed that ultimately caused me to take my name off the books nine years later, which shocked a lot of people in the church. The leaders were happy. People I fellowshipped with were confused by it all. I was exhausted by the lies, the treachery, the backstabbing, and ceaseless war the denomination made against its own doctrines it once held as true, which, of course, is the definition of apostasy.
I spent the next 10 years speaking independently, traveling to various states where groups began meeting outside the denomination because everything was developing into great upheaval, in the world, and in the church. I tried radio and had a few different programs. One of them I did with a close friend, a live, call-in program. Now we had a voice that went to all Northern New England, and church leaders did all they could to keep people from listening. Didn't matter. People were waking up, and the apostasy in the denomination grew worse, ever worse and more incredibly blinded by its own wannabe popish attitudes. But, I had left it, and its hassles, and its treachery.
In my observations what is happening in America is exactly the same as what happened in that denomination. Exactly. Mirror image. The same as in other denominations and other countries. You guard, with determined vigilance, the foundation of what you build upon or change comes in and it shakes and cracks and comes down, even if the money flows and people still come in, and it seems to grow. It all changes, little by little, until it becomes unrecognizable to what it was. It has a name, only. And in this particular case, that denomination trademarked its name and sued anybody or any group that used it that they did not control. Yeah. Talk about Christianity.
Various stressors dissolved what was little short of one long argument and battle in my 19-year marriage. Divorce. The pains of those changes were great, indeed, for all of us, especially the children. I left ministry. I moved South. Worked as a maintenance man, did more carpentry, met someone, remarried, began going to her church, got asked to speak, and it all began all over again. Does not matter. The principles of truth wage war against the policies of error. It is an unending battle that repeats itself, century after century, millennia after millennia.
When I spoke, I asked the congregation if they wanted me to preach the truth as I understand it in Christ Jesus. Most would look at me confused, as though I asked a trick question. 'Of course we want you to preach the truth. Why would you ask that?' I asked it again, with more force. I received a reply of Yes! and off I would go. And people saw that truth brings change. And people have a hard time with change. Change may affect your job, your family, friends, lifestyle, everything you are and do. You may find you are actually in a prison and truth offers freedom but, not without change. Nobody escapes the pain that comes from following truth and now swimming against a great tide constantly pulling, pushing, dragging you back.
Over the years I bought a couple drum sets, then would sell them to buy evangelistic equipment. I never went "stickless," though. I always had sticks around and practice pads of one kind or another. When I began building my own drums a whole new world and change opened up, in both my approach to the instrument, and my playing it. My understanding of a Creator, and trees and wood and all of it began to change how I saw a drum set. I began looking into what I was as a human being, a creation of incredible wonder: muscles, tendons, organs, blood, all of it, and it affected the way I played. I had become a vegan, eating the Genesis, plant-based diet. Lost weight, felt great, despite being an accident waiting to happen, with dozens of scars and some x-rays to prove it.
My independent ministry, one of dozens developing all over the world, began problems. It was religious war. A change few really wanted to fight. The stress was crushing. I started a band, though, Asaph. Asaph was the orchestral leader of king David's court; a maker and player of cymbals. Asaph lasted ten years. We played hymns, right out of the hymnals but, we played them as though a synthesized orchestra and a drum corps were playing them. Huge sound. We never played out much but, people who saw and heard it were pretty moved by its power, majesty, and beauty. To go from Legend to playing hymns? Yeah. Big change.
Still, in 2001, everything changed again and I eventually went down South, opening up to whole new world, literally. More heat and humidity. More difficulty understanding people talk, with all the variations on the "southern accent." The faster people talked, the less I could understand them, and that holds true today. It's a whole different culture.
I began renovating houses, beginning with my mom's. I ended up doing that house twice, when I moved in after she passed away. I built an extension off the barn and turned it all into an office and drum room.
I began this website. If you have been coming here over the years, you'll see it has not changed. I like it the way it is. It is a comfort for those who like going to go places that stay the same and they know where things are and how to navigate, and they just hang for a few. People into tech need change. They cannot exist without it. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," means nothing to them. If tech develops, move with it. If it doesn't, develop it and change things. They live, they exist to change things. Our world is now dependent on technology and kids love it and they do not see the dangers. Even people in the world of tech began speaking out against its dangers; things that can go out of control. The world just speeds along, oblivious to changes that will cross a line for all humanity, at least in places where technology is the norm. Many look upon places in the world where people live like they have for thousands of years, with just a few enhancements of technology, as so far behind the curve it may as well be the dark ages. Yeah, talk to people in Texas who went without heat and water for a week and more in February's bone chilling cold snap because technology failed them, along with the humans who control it.
I met Tom Cranor online and we got together and began playing our duo-version of multi-genre, improvisation, and felt the need to record the sessions and put them out there. I was recording again but, what a change. No more tape. It's all software, and software can perform wonders. It is astounding. Five CDs later, we still have a bunch of sessions to release, as time permits, and we are going to try a change - remote improv. I record, he records, we send each other the files and see what we come up with 1,000 miles apart. The Cranor-Frigon Duo. And I'm trying to finish tracks for the drum solo album, recording it all on a device no bigger than a soda can. Amazing.
Life changes. We all know that. It will, it does, it does not always have to, and we all try and find a balance in it's waves. We "surf." Millions, if not billions "tweet," thinking the world needs to know what we are thinking at any given moment. We put ourselves out there in ways, unimaginable, when I was growing up. Stuff like this was all science fiction. Flash Gordon. The Jetsons. We have our own "channels" on YouTube and other such video platforms. The entire planet can hear you and watch you, and billions look for ways to get noticed, to get exposed, to share, to speak, to teach, to entertain, to educate. Are you kidding? What a change.
I had a stroke, though not a major one, and life changed. Instantly. Literally, instantly. I am thankful to be able to type this out, to use forks, spoons and knives, to play my drums, to go outside and do yardwork. I am not the same. I changed. I lost vital energy. I tire very easily. I lose my train of thought. I just keep marching.
Change is okay. Change is terrible. Change is fun. Change is educational. Change is ignorance on parade. Change is logical. Change is radical. Change is necessary. Change is destructive. Change happens.
The BIG change will come someday. The time, the day when the redeemed are changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, when Christ returns, and we are changed into immortality, and the changes will go on for ceaseless ages of discovery and vigorous challenges to understand God, the Creator, the Savior, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, billions of angels, maybe trillions of them, and all the redeemed of the ages, travelling a universe full of life and things to explore; a never ending change of wonder and delight and surprise and glory.
If you miss that change; being born-again, experiencing grace, forgiveness, being redeemed, experiencing victory over the sins that so easily beset us, living by faith, not sight, fighting the good fight, being resurrected or translated to immortal life, eating from the tree of life, experiencing things eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the mind of man what things God is saving for those who love Him, you miss everything.
Forty-two years ago, on this date, I became a Christian. I gave my life to Christ. To say my life changed that day would be a colossal understatement. I began reading more than music magazines and Classics comic books. I began studying the Bible for hours a day. I read other writings, by other Christian authors, as well. Television went by the wayside more and more. Movies, too. I began a radical change I seemed to have no control over, and I am one not given to big changes. I find them a hassle and less than necessary. In this case, though, having been an atheist for years, I flew into high gear so fast it startled everybody around me, including people I met in church. Church. The only time you'd see me in a church building was a wedding or funeral. All of a sudden I was living for church meetings of one kind or another. I attended public evangelism meetings, a prophecy seminar, and observing it all it began to fill within me that I needed to do that; I needed to tell people, publicly, the Good News of Christ and truth and prophetic events unfolding. I began doing Bible studies with people and three years later I held my first prophecy seminar. I went from sticks to holding the Word of life, hiding behind my drums to standing in front of groups of people, large or small, speaking to them. The change was drastic and astounding to anyone who knew me.
Bear in mind I was in Legend when this change began, in the studio producing our first album, the first of a good four or five we had material for, and a whole trunk of ideas for the future. Next thing I know a battle began in my mind between that world and citizenship in another, the body of Christ. The Bible says old things are passed away and all things become new. I was experiencing that and it shocked everyone; the band, my parents, friends. They thought I was going crazy. I felt like I found true sanity.
I left the band. I sold my drums to pay for the loan we took out to produce From the Fjords. It was on my shoulders and I had to do anything I could to make the payments because my parents co-signed the loan. It was a difficult time. I washed dishes. I worked with a landscaper. I ended up getting a job as a carpenter. It was a whirlwind. Seemed that way, anyway.
The more I studied, the more convinced I became of two things: that signs were telling Christ was coming soon, and that apostasy was in the church. I began speaking to both issues. The church leaders did not appreciate my take on things happening in the denomination I joined. A battle developed that ultimately caused me to take my name off the books nine years later, which shocked a lot of people in the church. The leaders were happy. People I fellowshipped with were confused by it all. I was exhausted by the lies, the treachery, the backstabbing, and ceaseless war the denomination made against its own doctrines it once held as true, which, of course, is the definition of apostasy.
I spent the next 10 years speaking independently, traveling to various states where groups began meeting outside the denomination because everything was developing into great upheaval, in the world, and in the church. I tried radio and had a few different programs. One of them I did with a close friend, a live, call-in program. Now we had a voice that went to all Northern New England, and church leaders did all they could to keep people from listening. Didn't matter. People were waking up, and the apostasy in the denomination grew worse, ever worse and more incredibly blinded by its own wannabe popish attitudes. But, I had left it, and its hassles, and its treachery.
In my observations what is happening in America is exactly the same as what happened in that denomination. Exactly. Mirror image. The same as in other denominations and other countries. You guard, with determined vigilance, the foundation of what you build upon or change comes in and it shakes and cracks and comes down, even if the money flows and people still come in, and it seems to grow. It all changes, little by little, until it becomes unrecognizable to what it was. It has a name, only. And in this particular case, that denomination trademarked its name and sued anybody or any group that used it that they did not control. Yeah. Talk about Christianity.
Various stressors dissolved what was little short of one long argument and battle in my 19-year marriage. Divorce. The pains of those changes were great, indeed, for all of us, especially the children. I left ministry. I moved South. Worked as a maintenance man, did more carpentry, met someone, remarried, began going to her church, got asked to speak, and it all began all over again. Does not matter. The principles of truth wage war against the policies of error. It is an unending battle that repeats itself, century after century, millennia after millennia.
When I spoke, I asked the congregation if they wanted me to preach the truth as I understand it in Christ Jesus. Most would look at me confused, as though I asked a trick question. 'Of course we want you to preach the truth. Why would you ask that?' I asked it again, with more force. I received a reply of Yes! and off I would go. And people saw that truth brings change. And people have a hard time with change. Change may affect your job, your family, friends, lifestyle, everything you are and do. You may find you are actually in a prison and truth offers freedom but, not without change. Nobody escapes the pain that comes from following truth and now swimming against a great tide constantly pulling, pushing, dragging you back.
Over the years I bought a couple drum sets, then would sell them to buy evangelistic equipment. I never went "stickless," though. I always had sticks around and practice pads of one kind or another. When I began building my own drums a whole new world and change opened up, in both my approach to the instrument, and my playing it. My understanding of a Creator, and trees and wood and all of it began to change how I saw a drum set. I began looking into what I was as a human being, a creation of incredible wonder: muscles, tendons, organs, blood, all of it, and it affected the way I played. I had become a vegan, eating the Genesis, plant-based diet. Lost weight, felt great, despite being an accident waiting to happen, with dozens of scars and some x-rays to prove it.
My independent ministry, one of dozens developing all over the world, began problems. It was religious war. A change few really wanted to fight. The stress was crushing. I started a band, though, Asaph. Asaph was the orchestral leader of king David's court; a maker and player of cymbals. Asaph lasted ten years. We played hymns, right out of the hymnals but, we played them as though a synthesized orchestra and a drum corps were playing them. Huge sound. We never played out much but, people who saw and heard it were pretty moved by its power, majesty, and beauty. To go from Legend to playing hymns? Yeah. Big change.
Still, in 2001, everything changed again and I eventually went down South, opening up to whole new world, literally. More heat and humidity. More difficulty understanding people talk, with all the variations on the "southern accent." The faster people talked, the less I could understand them, and that holds true today. It's a whole different culture.
I began renovating houses, beginning with my mom's. I ended up doing that house twice, when I moved in after she passed away. I built an extension off the barn and turned it all into an office and drum room.
I began this website. If you have been coming here over the years, you'll see it has not changed. I like it the way it is. It is a comfort for those who like going to go places that stay the same and they know where things are and how to navigate, and they just hang for a few. People into tech need change. They cannot exist without it. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," means nothing to them. If tech develops, move with it. If it doesn't, develop it and change things. They live, they exist to change things. Our world is now dependent on technology and kids love it and they do not see the dangers. Even people in the world of tech began speaking out against its dangers; things that can go out of control. The world just speeds along, oblivious to changes that will cross a line for all humanity, at least in places where technology is the norm. Many look upon places in the world where people live like they have for thousands of years, with just a few enhancements of technology, as so far behind the curve it may as well be the dark ages. Yeah, talk to people in Texas who went without heat and water for a week and more in February's bone chilling cold snap because technology failed them, along with the humans who control it.
I met Tom Cranor online and we got together and began playing our duo-version of multi-genre, improvisation, and felt the need to record the sessions and put them out there. I was recording again but, what a change. No more tape. It's all software, and software can perform wonders. It is astounding. Five CDs later, we still have a bunch of sessions to release, as time permits, and we are going to try a change - remote improv. I record, he records, we send each other the files and see what we come up with 1,000 miles apart. The Cranor-Frigon Duo. And I'm trying to finish tracks for the drum solo album, recording it all on a device no bigger than a soda can. Amazing.
Life changes. We all know that. It will, it does, it does not always have to, and we all try and find a balance in it's waves. We "surf." Millions, if not billions "tweet," thinking the world needs to know what we are thinking at any given moment. We put ourselves out there in ways, unimaginable, when I was growing up. Stuff like this was all science fiction. Flash Gordon. The Jetsons. We have our own "channels" on YouTube and other such video platforms. The entire planet can hear you and watch you, and billions look for ways to get noticed, to get exposed, to share, to speak, to teach, to entertain, to educate. Are you kidding? What a change.
I had a stroke, though not a major one, and life changed. Instantly. Literally, instantly. I am thankful to be able to type this out, to use forks, spoons and knives, to play my drums, to go outside and do yardwork. I am not the same. I changed. I lost vital energy. I tire very easily. I lose my train of thought. I just keep marching.
Change is okay. Change is terrible. Change is fun. Change is educational. Change is ignorance on parade. Change is logical. Change is radical. Change is necessary. Change is destructive. Change happens.
The BIG change will come someday. The time, the day when the redeemed are changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, when Christ returns, and we are changed into immortality, and the changes will go on for ceaseless ages of discovery and vigorous challenges to understand God, the Creator, the Savior, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, billions of angels, maybe trillions of them, and all the redeemed of the ages, travelling a universe full of life and things to explore; a never ending change of wonder and delight and surprise and glory.
If you miss that change; being born-again, experiencing grace, forgiveness, being redeemed, experiencing victory over the sins that so easily beset us, living by faith, not sight, fighting the good fight, being resurrected or translated to immortal life, eating from the tree of life, experiencing things eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the mind of man what things God is saving for those who love Him, you miss everything.
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225. The Sea and the Waves Roaring - March 20, 2021
"And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." Luke 21:25,26
I have watched the world for 66 years now; 42 of those years as a bible-believing Christian. My observation is, that the world is getting worse. For others, the world is getting better. It just depends on your worldview.
What did Christ mean when He said - the sea and the waves roaring? Was He talking about the seas and oceans? No. He was speaking of people. In prophecy, waters are used to signify multitudes of people, tribes and nations, and such (Rev 17:15). Water is shown quite a bit in the books of Daniel and Revelation. It's one of the many keys to understanding symbolic prophecy. The Bible interprets itself.
Christ said before He returned multitudes would be roaring. Now, you wouldn't know it by watching mainstream news. They only report what fits the multinational corporate agenda that owns them. That is one of the things that makes the internet so valuable and why they want to control it. You can find out just about anything about any part of the world where a signal can be sent to and received and sent back out. Even beyond that we have the testimony of people on the ground, around the world, reporting on things happening somewhere on the web.
There are 193 nations represented in the U.N., 195 total. Plus all the territories and provinces yet to be nationalized. Do you know the statistics of upheaval, unrest, protest, etc. around the world right now?
https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/interactive/protest-tracker#
Over 230 significant antigovernment protests have erupted worldwide.
More than 110 countries have experienced significant protests.
78% of authoritarian or authoritarian-leaning countries have faced significant protests. [the percentage obviously rises when non-authoritarian nations are added]
Every continent, save for Antarctica, is experiencing unrest somewhere within its borders. We in America have watched it coast to coast in the last year. Dozens of cities. Many are still in the throws of unrest and violence.
Religious harassment, oppression and persecution. Those of the Christian faith are experiencing it all over the globe, especially in majority population Muslim and Hindu nations. In China and other Communist nations, any and all religions are persecuted. America, of all places, is about to see a law signed into action that will remove the protections of the First Amendment from people of faith in almost all areas of daily life. The Equality Act is not. It is the Radical Leftist Act. Unfortunately the LGBTQ movement continues to receive special considerations at the loss of Constitutional considerations for all Americans.
In my book, while there has always been some unrest somewhere, at any time in world history, what is happening today is the stuff of biblical proportions. It will get worse, too. Much worse.
Many different reasons are causing it all. Quests for balanced equality, freedom and liberty, rights, peace, economic stability, protests against those which stand in the way of it all.
Here in America, like I said would happen, no protests of any significance broke out when the election was criminally stolen from somewhere between 80 and 100 million people who actually voted for Trump. Other than the rally on Jan. 6th, man-handled and controlled by some corrupt Capitol police and members of anti-Trump radical groups, nothing has taken place. I marvel at it, and am saddened by it but, loyal Americans have yet to be pushed to the limit. My definition of a loyal American is a citizen who believes in and adheres to the founding documents and principles that built the nation. All the protesting happening here is being done by those who do not believe and adhere to those principles. They do not care about the rule of law and peaceful assembly. Trust me, the time is coming when their numbers shall be dwarfed by angry Americans fed up with corruption and pushed around by radical Leftists. Given the policies of the non-president and his administration, that time may arrive pretty soon, in America.
You can believe what you want. A war is taking place between forces of light and forces of darkness. The forces of darkness will appear to win. The second coming of Christ will show Who is actually in the victorious lane.
Until then, expect things to degrade in the social world, in the worlds of human contact. Tech will get better. Although "better" may be, will be a misnomer, as it is used to control more and more of humanity. Do not forget, the time will come when buying and selling will be completely controlled. If they can steal an election, they can steal anything, especially if no authoritative body representing law and order does anything to stop them. Corruption has changed everything, from the smallest county courtroom to the Supreme Court. While we marvel at technology, we will watch humans continue to treat each other with more malice and contempt.
Then there is war. Over three dozen nations are at war with factions within their own borders.
The list climbs to 70 when nations at war with other nations are included. 855 different groups and factions using arms are involved.
The exponential numbers of people perishing in all these conflicts is fluid and heartrending. The pain and suffering is staggering. In reality, the human mind and heart is not equipped to truly take it all in. God sees it all, every bullet, every bomb and ballistic missile, and every drop of blood. He has said in His word the time shall come when He has a people ready to go home and He will say, Enough! and come and take them home, along with the resurrected dead of all ages who have walked in His light of peace and love and obedience to His will.
The thing is, in all this war and upheaval, the Bible also predicts a shout of peace and safety shall arise before Christ returns (I Thes. 5:2,3). Like fake news, it shall be a false revival, a fake peace and safety that actually is anti-Christ, and anti-truth. Can you imagine a world torn to shreds by war and unrest and something happens to calm it all down, to bring in a semblance of peace and safety, and a small group of people (the remnant - Rev 12:17) are telling the world, Don't believe it. It's all fake? The world will recoil and then lash out, and were it not for the return of Christ, His people would be completely wiped out in that universal death decree written of in Rev. 13:15.
To me, it is just simple common sense to realize things are getting way out of control. It is only logical to realize God has taken time to give the world information about the past, present and future to prepare them for what has been and will be again.
I truly wonder about the things of practical, daily life. Christ said occupy until he comes. Be about the Father's business. He said the world will be carrying on; planting, building, marrying, buying, selling ... until the planet is arrested by the event of the ages. Even with all the information, and all the warnings, the event will come as a complete surprise to a world gone mad, thinking it is all right, when it is all wrong.
The sea and the waves are roaring, my friends. Act accordingly.
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." Luke 21:25,26
I have watched the world for 66 years now; 42 of those years as a bible-believing Christian. My observation is, that the world is getting worse. For others, the world is getting better. It just depends on your worldview.
What did Christ mean when He said - the sea and the waves roaring? Was He talking about the seas and oceans? No. He was speaking of people. In prophecy, waters are used to signify multitudes of people, tribes and nations, and such (Rev 17:15). Water is shown quite a bit in the books of Daniel and Revelation. It's one of the many keys to understanding symbolic prophecy. The Bible interprets itself.
Christ said before He returned multitudes would be roaring. Now, you wouldn't know it by watching mainstream news. They only report what fits the multinational corporate agenda that owns them. That is one of the things that makes the internet so valuable and why they want to control it. You can find out just about anything about any part of the world where a signal can be sent to and received and sent back out. Even beyond that we have the testimony of people on the ground, around the world, reporting on things happening somewhere on the web.
There are 193 nations represented in the U.N., 195 total. Plus all the territories and provinces yet to be nationalized. Do you know the statistics of upheaval, unrest, protest, etc. around the world right now?
https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/interactive/protest-tracker#
Over 230 significant antigovernment protests have erupted worldwide.
More than 110 countries have experienced significant protests.
78% of authoritarian or authoritarian-leaning countries have faced significant protests. [the percentage obviously rises when non-authoritarian nations are added]
Every continent, save for Antarctica, is experiencing unrest somewhere within its borders. We in America have watched it coast to coast in the last year. Dozens of cities. Many are still in the throws of unrest and violence.
Religious harassment, oppression and persecution. Those of the Christian faith are experiencing it all over the globe, especially in majority population Muslim and Hindu nations. In China and other Communist nations, any and all religions are persecuted. America, of all places, is about to see a law signed into action that will remove the protections of the First Amendment from people of faith in almost all areas of daily life. The Equality Act is not. It is the Radical Leftist Act. Unfortunately the LGBTQ movement continues to receive special considerations at the loss of Constitutional considerations for all Americans.
In my book, while there has always been some unrest somewhere, at any time in world history, what is happening today is the stuff of biblical proportions. It will get worse, too. Much worse.
Many different reasons are causing it all. Quests for balanced equality, freedom and liberty, rights, peace, economic stability, protests against those which stand in the way of it all.
Here in America, like I said would happen, no protests of any significance broke out when the election was criminally stolen from somewhere between 80 and 100 million people who actually voted for Trump. Other than the rally on Jan. 6th, man-handled and controlled by some corrupt Capitol police and members of anti-Trump radical groups, nothing has taken place. I marvel at it, and am saddened by it but, loyal Americans have yet to be pushed to the limit. My definition of a loyal American is a citizen who believes in and adheres to the founding documents and principles that built the nation. All the protesting happening here is being done by those who do not believe and adhere to those principles. They do not care about the rule of law and peaceful assembly. Trust me, the time is coming when their numbers shall be dwarfed by angry Americans fed up with corruption and pushed around by radical Leftists. Given the policies of the non-president and his administration, that time may arrive pretty soon, in America.
You can believe what you want. A war is taking place between forces of light and forces of darkness. The forces of darkness will appear to win. The second coming of Christ will show Who is actually in the victorious lane.
Until then, expect things to degrade in the social world, in the worlds of human contact. Tech will get better. Although "better" may be, will be a misnomer, as it is used to control more and more of humanity. Do not forget, the time will come when buying and selling will be completely controlled. If they can steal an election, they can steal anything, especially if no authoritative body representing law and order does anything to stop them. Corruption has changed everything, from the smallest county courtroom to the Supreme Court. While we marvel at technology, we will watch humans continue to treat each other with more malice and contempt.
Then there is war. Over three dozen nations are at war with factions within their own borders.
The list climbs to 70 when nations at war with other nations are included. 855 different groups and factions using arms are involved.
The exponential numbers of people perishing in all these conflicts is fluid and heartrending. The pain and suffering is staggering. In reality, the human mind and heart is not equipped to truly take it all in. God sees it all, every bullet, every bomb and ballistic missile, and every drop of blood. He has said in His word the time shall come when He has a people ready to go home and He will say, Enough! and come and take them home, along with the resurrected dead of all ages who have walked in His light of peace and love and obedience to His will.
The thing is, in all this war and upheaval, the Bible also predicts a shout of peace and safety shall arise before Christ returns (I Thes. 5:2,3). Like fake news, it shall be a false revival, a fake peace and safety that actually is anti-Christ, and anti-truth. Can you imagine a world torn to shreds by war and unrest and something happens to calm it all down, to bring in a semblance of peace and safety, and a small group of people (the remnant - Rev 12:17) are telling the world, Don't believe it. It's all fake? The world will recoil and then lash out, and were it not for the return of Christ, His people would be completely wiped out in that universal death decree written of in Rev. 13:15.
To me, it is just simple common sense to realize things are getting way out of control. It is only logical to realize God has taken time to give the world information about the past, present and future to prepare them for what has been and will be again.
I truly wonder about the things of practical, daily life. Christ said occupy until he comes. Be about the Father's business. He said the world will be carrying on; planting, building, marrying, buying, selling ... until the planet is arrested by the event of the ages. Even with all the information, and all the warnings, the event will come as a complete surprise to a world gone mad, thinking it is all right, when it is all wrong.
The sea and the waves are roaring, my friends. Act accordingly.
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226. DAW For Beginners!!! - March 22, 2021
Rant Alert.
If you have been following things I have shared on the Recording Blog page, you know I have had more train wrecks and derailments than Amtrak. Tech is not my thing. Wood, tools: good. Tech, devices: bad.
I have written about my experiences sharing with anyone else in the "newb" category that might benefit from my own ignorance, accidents, and being an overall living, walking question mark when it comes to recording devices and processes beyond what I grew up around: tape recorders.
A DAW is a Digital Audio Workstation. It's recording software you use on your computer. If you use devices or instruments with certain types of plugs, like USB, you plug things into your usable USB ports, or some kind of multi-hub for that purpose. If you use microphones, you need a digital interface: a unit that works between your analog mics and the computer, which interprets the analog signal into the 1's and 0's of the digital language computers use. Pretty easy so far, though the process of getting an interface to communicate with your computer can have sketchy stuff going on. You need to get past that point first.
Once you have that connection you need the DAW software. It can come as a free download or it comes with a price.
My first download was Audacity. My second download was Reaper. My third download was Cubase Elements LE.
Now remember, I am as new as it gets to this stuff. New. Babe. Still wet behind the ears. My eyes glaze over when I read or even watch tutorials about this barrel of electronic monkeys.
I never even tried to use Audacity. I opened it up. Had no idea what I was looking at. Closed it. Reaper sent me over the edge of the cliff early on, and Cubase ... yeah. Not. I got that with the recorder I ended up purchasing to record my drums. Might as well download it, seeing Tom uses that software. The hardware recorder has had a learning curve too but, I recorded the files for the drum album, almost done now, and I could send them to Tom for his processing talents as is but, I'd like to send him complete files, not a file for left overhead mic, right overhead mic, and a bass drum file. I need to import those files into a DAW program and create a file containing all three elements, which will make it easier for Tom to receive and use.
So, you know there must be dozens of tutorials on using DAWs for beginners on Youtube, right? Generally. Here is my gripe. EVERY SINGLE ONE I have watched so far, such and such for BEGINNERS, makes incredible assumptions about some kind of knowledge I already have. These teachers are not only talking quickly, they are using terms that are foreign to me, they mention all these options all the DAW software offers that just clog the mental process for me. "We'll come back to that, we'll come back to this, you don't need to know that right now, easy, easy, easy" and after five minutes I know if I taught people how to use a wood shop like this, I'd have fingers cut off, eyes damaged, and injuries in every direction. Beginner is beginner. What part of beginner do these "teachers" not understand? Don't tell me things I do not need to know to get started. I do not want to know how to score a 64 track song. Telling me this is a beginner's video and I'll end up there in an hour is ridiculous.
If I taught drums, and here is a beginner, young or older. If I start telling that person all the hardware options drum sets contain but, you don't need to know that now, I just dumped a bunch of info into their minds that is useless to them and just clogs the mental process.
When I did public or private Bible studies and addressed beginners I began with who, what, when, where, why, and how? I don't get into what the Bible says on any given subject beyond those first. If someone is already a student of the Word, then I proceed accordingly.
I cannot tell you how frustrating it is to watch and listen to someone lose me in the first five minutes as my questions build up with no answers. I want the basics, no options. I want to understand what I am looking at when the screens change, or windows pop up and all these "teachers" just make incredible assumptions about what I already know.
So, while I'd like to be able to learn, so I can use, I am left behind in the jargon of technical dust.
The number of dropdown lists, options, windows, and choices in a DAW are very intimidating, for me anyway. Many who use these DAW's regularly don't even get into all the options. I'm sure I'm not alone. Even the companies that create this software create tutorials that make great assumptions. In my case, I was derailed at the beginning of each journey just because I'd import files from my card to my computer, and then into the DAW. There they are. Hit play. Everything moves. No sound. Why is there no sound? What do I have to click? I can't find a single tutorial that addresses the situation. It's unbelievable.
I'm about to put an ad in Craigslist for someone to show me the basics of using one of these DAWs. Show me and if they take a left turn when I'm still on the main road, I can stop them and tell them to turn around or back up.
Teaching is an artform, in and of itself. Whether kindergarten or PhD studies, some do it well and others, not so much.
I have seen, been told, warned, that using a DAW with windows can be a coronary waiting to happen. Computers and code are not perfect unions of elements. Things can go wrong. That's just the nature of the beast. If I cannot even get started in a logical, common sense direction, as a complete beginner, then I must believe DAWs are not for beginners. They are for people with some kind of intermediate knowledge of music production software.
I think many of these "teachers" really do not want to make videos for absolute beginners because they don't have the patience to teach rock bottom beginner stuff. They try to pull people along to forming words before they learn the alphabet of these processes.
Maybe I'll find someone on Craigslist that can help me out. Worth a try.
If you have been following things I have shared on the Recording Blog page, you know I have had more train wrecks and derailments than Amtrak. Tech is not my thing. Wood, tools: good. Tech, devices: bad.
I have written about my experiences sharing with anyone else in the "newb" category that might benefit from my own ignorance, accidents, and being an overall living, walking question mark when it comes to recording devices and processes beyond what I grew up around: tape recorders.
A DAW is a Digital Audio Workstation. It's recording software you use on your computer. If you use devices or instruments with certain types of plugs, like USB, you plug things into your usable USB ports, or some kind of multi-hub for that purpose. If you use microphones, you need a digital interface: a unit that works between your analog mics and the computer, which interprets the analog signal into the 1's and 0's of the digital language computers use. Pretty easy so far, though the process of getting an interface to communicate with your computer can have sketchy stuff going on. You need to get past that point first.
Once you have that connection you need the DAW software. It can come as a free download or it comes with a price.
My first download was Audacity. My second download was Reaper. My third download was Cubase Elements LE.
Now remember, I am as new as it gets to this stuff. New. Babe. Still wet behind the ears. My eyes glaze over when I read or even watch tutorials about this barrel of electronic monkeys.
I never even tried to use Audacity. I opened it up. Had no idea what I was looking at. Closed it. Reaper sent me over the edge of the cliff early on, and Cubase ... yeah. Not. I got that with the recorder I ended up purchasing to record my drums. Might as well download it, seeing Tom uses that software. The hardware recorder has had a learning curve too but, I recorded the files for the drum album, almost done now, and I could send them to Tom for his processing talents as is but, I'd like to send him complete files, not a file for left overhead mic, right overhead mic, and a bass drum file. I need to import those files into a DAW program and create a file containing all three elements, which will make it easier for Tom to receive and use.
So, you know there must be dozens of tutorials on using DAWs for beginners on Youtube, right? Generally. Here is my gripe. EVERY SINGLE ONE I have watched so far, such and such for BEGINNERS, makes incredible assumptions about some kind of knowledge I already have. These teachers are not only talking quickly, they are using terms that are foreign to me, they mention all these options all the DAW software offers that just clog the mental process for me. "We'll come back to that, we'll come back to this, you don't need to know that right now, easy, easy, easy" and after five minutes I know if I taught people how to use a wood shop like this, I'd have fingers cut off, eyes damaged, and injuries in every direction. Beginner is beginner. What part of beginner do these "teachers" not understand? Don't tell me things I do not need to know to get started. I do not want to know how to score a 64 track song. Telling me this is a beginner's video and I'll end up there in an hour is ridiculous.
If I taught drums, and here is a beginner, young or older. If I start telling that person all the hardware options drum sets contain but, you don't need to know that now, I just dumped a bunch of info into their minds that is useless to them and just clogs the mental process.
When I did public or private Bible studies and addressed beginners I began with who, what, when, where, why, and how? I don't get into what the Bible says on any given subject beyond those first. If someone is already a student of the Word, then I proceed accordingly.
I cannot tell you how frustrating it is to watch and listen to someone lose me in the first five minutes as my questions build up with no answers. I want the basics, no options. I want to understand what I am looking at when the screens change, or windows pop up and all these "teachers" just make incredible assumptions about what I already know.
So, while I'd like to be able to learn, so I can use, I am left behind in the jargon of technical dust.
The number of dropdown lists, options, windows, and choices in a DAW are very intimidating, for me anyway. Many who use these DAW's regularly don't even get into all the options. I'm sure I'm not alone. Even the companies that create this software create tutorials that make great assumptions. In my case, I was derailed at the beginning of each journey just because I'd import files from my card to my computer, and then into the DAW. There they are. Hit play. Everything moves. No sound. Why is there no sound? What do I have to click? I can't find a single tutorial that addresses the situation. It's unbelievable.
I'm about to put an ad in Craigslist for someone to show me the basics of using one of these DAWs. Show me and if they take a left turn when I'm still on the main road, I can stop them and tell them to turn around or back up.
Teaching is an artform, in and of itself. Whether kindergarten or PhD studies, some do it well and others, not so much.
I have seen, been told, warned, that using a DAW with windows can be a coronary waiting to happen. Computers and code are not perfect unions of elements. Things can go wrong. That's just the nature of the beast. If I cannot even get started in a logical, common sense direction, as a complete beginner, then I must believe DAWs are not for beginners. They are for people with some kind of intermediate knowledge of music production software.
I think many of these "teachers" really do not want to make videos for absolute beginners because they don't have the patience to teach rock bottom beginner stuff. They try to pull people along to forming words before they learn the alphabet of these processes.
Maybe I'll find someone on Craigslist that can help me out. Worth a try.
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227. Camille Bigeault - March 26, 2021
I'm 100% French, both sides of the family, going back as far as you want. So, when I see a French name associated with drumming, I take notice. France, or French Canada haven't produced a great number of players one might recognize. Manu Katche' is well known. Christian Vander and Andre' Ciccarelli are both Frenchman, though their names aren't. Mario Duplantier is a name I have seen, associated with Metal but, had never heard. I checked him out on YT. He's really good.
In French, the name Camille can be both male or female. I had a friend from Rhode Island named Camille, a kid that lived next door to my cousins. I hung out with him as much as I did them, every summer growing up.
The Camille I reference in this blog is a French drummer I happened to see in the side bar at YT, doing a lesson on Drumeo. I wrote about the whole female drummer-thing a few blogs ago and when I watched this video her sex had nothing to do with anything. She is into beat displacement: Groove Illusions, she calls them. She's fantastic.
Beat displacement has been around for many decades. Joe Morello, Terry Bozzio, Vinnie Coliuta, Dave Weckl, Virgil Donati, Marco Minnemann, Gavin Harrison (whom she gives a nod to for her original interest in "Groove Illusions"), and others, like Horacio Hernandez and all the left foot clave' players, have utilized the technique, especially in odd-time signature music. It's brain teasers for drummers (and listeners). It's an exercise in coordination I have really never gotten into. It's as much mental as physical. You know it when you hear it, even if you don't know what it is. And I'll be honest. I believe some people have the brain for it, and others do not. Nobody does that stuff without a lot of practice but, some people just "get it" and gravitate to it far more easily than others. It's a way of thinking, as much as doing.
Camille makes it an art form for her approach to playing. I have heard these giants use it and none of them ever inspired me to check this stuff out the way Camille has. She breaks things down in a pretty understandable way. Especially for someone like me that has no notation education. I mean, I know what a quarter note is, 1/8, 16th, 32nd and all. Beyond that, when the language is used proficiently, or written out, I get lost quickly. Little black dots with flags and lines all over the place glaze my eyes. It all goes right over my head, or by my ears like, well French; a language I regret not learning. Camille has an easy attitude about her that makes it "reachable." Perhaps English as a second language causes her to not only slow down her speech but, becomes more user friendly(?) in choosing how she phrases things. Whatever it is, I find it easy to follow.
She has around 65 videos on her YT channel going back 13 years. She writes songs, as a guitarist, as well. Talented individual, to say the least. I found it interesting her first posted drum video is "Squonk," by Genesis, 8 years ago. Her second, "Otay," by John Scofield (with Dennis on drums), 7 years ago. Seriously. Her third, "Alien Hip-Hop," by Virgil, 6 years ago. To say she is a natural is anticlimactic. No doubt she puts in the time and lots of it but, she has the goods. And, she got serious with her video production as well; multi-cameras and all.
I don't write about a lot of players here. I could. After five and a half decades of players that have come and gone or stayed with lengthy careers, or left us, as age and health became issues, I tend to not be impressed easily. I enjoy everyone who is a serious artist at their passion of playing drum set but, innovations are few now. There's only so much you can do on a set of drums. Though Camille is certainly not the originator of beat displacement, check her out and see what she's into. It's cool stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV5vUVNcEQA (Drumeo link)
https://www.youtube.com/c/CamilleBigeault/videos
In French, the name Camille can be both male or female. I had a friend from Rhode Island named Camille, a kid that lived next door to my cousins. I hung out with him as much as I did them, every summer growing up.
The Camille I reference in this blog is a French drummer I happened to see in the side bar at YT, doing a lesson on Drumeo. I wrote about the whole female drummer-thing a few blogs ago and when I watched this video her sex had nothing to do with anything. She is into beat displacement: Groove Illusions, she calls them. She's fantastic.
Beat displacement has been around for many decades. Joe Morello, Terry Bozzio, Vinnie Coliuta, Dave Weckl, Virgil Donati, Marco Minnemann, Gavin Harrison (whom she gives a nod to for her original interest in "Groove Illusions"), and others, like Horacio Hernandez and all the left foot clave' players, have utilized the technique, especially in odd-time signature music. It's brain teasers for drummers (and listeners). It's an exercise in coordination I have really never gotten into. It's as much mental as physical. You know it when you hear it, even if you don't know what it is. And I'll be honest. I believe some people have the brain for it, and others do not. Nobody does that stuff without a lot of practice but, some people just "get it" and gravitate to it far more easily than others. It's a way of thinking, as much as doing.
Camille makes it an art form for her approach to playing. I have heard these giants use it and none of them ever inspired me to check this stuff out the way Camille has. She breaks things down in a pretty understandable way. Especially for someone like me that has no notation education. I mean, I know what a quarter note is, 1/8, 16th, 32nd and all. Beyond that, when the language is used proficiently, or written out, I get lost quickly. Little black dots with flags and lines all over the place glaze my eyes. It all goes right over my head, or by my ears like, well French; a language I regret not learning. Camille has an easy attitude about her that makes it "reachable." Perhaps English as a second language causes her to not only slow down her speech but, becomes more user friendly(?) in choosing how she phrases things. Whatever it is, I find it easy to follow.
She has around 65 videos on her YT channel going back 13 years. She writes songs, as a guitarist, as well. Talented individual, to say the least. I found it interesting her first posted drum video is "Squonk," by Genesis, 8 years ago. Her second, "Otay," by John Scofield (with Dennis on drums), 7 years ago. Seriously. Her third, "Alien Hip-Hop," by Virgil, 6 years ago. To say she is a natural is anticlimactic. No doubt she puts in the time and lots of it but, she has the goods. And, she got serious with her video production as well; multi-cameras and all.
I don't write about a lot of players here. I could. After five and a half decades of players that have come and gone or stayed with lengthy careers, or left us, as age and health became issues, I tend to not be impressed easily. I enjoy everyone who is a serious artist at their passion of playing drum set but, innovations are few now. There's only so much you can do on a set of drums. Though Camille is certainly not the originator of beat displacement, check her out and see what she's into. It's cool stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV5vUVNcEQA (Drumeo link)
https://www.youtube.com/c/CamilleBigeault/videos
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228. John Ratcliffe, UFOs, and Prophecy - March 27, 2021
A quick recap from previous blogs.
I have seen UFOs twice: once when I was 10, with many others present, and in my 30's, also with others present.
I have believed UFOs and occupants would be involved in prophetic last-day events for over 40 years now.
I believe the Bible, itself, alludes to the universe being heavily populated. We are, most definitely, not alone.
I also have read the writings of Ellen White, someone I believe had the gift of prophecy, who shared many testimonies of things she saw in vision or dreams, that matter-of-factly state there are millions of worlds and unfallen, highly intelligent and beautiful people that God also created, beyond the angelic host. I have no problems with concocted theological questions that arise over it all.
I do not believe these other occupants visit our world. They have no need.
I believe Satan is going to use the entire "ET" phenomena as a massive tool of deception.
I believe we are nearing that moment in time.
I am not a "ufologist" but, I stay informed, and YouTube has plenty of info - dozens of channels - both good and ridiculous, to stay on top of things, plus various websites devoted to the subject. Week to week sightings are displayed, from all around the world. Some, believing they are privy to more information through actual communication, speak of all the various species of aliens hovering above and/or living on the Earth. It's quite a collection. Biblical angels are often included. Many of these "experts" and investigators believe everything in the Bible should be read in the context of alien life and intervention as deity and supernatural beings. "Contracts" between Earth leaders and some of these "ET's" go back to the 1950's. A certain number of abductions and other types of experimentation are allowed (such as bloodless, trackless, no physical confrontation cattle mutilations, an actual phenomena all by itself), with no Earthly interference. Major governments of the world are all part of this cooperative effort to avoid "war." In most cases, maybe all, actually, I just can't read or listen to that stuff. It gets more outrageous every year. Just the same, efforts have been made known that all of this more recent acknowledgment by the Navy and Airforce and public officials is a preparation for the populace to get ready for all out war and a way to gain total control of the planet; even to the point of expressing the need to get Christ to return to save the world! No there's a tall take if every there was one, yet many people believe it. In their world, Christ is not the Son of God. He is the "cosmic christ." He is just some kind of ascended being, one of many that have come and visited this world.
If you were a member of the UFO/alien book of the month club (now that I think of it, maybe there is such a thing), you'd have been reading UFO/alien books for the last 80 years, at least.
John Ratcliffe was the Congressman of my district here in Texas, before Trump brought him in as Director of National Intelligence. Trump made the 180-day directive for all info about UFOs to be gathered and released. There also came the directive of Congress to look into the matter for reasons of national security, seeing as many sightings have been above military installations. In some cases, all operating facility has been shut down, rendering these bases useless, when these UFOs were hovering above. Connect the dots.
June 24th is the deadline for this info to be released.
Ratcliffe has been in the news lately because of his appearances on various news programs addressing Trump's directive. Here are some quotes:
“Frankly, there are a lot more sightings than have been made public,” Ratcliffe told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Friday.
“There are instances where we don’t have good explanations for some of the things that we’ve seen,” he added. “And when that information becomes declassified, I’ll be able to talk a little bit more about that.”
“We are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery, that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain, movements that are hard to replicate, that we don’t have the technology for or are traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”
“There’s actually quite a few of those,” he added. “And I think that that information is being gathered and will be put out in a way the American people can see.”
None of this is new to anyone following the UFO/UAP subject. People from all walks of life, on all six continents have seen this phenomena. Granted, generally speaking only five to ten percent of these circumstances are actually unexplainable. That said, that still leaves thousands of unexplainable events people have witnessed. New documentaries are released every few years, it seems. While the subject was the brunt of jokes and mostly nay-sayers; no more. "Official" releases over the last several years are putting the jokes to rest. I never shied away from my own experiences because I believe what I believe based on trustworthy information. I will rationally discuss the subject with anyone.
The government being what it is, I doubt they will release everything, and what they will release will be redacted or incomplete. It isn't just about discussing the information from the typical "we are alone" evangelical position and not wanting to cause fear in the population. The general population is well past being frightened by the prospect of life beyond Earth and the government could care less about theological issues that will divide the population. They are happy to divide the population any way they can for whatever purposes they want.
I just bring this up again because it is going to happen. I have zero doubts about that. "ET" is going to make an appearance, and I suspect at a time when the world is about to rupture from stress between various parties that could destroy just about all life on Earth through nuclear conflict. Even this week news out of North Korea comes that Biden is a joke, and they are once again building and testing missiles. Russia is now being reported on having new missiles that are undetectable and if they are, unable to be shot down, which could reach the lower 48 states here in the USA very quickly. Tensions exist in the middle East, and the Far East, and if any party with nukes uses them, the entire world could be drawn into taking sides and the end result: mutually assured destruction. That is nothing to joke about. Only some "ET" could stop such tensions with technological displays to tell all humanity "don't go there."
I repeat, while I believe the universe is populated, I do not believe they come here, nor are there good and evil aliens, i.e. Nordics vs. Reptilians vying for control over Earth. It is all Luciferian deceptions. The devil is a supernatural being with supernatural powers and has who knows how many fallen angels on his side to help him in his war against God, loyal angels, and this world Christ said he is the ruler of: the god of this world, the prince of the power of the air, the father of lies and murder.
Now, if you know little of the Bible, and a little of the whole UFO/alien subject, it is easy to see how it can all be convincingly connected and morphed into the same subject. The ONE thing missing? Salvation from sin. The necessity of having our hearts, our minds, our thoughts and actions changed by an experience with the only One who can change us - God. The whole 'alien agenda' has nothing to do with that. There is no sin to be saved from. There is only "good" vs. "evil," ill-defined. There is only contact with the good, to be influenced by the good; those of the light. Be warned. The devil is a good devil. He is the expert of plausible deceptions and delusions.
Watch for it, my friends. Aside from drums, and music, and recording, and concerts coming back, and all the rest of the daily events of life returning to Americans and others around the world who are sick and tired of Covid fear mongering, etc. (while the largest protests every seen in some nations are underway), life as usual is going to change, Big Time. We are living in 'the time of the end,' a biblical phrase that takes on more and more grave meaning with each passing year. Someday, seemingly soon enough, the time of the end will lead to the end of time. Time as we know it. The end of the world is coming, just as Scripture predicted before Christ came, when He was here, and after He ascended. All is falling into place.
How soon? I don't know. Maybe, hopefully, in my lifetime. Maybe not. Doesn't matter. Preparation for that event is not buying a plane ticket. It is not about a single day. It is a matter of character and direction of life; loyalty to God, the Creator or, loyalty to man and man's ways and dictates. Nobody is exempt. Nobody gets a pass. If you are a rational, thinking human being, you are responsible and accountable for every thought, word, and action you exist in. The greatest deceptions in the history of the world are coming.
What will you do? Where will you stand? What are you devoted to? Who are you committed to? What will keep you from deception and overmastering delusions? Satan is not bound by Hollywood's techniques and man's science? He is preparing delusions to take the whole planet captive. The vast majority will be, simply because they refused the truth that could have protected them. In refusing the truth, they shall believe the lies. Only two sides. Those truly loyal to God. Those not loyal. The Bible says sheep and goats, the redeemed and the fools. The enlightened and the deceived. A remnant or, everybody else. God's side has never been the majority and never shall be. The professed Christian faith, Christendom, itself, shall split wide open on what truth is.
What is coming will literally arrest the world; stop the globe in its entertainment, convoluted tracks.
Got faith?
It's up to you. Your choice.
I have seen UFOs twice: once when I was 10, with many others present, and in my 30's, also with others present.
I have believed UFOs and occupants would be involved in prophetic last-day events for over 40 years now.
I believe the Bible, itself, alludes to the universe being heavily populated. We are, most definitely, not alone.
I also have read the writings of Ellen White, someone I believe had the gift of prophecy, who shared many testimonies of things she saw in vision or dreams, that matter-of-factly state there are millions of worlds and unfallen, highly intelligent and beautiful people that God also created, beyond the angelic host. I have no problems with concocted theological questions that arise over it all.
I do not believe these other occupants visit our world. They have no need.
I believe Satan is going to use the entire "ET" phenomena as a massive tool of deception.
I believe we are nearing that moment in time.
I am not a "ufologist" but, I stay informed, and YouTube has plenty of info - dozens of channels - both good and ridiculous, to stay on top of things, plus various websites devoted to the subject. Week to week sightings are displayed, from all around the world. Some, believing they are privy to more information through actual communication, speak of all the various species of aliens hovering above and/or living on the Earth. It's quite a collection. Biblical angels are often included. Many of these "experts" and investigators believe everything in the Bible should be read in the context of alien life and intervention as deity and supernatural beings. "Contracts" between Earth leaders and some of these "ET's" go back to the 1950's. A certain number of abductions and other types of experimentation are allowed (such as bloodless, trackless, no physical confrontation cattle mutilations, an actual phenomena all by itself), with no Earthly interference. Major governments of the world are all part of this cooperative effort to avoid "war." In most cases, maybe all, actually, I just can't read or listen to that stuff. It gets more outrageous every year. Just the same, efforts have been made known that all of this more recent acknowledgment by the Navy and Airforce and public officials is a preparation for the populace to get ready for all out war and a way to gain total control of the planet; even to the point of expressing the need to get Christ to return to save the world! No there's a tall take if every there was one, yet many people believe it. In their world, Christ is not the Son of God. He is the "cosmic christ." He is just some kind of ascended being, one of many that have come and visited this world.
If you were a member of the UFO/alien book of the month club (now that I think of it, maybe there is such a thing), you'd have been reading UFO/alien books for the last 80 years, at least.
John Ratcliffe was the Congressman of my district here in Texas, before Trump brought him in as Director of National Intelligence. Trump made the 180-day directive for all info about UFOs to be gathered and released. There also came the directive of Congress to look into the matter for reasons of national security, seeing as many sightings have been above military installations. In some cases, all operating facility has been shut down, rendering these bases useless, when these UFOs were hovering above. Connect the dots.
June 24th is the deadline for this info to be released.
Ratcliffe has been in the news lately because of his appearances on various news programs addressing Trump's directive. Here are some quotes:
“Frankly, there are a lot more sightings than have been made public,” Ratcliffe told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Friday.
“There are instances where we don’t have good explanations for some of the things that we’ve seen,” he added. “And when that information becomes declassified, I’ll be able to talk a little bit more about that.”
“We are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery, that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain, movements that are hard to replicate, that we don’t have the technology for or are traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”
“There’s actually quite a few of those,” he added. “And I think that that information is being gathered and will be put out in a way the American people can see.”
None of this is new to anyone following the UFO/UAP subject. People from all walks of life, on all six continents have seen this phenomena. Granted, generally speaking only five to ten percent of these circumstances are actually unexplainable. That said, that still leaves thousands of unexplainable events people have witnessed. New documentaries are released every few years, it seems. While the subject was the brunt of jokes and mostly nay-sayers; no more. "Official" releases over the last several years are putting the jokes to rest. I never shied away from my own experiences because I believe what I believe based on trustworthy information. I will rationally discuss the subject with anyone.
The government being what it is, I doubt they will release everything, and what they will release will be redacted or incomplete. It isn't just about discussing the information from the typical "we are alone" evangelical position and not wanting to cause fear in the population. The general population is well past being frightened by the prospect of life beyond Earth and the government could care less about theological issues that will divide the population. They are happy to divide the population any way they can for whatever purposes they want.
I just bring this up again because it is going to happen. I have zero doubts about that. "ET" is going to make an appearance, and I suspect at a time when the world is about to rupture from stress between various parties that could destroy just about all life on Earth through nuclear conflict. Even this week news out of North Korea comes that Biden is a joke, and they are once again building and testing missiles. Russia is now being reported on having new missiles that are undetectable and if they are, unable to be shot down, which could reach the lower 48 states here in the USA very quickly. Tensions exist in the middle East, and the Far East, and if any party with nukes uses them, the entire world could be drawn into taking sides and the end result: mutually assured destruction. That is nothing to joke about. Only some "ET" could stop such tensions with technological displays to tell all humanity "don't go there."
I repeat, while I believe the universe is populated, I do not believe they come here, nor are there good and evil aliens, i.e. Nordics vs. Reptilians vying for control over Earth. It is all Luciferian deceptions. The devil is a supernatural being with supernatural powers and has who knows how many fallen angels on his side to help him in his war against God, loyal angels, and this world Christ said he is the ruler of: the god of this world, the prince of the power of the air, the father of lies and murder.
Now, if you know little of the Bible, and a little of the whole UFO/alien subject, it is easy to see how it can all be convincingly connected and morphed into the same subject. The ONE thing missing? Salvation from sin. The necessity of having our hearts, our minds, our thoughts and actions changed by an experience with the only One who can change us - God. The whole 'alien agenda' has nothing to do with that. There is no sin to be saved from. There is only "good" vs. "evil," ill-defined. There is only contact with the good, to be influenced by the good; those of the light. Be warned. The devil is a good devil. He is the expert of plausible deceptions and delusions.
Watch for it, my friends. Aside from drums, and music, and recording, and concerts coming back, and all the rest of the daily events of life returning to Americans and others around the world who are sick and tired of Covid fear mongering, etc. (while the largest protests every seen in some nations are underway), life as usual is going to change, Big Time. We are living in 'the time of the end,' a biblical phrase that takes on more and more grave meaning with each passing year. Someday, seemingly soon enough, the time of the end will lead to the end of time. Time as we know it. The end of the world is coming, just as Scripture predicted before Christ came, when He was here, and after He ascended. All is falling into place.
How soon? I don't know. Maybe, hopefully, in my lifetime. Maybe not. Doesn't matter. Preparation for that event is not buying a plane ticket. It is not about a single day. It is a matter of character and direction of life; loyalty to God, the Creator or, loyalty to man and man's ways and dictates. Nobody is exempt. Nobody gets a pass. If you are a rational, thinking human being, you are responsible and accountable for every thought, word, and action you exist in. The greatest deceptions in the history of the world are coming.
What will you do? Where will you stand? What are you devoted to? Who are you committed to? What will keep you from deception and overmastering delusions? Satan is not bound by Hollywood's techniques and man's science? He is preparing delusions to take the whole planet captive. The vast majority will be, simply because they refused the truth that could have protected them. In refusing the truth, they shall believe the lies. Only two sides. Those truly loyal to God. Those not loyal. The Bible says sheep and goats, the redeemed and the fools. The enlightened and the deceived. A remnant or, everybody else. God's side has never been the majority and never shall be. The professed Christian faith, Christendom, itself, shall split wide open on what truth is.
What is coming will literally arrest the world; stop the globe in its entertainment, convoluted tracks.
Got faith?
It's up to you. Your choice.
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229. Satan Shoes - March 27, 2021
After just writing a blog about last day events and all, I come upon a story that tells me, even with my fervent belief Christ is coming and the world is going to become worse, as humanity becomes more enveloped in darkness, I am naive when it comes to just how bold people can be with their darkness.
Satan shoes. Yeah, it's a real thing.
MSCHF x Lil Nas X "Satan Shoes" 🏹
👟Nike Air Max '97
🩸Contains 60cc ink and 1 drop of human blood
🗡️666 Pairs, individually numbered
💰$1,018
🗓️March 29th, 2021 pic.twitter.com/XUMA9TKGSX
— SAINT (@saint) March 26, 2021
https://www.tmz.com/2021/03/27/lil-nas-x-nike-satan-shoes-music-video-montero-music-video-hell/
I have no idea who Lil Nas X is. Apparently he's a rapper/pop star.
Nike, I never could be certain what that company was up to but, I never owned a pair, nor would I. My wife bought me a pair years ago. I never wore them.
I cannot imagine anyone in their right mind developing and wearing such nonsense, let alone others paying over $1000 for them. Are you serious?
This is our new world. This is what confusion looks like. It's what mental darkness looks like. I also saw this "artist" has a new video where he descends into hell and gives satan a lap dance. What can be done but, pity someone so entrenched in self and recklessness.
Are you laughing? I'm not. I cannot tell you how sad such lunacy makes me. You are witnessing someone, not only throwing their soul away but, doing so on a rocket.
The end of all things is truly at hand. There is no other, logical position I can take. Darkness covers the Earth and gross darkness the people. I wonder what Isaiah saw when he wrote that? A lot of things. Things we witness today.
Here's the thing. This kid is not the antichrist. Do not ever believe antichrist is something so obvious and wrecked of mind and taste. No, no. Antichrist, as I have already mentioned, in the Greek means "in place of Christ." Antichrist stands in the place of Christ. Christ is not on Earth. Antichrist stands in His place as a vice-christ. Antichrist is a religious facsimile, a dubious and altogether false Christ that has great religious "Christian" chops. That is not and never could be Lil Nas X.
I truly feel sorry for the young man. I can tell you plenty of Christians will be praying for him and very often, people that go that far astray become very strong Christians when the light hits them between the eyes, in the frontal lobes, and you realize the depth of your darkness and foolish choices you have made, and greatly repent.
Watch that kid. He may become a great evangelist someday.
UPDATE - Came upon this just now (4/3/21):
"Nike filed a trademark infringement and dilution complaint against MSCHF [the apparent shoe manufacturer] today related to the satan Shoes. We don't have any further details to share on pending legal matters. However, we can tell you we do not have a relationship with Lil Nas X or MSCHF. The satan Shoes were produced without Nike's approval or authorization, and Nike is in no way connected with this project." - from the statement by Nike
https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/nike-sues-over-satan-shoes-company-did-not-approve-or-authorize-product.html
Satan shoes. Yeah, it's a real thing.
MSCHF x Lil Nas X "Satan Shoes" 🏹
👟Nike Air Max '97
🩸Contains 60cc ink and 1 drop of human blood
🗡️666 Pairs, individually numbered
💰$1,018
🗓️March 29th, 2021 pic.twitter.com/XUMA9TKGSX
— SAINT (@saint) March 26, 2021
https://www.tmz.com/2021/03/27/lil-nas-x-nike-satan-shoes-music-video-montero-music-video-hell/
I have no idea who Lil Nas X is. Apparently he's a rapper/pop star.
Nike, I never could be certain what that company was up to but, I never owned a pair, nor would I. My wife bought me a pair years ago. I never wore them.
I cannot imagine anyone in their right mind developing and wearing such nonsense, let alone others paying over $1000 for them. Are you serious?
This is our new world. This is what confusion looks like. It's what mental darkness looks like. I also saw this "artist" has a new video where he descends into hell and gives satan a lap dance. What can be done but, pity someone so entrenched in self and recklessness.
Are you laughing? I'm not. I cannot tell you how sad such lunacy makes me. You are witnessing someone, not only throwing their soul away but, doing so on a rocket.
The end of all things is truly at hand. There is no other, logical position I can take. Darkness covers the Earth and gross darkness the people. I wonder what Isaiah saw when he wrote that? A lot of things. Things we witness today.
Here's the thing. This kid is not the antichrist. Do not ever believe antichrist is something so obvious and wrecked of mind and taste. No, no. Antichrist, as I have already mentioned, in the Greek means "in place of Christ." Antichrist stands in the place of Christ. Christ is not on Earth. Antichrist stands in His place as a vice-christ. Antichrist is a religious facsimile, a dubious and altogether false Christ that has great religious "Christian" chops. That is not and never could be Lil Nas X.
I truly feel sorry for the young man. I can tell you plenty of Christians will be praying for him and very often, people that go that far astray become very strong Christians when the light hits them between the eyes, in the frontal lobes, and you realize the depth of your darkness and foolish choices you have made, and greatly repent.
Watch that kid. He may become a great evangelist someday.
UPDATE - Came upon this just now (4/3/21):
"Nike filed a trademark infringement and dilution complaint against MSCHF [the apparent shoe manufacturer] today related to the satan Shoes. We don't have any further details to share on pending legal matters. However, we can tell you we do not have a relationship with Lil Nas X or MSCHF. The satan Shoes were produced without Nike's approval or authorization, and Nike is in no way connected with this project." - from the statement by Nike
https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/nike-sues-over-satan-shoes-company-did-not-approve-or-authorize-product.html
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230. Music School TV - April 2, 2021
I may have written about this already, as inspiring as it is.
I am recording my final track for the drum solo CD and I like to watch drum battles on youtube for some inspiration before I record. I did the first round of the battle last week. I took down the big set and set up the stacked plywood kit and different cymbals to have a different sound palette involved. I decided to make two new drums for the set this week and today I'll record the final set of fills.
I'm watching more Youtube videos and once again I came upon these kids in a music school in Korea. It's a fantastic gig. The room is filled to the walls with other kids from the school while a couple players or more, go at it. From lesser of experience to real flame throwers the action is seriously cool. The crowds gathered really get into it more than I have seen in American videos, though High School battles for talent contests can get kids pretty worked up. In this case, it is obvious the Korean kids in this school are more aware of nuances that players put into their fills in these battles, and ooh's and aah's come forth every time they see something that inspires and warrants some extra praise.
It's all good natured fun for these kids, though you know they want to come out on top, whatever that means for them.
I have mentioned before, the artistry of drumming used to be a Western-thing, mostly North America and a few nations of Europe; Britain, France and Germany.
In a few decades, from the 50's through the 70's everything seemed to be coming from those nations but then, an explosion developed. Japan, and other nations of Asia, other Euro nations, South America, Australia, and cultural drumming from Africa all burst upon the globe and today, top tier players are from all nations under the sun, and are out there dazzling their audiences. It's amazing. This all developed before the internet, too. The internet just caused it to go exponential. The young have such a deep trove of things to watch the bar gets set higher and higher.
I think it's astounding. The world, if you took out the rogues, tyrants, despots, and control freaks, would probably get along just fine; music being a common form of communication and adherence to finer principles of living. Unfortunately, that is not the world we live in. Someday, though, it shall be. God is going to see to that. No more strife, war, selfishness, or spirit of variance will exist. All will be harmonious, happy, satisfied, and busy. Very busy, as redeemed humanity will travel the universe and live to learn and experience things they never dreamed were possible. It will be good. So good.
I long for that day. Until then, watching these kids in Korea does my heart good.
The link is to the school channel. As you scroll through the videos you'll see the drum battle videos mixed in. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/c/MUSICSCHOOLTV/videos
I am recording my final track for the drum solo CD and I like to watch drum battles on youtube for some inspiration before I record. I did the first round of the battle last week. I took down the big set and set up the stacked plywood kit and different cymbals to have a different sound palette involved. I decided to make two new drums for the set this week and today I'll record the final set of fills.
I'm watching more Youtube videos and once again I came upon these kids in a music school in Korea. It's a fantastic gig. The room is filled to the walls with other kids from the school while a couple players or more, go at it. From lesser of experience to real flame throwers the action is seriously cool. The crowds gathered really get into it more than I have seen in American videos, though High School battles for talent contests can get kids pretty worked up. In this case, it is obvious the Korean kids in this school are more aware of nuances that players put into their fills in these battles, and ooh's and aah's come forth every time they see something that inspires and warrants some extra praise.
It's all good natured fun for these kids, though you know they want to come out on top, whatever that means for them.
I have mentioned before, the artistry of drumming used to be a Western-thing, mostly North America and a few nations of Europe; Britain, France and Germany.
In a few decades, from the 50's through the 70's everything seemed to be coming from those nations but then, an explosion developed. Japan, and other nations of Asia, other Euro nations, South America, Australia, and cultural drumming from Africa all burst upon the globe and today, top tier players are from all nations under the sun, and are out there dazzling their audiences. It's amazing. This all developed before the internet, too. The internet just caused it to go exponential. The young have such a deep trove of things to watch the bar gets set higher and higher.
I think it's astounding. The world, if you took out the rogues, tyrants, despots, and control freaks, would probably get along just fine; music being a common form of communication and adherence to finer principles of living. Unfortunately, that is not the world we live in. Someday, though, it shall be. God is going to see to that. No more strife, war, selfishness, or spirit of variance will exist. All will be harmonious, happy, satisfied, and busy. Very busy, as redeemed humanity will travel the universe and live to learn and experience things they never dreamed were possible. It will be good. So good.
I long for that day. Until then, watching these kids in Korea does my heart good.
The link is to the school channel. As you scroll through the videos you'll see the drum battle videos mixed in. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/c/MUSICSCHOOLTV/videos
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231. 47% No Affiliation - April 3, 2021
I'll begin by stating I do not attend an organized, denominational, or independent "church" or fellowship. I haven't for years. Just burned out with hassles with leaders over doctrinal matters or other things, like corruption. I am all for organization. Nothing works well without it, whether a business, a school, or a home. Organization is a good thing. Human faults and frailties can mess things up but, that is a discussion of humanity, not the principles of organization.
A new report from the GALLUP polling organization is showing for the first time ever, Americans have dropped below half the population claiming association or attendance to an organized church, synagogue or mosque of some kind. Perhaps some have had the experiences I have and that has figured into their choice. I don't know. I do know it is a sign America is in deep trouble.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-below-majority-first-time.aspx
Back in the 80's, many, so many voices were proclaiming the secularization of America. Today, those voices, many passed away, show they knew what they were talking about. Even with the rise of the religious right and its political power, their hand in electing Reagan and Reagan's working with the Papacy in its takedown of Eastern European Communism and subsequent dismantling of the U.S.S.R., secularism continually gained ground, especially in American educational institutions.
Back in the 1940's, 76% of Americans attended a religious organization of their choice. In almost 8 decades Americans have withdrawn from that trend by 29%. That is a huge number of Americans, and most of that is attributable to the nation's youth. Corrupted by secularized institutions of learning, the youth have lost any seeming sense of responsibility or accountability to a Higher Power. The false faith of Materialism, Naturalism, Abiogenesis, and Macro-evolution have decimated two generations of young minds and plenty of adult minds, as well. And I state that with total confidence in creation and a Creator, not only by my faith in the Bible but, by the research and observations of science, as well.
At the same time as these numbers are before us, more and more information has developed to show the statistical impossibilities that the universe came into being by an event of natural causes; that life, the first cell, came into being by the result of accidental accumulation of random chemicals, and that information that runs the universe with Laws and fine-tuning created itself.
The new book, The Return of the God Hypothesis, by geophysicist PhD. Stephen Meyer, along with his other books, and many books by many other advocates of intelligent design and fiat creation (though the two camps may stand apart on specifics), are filling book shelves and minds with facts that cannot be ignored any longer, though the secularist camp is trying as hard as they can. The book's title, the RETURN, shows how science once held to the belief that science was a vehicle to understand the mind and actions of God, through His creation. That was the generally held belief and despite the majority claiming adherence to neo-Darwinism, they remain with nothing more than faith to make their assertions. The observational, testable, repeatable science stands against their notions, their faith in the god of time: time is all that is needed. As the complexities of all that is are discovered, it has become apparent 13.5 billions years is not enough time to pull it all off.
Every Sabbath since the early 2000's I have read or watched presentations by creationist and intelligent design proponents. I have watched so many debates I almost believe I could debate a Materialist myself. Since 1979 I have believed in creation. If for no other reason because I became a new creation in Christ. Being born-again is an act of creation; re-creation. I became a new person in Christ. Of course, that is my personal experience. It is not based on observational science, though everyone around me certainly observed the radical change in me. Today, though, volumes of observational science have taken place to show that everything from nothing, by natural causes is just plain faith. It's a religion that puts a deity of Time on the throne of "science" and reasonable conclusion but, the findings of the last 60 or 70 years, exponentially catapulted by technological research advantages, has opened far too many minds and eyes to show Naturalism is just not a reasonable explanation. The God hypothesis is not going away.
Naturalists and Materialists have attempted to shut every door upon their opponents, descending upon any educator that dares to state opposing views of origins. That has only added fuel to the fire of their opponents. That fuel has turned to rocket fuel by the constant discoveries backing up their model.
Yes, as I stated, I.D. proponents and biblical creationists part ways over the details but, they stand united in the premise that everything from nothing by natural causes is impossible. That life from non-life is impossible. That scientific Laws and information writing themselves is impossible by the observations of empirical science thus far.
It will be fascinating to see how this war of concepts and beliefs plays out. It is impossible the Naturalists can hold their ropes against new discoveries that shall continue to arise. They may try to put a lid on it all but, no. Truth always wins. ALWAYS. It may take more time than humans like but, God is truth, and truth is life, and life is complex to a degree nobody came close to understanding when Darwin wrote his books on origins. Nay. If Darwin could see what scientists see today, he'd never have written his books to begin with. He thought a cell was a tiny blob of jelly. He had no idea, no concept, not the inkling of a thought of a cell being an actual, functioning, microscopic living city.
It is a shame, a tragedy, minds so gifted will fight so hard against their Creator till the day they die. How much good could come from such minds if they united with their Creator to discover things they never dreamed they could. Ultimately science, as science, has no crossing of borders into the land of morality. Naturalists have no decent reason or premise why chemicals should have morals. They have no just cause to show why chemicals are not the same as mind, conscience, awareness of self. They now see what a cell is yet, believe such astonishing complexity could arise by an accident in some primordial puddle. The deity, Time, is not only not their helper but, is, indeed, their opponent to life from random chemicals. Time works against the process of chemicals sustaining purity, composition, and connection. In the finest labs on earth, using biologics obtained from sources that produce these chemicals from life, is a universe away from some accident taking place in primordial soup before life, according to their timeline. It is almost comical, if it weren't so sad.
The majority has never been on God's side. That is the tragic truth, as well. They hem, haw, deny, push away, and fight for all they are worth so they need not be responsible and accountable for every thought, word, and action in their lives. They want self, alone, or god's made from the minds of mankind. A tragic blunder. They do not realize how much they are worth to the Creator and Saviour that loves them, and that everyone shall give account for every ray of light, every event, every happening, every word, every thought that came to them, that God is real and pleads to be Lord of their lives.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
A new report from the GALLUP polling organization is showing for the first time ever, Americans have dropped below half the population claiming association or attendance to an organized church, synagogue or mosque of some kind. Perhaps some have had the experiences I have and that has figured into their choice. I don't know. I do know it is a sign America is in deep trouble.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-below-majority-first-time.aspx
Back in the 80's, many, so many voices were proclaiming the secularization of America. Today, those voices, many passed away, show they knew what they were talking about. Even with the rise of the religious right and its political power, their hand in electing Reagan and Reagan's working with the Papacy in its takedown of Eastern European Communism and subsequent dismantling of the U.S.S.R., secularism continually gained ground, especially in American educational institutions.
Back in the 1940's, 76% of Americans attended a religious organization of their choice. In almost 8 decades Americans have withdrawn from that trend by 29%. That is a huge number of Americans, and most of that is attributable to the nation's youth. Corrupted by secularized institutions of learning, the youth have lost any seeming sense of responsibility or accountability to a Higher Power. The false faith of Materialism, Naturalism, Abiogenesis, and Macro-evolution have decimated two generations of young minds and plenty of adult minds, as well. And I state that with total confidence in creation and a Creator, not only by my faith in the Bible but, by the research and observations of science, as well.
At the same time as these numbers are before us, more and more information has developed to show the statistical impossibilities that the universe came into being by an event of natural causes; that life, the first cell, came into being by the result of accidental accumulation of random chemicals, and that information that runs the universe with Laws and fine-tuning created itself.
The new book, The Return of the God Hypothesis, by geophysicist PhD. Stephen Meyer, along with his other books, and many books by many other advocates of intelligent design and fiat creation (though the two camps may stand apart on specifics), are filling book shelves and minds with facts that cannot be ignored any longer, though the secularist camp is trying as hard as they can. The book's title, the RETURN, shows how science once held to the belief that science was a vehicle to understand the mind and actions of God, through His creation. That was the generally held belief and despite the majority claiming adherence to neo-Darwinism, they remain with nothing more than faith to make their assertions. The observational, testable, repeatable science stands against their notions, their faith in the god of time: time is all that is needed. As the complexities of all that is are discovered, it has become apparent 13.5 billions years is not enough time to pull it all off.
Every Sabbath since the early 2000's I have read or watched presentations by creationist and intelligent design proponents. I have watched so many debates I almost believe I could debate a Materialist myself. Since 1979 I have believed in creation. If for no other reason because I became a new creation in Christ. Being born-again is an act of creation; re-creation. I became a new person in Christ. Of course, that is my personal experience. It is not based on observational science, though everyone around me certainly observed the radical change in me. Today, though, volumes of observational science have taken place to show that everything from nothing, by natural causes is just plain faith. It's a religion that puts a deity of Time on the throne of "science" and reasonable conclusion but, the findings of the last 60 or 70 years, exponentially catapulted by technological research advantages, has opened far too many minds and eyes to show Naturalism is just not a reasonable explanation. The God hypothesis is not going away.
Naturalists and Materialists have attempted to shut every door upon their opponents, descending upon any educator that dares to state opposing views of origins. That has only added fuel to the fire of their opponents. That fuel has turned to rocket fuel by the constant discoveries backing up their model.
Yes, as I stated, I.D. proponents and biblical creationists part ways over the details but, they stand united in the premise that everything from nothing by natural causes is impossible. That life from non-life is impossible. That scientific Laws and information writing themselves is impossible by the observations of empirical science thus far.
It will be fascinating to see how this war of concepts and beliefs plays out. It is impossible the Naturalists can hold their ropes against new discoveries that shall continue to arise. They may try to put a lid on it all but, no. Truth always wins. ALWAYS. It may take more time than humans like but, God is truth, and truth is life, and life is complex to a degree nobody came close to understanding when Darwin wrote his books on origins. Nay. If Darwin could see what scientists see today, he'd never have written his books to begin with. He thought a cell was a tiny blob of jelly. He had no idea, no concept, not the inkling of a thought of a cell being an actual, functioning, microscopic living city.
It is a shame, a tragedy, minds so gifted will fight so hard against their Creator till the day they die. How much good could come from such minds if they united with their Creator to discover things they never dreamed they could. Ultimately science, as science, has no crossing of borders into the land of morality. Naturalists have no decent reason or premise why chemicals should have morals. They have no just cause to show why chemicals are not the same as mind, conscience, awareness of self. They now see what a cell is yet, believe such astonishing complexity could arise by an accident in some primordial puddle. The deity, Time, is not only not their helper but, is, indeed, their opponent to life from random chemicals. Time works against the process of chemicals sustaining purity, composition, and connection. In the finest labs on earth, using biologics obtained from sources that produce these chemicals from life, is a universe away from some accident taking place in primordial soup before life, according to their timeline. It is almost comical, if it weren't so sad.
The majority has never been on God's side. That is the tragic truth, as well. They hem, haw, deny, push away, and fight for all they are worth so they need not be responsible and accountable for every thought, word, and action in their lives. They want self, alone, or god's made from the minds of mankind. A tragic blunder. They do not realize how much they are worth to the Creator and Saviour that loves them, and that everyone shall give account for every ray of light, every event, every happening, every word, every thought that came to them, that God is real and pleads to be Lord of their lives.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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232. Will We Really Go Back to Normal? - April 4, 2021
Normal American life. Honestly? Does anybody know what that means? America was a mess before Covid. Covid just made things worse.
Having shared my beliefs about America, its divisions, and the whole Covid scenario I won't rehearse all that but, suffice to say, things were not normal before Covid, unless "normal" means children can run the nation and the adults sit back and watch in fear that they might be the next target on the hit lists of all the Leftist radicals with so much sick clout.
Here, in Texas, things are supposedly back to "normal." Well, semi-normal? Pseudo-normal? Sort of normal? Basically normal?
I have finished tracking my recording files for the 'Concepts for Solo Drum Set' album. Tom offered to process the raw files and get them ready for the replicator. Tom has a very hi-tech, stressful job, plus other commitments and he may not have the time to work on things. I totally understand. As a backup, I looked up recording studios in my area. The number of studios that are no longer functioning is frightening. Many were just small operations and lack of business during the shutdowns was more than they could take. I noticed even some music stores went under. One very popular one, that sells mostly guitars, a few towns over doesn't seem to have a website anymore. Their facebook page has no entries for a year.
So, what is now "normal?"
China released a virus on the world, knowingly allowed their citizens to travel abroad for months before the world learned what was happening. In what normal world would a nation get away with such a thing? Not only did America allow a national election to be criminally taken over and stolen, the new non-president is cozying up to China in shocking ways, as are other nations. So, China sits back, sees what they have done and gotten away with and what, the world should sit back and think this gargantuan behemoth of totalitarianism is just going to go kitten and fuzzball on everybody? Seriously?
China is a monster. I do not care if it has become some kind of communist/capitalist, combo-economy. They persecute religion. They persecute political dissidents. They run internment camps, re-education camps, re-training camps, practice genocide, practice every abomination known to man. It is an evil nation, as far as its regime goes. Over 1 billion people, with an army amassing numbers and arms that could easily compete with, if not destroy most every nation on earth. The ONLY reason they do not is because they need all the nations to buy their merchandise. The world is now their cash cow.
America is no longer a normal America. That has ended. Radical Leftists now control the government. Elections can never be trusted again. The economy teeters on the brink of catastrophe. A mentally disabled, elderly career politician sits in the Oval Office, with a radical Leftist for a VP, slated to become POTUS when he is ultimately removed as his health further declines. This is all normal? To who? Radical Leftists, that's about it.
There are still states being run by tyrants demanding Covid restrictions even though the evidence now shows herd immunity has been reached or soon will be, depending on the researchers reporting. People are still being put under the heavy hand of fear mongers, wherever they can get away with it. Those with the most influence, dangerous control freaks they be, keep saying "normal" will not return until 2022. Anyone who disagrees is instantly marginalized by big tech and the mob hordes, be it online or in the streets.
Normal. I defy anyone to explain to me how any of this situation in America comes close to "normal." Don't tell me, "Well, you know, pandemics are not normal." Fauci has been saying the next one will hit anytime in the future. These walking, talking, planning despots have it all mapped out, much like how the last year went. Details. The devil is in the details.
The "New Normal" is what we are being told. More loss of rights, more eroding of the Constitution, more mandates, more tyrants gaining control, more Orwellian 1984 draconian turbulent experiments to see how much they can get away with. What do they have to fear? Nobody is rising up. The military, the forces of police and other "protection" services are corrupt and controlled by powers that could not care less about "normal." They do not want American normal. They want globally controlled normal.
I pray to God He drops them all in the Earth like Korah, Dathan and Abiram. That is unlikely to happen. God is allowing America to reap what it has sown.
May God have mercy in judgment.
Having shared my beliefs about America, its divisions, and the whole Covid scenario I won't rehearse all that but, suffice to say, things were not normal before Covid, unless "normal" means children can run the nation and the adults sit back and watch in fear that they might be the next target on the hit lists of all the Leftist radicals with so much sick clout.
Here, in Texas, things are supposedly back to "normal." Well, semi-normal? Pseudo-normal? Sort of normal? Basically normal?
I have finished tracking my recording files for the 'Concepts for Solo Drum Set' album. Tom offered to process the raw files and get them ready for the replicator. Tom has a very hi-tech, stressful job, plus other commitments and he may not have the time to work on things. I totally understand. As a backup, I looked up recording studios in my area. The number of studios that are no longer functioning is frightening. Many were just small operations and lack of business during the shutdowns was more than they could take. I noticed even some music stores went under. One very popular one, that sells mostly guitars, a few towns over doesn't seem to have a website anymore. Their facebook page has no entries for a year.
So, what is now "normal?"
China released a virus on the world, knowingly allowed their citizens to travel abroad for months before the world learned what was happening. In what normal world would a nation get away with such a thing? Not only did America allow a national election to be criminally taken over and stolen, the new non-president is cozying up to China in shocking ways, as are other nations. So, China sits back, sees what they have done and gotten away with and what, the world should sit back and think this gargantuan behemoth of totalitarianism is just going to go kitten and fuzzball on everybody? Seriously?
China is a monster. I do not care if it has become some kind of communist/capitalist, combo-economy. They persecute religion. They persecute political dissidents. They run internment camps, re-education camps, re-training camps, practice genocide, practice every abomination known to man. It is an evil nation, as far as its regime goes. Over 1 billion people, with an army amassing numbers and arms that could easily compete with, if not destroy most every nation on earth. The ONLY reason they do not is because they need all the nations to buy their merchandise. The world is now their cash cow.
America is no longer a normal America. That has ended. Radical Leftists now control the government. Elections can never be trusted again. The economy teeters on the brink of catastrophe. A mentally disabled, elderly career politician sits in the Oval Office, with a radical Leftist for a VP, slated to become POTUS when he is ultimately removed as his health further declines. This is all normal? To who? Radical Leftists, that's about it.
There are still states being run by tyrants demanding Covid restrictions even though the evidence now shows herd immunity has been reached or soon will be, depending on the researchers reporting. People are still being put under the heavy hand of fear mongers, wherever they can get away with it. Those with the most influence, dangerous control freaks they be, keep saying "normal" will not return until 2022. Anyone who disagrees is instantly marginalized by big tech and the mob hordes, be it online or in the streets.
Normal. I defy anyone to explain to me how any of this situation in America comes close to "normal." Don't tell me, "Well, you know, pandemics are not normal." Fauci has been saying the next one will hit anytime in the future. These walking, talking, planning despots have it all mapped out, much like how the last year went. Details. The devil is in the details.
The "New Normal" is what we are being told. More loss of rights, more eroding of the Constitution, more mandates, more tyrants gaining control, more Orwellian 1984 draconian turbulent experiments to see how much they can get away with. What do they have to fear? Nobody is rising up. The military, the forces of police and other "protection" services are corrupt and controlled by powers that could not care less about "normal." They do not want American normal. They want globally controlled normal.
I pray to God He drops them all in the Earth like Korah, Dathan and Abiram. That is unlikely to happen. God is allowing America to reap what it has sown.
May God have mercy in judgment.
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233. Encouragement - April 6, 2021
Before I go in to record this morning I wanted to share some thoughts.
As I've said, not many people come to the site. I noticed more seem to, a little at a time some weeks but, mostly there's the faithful few. The chances of there being someone I share directly with is astronomical. How many drummers have strokes? Maybe more than I might think but, none that I know of, famous or otherwise. The likelihood of writing to one here is extremely remote, at best. So, I need to broaden my purpose here.
I had a stroke. Not a massive stroke, a truly debilitating one. I had ... more of a one day, in my face, warning; a kind of, shut your mouth and listen or this gets worse, very fast-kind of experience. Wake up!
In recording the tracks for the drumming album, I am stuck on the last solo: the drum battle. I managed to pull off the first set of fills and it was rough. I mention more about it on the recording blog. Trying to do the second set has brought about the limitations of what Adrenal Fatigue and the stroke have left me with: exhaustion after just minutes of energy expense. A constant - so close and yet so far - experience time after time. I'll try again, today. I have to do it. I must. I will.
I'm alone in this gig. I have few friends. Fewer close friends. None that are drummers. None that have had strokes. None that I communicate with often. Dealing with this comes down to me and the Lord everyday. My wife has her input and concerns, of course but, the daily regimen, the specifics are not her thing.
Yesterday I met with a guy with a recording studio who will be helping me create a master disk for duplication of the album. We met about half way between us, in an area of Oklahoma he is not familiar with. On the way, his engine blew out. I drove to where he and his wife were, on the side of the road. A 2007 Mustang. No oil. Bone dry. He was beyond confused how this happened. I stayed with them, waiting for the tow truck. A couple hours later we had discussed a lot of stuff. They are stuck in that town, no vehicle, with a probable serious car repair in front of them. Life is not kind. We need encouragement.
There is little reason I should even be able to drum at all, let alone be producing an album of solo concepts. I don't know why my stroke did not leave me like thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of other people every year. But, it isn't just strokes. It's heart attacks, car accidents, relationships, job loss, financial disaster, death ... an endless list of things in and beyond our control in the choices we make, all day, every day. Pain on this planet is so exponential we cannot and do not have the capacity to understand it, to comprehend it. The fear that exists out there, the confusion trying to navigate an ocean of troubles. God knows. God sees it all. God sees every single tear. The Bible says they each fall into His bottle.
People blame God, for one thing, for some things, and for everything. It's commentary from ignorance. He looks past it and deals with each person as we allow Him to. Even devout followers don't understand half of what their lives produce and deal with but, they learn to trust, to have have faith God is perfect and knows everything infinitely before it even happens, and has a plan. God always has a plan. He always has a way.
The chances of someone reading this that is a drummer and has had a stroke is, as I stated, astronomical. The other stuff, a given. Nobody goes through life without pain, without suffering, questions, confusion, apprehensions, misgivings and a boatload of mistakes and poor choices.
Raft, the recording engineer I met yesterday, could be thankful his car did not cause him to lose control on that bridge and end up in a catastrophic accident. The person that did have an accident can be thankful they are still alive. The person in pain, wishing death, or has lost a loved one to death ... that is the hardest to find hope and encouragement in. They feel little to be thankful for. More than likely they feel nothing to be thankful for.
When all is said and done I can encourage the drummer who has had a stroke to hang in there, get healthy, do your rehab, build, better all aspects of life that maybe were put aside for various reasons, and pray and work everyday to get back what has been lost.
If you cannot do what you once did, find something else. I am reminded of those who have experienced paralyzation. One woman, Joni Erickson, learned to paint with her teeth. I mean, how can you paint such astonishingly beautiful paintings holding a brush in your teeth? She does it. The world is filled with such encouraging triumphs out of despair and disaster. God blessed her with a unique talent, and has blessed thousands, millions to carry on after tragedy, and experience and render blessings to others.
I don't know you, don't know your circumstances, don't know your condition in life. I know God. I know I can thankfully encourage you to hang in there, to get through any barrier in front of you, get around any wall, or climb it when no one else knows about it, or does, and thinks you cannot. Living by what others think is often futile. Living by what God thinks is the way to constant encouragement and one day, probably sooner than later, God is going to make up for every tear, every pain, every tragedy with eternal life for those that love Him.
This life is the blink of an eye. I can't believe it has been ten years since I met Tom and we began Miledge Muzic. Where did it go? Fourteen years of Cindy and I renovating houses and just about living at Lowes and Home Depot. Where did it go? Pain? Have mercy. Physical, metal, emotional, and spiritual. Plenty of it.
I'm 66, I'm tired, I'm heading into the sunset of life and I'm still playing drum solos at significant speeds and technique, still outside doing most of what I want and need to, still vertical and ventilating. When my purpose is over, I'll go to sleep in my dusty bed and await resurrection morning and rise with eternal youth, vigor, energy and capacities I could only dream of in the previous life.
I encourage you to hang in there. Help is on the way. God is closer than you think. Answers are available, and while they may not come the moment you seek them, they are coming. God has promised that. Patience. Perseverance. Faith. Hope.
Be encouraged. A better day is coming. It may be tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, I don't know. I do know it is coming, and finally the great day of all pain shall be cast aside forever.
Courage in the Lord, Dear Friend. Courage in the Lord.
As I've said, not many people come to the site. I noticed more seem to, a little at a time some weeks but, mostly there's the faithful few. The chances of there being someone I share directly with is astronomical. How many drummers have strokes? Maybe more than I might think but, none that I know of, famous or otherwise. The likelihood of writing to one here is extremely remote, at best. So, I need to broaden my purpose here.
I had a stroke. Not a massive stroke, a truly debilitating one. I had ... more of a one day, in my face, warning; a kind of, shut your mouth and listen or this gets worse, very fast-kind of experience. Wake up!
In recording the tracks for the drumming album, I am stuck on the last solo: the drum battle. I managed to pull off the first set of fills and it was rough. I mention more about it on the recording blog. Trying to do the second set has brought about the limitations of what Adrenal Fatigue and the stroke have left me with: exhaustion after just minutes of energy expense. A constant - so close and yet so far - experience time after time. I'll try again, today. I have to do it. I must. I will.
I'm alone in this gig. I have few friends. Fewer close friends. None that are drummers. None that have had strokes. None that I communicate with often. Dealing with this comes down to me and the Lord everyday. My wife has her input and concerns, of course but, the daily regimen, the specifics are not her thing.
Yesterday I met with a guy with a recording studio who will be helping me create a master disk for duplication of the album. We met about half way between us, in an area of Oklahoma he is not familiar with. On the way, his engine blew out. I drove to where he and his wife were, on the side of the road. A 2007 Mustang. No oil. Bone dry. He was beyond confused how this happened. I stayed with them, waiting for the tow truck. A couple hours later we had discussed a lot of stuff. They are stuck in that town, no vehicle, with a probable serious car repair in front of them. Life is not kind. We need encouragement.
There is little reason I should even be able to drum at all, let alone be producing an album of solo concepts. I don't know why my stroke did not leave me like thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of other people every year. But, it isn't just strokes. It's heart attacks, car accidents, relationships, job loss, financial disaster, death ... an endless list of things in and beyond our control in the choices we make, all day, every day. Pain on this planet is so exponential we cannot and do not have the capacity to understand it, to comprehend it. The fear that exists out there, the confusion trying to navigate an ocean of troubles. God knows. God sees it all. God sees every single tear. The Bible says they each fall into His bottle.
People blame God, for one thing, for some things, and for everything. It's commentary from ignorance. He looks past it and deals with each person as we allow Him to. Even devout followers don't understand half of what their lives produce and deal with but, they learn to trust, to have have faith God is perfect and knows everything infinitely before it even happens, and has a plan. God always has a plan. He always has a way.
The chances of someone reading this that is a drummer and has had a stroke is, as I stated, astronomical. The other stuff, a given. Nobody goes through life without pain, without suffering, questions, confusion, apprehensions, misgivings and a boatload of mistakes and poor choices.
Raft, the recording engineer I met yesterday, could be thankful his car did not cause him to lose control on that bridge and end up in a catastrophic accident. The person that did have an accident can be thankful they are still alive. The person in pain, wishing death, or has lost a loved one to death ... that is the hardest to find hope and encouragement in. They feel little to be thankful for. More than likely they feel nothing to be thankful for.
When all is said and done I can encourage the drummer who has had a stroke to hang in there, get healthy, do your rehab, build, better all aspects of life that maybe were put aside for various reasons, and pray and work everyday to get back what has been lost.
If you cannot do what you once did, find something else. I am reminded of those who have experienced paralyzation. One woman, Joni Erickson, learned to paint with her teeth. I mean, how can you paint such astonishingly beautiful paintings holding a brush in your teeth? She does it. The world is filled with such encouraging triumphs out of despair and disaster. God blessed her with a unique talent, and has blessed thousands, millions to carry on after tragedy, and experience and render blessings to others.
I don't know you, don't know your circumstances, don't know your condition in life. I know God. I know I can thankfully encourage you to hang in there, to get through any barrier in front of you, get around any wall, or climb it when no one else knows about it, or does, and thinks you cannot. Living by what others think is often futile. Living by what God thinks is the way to constant encouragement and one day, probably sooner than later, God is going to make up for every tear, every pain, every tragedy with eternal life for those that love Him.
This life is the blink of an eye. I can't believe it has been ten years since I met Tom and we began Miledge Muzic. Where did it go? Fourteen years of Cindy and I renovating houses and just about living at Lowes and Home Depot. Where did it go? Pain? Have mercy. Physical, metal, emotional, and spiritual. Plenty of it.
I'm 66, I'm tired, I'm heading into the sunset of life and I'm still playing drum solos at significant speeds and technique, still outside doing most of what I want and need to, still vertical and ventilating. When my purpose is over, I'll go to sleep in my dusty bed and await resurrection morning and rise with eternal youth, vigor, energy and capacities I could only dream of in the previous life.
I encourage you to hang in there. Help is on the way. God is closer than you think. Answers are available, and while they may not come the moment you seek them, they are coming. God has promised that. Patience. Perseverance. Faith. Hope.
Be encouraged. A better day is coming. It may be tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, I don't know. I do know it is coming, and finally the great day of all pain shall be cast aside forever.
Courage in the Lord, Dear Friend. Courage in the Lord.
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234. Nothing is Nothing - April 10, 2021
Our world, once separated by great continents and oceans, grows smaller and smaller with each passing decade. One can stay in their home every day and see the world, communicate with the world, live in the active commerce of the entire globe, save for the small, out of the way hamlet not yet "modernized."
From the viewpoint of Christianity; the promulgation and progress of the Gospel, how is it the entire world does not yet have the information it needs to make decisions for Christ or this world; for truth or error; for prison in sin or freedom from it? 350,000 people are now born every day. The population exponentially grows, which means more mouths than ever can pass information to another. More than ever the futile existence of man, the deep part of his inability to live free from sin, is ever before the race. Man's weaknesses, mistakes, faults and sins are now so easily portrayed online for the entire world to see, via cell phones - hand held computers, cameras, calculators, "orderors" of life - you would think mankind would grow soft, realizing we all need each other but, no. Mankind grows colder, harder, more segregated, more categorized, and dare I say, more off the wall. The more we are able to see and learn, the more a type of intelligence crushes common sense.
The ability to put one's thoughts down on a readable platform, free from the constraints of pen and ink, has never been easier or more widespread yet, constant voices want to hide, if not destroy the thoughts, worth and value of others for their own worldview and philosophy. The young, often the leaders of great movements because of their energy and fire, have become the tools of darkness, shutting down anything and everything they do not like, without a decent principle to back up their malice for another's position. Freedom to them is freedom for them. Disagree, they marginalize you.
Information, surging on an electronic highway, now a super-highway, should allow for freedom and liberty to gain greater ground and foundation. Instead, forces are at work to stop the flow of all information high powers want eradicated.
I have begun reading Wylie's, History of the Protestant Reformation. It was a movement that also brought tremendous information of freedom and liberty with it, to any and all nations open to it. It, too, was the target of great anathema and had to withstand centuries of conflict. Today, knowing America was built on the principles of Protestantism, the movement has all but, vanished. Christianity, itself, is being put aside for other philosophies and religions, or no religion or belief in anything but, nature. Nature's God is not wanted. All mankind wants is the god of nature; believing everything exists in and of itself, regardless of all failed attempts to explain such a situation. How did nature bring about information? Information only comes from a mind, an informant. That is all we know. We know of no other source of information, especially information that contains Laws and Constants which the universe exists in and works upon.
Logically, to my mind, none of this makes sense. Information, truth, should not bring chaos but, order. The universe is ordered, so finely tuned the more cosmologists observe it, the more order they see and have to constantly rearrange and rethink their positions about time, because they believe Time is deity, for all intents and purposes. Time can do anything. Time has done everything.
From the largest system - the galaxies, to the smallest - the living cell, mankind is faced with more and more and more information it all exists by design, not chance. The amount of information in one living cell would stack volumes to the moon and back hundreds of times. How can it be man can see that and yet, believe it is all there by chance? The chances of such a development is a statistical impossibility, mathematically speaking. A number with so many zeroes after it, it could not be counted in a billion lifetimes. Still, while logic and common sense decree, emphatically, it all came from a Source, man chooses to believe it all came from nothing. From nothing to everything. Such a position is stupid. It really is yet, the greatest minds on the planet believe it as truth, when all information states it cannot possibly be so. It is impossible. And those who plainly state the fact are put down as mindless, deserving of no serious contemplation.
Up is down. Down is up. Light is dark. Darkness is light. Truth, discernible truth, observable truth, common sense, is old fashioned extremism. Error or incessant question marks are the fountain of wisdom and progress.
We should all be getting along. We are at each other's throats. Can you explain that? I can.
There is God, the Creator, being rejected by more and more humanity, and confusion, animosity, chaos results. The universe has order. The galaxy has order. The solar system has order. Earth has order, every season, every year, every century. Man cannot recognize it or, he does and attributes order to have come out of the chaos of an instant hot expansion of material, mostly gas, from - where? Where?! They cannot say. They deem all humans who disagree with them unworthy of respect. They have no actual, provable answers. They just have a story. It guides them. They worship at its throne. Everything came from nothing, when nothing became something and expanded. Of course, that is the position of those who believe in a Creator Who spoke everything into existence out of nothing but, that is not allowed in the door, in the classroom, in the laboratory, in the textbooks. Only nothing can be believed in. Eminent minds like Stephen Hawking said it is so. No God necessary. No God allowed.
They claim, rightfully so, they cannot get into moral matters. Science has no absolutes to address morality. Then truly, when the human race is caught up in planetary matters of human morality, what good is science, especially a science that rejects its Creator in favor of the god of nothingness? From nothing came everything. We must kneel and kiss the ring of this stupidity? I don't think so.
As things get worse, and more and more people are at war with each other, ask yourself why "nothing" can solve mankind's dilemmas.
Good luck with that.
From the viewpoint of Christianity; the promulgation and progress of the Gospel, how is it the entire world does not yet have the information it needs to make decisions for Christ or this world; for truth or error; for prison in sin or freedom from it? 350,000 people are now born every day. The population exponentially grows, which means more mouths than ever can pass information to another. More than ever the futile existence of man, the deep part of his inability to live free from sin, is ever before the race. Man's weaknesses, mistakes, faults and sins are now so easily portrayed online for the entire world to see, via cell phones - hand held computers, cameras, calculators, "orderors" of life - you would think mankind would grow soft, realizing we all need each other but, no. Mankind grows colder, harder, more segregated, more categorized, and dare I say, more off the wall. The more we are able to see and learn, the more a type of intelligence crushes common sense.
The ability to put one's thoughts down on a readable platform, free from the constraints of pen and ink, has never been easier or more widespread yet, constant voices want to hide, if not destroy the thoughts, worth and value of others for their own worldview and philosophy. The young, often the leaders of great movements because of their energy and fire, have become the tools of darkness, shutting down anything and everything they do not like, without a decent principle to back up their malice for another's position. Freedom to them is freedom for them. Disagree, they marginalize you.
Information, surging on an electronic highway, now a super-highway, should allow for freedom and liberty to gain greater ground and foundation. Instead, forces are at work to stop the flow of all information high powers want eradicated.
I have begun reading Wylie's, History of the Protestant Reformation. It was a movement that also brought tremendous information of freedom and liberty with it, to any and all nations open to it. It, too, was the target of great anathema and had to withstand centuries of conflict. Today, knowing America was built on the principles of Protestantism, the movement has all but, vanished. Christianity, itself, is being put aside for other philosophies and religions, or no religion or belief in anything but, nature. Nature's God is not wanted. All mankind wants is the god of nature; believing everything exists in and of itself, regardless of all failed attempts to explain such a situation. How did nature bring about information? Information only comes from a mind, an informant. That is all we know. We know of no other source of information, especially information that contains Laws and Constants which the universe exists in and works upon.
Logically, to my mind, none of this makes sense. Information, truth, should not bring chaos but, order. The universe is ordered, so finely tuned the more cosmologists observe it, the more order they see and have to constantly rearrange and rethink their positions about time, because they believe Time is deity, for all intents and purposes. Time can do anything. Time has done everything.
From the largest system - the galaxies, to the smallest - the living cell, mankind is faced with more and more and more information it all exists by design, not chance. The amount of information in one living cell would stack volumes to the moon and back hundreds of times. How can it be man can see that and yet, believe it is all there by chance? The chances of such a development is a statistical impossibility, mathematically speaking. A number with so many zeroes after it, it could not be counted in a billion lifetimes. Still, while logic and common sense decree, emphatically, it all came from a Source, man chooses to believe it all came from nothing. From nothing to everything. Such a position is stupid. It really is yet, the greatest minds on the planet believe it as truth, when all information states it cannot possibly be so. It is impossible. And those who plainly state the fact are put down as mindless, deserving of no serious contemplation.
Up is down. Down is up. Light is dark. Darkness is light. Truth, discernible truth, observable truth, common sense, is old fashioned extremism. Error or incessant question marks are the fountain of wisdom and progress.
We should all be getting along. We are at each other's throats. Can you explain that? I can.
There is God, the Creator, being rejected by more and more humanity, and confusion, animosity, chaos results. The universe has order. The galaxy has order. The solar system has order. Earth has order, every season, every year, every century. Man cannot recognize it or, he does and attributes order to have come out of the chaos of an instant hot expansion of material, mostly gas, from - where? Where?! They cannot say. They deem all humans who disagree with them unworthy of respect. They have no actual, provable answers. They just have a story. It guides them. They worship at its throne. Everything came from nothing, when nothing became something and expanded. Of course, that is the position of those who believe in a Creator Who spoke everything into existence out of nothing but, that is not allowed in the door, in the classroom, in the laboratory, in the textbooks. Only nothing can be believed in. Eminent minds like Stephen Hawking said it is so. No God necessary. No God allowed.
They claim, rightfully so, they cannot get into moral matters. Science has no absolutes to address morality. Then truly, when the human race is caught up in planetary matters of human morality, what good is science, especially a science that rejects its Creator in favor of the god of nothingness? From nothing came everything. We must kneel and kiss the ring of this stupidity? I don't think so.
As things get worse, and more and more people are at war with each other, ask yourself why "nothing" can solve mankind's dilemmas.
Good luck with that.
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235. Are We At War? - April 13, 2021
Yes. We are.
Not Afghanistan. Not Iraq. Not any other place the military is involved in right now, or potentially engaging.
We are at war with a select few power brokers, elites, masterminds, control freaks, call them what you will, that have world-wide control intentions on their agenda. They have been there for over a century. Money bags. The billionaire/trillionaire threshold and their minions. They are more powerful than entire national governments. They care not for anything but, money and power.
If you have been coming here regularly, you know I began speaking out against the reported information being disseminated about the virus, by the main stream media, last February, 2020. In January I smelled a rat and have not let go of that conviction ever since. Nay. It has only gotten stronger, based on the evidence.
I received an email from a friend yesterday. I link it here. READ the info. The article begins:
"April 7, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Dr. Michael Yeadon, Pfizer's former Vice President and Chief Scientist for Allergy & Respiratory who spent 32 years in the industry leading new medicines research and retired from the pharmaceutical giant with “the most senior research position” in his field, spoke with LifeSiteNews.
He addressed the “demonstrably false” propaganda from governments in response to COVID-19, including the “lie” of dangerous variants, the totalitarian potential for “vaccine passports,” and the strong possibility we are dealing with a “conspiracy” which could lead to something far beyond the carnage experienced in the wars and massacres of the 20th century.
His main points included:
Say what you will. Dark, wicked, evil forces are at war with humanity. We are at war, whether we know it or not. Elites only see a globe. They care not for individuals. They care not for nations. They have more power and wealth than many of them. Than even smaller ones put together.
'1984' is a reality. Orwellian, draconian, totalitarian tyranny is a REALITY. Their religion is money. Their faith is in established power and control. They are lunatics. I'll even go this far. Right now I see way too much in the way of non-compliance by humanity, sick of this whole Covid, fear-mongered, hysterical timeline. They are wary of the vaccine because of constant reports of adverse effects and deaths. They are sick of seeing Fauci, Gates and others propped up as saviors and demigods. They are sick and tired of despotic government leaders and their ridiculous mandates at national, state, and local levels. That is around the world, not just America. Last I saw, over 40% of the military is refusing to take the vaccines. Here in Texas the governor has already jumped on any efforts to try and legislate a Vaccine passport. Other states are in the same frame of mind.
What are elites to do to garner compliance? THERE IS NOTHING THEY WILL NOT DO.
Whatever they can do, physically, mentally, emotionally they will do. Start wars, cause disasters, destroy national economies, and a lot more to get people tired, weary, needy, and compliant.
We ARE at war. Make NO mistake about that. YOU are at war, whether you like it or not.
Prepare. Especially spiritually. The coming years are going to be rough.
Not Afghanistan. Not Iraq. Not any other place the military is involved in right now, or potentially engaging.
We are at war with a select few power brokers, elites, masterminds, control freaks, call them what you will, that have world-wide control intentions on their agenda. They have been there for over a century. Money bags. The billionaire/trillionaire threshold and their minions. They are more powerful than entire national governments. They care not for anything but, money and power.
If you have been coming here regularly, you know I began speaking out against the reported information being disseminated about the virus, by the main stream media, last February, 2020. In January I smelled a rat and have not let go of that conviction ever since. Nay. It has only gotten stronger, based on the evidence.
I received an email from a friend yesterday. I link it here. READ the info. The article begins:
"April 7, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Dr. Michael Yeadon, Pfizer's former Vice President and Chief Scientist for Allergy & Respiratory who spent 32 years in the industry leading new medicines research and retired from the pharmaceutical giant with “the most senior research position” in his field, spoke with LifeSiteNews.
He addressed the “demonstrably false” propaganda from governments in response to COVID-19, including the “lie” of dangerous variants, the totalitarian potential for “vaccine passports,” and the strong possibility we are dealing with a “conspiracy” which could lead to something far beyond the carnage experienced in the wars and massacres of the 20th century.
His main points included:
- There is “no possibility” current variants of COVID-19 will escape immunity. It is “just a lie.”
- Yet, governments around the world are repeating this lie, indicating that we are witnessing not just “convergent opportunism,” but a “conspiracy.” Meanwhile media outlets and Big Tech platforms are committed to the same propaganda and the censorship of the truth.
- Pharmaceutical companies have already begun to develop unneeded “top-up” (“booster”) vaccines for the “variants.” The companies are planning to manufacture billions of vials, in addition to the current experimental COVID-19 “vaccine” campaign.
- Regulatory agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency, have announced that since these “top-up” vaccines will be so similar to the prior injections which were approved for emergency use authorization, drug companies will not be required to “perform any clinical safety studies.”
- Thus, this virtually means that design and implementation of repeated and coerced mRNA vaccines “go from the computer screen of a pharmaceutical company into the arms of hundreds of millions of people, [injecting] some superfluous genetic sequence for which there is absolutely no need or justification.”
- Why are they doing this? Since no benign reason is apparent, the use of vaccine passports along with a “banking reset” could issue in a totalitarianism unlike the world has ever seen. Recalling the evil of Stalin, Mao, and Hitler, “mass depopulation” remains a logical outcome.
- The fact that this at least could be true means everyone must “fight like crazy to make sure that system never forms.”
Say what you will. Dark, wicked, evil forces are at war with humanity. We are at war, whether we know it or not. Elites only see a globe. They care not for individuals. They care not for nations. They have more power and wealth than many of them. Than even smaller ones put together.
'1984' is a reality. Orwellian, draconian, totalitarian tyranny is a REALITY. Their religion is money. Their faith is in established power and control. They are lunatics. I'll even go this far. Right now I see way too much in the way of non-compliance by humanity, sick of this whole Covid, fear-mongered, hysterical timeline. They are wary of the vaccine because of constant reports of adverse effects and deaths. They are sick of seeing Fauci, Gates and others propped up as saviors and demigods. They are sick and tired of despotic government leaders and their ridiculous mandates at national, state, and local levels. That is around the world, not just America. Last I saw, over 40% of the military is refusing to take the vaccines. Here in Texas the governor has already jumped on any efforts to try and legislate a Vaccine passport. Other states are in the same frame of mind.
What are elites to do to garner compliance? THERE IS NOTHING THEY WILL NOT DO.
Whatever they can do, physically, mentally, emotionally they will do. Start wars, cause disasters, destroy national economies, and a lot more to get people tired, weary, needy, and compliant.
We ARE at war. Make NO mistake about that. YOU are at war, whether you like it or not.
Prepare. Especially spiritually. The coming years are going to be rough.
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236. The Great Divide - April 17, 2021
Why do people dislike Christians? Many hate Christians. Why are Christians being persecuted all over the globe? Why did "Christians" persecute others down through history? Is this payback time?
May I unpack this box of quandaries?
I am a Christian. I have my faults: "the sins that so easily beset [me]." That said, I love people because I love God. I may not love or like everything people do. That's another subject but, I love people because I know Christ, the Creator and Savior of the world, lived for, died for, rose for, and is coming again for all who will trust Him with their lives, and live for Him while they occupy until He comes. Two millennia have gone by. He has not returned. Signs of the times, worldwide predict the event is drawing near. That is something so many various groups see, regardless of other doctrinal disagreements, it is a common understanding. That is as Christ said it would be. Issues over Christ's return would not be about the reality of the event but, how the event would take place.
I could say that ignorance has caused "Christians" to do stupid things and not love others as Christ loves them, down through time. Let us face facts. Not every person that calls themselves a Christian, is. The Founders of the United Sates understood that fact. Most of them professed belief in the God of the Bible and left doctrinal details to others. Only a few could be said to be devout Christians. They were not men who felt time was well spent arguing over such details of religious doctrine when the western world had been punished for centuries by the Papacy and its minions, and the leaders of the Church of England and what English kings and queens had serious issues with those not of "the true faith." America was founded as a nation by those seeking refuge from religious persecution and to offer it to others. Unfortunately, it began here, too, and men like Madison, Jefferson, and others fought hard against it until laws that promulgated persecution were dismantled and done away with.
I'll not get into details of Native Americans and slavery. Another time. It's all part of the same ignorance, as well of the ways of the world.
In a nut shell, ignorance and lack of Christianity, regardless of profession of faith, leads to what people hate about "Christians." Hypocrisy. I state again, going to church does not make you a Christian, anymore than walking into a garage makes you a mechanic. Christianity is an experience with Christ. Buildings are for things like convenience, comfort, and organization. Buildings are not Christianity. Religious business may run on Christian principles but, Christ is not a religious business, not the business of religion. Charlatans exist. Beware.
Now, don't be mistaken. Christ divided His own nation. He preached the truth. He said division would arise. The majority did not like it, and the religious leaders plotted to kill him and did, after just a few years of ministry, and the multitude that shouted praise shortly before, cried out to "crucify Him" with the leaders, that fateful day. Then His disciples went forth and with the influence of God in front and behind them, the entire western world was changed. The entire civilized, and in so many cases the uncivilized world, if historical documents are allowed to speak, was influenced and changed.
Much has happened since that time. It is called "apostacy;" to leave something once held to be true.
Christ said God created male and female. That means Christ would be 'deplatformed,' 'canceled,' marginalized and shut down by 'woke' people today who claim there is no such thing as just two sexes.
Christ said those not with Him (not doing the Father's will), are against Him. That means Christ would be shut down by the movement of multiculturalism and atheism sweeping the western world (and failing, btw).
Needless to say, I could type out dozens and dozens of things Christ taught that go against the wider flow of humanity and the way it lives. Division must be the result. That is the only logical thing that can take place. Christ said we "must" be born again, no options. When you are, divisions shall come, no options but, compromise, which is not an option God regards. Loyalty to Him is necessary for His kingdom to hold together. The original "Rebel," disfigured that arrangement, he was tossed out, and here we are.
Christians who follow Christ, who have been inwardly influenced by the Messiah, and the Holy Spirit, and the good will of the Father, seek ONLY to enlighten people to a way they see as a better way to live; the way of love, peace, justice, integrity, and other higher intellectual functions of those made in God's image. The human family is supposed to be one. There is one race, scientifically and biblically - the human race. Christians are not social engineers. They make no demands on anyone, other than within their own assemblies of professed believers; to live as the Bible teaches, as the Bible interprets itself on any given subject. Christians see life as temporary, as a bus stop of existence on to a better place, a place that shall transplant the entire world someday. They have no need to demand anything. In the USA, where laws protect religious faith, Christians stand up for them. Christians do not persecute people. I write it again. Christians - do - not - persecute - people. Christians are law-biding citizens, when laws do not conflict with God's laws. When they do, God's law must come first. That's just logical. God is Sovereign. He must come first.
So, why is a guy who bakes cakes persecuted by those who think his religious faith sucks, because he refuses to use his artistry to make dessert for homosexuals who get married? Why don't the homosexuals go down the street and find a bakery that will gladly cater to them? And know the facts. The baker will sell anybody a cake he has already made and sits in a glass case. He just believes it morally wrong to purposefully make a cake and decorate it for a "homosexual wedding." That is his conscience. That was something protected by the Constitution of the United States at one time.
It may be a photographer, a printer, or any number of people in professions who try to live by the teachings and morality Jesus Christ taught: to love all but, live within the boundaries of God's laws and will. "We must obey God rather than men."
Common sense decrees people live at peace with each other. Logic decrees people be allowed to live their faith as long as they are civil to their neighbor. Once you become uncivil and seek to physically harm your neighbor, you are no longer a benefit to society. Physical harm is the key. Your person, your livelihood, your possessions; not your sense of offense. Nobody has a right not to be offended. Jesus offended people every moment of every day in His ministry. He was pushed out of every place He went because things He taught went against the grain, against the will of people who had control, influence, power; ill-used and abused. Christ sought to change that through teaching principles that show a better way. God is not against wealth. God is against ill-gotten gain; the crushing of others in the pursuit of money, which is the root of all evil. God is not against cutting down trees to build a house. God is not against the practical necessities of life. He provides blessed ways to meet them.
Why, then, are Christians hated, more and more? Because darkness is covering the Earth. Spiritual darkness, ignorance, just as dark as the Dark Ages is spreading over the globe. A time of religious darkness that persecutes dissidents, is no match for what is coming: a darkness of reason and common sense and principle such as the world has never seen. But, know this, as well. Christ said they who think they are doing God's will [professed believers] shall be the worst persecutors of all.
Wait a minute. If those not of the faith are causing harassment, oppression and persecution of Christians now, how can it reverse? Because things are coming that will cause the entire world to become "believers." Sights, sounds, events, happenings are coming that shall cause the world to take notice: things are way out of the ordinary, and the side with all the "miraculous" power is the one to be on. The rub? That "miracle-working" revival movement will be at the hands of the great opponent of Christ - Lucifer, the fallen light. Only the truth of the Bible will help people to see through it.
Oh, you have no idea what is coming, my friends, unless you are a student of the Word. Satan "shall work with all power, signs and lying wonders" "to deceive, if possible, the very elect." Only those who "have a love of the truth" and are changed by it, shall be saved from what is coming upon the earth. A "time of trouble such as never was or never shall be."
Right now it seems the world wants anything but, the will of God. And that is true. The time is coming when the world will want only the will of God BUT, as it is stated and decreed by the will of men, backed up by the devil's dog and pony show. The law of God vs. the law of religious men, the spirit of antichrist that "thinks to change [God's] times and laws," that is the final battle. It has been waging for ages. It is coming to a climax.
The battle of the ages, of all human history awaits. It may burst upon us quickly. It may yet be a ways off. How far off? God knows. Man can only watch, pray, study, and seek to show others God's way before the final battle erupts.
You must know, the final battle of this war is not just religious, not just doctrinal, not just intellectual and emotional. Nay. It shall be physical, as well. The world is going to shake. Physical catastrophes, calamity, upheavals, you name it, call it what you will, is coming. Every aspect of weather exploding with forces of nature, mankind has rarely, if ever seen, is coming. Man-made disasters, shocking destruction, is coming. The world shall be put on notice: the end of all things is at hand.
If you want to hate me because I fervently believe these things ... there isn't anything I can do but, pray that God can show you what He showed me as an atheist, at 24, 42 years ago. Prophecy proves God is God and knows the end from the beginning. God is most definitely not the imagination of man. No. God is the Creator and Sovereign of this universe we spin through. God is real, as real as anything you experience day in, day out.
God loves you, my friend. He really does. He may not approve of what you do. He greatly loves who you are. God, the Son, lived a life of sinless goodness for you, to put that life on your behalf. He allowed wicked, blinded men to kill Him in the most gross form of punishment known: crucifixion, for you, so you need not die "the second death:" the eternal, irrevocable death of separation from life, from God. He rose from the dead, from the dead, man, to offer you new life, with "a peace that passes all understanding," and He ministers in the heavenly sanctuary for you, as the only Priest you need, to ultimately give you eternal, endless, joyful, discovery packed, life with Him, forever. FOREVER. That is how long it will take to travel the universe and experience its wonders and learn all about our God, and pursue every possible avenue of human endeavor. Endless eternity. And you would rather have what in place of that?
Repent. Turn from your sins. Seriously. Drums, music, entertainment, politics, government, yeah, all part of life but, the depth of what is more important is beyond all that, by lightyears.
Truth bothers people. It causes problems. That's unfortunate. Truth also saves. Truth changes people. Truth is alive. It is our choice to accept it or reject it. Acceptance causes love. Rejection causes hate. It really is that simple.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
May I unpack this box of quandaries?
I am a Christian. I have my faults: "the sins that so easily beset [me]." That said, I love people because I love God. I may not love or like everything people do. That's another subject but, I love people because I know Christ, the Creator and Savior of the world, lived for, died for, rose for, and is coming again for all who will trust Him with their lives, and live for Him while they occupy until He comes. Two millennia have gone by. He has not returned. Signs of the times, worldwide predict the event is drawing near. That is something so many various groups see, regardless of other doctrinal disagreements, it is a common understanding. That is as Christ said it would be. Issues over Christ's return would not be about the reality of the event but, how the event would take place.
I could say that ignorance has caused "Christians" to do stupid things and not love others as Christ loves them, down through time. Let us face facts. Not every person that calls themselves a Christian, is. The Founders of the United Sates understood that fact. Most of them professed belief in the God of the Bible and left doctrinal details to others. Only a few could be said to be devout Christians. They were not men who felt time was well spent arguing over such details of religious doctrine when the western world had been punished for centuries by the Papacy and its minions, and the leaders of the Church of England and what English kings and queens had serious issues with those not of "the true faith." America was founded as a nation by those seeking refuge from religious persecution and to offer it to others. Unfortunately, it began here, too, and men like Madison, Jefferson, and others fought hard against it until laws that promulgated persecution were dismantled and done away with.
I'll not get into details of Native Americans and slavery. Another time. It's all part of the same ignorance, as well of the ways of the world.
In a nut shell, ignorance and lack of Christianity, regardless of profession of faith, leads to what people hate about "Christians." Hypocrisy. I state again, going to church does not make you a Christian, anymore than walking into a garage makes you a mechanic. Christianity is an experience with Christ. Buildings are for things like convenience, comfort, and organization. Buildings are not Christianity. Religious business may run on Christian principles but, Christ is not a religious business, not the business of religion. Charlatans exist. Beware.
Now, don't be mistaken. Christ divided His own nation. He preached the truth. He said division would arise. The majority did not like it, and the religious leaders plotted to kill him and did, after just a few years of ministry, and the multitude that shouted praise shortly before, cried out to "crucify Him" with the leaders, that fateful day. Then His disciples went forth and with the influence of God in front and behind them, the entire western world was changed. The entire civilized, and in so many cases the uncivilized world, if historical documents are allowed to speak, was influenced and changed.
Much has happened since that time. It is called "apostacy;" to leave something once held to be true.
Christ said God created male and female. That means Christ would be 'deplatformed,' 'canceled,' marginalized and shut down by 'woke' people today who claim there is no such thing as just two sexes.
Christ said those not with Him (not doing the Father's will), are against Him. That means Christ would be shut down by the movement of multiculturalism and atheism sweeping the western world (and failing, btw).
Needless to say, I could type out dozens and dozens of things Christ taught that go against the wider flow of humanity and the way it lives. Division must be the result. That is the only logical thing that can take place. Christ said we "must" be born again, no options. When you are, divisions shall come, no options but, compromise, which is not an option God regards. Loyalty to Him is necessary for His kingdom to hold together. The original "Rebel," disfigured that arrangement, he was tossed out, and here we are.
Christians who follow Christ, who have been inwardly influenced by the Messiah, and the Holy Spirit, and the good will of the Father, seek ONLY to enlighten people to a way they see as a better way to live; the way of love, peace, justice, integrity, and other higher intellectual functions of those made in God's image. The human family is supposed to be one. There is one race, scientifically and biblically - the human race. Christians are not social engineers. They make no demands on anyone, other than within their own assemblies of professed believers; to live as the Bible teaches, as the Bible interprets itself on any given subject. Christians see life as temporary, as a bus stop of existence on to a better place, a place that shall transplant the entire world someday. They have no need to demand anything. In the USA, where laws protect religious faith, Christians stand up for them. Christians do not persecute people. I write it again. Christians - do - not - persecute - people. Christians are law-biding citizens, when laws do not conflict with God's laws. When they do, God's law must come first. That's just logical. God is Sovereign. He must come first.
So, why is a guy who bakes cakes persecuted by those who think his religious faith sucks, because he refuses to use his artistry to make dessert for homosexuals who get married? Why don't the homosexuals go down the street and find a bakery that will gladly cater to them? And know the facts. The baker will sell anybody a cake he has already made and sits in a glass case. He just believes it morally wrong to purposefully make a cake and decorate it for a "homosexual wedding." That is his conscience. That was something protected by the Constitution of the United States at one time.
It may be a photographer, a printer, or any number of people in professions who try to live by the teachings and morality Jesus Christ taught: to love all but, live within the boundaries of God's laws and will. "We must obey God rather than men."
Common sense decrees people live at peace with each other. Logic decrees people be allowed to live their faith as long as they are civil to their neighbor. Once you become uncivil and seek to physically harm your neighbor, you are no longer a benefit to society. Physical harm is the key. Your person, your livelihood, your possessions; not your sense of offense. Nobody has a right not to be offended. Jesus offended people every moment of every day in His ministry. He was pushed out of every place He went because things He taught went against the grain, against the will of people who had control, influence, power; ill-used and abused. Christ sought to change that through teaching principles that show a better way. God is not against wealth. God is against ill-gotten gain; the crushing of others in the pursuit of money, which is the root of all evil. God is not against cutting down trees to build a house. God is not against the practical necessities of life. He provides blessed ways to meet them.
Why, then, are Christians hated, more and more? Because darkness is covering the Earth. Spiritual darkness, ignorance, just as dark as the Dark Ages is spreading over the globe. A time of religious darkness that persecutes dissidents, is no match for what is coming: a darkness of reason and common sense and principle such as the world has never seen. But, know this, as well. Christ said they who think they are doing God's will [professed believers] shall be the worst persecutors of all.
Wait a minute. If those not of the faith are causing harassment, oppression and persecution of Christians now, how can it reverse? Because things are coming that will cause the entire world to become "believers." Sights, sounds, events, happenings are coming that shall cause the world to take notice: things are way out of the ordinary, and the side with all the "miraculous" power is the one to be on. The rub? That "miracle-working" revival movement will be at the hands of the great opponent of Christ - Lucifer, the fallen light. Only the truth of the Bible will help people to see through it.
Oh, you have no idea what is coming, my friends, unless you are a student of the Word. Satan "shall work with all power, signs and lying wonders" "to deceive, if possible, the very elect." Only those who "have a love of the truth" and are changed by it, shall be saved from what is coming upon the earth. A "time of trouble such as never was or never shall be."
Right now it seems the world wants anything but, the will of God. And that is true. The time is coming when the world will want only the will of God BUT, as it is stated and decreed by the will of men, backed up by the devil's dog and pony show. The law of God vs. the law of religious men, the spirit of antichrist that "thinks to change [God's] times and laws," that is the final battle. It has been waging for ages. It is coming to a climax.
The battle of the ages, of all human history awaits. It may burst upon us quickly. It may yet be a ways off. How far off? God knows. Man can only watch, pray, study, and seek to show others God's way before the final battle erupts.
You must know, the final battle of this war is not just religious, not just doctrinal, not just intellectual and emotional. Nay. It shall be physical, as well. The world is going to shake. Physical catastrophes, calamity, upheavals, you name it, call it what you will, is coming. Every aspect of weather exploding with forces of nature, mankind has rarely, if ever seen, is coming. Man-made disasters, shocking destruction, is coming. The world shall be put on notice: the end of all things is at hand.
If you want to hate me because I fervently believe these things ... there isn't anything I can do but, pray that God can show you what He showed me as an atheist, at 24, 42 years ago. Prophecy proves God is God and knows the end from the beginning. God is most definitely not the imagination of man. No. God is the Creator and Sovereign of this universe we spin through. God is real, as real as anything you experience day in, day out.
God loves you, my friend. He really does. He may not approve of what you do. He greatly loves who you are. God, the Son, lived a life of sinless goodness for you, to put that life on your behalf. He allowed wicked, blinded men to kill Him in the most gross form of punishment known: crucifixion, for you, so you need not die "the second death:" the eternal, irrevocable death of separation from life, from God. He rose from the dead, from the dead, man, to offer you new life, with "a peace that passes all understanding," and He ministers in the heavenly sanctuary for you, as the only Priest you need, to ultimately give you eternal, endless, joyful, discovery packed, life with Him, forever. FOREVER. That is how long it will take to travel the universe and experience its wonders and learn all about our God, and pursue every possible avenue of human endeavor. Endless eternity. And you would rather have what in place of that?
Repent. Turn from your sins. Seriously. Drums, music, entertainment, politics, government, yeah, all part of life but, the depth of what is more important is beyond all that, by lightyears.
Truth bothers people. It causes problems. That's unfortunate. Truth also saves. Truth changes people. Truth is alive. It is our choice to accept it or reject it. Acceptance causes love. Rejection causes hate. It really is that simple.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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237. Oh, Yes. The Truth is Out There - April 17, 2021
NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THIS RIGHT NOW. NOTHING.
Geert Vanden Bosshe, PhD, DVM.
Heard of him? Me neither.
You have probably heard of Alex Jones, Mike Adams, Paul Watson, and plenty of other web commentators on world events, right? You may have even heard of various doctors and even dentists speaking out against the entire Covid scenario, mandates, government actions, vaccinations, etc., etc., etc.
Mr. Bosshe has a list of positions on various company, high ranking chairs that make him one of THE biggest proponents of vaccines on the planet. When THAT man speaks out AGAINST the current Covid vaccines you MUST pay attention.
I am surprised this video is still up on Facebook. They'll take it down. I was familiar with the information for a year now, really, because of others, like Dr. Rashid Buttar, getting into this and warning anybody who would listen. The Leftists go apoplectic and postal when anyone gains any traction in speaking truth which goes against their agenda. In this case, Dr. Geert Vander Bosshe, what are they going to do, when he has been a champion of vaccines for his whole career?
Here's the link that was sent to me. Because I already knew much of this I can only tell you it is alarming but, too late. Well, at least for the millions who have been vaccinated and have battles they never dreamed ahead of them. If you have not been exposed to this information, prepare for a 'drop jaw' 17 minutes.
https://www.facebook.com/leslie.johnson.395891/videos/4418486844846799
When I, and so many others, tell you evil people, wicked, demigod, lunatic people are in positions of power you cannot imagine, we speak truth. They are going for the world, my friends. They are playing for the biggest prize of all: planetary control.
This is mass scale murder. It can ONLY be called a planned, prescribed take down of hundreds of millions of people who will begin dropping like flies from the common cold or any other invading entity they have no immune system to take on. The current vaccine being touted as a savior and hero, and those pushing it, are absolute enemies to the immune system God gave you, and they are enemies of the human race. It matters not how they speak, how they smile, how they act in public. They have done something so wicked it shall stand as the greatest act of evil in the history of the world. I don't see how it could be anything else. Logic decrees it. Common sense establishes it. Reason can never understand these people.
NO JOKE. An active war against the human race is taking place. The battlefield is the bodies of those who have taken foreign, man-made invaders into their body systems, into their bloodstreams, into their brains with these experimental vaccines, designed to take down our natural immune system and leave us defenseless.
GOD HELP US. MAY GOD EXPOSE AND STOP THEM, NOW.
Geert Vanden Bosshe, PhD, DVM.
Heard of him? Me neither.
You have probably heard of Alex Jones, Mike Adams, Paul Watson, and plenty of other web commentators on world events, right? You may have even heard of various doctors and even dentists speaking out against the entire Covid scenario, mandates, government actions, vaccinations, etc., etc., etc.
Mr. Bosshe has a list of positions on various company, high ranking chairs that make him one of THE biggest proponents of vaccines on the planet. When THAT man speaks out AGAINST the current Covid vaccines you MUST pay attention.
I am surprised this video is still up on Facebook. They'll take it down. I was familiar with the information for a year now, really, because of others, like Dr. Rashid Buttar, getting into this and warning anybody who would listen. The Leftists go apoplectic and postal when anyone gains any traction in speaking truth which goes against their agenda. In this case, Dr. Geert Vander Bosshe, what are they going to do, when he has been a champion of vaccines for his whole career?
Here's the link that was sent to me. Because I already knew much of this I can only tell you it is alarming but, too late. Well, at least for the millions who have been vaccinated and have battles they never dreamed ahead of them. If you have not been exposed to this information, prepare for a 'drop jaw' 17 minutes.
https://www.facebook.com/leslie.johnson.395891/videos/4418486844846799
When I, and so many others, tell you evil people, wicked, demigod, lunatic people are in positions of power you cannot imagine, we speak truth. They are going for the world, my friends. They are playing for the biggest prize of all: planetary control.
This is mass scale murder. It can ONLY be called a planned, prescribed take down of hundreds of millions of people who will begin dropping like flies from the common cold or any other invading entity they have no immune system to take on. The current vaccine being touted as a savior and hero, and those pushing it, are absolute enemies to the immune system God gave you, and they are enemies of the human race. It matters not how they speak, how they smile, how they act in public. They have done something so wicked it shall stand as the greatest act of evil in the history of the world. I don't see how it could be anything else. Logic decrees it. Common sense establishes it. Reason can never understand these people.
NO JOKE. An active war against the human race is taking place. The battlefield is the bodies of those who have taken foreign, man-made invaders into their body systems, into their bloodstreams, into their brains with these experimental vaccines, designed to take down our natural immune system and leave us defenseless.
GOD HELP US. MAY GOD EXPOSE AND STOP THEM, NOW.
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238. Death - April 17, 2021
I didn't mean this to follow the previous blog. It's just a busy weekend for subject matter to comment on for me.
I read an article yesterday, well, part of it, discussing the aspects of the brain and the mind being two different things, and the mind being the "soul."
No question, the mind is not the brain. The mind is the conscience, a heightened ability to perceive that goes way beyond chemicals and physical cells. Where did the mind come from? How? The Naturalist, the Materialist, the Darwinian evolutionist cannot say. That is a different topic, though.
Do I believe humans have souls? No. Not in the popular sense. I believe the Bible teaches humans are souls. They are living, breathing creatures, which is in harmony with the meaning of the Hebrew and Greek words translated "soul" in English Bibles. They mean "life." The term spirit also has a meaning in the original languages. We'll get to that.
This is going to become an enormous subject soon enough, for a very serious reason - last day events. Mark that. A discussion of life after death, the existence of a soul that gets out of a human at death and lives until it is united again with a body, and the ability of the "soul" to think, to communicate, especially with living relatives, is all going to be front and center in the future. What began with the Fox sisters in the 19th century is going to turn into world-wide discussion. Science, so called, is going to be set on its head when the final events kick in. And I state again, only those who are students of the Bible and believe what it teaches, cover to cover, will be kept safe from delusions that are moving and have been for centuries: spiritism. The belief in "spirits" and communicating with them.
The paranormal is a huge business. Books, magazines, television, movies, the internet; you name it, the paranormal is in it. Christianity thinks it is safe from all that but, in essence it teaches the same things.
There are no such things as "ghosts." Not according the totality of the teachings of the Word of God. That which is understood to be the departed spirit or soul of a person, caught in transit to another dimension, hanging around in houses and such, is a lie, from the father of lies. Is the paranormal real? Sure. The source is the issue, not the happenings.
The idea of a rational "soul" was popularized by Plato, the Greek philosopher. He reckoned humans have a physical side, and an invisible spirit or spiritual side, the one bad, the other good, just dying to get out from that evil body, and when you die, it gets out! Well, that was Plato. That's Greek philosophy.
The Bible teaches man is a temple, created noble: nobility of body, soul and spirit, all to be sanctified, made holy by connection to the living God, our Creator.
I think I have mentioned some of this before, in other previous blogs. I'm not going to get into a big Bible study here, per se. Maybe in the future that will be the only worthwhile pursuit but, for now, the principles.
What is life? Go ahead. Define it. Anything alive in our sphere, our dimension, our plane of existence? Anything with living cells? Thus, a rock is not alive, a Tulip, is. That is, until the Tulip is pulled or cut from its source of life giving energy. Then, it dies. At some point, though it resembles a Tulip, it is dead and further, begins to degrade; a total breakdown of cells. It dries up and goes back to the Earth it came from, which is exactly what God told Adam when he was created. Adam, the dirt man, was personally crafted by God in the garden, formed, and then God breathed into Adam the breath of life and man became a living soul. He did not have one. He was one. He warned if he disobeyed God's simple command not to eat from the tree of life he would die. There's nothing about a entity God put inside him that would leave and go to heaven. Adam would undergo what every other living thing goes through- life, death, resurrection every season for plant life, or death and back to the earth for everything else. I trust what God told Adam. That makes sense. Humans having some ghost inside them that gets out at death? No.
Does a Tulip have a soul, a spirit inside, that gets out at death? How about a raccoon or turtle or Polar bear? No? Wrong. The Bible says, most definitely, animals have souls and spirits. Where? (I love this part).
Animals are emotional creatures and they also think. Remember that. They are souls. They are not called spirits in the Bible. They have a spirit, though. They are not responsible or accountable for their actions. They are not under the demands of obedience to God, in the sense of moral law.
Ecc 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
Ecc 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecc 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecc 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Ecc 3:22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
So, humans breathe, animals breathe and Solomon writes, who knows if the spirit of man goes up and the spirit of the beast goes down in the earth? Spirit, in the Hebrew, is a movement of air. Breathing, speaking, blowing, breeze, wind, are all spirit in the Bible, and more than that, when you look up all the places in the Bible spirit is used, you begin to see a thread. In the Bible "soul" (life, living thing) is associated with the emotional nature of life. Does a dog have emotions? Sure. Does a tree? Not so much. So, animals have souls, they are souls. They breathe, they feel emotions and they have spirits, too.
Spirit is associated with the intellectual nature of life. Can a dog obey commands? Yes. Can it add 2+2? No. The intellectual nature of the beast is very limited. A dolphin is never going to write blueprints for a building project. Dolphins are way cool creatures, known to help man when in trouble, like an imminent shark attack. A dolphin senses danger and reacts, a dolphin has and is a soul, biblically. A dolphin, biblically speaking, is not a spirit, in the higher sense of the term. It breathes, it emits sound from vocal chords, it has a spirit: breath and a certain realm of intelligence but, it is never going to write a hymn. Whales sing, so they say. So do birds. All kinds of animals emit vocal sounds and experience up or down emotions. They think, they even plan but, they do not have a sense of right or wrong and accountability as humans do. A bird plans a nest and builds it. A bird poops on your head. A man plans a house and builds it. A man defecates on your head. One is not responsible, the other is. Sure, a dog has that guilty look when confronted with tearing up your slippers but, a dog is not morally responsible for stealing your slippers. Dogs do "steal" because they have no sense of right and wrong. They see something they like, they take it, hide it, bury eat, eat it, drop it somewhere never to be seen again, and goes on its merry way. Humans? Why do we call humans animals, beasts, snakes in the grass, weasels, rats, and other creatures? Because we are honoring them? No. We are stating humans acting on a lower level, void of responsibility and civility; exercising the animal nature, the lower nature. Animals think but, their intellect is vastly limited from humans and they are not held accountable to the moral law. They have spirits, they breathe, they think. They are never called spirits in the Bible. They are not morally responsible for the life they live.
The fact is, nobody knows anything about the direction of breath when someone dies, because there is no evidence, no trustworthy evidence, anywhere, that man knows, if humans have a spirit that goes up, and animals have a spirit that stays down. We all breathe our last, we all die. What happens then?
Ecc 6:11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Ecc 6:12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Well, who can? Can you tell me what happens after death? No. You cannot possibly know. The Bible states it clearly, though.
Ecc 9:3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Ecc 9:4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Ecc 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Ecc 9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Ecc 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Psa 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Psa 146:4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his dust; in that very day his thoughts perish.
When someone dies, they are, indeed, dead. Everything about life dies with them. There is no instant life after death. All await a resurrection day; one for the righteous and one for the lost.
Well, what about all the stories of those who see heaven, talk to Christ, see a white light down a tunnel and all the rest? What are they experiencing? Not Bible truth, that is certain. In fact, whether it is the actions of brain chemicals, or cellular change, or whatever, it does not matter. The only thing that matters is what the Bible states, not what man experiences, which can all be tampered with through varying avenues. The Bible is the true standard. That is my starting and ending point in all matters.
I mentioned the story of Lazarus in another blog, if I recall correctly. Lazarus was dead four days. His sister said his body would be stinking by the the time Christ came to the tomb and told them to roll away the stone. Christ told Lazarus to come forth. He came forth, to the amazement and shock of all onlookers. They unwrapped Lazarus from his grave clothes. There was significant rejoicing, as one can imagine but, not one single line from Lazarus, happy to tell everybody what heaven was like? Why? Because Lazarus was dead. He was sleeping the sleep of death, as the Bible refers to it. Death is a temporary state of existence, referred to as sleep. It's very different from "the second death," which is permanent. There is a resurrection from one, not the other.
When I did public evangelism and private Bible studies in ministry I'd use 100 passages of scripture, both old and new testaments, to show the truth about this subject. People were shocked. When you know the truth, you are protected, you will be protected when the onslaught of Satanic delusions hit the earth with overwhelming force and influence. Dead relatives appearing and telling you, pleading with you the way to go, and it shall be the way of death. The same voice, the appearance, perhaps some memories only the two of you might know. But, the Bible says the dead do not know anything, their thoughts perish, they are no different than animals that die, save for their choices in life to follow God or walk away from Him, which shall determine their resurrection.
The Bible says Satan is planning overmastering delusions. Believe it. The time will come when you cannot believe your senses, you will only be able to trust the Bible and go with it, the same way pilots are taught to not trust their senses but, rely on their instrument panel for navigation directions.
This is one of those subjects that really ticks people off, or frightens them. They have so long imbibed errors, the truth is too radical for them. They had comfort, a false comfort, their relatives, their loved ones are in heaven. Of course, they don't like to think about those who most assuredly went to ...
I have written about that one, too. The amount of junk in the professed Christian trunk of doctrine is unfortunate; the result of centuries of apostacy and growing superstitions replacing sound doctrine. Nothing a little decent digging into the Bible can't straighten out.
The truth is a barrier. It protects from invasions upon the mind and the enemy has plenty of them to use. Truth is always reasonable. It stands up to scrutiny. It makes sense.
Go ahead and do that. Look up all the places you see in the Bible using the terms spirit and soul and see what you think.
Then think about this, if I have not already mentioned if before. A person receives a blow to the head. They go into a coma. Days, weeks, years pass. They know nothing of time and events. One day they wake up. They cannot tell you a thing of the time transpired but, supposedly they have an immortal soul, the center of knowledge and reason, that can be knocked out. Wait. It is immortal and never dies but, it can be knocked out? If that is logical to you, it sure is not to me and those who believe the truth.
I read an article yesterday, well, part of it, discussing the aspects of the brain and the mind being two different things, and the mind being the "soul."
No question, the mind is not the brain. The mind is the conscience, a heightened ability to perceive that goes way beyond chemicals and physical cells. Where did the mind come from? How? The Naturalist, the Materialist, the Darwinian evolutionist cannot say. That is a different topic, though.
Do I believe humans have souls? No. Not in the popular sense. I believe the Bible teaches humans are souls. They are living, breathing creatures, which is in harmony with the meaning of the Hebrew and Greek words translated "soul" in English Bibles. They mean "life." The term spirit also has a meaning in the original languages. We'll get to that.
This is going to become an enormous subject soon enough, for a very serious reason - last day events. Mark that. A discussion of life after death, the existence of a soul that gets out of a human at death and lives until it is united again with a body, and the ability of the "soul" to think, to communicate, especially with living relatives, is all going to be front and center in the future. What began with the Fox sisters in the 19th century is going to turn into world-wide discussion. Science, so called, is going to be set on its head when the final events kick in. And I state again, only those who are students of the Bible and believe what it teaches, cover to cover, will be kept safe from delusions that are moving and have been for centuries: spiritism. The belief in "spirits" and communicating with them.
The paranormal is a huge business. Books, magazines, television, movies, the internet; you name it, the paranormal is in it. Christianity thinks it is safe from all that but, in essence it teaches the same things.
There are no such things as "ghosts." Not according the totality of the teachings of the Word of God. That which is understood to be the departed spirit or soul of a person, caught in transit to another dimension, hanging around in houses and such, is a lie, from the father of lies. Is the paranormal real? Sure. The source is the issue, not the happenings.
The idea of a rational "soul" was popularized by Plato, the Greek philosopher. He reckoned humans have a physical side, and an invisible spirit or spiritual side, the one bad, the other good, just dying to get out from that evil body, and when you die, it gets out! Well, that was Plato. That's Greek philosophy.
The Bible teaches man is a temple, created noble: nobility of body, soul and spirit, all to be sanctified, made holy by connection to the living God, our Creator.
I think I have mentioned some of this before, in other previous blogs. I'm not going to get into a big Bible study here, per se. Maybe in the future that will be the only worthwhile pursuit but, for now, the principles.
What is life? Go ahead. Define it. Anything alive in our sphere, our dimension, our plane of existence? Anything with living cells? Thus, a rock is not alive, a Tulip, is. That is, until the Tulip is pulled or cut from its source of life giving energy. Then, it dies. At some point, though it resembles a Tulip, it is dead and further, begins to degrade; a total breakdown of cells. It dries up and goes back to the Earth it came from, which is exactly what God told Adam when he was created. Adam, the dirt man, was personally crafted by God in the garden, formed, and then God breathed into Adam the breath of life and man became a living soul. He did not have one. He was one. He warned if he disobeyed God's simple command not to eat from the tree of life he would die. There's nothing about a entity God put inside him that would leave and go to heaven. Adam would undergo what every other living thing goes through- life, death, resurrection every season for plant life, or death and back to the earth for everything else. I trust what God told Adam. That makes sense. Humans having some ghost inside them that gets out at death? No.
Does a Tulip have a soul, a spirit inside, that gets out at death? How about a raccoon or turtle or Polar bear? No? Wrong. The Bible says, most definitely, animals have souls and spirits. Where? (I love this part).
Animals are emotional creatures and they also think. Remember that. They are souls. They are not called spirits in the Bible. They have a spirit, though. They are not responsible or accountable for their actions. They are not under the demands of obedience to God, in the sense of moral law.
Ecc 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
Ecc 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecc 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecc 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Ecc 3:22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
So, humans breathe, animals breathe and Solomon writes, who knows if the spirit of man goes up and the spirit of the beast goes down in the earth? Spirit, in the Hebrew, is a movement of air. Breathing, speaking, blowing, breeze, wind, are all spirit in the Bible, and more than that, when you look up all the places in the Bible spirit is used, you begin to see a thread. In the Bible "soul" (life, living thing) is associated with the emotional nature of life. Does a dog have emotions? Sure. Does a tree? Not so much. So, animals have souls, they are souls. They breathe, they feel emotions and they have spirits, too.
Spirit is associated with the intellectual nature of life. Can a dog obey commands? Yes. Can it add 2+2? No. The intellectual nature of the beast is very limited. A dolphin is never going to write blueprints for a building project. Dolphins are way cool creatures, known to help man when in trouble, like an imminent shark attack. A dolphin senses danger and reacts, a dolphin has and is a soul, biblically. A dolphin, biblically speaking, is not a spirit, in the higher sense of the term. It breathes, it emits sound from vocal chords, it has a spirit: breath and a certain realm of intelligence but, it is never going to write a hymn. Whales sing, so they say. So do birds. All kinds of animals emit vocal sounds and experience up or down emotions. They think, they even plan but, they do not have a sense of right or wrong and accountability as humans do. A bird plans a nest and builds it. A bird poops on your head. A man plans a house and builds it. A man defecates on your head. One is not responsible, the other is. Sure, a dog has that guilty look when confronted with tearing up your slippers but, a dog is not morally responsible for stealing your slippers. Dogs do "steal" because they have no sense of right and wrong. They see something they like, they take it, hide it, bury eat, eat it, drop it somewhere never to be seen again, and goes on its merry way. Humans? Why do we call humans animals, beasts, snakes in the grass, weasels, rats, and other creatures? Because we are honoring them? No. We are stating humans acting on a lower level, void of responsibility and civility; exercising the animal nature, the lower nature. Animals think but, their intellect is vastly limited from humans and they are not held accountable to the moral law. They have spirits, they breathe, they think. They are never called spirits in the Bible. They are not morally responsible for the life they live.
The fact is, nobody knows anything about the direction of breath when someone dies, because there is no evidence, no trustworthy evidence, anywhere, that man knows, if humans have a spirit that goes up, and animals have a spirit that stays down. We all breathe our last, we all die. What happens then?
Ecc 6:11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Ecc 6:12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Well, who can? Can you tell me what happens after death? No. You cannot possibly know. The Bible states it clearly, though.
Ecc 9:3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Ecc 9:4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Ecc 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Ecc 9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Ecc 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Psa 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Psa 146:4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his dust; in that very day his thoughts perish.
When someone dies, they are, indeed, dead. Everything about life dies with them. There is no instant life after death. All await a resurrection day; one for the righteous and one for the lost.
Well, what about all the stories of those who see heaven, talk to Christ, see a white light down a tunnel and all the rest? What are they experiencing? Not Bible truth, that is certain. In fact, whether it is the actions of brain chemicals, or cellular change, or whatever, it does not matter. The only thing that matters is what the Bible states, not what man experiences, which can all be tampered with through varying avenues. The Bible is the true standard. That is my starting and ending point in all matters.
I mentioned the story of Lazarus in another blog, if I recall correctly. Lazarus was dead four days. His sister said his body would be stinking by the the time Christ came to the tomb and told them to roll away the stone. Christ told Lazarus to come forth. He came forth, to the amazement and shock of all onlookers. They unwrapped Lazarus from his grave clothes. There was significant rejoicing, as one can imagine but, not one single line from Lazarus, happy to tell everybody what heaven was like? Why? Because Lazarus was dead. He was sleeping the sleep of death, as the Bible refers to it. Death is a temporary state of existence, referred to as sleep. It's very different from "the second death," which is permanent. There is a resurrection from one, not the other.
When I did public evangelism and private Bible studies in ministry I'd use 100 passages of scripture, both old and new testaments, to show the truth about this subject. People were shocked. When you know the truth, you are protected, you will be protected when the onslaught of Satanic delusions hit the earth with overwhelming force and influence. Dead relatives appearing and telling you, pleading with you the way to go, and it shall be the way of death. The same voice, the appearance, perhaps some memories only the two of you might know. But, the Bible says the dead do not know anything, their thoughts perish, they are no different than animals that die, save for their choices in life to follow God or walk away from Him, which shall determine their resurrection.
The Bible says Satan is planning overmastering delusions. Believe it. The time will come when you cannot believe your senses, you will only be able to trust the Bible and go with it, the same way pilots are taught to not trust their senses but, rely on their instrument panel for navigation directions.
This is one of those subjects that really ticks people off, or frightens them. They have so long imbibed errors, the truth is too radical for them. They had comfort, a false comfort, their relatives, their loved ones are in heaven. Of course, they don't like to think about those who most assuredly went to ...
I have written about that one, too. The amount of junk in the professed Christian trunk of doctrine is unfortunate; the result of centuries of apostacy and growing superstitions replacing sound doctrine. Nothing a little decent digging into the Bible can't straighten out.
The truth is a barrier. It protects from invasions upon the mind and the enemy has plenty of them to use. Truth is always reasonable. It stands up to scrutiny. It makes sense.
Go ahead and do that. Look up all the places you see in the Bible using the terms spirit and soul and see what you think.
Then think about this, if I have not already mentioned if before. A person receives a blow to the head. They go into a coma. Days, weeks, years pass. They know nothing of time and events. One day they wake up. They cannot tell you a thing of the time transpired but, supposedly they have an immortal soul, the center of knowledge and reason, that can be knocked out. Wait. It is immortal and never dies but, it can be knocked out? If that is logical to you, it sure is not to me and those who believe the truth.
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239. Legend Flatlines - April 20, 2021
A little while ago the guys at Sonic Age Records sent me a sales report on From the Fjords. Basically, it stopped.
The reason given was the proliferation of bootlegs that continue to be pumped away into the retail world. It is unfortunate such dishonesty and thievery exists. Especially in a field where honesty, the making and production of music, generally entails ... well, wait a minute. From the earliest days of recording, companies ripped off artists and left them penniless. So, I must restate that. The making and performing of music generally entails more honesty and integrity than many fields of endeavor because the artists are putting themselves out there, for any and all to hear and see. The lyrics, the music, the solo or band performers all have personal stakes in the entire enterprise. You can't say that for those who punch a clock every day, for the most part.
Bootleggers are lowlifes and like all thieves, money is their only motive. Bootlegging is weird to me. You have to choose what you illegally copy and sell. I suppose most all of them couldn't care less. I still think some must say, "Yeah, this is a good album, we'll do this one," with nary a thought for the musicians who spent the money and put in the time to make and record the music. It's just a dark-hearted business.
One of the reasons, the major reason I went ahead with the reissue was to hopefully expose Kevin's talents out to a far wider field of music lovers, and guitarists, through larger avenues. Didn't happen.
Man, he was good for his age and experience back at that time. He had deep talents, not just surface ones. Forty-five years later I can still see his hands on his fret board, still hear his voice, in rehearsals, just hanging out, being his crazy self. His playing had this unique mix of very serious musicianship and clowning around. Whatever he did, he had fun.
He was one of kind. Kevin Nugent. A lot of people still miss him. I do.
The reason given was the proliferation of bootlegs that continue to be pumped away into the retail world. It is unfortunate such dishonesty and thievery exists. Especially in a field where honesty, the making and production of music, generally entails ... well, wait a minute. From the earliest days of recording, companies ripped off artists and left them penniless. So, I must restate that. The making and performing of music generally entails more honesty and integrity than many fields of endeavor because the artists are putting themselves out there, for any and all to hear and see. The lyrics, the music, the solo or band performers all have personal stakes in the entire enterprise. You can't say that for those who punch a clock every day, for the most part.
Bootleggers are lowlifes and like all thieves, money is their only motive. Bootlegging is weird to me. You have to choose what you illegally copy and sell. I suppose most all of them couldn't care less. I still think some must say, "Yeah, this is a good album, we'll do this one," with nary a thought for the musicians who spent the money and put in the time to make and record the music. It's just a dark-hearted business.
One of the reasons, the major reason I went ahead with the reissue was to hopefully expose Kevin's talents out to a far wider field of music lovers, and guitarists, through larger avenues. Didn't happen.
Man, he was good for his age and experience back at that time. He had deep talents, not just surface ones. Forty-five years later I can still see his hands on his fret board, still hear his voice, in rehearsals, just hanging out, being his crazy self. His playing had this unique mix of very serious musicianship and clowning around. Whatever he did, he had fun.
He was one of kind. Kevin Nugent. A lot of people still miss him. I do.
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240. Doom and Gloom, Anyone? - April 22, 2021
Years ago it used to be common for unbelievers to look at believers and call them "Doom and Gloomers," based on the common view of Bible prophecy, last-day events, the second coming of Christ and the end of the world (and the beginning of eternal life for believers which doesn't seem very doom and gloom to me).
Today, though, one only needs to look at generic headlines, and in some cases just look out their window to see the mass of doom and gloom growing like a dark forest fungus all around them.
The West is self-destructing, predicted for years by economists, sociologists, strategists, think-tanks, and anyone into reality. Christian preachers have less influence than ever. You can't blame them for any doom and gloom attitudes.
I came upon an article, an interview, that reads like a biblical forecast of doom and gloom 'on steroids,' as they say. To someone like me, believing the Bible is true and the last days are upon us and prophetically have been for over a century on a biblical timeline, such an article is "old news." Christ said to occupy until He comes and that is what Christians do. They live, they share the truth as it is in Christ Jesus, and they pray and watch as He instructed. For those not familiar with the Bible and its prophecies, it's freak out time.
Privacy is over.
The US Constitution is over.
"Race" is now a social weapon.
Young, easily manipulated hordes, are being used to dismantle society.
Hate is now fashionable (depending on which side you're on).
You cannot trust your elected officials.
You cannot trust how they are elected.
You cannot trust the police to protect your freedoms and honor their oaths.
You cannot trust the military for the same reasons you cannot trust the police.
You cannot trust most anybody, including professed Christians, or anybody of any religious faith, that could be charlatans, mentally disturbed, two-faced hypocrites or worse.
You definitely cannot trust the main stream medias of the world.
If you don't do diligence of your own, you can't trust alternative media, either.
You cannot trust the medical community, now willing to inject whatever into you without any real, serious, and definitive testing of what you are injected with may do to you over time.
You certainly, obviously, and definitely cannot trust big tech to care about truth, freedom, liberty, the US Constitution, or your health.
Money is being printed so fast you obviously cannot trust the value of a dollar. The opposite. The dollar is being slated for an irrevocable crash.
You cannot, must not, and should not trust anything China is into. And they just have to sit back and watch the West self-destruct in its growing stupidity and weakness.
I could go on.
Let's add this. War. The USA is the biggest bully on planet Earth. It cannot keep its nose out of anybody's business. It foments wars, occupies more territory outside their own borders than any other nation on the globe, and makes more demands than any other, as well, while it allows millions of un-vetted humans to just walk in and take money from taxpayers to change the entire American economic system, now functioning under the burden of debt in numbers so unfathomably large every American will soon owe $1,000,000.00 to pay it off. And it will not get paid off. The system will just collapse, while the military industrial complex keeps taking more and more money to make more and more money to fight war, which takes and makes more and more money.
The thing is, war is no longer on the table to be fought with armies and armaments of the iron and steel kind. No. War is being planned to be fought with weapons from outer space, biological weapons, electronic weapons, CGI weapons, technological weapons and things no general of previous generations could imagine. Everything of conventional warfare is now ancient an premise.
The Bible actually covers most of this, including the effect of natural disasters, as well. The Earth grows old like a garment. It could easily self-sustain but, not against the terrors of mankind. There are plastic "islands" floating around on the oceans twice the size of Texas. Japan has sorrowfully told us all their nuclear waste is now floating around and drifting towards America, bugs are killing millions of acres of trees, and bees, the Lord's great pollen spreaders, are dying in catastrophic numbers, and here I am, back where I was a few paragraphs ago. And I could sit here and type for another 20 minutes of doom and gloom, not told to me by preachers of the Bible but, headline news. Of course, evangelists have, for a couple centuries now, been stating the headlines and the prophecies line up and people need to be paying attention but, like Christ said, people will not. They will pursue ends of their own making, for their own convenience and ease, even while whole populations are crying out that they are being cheated. Oh, what a mess.
Here's a link to the article, though, which is more based on the collapse of the West and reads like, well, Revelation. Other alt news sites are picking up on it and broadcasting it.
https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-casey-on-the-shocking-2025-deagel-forecast/
You can call me crazy. You'll have to call everybody else crazy, too.
Today, though, one only needs to look at generic headlines, and in some cases just look out their window to see the mass of doom and gloom growing like a dark forest fungus all around them.
The West is self-destructing, predicted for years by economists, sociologists, strategists, think-tanks, and anyone into reality. Christian preachers have less influence than ever. You can't blame them for any doom and gloom attitudes.
I came upon an article, an interview, that reads like a biblical forecast of doom and gloom 'on steroids,' as they say. To someone like me, believing the Bible is true and the last days are upon us and prophetically have been for over a century on a biblical timeline, such an article is "old news." Christ said to occupy until He comes and that is what Christians do. They live, they share the truth as it is in Christ Jesus, and they pray and watch as He instructed. For those not familiar with the Bible and its prophecies, it's freak out time.
Privacy is over.
The US Constitution is over.
"Race" is now a social weapon.
Young, easily manipulated hordes, are being used to dismantle society.
Hate is now fashionable (depending on which side you're on).
You cannot trust your elected officials.
You cannot trust how they are elected.
You cannot trust the police to protect your freedoms and honor their oaths.
You cannot trust the military for the same reasons you cannot trust the police.
You cannot trust most anybody, including professed Christians, or anybody of any religious faith, that could be charlatans, mentally disturbed, two-faced hypocrites or worse.
You definitely cannot trust the main stream medias of the world.
If you don't do diligence of your own, you can't trust alternative media, either.
You cannot trust the medical community, now willing to inject whatever into you without any real, serious, and definitive testing of what you are injected with may do to you over time.
You certainly, obviously, and definitely cannot trust big tech to care about truth, freedom, liberty, the US Constitution, or your health.
Money is being printed so fast you obviously cannot trust the value of a dollar. The opposite. The dollar is being slated for an irrevocable crash.
You cannot, must not, and should not trust anything China is into. And they just have to sit back and watch the West self-destruct in its growing stupidity and weakness.
I could go on.
Let's add this. War. The USA is the biggest bully on planet Earth. It cannot keep its nose out of anybody's business. It foments wars, occupies more territory outside their own borders than any other nation on the globe, and makes more demands than any other, as well, while it allows millions of un-vetted humans to just walk in and take money from taxpayers to change the entire American economic system, now functioning under the burden of debt in numbers so unfathomably large every American will soon owe $1,000,000.00 to pay it off. And it will not get paid off. The system will just collapse, while the military industrial complex keeps taking more and more money to make more and more money to fight war, which takes and makes more and more money.
The thing is, war is no longer on the table to be fought with armies and armaments of the iron and steel kind. No. War is being planned to be fought with weapons from outer space, biological weapons, electronic weapons, CGI weapons, technological weapons and things no general of previous generations could imagine. Everything of conventional warfare is now ancient an premise.
The Bible actually covers most of this, including the effect of natural disasters, as well. The Earth grows old like a garment. It could easily self-sustain but, not against the terrors of mankind. There are plastic "islands" floating around on the oceans twice the size of Texas. Japan has sorrowfully told us all their nuclear waste is now floating around and drifting towards America, bugs are killing millions of acres of trees, and bees, the Lord's great pollen spreaders, are dying in catastrophic numbers, and here I am, back where I was a few paragraphs ago. And I could sit here and type for another 20 minutes of doom and gloom, not told to me by preachers of the Bible but, headline news. Of course, evangelists have, for a couple centuries now, been stating the headlines and the prophecies line up and people need to be paying attention but, like Christ said, people will not. They will pursue ends of their own making, for their own convenience and ease, even while whole populations are crying out that they are being cheated. Oh, what a mess.
Here's a link to the article, though, which is more based on the collapse of the West and reads like, well, Revelation. Other alt news sites are picking up on it and broadcasting it.
https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-casey-on-the-shocking-2025-deagel-forecast/
You can call me crazy. You'll have to call everybody else crazy, too.
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241. Listen!!! - April 23, 2021
When you know something, when you know, you know something, and it is important, and the business and stress of life keeps others from listening to your position, your pleas, your reasoning, your evidence, and all the rest, it can be painful. It's is one thing when you believe something, whether you know it for a fact, and try to convince others. When you have facts and people are not listening, the frustration can be acute.
I build, I renovate, and roofs and walls and floors are part of that. The price of plywood has gone astronomical, literally. Sheets that cost around $30 are now up around 80-100 and even more, depending on the region. Climbs of prices, 100-250%, are causing issues in the building industry which is THE prime industry in a nation like ours. All the materials, manpower, the machines and equipment used to prepare the soil, put in foundations, to build the structure, then all the things that go into a house or a business form a huge sector of a nation's economy.
Why are plywood materials, and others, skyrocketing? COVID. The monster that was not, is not, and shall not be.
It took over a year for millions of citizens to realize this event was NOT the event it was made out to be by Leftist, globalist liars and control freaks. It went from deaths, to cases, and now its mutations and variants to stay afraid of. Fear, fear, fear. The more people wake up, the more the controllers must rephrase the element of fear. The bogus, the totally bogus use of masks, making the world think you can stop the movement of a microscopic virus with some fabric on your face, had to be the most ridiculous con ever hoisted on the human race. Doctors, scientists, researchers, even psychologists and others, around the world, by the thousands spoke out against it, trying to get people, governments to listen and they were drowned out by the fear mongers and those with the bigger agenda to hide. I cannot imagine the frustration those individuals had and still have, to watch their nations slowly descending into economic nightmare and fear and all they could do was watch. Their speeches, their posts on social media, their presentations on the same, the articles, everything they said and wrote and showed, shut down by big tech and people wanting the world afraid and dependent on government. THEY are the monsters, not the virus, which remains at a %99 survival rate, and is only actually dangerous to those with a weakened immune system, a pre-existing condition, or are aged, in some cases up in their 80's.
Anybody who spoke out against the hysteria and power grab was marginalized and still are. It was the ugliest and most bold power play in human history and even now, after so much EVIDENCE compiled, people are still being arrested for not wearing masks, businesses are collapsing, and add to that the polar freeze that came through almost half the nation and the perfect storm of incidents has caused the price of plywood and other materials to soar. Trucks and truckers not on the roads, various plants shut down, like glue factories that adhere the veneers of wood plies together to make plywood, and other strategic necessities of producing building materials, like roof shingles, brought to standstills and if they survived, they are backordered by many months. Supply and demand is scant. The prices reflect the situation.
Who is responsible for this wickedness? China? Emphatically, yes. The World Health Organization? Emphatically, yes. The Center for Disease Control? Yes. Dr. Anthony Fauci, a decades-old government employee? YES, along with others used to create the misinformation, disinformation and fear, including the main stream media that did not do enough research and investigation to fill a hat. They just mouthed what their multi-national corporate handlers told them to.
Here, in Texas, where herd immunity has been declared and things allowed to go back into business, it pains me to see people still wearing masks, turning them into fashion statements. Employees of most businesses are still forced to wear them. The mask production industry certainly is happy. People have gone to stating their political positions on their masks, as billboards for their distain of the monsters who created this situation and/or continue to use it.
WHY aren't all Americans rising up in those states with tyranny in their faces, the shackles of tyranny on their faces, and stopping this insanity? The entire civilized world is sick and tired of tyranny, which is getting worse, not better.
I sigh. I feel for those who have lost their jobs, careers, livelihoods, their businesses, and everything else, when it never had to be. SWEDEN PROVED THAT. They did not shut down. They remain intact and functioning just fine. Their loss of life no different than any serious flu season.
It is, of course, far worse for those who have all the above and lost loved ones to the virus. That is a fact of life, though. Viruses exist. Germs exist. Toxins and pathogens exist. God put an immune system in us to deal with them. People do not care about their immune systems, if they even know they have one. The handlers of this situation seem to have gone out of their way NOT to tell people about immune system health. Very few bacteria in history have been lethal for the general populations around the world. Today, they can now be manipulated, designed to kill. Are we under the throws of biological warfare? No. We are engaged in a global control warfare. That simple, provable truth continues to be the hardest thing to get people to listen to.
The bigger war between Lucifer and God is the underlining factor. The truth vs. the father of lies. Then it breaks down into all the segments of information that influence and control our lives.
How do you get people to listen? I don't know. The failure of it seems to expand, not shrink. Lies are winning.
A backlash is coming. The global handlers are working feverishly to gain full control before it bursts. And even the backlash will have its lies and liars.
When will it all happen? God knows.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I build, I renovate, and roofs and walls and floors are part of that. The price of plywood has gone astronomical, literally. Sheets that cost around $30 are now up around 80-100 and even more, depending on the region. Climbs of prices, 100-250%, are causing issues in the building industry which is THE prime industry in a nation like ours. All the materials, manpower, the machines and equipment used to prepare the soil, put in foundations, to build the structure, then all the things that go into a house or a business form a huge sector of a nation's economy.
Why are plywood materials, and others, skyrocketing? COVID. The monster that was not, is not, and shall not be.
It took over a year for millions of citizens to realize this event was NOT the event it was made out to be by Leftist, globalist liars and control freaks. It went from deaths, to cases, and now its mutations and variants to stay afraid of. Fear, fear, fear. The more people wake up, the more the controllers must rephrase the element of fear. The bogus, the totally bogus use of masks, making the world think you can stop the movement of a microscopic virus with some fabric on your face, had to be the most ridiculous con ever hoisted on the human race. Doctors, scientists, researchers, even psychologists and others, around the world, by the thousands spoke out against it, trying to get people, governments to listen and they were drowned out by the fear mongers and those with the bigger agenda to hide. I cannot imagine the frustration those individuals had and still have, to watch their nations slowly descending into economic nightmare and fear and all they could do was watch. Their speeches, their posts on social media, their presentations on the same, the articles, everything they said and wrote and showed, shut down by big tech and people wanting the world afraid and dependent on government. THEY are the monsters, not the virus, which remains at a %99 survival rate, and is only actually dangerous to those with a weakened immune system, a pre-existing condition, or are aged, in some cases up in their 80's.
Anybody who spoke out against the hysteria and power grab was marginalized and still are. It was the ugliest and most bold power play in human history and even now, after so much EVIDENCE compiled, people are still being arrested for not wearing masks, businesses are collapsing, and add to that the polar freeze that came through almost half the nation and the perfect storm of incidents has caused the price of plywood and other materials to soar. Trucks and truckers not on the roads, various plants shut down, like glue factories that adhere the veneers of wood plies together to make plywood, and other strategic necessities of producing building materials, like roof shingles, brought to standstills and if they survived, they are backordered by many months. Supply and demand is scant. The prices reflect the situation.
Who is responsible for this wickedness? China? Emphatically, yes. The World Health Organization? Emphatically, yes. The Center for Disease Control? Yes. Dr. Anthony Fauci, a decades-old government employee? YES, along with others used to create the misinformation, disinformation and fear, including the main stream media that did not do enough research and investigation to fill a hat. They just mouthed what their multi-national corporate handlers told them to.
Here, in Texas, where herd immunity has been declared and things allowed to go back into business, it pains me to see people still wearing masks, turning them into fashion statements. Employees of most businesses are still forced to wear them. The mask production industry certainly is happy. People have gone to stating their political positions on their masks, as billboards for their distain of the monsters who created this situation and/or continue to use it.
WHY aren't all Americans rising up in those states with tyranny in their faces, the shackles of tyranny on their faces, and stopping this insanity? The entire civilized world is sick and tired of tyranny, which is getting worse, not better.
I sigh. I feel for those who have lost their jobs, careers, livelihoods, their businesses, and everything else, when it never had to be. SWEDEN PROVED THAT. They did not shut down. They remain intact and functioning just fine. Their loss of life no different than any serious flu season.
It is, of course, far worse for those who have all the above and lost loved ones to the virus. That is a fact of life, though. Viruses exist. Germs exist. Toxins and pathogens exist. God put an immune system in us to deal with them. People do not care about their immune systems, if they even know they have one. The handlers of this situation seem to have gone out of their way NOT to tell people about immune system health. Very few bacteria in history have been lethal for the general populations around the world. Today, they can now be manipulated, designed to kill. Are we under the throws of biological warfare? No. We are engaged in a global control warfare. That simple, provable truth continues to be the hardest thing to get people to listen to.
The bigger war between Lucifer and God is the underlining factor. The truth vs. the father of lies. Then it breaks down into all the segments of information that influence and control our lives.
How do you get people to listen? I don't know. The failure of it seems to expand, not shrink. Lies are winning.
A backlash is coming. The global handlers are working feverishly to gain full control before it bursts. And even the backlash will have its lies and liars.
When will it all happen? God knows.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
********************
242. Drum Solo CD on the Way - April 23, 2021
You may have noticed the listing of a new page on the site - Concepts Recording. Just an announcement for it.
The master has gone to the duplicators. I'm doing final refining of the insert design materials and also text for the site page that will go up when the CD is in hand and ready for sending out.
I've mentioned the project a couple times here, and if you have been reading the recording blog, you've gotten more details of the process.
I'm pretty excited and also have some trepidation and apprehension about it. Like I have stated, a drums-only album is a rarity and obviously for a small, select audience. I'm only having 100 made. I can say I'll be lucky to break even. I could say I believe it's a cool listen and many will be into it. And I can say I really have no idea what the response will be. The project has been good for me, especially after the stroke. It has had its ups and downs, for sure, and not being into business that much, and this being as much a hobby pursuit as anything else,
dotting the "I" and crossing the "T" in all these fields of necessity has not been an affectionate turn of the hours and days spent on it all.
I have talked about the matter of being a "name" and being a "no-name" in the world of drumming. Same for all things, really. Being a no-name drummer, outside a select market for fans of Legend and From the Fjords, some will instantly say, "Who does he think he is?" Well, I know who I am, and what I can and cannot do. Whether it can be established that others know who I am and what I can do, is another matter.
For 42 years I have followed the path of a Christian and the principle spoken of Christ, in the book of Philippians, that He made no reputation of Himself. He did not try to make a name for Himself, to make Himself known. He just went about doing good and speaking truth and things just developed and did so quickly in the regions He ministered in.
For a project like this, wanting to share and also wanting to have people appropriate the medium the sharing is on, I have to, to some degree, put it and myself out there. It's really difficult to do, especially on a solo project and being the DIY person I am. It's on me. I know God has given me the talent. He's given me the mind to get it done. He will either be ahead of its advancement or closing doors on it, and I leave that all up to Him.
I know there are people who will think and say, "You are way too religious and political and people will not get this CD because of it."
I understand that. Goes with the territory of having convictions and speaking out on them. There is no way I will bury who and what I am, outside of music and drums, to sell something. No way. As far as I am concerned, without my convictions I have nothing. That is all we are - what we believe and why and how it effects our lives. I play drums within those convictions. I did not always do that. When I was an atheist and apolitical, I just played drums for whatever reasons of enjoyment and employment. Now, my foundations of life have changed and that effects what I think and what I do, in all areas of life.
I find it interesting few will tell Leftist performers their outspoken beliefs will cost them fans and sales. I remember the Dixie Chicks and their outspoken comments about George Bush. Seeing that their genre is heavily populated with people on the Conservative side of things, the controversy over their comments made sense, and the bottom line of their sales could be understood. They are a very talented trio of ladies, and band, and while I don't listen to them, and have read they remained in their outspoken delivery of convictions, regardless of backlash, and their careers in music continue on. I am not a name, as they are. Kathy Griffin found out just how offended people were when she held up a fake bloody head of Donald Trump. She's a name comedian. Dozens of others in the entertainment industry and sports industry have stated their convictions and their bottom lines have been tell-tale signs of how the general fan base feels about them. The NBA suffered a terrible hemorrhage of television audience for the league's political and sociological positions taken. Same with the NFL. Our world is now a mixed bag. The eggs are scrambled. You cannot unscramble them. People who want actors to shut up about their politics need to realize that is not going to happen. Sports figures need to realize their jobs could be on the line for their political positions, and the same for every, single person on social platforms anyone can look at, including your employers who might be totally opposite of your views, see you as a threat to the peace of their company or business, and send you packing.
I am me. I think for myself. I speak for myself. I encourage everybody else to do the same and stand up for what they believe, and understand this is America, and we all have the RIGHT to believe freely, and speak freely, and will get along with who we want, the way we want, why we want, when we want and how we want. Birds of a feather, DO flock together. At the same time, feeding birds as I do (and commenting about that), I see birds of different feathers in the grass, looking for seeds, for one simple reason - they're hungry. The same as different animals, some arch enemies, gathering at waterholes and leaving each other be because of the central need of water.
I can generally put aside someone's politics and religion and stay focused on a mutual subject until they get in my face about something. I appreciate my space, and the space others have. I don't invade it. I enter upon invitation or common conversation. If you tell me you aren't interested, it stops there.
If people refuse my CD of drum performance because of things I have written here, so be it. I have no regrets for believing things important to me and sharing them with whoever stops by here to read them. I know some people will not care about those things and get the CD and enjoy it. Others will shut me down and anything I say and do if and when they find out what I believe. Ultimately, in all things, I'd like to have a dialogue before being shut down. That always seems fair to me. We remain civil, until incivility takes place.
Concepts for Solo Drum Set has no religion or politics on a shirt sleeve. It's an album of drum solos. It could only be offensive to people who don't care for drums and drumists. The drumist, yes, he has outspoken positions on life. They are not written on the front head of my bass drum. Matter of fact, nothing is on the head of my bass drum but the head manufacturer's logo.
You know the way life is. Some reject you, some accept you, some vilify you, some praise you. You know what Jesus said? "You cannot serve God and money." "That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." "Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets."
I could go on. You get the picture.
You can imagine, then, that if I do not sell a single CD, I leave that with God. I also know that the Bible says to give honor where honor is due and the laborer is worthy of his hire, and those given talents are to return on them with more. Balance in all things. That is the way of biblical teaching and truth.
So, yes, I'll keep expressing my beliefs, convictions, and opinions here, regardless of Concepts for Solo Drum Set.
The master has gone to the duplicators. I'm doing final refining of the insert design materials and also text for the site page that will go up when the CD is in hand and ready for sending out.
I've mentioned the project a couple times here, and if you have been reading the recording blog, you've gotten more details of the process.
I'm pretty excited and also have some trepidation and apprehension about it. Like I have stated, a drums-only album is a rarity and obviously for a small, select audience. I'm only having 100 made. I can say I'll be lucky to break even. I could say I believe it's a cool listen and many will be into it. And I can say I really have no idea what the response will be. The project has been good for me, especially after the stroke. It has had its ups and downs, for sure, and not being into business that much, and this being as much a hobby pursuit as anything else,
dotting the "I" and crossing the "T" in all these fields of necessity has not been an affectionate turn of the hours and days spent on it all.
I have talked about the matter of being a "name" and being a "no-name" in the world of drumming. Same for all things, really. Being a no-name drummer, outside a select market for fans of Legend and From the Fjords, some will instantly say, "Who does he think he is?" Well, I know who I am, and what I can and cannot do. Whether it can be established that others know who I am and what I can do, is another matter.
For 42 years I have followed the path of a Christian and the principle spoken of Christ, in the book of Philippians, that He made no reputation of Himself. He did not try to make a name for Himself, to make Himself known. He just went about doing good and speaking truth and things just developed and did so quickly in the regions He ministered in.
For a project like this, wanting to share and also wanting to have people appropriate the medium the sharing is on, I have to, to some degree, put it and myself out there. It's really difficult to do, especially on a solo project and being the DIY person I am. It's on me. I know God has given me the talent. He's given me the mind to get it done. He will either be ahead of its advancement or closing doors on it, and I leave that all up to Him.
I know there are people who will think and say, "You are way too religious and political and people will not get this CD because of it."
I understand that. Goes with the territory of having convictions and speaking out on them. There is no way I will bury who and what I am, outside of music and drums, to sell something. No way. As far as I am concerned, without my convictions I have nothing. That is all we are - what we believe and why and how it effects our lives. I play drums within those convictions. I did not always do that. When I was an atheist and apolitical, I just played drums for whatever reasons of enjoyment and employment. Now, my foundations of life have changed and that effects what I think and what I do, in all areas of life.
I find it interesting few will tell Leftist performers their outspoken beliefs will cost them fans and sales. I remember the Dixie Chicks and their outspoken comments about George Bush. Seeing that their genre is heavily populated with people on the Conservative side of things, the controversy over their comments made sense, and the bottom line of their sales could be understood. They are a very talented trio of ladies, and band, and while I don't listen to them, and have read they remained in their outspoken delivery of convictions, regardless of backlash, and their careers in music continue on. I am not a name, as they are. Kathy Griffin found out just how offended people were when she held up a fake bloody head of Donald Trump. She's a name comedian. Dozens of others in the entertainment industry and sports industry have stated their convictions and their bottom lines have been tell-tale signs of how the general fan base feels about them. The NBA suffered a terrible hemorrhage of television audience for the league's political and sociological positions taken. Same with the NFL. Our world is now a mixed bag. The eggs are scrambled. You cannot unscramble them. People who want actors to shut up about their politics need to realize that is not going to happen. Sports figures need to realize their jobs could be on the line for their political positions, and the same for every, single person on social platforms anyone can look at, including your employers who might be totally opposite of your views, see you as a threat to the peace of their company or business, and send you packing.
I am me. I think for myself. I speak for myself. I encourage everybody else to do the same and stand up for what they believe, and understand this is America, and we all have the RIGHT to believe freely, and speak freely, and will get along with who we want, the way we want, why we want, when we want and how we want. Birds of a feather, DO flock together. At the same time, feeding birds as I do (and commenting about that), I see birds of different feathers in the grass, looking for seeds, for one simple reason - they're hungry. The same as different animals, some arch enemies, gathering at waterholes and leaving each other be because of the central need of water.
I can generally put aside someone's politics and religion and stay focused on a mutual subject until they get in my face about something. I appreciate my space, and the space others have. I don't invade it. I enter upon invitation or common conversation. If you tell me you aren't interested, it stops there.
If people refuse my CD of drum performance because of things I have written here, so be it. I have no regrets for believing things important to me and sharing them with whoever stops by here to read them. I know some people will not care about those things and get the CD and enjoy it. Others will shut me down and anything I say and do if and when they find out what I believe. Ultimately, in all things, I'd like to have a dialogue before being shut down. That always seems fair to me. We remain civil, until incivility takes place.
Concepts for Solo Drum Set has no religion or politics on a shirt sleeve. It's an album of drum solos. It could only be offensive to people who don't care for drums and drumists. The drumist, yes, he has outspoken positions on life. They are not written on the front head of my bass drum. Matter of fact, nothing is on the head of my bass drum but the head manufacturer's logo.
You know the way life is. Some reject you, some accept you, some vilify you, some praise you. You know what Jesus said? "You cannot serve God and money." "That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." "Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets."
I could go on. You get the picture.
You can imagine, then, that if I do not sell a single CD, I leave that with God. I also know that the Bible says to give honor where honor is due and the laborer is worthy of his hire, and those given talents are to return on them with more. Balance in all things. That is the way of biblical teaching and truth.
So, yes, I'll keep expressing my beliefs, convictions, and opinions here, regardless of Concepts for Solo Drum Set.
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243. Demi Lovato - April 24, 2021
Let me begin by stating I know nothing about Demi Levato. I know the name. I know she is a singer.
I saw this article on a few websites, read it, and stood rather sad and sorrowful. Obviously Ms. Levato is confused.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/demi-lovato-hair-gender-christianity
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/demi-lovato-chopped-hair-free-23922833?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mirror_celeb
I don't know about the veracity of the Mirror. I included the link because it's in the Blaze article, which I went to from another site, linking the Blaze. Stuff gets around on the web.
I can only go by what is stated in the article, as far as how she understands the Christian faith. Even putting aside strong, conservative, Southern American, Bible-belt Christianity she seems to be referring to, that she grew up in, I wonder where she got the idea short hair cannot be seen as "sexy." There are people who see females bald as "sexy." Sexy, if men are honest, is more about character and personality than hair length.
Looking at the picture in the article, Demi obviously goes for make-up to make her look as pretty and feminine as possible, as she sees prettiness and femininity. So, she wants to be attractive to people, just not under the standards of the Christianity she grew up in, in carrying out the responses and consequences of attraction.
So, the point? "Christianity" bound her. Pansexualism frees her. I wonder if she would say the same if she was having a conversation with Christ and not Drew Barrymore?
This goes back to my comments about "Christianity" not being Christian. "Christians" not being Christian. I'm not speaking of weaker moments, where life just throws you under the bus but, day to day ignorance of what Christianity is and how it should, must affect the life.
There are denominations/churches that teach women must have long hair and keep it covered, based on passages of Scripture as they understand them. Some even take out their rulers to keep things "in line." The Bible says zip about that. So, at that point things start becoming man-made. There's a lot of that in "Christianity." These gate keepers do the same for dresses and even clothing for males. I remember being told teachers and administrators at one Christian school dropped tennis balls down the pant legs of male students. If the ball did not drop all the way through: pants too tight. They don't think much of pants sitting around the knees, either. Is that even a style, anymore? Some sanity yet remains?
You know, down through history males and females dressed differently, regardless of culture or civilization. Women were clothed, head to toe, generally. Modesty was seen as a virtue, not a ball and chain. The culture recognized the effect on men when women were seen less than fully clothed. That's just male/female stuff God built into the creation of humans. Most of that concept and practice no longer exists in our modern world. Nakedness, once a private affair in civilized cultures, is now no big deal. The West's morality, fall from morality, has effected the entire globe, for the most part. It's one of the reasons America is so disliked by previous generations in those cultures. America was and is the Great Satan to them. Even if they are steeped in paganism and man-made religion, America's hypocrisy on so many issues makes the bolder statement to them.
If you aren't sure what a pansexual is: someone who sexually, romantically or emotionally interacts with any gender. It is different than the old fashioned Bi-sexual, when things were just seen as male and female. Confused?
Confusion. Biology, science, all of it, thrown out the window and people can choose, even as children, what they are, regardless of biological and scientific facts. Not male, not female, not... well, pick your poison. There are apparently a bucket full of possibilities of what you can be and/or call yourself. I imagine kids sitting around dorm rooms thinking this stuff up. Whatever sounds cool gets put into the next wave of jargon and nomenclature.
Here's the thing. Freedom without standards leads to chaos, always. It's the same as a nation without laws. In Law there is Liberty. Why? Because the powerful always seek to marginalize the weak. That is the nature of sinful humanity. Standards, Laws, principles protect a society. Even a diehard atheist like Richard Dawkins admits to the stabilization Christianity brings to a culture. Demi wants to remove Christianity from her life, to be free. She does not realize the principle or the policy of such a position. If Christianity is removed from culture, if religious faith is removed, if a higher standard is dropped, if law becomes license, who steps in when Demi gets raped; because in some cultures without such standards and laws, women are seen as usable items for sex. They can have acid thrown in their faces for disobeying someone over them, in a position of authority. They can have their clitorises cut off. Without the rule of law - just, fair, and common sense laws - backed up by the history of Judeo-Christian principles, society falls into nothingness the same as the ancient parade of nations in Bible prophecy: Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome and every other nation or culture that disregards the standards of God. It is just cause to effect. The Creator knows His fallen creation. He knows what it will do if it wanders from His standards and laws.
Demi Levato is a confused young woman. It is tragic to say, most of her generation is in the same boat. Why? Simply because people think they know more than God, their Creator. It always comes back to that. If you think you know more than God... save yourself. See how that works out in the day when all humanity stands before the judgment seat of God. Christ is infinitely willing to save us all from the enchantments, the power and penalty of sin. Not all will be saved because they want their program, not God's, as defined and written out in His living Word. It's not what a church says. It is what the Bible teaches, as the Bible interprets itself.
The Word of God is not some collection of ancient, worthless papyrus scrolls. It is as pertinent today as it was thousands of years ago. That is why it is called the living Word of God. It is alive. Don't believe it? Here's a challenge. Read it for 30 days and see what you think and feel and need and desire and trust and don't trust and move closer to and farther away from. Thirty days. Most people don't have the guts to try. They're already certain the Bible is a stupid, nonsensical work from religious fanatics and a God that does not exist. I believed that once. Hey, go for it. It's your choice. And God shall remind you of that in the day of responsibility and accountability. He will appeal to your conscience many times before you pass the point of no return.
God is love. Love, as God, from God, has principles, standards and definitions the Creator gets to define, not the creature. Man has freedom to choose where and how he walks. God gives us the choice. When all is said and done, if you think your way is better, hang on to it and expect it to save you in the day you are face to Face with the Sovereign of the universe.
Don't believe such a day will ever come?
We'll see, won't we?
I hope you make a sound decision.
I saw this article on a few websites, read it, and stood rather sad and sorrowful. Obviously Ms. Levato is confused.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/demi-lovato-hair-gender-christianity
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/demi-lovato-chopped-hair-free-23922833?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mirror_celeb
I don't know about the veracity of the Mirror. I included the link because it's in the Blaze article, which I went to from another site, linking the Blaze. Stuff gets around on the web.
I can only go by what is stated in the article, as far as how she understands the Christian faith. Even putting aside strong, conservative, Southern American, Bible-belt Christianity she seems to be referring to, that she grew up in, I wonder where she got the idea short hair cannot be seen as "sexy." There are people who see females bald as "sexy." Sexy, if men are honest, is more about character and personality than hair length.
Looking at the picture in the article, Demi obviously goes for make-up to make her look as pretty and feminine as possible, as she sees prettiness and femininity. So, she wants to be attractive to people, just not under the standards of the Christianity she grew up in, in carrying out the responses and consequences of attraction.
So, the point? "Christianity" bound her. Pansexualism frees her. I wonder if she would say the same if she was having a conversation with Christ and not Drew Barrymore?
This goes back to my comments about "Christianity" not being Christian. "Christians" not being Christian. I'm not speaking of weaker moments, where life just throws you under the bus but, day to day ignorance of what Christianity is and how it should, must affect the life.
There are denominations/churches that teach women must have long hair and keep it covered, based on passages of Scripture as they understand them. Some even take out their rulers to keep things "in line." The Bible says zip about that. So, at that point things start becoming man-made. There's a lot of that in "Christianity." These gate keepers do the same for dresses and even clothing for males. I remember being told teachers and administrators at one Christian school dropped tennis balls down the pant legs of male students. If the ball did not drop all the way through: pants too tight. They don't think much of pants sitting around the knees, either. Is that even a style, anymore? Some sanity yet remains?
You know, down through history males and females dressed differently, regardless of culture or civilization. Women were clothed, head to toe, generally. Modesty was seen as a virtue, not a ball and chain. The culture recognized the effect on men when women were seen less than fully clothed. That's just male/female stuff God built into the creation of humans. Most of that concept and practice no longer exists in our modern world. Nakedness, once a private affair in civilized cultures, is now no big deal. The West's morality, fall from morality, has effected the entire globe, for the most part. It's one of the reasons America is so disliked by previous generations in those cultures. America was and is the Great Satan to them. Even if they are steeped in paganism and man-made religion, America's hypocrisy on so many issues makes the bolder statement to them.
If you aren't sure what a pansexual is: someone who sexually, romantically or emotionally interacts with any gender. It is different than the old fashioned Bi-sexual, when things were just seen as male and female. Confused?
Confusion. Biology, science, all of it, thrown out the window and people can choose, even as children, what they are, regardless of biological and scientific facts. Not male, not female, not... well, pick your poison. There are apparently a bucket full of possibilities of what you can be and/or call yourself. I imagine kids sitting around dorm rooms thinking this stuff up. Whatever sounds cool gets put into the next wave of jargon and nomenclature.
Here's the thing. Freedom without standards leads to chaos, always. It's the same as a nation without laws. In Law there is Liberty. Why? Because the powerful always seek to marginalize the weak. That is the nature of sinful humanity. Standards, Laws, principles protect a society. Even a diehard atheist like Richard Dawkins admits to the stabilization Christianity brings to a culture. Demi wants to remove Christianity from her life, to be free. She does not realize the principle or the policy of such a position. If Christianity is removed from culture, if religious faith is removed, if a higher standard is dropped, if law becomes license, who steps in when Demi gets raped; because in some cultures without such standards and laws, women are seen as usable items for sex. They can have acid thrown in their faces for disobeying someone over them, in a position of authority. They can have their clitorises cut off. Without the rule of law - just, fair, and common sense laws - backed up by the history of Judeo-Christian principles, society falls into nothingness the same as the ancient parade of nations in Bible prophecy: Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome and every other nation or culture that disregards the standards of God. It is just cause to effect. The Creator knows His fallen creation. He knows what it will do if it wanders from His standards and laws.
Demi Levato is a confused young woman. It is tragic to say, most of her generation is in the same boat. Why? Simply because people think they know more than God, their Creator. It always comes back to that. If you think you know more than God... save yourself. See how that works out in the day when all humanity stands before the judgment seat of God. Christ is infinitely willing to save us all from the enchantments, the power and penalty of sin. Not all will be saved because they want their program, not God's, as defined and written out in His living Word. It's not what a church says. It is what the Bible teaches, as the Bible interprets itself.
The Word of God is not some collection of ancient, worthless papyrus scrolls. It is as pertinent today as it was thousands of years ago. That is why it is called the living Word of God. It is alive. Don't believe it? Here's a challenge. Read it for 30 days and see what you think and feel and need and desire and trust and don't trust and move closer to and farther away from. Thirty days. Most people don't have the guts to try. They're already certain the Bible is a stupid, nonsensical work from religious fanatics and a God that does not exist. I believed that once. Hey, go for it. It's your choice. And God shall remind you of that in the day of responsibility and accountability. He will appeal to your conscience many times before you pass the point of no return.
God is love. Love, as God, from God, has principles, standards and definitions the Creator gets to define, not the creature. Man has freedom to choose where and how he walks. God gives us the choice. When all is said and done, if you think your way is better, hang on to it and expect it to save you in the day you are face to Face with the Sovereign of the universe.
Don't believe such a day will ever come?
We'll see, won't we?
I hope you make a sound decision.
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244. Is UFO Hysteria Next? - April 24, 2021
Since 9/11 the government of the United States, through politicians and its agencies, has torn through the Constitution like feral hogs in Texas cropland. More and more freedoms and rights "for our own safety" have been put aside, and Americans have been asked to just stick with the program.
Odd and truly non-investigated events, like the Las Vegas masacre, come along and frightened citizens are constantly asked to blindly accept "official" explanations without answering questions and circumstances, facts, and book's worth of information that do not match the official story. The term "conspiracy theory" is instantly engaged, and all discussion is supposed to cease on that. It has worked well for many decades. Not so much, anymore.
When Democrats were in control of some or all of DC, in the Clinton and Obama administrations, Russia was just another Leftist nation to get along with, after the collapse of the USSR. Trump got elected and all of a sudden Russia became the darkest enemy on the planet. Even Vladimir Putin shakes his head and laughs at American craziness, especially making negative comments about the 2020 election and its consequences.
Then Covid hit. I've said enough about it. There's nothing more to be said about this event being little more than another tool from our federal swamp, and others around the world, to grab power through fear and complacency of citizenry. ALL statistics, facts and research show this event was nothing worse than a serious flu season, and as I have asked, and plenty of others, what happened to the 2020 and 2021 flu seasons? Where's the news on that? Did the illness decide to take a back seat to Covid?
Fear, fear, fear. It never ends. I guess, because like negative political advertising, it works.
For 70 years, more than 70 years the US government and its agencies, in the face of tens of thousands, and now hundreds of thousands of sightings around the world, by millions of people told they saw swamp gas, the moon, stars, planes, birds and all the rest of their official denunciations and vilification BS towards those who have believed the military and government has been lying to Americans: "Nothing to see here. Move along," since the first sightings America new about, are now, wait a minute, releasing imagery, video, and professional military testimony that UFO/UAP sightings are genuine, legitimate concerns??? If you believe this is just an honest Mea Culpa from the military, run for office. You'd make a great politician.
It is not just the admittance about these objects, though. No, no. It is being propped up as another threat that must be addressed, to keep America safe.
Common sense and logic dictate, on the face of it, if these objects were piloted by intelligences from beyond our planet and have been coming here for more than 70 years, they have the technology to reduce nations to dust. At one time, the line was given that these things cannot be real for you cannot traverse the distances necessary in ten thousand lifetimes. That did not stop sightings, including all the sightings over military bases and other military establishments of action, like Navy ships at sea, and Air Force flights. Add to that astronauts, civilian pilots, police officers, and millions of people around the world and you must ask, what is going on?
The greater question is, Why are we being told these "off world vehicles" pose a possible threat, we need to know what and who is involved so we can protect ourselves, and it is time to come clean? Are they stupid? No. Evil, maybe, and nefarious but, they are not stupid. A child would ask, "How do you expect to protect yourselves from another civilization with the capability to travel lightyears to get here?" Why is it I keep seeing the same faces, the same names making comments on this subject in news interviews, representing the government, the military, and parts of the UFOlogy community all talking about danger? What danger? Are they admitting abductions that have ruined people's lives truly exist, that cattle mutilations are explainable by the drivers of off world vehicles? That crop circles, an army of engineers could not recreate overnight, are also associated with pilots of off-world vehicles? No. They aren't going that far and they don't care about civilians, anyway, beyond getting their votes, money, and controlling them.
Some within the UFO community are now stating a false-flag operation is being planned to fake an ET invasion to scare the populace to fits and gain more control over them, removing more freedoms and liberties. Frankly, I have yet to hear any convincing tactics that could be convincingly used to pull off such an event. Especially as more and more information and pictures get out about the TR-3B aircraft: the Black Triangle. Given espionage, it would be difficult to imagine the Russians and Chinese do not have equivalent aircraft. Well, what could you do? Spend billions, if not a trillion dollars to develop these aircraft, then use them to fake an ET invasion, only to shoot them down, just so you can put more fear into human populations to control them more easily? That is nonsensical. Perhaps they think if they can just make it look like they have have driven off the invaders they can be heroes, with ever so thumping hearts for protecting citizens of the world by taking more away from them then they ever give.
Like I have said, believing Satan will use the entire phenomena in last-day deceptions does not mean I believe ET travels here, even though I biblically believe the universe is well-populated.
I just see another event coming to heighten fear and gain more control. If not a fake alien invasion, something, because millions are waking up to the con jobs and lying of governments to their citizens. A final showdown is coming.
I have already stated I believe Satan is going to pull off the biggest dog and pony show in history using "ET." I expect Satan to intervene as an 'angel of light' and bring "peace and safety" to the world, in a great and grand, "miracle-working" deception. The way more and more information is being released about silent saucers, orbs, tic tacs, cubes, triangles, cigar-shaped, spinning, rotating, pulsating, floating, speeding, and otherwise non-Earthly craft, I am expecting all this last-day carnival show to come sooner, than later.
When you know everything is really about a war between God and Lucifer, it makes it that much simpler and easier to see the truth of what is happening in our world.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Odd and truly non-investigated events, like the Las Vegas masacre, come along and frightened citizens are constantly asked to blindly accept "official" explanations without answering questions and circumstances, facts, and book's worth of information that do not match the official story. The term "conspiracy theory" is instantly engaged, and all discussion is supposed to cease on that. It has worked well for many decades. Not so much, anymore.
When Democrats were in control of some or all of DC, in the Clinton and Obama administrations, Russia was just another Leftist nation to get along with, after the collapse of the USSR. Trump got elected and all of a sudden Russia became the darkest enemy on the planet. Even Vladimir Putin shakes his head and laughs at American craziness, especially making negative comments about the 2020 election and its consequences.
Then Covid hit. I've said enough about it. There's nothing more to be said about this event being little more than another tool from our federal swamp, and others around the world, to grab power through fear and complacency of citizenry. ALL statistics, facts and research show this event was nothing worse than a serious flu season, and as I have asked, and plenty of others, what happened to the 2020 and 2021 flu seasons? Where's the news on that? Did the illness decide to take a back seat to Covid?
Fear, fear, fear. It never ends. I guess, because like negative political advertising, it works.
For 70 years, more than 70 years the US government and its agencies, in the face of tens of thousands, and now hundreds of thousands of sightings around the world, by millions of people told they saw swamp gas, the moon, stars, planes, birds and all the rest of their official denunciations and vilification BS towards those who have believed the military and government has been lying to Americans: "Nothing to see here. Move along," since the first sightings America new about, are now, wait a minute, releasing imagery, video, and professional military testimony that UFO/UAP sightings are genuine, legitimate concerns??? If you believe this is just an honest Mea Culpa from the military, run for office. You'd make a great politician.
It is not just the admittance about these objects, though. No, no. It is being propped up as another threat that must be addressed, to keep America safe.
Common sense and logic dictate, on the face of it, if these objects were piloted by intelligences from beyond our planet and have been coming here for more than 70 years, they have the technology to reduce nations to dust. At one time, the line was given that these things cannot be real for you cannot traverse the distances necessary in ten thousand lifetimes. That did not stop sightings, including all the sightings over military bases and other military establishments of action, like Navy ships at sea, and Air Force flights. Add to that astronauts, civilian pilots, police officers, and millions of people around the world and you must ask, what is going on?
The greater question is, Why are we being told these "off world vehicles" pose a possible threat, we need to know what and who is involved so we can protect ourselves, and it is time to come clean? Are they stupid? No. Evil, maybe, and nefarious but, they are not stupid. A child would ask, "How do you expect to protect yourselves from another civilization with the capability to travel lightyears to get here?" Why is it I keep seeing the same faces, the same names making comments on this subject in news interviews, representing the government, the military, and parts of the UFOlogy community all talking about danger? What danger? Are they admitting abductions that have ruined people's lives truly exist, that cattle mutilations are explainable by the drivers of off world vehicles? That crop circles, an army of engineers could not recreate overnight, are also associated with pilots of off-world vehicles? No. They aren't going that far and they don't care about civilians, anyway, beyond getting their votes, money, and controlling them.
Some within the UFO community are now stating a false-flag operation is being planned to fake an ET invasion to scare the populace to fits and gain more control over them, removing more freedoms and liberties. Frankly, I have yet to hear any convincing tactics that could be convincingly used to pull off such an event. Especially as more and more information and pictures get out about the TR-3B aircraft: the Black Triangle. Given espionage, it would be difficult to imagine the Russians and Chinese do not have equivalent aircraft. Well, what could you do? Spend billions, if not a trillion dollars to develop these aircraft, then use them to fake an ET invasion, only to shoot them down, just so you can put more fear into human populations to control them more easily? That is nonsensical. Perhaps they think if they can just make it look like they have have driven off the invaders they can be heroes, with ever so thumping hearts for protecting citizens of the world by taking more away from them then they ever give.
Like I have said, believing Satan will use the entire phenomena in last-day deceptions does not mean I believe ET travels here, even though I biblically believe the universe is well-populated.
I just see another event coming to heighten fear and gain more control. If not a fake alien invasion, something, because millions are waking up to the con jobs and lying of governments to their citizens. A final showdown is coming.
I have already stated I believe Satan is going to pull off the biggest dog and pony show in history using "ET." I expect Satan to intervene as an 'angel of light' and bring "peace and safety" to the world, in a great and grand, "miracle-working" deception. The way more and more information is being released about silent saucers, orbs, tic tacs, cubes, triangles, cigar-shaped, spinning, rotating, pulsating, floating, speeding, and otherwise non-Earthly craft, I am expecting all this last-day carnival show to come sooner, than later.
When you know everything is really about a war between God and Lucifer, it makes it that much simpler and easier to see the truth of what is happening in our world.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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245. Jonny Kolbl - A Very Talented Man - April 28, 2021
Who is Jonny Kolbl? I had no idea. His video of a DIY drum set build was in the side bar at YT so I clicked on it. Good grief!
A wood craftsman, as well as fine drumist, plus, vibes and other instruments, all at the same time! Well, no, he doesn't have ten arms. Drums are separate from the vibes, etc. but, to watch the guy play a UDU drum, a RAV (Pan) drum, and his vibes is no simple, mental/physical feat. And he plays accordion. C'mon. Who plays those anymore? Austrians, obviously. His looks like a custom made instrument and I am wondering if he made it.
Being a diehard DIYer, I tune in to people making their own drums. I endorse the concept and have for 30 years now. Making a drum set from component parts is not that difficult with some simple tools and finishing products. Making them from scratch is another story but, even there. I am no super craftsman and I certainly do not have a great wood shop, by any stretch of imagination, and I've been able to turn out great sounding drums. In Jonny's case, he does have a great wood shop, and makes finely crafted instruments, stuff I can only dream about. I'm guessing he sells his drums, based on the badge; unless he just makes them for his own affectionate linking to his drums. I'm not much for drum badges but, in his case, it's a very cool one.
Ah, going to his website shows he does make drums for business. And an accordion is actually called a wood button harmonica, in Austria. Interesting.
I'm going to interject something here. I have written about the attitudes found on YT before, including stuff on my own channel. I'll never understand negative comments that offer nothing but, negative comments. Putting something down in a one or two statement blip, with no explanations, is sheer worthlessness. It's empty. In some cases, ignorant, and in most cases just foolish.
In Jonny's case, during the diy drum set build, he has music in the background: his band, or a band he plays in. I came across a comment of how bad the drumming is. Someone gave the comment a thumbs up, too.
First, Jonny's timing was fine. Second, it sounded like a fitting performance for the song, to me. Third, if the band likes his playing, than it's good, period. The subjective nature of music makes negative comments null and void. I may not like it, I may cringe, I may feel like covering my ears and running but, all that means is that I don't like it and stating so is just such a self-centered thing. If you get asked your opinion, that's one thing. If conversation between you and a friend comes up, that's one thing. If I commented on different aspects of recording production, etc., even that would be subjective. Everybody makes negative comments but, at the very least, qualify them with reasons. "Constructive" criticism exists as a term for a reason.
YouTube is a whole universe. There is nothing you cannot find on there. It's easy to be faceless and make comments. People seem to join and put up no evidence of their existence; they'll just seemingly join to be able to make negative comments. Why? Are they paid or otherwise incentivized trolls? It makes no sense. Depending on how thick a person's skin is, you can really damage someone that way.
Anyway, back to Mr. Kolbl. A man after my own heart. When you come across multi-talented people like this, and the beautiful things they make and do, the gifts and talents lent them of God that they hone and increase, I have no problem spreading the word. Obviously I don't know everything about the guy but, as far as woodworking and what I saw of his playing, he's a very talented man. And, he plays a mean accordion, too.
A wood craftsman, as well as fine drumist, plus, vibes and other instruments, all at the same time! Well, no, he doesn't have ten arms. Drums are separate from the vibes, etc. but, to watch the guy play a UDU drum, a RAV (Pan) drum, and his vibes is no simple, mental/physical feat. And he plays accordion. C'mon. Who plays those anymore? Austrians, obviously. His looks like a custom made instrument and I am wondering if he made it.
Being a diehard DIYer, I tune in to people making their own drums. I endorse the concept and have for 30 years now. Making a drum set from component parts is not that difficult with some simple tools and finishing products. Making them from scratch is another story but, even there. I am no super craftsman and I certainly do not have a great wood shop, by any stretch of imagination, and I've been able to turn out great sounding drums. In Jonny's case, he does have a great wood shop, and makes finely crafted instruments, stuff I can only dream about. I'm guessing he sells his drums, based on the badge; unless he just makes them for his own affectionate linking to his drums. I'm not much for drum badges but, in his case, it's a very cool one.
Ah, going to his website shows he does make drums for business. And an accordion is actually called a wood button harmonica, in Austria. Interesting.
I'm going to interject something here. I have written about the attitudes found on YT before, including stuff on my own channel. I'll never understand negative comments that offer nothing but, negative comments. Putting something down in a one or two statement blip, with no explanations, is sheer worthlessness. It's empty. In some cases, ignorant, and in most cases just foolish.
In Jonny's case, during the diy drum set build, he has music in the background: his band, or a band he plays in. I came across a comment of how bad the drumming is. Someone gave the comment a thumbs up, too.
First, Jonny's timing was fine. Second, it sounded like a fitting performance for the song, to me. Third, if the band likes his playing, than it's good, period. The subjective nature of music makes negative comments null and void. I may not like it, I may cringe, I may feel like covering my ears and running but, all that means is that I don't like it and stating so is just such a self-centered thing. If you get asked your opinion, that's one thing. If conversation between you and a friend comes up, that's one thing. If I commented on different aspects of recording production, etc., even that would be subjective. Everybody makes negative comments but, at the very least, qualify them with reasons. "Constructive" criticism exists as a term for a reason.
YouTube is a whole universe. There is nothing you cannot find on there. It's easy to be faceless and make comments. People seem to join and put up no evidence of their existence; they'll just seemingly join to be able to make negative comments. Why? Are they paid or otherwise incentivized trolls? It makes no sense. Depending on how thick a person's skin is, you can really damage someone that way.
Anyway, back to Mr. Kolbl. A man after my own heart. When you come across multi-talented people like this, and the beautiful things they make and do, the gifts and talents lent them of God that they hone and increase, I have no problem spreading the word. Obviously I don't know everything about the guy but, as far as woodworking and what I saw of his playing, he's a very talented man. And, he plays a mean accordion, too.
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246. Distrokid - April 29, 2021
My new phone came yesterday. I'm not into phones. Phone, text, camera, flashlight, maybe, I'm good to go. Maybe add the calculator into that. Otherwise, I never touch the phone I have. It's just a dinosaur and the guts will no longer pick up a signal where we live. My wife insisted I have a new phone, especially for a medical emergency.
I took it out of the box, read the manual, my eyes began to glaze over. More info about the health aspects of RF waves than anything else. One whole manual for terms, conditions and return policies. Man. Everybody living their lives on a device they do not even own. Same with computers and their operating systems, I suppose. We have to click and "accept" button more than signing our names, these days.
Tech. Not my thing. As I keep stating. I'm happy with my ZOOM H8. I'd like to figure out recording software but, realistically? Why? The "Concepts..." tracks came out fine. The CDs will be in my hands sometime next week. Then the task of "putting them out there." Honestly, I hope good ol' word-of-mouth does its thing.
I spent some time looking at Distrokid today. I had been there a couple years ago, maybe more? Raft suggested I place the solos on there for downloading. I'm sure you already know, Distrokid is an online music distribution service. Pay them a yearly fee and they will place your songs on all the online stores and streaming services. That is the lion's share of music distribution today. As I looked around the site, my eyes began to glaze over. Specs, specs, and more specs. "Easy" it all says. Just fill in the blanks. Even when I was a kid, tech, as it was then, never really interested me. I'd as soon play drums or baseball than mess around with a tape recorder.
Distrokid mentions their question/contact service being an AI. Indeed. I asked it the same question three or four different ways (per the AI's request), and never got an answer. I was actually thinking about Miledge Muzic. Can you place just one track on the site if that's all the album is? It told me 35 tracks is the limit. I didn't ask for maximum. I asked about minimum. Logically, if your album is just one track, or two, you list it. The thing is, you apparently cannot sell only an album. It has to be individual tracks. 99 cents for 70 minutes of music? Seriously? I guess if your album is just one track, that's what you upload and only think about exposure. 99 cents is better than no cents? I cannot wrap my head around that. Any genre that composes long pieces of music is dead in the water.
Anyway, I don't see anyone downloading one drum solo or two or something. Maybe people would. It's what they do today.
When I was young, I can't imagine listening to just one track of a favorite band's new album. You bought the whole album to get all the music your favorite bands produced, even if there were tracks that didn't really float your boat. Some say that is what's great about streaming. You get to hear a bit of a track to decide if you want it? I'm sorry but, that seems a slap in the face to the artists making the music as an album, a collection of songs or pieces representing where they are at at that point in time. You invested in the totality of their work, you read liner notes, lyric sheets, looked at the artwork. It was an experience to have that new album in your hands. Today? It's individual songs and cell phones. Yes, record companies chose "singles" and people bought 45's and all but, I remember how that went by the wayside and full albums were the thing people got, at least from bands outside typical Top40 music, because genres began developing, that were far removed from Top40. Then, somehow, it all began to dissolve. Fusion, Classical Rock/Prog, Jazz, all the outside stuff, even if it could fill a stadium, began to fade. Bands went songs for radio play to stay alive. Now, the 'grandfather' bands are doing 50 year anniversary tours for grandfather and grandmother fans who bought their albums.
The bottom line seems to be - money (as always). Unless you somehow fortunate to catch the Pop and viral train, nobody makes an appreciable amount of money off online sales. Especially is that the case if you have record companies footing the bill for production with their hands out first. The signed bands are most definitely not a big piece of the pie. But, the signed bands get the promotion. The Indy bands do not. They can record, they can put themselves out there, they can reap what they sow to some degree. They cannot put themselves on the world map, even with YouTube and all the social platforms. There are just too many artists and bands now. Millions, literally. Going viral is not normal, everyday stuff.
Millions of artists and bands and album and songs, one song here, one song there; even some of the really big name artists in the world don't make much money off recorded music sales. Concert touring is where the bulk of the money is made. Most Indy artists and bands sell their music at their concerts, as far as hard copies, from what I have read and researched. The more I read, the less inclined I am to believe I'll sell, even 100 of these CDs. What a world.
Of course, Covid shut down the live music industry and recordings became the only field exposure of new music or any music. Musicians in nation to nation, state to state, province to province, whatever, will have to address that issue now and in the future. Some say it is a great time to make music. Others... not so much. Opinions are all over the map. The business of recording music is easy. The business of selling music, not so much.
I saw some vinyl at Walmart the other day. $22 an album, give or take, is what I saw on the price stickers. One has to wonder the logic behind the fidelity and size of a CD and a player, and the amount of music it holds, versus that of vinyl albums, players, and their sales ascendancy. Why? For a hobbyist, sure. For the average consumer? That is why I read CDs are not going away anytime soon. They've been impacted but, they make more sense, to some analysts, anyway.
At some point new vehicles will again be made with CD players in them. I was rather shocked to find out cars and trucks no longer have CD players installed. Everybody just plugs a phone into a jack now. I get that as an option. No fiddling with CDs as you drive on a long trip. Back and forth to work, though? No big deal. It's no wonder people want longer and longer battery life on their phones.
Still, taking away a very valid medium for playing recorded music just makes no sense. We aren't talking about 8 track tapes, here.
Frankly, making sense does not seem to be part of the world's "think" anymore.
I took it out of the box, read the manual, my eyes began to glaze over. More info about the health aspects of RF waves than anything else. One whole manual for terms, conditions and return policies. Man. Everybody living their lives on a device they do not even own. Same with computers and their operating systems, I suppose. We have to click and "accept" button more than signing our names, these days.
Tech. Not my thing. As I keep stating. I'm happy with my ZOOM H8. I'd like to figure out recording software but, realistically? Why? The "Concepts..." tracks came out fine. The CDs will be in my hands sometime next week. Then the task of "putting them out there." Honestly, I hope good ol' word-of-mouth does its thing.
I spent some time looking at Distrokid today. I had been there a couple years ago, maybe more? Raft suggested I place the solos on there for downloading. I'm sure you already know, Distrokid is an online music distribution service. Pay them a yearly fee and they will place your songs on all the online stores and streaming services. That is the lion's share of music distribution today. As I looked around the site, my eyes began to glaze over. Specs, specs, and more specs. "Easy" it all says. Just fill in the blanks. Even when I was a kid, tech, as it was then, never really interested me. I'd as soon play drums or baseball than mess around with a tape recorder.
Distrokid mentions their question/contact service being an AI. Indeed. I asked it the same question three or four different ways (per the AI's request), and never got an answer. I was actually thinking about Miledge Muzic. Can you place just one track on the site if that's all the album is? It told me 35 tracks is the limit. I didn't ask for maximum. I asked about minimum. Logically, if your album is just one track, or two, you list it. The thing is, you apparently cannot sell only an album. It has to be individual tracks. 99 cents for 70 minutes of music? Seriously? I guess if your album is just one track, that's what you upload and only think about exposure. 99 cents is better than no cents? I cannot wrap my head around that. Any genre that composes long pieces of music is dead in the water.
Anyway, I don't see anyone downloading one drum solo or two or something. Maybe people would. It's what they do today.
When I was young, I can't imagine listening to just one track of a favorite band's new album. You bought the whole album to get all the music your favorite bands produced, even if there were tracks that didn't really float your boat. Some say that is what's great about streaming. You get to hear a bit of a track to decide if you want it? I'm sorry but, that seems a slap in the face to the artists making the music as an album, a collection of songs or pieces representing where they are at at that point in time. You invested in the totality of their work, you read liner notes, lyric sheets, looked at the artwork. It was an experience to have that new album in your hands. Today? It's individual songs and cell phones. Yes, record companies chose "singles" and people bought 45's and all but, I remember how that went by the wayside and full albums were the thing people got, at least from bands outside typical Top40 music, because genres began developing, that were far removed from Top40. Then, somehow, it all began to dissolve. Fusion, Classical Rock/Prog, Jazz, all the outside stuff, even if it could fill a stadium, began to fade. Bands went songs for radio play to stay alive. Now, the 'grandfather' bands are doing 50 year anniversary tours for grandfather and grandmother fans who bought their albums.
The bottom line seems to be - money (as always). Unless you somehow fortunate to catch the Pop and viral train, nobody makes an appreciable amount of money off online sales. Especially is that the case if you have record companies footing the bill for production with their hands out first. The signed bands are most definitely not a big piece of the pie. But, the signed bands get the promotion. The Indy bands do not. They can record, they can put themselves out there, they can reap what they sow to some degree. They cannot put themselves on the world map, even with YouTube and all the social platforms. There are just too many artists and bands now. Millions, literally. Going viral is not normal, everyday stuff.
Millions of artists and bands and album and songs, one song here, one song there; even some of the really big name artists in the world don't make much money off recorded music sales. Concert touring is where the bulk of the money is made. Most Indy artists and bands sell their music at their concerts, as far as hard copies, from what I have read and researched. The more I read, the less inclined I am to believe I'll sell, even 100 of these CDs. What a world.
Of course, Covid shut down the live music industry and recordings became the only field exposure of new music or any music. Musicians in nation to nation, state to state, province to province, whatever, will have to address that issue now and in the future. Some say it is a great time to make music. Others... not so much. Opinions are all over the map. The business of recording music is easy. The business of selling music, not so much.
I saw some vinyl at Walmart the other day. $22 an album, give or take, is what I saw on the price stickers. One has to wonder the logic behind the fidelity and size of a CD and a player, and the amount of music it holds, versus that of vinyl albums, players, and their sales ascendancy. Why? For a hobbyist, sure. For the average consumer? That is why I read CDs are not going away anytime soon. They've been impacted but, they make more sense, to some analysts, anyway.
At some point new vehicles will again be made with CD players in them. I was rather shocked to find out cars and trucks no longer have CD players installed. Everybody just plugs a phone into a jack now. I get that as an option. No fiddling with CDs as you drive on a long trip. Back and forth to work, though? No big deal. It's no wonder people want longer and longer battery life on their phones.
Still, taking away a very valid medium for playing recorded music just makes no sense. We aren't talking about 8 track tapes, here.
Frankly, making sense does not seem to be part of the world's "think" anymore.
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247 . Here Comes the Fear... - May 1, 2021
The closer we get to this supposed release of everything government agencies know about UFOs and UAPs, the more the fearmongering ramps up.
This clip from a Tucker Carlson Tonight program, posted on one of the many dozens of UFO channels on YouTube, with British UFOlogist, Nick Pope, comes across, to me, as something akin to going from Yellow to Orange on the Beware of Possible Imminent Attack scale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToZPPNBA4rE
Lou Elizondo, Nick Pope, former military intelligence and defense officials, and others, are all over the place speaking about possible threats from UFOs. That there has been a massive intelligence failure on par with 9/11.
WHY?
First, there was NO massive intelligence failure before, during or after 9/11. There was a massive intelligence agenda put into play, developed years before.
Second, logically, if an earthly opponent of the USA, the former USSR (not today's Russia), or China, or whoever, had this kind of technology, the USA would have been toast decades ago. Such technology in the hands of a nefarious superpower would not be developed without military might attached to it.
Now mind you, this all goes back to the 1940s and even earlier, depending on who is telling the stories and giving the information. For at least 75-80 years, sightings of craft and vehicles performing mindboggling feats have been reported. Not a single, offensive move made, that anyone has ever reported. The closest you can come to one are these craft, hovering above military stations and shutting down, according to testimony of military personnel many years later, banks of missiles, making them moot, useless.
Is that an attack? Or, is that a warning? If such instances took place, what possible round of reasoning would claim the USA was under attack, as we function as a nation with its own autonomy many decades later?
I listen to these guys and I do not trust any of them. Never do they address the possible benign nature of these unidentified craft. They just keep talking about possible threats.
They totally remind me of all the fear mongers during Covid who never said a word about the human immune system and keeping it strong and healthy. They just pedaled incessant fear.
The kind of information gathered by ufologists over the decades, from FOIA requests, from whistleblowers, from former military no longer under confidentiality agreements or not caring about them anymore, tells us government agencies around the world have been involved in keeping tabs on all this round the clock. There isn't much they could do but, wait. You are out-flown, logically out-gunned, and in the dark, even when these things show up on radar. They wouldn't want to frighten Americans (the same as any other nation), because you do two things: you tell Americans they are defenseless, which creates panic, and you cannot create panic unless you know you can control it; and you also throw a monkey wrench into the Judeo-Christian understanding of life; that it can no longer be understood as on Earth, alone, creating massive social disorder.
Well, the second has no value to anyone in DC anymore. The U.S. government is composed of, mostly, total non-believers who hate people of faith and tolerate them, at best. Hypocrites all, especially Leftists proclaiming they are "people of faith" while they go about dismantling everything that the Founders believed were rights given to Americans by the providence and purpose of God.
Once again, you tell me what aspect of defense America needs to posture with against something so far out of their league, it is someone from MLB up against a child playing Tee Ball.
The government of the United States of America, through its agents, can no longer be trusted. That is my conviction. What few patriots exist in it, have no influence, authority or power to change anything, anymore.
Agents of the government are using any measures necessary to remove dissention and dissenters. Every day brings forth a new horror a story from this criminal administration and cowards in Congress.
It seems logical to me, now that the fear mongering of Covid has basically drained away and people coast to coast have gotten sick of it, and nobody wants to say a word against the militants within Islam and their agenda, or calling Russia the bad guy, while Putin shakes his head and wonders what the heck is wrong with that country and all their stupid sabre rattling around the world, and Communists in American government are cozying up to China and definitely not making them a threat, what is left? Well, let's see. "White" people. That's getting more and more popular with Leftists, regardless of melanin in their skin. And Green or gray or blue or whatever people from Space. There's a good threat use. Hollywood can help. Sensationalist media can help. And certain voices in the ufologist community can help.
Reagan's comments at the United Nations about the world pulling together in the face of an outside threat seems to have caught on with minds in the government. They must keep the citizenry afraid of threats, dependent on government, made pliable, accommodating, soft and numbed by fears they cannot control. An imminent alien attack! It isn't Orson Wells, the 1930s and Martian attacks on radio anymore. No, no. It is lightyears past all that.
Technology grows exponentially. It is being used to control life on planet Earth under the guise of making things simple, give freedom to people, and make life so much easier, when, in fact, technology has increased the stress levels of ALL PEOPLE USING IT by off the charts degrees, especially children and teens, addicted to it and all it does, and suffering from things it does and cannot do.
So, is a fake alien attack being developed and coming? Logically, yes. How they could pull it off, as I have stated previously, I have no idea. They might never try. They might just use the fear to bring about more losses of freedom and liberty under the guise of safety. That, I can definitely see happening.
I recently found out 8.5 TRILLION dollars has been spent on UFO research, with no auditing, no accountability, no oversight. Failure of intelligence? Give me a break. Define 'intelligence' as knowledge, yes, a definite failure of intelligence. The stupidity of people sent to Congress to mind the purse of the American people is criminal.
I saw the other day, the non-president stated he has not decided to use the military to enforce vaccinations. ????!!!!
Where am I living? America? Are you sure? America - Twilight Zone 2.0, yeah.
Land of the free, home of the brave? No. That's gone.
This clip from a Tucker Carlson Tonight program, posted on one of the many dozens of UFO channels on YouTube, with British UFOlogist, Nick Pope, comes across, to me, as something akin to going from Yellow to Orange on the Beware of Possible Imminent Attack scale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToZPPNBA4rE
Lou Elizondo, Nick Pope, former military intelligence and defense officials, and others, are all over the place speaking about possible threats from UFOs. That there has been a massive intelligence failure on par with 9/11.
WHY?
First, there was NO massive intelligence failure before, during or after 9/11. There was a massive intelligence agenda put into play, developed years before.
Second, logically, if an earthly opponent of the USA, the former USSR (not today's Russia), or China, or whoever, had this kind of technology, the USA would have been toast decades ago. Such technology in the hands of a nefarious superpower would not be developed without military might attached to it.
Now mind you, this all goes back to the 1940s and even earlier, depending on who is telling the stories and giving the information. For at least 75-80 years, sightings of craft and vehicles performing mindboggling feats have been reported. Not a single, offensive move made, that anyone has ever reported. The closest you can come to one are these craft, hovering above military stations and shutting down, according to testimony of military personnel many years later, banks of missiles, making them moot, useless.
Is that an attack? Or, is that a warning? If such instances took place, what possible round of reasoning would claim the USA was under attack, as we function as a nation with its own autonomy many decades later?
I listen to these guys and I do not trust any of them. Never do they address the possible benign nature of these unidentified craft. They just keep talking about possible threats.
They totally remind me of all the fear mongers during Covid who never said a word about the human immune system and keeping it strong and healthy. They just pedaled incessant fear.
The kind of information gathered by ufologists over the decades, from FOIA requests, from whistleblowers, from former military no longer under confidentiality agreements or not caring about them anymore, tells us government agencies around the world have been involved in keeping tabs on all this round the clock. There isn't much they could do but, wait. You are out-flown, logically out-gunned, and in the dark, even when these things show up on radar. They wouldn't want to frighten Americans (the same as any other nation), because you do two things: you tell Americans they are defenseless, which creates panic, and you cannot create panic unless you know you can control it; and you also throw a monkey wrench into the Judeo-Christian understanding of life; that it can no longer be understood as on Earth, alone, creating massive social disorder.
Well, the second has no value to anyone in DC anymore. The U.S. government is composed of, mostly, total non-believers who hate people of faith and tolerate them, at best. Hypocrites all, especially Leftists proclaiming they are "people of faith" while they go about dismantling everything that the Founders believed were rights given to Americans by the providence and purpose of God.
Once again, you tell me what aspect of defense America needs to posture with against something so far out of their league, it is someone from MLB up against a child playing Tee Ball.
The government of the United States of America, through its agents, can no longer be trusted. That is my conviction. What few patriots exist in it, have no influence, authority or power to change anything, anymore.
Agents of the government are using any measures necessary to remove dissention and dissenters. Every day brings forth a new horror a story from this criminal administration and cowards in Congress.
It seems logical to me, now that the fear mongering of Covid has basically drained away and people coast to coast have gotten sick of it, and nobody wants to say a word against the militants within Islam and their agenda, or calling Russia the bad guy, while Putin shakes his head and wonders what the heck is wrong with that country and all their stupid sabre rattling around the world, and Communists in American government are cozying up to China and definitely not making them a threat, what is left? Well, let's see. "White" people. That's getting more and more popular with Leftists, regardless of melanin in their skin. And Green or gray or blue or whatever people from Space. There's a good threat use. Hollywood can help. Sensationalist media can help. And certain voices in the ufologist community can help.
Reagan's comments at the United Nations about the world pulling together in the face of an outside threat seems to have caught on with minds in the government. They must keep the citizenry afraid of threats, dependent on government, made pliable, accommodating, soft and numbed by fears they cannot control. An imminent alien attack! It isn't Orson Wells, the 1930s and Martian attacks on radio anymore. No, no. It is lightyears past all that.
Technology grows exponentially. It is being used to control life on planet Earth under the guise of making things simple, give freedom to people, and make life so much easier, when, in fact, technology has increased the stress levels of ALL PEOPLE USING IT by off the charts degrees, especially children and teens, addicted to it and all it does, and suffering from things it does and cannot do.
So, is a fake alien attack being developed and coming? Logically, yes. How they could pull it off, as I have stated previously, I have no idea. They might never try. They might just use the fear to bring about more losses of freedom and liberty under the guise of safety. That, I can definitely see happening.
I recently found out 8.5 TRILLION dollars has been spent on UFO research, with no auditing, no accountability, no oversight. Failure of intelligence? Give me a break. Define 'intelligence' as knowledge, yes, a definite failure of intelligence. The stupidity of people sent to Congress to mind the purse of the American people is criminal.
I saw the other day, the non-president stated he has not decided to use the military to enforce vaccinations. ????!!!!
Where am I living? America? Are you sure? America - Twilight Zone 2.0, yeah.
Land of the free, home of the brave? No. That's gone.
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248. Concepts for Solo Drum Set CD is Here - May 5, 2021
Well, after various foibles and frustrations in recording the tracks, and all the hours spent on peripheries, the box arrived Monday and the CD is in hand.
It's a kick when you have something like this, that you thought on for years, 25 to be exact, that you created, labored over, gathered your pennies together for, and produced it for...
I'm not kidding myself.
I obviously opened one and listened to it, checked out the graphic design printed details and all. A couple blips but, nothing serious. I sent a few to friends that are drummers to get their thoughts and feelings. Honest appraisals. They have all expressed some excitement to get it and check it out. Like I have stated, a drums-only recording is a rarity. I have seen players asking on discussion forums if anybody knew of any so, I know an interest exists, however small it may be. Whether or not what I recorded will fit the bill remains to be seen.
The world of drums has changed. Today, crowding in notes is the vibe and practice among young players. I wrote about Ron Bushy's solo on Iron Butterfly's In-na-gadda-da-vida, on the "Concepts Recording" page. Uploaded all that yesterday. I had not heard the song in many years and went to YT to check it out. I listened to a couple versions of it, including a cover and a solo by young player, a lot younger than Bushy was when he recorded it originally. She did a great job on it.
In the side bar I saw something for Ian Paice, Deep Purple's drumist for... 50+ years? The man is an icon. I always felt, while John Bonham generally takes the title for the best Rock drummer in history, that title should at least be shared with Paice. He has finer technique and facility. That said, back then, Baker, Bonham, Mitchell, Moon, Appice... they all had their own sound and style and voice and everybody just enjoyed what they did, the same as the bands all had their own sound and style. There was no "best."
Anyway, in watching some of Ian's older and newer performances, I noticed comments of how good he is BUT, it's the "old school" style. It's to be expected because he grew up listening to Jazz guys before him which took those stylings and put them in the Rock atmosphere. Other comments in that vein.
I'm sorry, I flat out disagree. Since when is performance on a musical instrument defined by decades and what's "in" at any given time? I talked to a player the other day who said he cannot tell who is who anymore. Everybody sounds the same, just playing fast notes in every direction. Where's the music? I had to agree. Blazing chops is not necessarily synonymous with making music. I seek not to offend but, let's be honest. I watched a performance by Dennis Chambers awhile back, and an interview with him. In it he stated what I just referred to: the incessant fast notes and all so readily heard by so many of today's young players. And Dennis is a speed meister if ever there was one that can literally terrorize a stage full of drummers in a collection of chops performances but, he knows how to stretch things out, play musically, and pace a performance.
Ian Paice has his own voice, his own style, and his own bag of licks he goes to a lot. There is zip wrong with that. The young seem determined to play as fast as they can the rest of their lives. Someday music might actually stand in front of them and ask, What are you doing? You sound just like everybody else. Who are you?
I mentioned Mike Mangini on the Concepts page. Looked up stuff on him. Have mercy, drummers have been absolutely merciless and ugly with that poor guy. The man is a playing machine, having developed technique in his own unique ways over the decades. Yeah, I lean more towards fluid, funky-type playing the Fusion players use but, c'mon. If you put down Mike Mangini because you think his style is too rigid or stiff or something, get a life! What is wrong with you? Has your world shrunk so much there is only room for what you like to listen to?
Anyway, here I have this CD of drum solos and for many of the young, I guess they may be boring as dirt and watching paint dry. It will be the players with some age and experience that will enjoy the CD. I hope not. I hope anyone who loves the sound of a drum set will enjoy it, and be able to look past the current "in" things, if I am not performing them to their expectations.
Honestly? There is something else, more important. Far more important. I am torn in many ways. My nation is literally under political attack. The fabric of America is tearing to pieces. Dividers, with no sense of the spirit of individualism and the rule of law, want anyone who disagrees with them shut up, shut down, removed, even killed! Outrageous remarks from various people in education, government, entertainment proclaiming "white" people should die. INSANITY on parade. STUPIDITY on parade. THOUGHTLESSNESS, RECKLESSNESS on parade.
Putting out an album of drum solos when some "Americans" would as soon see me dead? Yeah, not a real encouraging sign of the times.
I see it throughout society. I see it in the drum community. I see it in all communities. Anger. Hatred. Intolerance. Irrationality. People behaving exactly the same way as the people they profess are the enemy. It's unbelievable to watch.
A labor of life and love in a jewel case, floating out on a sea of pain, anguish, heartache, woe, discouragement, desperation...
Have mercy, Lord.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
It's a kick when you have something like this, that you thought on for years, 25 to be exact, that you created, labored over, gathered your pennies together for, and produced it for...
I'm not kidding myself.
I obviously opened one and listened to it, checked out the graphic design printed details and all. A couple blips but, nothing serious. I sent a few to friends that are drummers to get their thoughts and feelings. Honest appraisals. They have all expressed some excitement to get it and check it out. Like I have stated, a drums-only recording is a rarity. I have seen players asking on discussion forums if anybody knew of any so, I know an interest exists, however small it may be. Whether or not what I recorded will fit the bill remains to be seen.
The world of drums has changed. Today, crowding in notes is the vibe and practice among young players. I wrote about Ron Bushy's solo on Iron Butterfly's In-na-gadda-da-vida, on the "Concepts Recording" page. Uploaded all that yesterday. I had not heard the song in many years and went to YT to check it out. I listened to a couple versions of it, including a cover and a solo by young player, a lot younger than Bushy was when he recorded it originally. She did a great job on it.
In the side bar I saw something for Ian Paice, Deep Purple's drumist for... 50+ years? The man is an icon. I always felt, while John Bonham generally takes the title for the best Rock drummer in history, that title should at least be shared with Paice. He has finer technique and facility. That said, back then, Baker, Bonham, Mitchell, Moon, Appice... they all had their own sound and style and voice and everybody just enjoyed what they did, the same as the bands all had their own sound and style. There was no "best."
Anyway, in watching some of Ian's older and newer performances, I noticed comments of how good he is BUT, it's the "old school" style. It's to be expected because he grew up listening to Jazz guys before him which took those stylings and put them in the Rock atmosphere. Other comments in that vein.
I'm sorry, I flat out disagree. Since when is performance on a musical instrument defined by decades and what's "in" at any given time? I talked to a player the other day who said he cannot tell who is who anymore. Everybody sounds the same, just playing fast notes in every direction. Where's the music? I had to agree. Blazing chops is not necessarily synonymous with making music. I seek not to offend but, let's be honest. I watched a performance by Dennis Chambers awhile back, and an interview with him. In it he stated what I just referred to: the incessant fast notes and all so readily heard by so many of today's young players. And Dennis is a speed meister if ever there was one that can literally terrorize a stage full of drummers in a collection of chops performances but, he knows how to stretch things out, play musically, and pace a performance.
Ian Paice has his own voice, his own style, and his own bag of licks he goes to a lot. There is zip wrong with that. The young seem determined to play as fast as they can the rest of their lives. Someday music might actually stand in front of them and ask, What are you doing? You sound just like everybody else. Who are you?
I mentioned Mike Mangini on the Concepts page. Looked up stuff on him. Have mercy, drummers have been absolutely merciless and ugly with that poor guy. The man is a playing machine, having developed technique in his own unique ways over the decades. Yeah, I lean more towards fluid, funky-type playing the Fusion players use but, c'mon. If you put down Mike Mangini because you think his style is too rigid or stiff or something, get a life! What is wrong with you? Has your world shrunk so much there is only room for what you like to listen to?
Anyway, here I have this CD of drum solos and for many of the young, I guess they may be boring as dirt and watching paint dry. It will be the players with some age and experience that will enjoy the CD. I hope not. I hope anyone who loves the sound of a drum set will enjoy it, and be able to look past the current "in" things, if I am not performing them to their expectations.
Honestly? There is something else, more important. Far more important. I am torn in many ways. My nation is literally under political attack. The fabric of America is tearing to pieces. Dividers, with no sense of the spirit of individualism and the rule of law, want anyone who disagrees with them shut up, shut down, removed, even killed! Outrageous remarks from various people in education, government, entertainment proclaiming "white" people should die. INSANITY on parade. STUPIDITY on parade. THOUGHTLESSNESS, RECKLESSNESS on parade.
Putting out an album of drum solos when some "Americans" would as soon see me dead? Yeah, not a real encouraging sign of the times.
I see it throughout society. I see it in the drum community. I see it in all communities. Anger. Hatred. Intolerance. Irrationality. People behaving exactly the same way as the people they profess are the enemy. It's unbelievable to watch.
A labor of life and love in a jewel case, floating out on a sea of pain, anguish, heartache, woe, discouragement, desperation...
Have mercy, Lord.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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249. Crop Circles - May 8, 2021
I have written some about the two times I witnessed UFOs, with other people present. I have written about how I believe "ET" is going to be part of last-day events, as last-day deceptions surrounding the apostle Paul's warning of "an angel of light."
As the paranormal grows in interest, it is leading to an eventual climax, an intended end.
Part of the UFO phenomena are crop circles. Originally; circular areas of pressed down crops first seen in Southern England in the 1970s. I remember the talk and all back then. Actually, crop circles go back to the 17th century. Accounts were written in the 19th century, and before events from the 1970s in England, the 1960s saw crop circles appear in Australia.
The science of crop circles, known as Cereology, named after the Roman goddess of agriculture, Ceres, is a serious science of investigating this phenomena. Of course, "serious" and "science" in the same sentence can be grossly over exaggerated depending on one's worldview and definition of "science." It can safely be said, it is a serious science to those who do forensic investigation of crop circles.
At least 26 countries have seen them. Consider Egypt, a land of 95% desert. Wasting any crop land in such an area of the earth, to make images on the ground is tantamount to taking food from someone's mouth. Only someone of a warped mind would do such a thing, if kids or others that might not think things through were involved. Would a higher or deeper purpose seem to be involved?
Then the day came when two Brits, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, "confessed" to having made "hundreds" of these impressions in fields all over Southern England. Overnight the phenomena faded away, at least for the general public. For crop circle researchers, no. They took the stage to show graphic differences between circles made by people and circles made in ways that people could not; in one night, one week, and in some cases one month.
Why are crop circles unique? They are a phenomena that joins together many different perspectives of life. UFOlogists, of course but, also scientists, metaphysical researchers, religious faiths, philosophers, paranormal researchers, and people from all regions of the planet, because of what the circles portray - symbols associated with them all.
Nobody denies man-made crop circles. Nobody denies more intricate designs made by groups of people in the night. Does that do away with the crop circle phenomena? Only if you haven't done any research on the subject. Once you do, you'll know the phenomena is quite alive and in many cases gotten so elaborate it can only drop jaws or cause squinting eyes to think people made them in the course of one, dark night.
There are significant differences between man-made pressings, in whatever way is chosen, and those not so easily explained.
For one, man-made pressings break the stalks of the crop. "Real" impressions do not. The stalks are bent, as if melted over but, not broken. In many cases, the crop stalks are far enough above the surface to be bent over making for an impossible counterfeit. Humans do not levitate and even if they could, they have no way to bend over crop stalks over 12 - 24" above the ground. The images look, literally, brushed.
Not only that but, there are even woven patterns of crops stalks, meaning stalks laid across stalks in astounding, breathtaking patterns. As yet, none of the people claiming nocturnal activities will go out at night and show how they make relatively simple patterns, let alone the incredibly complex ones. Those who do it for some professional reason (like as an advertisement for a company logo), in the daytime use dozens of people, equipment, and take a lot of time, days, to do it.
The exact nature of dimensions, figures and shapes in man-made images show their imperfections, especially over ground that is not flat. When you see something 1000' long over ground that looks like waves, people forget to ask simple questions of how long it would take to measure out and perform the impressions to make them look authentic. In one night? No. You could plan for weeks and get on the ground and have to perfectly lay out and impress your images on a serious incline. Be real. Let's see it done in the daytime. Ropes and boards? Give me a break.
In many cases actual "healings" seem to have taken place when people sit in and stay in the recorded energy fields of these things. The duration of that phenomena can be hours to days, from what I have read.
Then there are all the testimonies and photo/video footage of glowing orbs or other shapes hovering, moving over fields and in far less than a night, these images are in the crop land. Nocturnal birds aren't the answer, that's for sure.
A video link below as an information starter. Many others are out there, new ones being made regularly. Documentaries have been made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yahLbdPdUY
Why is it that the main stream media was so quick to let it all go when Bower and Chorley came forward? Today, news media all over the earth seem quick to put up new videos of "UFOs" taped by a local, or released by the military, or even repeat showings of UFOs passing through the weatherperson's background camera shots, and in some cases, at-the-moment recognition by people doing the reporting, live, on-the-air. The interest in UFOs has somehow gained legitimacy. I have commented on that, as well. What about crop images?
"Crop circles," if they were all man-made, are fantastic to look at. That cannot be denied. You aren't talking about people using rulers and drafting and engineering tools used at a desk on paper. You aren't talking about computer programs and print-outs. You are looking at images made that occupy huge amount of space, in some cases, acres.
In 2011, a physicist, Richard Taylor, suggested "modern" crop circles are made with GPS guidance, lasers, and microwaves. The inadequacy of that explanation, even if true for "modern" images, does not answer to those made before such "tools" could be used. The explanation gives you an idea of how incredible the images are.
Like the UFO phenomena I believe the crop circle phenomena is also going to be used by the enemy of souls to deceive an unwary populace of his designs and purposes.
Messages, to individuals, to groups, to nations, to the world will be discerned. Just call it a modern version of a false prophet, which God had to warn about numerous times in the Bible.
We are not living in times as usual. Normality is being replaced by abnormality on a daily basis now.
The professed Christian world, and even others not in it, give regard to prophecies concerning the second coming of Christ. Before that event takes place a counterfeit will precede it. Actually, in many respects, in varying degrees, Christ warned that subject would be in the plural: false Christs, false Messiahs, performing signs and wonders.
Signs. Hm. Like, maybe, crop circles?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
As the paranormal grows in interest, it is leading to an eventual climax, an intended end.
Part of the UFO phenomena are crop circles. Originally; circular areas of pressed down crops first seen in Southern England in the 1970s. I remember the talk and all back then. Actually, crop circles go back to the 17th century. Accounts were written in the 19th century, and before events from the 1970s in England, the 1960s saw crop circles appear in Australia.
The science of crop circles, known as Cereology, named after the Roman goddess of agriculture, Ceres, is a serious science of investigating this phenomena. Of course, "serious" and "science" in the same sentence can be grossly over exaggerated depending on one's worldview and definition of "science." It can safely be said, it is a serious science to those who do forensic investigation of crop circles.
At least 26 countries have seen them. Consider Egypt, a land of 95% desert. Wasting any crop land in such an area of the earth, to make images on the ground is tantamount to taking food from someone's mouth. Only someone of a warped mind would do such a thing, if kids or others that might not think things through were involved. Would a higher or deeper purpose seem to be involved?
Then the day came when two Brits, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, "confessed" to having made "hundreds" of these impressions in fields all over Southern England. Overnight the phenomena faded away, at least for the general public. For crop circle researchers, no. They took the stage to show graphic differences between circles made by people and circles made in ways that people could not; in one night, one week, and in some cases one month.
Why are crop circles unique? They are a phenomena that joins together many different perspectives of life. UFOlogists, of course but, also scientists, metaphysical researchers, religious faiths, philosophers, paranormal researchers, and people from all regions of the planet, because of what the circles portray - symbols associated with them all.
Nobody denies man-made crop circles. Nobody denies more intricate designs made by groups of people in the night. Does that do away with the crop circle phenomena? Only if you haven't done any research on the subject. Once you do, you'll know the phenomena is quite alive and in many cases gotten so elaborate it can only drop jaws or cause squinting eyes to think people made them in the course of one, dark night.
There are significant differences between man-made pressings, in whatever way is chosen, and those not so easily explained.
For one, man-made pressings break the stalks of the crop. "Real" impressions do not. The stalks are bent, as if melted over but, not broken. In many cases, the crop stalks are far enough above the surface to be bent over making for an impossible counterfeit. Humans do not levitate and even if they could, they have no way to bend over crop stalks over 12 - 24" above the ground. The images look, literally, brushed.
Not only that but, there are even woven patterns of crops stalks, meaning stalks laid across stalks in astounding, breathtaking patterns. As yet, none of the people claiming nocturnal activities will go out at night and show how they make relatively simple patterns, let alone the incredibly complex ones. Those who do it for some professional reason (like as an advertisement for a company logo), in the daytime use dozens of people, equipment, and take a lot of time, days, to do it.
The exact nature of dimensions, figures and shapes in man-made images show their imperfections, especially over ground that is not flat. When you see something 1000' long over ground that looks like waves, people forget to ask simple questions of how long it would take to measure out and perform the impressions to make them look authentic. In one night? No. You could plan for weeks and get on the ground and have to perfectly lay out and impress your images on a serious incline. Be real. Let's see it done in the daytime. Ropes and boards? Give me a break.
In many cases actual "healings" seem to have taken place when people sit in and stay in the recorded energy fields of these things. The duration of that phenomena can be hours to days, from what I have read.
Then there are all the testimonies and photo/video footage of glowing orbs or other shapes hovering, moving over fields and in far less than a night, these images are in the crop land. Nocturnal birds aren't the answer, that's for sure.
A video link below as an information starter. Many others are out there, new ones being made regularly. Documentaries have been made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yahLbdPdUY
Why is it that the main stream media was so quick to let it all go when Bower and Chorley came forward? Today, news media all over the earth seem quick to put up new videos of "UFOs" taped by a local, or released by the military, or even repeat showings of UFOs passing through the weatherperson's background camera shots, and in some cases, at-the-moment recognition by people doing the reporting, live, on-the-air. The interest in UFOs has somehow gained legitimacy. I have commented on that, as well. What about crop images?
"Crop circles," if they were all man-made, are fantastic to look at. That cannot be denied. You aren't talking about people using rulers and drafting and engineering tools used at a desk on paper. You aren't talking about computer programs and print-outs. You are looking at images made that occupy huge amount of space, in some cases, acres.
In 2011, a physicist, Richard Taylor, suggested "modern" crop circles are made with GPS guidance, lasers, and microwaves. The inadequacy of that explanation, even if true for "modern" images, does not answer to those made before such "tools" could be used. The explanation gives you an idea of how incredible the images are.
Like the UFO phenomena I believe the crop circle phenomena is also going to be used by the enemy of souls to deceive an unwary populace of his designs and purposes.
Messages, to individuals, to groups, to nations, to the world will be discerned. Just call it a modern version of a false prophet, which God had to warn about numerous times in the Bible.
We are not living in times as usual. Normality is being replaced by abnormality on a daily basis now.
The professed Christian world, and even others not in it, give regard to prophecies concerning the second coming of Christ. Before that event takes place a counterfeit will precede it. Actually, in many respects, in varying degrees, Christ warned that subject would be in the plural: false Christs, false Messiahs, performing signs and wonders.
Signs. Hm. Like, maybe, crop circles?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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250. Revolving Doors - May 9, 2021
I spent a great deal of the day, yesterday, and this morning, going back and forth with a couple atheists at a PhD's YT channel. The PhD is a renowned chemist who is also a committed Christian. He loves Christ and says so at the beginning of his presentations. He really makes people upset not just with his faith but, his outspoken views on abiogenesis.
I have watched most or all of the man's presentations on YT. Not just his channel but, other things, as well. I know what he says, consistently, and what he does not say. I wrote a blog about him, Dr. James Tour.
My father once told me he always roots for the underdog. I guess that is where I get it from. I do not have any respect for trolls that show up at my channel or the channel of anyone else. I have commented on that before and leave it at that.
Suffice to say, the YT comment section is hardly the place to address anything with any decent explanations. We may try but, the faceless aspect of the internet pretty much puts things in a constant fogbank. Just because someone has an icon of a guy in a white beard does not mean you are communicating with a guy with age and a white beard. You could be communicating with a smart ass college kid. You never really know.
There comes a point where revolving doors make things pointless. I take the time to read what people write to me, even the really hateful stuff, the things no civil person would communicate to someone. I read, I respond. I try to stay polite, rational, responsible, reasonable and I will generally discuss anything with anybody as long as people stay civil. I believe that is becoming more and more difficult to find - civility.
Atheists, the new atheism, is stretching its wings and getting all haughty and high and mighty, and dumping on Christians with abandon the last 20 years. Everybody knows the history of professed Christianity is saturated with the most horrific crimes imaginable. The question is, what is Christianity, true Christianity?
Much of Christian history is nothing more than the outworking of pagans using some biblical terms and names. Charlatans exist in our day. We all know them. The tv preachers that care far more about money than the kingdom of God. Throwing up the history of professed Christianity is really pointless.
America is deeply divided. Does that do away with the America and the principles of Americanism? No. That may all fade into history but, not quite yet. Close. I admit that, and for all intents and purposes Christianity is fading. True Christianity. A new dark ages is coming and is already upon us.
All that stated, I got one post from someone that entered the discussion that literally floored me. It almost left me speechless. I had never seen such a position before. It was the most ridiculous thing I had ever seen in a discussion about God and the supernatural nature of deity. Here is the position:
"REFondrums a supernatural phenomenon (creator) can't, by definition, interact with its creation or even create it. Nor can a creation ever glean evidence of its supernatural creator. If either occurs the phenomenon or entity is not supernatural."
To me, a five year old would look at that and say, What are you talking about?
A supernatural deity cannot create, cannot interact with its creation, nor create a creature that can interact with it.
I have never seen such a strange and absolutely ridiculous position before. "By definition?" What definition? I asked the man where he got such a strange position. I asked him if he paid for such an education.
Most atheists are ignorant of the Bible. They are ignorant of the God they reject and state the most ridiculous things about God and the Bible. Arguing from ignorance and trying to reason with such, is really coated with failure. I am glutton for punishment, I guess.
God is above all. God is beyond human definition. God is God. The Bible says it numerous ways but, a well known way is this: can the pot tell the potter what he can or cannot do?
Is this what the world is coming to? Mindless irrationality? It is. "Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord."
God is reasonable. He asks us to be reasonable. The truth is, if you will not reason with God you will lose the ability to reason. Reason and rationality are part of the mind. Not the brain. Mind. Conscience. The brain is a mass of cells, chemicals, electric pulses, and such. The mind is something else. Random chemicals do not think, do not reason, do not try to be rational or irrational. Chemicals do not love, hate, exhibit patience or impatience, happiness or sadness. Chemicals have no purpose, have no plans, have no path. Even the act of survival by the smallest cell is not the act of random chemicals. Instinct is mind. What mind began it all? Information. Laws. Constants. Fine tuning of a universe. Where did it all come from? Chaos? Seriously?
To place such a weird wall around God, as Creator, is a very odd thing, indeed. God is supernatural, above the natural, outside the natural. He created and controls the natural. An atheist sees that as totally unreasonable to believe. The thing is, atheism is a void. It is a valueless void of the most unreasonable positions anyone can have. They have no explanations for much of anything. They cannot say how anything came into being with any empirical facts. They cannot address morality because that is something society recognizes as something that comes from God, a higher source. Random chemicals do not have morality. If everything came from an accidental event in a primordial soup and "life" came into being, it is an accident of chemical composition. That is it. Morality is not part of it. Answers to life's questions are not part of it. Information has no source, meaning; a book can write itself. We all know that is not happening but, somehow, my belief in a Creator is unreasonable?
I give these detractors the last word because revolving doors are a waste of time. Especially when ad hominem attacks get involved. I ask them to explain tears, the system of tears. They never can. They don't even try.
I have pretty thick skin. Calling me a "nut" is pretty pointless. At least back it up with some salient reasoning. Having been an atheist most of my young life, until I was 24, I know about all the arguments against "God." I was ignorant. I was foolish. And that is what the Bible states - The fool says in his heart, There is no God.
As humanism envelopes the world, people of any and all faith are in for some trouble. And yet, the Bible states, emphatically, it shall be professed believers who will end up the worst persecutors and wicked elements the world has ever seen. Well, we already have the history of Romanism and the Dark Ages and Inquisition, as well as the ignorance of professed Christians in professed Protestantism who carried out shameful, heinous acts on believers who disagreed with them. None of that is Christ. None of that is representative of Jesus and the truth that is in Him. They are light years apart.
I wish people could understand that. More and more, though, they will not. They will believe lies. They will remain confused. They will get more irrational and hateful towards those who love and obey God. That is the natural progression of unbelief. Civility goes. Incivility becomes the norm.
As it was in the days of Noah, as it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, so shall it also be in the days of the coming of the Son of man.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I have watched most or all of the man's presentations on YT. Not just his channel but, other things, as well. I know what he says, consistently, and what he does not say. I wrote a blog about him, Dr. James Tour.
My father once told me he always roots for the underdog. I guess that is where I get it from. I do not have any respect for trolls that show up at my channel or the channel of anyone else. I have commented on that before and leave it at that.
Suffice to say, the YT comment section is hardly the place to address anything with any decent explanations. We may try but, the faceless aspect of the internet pretty much puts things in a constant fogbank. Just because someone has an icon of a guy in a white beard does not mean you are communicating with a guy with age and a white beard. You could be communicating with a smart ass college kid. You never really know.
There comes a point where revolving doors make things pointless. I take the time to read what people write to me, even the really hateful stuff, the things no civil person would communicate to someone. I read, I respond. I try to stay polite, rational, responsible, reasonable and I will generally discuss anything with anybody as long as people stay civil. I believe that is becoming more and more difficult to find - civility.
Atheists, the new atheism, is stretching its wings and getting all haughty and high and mighty, and dumping on Christians with abandon the last 20 years. Everybody knows the history of professed Christianity is saturated with the most horrific crimes imaginable. The question is, what is Christianity, true Christianity?
Much of Christian history is nothing more than the outworking of pagans using some biblical terms and names. Charlatans exist in our day. We all know them. The tv preachers that care far more about money than the kingdom of God. Throwing up the history of professed Christianity is really pointless.
America is deeply divided. Does that do away with the America and the principles of Americanism? No. That may all fade into history but, not quite yet. Close. I admit that, and for all intents and purposes Christianity is fading. True Christianity. A new dark ages is coming and is already upon us.
All that stated, I got one post from someone that entered the discussion that literally floored me. It almost left me speechless. I had never seen such a position before. It was the most ridiculous thing I had ever seen in a discussion about God and the supernatural nature of deity. Here is the position:
"REFondrums a supernatural phenomenon (creator) can't, by definition, interact with its creation or even create it. Nor can a creation ever glean evidence of its supernatural creator. If either occurs the phenomenon or entity is not supernatural."
To me, a five year old would look at that and say, What are you talking about?
A supernatural deity cannot create, cannot interact with its creation, nor create a creature that can interact with it.
I have never seen such a strange and absolutely ridiculous position before. "By definition?" What definition? I asked the man where he got such a strange position. I asked him if he paid for such an education.
Most atheists are ignorant of the Bible. They are ignorant of the God they reject and state the most ridiculous things about God and the Bible. Arguing from ignorance and trying to reason with such, is really coated with failure. I am glutton for punishment, I guess.
God is above all. God is beyond human definition. God is God. The Bible says it numerous ways but, a well known way is this: can the pot tell the potter what he can or cannot do?
Is this what the world is coming to? Mindless irrationality? It is. "Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord."
God is reasonable. He asks us to be reasonable. The truth is, if you will not reason with God you will lose the ability to reason. Reason and rationality are part of the mind. Not the brain. Mind. Conscience. The brain is a mass of cells, chemicals, electric pulses, and such. The mind is something else. Random chemicals do not think, do not reason, do not try to be rational or irrational. Chemicals do not love, hate, exhibit patience or impatience, happiness or sadness. Chemicals have no purpose, have no plans, have no path. Even the act of survival by the smallest cell is not the act of random chemicals. Instinct is mind. What mind began it all? Information. Laws. Constants. Fine tuning of a universe. Where did it all come from? Chaos? Seriously?
To place such a weird wall around God, as Creator, is a very odd thing, indeed. God is supernatural, above the natural, outside the natural. He created and controls the natural. An atheist sees that as totally unreasonable to believe. The thing is, atheism is a void. It is a valueless void of the most unreasonable positions anyone can have. They have no explanations for much of anything. They cannot say how anything came into being with any empirical facts. They cannot address morality because that is something society recognizes as something that comes from God, a higher source. Random chemicals do not have morality. If everything came from an accidental event in a primordial soup and "life" came into being, it is an accident of chemical composition. That is it. Morality is not part of it. Answers to life's questions are not part of it. Information has no source, meaning; a book can write itself. We all know that is not happening but, somehow, my belief in a Creator is unreasonable?
I give these detractors the last word because revolving doors are a waste of time. Especially when ad hominem attacks get involved. I ask them to explain tears, the system of tears. They never can. They don't even try.
I have pretty thick skin. Calling me a "nut" is pretty pointless. At least back it up with some salient reasoning. Having been an atheist most of my young life, until I was 24, I know about all the arguments against "God." I was ignorant. I was foolish. And that is what the Bible states - The fool says in his heart, There is no God.
As humanism envelopes the world, people of any and all faith are in for some trouble. And yet, the Bible states, emphatically, it shall be professed believers who will end up the worst persecutors and wicked elements the world has ever seen. Well, we already have the history of Romanism and the Dark Ages and Inquisition, as well as the ignorance of professed Christians in professed Protestantism who carried out shameful, heinous acts on believers who disagreed with them. None of that is Christ. None of that is representative of Jesus and the truth that is in Him. They are light years apart.
I wish people could understand that. More and more, though, they will not. They will believe lies. They will remain confused. They will get more irrational and hateful towards those who love and obey God. That is the natural progression of unbelief. Civility goes. Incivility becomes the norm.
As it was in the days of Noah, as it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, so shall it also be in the days of the coming of the Son of man.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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251. Told You So - May 13, 2021
Over one year ago I began seeing information/documentation that the virus began in a lab in the USA, then after the USA placed a moratorium on researching these viruses, enhancing them, making them stronger to see what effect they might have on humans, a Chinese doctor left the USA with the virus, went back to her lab in Wuhan China, and with funding from Fauci's organization, continued to work on the virus. Somehow it got out and here we are.
I went to my YT channel today and saw in the side bar, an interview with Sen. Rand Paul and this "battle" he had with Anthony Fauci in Senate chambers. Paul was interviewed on Fox news. I watched it. Well, well, well. Are the chickens come home to roost?
As usual these people move money in ways to cover their tracks. Unfortunately, the Chinese doctor admits where she got her money to do her research, and other stuff is out there showing where the money came from.
I seriously doubt YouTube leaves this video up. They take every other testimony to truth down, when it comes to Covid and Leftist agenda. Why leave that one in place, as damning as it is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX049inRUcY
No, for all those out there who scream "conspiracy theory!!!" at the drop of a hat, there comes the day when the chickens do come home to roost. Wicked people do wicked things and keep them as hidden and covered as they can. Why? Because they know when things are wrong and they have to hide them. Only a totally corrupt system does things in the open. We aren't quite there, yet. Fauci refuses to admit his actions, and if investigations are actually done, which remains completely dubious in my mind, you can be sure Bill Gates and others will be discovered and named, as well.
Crash and burn, baby. Crash and burn. If you get away with it here, in the end, you still face God, who knows it all. Who knows more than it all. He knows every thought, every word, every deed, and every motive behind it all, which is why His judgment is just. His scales leave nothing out. And He shall graciously allow the redeemed to view it all, to go over all the "books" when the time comes, so that we may see just who, what, when, where, why and how everything took place, in everyone's life. Indeed, that is what the 1,000 years are there for. Lots of questions. All the answers.
I am thankful Rand Paul is not backing away from this. I'm sure he has his pressures to let it go, to leave it alone. He has guts. And he is smart, too. He's no bull in a China shop like Trump could be, and general was. I wish Paul stood up to more during Trump's four years.
I don't know the numbers anymore. I don't follow them. "Deaths" are completely inconclusive because the WHO, and CDC in America convoluted the process to get the numbers; making the death count as high as possible to scare people into compliance. Cases are immaterial. Those are only numbers of people who tested positive, even if their symptoms were virtually unknown to each individual. Now, it's all about cases outside America and variants, mutations, and Fauci being seen on tv interviews day in and day out, to keep the fear as high as possible. It's all breaking down, though.
You know I do not like living in Texas. I will say this, despite my aversion to the region. Regardless of plenty of things I have no respect for from this governor and wrote him so, as far as this event, he has opened up the state and things are moving again. It truly pains me to see employees of so many stores being forced to wear masks. If nothing else, it lets me know what companies are run by radical Leftists or those run by scared people with not an ounce of common sense or investigative minds to act on their own. It's just easier to force people what to do to cover your butt. I'm sure they think about all the ways a lawsuit can be devised if someone's sickness could be traced back to their place of business. The thing is, any defense attorney they hired would produce scads of evidence from the highest sources that masks do not work and a 6 foot distance requirement is also moot. Of course, that would open up the business to charges of adherence to what, to mandate masks and distance, etc., etc., etc.
Sorry, Mr. businessman. Sorry, Ms. CEO. You can't have it both ways. Either the virus is deadly all by itself and masks are necessary or it and they are not.
The latter is the truth and what do you think will happen when election time comes and millions of people out of work, with their lives ruined, enter the voting booths? Just how many votes do political criminals think they can switch and get away with next time? Well, be guaranteed, we will see, for they will certainly try. No election is safe anymore, and probably has not been for years. Those despots destroying lives will pay, at least a political penalty, if not a higher one, when all is said and done.
Do you see how corruption is all tied in together? All the same players, with all the same money, with all the same agenda are behind the dark swamp and its muck, and they use whoever they can to get their dirty work done: BLM, Antifa, the WHO, the CDC, corporations, any and all Leftist organizations and their minions: whoever, whatever they can buy.
I'm actually surprised FOX and Brian Kilmeade are going after this, all things considered.
I do hope Fauci and co. are brought to task for this. I won't hold my breath.
I went to my YT channel today and saw in the side bar, an interview with Sen. Rand Paul and this "battle" he had with Anthony Fauci in Senate chambers. Paul was interviewed on Fox news. I watched it. Well, well, well. Are the chickens come home to roost?
As usual these people move money in ways to cover their tracks. Unfortunately, the Chinese doctor admits where she got her money to do her research, and other stuff is out there showing where the money came from.
I seriously doubt YouTube leaves this video up. They take every other testimony to truth down, when it comes to Covid and Leftist agenda. Why leave that one in place, as damning as it is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX049inRUcY
No, for all those out there who scream "conspiracy theory!!!" at the drop of a hat, there comes the day when the chickens do come home to roost. Wicked people do wicked things and keep them as hidden and covered as they can. Why? Because they know when things are wrong and they have to hide them. Only a totally corrupt system does things in the open. We aren't quite there, yet. Fauci refuses to admit his actions, and if investigations are actually done, which remains completely dubious in my mind, you can be sure Bill Gates and others will be discovered and named, as well.
Crash and burn, baby. Crash and burn. If you get away with it here, in the end, you still face God, who knows it all. Who knows more than it all. He knows every thought, every word, every deed, and every motive behind it all, which is why His judgment is just. His scales leave nothing out. And He shall graciously allow the redeemed to view it all, to go over all the "books" when the time comes, so that we may see just who, what, when, where, why and how everything took place, in everyone's life. Indeed, that is what the 1,000 years are there for. Lots of questions. All the answers.
I am thankful Rand Paul is not backing away from this. I'm sure he has his pressures to let it go, to leave it alone. He has guts. And he is smart, too. He's no bull in a China shop like Trump could be, and general was. I wish Paul stood up to more during Trump's four years.
I don't know the numbers anymore. I don't follow them. "Deaths" are completely inconclusive because the WHO, and CDC in America convoluted the process to get the numbers; making the death count as high as possible to scare people into compliance. Cases are immaterial. Those are only numbers of people who tested positive, even if their symptoms were virtually unknown to each individual. Now, it's all about cases outside America and variants, mutations, and Fauci being seen on tv interviews day in and day out, to keep the fear as high as possible. It's all breaking down, though.
You know I do not like living in Texas. I will say this, despite my aversion to the region. Regardless of plenty of things I have no respect for from this governor and wrote him so, as far as this event, he has opened up the state and things are moving again. It truly pains me to see employees of so many stores being forced to wear masks. If nothing else, it lets me know what companies are run by radical Leftists or those run by scared people with not an ounce of common sense or investigative minds to act on their own. It's just easier to force people what to do to cover your butt. I'm sure they think about all the ways a lawsuit can be devised if someone's sickness could be traced back to their place of business. The thing is, any defense attorney they hired would produce scads of evidence from the highest sources that masks do not work and a 6 foot distance requirement is also moot. Of course, that would open up the business to charges of adherence to what, to mandate masks and distance, etc., etc., etc.
Sorry, Mr. businessman. Sorry, Ms. CEO. You can't have it both ways. Either the virus is deadly all by itself and masks are necessary or it and they are not.
The latter is the truth and what do you think will happen when election time comes and millions of people out of work, with their lives ruined, enter the voting booths? Just how many votes do political criminals think they can switch and get away with next time? Well, be guaranteed, we will see, for they will certainly try. No election is safe anymore, and probably has not been for years. Those despots destroying lives will pay, at least a political penalty, if not a higher one, when all is said and done.
Do you see how corruption is all tied in together? All the same players, with all the same money, with all the same agenda are behind the dark swamp and its muck, and they use whoever they can to get their dirty work done: BLM, Antifa, the WHO, the CDC, corporations, any and all Leftist organizations and their minions: whoever, whatever they can buy.
I'm actually surprised FOX and Brian Kilmeade are going after this, all things considered.
I do hope Fauci and co. are brought to task for this. I won't hold my breath.
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252. No Causal LInk - May 14, 2021
Unless you really know the English language, or at least take the time to look up word usage when something meets your squinted eyes, you learn that anything that comes from any agency linked to the Federal government should be read carefully because reality for them, for what they want to portray, and reality for the rest of us are two, very different things.
As more and more information about the Covid vaccines travel, more and more people are hesitant to take it.
Personally, like I have said, I don't do drugs. So, for me, I would not take the vaccine regardless of any stats causing people to be hesitant. The statistics are there, though, and now that information about the vaccines is coming out; what they are and how they work, very unlike vaccines in the past, a lot of absolute refusal to take them has mounted a war against the harbingers of molecular design.
Here is an article to read about vaccine statistics so far. Read it. If you have any questions in your mind, read it. If you don't, read it anyway.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/covid-vaers-data-reports-vaccine-deaths/
And here is the link to the CDC site the article is based on:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html
Aside from the statistics being alarming enough, I hate lying, and lies that have been perpetuated through this event are stacked to heaven and God knows them all and a day of reckoning shall come.
The CDC states that the percentage of people dying after taking the vaccine is 0.0017% of the number of people vaccinated, which is 259,000,000. That would be 4,178 if you don't have a calculator handy. The number of people with adverse effects, though, is over 157,000, of which 16,014 resulted in serious injury. 157k is more than all accounted for adverse effects in the last 20 years.
Here is the rub, the sandpaper on a baby's skin rub. The CDC states there is "no causal link" between the Vac and the stats. Well, of course not. How can you really know if the Vac caused the result? All apparently healthy people might have had UNDERLYING CONDITIONS they and no one else knew about.
So WHY didn't the CDC use the same standard in telling Americans the death count for Covid had to be based on the same standard??? No. They sent out forms and mandates that required doctors to pronounce death associated with Covid, even if NO SYMPTOMS were present. Doctors rose up and began telling the world. Those doctors were marginalized, shut down on social media platforms, fired, threatened, harassed, and in a few cases persecuted.
What the CDC did was wait a year to tell Americans only 2% of reported Covid deaths were solely caused by the virus and it's effects. All other deaths had underlying conditions that the virus worsened, which caused death. Only 2% of people who died, died from the effects of the virus, alone.
THEY stated that fact on their website. Was there any outrage? Was there any response from the main stream media? Was there any kind of accountability or responsibility to be held by anyone in the CDC for such a gross and disgusting negligence of telling the truth? No.
Do not even come close to me and call me a conspiracy theorist or denier or anything of the kind. It's a BB off a battleship. If you want to live blind, do so. Do not ask anyone else to live that way.
The Leftist Democrat Party is currently making good on their agenda to destroy the Republic of the United States of America. No crime is too destitute of honesty to pull off, no lie to dark to tell, no semblance of reality to be seen. They are lunatics on a mission and if you have a voice that anyone listens to, fully armed SWAT teams can just break down your door in the middle of the night and haul you away, and the media will be there to capture it all and scare the daylights out of any American who thinks they can call it all despotism and get a way with it.
Oaths to protect the Constitution of the United Sates are now meaningless to those in control. If they want you gone, if they see you as a threat, you are, and you can be taken away, put in jail, and only people with money to hire powerful attorneys will step out until their cases are heard, tried before more than likely corrupt judges.
Leftists are literally waging a war against God.
I have consistently stated I believe the USA should now be divided. Draw the lines. Let people live where they want: a nation that abides by the rule of law or a nation that only cares about controlling people any way they have to.
My wife mentioned the proposal of a MN politician that wants a portion of MN to join South Dakota. Secession is going to grow. Civil war? Can't be fought. Not if the police forces and military side with the despots. The firepower is under their belts, not the average citizens, not even those who love firearms for sport and have a room full of guns and ammo. Civil disturbance is already there, caused by Leftists. If the Right gets upset enough to enter civil disobedience, will the Leftists in control pull a Tiananmen Square and mow citizens down? Of course they will. They have no sense of oath or justice or anything but, power.
MTG. Know what that represents? Who? Marjorie Taylor Greene. One of the newly elected Reps in Congress. Fearless. Outspoken. A Rockstar for patriots. She stated a response to AOC, and AOC got her feelings hurt, and now Pelosi is trying to marginalize Greene in any way she can. Of all the disgusting things people in Congress said about Trump in four years, nothing. No responsibility, no accountability. AOC gets offended, MTG must be shut down. HYPOCRISY on parade.
How long it will take to completely reduce the USA to third-world status I don't know and all the predictions are meaningless. All those who kept their mouths shut in Congress, in the media, anywhere they may have had a voice, are now going to rue the day. Elections have consequences: honest elections, let alone criminal ones. The corruption in the Democrat Party across the nation is astounding the world. Both free and controlled nations are watching with jaws agape as America turns into a totally fascist state controlled by mean-spirited, hateful, and despotic shadows of a once - at least for show - place where statesmen made some sort of effort to guard the Republic and its Constitution. No more.
Over 1000 gas stations closed. No gas. Grocery prices going up so fast everyone is going into shock at the check out counter. How can a few bags of groceries cost $100??? The price of building materials causing the cost of a house to rise by 40% in some places? The dollar being devaluated as more and more money is printed to give away to illegal residents, and all the people effected by Covid mandates these devils pronounced to put America in the exact place it is in!
My blood pressure is rising.
God help us.
As more and more information about the Covid vaccines travel, more and more people are hesitant to take it.
Personally, like I have said, I don't do drugs. So, for me, I would not take the vaccine regardless of any stats causing people to be hesitant. The statistics are there, though, and now that information about the vaccines is coming out; what they are and how they work, very unlike vaccines in the past, a lot of absolute refusal to take them has mounted a war against the harbingers of molecular design.
Here is an article to read about vaccine statistics so far. Read it. If you have any questions in your mind, read it. If you don't, read it anyway.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/covid-vaers-data-reports-vaccine-deaths/
And here is the link to the CDC site the article is based on:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html
Aside from the statistics being alarming enough, I hate lying, and lies that have been perpetuated through this event are stacked to heaven and God knows them all and a day of reckoning shall come.
The CDC states that the percentage of people dying after taking the vaccine is 0.0017% of the number of people vaccinated, which is 259,000,000. That would be 4,178 if you don't have a calculator handy. The number of people with adverse effects, though, is over 157,000, of which 16,014 resulted in serious injury. 157k is more than all accounted for adverse effects in the last 20 years.
Here is the rub, the sandpaper on a baby's skin rub. The CDC states there is "no causal link" between the Vac and the stats. Well, of course not. How can you really know if the Vac caused the result? All apparently healthy people might have had UNDERLYING CONDITIONS they and no one else knew about.
So WHY didn't the CDC use the same standard in telling Americans the death count for Covid had to be based on the same standard??? No. They sent out forms and mandates that required doctors to pronounce death associated with Covid, even if NO SYMPTOMS were present. Doctors rose up and began telling the world. Those doctors were marginalized, shut down on social media platforms, fired, threatened, harassed, and in a few cases persecuted.
What the CDC did was wait a year to tell Americans only 2% of reported Covid deaths were solely caused by the virus and it's effects. All other deaths had underlying conditions that the virus worsened, which caused death. Only 2% of people who died, died from the effects of the virus, alone.
THEY stated that fact on their website. Was there any outrage? Was there any response from the main stream media? Was there any kind of accountability or responsibility to be held by anyone in the CDC for such a gross and disgusting negligence of telling the truth? No.
Do not even come close to me and call me a conspiracy theorist or denier or anything of the kind. It's a BB off a battleship. If you want to live blind, do so. Do not ask anyone else to live that way.
The Leftist Democrat Party is currently making good on their agenda to destroy the Republic of the United States of America. No crime is too destitute of honesty to pull off, no lie to dark to tell, no semblance of reality to be seen. They are lunatics on a mission and if you have a voice that anyone listens to, fully armed SWAT teams can just break down your door in the middle of the night and haul you away, and the media will be there to capture it all and scare the daylights out of any American who thinks they can call it all despotism and get a way with it.
Oaths to protect the Constitution of the United Sates are now meaningless to those in control. If they want you gone, if they see you as a threat, you are, and you can be taken away, put in jail, and only people with money to hire powerful attorneys will step out until their cases are heard, tried before more than likely corrupt judges.
Leftists are literally waging a war against God.
I have consistently stated I believe the USA should now be divided. Draw the lines. Let people live where they want: a nation that abides by the rule of law or a nation that only cares about controlling people any way they have to.
My wife mentioned the proposal of a MN politician that wants a portion of MN to join South Dakota. Secession is going to grow. Civil war? Can't be fought. Not if the police forces and military side with the despots. The firepower is under their belts, not the average citizens, not even those who love firearms for sport and have a room full of guns and ammo. Civil disturbance is already there, caused by Leftists. If the Right gets upset enough to enter civil disobedience, will the Leftists in control pull a Tiananmen Square and mow citizens down? Of course they will. They have no sense of oath or justice or anything but, power.
MTG. Know what that represents? Who? Marjorie Taylor Greene. One of the newly elected Reps in Congress. Fearless. Outspoken. A Rockstar for patriots. She stated a response to AOC, and AOC got her feelings hurt, and now Pelosi is trying to marginalize Greene in any way she can. Of all the disgusting things people in Congress said about Trump in four years, nothing. No responsibility, no accountability. AOC gets offended, MTG must be shut down. HYPOCRISY on parade.
How long it will take to completely reduce the USA to third-world status I don't know and all the predictions are meaningless. All those who kept their mouths shut in Congress, in the media, anywhere they may have had a voice, are now going to rue the day. Elections have consequences: honest elections, let alone criminal ones. The corruption in the Democrat Party across the nation is astounding the world. Both free and controlled nations are watching with jaws agape as America turns into a totally fascist state controlled by mean-spirited, hateful, and despotic shadows of a once - at least for show - place where statesmen made some sort of effort to guard the Republic and its Constitution. No more.
Over 1000 gas stations closed. No gas. Grocery prices going up so fast everyone is going into shock at the check out counter. How can a few bags of groceries cost $100??? The price of building materials causing the cost of a house to rise by 40% in some places? The dollar being devaluated as more and more money is printed to give away to illegal residents, and all the people effected by Covid mandates these devils pronounced to put America in the exact place it is in!
My blood pressure is rising.
God help us.
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253. Akiane Kramarik - May 15, 2021
I readily confess, I am out of the loop of what's well-known and popular. For one, I don't really care about things that are popular, unless it is something that truly enhances my own thoughts and feelings, or can aid me in the physical necessities of life. Two, most of what is popular is pretty banal, to me.
Because of her popularity you may already know who Akiane Kramarik is. I was watching something on YT not even closely involved with her and her life and work but, there she was, a little girl and some documentary about her and how God guides her when she paints, in the side bar. One click and... eyes wide open.
To state this young woman, now but, as a young girl can stun you and drop your jaw with her paintings is a total understatement. I kept asking myself, how is this possible? As an older teenager, okay but, as a young girl?
She began having dreams, or visions when she was 4. She began sketching at 5, then painting, sometimes 14 hours a day. She was homeschooled and her parents figured hey, if this is her passion and what she wants to do, let her do it. Better than sitting in front of the tv or on a cell phone for hours a day. Amen to that.
As I watched her documentaries, which are stunning in their own right, I wondered how well I could have played a drum set if my parents had the same concepts for education and pursuit of happiness. There were days I played for hours but, typical school... I hated it. I ended up dropping out at 15. People today ask me where I went to college. I tell them the university of life in Christ. Studying the Bible is the greatest education a person can have. That is not the popular opinion of our day. So be it. I just know what exposure to the Bible has done for me.
When you give God the recognition He is due, the glory He is due, as the Giver of all talents and gifts, well, to say Akiane is talented and gifted seems a foolish thing to say. What she does surpasses talent. She captures things on canvas well beyond images. She is a graceful, articulate young woman, and peaceful, too. I was really moved by that, watching some of her documentaries.
She has handled fame and fortune well, and apparently is not a stranger to the dark side of humanity that can really mess your life up. She maintains her composure, though, at least for the camera (can she really stay that calm in every storm?). Her family is certainly a strong support. Factually, she has supported them since her talent and prints of paintings began selling for enormous sums of money.
If you haven't acquainted yourself with her life and work, a blessing awaits.
I think of heaven, eternal life, where every, single redeemed person will be able to pursue passions, talents, gifts, life that God designed for each and every one of us. Forever, to fulfill every possible height of pursuit. A universe to explore, the size of which is yet unknown and shall remain so until the children of God are let loose in their Father's backyard. Untold, impossible numbers of people to meet and things to experience, and then, capture it all in some way special, unique to each of us.
Indeed, I suppose that is a lot to take away from some YouTube videos about a child artist but, I'm thankful it happened.
Akiane Kramarik.
Look her up.
https://www.youtube.com/user/akianeart/videos
Because of her popularity you may already know who Akiane Kramarik is. I was watching something on YT not even closely involved with her and her life and work but, there she was, a little girl and some documentary about her and how God guides her when she paints, in the side bar. One click and... eyes wide open.
To state this young woman, now but, as a young girl can stun you and drop your jaw with her paintings is a total understatement. I kept asking myself, how is this possible? As an older teenager, okay but, as a young girl?
She began having dreams, or visions when she was 4. She began sketching at 5, then painting, sometimes 14 hours a day. She was homeschooled and her parents figured hey, if this is her passion and what she wants to do, let her do it. Better than sitting in front of the tv or on a cell phone for hours a day. Amen to that.
As I watched her documentaries, which are stunning in their own right, I wondered how well I could have played a drum set if my parents had the same concepts for education and pursuit of happiness. There were days I played for hours but, typical school... I hated it. I ended up dropping out at 15. People today ask me where I went to college. I tell them the university of life in Christ. Studying the Bible is the greatest education a person can have. That is not the popular opinion of our day. So be it. I just know what exposure to the Bible has done for me.
When you give God the recognition He is due, the glory He is due, as the Giver of all talents and gifts, well, to say Akiane is talented and gifted seems a foolish thing to say. What she does surpasses talent. She captures things on canvas well beyond images. She is a graceful, articulate young woman, and peaceful, too. I was really moved by that, watching some of her documentaries.
She has handled fame and fortune well, and apparently is not a stranger to the dark side of humanity that can really mess your life up. She maintains her composure, though, at least for the camera (can she really stay that calm in every storm?). Her family is certainly a strong support. Factually, she has supported them since her talent and prints of paintings began selling for enormous sums of money.
If you haven't acquainted yourself with her life and work, a blessing awaits.
I think of heaven, eternal life, where every, single redeemed person will be able to pursue passions, talents, gifts, life that God designed for each and every one of us. Forever, to fulfill every possible height of pursuit. A universe to explore, the size of which is yet unknown and shall remain so until the children of God are let loose in their Father's backyard. Untold, impossible numbers of people to meet and things to experience, and then, capture it all in some way special, unique to each of us.
Indeed, I suppose that is a lot to take away from some YouTube videos about a child artist but, I'm thankful it happened.
Akiane Kramarik.
Look her up.
https://www.youtube.com/user/akianeart/videos
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254. Harry, Harry, Harry - May 16, 2021
Harry, Harry, Harry. Why does everybody call him "Prince" if he has renounced all royal duties? Does the man have a last name, or what?
I do not know where to even begin here. Harry states we should not politicize science. Anthony Fauci is the current potentate of politicizing science. Seemingly every Democrat in D.C. politicizes science.
Maybe Harry should first get a decent, working definition of 'science' before he comments about it. Like he said, you have to watch what comes out of your mouth.
Harry made comments about some things podcaster, Joe Rogan said about vaccines, and his opinion of the American first amendment: freedom of speech and all that "bonkers" stuff.
I am not a listener to Joe Rogan. I have seen clips of some of his programs on YT. I don't have the same worldview Rogan has, and therefore, I find him not even sure, himself, what he believes and stands for. That said, he is scientifically correct, based on the evidence and research behind it: if someone is healthy, if someone exercises, if people take care of themselves - if someone has a healthy immune system God devised and designed to address invasive entities, like viruses - nobody absolutely needs any vaccine to address Covid. Especially given their track record thus far since their administered march into people's blood streams.
I saw a comment from someone in an elected civil servant position, or chosen to be in a position of some kind, they are afraid to go into a store where people are not wearing masks.* Then stay home. Do your shopping online. Exercise your option to take curbside service. Do not let your ignorance of the truth about this virus or any virus politicized by politicians and corrupt "scientists," force medical tyranny on anyone.
They will say I should stay home, even though if asked to provide proof why I should do so, they cannot. ALL world-wide research about the virus shows over a 99% recovery rate. It is not a death sentence if you are healthy. Most people are not even aware they have it or had it. Why is that woman afraid? Who or what made her afraid?
Harry, the ex-Royal, believes, though he does not understand our first amendment, it is "bonkers." For those Americans and others who may not know what the term means, you can guess it means silly, stupid, crazy, unbalanced, and other such negative mental deviations from sanity.
Harry is obviously ignorant of American history and the reasons why the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution exists. Seeing his country is responsible for its creation, with Britain's tyranny and attack on America in the Revolution, that puts Mr. Harry in a curious position to make such a comment. He should follow his own advice and be careful what comes out of his mouth. Be that as it may, Harry's ignorance will only be applauded by the Left, who would love to see the first and second and other amendments stricken from the document, so they can have more and more control.
Medical tyranny is coming. Medical/vaccine passports are already out there, and some American politicians, who should not politicize science and medicine, are already calling for them for all Americans. So, you see, the first amendment stands in their way. Freedom and liberty, granted to people by their Creator, must be removed and they are delighted to receive Harry's ignorant help to do so.
Freedom, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness, Individualism, Rights from God, all designed to be a rule of law to keep peace in a decently ordered society, do not work for lunatics who want control; who live for ability to gain more control, more power. That is why "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts, absolutely."
I am happy I am 66 and will not have to live very long through what is happening and what is coming. My children, I feel sorry for. I feel sad for the young being mesmerized by thin veneers of voices bent on controlling them and they just cannot see it. They are educated by Leftists. They are raised by Leftists, more and more, and common sense and logic are becoming so scarce the world would actually be better off with a huge egotist like Donald Trump than bonkers like Madame Pelosi and company. They are dangerous people. They have proven that for decades of power grabs and control. They are wannabe tyrants, despots; void of common sense, reason, and certainly the rule of law designed by America's Founders. They are the poster-children of wolves in sheep's clothing. Actually, at this point, they show themselves openly to be wolves. They no longer care about perceptions by Americans. They have their blinded, useful idiots to do their bidding coast to coast and they are openly hostile to anyone and everything that opposes them.
Thank God He is on the throne. That will not stop what is coming. We reap what we sow. We elect the lawless and tyrants, we get lawlessness and tyranny. It just gives those who trust in God confidence and hope that this world, when it passes away, will be replaced by a new one, a promised home wherein abides peace, harmony, tranquility, and knowledge of what ignorance and disregarding the rule of law does to any society. It destroys it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*UPDATE* - While others have been stating (and the flow of information is very fast and fluid right now), the necessity for forced vaccinations and/or ability to show proof of that in some way, I was specifically referring to comments by Dr. Leana Wen, a Washington Post columnist and CNN contributor. She is not an elected civil servant or in a position placed by one.
I do not know where to even begin here. Harry states we should not politicize science. Anthony Fauci is the current potentate of politicizing science. Seemingly every Democrat in D.C. politicizes science.
Maybe Harry should first get a decent, working definition of 'science' before he comments about it. Like he said, you have to watch what comes out of your mouth.
Harry made comments about some things podcaster, Joe Rogan said about vaccines, and his opinion of the American first amendment: freedom of speech and all that "bonkers" stuff.
I am not a listener to Joe Rogan. I have seen clips of some of his programs on YT. I don't have the same worldview Rogan has, and therefore, I find him not even sure, himself, what he believes and stands for. That said, he is scientifically correct, based on the evidence and research behind it: if someone is healthy, if someone exercises, if people take care of themselves - if someone has a healthy immune system God devised and designed to address invasive entities, like viruses - nobody absolutely needs any vaccine to address Covid. Especially given their track record thus far since their administered march into people's blood streams.
I saw a comment from someone in an elected civil servant position, or chosen to be in a position of some kind, they are afraid to go into a store where people are not wearing masks.* Then stay home. Do your shopping online. Exercise your option to take curbside service. Do not let your ignorance of the truth about this virus or any virus politicized by politicians and corrupt "scientists," force medical tyranny on anyone.
They will say I should stay home, even though if asked to provide proof why I should do so, they cannot. ALL world-wide research about the virus shows over a 99% recovery rate. It is not a death sentence if you are healthy. Most people are not even aware they have it or had it. Why is that woman afraid? Who or what made her afraid?
Harry, the ex-Royal, believes, though he does not understand our first amendment, it is "bonkers." For those Americans and others who may not know what the term means, you can guess it means silly, stupid, crazy, unbalanced, and other such negative mental deviations from sanity.
Harry is obviously ignorant of American history and the reasons why the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution exists. Seeing his country is responsible for its creation, with Britain's tyranny and attack on America in the Revolution, that puts Mr. Harry in a curious position to make such a comment. He should follow his own advice and be careful what comes out of his mouth. Be that as it may, Harry's ignorance will only be applauded by the Left, who would love to see the first and second and other amendments stricken from the document, so they can have more and more control.
Medical tyranny is coming. Medical/vaccine passports are already out there, and some American politicians, who should not politicize science and medicine, are already calling for them for all Americans. So, you see, the first amendment stands in their way. Freedom and liberty, granted to people by their Creator, must be removed and they are delighted to receive Harry's ignorant help to do so.
Freedom, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness, Individualism, Rights from God, all designed to be a rule of law to keep peace in a decently ordered society, do not work for lunatics who want control; who live for ability to gain more control, more power. That is why "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts, absolutely."
I am happy I am 66 and will not have to live very long through what is happening and what is coming. My children, I feel sorry for. I feel sad for the young being mesmerized by thin veneers of voices bent on controlling them and they just cannot see it. They are educated by Leftists. They are raised by Leftists, more and more, and common sense and logic are becoming so scarce the world would actually be better off with a huge egotist like Donald Trump than bonkers like Madame Pelosi and company. They are dangerous people. They have proven that for decades of power grabs and control. They are wannabe tyrants, despots; void of common sense, reason, and certainly the rule of law designed by America's Founders. They are the poster-children of wolves in sheep's clothing. Actually, at this point, they show themselves openly to be wolves. They no longer care about perceptions by Americans. They have their blinded, useful idiots to do their bidding coast to coast and they are openly hostile to anyone and everything that opposes them.
Thank God He is on the throne. That will not stop what is coming. We reap what we sow. We elect the lawless and tyrants, we get lawlessness and tyranny. It just gives those who trust in God confidence and hope that this world, when it passes away, will be replaced by a new one, a promised home wherein abides peace, harmony, tranquility, and knowledge of what ignorance and disregarding the rule of law does to any society. It destroys it.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
*UPDATE* - While others have been stating (and the flow of information is very fast and fluid right now), the necessity for forced vaccinations and/or ability to show proof of that in some way, I was specifically referring to comments by Dr. Leana Wen, a Washington Post columnist and CNN contributor. She is not an elected civil servant or in a position placed by one.
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255. A Gun Problem in Providence? - May 16, 2021
V. LIMITS OF AUTHORITY
A. Oath of Office
1. Each Department member will take the following Oath of Office prior to assuming sworn status:
I, ________, DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND; THAT I WILL, WELL AND FAITHFULLY, EXECUTE MY DUTIES AS A POLICE OFFICER; FAITHFULLY AND IMPARTIALLY ENFORCING ALL LAWS AND ORDINANCES; ZEALOUSLY GUARDING THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF ALL PERSONS; AND PROMPTLY OBEYING THE ORDERS OF THE OFFICERS APPOINTED OVER ME; ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 100.02 – Ethics and Limits of Authority Page 7 REGULATIONS OF THE PROVIDENCE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE; SO HELP ME, GOD.
That is the oath of office for law enforcement officers in Providence, Rhode Island.
I know Rhode Island. All my relatives are from there and most live there. My parents moved to CT before I was born. My father found work there and CT is the state I called home till I was around 30 years old.
I just saw the news that a shooting took place in Providence. Nine people dead, ages 19-25. A gang related incident. I was not aware little Rhode Island had gangs. I have not been there in many years. I spent most of my summers as a child with my cousins there. I remember it's small town atmosphere. I remember its beaches. I got caught in the undertow of a storm surf, and busted a tooth, body surfing there, with some friends from CT. I know the state has been run by Democrats for a long, long time. My eldest uncle, now deceased, like his brothers and for a long time, his sister, my mother, were lifelong Democrats. Same for my father's side of the family. When my mom passed away and he and his wife came to the funeral, he told me he no longer recognized the Democrat Party. He saw it as an anti-American organization. That was back in Obama's administration.
The Providence police chief, Hugh Clements, says the streets have a gun problem. No. The streets apparently have a gang problem. If you believe the oath you took to become a law enforcement officer, you never say there is a gun problem. Guns do not cause problems for law-biding citizens. Guns cause problems in the hands of loose criminal elements.
The Code of Ethics for Providence police officers contains this first and last paragraph:
“As a law enforcement officer, my fundamental duty is to serve the community; to safeguard lives and property; to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation, and the peaceful against violence or disorder; and to respect the constitutional rights of all to liberty, equality, and justice.
"I know that I alone am responsible for my own standard of professional performance and will take every reasonable opportunity to enhance and improve my level of knowledge and competence. I will constantly strive to achieve these objectives and ideals, dedicating myself before God to my chosen profession . . . law enforcement.”
Now, when I read these things I see obvious points of mandate, which I underlined. Logically, if violent gangs exist, violent gangs must be brought under the oath of office "law enforcement" officers take, abiding by the code of ethics the department holds up. You protect the innocent, the weak, and the peaceful by removing the violent gangs. You take them down, you make it impossible for them to exist. You do not say there is a gun problem. Removing guns leaves knives, pipes, bottles, bricks, fire, bombs, cars, trucks, and a thousand other possible items of death and destruction to keep going. They are not the problem. Gangs are the problem. A ten year old can see the logic in that. Why can't the police chief of Providence, R.I. see that? Is he a committed Democrat, who would like to see the Second Amendment moot and disregarded, if not removed? According to the code of ethics, that should mean zip to the issue at hand:
"I will never act officiously or permit personal feelings, prejudices, political beliefs, aspirations, animosities, or friendships to influence my decisions. With no compromise for crime and with relentless prosecution of criminals, I will enforce the law courteously and appropriately without fear or favor, malice or ill will, never employing unnecessary force or violence and never accepting gratuities."
I am certain the man is under enormous pressure. Most chiefs of police in the USA are, these days but, certainly those in Leftist run cities and states where crime runs rampant. That is the heat in kitchen. You deal with it or you resign. You enforce the law - your duty before God and the public trust - or you resign. You destroy the violent gangs or they continue to destroy lives and neighborhoods of the innocent, the weak, and the peaceful.
People are protesting police departments and corrupt police officers. Why? Because there are police officers who do not follow their oaths or code of ethics. They should be completely removed; not protected by any "blue wall," but addressed and dealt with by Red, White, and Blue principles before God.
Police officers are leaving their jobs in droves across America, especially Leftist run cities. They can no longer do the jobs they were hired to do. The same is happening in America's military branches. The Left will replace patriots with mind-numbed robotic minions that will do exactly the opposite of oaths and ethics. Even now more and more loyal Americans are being harassed, oppressed and even persecuted.
This is not rocket science. This is common sense. But, as we see throughout America, common sense and adherence to oaths of office and codes of ethics, are fading fast.
If you cannot see the need for the rule of law in a town, a city, or a nation, you have been brainwashed by Leftists, somewhere in your life. The Left are destroying America. Nothing will stop them now. They are lunatics. They are void of anything but the need for power, as the control freaks they are.
Are you ready for what is happening and will take place? If you do not know what it means to be an American and understand the principles of Americanism, as they are being trashed and removed by Leftists coast to coast, learn it fast.
Learn the principles taught by Jesus Christ and develop faith and trust in God, where there is hope.
Time is running out.
A. Oath of Office
1. Each Department member will take the following Oath of Office prior to assuming sworn status:
I, ________, DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND; THAT I WILL, WELL AND FAITHFULLY, EXECUTE MY DUTIES AS A POLICE OFFICER; FAITHFULLY AND IMPARTIALLY ENFORCING ALL LAWS AND ORDINANCES; ZEALOUSLY GUARDING THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF ALL PERSONS; AND PROMPTLY OBEYING THE ORDERS OF THE OFFICERS APPOINTED OVER ME; ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 100.02 – Ethics and Limits of Authority Page 7 REGULATIONS OF THE PROVIDENCE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE; SO HELP ME, GOD.
That is the oath of office for law enforcement officers in Providence, Rhode Island.
I know Rhode Island. All my relatives are from there and most live there. My parents moved to CT before I was born. My father found work there and CT is the state I called home till I was around 30 years old.
I just saw the news that a shooting took place in Providence. Nine people dead, ages 19-25. A gang related incident. I was not aware little Rhode Island had gangs. I have not been there in many years. I spent most of my summers as a child with my cousins there. I remember it's small town atmosphere. I remember its beaches. I got caught in the undertow of a storm surf, and busted a tooth, body surfing there, with some friends from CT. I know the state has been run by Democrats for a long, long time. My eldest uncle, now deceased, like his brothers and for a long time, his sister, my mother, were lifelong Democrats. Same for my father's side of the family. When my mom passed away and he and his wife came to the funeral, he told me he no longer recognized the Democrat Party. He saw it as an anti-American organization. That was back in Obama's administration.
The Providence police chief, Hugh Clements, says the streets have a gun problem. No. The streets apparently have a gang problem. If you believe the oath you took to become a law enforcement officer, you never say there is a gun problem. Guns do not cause problems for law-biding citizens. Guns cause problems in the hands of loose criminal elements.
The Code of Ethics for Providence police officers contains this first and last paragraph:
“As a law enforcement officer, my fundamental duty is to serve the community; to safeguard lives and property; to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation, and the peaceful against violence or disorder; and to respect the constitutional rights of all to liberty, equality, and justice.
"I know that I alone am responsible for my own standard of professional performance and will take every reasonable opportunity to enhance and improve my level of knowledge and competence. I will constantly strive to achieve these objectives and ideals, dedicating myself before God to my chosen profession . . . law enforcement.”
Now, when I read these things I see obvious points of mandate, which I underlined. Logically, if violent gangs exist, violent gangs must be brought under the oath of office "law enforcement" officers take, abiding by the code of ethics the department holds up. You protect the innocent, the weak, and the peaceful by removing the violent gangs. You take them down, you make it impossible for them to exist. You do not say there is a gun problem. Removing guns leaves knives, pipes, bottles, bricks, fire, bombs, cars, trucks, and a thousand other possible items of death and destruction to keep going. They are not the problem. Gangs are the problem. A ten year old can see the logic in that. Why can't the police chief of Providence, R.I. see that? Is he a committed Democrat, who would like to see the Second Amendment moot and disregarded, if not removed? According to the code of ethics, that should mean zip to the issue at hand:
"I will never act officiously or permit personal feelings, prejudices, political beliefs, aspirations, animosities, or friendships to influence my decisions. With no compromise for crime and with relentless prosecution of criminals, I will enforce the law courteously and appropriately without fear or favor, malice or ill will, never employing unnecessary force or violence and never accepting gratuities."
I am certain the man is under enormous pressure. Most chiefs of police in the USA are, these days but, certainly those in Leftist run cities and states where crime runs rampant. That is the heat in kitchen. You deal with it or you resign. You enforce the law - your duty before God and the public trust - or you resign. You destroy the violent gangs or they continue to destroy lives and neighborhoods of the innocent, the weak, and the peaceful.
People are protesting police departments and corrupt police officers. Why? Because there are police officers who do not follow their oaths or code of ethics. They should be completely removed; not protected by any "blue wall," but addressed and dealt with by Red, White, and Blue principles before God.
Police officers are leaving their jobs in droves across America, especially Leftist run cities. They can no longer do the jobs they were hired to do. The same is happening in America's military branches. The Left will replace patriots with mind-numbed robotic minions that will do exactly the opposite of oaths and ethics. Even now more and more loyal Americans are being harassed, oppressed and even persecuted.
This is not rocket science. This is common sense. But, as we see throughout America, common sense and adherence to oaths of office and codes of ethics, are fading fast.
If you cannot see the need for the rule of law in a town, a city, or a nation, you have been brainwashed by Leftists, somewhere in your life. The Left are destroying America. Nothing will stop them now. They are lunatics. They are void of anything but the need for power, as the control freaks they are.
Are you ready for what is happening and will take place? If you do not know what it means to be an American and understand the principles of Americanism, as they are being trashed and removed by Leftists coast to coast, learn it fast.
Learn the principles taught by Jesus Christ and develop faith and trust in God, where there is hope.
Time is running out.
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256. No Sale Yet - May 20, 2021
Okay, it's Friday, a little over two weeks since the release of the CD. No sale yet. It makes me wonder if the statistics for visits and page views that I see when I log in are real, or just some kind of suggested numbers of what you'll see if you go with a paid subscription to Weebly. Is it possible the only people visiting the site are not drummers but, others who tune in to see what I have written on the Thoughts/OpEd pages about current events and things? They could all be drummers and just not into drum solos. They could all be Legend fans and not drummers. Whatever combination, none that want a CD.
My feelings about the supposed camaraderie of the drummer community are born out by the fact that the three drum shops I sent the CD to have not even acknowledged they received it. Why? Maybe they were all victims of Covid shut downs and no longer in business. They haven't taken down their websites.
I tend to think it is a simple matter of having a "name." I've commented on this before.
If you are a "name" you are received. If you are not a name, you are nobody. Ability means nothing. The name factor means everything. That plays into other aspects of the industry, like recordings.
I talked with a friend yesterday and mentioned the big name players out there which are into genres, like Fusion, which has a smaller and smaller fan base over the years, might sell more solo drum CDs to their own fan base than CD recordings of whatever band they are in. A good example would be Vinnie Coliuta. I would guess his fan base, the acknowledgment of his talents from the drum community, is much larger than the fan base of many of the artists he has played with. If he made a drums only album, whether straight soloing or some kind of drum/percussive oriented set of pieces or combination of both, it would be an instant hit within the drum community, and probably outside of it for those who like drums and know Vinnie's abilities.
I could name dozens of players with the same recognition who could do the same.
I remember many years ago someone whose name I cannot remember, put out an album and I don't know exactly what it was but, definitely drum oriented. I distinctly remember he sent copies out to a number of people, one was Dennis Chambers. In an ad he took out in Modern Drummer, among other comments he placed in it, Chambers was quoted as commenting, "What planet is this guy from?" or "This guy is from another planet," something like that. Now, you might figure if Dennis Chambers says that about you, you are off and running. I thought about getting the disk and this was back in the 90's. It slipped my mind and time went on and I never saw anything about that name again. Dennis has the name. I remember his comment about the player who remains nameless to me.
YT is saturated with fantastic players. You might think they could easily find themselves in band on its way to a successful career. Maybe some are and do. Most, though, are a drop in an ocean.
How about the winners of the fastest drummer contests, or the GC Drum-off. How many winners, super-talented individuals, can you name?
I found out the GC contest got into some kind of scandal and it ended four years ago. Even the drum community embroiled in corruption? What's the world coming to? (an end)
Anyway, as I've stated in the past, I'm not much of a one into self-promotion. I have my YT channel. I have this website. I don't frequent drum forums anymore. They are seemingly populated, mostly, by Leftist-minded people as far as those who post, and seeing these forums do not allow discussion of religion or politics, both of which are part of music culture and history, I find the censorship less than commodious. Covid really proved that. Covid shut down the entire music industry for live performance and beyond, and drummers cannot discuss the event beyond what you are doing while sitting at home? Man, you'll find out just how Leftist people are when you discuss something that involves partisan politics. They will tear you to shreds with ad hominem attacks faster than a Chambers' single stroke roll. Life's too short to try and reason with people who cannot maintain a rational discussion. So, I haven't placed any mention of the CD on a forum.
I don't play out live. Not much of a circle of friends. Most would say I am dreaming if I think, in today's tech world, I have claimed any territory of exposure for this gig. They would be correct, of course but, I am who I am. I don't want to be someone I am not.
If word of mouth still works, it is a matter of patience. I have that.
My feelings about the supposed camaraderie of the drummer community are born out by the fact that the three drum shops I sent the CD to have not even acknowledged they received it. Why? Maybe they were all victims of Covid shut downs and no longer in business. They haven't taken down their websites.
I tend to think it is a simple matter of having a "name." I've commented on this before.
If you are a "name" you are received. If you are not a name, you are nobody. Ability means nothing. The name factor means everything. That plays into other aspects of the industry, like recordings.
I talked with a friend yesterday and mentioned the big name players out there which are into genres, like Fusion, which has a smaller and smaller fan base over the years, might sell more solo drum CDs to their own fan base than CD recordings of whatever band they are in. A good example would be Vinnie Coliuta. I would guess his fan base, the acknowledgment of his talents from the drum community, is much larger than the fan base of many of the artists he has played with. If he made a drums only album, whether straight soloing or some kind of drum/percussive oriented set of pieces or combination of both, it would be an instant hit within the drum community, and probably outside of it for those who like drums and know Vinnie's abilities.
I could name dozens of players with the same recognition who could do the same.
I remember many years ago someone whose name I cannot remember, put out an album and I don't know exactly what it was but, definitely drum oriented. I distinctly remember he sent copies out to a number of people, one was Dennis Chambers. In an ad he took out in Modern Drummer, among other comments he placed in it, Chambers was quoted as commenting, "What planet is this guy from?" or "This guy is from another planet," something like that. Now, you might figure if Dennis Chambers says that about you, you are off and running. I thought about getting the disk and this was back in the 90's. It slipped my mind and time went on and I never saw anything about that name again. Dennis has the name. I remember his comment about the player who remains nameless to me.
YT is saturated with fantastic players. You might think they could easily find themselves in band on its way to a successful career. Maybe some are and do. Most, though, are a drop in an ocean.
How about the winners of the fastest drummer contests, or the GC Drum-off. How many winners, super-talented individuals, can you name?
I found out the GC contest got into some kind of scandal and it ended four years ago. Even the drum community embroiled in corruption? What's the world coming to? (an end)
Anyway, as I've stated in the past, I'm not much of a one into self-promotion. I have my YT channel. I have this website. I don't frequent drum forums anymore. They are seemingly populated, mostly, by Leftist-minded people as far as those who post, and seeing these forums do not allow discussion of religion or politics, both of which are part of music culture and history, I find the censorship less than commodious. Covid really proved that. Covid shut down the entire music industry for live performance and beyond, and drummers cannot discuss the event beyond what you are doing while sitting at home? Man, you'll find out just how Leftist people are when you discuss something that involves partisan politics. They will tear you to shreds with ad hominem attacks faster than a Chambers' single stroke roll. Life's too short to try and reason with people who cannot maintain a rational discussion. So, I haven't placed any mention of the CD on a forum.
I don't play out live. Not much of a circle of friends. Most would say I am dreaming if I think, in today's tech world, I have claimed any territory of exposure for this gig. They would be correct, of course but, I am who I am. I don't want to be someone I am not.
If word of mouth still works, it is a matter of patience. I have that.
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257. Evidence - May 21, 2021
This past week has really been an eye-opener for those who care about evidence and truth and facts and honor, integrity, and the United Sates of America.
Someone sent me an email with some simple statistics (and a picture of a beautiful girl holding a serious semi-automatic rifle). The USA stands 3rd in the world for murders from gunfire. If you remove Chicago, Detroit, D.C., St. Louis, and New Orleans, the top 5 American gunfire death cities, America than drops to 189 on a list of 193 nations. And those five cities are all run by Leftists with strict gun control.
More and more news agencies are picking up on the evidence of Anthony Fauci's involvement with the original strain of the virus, its traveling to China with his blessing and money from entities he is involved with, and a whole lot of lying. Will he and others involved pay a criminal price? Not as long as Leftists and corrupt, dangerous deep state agents are in power.
More and more information is coming out about the dangers of these vaccines, which are not vaccines; they are experimental drug potions with specific designs that are dangerous to some right after the injection, to some a few days to weeks after, and in most cases, time will tell how damaged immune systems will become as these drug concoctions remain in human systems and what it ends up doing to millions of people. One of the drugs in one of the experimental fluids is SM-102. According to a chemical company rating document it is not meant for human or veterinary use!!! HOW did such a thing get into an approved medical treatment? Logically, it is not an approved medical treatment.
Did you see how Covid is tracking its way through the Yankees; all of their team members vaccinated? The same can be seen throughout the world. Stories every day of people getting sick again, after receiving the shots.
Biden tells us those who do not take the concoctions will pay a price. He did not state what that price would be. Based on reprehensible comments by Leftists, coast to coast, one can guess. Loss of job, income, freedoms to travel, shop in stores, etc., etc. Emotional and physical harm from minions used to scare and terrorize dissenters from marching to the beat of Orwellian ignorance and stupidity. Oregon is passing a law that only those who are vaccinated can shop without a mask on. Now, I ask you, IF THE VACCINES ARE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT PEOPLE, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE IF UNVACCINATED PEOPLE ARE AROUND YOU. ARE YOU PROTECTED OR NOT?
Today I watched part of a video, a second put out by Mike Lindell, the My Pillow-guy, featuring a government employed contractor; a top-tier expert in hacking and forensic investigation of digital code and data, showing how China, literally, changed hundreds of thousands of votes in the election, favoring Democrat candidate Biden, the new Chinese puppet, and they literally performed an act of war against the United States. They not only tampered with the election. They controlled the criminal outcome, thereby effecting everything America is and does at the Federal level. That is not just an act of espionage but, an act of war, designed to weaken America, and logically, set-up its overthrow.
Will China be held responsible for killing millions of people? Not likely. Will any and all co-conspirators? Unlikely.
What does this mean? What can it mean? It can mean America is now under the control of Communists; the CCP. It can mean the end of Constitutional freedoms and liberty. It can mean many things, that are all negative.
It can also mean the predicted false religious revival is very close. Multiplied millions, fed up with corruption in government, putting aside differences and joining together on common ground, whatever they can manufacture, ultimately pushing Washington, D.C.'s power structure against the wall in a prophetic squeeze no politician will get away from. From there, it is just about a remnant, keeping the commandments of God and having the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ, giving the final warning contained in the three angel's messages of Revelation 14, versus a conglomeration of world powers and world citizens under the great whore of Babylon, pushing man, endorsing man, uplifting man into a place only the Creator should be. Cries of "peace and safety" will circle the globe. Then, as Paul states, sudden destruction will come upon them and they shall not escape.
These days, such a scenario sounds like an old episode from The Outer Limits.
When it proves reality, I really hope you are on the side of the Creator and Savior of our lives.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Someone sent me an email with some simple statistics (and a picture of a beautiful girl holding a serious semi-automatic rifle). The USA stands 3rd in the world for murders from gunfire. If you remove Chicago, Detroit, D.C., St. Louis, and New Orleans, the top 5 American gunfire death cities, America than drops to 189 on a list of 193 nations. And those five cities are all run by Leftists with strict gun control.
More and more news agencies are picking up on the evidence of Anthony Fauci's involvement with the original strain of the virus, its traveling to China with his blessing and money from entities he is involved with, and a whole lot of lying. Will he and others involved pay a criminal price? Not as long as Leftists and corrupt, dangerous deep state agents are in power.
More and more information is coming out about the dangers of these vaccines, which are not vaccines; they are experimental drug potions with specific designs that are dangerous to some right after the injection, to some a few days to weeks after, and in most cases, time will tell how damaged immune systems will become as these drug concoctions remain in human systems and what it ends up doing to millions of people. One of the drugs in one of the experimental fluids is SM-102. According to a chemical company rating document it is not meant for human or veterinary use!!! HOW did such a thing get into an approved medical treatment? Logically, it is not an approved medical treatment.
Did you see how Covid is tracking its way through the Yankees; all of their team members vaccinated? The same can be seen throughout the world. Stories every day of people getting sick again, after receiving the shots.
Biden tells us those who do not take the concoctions will pay a price. He did not state what that price would be. Based on reprehensible comments by Leftists, coast to coast, one can guess. Loss of job, income, freedoms to travel, shop in stores, etc., etc. Emotional and physical harm from minions used to scare and terrorize dissenters from marching to the beat of Orwellian ignorance and stupidity. Oregon is passing a law that only those who are vaccinated can shop without a mask on. Now, I ask you, IF THE VACCINES ARE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT PEOPLE, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE IF UNVACCINATED PEOPLE ARE AROUND YOU. ARE YOU PROTECTED OR NOT?
Today I watched part of a video, a second put out by Mike Lindell, the My Pillow-guy, featuring a government employed contractor; a top-tier expert in hacking and forensic investigation of digital code and data, showing how China, literally, changed hundreds of thousands of votes in the election, favoring Democrat candidate Biden, the new Chinese puppet, and they literally performed an act of war against the United States. They not only tampered with the election. They controlled the criminal outcome, thereby effecting everything America is and does at the Federal level. That is not just an act of espionage but, an act of war, designed to weaken America, and logically, set-up its overthrow.
Will China be held responsible for killing millions of people? Not likely. Will any and all co-conspirators? Unlikely.
What does this mean? What can it mean? It can mean America is now under the control of Communists; the CCP. It can mean the end of Constitutional freedoms and liberty. It can mean many things, that are all negative.
It can also mean the predicted false religious revival is very close. Multiplied millions, fed up with corruption in government, putting aside differences and joining together on common ground, whatever they can manufacture, ultimately pushing Washington, D.C.'s power structure against the wall in a prophetic squeeze no politician will get away from. From there, it is just about a remnant, keeping the commandments of God and having the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ, giving the final warning contained in the three angel's messages of Revelation 14, versus a conglomeration of world powers and world citizens under the great whore of Babylon, pushing man, endorsing man, uplifting man into a place only the Creator should be. Cries of "peace and safety" will circle the globe. Then, as Paul states, sudden destruction will come upon them and they shall not escape.
These days, such a scenario sounds like an old episode from The Outer Limits.
When it proves reality, I really hope you are on the side of the Creator and Savior of our lives.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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258. Shot in the Foot - May 22, 2021
I already wrote a blog about my convictions, my worldview, my understanding of the principles of Americanism and how some, maybe most, would say, "You'll never sell any CDs with views like this. You are shooting yourself in the foot." I acknowledge that possibility. All things considered, my foot may have a big hole in it. It cannot change my deeper views of life, though. Drums and drumming are not life. If I stopped playing, life goes on because life is not a talent or gift or physical possession. Life is serving God and knowing it all comes from Him. The story of Job is all about that fact.
Job (pronounced Jobe), was a great man of stature and wealth and property in his day. Satan came before God and made charges against Him. God allowed Satan to take away Job's flocks and herds, all his possessions, and his children in catastrophic events. Satan says to God, "He'll curse you." God replies, "Touch him. Do not kill him. See what happens." Job is stricken with painful boils, called Bagdad boils if you look it up. Swollen, oozing, pain all over his body, scraping slimy fluid from his skin with a piece of broken pottery, Job's wife tells him to just curse God and die. Job's friends hear about his catastrophes, visit him, and say he must have done something wrong. Confess it! Another know-it-all comes into the picture and offers nothing better. Job cries out for understanding and his day in court. "What did I do?!" On and on this goes until God interrupts the chatter and chastises Job's "friends," and Job's lack of understanding of everything being in God's control and how He is the Sovereign over all and must be trusted to know what He is doing at all times because He is the Creator. It's all His, not ours. Job gets it. God then restores to Job what he had and more.
Faith. Job held onto his faith to the very edge of total breakdown and his sanity. He was yet ignorant of deeper truth and sat confused and beaten down by the charges of his "friends." Still, he would not curse or blame God. Well, in essence, he did, he felt it, and God had to straighten out some bent thinking on his part and also put him in his place. He got kind of haughty with his friends. Totally understandable and even reasonable. "You come into what used to be my house and charge me with some kind of wrong doing because I lost everything but a sour wife that is telling me to curse God while I sit here scraping puss from my skin??? Don't let the door that used to be there hit you in the butt on your way out." But, God is love. Rich in mercy. Compassionate. He reasoned with Job, in a dramatic way, and Job quickly mellowed out and acknowledged his position. He - created. Yehovah - Creator. God knows all. ALL. Has it all under control, regardless of how things seem, and can be trusted to make everything right in His time and way. It is all a classroom experience for humanity, locked into a world of sin until He can put everything back together the way it was, based on our cooperation. People forget that, or are ignorant of that fact. We are part of the process. That is part of the education experience.
So, you know, for me to think I need to shut up about God and principles of truth to sell a CD of drum solos...? Seriously?
Unless someone is a rabid Leftist, in my face, attacking me for my beliefs, I can listen to what they do, regardless of their political or religious beliefs. Many Liberals are not Leftists. They are reasonable people who will listen to all sides and draw a conclusion. It may be the polar opposite of something a Conservative believes, who will pull the Republican lever every time, just because; as though Republicans cannot be corrupt politicians. Blindness exists on all sides.
My wife's parents were raised to not hang around with Catholics. My parents were taught never to hang around with Protestants, to never enter a Protestant church. Today? I just read 43% of young people do not believe in God or just don't care, one way or the other. Things that were an abomination in God's eyes yesterday, and still are, are considered common place life and practice today. The eggs are scrambled beyond recognition, everybody doing what is right in their own eyes, and that includes professed Christians.
I saw some interviews with Vincent Fournier recently. Vincent is "Alice Cooper." Vincent was raised a PK (preacher's kid). He went 180 degrees away from it all, saw the uselessness of it, almost wrecked his life with drugs and debauchery, and God drew him back to Him. Many believers wonder how Vincent still portrays Alice on stage. 'Alice Cooper' is a character to Vincent, no different than an actor portraying a character in Shakespeare's Macbeth, a play with plenty of debauchery in it. For many professed Christians, Shakespeare okay, Alice Cooper bad. For others, Alice Cooper bad, Macbeth bad, stay away; darkness is darkness, real or staged.
My point is, I'll leave Vincent to his beliefs and convictions and let God sort it out. I never listened to Fournier's music when I was a kid and I don't listen now but, plenty of people do, who are not Christians but, some people cannot abide by Fournier's beliefs. If he stays rebellious, they'll listen. If he draws close to God, he becomes an enemy of some kind.
This world continues to spin, despite all the confusion and pain and suffering. All we have, truly, I state again, is our beliefs and convictions. That is all we each truly own. Everything else is really nothing and could all be removed in an instant, literally. It happens every, single day somewhere on this globe. Multiplied millions of people who do not believe will curse God in a crisis. They'll blame Him for anything and everything that goes wrong. "Acts of God." No acts of Satan. That's not real. It is an 'act of God' that a flood took away all that people own. Confusion. Great confusion. Great darkness. It's getting worse.
If I do not sell a single CD because the entire world has gone radical atheist, I'd be a fool to change my beliefs to sell anything. As Scripture records what Jesus said:
"And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. Luke 12:16-20
"From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Matthew 16:21-26
I am actually pondering making more stacked plywood drums and adding to the set and recording tracks of things for a second CD. It is all a passion. It is all a witness. It is all a testimony from me that I believe in God as the Supreme Ruler of everything, and all recognition for everything; every talent, every gift, everything that is good, comes from Him, who gave Himself for me.
Shalom.
Job (pronounced Jobe), was a great man of stature and wealth and property in his day. Satan came before God and made charges against Him. God allowed Satan to take away Job's flocks and herds, all his possessions, and his children in catastrophic events. Satan says to God, "He'll curse you." God replies, "Touch him. Do not kill him. See what happens." Job is stricken with painful boils, called Bagdad boils if you look it up. Swollen, oozing, pain all over his body, scraping slimy fluid from his skin with a piece of broken pottery, Job's wife tells him to just curse God and die. Job's friends hear about his catastrophes, visit him, and say he must have done something wrong. Confess it! Another know-it-all comes into the picture and offers nothing better. Job cries out for understanding and his day in court. "What did I do?!" On and on this goes until God interrupts the chatter and chastises Job's "friends," and Job's lack of understanding of everything being in God's control and how He is the Sovereign over all and must be trusted to know what He is doing at all times because He is the Creator. It's all His, not ours. Job gets it. God then restores to Job what he had and more.
Faith. Job held onto his faith to the very edge of total breakdown and his sanity. He was yet ignorant of deeper truth and sat confused and beaten down by the charges of his "friends." Still, he would not curse or blame God. Well, in essence, he did, he felt it, and God had to straighten out some bent thinking on his part and also put him in his place. He got kind of haughty with his friends. Totally understandable and even reasonable. "You come into what used to be my house and charge me with some kind of wrong doing because I lost everything but a sour wife that is telling me to curse God while I sit here scraping puss from my skin??? Don't let the door that used to be there hit you in the butt on your way out." But, God is love. Rich in mercy. Compassionate. He reasoned with Job, in a dramatic way, and Job quickly mellowed out and acknowledged his position. He - created. Yehovah - Creator. God knows all. ALL. Has it all under control, regardless of how things seem, and can be trusted to make everything right in His time and way. It is all a classroom experience for humanity, locked into a world of sin until He can put everything back together the way it was, based on our cooperation. People forget that, or are ignorant of that fact. We are part of the process. That is part of the education experience.
So, you know, for me to think I need to shut up about God and principles of truth to sell a CD of drum solos...? Seriously?
Unless someone is a rabid Leftist, in my face, attacking me for my beliefs, I can listen to what they do, regardless of their political or religious beliefs. Many Liberals are not Leftists. They are reasonable people who will listen to all sides and draw a conclusion. It may be the polar opposite of something a Conservative believes, who will pull the Republican lever every time, just because; as though Republicans cannot be corrupt politicians. Blindness exists on all sides.
My wife's parents were raised to not hang around with Catholics. My parents were taught never to hang around with Protestants, to never enter a Protestant church. Today? I just read 43% of young people do not believe in God or just don't care, one way or the other. Things that were an abomination in God's eyes yesterday, and still are, are considered common place life and practice today. The eggs are scrambled beyond recognition, everybody doing what is right in their own eyes, and that includes professed Christians.
I saw some interviews with Vincent Fournier recently. Vincent is "Alice Cooper." Vincent was raised a PK (preacher's kid). He went 180 degrees away from it all, saw the uselessness of it, almost wrecked his life with drugs and debauchery, and God drew him back to Him. Many believers wonder how Vincent still portrays Alice on stage. 'Alice Cooper' is a character to Vincent, no different than an actor portraying a character in Shakespeare's Macbeth, a play with plenty of debauchery in it. For many professed Christians, Shakespeare okay, Alice Cooper bad. For others, Alice Cooper bad, Macbeth bad, stay away; darkness is darkness, real or staged.
My point is, I'll leave Vincent to his beliefs and convictions and let God sort it out. I never listened to Fournier's music when I was a kid and I don't listen now but, plenty of people do, who are not Christians but, some people cannot abide by Fournier's beliefs. If he stays rebellious, they'll listen. If he draws close to God, he becomes an enemy of some kind.
This world continues to spin, despite all the confusion and pain and suffering. All we have, truly, I state again, is our beliefs and convictions. That is all we each truly own. Everything else is really nothing and could all be removed in an instant, literally. It happens every, single day somewhere on this globe. Multiplied millions of people who do not believe will curse God in a crisis. They'll blame Him for anything and everything that goes wrong. "Acts of God." No acts of Satan. That's not real. It is an 'act of God' that a flood took away all that people own. Confusion. Great confusion. Great darkness. It's getting worse.
If I do not sell a single CD because the entire world has gone radical atheist, I'd be a fool to change my beliefs to sell anything. As Scripture records what Jesus said:
"And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. Luke 12:16-20
"From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Matthew 16:21-26
I am actually pondering making more stacked plywood drums and adding to the set and recording tracks of things for a second CD. It is all a passion. It is all a witness. It is all a testimony from me that I believe in God as the Supreme Ruler of everything, and all recognition for everything; every talent, every gift, everything that is good, comes from Him, who gave Himself for me.
Shalom.
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259. What is LIFE? - May 22, 2021
Covid and 2020 into 2021 shows us how fragile rights are, especially religious rights. I do not mean religious freedom. That is one's personal choice. Rights are legally binding principles recognized in the United States of America as granted to us by the Creator; the God of the Holy Bible, by the Founders of this nation. Whether they were correct or incorrect is immaterial. If correct, America is obviously on a catastrophic collision course with a fate other nations rejecting God have suffered. If the Founders were incorrect, it is still the documented and signed law of the land and until it is negated in a Constitutional Convention it remains the law of the land. LAW not options, not suggestions, not possibilities. LAW.
How then, are our rights in danger? Because those who have them are not standing up for them. They are being intimidated, as is always the process of choice by those of nefarious purpose and cruel intentions. God has spoken, for the believer. The adage has been, 'God said it. I believe it. That settles it.' That is apparently no longer good enough in today's America. The professed believer today wants job security. Threaten his job and income and faith becomes pragmatic. Given the intense hatred of those warring against God and those who profess faith in him, by radical Leftists, if employment is the bottom line, believers will lose.
ALL evil develops when the professed body of believers do nothing to rise up and keep it back. If they do not rise up at first, it becomes more and more difficult each step of loss of freedoms and rights. Evil in America did not happen overnight. It is a process; a creeping compromise as well-known evangelist Joe Crews once wrote. He was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and founded of the Amazing Facts ministry. My first exposure to truth in Christ was through that ministry. He was one of the great preachers of his day. A simple country boy who could say it all in ways that just made total sense, and the older he got, the more sense he made.
He saw an apostasy developing in his denomination. He saw the matters of policy versus principles. He preached, he wrote, he stood up. Not enough people stood up with him and others speaking out and the SDA denomination ultimately fell into an apostasy it is dubious it will ever recover from. The same can be said for many of the churches developing out of the Protestant Reformation. People stopped protesting.
Creeping compromise in America, in federal, state and local government, has just continued to advance as people either neglected to pay attention or refused to pay attention or saw it all happening and just said nothing, from shock, from fear, from whatever influence greater than the thought of ending up living in a nation diametrically opposed to what the Founders designed and fought and died for.
Consider life, itself. In China, North Korea, elsewhere on this planet, life means nothing. It is under the control of political and/or religious despotism. It is not sacred. It is quite expendable. It not a right from God. It is a permission of the State.
Just ask any such person in such power, ask anyone, period, where life comes from. Can they give an answer of actual facts? They cannot. Life is not your existence, per se.' That may be a definition based on word usage but, life, for the materialist, the naturalist, the atheist, came from an accident of prebiotic chemicals coming together and the first cell came to life from a charge from a bolt of lightning or something. They do not know. They surmise, they suggest, they ponder, they make up stories, they reject the actual scientific possibility of such a thing. The actual, factual chances of such chemicals coming together and receiving such a spark is a number, by the estimate of Fred Hoyle, one of the preeminent names in materialistic thinking, 10 to the 40,000 power. That is 10 with 40,000 zeros after it. Other scientists, philosophers and mathematicians pose numbers just as big or bigger than that. Meaning, life from random chemicals developing in some prebiotic soup is impossible. No matter how many stories are made up to suit the task by materialists, the numbers stare them down like a Mons Olympus, the biggest mountain in the solar system, on Mars.
How can it be people have come to see life as such a worthless thing? How can a mind think it okay to kill someone just to take a piece of jewelry off them or other paltry, stupid, ignorant reason? Children are dying on American city streets in gun fights. The answer for Leftist politicians is take away the guns. Do Jihadists in Europe stop killing because guns are outlawed? No. They use knives, trucks, bombs, fire, whatever else that will work. LIFE must be seen as the special thing it is. Laws cannot convince people life is sacred. People must be taught, from principle, that life is sacred, life is special, life is a gift, life is supernatural in its beginnings.
Life comes from the Creator. It is not an accident. No such accident could take place. It is statistically impossible. Life is a purpose of design, breathed into the dirt-man God formed from the new earth He created. God breathed into Adam the breath of life and man became a living soul. Man does not have a soul. He IS a soul: a living, breathing, thinking, active form of life, from the living God. The spark of life is what makes a cell alive. Otherwise, even of scientists could make a cell, from current biological materials, it would come alive. Materials do not make life. Life begets life. That is all we observe. Life comes from life. Even when plants die there is life in the cells of the seeds of the next generation. Only life begets life.
If that principle that guided the Founders and scientists for centuries, as well as other civilizations with whatever belief in deity they had or have, at the very core of even the most erroneous view is a principle. Life comes from a Lifeholder, a Lifegiver. It is not ours by accident, nor ours to control. It is God's. Life is from God. A right to life, liberty and pursuits of happiness are rights granted by God BUT, that does not mean every citizen of every nation has those rights, including the U.S.A. They can be negated by evil. Taken away by despotism. Removed by tyranny. Rights from God only remain when a free people guard them and keep them safe. Statists have taken away rights from religious people. They claimed a virus was all that was needed to shut down the first amendment to the BILL of RIGHTS. They have succeeded ONLY because said religious people did nothing to protect their rights. That did not stand up, were told to sit down and shut up and they did so. Did such a principle come from Christ? Where, pray tell? "We must obey God rather than men." Is that just a suggestion?
America is in the mess it is in because of professed Christianity not stopping the enemies at the gate. Americans either turned away and stopped watching who was at the gates, wanting entrance, or just out and out invited the enemies of freedom and liberty in. They are continuing to do so and if America's people of professed faith in God do not rise up and demand change, back to the principles the Founders were willing to die for; if said professed believers today are not willing to die for the freedoms and liberties given to us by God, we will lose them all and America will become a totalitarian State. There is NOTHING preventing that but, citizens refusing to bow down to the despotic mandates of political lunatics, bent on destroying America as a Constitutional Republic. Will that happen? Will America fall into totalitarianism?
I see nothing to stop it.
There is a decided reason why Christ asked, "When the Son of man comes, shall He find faith on the Earth?"
How then, are our rights in danger? Because those who have them are not standing up for them. They are being intimidated, as is always the process of choice by those of nefarious purpose and cruel intentions. God has spoken, for the believer. The adage has been, 'God said it. I believe it. That settles it.' That is apparently no longer good enough in today's America. The professed believer today wants job security. Threaten his job and income and faith becomes pragmatic. Given the intense hatred of those warring against God and those who profess faith in him, by radical Leftists, if employment is the bottom line, believers will lose.
ALL evil develops when the professed body of believers do nothing to rise up and keep it back. If they do not rise up at first, it becomes more and more difficult each step of loss of freedoms and rights. Evil in America did not happen overnight. It is a process; a creeping compromise as well-known evangelist Joe Crews once wrote. He was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and founded of the Amazing Facts ministry. My first exposure to truth in Christ was through that ministry. He was one of the great preachers of his day. A simple country boy who could say it all in ways that just made total sense, and the older he got, the more sense he made.
He saw an apostasy developing in his denomination. He saw the matters of policy versus principles. He preached, he wrote, he stood up. Not enough people stood up with him and others speaking out and the SDA denomination ultimately fell into an apostasy it is dubious it will ever recover from. The same can be said for many of the churches developing out of the Protestant Reformation. People stopped protesting.
Creeping compromise in America, in federal, state and local government, has just continued to advance as people either neglected to pay attention or refused to pay attention or saw it all happening and just said nothing, from shock, from fear, from whatever influence greater than the thought of ending up living in a nation diametrically opposed to what the Founders designed and fought and died for.
Consider life, itself. In China, North Korea, elsewhere on this planet, life means nothing. It is under the control of political and/or religious despotism. It is not sacred. It is quite expendable. It not a right from God. It is a permission of the State.
Just ask any such person in such power, ask anyone, period, where life comes from. Can they give an answer of actual facts? They cannot. Life is not your existence, per se.' That may be a definition based on word usage but, life, for the materialist, the naturalist, the atheist, came from an accident of prebiotic chemicals coming together and the first cell came to life from a charge from a bolt of lightning or something. They do not know. They surmise, they suggest, they ponder, they make up stories, they reject the actual scientific possibility of such a thing. The actual, factual chances of such chemicals coming together and receiving such a spark is a number, by the estimate of Fred Hoyle, one of the preeminent names in materialistic thinking, 10 to the 40,000 power. That is 10 with 40,000 zeros after it. Other scientists, philosophers and mathematicians pose numbers just as big or bigger than that. Meaning, life from random chemicals developing in some prebiotic soup is impossible. No matter how many stories are made up to suit the task by materialists, the numbers stare them down like a Mons Olympus, the biggest mountain in the solar system, on Mars.
How can it be people have come to see life as such a worthless thing? How can a mind think it okay to kill someone just to take a piece of jewelry off them or other paltry, stupid, ignorant reason? Children are dying on American city streets in gun fights. The answer for Leftist politicians is take away the guns. Do Jihadists in Europe stop killing because guns are outlawed? No. They use knives, trucks, bombs, fire, whatever else that will work. LIFE must be seen as the special thing it is. Laws cannot convince people life is sacred. People must be taught, from principle, that life is sacred, life is special, life is a gift, life is supernatural in its beginnings.
Life comes from the Creator. It is not an accident. No such accident could take place. It is statistically impossible. Life is a purpose of design, breathed into the dirt-man God formed from the new earth He created. God breathed into Adam the breath of life and man became a living soul. Man does not have a soul. He IS a soul: a living, breathing, thinking, active form of life, from the living God. The spark of life is what makes a cell alive. Otherwise, even of scientists could make a cell, from current biological materials, it would come alive. Materials do not make life. Life begets life. That is all we observe. Life comes from life. Even when plants die there is life in the cells of the seeds of the next generation. Only life begets life.
If that principle that guided the Founders and scientists for centuries, as well as other civilizations with whatever belief in deity they had or have, at the very core of even the most erroneous view is a principle. Life comes from a Lifeholder, a Lifegiver. It is not ours by accident, nor ours to control. It is God's. Life is from God. A right to life, liberty and pursuits of happiness are rights granted by God BUT, that does not mean every citizen of every nation has those rights, including the U.S.A. They can be negated by evil. Taken away by despotism. Removed by tyranny. Rights from God only remain when a free people guard them and keep them safe. Statists have taken away rights from religious people. They claimed a virus was all that was needed to shut down the first amendment to the BILL of RIGHTS. They have succeeded ONLY because said religious people did nothing to protect their rights. That did not stand up, were told to sit down and shut up and they did so. Did such a principle come from Christ? Where, pray tell? "We must obey God rather than men." Is that just a suggestion?
America is in the mess it is in because of professed Christianity not stopping the enemies at the gate. Americans either turned away and stopped watching who was at the gates, wanting entrance, or just out and out invited the enemies of freedom and liberty in. They are continuing to do so and if America's people of professed faith in God do not rise up and demand change, back to the principles the Founders were willing to die for; if said professed believers today are not willing to die for the freedoms and liberties given to us by God, we will lose them all and America will become a totalitarian State. There is NOTHING preventing that but, citizens refusing to bow down to the despotic mandates of political lunatics, bent on destroying America as a Constitutional Republic. Will that happen? Will America fall into totalitarianism?
I see nothing to stop it.
There is a decided reason why Christ asked, "When the Son of man comes, shall He find faith on the Earth?"
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260. Only 6% Truly Believe - May 29, 2021
I hold to a biblical worldview. That means I believe the Bible in every respect and use it for living all aspects of life, where it's teachings apply to the things of daily life; and that is just about 100% of daily life. The Bible does not teach me how to make drums but, it does teach to do things with all your might in this life, which is fleeting, at best. The biblical world view causes me to want to do good, to do right, to do things equitably, honestly, forthrightly, frugally, respectfully, and add just about any and all positive descriptive terms here.
Holding to a biblical worldview means I believe the Bible has told the truth of the past, the present, and the future. Prophetic events took place, are taking place, and have yet to take place.
The biblical worldview teaches we must obey God rather then men, if men require believers to do something against God's will placed down in His Word. "Man shall not live by bread alone but, by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." It's a tall order to be sure and aside from Christ, nobody has ever done it perfectly throughout a lifetime. The discipline required, body, soul and spirit, make an Olympic athlete look like a novice.
Believers press on, march on, treading a winepress alone, if need be, always going against the tide of the world. That tide, the strength of that tide, grows stronger and stronger with each passing generation and each passing year.
In a recent Barna survey only 6% of professed believers in America hold to a real biblical worldview. That's down from 10% just a few years ago. Six percent. There was a terrible paragraph in the article that says it all:
“Our studies show that Americans are neither deep nor sophisticated thinkers,” Barna argued. “Most people seem more interested in living a life of comfort and convenience than one of logical consistency and wisdom. Our children will continue to suffer the consequences of following in the unfortunate footsteps of their parents and elders. People who are willing to fight for a more reasonable way of thinking and acting can make a difference, but it will be slow progress.”
The prophetic significance of that statement is monumental. I just recently quoted Christ asking, when He comes again, will He find faith in the Earth? I have repeatedly quoted Isaiah, that darkness covers the Earth and gross darkness, the people. I could add dozens of other statements, like every man doing that which was right in his own eyes. That it is a time when everything is being turned upside down and inside out: right is wrong and wrong is right. That light is dark and dark is light.
I am guilty of creeping compromise in my own life. I'm tired. I'm worn out. Often discouraged. I was so certain, based on events, that my generation would see the return of Christ. I am not so certain anymore. "SOON" does not have the same impact it had on me 42 years ago. I have seen so much change; negative change, and much of that has been a sign of the times that Christ is coming but, "soon" is now a possibility, not a probability, and certainly not a certainty. What might have been might take place beyond my generation.
I'm 66. The Bible says, in Psalms, if it's God's will and you live out a full life, we get three score and ten. I'm closing in. Sure, people live longer than 70. That also depends on how you define life. Vitality, passion, purpose, it all begins to fade for lack of energy. Age is what it is.
What generation will see Christ's return? I do not know. One shall, with members of the former and the latter present, as well. It shall happen. It is a central theme of a biblical worldview, one that only 6% of Americans hold to anymore. I figure that percentage is relatively the same around the world, give or take. Europe is just about dead, spiritually speaking. Islam shall be the imperative influence in 25 years. That shall be true in other parts of the world, as well. Atheism is growing the most rapidly around the globe. Paganism close behind. How interesting a world so caught up in technology would see a resurgence of old, pagan faiths and ritualism. Technology is not the satisfying thing people thought it would be. It has turned cold and young people are controlled by it, to the detriment of their own souls and reality.
While lifespans have increased, so has stress, exponentially. Does that correspond with the 6%? Of course it does. A biblical worldview brings real peace to society. As it is left behind, more and more stress develops and more and more of all aspects stress brings on, body, soul, and spirit, fill society. God pleads, "Here I am," and the world says "Not now," or "There is no God, no old man up in the sky, no supernatural, no need for religion, no need for rules or old-fashioned standards. We have everything under control thank you." And yet, the world is literally at war with everything. Everything sound, everything stable, everything solid, everything sure is all under attack and the world reaps the results: "Men's heart failing them for fear of what is coming upon the Earth." Confusion reigns. Confusion is prophetic, spiritual Babylon, at war with the kingdom of God in Revelation.
A biblical worldview. So what, it's an ancient book. It's right. It works.
Tragedy awaits a world rejecting it.
Holding to a biblical worldview means I believe the Bible has told the truth of the past, the present, and the future. Prophetic events took place, are taking place, and have yet to take place.
The biblical worldview teaches we must obey God rather then men, if men require believers to do something against God's will placed down in His Word. "Man shall not live by bread alone but, by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." It's a tall order to be sure and aside from Christ, nobody has ever done it perfectly throughout a lifetime. The discipline required, body, soul and spirit, make an Olympic athlete look like a novice.
Believers press on, march on, treading a winepress alone, if need be, always going against the tide of the world. That tide, the strength of that tide, grows stronger and stronger with each passing generation and each passing year.
In a recent Barna survey only 6% of professed believers in America hold to a real biblical worldview. That's down from 10% just a few years ago. Six percent. There was a terrible paragraph in the article that says it all:
“Our studies show that Americans are neither deep nor sophisticated thinkers,” Barna argued. “Most people seem more interested in living a life of comfort and convenience than one of logical consistency and wisdom. Our children will continue to suffer the consequences of following in the unfortunate footsteps of their parents and elders. People who are willing to fight for a more reasonable way of thinking and acting can make a difference, but it will be slow progress.”
The prophetic significance of that statement is monumental. I just recently quoted Christ asking, when He comes again, will He find faith in the Earth? I have repeatedly quoted Isaiah, that darkness covers the Earth and gross darkness, the people. I could add dozens of other statements, like every man doing that which was right in his own eyes. That it is a time when everything is being turned upside down and inside out: right is wrong and wrong is right. That light is dark and dark is light.
I am guilty of creeping compromise in my own life. I'm tired. I'm worn out. Often discouraged. I was so certain, based on events, that my generation would see the return of Christ. I am not so certain anymore. "SOON" does not have the same impact it had on me 42 years ago. I have seen so much change; negative change, and much of that has been a sign of the times that Christ is coming but, "soon" is now a possibility, not a probability, and certainly not a certainty. What might have been might take place beyond my generation.
I'm 66. The Bible says, in Psalms, if it's God's will and you live out a full life, we get three score and ten. I'm closing in. Sure, people live longer than 70. That also depends on how you define life. Vitality, passion, purpose, it all begins to fade for lack of energy. Age is what it is.
What generation will see Christ's return? I do not know. One shall, with members of the former and the latter present, as well. It shall happen. It is a central theme of a biblical worldview, one that only 6% of Americans hold to anymore. I figure that percentage is relatively the same around the world, give or take. Europe is just about dead, spiritually speaking. Islam shall be the imperative influence in 25 years. That shall be true in other parts of the world, as well. Atheism is growing the most rapidly around the globe. Paganism close behind. How interesting a world so caught up in technology would see a resurgence of old, pagan faiths and ritualism. Technology is not the satisfying thing people thought it would be. It has turned cold and young people are controlled by it, to the detriment of their own souls and reality.
While lifespans have increased, so has stress, exponentially. Does that correspond with the 6%? Of course it does. A biblical worldview brings real peace to society. As it is left behind, more and more stress develops and more and more of all aspects stress brings on, body, soul, and spirit, fill society. God pleads, "Here I am," and the world says "Not now," or "There is no God, no old man up in the sky, no supernatural, no need for religion, no need for rules or old-fashioned standards. We have everything under control thank you." And yet, the world is literally at war with everything. Everything sound, everything stable, everything solid, everything sure is all under attack and the world reaps the results: "Men's heart failing them for fear of what is coming upon the Earth." Confusion reigns. Confusion is prophetic, spiritual Babylon, at war with the kingdom of God in Revelation.
A biblical worldview. So what, it's an ancient book. It's right. It works.
Tragedy awaits a world rejecting it.
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261. UFO Wars - May 31, 2021
I meant to upload this Saturday night or yesterday but, just got busy out in the shop making stuff. I forgot all about it but, events bring it to mind.
Right now, as I type, in the UFOlogy community, all talk is about Stephen Greer's open disapproval and disavowal of those going before the media, both mainstream and smaller, alternative sites and YT channels, telling whoever will listen that the UFO phenomena is a threat or could be a threat. Greer named names.
At one time the subject of the phenomena was the brunt of jokes. Today, ALL mainstream news programs are "reporting" on the subject in all seriousness. Investigative reporting, hardly. It seems they just borrow from whoever has info out there and just repeat it. The corporate overlords just want the information out there.
Like every other body of people, religious or secular, division exists in ufology. Sharp divisions. There is even a sharp division of political Left and Right and Libertarian in the UFO community.
Sides exist for known reasons, now. Most people in the UFO community understand the vilification of their research and beliefs. Many just want the big reveal, the absolute evidence, something not fuzzy, blurry, moving around like bugs, tiny lights miles up in the sky, not drones, not CGI but, absolute proof. They already believe so, regardless of anything that comes out now or in the future, they are not changing their position. Like the documentary, "I Know What I Saw," UFOlogists know what they have seen or what others have seen and they aren't changing because it isn't a popular subject but... it is! It has become front and center news.
The "180 days" couched into a Covid relief bill, under the Trump administration, is coming to a close in June. Looking at the actual language of the bill, itself, is ambiguous. Senate Bill S3905 addresses aspects of Intelligence gathering. It does not state anything really specific about UFOs. It just warrants that Congress needs to know whether or not the UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) is a threat to national security, and should be given information in the form of a report from the Director of National Intelligence and others.
Here the action in the law, not part of the law, itself but, listed under Committee Comments (with underlined highlights):
Advanced Aerial Threats
The Committee supports the efforts of the Unidentified
Aerial Phenomenon Task Force at the Office of Naval
Intelligence to standardize collection and reporting on
unidentified aerial phenomenon, any links they have to
adversarial foreign governments, and the threat they pose to
U.S. military assets and installations. However, the Committee
remains concerned that there is no unified, comprehensive
process within the Federal Government for collecting and
analyzing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena,
despite the potential threat. The Committee understands that
the relevant intelligence may be sensitive; nevertheless, the
Committee finds that the information sharing and coordination
across the Intelligence Community has been inconsistent, and
this issue has lacked attention from senior leaders.
Therefore, the Committee directs the DNI, in consultation
with the Secretary of Defense and the heads of such other
agencies as the Director and Secretary jointly consider
relevant, to submit a report within 180 days of the date of
enactment of the Act, to the congressional intelligence and
armed services committees on unidentified aerial phenomena
(also known as ``anomalous aerial vehicles''), including
observed airborne objects that have not been identified.
The Committee further directs the report to include:
1. A detailed analysis of unidentified aerial
phenomena data and intelligence reporting collected or
held by the Office of Naval Intelligence, including
data and intelligence reporting held by the
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force;
2. A detailed analysis of unidentified phenomena data
collected by:
a. geospatial intelligence;
b. signals intelligence;
c. human intelligence; and
d. measurement and signals intelligence;
3. A detailed analysis of data of the FBI, which was
derived from investigations of intrusions of
unidentified aerial phenomena data over restricted
United States airspace;
4. A detailed description of an interagency process
for ensuring timely data collection and centralized
analysis of all unidentified aerial phenomena reporting
for the Federal Government, regardless of which service
or agency acquired the information;
5. Identification of an official accountable for the
process described in paragraph 4;
6. Identification of potential aerospace or other
threats posed by the unidentified aerial phenomena to
national security, and an assessment of whether this
unidentified aerial phenomena activity may be
attributed to one or more foreign adversaries;
7. Identification of any incidents or patterns that
indicate a potential adversary may have achieved
breakthrough aerospace capabilities that could put
United States strategic or conventional forces at risk;
and
8. Recommendations regarding increased collection of
data, enhanced research and development, and additional
funding and other resources.
The report shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may
include a classified annex.
Now, where in that text is there any kind of mandate to release all info any agency of the Federal government has on UAPs not associated with sensitive national security? The Committee does not seem to care whether or not "ET" is up there, just whether or not "ET" is a threat. The committee "directs." All it asks for is analysis. Tell us what you think. Threat? No threat? What is your process? How do you collect information? And, who is responsible for the process of information gathering in the report you give us? That is all it states. ALL this collective UFOlogy interest over that? Seriously? It's just another opportunity for said Federal agencies to keep things buried as they determine. More smoke and mirrors. "Here is our detailed analysis. On such and such dates this happened and we deem it a threat, or we deem it no threat." They include some photos of objects already well-known in UFOlogy. All these months of guessing what shall be in this report when you can be guaranteed nothing much will be in it. Funding, for sure. Money for budgets for more hi-tech development of weaponry.
The report is not a law. It is hardly an official mandate of any kind. It's a committee request. You give us what you think is necessary for us to know.
Watch for lots of redacted "national security" issues.
It is laughable.
Members of the military has been "leaking" and/or releasing videos and things kicked up a notch in 2017. We are being asked to believe these represent the kind of photographic cameras and work that exists today? Radar is one thing but, someone will attempt to tell me these pilots, these service men and women have never used a cell phone or camera in any of these contacts or experiences?
Maybe I'll be surprised and the report will contain so much "evidence" the world will flip out, if that is the intended result in the agenda.
More and more UFO documentaries have come forth in the last fifteen years and been heavily patronized. This subject is no longer a Hollywood movie or a TV program.
Like millions of other Americans, I do not trust the government; government meaning the people who are positioned in it - presidents, congressional representatives, judges, alphabet agency personnel, the military leaders - none of it. Too much corruption exists. Saturation of corruption exists in every direction. What few loyal Americans exist within government is nowhere near enough of an influence to control systemic corruption.
When the Navy or any other branch of the military, release a less than crystal clear video of a UFO/UAP, after 60 years of denial and exponentially improved camera quality now available to even everyday consumers, red flags go up in my mind. What is the agenda?
That said, the entire UFO subject became part of my life after watching a Mike Douglas program in 1979. I've mentioned that before. As well as seeing UFOs, twice, with others present, and having presented what seems as obvious as a train wreck in Bible prophecy seminars in the 1980s and beyond during my years in ministry; this subject is not only not going away but, will become greater and more intrinsic to last-day events. It is the perfect foil for Satan to gain position over the human race.
Panel discussions are all over youtube now, especially since Stephen Greer made his latest announcement and denunciations of various spokespersons all over the place talking about the threats of UFOs. Greer claims to communicate with "ET." He knows they are benevolent and no threat.
Linda Moulton-Howe, a former investigative reporter and award-winning documentarist, has been around for many decades now and continues her research. Stephen Greer is a well known figure in UFOlogy. He has been pushing for government disclosure for decades. Film maker James Fox recently released "The Phenomena." Luis Elizondo, Nick Pope, Jeremy Corbell, Bob Lazar, the Cousins brothers (Blake and Brent), MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network), and many, many others have been around in varying time spans, all with a story to tell, photos and videos to show, etc., etc. Roswell, NM, Area 51, and a host of places and figures across the globe, bolstered, if not made fun of, by Hollywood, have been around since the 1940s. In books, well before that. In supposed placement in artwork, before that by centuries. In artifacts, literally preceding today's level of interest, by thousands of years. Erich Von Daniken released his books back in the 70s. That was my initial exposure to the subject in any serious respect outside Hollywood. Certainly "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was a major factor for me. It was released in 1977, just two years before my born-again experience and seeing that Mike Douglas program in the summer of 1979.
I have listened to/watched some of these panel discussions of late. I do not deny the sincerity of the panelists. I stand amazed at the lack of simple logic often portrayed. Common sense, which is often the great equalizer among rational people, is so often lost in these discussions. They almost become standing parodies of themselves and their passion about UFO disclosure: who, what, when, where, why and how? They desperately want to know the truth and have a great many followers, contributors and fellow compatriots numbering in the millions around the globe. They believe, they just want proof. Does that not sound like the parameters of religion on the part of many professed believers and even sceptics? The believe "ET" exists and they know craft flying them around exist. They just want proof. So, do they believe or not? They claim belief, they just want the government to admit it. Why? Do you see the instant problem? Reliance on government for validation and truth.
Today, I do not see a J. Allen Hynek (Project Blue Book) or a PhD scientist like Stanton Friedman among all the voices out there, promoting the existence of the phenomena and possibility of extra-terrestrial involvement. Perhaps Richard Dolan comes the closest, though he is a well-known author, not a scientist. In Ufology, there is a great deal of sensationalism, marketing and money-making, and a cache of fuzzy and blurry videos or the absolute worst, shaking videos that give someone a headache attempting to watch them. That does mean there are not significant photos and film/videos out there. There are certainly many. The subject retains an air of disbelief because of the characters involved and almost obvious self-centered and/or nefarious intent of the information being put out there. Many ufologists do not trust each other.
Abductions remain unexplainable. The reality of the events for those claiming abduction; taking meds, lie detector tests, undergoing hypnotism, many in years of therapy, living in fear as real as anything anyone could be afraid of, remains a subject of research and discussion because nobody has yet provided some kind of actual evidence of their abduction. They all just have personal testimonies.
Cattle mutilation, surgical accuracy of organ removal, all blood and body fluids, continues to take place. I just wrote about "crop circles" a short time ago. Even people in the UFO community are ignorant of the nature of real crop indentations, as opposed to man-made hoaxes.
What do I believe?
The paranormal is also a heavy part of this subject, though no one seems to ask why. They just accept that ghosts and ET go hand in hand for some reason. That should be a red flag, if you ask me but, again, as I just wrote the other day, only 6% of professed believers really have a biblical worldview. They are not in a position to understand red flags. They do not study the Bible.
When all is said and done, like everybody else, I cannot prove my religious beliefs about this subject. I see the evidence, like Bible prophecy fulfillment, and it all makes sense to me but, I have no photograph or video of Satan, his army of fallen angels, or readable evidence of his plans and purposes, other than what the Bible states: he comes as an angel of light, the prince of the power of the air, the ruler of this world, the father of lies, a murderer from the beginning, the great fallen rebel angel cast down to Earth, the absolute enemy of mankind.
More and more people are now being exposed to the reality of the UFO phenomena every single day. Millions, because of mainstream news media, are being exposed to the phenomena as a possible "threat." Evidence? None. Opinion? Plenty. On the other side, those who claim to have communicated with ETs: a benevolent group of really nice folks just waiting for the right time to reveal themselves. Still others, supposedly have knowledge granted to them that there are around 50 species of ETs here, now, with varying agendas both positive and decidedly negative. "Grays" are seen as nice little guys or nasty little menaces. Just depends on your source of information.
I have reached out to some of these individuals. Some have replied and been friendly and gracious in their comments on my observances of the phenomena and future use Satan will muster: my overall biblical viewpoint. Most see Christians as a thorn in the side because the bulk of professed Christendom's major spokespeople do not believe in life beyond Earth. They are detractors from the start. I am not of that group of people. I've given my biblical reasons why in other blogs, and time is going to tell if what I believe pans out. I have no doubts. That's personal conviction, though. Not empirical evidence.
The truth? For me, the battle is between Christ and Lucifer. The battleground is Earth. More specifically, the mind of man; made in the likeness and image of God - Jehovah - the Sovereign Creator. Man was created in the nobility and character of God's. It has been the determined effort of Lucifer to deface that image and likeness in man. He has obviously been more than successful.
Just listening to these voices tell us the discovery of "ET" would be the greatest event in human history is so small-minded. Pray tell, HOW would that be greater than GOD becoming a man, a fallen man, at that? How would the Creator dying for His creation, a creation that hates Him, be of less significance than discovering life exists beyond Earth? Seriously? But, you see, reality has been truncated, been reduced to story-telling, fables, non-reality. THAT is the point. If proof of "ET" can be attained, while proof of God cannot, God goes, "ET" stays. Think of the dynamic that creates. Think of the confusion that creates and the confusion that would wrap the globe.
I know, such a belief seems as odd and humorous as belief in the reality of UFOs flying around out there. There is a huge difference, though. Today, as more and more people are coming to a realization UFOs exist, based on less than provable evidence, whatever and whoever is behind them, people are also being exposed to the reality of Bible prophecy, and Bible prophecy has a stamp of archeological evidence and predictive accomplishments the other cannot hope to have. Even if (and I believe when) Satan uses the UFO phenomena as part of his last-day deceptions, the Bible has predated his works by revealing his character and his designs 2,000 years ago and more. The vast populace of the Earth remains ignorant of the powerful testimony God has given of Himself in the pages of Bible prophecy fulfillment.
I know the universe is populated. The Bible states it. Messengers from God have stated it. I have no serious reason to believe they would visit this rebellious, dying world. They exist in harmony with the Creator. They have no reason to come here and behold the ghastly image of a world in revolt and rebellion to God, even after Christ came here, lived, ministered, taught, died as a man, rose as deity He is, and promised to come again to receive His faithful from down through the ages. The world is at war with God. A real 'war of the worlds' has been going on since the fall of Earth's first representatives; the father and mother of the human race, Adam and Eve.
Everything is a rip off, a mimic, a counterfeit, a retelling of the biblical narrative. It is all designed to lessen the influence of the Bible upon the minds and hearts of mankind. Telling me certain ancient documents and religious ideas pre-date the Bible, is nowhere. It's meaningless because when you know the biblical information and the history and enemies at work, you see the important differences. The thing is, there is nothing the enemy can do about prophecy. It states what it states, as it even interprets itself within the very pages the prophecies are given. The interpretations, the explanations are given, by name, by time and place to the march of empires in Daniel. Revelation is the sister book of Daniel. One helps explain the other. It is all a puzzle, with pieces both easy and harder to put in place but, once the pieces have been, the picture is so clear it is astounding. As an atheist, that one fact was so mind-blowing to me I was stunned, set back, and brought to the place where I wanted the Author of this book, the Bible, to control my life. He is the Author and Finisher of faith, the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end, telling the end from the beginning. There is no other. He is God, alone.
Blake Cousins, host of the YT channel, Third Phase of Moon, is fond of telling fans to keep their eyes on the skies and "Buckle up, everybody."
Jesus Christ told his disciples the same thing, 2000 years ago. Pray, watch, prepare, get ready. The end of all things is at hand.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Right now, as I type, in the UFOlogy community, all talk is about Stephen Greer's open disapproval and disavowal of those going before the media, both mainstream and smaller, alternative sites and YT channels, telling whoever will listen that the UFO phenomena is a threat or could be a threat. Greer named names.
At one time the subject of the phenomena was the brunt of jokes. Today, ALL mainstream news programs are "reporting" on the subject in all seriousness. Investigative reporting, hardly. It seems they just borrow from whoever has info out there and just repeat it. The corporate overlords just want the information out there.
Like every other body of people, religious or secular, division exists in ufology. Sharp divisions. There is even a sharp division of political Left and Right and Libertarian in the UFO community.
Sides exist for known reasons, now. Most people in the UFO community understand the vilification of their research and beliefs. Many just want the big reveal, the absolute evidence, something not fuzzy, blurry, moving around like bugs, tiny lights miles up in the sky, not drones, not CGI but, absolute proof. They already believe so, regardless of anything that comes out now or in the future, they are not changing their position. Like the documentary, "I Know What I Saw," UFOlogists know what they have seen or what others have seen and they aren't changing because it isn't a popular subject but... it is! It has become front and center news.
The "180 days" couched into a Covid relief bill, under the Trump administration, is coming to a close in June. Looking at the actual language of the bill, itself, is ambiguous. Senate Bill S3905 addresses aspects of Intelligence gathering. It does not state anything really specific about UFOs. It just warrants that Congress needs to know whether or not the UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) is a threat to national security, and should be given information in the form of a report from the Director of National Intelligence and others.
Here the action in the law, not part of the law, itself but, listed under Committee Comments (with underlined highlights):
Advanced Aerial Threats
The Committee supports the efforts of the Unidentified
Aerial Phenomenon Task Force at the Office of Naval
Intelligence to standardize collection and reporting on
unidentified aerial phenomenon, any links they have to
adversarial foreign governments, and the threat they pose to
U.S. military assets and installations. However, the Committee
remains concerned that there is no unified, comprehensive
process within the Federal Government for collecting and
analyzing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena,
despite the potential threat. The Committee understands that
the relevant intelligence may be sensitive; nevertheless, the
Committee finds that the information sharing and coordination
across the Intelligence Community has been inconsistent, and
this issue has lacked attention from senior leaders.
Therefore, the Committee directs the DNI, in consultation
with the Secretary of Defense and the heads of such other
agencies as the Director and Secretary jointly consider
relevant, to submit a report within 180 days of the date of
enactment of the Act, to the congressional intelligence and
armed services committees on unidentified aerial phenomena
(also known as ``anomalous aerial vehicles''), including
observed airborne objects that have not been identified.
The Committee further directs the report to include:
1. A detailed analysis of unidentified aerial
phenomena data and intelligence reporting collected or
held by the Office of Naval Intelligence, including
data and intelligence reporting held by the
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force;
2. A detailed analysis of unidentified phenomena data
collected by:
a. geospatial intelligence;
b. signals intelligence;
c. human intelligence; and
d. measurement and signals intelligence;
3. A detailed analysis of data of the FBI, which was
derived from investigations of intrusions of
unidentified aerial phenomena data over restricted
United States airspace;
4. A detailed description of an interagency process
for ensuring timely data collection and centralized
analysis of all unidentified aerial phenomena reporting
for the Federal Government, regardless of which service
or agency acquired the information;
5. Identification of an official accountable for the
process described in paragraph 4;
6. Identification of potential aerospace or other
threats posed by the unidentified aerial phenomena to
national security, and an assessment of whether this
unidentified aerial phenomena activity may be
attributed to one or more foreign adversaries;
7. Identification of any incidents or patterns that
indicate a potential adversary may have achieved
breakthrough aerospace capabilities that could put
United States strategic or conventional forces at risk;
and
8. Recommendations regarding increased collection of
data, enhanced research and development, and additional
funding and other resources.
The report shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may
include a classified annex.
Now, where in that text is there any kind of mandate to release all info any agency of the Federal government has on UAPs not associated with sensitive national security? The Committee does not seem to care whether or not "ET" is up there, just whether or not "ET" is a threat. The committee "directs." All it asks for is analysis. Tell us what you think. Threat? No threat? What is your process? How do you collect information? And, who is responsible for the process of information gathering in the report you give us? That is all it states. ALL this collective UFOlogy interest over that? Seriously? It's just another opportunity for said Federal agencies to keep things buried as they determine. More smoke and mirrors. "Here is our detailed analysis. On such and such dates this happened and we deem it a threat, or we deem it no threat." They include some photos of objects already well-known in UFOlogy. All these months of guessing what shall be in this report when you can be guaranteed nothing much will be in it. Funding, for sure. Money for budgets for more hi-tech development of weaponry.
The report is not a law. It is hardly an official mandate of any kind. It's a committee request. You give us what you think is necessary for us to know.
Watch for lots of redacted "national security" issues.
It is laughable.
Members of the military has been "leaking" and/or releasing videos and things kicked up a notch in 2017. We are being asked to believe these represent the kind of photographic cameras and work that exists today? Radar is one thing but, someone will attempt to tell me these pilots, these service men and women have never used a cell phone or camera in any of these contacts or experiences?
Maybe I'll be surprised and the report will contain so much "evidence" the world will flip out, if that is the intended result in the agenda.
More and more UFO documentaries have come forth in the last fifteen years and been heavily patronized. This subject is no longer a Hollywood movie or a TV program.
Like millions of other Americans, I do not trust the government; government meaning the people who are positioned in it - presidents, congressional representatives, judges, alphabet agency personnel, the military leaders - none of it. Too much corruption exists. Saturation of corruption exists in every direction. What few loyal Americans exist within government is nowhere near enough of an influence to control systemic corruption.
When the Navy or any other branch of the military, release a less than crystal clear video of a UFO/UAP, after 60 years of denial and exponentially improved camera quality now available to even everyday consumers, red flags go up in my mind. What is the agenda?
That said, the entire UFO subject became part of my life after watching a Mike Douglas program in 1979. I've mentioned that before. As well as seeing UFOs, twice, with others present, and having presented what seems as obvious as a train wreck in Bible prophecy seminars in the 1980s and beyond during my years in ministry; this subject is not only not going away but, will become greater and more intrinsic to last-day events. It is the perfect foil for Satan to gain position over the human race.
Panel discussions are all over youtube now, especially since Stephen Greer made his latest announcement and denunciations of various spokespersons all over the place talking about the threats of UFOs. Greer claims to communicate with "ET." He knows they are benevolent and no threat.
Linda Moulton-Howe, a former investigative reporter and award-winning documentarist, has been around for many decades now and continues her research. Stephen Greer is a well known figure in UFOlogy. He has been pushing for government disclosure for decades. Film maker James Fox recently released "The Phenomena." Luis Elizondo, Nick Pope, Jeremy Corbell, Bob Lazar, the Cousins brothers (Blake and Brent), MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network), and many, many others have been around in varying time spans, all with a story to tell, photos and videos to show, etc., etc. Roswell, NM, Area 51, and a host of places and figures across the globe, bolstered, if not made fun of, by Hollywood, have been around since the 1940s. In books, well before that. In supposed placement in artwork, before that by centuries. In artifacts, literally preceding today's level of interest, by thousands of years. Erich Von Daniken released his books back in the 70s. That was my initial exposure to the subject in any serious respect outside Hollywood. Certainly "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was a major factor for me. It was released in 1977, just two years before my born-again experience and seeing that Mike Douglas program in the summer of 1979.
I have listened to/watched some of these panel discussions of late. I do not deny the sincerity of the panelists. I stand amazed at the lack of simple logic often portrayed. Common sense, which is often the great equalizer among rational people, is so often lost in these discussions. They almost become standing parodies of themselves and their passion about UFO disclosure: who, what, when, where, why and how? They desperately want to know the truth and have a great many followers, contributors and fellow compatriots numbering in the millions around the globe. They believe, they just want proof. Does that not sound like the parameters of religion on the part of many professed believers and even sceptics? The believe "ET" exists and they know craft flying them around exist. They just want proof. So, do they believe or not? They claim belief, they just want the government to admit it. Why? Do you see the instant problem? Reliance on government for validation and truth.
Today, I do not see a J. Allen Hynek (Project Blue Book) or a PhD scientist like Stanton Friedman among all the voices out there, promoting the existence of the phenomena and possibility of extra-terrestrial involvement. Perhaps Richard Dolan comes the closest, though he is a well-known author, not a scientist. In Ufology, there is a great deal of sensationalism, marketing and money-making, and a cache of fuzzy and blurry videos or the absolute worst, shaking videos that give someone a headache attempting to watch them. That does mean there are not significant photos and film/videos out there. There are certainly many. The subject retains an air of disbelief because of the characters involved and almost obvious self-centered and/or nefarious intent of the information being put out there. Many ufologists do not trust each other.
Abductions remain unexplainable. The reality of the events for those claiming abduction; taking meds, lie detector tests, undergoing hypnotism, many in years of therapy, living in fear as real as anything anyone could be afraid of, remains a subject of research and discussion because nobody has yet provided some kind of actual evidence of their abduction. They all just have personal testimonies.
Cattle mutilation, surgical accuracy of organ removal, all blood and body fluids, continues to take place. I just wrote about "crop circles" a short time ago. Even people in the UFO community are ignorant of the nature of real crop indentations, as opposed to man-made hoaxes.
What do I believe?
The paranormal is also a heavy part of this subject, though no one seems to ask why. They just accept that ghosts and ET go hand in hand for some reason. That should be a red flag, if you ask me but, again, as I just wrote the other day, only 6% of professed believers really have a biblical worldview. They are not in a position to understand red flags. They do not study the Bible.
When all is said and done, like everybody else, I cannot prove my religious beliefs about this subject. I see the evidence, like Bible prophecy fulfillment, and it all makes sense to me but, I have no photograph or video of Satan, his army of fallen angels, or readable evidence of his plans and purposes, other than what the Bible states: he comes as an angel of light, the prince of the power of the air, the ruler of this world, the father of lies, a murderer from the beginning, the great fallen rebel angel cast down to Earth, the absolute enemy of mankind.
More and more people are now being exposed to the reality of the UFO phenomena every single day. Millions, because of mainstream news media, are being exposed to the phenomena as a possible "threat." Evidence? None. Opinion? Plenty. On the other side, those who claim to have communicated with ETs: a benevolent group of really nice folks just waiting for the right time to reveal themselves. Still others, supposedly have knowledge granted to them that there are around 50 species of ETs here, now, with varying agendas both positive and decidedly negative. "Grays" are seen as nice little guys or nasty little menaces. Just depends on your source of information.
I have reached out to some of these individuals. Some have replied and been friendly and gracious in their comments on my observances of the phenomena and future use Satan will muster: my overall biblical viewpoint. Most see Christians as a thorn in the side because the bulk of professed Christendom's major spokespeople do not believe in life beyond Earth. They are detractors from the start. I am not of that group of people. I've given my biblical reasons why in other blogs, and time is going to tell if what I believe pans out. I have no doubts. That's personal conviction, though. Not empirical evidence.
The truth? For me, the battle is between Christ and Lucifer. The battleground is Earth. More specifically, the mind of man; made in the likeness and image of God - Jehovah - the Sovereign Creator. Man was created in the nobility and character of God's. It has been the determined effort of Lucifer to deface that image and likeness in man. He has obviously been more than successful.
Just listening to these voices tell us the discovery of "ET" would be the greatest event in human history is so small-minded. Pray tell, HOW would that be greater than GOD becoming a man, a fallen man, at that? How would the Creator dying for His creation, a creation that hates Him, be of less significance than discovering life exists beyond Earth? Seriously? But, you see, reality has been truncated, been reduced to story-telling, fables, non-reality. THAT is the point. If proof of "ET" can be attained, while proof of God cannot, God goes, "ET" stays. Think of the dynamic that creates. Think of the confusion that creates and the confusion that would wrap the globe.
I know, such a belief seems as odd and humorous as belief in the reality of UFOs flying around out there. There is a huge difference, though. Today, as more and more people are coming to a realization UFOs exist, based on less than provable evidence, whatever and whoever is behind them, people are also being exposed to the reality of Bible prophecy, and Bible prophecy has a stamp of archeological evidence and predictive accomplishments the other cannot hope to have. Even if (and I believe when) Satan uses the UFO phenomena as part of his last-day deceptions, the Bible has predated his works by revealing his character and his designs 2,000 years ago and more. The vast populace of the Earth remains ignorant of the powerful testimony God has given of Himself in the pages of Bible prophecy fulfillment.
I know the universe is populated. The Bible states it. Messengers from God have stated it. I have no serious reason to believe they would visit this rebellious, dying world. They exist in harmony with the Creator. They have no reason to come here and behold the ghastly image of a world in revolt and rebellion to God, even after Christ came here, lived, ministered, taught, died as a man, rose as deity He is, and promised to come again to receive His faithful from down through the ages. The world is at war with God. A real 'war of the worlds' has been going on since the fall of Earth's first representatives; the father and mother of the human race, Adam and Eve.
Everything is a rip off, a mimic, a counterfeit, a retelling of the biblical narrative. It is all designed to lessen the influence of the Bible upon the minds and hearts of mankind. Telling me certain ancient documents and religious ideas pre-date the Bible, is nowhere. It's meaningless because when you know the biblical information and the history and enemies at work, you see the important differences. The thing is, there is nothing the enemy can do about prophecy. It states what it states, as it even interprets itself within the very pages the prophecies are given. The interpretations, the explanations are given, by name, by time and place to the march of empires in Daniel. Revelation is the sister book of Daniel. One helps explain the other. It is all a puzzle, with pieces both easy and harder to put in place but, once the pieces have been, the picture is so clear it is astounding. As an atheist, that one fact was so mind-blowing to me I was stunned, set back, and brought to the place where I wanted the Author of this book, the Bible, to control my life. He is the Author and Finisher of faith, the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end, telling the end from the beginning. There is no other. He is God, alone.
Blake Cousins, host of the YT channel, Third Phase of Moon, is fond of telling fans to keep their eyes on the skies and "Buckle up, everybody."
Jesus Christ told his disciples the same thing, 2000 years ago. Pray, watch, prepare, get ready. The end of all things is at hand.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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262. Happy Memorial Day - May 31, 2021
So this is the national holiday Americans remember the fallen; those who gave their lives to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. I wonder what they died for.
Oregon wants people to show a vaccine passport to go into stores and other places of business.
A concert promoter will let you in for $19 if you can show you've been vaccinated. Others, your ticket price is $1000.
A cruise line will only let you on board if you can show you have been vaccinated.
Radical despots and wannabe dictators are still wearing masks in D.C. even as they finally remove the troops and fences from around the capitol.
Even though a mountain of easy to read and see evidence has been accumulated about this virus, the statistics, and all the rest, the hysteria, the absolute stupidity and ignorance, continues.
I was out in my shop yesterday. Have been, all week, making drums. I'm creating a tremendous amount of continual sawdust as I router out rings of plywood to make drum shells. By the end of the day my nose is running because of all the dust I have inhaled, even trying to hold my breath on each pass or breathe through my mouth. I tried various masks. I cannot do it longer than 5 minutes and I must breath fresh air. I MUST BREATHE FRESH AIR. Plus, no matter what I tried, breathing fogged up my glasses and I have to see fine lines and markings. I gave up and just went at it for 6-8 hours a day and just blow my nose when the fluids begin draining to get the dust out. That is part of God's immune system, something totally vacant in the information provided by all the fear mongers of this event. Unless you get sick and display a runny nose. Then they have been happy to tell you, you may die. Even though there is ABOVE a 99% chance you shall recover just fine, "DEATH" has been at the doorstep of the world for 18 months.
So, even though the truth is out there, Fauci and company are finally implicated in their nefarious activities, more people have experienced adverse side effects from the vaccine and more deaths from the vaccine have taken place in just short months compared to the totality of the last 20 YEARS, people are acting as though the Bubonic Plague is upon us and you MUST get vaccinated or you are not safe to be around!!!
Ignorance on parade. As angry as I am, I feel sorry for people. I feel sorry for those who passed away when over the counter meds have been available and many could have recovered were it not for the denunciations and roadblocks put up against using these treatments, by Fauci and company, the CDC and the WHO. Stories continue to come out where the numbers of people getting extremely sick or dying were relieved by using Hydroxychloroquine and other treatments in nations where Fauci and company did not have so much influence and control of the narrative.
Denmark, that nation I would have flown to for rehearsals for the Keep It True Festival, has now instilled their stamp of approval on its citizens. The "Coronapas" is available and over a million people jammed the website to download it on opening day. You have to be able to show you have been vaccinated or tested negative within the previous 72 hours and set up a slot for being vaccinated.
It makes me sick.
But, this is our new world order: the medical community and pharmaceutical companies control planet Earth. That is the basic fact of the mater. They speak, everybody stands to attention and complies. Unbelievable.
They have NO PROOF, NO EVIDENCE, NOTHING to mandate people get vaccinated, but they do have actual statistics of problems from the various experimental rushed vaccines, you can now know what is in them, including chemicals NOT MEANT for human consumption, you can know exactly what the vaccine can and cannot do, what it may or will do to your physical being, and hundreds of millions are just trusting all these voices to just take it.
God gives us an immune system. Man tells God he can do better, push it back, if not relegate it to nonexistence, attack whatever specified invader is in the human systems, and as the mutations develop, just like flu shots, which also do not work for a huge chunk of people that get them every year (and just where did the FLU go for the last two seasons???), you have to get more shots. Supposedly some of the experimental vaccines can be taken just once and done. Watch that change. "Variants" you see. Too many variants of this man-made virus are developing. "It's alive!!!" Frankly (pun intended), these "stein" juices being whipped up by all the companies seeing dollar signs all the way to the moon and back, are apparently made to do more than just attack the virus.
You could not pay me to take it. There is nothing you could offer me to get jabbed. Nor is any threat or demonization going to work, either.
A marginalization is taking place. 'Them and us.' Those people over there refuse to take the vaccine. They are not civilized. They are morons and a danger to the rest of us enlightened people.
Do you have any idea just how prophetic that attitude is? Even now, as Jews are being persecuted around the world, when the Sabbath/Sunday controversy hits its peak, Sabbathkeepers will be the "unvaccinated" of humanity, bringing trouble upon the world. Blame them! Remove them! I am not a physical Jew. I am a spiritual Hebrew, though, as Paul states in the Bible. Believers are spiritual Jews. That slight connection will mark Sabbathkeepers all over the globe. Harassment, oppression, persecution. It is coming. It is already here.
So it has been predicted. So shall it be fulfilled.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Oregon wants people to show a vaccine passport to go into stores and other places of business.
A concert promoter will let you in for $19 if you can show you've been vaccinated. Others, your ticket price is $1000.
A cruise line will only let you on board if you can show you have been vaccinated.
Radical despots and wannabe dictators are still wearing masks in D.C. even as they finally remove the troops and fences from around the capitol.
Even though a mountain of easy to read and see evidence has been accumulated about this virus, the statistics, and all the rest, the hysteria, the absolute stupidity and ignorance, continues.
I was out in my shop yesterday. Have been, all week, making drums. I'm creating a tremendous amount of continual sawdust as I router out rings of plywood to make drum shells. By the end of the day my nose is running because of all the dust I have inhaled, even trying to hold my breath on each pass or breathe through my mouth. I tried various masks. I cannot do it longer than 5 minutes and I must breath fresh air. I MUST BREATHE FRESH AIR. Plus, no matter what I tried, breathing fogged up my glasses and I have to see fine lines and markings. I gave up and just went at it for 6-8 hours a day and just blow my nose when the fluids begin draining to get the dust out. That is part of God's immune system, something totally vacant in the information provided by all the fear mongers of this event. Unless you get sick and display a runny nose. Then they have been happy to tell you, you may die. Even though there is ABOVE a 99% chance you shall recover just fine, "DEATH" has been at the doorstep of the world for 18 months.
So, even though the truth is out there, Fauci and company are finally implicated in their nefarious activities, more people have experienced adverse side effects from the vaccine and more deaths from the vaccine have taken place in just short months compared to the totality of the last 20 YEARS, people are acting as though the Bubonic Plague is upon us and you MUST get vaccinated or you are not safe to be around!!!
Ignorance on parade. As angry as I am, I feel sorry for people. I feel sorry for those who passed away when over the counter meds have been available and many could have recovered were it not for the denunciations and roadblocks put up against using these treatments, by Fauci and company, the CDC and the WHO. Stories continue to come out where the numbers of people getting extremely sick or dying were relieved by using Hydroxychloroquine and other treatments in nations where Fauci and company did not have so much influence and control of the narrative.
Denmark, that nation I would have flown to for rehearsals for the Keep It True Festival, has now instilled their stamp of approval on its citizens. The "Coronapas" is available and over a million people jammed the website to download it on opening day. You have to be able to show you have been vaccinated or tested negative within the previous 72 hours and set up a slot for being vaccinated.
It makes me sick.
But, this is our new world order: the medical community and pharmaceutical companies control planet Earth. That is the basic fact of the mater. They speak, everybody stands to attention and complies. Unbelievable.
They have NO PROOF, NO EVIDENCE, NOTHING to mandate people get vaccinated, but they do have actual statistics of problems from the various experimental rushed vaccines, you can now know what is in them, including chemicals NOT MEANT for human consumption, you can know exactly what the vaccine can and cannot do, what it may or will do to your physical being, and hundreds of millions are just trusting all these voices to just take it.
God gives us an immune system. Man tells God he can do better, push it back, if not relegate it to nonexistence, attack whatever specified invader is in the human systems, and as the mutations develop, just like flu shots, which also do not work for a huge chunk of people that get them every year (and just where did the FLU go for the last two seasons???), you have to get more shots. Supposedly some of the experimental vaccines can be taken just once and done. Watch that change. "Variants" you see. Too many variants of this man-made virus are developing. "It's alive!!!" Frankly (pun intended), these "stein" juices being whipped up by all the companies seeing dollar signs all the way to the moon and back, are apparently made to do more than just attack the virus.
You could not pay me to take it. There is nothing you could offer me to get jabbed. Nor is any threat or demonization going to work, either.
A marginalization is taking place. 'Them and us.' Those people over there refuse to take the vaccine. They are not civilized. They are morons and a danger to the rest of us enlightened people.
Do you have any idea just how prophetic that attitude is? Even now, as Jews are being persecuted around the world, when the Sabbath/Sunday controversy hits its peak, Sabbathkeepers will be the "unvaccinated" of humanity, bringing trouble upon the world. Blame them! Remove them! I am not a physical Jew. I am a spiritual Hebrew, though, as Paul states in the Bible. Believers are spiritual Jews. That slight connection will mark Sabbathkeepers all over the globe. Harassment, oppression, persecution. It is coming. It is already here.
So it has been predicted. So shall it be fulfilled.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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263. Max Roach Solos - June 3, 2021
I just wrote about this on the recording blog but, had to include it here, as well.
In doing some research on drums-only recordings, and Max Roach, looking at a discography, I came upon a rare and out of print, 1977 recording, "Max Roach Solos."
WHAT?!?!?!
How is it possible I never heard of this recording? Even if I didn't know of its release in 1977 how on earth could I never have heard about this album in all the following decades? I'd guess most players around the globe have never heard of this recording.
I went to YT, typed it in, and a channel had a playlist posted. I listed, I read and did more research, and I sat amazed. It is a fantastic album (and I posted that in the comment section), the first of its kind, to my knowledge: a true, drum solos-only recording. Drums only or drums dominant recordings are rare enough. A recording of just drum solos? One in a million. That may be literal.
I have heard Max play some of these solos before and without doing some digging, I don't know if this is a compilation recording, taking solos from previous albums or, if Max played these fresh for this recording. Regardless, the album is a masterpiece, no exaggeration.
The YT channel owner replied to my comment and stated he got it as a Japanese import and it was the last one they had. This is mindboggling to me.
Max Roach is an icon, a giant of drum set artistry. Even if you aren't into Jazz or the higher pitched tunings of players in the Jazz field, this recording should be a "Drums 101," must have, ear-feast that ought to be in every player's collection of recordings. That is just a necessary mandate. If you have any deeper interest, or just a cursory interest in the instrument, what Max Roach was able to do on a drum set is art. The drum community, alone, should be able to make and keep such a recording vital, on shelves and continually being manufactured domestically and distributed around the globe. I don't what can be done to make something like that happen. It should be done, though.
Some of the solos are mind-blowing. Max generally played a 4pc kit but, in his later years he played 5 and 6pc kits and I noticed that is heard on this album. His musicality is absolute and legendary. Such a term is so often abused and overused but, in the case of Max Roach it is not. He was truly a musician. His technique was fine enough but, his ability to compose rhythmic ideas on a drum set was fascinating.
The album brings up a serious reality check for me. If the great talent and place of Max Roach in drumming history could not make such a recording vital and lasting, there is not a wisp of a chance my recording will find a place in the vast ocean of recordings out there and the small island of drums-only recordings that have been made. That is the stark reality. That is the actuality of it. The palpability of it.
Despite that hovering fact, I am going to forge ahead and record a Concepts for Solo Drum Set 2. I've been building new drums, washing around new ideas, already working on CD liner material, and regardless of the mountain standing before me, I'll put it all out there and leave the results with life and the Lord, Who gave me the talent and the time.
Here is a link to the YT playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcmGV-JLsG4&list=PLyHn3f7-9IULMcDCp6aKF6uXPx4gJCT7M
In doing some research on drums-only recordings, and Max Roach, looking at a discography, I came upon a rare and out of print, 1977 recording, "Max Roach Solos."
WHAT?!?!?!
How is it possible I never heard of this recording? Even if I didn't know of its release in 1977 how on earth could I never have heard about this album in all the following decades? I'd guess most players around the globe have never heard of this recording.
I went to YT, typed it in, and a channel had a playlist posted. I listed, I read and did more research, and I sat amazed. It is a fantastic album (and I posted that in the comment section), the first of its kind, to my knowledge: a true, drum solos-only recording. Drums only or drums dominant recordings are rare enough. A recording of just drum solos? One in a million. That may be literal.
I have heard Max play some of these solos before and without doing some digging, I don't know if this is a compilation recording, taking solos from previous albums or, if Max played these fresh for this recording. Regardless, the album is a masterpiece, no exaggeration.
The YT channel owner replied to my comment and stated he got it as a Japanese import and it was the last one they had. This is mindboggling to me.
Max Roach is an icon, a giant of drum set artistry. Even if you aren't into Jazz or the higher pitched tunings of players in the Jazz field, this recording should be a "Drums 101," must have, ear-feast that ought to be in every player's collection of recordings. That is just a necessary mandate. If you have any deeper interest, or just a cursory interest in the instrument, what Max Roach was able to do on a drum set is art. The drum community, alone, should be able to make and keep such a recording vital, on shelves and continually being manufactured domestically and distributed around the globe. I don't what can be done to make something like that happen. It should be done, though.
Some of the solos are mind-blowing. Max generally played a 4pc kit but, in his later years he played 5 and 6pc kits and I noticed that is heard on this album. His musicality is absolute and legendary. Such a term is so often abused and overused but, in the case of Max Roach it is not. He was truly a musician. His technique was fine enough but, his ability to compose rhythmic ideas on a drum set was fascinating.
The album brings up a serious reality check for me. If the great talent and place of Max Roach in drumming history could not make such a recording vital and lasting, there is not a wisp of a chance my recording will find a place in the vast ocean of recordings out there and the small island of drums-only recordings that have been made. That is the stark reality. That is the actuality of it. The palpability of it.
Despite that hovering fact, I am going to forge ahead and record a Concepts for Solo Drum Set 2. I've been building new drums, washing around new ideas, already working on CD liner material, and regardless of the mountain standing before me, I'll put it all out there and leave the results with life and the Lord, Who gave me the talent and the time.
Here is a link to the YT playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcmGV-JLsG4&list=PLyHn3f7-9IULMcDCp6aKF6uXPx4gJCT7M
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264. The Pillow Guy Fires the Kill Shot - June 4, 2021
I was going to post info about the fall of Anthony Fauci, his emails, lies to Congress, fraud, cooperation in the Chinese attack on the world, etc., etc. but, even mainstream news is no longer covering for him and unless you are wearing concrete glasses, living in denial, it is now obvious the citizens of America who blew a trumpet on that man in 2020 were correct. Will he be held accountable? Like I stated earlier: unlikely.
Mike Lindell, the My Pillow guy, has been using his fortune to look into the subject of voter fraud, hacks and political criminal activity for months now; hiring forensic experts, making videos, and getting slammed from every direction. I would not call him the most articulate man around but, he has the heart of a lion and remains undaunted. He presses on, digging deeper and deeper and is not afraid to put the results out there.
His latest video is a simple conversation, via Skype or whatever, with one of his forensic experts, pixelated out for the man's own protection, getting into more detail of how it is now a 100% proved fact China hacked election machines and changed votes in the 2020 presidential election. It's all right there on the screen for anyone to see. The process used to get the data and what the data shows - source point of hacks, targets, locations, vote change numbers... all of it.
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/XvRoboHSAqXp/
The video title is 'Absolutely 9-0,' a reference to the ultimate Supreme Court vote when/if this information gets before them. That, of course, is the bottom line. All the evidence known to man is rather worthless if you cannot have your day in court.
I'd ask myself some simple questions:
1. Is it possible to control SCOTUS judges with corruption, threats, etc.?
2. Would SCOTUS overturn the results of a national election, based on incontrovertible evidence?
3. Would overturning a national election create chaos?
4. Would all parties in D.C., in all three branches of government, see the chaos as worse than a fraudulent election?
5. Could Mike Lindell end up dead?
6. Can the Justice Dept. of the United States be trusted to investigate and prosecute any and all potential domestic criminals, at any and all levels of society?
7. Can the Executive and Legislative branches be trusted to address China in every way possible when shown China pursued/pursues an act of war against the United States?
1. Yes. 2. No. 3. Yes. 4. Yes. 5. Yes. 6. No. 7. No. I do not see any "maybe" answers to the above. Those in control are not going to let go of the control they now have. America's fate is basically sealed unless God steps in and does something to stop the descent into collapse of the Republic of the United States of America. If I added a question 8. Would God step in and save America? THAT might receive a "maybe." There is evidence in the Bible that God throws down or relents depending on the attitude of a nation. What is the current attitude of America towards God?
People who do not know the Bible, especially the prophecies, do not realize the times God told entire nations, through His prophets to their leaders, do this and stand, do that and fall, BEFORE their final sentence was pronounced or, just as information of what would happen, to show His people and anyone else interested HE controls the rise and fall of nations; not armies, not kings or queens, not anything else but, Him. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, the division of the Roman empire, all foretold in Scripture centuries before the events took place. The prophet Daniel saw the fall of Babylon in his day. From there the other predictions all came true and there has never, since the division of the Roman empire, been another ruling empire on Earth in the provinces of biblical territory: Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Northern Africa.
I do not fear a Chinese takeover of the world. God has said, NO, and No means NO. Communism was doomed before it began. Not the USSR, not China, not the American "empire" for that matter, could have global control because God has said so, period. The world shall remain divided until Christ returns and shuts the place down. Bank on it.
That does not mean false unity will not take place. It shall. It does not mean the USA is going to stand. It does not mean China may not gain tremendous power in this world. It does not mean the church will not see persecution and the world will not see chaos or dystopian control factors. It does mean any nation that has absolute control designs are destined to fail. China is gaining a control factor the world never dreamed a generation ago. They have the money, money equals power, and China is gaining on every path it pursues. It knowingly sent a virus, created in its laboratories, into the world. That is a biological attack. It knowingly hacked voting machines and overturned a presidential election, probably with the aid of dozens of political actors and factors right here in America. The world is going to China to manufacture its goods, as inexpensively as possible, to improve everybody's profit margins.
Joe Biden, the mentally ill non-president, is a puppet for China and who knows who and what else?
Biden has hired 87,000 new IRS agents. That is the number I have seen. That is a doubling of its reach into the wallets of Americans. That is not the action of a man who cares about the citizens of a Constitutional Republic. That is the action of a man who intends to control people.
Biden has no, real support. Nothing he says or does shows any actual interest on the part of American citizens. The mainstream Press is his only support. He is not running the show. Barack Obama is and other figures, behind the scenes. That is not New World Order conspiracy theory. They hide nothing, anymore. They have the power to flaunt it all.
Mike Lindell has done a very honorable, patriotic, and important thing with these investigations. History will retain them in some fashion. They are on record in God's judgment books. I seriously doubt they shall make any impact on the slide of America into despotic darkness. I see no evidence to such an end. I also hope Lindell will be as interested in spending the money necessary in investigating these experimental vaccines and what is coming as a result. Reams of information is already out there. More would certainly help.
Will God step in? I ask that a lot in these Thoughts and Op/Eds.
What do you think, when only 6% of Americans have any serious affiliation to belief in a biblical worldview?
Mike Lindell, the My Pillow guy, has been using his fortune to look into the subject of voter fraud, hacks and political criminal activity for months now; hiring forensic experts, making videos, and getting slammed from every direction. I would not call him the most articulate man around but, he has the heart of a lion and remains undaunted. He presses on, digging deeper and deeper and is not afraid to put the results out there.
His latest video is a simple conversation, via Skype or whatever, with one of his forensic experts, pixelated out for the man's own protection, getting into more detail of how it is now a 100% proved fact China hacked election machines and changed votes in the 2020 presidential election. It's all right there on the screen for anyone to see. The process used to get the data and what the data shows - source point of hacks, targets, locations, vote change numbers... all of it.
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/XvRoboHSAqXp/
The video title is 'Absolutely 9-0,' a reference to the ultimate Supreme Court vote when/if this information gets before them. That, of course, is the bottom line. All the evidence known to man is rather worthless if you cannot have your day in court.
I'd ask myself some simple questions:
1. Is it possible to control SCOTUS judges with corruption, threats, etc.?
2. Would SCOTUS overturn the results of a national election, based on incontrovertible evidence?
3. Would overturning a national election create chaos?
4. Would all parties in D.C., in all three branches of government, see the chaos as worse than a fraudulent election?
5. Could Mike Lindell end up dead?
6. Can the Justice Dept. of the United States be trusted to investigate and prosecute any and all potential domestic criminals, at any and all levels of society?
7. Can the Executive and Legislative branches be trusted to address China in every way possible when shown China pursued/pursues an act of war against the United States?
1. Yes. 2. No. 3. Yes. 4. Yes. 5. Yes. 6. No. 7. No. I do not see any "maybe" answers to the above. Those in control are not going to let go of the control they now have. America's fate is basically sealed unless God steps in and does something to stop the descent into collapse of the Republic of the United States of America. If I added a question 8. Would God step in and save America? THAT might receive a "maybe." There is evidence in the Bible that God throws down or relents depending on the attitude of a nation. What is the current attitude of America towards God?
People who do not know the Bible, especially the prophecies, do not realize the times God told entire nations, through His prophets to their leaders, do this and stand, do that and fall, BEFORE their final sentence was pronounced or, just as information of what would happen, to show His people and anyone else interested HE controls the rise and fall of nations; not armies, not kings or queens, not anything else but, Him. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, the division of the Roman empire, all foretold in Scripture centuries before the events took place. The prophet Daniel saw the fall of Babylon in his day. From there the other predictions all came true and there has never, since the division of the Roman empire, been another ruling empire on Earth in the provinces of biblical territory: Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Northern Africa.
I do not fear a Chinese takeover of the world. God has said, NO, and No means NO. Communism was doomed before it began. Not the USSR, not China, not the American "empire" for that matter, could have global control because God has said so, period. The world shall remain divided until Christ returns and shuts the place down. Bank on it.
That does not mean false unity will not take place. It shall. It does not mean the USA is going to stand. It does not mean China may not gain tremendous power in this world. It does not mean the church will not see persecution and the world will not see chaos or dystopian control factors. It does mean any nation that has absolute control designs are destined to fail. China is gaining a control factor the world never dreamed a generation ago. They have the money, money equals power, and China is gaining on every path it pursues. It knowingly sent a virus, created in its laboratories, into the world. That is a biological attack. It knowingly hacked voting machines and overturned a presidential election, probably with the aid of dozens of political actors and factors right here in America. The world is going to China to manufacture its goods, as inexpensively as possible, to improve everybody's profit margins.
Joe Biden, the mentally ill non-president, is a puppet for China and who knows who and what else?
Biden has hired 87,000 new IRS agents. That is the number I have seen. That is a doubling of its reach into the wallets of Americans. That is not the action of a man who cares about the citizens of a Constitutional Republic. That is the action of a man who intends to control people.
Biden has no, real support. Nothing he says or does shows any actual interest on the part of American citizens. The mainstream Press is his only support. He is not running the show. Barack Obama is and other figures, behind the scenes. That is not New World Order conspiracy theory. They hide nothing, anymore. They have the power to flaunt it all.
Mike Lindell has done a very honorable, patriotic, and important thing with these investigations. History will retain them in some fashion. They are on record in God's judgment books. I seriously doubt they shall make any impact on the slide of America into despotic darkness. I see no evidence to such an end. I also hope Lindell will be as interested in spending the money necessary in investigating these experimental vaccines and what is coming as a result. Reams of information is already out there. More would certainly help.
Will God step in? I ask that a lot in these Thoughts and Op/Eds.
What do you think, when only 6% of Americans have any serious affiliation to belief in a biblical worldview?
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265. Was Jesus an Extra-Terrestrial? - June 6, 2021
Was Jesus of Nazareth an extra-terrestrial? An alien? Of course He was. He came from another place, another dimension, another world - Heaven - and came to Earth, went through gestation, birthed as a male baby, became a man, lived as a man, with man's fallen nature even, and was put to death by man, rose as Deity that He is, that could not die, went back to His realm a conquering King, overcoming temptation and death, and promised to prepare a place for all those who love Him and shall return in fire and glory and power with billions, maybe trillions of angels burning bright as molten magnesium, and bring His people to that new home some day. I mean, c'mon, is that not a Hollywood blockbuster, or what?
No movie could EVER portray the story correctly because no man, no fallen, sinful human being could ever portray the sinless Lamb of God, the Author of love. Impossible. Religious movies are doomed to failure, regardless of profits, because no one can portray Christ authentically. You cannot fake your way, act your way, through the life of a person you cannot possible relate to. God became a man. And who, exactly, understands such a role?
Christ (Messiah), our Creator, came to the world He made and was rejected by the world He made, in its inhabitants. Talk about rejection, and talk about love. He died for those who hated Him. His love was too great to just leave mankind to its fate of death. We now live in a time when mankind can destroy itself in various ways - bombs, poisons, biological and chemical death, take your pick. But, the greatest taker of life is sin. Jesus came to save anyone who wants a better way, free from sin. He is the way, the truth, and the life. The Bible states that. I believe it. Sin brings death. Death is death. No life. Who can escape it? Nobody. In the Bible, itself, only two people beat death and were taken to Heaven alive: Enoch and Elijah, who perfected their connections to God by grace through faith. A final generation of people who are sanctified to the point of Christlikeness, to wage the final battles against world-wide rebellion and anarchy will also be "translated" to heaven; taken away alive, not experiencing physical death. Death to self, YES. Total death to self. They are called "the remnant." More specifically, a remnant of the remnant, who keep the commandments of God and have the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ. Revelation speaks of them. But, I digress.
There's a lot of info out there these days about Christ being an "alien," some kind of member of a master race of beings that are all, basically, deity, compared to you and me. The New Agers see Him as the Cosmic Christ, the great spirit of the universe. The UFO community have many "religious" people in it; very sincere, very passionate, very humble people. Most have no use for Christianity or any other traditional religion. A new age calls for a new understanding of things. Sin? No. Nothing that can keep you from your ultimate place in the universe. Of course, they frown on things they consider wrong, to varying degrees. How they determine standards for morality, without the authority of deity backing it all up, is a wonder to me.
Aliens are huge right now. I mean, we are so past the days of early sci-fi and Flash Gordon it is ridiculous. Hollywood made movies about Martians and Venusians. Then came space probes and the realities of conditions on those planets and the others in the solar system. Jupiterians? Or would that be Jupiterites? Yeah, no. Just traveling a short way into Jupiter's atmosphere has enough pressure to crush you like a mile into Earth's oceans.
Millions of people, tens, hundreds of millions of people do not think or care about Jesus Christ or the Bible or God. They long for "ET" to come and save the day! The good guys, of course. Not the bad aliens, like the Reptilians. No, no. They want the Pleidians or other good-guy race of aliens to come and show us a better way. The way Christ showed is not good enough.
The ignorance of such a belief and position, if thought through, is astonishing and staggering anybody could come to such a conclusion. A better way than Christ? ??? I have not had the opportunity to ask anyone what could possibly be a better way to live than as Christ instructed, to love as He loved. To stand for principle as He did. To be fearless as He was; strong as He was; kind as He was; loyal as He was. The apostle John wrote that all the books in the world could not contain all the good things Christ did when He lived among men. Sooner than later the opportunity will arrive to ask that question, just by the sheer numbers of people getting into it all. For now, I'll ask and share here.
So, let me ask this. What happens if "aliens" make themselves known and they express harmony and allegiance to the teachings of Christ? What if, as Christ, himself, an alien "savior" arrives bringing a message of "peace and safety?" What if some of the same things Christ taught are spoken? What if the sick are 'healed?' What if tremendous revival takes place all around the globe? "Christ has come!" "The embodiment of all paths to God has come!" What if it all seems mind-blowingly fantastic, except - something taught will be diametrically opposed to the actual teaching of Christ and the Bible, the Word of God? Uh, oh. A recipe for conflict among men.
I mean, look at all the conflict the already exists over doctrinal matters. So much so, millions of Christians have thrown the baby out with the bathwater and just want to park doctrine in the church basement, never to be seen or pondered again.
Most professed Christians are familiar with the Bible stating Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. Truth? Oh, yes. No truth, no life. Christ said we are sanctified, set apart, made righteous and holy by the influence of the truth in our lives. Can you just park it? At your own peril.
I suggest multiplied millions of professed Christians and people of all faiths and no faith will except a coming usurper, "an angel of light." Divested from the protections of the truth they shall believe lies. They have no armor to protect them from what is coming - signs, wonders, miracles, stuff Hollywood can only pull off with special effects and "acting." They shall be swept up into a false event of spiritualism and feel-good community Kumbaya, and a small group of believers around the world will try to warn them but, not many will see the way, the truth and the life. Others will see it but, be too afraid to accept it and go with it because of the ties that bind; their jobs and careers, their commitments to the things of this world.
I'm telling you, if Hollywood could make such a movie... but, it cannot. The days ahead and the climactic return of Christ in power and glory, no movie can ever portray. No. No special set of effects could ever capture what the entire world is going to literally see one day. That said, if what I believe is correct, the planet will see a pseudo-second coming, an appearance of some kind of "savior" from another world, another dimension, another place speaking and bringing peace and safety, to deceive the world and if possible, even the very elect. The final dog and pony show Satan will pull off.
One way or another, all humanity will accept one Alien or another.
Where will you stand?
No movie could EVER portray the story correctly because no man, no fallen, sinful human being could ever portray the sinless Lamb of God, the Author of love. Impossible. Religious movies are doomed to failure, regardless of profits, because no one can portray Christ authentically. You cannot fake your way, act your way, through the life of a person you cannot possible relate to. God became a man. And who, exactly, understands such a role?
Christ (Messiah), our Creator, came to the world He made and was rejected by the world He made, in its inhabitants. Talk about rejection, and talk about love. He died for those who hated Him. His love was too great to just leave mankind to its fate of death. We now live in a time when mankind can destroy itself in various ways - bombs, poisons, biological and chemical death, take your pick. But, the greatest taker of life is sin. Jesus came to save anyone who wants a better way, free from sin. He is the way, the truth, and the life. The Bible states that. I believe it. Sin brings death. Death is death. No life. Who can escape it? Nobody. In the Bible, itself, only two people beat death and were taken to Heaven alive: Enoch and Elijah, who perfected their connections to God by grace through faith. A final generation of people who are sanctified to the point of Christlikeness, to wage the final battles against world-wide rebellion and anarchy will also be "translated" to heaven; taken away alive, not experiencing physical death. Death to self, YES. Total death to self. They are called "the remnant." More specifically, a remnant of the remnant, who keep the commandments of God and have the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ. Revelation speaks of them. But, I digress.
There's a lot of info out there these days about Christ being an "alien," some kind of member of a master race of beings that are all, basically, deity, compared to you and me. The New Agers see Him as the Cosmic Christ, the great spirit of the universe. The UFO community have many "religious" people in it; very sincere, very passionate, very humble people. Most have no use for Christianity or any other traditional religion. A new age calls for a new understanding of things. Sin? No. Nothing that can keep you from your ultimate place in the universe. Of course, they frown on things they consider wrong, to varying degrees. How they determine standards for morality, without the authority of deity backing it all up, is a wonder to me.
Aliens are huge right now. I mean, we are so past the days of early sci-fi and Flash Gordon it is ridiculous. Hollywood made movies about Martians and Venusians. Then came space probes and the realities of conditions on those planets and the others in the solar system. Jupiterians? Or would that be Jupiterites? Yeah, no. Just traveling a short way into Jupiter's atmosphere has enough pressure to crush you like a mile into Earth's oceans.
Millions of people, tens, hundreds of millions of people do not think or care about Jesus Christ or the Bible or God. They long for "ET" to come and save the day! The good guys, of course. Not the bad aliens, like the Reptilians. No, no. They want the Pleidians or other good-guy race of aliens to come and show us a better way. The way Christ showed is not good enough.
The ignorance of such a belief and position, if thought through, is astonishing and staggering anybody could come to such a conclusion. A better way than Christ? ??? I have not had the opportunity to ask anyone what could possibly be a better way to live than as Christ instructed, to love as He loved. To stand for principle as He did. To be fearless as He was; strong as He was; kind as He was; loyal as He was. The apostle John wrote that all the books in the world could not contain all the good things Christ did when He lived among men. Sooner than later the opportunity will arrive to ask that question, just by the sheer numbers of people getting into it all. For now, I'll ask and share here.
So, let me ask this. What happens if "aliens" make themselves known and they express harmony and allegiance to the teachings of Christ? What if, as Christ, himself, an alien "savior" arrives bringing a message of "peace and safety?" What if some of the same things Christ taught are spoken? What if the sick are 'healed?' What if tremendous revival takes place all around the globe? "Christ has come!" "The embodiment of all paths to God has come!" What if it all seems mind-blowingly fantastic, except - something taught will be diametrically opposed to the actual teaching of Christ and the Bible, the Word of God? Uh, oh. A recipe for conflict among men.
I mean, look at all the conflict the already exists over doctrinal matters. So much so, millions of Christians have thrown the baby out with the bathwater and just want to park doctrine in the church basement, never to be seen or pondered again.
Most professed Christians are familiar with the Bible stating Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. Truth? Oh, yes. No truth, no life. Christ said we are sanctified, set apart, made righteous and holy by the influence of the truth in our lives. Can you just park it? At your own peril.
I suggest multiplied millions of professed Christians and people of all faiths and no faith will except a coming usurper, "an angel of light." Divested from the protections of the truth they shall believe lies. They have no armor to protect them from what is coming - signs, wonders, miracles, stuff Hollywood can only pull off with special effects and "acting." They shall be swept up into a false event of spiritualism and feel-good community Kumbaya, and a small group of believers around the world will try to warn them but, not many will see the way, the truth and the life. Others will see it but, be too afraid to accept it and go with it because of the ties that bind; their jobs and careers, their commitments to the things of this world.
I'm telling you, if Hollywood could make such a movie... but, it cannot. The days ahead and the climactic return of Christ in power and glory, no movie can ever portray. No. No special set of effects could ever capture what the entire world is going to literally see one day. That said, if what I believe is correct, the planet will see a pseudo-second coming, an appearance of some kind of "savior" from another world, another dimension, another place speaking and bringing peace and safety, to deceive the world and if possible, even the very elect. The final dog and pony show Satan will pull off.
One way or another, all humanity will accept one Alien or another.
Where will you stand?
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266. Making Drums is Not Always Fun - June 8, 2021
If I had a nickel for every person I have met or had communication from that stated, "You make your own drums? That must be fun," I'd have a pretty decent-sized jar filled with nickels.
Making drums from scratch... well, it all depends on the tools and the environment those tools are in, start to finish. In my case I have never had a nice "shop," ever. Sheds, some garage space, some back room in an old building, or just kneeling on a floor putting things together as far back as I can remember. Never in a environmentally controlled atmosphere. I'm not playing a violin here (well, maybe a tiny one). We work with what we have, when it comes to doing the things we love to do and improve things as we can.
If you make drums from component parts: shells, lugs, hoops and all, the process is pretty static. Nothing really changes save for the thickness of the shell and how that effects router bits for doing bearing edges and screw lengths for mounting things to a shell. I say all the time, "Drums are not rocket science," contrary to all the manufacturer super-hype about proprietary materials and methods in how they make their drums. It is not that difficult if you can use a drill and a router. The fact is, if you have steady hands you can even put bearing edges on a drum with a drill and drum sander or a Dremel tool. I've done it. A router w/table is a whole lot easier, though.
When you make drums from scratch; wood staves, blocks, stacked rings, etc., there's a lot more to it. Even then, when I began making stave shells a had a chorus of guys on discussion forums telling me it could not be done with just a table saw and belt sander. Then they saw pictures of the drums I was making and the comments changed. I got bored with it fairly quick, all things considered, because I'm not a snare junky. I never heard enough differences between all the materials to spend the money for new materials. I heard enough "sameness" between wood and metal drums at the tensions I put my batter and snare heads to let me know the entire cavalcade of snare drums sitting on store racks may look cool and cause some players to drool but, in fact, there are just not that many differences in sound. Depth of shell effects tone some but, feel is effected a lot more. Same with diameter. Obviously pitch drops but, the feel changes. Most players use 14" drums. I have played 13" drums since the '90s and a 14" feels like playing on a pillow by comparison. So, shell materials are just not the major matter they are made out to be in the industry. And like I have stated over and over, the companies, themselves, do not go out of their way to prove their hype with examples. They just say it and the last couple generations of players believe it. Those who lived in the 50s through the 70s know what the industry was like. Shells were not the end all they are stated to be today.
I know that is "heresy" in the drum community but, until someone can prove me wrong with empirical evidence, I'm just staying with my observations over the years. And when other guys that make drums, some for a living, tell me I am basically correct; it's all about nuances and subtleties, I know my observations are sound. If nuances and subtleties are your thing, have fun.
I'm sure every builder has their stories of train wrecks and catastrophes. Especially would that be the case with those who use lathes, which can be dangerous devices. Any tool can cause injury and my hands have the scars to show that fact. I've broken my thumb from a run away drill, caught finger tips in routers, cut off the end of a thumb on a table saw, drilled into fingers, etc., etc., etc. When sharp things are moving at thousands of RPMs, a nanosecond and moment of mind wandering is all it takes. There are days I'll see blood on my hands and not even know what or where its from. Things are super sharp and nicks take place and you don't even know it because your concentration is elsewhere. Thankfully, after a lifetime of using hand and power tools, my injuries are nowhere near what has happened to others. Lathes, though... oh, man. The stories I have read of something shattering and turning into a wooden super nova. Makes me question my desire to own one. I never will, so, it really doesn't matter but, lathes are generally the biggest tool in a well-stocked wood shop, with table saws being right there, as well, and those two devices cause the most injuries and wreck the most projects.
Down to practical facts here, today. Stacked plywood rings. In making the new drums for that kit: toms and a bass drum, and having the shop I do, the tools I do, the environment and space I do, and the money I have to work with... let's just say "fun" is not part of this project.
Texas is a land of hassles, especially humidity, which effects drying time for glue, and especially for finishes. Some would say, with a show of serious mandate, you never apply finishes in the kind of humidity Teas has been experiencing (with weeks and weeks of rain as we have had here in the last few months), unless you have a very special environmentally-controlled room for it. There are little ponds everywhere where ponds should not be. The ground is so saturated there is nowhere for the water to go. Trees are so water-logged, leaves are yellowing and falling off. I walk out to my shop and it's like walking on a giant sponge. The mosquito population has gone insane but, that has nothing to do with making drums, unless they get into the shop and plague me. Seeing I have to door open to put a fan there to keep air moving, yeah, they get in. It gets really hot in the shop, which was just an old, dilapidated loafing shed, until I closed it in. Pebble floor, leaking roof, rotted wood. a Lovely place to work but, it's what I have and I make it work. It's actually the biggest space I have ever had to work on projects. So, I have to Deep Woods OFF inside. Fun.
In the case of stacking plywood rings, with the exception of having to use a jig saw to cut the inner circles of 6" tom shells, I now use a plunge router and circle cutter, which is so much easier, it's almost a joy. The table drum sander I got smooths things out so much easier than a belt sander or drum sander sleeves with a drill. I can smooth out each ring before gluing up. It makes a huge difference.
Well, when all is said and done (and it isn't, yet), I refused to buy another sheet of wacked-out-expensive plywood, and I cut pieces from scraps of wood sitting around for ages, including construction plywood, not the nice stuff for making cabinet doors and such. It's a slightly thicker dimension and could not be stacked with the usual stuff I use. I had to make sure I kept things separated in the layup.
I made some "L" brackets for braces to glue and stack rings, which worked great for full rings. I used 8 braces on the bass drum and they kept full rings tightly in place. Stacking glued pieces of rings... not so much. I decided to drill and use small finish nails to hold the things in place. In the end, as beautifully as everything stacked together dry, glued up, I had a lot of sanding to do, which is tedious and not that easy to do, because belt sanders can dig their way into wood very easily and you can go past the point you want to in the blink of an eye. They get heavy to hold... well, they are heavy to hold for such a job to begin with. They are meant for sanding flat surfaces, not circles. After a face-full of dust I got things even enough for finishing.
Took a long time for the poly to set up for each coat and if you are not really sure and careful, best to wait longer. I took a 6" tom out to the shop for a final sanding before applying a finish coat and the last coat had not really cured enough and turned into a gloppy mess under the heat and friction of sand paper. I am so thankful I did not touch the bass drum and experimented with that 6" tom first. So... have to wait it out.
I feel under the gun for some reason because when these drums are done and set up, I begin recording tracks for the next drum project, and I feel like something is going to happen. I don't know what. I just deeply feel the government, with all its lies, corruption and criminal activity is going to do something so stupid and/or revolting a major catastrophe is going to take place. 2020 was worse, by magnitudes, of "bad enough." What may come will be... well, it's just a gut feeling and I hope it passes.
Plus, I ain't gettin' any younger, either. I can feel it in my bones more and more.
Will a Concepts for Solo Drum Set 2 get made? I'll make it. Will it get heard? Doesn't matter. I'm doing it anyway.
Fun, fun, fun.
Making drums from scratch... well, it all depends on the tools and the environment those tools are in, start to finish. In my case I have never had a nice "shop," ever. Sheds, some garage space, some back room in an old building, or just kneeling on a floor putting things together as far back as I can remember. Never in a environmentally controlled atmosphere. I'm not playing a violin here (well, maybe a tiny one). We work with what we have, when it comes to doing the things we love to do and improve things as we can.
If you make drums from component parts: shells, lugs, hoops and all, the process is pretty static. Nothing really changes save for the thickness of the shell and how that effects router bits for doing bearing edges and screw lengths for mounting things to a shell. I say all the time, "Drums are not rocket science," contrary to all the manufacturer super-hype about proprietary materials and methods in how they make their drums. It is not that difficult if you can use a drill and a router. The fact is, if you have steady hands you can even put bearing edges on a drum with a drill and drum sander or a Dremel tool. I've done it. A router w/table is a whole lot easier, though.
When you make drums from scratch; wood staves, blocks, stacked rings, etc., there's a lot more to it. Even then, when I began making stave shells a had a chorus of guys on discussion forums telling me it could not be done with just a table saw and belt sander. Then they saw pictures of the drums I was making and the comments changed. I got bored with it fairly quick, all things considered, because I'm not a snare junky. I never heard enough differences between all the materials to spend the money for new materials. I heard enough "sameness" between wood and metal drums at the tensions I put my batter and snare heads to let me know the entire cavalcade of snare drums sitting on store racks may look cool and cause some players to drool but, in fact, there are just not that many differences in sound. Depth of shell effects tone some but, feel is effected a lot more. Same with diameter. Obviously pitch drops but, the feel changes. Most players use 14" drums. I have played 13" drums since the '90s and a 14" feels like playing on a pillow by comparison. So, shell materials are just not the major matter they are made out to be in the industry. And like I have stated over and over, the companies, themselves, do not go out of their way to prove their hype with examples. They just say it and the last couple generations of players believe it. Those who lived in the 50s through the 70s know what the industry was like. Shells were not the end all they are stated to be today.
I know that is "heresy" in the drum community but, until someone can prove me wrong with empirical evidence, I'm just staying with my observations over the years. And when other guys that make drums, some for a living, tell me I am basically correct; it's all about nuances and subtleties, I know my observations are sound. If nuances and subtleties are your thing, have fun.
I'm sure every builder has their stories of train wrecks and catastrophes. Especially would that be the case with those who use lathes, which can be dangerous devices. Any tool can cause injury and my hands have the scars to show that fact. I've broken my thumb from a run away drill, caught finger tips in routers, cut off the end of a thumb on a table saw, drilled into fingers, etc., etc., etc. When sharp things are moving at thousands of RPMs, a nanosecond and moment of mind wandering is all it takes. There are days I'll see blood on my hands and not even know what or where its from. Things are super sharp and nicks take place and you don't even know it because your concentration is elsewhere. Thankfully, after a lifetime of using hand and power tools, my injuries are nowhere near what has happened to others. Lathes, though... oh, man. The stories I have read of something shattering and turning into a wooden super nova. Makes me question my desire to own one. I never will, so, it really doesn't matter but, lathes are generally the biggest tool in a well-stocked wood shop, with table saws being right there, as well, and those two devices cause the most injuries and wreck the most projects.
Down to practical facts here, today. Stacked plywood rings. In making the new drums for that kit: toms and a bass drum, and having the shop I do, the tools I do, the environment and space I do, and the money I have to work with... let's just say "fun" is not part of this project.
Texas is a land of hassles, especially humidity, which effects drying time for glue, and especially for finishes. Some would say, with a show of serious mandate, you never apply finishes in the kind of humidity Teas has been experiencing (with weeks and weeks of rain as we have had here in the last few months), unless you have a very special environmentally-controlled room for it. There are little ponds everywhere where ponds should not be. The ground is so saturated there is nowhere for the water to go. Trees are so water-logged, leaves are yellowing and falling off. I walk out to my shop and it's like walking on a giant sponge. The mosquito population has gone insane but, that has nothing to do with making drums, unless they get into the shop and plague me. Seeing I have to door open to put a fan there to keep air moving, yeah, they get in. It gets really hot in the shop, which was just an old, dilapidated loafing shed, until I closed it in. Pebble floor, leaking roof, rotted wood. a Lovely place to work but, it's what I have and I make it work. It's actually the biggest space I have ever had to work on projects. So, I have to Deep Woods OFF inside. Fun.
In the case of stacking plywood rings, with the exception of having to use a jig saw to cut the inner circles of 6" tom shells, I now use a plunge router and circle cutter, which is so much easier, it's almost a joy. The table drum sander I got smooths things out so much easier than a belt sander or drum sander sleeves with a drill. I can smooth out each ring before gluing up. It makes a huge difference.
Well, when all is said and done (and it isn't, yet), I refused to buy another sheet of wacked-out-expensive plywood, and I cut pieces from scraps of wood sitting around for ages, including construction plywood, not the nice stuff for making cabinet doors and such. It's a slightly thicker dimension and could not be stacked with the usual stuff I use. I had to make sure I kept things separated in the layup.
I made some "L" brackets for braces to glue and stack rings, which worked great for full rings. I used 8 braces on the bass drum and they kept full rings tightly in place. Stacking glued pieces of rings... not so much. I decided to drill and use small finish nails to hold the things in place. In the end, as beautifully as everything stacked together dry, glued up, I had a lot of sanding to do, which is tedious and not that easy to do, because belt sanders can dig their way into wood very easily and you can go past the point you want to in the blink of an eye. They get heavy to hold... well, they are heavy to hold for such a job to begin with. They are meant for sanding flat surfaces, not circles. After a face-full of dust I got things even enough for finishing.
Took a long time for the poly to set up for each coat and if you are not really sure and careful, best to wait longer. I took a 6" tom out to the shop for a final sanding before applying a finish coat and the last coat had not really cured enough and turned into a gloppy mess under the heat and friction of sand paper. I am so thankful I did not touch the bass drum and experimented with that 6" tom first. So... have to wait it out.
I feel under the gun for some reason because when these drums are done and set up, I begin recording tracks for the next drum project, and I feel like something is going to happen. I don't know what. I just deeply feel the government, with all its lies, corruption and criminal activity is going to do something so stupid and/or revolting a major catastrophe is going to take place. 2020 was worse, by magnitudes, of "bad enough." What may come will be... well, it's just a gut feeling and I hope it passes.
Plus, I ain't gettin' any younger, either. I can feel it in my bones more and more.
Will a Concepts for Solo Drum Set 2 get made? I'll make it. Will it get heard? Doesn't matter. I'm doing it anyway.
Fun, fun, fun.
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267. The Termination Event - June 12, 2021
Have you ever heard of a termination event? Well, I believe the second coming of Christ certainly warrants that classification but, that isn't what scientists are concerned with.
The termination event they consider is regarding the Sun and its cycles. Bands of magnetic energy drift up and down across the Sun's surface. When positive and negative collide at the equator a significant event can take place supercharging the next solar cycle. Solar flares are not as dangerous for life on Earth because of our magnetic shield. BUT, the same cannot be said for anything effected by magnetism such as most of modern humanity's infrastructure. Everything run by modern technology can be effected by solar flares of greater magnitude, and a termination event can trigger such cycles of solar flare activity that can definitely cause some BIG problems for all of us using tech. Satellites and communication, especially. Depending on when and how long flares take place part of or the entire planet can be effected.
Go here to see a short article about these events:
https://spaceweather.com/
The article states most scientists see a weak cycle coming up. A couple "heretics" say otherwise and their reasons are in the article.
Think of how your life might or definitely would be effected if the communication went down for any extended period of time. Satellites, tens of thousands of them circling the globe, could go dead, fried, and ultimately fall to Earth. That's a lot of space junk falling. How much would strike land, populated land? That which did not burn up in the atmosphere, or strike water... well, many being the size of a bus, you get the idea.
A lot of people get upset about satellites. The last number I saw was over 30,000 of them floating around up there. That seems like a lot. Actually, take a town of 30,000 people and scatter them all around the Earth. You could scatter them around in an average-sized state in America and they'd never come close to each other. Just the same, 30k+ buses falling back to Earth?
The Bible doesn't state anything about modern technology. Ancients could never have understood seeing such things in dreams or visions. One wonders if the prophets were shown modern life, life in the last days; all of man's "progress." Talk about a horror movie. Modern man still cannot come to grips with the atom bomb and its devastation. What would someone who only saw swords and chariots of war think?
I am going to couple something with this that I recently came upon. Growing totalitarianism. WHY would leaders go for it? Seriously. What is the point of controlling everything people can do? All it does is breed angst and anger, hatred, rebellion, revolt, etc., etc. Nothing good comes of it and every century has shown that. People are meant to be free. Why are so many elected officials around the globe looking at China like some kind of savior, some kind of hero, some kind of port in a storm? China is a MONSTER. China is DEATH SENTENCE to anyone who wants freedom and liberty and says so. China has... well, nobody outside China knows how many concentration camps, internment camps, reeducation camps, death camps, call them all whatever you want; nobody knows how many China has. China practices genocide. China is a ruthlessly run nation. Just because it makes stuff the world buys and has money to build empty cities does not mean China is like the free world. Free market capitalism has not changed it. It has gotten worse. People experience some "success" as it were, want more, want freedom to live and explore and do and that means trouble for a regime bent on hard fisted control of people. China's cities are all under modern surveillance systems. China's citizens are all under a national thumb - the CCP.
China sent out a virus into the world. China has caused generally intelligent people to act like idiots. A recent report from Australia, specifically Victoria, and heavy-handed police tactics, is shocking. The elected leader happens to be in love with China. He's a Leftist of the most dangerous kind. In America, people from Hollywood, sports, and obviously government are all telling us how great China is. Are these people stupid? Some, probably. Others?
So I am asking myself, why do leaders want to control people? History shows it cannot be done without use of deadly force. Sooner or later people rise up and despots come down. That is history without deviance. That is what will happen when populations are controlled by despots and tyrants. Thousands of years does not seem to teach that fact to those who want to control people.
Is it the seeming simplicity of thinking things will be easier if you control people? People in locked down nations and states have had it. Their lives are being, have been destroyed by nothing more than fearmongering. No science, no data, no truth, nothing but, fearmongering. They are constantly protesting now, yet leaders, rather than relent, put more police on the streets to scare people into compliance. Arrested because you want to breathe fresh air without a mask on. FRESH AIR.
The thing is, if despots will not learn, if they continue to try and control people, for whatever personal, political, or popular/unpopular reasons, they cannot control the sun. They cannot control the weather, despite all attempts to change it in small regions of the sky, man cannot control what God controls. He thinks he can. He often plays God, always to disastrous results. If a super-solar cycle begins, mankind is at its mercy, and it shall have no mercy. It shall do what is does. It does not think. It does not plan. It just does because it is a star, a self-burning furnace, one million times larger than planet Earth.
As modern humanity turns away from its Creator, more and more everyday, God will allow man to reap what He sows. He will call, plead, entreat, invite, and even put up roadblocks so people do not hurt or destroy themselves but, in the end, God understands the need for freedom and liberty in the human soul He created and He will leave mankind to its own designs and choices. He destroyed the world, to save it, once. He is going to do it again.
The second coming of Christ will make the worst possible solar storm look like a day at the beach. It will make the atom bomb seem like a firecracker.
The great termination event is coming. The Bible calls it the end of the world and also, the Blessed Hope.
I hope you'll be calling it the latter when it takes place someday in the near future.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The termination event they consider is regarding the Sun and its cycles. Bands of magnetic energy drift up and down across the Sun's surface. When positive and negative collide at the equator a significant event can take place supercharging the next solar cycle. Solar flares are not as dangerous for life on Earth because of our magnetic shield. BUT, the same cannot be said for anything effected by magnetism such as most of modern humanity's infrastructure. Everything run by modern technology can be effected by solar flares of greater magnitude, and a termination event can trigger such cycles of solar flare activity that can definitely cause some BIG problems for all of us using tech. Satellites and communication, especially. Depending on when and how long flares take place part of or the entire planet can be effected.
Go here to see a short article about these events:
https://spaceweather.com/
The article states most scientists see a weak cycle coming up. A couple "heretics" say otherwise and their reasons are in the article.
Think of how your life might or definitely would be effected if the communication went down for any extended period of time. Satellites, tens of thousands of them circling the globe, could go dead, fried, and ultimately fall to Earth. That's a lot of space junk falling. How much would strike land, populated land? That which did not burn up in the atmosphere, or strike water... well, many being the size of a bus, you get the idea.
A lot of people get upset about satellites. The last number I saw was over 30,000 of them floating around up there. That seems like a lot. Actually, take a town of 30,000 people and scatter them all around the Earth. You could scatter them around in an average-sized state in America and they'd never come close to each other. Just the same, 30k+ buses falling back to Earth?
The Bible doesn't state anything about modern technology. Ancients could never have understood seeing such things in dreams or visions. One wonders if the prophets were shown modern life, life in the last days; all of man's "progress." Talk about a horror movie. Modern man still cannot come to grips with the atom bomb and its devastation. What would someone who only saw swords and chariots of war think?
I am going to couple something with this that I recently came upon. Growing totalitarianism. WHY would leaders go for it? Seriously. What is the point of controlling everything people can do? All it does is breed angst and anger, hatred, rebellion, revolt, etc., etc. Nothing good comes of it and every century has shown that. People are meant to be free. Why are so many elected officials around the globe looking at China like some kind of savior, some kind of hero, some kind of port in a storm? China is a MONSTER. China is DEATH SENTENCE to anyone who wants freedom and liberty and says so. China has... well, nobody outside China knows how many concentration camps, internment camps, reeducation camps, death camps, call them all whatever you want; nobody knows how many China has. China practices genocide. China is a ruthlessly run nation. Just because it makes stuff the world buys and has money to build empty cities does not mean China is like the free world. Free market capitalism has not changed it. It has gotten worse. People experience some "success" as it were, want more, want freedom to live and explore and do and that means trouble for a regime bent on hard fisted control of people. China's cities are all under modern surveillance systems. China's citizens are all under a national thumb - the CCP.
China sent out a virus into the world. China has caused generally intelligent people to act like idiots. A recent report from Australia, specifically Victoria, and heavy-handed police tactics, is shocking. The elected leader happens to be in love with China. He's a Leftist of the most dangerous kind. In America, people from Hollywood, sports, and obviously government are all telling us how great China is. Are these people stupid? Some, probably. Others?
So I am asking myself, why do leaders want to control people? History shows it cannot be done without use of deadly force. Sooner or later people rise up and despots come down. That is history without deviance. That is what will happen when populations are controlled by despots and tyrants. Thousands of years does not seem to teach that fact to those who want to control people.
Is it the seeming simplicity of thinking things will be easier if you control people? People in locked down nations and states have had it. Their lives are being, have been destroyed by nothing more than fearmongering. No science, no data, no truth, nothing but, fearmongering. They are constantly protesting now, yet leaders, rather than relent, put more police on the streets to scare people into compliance. Arrested because you want to breathe fresh air without a mask on. FRESH AIR.
The thing is, if despots will not learn, if they continue to try and control people, for whatever personal, political, or popular/unpopular reasons, they cannot control the sun. They cannot control the weather, despite all attempts to change it in small regions of the sky, man cannot control what God controls. He thinks he can. He often plays God, always to disastrous results. If a super-solar cycle begins, mankind is at its mercy, and it shall have no mercy. It shall do what is does. It does not think. It does not plan. It just does because it is a star, a self-burning furnace, one million times larger than planet Earth.
As modern humanity turns away from its Creator, more and more everyday, God will allow man to reap what He sows. He will call, plead, entreat, invite, and even put up roadblocks so people do not hurt or destroy themselves but, in the end, God understands the need for freedom and liberty in the human soul He created and He will leave mankind to its own designs and choices. He destroyed the world, to save it, once. He is going to do it again.
The second coming of Christ will make the worst possible solar storm look like a day at the beach. It will make the atom bomb seem like a firecracker.
The great termination event is coming. The Bible calls it the end of the world and also, the Blessed Hope.
I hope you'll be calling it the latter when it takes place someday in the near future.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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268. The 180 Days Closes In - June 12, 2021
I continue to state things about the UFO phenomenon because I believe it shall play into biblical, prophetic last-day events.
The 180 days is coming to a close. The report to Congress may come forth. It more than likely will be postponed, through some loophole, logically, the loophole of "national security." When it does come forth, it is also likely it will state much of nothing.
This is a fast, yet pretty thorough treatment of the subject by MUFON (Mutual UFO Network).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udo744nnNe8
The host, Ron James, states, "Finally..." and yet, the biggest question of all is not included: the question of God. For these people - researchers into the phenomenon - God is not a real subject of interest; only how religious people will react to find out we are not alone. How that leaves out the Creator of the universe is beyond me but, that is how they think: ET means there is no God. Sorry religious people. Wake up and smell the... whatever stuff you drink every day.
I already know the universe is populated because the Bible says so. Even if I believed such populations could visit planet Earth, for whatever reasons, my faith in God and the Bible would not change at all. For those who believe we are alone in the universe... yeah, they'd have some rethinking to do but, making it through that, it is their lack of knowledge of Scripture, on the whole, that would prove the greater threat than "E.T."
UFO sightings continue to ramp up. Tension and bickering in the UFOlogy community also continue to ramp up.
One of the guys that seems to take a more balanced approach is Richard Dolan, a long-time UFO researcher and author. He mentions the idea of "baby steps." Most people have no idea about the subject, save for what they see on TV, which is all Hollywood. Recent news about the subject may have shaken some people awake but, the majority are ignorant and must be taken along by baby steps. Whether that position is correct or not, that is the position of those who control the information. They are smart. The citizenry is dumb, to them. They have made the population that way for a reason. And when I say "they" I refer far more to the one who controls them; for Lucifer is the great puppet-master, pulling strings for a scheduled dog and pony show of unprecedented proportions.
The last thing the host of the video states is, "The story is not now, finally, being told. It's just being created."
I believe there is more to that thought than the host realizes. A story is being created. It has been, for a very long time.
Mat 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
2Th 2:8-12 And then the lawless one will be revealed [antichrist], whom the Lord shall consume with the breath of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie, so that all those who do not believe the truth, but delight in unrighteousness, might be condemned.
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
They mean business. This is no game. This is for keeps, life or death, and they know it. "The devils believe, and they tremble."
So should you, if God is just an afterthought.
The 180 days is coming to a close. The report to Congress may come forth. It more than likely will be postponed, through some loophole, logically, the loophole of "national security." When it does come forth, it is also likely it will state much of nothing.
This is a fast, yet pretty thorough treatment of the subject by MUFON (Mutual UFO Network).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udo744nnNe8
The host, Ron James, states, "Finally..." and yet, the biggest question of all is not included: the question of God. For these people - researchers into the phenomenon - God is not a real subject of interest; only how religious people will react to find out we are not alone. How that leaves out the Creator of the universe is beyond me but, that is how they think: ET means there is no God. Sorry religious people. Wake up and smell the... whatever stuff you drink every day.
I already know the universe is populated because the Bible says so. Even if I believed such populations could visit planet Earth, for whatever reasons, my faith in God and the Bible would not change at all. For those who believe we are alone in the universe... yeah, they'd have some rethinking to do but, making it through that, it is their lack of knowledge of Scripture, on the whole, that would prove the greater threat than "E.T."
UFO sightings continue to ramp up. Tension and bickering in the UFOlogy community also continue to ramp up.
One of the guys that seems to take a more balanced approach is Richard Dolan, a long-time UFO researcher and author. He mentions the idea of "baby steps." Most people have no idea about the subject, save for what they see on TV, which is all Hollywood. Recent news about the subject may have shaken some people awake but, the majority are ignorant and must be taken along by baby steps. Whether that position is correct or not, that is the position of those who control the information. They are smart. The citizenry is dumb, to them. They have made the population that way for a reason. And when I say "they" I refer far more to the one who controls them; for Lucifer is the great puppet-master, pulling strings for a scheduled dog and pony show of unprecedented proportions.
The last thing the host of the video states is, "The story is not now, finally, being told. It's just being created."
I believe there is more to that thought than the host realizes. A story is being created. It has been, for a very long time.
Mat 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
2Th 2:8-12 And then the lawless one will be revealed [antichrist], whom the Lord shall consume with the breath of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie, so that all those who do not believe the truth, but delight in unrighteousness, might be condemned.
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
They mean business. This is no game. This is for keeps, life or death, and they know it. "The devils believe, and they tremble."
So should you, if God is just an afterthought.
********************
269. The Twining Memorandum - June 12, 2021
My interest in the UFO phenomena explained, I can easily state I am no UFOlogist. My pursuit of the subject has only a cursory interest in research. That said, it seems to me that the world already has a UFO report, obtained by the FOIA a long time ago: the Twining Memorandum, a 3-page memo by then Air Force General Nathan Twining. This was 1947, almost 75 years ago. Anticipation for the Congressional Report this month is really anticlimactic.
The Twining memorandum has been a goldmine of info for ufologists since it was released. Logically, seeing it was released, one must wonder why the government has continued to lie, obfuscate, misinform, disinform, threaten and ruin lives, and continue to keep the whole subject secret as possible, decade after decade. The phenomena not only did not go away, it got more and more widely researched by more and more people around the world as more and more reported sightings took place around the world.
The memo can be found in numerous books and websites. Here is one:
https://medium.com/on-the-trail-of-the-saucers/twining-memo-ufo-c719bed1d287
To give you a taste of the content, right off the bat the General lays it out:
2. It is the opinion that:
a. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious.
b. There are objects probably approximating the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as man-made aircraft.
c. There is a possibility that some of the incidents may be caused by natural phenomena, such as meteors.
d. The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and motion which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely.
e. The apparent common description is as follows:
(1) Metallic or light reflecting surface.
(2) Absence of trail, except in a few instances where the object apparently was operating under high performance conditions.
(3) Circular or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom and domed on top.
(4) Several reports of well kept formation flights varying from three to nine objects.
(5) Normally no associated sound, except in three instances a substantial rumbling roar was noted.
(6) Level flight speeds normally above 300 knots are estimated.
f. It is possible within the present U.S. knowledge — provided extensive detailed development is undertaken — to construct a piloted aircraft which has the general description of the object in sub- paragraph (e) above which would be capable of an approximate range of 7000 miles at subsonic speeds.
g. Any development in this country along the lines indicated would be extremely expensive, time consuming and at the considerable expense of current projects and therefore, if directed, should be set up independently of existing projects.
h. Due consideration must be given the following:-
(1) The possibility that these objects are of domestic origin — the product of some high security project not known to AC/AS-2 or this Command.
(2) The lack of physical evidence in the shape of crash recovered exhibits which would undeniably prove the existence of these subjects.
(3) The possibility that some foreign nation has a form of propulsion possibly nuclear, which is outside of our domestic knowledge.
That's how it opens. It is eye-opening. All kinds of such documents have been obtained by researchers and been included in dozens and dozens of books on the subject. The information, the evidence, is out there. Even in the ufologist community one wonders why they wait for the government to tell the truth when they already have it in the cache of such documents available to read. Men like Stanton Friedman, one of the most respected names in ufology, spoke to that subject for years. The information is there. Anyone can read it, especially with the internet so readily available.
As I have stated, I believe the universe is populated because the Bible makes reference to it in small ways that make a big claim. The question must be asked of me, as a Christian: "Ray, what are these craft, their occupants, and their purpose, in the confines of your faith?"
I answer, I have no authoritative answer. I can state they are all of Satanic origin in one manner or another. I could state some might be the product of private corporate funding and design; big money research in facilities on little islands or deep in forests tucked away from probing eyes. Back in 1947? No. Ask General Twining if he could picture a cell phone, a hologram, an F-18 or hypersonic missile. He was born in 1897 and died in 1982. Maybe he saw prototypes of all of it. Maybe he, himself, was a visionary, and believed the sky was the limit, or there is no limit to what mankind could create. I don't know. I do know money buys privacy and power. The first corporation that can discover energy and travel without fossil fuels becomes rather instant trillionaires. The world beats a path to its door. There is nothing humans will not do to gain money and power.
UFOs exist. Waiting for the United Sates government to admit that, by releasing all the information it has, is a fool's errand.
Despite those who claim to talk to "aliens," or believe the military houses captured aliens, and all the rest, the number of people who know or knew the truths of these subjects has either passed away or remains under oaths to stay quiet. Some have not. Their lives have been made hell on Earth but, they could not stay quiet any longer. Those of outside entanglements, like new age beliefs, are easy prey for the Adversary. To them, all angels, demons, deities, Christ, all of it, is actually a product of ET existence.
Will the real ET please, stand up?
One thing makes it easy for me. In the end, I do not need to know all the who, what, when, where, why and how of this subject. I really don't. I only need to know the span and information of prophetic events to be given enough knowledge to stay focused and not be taken in when the big "reveal" takes place. I cannot even prove that shall happen. All of this phenomena may be nothing more than a distraction with no end game purpose beyond that, for the enemy of souls. I state my biblical reasons it shall be more than that but, only time will tell.
I find it interesting people want to know if there is life beyond Earth, or already believe there is, because of this phenomena but, they have no acute interest in whether or not God exists, the Creator of it all, including any and all Extra-Terrestrials out there. Logically, that is the subject that should be receiving the most interest: having knowledge of God, having a living connection, a relationship with that Deity. I mean, seriously. What is more useful? Knowing God or finding out ETs exist? Believers already believe angels exist. Plenty of people outside Christianity believe such beings exist. Some believe they are ETs. Well, that would be true, regardless. Angels are, by default, extra-terrestrials.
What changes if, when, ET makes its appearance? Think about it. Would your life stop? No. Would you require a job or career change? Not really. Would your faith in God dissolve? No. It shouldn't. Maybe your faith in a ministry pumping 'we are alone in the universe' might dissolve. That's on them. Christianity, faith in Iesou Christos as the Savior of mankind, should not change, at all. ETs would not change your character, your motives, your sinful nature. We all still need a Savior. The wages of sin remain death. The gift of God is eternal life in Christ. Ah, but, so few care anymore. ET awaits! ET shall tell us the truth! ET will reveal all!
Man, what a set-up. It's actually quite brilliant. Lucifer has had a long time perfecting deception.
Time hastens on apace. I can watch the hummingbirds at their feeders and know a Creator exists. I can know He has created a populated universe. I can watch and listen if and when ET walks down the ramp of some craft and begins telling humanity what's what. When ET veers from biblical truth, I'll know that, too, and I'll speak up against the new visitors as the enemies of humanity they are, bent on deception and destruction. I do not care how nice they shall seem, or what they shall do to show their benevolence.
It seems logical this subject is going to come to a head. I believe it shall be sooner, than later.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The Twining memorandum has been a goldmine of info for ufologists since it was released. Logically, seeing it was released, one must wonder why the government has continued to lie, obfuscate, misinform, disinform, threaten and ruin lives, and continue to keep the whole subject secret as possible, decade after decade. The phenomena not only did not go away, it got more and more widely researched by more and more people around the world as more and more reported sightings took place around the world.
The memo can be found in numerous books and websites. Here is one:
https://medium.com/on-the-trail-of-the-saucers/twining-memo-ufo-c719bed1d287
To give you a taste of the content, right off the bat the General lays it out:
2. It is the opinion that:
a. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious.
b. There are objects probably approximating the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as man-made aircraft.
c. There is a possibility that some of the incidents may be caused by natural phenomena, such as meteors.
d. The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and motion which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely.
e. The apparent common description is as follows:
(1) Metallic or light reflecting surface.
(2) Absence of trail, except in a few instances where the object apparently was operating under high performance conditions.
(3) Circular or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom and domed on top.
(4) Several reports of well kept formation flights varying from three to nine objects.
(5) Normally no associated sound, except in three instances a substantial rumbling roar was noted.
(6) Level flight speeds normally above 300 knots are estimated.
f. It is possible within the present U.S. knowledge — provided extensive detailed development is undertaken — to construct a piloted aircraft which has the general description of the object in sub- paragraph (e) above which would be capable of an approximate range of 7000 miles at subsonic speeds.
g. Any development in this country along the lines indicated would be extremely expensive, time consuming and at the considerable expense of current projects and therefore, if directed, should be set up independently of existing projects.
h. Due consideration must be given the following:-
(1) The possibility that these objects are of domestic origin — the product of some high security project not known to AC/AS-2 or this Command.
(2) The lack of physical evidence in the shape of crash recovered exhibits which would undeniably prove the existence of these subjects.
(3) The possibility that some foreign nation has a form of propulsion possibly nuclear, which is outside of our domestic knowledge.
That's how it opens. It is eye-opening. All kinds of such documents have been obtained by researchers and been included in dozens and dozens of books on the subject. The information, the evidence, is out there. Even in the ufologist community one wonders why they wait for the government to tell the truth when they already have it in the cache of such documents available to read. Men like Stanton Friedman, one of the most respected names in ufology, spoke to that subject for years. The information is there. Anyone can read it, especially with the internet so readily available.
As I have stated, I believe the universe is populated because the Bible makes reference to it in small ways that make a big claim. The question must be asked of me, as a Christian: "Ray, what are these craft, their occupants, and their purpose, in the confines of your faith?"
I answer, I have no authoritative answer. I can state they are all of Satanic origin in one manner or another. I could state some might be the product of private corporate funding and design; big money research in facilities on little islands or deep in forests tucked away from probing eyes. Back in 1947? No. Ask General Twining if he could picture a cell phone, a hologram, an F-18 or hypersonic missile. He was born in 1897 and died in 1982. Maybe he saw prototypes of all of it. Maybe he, himself, was a visionary, and believed the sky was the limit, or there is no limit to what mankind could create. I don't know. I do know money buys privacy and power. The first corporation that can discover energy and travel without fossil fuels becomes rather instant trillionaires. The world beats a path to its door. There is nothing humans will not do to gain money and power.
UFOs exist. Waiting for the United Sates government to admit that, by releasing all the information it has, is a fool's errand.
Despite those who claim to talk to "aliens," or believe the military houses captured aliens, and all the rest, the number of people who know or knew the truths of these subjects has either passed away or remains under oaths to stay quiet. Some have not. Their lives have been made hell on Earth but, they could not stay quiet any longer. Those of outside entanglements, like new age beliefs, are easy prey for the Adversary. To them, all angels, demons, deities, Christ, all of it, is actually a product of ET existence.
Will the real ET please, stand up?
One thing makes it easy for me. In the end, I do not need to know all the who, what, when, where, why and how of this subject. I really don't. I only need to know the span and information of prophetic events to be given enough knowledge to stay focused and not be taken in when the big "reveal" takes place. I cannot even prove that shall happen. All of this phenomena may be nothing more than a distraction with no end game purpose beyond that, for the enemy of souls. I state my biblical reasons it shall be more than that but, only time will tell.
I find it interesting people want to know if there is life beyond Earth, or already believe there is, because of this phenomena but, they have no acute interest in whether or not God exists, the Creator of it all, including any and all Extra-Terrestrials out there. Logically, that is the subject that should be receiving the most interest: having knowledge of God, having a living connection, a relationship with that Deity. I mean, seriously. What is more useful? Knowing God or finding out ETs exist? Believers already believe angels exist. Plenty of people outside Christianity believe such beings exist. Some believe they are ETs. Well, that would be true, regardless. Angels are, by default, extra-terrestrials.
What changes if, when, ET makes its appearance? Think about it. Would your life stop? No. Would you require a job or career change? Not really. Would your faith in God dissolve? No. It shouldn't. Maybe your faith in a ministry pumping 'we are alone in the universe' might dissolve. That's on them. Christianity, faith in Iesou Christos as the Savior of mankind, should not change, at all. ETs would not change your character, your motives, your sinful nature. We all still need a Savior. The wages of sin remain death. The gift of God is eternal life in Christ. Ah, but, so few care anymore. ET awaits! ET shall tell us the truth! ET will reveal all!
Man, what a set-up. It's actually quite brilliant. Lucifer has had a long time perfecting deception.
Time hastens on apace. I can watch the hummingbirds at their feeders and know a Creator exists. I can know He has created a populated universe. I can watch and listen if and when ET walks down the ramp of some craft and begins telling humanity what's what. When ET veers from biblical truth, I'll know that, too, and I'll speak up against the new visitors as the enemies of humanity they are, bent on deception and destruction. I do not care how nice they shall seem, or what they shall do to show their benevolence.
It seems logical this subject is going to come to a head. I believe it shall be sooner, than later.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
********************
270. DrumSoloArist.com - June 16, 2021
Drumsoloartist.com is a website devoted to drummers, any and all drummers. I joined it in 2013. There's a lot of different categories of stuff going on there. The forum was probably the most active but, a lot of players posted solos and things, as well.
At the time I was busy with house renovations and stuff and never really participated, and ultimately just forgot about the site.
I recently got an email telling me the site was closing down, after 20 years, in September. I went to the site and remembered it, though I could not remember when I joined and had long forgotten ID info to log in.
When I retrieved that info and logged in I saw that participation had lagged for many years. I felt really sad. Pasha, the administrator, put in time and effort and even though some of the platform was dated, it seemed a site that did not get into cliques or anything in your face that I have seen and experienced at various drummer forums. Perhaps the age group for this bunch of players was older and the participants had more civility.
I looked over the forum and posted some things, knowing few would see it. I noticed 16 people looked at one post, about the Concepts CD. Others were just replies to various threads, long since left behind.
I've said this before about the perceptions of the drumming community. It is often portrayed as this fraternity of brothers, and in some cases that is true but, in many others, most others, as far as the web, I have not experienced it. Being honest, being open, willing to talk about things generally not spoken of can see civility take a rocket to the sun and crash and burn so quickly. Moderators... well, they don't moderate. It's easier just to shut a thread down. Rather than guide discussion into realms of civility and keep things calm, it's easier to just say, 'No. Can't talk about this anymore. Too much agitation.' Especially religion and politics. Totally taboo on musician forums. I always found that incredibly odd because music and religion have gone hand in hand for for ceaseless ages to the dawn of man. Music and politics have also found union, especially in protest. Covid really showed me a lot about the fraternity of drummers. Not.
To want a drum site/forum remain as something where people just state their favorite drummer or sticks is just weak. Too much is going on in the world of music; in the world period, for such a shallow platform. Yet, what have we seen on all platforms run by those with so shallow an intent but to shut down and any all conversation that goes against their politics, generally Leftist?
I listened to a conversation between Terry Bozzio and Dennis Chambers today and during it, Dennis mentioned he doesn't listen to the radio because unlike when he (and me) was growing up, and all bands sounded different, today, everything sounds the same. Cookie cutter, finds something people like and copy it, ad infinitum, until people become tired of it, then move on to the next flavor and just regurgitate it over and over.
I constantly see comments on YT, of bands from the 60s and 70s, "Now young people, THIS is real music." Doesn't matter, the genre, either.
Some would say it's like that in everything. Everything is cookie cutter. There is no place people, all people, remain calm and civil and really get into things. I suppose that is so. Tom has told me some of the nastiest threads he has ever seen are on guitarist forums. They can get crazier about the details of guitar construction than anything drummers get into.
Today, the young get "offended" and get their feelings hurt and melt down, and we can't have that. A generation of cupcakes has been unleashed on the world and if you do not agree with them you are marginalized. If you ain't "woke," you are unnecessary, in the way, and must be put down. They cry and scream and get in your face and literally, get physical. When I was growing up, that was called throwing a tantrum. It was something parents put a lid on right quick. Bad behavior is bad behavior. Today... such behavior is applauded. We watched cities burned to the ground by such potentates of pretention and the adults in newsrooms across the land said nothing. If anything, they encouraged such behavior.
Civility, manners, having any kind of articulation and politeness is fading; in some cases, just gone. Sign of the times? Maybe. I believe human beings have far more difficulty communicating with each other than animals do. God created man to experience things that would continually uplift and heighten mankind's experience. Instead, man gets darker and darker, more unreasonable, more childlike and prone to outburst of emotion.
Forums where people can truly express themselves, staying civil in the process, going against any popular tide, do they even exist for musicians?
Of course, drumsoloartist.com is about much, much more than the discussion forum. And I reckon Pasha hoped it would not just grow in participation but in categories of help, instruction, and entertainment, as well.
Anyway, I mention drumsoloartist.com by way of tribute because Pasha put a lot of work into it, and to keep anything going for 20 years is an accomplishment these days, by any standard of measure.
I wish him well in future endeavors.
At the time I was busy with house renovations and stuff and never really participated, and ultimately just forgot about the site.
I recently got an email telling me the site was closing down, after 20 years, in September. I went to the site and remembered it, though I could not remember when I joined and had long forgotten ID info to log in.
When I retrieved that info and logged in I saw that participation had lagged for many years. I felt really sad. Pasha, the administrator, put in time and effort and even though some of the platform was dated, it seemed a site that did not get into cliques or anything in your face that I have seen and experienced at various drummer forums. Perhaps the age group for this bunch of players was older and the participants had more civility.
I looked over the forum and posted some things, knowing few would see it. I noticed 16 people looked at one post, about the Concepts CD. Others were just replies to various threads, long since left behind.
I've said this before about the perceptions of the drumming community. It is often portrayed as this fraternity of brothers, and in some cases that is true but, in many others, most others, as far as the web, I have not experienced it. Being honest, being open, willing to talk about things generally not spoken of can see civility take a rocket to the sun and crash and burn so quickly. Moderators... well, they don't moderate. It's easier just to shut a thread down. Rather than guide discussion into realms of civility and keep things calm, it's easier to just say, 'No. Can't talk about this anymore. Too much agitation.' Especially religion and politics. Totally taboo on musician forums. I always found that incredibly odd because music and religion have gone hand in hand for for ceaseless ages to the dawn of man. Music and politics have also found union, especially in protest. Covid really showed me a lot about the fraternity of drummers. Not.
To want a drum site/forum remain as something where people just state their favorite drummer or sticks is just weak. Too much is going on in the world of music; in the world period, for such a shallow platform. Yet, what have we seen on all platforms run by those with so shallow an intent but to shut down and any all conversation that goes against their politics, generally Leftist?
I listened to a conversation between Terry Bozzio and Dennis Chambers today and during it, Dennis mentioned he doesn't listen to the radio because unlike when he (and me) was growing up, and all bands sounded different, today, everything sounds the same. Cookie cutter, finds something people like and copy it, ad infinitum, until people become tired of it, then move on to the next flavor and just regurgitate it over and over.
I constantly see comments on YT, of bands from the 60s and 70s, "Now young people, THIS is real music." Doesn't matter, the genre, either.
Some would say it's like that in everything. Everything is cookie cutter. There is no place people, all people, remain calm and civil and really get into things. I suppose that is so. Tom has told me some of the nastiest threads he has ever seen are on guitarist forums. They can get crazier about the details of guitar construction than anything drummers get into.
Today, the young get "offended" and get their feelings hurt and melt down, and we can't have that. A generation of cupcakes has been unleashed on the world and if you do not agree with them you are marginalized. If you ain't "woke," you are unnecessary, in the way, and must be put down. They cry and scream and get in your face and literally, get physical. When I was growing up, that was called throwing a tantrum. It was something parents put a lid on right quick. Bad behavior is bad behavior. Today... such behavior is applauded. We watched cities burned to the ground by such potentates of pretention and the adults in newsrooms across the land said nothing. If anything, they encouraged such behavior.
Civility, manners, having any kind of articulation and politeness is fading; in some cases, just gone. Sign of the times? Maybe. I believe human beings have far more difficulty communicating with each other than animals do. God created man to experience things that would continually uplift and heighten mankind's experience. Instead, man gets darker and darker, more unreasonable, more childlike and prone to outburst of emotion.
Forums where people can truly express themselves, staying civil in the process, going against any popular tide, do they even exist for musicians?
Of course, drumsoloartist.com is about much, much more than the discussion forum. And I reckon Pasha hoped it would not just grow in participation but in categories of help, instruction, and entertainment, as well.
Anyway, I mention drumsoloartist.com by way of tribute because Pasha put a lot of work into it, and to keep anything going for 20 years is an accomplishment these days, by any standard of measure.
I wish him well in future endeavors.
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271. Are UFOs in the Bible? - June 19, 2021
Representative, Tim Burchett, is a Republican Conressman from the state of Tennessee.
Recently the Congressman was interviewed by TMZ and had some very open things to say about the UFO phenomena.
This is a link to the two minute interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pvIpQbDO94
In the interview, Burchett states UFOs are in the Bible, in the book of Ezekiel, referencing the vision in chapter one.
The prophet Ezekiel [meaning - God will strengthen], a captive in Babylon, states right in the first verse the year, month, day, and place he had "visions of God." "The word of the Lord came to him; meaning - the teaching, the instructions, the necessary information from God, to Ezekiel, for the people, came to him in vision. Visions are things seen by prophets. They may either be in dreams or supernatural moments that overcome them while they are awake. The latter was the situation for Ezekiel. Visions are things seen in the mind of the prophet. However real it may look or seem, visions are mind pictures, mind-motion, in who knows what kind of format. Many times things are brilliantly clear and other times hidden in ways that could represent natural circumstances or supernatural. In this case Ezekiel sees clouds coming towards him and fantastic things not of this world.
From there, he sees four living creatures, not statues, coming out of the clouds. Everything appears like molten metal, fiery, blinding light. He describes the creatures, then he describes wheels that are beside the creatures. There is a wheel within a wheel. There is no mention of disks, i.e. flying saucers, or any other kind of craft. The creatures control the wheels by thought. They go where the creatures go, in straight lines, to and fro, from the Earth and back.
The vision continues with Ezekiel seeing God upon His throne with a rainbow over it.
Again, this is a vision, seen in the mind of the prophet, not an actual event that could be seen by anyone else there, by sight. What does the vision mean? As far as the wheels, consider. Wheels do not spin within wheels. The spokes would bind. Whether or not the two wheels where at opposed, 90 degree angles or on the same plane, wheels cannot spin within wheels. On a single pivot, or axle two circles ore rings can spin independently on the same plane but, that is not what Ezekiel saw. He did not see two circles, or rings, he saw two wheels. In his day, wheels had spokes. The wheels had rims which were filled with eyes around the circumference. There is a reason for all this imagery. A teaching is in it.
The very fact Ezekiel saw two wheels moving like that show an impossibility. Yet, he saw them. They moved at the will of the four creatures. They even watched as they moved. Kind of freaky, really. Space ships? No. Impossible complexity of physics and intellectual acuity.
God created and runs a universe. We get headaches just dealing with the daily necessities of life. Imagine running your life, and a dozen others. How about 7.5 billion? How about a couple trillion galaxies and all they contain? Yeah. Complexity beyond comprehension, and God shows Ezekiel He is in control of the most complex things imaginable. There is no complexity with God. He created it all by thought and speaking it all into existence. It is all relative simplicity for Him.
Man looks at the complexity of the double helix of DNA and marvels that it contains a couple billion base pairs of chemicals making up the code of life, constantly re-writing coding instructions for cells. It is mind-boggling and it does not happen like reading a book, left to right. The info is also written to be read right to left, diagonally, up and down, inside out and complexity begins to advance beyond anything mankind has seen or ever will see. It is a gorgeous design. Some, using common sense and logic, see a Divine Hand, a Creator, a creation. Others see accidents, mutations, no purpose, no design, no attempt at anything by a mind, it just developed itself over time. Time is all that was needed. I consider that a depth a blindness darker than the total absence of light but, that's another subject.
You already know I have stated I have seen UFOs, twice, and I believe the universe is populated, by references in Scripture, and you know I believe the UFO phenomena will be used by the forces of darkness to deceive the world sometime in the future. That train of events had begun a long time ago.
The vision of the wheel within the wheel is designed to show us that God is in control and can move anything, any way He pleases. The wheels within the wheels of life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day after day, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millennia after millennia, are all in God's wise hands of will and intent. Purposeful, all-knowing control is His. While our lives constantly develop colliding spokes and train wrecks of choices and actions, God has ways, a thousand ways, already developed and ready to go, to keep us marching, to keep us above the torrents and waves; to ultimately get us to a home prepared for us in Heaven, and a place on the new Earth, when God creates it, re-creates it; no vision but, a reality unlike anything we can now imagine.
There is no complexity with God. There is no confusion, there are no bad choices, there are no mistakes. God is God, knowing the end from the beginning. He IS the beginning and the end. Time is irrelevant to the Creator. He has always been and ever shall be. We cannot understand such an existence. We are born, we shall die. God has always been and always shall be.
While believers in UFOs like to use Ezekiel's vision to prop up their beliefs with some kind of authoritative literature, they generally could not care less what the Bible teaches about God or life. They use a type of pareidolia and see things in whatever they read, regardless of context. It meets there desire to see ET everywhere. In far too many cases the same goes for professed believers in God and Christ, as far as the Bible goes. They do not study the Bible. They hardly read it. Catholics generally do not take one to mass. They may have a family Bible on a shelf in their home. Protestants may take one to church and follow along with a preacher but, the rest of the week the book is untouched. Truth is not dug for or mined as God directs the believer to do. Truth is accepted or rejected by the the influence of priests, preachers, family, friends, employers, or those in civil authority. Truth is something that may not even be able to be known, to them. Do not lie to them but, knowing "the truth?" Like Pilate said at Christ's trial, "What is truth." For Romans, Caesar was the truth. Rome was truth. Gods on Mt. Olympus was truth. For other nations, other times, apply the same policy. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." That is a reference to the God of all Sovereignty throughout the Old Testament. Christ claimed deity. He either is, or was someone out of his mind. I obviously choose to believe the former, based on my own experience and the evidence God has placed in Scripture to show His sovereignty.
I do not know where Congressman Burchett got his teaching on Ezekiel from. I might assume he professes the Christian faith, living in the "Bible Belt" but, I would make no such assessment without actual evidence of that.
UFOs are not in the Bible. I am not saying they are not seemingly portrayed in religious artworks of centuries ago, nor that they are not portrayed on cave walls and world-wide tombs and other places. No. The enemy of souls has planned this out for a very, very long time and the mind-game, the war for souls, is reaching a close.
Aside from Burchett's erroneous take on Ezekiel, he had some pretty strong things to say about government coverups, and other things regarding the UFO situation. I reckon he may become a pivotal voice in what is coming over this subject. He might even end up president some day, if the voting process ever gets integrity and trust again.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Recently the Congressman was interviewed by TMZ and had some very open things to say about the UFO phenomena.
This is a link to the two minute interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pvIpQbDO94
In the interview, Burchett states UFOs are in the Bible, in the book of Ezekiel, referencing the vision in chapter one.
The prophet Ezekiel [meaning - God will strengthen], a captive in Babylon, states right in the first verse the year, month, day, and place he had "visions of God." "The word of the Lord came to him; meaning - the teaching, the instructions, the necessary information from God, to Ezekiel, for the people, came to him in vision. Visions are things seen by prophets. They may either be in dreams or supernatural moments that overcome them while they are awake. The latter was the situation for Ezekiel. Visions are things seen in the mind of the prophet. However real it may look or seem, visions are mind pictures, mind-motion, in who knows what kind of format. Many times things are brilliantly clear and other times hidden in ways that could represent natural circumstances or supernatural. In this case Ezekiel sees clouds coming towards him and fantastic things not of this world.
From there, he sees four living creatures, not statues, coming out of the clouds. Everything appears like molten metal, fiery, blinding light. He describes the creatures, then he describes wheels that are beside the creatures. There is a wheel within a wheel. There is no mention of disks, i.e. flying saucers, or any other kind of craft. The creatures control the wheels by thought. They go where the creatures go, in straight lines, to and fro, from the Earth and back.
The vision continues with Ezekiel seeing God upon His throne with a rainbow over it.
Again, this is a vision, seen in the mind of the prophet, not an actual event that could be seen by anyone else there, by sight. What does the vision mean? As far as the wheels, consider. Wheels do not spin within wheels. The spokes would bind. Whether or not the two wheels where at opposed, 90 degree angles or on the same plane, wheels cannot spin within wheels. On a single pivot, or axle two circles ore rings can spin independently on the same plane but, that is not what Ezekiel saw. He did not see two circles, or rings, he saw two wheels. In his day, wheels had spokes. The wheels had rims which were filled with eyes around the circumference. There is a reason for all this imagery. A teaching is in it.
The very fact Ezekiel saw two wheels moving like that show an impossibility. Yet, he saw them. They moved at the will of the four creatures. They even watched as they moved. Kind of freaky, really. Space ships? No. Impossible complexity of physics and intellectual acuity.
God created and runs a universe. We get headaches just dealing with the daily necessities of life. Imagine running your life, and a dozen others. How about 7.5 billion? How about a couple trillion galaxies and all they contain? Yeah. Complexity beyond comprehension, and God shows Ezekiel He is in control of the most complex things imaginable. There is no complexity with God. He created it all by thought and speaking it all into existence. It is all relative simplicity for Him.
Man looks at the complexity of the double helix of DNA and marvels that it contains a couple billion base pairs of chemicals making up the code of life, constantly re-writing coding instructions for cells. It is mind-boggling and it does not happen like reading a book, left to right. The info is also written to be read right to left, diagonally, up and down, inside out and complexity begins to advance beyond anything mankind has seen or ever will see. It is a gorgeous design. Some, using common sense and logic, see a Divine Hand, a Creator, a creation. Others see accidents, mutations, no purpose, no design, no attempt at anything by a mind, it just developed itself over time. Time is all that was needed. I consider that a depth a blindness darker than the total absence of light but, that's another subject.
You already know I have stated I have seen UFOs, twice, and I believe the universe is populated, by references in Scripture, and you know I believe the UFO phenomena will be used by the forces of darkness to deceive the world sometime in the future. That train of events had begun a long time ago.
The vision of the wheel within the wheel is designed to show us that God is in control and can move anything, any way He pleases. The wheels within the wheels of life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day after day, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millennia after millennia, are all in God's wise hands of will and intent. Purposeful, all-knowing control is His. While our lives constantly develop colliding spokes and train wrecks of choices and actions, God has ways, a thousand ways, already developed and ready to go, to keep us marching, to keep us above the torrents and waves; to ultimately get us to a home prepared for us in Heaven, and a place on the new Earth, when God creates it, re-creates it; no vision but, a reality unlike anything we can now imagine.
There is no complexity with God. There is no confusion, there are no bad choices, there are no mistakes. God is God, knowing the end from the beginning. He IS the beginning and the end. Time is irrelevant to the Creator. He has always been and ever shall be. We cannot understand such an existence. We are born, we shall die. God has always been and always shall be.
While believers in UFOs like to use Ezekiel's vision to prop up their beliefs with some kind of authoritative literature, they generally could not care less what the Bible teaches about God or life. They use a type of pareidolia and see things in whatever they read, regardless of context. It meets there desire to see ET everywhere. In far too many cases the same goes for professed believers in God and Christ, as far as the Bible goes. They do not study the Bible. They hardly read it. Catholics generally do not take one to mass. They may have a family Bible on a shelf in their home. Protestants may take one to church and follow along with a preacher but, the rest of the week the book is untouched. Truth is not dug for or mined as God directs the believer to do. Truth is accepted or rejected by the the influence of priests, preachers, family, friends, employers, or those in civil authority. Truth is something that may not even be able to be known, to them. Do not lie to them but, knowing "the truth?" Like Pilate said at Christ's trial, "What is truth." For Romans, Caesar was the truth. Rome was truth. Gods on Mt. Olympus was truth. For other nations, other times, apply the same policy. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." That is a reference to the God of all Sovereignty throughout the Old Testament. Christ claimed deity. He either is, or was someone out of his mind. I obviously choose to believe the former, based on my own experience and the evidence God has placed in Scripture to show His sovereignty.
I do not know where Congressman Burchett got his teaching on Ezekiel from. I might assume he professes the Christian faith, living in the "Bible Belt" but, I would make no such assessment without actual evidence of that.
UFOs are not in the Bible. I am not saying they are not seemingly portrayed in religious artworks of centuries ago, nor that they are not portrayed on cave walls and world-wide tombs and other places. No. The enemy of souls has planned this out for a very, very long time and the mind-game, the war for souls, is reaching a close.
Aside from Burchett's erroneous take on Ezekiel, he had some pretty strong things to say about government coverups, and other things regarding the UFO situation. I reckon he may become a pivotal voice in what is coming over this subject. He might even end up president some day, if the voting process ever gets integrity and trust again.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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272. Cascadia - June 23, 2021
When you believe the Bible, as I most credibly do, you believe what it says about the second coming of Christ and last-day events. The overall heading of the physical catastrophes surrounding the final times of Earth's post-flood history would be "the Earth grows old like a garment." The Earth is wearing out. The planet, and its inhabitants, will more and more show signs of degradation and collapse.
If you believe science (and I mean science, not necessarily "scientists" who often function with agendas, not going where the evidence and facts lead), you have one of two scientific models of Earth's history, one claims billions, the other, thousands of years of existence. In the case of the Cascade mountains and active volcanoes, it does not really matter. Activity is coming, either way.
Northern California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and beyond, host a series of mountains that are still host to active volcanoes and truth be told, could cause far more damage to humanity than the more iconic Yellowstone Caldera "Super-Volcano," if they erupt in any kind of sequential event.
Here's a site about the Cadcades:
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=9bc729a5969a4befaa16a69ba9f805f4
I have not seen the recently made documentary on the subject, titled, Cascadia but, I can imagine what is on it. I'll save 20 bucks. I know the Bible. I know natural and man-made disasters have been rising, in ebb and flow, and will increase. Things calm down a bit and people go back to sleep. The Bible says things come in waves, like a woman's labor pains. They get stronger and stronger, then the baby wants out. The "baby," in this case, is the second coming of Christ, and the end of the world. Remember my illustration of the penny in the funnel, going round and round, more quickly with each revolution? It's happening. Been happening for a long time.
Hollywood has done such a muting of reality by default. So much of what it coming is portrayed by Hollywood and people tend to see it all as just fantasy, special effects, stories written by people employed in Hollywood to come up with this stuff. The fact is, Hollywood, for all its debauchery and corruption, often gets things right because there is a mind at work there that knows what is coming, and he wants people unawares by any measure possible, to deceive, even the very elect, as Jesus stated.
Satan knows his time is short. It's a war for the mind, our minds. Deceptions come in all shapes and forms. "Entertainment" is one of them.
The blast of Hollywood (and productions from other nation's entertainment centers) addressing dystopian futures, and all the rest, is all foretold in Scripture.
While the world's eyes seem glued to Yellowstone and a super-volcano, the Earth is gearing up for destined eruptions and earthquakes, super-storms, and just all-out crazy weather and natural (and unnatural) events. Devastation will be beyond comprehension. The Bible states God is holding back "the four winds." That's a term for global compass points and what is coming, North, South, East and West. The whole planet, well beyond the Cascade Mountains of North America, is going to belch and burp and vomit its weariness and sickness.
I just read a story various bird species, in several American states back east, are showing up sick, blind and dead, and scientists are freaking out trying to find answers to why. Sea creatures, whales to dolphins to others, are beaching themselves in huge numbers around the world. You get to see how Juneteenth is so important (without all the rioting that took place), on the msm but, not so much what is happening in the natural world. 80,000 reindeer risk death by starvation up in Russia's arctic region. 3.8 MILLION fish perished during Texas' very odd arctic blast this past winter. The list goes on and on. Why, it's the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters.
The world-wide web can be a marvelous thing. The truth and information is out there. The evidence and documentation backing it all up is there to see. Nothing is being done in absolute corners. Just certain corners, where handlers do not want people knowing what they need to know to get free. Free of sin, free of lies and distortions, free of tyranny, free of darkness, and walking into the light where the freedom is.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
If you believe science (and I mean science, not necessarily "scientists" who often function with agendas, not going where the evidence and facts lead), you have one of two scientific models of Earth's history, one claims billions, the other, thousands of years of existence. In the case of the Cascade mountains and active volcanoes, it does not really matter. Activity is coming, either way.
Northern California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and beyond, host a series of mountains that are still host to active volcanoes and truth be told, could cause far more damage to humanity than the more iconic Yellowstone Caldera "Super-Volcano," if they erupt in any kind of sequential event.
Here's a site about the Cadcades:
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=9bc729a5969a4befaa16a69ba9f805f4
I have not seen the recently made documentary on the subject, titled, Cascadia but, I can imagine what is on it. I'll save 20 bucks. I know the Bible. I know natural and man-made disasters have been rising, in ebb and flow, and will increase. Things calm down a bit and people go back to sleep. The Bible says things come in waves, like a woman's labor pains. They get stronger and stronger, then the baby wants out. The "baby," in this case, is the second coming of Christ, and the end of the world. Remember my illustration of the penny in the funnel, going round and round, more quickly with each revolution? It's happening. Been happening for a long time.
Hollywood has done such a muting of reality by default. So much of what it coming is portrayed by Hollywood and people tend to see it all as just fantasy, special effects, stories written by people employed in Hollywood to come up with this stuff. The fact is, Hollywood, for all its debauchery and corruption, often gets things right because there is a mind at work there that knows what is coming, and he wants people unawares by any measure possible, to deceive, even the very elect, as Jesus stated.
Satan knows his time is short. It's a war for the mind, our minds. Deceptions come in all shapes and forms. "Entertainment" is one of them.
The blast of Hollywood (and productions from other nation's entertainment centers) addressing dystopian futures, and all the rest, is all foretold in Scripture.
While the world's eyes seem glued to Yellowstone and a super-volcano, the Earth is gearing up for destined eruptions and earthquakes, super-storms, and just all-out crazy weather and natural (and unnatural) events. Devastation will be beyond comprehension. The Bible states God is holding back "the four winds." That's a term for global compass points and what is coming, North, South, East and West. The whole planet, well beyond the Cascade Mountains of North America, is going to belch and burp and vomit its weariness and sickness.
I just read a story various bird species, in several American states back east, are showing up sick, blind and dead, and scientists are freaking out trying to find answers to why. Sea creatures, whales to dolphins to others, are beaching themselves in huge numbers around the world. You get to see how Juneteenth is so important (without all the rioting that took place), on the msm but, not so much what is happening in the natural world. 80,000 reindeer risk death by starvation up in Russia's arctic region. 3.8 MILLION fish perished during Texas' very odd arctic blast this past winter. The list goes on and on. Why, it's the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters.
The world-wide web can be a marvelous thing. The truth and information is out there. The evidence and documentation backing it all up is there to see. Nothing is being done in absolute corners. Just certain corners, where handlers do not want people knowing what they need to know to get free. Free of sin, free of lies and distortions, free of tyranny, free of darkness, and walking into the light where the freedom is.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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273. The State of the Music Industry - June 24, 2021
The fact I haven't sold any "Concepts" CDs yet has nothing to do with the state of the industry, save for lack of popularity with CDs for awhile now but, they still sell because of what they are - a compact form of music. Not everybody wants to listen to music in earbuds on their phones all the time. Outside of those who visit my site, and YT subscribers, and Legends fans, nobody has any idea who I am and what I do. That is not likely to change anytime soon but, I was curious about the industry, in general, and did a search. Covid is what everything centers around. What it did, continues to do, and how the industry is trying to stay alive within the mess that has been made. Some are succeeding, thinking outside the box with communication technology.
This link is to an article on the Musician's Institute website:
https://www.mi.edu/in-the-know/current-state-music-industry-predictions-moving-forward/
The last paragraph was interesting, to me:
"2021 will continue to challenge the music industry as 2020 did. The music business must find ways to adapt to a market that relies on the internet for shopping and entertainment. With talk of vaccines covering the media today, there is hope that 2021 will bring music back to the visceral experience it was before." "
It is difficult, extremely difficult for me to maintain a Christian ethic and attitude towards Anthony Fauci. He is a wicked, deluded individual who thinks he is some kind of king on a medical mountain. His constant lies, mistakes, disinformation, and agenda turned EVERYTHING in America and beyond into a human black hole. He deserves to be arrested and tried and put away, along with co-conspirators. No, I know it won't happen but, that is what should happen. He is responsible and should be held accountable for the way the event developed and what it cost Americans. Blaming Trump is a nonsensical joke. Saying if you attack him, you are attacking science is so stupid it's pathetic. What, all the doctors, researchers and others who tried to withstand his agenda and BS are not into the facts of medical science? Seriously?
Anyway, "talk of vaccines." I told you months ago I would never take such an experimental cocktail of drugs, just on principle. As I continually see articles around the web on what these vaccines are doing to people, and worse, what they may do to a significant portion of people in the near future, who have taken them, I am in concrete on this one. No way. No amount of shaming or blaming or any other approach would cause me to take that injection. Not happening, because I have done the reading and know what they are and what they may do, beyond what they are already doing.
So, here's the gig. 2020 was the year of Covid and lockdowns and destruction of economies (save for Sweden which did not lock down), and 2021 is the year of the vaccine (more technically, 'experimental' vaccines) and "vaccine passports," and slow recovery, 2022, while it may seem the year of normalcy coming back, may end up being the horror story of the last century as the side effects of these cocktails really begin to set in. Some are saying this is going to be an extinction event. That seems a little too biblical, to me but, time will tell.
More and more stories are showing up on alt news sites showing entire populations of people vaccinated are getting sick with Covid. Never mind the heart problems, the blood clots, and all the rest, including deaths; deaths of people not even in risk categories for Covid but, entire groups of people; in nursing homes, hospitals, on teams, in businesses, dozens to hundreds of people vaccinated, are coming down with Covid. The damned things do not even work! Here, in Texas, down in Houston, an large contingency of a staff of hospital workers refused to be injected and they were all let go!
Since when do people lose their jobs because they refuse a vaccine and show no signs of being ill? Since when does the government, i.e. politicians, get into shaming and controlling movements of citizens who refuse what their medical counsel and agendas proclaim? What is going on!!??
We are now in that time period where many of the musicians who made such great music in the 60s, 70s and 80s are going to begin passing away. Their time is arriving, and many have already passed away. One can only imagine what the vaccines will do to increase those numbers.
I am not a doctor. I do not need to be. I only need to read or listen to what doctors and researchers are stating: the vaccines are experimental, the side effects are collectively worse, statistically, than all vaccines in the last 20 years, perfectly healthy people are getting the shot and dying from them, and as usual, the msm has no intention of keeping the general public informed of any of this. To them, hundreds or thousands out of a few hundred million is nothing. Why do they not react the same way they did when small numbers of deaths were out there for hundreds of millions the virus never touched or touched so lightly, victims could hardly be called that. The answer is obvious. The main stream media cannot be trusted. The agenda is Leftist, and if Bill Gates thinks the world needs to be depopulated some, so be it! He knows best, right? After all, he knows 1s and 0s. He must be smart enough to understand the intricacies of viruses and vaccines, yes? No.
Tragedy, to greater or lesser degree, is coming. The virus was man-made, released on purpose, handled as a bomb to remove Trump and any and all nationalists necessary to be removed around the world, scare humanity as much as possible, get them vaccinated so trillions of dollars can be made and even more, the results will kill multiple birds with one stone, that is the talk on vaccines on most of the news sites I frequent, as big tech continues to shut anyone that tries to get truth to people.
Do not even bother to tell me a "conspiracy theorist" Get your face out of the tv screen and do some due diligence and read what has been compiled by researchers on this event. Of course, if you have been vaccinated, it is now a waiting game. I loathe to communicate with those of my age or older about this because I know they got injected. They trusted their doctors, who trusted the drug companies, who care only about money, period.
While articles of getting back to normal in the music industry will continue to show up, how long will it be before articles of loss and tragedy in the music industry begin to show up in their place? Aside from the stories out there of those musicians who got injected and had bad reactions, when deaths begin to rise, the music of the age will turn into funeral dirges.
Yes, I may see the projected numbers as inflated and sensational. Nobody really knows. On the other hand, we are living in "biblical" days, and we may be shocked to find out just how wicked and evil well known names and faces and lives are, who are part of this crushing event, and what the fallout will actually be.
God help us.
This link is to an article on the Musician's Institute website:
https://www.mi.edu/in-the-know/current-state-music-industry-predictions-moving-forward/
The last paragraph was interesting, to me:
"2021 will continue to challenge the music industry as 2020 did. The music business must find ways to adapt to a market that relies on the internet for shopping and entertainment. With talk of vaccines covering the media today, there is hope that 2021 will bring music back to the visceral experience it was before." "
It is difficult, extremely difficult for me to maintain a Christian ethic and attitude towards Anthony Fauci. He is a wicked, deluded individual who thinks he is some kind of king on a medical mountain. His constant lies, mistakes, disinformation, and agenda turned EVERYTHING in America and beyond into a human black hole. He deserves to be arrested and tried and put away, along with co-conspirators. No, I know it won't happen but, that is what should happen. He is responsible and should be held accountable for the way the event developed and what it cost Americans. Blaming Trump is a nonsensical joke. Saying if you attack him, you are attacking science is so stupid it's pathetic. What, all the doctors, researchers and others who tried to withstand his agenda and BS are not into the facts of medical science? Seriously?
Anyway, "talk of vaccines." I told you months ago I would never take such an experimental cocktail of drugs, just on principle. As I continually see articles around the web on what these vaccines are doing to people, and worse, what they may do to a significant portion of people in the near future, who have taken them, I am in concrete on this one. No way. No amount of shaming or blaming or any other approach would cause me to take that injection. Not happening, because I have done the reading and know what they are and what they may do, beyond what they are already doing.
So, here's the gig. 2020 was the year of Covid and lockdowns and destruction of economies (save for Sweden which did not lock down), and 2021 is the year of the vaccine (more technically, 'experimental' vaccines) and "vaccine passports," and slow recovery, 2022, while it may seem the year of normalcy coming back, may end up being the horror story of the last century as the side effects of these cocktails really begin to set in. Some are saying this is going to be an extinction event. That seems a little too biblical, to me but, time will tell.
More and more stories are showing up on alt news sites showing entire populations of people vaccinated are getting sick with Covid. Never mind the heart problems, the blood clots, and all the rest, including deaths; deaths of people not even in risk categories for Covid but, entire groups of people; in nursing homes, hospitals, on teams, in businesses, dozens to hundreds of people vaccinated, are coming down with Covid. The damned things do not even work! Here, in Texas, down in Houston, an large contingency of a staff of hospital workers refused to be injected and they were all let go!
Since when do people lose their jobs because they refuse a vaccine and show no signs of being ill? Since when does the government, i.e. politicians, get into shaming and controlling movements of citizens who refuse what their medical counsel and agendas proclaim? What is going on!!??
We are now in that time period where many of the musicians who made such great music in the 60s, 70s and 80s are going to begin passing away. Their time is arriving, and many have already passed away. One can only imagine what the vaccines will do to increase those numbers.
I am not a doctor. I do not need to be. I only need to read or listen to what doctors and researchers are stating: the vaccines are experimental, the side effects are collectively worse, statistically, than all vaccines in the last 20 years, perfectly healthy people are getting the shot and dying from them, and as usual, the msm has no intention of keeping the general public informed of any of this. To them, hundreds or thousands out of a few hundred million is nothing. Why do they not react the same way they did when small numbers of deaths were out there for hundreds of millions the virus never touched or touched so lightly, victims could hardly be called that. The answer is obvious. The main stream media cannot be trusted. The agenda is Leftist, and if Bill Gates thinks the world needs to be depopulated some, so be it! He knows best, right? After all, he knows 1s and 0s. He must be smart enough to understand the intricacies of viruses and vaccines, yes? No.
Tragedy, to greater or lesser degree, is coming. The virus was man-made, released on purpose, handled as a bomb to remove Trump and any and all nationalists necessary to be removed around the world, scare humanity as much as possible, get them vaccinated so trillions of dollars can be made and even more, the results will kill multiple birds with one stone, that is the talk on vaccines on most of the news sites I frequent, as big tech continues to shut anyone that tries to get truth to people.
Do not even bother to tell me a "conspiracy theorist" Get your face out of the tv screen and do some due diligence and read what has been compiled by researchers on this event. Of course, if you have been vaccinated, it is now a waiting game. I loathe to communicate with those of my age or older about this because I know they got injected. They trusted their doctors, who trusted the drug companies, who care only about money, period.
While articles of getting back to normal in the music industry will continue to show up, how long will it be before articles of loss and tragedy in the music industry begin to show up in their place? Aside from the stories out there of those musicians who got injected and had bad reactions, when deaths begin to rise, the music of the age will turn into funeral dirges.
Yes, I may see the projected numbers as inflated and sensational. Nobody really knows. On the other hand, we are living in "biblical" days, and we may be shocked to find out just how wicked and evil well known names and faces and lives are, who are part of this crushing event, and what the fallout will actually be.
God help us.
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274. 180 Days for THIS? Of Course! - June 26, 2021
I told you so, is kind of lame for such a thing as this.
Everything associated with the U.S.G. is basically filled with professional liars. Most politicians are professional liars. The C.I.A. lies by design. The F.B.I. can no longer be trusted to follow the limitations of the Constitution and they have become domestic enemies of patriotic American citizens, and the military seems more interested in being "woke" then being ready to protect America from all foreign enemies.
Expecting the U.S. anything to tell the truth and render all information it has about UAPs, etc., was a fool's errand from the start. Why did people become so enamored with it?
If you want to read the report it is here:
https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/2021-Government-UAP-UFO-Report.pdf
It's a 9-page 'nothingburger.' Talk about "clutter." That's all it is. A rambling selection of well-crafted "we ain't telling you squat" document. They call it a "Preliminary" report. In 70 years, in 180 days, they have not had enough time to render a complete report? Lie. I mean, right off the bat, the front page, first thing you see - obfuscation, misinformation, disinformation, smoke screen, lie.
It only covers 2004-2021. Ultimately, it says, We don't know, maybe, could be, perhaps, possibly, but, but, but, but, but, more investigation is needed.
9 pages of total U.S.G. BS.
Like I said, the last thing I would expect the U.S.G. to comment on would be biblical matters and threats from supernatural powers God has specifically warned humanity of in Scripture. I can state what I want, based on what I study, and have, and will as the days move forward but, with ALL the photos, videos, and testimonies on-line, in books, on film and all, if this is the best the Pentagon came come up with, which it most certainly is not, China will not have a difficult time taking over the U.S.G.
Everything in the document, everything, is basically a question mark on parade. "Well, you know, we just don't know what to tell you. Might be this, might be that. We need to look into this more. What we need is MONEY." Bingo!!!
They refer to it as " resource investment." If Congress, which controls the national purse, gives these scallywags more money, they are as dense as concrete blocks and it is no wonder why America is coming unglued.
Have mercy, it's painful to read.
I would expect Congress to state, "Are you serious?!" but, they won't. They'll pander and make their own excuses and give these pirates more funding for more BS.
"Probably" this document will go down in history as the biggest cheeseball ever thrown at the American public. It makes the 9/11 Commission report seem ethical, accurate and honorable by comparison. That document is a bogus whitewash.
Here's the thing, though. In the UFO community, they are not looking at things from a biblical viewpoint. They seemingly have nothing but, hopes for disclosure, while at the same time harboring huge doubt it will ever come. For me, God has already disclosed the information necessary to understand what is going on and did so thousands of years ago. I am not disappointed in the report. It is nothing, one way or the other.
What next? You have to remember this is not really about the Pentagon, Congress, or any other body. This is about a war for souls, and Lucifer will play this out exactly as he wants to, within the sovereignty of God's forbearance and His own plans, which the Devil cannot circumvent, regardless of how he tries. God has already outwitted him from eternity, knowing the end, from the beginning. Satan loses. He cannot win. He can only deceive those who remain willingly ignorant of his devices.
Those devices will play out in some way, shape and form, and I truly believe the UFO phenomenon is part of that plan.
I expect more of the phenomenon to play out, especially as the msm has done their job in making the subject, well, main stream, now.
More sightings, more clamor, more attention, more readiness for the "big reveal." It might be a false flag attack operation. Invasion! It might be and will most likely be Satan taking the stage as an angel of light, ET visitor in some huge extravaganza of showboating, or he'll pick his spots, appear, disappear, reappear, and bring about his usual confusion to deceive. The Bible is not specific. What it is specific about is the enemy has a plan and will use it. He is active every minute of every day, "going about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour."
God is actually very wise in keeping the details out of things. It calls for us to pay close attention. Obviously God cares more about us and our connection to Him, through diligence, than just telling us every detail and watch us go to sleep because all the details are not lined up as we expect yet. Remember the parable of the Ten Virgins. They all slept. Five woke up, had oil for their lamps, and made it to the wedding. Not a great picture.
Readiness is what the military is to be perpetually engaging in. Telling Congress nothing but, what it already knows, and asking for more money for more nothing, is the height of boldness one would expect them to be set back on their heels for. They won't be. More tax dollars will go to them as a result of this because of the mind-numbed, feeble, and pliable people in Congress who took oaths to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. They have become the domestic enemies. The fox has control of the henhouse. Talk about usable idiots for the Devil's service. What few real patriots exist in Congress have a monumental job. They need our prayers for God's wisdom, guidance, and a face like flint to stand against the tide of recklessness and nefarious intent on the part of the traitorous majority.
The clock is ticking.
Everything associated with the U.S.G. is basically filled with professional liars. Most politicians are professional liars. The C.I.A. lies by design. The F.B.I. can no longer be trusted to follow the limitations of the Constitution and they have become domestic enemies of patriotic American citizens, and the military seems more interested in being "woke" then being ready to protect America from all foreign enemies.
Expecting the U.S. anything to tell the truth and render all information it has about UAPs, etc., was a fool's errand from the start. Why did people become so enamored with it?
If you want to read the report it is here:
https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/2021-Government-UAP-UFO-Report.pdf
It's a 9-page 'nothingburger.' Talk about "clutter." That's all it is. A rambling selection of well-crafted "we ain't telling you squat" document. They call it a "Preliminary" report. In 70 years, in 180 days, they have not had enough time to render a complete report? Lie. I mean, right off the bat, the front page, first thing you see - obfuscation, misinformation, disinformation, smoke screen, lie.
It only covers 2004-2021. Ultimately, it says, We don't know, maybe, could be, perhaps, possibly, but, but, but, but, but, more investigation is needed.
9 pages of total U.S.G. BS.
Like I said, the last thing I would expect the U.S.G. to comment on would be biblical matters and threats from supernatural powers God has specifically warned humanity of in Scripture. I can state what I want, based on what I study, and have, and will as the days move forward but, with ALL the photos, videos, and testimonies on-line, in books, on film and all, if this is the best the Pentagon came come up with, which it most certainly is not, China will not have a difficult time taking over the U.S.G.
Everything in the document, everything, is basically a question mark on parade. "Well, you know, we just don't know what to tell you. Might be this, might be that. We need to look into this more. What we need is MONEY." Bingo!!!
They refer to it as " resource investment." If Congress, which controls the national purse, gives these scallywags more money, they are as dense as concrete blocks and it is no wonder why America is coming unglued.
Have mercy, it's painful to read.
I would expect Congress to state, "Are you serious?!" but, they won't. They'll pander and make their own excuses and give these pirates more funding for more BS.
"Probably" this document will go down in history as the biggest cheeseball ever thrown at the American public. It makes the 9/11 Commission report seem ethical, accurate and honorable by comparison. That document is a bogus whitewash.
Here's the thing, though. In the UFO community, they are not looking at things from a biblical viewpoint. They seemingly have nothing but, hopes for disclosure, while at the same time harboring huge doubt it will ever come. For me, God has already disclosed the information necessary to understand what is going on and did so thousands of years ago. I am not disappointed in the report. It is nothing, one way or the other.
What next? You have to remember this is not really about the Pentagon, Congress, or any other body. This is about a war for souls, and Lucifer will play this out exactly as he wants to, within the sovereignty of God's forbearance and His own plans, which the Devil cannot circumvent, regardless of how he tries. God has already outwitted him from eternity, knowing the end, from the beginning. Satan loses. He cannot win. He can only deceive those who remain willingly ignorant of his devices.
Those devices will play out in some way, shape and form, and I truly believe the UFO phenomenon is part of that plan.
I expect more of the phenomenon to play out, especially as the msm has done their job in making the subject, well, main stream, now.
More sightings, more clamor, more attention, more readiness for the "big reveal." It might be a false flag attack operation. Invasion! It might be and will most likely be Satan taking the stage as an angel of light, ET visitor in some huge extravaganza of showboating, or he'll pick his spots, appear, disappear, reappear, and bring about his usual confusion to deceive. The Bible is not specific. What it is specific about is the enemy has a plan and will use it. He is active every minute of every day, "going about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour."
God is actually very wise in keeping the details out of things. It calls for us to pay close attention. Obviously God cares more about us and our connection to Him, through diligence, than just telling us every detail and watch us go to sleep because all the details are not lined up as we expect yet. Remember the parable of the Ten Virgins. They all slept. Five woke up, had oil for their lamps, and made it to the wedding. Not a great picture.
Readiness is what the military is to be perpetually engaging in. Telling Congress nothing but, what it already knows, and asking for more money for more nothing, is the height of boldness one would expect them to be set back on their heels for. They won't be. More tax dollars will go to them as a result of this because of the mind-numbed, feeble, and pliable people in Congress who took oaths to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. They have become the domestic enemies. The fox has control of the henhouse. Talk about usable idiots for the Devil's service. What few real patriots exist in Congress have a monumental job. They need our prayers for God's wisdom, guidance, and a face like flint to stand against the tide of recklessness and nefarious intent on the part of the traitorous majority.
The clock is ticking.
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275. What's Wrong With Modesty?
When I was in ministry, I used to deal with this topic often enough. I still remember the nuclear explosion of parental outrage when mini-skirts became the thing. The 1960s brought with it all kinds of change, most of it negative. The drug revolution, the sexual revolution, rebellion towards any kind of authority burst on the civilization.
So, a popular singer today, Matthew West (who I am not familiar with), wrote a parody song about modesty, addressing the subject kind of sideways. He is married, with two daughters. As usual the comedic entry into his music catalog struck chords of vehemence with ears out there that just can't laugh at anything, anymore.
Personally, I do not see modesty as a laughing matter and worse, much worse, for professed Christians to make it out to be a male matter is incredible ignorance of the Bible and what GOD states about males, females, physical beauty, physical desires, temptations, and the fallen nature of mankind. Looking at comments, you might think the Bible is silent on the subject. Not.
Here's the article I came upon:
https://www.faithwire.com/2021/06/25/christian-singer-matthew-west-apologizes-for-lighthearted-modest-is-hottest-song/
West apologized for offending people. If he believed in what he did before the Lord, he had nothing to apologize for. Truth never needs apology. How we present it may fall short. Apologize for that, if it applies. Never apologize for principles of truth.
Look at human history. Most every civilization in history saw their women clothed, head to toe. Why? Why would all civilizations have such a standard, even those who had no recognition of God in their morals or standards? Men? I see that as foolish. People knew what women cause in men. For the believer, God made them that way. That is a truth. Men respond to sight far more than women, who respond more to character and personality: kindness, tenderness, listening. It used to be that way, anyway. Things are being turned around, perverted, twisted, confused. Society cannot even tell or say there are two sexes anymore.
It seems logical to me if men ran society as the rogues they are made out to be, they'd have women running around like... well, just what women dress like today, in popular fashion; more and more skin, less and less fabric. BTW, in the West, just who clothes women and has for a long time? Who make up the lion's share of clothes designers? Men. So, in fact, more skin is the idea of men; how men want to see women. More cleavage, higher hemlines for more leg exposure, high heels to cause leg shape to accentuate, more skin wherever you can show it and still have a garment to sell; it's all done to sexualize women, NOT keep them modest. So, for any woman to get upset when a Christian man takes a biblical stand, God's stand on modesty, because He knows how He created man and woman, what moves and drives each one, what causes mental, emotional and physical excitement in each one, as well as spiritual excitement, is showing their ignorance of a matter the Sovereign has already spoken upon.
In the article, two comments are given to show the disdain for West's song; one from a woman and one from a man. Both state females should dress however they like. Both are void of God's position on this. They are completely human-centered. They aim to free women from man's condition as a fallen creature, and position women to think they can dress and act any way they please and men need to get over it. The depth of ignorance of God's order and instructions for humanity is breathtaking.
Are professed Christian women ignorant of the biblical principle to not place stumbling blocks before their fellow believers, and anyone else, for that matter? Dress as YOU like, and if men can't handle it, that's on them? Oh, Contraire. The same goes for men, as well. We are responsible for how we live in society.
One day we will all have our lives open to the inspection of God's judgment seat; every thought, every word, every action, all motives, everything, and who wants God to open to their minds all the people they placed a stumbling block in front of and caused sin to take place?
Here's the fact of the matter. God speaks, people listen, and by His grace perform the doing, and live to uplift their fellows, not make things more difficult. That is the biblical directive. All professed believers need to "get over it" and get with the program while they live, and move, and have their being. Life is fleeting, at best. God keeps records so detailed in His "books" they should cause us all to shake, and that is exactly what Bible writers stated century after century. God is not mocked. His love cannot be turned into license. His standards are THE standards, period.
This has nothing to do with me being 16 or 66. It has to do with God's creating man and woman. Well, with all the professed believers who believe in evolution from mud puddles and ape-like creatures, hey, what can we expect? Christ was the descendant of an ape on His mother's side. If you believe that... God have mercy.
No, I am not into the "clothes police" or "food police" or any kind of "church police" to address offenses. I am into a thus saith the Lord and plead with God to help me live by it. I have my own struggles, my own problems, my own temptations and warfare. That should not keep me or any believer for standing up for what is right in God's eyes, not man's. "We must obey God, not men."
You would think some kind of logic would stand up here and tell Christendom, ask Christendom, why do you let the unbelieving world guide you, make your choices in anything for you, clothes or otherwise? Are you derelict of all known, biblical perspectives on daily life? The warfare for the soul ended somewhere and most of us did not get the memo?
This is why I continually state the devil is going to mop the floor with professed Christians in these last days. They have no anchor, no mooring, no Commander to guide them. They shall make shipwreck or be cannon fodder for Satan's deceptions. Self guides us if we do not maintain eternal vigilance over the avenues of our souls. We are weak by self and only strong in Christ, who was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin. He came, lived, died, and rose to give us power to live in His life. There may be reasons why we sin. There are no excuses. That includes how we clothe our bodies and how we interact with others who look at us.
God has ordered society. Satan seeks to confuse and cause chaos. We make our choices what flag flies over us: the blood-stained banner of Immanuel, or the black banner of rebellion and treason towards the government of the Most High.
Men are not the enemy, ladies. Lucifer is. And as long as there is spiritual warfare taking place, you would do well to remember who the real enemy is, what his goals are, and how he is attempting to pull them off. That goes for all of us.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
So, a popular singer today, Matthew West (who I am not familiar with), wrote a parody song about modesty, addressing the subject kind of sideways. He is married, with two daughters. As usual the comedic entry into his music catalog struck chords of vehemence with ears out there that just can't laugh at anything, anymore.
Personally, I do not see modesty as a laughing matter and worse, much worse, for professed Christians to make it out to be a male matter is incredible ignorance of the Bible and what GOD states about males, females, physical beauty, physical desires, temptations, and the fallen nature of mankind. Looking at comments, you might think the Bible is silent on the subject. Not.
Here's the article I came upon:
https://www.faithwire.com/2021/06/25/christian-singer-matthew-west-apologizes-for-lighthearted-modest-is-hottest-song/
West apologized for offending people. If he believed in what he did before the Lord, he had nothing to apologize for. Truth never needs apology. How we present it may fall short. Apologize for that, if it applies. Never apologize for principles of truth.
Look at human history. Most every civilization in history saw their women clothed, head to toe. Why? Why would all civilizations have such a standard, even those who had no recognition of God in their morals or standards? Men? I see that as foolish. People knew what women cause in men. For the believer, God made them that way. That is a truth. Men respond to sight far more than women, who respond more to character and personality: kindness, tenderness, listening. It used to be that way, anyway. Things are being turned around, perverted, twisted, confused. Society cannot even tell or say there are two sexes anymore.
It seems logical to me if men ran society as the rogues they are made out to be, they'd have women running around like... well, just what women dress like today, in popular fashion; more and more skin, less and less fabric. BTW, in the West, just who clothes women and has for a long time? Who make up the lion's share of clothes designers? Men. So, in fact, more skin is the idea of men; how men want to see women. More cleavage, higher hemlines for more leg exposure, high heels to cause leg shape to accentuate, more skin wherever you can show it and still have a garment to sell; it's all done to sexualize women, NOT keep them modest. So, for any woman to get upset when a Christian man takes a biblical stand, God's stand on modesty, because He knows how He created man and woman, what moves and drives each one, what causes mental, emotional and physical excitement in each one, as well as spiritual excitement, is showing their ignorance of a matter the Sovereign has already spoken upon.
In the article, two comments are given to show the disdain for West's song; one from a woman and one from a man. Both state females should dress however they like. Both are void of God's position on this. They are completely human-centered. They aim to free women from man's condition as a fallen creature, and position women to think they can dress and act any way they please and men need to get over it. The depth of ignorance of God's order and instructions for humanity is breathtaking.
Are professed Christian women ignorant of the biblical principle to not place stumbling blocks before their fellow believers, and anyone else, for that matter? Dress as YOU like, and if men can't handle it, that's on them? Oh, Contraire. The same goes for men, as well. We are responsible for how we live in society.
One day we will all have our lives open to the inspection of God's judgment seat; every thought, every word, every action, all motives, everything, and who wants God to open to their minds all the people they placed a stumbling block in front of and caused sin to take place?
Here's the fact of the matter. God speaks, people listen, and by His grace perform the doing, and live to uplift their fellows, not make things more difficult. That is the biblical directive. All professed believers need to "get over it" and get with the program while they live, and move, and have their being. Life is fleeting, at best. God keeps records so detailed in His "books" they should cause us all to shake, and that is exactly what Bible writers stated century after century. God is not mocked. His love cannot be turned into license. His standards are THE standards, period.
This has nothing to do with me being 16 or 66. It has to do with God's creating man and woman. Well, with all the professed believers who believe in evolution from mud puddles and ape-like creatures, hey, what can we expect? Christ was the descendant of an ape on His mother's side. If you believe that... God have mercy.
No, I am not into the "clothes police" or "food police" or any kind of "church police" to address offenses. I am into a thus saith the Lord and plead with God to help me live by it. I have my own struggles, my own problems, my own temptations and warfare. That should not keep me or any believer for standing up for what is right in God's eyes, not man's. "We must obey God, not men."
You would think some kind of logic would stand up here and tell Christendom, ask Christendom, why do you let the unbelieving world guide you, make your choices in anything for you, clothes or otherwise? Are you derelict of all known, biblical perspectives on daily life? The warfare for the soul ended somewhere and most of us did not get the memo?
This is why I continually state the devil is going to mop the floor with professed Christians in these last days. They have no anchor, no mooring, no Commander to guide them. They shall make shipwreck or be cannon fodder for Satan's deceptions. Self guides us if we do not maintain eternal vigilance over the avenues of our souls. We are weak by self and only strong in Christ, who was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin. He came, lived, died, and rose to give us power to live in His life. There may be reasons why we sin. There are no excuses. That includes how we clothe our bodies and how we interact with others who look at us.
God has ordered society. Satan seeks to confuse and cause chaos. We make our choices what flag flies over us: the blood-stained banner of Immanuel, or the black banner of rebellion and treason towards the government of the Most High.
Men are not the enemy, ladies. Lucifer is. And as long as there is spiritual warfare taking place, you would do well to remember who the real enemy is, what his goals are, and how he is attempting to pull them off. That goes for all of us.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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276. Drumist Daniel Humair - June 27, 2021
Sometimes I am just really late to the gig, if you know what I mean.
I had heard the name Daniel Humair associated with other Swiss and French Jazz drumists from the 70s, like Pierre Favre and Freddy Studer but, never really took the time to check him out. His career is long, his discography as a leader and sideman is enormous. He's a painter, too.
I had seen him once, when older, on something shot back in the late 1990s, playing along with Favre, Studer and Fritz Hauser. It's a "toyfest," if ever there was one, and it's really cool to watch and listen to. These guys are masters of textures and sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOz8dAkNRMM
My idea for creating cymbal "trees" back in the 70s came from seeing Favre's set-up at the time; a huge conglomeration of instruments all around him.
I was watching some Drummerworld videos on YT last night and came upon some playing he did back in the 70s and rarely does my jaw drop from something a player does. I have NEVER seen hands like his before. Never. Not Buddy, not any of the more modern Jazzers or players in Fusion back then or now. You MUST watch this and see it to believe it. It isn't fast rolls around the set. That is not the thing he does and I doubt anybody can increase on the speeds of players we all know. I watched Humair play a single-handed roll, and play the dotted-eighth ride pattern like a typist zipping at 200 wpm. My eyes scrunched up and my jaw dropped.
He sets up as a lefty, playing open-handed, as well.
Now, Free or Avant-garde Jazz is not my thing but, in this case the moves of Humair's hands are at the front of this 7:00 video, with his solo and then his time keeping. It's actually a nice piece of music and the guitarist is very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkAsQt_HFuE
Daniel Humair is in the elite of European players. Were I into Jazz more, I'd have been a fan for a long time. He's quite the musician.
If you are not familiar with him, check him out.
It is always amazing to me when I come upon players doing things decades ago that set a different time stamp on things we may think more modern players invented or came up with. Talent, as well. Technique. Showmanship. Players have been doing things for a long time and the younger players, all of us, should avail ourselves of a deeper history of the instrument and those that play it.
I had heard the name Daniel Humair associated with other Swiss and French Jazz drumists from the 70s, like Pierre Favre and Freddy Studer but, never really took the time to check him out. His career is long, his discography as a leader and sideman is enormous. He's a painter, too.
I had seen him once, when older, on something shot back in the late 1990s, playing along with Favre, Studer and Fritz Hauser. It's a "toyfest," if ever there was one, and it's really cool to watch and listen to. These guys are masters of textures and sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOz8dAkNRMM
My idea for creating cymbal "trees" back in the 70s came from seeing Favre's set-up at the time; a huge conglomeration of instruments all around him.
I was watching some Drummerworld videos on YT last night and came upon some playing he did back in the 70s and rarely does my jaw drop from something a player does. I have NEVER seen hands like his before. Never. Not Buddy, not any of the more modern Jazzers or players in Fusion back then or now. You MUST watch this and see it to believe it. It isn't fast rolls around the set. That is not the thing he does and I doubt anybody can increase on the speeds of players we all know. I watched Humair play a single-handed roll, and play the dotted-eighth ride pattern like a typist zipping at 200 wpm. My eyes scrunched up and my jaw dropped.
He sets up as a lefty, playing open-handed, as well.
Now, Free or Avant-garde Jazz is not my thing but, in this case the moves of Humair's hands are at the front of this 7:00 video, with his solo and then his time keeping. It's actually a nice piece of music and the guitarist is very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkAsQt_HFuE
Daniel Humair is in the elite of European players. Were I into Jazz more, I'd have been a fan for a long time. He's quite the musician.
If you are not familiar with him, check him out.
It is always amazing to me when I come upon players doing things decades ago that set a different time stamp on things we may think more modern players invented or came up with. Talent, as well. Technique. Showmanship. Players have been doing things for a long time and the younger players, all of us, should avail ourselves of a deeper history of the instrument and those that play it.
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277. What If Government Killed? - June 28, 2021
I saw a headline about the number of people killed by "government" in the 20th century. 272,000,000. Two-hundred and seventy-two million people. Some put the number at four hundred million.
When we say "government" does this and that, we are not speaking of some "Pacific Rim" creature or mechanical entity standing a few hundred feet tall. "Government" is not a living thing. Government is people, that's all. People that are either granted authority to do things or those who take authority and then power, and then abuse it.
Why would citizens of any nation elect "Dictators?" Why would they elect tyrants, despots, rogues, and ruthless megalomaniacs to represent their needs? They don't. The actors who run for office lie and kiss babies, drink beer with the working man, then booze in fancy glasses with the elite, and basically make false promises they know they cannot keep, to get money, to get votes, to get into office. Once in the position of authority, power corrupts, as it moves to absolute power, corrupting absolutely.
Some have designs for kingly power. Others almost fall into it, especially if they have corrupt counselors guiding them and they do not see what is happening until it is too late and they have crimes to face if they do not cooperate. Either way, and every avenue in between, people who get dressed, eat, use a bathroom, brush their teeth, and breathe the same air and drink the same water every other citizen does, who had no absolute power before gaining a political office, gets it by doing the bidding of money brokers. Deep pockets have always run nations. Always. Money is power.
The thing is, the same man or woman who stinks up a bathroom like anyone else can only do what he or she is allowed to do by a populace. The larger the populace, the more difficult it is for them to get away with abuse of power. They have to be careful. They must keep prying eyes and ears off of them and their agendas. Logically, create distractions. Those distractions can be a hundred different things. Riots, scandals, disasters, war... an endless list of things designed to keep the populace in the dark and involved with survival.
Once the power is attained, through promises to money holders, to levels of military leadership, levels of police force, and political allies, you gain all the firepower you need to control things. If people rise up, you now have the power to put them down. The populace lives in fear. They turn on each other as they exist in frustration. Society is then segregated of haves and have nots. An elite, loyal to the corruption, stands against and wages unceasing war against those desiring freedom and liberty from tyranny. And so goes the history of the world.
We are repeating history all the time. In America, probably the most dangerous element to freedom and liberty is the career politician. The career politician creates a 'war chest' of support and money to make sure reelection is all but, guaranteed. With technology, reelection is now guaranteed. Create votes out of thin air. Change votes in digital voting systems, and you can hire people to do it from another part of the globe.
So, what if those in power decide to kill off the greater population of planet Earth? Poor, old, Mother Earth is being stretched to her limits. She needs some R&R. Remove people and she gets it, because people are the enemies of Mother Earth. Every kneejerk Leftist believes that.
If despots decided to just kill off a population and got enough cooperation around them to do it, what would or could be the reaction? Leave off horror and all the rest. I am talking about blowback. Would any exist to threaten their power? They have the money bags, the military, the police, and the elite in their control, who generally feel and believe as they do - people are dangerous to Mother Earth. They treat her with disdain. They are criminals. We shall remove the criminals and save Mother Earth. If you think such an attitude is far-fetched, you haven't been exposed to much about what runs the world today.
A mass extinction event, planned by despots and lunatics in power, is now underway. At least, that is what researchers and reporters of all things Leftist are stating. The entire virus, reaction to the virus and vaccinations from the virus, are driving an extinction event. It's actually quite brilliant. No bombs. No police brutality. No rounding up citizens and putting them in camps (unless you live in China, North Korea or other already despicable place run by demonically-controlled, sick maniacs). I'll leave off the police who manhandle mask violators and such. Bad enough as that is, it isn't yet mainland China.
We must ask ourselves just why China, that tortures people, that kills its citizens, that is atheistic and deity hating, and wants the throne of deity, itself, has ANY, ANY kind of cooperation with the rest of the free world. ANY. Well, it has far more than ANY cooperation with the free world. It now has MOST of the cooperation of the free world. It sells the world its goods. It now owns the biggest military force on the planet. Its police power is absolute. Fear is the running avenue its citizens live on. The government does just enough to keep people going in a modicum of "freedom" and they get used to that existence and bow to any and all demands of the "government."
Every nation on Earth is heading in the same direction: tyranny. Tyranny seems to work. Those who gain power and use it, see a controlled mass out their windows. No storms, waves, blasts of whatever to tip the elitist applecart. Just a well-oiled machine, and if any human parts get out of line, breakdown, complain, try and rise up, you take them away, you put them down. You maintain control any way you need to, and do a lot of things in the night, while neighbors are sleeping.
As Jesus said, darkness is the time of sin and evil. Light exposes. Darkness hides. Well, hides from man's eyes, not God's.
So, if this event is actually a planned event to depopulate the world and save it from criminal activity against "Mother," what can be done? Remember, we are no longer living in a sword and spear generation, nor cannon and musket, not repeating rifle or six-shooter, or even a Gatlin gun generation. Nay. We live in a generation where one fighter jet can take out a city. Now, of course, that is only a possibility if you have people flying jets who will do your bidding. You must have a military and police "force" under your control. They must either believe the agenda or, for whatever reasons, be willing to cooperate with it.
Why, in America, are patriotic Americans that were present in D.C. on Jan. 6th, being rounded up and put on trial for insurrection? PROOF exists, in the form of video and on-line statements, of Trump-supporting actors and agents of government who worked with corrupt capitol police to push the entire scenario into existence. Why is the name of Ashlie Babbit's killer not been released? Who shot her to death?
Well, look, this nation is a mess beyond a mess. The lies told by "government" reach the moon and back now, and all alphabet agencies, all departments, all offices, all of anything D.C. is corrupt. They know it, they do not care, they have power to tax, which is power to control. They have power to disregard the Constitution, which is power to control. They have the power of media, which is power to coerce and thereby, control. Mercy, they have power to make and control drones that can kill people, which is power to control. I could make this paragraph ten inches deep but, you get the idea.
In actual fact, there is really NOTHING the populace can do to regain real freedom and liberty without the kind of sacrifice that would result in the loss of millions of citizens so, why not reduce the citizenry, just in case they get the idea to rise up and change things?
Get the picture?
Most Americans finally are on the side of not trusting "government." A bridge has been reached. Crossing it, though, is another matter. Distractions... well, look at Florida today. A building collapsed. Tragedy strikes. Private property, owned and run by private companies. The "government" calls for "inspections." An inspector was there just a few days before the collapse, if what I have read is accurate. Inspectors, owners, managers already knew the building had issues and nobody did anything about it. The building was sinking at an alarming rate. They knew catastrophe was possible. What do I see in the news? They are attempting to blame Conservative Republican governor Ron DeSantis for the whole fiasco. How, in any way, shape or form can it be the new governor's fault? The new governor is a wrench in the wheels of tyranny. He believes in the U.S. Constitution. He believes in limited government. He must be brought down. Blame him for the collapse of a building.
We watched four years of Trump being blamed for anything and everything and they are still going after him, trying to completely remove him from society with any kind of criminal charges they can muster. They are sick with power and hatred for the man. "They" are in control, though. Gaining totalitarian control, year by year.
I have come to believe the idea of an extinction event is not only possible and probable but, logically, the truth of the matter.
If human beings begin dropping like Autumn leaves off trees, dying from various complications brought on by these experimental concoctions called "vaccines," remember those who tried to warn and educate us on what is happening.
How will humanity respond? I am guessing with fear and docility. There are no champions to inspire them. There are no leaders with the guts to stand up against it all: all the lies, the corruptions, the despotism. Nobody in alt media has anywhere near the influence to promote such a rise of citizen outrage. Too much pain and suffering from loss of loved ones would be gripping the world.
The elitists have figured out a plan that is pretty much fool-proof.
Unless God steps in.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
When we say "government" does this and that, we are not speaking of some "Pacific Rim" creature or mechanical entity standing a few hundred feet tall. "Government" is not a living thing. Government is people, that's all. People that are either granted authority to do things or those who take authority and then power, and then abuse it.
Why would citizens of any nation elect "Dictators?" Why would they elect tyrants, despots, rogues, and ruthless megalomaniacs to represent their needs? They don't. The actors who run for office lie and kiss babies, drink beer with the working man, then booze in fancy glasses with the elite, and basically make false promises they know they cannot keep, to get money, to get votes, to get into office. Once in the position of authority, power corrupts, as it moves to absolute power, corrupting absolutely.
Some have designs for kingly power. Others almost fall into it, especially if they have corrupt counselors guiding them and they do not see what is happening until it is too late and they have crimes to face if they do not cooperate. Either way, and every avenue in between, people who get dressed, eat, use a bathroom, brush their teeth, and breathe the same air and drink the same water every other citizen does, who had no absolute power before gaining a political office, gets it by doing the bidding of money brokers. Deep pockets have always run nations. Always. Money is power.
The thing is, the same man or woman who stinks up a bathroom like anyone else can only do what he or she is allowed to do by a populace. The larger the populace, the more difficult it is for them to get away with abuse of power. They have to be careful. They must keep prying eyes and ears off of them and their agendas. Logically, create distractions. Those distractions can be a hundred different things. Riots, scandals, disasters, war... an endless list of things designed to keep the populace in the dark and involved with survival.
Once the power is attained, through promises to money holders, to levels of military leadership, levels of police force, and political allies, you gain all the firepower you need to control things. If people rise up, you now have the power to put them down. The populace lives in fear. They turn on each other as they exist in frustration. Society is then segregated of haves and have nots. An elite, loyal to the corruption, stands against and wages unceasing war against those desiring freedom and liberty from tyranny. And so goes the history of the world.
We are repeating history all the time. In America, probably the most dangerous element to freedom and liberty is the career politician. The career politician creates a 'war chest' of support and money to make sure reelection is all but, guaranteed. With technology, reelection is now guaranteed. Create votes out of thin air. Change votes in digital voting systems, and you can hire people to do it from another part of the globe.
So, what if those in power decide to kill off the greater population of planet Earth? Poor, old, Mother Earth is being stretched to her limits. She needs some R&R. Remove people and she gets it, because people are the enemies of Mother Earth. Every kneejerk Leftist believes that.
If despots decided to just kill off a population and got enough cooperation around them to do it, what would or could be the reaction? Leave off horror and all the rest. I am talking about blowback. Would any exist to threaten their power? They have the money bags, the military, the police, and the elite in their control, who generally feel and believe as they do - people are dangerous to Mother Earth. They treat her with disdain. They are criminals. We shall remove the criminals and save Mother Earth. If you think such an attitude is far-fetched, you haven't been exposed to much about what runs the world today.
A mass extinction event, planned by despots and lunatics in power, is now underway. At least, that is what researchers and reporters of all things Leftist are stating. The entire virus, reaction to the virus and vaccinations from the virus, are driving an extinction event. It's actually quite brilliant. No bombs. No police brutality. No rounding up citizens and putting them in camps (unless you live in China, North Korea or other already despicable place run by demonically-controlled, sick maniacs). I'll leave off the police who manhandle mask violators and such. Bad enough as that is, it isn't yet mainland China.
We must ask ourselves just why China, that tortures people, that kills its citizens, that is atheistic and deity hating, and wants the throne of deity, itself, has ANY, ANY kind of cooperation with the rest of the free world. ANY. Well, it has far more than ANY cooperation with the free world. It now has MOST of the cooperation of the free world. It sells the world its goods. It now owns the biggest military force on the planet. Its police power is absolute. Fear is the running avenue its citizens live on. The government does just enough to keep people going in a modicum of "freedom" and they get used to that existence and bow to any and all demands of the "government."
Every nation on Earth is heading in the same direction: tyranny. Tyranny seems to work. Those who gain power and use it, see a controlled mass out their windows. No storms, waves, blasts of whatever to tip the elitist applecart. Just a well-oiled machine, and if any human parts get out of line, breakdown, complain, try and rise up, you take them away, you put them down. You maintain control any way you need to, and do a lot of things in the night, while neighbors are sleeping.
As Jesus said, darkness is the time of sin and evil. Light exposes. Darkness hides. Well, hides from man's eyes, not God's.
So, if this event is actually a planned event to depopulate the world and save it from criminal activity against "Mother," what can be done? Remember, we are no longer living in a sword and spear generation, nor cannon and musket, not repeating rifle or six-shooter, or even a Gatlin gun generation. Nay. We live in a generation where one fighter jet can take out a city. Now, of course, that is only a possibility if you have people flying jets who will do your bidding. You must have a military and police "force" under your control. They must either believe the agenda or, for whatever reasons, be willing to cooperate with it.
Why, in America, are patriotic Americans that were present in D.C. on Jan. 6th, being rounded up and put on trial for insurrection? PROOF exists, in the form of video and on-line statements, of Trump-supporting actors and agents of government who worked with corrupt capitol police to push the entire scenario into existence. Why is the name of Ashlie Babbit's killer not been released? Who shot her to death?
Well, look, this nation is a mess beyond a mess. The lies told by "government" reach the moon and back now, and all alphabet agencies, all departments, all offices, all of anything D.C. is corrupt. They know it, they do not care, they have power to tax, which is power to control. They have power to disregard the Constitution, which is power to control. They have the power of media, which is power to coerce and thereby, control. Mercy, they have power to make and control drones that can kill people, which is power to control. I could make this paragraph ten inches deep but, you get the idea.
In actual fact, there is really NOTHING the populace can do to regain real freedom and liberty without the kind of sacrifice that would result in the loss of millions of citizens so, why not reduce the citizenry, just in case they get the idea to rise up and change things?
Get the picture?
Most Americans finally are on the side of not trusting "government." A bridge has been reached. Crossing it, though, is another matter. Distractions... well, look at Florida today. A building collapsed. Tragedy strikes. Private property, owned and run by private companies. The "government" calls for "inspections." An inspector was there just a few days before the collapse, if what I have read is accurate. Inspectors, owners, managers already knew the building had issues and nobody did anything about it. The building was sinking at an alarming rate. They knew catastrophe was possible. What do I see in the news? They are attempting to blame Conservative Republican governor Ron DeSantis for the whole fiasco. How, in any way, shape or form can it be the new governor's fault? The new governor is a wrench in the wheels of tyranny. He believes in the U.S. Constitution. He believes in limited government. He must be brought down. Blame him for the collapse of a building.
We watched four years of Trump being blamed for anything and everything and they are still going after him, trying to completely remove him from society with any kind of criminal charges they can muster. They are sick with power and hatred for the man. "They" are in control, though. Gaining totalitarian control, year by year.
I have come to believe the idea of an extinction event is not only possible and probable but, logically, the truth of the matter.
If human beings begin dropping like Autumn leaves off trees, dying from various complications brought on by these experimental concoctions called "vaccines," remember those who tried to warn and educate us on what is happening.
How will humanity respond? I am guessing with fear and docility. There are no champions to inspire them. There are no leaders with the guts to stand up against it all: all the lies, the corruptions, the despotism. Nobody in alt media has anywhere near the influence to promote such a rise of citizen outrage. Too much pain and suffering from loss of loved ones would be gripping the world.
The elitists have figured out a plan that is pretty much fool-proof.
Unless God steps in.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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278. Who Owns... Well, Everything? Just 2 Companies - June 29, 2021
To begin, a quote from 1903:
"The work of the people of God is to prepare for the events of the future, which will soon come upon them with blinding force. In the world gigantic monopolies will be formed. Men will bind themselves together in unions that will wrap them in the folds of the enemy. A few men will combine to grasp all the means to be obtained in certain lines of business. Trades unions will be formed, and those who refuse to join these unions will be marked men." --Letter 26, 1903.
A Christian lady, named Ellen White, wrote that statement in a letter dated back to 1903, one hundred and eighteen years ago. Trade unions aren't quite what they were in my father's day. He crossed a picket line once and got death threat notes on his locker at work. Death threats have become common today. Disagree with anyone on anything and you may get a death threat. The commonality of death threats just shows the degradation our world has sunk to. It's way past unions, now.
That aside, back to "A few men." I love it when the Lord tells us in advance what is coming, because He loves us, and wants us to be ready.
I just read an article that opened my eyes. Not much does that anymore. This one did. The documentation on this seems solid, and like I have said many times before in this blog, there remain those who are willing to truly investigate to find truth in this world.
There are apparently two companies that own so much below them there is little out there they do not own. Vanguard and BlackRock. They are investment and asset management companies. They get returns on everything, literally.
Imagine being so huge, so powerful, you own pharmaceutical companies and big corporate media companies. 1% of the world owns 99% of the money the world makes. I have written about this before. This article just ads more to the subject, with video, as well, which I have not watched yet but, shall. (I have - WATCH IT - INCREDIBLE, compact, info-heavy masterpiece).
https://noqreport.com/2021/06/15/blackrock-and-vanguard-the-same-shady-people-own-big-pharma-and-the-media/
Imagine owning Time Warner, Disney, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. Add to those dozens of the biggest companies on Earth and imagine the swirling cauldron of power at your behest. Imagine owning the companies that make the drugs and the media that pumps it all at humanity on a 24/7 basis on television and radio. Today we have the media hiding the actual numbers for this virus event, right from it's beginning. Inflated death and case numbers, now, deflated numbers for adverse reactions to the pharma companies "vaccines," all owned by the same two behemoths.
If I did not see it in alt news I would not have known that thousands of young people, 15-25, a group hardly touched by the virus to begin with, are developing heart problems overnight. It is happening at such an alarming rate the corrupt CDC is having to hold emergency meetings about it. These "vaccines" are not. They are biological warfare. That is the bottom line. The virus and the supposed remedy are tandem team members designed to do a work no war could do without destroying much of the worlds infrastructure that makes money for the top block in the pyramid.
If I did not read it in alt news I'd have never known Anthony Fauci and others worked with and conceded to China on how this event would be handled and reported.
Ever hear of Dr. Astrid Stuckleberger? Neither did I. You'll find this article and video interesting. She's a WHO whistleblower, exposing the corruption and agenda of that organization:
https://www.pandemic.news/2021-03-04-who-insider-exposes-gavi-gates-perpetrating-plandemic.html#
It is all a pyramid of colossal, gargantuan size and power.
I write about drums and drumming and music and other things and what I am writing about are just stories somehow, one way or another, connected to and in the pockets of these two investment companies. The pyramid is exactly as White stated it over a century ago.
I keep saying only God can right this ship and get His work done. Satan is the god of the world, the ruler of this world, who runs it all, save for the hearts and minds of those loyal to Christ. God allows this world to move faster and faster towards the rocks of destruction. I could sit here and write all day and night about things happening that show this world is coming to an end. Sin kills, sin is gaining ground, and sin will destroy Earth. God will save those who want to be saved and cooperate with Him to build a character safe to bring into eternity. When God recreates this world, more beautiful than it was in the beginning, it will never suffer the results of sin again. That is God's promise to us. But, that is not yet.
More blinded and dying birds. 115 degrees in Washington? In June? Weather abnormalities all over the globe. Corruption so far and wide nothing can be trusted anymore, and much more is coming. Much more.
All aspects of life, natural and man-made are telling us things are way out of balance. Why?
The penny is rolling down the funnel, my friends, and soon the speed at which it rolls will be unstoppable. Down the shoot it will go: the end of all things is going to take place.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"The work of the people of God is to prepare for the events of the future, which will soon come upon them with blinding force. In the world gigantic monopolies will be formed. Men will bind themselves together in unions that will wrap them in the folds of the enemy. A few men will combine to grasp all the means to be obtained in certain lines of business. Trades unions will be formed, and those who refuse to join these unions will be marked men." --Letter 26, 1903.
A Christian lady, named Ellen White, wrote that statement in a letter dated back to 1903, one hundred and eighteen years ago. Trade unions aren't quite what they were in my father's day. He crossed a picket line once and got death threat notes on his locker at work. Death threats have become common today. Disagree with anyone on anything and you may get a death threat. The commonality of death threats just shows the degradation our world has sunk to. It's way past unions, now.
That aside, back to "A few men." I love it when the Lord tells us in advance what is coming, because He loves us, and wants us to be ready.
I just read an article that opened my eyes. Not much does that anymore. This one did. The documentation on this seems solid, and like I have said many times before in this blog, there remain those who are willing to truly investigate to find truth in this world.
There are apparently two companies that own so much below them there is little out there they do not own. Vanguard and BlackRock. They are investment and asset management companies. They get returns on everything, literally.
Imagine being so huge, so powerful, you own pharmaceutical companies and big corporate media companies. 1% of the world owns 99% of the money the world makes. I have written about this before. This article just ads more to the subject, with video, as well, which I have not watched yet but, shall. (I have - WATCH IT - INCREDIBLE, compact, info-heavy masterpiece).
https://noqreport.com/2021/06/15/blackrock-and-vanguard-the-same-shady-people-own-big-pharma-and-the-media/
Imagine owning Time Warner, Disney, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. Add to those dozens of the biggest companies on Earth and imagine the swirling cauldron of power at your behest. Imagine owning the companies that make the drugs and the media that pumps it all at humanity on a 24/7 basis on television and radio. Today we have the media hiding the actual numbers for this virus event, right from it's beginning. Inflated death and case numbers, now, deflated numbers for adverse reactions to the pharma companies "vaccines," all owned by the same two behemoths.
If I did not see it in alt news I would not have known that thousands of young people, 15-25, a group hardly touched by the virus to begin with, are developing heart problems overnight. It is happening at such an alarming rate the corrupt CDC is having to hold emergency meetings about it. These "vaccines" are not. They are biological warfare. That is the bottom line. The virus and the supposed remedy are tandem team members designed to do a work no war could do without destroying much of the worlds infrastructure that makes money for the top block in the pyramid.
If I did not read it in alt news I'd have never known Anthony Fauci and others worked with and conceded to China on how this event would be handled and reported.
Ever hear of Dr. Astrid Stuckleberger? Neither did I. You'll find this article and video interesting. She's a WHO whistleblower, exposing the corruption and agenda of that organization:
https://www.pandemic.news/2021-03-04-who-insider-exposes-gavi-gates-perpetrating-plandemic.html#
It is all a pyramid of colossal, gargantuan size and power.
I write about drums and drumming and music and other things and what I am writing about are just stories somehow, one way or another, connected to and in the pockets of these two investment companies. The pyramid is exactly as White stated it over a century ago.
I keep saying only God can right this ship and get His work done. Satan is the god of the world, the ruler of this world, who runs it all, save for the hearts and minds of those loyal to Christ. God allows this world to move faster and faster towards the rocks of destruction. I could sit here and write all day and night about things happening that show this world is coming to an end. Sin kills, sin is gaining ground, and sin will destroy Earth. God will save those who want to be saved and cooperate with Him to build a character safe to bring into eternity. When God recreates this world, more beautiful than it was in the beginning, it will never suffer the results of sin again. That is God's promise to us. But, that is not yet.
More blinded and dying birds. 115 degrees in Washington? In June? Weather abnormalities all over the globe. Corruption so far and wide nothing can be trusted anymore, and much more is coming. Much more.
All aspects of life, natural and man-made are telling us things are way out of balance. Why?
The penny is rolling down the funnel, my friends, and soon the speed at which it rolls will be unstoppable. Down the shoot it will go: the end of all things is going to take place.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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279. Some Headlines - July 1, 2021
New report stuns the world: The vast majority of those now dying with covid are people who were VACCINATED against it.
Vaccinated people found to be 600% more likely to die from covid “variants” than unvaccinated people.
Wearing face masks coated in graphene can cause serious lung problems, warns Health Canada.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warns that Fauci, Gates are committing mass genocide against humanity.
STUDY: Covid vaccines cause Alzheimer’s, brain changes.
DEPOPULATION ALERT: Shocking new study reveals covid vaccine TERMINATES 4 out of 5 pregnancies via “spontaneous abortions.”
VAX FAIL: Latest “covid” outbreak in Israel occurred mostly in “fully vaccinated.”
Sen. Ron Johnson shares heartbreaking testimony about mother whose daughter was left permanently disabled following covid vaccination.
26 Doctors in Indonesia died because of coronavirus: 10 received Sinovac vaccines, says medical association.
Horrific vaccine “adverse events” BEFORE & AFTER Covid-19 jabs, right from the CDC’s very own vaccine injury tables.
New research obliterates the entire justification behind vaccine passports, finding that public gatherings contribute NOTHING to the spread of covid.
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Those are headlines from just one alternative news website: Newstarget.com
Think of this scenario for a Hollywood blockbuster if Leftist politics and powers were not involved. This would be "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact" on steroids. This would be a Bond movie to top all Bond movies, that truly had real bad guys and cunning, wicked, evil lunatics involved.
The entire globe has been overshadowed by something so heinous, so hideous, so unthinkable it staggers the mind.
These headlines, the stories with them, the information, the studies, the researchers, the medical professionals, all of them and what they are trying to get out there, is there for anyone to see. Many of these people involved are screaming inside because big tech censors them, freezes their accounts, deletes their accounts, they get fired, sued, threatened, yet regardless of it all they press on because they see this as THE event of our lifetimes, with deadly consequences.
My wife works in a dental office where parents are coming in every day telling her how they are so happy they have had their children vaccinated, and around the world stories and documentation are emerging showing children, who had virtually no problems with the virus, are now suffering side effects AND getting the virus. To not see a nefarious connection here is just chosen blindness. My heart goes out to each family that is certain to experience trauma and grief.
Hundreds of thousands are in the streets of England protesting lockdowns. Here in America some states still have mandates in effect for various businesses to remain closed. Democrat-run states, of course, and that is, once again, very telling.
It is truly hard to imagine a more disgusting situation hovering above the population of planet Earth. Talk about an alien invasion. It's the ingredients in the vaccines!
I really hope all the prognosticators of global death throes are incorrect. The growing ramifications of these experimental concoctions would seem to dictate they are not wrong, though, and time will bear out their impending global horror.
God help us.
Vaccinated people found to be 600% more likely to die from covid “variants” than unvaccinated people.
Wearing face masks coated in graphene can cause serious lung problems, warns Health Canada.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warns that Fauci, Gates are committing mass genocide against humanity.
STUDY: Covid vaccines cause Alzheimer’s, brain changes.
DEPOPULATION ALERT: Shocking new study reveals covid vaccine TERMINATES 4 out of 5 pregnancies via “spontaneous abortions.”
VAX FAIL: Latest “covid” outbreak in Israel occurred mostly in “fully vaccinated.”
Sen. Ron Johnson shares heartbreaking testimony about mother whose daughter was left permanently disabled following covid vaccination.
26 Doctors in Indonesia died because of coronavirus: 10 received Sinovac vaccines, says medical association.
Horrific vaccine “adverse events” BEFORE & AFTER Covid-19 jabs, right from the CDC’s very own vaccine injury tables.
New research obliterates the entire justification behind vaccine passports, finding that public gatherings contribute NOTHING to the spread of covid.
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Those are headlines from just one alternative news website: Newstarget.com
Think of this scenario for a Hollywood blockbuster if Leftist politics and powers were not involved. This would be "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact" on steroids. This would be a Bond movie to top all Bond movies, that truly had real bad guys and cunning, wicked, evil lunatics involved.
The entire globe has been overshadowed by something so heinous, so hideous, so unthinkable it staggers the mind.
These headlines, the stories with them, the information, the studies, the researchers, the medical professionals, all of them and what they are trying to get out there, is there for anyone to see. Many of these people involved are screaming inside because big tech censors them, freezes their accounts, deletes their accounts, they get fired, sued, threatened, yet regardless of it all they press on because they see this as THE event of our lifetimes, with deadly consequences.
My wife works in a dental office where parents are coming in every day telling her how they are so happy they have had their children vaccinated, and around the world stories and documentation are emerging showing children, who had virtually no problems with the virus, are now suffering side effects AND getting the virus. To not see a nefarious connection here is just chosen blindness. My heart goes out to each family that is certain to experience trauma and grief.
Hundreds of thousands are in the streets of England protesting lockdowns. Here in America some states still have mandates in effect for various businesses to remain closed. Democrat-run states, of course, and that is, once again, very telling.
It is truly hard to imagine a more disgusting situation hovering above the population of planet Earth. Talk about an alien invasion. It's the ingredients in the vaccines!
I really hope all the prognosticators of global death throes are incorrect. The growing ramifications of these experimental concoctions would seem to dictate they are not wrong, though, and time will bear out their impending global horror.
God help us.
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280. Alien Races? - July 3, 2021
One of things that always amused me about Sci-Fi entertainment was the portrayal of "aliens."
For those who believe in accidental, purposeless, mindless, directionless Materialism and Naturalism found in Abiogenesis and macro-evolution, how is it aliens all have two eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth, two arms, two hands, two legs, two feet, etc.? One can understand the limitations Hollywood would have in dealing with human actors. So, basically they just create as much head and facial difference as possible in their make-up departments.
In the UFO community, though, the dozens of supposed "alien races" out there, separated by light years throughout the Milky Way galaxy, all have the same thing going on. I'll add tails to both Hollywood and supposed alien race features. Some have tails. Amazing tails that can bite, shoot things, and whatever imagination can come up with. Of course, the Materialists like to tell us everything had tails at one point.
As CGI has gotten more and more sophisticated, aliens have become, not only more and more grotesque but, also elaborate physical creatures. One must wonder how such creatures, far more animal looking, with less than articulate appendages, can produce the most wondrous flying devices able to traverse the depths of space. Their "hands" do not look able to make a dog house but, they can manufacture motherships.
There are people who believe they communicate with these races of beings and they have given artists descriptions who have depicted these creatures down through the years, and they all look like a Star Trek convention.
At times Hollywood has produced physical blobs, or electrical energy beings, that think and can do some pretty amazing, godlike stuff from the midst of their cloud-like entity but, most of time we get the typical mammalian body features with all kinds of head and face differences. How is it mindless accidents of evolution can produce the same basic features in intelligent life all across an entire galaxy, let alone beyond it? It has no blueprint it goes by, no coded instructions to follow, no direction or purpose.
Believing in the biblical Creator as I do; believing what the Bible teaches about creation and God's character, I believe life beyond Earth, the angelic host and population of other worlds in the universe, are all beautiful. They may exhibit differences. We know angels are glorious, majestic beings, neither male nor female, and have wings. They have incredible abilities and occupy another dimension. They are all around us but, we see them not. They are categorized and described as a military force, of sorts, with levels of authority. They love being God's ministering spirits, never ceasing to do His will.
Aside from the sparse information of life beyond Earth found in Scripture, nothing is said of what such populations look like. Given the variety of life God created in categories on Earth, I would expect some sameness and some differences in life beyond Earth. I would expect all of it to show the Creator's mind and hand, displaying His character, order, and goodness. I would not expect that from mindless Naturalism.
Some of these depictions of aliens portrayed by the UFO community are... well, pretty bizarre but, still keeping with the typical human form. Just search for "alien races" and click on the image tab of your browser. In many cases, depictions seen on ancient architecture, cave walls, etc., are attributed to being aliens. Many in the UFO community are happy and satisfied to believe "aliens" created life on Earth. That doesn't answer the obvious question of who created the aliens but, such logical probing does not seem to be necessary for them to "believe."
Here's a site with a pretty long list of "aliens" out there:
http://starseedsportal.org/aliens-ufos/alien-races/
I expect beings of brightness to make their appearance sooner than later, with a being a dazzling brightness to be at their head: the "angel of light" the apostle Paul warned of.
While the recent unclassified UAP document given to the general public, said nothing much, it did say stuff is flying around out there, beyond human understanding. The classified document, given to the Senate Intelligence Committee, supposedly states more; about 6 dozen pages long.
Whatever is out there and what they use to traverse space with, if, indeed, they even require such mechanics to do so (angels do not and I doubt anybody does, either), God's imagination and purposes will always include order and complexity, composed with beauty and wonder. Even in its current fallen stage and form, life on Earth is fascinating and much of it awe-inspiring in form and function. What sin has degraded over millennia yet affords only a glimpse of what our experience travelling the universe will show us, when this war is finally over.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
For those who believe in accidental, purposeless, mindless, directionless Materialism and Naturalism found in Abiogenesis and macro-evolution, how is it aliens all have two eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth, two arms, two hands, two legs, two feet, etc.? One can understand the limitations Hollywood would have in dealing with human actors. So, basically they just create as much head and facial difference as possible in their make-up departments.
In the UFO community, though, the dozens of supposed "alien races" out there, separated by light years throughout the Milky Way galaxy, all have the same thing going on. I'll add tails to both Hollywood and supposed alien race features. Some have tails. Amazing tails that can bite, shoot things, and whatever imagination can come up with. Of course, the Materialists like to tell us everything had tails at one point.
As CGI has gotten more and more sophisticated, aliens have become, not only more and more grotesque but, also elaborate physical creatures. One must wonder how such creatures, far more animal looking, with less than articulate appendages, can produce the most wondrous flying devices able to traverse the depths of space. Their "hands" do not look able to make a dog house but, they can manufacture motherships.
There are people who believe they communicate with these races of beings and they have given artists descriptions who have depicted these creatures down through the years, and they all look like a Star Trek convention.
At times Hollywood has produced physical blobs, or electrical energy beings, that think and can do some pretty amazing, godlike stuff from the midst of their cloud-like entity but, most of time we get the typical mammalian body features with all kinds of head and face differences. How is it mindless accidents of evolution can produce the same basic features in intelligent life all across an entire galaxy, let alone beyond it? It has no blueprint it goes by, no coded instructions to follow, no direction or purpose.
Believing in the biblical Creator as I do; believing what the Bible teaches about creation and God's character, I believe life beyond Earth, the angelic host and population of other worlds in the universe, are all beautiful. They may exhibit differences. We know angels are glorious, majestic beings, neither male nor female, and have wings. They have incredible abilities and occupy another dimension. They are all around us but, we see them not. They are categorized and described as a military force, of sorts, with levels of authority. They love being God's ministering spirits, never ceasing to do His will.
Aside from the sparse information of life beyond Earth found in Scripture, nothing is said of what such populations look like. Given the variety of life God created in categories on Earth, I would expect some sameness and some differences in life beyond Earth. I would expect all of it to show the Creator's mind and hand, displaying His character, order, and goodness. I would not expect that from mindless Naturalism.
Some of these depictions of aliens portrayed by the UFO community are... well, pretty bizarre but, still keeping with the typical human form. Just search for "alien races" and click on the image tab of your browser. In many cases, depictions seen on ancient architecture, cave walls, etc., are attributed to being aliens. Many in the UFO community are happy and satisfied to believe "aliens" created life on Earth. That doesn't answer the obvious question of who created the aliens but, such logical probing does not seem to be necessary for them to "believe."
Here's a site with a pretty long list of "aliens" out there:
http://starseedsportal.org/aliens-ufos/alien-races/
I expect beings of brightness to make their appearance sooner than later, with a being a dazzling brightness to be at their head: the "angel of light" the apostle Paul warned of.
While the recent unclassified UAP document given to the general public, said nothing much, it did say stuff is flying around out there, beyond human understanding. The classified document, given to the Senate Intelligence Committee, supposedly states more; about 6 dozen pages long.
Whatever is out there and what they use to traverse space with, if, indeed, they even require such mechanics to do so (angels do not and I doubt anybody does, either), God's imagination and purposes will always include order and complexity, composed with beauty and wonder. Even in its current fallen stage and form, life on Earth is fascinating and much of it awe-inspiring in form and function. What sin has degraded over millennia yet affords only a glimpse of what our experience travelling the universe will show us, when this war is finally over.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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281. If You Doubt ET and Christ Are One, Read Rael! (NOT) - 7/3/2021
Ever hear of the coming of the Maitreya? I first heard about him back in the early 1980s. Maitreya Rael. The last messenger sent from Elohim, our creator(s), with a final message for humanity before they show up to bring us the next level of existence. Our creators are coming! Yay! Get ready!
Right about now you are thinking, what a load of BS. I agree. That said, a huge chunk of stuff about "ET" is part of this movement. It continues to grow.
rael.org
From a biblical perspective the message and website is so filled with distortions, misinformation and outright lies, I could not spend much time checking it all out. It was aggravating to read. I saw enough to know exactly what the agenda is, and the agenda is totally Satanic BS BUT, it rings of everything people in this world want to hear: peace and love, and well beyond hippy, 1960s stuff; though it is obviously in there, as seen in gatherings of the movement but, it now attempts to carry a scientific platform, as well, and a humanitarian message.
"Maitreya Rael is the last messenger sent by our extraterrestrial creators, the Elohim, and was asked to make their final message to humanity known to everyone."
"At the age of 27, on the morning of December 13, 1973, while he was still running his successful racing-car magazine, RAEL had an extraordinary encounter with a human being from another planet, at a volcano park in the center of France, known as “Puy de Lassolas”. This extra-terrestrial gave him a new detailed explanation of our origins and information on how to organize our future, as recorded in the book: Intelligent Design. After six consecutive meetings in the same location, Rael accepted the mission given to him, to inform humanity of this revolutionary message and to prepare mankind to welcome their Creators, the Elohim, without any mysticism or fear, but as conscious and grateful human beings. After a few months considering this huge task, Rael almost developed a stomach ulcer before finally deciding to give up his much-loved career as a sports-car journalist and devote himself fully to the task assigned to him by Yahweh – the extraterrestrial whom he met."
If you know anything about the Hebrew and Christian faith, you know Yahweh is an English version of the name for God, the Creator. God, deity, not an extra-terrestrial from another planet. "Elohym" is also a Hebrew term used to translate the English word "God" from. The term can also be applied to any person in authority, even angels but, when you see "God" in the Old Testament, it is generally translated from the words, El, Eloah, or Elohym, the divine plural. "LORD" is from the Hebrew tetragrammaton - YHWH. The number of vowels used to complete a full name reach into dozens of forms I have seen, actually but, Yahweh is the common one. Jehovah, is another. Many modern translations use it, translators using a the V and W interchangeably, or one or the other grammatically but, that's a whole other subject.
So here we have all the information you need to know, to form a firm foundation for the connection between "ET" and new age mysticism and religion of "aliens." And they are coming to bring "peace." Well, Rael does not call it mysticism. He calls it flat-out truth but, it is no different than pagan religions of the past and present. It's just dressed up with "science." Well, remember this verse - "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: 1 Timothy 6:20 KJV.
For the most part, "aliens" send messages to get rid of religion, especially Christianity, seeing they claim Christ is just an ascended master of some kind, on the same level as all "prophets," like Rael, the final prophet. He is not yet on the same level but, he'll get there as he works on his mission as "the final messenger."
It is strange to see the swastika enveloped within a "Star of David" as their symbol. Their take on the swastika is more or less true: the symbol is an ancient mark of good fortune, which is why Hitler chose it. To see it in the post-WW2 age as a symbol of peace is odd, though.
Reading stuff at this website is unreal. And all this peace is supposed to be here before 2035.
I wonder if ufologist, Stephen Greer is into this thing. Both have the same vibe and basic message, all things considered.
The perversions of biblical truth, the twisting of it, to suit this message is beyond anything I have yet seen. Perversions of truth have always existed because that is what the enemy does. That's the agenda: make the tracks of truth and error lie as close together as possible. That creates confusion. Confusion creates chaos. Chaos creates more chaos which leads to death, ultimately. And you don't need to fire a shot.
"Thousands of years ago, scientists from another planet came to Earth and created all forms of life—including humans, “in their image and likeness.” Due to their highly advanced technology, they were mistaken for gods by our primitive ancestors and often referred to as “ELOHIM”, which in ancient Hebrew means, “Those who came from the sky.” Despite being a plural word, over time the word “Elohim” was mistranslated into the singular “God” as referenced in modern-day Bibles."
I would ask the reader to consider the first verse of the Bible:
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1.
Did these supposed scientists create the galaxies and universe, as well? It seems to me if anyone called these guys "god," they were pretty on target. And the term "Elohim," in no concordance of the Hebrew language I am aware of, translates the term as "those who came from the sky." Man, what an agenda-driven concoction that is. Only the Devil could be so confident to use the Bible to promote his lies. He did it right from the beginning, in the Garden, and continues till today, and shall, right to the end of time.
I keep stating it: the whole ET phenomenon is going to be part of, is part of last-day deceptions. I have zero doubt about that.
It is incumbent upon every person to know what they believe and why, and commit to it. That is the only anchor that is going to make it through the final storms on the horizon. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by Me."
That is some strong language right there. Is it true? I believe it is, without a doubt. Christ is the Creator. He has spoken to humanity through the pages of creation since the beginning. Creation speaks. The Word of God also speaks, and it must be interpreted by itself. The Bible interprets itself. Nobody needs modern day Maitreyas with messages from "ET" scientists to know what it says or means. Thank God for that.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Right about now you are thinking, what a load of BS. I agree. That said, a huge chunk of stuff about "ET" is part of this movement. It continues to grow.
rael.org
From a biblical perspective the message and website is so filled with distortions, misinformation and outright lies, I could not spend much time checking it all out. It was aggravating to read. I saw enough to know exactly what the agenda is, and the agenda is totally Satanic BS BUT, it rings of everything people in this world want to hear: peace and love, and well beyond hippy, 1960s stuff; though it is obviously in there, as seen in gatherings of the movement but, it now attempts to carry a scientific platform, as well, and a humanitarian message.
"Maitreya Rael is the last messenger sent by our extraterrestrial creators, the Elohim, and was asked to make their final message to humanity known to everyone."
"At the age of 27, on the morning of December 13, 1973, while he was still running his successful racing-car magazine, RAEL had an extraordinary encounter with a human being from another planet, at a volcano park in the center of France, known as “Puy de Lassolas”. This extra-terrestrial gave him a new detailed explanation of our origins and information on how to organize our future, as recorded in the book: Intelligent Design. After six consecutive meetings in the same location, Rael accepted the mission given to him, to inform humanity of this revolutionary message and to prepare mankind to welcome their Creators, the Elohim, without any mysticism or fear, but as conscious and grateful human beings. After a few months considering this huge task, Rael almost developed a stomach ulcer before finally deciding to give up his much-loved career as a sports-car journalist and devote himself fully to the task assigned to him by Yahweh – the extraterrestrial whom he met."
If you know anything about the Hebrew and Christian faith, you know Yahweh is an English version of the name for God, the Creator. God, deity, not an extra-terrestrial from another planet. "Elohym" is also a Hebrew term used to translate the English word "God" from. The term can also be applied to any person in authority, even angels but, when you see "God" in the Old Testament, it is generally translated from the words, El, Eloah, or Elohym, the divine plural. "LORD" is from the Hebrew tetragrammaton - YHWH. The number of vowels used to complete a full name reach into dozens of forms I have seen, actually but, Yahweh is the common one. Jehovah, is another. Many modern translations use it, translators using a the V and W interchangeably, or one or the other grammatically but, that's a whole other subject.
So here we have all the information you need to know, to form a firm foundation for the connection between "ET" and new age mysticism and religion of "aliens." And they are coming to bring "peace." Well, Rael does not call it mysticism. He calls it flat-out truth but, it is no different than pagan religions of the past and present. It's just dressed up with "science." Well, remember this verse - "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: 1 Timothy 6:20 KJV.
For the most part, "aliens" send messages to get rid of religion, especially Christianity, seeing they claim Christ is just an ascended master of some kind, on the same level as all "prophets," like Rael, the final prophet. He is not yet on the same level but, he'll get there as he works on his mission as "the final messenger."
It is strange to see the swastika enveloped within a "Star of David" as their symbol. Their take on the swastika is more or less true: the symbol is an ancient mark of good fortune, which is why Hitler chose it. To see it in the post-WW2 age as a symbol of peace is odd, though.
Reading stuff at this website is unreal. And all this peace is supposed to be here before 2035.
I wonder if ufologist, Stephen Greer is into this thing. Both have the same vibe and basic message, all things considered.
The perversions of biblical truth, the twisting of it, to suit this message is beyond anything I have yet seen. Perversions of truth have always existed because that is what the enemy does. That's the agenda: make the tracks of truth and error lie as close together as possible. That creates confusion. Confusion creates chaos. Chaos creates more chaos which leads to death, ultimately. And you don't need to fire a shot.
"Thousands of years ago, scientists from another planet came to Earth and created all forms of life—including humans, “in their image and likeness.” Due to their highly advanced technology, they were mistaken for gods by our primitive ancestors and often referred to as “ELOHIM”, which in ancient Hebrew means, “Those who came from the sky.” Despite being a plural word, over time the word “Elohim” was mistranslated into the singular “God” as referenced in modern-day Bibles."
I would ask the reader to consider the first verse of the Bible:
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1.
Did these supposed scientists create the galaxies and universe, as well? It seems to me if anyone called these guys "god," they were pretty on target. And the term "Elohim," in no concordance of the Hebrew language I am aware of, translates the term as "those who came from the sky." Man, what an agenda-driven concoction that is. Only the Devil could be so confident to use the Bible to promote his lies. He did it right from the beginning, in the Garden, and continues till today, and shall, right to the end of time.
I keep stating it: the whole ET phenomenon is going to be part of, is part of last-day deceptions. I have zero doubt about that.
It is incumbent upon every person to know what they believe and why, and commit to it. That is the only anchor that is going to make it through the final storms on the horizon. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by Me."
That is some strong language right there. Is it true? I believe it is, without a doubt. Christ is the Creator. He has spoken to humanity through the pages of creation since the beginning. Creation speaks. The Word of God also speaks, and it must be interpreted by itself. The Bible interprets itself. Nobody needs modern day Maitreyas with messages from "ET" scientists to know what it says or means. Thank God for that.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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282. "God is non-binary." - July 6, 2021
I just read an article about a British transwoman cleric and the position; God is neither male nor female.
"The Church of England’s first-ever transwoman priest has declared that “God is non-binary” and questioned whether He is “just genuinely like a guy?”"
"On the subject of God being “non-binary” — similar to claims by the Church of England’s senior Archbishop, Justin Welby, that God is “not male nor female” in 2018 — Reverend Canon Sarah Jones elaborated by suggesting: “[W]hen you really think about it, does God really have a body? I don’t think so, so could God really be ‘He’, just genuinely like a guy?”
“I don’t think so and I think if God created everything, God’s beyond all of these boundaries so whatever God is, I really don’t think God is a standard ‘He’,” Jones insisted, adding: “I would absolutely say that God is non-binary in the sense that God is neither male nor female and I think it’s helpful.”
“It’s not just helpful for the queer community, I think whether you’re straight or gay or whatever you are, the fact that God is not [un]equivocally male perhaps is actually quite helpful in our understanding of humanity,” Jones added.""
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/07/01/god-is-non-binary-says-church-of-englands-first-transwoman-priest/
To state God is not male or female is something so obvious I wonder why it causes a rise in people? God is deity, fully above anything and everything "standard."
That said, to dismiss God's choice for gender identification is just more Leftist confusion being pushed and, unfortunately, accepted by more and more people. That should cause a rise.
The Bible, both Old and New Testaments, are the source for information about the Deity of the Hebrew and Christian faith. Throughout those documents, God describes Himself, pictures Himself, to the prophets and inspired writers, as male. That is His choice, His binding decision. He gives mankind no permission to change that. I guess one is not allowed to write "mankind" anymore, in this woke world of ours.
The thing is, God created humans male and female. That is standard, that is biblical truth. For any professed Christian, cleric or otherwise, to skirt around that fact with their own confused agenda, is to state humans know more than God and His established order: God, the Father, Christ, the Son, the angelic host (also neither male or female), men, women, children, the animal kingdom. That is a premise for the foundation for almost all last-day event, signs of the times. The entire human race is going to side with the idea they know more than God and His established order, and can therefore address life any way they want to, regardless of God's plainly stated will.
The Bible states it simply: "He created them male and female." The entire Bible only addresses two genders. I can understand atheists going in any direction they want with gender. Professed Christians? It's an oxymoron. What are they thinking?
Back in biblical times, even the apostle Peter wrote that some people twist things the apostle Paul stated, and do so to their own destruction. Nothing really changes. There is nothing new under the sun. People will always twist and pervert the truth, under Satan's direction, and confusion is always out there.
There are two genders, biblically, biologically, scientifically, and observationally. Humanity will never do anything to actually change that. Men produce sperm, women produce eggs and that's the standard. We cannot change our DNA, the code that makes us what we are at the cellular level. People can think their way around those facts and carry on however they choose but, choices have consequences.
A study in 2015, addressing hormonal therapies found that risks for serious conditions are raised significantly:
That's the physical side. The psychiatric side has its own "regret" situations, growing every year, as more and more people transition.
A transgender in Great Britain, detransitioning, received hundreds of requests for help from those unhappy with their transitioning choice.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20191007/Hundreds-of-trans-people-regret-changing-their-gender-says-trans-activist.aspx
I recently saw a headline that a transgender is going to be a contestant in a major "beauty" contest. The person is not a female, regardless of surgery, regardless of therapies, regardless of anything. She is a he, genetically.
People can do what they want. They will. They always have. Those who want God removed from society are slowly, if not swiftly getting their way. The results? The end of the world. Just like it was in the days of Noah and Lot, so shall it be when Christ returns. No amount of agenda, hormones, law suits and court cases, "wokeness" or new laws are going to change that. Christ shall return. The end is going to take place.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
"The Church of England’s first-ever transwoman priest has declared that “God is non-binary” and questioned whether He is “just genuinely like a guy?”"
"On the subject of God being “non-binary” — similar to claims by the Church of England’s senior Archbishop, Justin Welby, that God is “not male nor female” in 2018 — Reverend Canon Sarah Jones elaborated by suggesting: “[W]hen you really think about it, does God really have a body? I don’t think so, so could God really be ‘He’, just genuinely like a guy?”
“I don’t think so and I think if God created everything, God’s beyond all of these boundaries so whatever God is, I really don’t think God is a standard ‘He’,” Jones insisted, adding: “I would absolutely say that God is non-binary in the sense that God is neither male nor female and I think it’s helpful.”
“It’s not just helpful for the queer community, I think whether you’re straight or gay or whatever you are, the fact that God is not [un]equivocally male perhaps is actually quite helpful in our understanding of humanity,” Jones added.""
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/07/01/god-is-non-binary-says-church-of-englands-first-transwoman-priest/
To state God is not male or female is something so obvious I wonder why it causes a rise in people? God is deity, fully above anything and everything "standard."
That said, to dismiss God's choice for gender identification is just more Leftist confusion being pushed and, unfortunately, accepted by more and more people. That should cause a rise.
The Bible, both Old and New Testaments, are the source for information about the Deity of the Hebrew and Christian faith. Throughout those documents, God describes Himself, pictures Himself, to the prophets and inspired writers, as male. That is His choice, His binding decision. He gives mankind no permission to change that. I guess one is not allowed to write "mankind" anymore, in this woke world of ours.
The thing is, God created humans male and female. That is standard, that is biblical truth. For any professed Christian, cleric or otherwise, to skirt around that fact with their own confused agenda, is to state humans know more than God and His established order: God, the Father, Christ, the Son, the angelic host (also neither male or female), men, women, children, the animal kingdom. That is a premise for the foundation for almost all last-day event, signs of the times. The entire human race is going to side with the idea they know more than God and His established order, and can therefore address life any way they want to, regardless of God's plainly stated will.
The Bible states it simply: "He created them male and female." The entire Bible only addresses two genders. I can understand atheists going in any direction they want with gender. Professed Christians? It's an oxymoron. What are they thinking?
Back in biblical times, even the apostle Peter wrote that some people twist things the apostle Paul stated, and do so to their own destruction. Nothing really changes. There is nothing new under the sun. People will always twist and pervert the truth, under Satan's direction, and confusion is always out there.
There are two genders, biblically, biologically, scientifically, and observationally. Humanity will never do anything to actually change that. Men produce sperm, women produce eggs and that's the standard. We cannot change our DNA, the code that makes us what we are at the cellular level. People can think their way around those facts and carry on however they choose but, choices have consequences.
A study in 2015, addressing hormonal therapies found that risks for serious conditions are raised significantly:
- Men undertaking female hormone treatments doubled the average stroke risk of both men and women.
- Men undertaking female hormone treatments doubled their heart attack risk.
- These same men also increased their blood clot risk by 4.5 times.
- Women taking hormones to transition to men were perhaps worse off, in that they triple their heart attack risk.
That's the physical side. The psychiatric side has its own "regret" situations, growing every year, as more and more people transition.
A transgender in Great Britain, detransitioning, received hundreds of requests for help from those unhappy with their transitioning choice.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20191007/Hundreds-of-trans-people-regret-changing-their-gender-says-trans-activist.aspx
I recently saw a headline that a transgender is going to be a contestant in a major "beauty" contest. The person is not a female, regardless of surgery, regardless of therapies, regardless of anything. She is a he, genetically.
People can do what they want. They will. They always have. Those who want God removed from society are slowly, if not swiftly getting their way. The results? The end of the world. Just like it was in the days of Noah and Lot, so shall it be when Christ returns. No amount of agenda, hormones, law suits and court cases, "wokeness" or new laws are going to change that. Christ shall return. The end is going to take place.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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283. The Blessed Hope - July 10, 2021
People who believe in Christ, who believe Christ came once and is coming again, are seen as oddballs in today's world. In Clinton's time as president, with Janet Reno on board, the second coming was a reason to believe such people were possible domestic terrorists. That was not always the case, of course. All of Europe and its movement to North America, much of North Africa, and many other places on the globe, in one doctrinal position or another, believed Christ came and someday, would come again. It was the common faith.
Things have changed.
Professed Christians, still with doctrinal differences, generally believe Christ is coming again but, the influence of Christianity in the West has waned tremendously, generation by generation. The young have been caught up into whatever flavor of rebellion against reason takes the stage and becomes popular.
Right now, "Americanism," "Patriotism," "Nationalism," "The Rule of Law," "Whiteness," "Wealth," "Privilege," "Police," "Climate Change," "Firearms," and "God," and other things are the popular things to hammer and hate. The younger generation has a lot to feel angst against, as the previous generation has taught them all these things are enemies of rightness and hope, yet they have totally failed to bring about anything that is lasting, when it comes to peace and harmony. Epic failure. The young have reason to question just about everything.
Personally, after 66 years of living, I see politicians and the National Education Association as the most dangerous elements of society in America, and politicians are pretty much the most dangerous thing on the planet. The NEA seems, and probably is, saturated with Socialists and Communists; people who actually hate the categories above, unless, of course, they can control some of them and remove others they have no use for. What do these people want, to create Paradise, to have hope, rightness, fairness, equity, integrity and such?
Christianity states it will never happen with man, alone. Mankind is sinful, selfish, broken and cannot make a paradise for themselves, with everyone on Earth. Cannot be done. Will never be done. It is IMPOSSIBLE. Most other religions believe the same thing in one way or another. Real freedom, with high ideals, is not attainable in this current world.
Okay, let's take all religion out of the picture. Nobody worships an all knowing, all-loving, all powerful Creator or any other doctrinal belief of deity and how it, generally, mellows out regular people who don't care about having power and control over others. You still have the sinful nature and those, professing faith but, not truly converted, who grasp power and control. It happens in every religion so, because that's a given, take all religion out. If we are going to make it about people, not God, take religion out. People offer little to no hope. If God is removed and people cannot bring about lasting peace...
Atheism. I used to be an atheist. It is THE most hopeless premise of thought ever devised. If you remove deity, that leaves you with mankind. Humanity, at its best, can do some pretty incredibly sacrificial, heroic things. Those moments are, obviously, few and far between, when you look at daily life. Why do sacrificial and heroic things even exist?
Right now, this day, this hour, across the globe, humanity is seething, angry, rioting, at war with each other, rich getting richer, poor getting poorer. Don't forget, deity is out. Nothing is there to influence people to follow any golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do to you, is a religious tenet. Remove it. Doesn't exist. Self says, do whatever you have to, to get ahead, regardless of anyone else. That is what self strives for. Survival. Survival is all. Sacrificing for others is a tenet of religion. Love is a tenet of religion. Remove it all. All there is, is humanity without any guide higher than themselves, trying to survive. That is hopelessness on parade.
People always say, I said it, as an atheist in my younger days, "If God is real than, why [this or that, take your pick]?" The answer is very simple and always has been, and many, even in religion, are afraid to state it. SIN. The reason our world is the way it is, is because of SIN. What is sin? The Bible says it is the breaking of God's moral law, the Ten Commandments. Simple. We are born with a sinful nature: that is a nature separated from God. Until we are "born again" and give God control, we are separated from a union with our Creator that is essential for any kind of lasting peace to exist. Even at that, life turns into a battle the pre-converted person never dreamed of or perceived. You not only battle everything outside of you, now you realize the biggest battle is INSIDE of you, your very nature. BUT... you have hope. You cannot deny the experience of being converted, being born again, old things passing away, all things becoming new. It is real. More real than your address, anything you own, anything you have. They are outside you, Conversion is in you. Its reality is so powerful your whole life begins to change. Regardless of what happens, you have your experience, which tells you God is real, the Bible is true, Christ came, and He promised to come again, and that event is called, the Blessed Hope. Until then, you have the promises of God, His grace and patience and help to overcome self, and become more and more Christlike; developing a character fit for eternal life.
Now, if you believe in reincarnation, the best you can hope for is a bunch of lifetimes until you get it right. I never checked but, does the religion of reincarnation state how many people ever "get it right" and move on to whatever final level of existence awaits? People being sinners, seems to me you are going to keep coming back endlessly because you cannot get it right! Man cannot save himself. His nature makes it impossible to attain to anything higher than self, regardless of heroic acts the life may experience now and then. Remember, though, love is a tenet of religion. Sacrifice is a tenet of religion. People do heroic, sacrificial things because of the influence of Deity in our existence. You cannot have that if everything goes atheist. I'll state why in a bit.
Roman Catholicism offers Purgatory. If you have sin in you, not dealt with in this life, your "soul" goes to Purgatory, where it burns in flames not as hot as "Hell," and purges you of all sin, and then, at some point, you get to go to Heaven. I used to believe that when I was a boy, until I began to think it through, and rejected God altogether and spent my young years as an atheist.
Atheists are hypocrites. They love to pound on believers and what they believe in but, they also approve of the better aspects of what religion stands for and offers. They experience love. They cannot come close to giving any possible reason for it, if God is not there. All life, for them, is a series of accidents, beginning to end. Chemical accidents. Mutations. Survival of the fittest; the epitome of "self." No hope. No morality. Nothing but, survival. No civilization has ever lived on such a basis. If it globally existed, humanity would have ceased to exist long ago. Everything becomes a threat to your existence. It has to be controlled or removed. There is no discussion. There is no reasonable solution. People in power always have that in their minds. It can become paranoia. There is no fireside or table to sit at and work things out. Force is all the atheist has. Force is all the unconverted, professed believer has. Safety can only be attained through force. Force people to comply. Atheists would say, No, they don't want to force anyone. Well, left to ourselves, order and survival will always have a war. Self wants to be in charge. Only force can maintain order. Atheists will only ever have force to bring about what they want but, force is the antithesis of freedom and liberty. The mind must be free. You can use force to keep me from a church building, as we saw for the last year and half and it is still happening but, force can never expel God from the mind.
Right now, today, as I type, the Biden administration and other politicians in America, are saying government has the right to coerce you in regards to your physical health. Biden wants people going door to door to appeal to people to get vaccinated, regardless of the mountain of evidence available that these experimental concoctions can be lethal! The number of people experiencing disastrous side-effects is in the hundreds of thousands now. In some countries these "vaccinations" are being outlawed. Others do not want to appeal. Others want forced compliance. People in the military are facing that as I type. In some countries around the world the premise is being discussed. But, that's another subject.
Reason is something that comes from religion. The mind, not the brain. Where does the mind come from? Conscience? Where does logic and reason come from? Brain cells? Grey matter? No. The Creator gives us a mind, to choose with, to think with, to reason with about things so far above science, the distance is infinite. The brain is just a mass of cells and electricity. The mind is altogether different. Brain cells do not have a conscience.
"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
God is the foundation of reason. God is reasonable. God offers a change of mind. God offers hope. Only God offers hope. Hope is a tenet of faith, of belief. Animals do not have hope. They live to survive. Hope is not part of their process. Atheism is an empty tank of nothingness. It is the most unreasonable premise ever devised. It is hopeless, precisely because it says, this is all there is, even though all there is presents an enormously obvious case for design and a Designer!
Why is atheism growing so fast? Because people want self! They want self to be in control. They are rioting all over the planet because some unreasonable force is controlling them, and they want out! The big powers on Earth want more control and want it over the entire human race! You think such a face-off can ever become peaceful? Good luck with that.
When people say religion is all in your mind, they are uttering a truth so vast and deep it goes past them. The mind. Not the brain. The mind. The most complex thing in the known universe. Where did it come from? A Creator. That is the reasonable explanation. To think, to reason, to exercise logic, to even have common sense, is an act of Creation, not an accident, not a series of mutations. Religion is in the mind. Hope is in the mind. Only the mind of man ponders it.
What offers true hope?
For me, true hope is a 2,000 year old, empty tomb.
Christ came, He rose from the dead, He is coming again. It is the Blessed Hope things will finally be right, be whole, be peaceful, harmonious, and perfect again.
Even so, COME, Lord Jesus!
Things have changed.
Professed Christians, still with doctrinal differences, generally believe Christ is coming again but, the influence of Christianity in the West has waned tremendously, generation by generation. The young have been caught up into whatever flavor of rebellion against reason takes the stage and becomes popular.
Right now, "Americanism," "Patriotism," "Nationalism," "The Rule of Law," "Whiteness," "Wealth," "Privilege," "Police," "Climate Change," "Firearms," and "God," and other things are the popular things to hammer and hate. The younger generation has a lot to feel angst against, as the previous generation has taught them all these things are enemies of rightness and hope, yet they have totally failed to bring about anything that is lasting, when it comes to peace and harmony. Epic failure. The young have reason to question just about everything.
Personally, after 66 years of living, I see politicians and the National Education Association as the most dangerous elements of society in America, and politicians are pretty much the most dangerous thing on the planet. The NEA seems, and probably is, saturated with Socialists and Communists; people who actually hate the categories above, unless, of course, they can control some of them and remove others they have no use for. What do these people want, to create Paradise, to have hope, rightness, fairness, equity, integrity and such?
Christianity states it will never happen with man, alone. Mankind is sinful, selfish, broken and cannot make a paradise for themselves, with everyone on Earth. Cannot be done. Will never be done. It is IMPOSSIBLE. Most other religions believe the same thing in one way or another. Real freedom, with high ideals, is not attainable in this current world.
Okay, let's take all religion out of the picture. Nobody worships an all knowing, all-loving, all powerful Creator or any other doctrinal belief of deity and how it, generally, mellows out regular people who don't care about having power and control over others. You still have the sinful nature and those, professing faith but, not truly converted, who grasp power and control. It happens in every religion so, because that's a given, take all religion out. If we are going to make it about people, not God, take religion out. People offer little to no hope. If God is removed and people cannot bring about lasting peace...
Atheism. I used to be an atheist. It is THE most hopeless premise of thought ever devised. If you remove deity, that leaves you with mankind. Humanity, at its best, can do some pretty incredibly sacrificial, heroic things. Those moments are, obviously, few and far between, when you look at daily life. Why do sacrificial and heroic things even exist?
Right now, this day, this hour, across the globe, humanity is seething, angry, rioting, at war with each other, rich getting richer, poor getting poorer. Don't forget, deity is out. Nothing is there to influence people to follow any golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do to you, is a religious tenet. Remove it. Doesn't exist. Self says, do whatever you have to, to get ahead, regardless of anyone else. That is what self strives for. Survival. Survival is all. Sacrificing for others is a tenet of religion. Love is a tenet of religion. Remove it all. All there is, is humanity without any guide higher than themselves, trying to survive. That is hopelessness on parade.
People always say, I said it, as an atheist in my younger days, "If God is real than, why [this or that, take your pick]?" The answer is very simple and always has been, and many, even in religion, are afraid to state it. SIN. The reason our world is the way it is, is because of SIN. What is sin? The Bible says it is the breaking of God's moral law, the Ten Commandments. Simple. We are born with a sinful nature: that is a nature separated from God. Until we are "born again" and give God control, we are separated from a union with our Creator that is essential for any kind of lasting peace to exist. Even at that, life turns into a battle the pre-converted person never dreamed of or perceived. You not only battle everything outside of you, now you realize the biggest battle is INSIDE of you, your very nature. BUT... you have hope. You cannot deny the experience of being converted, being born again, old things passing away, all things becoming new. It is real. More real than your address, anything you own, anything you have. They are outside you, Conversion is in you. Its reality is so powerful your whole life begins to change. Regardless of what happens, you have your experience, which tells you God is real, the Bible is true, Christ came, and He promised to come again, and that event is called, the Blessed Hope. Until then, you have the promises of God, His grace and patience and help to overcome self, and become more and more Christlike; developing a character fit for eternal life.
Now, if you believe in reincarnation, the best you can hope for is a bunch of lifetimes until you get it right. I never checked but, does the religion of reincarnation state how many people ever "get it right" and move on to whatever final level of existence awaits? People being sinners, seems to me you are going to keep coming back endlessly because you cannot get it right! Man cannot save himself. His nature makes it impossible to attain to anything higher than self, regardless of heroic acts the life may experience now and then. Remember, though, love is a tenet of religion. Sacrifice is a tenet of religion. People do heroic, sacrificial things because of the influence of Deity in our existence. You cannot have that if everything goes atheist. I'll state why in a bit.
Roman Catholicism offers Purgatory. If you have sin in you, not dealt with in this life, your "soul" goes to Purgatory, where it burns in flames not as hot as "Hell," and purges you of all sin, and then, at some point, you get to go to Heaven. I used to believe that when I was a boy, until I began to think it through, and rejected God altogether and spent my young years as an atheist.
Atheists are hypocrites. They love to pound on believers and what they believe in but, they also approve of the better aspects of what religion stands for and offers. They experience love. They cannot come close to giving any possible reason for it, if God is not there. All life, for them, is a series of accidents, beginning to end. Chemical accidents. Mutations. Survival of the fittest; the epitome of "self." No hope. No morality. Nothing but, survival. No civilization has ever lived on such a basis. If it globally existed, humanity would have ceased to exist long ago. Everything becomes a threat to your existence. It has to be controlled or removed. There is no discussion. There is no reasonable solution. People in power always have that in their minds. It can become paranoia. There is no fireside or table to sit at and work things out. Force is all the atheist has. Force is all the unconverted, professed believer has. Safety can only be attained through force. Force people to comply. Atheists would say, No, they don't want to force anyone. Well, left to ourselves, order and survival will always have a war. Self wants to be in charge. Only force can maintain order. Atheists will only ever have force to bring about what they want but, force is the antithesis of freedom and liberty. The mind must be free. You can use force to keep me from a church building, as we saw for the last year and half and it is still happening but, force can never expel God from the mind.
Right now, today, as I type, the Biden administration and other politicians in America, are saying government has the right to coerce you in regards to your physical health. Biden wants people going door to door to appeal to people to get vaccinated, regardless of the mountain of evidence available that these experimental concoctions can be lethal! The number of people experiencing disastrous side-effects is in the hundreds of thousands now. In some countries these "vaccinations" are being outlawed. Others do not want to appeal. Others want forced compliance. People in the military are facing that as I type. In some countries around the world the premise is being discussed. But, that's another subject.
Reason is something that comes from religion. The mind, not the brain. Where does the mind come from? Conscience? Where does logic and reason come from? Brain cells? Grey matter? No. The Creator gives us a mind, to choose with, to think with, to reason with about things so far above science, the distance is infinite. The brain is just a mass of cells and electricity. The mind is altogether different. Brain cells do not have a conscience.
"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
God is the foundation of reason. God is reasonable. God offers a change of mind. God offers hope. Only God offers hope. Hope is a tenet of faith, of belief. Animals do not have hope. They live to survive. Hope is not part of their process. Atheism is an empty tank of nothingness. It is the most unreasonable premise ever devised. It is hopeless, precisely because it says, this is all there is, even though all there is presents an enormously obvious case for design and a Designer!
Why is atheism growing so fast? Because people want self! They want self to be in control. They are rioting all over the planet because some unreasonable force is controlling them, and they want out! The big powers on Earth want more control and want it over the entire human race! You think such a face-off can ever become peaceful? Good luck with that.
When people say religion is all in your mind, they are uttering a truth so vast and deep it goes past them. The mind. Not the brain. The mind. The most complex thing in the known universe. Where did it come from? A Creator. That is the reasonable explanation. To think, to reason, to exercise logic, to even have common sense, is an act of Creation, not an accident, not a series of mutations. Religion is in the mind. Hope is in the mind. Only the mind of man ponders it.
What offers true hope?
For me, true hope is a 2,000 year old, empty tomb.
Christ came, He rose from the dead, He is coming again. It is the Blessed Hope things will finally be right, be whole, be peaceful, harmonious, and perfect again.
Even so, COME, Lord Jesus!
********************
284. "The Cosmic Hoax: An Expose" Documentary - July 10, 2021
In the last 42 years, since my conversion to Christianity, being born-again, I have looked at the subject of UFOs from the observation point of biblical prophecy and last-day events.
My last blog was on the subject of hope. Little did I realize that I would watch a documentary by Stephen Greer, The Cosmic Hoax, that would gel nicely with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGRroNrNGso
I have mentioned the former emergency room doctor a number times in these blogs. In this latest documentary, Greer gets into the building hoax of "Aliens are dangerous and we must weaponize space to address any threats, because we don't know what UAP is and until we do, we must play it safe so, give us more money to do research, as we plan the biggest hoax in history, a fake alien invasion, so we can control the world" subject. Yes, a mouthful and terrible grammar and solecism but, you get the picture.
The documentary names, names, especially those associated with To The Stars Academy of arts and science, co-founded by former Blink 82 member, Tom DeLonge. Plenty of others are exposed as would-be charlatans, as well; liars, disinformation specialists, etc. The C.I.A., the entire M.I.C. and all kinds of players on the global board are exposed. They are the danger, not aliens, says Greer.
So, believing in evolution as Greer does, the logical question that comes to mind is, if humans cannot get their act together, because of what is our nature (despite Greer believing our nature is just fine if we dig out what's inside us already), how is it any other creatures, beings, whatever, from "out there" that all came into being by chemical accidents and mutation, all have universal peace, and we need to catch up to them? Just being technologically advanced is not an out from nature. Cells have no morality. Cells have no moral purpose. Materialism, Naturalism have no plan, no purpose, no direction, no anything but, basic survival to guide them. THAT leads to self-preservation, not universal peace and harmony. If the world has people of various level of evil, why wouldn't "ET?"
Do you see the terrific problem here?
You already know I believe the universe is populated: populated with unfallen beings God created. They have it together because they have unbroken connection to their Creator, as does the angelic host; those who did not rebel with Lucifer in his futile attempt to try and dethrone the Almighty through sophistry. Lucifer and the third of the angels who rebelled with him are the enemies of the human race.
One thing placed on the screen, in bold, is that "aliens" are not demons. And Greer knows this, how? He has no connection to the Christian faith or any other that mentions such creatures as "demons." How would he know what is safe or dangerous? What authoritative source, beyond his own understanding of things, does he rely on for truth? None that he mentions. Apparently, just communicating with "aliens" convinces him they are okay. Kumbaya, everybody.
What the documentary showed me, pretty vividly, is that, while Greer seems to deny the existence of God, in the biblical sense, his whole CE5 protocol system is just a type of religion, in and of itself, a furtherance of transcendental meditation. I have mentioned that before, as well but, in this case it seems obvious this religion of communicating with "ET," this "universal consciousness" he wants everyone to experience, is, for him and those who practice it, a way to bring universal peace, because it is inside us. We just need to release it. God, the Creator, the Savior, the Sovereign of the universe, is unnecessary for any change to take place. We can do it. We just need to meditate and commune with "ET" as they traverse the skies.
Greer cries at the end of the documentary, as he is praised and encouraged to carry on in his warnings to mankind, and his revelations of universal peace and harmony, standing on telephone polls and all (you'll see it at the end of the film). I guess that means Yoga is a part of CE5, as well, and other aspects of inner transformation available through man-made philosophies.
I mentioned, in another blog, a video of Greer's, a cut from one of his documentaries, where he talks about a meeting with someone from Europe, a prince or king or somebody, where he was told this entire movement of UFO sophistry is meant to force the second coming of Jesus Christ. Here, in this video, he shows Dr. Jacques Valle'e in a 1986 interview, speaking on Watergate, and how the U.S. government had a plan to "paint" the second coming of Christ taking place with holograms, as 'psychological warfare' upon the minds of Cubans. The interviewer laughs, and Valle'e sobers him up with some facts. That is around 50 minutes into the documentary.
More and more, I am seeing the second coming of Christ brought out in this arena of discussion about ET. Why? Why Christ? Why not Buddha? Why not Krishna? Why not some other known and prominent, believed-in deity, especially when just as many humans believe in them, as professed Christianity believes in the biblical Christ? As far as the numbers, more people on Earth believe in other deities, than those who believe in Christ. Why is Jesus Christ's second coming an issue, at all?
The answer, once again, seems obvious, to me. Satan has a plan. He is coming as an "angel of light," and the entire subject of UFOs and "ET" are essential to pulling off the great deception.
However sincere Stephen Greer is, he is, I believe, sincerely wrong, deceived, and just a pawn for the Devil in his final game plans.
There is one hope, and one hope only: God, His truth, His way, His life in His Son, Iesou Christos. We cannot save ourselves. Even the apostle Peter, knowing Christ as a real person he communed with for three and half years and becoming so outspoken after his own conversion, wrote that "the righteous will scarcely be saved." In other words, with all the deceptions of the enemy to deal with in a lifetime, believers will make it through the gates by 'the skin of their teeth,' as they say. This is a real war, not a false-flag operation. Christ is coming. The real event will make holograms look like crayons in a coloring book by comparison. It shall be planetary. All eyes shall see Him. All eyes shall see a retinue of angels bigger than the most vast army ever assembled on Earth; bigger than all armies ever, put together. Destruction comes, like travail upon a woman with child. A surprise, cataclysmic event, like birth pains suddenly come upon the wailing mother. The righteous shall rise to meet Him. Remember that point. Christ does not come down. The Bible says the righteous go up. A huge difference to consider between truth and error. Nothing secret shall be part of the return of Christ in glory. Surprise, yes. Secret, no. If you believe in a "secret rapture" you have already been deceived by false doctrine, unprovable by the totality of Scripture's testimony on the event of Christ's return.
I don't know when Christ shall return. I do not know when Satan will attempt his final dog and pony show. I suspect it is not far off but, time just marches on and years can pass by.
Does that mean you should not concern yourself with your spiritual condition today? Nay. This may be your last day of life. You don't know. The direction of your life; every thought, every word, and every deed are all written down to speak for you or against you, when your name comes up. The Bible says they shall speak against you, if you do not have Christ as your Advocate, your defense attorney at the judgment bar of God. You cannot possibly save yourself by your own thoughts, words and actions in life. If you could, there would no reason for Christ to come to begin with. It could be shown man can save himself. Well, that is Greer's position. Do not be deceived. Delay of choice to follow Christ, so you can do your own thing, is a fool's errand.
2Cor. 6:2 For He says, "In an acceptable time I heard you, and in a day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time! Behold, now is the day of salvation! [Isa. 49:8] LITV
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
My last blog was on the subject of hope. Little did I realize that I would watch a documentary by Stephen Greer, The Cosmic Hoax, that would gel nicely with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGRroNrNGso
I have mentioned the former emergency room doctor a number times in these blogs. In this latest documentary, Greer gets into the building hoax of "Aliens are dangerous and we must weaponize space to address any threats, because we don't know what UAP is and until we do, we must play it safe so, give us more money to do research, as we plan the biggest hoax in history, a fake alien invasion, so we can control the world" subject. Yes, a mouthful and terrible grammar and solecism but, you get the picture.
The documentary names, names, especially those associated with To The Stars Academy of arts and science, co-founded by former Blink 82 member, Tom DeLonge. Plenty of others are exposed as would-be charlatans, as well; liars, disinformation specialists, etc. The C.I.A., the entire M.I.C. and all kinds of players on the global board are exposed. They are the danger, not aliens, says Greer.
So, believing in evolution as Greer does, the logical question that comes to mind is, if humans cannot get their act together, because of what is our nature (despite Greer believing our nature is just fine if we dig out what's inside us already), how is it any other creatures, beings, whatever, from "out there" that all came into being by chemical accidents and mutation, all have universal peace, and we need to catch up to them? Just being technologically advanced is not an out from nature. Cells have no morality. Cells have no moral purpose. Materialism, Naturalism have no plan, no purpose, no direction, no anything but, basic survival to guide them. THAT leads to self-preservation, not universal peace and harmony. If the world has people of various level of evil, why wouldn't "ET?"
Do you see the terrific problem here?
You already know I believe the universe is populated: populated with unfallen beings God created. They have it together because they have unbroken connection to their Creator, as does the angelic host; those who did not rebel with Lucifer in his futile attempt to try and dethrone the Almighty through sophistry. Lucifer and the third of the angels who rebelled with him are the enemies of the human race.
One thing placed on the screen, in bold, is that "aliens" are not demons. And Greer knows this, how? He has no connection to the Christian faith or any other that mentions such creatures as "demons." How would he know what is safe or dangerous? What authoritative source, beyond his own understanding of things, does he rely on for truth? None that he mentions. Apparently, just communicating with "aliens" convinces him they are okay. Kumbaya, everybody.
What the documentary showed me, pretty vividly, is that, while Greer seems to deny the existence of God, in the biblical sense, his whole CE5 protocol system is just a type of religion, in and of itself, a furtherance of transcendental meditation. I have mentioned that before, as well but, in this case it seems obvious this religion of communicating with "ET," this "universal consciousness" he wants everyone to experience, is, for him and those who practice it, a way to bring universal peace, because it is inside us. We just need to release it. God, the Creator, the Savior, the Sovereign of the universe, is unnecessary for any change to take place. We can do it. We just need to meditate and commune with "ET" as they traverse the skies.
Greer cries at the end of the documentary, as he is praised and encouraged to carry on in his warnings to mankind, and his revelations of universal peace and harmony, standing on telephone polls and all (you'll see it at the end of the film). I guess that means Yoga is a part of CE5, as well, and other aspects of inner transformation available through man-made philosophies.
I mentioned, in another blog, a video of Greer's, a cut from one of his documentaries, where he talks about a meeting with someone from Europe, a prince or king or somebody, where he was told this entire movement of UFO sophistry is meant to force the second coming of Jesus Christ. Here, in this video, he shows Dr. Jacques Valle'e in a 1986 interview, speaking on Watergate, and how the U.S. government had a plan to "paint" the second coming of Christ taking place with holograms, as 'psychological warfare' upon the minds of Cubans. The interviewer laughs, and Valle'e sobers him up with some facts. That is around 50 minutes into the documentary.
More and more, I am seeing the second coming of Christ brought out in this arena of discussion about ET. Why? Why Christ? Why not Buddha? Why not Krishna? Why not some other known and prominent, believed-in deity, especially when just as many humans believe in them, as professed Christianity believes in the biblical Christ? As far as the numbers, more people on Earth believe in other deities, than those who believe in Christ. Why is Jesus Christ's second coming an issue, at all?
The answer, once again, seems obvious, to me. Satan has a plan. He is coming as an "angel of light," and the entire subject of UFOs and "ET" are essential to pulling off the great deception.
However sincere Stephen Greer is, he is, I believe, sincerely wrong, deceived, and just a pawn for the Devil in his final game plans.
There is one hope, and one hope only: God, His truth, His way, His life in His Son, Iesou Christos. We cannot save ourselves. Even the apostle Peter, knowing Christ as a real person he communed with for three and half years and becoming so outspoken after his own conversion, wrote that "the righteous will scarcely be saved." In other words, with all the deceptions of the enemy to deal with in a lifetime, believers will make it through the gates by 'the skin of their teeth,' as they say. This is a real war, not a false-flag operation. Christ is coming. The real event will make holograms look like crayons in a coloring book by comparison. It shall be planetary. All eyes shall see Him. All eyes shall see a retinue of angels bigger than the most vast army ever assembled on Earth; bigger than all armies ever, put together. Destruction comes, like travail upon a woman with child. A surprise, cataclysmic event, like birth pains suddenly come upon the wailing mother. The righteous shall rise to meet Him. Remember that point. Christ does not come down. The Bible says the righteous go up. A huge difference to consider between truth and error. Nothing secret shall be part of the return of Christ in glory. Surprise, yes. Secret, no. If you believe in a "secret rapture" you have already been deceived by false doctrine, unprovable by the totality of Scripture's testimony on the event of Christ's return.
I don't know when Christ shall return. I do not know when Satan will attempt his final dog and pony show. I suspect it is not far off but, time just marches on and years can pass by.
Does that mean you should not concern yourself with your spiritual condition today? Nay. This may be your last day of life. You don't know. The direction of your life; every thought, every word, and every deed are all written down to speak for you or against you, when your name comes up. The Bible says they shall speak against you, if you do not have Christ as your Advocate, your defense attorney at the judgment bar of God. You cannot possibly save yourself by your own thoughts, words and actions in life. If you could, there would no reason for Christ to come to begin with. It could be shown man can save himself. Well, that is Greer's position. Do not be deceived. Delay of choice to follow Christ, so you can do your own thing, is a fool's errand.
2Cor. 6:2 For He says, "In an acceptable time I heard you, and in a day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time! Behold, now is the day of salvation! [Isa. 49:8] LITV
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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285. A Doctor That Will Drop Your Jaw - July 10, 2021
If you come here often, you know I began speaking out on the Covid event back in Feb., 2020. At this point, not much drops my jaw by way of information. The link is to an interview with Dr. Peter McCullough, on a podcast from Germany. The only reason I watched it is because he's from Texas. Well, his take, and more importantly his incessant work on exposing the truth of the event and current vaccine propagation is jaw dropping. His list of reasons why his voice is respected and should be (as well as tell-tale signs of censorship by Big Tech), is incredible. He's like a walking encyclopedia on the medical details of it all, backed by all the things he is involved with, and the groups he has been part of starting and fostering and propelling to get the truth out to the people of this world. This guy is like a general in a covert military operation, directing elite troops behind enemy lines.
Doctor, professor, editor, director... bold advocate for truth and stopping this event any way he and others are able, the interview is mind blowing in his matter of fact way to state the bottom line of it all.
It should be watched by everyone in the world. No BS. Almost no stone is left unturned and by the time he is finished, he is determined to turn over every single one and expose every single person behind this attack on the global population.
It does not get any more informative than this:
https://www.newstarget.com/2021-07-10-covid-vaccine-is-bioterrorism-by-injection.html
Doctor, professor, editor, director... bold advocate for truth and stopping this event any way he and others are able, the interview is mind blowing in his matter of fact way to state the bottom line of it all.
It should be watched by everyone in the world. No BS. Almost no stone is left unturned and by the time he is finished, he is determined to turn over every single one and expose every single person behind this attack on the global population.
It does not get any more informative than this:
https://www.newstarget.com/2021-07-10-covid-vaccine-is-bioterrorism-by-injection.html
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286. Drum Compilations YT Channel - July 16, 2021
It's been around for a year but, I recently bumped into this YouTube channel, mentioned it on my recording blog and thought I'd put it here, as well. Drum Compilations.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8tN1OK9BYEbaS4i-GtHDdw/videos?view=0&sort=da
Someone has taken the time to put together snippets of various player's work during 2019 and 2020. Huge job and well done.
Many of the players I had not heard of before. Some I had heard of but, never seen play. I'm about half way through the list.
Some observations. Many of these players have tremendous speed and facility. When you are blessed with such hands and feet, and the biomechanics necessary to pull off such prowess, you can put on a real entertaining show. Especially for those who throw in all the stick twirling, as well.
Looking at the list of players, things lean more towards the current crop of newer players, and the styles that have developed with them. Players my age are in the mix, like Steve Smith, a master stickman if ever there was one. Like the Jazz players of the earlier years in drumming, he really has gotten into the details of handwork and can put on a "magic act" when it comes to hand and stick tricks. He has put in a tremendous amount of time in his career delving into every era of drumming and learning it all. He's a walking encyclopedia of drumming.
Players like TaRon Lockett and Mike Mitchell are part of that group I was not familiar with, and man, when it comes to speed, a bunch of these guys are rockets.
I notice how everything, like fashions, come around again. I have always been into "toys;" accent items in my set-ups and make many of them myself, being into DIY as I am but, this new crop of players have all kinds of items in their kits, even if they are "drum minimal," and they use all these different sounds in their time keeping. Many of the Big Band drummers of the 30s, 40 and 50s had all kinds of stuff they played with back then, including the original drum racks to put it all on. Today, with the manufacturing process elevated, even more stuff can be made and used when it comes to cymbals and percussion.
Staccato-sounding cymbals have become "the thing" in the last couple of decades. Not my thing, really but, their popularity can be seen in the set-ups of most "new-style" players these days. "New style" is what can be used to refer to the "gospel chops" movement. At one time it was a sensation. Today, it's a movement and probably the biggest one drumming has seen in a generation or more. In a nutshell, the style incorporates a lot of kick drum note placement in fills. I remember a guy calling me a "busy drummer" 40 years ago, hearing the influence of Fusion in my playing. My generation was hardly anything compared to the note compilations players commonly use today.
The styles between the guys my age, and the young lions is dramatic. The energy levels are also apparent. Someone like Billy Cobham, in his prime, playing with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, expended incredible amounts of energy at every concert. He had to speak with guitarist, John McLaughlin about it. They toured constantly in two and half years and Billy felt he was going to burn out. John told him to pace himself. Given his passion, I doubt Billy followed that advice very much. Billy Cobham was a furnace that burned hotter and brighter than any other player of his generation. Today, watching the flamethrowers put it down, seemingly endlessly, and when finished, they are not even breathing hard. It's stunning to watch. I'd have a heart attack half way into their bombardments. You get older, vital energy winds down. Just a fact of life but, even in the younger days of players my age, I can't remember seeing such endurance.
Small drum sets are in now. Most of these new players are using 4pc kits or less, augmented with percussion items. Guys in the middle, newer but, been around awhile, like Gergo Borlai and Chris Coleman, use various kits, depending on the gig and stage room but, generally speaking they do their thing on 7 or 8 pc. kits, in line with the older players like Dennis Chambers and Virgil Donati, et al.
My general observation is that, while I can often distinguish the playing of Chambers and Donati, I hear so little difference between the newer players I watched thus far, that they are indistinguishable to my ears. It definitely reinforces my belief of having your own "voice" by way of tuning and/or playing technique. When players are using really muted drums, so pitch differences are almost absent, and playing books-worth of notes, rather than sentences and paragraphs, it really cuts down on having that individual "voice." Everything seems to come down to who can "wow" an audience with speeds and note combinations. That, in and of itself is a style but, how to be original in that style when everybody is playing the same way, is difficult, at best. I mean, if throwing in as many notes as humanly possible is the thing, like playing a solo all the time, what can be played to distinguish yourself?
Even decades ago, as music became international, Tommy Aldridge, original drummer with Black Oak Arkansas and perpetual, longevity mainstay in Rock music, realized that having your own voice, as the field widened to a world-wide map, was almost impossible. He concentrated on his own necessities of solid, good time, and stage presence. His career backs up that choice.
If you were to watch all of Buddy Rich's performances on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, you would see the man do his thing on numerous drum sets, generally his usual one up/two down 5pc but, listen to the tunings. I doubt any two sets had the same pitches. In some cases it was obvious a backline set was brought in. Buddy just sat down and did his thing: lots a crisp snare work, perfect coordination with bass drum note placements and hand combinations, and a blast of showmanship. The last can't be seen on a recording but, Buddy had a recognizable voice by virtue of repetitive statements he made when he played. Others have copied it over the decades. Nothing he could do about that but, speak out against it.
I don't know what he would think of the new batch of players on the scene. I know what Dennis Chambers thinks, as he has mentioned it in a number of interviews.
The entire music industry has just become the epitome of the 'cookie cutter' analogy. Everything is just a photocopy of whatever is 'in,' until it wears out, and then everything is photocopied of the next "sound" that's in. So, I suppose that premise could or would be the thing in the new world of drumming.
Call me old but, there comes a point where playing as many notes as possible loses musicality and become an athletic performance. Now, don't corral me with definitions and examples and all. Nobody can tell anybody else how to play any instrument. It is all subjective. Technique may come from books but, music comes from the soul. It can be printed down in books but, music does not originate in books. It originates in human hearts and minds and life. It also can come from aspects of the animal kingdom. If the current world of modern music wants a zillion notes coming out of their drummers all the time, so be it. Who am I to say that's wrong? Hummingbirds are Hummingbirds, after all.
Things change. Times change. Pop music is not Classical, with mountains of technique traditions and skill sets. It's why music with traditions are fading away. Classical and Jazz are dying genres of music.
Of course, like I mentioned to Tom in a recent email, if he and I lived in Europe, Miledge Muzic would be well-liked. Or Japan, or other places in Asia where taste for things that have faded in America are loved and appreciated. Oddly enough, many of these young players are shown playing in, if the sound is any indication, improv groups. Really 'out there' improv groups. So... who knows?
Like I said, fashions cycle around, and around again.
Anyway, check out the Drum Compilations channel. It's very interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8tN1OK9BYEbaS4i-GtHDdw/videos?view=0&sort=da
Someone has taken the time to put together snippets of various player's work during 2019 and 2020. Huge job and well done.
Many of the players I had not heard of before. Some I had heard of but, never seen play. I'm about half way through the list.
Some observations. Many of these players have tremendous speed and facility. When you are blessed with such hands and feet, and the biomechanics necessary to pull off such prowess, you can put on a real entertaining show. Especially for those who throw in all the stick twirling, as well.
Looking at the list of players, things lean more towards the current crop of newer players, and the styles that have developed with them. Players my age are in the mix, like Steve Smith, a master stickman if ever there was one. Like the Jazz players of the earlier years in drumming, he really has gotten into the details of handwork and can put on a "magic act" when it comes to hand and stick tricks. He has put in a tremendous amount of time in his career delving into every era of drumming and learning it all. He's a walking encyclopedia of drumming.
Players like TaRon Lockett and Mike Mitchell are part of that group I was not familiar with, and man, when it comes to speed, a bunch of these guys are rockets.
I notice how everything, like fashions, come around again. I have always been into "toys;" accent items in my set-ups and make many of them myself, being into DIY as I am but, this new crop of players have all kinds of items in their kits, even if they are "drum minimal," and they use all these different sounds in their time keeping. Many of the Big Band drummers of the 30s, 40 and 50s had all kinds of stuff they played with back then, including the original drum racks to put it all on. Today, with the manufacturing process elevated, even more stuff can be made and used when it comes to cymbals and percussion.
Staccato-sounding cymbals have become "the thing" in the last couple of decades. Not my thing, really but, their popularity can be seen in the set-ups of most "new-style" players these days. "New style" is what can be used to refer to the "gospel chops" movement. At one time it was a sensation. Today, it's a movement and probably the biggest one drumming has seen in a generation or more. In a nutshell, the style incorporates a lot of kick drum note placement in fills. I remember a guy calling me a "busy drummer" 40 years ago, hearing the influence of Fusion in my playing. My generation was hardly anything compared to the note compilations players commonly use today.
The styles between the guys my age, and the young lions is dramatic. The energy levels are also apparent. Someone like Billy Cobham, in his prime, playing with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, expended incredible amounts of energy at every concert. He had to speak with guitarist, John McLaughlin about it. They toured constantly in two and half years and Billy felt he was going to burn out. John told him to pace himself. Given his passion, I doubt Billy followed that advice very much. Billy Cobham was a furnace that burned hotter and brighter than any other player of his generation. Today, watching the flamethrowers put it down, seemingly endlessly, and when finished, they are not even breathing hard. It's stunning to watch. I'd have a heart attack half way into their bombardments. You get older, vital energy winds down. Just a fact of life but, even in the younger days of players my age, I can't remember seeing such endurance.
Small drum sets are in now. Most of these new players are using 4pc kits or less, augmented with percussion items. Guys in the middle, newer but, been around awhile, like Gergo Borlai and Chris Coleman, use various kits, depending on the gig and stage room but, generally speaking they do their thing on 7 or 8 pc. kits, in line with the older players like Dennis Chambers and Virgil Donati, et al.
My general observation is that, while I can often distinguish the playing of Chambers and Donati, I hear so little difference between the newer players I watched thus far, that they are indistinguishable to my ears. It definitely reinforces my belief of having your own "voice" by way of tuning and/or playing technique. When players are using really muted drums, so pitch differences are almost absent, and playing books-worth of notes, rather than sentences and paragraphs, it really cuts down on having that individual "voice." Everything seems to come down to who can "wow" an audience with speeds and note combinations. That, in and of itself is a style but, how to be original in that style when everybody is playing the same way, is difficult, at best. I mean, if throwing in as many notes as humanly possible is the thing, like playing a solo all the time, what can be played to distinguish yourself?
Even decades ago, as music became international, Tommy Aldridge, original drummer with Black Oak Arkansas and perpetual, longevity mainstay in Rock music, realized that having your own voice, as the field widened to a world-wide map, was almost impossible. He concentrated on his own necessities of solid, good time, and stage presence. His career backs up that choice.
If you were to watch all of Buddy Rich's performances on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, you would see the man do his thing on numerous drum sets, generally his usual one up/two down 5pc but, listen to the tunings. I doubt any two sets had the same pitches. In some cases it was obvious a backline set was brought in. Buddy just sat down and did his thing: lots a crisp snare work, perfect coordination with bass drum note placements and hand combinations, and a blast of showmanship. The last can't be seen on a recording but, Buddy had a recognizable voice by virtue of repetitive statements he made when he played. Others have copied it over the decades. Nothing he could do about that but, speak out against it.
I don't know what he would think of the new batch of players on the scene. I know what Dennis Chambers thinks, as he has mentioned it in a number of interviews.
The entire music industry has just become the epitome of the 'cookie cutter' analogy. Everything is just a photocopy of whatever is 'in,' until it wears out, and then everything is photocopied of the next "sound" that's in. So, I suppose that premise could or would be the thing in the new world of drumming.
Call me old but, there comes a point where playing as many notes as possible loses musicality and become an athletic performance. Now, don't corral me with definitions and examples and all. Nobody can tell anybody else how to play any instrument. It is all subjective. Technique may come from books but, music comes from the soul. It can be printed down in books but, music does not originate in books. It originates in human hearts and minds and life. It also can come from aspects of the animal kingdom. If the current world of modern music wants a zillion notes coming out of their drummers all the time, so be it. Who am I to say that's wrong? Hummingbirds are Hummingbirds, after all.
Things change. Times change. Pop music is not Classical, with mountains of technique traditions and skill sets. It's why music with traditions are fading away. Classical and Jazz are dying genres of music.
Of course, like I mentioned to Tom in a recent email, if he and I lived in Europe, Miledge Muzic would be well-liked. Or Japan, or other places in Asia where taste for things that have faded in America are loved and appreciated. Oddly enough, many of these young players are shown playing in, if the sound is any indication, improv groups. Really 'out there' improv groups. So... who knows?
Like I said, fashions cycle around, and around again.
Anyway, check out the Drum Compilations channel. It's very interesting.
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287. Is America Still "Beautiful?" - July 17, 2021
"Oh Beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain.
For purple mountains majesty above the fruited plains.
America, America. God shed His grace on thee.
And crowned thy good with brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea."
Mountains don't change. They rose in tectonic battle and they remain. They can defoliate, though, which is happening because of bugs that infest and kill trees, by the millions.
The seas don't change. They are just filling up with trash that washes ashore by the thousands of tons.
Spacious skies filled with toxins from industry and fossil fuel use, that industry must be forced to curb because it doesn't have enough common sense to realize the first law of thermodynamics: matter cannot be created or destroyed. If you burn something, it turns into something else. If you do not address what it turns into, you end up breathing in what it turns into.
Drought is getting so bad the entire food system is going to be affected. More and more farms are going under every year because of politics and political idiocy of agricultural policy. Land is becoming housing developments. Housing developments do not provide food. They consume food.
Brotherhood? Good grief. Cities still under siege. "Racism" is the constant clarion call of Leftists upon anyone and anything standing in their way of their Marxist revolution of "wokeness."
Two thirds of Republicans in the South want to secede from the "Union," which it, obviously," no longer is. Half of California Democrats want the same. You know what I believe. Let it go before it all crumbles. Secession may be the only thing that saves Americans from coming, complete disaster.
Chicago wants to give fifth graders birth control. Fifth graders. 11 year old's.
The military wants it soldiers to understand the delicacies of addressing transgenderism, while having "Drag Queens" parade on military grounds. I know a former Colonel so disgusted by it all, he is speechless.
The actual epitome of Marxism, government controlling the flow of information, is seen in the Biden administration, working with Facebook to control the flow of information about Covid and vaccinations.
In any other era, Anthony Fauci would have been arrested for his activities in the entire Covid event. Being protected by the Leftist Press is his only safety net, other than Leftist politicians that will continue to prop him up is the medical Messiah for the human race.
The NFL informs us they shall be playing the Black National Anthem at all their games for the coming season. I am unaware of a Black nation so, how does that work? Will the Asian National Anthem and the Hispanic/Latino National Anthem be next?
I could write things all day to show America is no longer beautiful, despite what physical characteristics remain for the entire world to marvel at. America is now in the throws of division and an ugliness that can only end in death, unless something enormous happens to shake it free from its growing insanity.
The USA is a baby compared to most nations on Earth. All nations go through changes. Some decline and fade into history, overtaken by other nations. Military might is a precarious thing in the 21st century. Just because you can blow another nation into contaminated, radioactive dust, does not mean you should, because your own nation turns to dust in the trade of missiles and most of the rest of the nations around you catch the fallout, as well. Military might is now just a deterrent.
On the other hand, despots are despots, and if any of the nuclear nations gets commandeered by one, missiles could fly, in some incredibly stupid move for dominance. Many eyes around the world are on China for that possibility to emerge from but, that's not our "fruited plains." On the other hand, Press Secretary, Psaki, cannot be moved to say a cross word about Communism. Why not? Communism is defenseless. China is defenseless. Totalitarianism is defenseless. The Chinese people are prisoners on a plot of ground bigger than the USA. They do what the government demands and allows. China is a monster, period. It has been for generations now. Its current and recently made lifetime president, Xi Jinping, seems to want to be god, replacing any and all others in Chinese society, especially its professed Christian society, both the official church and the underground church, which it considers far more dangerous, and is the fastest growing segment of Christianity in the world, while Christianity is fast fading in America, giving way to secularism.
Over 1 million people have illegally crossed America's southern border this year. One million people. Tell me. How does America function with 1 million more mouths to house and feed? Hundreds of thousands of jobs to house and feed illegals, going to people who will take that money and send it back to the nations they came from, hoping to provide a way for their relatives to travel here and reap what they have not sown.
On the other hand, so many Americans no longer want to work, there is an actual employment deficit. The illegal immigrants walk in and get jobs in all "blue collar" fields, while "white collar" fields of business become more and more corrupt.
America is so sick, it is becoming destitute of the very things that made it a "marvel of the nations." How a nation so young could become so great, so quickly, shocked the world. Now, its history is being diluted and changed in education books by Leftists gaining more and more control of schools. Those things perpetuated by those with only despot agendas or stupidity controlling them, are given front and center stage to paint America as the most evil nation that ever existed. Millions of students now hate the very nation that has given them more chances of freedom and procurement of any life they want to live, than any nation in the history of the world. Funny, that. Why are millions of people coming here and staying if the nation is so evil?
Well, America is a ship floating on an ocean, without chart or compass at this point. I believe liars out number truth-tellers now. Very little can be trusted. Very few in positions of responsibility can be trusted. Corruption is systemic now. Collapse is all that is left. Collapse is coming. Designed to come, by some in positions of control. Inevitably coming, because of what America no longer is: a nation that understands that God is responsible for the rise of this nation and its blessings. God, not men.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
For purple mountains majesty above the fruited plains.
America, America. God shed His grace on thee.
And crowned thy good with brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea."
Mountains don't change. They rose in tectonic battle and they remain. They can defoliate, though, which is happening because of bugs that infest and kill trees, by the millions.
The seas don't change. They are just filling up with trash that washes ashore by the thousands of tons.
Spacious skies filled with toxins from industry and fossil fuel use, that industry must be forced to curb because it doesn't have enough common sense to realize the first law of thermodynamics: matter cannot be created or destroyed. If you burn something, it turns into something else. If you do not address what it turns into, you end up breathing in what it turns into.
Drought is getting so bad the entire food system is going to be affected. More and more farms are going under every year because of politics and political idiocy of agricultural policy. Land is becoming housing developments. Housing developments do not provide food. They consume food.
Brotherhood? Good grief. Cities still under siege. "Racism" is the constant clarion call of Leftists upon anyone and anything standing in their way of their Marxist revolution of "wokeness."
Two thirds of Republicans in the South want to secede from the "Union," which it, obviously," no longer is. Half of California Democrats want the same. You know what I believe. Let it go before it all crumbles. Secession may be the only thing that saves Americans from coming, complete disaster.
Chicago wants to give fifth graders birth control. Fifth graders. 11 year old's.
The military wants it soldiers to understand the delicacies of addressing transgenderism, while having "Drag Queens" parade on military grounds. I know a former Colonel so disgusted by it all, he is speechless.
The actual epitome of Marxism, government controlling the flow of information, is seen in the Biden administration, working with Facebook to control the flow of information about Covid and vaccinations.
In any other era, Anthony Fauci would have been arrested for his activities in the entire Covid event. Being protected by the Leftist Press is his only safety net, other than Leftist politicians that will continue to prop him up is the medical Messiah for the human race.
The NFL informs us they shall be playing the Black National Anthem at all their games for the coming season. I am unaware of a Black nation so, how does that work? Will the Asian National Anthem and the Hispanic/Latino National Anthem be next?
I could write things all day to show America is no longer beautiful, despite what physical characteristics remain for the entire world to marvel at. America is now in the throws of division and an ugliness that can only end in death, unless something enormous happens to shake it free from its growing insanity.
The USA is a baby compared to most nations on Earth. All nations go through changes. Some decline and fade into history, overtaken by other nations. Military might is a precarious thing in the 21st century. Just because you can blow another nation into contaminated, radioactive dust, does not mean you should, because your own nation turns to dust in the trade of missiles and most of the rest of the nations around you catch the fallout, as well. Military might is now just a deterrent.
On the other hand, despots are despots, and if any of the nuclear nations gets commandeered by one, missiles could fly, in some incredibly stupid move for dominance. Many eyes around the world are on China for that possibility to emerge from but, that's not our "fruited plains." On the other hand, Press Secretary, Psaki, cannot be moved to say a cross word about Communism. Why not? Communism is defenseless. China is defenseless. Totalitarianism is defenseless. The Chinese people are prisoners on a plot of ground bigger than the USA. They do what the government demands and allows. China is a monster, period. It has been for generations now. Its current and recently made lifetime president, Xi Jinping, seems to want to be god, replacing any and all others in Chinese society, especially its professed Christian society, both the official church and the underground church, which it considers far more dangerous, and is the fastest growing segment of Christianity in the world, while Christianity is fast fading in America, giving way to secularism.
Over 1 million people have illegally crossed America's southern border this year. One million people. Tell me. How does America function with 1 million more mouths to house and feed? Hundreds of thousands of jobs to house and feed illegals, going to people who will take that money and send it back to the nations they came from, hoping to provide a way for their relatives to travel here and reap what they have not sown.
On the other hand, so many Americans no longer want to work, there is an actual employment deficit. The illegal immigrants walk in and get jobs in all "blue collar" fields, while "white collar" fields of business become more and more corrupt.
America is so sick, it is becoming destitute of the very things that made it a "marvel of the nations." How a nation so young could become so great, so quickly, shocked the world. Now, its history is being diluted and changed in education books by Leftists gaining more and more control of schools. Those things perpetuated by those with only despot agendas or stupidity controlling them, are given front and center stage to paint America as the most evil nation that ever existed. Millions of students now hate the very nation that has given them more chances of freedom and procurement of any life they want to live, than any nation in the history of the world. Funny, that. Why are millions of people coming here and staying if the nation is so evil?
Well, America is a ship floating on an ocean, without chart or compass at this point. I believe liars out number truth-tellers now. Very little can be trusted. Very few in positions of responsibility can be trusted. Corruption is systemic now. Collapse is all that is left. Collapse is coming. Designed to come, by some in positions of control. Inevitably coming, because of what America no longer is: a nation that understands that God is responsible for the rise of this nation and its blessings. God, not men.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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288. Riccardo Merlini - July 18, 2021
I have written about the fascination with speed when it comes to drumming. Human limits are what they are. We are not fuel powered engines where various mechanics of engine design and other aspects of vehicle design can improve it. Human muscles, tendons, bones, and brains are what they are, some blessed with greater facets of movement than others. Speed is simply genetics and practice and playing. If you have the genetics, and you practice or play a lot, you'll increase your speed. If you have the genetics and do not practice or play a lot, or practice/play a lot and do not have the genetics, limitations will exist.
With speed should come technique: precision. That's more practice.
There are extremely fast drummers in this world, both hands and feet. Whether they are precise or not is debatable across the boards but, I saw this guy some time ago and meant to write a blog on him and forgot. I came upon him again this morning and wanted to mention him to anyone not yet exposed to probably, the fastest known player on Earth. I say, "known," because there can always be someone out there with even more facility and they are just practicing in a basement somewhere, totally unknown, save for some friends or family. Personally, I have never seen anyone play a single stroke roll faster than Riccardo Merlini. It isn't just the speed though, he is surgically precise. Playing a roll on a coke bottle top? Yeah, precision plus.
Playing at 400 bpm with hands and close to that with feet is machine-like. It seems inhuman. It must be a video trick. I have mentioned before, a college-age kid who played so fast people did not believe it was natural. It was camera trickery. So, he was in his school music room, took a gong and set it up behind him, and gave it a push. As it swung and gravity took over and it slowed down, he played and it became incontrovertible his speed was natural. He was one of the first videos I ever saw on YT. I have tried to find him again and never have. Merlini is in the same boat, though. What he does is, quite literally, jaw dropping. And he does it while looking at the camera, smiling. He shows no signs of fatigue at all. His technique is a combination of wrist and finger movement, using very little motion. Watching him take a brush and play on liquid in a bowl is just freaky. Pillows, the same. He does not require rebound.
https://www.youtube.com/c/RiccardoMerlini/videos
So, you go to his website: riccardomerlini.com and he has been putting videos up for 11 years. Eleven years, speed like a Cheetah, and has his speed garnered for him world-renowned status? Nope. He has a little over 6k YT subscribers. His most viewed video has 26k to it. Most are a fraction of that. His FB page (and I admit to having no real use for the site), going since 2009, has 680 followers. He is not a major name in drumming, despite his incredible skills.
To me, speed is not the end all of drumming. Beyond wowing an audience in a solo or playing blast beats in Metal, what can you do with such speed, even above average speed? Again, we come back to reality. Music is just as much about the space between notes as it is the notes played. It's nice to have if you can use it. It is not required to be a great musician.
Practically speaking, what you can do along to a metronome means so little to making music. The space between notes at such speeds of 200-400 bpm is so minor it is almost unnoticeable in the context of music. Players, especially young players, see guys like Merlini and want to just quit. They somehow see that level as a standard to which to strive to meet and when they cannot, they get discouraged. They feel inadequate. They want to play THAT fast and it may be physically impossible, literally, genetically, for them to do so. The fast twitch muscle fibers may not be there. Even if they are, you might be at an age where they cannot be brought into major use if they are not activated when young. They may aspire to play that fast and not get discouraged at all, seeing someone like him display that kind of speed but, will never reach it.
One commenter on one of Merlini's videos states he's going to get into Country music, meaning; he was discouraged and Country is not a genre that meets the standard Merlini displays. It's easier, doable. Just about all genres besides Speed Metal can carry such a label and yet, most all the music listened to on Earth is not Speed Metal. Speed is not required to make music. That should seem obvious, as well, and yet speed is this premier, mountaintop mecca of destiny people strive for when they see it. It isn't just music, of course. Athletics and mechanics of all kinds are just as enamored with it, and strive to increase it. Getting on a train or plane and getting somewhere faster has a practical application. In a contest, speed may be a help. Playing single stroke rolls at 400bpm? Not so much.
An elephant with four legs can run faster than humans with two. Are elephants known for their speed? No. Same for bears and other large animals. Cheetahs are known for their speed. Do you know that Cheetahs in the wild starve, especially their young, when mom cannot come up with enough kills to feed them?
Speed does not necessarily put food on the table. Remember the tale of the Tortoise and the Hare.
Merlini is gifted. Maybe he has a great music career going in Italy. I don't know. He was a student of Mike Mangini. He is Conservatory schooled. He teaches his techniques. He has various "packs" of education courses on his website. Maybe that is all he has interest in. He claims his technique is better for our physical performance and longevity. I would not argue that. There's very little movement to it. Having Carpel Tunnel myself, though it has to be aggravated by certain repetitive movements to be a problem, his technique certainly would not hurt me.
I just step back and truly deplore the incessant nature of speed and its grip on drumming; on all musicians, really. YT is great showplace for speed, in any category of life and endeavor.
Faster is not always better. It's just faster.
You know, the other day, I was watching the Drum Compilations channel. After watching guys use lightening speeds, I watched the Anika Nilles' compilation and, while taking a bit of time away from recording tracks for the next Concepts for Solo Drum Set album, I just felt motivated and inspired to get up and hit the set for awhile. I asked myself why. It was simply her use of the space between the notes. She's quick but, her speed is at a level that I can distinguish what she's doing, which makes far more musical sense, to me. Call that subjective. That's fine.
It is just imperative that players realize the practical limitations of above average speed in the context of making music. It has its obvious exciting elements. It really should not be an end-all in the pursuit of playing any instrument, including a drum set.
With speed should come technique: precision. That's more practice.
There are extremely fast drummers in this world, both hands and feet. Whether they are precise or not is debatable across the boards but, I saw this guy some time ago and meant to write a blog on him and forgot. I came upon him again this morning and wanted to mention him to anyone not yet exposed to probably, the fastest known player on Earth. I say, "known," because there can always be someone out there with even more facility and they are just practicing in a basement somewhere, totally unknown, save for some friends or family. Personally, I have never seen anyone play a single stroke roll faster than Riccardo Merlini. It isn't just the speed though, he is surgically precise. Playing a roll on a coke bottle top? Yeah, precision plus.
Playing at 400 bpm with hands and close to that with feet is machine-like. It seems inhuman. It must be a video trick. I have mentioned before, a college-age kid who played so fast people did not believe it was natural. It was camera trickery. So, he was in his school music room, took a gong and set it up behind him, and gave it a push. As it swung and gravity took over and it slowed down, he played and it became incontrovertible his speed was natural. He was one of the first videos I ever saw on YT. I have tried to find him again and never have. Merlini is in the same boat, though. What he does is, quite literally, jaw dropping. And he does it while looking at the camera, smiling. He shows no signs of fatigue at all. His technique is a combination of wrist and finger movement, using very little motion. Watching him take a brush and play on liquid in a bowl is just freaky. Pillows, the same. He does not require rebound.
https://www.youtube.com/c/RiccardoMerlini/videos
So, you go to his website: riccardomerlini.com and he has been putting videos up for 11 years. Eleven years, speed like a Cheetah, and has his speed garnered for him world-renowned status? Nope. He has a little over 6k YT subscribers. His most viewed video has 26k to it. Most are a fraction of that. His FB page (and I admit to having no real use for the site), going since 2009, has 680 followers. He is not a major name in drumming, despite his incredible skills.
To me, speed is not the end all of drumming. Beyond wowing an audience in a solo or playing blast beats in Metal, what can you do with such speed, even above average speed? Again, we come back to reality. Music is just as much about the space between notes as it is the notes played. It's nice to have if you can use it. It is not required to be a great musician.
Practically speaking, what you can do along to a metronome means so little to making music. The space between notes at such speeds of 200-400 bpm is so minor it is almost unnoticeable in the context of music. Players, especially young players, see guys like Merlini and want to just quit. They somehow see that level as a standard to which to strive to meet and when they cannot, they get discouraged. They feel inadequate. They want to play THAT fast and it may be physically impossible, literally, genetically, for them to do so. The fast twitch muscle fibers may not be there. Even if they are, you might be at an age where they cannot be brought into major use if they are not activated when young. They may aspire to play that fast and not get discouraged at all, seeing someone like him display that kind of speed but, will never reach it.
One commenter on one of Merlini's videos states he's going to get into Country music, meaning; he was discouraged and Country is not a genre that meets the standard Merlini displays. It's easier, doable. Just about all genres besides Speed Metal can carry such a label and yet, most all the music listened to on Earth is not Speed Metal. Speed is not required to make music. That should seem obvious, as well, and yet speed is this premier, mountaintop mecca of destiny people strive for when they see it. It isn't just music, of course. Athletics and mechanics of all kinds are just as enamored with it, and strive to increase it. Getting on a train or plane and getting somewhere faster has a practical application. In a contest, speed may be a help. Playing single stroke rolls at 400bpm? Not so much.
An elephant with four legs can run faster than humans with two. Are elephants known for their speed? No. Same for bears and other large animals. Cheetahs are known for their speed. Do you know that Cheetahs in the wild starve, especially their young, when mom cannot come up with enough kills to feed them?
Speed does not necessarily put food on the table. Remember the tale of the Tortoise and the Hare.
Merlini is gifted. Maybe he has a great music career going in Italy. I don't know. He was a student of Mike Mangini. He is Conservatory schooled. He teaches his techniques. He has various "packs" of education courses on his website. Maybe that is all he has interest in. He claims his technique is better for our physical performance and longevity. I would not argue that. There's very little movement to it. Having Carpel Tunnel myself, though it has to be aggravated by certain repetitive movements to be a problem, his technique certainly would not hurt me.
I just step back and truly deplore the incessant nature of speed and its grip on drumming; on all musicians, really. YT is great showplace for speed, in any category of life and endeavor.
Faster is not always better. It's just faster.
You know, the other day, I was watching the Drum Compilations channel. After watching guys use lightening speeds, I watched the Anika Nilles' compilation and, while taking a bit of time away from recording tracks for the next Concepts for Solo Drum Set album, I just felt motivated and inspired to get up and hit the set for awhile. I asked myself why. It was simply her use of the space between the notes. She's quick but, her speed is at a level that I can distinguish what she's doing, which makes far more musical sense, to me. Call that subjective. That's fine.
It is just imperative that players realize the practical limitations of above average speed in the context of making music. It has its obvious exciting elements. It really should not be an end-all in the pursuit of playing any instrument, including a drum set.
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289. Who Has a Voice? - July 19, 2021
In writing about players having their own "voice" on the instrument, any instrument but, drums and cymbals, etc., being my main focus, it is asked, Who do you recognize when you hear them?
If I went back to my younger days, the 60s and 70s, within the genres I listened to most, which Jazz was not, I knew the drum set/playing style/solo voice of Ringo, Ginger Baker, Mitch Mitchell, Kieth Moon, John Bonham, Ian Paice, Cozy Powell, Dino Danelli, Danny Seraphine, Bill Bruford, Carl Palmer, Phil Collins, Steve Gadd, David Garibaldi, Billy Cobham, Alphonse Mouzon, Lenny White, Michael Walden, Tony Williams, and others, if I did some mental memory and listing work.
Each of the players listed represent distinctive things I remember about them: the sound of the drum set, something in their approach to the set; a style, their touch, and the statements they made in their solos; phrasing, sticking patterns, etc. Each, or a combination of these things made them stick out in my mind.
Now, some of these players never left their original bands they became well-known in. The only context for examination is within a truncated discography. Still, the parameters they put out there are definitive. Surely they had those players before them who influenced them because we all do but, they did not copy or develop a mimic to their style, genre to genre.
From those years on (including more interest in Jazz), there might be fewer, mostly because I just didn't keep up with music the same way as I did before, and really have not, since those formative years. Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes, Art Blakey, Shelly Manne, Louis Bellson, Mel Lewis, Bill Stewart, Dennis Chambers, Terry Bozzio, Virgil Donati, Dave Weckl, Vinnie Coliuta, Simon Philipps, Chad Wackerman, Horacio Hernandez and Akiro Jimbo, come to mind.
Closer to today, say the last 20 years of my notice of them... who would I, or might I know just from the sound of their drums, their playing style, or solo phrases and ideas? Trilok Gurtu, Benny Greb, Gergo Borlai, Keith Carlock, Lee Pearson, Mark Guiliana, Nate Smith, and Aaron Steele come to mind. Aaron Steele I just discovered on Drum Compilations. As I watched and listened I heard some real personal distinction of rudiments and especially bass drum accents. He has stood out from his contemporaries in that regard, thus far.
This is certainly not to say dozens of other players do not have a singular voice you recognize. They might not either speak in such a way to me or, I have not yet been exposed to their artistry. They might be players I know of but, play in bands or music I don't listen to, for one reason or another. Neil Peart comes to mind. I just never got used to Geddy Lee's voice and didn't listen to Rush's music. Aside from a live album I had back in the 70s, I never really heard Peart's drumming until the last... five to ten years because his name was constantly coming up, as it has since the 90s, really. Neil had a style that displayed a lot of thought and arrangement.
Nor does this remove fantastic players over all the decades, who had and have great careers, who are professional chameleons, who meld right into any genre they are asked to gig in. Sticking out with their own voice is not necessarily the game plan for them. It is very difficult to have your own voice in the drumming world, and has been for a long time because of saturation but, it is even more difficult when session playing is your bread and butter, and solid time with a tasty fill now and then is the lion's share of what you do.
Every drummer is a pot or a cauldron of brewed influences. It's impossible to not become, to some degree, a player exposed to those influences and favorites, people that speak to you.
I'm going to say, I believe factually, that the furtherance of drumming education has watered down individuality to a great degree.
I say that, certainly not to denigrate music education but, what has happened with it. While there are those who say such an education broadens a player's vocabulary (and nobody can argue with that), the essence of drumming is an ancient, organic, natural, environmental thing. I question how much of that has been lost to book learning the instrument. When I listen to Aaron Steele, I am hearing something very innate and personal. THAT is the thing. That is the voice. I do not hear him trying to emulate the latest and greatest fill combinations of hands and feet I am hearing in every direction for the last ten years or more. He seems to be playing what's in him getting out, not from books or strokes that have gotten in. He does not sound "schooled."
Carl Palmer was as schooled a player that ever entered popular music and continues to play at the same levels of excellence today. His style is straight forward, fast, solid, precise, classically musical. By his own admission he isn't into Fusion and he is not a "Funky" drummer, into improvisation. His style is single and double strokes. Now, while he influenced tens of thousands of players and still does, his original approach, which literally dropped jaws when Emerson, Lake, and Palmer hit the scene, came from his Classical education and Jazz influences, like Buddy Rich, et al. It is his voice. It was very unique then. When I think about it, though he was a major influence upon me and countless others, an education as rigid as his... could it produce something other than what Carl Palmer does? I will not say it can't. I'd like to know of examples that break from the premise. I don't know of any. Classical music, orchestras, symphonies, percussion sections, etc., are not the place for personal feel and expression. Unless you are a featured soloist, you play what is written in front of you within the direction of the conductor, and even then the creativity of a solo is still bound to the written solo you are playing. Carl's finesse and precision could not be "funky."
Jazz and Rock and its varied genres dramatically changed the way musicians approach music; melody, harmony and rhythm.
I'll not argue any fine lines and subjectivity hear. I have said from the beginning of my comments on having a voice, it comes down to what you hear and how it speaks to you and how that is interpreted in what you do with it.
I do not believe one should try to find and put out their voice. It should just be allowed to happen as one develops as a player. And too, there will always be those special agents of talent among us who just have an extra special twist to something they do, and stick out because of it. What they do just is. Buddy Rich was blessed with an incredible mind and four limbs that had coordination and control like few others that ever played the instrument. His name will never be overshadowed by a list of players because what he had was a phenomenon. Others can have it. They do. We see them today but, not to any greater degree than Buddy had it.
We have so much to work with. Beyond favorite players, we have the instruments, themselves: the drums, the cymbals, the percussion and all their pitches and sound characters. We have the sticks and other tools to work with for an almost infinite amount of combination possibilities to paint and compose percussive sound and make music.
We have our own anatomies; our physical being, and our minds to express what we think and feel.
We have life, and what our individual lives do to us, which influences what comes out of us.
I have mentioned a comment by Max Roach before: Everything a drummer does is one, two, or three strokes. From a mathematical and physical viewpoint, there is only so much to work with. A pianist has 88 keys and three foot pedals. The synthesist has... well, what don't they have? Whatever instrument you pick, it will most likely have a whole lot more to work with, by nature of pitches and sound, than anything a drummer has, even to the maxed out degree of a player like Terry Bozzio, and 99 percent of players do not use drum sets like his. So, what, then, do you have to speak with, to sing with, to express yourself as a musician? If you just count on the drums and cymbals, the footprint of it all, bigger and bigger, it becomes too much, especially for live jobbing and touring players that don't have roadies ad all. You have a 3,4,5,6,7,8, maybe 9 pc set and cymbals and effects and the hardware to set it up. The keyboardist may literally have 50, or even 100 times more to sonically
put out there. What can you do?
Who and what you are as a thinking, feeling human being? Now that is almost limitless. Yet, it does not have to be. You only have to be you. You are different from any other person out there. Let it come out in your playing.
If I went back to my younger days, the 60s and 70s, within the genres I listened to most, which Jazz was not, I knew the drum set/playing style/solo voice of Ringo, Ginger Baker, Mitch Mitchell, Kieth Moon, John Bonham, Ian Paice, Cozy Powell, Dino Danelli, Danny Seraphine, Bill Bruford, Carl Palmer, Phil Collins, Steve Gadd, David Garibaldi, Billy Cobham, Alphonse Mouzon, Lenny White, Michael Walden, Tony Williams, and others, if I did some mental memory and listing work.
Each of the players listed represent distinctive things I remember about them: the sound of the drum set, something in their approach to the set; a style, their touch, and the statements they made in their solos; phrasing, sticking patterns, etc. Each, or a combination of these things made them stick out in my mind.
Now, some of these players never left their original bands they became well-known in. The only context for examination is within a truncated discography. Still, the parameters they put out there are definitive. Surely they had those players before them who influenced them because we all do but, they did not copy or develop a mimic to their style, genre to genre.
From those years on (including more interest in Jazz), there might be fewer, mostly because I just didn't keep up with music the same way as I did before, and really have not, since those formative years. Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes, Art Blakey, Shelly Manne, Louis Bellson, Mel Lewis, Bill Stewart, Dennis Chambers, Terry Bozzio, Virgil Donati, Dave Weckl, Vinnie Coliuta, Simon Philipps, Chad Wackerman, Horacio Hernandez and Akiro Jimbo, come to mind.
Closer to today, say the last 20 years of my notice of them... who would I, or might I know just from the sound of their drums, their playing style, or solo phrases and ideas? Trilok Gurtu, Benny Greb, Gergo Borlai, Keith Carlock, Lee Pearson, Mark Guiliana, Nate Smith, and Aaron Steele come to mind. Aaron Steele I just discovered on Drum Compilations. As I watched and listened I heard some real personal distinction of rudiments and especially bass drum accents. He has stood out from his contemporaries in that regard, thus far.
This is certainly not to say dozens of other players do not have a singular voice you recognize. They might not either speak in such a way to me or, I have not yet been exposed to their artistry. They might be players I know of but, play in bands or music I don't listen to, for one reason or another. Neil Peart comes to mind. I just never got used to Geddy Lee's voice and didn't listen to Rush's music. Aside from a live album I had back in the 70s, I never really heard Peart's drumming until the last... five to ten years because his name was constantly coming up, as it has since the 90s, really. Neil had a style that displayed a lot of thought and arrangement.
Nor does this remove fantastic players over all the decades, who had and have great careers, who are professional chameleons, who meld right into any genre they are asked to gig in. Sticking out with their own voice is not necessarily the game plan for them. It is very difficult to have your own voice in the drumming world, and has been for a long time because of saturation but, it is even more difficult when session playing is your bread and butter, and solid time with a tasty fill now and then is the lion's share of what you do.
Every drummer is a pot or a cauldron of brewed influences. It's impossible to not become, to some degree, a player exposed to those influences and favorites, people that speak to you.
I'm going to say, I believe factually, that the furtherance of drumming education has watered down individuality to a great degree.
I say that, certainly not to denigrate music education but, what has happened with it. While there are those who say such an education broadens a player's vocabulary (and nobody can argue with that), the essence of drumming is an ancient, organic, natural, environmental thing. I question how much of that has been lost to book learning the instrument. When I listen to Aaron Steele, I am hearing something very innate and personal. THAT is the thing. That is the voice. I do not hear him trying to emulate the latest and greatest fill combinations of hands and feet I am hearing in every direction for the last ten years or more. He seems to be playing what's in him getting out, not from books or strokes that have gotten in. He does not sound "schooled."
Carl Palmer was as schooled a player that ever entered popular music and continues to play at the same levels of excellence today. His style is straight forward, fast, solid, precise, classically musical. By his own admission he isn't into Fusion and he is not a "Funky" drummer, into improvisation. His style is single and double strokes. Now, while he influenced tens of thousands of players and still does, his original approach, which literally dropped jaws when Emerson, Lake, and Palmer hit the scene, came from his Classical education and Jazz influences, like Buddy Rich, et al. It is his voice. It was very unique then. When I think about it, though he was a major influence upon me and countless others, an education as rigid as his... could it produce something other than what Carl Palmer does? I will not say it can't. I'd like to know of examples that break from the premise. I don't know of any. Classical music, orchestras, symphonies, percussion sections, etc., are not the place for personal feel and expression. Unless you are a featured soloist, you play what is written in front of you within the direction of the conductor, and even then the creativity of a solo is still bound to the written solo you are playing. Carl's finesse and precision could not be "funky."
Jazz and Rock and its varied genres dramatically changed the way musicians approach music; melody, harmony and rhythm.
I'll not argue any fine lines and subjectivity hear. I have said from the beginning of my comments on having a voice, it comes down to what you hear and how it speaks to you and how that is interpreted in what you do with it.
I do not believe one should try to find and put out their voice. It should just be allowed to happen as one develops as a player. And too, there will always be those special agents of talent among us who just have an extra special twist to something they do, and stick out because of it. What they do just is. Buddy Rich was blessed with an incredible mind and four limbs that had coordination and control like few others that ever played the instrument. His name will never be overshadowed by a list of players because what he had was a phenomenon. Others can have it. They do. We see them today but, not to any greater degree than Buddy had it.
We have so much to work with. Beyond favorite players, we have the instruments, themselves: the drums, the cymbals, the percussion and all their pitches and sound characters. We have the sticks and other tools to work with for an almost infinite amount of combination possibilities to paint and compose percussive sound and make music.
We have our own anatomies; our physical being, and our minds to express what we think and feel.
We have life, and what our individual lives do to us, which influences what comes out of us.
I have mentioned a comment by Max Roach before: Everything a drummer does is one, two, or three strokes. From a mathematical and physical viewpoint, there is only so much to work with. A pianist has 88 keys and three foot pedals. The synthesist has... well, what don't they have? Whatever instrument you pick, it will most likely have a whole lot more to work with, by nature of pitches and sound, than anything a drummer has, even to the maxed out degree of a player like Terry Bozzio, and 99 percent of players do not use drum sets like his. So, what, then, do you have to speak with, to sing with, to express yourself as a musician? If you just count on the drums and cymbals, the footprint of it all, bigger and bigger, it becomes too much, especially for live jobbing and touring players that don't have roadies ad all. You have a 3,4,5,6,7,8, maybe 9 pc set and cymbals and effects and the hardware to set it up. The keyboardist may literally have 50, or even 100 times more to sonically
put out there. What can you do?
Who and what you are as a thinking, feeling human being? Now that is almost limitless. Yet, it does not have to be. You only have to be you. You are different from any other person out there. Let it come out in your playing.
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290. Harris: Vax = Bible Truth?
C'mon. You knew I could never let this go by.
First, I'm a sinner in need of a Savior, just like everybody else. "Chief of sinners."
Second, your health is your business and nobody else. Not mine, and certainly NOT the business of politicians.
Third, based on her political career and what she says on, just about a daily basis, I would not trust Kamala Harris as far as I could throw a loaded dump truck.
Her latest explosion of wisdom?
Kamala Harris: I do believe that that act of getting vaccinated is the very essence of what the Bible tells us when it says love thy neighbor. Right? Because what we know is, one can ask, “Who is one’s neighbor?” Is it the person who lives to my left, lives to my right? I know them, may borrow a cup of sugar. Right? But what we know it means when we talk about love thy neighbor.
WRONG.
#1. It's too bad politicians do not quote the Bible and live the Bible more, like things used to be, in America. But, when you begin using the Bible to prop up political agendas? No. No way. The current vaccination agenda is a political hit job on health and certainly shocking to anyone actually looking into it all and what is happening because of it, let alone the entire Covid event.
#2. Pro 6:16 These six things Jehovah hates; yea, seven are hateful to his soul;
Pro 6:17 a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Pro 6:18 a heart that plots evil plans, feet hurrying to run to mischief,
Pro 6:19 a false witness who breathes lies, and he who causes strife among brothers.
Based on that alone, given what I have read of Harris' political career and personal life, she has little standing to be using the Bible for anything but, the salvation of her own soul.
#3. Ecclesiastes 10:17 Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
If I am supposed to eat and drink for strength, not drunkenness or gluttony; if God states that simple truth about basic health; putting chemicals in my body, KNOWN to be dangerous, causing literally HUNDREDS of thousands of adverse side affects in people, and at least 6 thousand deaths so far, and plenty of physicians speaking out, like Dr. Peter McCullough, here in Dallas, say the number is TEN TIMES higher than the numbers the populace are being given, HOW can that be something I would do to myself? It is certainly NOT love to my neighbor to even suggest they get the shots, let alone try and shame them into doing so with political positioning and nefarious agenda now plastered all over the world to see for ourselves.
An aged, mentally disabled, withering man is in the White House, with the world press and even world leaders saying the man probably could not find his way to his own bedroom in the building by himself, and the only reason he is in the building is because Democrats tried to pull off the biggest political fraud and crime in American history! These people are going to try and tell me about loving my neighbor? Seriously? They would not know principles of biblical truth and love if they got hit with them like a bus!
No, Harris is wrong. Not just wrong. Evil wrong. Wickedness wrong. Darkness like midnight wrong. And if the bloody vaccinations work, why do I have to get one to protect my neighbor?!?!? Will Harris please explain that strange, nagging mystery? If my neighbor is vaccinated, are they not safe from the unvaccinated who may have the virus, even though the actual science says asymptomatic people CANNOT transfer the virus??? Do the vax work or not? Based on everything I am reading, more people vaccinated are now getting the virus than the unvaccinated. How can that be? Because of what the vaccination chemicals are and do in the human body.
I know the Lord tells me to love my enemies and do good to them who despitefully use me and my attitude towards Harris would be more charitable were it not for her incessant proclamations of what she says the Bible means. If she goes there, if any of these political devils go there, I'll state my beliefs, no matter how diametrically opposed they are to them.
I will not take the vax, would not ever propose anybody else take them, especially the young, and will advocate for principles and teachings of biblical health and a God-given, strong immune system.
Based on everything out there, known, not guessed at, not theorized, about the history of the virus event and the people involved, Proverbs 6:16-19 will rise up to crush them like a falling mountain when Christ returns, should they be alive when the day hits like lightening and the biggest surprise in human history.
At the end of the day, I can only feel sorry for these people. They are not just blind. They are blind leaders leading blind people to the edge of an eternal cliff.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
First, I'm a sinner in need of a Savior, just like everybody else. "Chief of sinners."
Second, your health is your business and nobody else. Not mine, and certainly NOT the business of politicians.
Third, based on her political career and what she says on, just about a daily basis, I would not trust Kamala Harris as far as I could throw a loaded dump truck.
Her latest explosion of wisdom?
Kamala Harris: I do believe that that act of getting vaccinated is the very essence of what the Bible tells us when it says love thy neighbor. Right? Because what we know is, one can ask, “Who is one’s neighbor?” Is it the person who lives to my left, lives to my right? I know them, may borrow a cup of sugar. Right? But what we know it means when we talk about love thy neighbor.
WRONG.
#1. It's too bad politicians do not quote the Bible and live the Bible more, like things used to be, in America. But, when you begin using the Bible to prop up political agendas? No. No way. The current vaccination agenda is a political hit job on health and certainly shocking to anyone actually looking into it all and what is happening because of it, let alone the entire Covid event.
#2. Pro 6:16 These six things Jehovah hates; yea, seven are hateful to his soul;
Pro 6:17 a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Pro 6:18 a heart that plots evil plans, feet hurrying to run to mischief,
Pro 6:19 a false witness who breathes lies, and he who causes strife among brothers.
Based on that alone, given what I have read of Harris' political career and personal life, she has little standing to be using the Bible for anything but, the salvation of her own soul.
#3. Ecclesiastes 10:17 Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
If I am supposed to eat and drink for strength, not drunkenness or gluttony; if God states that simple truth about basic health; putting chemicals in my body, KNOWN to be dangerous, causing literally HUNDREDS of thousands of adverse side affects in people, and at least 6 thousand deaths so far, and plenty of physicians speaking out, like Dr. Peter McCullough, here in Dallas, say the number is TEN TIMES higher than the numbers the populace are being given, HOW can that be something I would do to myself? It is certainly NOT love to my neighbor to even suggest they get the shots, let alone try and shame them into doing so with political positioning and nefarious agenda now plastered all over the world to see for ourselves.
An aged, mentally disabled, withering man is in the White House, with the world press and even world leaders saying the man probably could not find his way to his own bedroom in the building by himself, and the only reason he is in the building is because Democrats tried to pull off the biggest political fraud and crime in American history! These people are going to try and tell me about loving my neighbor? Seriously? They would not know principles of biblical truth and love if they got hit with them like a bus!
No, Harris is wrong. Not just wrong. Evil wrong. Wickedness wrong. Darkness like midnight wrong. And if the bloody vaccinations work, why do I have to get one to protect my neighbor?!?!? Will Harris please explain that strange, nagging mystery? If my neighbor is vaccinated, are they not safe from the unvaccinated who may have the virus, even though the actual science says asymptomatic people CANNOT transfer the virus??? Do the vax work or not? Based on everything I am reading, more people vaccinated are now getting the virus than the unvaccinated. How can that be? Because of what the vaccination chemicals are and do in the human body.
I know the Lord tells me to love my enemies and do good to them who despitefully use me and my attitude towards Harris would be more charitable were it not for her incessant proclamations of what she says the Bible means. If she goes there, if any of these political devils go there, I'll state my beliefs, no matter how diametrically opposed they are to them.
I will not take the vax, would not ever propose anybody else take them, especially the young, and will advocate for principles and teachings of biblical health and a God-given, strong immune system.
Based on everything out there, known, not guessed at, not theorized, about the history of the virus event and the people involved, Proverbs 6:16-19 will rise up to crush them like a falling mountain when Christ returns, should they be alive when the day hits like lightening and the biggest surprise in human history.
At the end of the day, I can only feel sorry for these people. They are not just blind. They are blind leaders leading blind people to the edge of an eternal cliff.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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291. America is Racist! (???) - July 21, 2021
Man, I'm really sick of the "race card." Leftists not only keep throwing it out there, they continue to enlarge its size.
The "race card" became a "thing" during the O.J. trial. That was a long time ago. Some people who read this blog may not know about the trial of football star O.J. Simpson, charged with the murder of his ex-wife and her boyfriend. He had a team of attorneys and one of them brought up race. This is all about race, O.J. being black. He's being charged because he's black.
Now, he went from being a superstar college player, to a superstar NFL player, to television and movies and the whole American dream-thing. If being black held him back, nobody saw it in his lifestyle. O.J. was found innocent by a jury. Then it became a matter of how many "Black" people on the jury, aside from a weak case by the prosecution, that were going to let him go no matter what the evidence showed. It was a circus from day one.
The "race card" was such a jolting move by his attorneys, it became taboo. Why? Because it was BS. A Hail Mary pass. So, later, if someone brought up race about an issue, it became throwing "the race card." Then, as time passed, the race card no longer had shock value. "Card" got removed. Year by year things just became about race until now, Leftists are saying America is racist, inherently racist, and really radical voices on the radical Left are saying "White" people need to be marginalized, even removed. "People of color" need to rise up and put the White man down. This is called... no, it isn't called racism, even though it is the epitome of racism. No, this is called civil rights, when it is the antithesis of civility.
What in blazes does all this mean? People of color? What color. Every human being is a shade of brown. Melanin develops in all shades of brown, in our DNA.
Brown, as a color, is a combination of the primary colors, red, yellow, and blue. If you remember your grammar schooling, nothing is mixed to make red, yellow, or blue. They are the primary colors. Everything else is a mix, including Brown, and everybody is a mix of DNA that makes everybody a shade of brown. FACT.
Leftists have been pushing race for centuries. For them, it has been a mode of social engineering. Charles Darwin was a racist. It is incredible how many Leftists, and people on the Right, and people in between, who believe in Materialism and Naturalism and abiogenesis and macro-evolution, who would be aghast to be told they are following racist ideology but, Darwin was, indeed, a racist who believed Africans, and others, were the first descendants of an ape-like creature. God was not involved. Everything came from accidents and mutations and when "man" came along he was apelike, then over time, man developed, refined. Africans and other dark-skinned aboriginals were down the list of refinement. It is a thoroughly disgusting and revolting premise but, it became the dominant one, used to put humans in categories, and for some down the list, in cages, literally.
How is a nation racist? A nation is something on paper, a territory with borders and laws. It is not a living thing that thinks, that reasons, that makes decisions based on evidence and facts and truth. Do they mean Americans are racist? What Americans? Because it seems to me when people push Critical Race Theory, they are racists by the definition used today.
I do not personally know anyone who think some people are smarter than others because of their geographical ancestry, or the amount of Melanin in their skin. On average, some Asians are the smartest people on the planet. I have been over all that before. I won't rehearse it again. It's just a fact. "Whites," regional Europeans, come in all levels of mental acuity, just like everybody else on Earth. Of course, everybody knows there are darker-skinned Italians, right? There are darker skinned Greeks. There are darker-skinned Spaniards. Oh, but wait. Even though Spain is European, it's a "Brown" nation. Only the nations where people have lesser amounts of Melanin in their skin can be "White" nations.
This imbecilic rhetoric and vocal vomit is tearing the nation apart. It should be put down with simple logic and facts but, few people have the guts to stand up and possibly get called a racist. Today, will definitely get called a racist. Go ahead, call me a racist. One person did, on a discussion board. After some facts, he backed right down. Leftists can only be bullies when they are allowed to cloud everything with emotions and rhetoric. Facts stop them cold.
America has racists in its population, of all Melanin colors. America is not racist. America cannot be racist. Racism, by definition, is the theory or belief, that some people of lesser Melanin in their skin are better than those with more (for that is technically what is being stated). That is not in laws or documents of authority in America. To the contrary. Racism is not taught in the public schools. Well, wait a minute! Critical Race Theory is racism! It is racism against people with lesser amounts of Melanin in their skin: "White" people.
You want to teach children to become racists and you think Americans are going to just sit and watch that happen? Their children? Of all Melanin colors? You think they want their children poisoned with such stupidity and hogwash? If they denounce your racism and you call them racists, we now have a Mexican stand-off, as they say. I suppose that is a racist term? I mean, hey, the American flag is racist to these people. "These people?" Yes, those people. That category of people in America who hate Americanism, who hate anything that stands for things they actually enjoy, like freedom, liberty, and the rule of law. They don't have common sense, while they watch American cities burned to the ground by those who support "Black Lives Matter," which, by observation, is an organization with Communists at its head, that stands against traditional values, that foments anarchy, and are hypocrites, to boot because they, themselves, live in the upper levels of monetary society. Their mission is to eradicate "white supremacy." Mind you, "Black" people have been in the upper tiers of American society for a long time; in sports, in Hollywood, constantly growing in politics and civil affairs. They talk about their struggle, while they make more money than I or anybody I grew up with make. They never recount Black supremacy along the Mediterranean coast, where African slave traders raided European communities and took slaves of lowly "White" people who could not defend themselves, and this went on for centuries. They do not even talk about the Africans who worked with the "Whites" to take slaves to America. No, no. Nor do they talk about Democrats who founded a ran the KKK. No, no. None of this ever comes into their Melanin-enhanced elocution.
The entire freaking world has been a s--t show since the fall of Adam and Eve. Find me a century where horror has not taken place, where rights were not cast down, where despots have not ruled somewhere. You cannot do it. Yet, we now have "people of color" calling for "reparations;" sums of money going to "people of color," specifically those of African heritage, because of things done CENTURIES ago.
Leftist idiots are circling their wagons around China, THE most dangerous power on the Earth right now, where matters of freedom and liberty are concerned. But, they are not "White." They are "Yellow." So, they can be trusted? They rank high in human rights because of it? These Leftists are the people in control of public education? God help us.
All those "racists" of all Melanin colors, calling for the defunding of police are watching their crime rates soar. Fools do foolish things. Stupid is, as stupid does. Now, with a different "White" man in the Oval Office, they are appealing to him for help! You cannot make this stuff up. When they had a half-Black man in the Oval Office, NOTHING was done for them. Nothing. They were made more dependent on government than ever before but, that's okay. His Melanin count was all that mattered.
Yeah, go ahead. Call me racist. You'd better have the wherewithal to back it up with facts when you do. I don't tolerate lies and distortions and vitriolic, agenda-driven miasma that poisons everything it gets near.
Critical Race Theory is poison. It should be killed with a common sense, political cannon. But, no. The biggest education power in the USA has endorsed it for all public education, and voices in Washington, D.C. are silent.
And you question me when I say America is shot to hell?
Prove me wrong.
Use some common sense and wake up.
The "race card" became a "thing" during the O.J. trial. That was a long time ago. Some people who read this blog may not know about the trial of football star O.J. Simpson, charged with the murder of his ex-wife and her boyfriend. He had a team of attorneys and one of them brought up race. This is all about race, O.J. being black. He's being charged because he's black.
Now, he went from being a superstar college player, to a superstar NFL player, to television and movies and the whole American dream-thing. If being black held him back, nobody saw it in his lifestyle. O.J. was found innocent by a jury. Then it became a matter of how many "Black" people on the jury, aside from a weak case by the prosecution, that were going to let him go no matter what the evidence showed. It was a circus from day one.
The "race card" was such a jolting move by his attorneys, it became taboo. Why? Because it was BS. A Hail Mary pass. So, later, if someone brought up race about an issue, it became throwing "the race card." Then, as time passed, the race card no longer had shock value. "Card" got removed. Year by year things just became about race until now, Leftists are saying America is racist, inherently racist, and really radical voices on the radical Left are saying "White" people need to be marginalized, even removed. "People of color" need to rise up and put the White man down. This is called... no, it isn't called racism, even though it is the epitome of racism. No, this is called civil rights, when it is the antithesis of civility.
What in blazes does all this mean? People of color? What color. Every human being is a shade of brown. Melanin develops in all shades of brown, in our DNA.
Brown, as a color, is a combination of the primary colors, red, yellow, and blue. If you remember your grammar schooling, nothing is mixed to make red, yellow, or blue. They are the primary colors. Everything else is a mix, including Brown, and everybody is a mix of DNA that makes everybody a shade of brown. FACT.
Leftists have been pushing race for centuries. For them, it has been a mode of social engineering. Charles Darwin was a racist. It is incredible how many Leftists, and people on the Right, and people in between, who believe in Materialism and Naturalism and abiogenesis and macro-evolution, who would be aghast to be told they are following racist ideology but, Darwin was, indeed, a racist who believed Africans, and others, were the first descendants of an ape-like creature. God was not involved. Everything came from accidents and mutations and when "man" came along he was apelike, then over time, man developed, refined. Africans and other dark-skinned aboriginals were down the list of refinement. It is a thoroughly disgusting and revolting premise but, it became the dominant one, used to put humans in categories, and for some down the list, in cages, literally.
How is a nation racist? A nation is something on paper, a territory with borders and laws. It is not a living thing that thinks, that reasons, that makes decisions based on evidence and facts and truth. Do they mean Americans are racist? What Americans? Because it seems to me when people push Critical Race Theory, they are racists by the definition used today.
I do not personally know anyone who think some people are smarter than others because of their geographical ancestry, or the amount of Melanin in their skin. On average, some Asians are the smartest people on the planet. I have been over all that before. I won't rehearse it again. It's just a fact. "Whites," regional Europeans, come in all levels of mental acuity, just like everybody else on Earth. Of course, everybody knows there are darker-skinned Italians, right? There are darker skinned Greeks. There are darker-skinned Spaniards. Oh, but wait. Even though Spain is European, it's a "Brown" nation. Only the nations where people have lesser amounts of Melanin in their skin can be "White" nations.
This imbecilic rhetoric and vocal vomit is tearing the nation apart. It should be put down with simple logic and facts but, few people have the guts to stand up and possibly get called a racist. Today, will definitely get called a racist. Go ahead, call me a racist. One person did, on a discussion board. After some facts, he backed right down. Leftists can only be bullies when they are allowed to cloud everything with emotions and rhetoric. Facts stop them cold.
America has racists in its population, of all Melanin colors. America is not racist. America cannot be racist. Racism, by definition, is the theory or belief, that some people of lesser Melanin in their skin are better than those with more (for that is technically what is being stated). That is not in laws or documents of authority in America. To the contrary. Racism is not taught in the public schools. Well, wait a minute! Critical Race Theory is racism! It is racism against people with lesser amounts of Melanin in their skin: "White" people.
You want to teach children to become racists and you think Americans are going to just sit and watch that happen? Their children? Of all Melanin colors? You think they want their children poisoned with such stupidity and hogwash? If they denounce your racism and you call them racists, we now have a Mexican stand-off, as they say. I suppose that is a racist term? I mean, hey, the American flag is racist to these people. "These people?" Yes, those people. That category of people in America who hate Americanism, who hate anything that stands for things they actually enjoy, like freedom, liberty, and the rule of law. They don't have common sense, while they watch American cities burned to the ground by those who support "Black Lives Matter," which, by observation, is an organization with Communists at its head, that stands against traditional values, that foments anarchy, and are hypocrites, to boot because they, themselves, live in the upper levels of monetary society. Their mission is to eradicate "white supremacy." Mind you, "Black" people have been in the upper tiers of American society for a long time; in sports, in Hollywood, constantly growing in politics and civil affairs. They talk about their struggle, while they make more money than I or anybody I grew up with make. They never recount Black supremacy along the Mediterranean coast, where African slave traders raided European communities and took slaves of lowly "White" people who could not defend themselves, and this went on for centuries. They do not even talk about the Africans who worked with the "Whites" to take slaves to America. No, no. Nor do they talk about Democrats who founded a ran the KKK. No, no. None of this ever comes into their Melanin-enhanced elocution.
The entire freaking world has been a s--t show since the fall of Adam and Eve. Find me a century where horror has not taken place, where rights were not cast down, where despots have not ruled somewhere. You cannot do it. Yet, we now have "people of color" calling for "reparations;" sums of money going to "people of color," specifically those of African heritage, because of things done CENTURIES ago.
Leftist idiots are circling their wagons around China, THE most dangerous power on the Earth right now, where matters of freedom and liberty are concerned. But, they are not "White." They are "Yellow." So, they can be trusted? They rank high in human rights because of it? These Leftists are the people in control of public education? God help us.
All those "racists" of all Melanin colors, calling for the defunding of police are watching their crime rates soar. Fools do foolish things. Stupid is, as stupid does. Now, with a different "White" man in the Oval Office, they are appealing to him for help! You cannot make this stuff up. When they had a half-Black man in the Oval Office, NOTHING was done for them. Nothing. They were made more dependent on government than ever before but, that's okay. His Melanin count was all that mattered.
Yeah, go ahead. Call me racist. You'd better have the wherewithal to back it up with facts when you do. I don't tolerate lies and distortions and vitriolic, agenda-driven miasma that poisons everything it gets near.
Critical Race Theory is poison. It should be killed with a common sense, political cannon. But, no. The biggest education power in the USA has endorsed it for all public education, and voices in Washington, D.C. are silent.
And you question me when I say America is shot to hell?
Prove me wrong.
Use some common sense and wake up.
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292. Hackers, Criminals, Fraud. Beware! - July 21, 2021
I spent 4 hours and 15 minutes at my bank today. What a mess. Thankfully, we dogged a major bullet and what little we have remains intact in our coffers. Or, is that Wells Fargo's coffers? Wells Fargo is another matter.
Last Wednesday I got a text telling me someone tried to use my debit card in CA. That began it all. If this was me, reply Y, if not, reply N. I went and showed it to my wife who told me to call the bank. I called the number on the back of the card. Got lots of machinery and options. Talked shortly to one guy who shuffled me off to another guy, by the accent, I suppose a guy in a call center in India. I could not understand 60% of what he said to me, apologized and told him so, asking him to repeat things many times and even had him spell something at one point. The call dropped. He never called back and I had no desire to go through anymore hoops like that but, my evening had just begun.
By the time 10 PM rolled around I had talked to four people. Two were bank reps, two were crooks and I talked to the crooks the longest and I knew, I knew something was wrong with the entire gig. I knew it and I should have hung up. I asked questions, and more questions, and questioned what the heck they were doing, sent an absolutely scathing phone message to either them or WF; I still don't know who got it, when the call dropped and I called back and got an answering machine telling me Sheldon [whoever] was not in. I wasn't talking to Sheldon [whoever] and after an hour of all this BS, I let loose. I had had it. I talked to the bloody criminals for over an hour, and every time they put me on hold, they were trying to hack our account. They tried to withdraw money from an ATM and was denied, while I was on the phone with them! That came through as another text message and I told them what they were doing without knowing it was them doing it!
Supposedly, my card info was defunct and I was told I'd get a new card within two business days. Didn't happen. Then our account got frozen and neither of us could log into it or use our money.
I got off the phone Wednesday night thinking the card is dead and we dodged a bullet and the crooks spent the entire week trying to hack our account and ultimately, WF seeing we were purchasing in Texas and others were trying in CA, on different devices, they saw enough to just freeze the account. Down to the bank I went today, a week later.
I cannot tell you how stupid I feel. I KNEW something was wrong from the first 10 seconds of the crooks call to me. Wells Fargo was not on my screen but, I recognized the number so, I took the call. Where did the number come from? My wife found it doing a search, not realizing the search hit, first on the list, was just an abbreviated look at a fraud number marked by WF. She thought it was a reference number to call, gave it to me, I called it, followed the prompts, got a call back from a kid who was suspect from the opening 30 seconds but, I made the foolish assumption he was a new employee or something. Every time he put me on hold (and if I ever hear the hold music again I'll be triggered to hurt somebody), they were trying to steal money with each bit of info I gave them.
Anyway, come to find out, in talking with a bank manager, that particular number was flagged with all kinds of symbols and icons. My wife did not realize what she was giving me. She hooked me up with the crooks.
The manager told me up to half the people walking into the bank every day that speak to a "banker," as they call their associates, are there to address a fraud problem. The guy that sat down after me, when I changed desks in my process, had an issue with an account he was told that was set up and he could not get into it. The lady ultimately walked him out of the bank apologizing she could not help him. Maybe he was a fraud. I don't know. Fraud lives!
I do know, while California and the Northwest are burning and the smoke is up in the jet stream and flowing all the way to the Northeast, people literally choking from it in Upper NY and Vermont, fires of lies, deceit, deception, dishonesty, fraud, conniving, manipulation, thievery, and every other criminal activity abounds in America and the world. The entire world is burning. Do you see it? Do you realize what is happening? Do you understand this is not times as usual?
There has always been crime since Cain killed Abel. "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jer. 17:9 That has always been a perpetual, systemic problem in humanity. So, is it worse, today. You tell me. Internet fraud, hacking, thievery, and criminal activities under every heading in the book are plaguing people. You might think not because it hasn't happened to you. Not yet, anyway.
Some, many people's lives have been destroyed by hackers. They have lost everything. Others, so many others have lost a lot before walls went up to stop the theft. I told the bank manager, "There but for the grace of God, go I."
At the end of the process she said, "You said something earlier. How did you put it? Something to do with your Christian faith."
"There but for the grace of God go I?"
"Yes. Yes, that's it," she said. "The Lord must have had his hand reaching right in to protect your account because these people had your information for almost a week before the account was frozen, and they could not access it. He must have just stopped them or something." She could not understand it.
God, our Father, indeed. Thank you, Lord.
New accounts, new login info, new card coming, new, new, new. I don't even do any online banking. Especially by phone? Nah. I talk, I text, I take a picture now and then. I have little desire or reason to live on my phone.
If all I do is use cash or write checks from now on, that's fine by me.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Last Wednesday I got a text telling me someone tried to use my debit card in CA. That began it all. If this was me, reply Y, if not, reply N. I went and showed it to my wife who told me to call the bank. I called the number on the back of the card. Got lots of machinery and options. Talked shortly to one guy who shuffled me off to another guy, by the accent, I suppose a guy in a call center in India. I could not understand 60% of what he said to me, apologized and told him so, asking him to repeat things many times and even had him spell something at one point. The call dropped. He never called back and I had no desire to go through anymore hoops like that but, my evening had just begun.
By the time 10 PM rolled around I had talked to four people. Two were bank reps, two were crooks and I talked to the crooks the longest and I knew, I knew something was wrong with the entire gig. I knew it and I should have hung up. I asked questions, and more questions, and questioned what the heck they were doing, sent an absolutely scathing phone message to either them or WF; I still don't know who got it, when the call dropped and I called back and got an answering machine telling me Sheldon [whoever] was not in. I wasn't talking to Sheldon [whoever] and after an hour of all this BS, I let loose. I had had it. I talked to the bloody criminals for over an hour, and every time they put me on hold, they were trying to hack our account. They tried to withdraw money from an ATM and was denied, while I was on the phone with them! That came through as another text message and I told them what they were doing without knowing it was them doing it!
Supposedly, my card info was defunct and I was told I'd get a new card within two business days. Didn't happen. Then our account got frozen and neither of us could log into it or use our money.
I got off the phone Wednesday night thinking the card is dead and we dodged a bullet and the crooks spent the entire week trying to hack our account and ultimately, WF seeing we were purchasing in Texas and others were trying in CA, on different devices, they saw enough to just freeze the account. Down to the bank I went today, a week later.
I cannot tell you how stupid I feel. I KNEW something was wrong from the first 10 seconds of the crooks call to me. Wells Fargo was not on my screen but, I recognized the number so, I took the call. Where did the number come from? My wife found it doing a search, not realizing the search hit, first on the list, was just an abbreviated look at a fraud number marked by WF. She thought it was a reference number to call, gave it to me, I called it, followed the prompts, got a call back from a kid who was suspect from the opening 30 seconds but, I made the foolish assumption he was a new employee or something. Every time he put me on hold (and if I ever hear the hold music again I'll be triggered to hurt somebody), they were trying to steal money with each bit of info I gave them.
Anyway, come to find out, in talking with a bank manager, that particular number was flagged with all kinds of symbols and icons. My wife did not realize what she was giving me. She hooked me up with the crooks.
The manager told me up to half the people walking into the bank every day that speak to a "banker," as they call their associates, are there to address a fraud problem. The guy that sat down after me, when I changed desks in my process, had an issue with an account he was told that was set up and he could not get into it. The lady ultimately walked him out of the bank apologizing she could not help him. Maybe he was a fraud. I don't know. Fraud lives!
I do know, while California and the Northwest are burning and the smoke is up in the jet stream and flowing all the way to the Northeast, people literally choking from it in Upper NY and Vermont, fires of lies, deceit, deception, dishonesty, fraud, conniving, manipulation, thievery, and every other criminal activity abounds in America and the world. The entire world is burning. Do you see it? Do you realize what is happening? Do you understand this is not times as usual?
There has always been crime since Cain killed Abel. "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jer. 17:9 That has always been a perpetual, systemic problem in humanity. So, is it worse, today. You tell me. Internet fraud, hacking, thievery, and criminal activities under every heading in the book are plaguing people. You might think not because it hasn't happened to you. Not yet, anyway.
Some, many people's lives have been destroyed by hackers. They have lost everything. Others, so many others have lost a lot before walls went up to stop the theft. I told the bank manager, "There but for the grace of God, go I."
At the end of the process she said, "You said something earlier. How did you put it? Something to do with your Christian faith."
"There but for the grace of God go I?"
"Yes. Yes, that's it," she said. "The Lord must have had his hand reaching right in to protect your account because these people had your information for almost a week before the account was frozen, and they could not access it. He must have just stopped them or something." She could not understand it.
God, our Father, indeed. Thank you, Lord.
New accounts, new login info, new card coming, new, new, new. I don't even do any online banking. Especially by phone? Nah. I talk, I text, I take a picture now and then. I have little desire or reason to live on my phone.
If all I do is use cash or write checks from now on, that's fine by me.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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293. Eric Clapton is Not a Doctor - July 23, 2021
Eric Clapton was a very influential person in my musical life when I was teenager. Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominoes. I had all those recordings. I mean, not as big an influence as Ginger Baker but, as far as guitarists went, more so then Hendrix or Page or Blackmore or others out there, even if they had better technique or whatever. I just liked Clapton's phrasing and sound. He's a Blues guy and played with more musical pathos in his solos.
You may have seen photos of the graffiti spray painted on a British wall back in the 60s - Clapton is God. Well, no, not even close, of course but, today, Clapton is a hero in my book.
This blog has nothing to do with Eric Clapton's guitar playing. This blog has to do with his recent statement he will not play any venues where people are forced to prove vaccination to get in.
Clapton got vaccinated and had such a bad reaction he apparently feared he would not be able to play guitar again. When I did a search on this before writing, it was interesting to see all the hits were from Leftist sources. Many of them are not happy with Eric, at all. He's not a doctor. He should not be saying things like this. He'll kill people with disinformation, blah, blah, blah.
Mitch McConnell, worthless leader in the Republican Party, is pushing the whole fearmonger-thing again. Get vaccinated or we may have to go back to lockdowns this Autumn. Ah. Divide and conquer. Get vaccinated Americans angry with the unvaccinated. Blame them for troubles coming. An old tactic, always useful to the ignorant and those who refuse to investigate an issue for themselves.
I just read, in Israel, one of the most heavily vaccinated nations, 84% of new Covid cases are in vaccinated people. Why? Because the vaccinations are experimental drugs, with new, experimental chemicals and ingredients and processes never before used, which even its inventor has come out against! Your DNA is literally effected. Your DNA is your genetic code that makes your cells into YOU. Your instruction book for cell-making, all two trillion of them in you, constantly reproducing, is being tampered with by these concoctions.
Any doctors, researchers, investigators, any and all professional and credible people speaking out, all around the planet, are being shut down on Leftist controlled social media for proclaiming "misinformation," and "disinformation."
I have mentioned this so many times. Are you hearing or reading, anywhere in main stream media about how to build up your immune system? No. ALL you are hearing and reading is, get the vaccines. The push for the vaccine easily stands along side all the fearmongering we have seen for the last 18 months, and there is no sign it will let up. Even professed Conservatives are pushing the vax. Are they being threatened? Are they ignorant of all the info out there, all the studies, all the warnings from professionals all over the world? Are they just stupid?
Eric Clapton is doing his fellow man a great service by standing up and speaking out. In his case, he speaks from experience, not ideological leanings. Most musicians, maybe even Clapton, himself, are Leftists or at least Left leaning Liberals and big government cheerleaders. The thing is, Covid 19 is not Left or Right or Center. It was started by Leftists, used by Leftists, controlled by Leftist globalist devils but, the virus has no political bent. The vaccines, the same. Any and all are subject to its wrath if they have a weakened immune system. The vaccines aid that. It attacks everything God put in us to protect us from foreign invaders. It does not build the immune system. It kills it. It is one thing to inject a tiny bit of a virus into a human bloodstream and have the immune system attack it, kill it, remove it, and strengthen itself to attack any future invaders the system recognizes, even those that are not the same as, but close enough to the original invader. It is another thing to inject drugs into the body that weaken and kill the immune system, which makes any and all variants of an invader that much more dangerous! Do you get it? And these wicked people KNEW, years ago in their plans, that this would happen.
Blood clots, heart enlargement, brain problems, limb problems, vision problems, and all the while they tell us the vaccines are saving people. How do they know that!!!??? The numbers of new cases are rising amongst those vaccinated. The unvaccinated, with weak immune systems based on poor health habits or preexisting medical conditions, are now facing a variant that could care less about your immune system. They are super soldiers of destruction!
You cannot threaten me. You cannot scare me, shame me, push me, coerce me, or do anything else to get me to inject a fluid into me, designed to weaken the immune system God put in me to protect me.
I can only feel sorry for the millions, MILLIONS of people that will rue the day they believed the main stream media and medical community and politicians of their respective nations, pushing disaster on their populations. Even if this is not an "extinction event," as some, I should rather say, many believe and have stated so, it is now, currently doing more harm than any other vaccine in history, combined, if the stats I have read are accurate, and I have no reason to believe they are not. Would to God they are inaccurate and those warning the world are wrong. Let us all be embarrassed from future ridicule rather than right, watching the population of the world dwindle from injected debilitation and death.
God help us.
Want an overall assessment? This should work. It's an hour long. I'm several minutes in. I appreciate fearless people who know what they are talking about:
https://usawatchdog.com/vax-attacks-clapton-awakens-red-hot-inflation/
You may have seen photos of the graffiti spray painted on a British wall back in the 60s - Clapton is God. Well, no, not even close, of course but, today, Clapton is a hero in my book.
This blog has nothing to do with Eric Clapton's guitar playing. This blog has to do with his recent statement he will not play any venues where people are forced to prove vaccination to get in.
Clapton got vaccinated and had such a bad reaction he apparently feared he would not be able to play guitar again. When I did a search on this before writing, it was interesting to see all the hits were from Leftist sources. Many of them are not happy with Eric, at all. He's not a doctor. He should not be saying things like this. He'll kill people with disinformation, blah, blah, blah.
Mitch McConnell, worthless leader in the Republican Party, is pushing the whole fearmonger-thing again. Get vaccinated or we may have to go back to lockdowns this Autumn. Ah. Divide and conquer. Get vaccinated Americans angry with the unvaccinated. Blame them for troubles coming. An old tactic, always useful to the ignorant and those who refuse to investigate an issue for themselves.
I just read, in Israel, one of the most heavily vaccinated nations, 84% of new Covid cases are in vaccinated people. Why? Because the vaccinations are experimental drugs, with new, experimental chemicals and ingredients and processes never before used, which even its inventor has come out against! Your DNA is literally effected. Your DNA is your genetic code that makes your cells into YOU. Your instruction book for cell-making, all two trillion of them in you, constantly reproducing, is being tampered with by these concoctions.
Any doctors, researchers, investigators, any and all professional and credible people speaking out, all around the planet, are being shut down on Leftist controlled social media for proclaiming "misinformation," and "disinformation."
I have mentioned this so many times. Are you hearing or reading, anywhere in main stream media about how to build up your immune system? No. ALL you are hearing and reading is, get the vaccines. The push for the vaccine easily stands along side all the fearmongering we have seen for the last 18 months, and there is no sign it will let up. Even professed Conservatives are pushing the vax. Are they being threatened? Are they ignorant of all the info out there, all the studies, all the warnings from professionals all over the world? Are they just stupid?
Eric Clapton is doing his fellow man a great service by standing up and speaking out. In his case, he speaks from experience, not ideological leanings. Most musicians, maybe even Clapton, himself, are Leftists or at least Left leaning Liberals and big government cheerleaders. The thing is, Covid 19 is not Left or Right or Center. It was started by Leftists, used by Leftists, controlled by Leftist globalist devils but, the virus has no political bent. The vaccines, the same. Any and all are subject to its wrath if they have a weakened immune system. The vaccines aid that. It attacks everything God put in us to protect us from foreign invaders. It does not build the immune system. It kills it. It is one thing to inject a tiny bit of a virus into a human bloodstream and have the immune system attack it, kill it, remove it, and strengthen itself to attack any future invaders the system recognizes, even those that are not the same as, but close enough to the original invader. It is another thing to inject drugs into the body that weaken and kill the immune system, which makes any and all variants of an invader that much more dangerous! Do you get it? And these wicked people KNEW, years ago in their plans, that this would happen.
Blood clots, heart enlargement, brain problems, limb problems, vision problems, and all the while they tell us the vaccines are saving people. How do they know that!!!??? The numbers of new cases are rising amongst those vaccinated. The unvaccinated, with weak immune systems based on poor health habits or preexisting medical conditions, are now facing a variant that could care less about your immune system. They are super soldiers of destruction!
You cannot threaten me. You cannot scare me, shame me, push me, coerce me, or do anything else to get me to inject a fluid into me, designed to weaken the immune system God put in me to protect me.
I can only feel sorry for the millions, MILLIONS of people that will rue the day they believed the main stream media and medical community and politicians of their respective nations, pushing disaster on their populations. Even if this is not an "extinction event," as some, I should rather say, many believe and have stated so, it is now, currently doing more harm than any other vaccine in history, combined, if the stats I have read are accurate, and I have no reason to believe they are not. Would to God they are inaccurate and those warning the world are wrong. Let us all be embarrassed from future ridicule rather than right, watching the population of the world dwindle from injected debilitation and death.
God help us.
Want an overall assessment? This should work. It's an hour long. I'm several minutes in. I appreciate fearless people who know what they are talking about:
https://usawatchdog.com/vax-attacks-clapton-awakens-red-hot-inflation/
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294. Scientific American? - July 24, 2021
Back in #291, I closed out saying to go ahead, call me a racist but, you better have facts to back such a charge up.
Well, someone has done it, sideways, by making the stupendously stupid charge against "white" evangelical Christians, creationists, believers in the Bible. That would be me, though I do not claim to be "evangelical" as a category. Close enough, though.
Here's the headline of an article found in the online version of Scientific American:
Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/denial-of-evolution-is-a-form-of-white-supremacy/#
I'm going to guess this trash can of journalism will be removed from the site as a backlash of truth strikes SA like a bombardment of Bunker Busters.
I do not know anything about Allison Hopper, the author of this totally unscientific article. She writes:
"I want to unmask the lie that evolution denial is about religion and recognize that at its core, it is a form of white supremacy that perpetuates segregation and violence against Black bodies. Under the guise of “religious freedom,” the legalistic wing of creationists loudly insists that their point of view deserves equal time in the classroom. Science education in the U.S. is constantly on the defensive against antievolution activists who want biblical stories to be taught as fact. In fact, the first wave of legal fights against evolution was supported by the Klan in the 1920s."
I would like to know what the legalistic wing of creationists is and be shown a single bit of evidence creationists insist their point of view deserves equal time in the classroom. The biggest creationist ministries in America do one thing, when it comes to public education. They demand it be factual, not secular storytelling. School books filled with KNOWN inaccuracies remain in place, and new books keep them installed, things even the materialistic evolution community denies as being accurate science. What can that mean other than an agenda must be kept going? Abiogenesis and Macro Evolution ARE NOT scientific facts regardless of how many scientists believe it. It cannot be proven with empirical evidence available. At best, it is a model; a possible explanation. Creationists claim the same for their position. It is, scientifically speaking, a model. Nobody was there to see the beginning. It cannot be recreated and studied in a lab. All science looks at evidence available, and the history of science is saturated with wrong interpretations of evidence. Science constantly changes positions based on new evidence. I see such in headlines constantly. Reinterpretation of positions based on new evidence is the most sure thing science can expect.
Hopper then writes:
"At the heart of white evangelical creationism is the mythology of an unbroken white lineage that stretches back to a light-skinned Adam and Eve. In literal interpretations of the Christian Bible, white skin was created in God's image. Dark skin has a different, more problematic origin. As the biblical story goes, the curse or mark of Cain for killing his brother was a darkening of his descendants' skin. Historically, many congregations in the U.S. pointed to this story of Cain as evidence that Black skin was created as a punishment."
"The fantasy of a continuous line of white descendants segregates white heritage from Black bodies. In the real world, this mythology translates into lethal effects on people who are Black. Fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible are part of the “fake news” epidemic that feeds the racial divide in our country."
I would challenge Hopper to place one, just one statement from any creationist ministry, any creationist publication found anywhere on the globe, from anybody with any educational degree, Bachelor of Science to PhD, where such a position can be found. Just one. The reckless journalism in this article is the among the worst I have ever seen from something masquerading as "science." There is no science in the article. There is nothing of any evidence to back up her disgusting charges. THIS is a model of today's Scientific American and community, in general. Hopper could be so easily sued for libel if she mentioned any particular person, it's a slam-dunk. That SA actually put this article on their website shows the fall of real science in this world. It proves the charge of creationists that secularists have a worldview they will protect with any and all vitriol and attacks. Hopper's article is just the continuation of 'fake news' secularists have been pumping for generations.
As a creationist, as a Bible-believing Christian, allowing the Bible to interpret itself, here is what Genesis says about the Mark of Cain:
Gen 4:13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Gen 4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Gen 4:15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
The Bible says nothing about what the mark was. Nothing. No professed Bible-believing Christian could form any position at all about the amount of melanin in Cain's skin, or any other judgment placed upon him. Hollywood may show it was a miraculous tattoo on his forehead. Artists may attempt to show children the same but, nobody knows what that mark was. Hopper, without any evidence to substantiate her sweeping claims, shows herself to be far more dangerous to society. In today's tension filled atmosphere, making such claims is tantamount to a call to arms against Christians, of any shade of brown skin color.
If she were actually a scientist, or scientific writer, she would know all humans are genetically predisposed to amounts of melanin in skin. Nobody is black, white, red or yellow. Everybody on Earth is a shade of brown, and factually, creationists teach Adam and Eve were probably a middle-brown shade. No one can know. No creationist teaches Adam and Eve were "white" in skin tone. Creationists may disagree on the entire model of beginnings evolutionists claim, Africa and all but, that has nothing to do with skin color. There are people in India that have darker skin tone than most people found in Africa. Brown comes in shades. Melanin, people. Melanin.
I state again, the difference between all humans amounts to less than 1% and it's all cosmetic: eye shape, hair texture, skin color. You can find people of all "races" with easily interchangeable facial features. Creationists like to show the picture of the middle-brown couple who had twin girls, one "black" and one "white." It's genetics, not race or racism.
Scientific American should be ashamed to place such drivel on their website. Hopper, herself, should be ashamed.
"For too long, a vocal minority of creationists has hijacked children’s education, media and book publishing. Statistics on creationist beliefs in the US vary. Depending on the poll, up to 40 percent of percent of adults believe that humans have always existed in their present form (i.e., they believe in an unbroken human lineage stretching back to Adam and Eve)."
I can hardly contain myself to not comment on such a statement in the most explosive way possible. Christians have hijacked children's education? Is she serious? Is she just ignorant of any factual information at all? What possible hint of evidence could Hopper show that Christians have hijacked public education, which grows more and more salacious and depraved with every passing year? Did I not just write in a blog about the Chicago school system wanting fifth graders to receive birth control???
If up to 40% of adults believe humans are just the same as God created them in Adam and Eve, who's fault is that? Seriously. Who's fault is that, from the position of Hopper and the entire world scientific community pumping evolution; everything from nothing, life from random chemical reactions, pond scum to PhD nonsense?
Give me a break. If you are going to tell people the most ridiculous things imaginable and call it science, you should be thankful 60% of people buy that pseudo-science garbage. At least the Bible states man was made in God's image and states Adam and Eve to be noble in character, innocent, and holy from their beginning. Christians, creationists, recognize that humans are not descendants of ape-like creatures. There is zero empirical evidence for Hopper's side placing the iconic monkey to man artwork in science books for generations with only conjecture for evidence! Piltdown Man, Nebraska Man, Handy Man, Upright Man, Lucy and her feet, and a big list of bones-to-fact impostures are shown by creationists around the world, and even secularists admit to these mistakes, if not point blank frauds, through greater use of detection devices like CAT scans.
I'd ask Hopper, who put Ota Benga in a cage in 1904? Not creationists. Blame Darwinians for that one. Blame Darwinians for Hitler's listing of the best humans, the blonde, blue-eyed Nordics, to the worst, the Jews. While he referred to Africans as mostly apes, he stated Jews were full apes. His disgust of them led him to cause one of the greatest evil acts in human history. Will Hopper write an article on the racism of Charles Darwin and the entire subject of categorization of humans by secularists?
I will not deny the foolish ignorance of some Christians down through the last couple centuries towards the subject of darker skinned humans. For Hopper to throw such ignorance into the category of creationist scientists, and label it all as racism and white supremacy is a far greater ignorance, given all the avenues of evidence she could have researched.
In her closing remarks she continues her storytelling:
"In the Adam-and-Eve scenario, the Creator bestows both physical and cultural humanity on the first people. From the get-go Adam knows how to name the animals. No one has to invent language or figure out how to make tools. Science, of course, tells us otherwise. [!!!???] The process of natural selection shaped our bodies and capacities. Our humanity emerged over the millennia as creative ancient people figured out the crucial skills—from storytelling to cooking to rope making—that we now take for granted."
Natural selection. Tell me, anyone, tell me how guideless, purposeless, directionless, aimless, random, haphazard mutations made a brain, made a mind, made a conscience. Hopper's should be filled with guilt for writing such a ridiculous hit piece. No science, none, can prove the ascendance of apes to humans. At this point, science still cannot fully understand how infants learn language, let alone state factually how language began. The Bible's portrayal of Adam as a fully functioning human being, body, mind, and emotions, is just as good a story as anything Hopper's side can come up with. At least it elevates human beings above animal classification. Hopper's side makes humans better animals by mutations and accidents. Logic tells me to choose the former as truth.
Hopper is apparently a filmmaker, and a designer. She speaks, she writes on evolution. She, herself, is not a scientist, and SA places a disclaimer at the end of the article:
This is an opinion and analysis article; the views expressed by the author or authors are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
Yeah, I can believe that like I believe a dot became the universe all by itself. For SA to put the article out shows an incredible lack of judgment. It will be interesting to see how much time passes before the article is removed from their site, just for the sheer lack of actual science in it, even as an "opinion" piece. If they leave it up, Hopper and SA can be assured the creationist community will comment on its futility and make it a glowing example of the attitude of secularists towards creationists in their 'the end justifies the means' agenda, for a long time to come.
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I'm going to add an addendum to this. This should settle the matter once and for all.
Here is a definition of race from the 1828 Webster's dictionary, a very valuable resource for how words were commonly understood before the 20th century:
RACE, n. [L. radix and radius having the same original. This word coincides in origin with rod, ray, radiate, etc.]
1. The lineage of a family, or continued series of descendants from a parent who is called the stock. A race is the series of descendants indefinitely. Thus all mankind are called the race of Adam; the Israelites are of the race of Abraham and Jacob. Thus we speak of a race of kings, the race of Clovis or Charlemagne; a race of nobles, etc.
Hence the long race of Alban fathers come.
2. A generation; a family of descendants. A race of youthful and unhandled colts.
3. A particular breed; as a race of mules; a race of horses; a race of sheep.
Of such a race no matter who is king.
4. A root; as race-ginger, ginger in the root or not pulverized.
5. A particular strength or taste of wine; a kind of tartness.
There was no discussion of genetic differences defining a "race" when Noah Webster placed these definitions and understanding of the term race in his time. Race had to do with lineage. Race had to do with a generation. It had to do with kinds, breeds. Race could be used for those who came from general global locations. It was not used to ever describe "breeds" of humans in the human race. That came later, at the hands of the ignorant, especially when Charles Darwin wrote his 1859 book, "On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life."
Charles Darwin, by definition, was a racist. Darwinians, in serious ignorance of genetics and true science, were racists.
In Darwin's book, The Descent of Man, he wrote:
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”
Extermination of savage, lower races? Would I be off in concluding Allison Hopper is a Darwinian, who sees Christians as a lower race of beings who should be, at least marginalized by any means necessary and a widened gap placed between them and her and the side of Naturalism? And by the way, Charles Darwin was a theologian, not an educated scientist, such as education was in his day.
So, in the end, where does the hatred and ignorance really emanate from? People who believe the text of Genesis or those who believe the texts of Charles Darwin and associates into the modern age?
Will the real racist, please, stand up?
Genesis, Adam, his creation. I believe God made Adam from the dirt of the ground. That is what Genesis states. You can believe man came from ape-like creatures, who eventually came from previous lifeforms all the way back to chemicals in a hot water pool somewhere. Both would be considered miracles, all things considered. If you are not aware of the math involved and the number of zeroes that make the chances of chemicals accidentally coming together to form a living cell, you need to look that up. It's a number vastly greater than the estimated atoms in the known universe.
That said, it is a fact, a biblical, linguistic fact that the name Adam, in the Hebrew, means 'red man' or 'dirt man,' or 'from the ground.' Aside from beach sand, what general color is dirt? And that would be dirt in the general vicinity of the Eastern Mediterranean /Western Middle-East, Northern Africa where the Bible basically places Eden. Pick any spot on Earth, for that matter. Dirt is brown. It can be reddish, it can be grey-brownish, it can be blackish, like dirt colors here in Texas. Dirt, earth, is made up of shades of BROWN. Adam had a shade of brown for skin color. Doubtful he was light brown, as "Caucasians" are. So, the idea that creationists are racists, when they believe in genetics and the biblical account of the creation of man, is just plain bullsgeschicte. It's a sad commentary on the rationality of rabid evolutionists who grant one way, one model only for existence - Naturalism, Materialism, and Macro-evolution - a man-made religion of faith in miracles if ever there was one.
Well, someone has done it, sideways, by making the stupendously stupid charge against "white" evangelical Christians, creationists, believers in the Bible. That would be me, though I do not claim to be "evangelical" as a category. Close enough, though.
Here's the headline of an article found in the online version of Scientific American:
Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/denial-of-evolution-is-a-form-of-white-supremacy/#
I'm going to guess this trash can of journalism will be removed from the site as a backlash of truth strikes SA like a bombardment of Bunker Busters.
I do not know anything about Allison Hopper, the author of this totally unscientific article. She writes:
"I want to unmask the lie that evolution denial is about religion and recognize that at its core, it is a form of white supremacy that perpetuates segregation and violence against Black bodies. Under the guise of “religious freedom,” the legalistic wing of creationists loudly insists that their point of view deserves equal time in the classroom. Science education in the U.S. is constantly on the defensive against antievolution activists who want biblical stories to be taught as fact. In fact, the first wave of legal fights against evolution was supported by the Klan in the 1920s."
I would like to know what the legalistic wing of creationists is and be shown a single bit of evidence creationists insist their point of view deserves equal time in the classroom. The biggest creationist ministries in America do one thing, when it comes to public education. They demand it be factual, not secular storytelling. School books filled with KNOWN inaccuracies remain in place, and new books keep them installed, things even the materialistic evolution community denies as being accurate science. What can that mean other than an agenda must be kept going? Abiogenesis and Macro Evolution ARE NOT scientific facts regardless of how many scientists believe it. It cannot be proven with empirical evidence available. At best, it is a model; a possible explanation. Creationists claim the same for their position. It is, scientifically speaking, a model. Nobody was there to see the beginning. It cannot be recreated and studied in a lab. All science looks at evidence available, and the history of science is saturated with wrong interpretations of evidence. Science constantly changes positions based on new evidence. I see such in headlines constantly. Reinterpretation of positions based on new evidence is the most sure thing science can expect.
Hopper then writes:
"At the heart of white evangelical creationism is the mythology of an unbroken white lineage that stretches back to a light-skinned Adam and Eve. In literal interpretations of the Christian Bible, white skin was created in God's image. Dark skin has a different, more problematic origin. As the biblical story goes, the curse or mark of Cain for killing his brother was a darkening of his descendants' skin. Historically, many congregations in the U.S. pointed to this story of Cain as evidence that Black skin was created as a punishment."
"The fantasy of a continuous line of white descendants segregates white heritage from Black bodies. In the real world, this mythology translates into lethal effects on people who are Black. Fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible are part of the “fake news” epidemic that feeds the racial divide in our country."
I would challenge Hopper to place one, just one statement from any creationist ministry, any creationist publication found anywhere on the globe, from anybody with any educational degree, Bachelor of Science to PhD, where such a position can be found. Just one. The reckless journalism in this article is the among the worst I have ever seen from something masquerading as "science." There is no science in the article. There is nothing of any evidence to back up her disgusting charges. THIS is a model of today's Scientific American and community, in general. Hopper could be so easily sued for libel if she mentioned any particular person, it's a slam-dunk. That SA actually put this article on their website shows the fall of real science in this world. It proves the charge of creationists that secularists have a worldview they will protect with any and all vitriol and attacks. Hopper's article is just the continuation of 'fake news' secularists have been pumping for generations.
As a creationist, as a Bible-believing Christian, allowing the Bible to interpret itself, here is what Genesis says about the Mark of Cain:
Gen 4:13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Gen 4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Gen 4:15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
The Bible says nothing about what the mark was. Nothing. No professed Bible-believing Christian could form any position at all about the amount of melanin in Cain's skin, or any other judgment placed upon him. Hollywood may show it was a miraculous tattoo on his forehead. Artists may attempt to show children the same but, nobody knows what that mark was. Hopper, without any evidence to substantiate her sweeping claims, shows herself to be far more dangerous to society. In today's tension filled atmosphere, making such claims is tantamount to a call to arms against Christians, of any shade of brown skin color.
If she were actually a scientist, or scientific writer, she would know all humans are genetically predisposed to amounts of melanin in skin. Nobody is black, white, red or yellow. Everybody on Earth is a shade of brown, and factually, creationists teach Adam and Eve were probably a middle-brown shade. No one can know. No creationist teaches Adam and Eve were "white" in skin tone. Creationists may disagree on the entire model of beginnings evolutionists claim, Africa and all but, that has nothing to do with skin color. There are people in India that have darker skin tone than most people found in Africa. Brown comes in shades. Melanin, people. Melanin.
I state again, the difference between all humans amounts to less than 1% and it's all cosmetic: eye shape, hair texture, skin color. You can find people of all "races" with easily interchangeable facial features. Creationists like to show the picture of the middle-brown couple who had twin girls, one "black" and one "white." It's genetics, not race or racism.
Scientific American should be ashamed to place such drivel on their website. Hopper, herself, should be ashamed.
"For too long, a vocal minority of creationists has hijacked children’s education, media and book publishing. Statistics on creationist beliefs in the US vary. Depending on the poll, up to 40 percent of percent of adults believe that humans have always existed in their present form (i.e., they believe in an unbroken human lineage stretching back to Adam and Eve)."
I can hardly contain myself to not comment on such a statement in the most explosive way possible. Christians have hijacked children's education? Is she serious? Is she just ignorant of any factual information at all? What possible hint of evidence could Hopper show that Christians have hijacked public education, which grows more and more salacious and depraved with every passing year? Did I not just write in a blog about the Chicago school system wanting fifth graders to receive birth control???
If up to 40% of adults believe humans are just the same as God created them in Adam and Eve, who's fault is that? Seriously. Who's fault is that, from the position of Hopper and the entire world scientific community pumping evolution; everything from nothing, life from random chemical reactions, pond scum to PhD nonsense?
Give me a break. If you are going to tell people the most ridiculous things imaginable and call it science, you should be thankful 60% of people buy that pseudo-science garbage. At least the Bible states man was made in God's image and states Adam and Eve to be noble in character, innocent, and holy from their beginning. Christians, creationists, recognize that humans are not descendants of ape-like creatures. There is zero empirical evidence for Hopper's side placing the iconic monkey to man artwork in science books for generations with only conjecture for evidence! Piltdown Man, Nebraska Man, Handy Man, Upright Man, Lucy and her feet, and a big list of bones-to-fact impostures are shown by creationists around the world, and even secularists admit to these mistakes, if not point blank frauds, through greater use of detection devices like CAT scans.
I'd ask Hopper, who put Ota Benga in a cage in 1904? Not creationists. Blame Darwinians for that one. Blame Darwinians for Hitler's listing of the best humans, the blonde, blue-eyed Nordics, to the worst, the Jews. While he referred to Africans as mostly apes, he stated Jews were full apes. His disgust of them led him to cause one of the greatest evil acts in human history. Will Hopper write an article on the racism of Charles Darwin and the entire subject of categorization of humans by secularists?
I will not deny the foolish ignorance of some Christians down through the last couple centuries towards the subject of darker skinned humans. For Hopper to throw such ignorance into the category of creationist scientists, and label it all as racism and white supremacy is a far greater ignorance, given all the avenues of evidence she could have researched.
In her closing remarks she continues her storytelling:
"In the Adam-and-Eve scenario, the Creator bestows both physical and cultural humanity on the first people. From the get-go Adam knows how to name the animals. No one has to invent language or figure out how to make tools. Science, of course, tells us otherwise. [!!!???] The process of natural selection shaped our bodies and capacities. Our humanity emerged over the millennia as creative ancient people figured out the crucial skills—from storytelling to cooking to rope making—that we now take for granted."
Natural selection. Tell me, anyone, tell me how guideless, purposeless, directionless, aimless, random, haphazard mutations made a brain, made a mind, made a conscience. Hopper's should be filled with guilt for writing such a ridiculous hit piece. No science, none, can prove the ascendance of apes to humans. At this point, science still cannot fully understand how infants learn language, let alone state factually how language began. The Bible's portrayal of Adam as a fully functioning human being, body, mind, and emotions, is just as good a story as anything Hopper's side can come up with. At least it elevates human beings above animal classification. Hopper's side makes humans better animals by mutations and accidents. Logic tells me to choose the former as truth.
Hopper is apparently a filmmaker, and a designer. She speaks, she writes on evolution. She, herself, is not a scientist, and SA places a disclaimer at the end of the article:
This is an opinion and analysis article; the views expressed by the author or authors are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
Yeah, I can believe that like I believe a dot became the universe all by itself. For SA to put the article out shows an incredible lack of judgment. It will be interesting to see how much time passes before the article is removed from their site, just for the sheer lack of actual science in it, even as an "opinion" piece. If they leave it up, Hopper and SA can be assured the creationist community will comment on its futility and make it a glowing example of the attitude of secularists towards creationists in their 'the end justifies the means' agenda, for a long time to come.
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I'm going to add an addendum to this. This should settle the matter once and for all.
Here is a definition of race from the 1828 Webster's dictionary, a very valuable resource for how words were commonly understood before the 20th century:
RACE, n. [L. radix and radius having the same original. This word coincides in origin with rod, ray, radiate, etc.]
1. The lineage of a family, or continued series of descendants from a parent who is called the stock. A race is the series of descendants indefinitely. Thus all mankind are called the race of Adam; the Israelites are of the race of Abraham and Jacob. Thus we speak of a race of kings, the race of Clovis or Charlemagne; a race of nobles, etc.
Hence the long race of Alban fathers come.
2. A generation; a family of descendants. A race of youthful and unhandled colts.
3. A particular breed; as a race of mules; a race of horses; a race of sheep.
Of such a race no matter who is king.
4. A root; as race-ginger, ginger in the root or not pulverized.
5. A particular strength or taste of wine; a kind of tartness.
There was no discussion of genetic differences defining a "race" when Noah Webster placed these definitions and understanding of the term race in his time. Race had to do with lineage. Race had to do with a generation. It had to do with kinds, breeds. Race could be used for those who came from general global locations. It was not used to ever describe "breeds" of humans in the human race. That came later, at the hands of the ignorant, especially when Charles Darwin wrote his 1859 book, "On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life."
Charles Darwin, by definition, was a racist. Darwinians, in serious ignorance of genetics and true science, were racists.
In Darwin's book, The Descent of Man, he wrote:
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”
Extermination of savage, lower races? Would I be off in concluding Allison Hopper is a Darwinian, who sees Christians as a lower race of beings who should be, at least marginalized by any means necessary and a widened gap placed between them and her and the side of Naturalism? And by the way, Charles Darwin was a theologian, not an educated scientist, such as education was in his day.
So, in the end, where does the hatred and ignorance really emanate from? People who believe the text of Genesis or those who believe the texts of Charles Darwin and associates into the modern age?
Will the real racist, please, stand up?
Genesis, Adam, his creation. I believe God made Adam from the dirt of the ground. That is what Genesis states. You can believe man came from ape-like creatures, who eventually came from previous lifeforms all the way back to chemicals in a hot water pool somewhere. Both would be considered miracles, all things considered. If you are not aware of the math involved and the number of zeroes that make the chances of chemicals accidentally coming together to form a living cell, you need to look that up. It's a number vastly greater than the estimated atoms in the known universe.
That said, it is a fact, a biblical, linguistic fact that the name Adam, in the Hebrew, means 'red man' or 'dirt man,' or 'from the ground.' Aside from beach sand, what general color is dirt? And that would be dirt in the general vicinity of the Eastern Mediterranean /Western Middle-East, Northern Africa where the Bible basically places Eden. Pick any spot on Earth, for that matter. Dirt is brown. It can be reddish, it can be grey-brownish, it can be blackish, like dirt colors here in Texas. Dirt, earth, is made up of shades of BROWN. Adam had a shade of brown for skin color. Doubtful he was light brown, as "Caucasians" are. So, the idea that creationists are racists, when they believe in genetics and the biblical account of the creation of man, is just plain bullsgeschicte. It's a sad commentary on the rationality of rabid evolutionists who grant one way, one model only for existence - Naturalism, Materialism, and Macro-evolution - a man-made religion of faith in miracles if ever there was one.
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295. There is No Such Thing as a Bad Sounding Drum - July 25, 2021
There is no such thing as a bad sounding drum.
You shake your head in aghast. Is this guy high on something? Nope. Is he ignorant of the sound of a good drum? So you say. Tell me. What is a "good" sounding drum?
Regardless of what your answer(s) may be, let's look at sound. Sound is a wave that passes through Earth's elements containing air, and travels into an ear canal, vibrating various parts within the ear, which sends signals to the brain, which tell you audibly and perhaps from memory, corn is popping on the stove. For drummers, it's about all the recognizable sounds in the field of percussion. Dozens of pitches, both tuned and untuned, and mixed, combined frequencies. and all the rest.
Out of all that, what is "good?" Define "good," in terms of sound and make it objective, NOT subjective. You may know what you like to hear. That is subjective. What is good sound by any objective definition you want to use. It does not matter if it is a snare, a tom, a bass drum, a ride cymbal, a crash, a splash, a china or any other effect cymbal, or cowbell, or tone block, a bongo, a conga, a djembe, or any other instrument struck with sticks, hands or anything else. Sound, by its very nature, is a subjective experience, different from one human being or animal or anything that hears sound, to the next of its phyla. While many dogs could not care less about a thunderstorm, we had a dog that literally shook and was terrified. She was a rescue dog. We didn't know her history. Loud noises freaked her out. Trucks, gun shots, airplanes, loud voices. Something was in her past that affected how she related to sound.
Humans are no different. We relate to sound through experience, as well. You love drums and cymbals and all the rest? Your neighbor may hate it all, even if you're a Buddy Rich or Vinnie Coliuta. I don't play drums on the weekend. Why? My wife does not like the sound of drums and cymbals, especially low frequencies, which can really upset her. She can hear low frequencies a mile or more away and they reverberate in her like Chinese water torture. I love China cymbals. Some drummers would not use one if you paid them to.
Sound, any sound, is not always pleasurable to all ears. We all know that. Why is it drummers feel the ability to tell people what drums sound good and what drums sound bad, without some kind of objective standard or benchmark to determine such a position? It cannot be based on any particular tone. It cannot be based on resonance, sustain, volume or any other parameter. No particular shell, head, stick or hand can be used to create a benchmark for sound. No cymbal, no effect, no ears can be used to make such a determination. The variables may as well be infinite.
It is the same with music. It is the same with color, with food, with clothing, with anything and everything that involves subjective taste.
We all know the parameters for good, better, and best when it comes to hardware because that has standards of adjustment options, performance criteria (home, weekend warrior, full scale touring), ease of use, chrome plating or any other plating, etc., etc. Sound cannot come under such criteria. Louder drums do not make them good or bad, just louder than the drums next to it, and suited for a particular situation. It makes them good for certain conditions. It does not make the sound "good," in and of itself.
What sounds good to me - wide open toms with single-ply, uncoated heads - might sound bad to you, liking more muted heads at different tensions and pitches, drum to drum. Same for every other drum and every other cymbal and every other musical instrument known to man, and who hears them.
When I hear drums played by traditional Jazzers, I don't like the tones. They sound choked to me. Well, technically, depending on my subjective approach to sound, they are choked. Not to the players going for sound that stands apart from the stand-up bass player and allows for easy double-stroke rolls, though. They choose that sound for whatever reasons personal to them. It does not matter what anyone thinks of it, aside from other musicians in the band listening to it. Compromise may have to enter but, that does not mean the drums do not sound good or bad. It only means the musicians do not like the sound in the context of the music they are making, or how their own ears hear things.
Many new names out there are playing very muted drums and cymbals these days. They did not invent the sound. Ringo, with his towels on his drums, did that, and others followed. They have tape and muting devices and all kinds of things stuffed into bass drums and choose very "dry," "dark" sounding, unlathed cymbals for their sound. Lightyears from sound I like. I could make a case for: here is a drum. If left alone, here is what it sounds like - cylinder, membrane(s), parts to tension the head(s) and hold the drum in place. That is the "good" sound of a drum but, wait. Even those parameters can change the sound of a drum, circumstance to circumstance. Then someone says, nope, too much sustain, too bright, too loud, and they put muted heads on it. Still others go for a drier sound than that and get to extremes of literally killing almost all of what a drum naturally sounds like. Bad sound? No. Their sound. Not your sound. Not my sound but, they like it. It sounds good to them, therefore it is a good drum sound.
You may be old enough to remember the muting devices placed on all drums. Turn the knob, the felt pad rises closer to the head to muffle the tone. Then, open tom sound became the thing and those mufflers went the way of vintage collections. I have seen some returning, because muted drum sound is popular again.
Since I made the series of videos on drum shell hype in the manufacturing business, I have seen it over and over again in comments about the sound of drums being good or bad. Opinion abounds but, no objective proof is offered, nor can be offered. All sound is what your ears hear and no one else. It may sound like singing birds or bells to you, and screeching, fighting cats, or dirt shoveled into a wheelbarrow to someone else.
We see warm, cool, fat, thin, dry, wet, round, abrasive, harsh, woody, metallic, dark, bright, thuddy, throaty, wide open, choked, musical, and other descriptive terms used to measure and describe sound in the world of drums, and they all need definitions because they mean different things to different people. All of these terms, however efficient they are to describe the sound of percussion instruments in any general way, fail to describe "good" sound. Obviously, if someone sees dry as a good sound, wet would not be, and vice-versa. Yet dry and wet are often used in the same context at times. What does wet have to do with the sound of a drum? It is coupled with fat, and double ply heads most of the time but, it can also be a sound used to describe the sound of a snare drum. They are not discussing the sound of the shell. They are describing the sound created by the heads. The shell can only magnify or lessen whatever frequencies the heads throw off, in subtle ways, that get lost when the music comes in. Hoops contribute to that, as well. Maybe a small Jazz trio in a small club can have an atmosphere where such nuances are discerned by the player and audience. I could make a decent empirical case against that, as well, when it comes to an audience.
We all know there are drums, good drums, better and best by way of manufacturing techniques and details of components but, as can be demonstrated in many ways, such details may make a drum look better and last longer yet, that is no proof they will sound better.
Would I expect a drum set made from the finest materials available to sound better than a beginner's set? Not if the same heads are on the drums and they are mounted the same way, and things are equal, like the number of lugs on each drum, floor tom bracket style, bearing edges, etc. BUT, that is a subjective observation based on what I like for sound. The more expensive set will look better, and even there, if I like wood and you like solid color, a finish is also subjective, and a black, white, wine red, or blue wrap may suit a player's taste just fine. I'd certainly expect the expensive drums to tune up easier, based on the lugs and lug nuts and tension rods supplied. That is mechanics, though. Not sound. It improves the way you get to a sound, that's all. Beginner's drums come in the current "in" sizes, like power toms and such but, take the same sizes in any model, mount them the same, put them in place the same, same heads on them, same tension/pitches, and no true significant differences are going to be heard because one shell is Maple or Birch and the beginner set is Luan or some other less expensive material to work with in manufacturing. I have shown that. Just how much difference do you think 1/4" or 1/8" of plywood is going to make, with different glues, ply dimensions, ply configurations and all? The hype has told consumers, a great deal. But the 'hypers' offer no real comparisons to show that. Why not?
What about overtones? That is not a shell subject. That is a head tension subject, in relation to batter and resonant heads vibrating together. This entire idea of perfectly flat bearing edges is a joke. Heads STRETCH. Unless there is some kind of gouge in the edge, slight variations of space are adjusted by head stretch. Old, even beat up Vintage drums prove that. Take a shell and put it on a marble table and some light shines through a gap less than a 64th of an inch and all of a sudden you have a dud on your hands? That is so illogical, it is ridiculous on the face of it. Heads stretch!
Sometimes heads are manufactured with slight defects in the mounting of the plastic to the hoop and a dimple might be created, or a slack spot. That can cause overtones between the heads that can be a nightmare to deal with. It's easier to just put another head on the drum. Heads are not perfect objects. Think of that. They must be manufactured with a collar/flat that sits on a bearing edge, with slack so they can be tightened. That's a pretty intricate manufactured object. I can take a few of the same model heads out of their boxes and tap each one and one will have a tone already, one will be a a silent flap, and the other somewhere in between. Watch a video on how heads are manufactured. As tech as it seems, the materials can be highly variable in their assembly.
Matter of fact, in speaking with Mark Taribassi recently, co-owner of Cardinal Percussion and Attack drum heads, he mentioned a 'perfect storm' can happen when the joint in the head hoop can be placed on a lug that receives all the 2 and 4 all night long, and a head can lose integrity from the constant impact at that point and ultimately fail. Variables exist, when it comes to manufacturing, use and sound.
The entire shell specie subject, gurgling and slashing about in the drum world, seems the most useless discussion ever hoisted on a consumer group I've ever seen.
You may want to protect your big investment in top of the line drums with whatever rhetoric you want. It cannot be proven with any empirical evidence, as far as sound goes. I have shown that in the video series, making drums from all kinds of materials. I still get comments about the trash can set, especially the bass drum, and how "good" it sounds. If the toms had actual lugs on them, or I made my dual-tension, no lug system for them, and had more range of tension, they'd sound even better BUT!, that is for my subjective taste in drum sound. To my ears and my taste, the toms are "dry." Others have commented how good they sound. They prefer dry or more muted tones.
Sound is subjective. It is personal. It cannot be good or bad in any dogmatic way.
There is just no way around that.
You shake your head in aghast. Is this guy high on something? Nope. Is he ignorant of the sound of a good drum? So you say. Tell me. What is a "good" sounding drum?
Regardless of what your answer(s) may be, let's look at sound. Sound is a wave that passes through Earth's elements containing air, and travels into an ear canal, vibrating various parts within the ear, which sends signals to the brain, which tell you audibly and perhaps from memory, corn is popping on the stove. For drummers, it's about all the recognizable sounds in the field of percussion. Dozens of pitches, both tuned and untuned, and mixed, combined frequencies. and all the rest.
Out of all that, what is "good?" Define "good," in terms of sound and make it objective, NOT subjective. You may know what you like to hear. That is subjective. What is good sound by any objective definition you want to use. It does not matter if it is a snare, a tom, a bass drum, a ride cymbal, a crash, a splash, a china or any other effect cymbal, or cowbell, or tone block, a bongo, a conga, a djembe, or any other instrument struck with sticks, hands or anything else. Sound, by its very nature, is a subjective experience, different from one human being or animal or anything that hears sound, to the next of its phyla. While many dogs could not care less about a thunderstorm, we had a dog that literally shook and was terrified. She was a rescue dog. We didn't know her history. Loud noises freaked her out. Trucks, gun shots, airplanes, loud voices. Something was in her past that affected how she related to sound.
Humans are no different. We relate to sound through experience, as well. You love drums and cymbals and all the rest? Your neighbor may hate it all, even if you're a Buddy Rich or Vinnie Coliuta. I don't play drums on the weekend. Why? My wife does not like the sound of drums and cymbals, especially low frequencies, which can really upset her. She can hear low frequencies a mile or more away and they reverberate in her like Chinese water torture. I love China cymbals. Some drummers would not use one if you paid them to.
Sound, any sound, is not always pleasurable to all ears. We all know that. Why is it drummers feel the ability to tell people what drums sound good and what drums sound bad, without some kind of objective standard or benchmark to determine such a position? It cannot be based on any particular tone. It cannot be based on resonance, sustain, volume or any other parameter. No particular shell, head, stick or hand can be used to create a benchmark for sound. No cymbal, no effect, no ears can be used to make such a determination. The variables may as well be infinite.
It is the same with music. It is the same with color, with food, with clothing, with anything and everything that involves subjective taste.
We all know the parameters for good, better, and best when it comes to hardware because that has standards of adjustment options, performance criteria (home, weekend warrior, full scale touring), ease of use, chrome plating or any other plating, etc., etc. Sound cannot come under such criteria. Louder drums do not make them good or bad, just louder than the drums next to it, and suited for a particular situation. It makes them good for certain conditions. It does not make the sound "good," in and of itself.
What sounds good to me - wide open toms with single-ply, uncoated heads - might sound bad to you, liking more muted heads at different tensions and pitches, drum to drum. Same for every other drum and every other cymbal and every other musical instrument known to man, and who hears them.
When I hear drums played by traditional Jazzers, I don't like the tones. They sound choked to me. Well, technically, depending on my subjective approach to sound, they are choked. Not to the players going for sound that stands apart from the stand-up bass player and allows for easy double-stroke rolls, though. They choose that sound for whatever reasons personal to them. It does not matter what anyone thinks of it, aside from other musicians in the band listening to it. Compromise may have to enter but, that does not mean the drums do not sound good or bad. It only means the musicians do not like the sound in the context of the music they are making, or how their own ears hear things.
Many new names out there are playing very muted drums and cymbals these days. They did not invent the sound. Ringo, with his towels on his drums, did that, and others followed. They have tape and muting devices and all kinds of things stuffed into bass drums and choose very "dry," "dark" sounding, unlathed cymbals for their sound. Lightyears from sound I like. I could make a case for: here is a drum. If left alone, here is what it sounds like - cylinder, membrane(s), parts to tension the head(s) and hold the drum in place. That is the "good" sound of a drum but, wait. Even those parameters can change the sound of a drum, circumstance to circumstance. Then someone says, nope, too much sustain, too bright, too loud, and they put muted heads on it. Still others go for a drier sound than that and get to extremes of literally killing almost all of what a drum naturally sounds like. Bad sound? No. Their sound. Not your sound. Not my sound but, they like it. It sounds good to them, therefore it is a good drum sound.
You may be old enough to remember the muting devices placed on all drums. Turn the knob, the felt pad rises closer to the head to muffle the tone. Then, open tom sound became the thing and those mufflers went the way of vintage collections. I have seen some returning, because muted drum sound is popular again.
Since I made the series of videos on drum shell hype in the manufacturing business, I have seen it over and over again in comments about the sound of drums being good or bad. Opinion abounds but, no objective proof is offered, nor can be offered. All sound is what your ears hear and no one else. It may sound like singing birds or bells to you, and screeching, fighting cats, or dirt shoveled into a wheelbarrow to someone else.
We see warm, cool, fat, thin, dry, wet, round, abrasive, harsh, woody, metallic, dark, bright, thuddy, throaty, wide open, choked, musical, and other descriptive terms used to measure and describe sound in the world of drums, and they all need definitions because they mean different things to different people. All of these terms, however efficient they are to describe the sound of percussion instruments in any general way, fail to describe "good" sound. Obviously, if someone sees dry as a good sound, wet would not be, and vice-versa. Yet dry and wet are often used in the same context at times. What does wet have to do with the sound of a drum? It is coupled with fat, and double ply heads most of the time but, it can also be a sound used to describe the sound of a snare drum. They are not discussing the sound of the shell. They are describing the sound created by the heads. The shell can only magnify or lessen whatever frequencies the heads throw off, in subtle ways, that get lost when the music comes in. Hoops contribute to that, as well. Maybe a small Jazz trio in a small club can have an atmosphere where such nuances are discerned by the player and audience. I could make a decent empirical case against that, as well, when it comes to an audience.
We all know there are drums, good drums, better and best by way of manufacturing techniques and details of components but, as can be demonstrated in many ways, such details may make a drum look better and last longer yet, that is no proof they will sound better.
Would I expect a drum set made from the finest materials available to sound better than a beginner's set? Not if the same heads are on the drums and they are mounted the same way, and things are equal, like the number of lugs on each drum, floor tom bracket style, bearing edges, etc. BUT, that is a subjective observation based on what I like for sound. The more expensive set will look better, and even there, if I like wood and you like solid color, a finish is also subjective, and a black, white, wine red, or blue wrap may suit a player's taste just fine. I'd certainly expect the expensive drums to tune up easier, based on the lugs and lug nuts and tension rods supplied. That is mechanics, though. Not sound. It improves the way you get to a sound, that's all. Beginner's drums come in the current "in" sizes, like power toms and such but, take the same sizes in any model, mount them the same, put them in place the same, same heads on them, same tension/pitches, and no true significant differences are going to be heard because one shell is Maple or Birch and the beginner set is Luan or some other less expensive material to work with in manufacturing. I have shown that. Just how much difference do you think 1/4" or 1/8" of plywood is going to make, with different glues, ply dimensions, ply configurations and all? The hype has told consumers, a great deal. But the 'hypers' offer no real comparisons to show that. Why not?
What about overtones? That is not a shell subject. That is a head tension subject, in relation to batter and resonant heads vibrating together. This entire idea of perfectly flat bearing edges is a joke. Heads STRETCH. Unless there is some kind of gouge in the edge, slight variations of space are adjusted by head stretch. Old, even beat up Vintage drums prove that. Take a shell and put it on a marble table and some light shines through a gap less than a 64th of an inch and all of a sudden you have a dud on your hands? That is so illogical, it is ridiculous on the face of it. Heads stretch!
Sometimes heads are manufactured with slight defects in the mounting of the plastic to the hoop and a dimple might be created, or a slack spot. That can cause overtones between the heads that can be a nightmare to deal with. It's easier to just put another head on the drum. Heads are not perfect objects. Think of that. They must be manufactured with a collar/flat that sits on a bearing edge, with slack so they can be tightened. That's a pretty intricate manufactured object. I can take a few of the same model heads out of their boxes and tap each one and one will have a tone already, one will be a a silent flap, and the other somewhere in between. Watch a video on how heads are manufactured. As tech as it seems, the materials can be highly variable in their assembly.
Matter of fact, in speaking with Mark Taribassi recently, co-owner of Cardinal Percussion and Attack drum heads, he mentioned a 'perfect storm' can happen when the joint in the head hoop can be placed on a lug that receives all the 2 and 4 all night long, and a head can lose integrity from the constant impact at that point and ultimately fail. Variables exist, when it comes to manufacturing, use and sound.
The entire shell specie subject, gurgling and slashing about in the drum world, seems the most useless discussion ever hoisted on a consumer group I've ever seen.
You may want to protect your big investment in top of the line drums with whatever rhetoric you want. It cannot be proven with any empirical evidence, as far as sound goes. I have shown that in the video series, making drums from all kinds of materials. I still get comments about the trash can set, especially the bass drum, and how "good" it sounds. If the toms had actual lugs on them, or I made my dual-tension, no lug system for them, and had more range of tension, they'd sound even better BUT!, that is for my subjective taste in drum sound. To my ears and my taste, the toms are "dry." Others have commented how good they sound. They prefer dry or more muted tones.
Sound is subjective. It is personal. It cannot be good or bad in any dogmatic way.
There is just no way around that.
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296. What is a Police State? - July 25, 2021
I just read a story from the UK, where police visited the home of a young, 12 year old girl, checking to see if she was "self-isolating." Testing positive for Covid, under current lockdown orders, the mother, answering the door, with a terrified girl standing behind her, seeing the police show up in a "riot van," and getting heavy-handed with the situation, required an apology. It never came. The police visited the home again, and were more mellow second time around, after she complained to people in positions of responsibility.
Okay, so, you have a virus on the loose, people getting sick, some dying. What do you do? Well, Sweden did nothing but, tell people to use their heads; be cautious, wash your hands, keep them out of your eyes, stay home of you feel sick, self-isolate, etc., and let people go about their business. In South Dakota, the state government civil servants did the same. All is well in both places. Studies have shown, from all around the world, lockdowns were worse for citizenry than the effects of the virus. Lockdowns are bad now. Not just bad but, deadly. Suicide rates have shot into space, especially among teenagers. Lockdowns are doing that, not the virus, which has over a 99% recovery rate.
When orders are placed before the citizenry, they must be enforced, to retain order. Sounds logical.
Then why am I seeing more and more stories of the police showing up in riot gear to take away citizens not following orders, or those not on the ideological side of the current Leftist administration? Why has it become against the law to argue with an officer of the law about... just about anything? If you get upset, at their hand, by their intimidation, and raise your voice, deny any unconstitutional demands placed on you, refuse to comply with the same, and you are treated like a threat, a criminal, a law breaker, put in cuffs and taken away? Is that not the very definition of a police state? And why are police showing up in darkness to do all this. Why are they showing up 9, 10, 11 at night? Why in the dark hours of the morning? This goes way beyond the virus. This is just plain old political harassment. All the citizens in D.C. on January 6th, being rounded up, being treated like total enemies of that state... oh. Right. Anybody who believes in the principles of Americanism, and the Constitution, is an enemy of the Leftist statists.
You know my positions on the history of the virus and how it has been used and how the entire event, vaccinations and all, are not conspiracy theory but, conspiracy fact. Any voices raised with medical facts speaking against Draconian protocols are denounced as misinformants, disinformants, dangerous conspiracy theorists, etc. Recently, the governor of Alabama, Republican, Kay Ivey, said it's time to blame the unvaccinated. In reading an article about that statement, in context, she said things that were so wrong about the virus and vaccinations I had to laugh, lest my blood pressure go through the roof.
A police state must have control of the media. The current administration, as well as Obama's and Clinton's for that matter, had and have that. Once government has control of the media, by any means, force or just ideology, using the police to enforce any measures it deems necessary, is the logical thing that happens next.
I am seeing lots of opinion pieces claiming police are going to be used to enforce vaccinations. Then what? What will it take for Americans to rise up against reckless, wicked tyranny?
America, with its Constitution, should be the one place on Earth where a police state is impossible to bring about. That fence, that wall, that mountain is crumbling. As police quit their jobs because of the stupidity of civic leaders and all their defunding and reimagining the police forces around the nation, new police officers are put in their places, being those who are easily cooperative with ideologically driven, oppressive civil servants who do not serve. They demand, they pontificate. They exercise kingly power. They are destroying their cities and America in the process.
The one thing we can be sure of. If America fully becomes a police state, illegal immigration will cease. Why would people come to a place that is just like the nations they are running from? Unless, of course, they are Leftists and Socialists and Communists and criminals themselves. Then they get treated like family.
God help us.
Okay, so, you have a virus on the loose, people getting sick, some dying. What do you do? Well, Sweden did nothing but, tell people to use their heads; be cautious, wash your hands, keep them out of your eyes, stay home of you feel sick, self-isolate, etc., and let people go about their business. In South Dakota, the state government civil servants did the same. All is well in both places. Studies have shown, from all around the world, lockdowns were worse for citizenry than the effects of the virus. Lockdowns are bad now. Not just bad but, deadly. Suicide rates have shot into space, especially among teenagers. Lockdowns are doing that, not the virus, which has over a 99% recovery rate.
When orders are placed before the citizenry, they must be enforced, to retain order. Sounds logical.
Then why am I seeing more and more stories of the police showing up in riot gear to take away citizens not following orders, or those not on the ideological side of the current Leftist administration? Why has it become against the law to argue with an officer of the law about... just about anything? If you get upset, at their hand, by their intimidation, and raise your voice, deny any unconstitutional demands placed on you, refuse to comply with the same, and you are treated like a threat, a criminal, a law breaker, put in cuffs and taken away? Is that not the very definition of a police state? And why are police showing up in darkness to do all this. Why are they showing up 9, 10, 11 at night? Why in the dark hours of the morning? This goes way beyond the virus. This is just plain old political harassment. All the citizens in D.C. on January 6th, being rounded up, being treated like total enemies of that state... oh. Right. Anybody who believes in the principles of Americanism, and the Constitution, is an enemy of the Leftist statists.
You know my positions on the history of the virus and how it has been used and how the entire event, vaccinations and all, are not conspiracy theory but, conspiracy fact. Any voices raised with medical facts speaking against Draconian protocols are denounced as misinformants, disinformants, dangerous conspiracy theorists, etc. Recently, the governor of Alabama, Republican, Kay Ivey, said it's time to blame the unvaccinated. In reading an article about that statement, in context, she said things that were so wrong about the virus and vaccinations I had to laugh, lest my blood pressure go through the roof.
A police state must have control of the media. The current administration, as well as Obama's and Clinton's for that matter, had and have that. Once government has control of the media, by any means, force or just ideology, using the police to enforce any measures it deems necessary, is the logical thing that happens next.
I am seeing lots of opinion pieces claiming police are going to be used to enforce vaccinations. Then what? What will it take for Americans to rise up against reckless, wicked tyranny?
America, with its Constitution, should be the one place on Earth where a police state is impossible to bring about. That fence, that wall, that mountain is crumbling. As police quit their jobs because of the stupidity of civic leaders and all their defunding and reimagining the police forces around the nation, new police officers are put in their places, being those who are easily cooperative with ideologically driven, oppressive civil servants who do not serve. They demand, they pontificate. They exercise kingly power. They are destroying their cities and America in the process.
The one thing we can be sure of. If America fully becomes a police state, illegal immigration will cease. Why would people come to a place that is just like the nations they are running from? Unless, of course, they are Leftists and Socialists and Communists and criminals themselves. Then they get treated like family.
God help us.
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297. Another New Study - July 26, 2021
America is hopelessly divided. Democrats have become godless, radical Leftists with nary a moral, accountable, responsible, patriotic fiber in their party. Republicans are cowards, who basically let Democrats do what they want because in the end, they are all big government shills as well, and big government means long political careers, not civil servants who come and go home, and they love that as much as Democrats who become fixtures in Washington.
With a nation hopelessly divided, and both political parties aligned, and 95% of main stream media being Leftist, those who love the rule of law more than the rule of men are marginalized pretty quickly, especially through technology, run by rabid Leftist control freak, Communist sympathizers. And they do not even hide that. It's like China has become a celebrity superstar.
So, when another new study comes out, stating the experimental vaccines are dangerous because of the mRNA factor and spike proteins invading the body systems of those injected, dismantling, if just weakening the immune system, and thereby allowing variants to develop, which will require more shots, etc., etc., the Left just continues to rally their control freak wagons to do everything necessary to keep people from being exposed to the information or influenced by it.
More of the actual people who designed these experimental vaccines are coming out and saying they made a mistake. Does not matter. The agenda, the Plandemic must move forward. And by the way, these concoctions ARE, INDEED, EXPERIMENTAL. It is only because of an Emergency Use Authorization that these fluids have been allowed to be used, bypassing normal time frames for research, study and efficacy. You already know the pharmaceutical companies cannot be held responsible, by law. The stupidity of such a law passing through Congress is mindboggling but, well... not really, because a cabal does exist. That is just fact, not theory. Researchers have posted all the documentation for years. I used to just push it aside as more "black helicopter" stuff until I began to research the events preceding and following September 11, 2001. Then, in Jan. 2020, when I began to see, just plainly see, reporting on this virus was just not right, the more I researched, the more the facts, the players, the plans, the agenda all came into focus.
So, new studies, voices of protest, none of that matters. Even if those who believe this entire event is a depopulation scheme are wrong, what is most definitely right is that everything about this event is designed to create the "hive mind."
The hive mind is creating a collective mindset, a Borg, if you will (the collective nemesis of all life in the universe via Star Trek writers). Get people to think the same, trust leaders, accept whatever they are told, react with vehemence against those who disagree, and just follow the person in front of them, even if over a cliff. We are watching this take place.
https://www.naturalhealth365.com/cause-of-covid-jab-side-effects-revealed-3859.html
That's a link to a June article of an interview with Dr. Byram Bridle, an associate professor at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and a viral immunologist. In an interview he stated: "We made a big mistake."
The mistake? The one dozens and dozens of web sites and investigators discovered months ago, and other doctors have pointed out:
"This realization came to light after a confidential study from Pfizer recently leaked online. In it, the data reveals that – far from remaining near the injection site like “traditional” shots – the spike protein from the experimental mRNA shot enters a person’s bloodstream. This allows the protein to spread throughout the body and accumulate in various organs and tissues, including the ovaries, uterus, spleen, heart, bone marrow, lungs, and blood plasma. (A silver lining? Most of this protein appears to end up in the liver, the body’s natural detoxification organ.)"
"In any case, this accumulation, Dr. Bridle says, appears to have a potential tissue-damaging effect, and is a plausible explanation for the increasing reports of blood clots, heart inflammation, menstrual irregularities, and more among people who received these jabs.
“We thought the spike protein was a great target antigen,” Bridle explains, arguing that “we never knew the spike protein itself was a toxin and was a pathogenic protein. So, by [injecting people with these mRNA shots], we are inadvertently inoculating them with a toxin.”
This data isn’t without precedent. Animal research, including a December 2020 study published in Nature Neuroscience, reveals that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can cross the blood-brain barrier. Additional research shows that animals injected with the spike protein developed cardiovascular problems.""
Articles like these have been coming out for months now and yet WHY would the politicians, the media and Big Tech all denounce them? Why push these experimental concoctions and denounce the use of successful, over the counter medications to fight the virus? The answer is as obvious as a train wreck.
Here's another, with video of the actual online meeting the physicians had:
https://www.infowars.com/posts/shock-doctor-warns-that-majority-of-vaccinated-patients-could-have-permanent-heart-damage-some-may-die-within-three-years/
62% of the people a Canadian physician, Dr. Charles Hoffe, has treated, develop microscopic blood clots that can accumulate and prove deadly over time. That plays into the "depopulation scheme" other investigators have discovered. Whether on purpose or totally by ignorance and accident, the DANGER is there. Watch the 9 minute video at that link.
I could place links to this kind of information all day long.
The reason tens of millions, over 40% of Americans refuse to take the shot is simply because THEY DO NOT TRUST THE BASTARDS LYING TO THEM. And it all goes towards deepening the divide in the nation.
Dr. Jonathan Sarfati is a PhD biologist, and Christian, and creationist that works for one of the big creationist ministries, Creation Ministries International: creation.com.
I read an article he wrote on taking the vaccine and was shocked at things he wrote. His total negation of the information accumulating on these vaccines is astonishing. He is entitled to his opinion. It's just shocking to read it. This is a man who can play chess with 16 people at the same time, with his back turned to them all. He is a gifted, brilliant individual. His position on taking the vaccine because the odds are in the favor of those who do, is an alarming warning of how the hive mind penetrates everywhere. This a man who knows confrontation and verbal abuse. Creationists get it all the time. He just stays with the facts of empirical science. Empirical science, and scientists, and doctors, researchers, and the very people who developed the vaccines are stating factually, playing the odds with something that can kill you, rather than get a virus you will probably not even realize you have, and if you do, have over a 99% chance of recovery from, is dangerous. Do Not Do It.
How can that be misinformation? Because Anthony Fauci became the final word for too many Americans. Too many Americans trusted Donald Trump's fast-tracking of getting a vaccine out there and he is still advocating it, even now that he has come out against Fauci, as well he should, and should have never trusted him to begin with.
The hive mind. We are watching it develop, steadily, methodically, and finally. Its power has been flirted with, and romanced by wicked minds for ages. Now, with technology; controlling it, using it, developing more of it, its influence over populations is becoming more and more sure.
The Borg is becoming reality.
Truthfully, I never saw it coming in such a way. Satanic, false miracle-working power, yes. The Bible states that, plainly. But this current event and what it is doing to people... no. I never saw 1984 developing so quickly. People have become robotic, allowing others to think for them.
God help them before it is too late. Maybe it already is. If the vaccine does, indeed, have an accumulative time delay reaction to it, the years ahead will show the warnings should have been heeded. The numbers, right now, show the warnings should be heeded.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
With a nation hopelessly divided, and both political parties aligned, and 95% of main stream media being Leftist, those who love the rule of law more than the rule of men are marginalized pretty quickly, especially through technology, run by rabid Leftist control freak, Communist sympathizers. And they do not even hide that. It's like China has become a celebrity superstar.
So, when another new study comes out, stating the experimental vaccines are dangerous because of the mRNA factor and spike proteins invading the body systems of those injected, dismantling, if just weakening the immune system, and thereby allowing variants to develop, which will require more shots, etc., etc., the Left just continues to rally their control freak wagons to do everything necessary to keep people from being exposed to the information or influenced by it.
More of the actual people who designed these experimental vaccines are coming out and saying they made a mistake. Does not matter. The agenda, the Plandemic must move forward. And by the way, these concoctions ARE, INDEED, EXPERIMENTAL. It is only because of an Emergency Use Authorization that these fluids have been allowed to be used, bypassing normal time frames for research, study and efficacy. You already know the pharmaceutical companies cannot be held responsible, by law. The stupidity of such a law passing through Congress is mindboggling but, well... not really, because a cabal does exist. That is just fact, not theory. Researchers have posted all the documentation for years. I used to just push it aside as more "black helicopter" stuff until I began to research the events preceding and following September 11, 2001. Then, in Jan. 2020, when I began to see, just plainly see, reporting on this virus was just not right, the more I researched, the more the facts, the players, the plans, the agenda all came into focus.
So, new studies, voices of protest, none of that matters. Even if those who believe this entire event is a depopulation scheme are wrong, what is most definitely right is that everything about this event is designed to create the "hive mind."
The hive mind is creating a collective mindset, a Borg, if you will (the collective nemesis of all life in the universe via Star Trek writers). Get people to think the same, trust leaders, accept whatever they are told, react with vehemence against those who disagree, and just follow the person in front of them, even if over a cliff. We are watching this take place.
https://www.naturalhealth365.com/cause-of-covid-jab-side-effects-revealed-3859.html
That's a link to a June article of an interview with Dr. Byram Bridle, an associate professor at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and a viral immunologist. In an interview he stated: "We made a big mistake."
The mistake? The one dozens and dozens of web sites and investigators discovered months ago, and other doctors have pointed out:
"This realization came to light after a confidential study from Pfizer recently leaked online. In it, the data reveals that – far from remaining near the injection site like “traditional” shots – the spike protein from the experimental mRNA shot enters a person’s bloodstream. This allows the protein to spread throughout the body and accumulate in various organs and tissues, including the ovaries, uterus, spleen, heart, bone marrow, lungs, and blood plasma. (A silver lining? Most of this protein appears to end up in the liver, the body’s natural detoxification organ.)"
"In any case, this accumulation, Dr. Bridle says, appears to have a potential tissue-damaging effect, and is a plausible explanation for the increasing reports of blood clots, heart inflammation, menstrual irregularities, and more among people who received these jabs.
“We thought the spike protein was a great target antigen,” Bridle explains, arguing that “we never knew the spike protein itself was a toxin and was a pathogenic protein. So, by [injecting people with these mRNA shots], we are inadvertently inoculating them with a toxin.”
This data isn’t without precedent. Animal research, including a December 2020 study published in Nature Neuroscience, reveals that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can cross the blood-brain barrier. Additional research shows that animals injected with the spike protein developed cardiovascular problems.""
Articles like these have been coming out for months now and yet WHY would the politicians, the media and Big Tech all denounce them? Why push these experimental concoctions and denounce the use of successful, over the counter medications to fight the virus? The answer is as obvious as a train wreck.
Here's another, with video of the actual online meeting the physicians had:
https://www.infowars.com/posts/shock-doctor-warns-that-majority-of-vaccinated-patients-could-have-permanent-heart-damage-some-may-die-within-three-years/
62% of the people a Canadian physician, Dr. Charles Hoffe, has treated, develop microscopic blood clots that can accumulate and prove deadly over time. That plays into the "depopulation scheme" other investigators have discovered. Whether on purpose or totally by ignorance and accident, the DANGER is there. Watch the 9 minute video at that link.
I could place links to this kind of information all day long.
The reason tens of millions, over 40% of Americans refuse to take the shot is simply because THEY DO NOT TRUST THE BASTARDS LYING TO THEM. And it all goes towards deepening the divide in the nation.
Dr. Jonathan Sarfati is a PhD biologist, and Christian, and creationist that works for one of the big creationist ministries, Creation Ministries International: creation.com.
I read an article he wrote on taking the vaccine and was shocked at things he wrote. His total negation of the information accumulating on these vaccines is astonishing. He is entitled to his opinion. It's just shocking to read it. This is a man who can play chess with 16 people at the same time, with his back turned to them all. He is a gifted, brilliant individual. His position on taking the vaccine because the odds are in the favor of those who do, is an alarming warning of how the hive mind penetrates everywhere. This a man who knows confrontation and verbal abuse. Creationists get it all the time. He just stays with the facts of empirical science. Empirical science, and scientists, and doctors, researchers, and the very people who developed the vaccines are stating factually, playing the odds with something that can kill you, rather than get a virus you will probably not even realize you have, and if you do, have over a 99% chance of recovery from, is dangerous. Do Not Do It.
How can that be misinformation? Because Anthony Fauci became the final word for too many Americans. Too many Americans trusted Donald Trump's fast-tracking of getting a vaccine out there and he is still advocating it, even now that he has come out against Fauci, as well he should, and should have never trusted him to begin with.
The hive mind. We are watching it develop, steadily, methodically, and finally. Its power has been flirted with, and romanced by wicked minds for ages. Now, with technology; controlling it, using it, developing more of it, its influence over populations is becoming more and more sure.
The Borg is becoming reality.
Truthfully, I never saw it coming in such a way. Satanic, false miracle-working power, yes. The Bible states that, plainly. But this current event and what it is doing to people... no. I never saw 1984 developing so quickly. People have become robotic, allowing others to think for them.
God help them before it is too late. Maybe it already is. If the vaccine does, indeed, have an accumulative time delay reaction to it, the years ahead will show the warnings should have been heeded. The numbers, right now, show the warnings should be heeded.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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298. Uh, Oh. The Israeli's Throw in a Monkey Wrench - July 27, 2021
While Fauci and company continue to scare the pants off Americans with round the clock appeals to get vaccinated before you die, the studies continue to mount that his lies are not just negligent, they are criminal.
Now, you know I'm 66 and should be frightened I'll get the virus and die. I'm not. Why? Because I believe the raw data that is out there for anyone to read. 99.97% of people below the age of 60 (some say 50), that are relatively healthy and have no pre-existing conditions to weaken the immune system will recover if they get sick. Then they have natural immunity and will be that much more able to fend off variants the body will recognize as invaders. I am relatively healthy, more so for my age so, I'm confident my immune system can handle it.
From the beginning, nothing was said by Fauci and company about building up the immune system.
From the beginning, the Fauci cabal spoke out against any and all medications that worked to address the virus, both preventative and active. Why? They had plans.
From the beginning, Fauci spoke against wearing masks, then changed, then waffled, then changed, then... repeat. Now, even the vaccinated should wear masks. Do they work, or not? The man is the epitome of confusion, and worse, he's nefarious. The more they parade this man around, the more his lies catch up with him. Why he has not been thoroughly investigated and arrested just shows how deep and wide the cabal is spread. Still, to his credit, Senator Rand Paul is now going after him in a more concerted fashion so, hopefully Fauci will be terminated from his messiah-like position on the msm, at least, if not locked away for his crimes.
From the beginning Sweden chose to just stay cautious and not flip out and lock down their nation. They stayed well below the rates of other nations, and today they are at zero deaths from Covid, which, btw, means Covid only, not CDC inflated numbers of people already sick from something, even terminally ill people, that got Covid and succumbed and were charted as a Covid death. The actual number of Covid deaths, by the CDC's own admission, was 2% of tallied numbers. No lie is too great when you are trying to gain control of the world in a Plandemic.
The same goes for South Dakota under the level-headed guidance of Gov. Kristi Noem. They did not lock down. They are doing fine. Does the msm ever mention that? No way. She's a Conservative. She is the enemy. Why not mention Sweden, which is a Liberal nation? Nope. Can't state anything that does not favor the agenda.
At present, the voices of outrage against those refusing to vaccinate are growing louder but, they have no answers for simple questions and the raw data. They obfuscate, they make end runs around all questions exposing their agenda, if not just their hypocrisy.
It's the same as Democrats working feverishly to deny any and all audits of voting records and machines used for the 2020 election. If the election was fair and square, why all the tantrums and stonewalling and threats? If the vaccines are the only possible hope for the world, why sidestep questions about natural immunity?
The Israeli's have now released a study showing, get this, people vaccinated have an almost 700% chance of getting the virus through variants than those not vaccinated.
That is quite the monkey wrench thrown into the cabal's gears.
If you have had the virus and developed immunity, the chances of you getting sick again are 0.27%. Did that study make it into main stream news? Why not? Is it not tremendously good news? Not for those who unleashed this Plandemic and control the media.
Here's an article laying it all out:
https://conservativeplaylist.com/2021/07/27/delta-variant-natural-immunity-700-better-than-the-vaccine/
The studies continue to emerge, the people involved in actual treatment are waking up and speaking out, and if things go as they are, the remaining number of Americans refusing to vaccinate with toxic concoctions will remain free. What happens to those who have vaccinated... I hope and pray some kind of treatment is developed to stop advancement of spike proteins in their systems before the inevitable.
This is truly a race against time. The world is under attack, literally, from powers and entities almost beyond imagination.
God can step in at any moment and stop them in their tracks. It does not seem likely He will. We are reaping what we have sown. Now, it is a race to see which side can withstand the push of the other.
In the Bible, in the prophecies of Daniel, is a long history recorded between the prophetic King of the North and the King of the South in the eleventh chapter. My own understanding of the vast sway of powers recorded there, a history of that region of the world, the ancient biblical world of prophetic empires - Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, follows the same train as other chapters and other portions of the Bible where Rome divided, the Papacy developed as a continuation of Rome, Europe's nations developed, the USA came on the scene, Communism developed, and the kings of North and South morphed. The king of the North, the Papacy, pushed hard at the king of the South, Communism, in 1989 and beyond, with the fall of the eastern Bloc and USSR. Right now the Papacy and Roman Catholic system, is embroiled in its own scandals for the last 20 years. JP2 was the strongest pontiff in a 1000 years. He left the scene, so did Rome's march for power. China now has the market share of commerce with the world, not the USA. The dollar is dwindling. The American empire is failing as the military industrial complex keeps waging war for profit. China stays out of war and just keeps making more money, buying up land all over the USA.
Take a look at the map in this article and just simply behold how things have gone crazy in the last 20 years:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-07-26/most-terrifying-map-world
A detour of colossal proportions and distance has overtaken the world's directions, prophetically speaking. It is alarming. God is not mocked. Man cooperates, things happen as He states. Man does not cooperate, detours take place to give man things to think about as results of our rebellion. Darkness is coming, my friends. I do not know as the kind of repentance Daniel showed in his prayer of the 9th chapter of that book will help at this point. The die is cast. Rebellion has consequences. The prince of this world, the prince of the power of the air, the Adversary, the enemy of souls gains ground. The coming of the Lord... delayed? It appears so.
God is on his throne. The Earth is His; all the gold and silver, and the cattle on a thousand hills. He waits for cooperation from a people, a remnant. When He has it, the end will come. Until then...
God help us.
Now, you know I'm 66 and should be frightened I'll get the virus and die. I'm not. Why? Because I believe the raw data that is out there for anyone to read. 99.97% of people below the age of 60 (some say 50), that are relatively healthy and have no pre-existing conditions to weaken the immune system will recover if they get sick. Then they have natural immunity and will be that much more able to fend off variants the body will recognize as invaders. I am relatively healthy, more so for my age so, I'm confident my immune system can handle it.
From the beginning, nothing was said by Fauci and company about building up the immune system.
From the beginning, the Fauci cabal spoke out against any and all medications that worked to address the virus, both preventative and active. Why? They had plans.
From the beginning, Fauci spoke against wearing masks, then changed, then waffled, then changed, then... repeat. Now, even the vaccinated should wear masks. Do they work, or not? The man is the epitome of confusion, and worse, he's nefarious. The more they parade this man around, the more his lies catch up with him. Why he has not been thoroughly investigated and arrested just shows how deep and wide the cabal is spread. Still, to his credit, Senator Rand Paul is now going after him in a more concerted fashion so, hopefully Fauci will be terminated from his messiah-like position on the msm, at least, if not locked away for his crimes.
From the beginning Sweden chose to just stay cautious and not flip out and lock down their nation. They stayed well below the rates of other nations, and today they are at zero deaths from Covid, which, btw, means Covid only, not CDC inflated numbers of people already sick from something, even terminally ill people, that got Covid and succumbed and were charted as a Covid death. The actual number of Covid deaths, by the CDC's own admission, was 2% of tallied numbers. No lie is too great when you are trying to gain control of the world in a Plandemic.
The same goes for South Dakota under the level-headed guidance of Gov. Kristi Noem. They did not lock down. They are doing fine. Does the msm ever mention that? No way. She's a Conservative. She is the enemy. Why not mention Sweden, which is a Liberal nation? Nope. Can't state anything that does not favor the agenda.
At present, the voices of outrage against those refusing to vaccinate are growing louder but, they have no answers for simple questions and the raw data. They obfuscate, they make end runs around all questions exposing their agenda, if not just their hypocrisy.
It's the same as Democrats working feverishly to deny any and all audits of voting records and machines used for the 2020 election. If the election was fair and square, why all the tantrums and stonewalling and threats? If the vaccines are the only possible hope for the world, why sidestep questions about natural immunity?
The Israeli's have now released a study showing, get this, people vaccinated have an almost 700% chance of getting the virus through variants than those not vaccinated.
That is quite the monkey wrench thrown into the cabal's gears.
If you have had the virus and developed immunity, the chances of you getting sick again are 0.27%. Did that study make it into main stream news? Why not? Is it not tremendously good news? Not for those who unleashed this Plandemic and control the media.
Here's an article laying it all out:
https://conservativeplaylist.com/2021/07/27/delta-variant-natural-immunity-700-better-than-the-vaccine/
The studies continue to emerge, the people involved in actual treatment are waking up and speaking out, and if things go as they are, the remaining number of Americans refusing to vaccinate with toxic concoctions will remain free. What happens to those who have vaccinated... I hope and pray some kind of treatment is developed to stop advancement of spike proteins in their systems before the inevitable.
This is truly a race against time. The world is under attack, literally, from powers and entities almost beyond imagination.
God can step in at any moment and stop them in their tracks. It does not seem likely He will. We are reaping what we have sown. Now, it is a race to see which side can withstand the push of the other.
In the Bible, in the prophecies of Daniel, is a long history recorded between the prophetic King of the North and the King of the South in the eleventh chapter. My own understanding of the vast sway of powers recorded there, a history of that region of the world, the ancient biblical world of prophetic empires - Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, follows the same train as other chapters and other portions of the Bible where Rome divided, the Papacy developed as a continuation of Rome, Europe's nations developed, the USA came on the scene, Communism developed, and the kings of North and South morphed. The king of the North, the Papacy, pushed hard at the king of the South, Communism, in 1989 and beyond, with the fall of the eastern Bloc and USSR. Right now the Papacy and Roman Catholic system, is embroiled in its own scandals for the last 20 years. JP2 was the strongest pontiff in a 1000 years. He left the scene, so did Rome's march for power. China now has the market share of commerce with the world, not the USA. The dollar is dwindling. The American empire is failing as the military industrial complex keeps waging war for profit. China stays out of war and just keeps making more money, buying up land all over the USA.
Take a look at the map in this article and just simply behold how things have gone crazy in the last 20 years:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-07-26/most-terrifying-map-world
A detour of colossal proportions and distance has overtaken the world's directions, prophetically speaking. It is alarming. God is not mocked. Man cooperates, things happen as He states. Man does not cooperate, detours take place to give man things to think about as results of our rebellion. Darkness is coming, my friends. I do not know as the kind of repentance Daniel showed in his prayer of the 9th chapter of that book will help at this point. The die is cast. Rebellion has consequences. The prince of this world, the prince of the power of the air, the Adversary, the enemy of souls gains ground. The coming of the Lord... delayed? It appears so.
God is on his throne. The Earth is His; all the gold and silver, and the cattle on a thousand hills. He waits for cooperation from a people, a remnant. When He has it, the end will come. Until then...
God help us.
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299. Wait! A Policy of No Regret? 1984 Lives!
Australia has flipped out. Well, Aussie elected civil servants.
Do not talk to people. Yeah, literally stated by a mouthpiece for the government of New South Wales, or was that the whole continent? I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. It is still alarmingly Orwellian. Hold your tongue people, even if you are wearing a mask, which she admits does not provide full protection. The truth is, far less than adequate protection. Almost no protection, unless droplets are involved.
Do not talk to people. Communicate online.
If that is not Orwellian to you, if that is not government overreach, if that is not sicko and frightening to you, you are blind. You are scared blind.
82,000 people tested.
111 new cases.
1 death, an 80 year old man.
Lockdown Sidney, 900,000 people cannot go to work.
The No Regret Policy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqrJTmfloO8&t=327s
I cannot imagine that video staying up much longer, although Rubin is a talking head and just commenting on the Draconian nature of it all, the 1984 is here nature of it all. He's a really mellow guy. Unlikely seen as any kind of threat to the cabal. Just the same, take a few minutes to watch and listen. It's good to see people with some kind of sense still getting their thoughts out there without attack or censorship consequence.
I keep seeing a lot of weird stuff coming out of Australia. Now, it is a continent, not a country. It's states and provinces are not all crazy.
When things like this happen, it is not only easy but, mandatory to distrust government. It just is. You cannot have common sense and look at this with lenient eyes.
Europe is protesting in the millions. It remains to be seen if it makes a difference. The fall of the Eastern bloc by millions of people taking to the streets in 1989, was not just vocal. They tore Communism down. Unless that happens again, globalist tyrants have no reason to stop what they are doing. As long as they have the police and military under their control, they can just plow along as they please.
I wonder though, what it would, will take, for Americans to rise up. Death. I suppose people dying from inoculations would make people angry enough. I don't know. Would locking down a 900k populated city for 111 cases and 1 death do it? It doesn't seem to be doing it in Sidney.
I took my stand here in February of 2020. Nothing has happened to change that stance, and everything has happened to put it in concrete.
This event was planned, perpetuated, and propelled by wicked agents of evil. Period.
Do not talk to people. Yeah, literally stated by a mouthpiece for the government of New South Wales, or was that the whole continent? I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. It is still alarmingly Orwellian. Hold your tongue people, even if you are wearing a mask, which she admits does not provide full protection. The truth is, far less than adequate protection. Almost no protection, unless droplets are involved.
Do not talk to people. Communicate online.
If that is not Orwellian to you, if that is not government overreach, if that is not sicko and frightening to you, you are blind. You are scared blind.
82,000 people tested.
111 new cases.
1 death, an 80 year old man.
Lockdown Sidney, 900,000 people cannot go to work.
The No Regret Policy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqrJTmfloO8&t=327s
I cannot imagine that video staying up much longer, although Rubin is a talking head and just commenting on the Draconian nature of it all, the 1984 is here nature of it all. He's a really mellow guy. Unlikely seen as any kind of threat to the cabal. Just the same, take a few minutes to watch and listen. It's good to see people with some kind of sense still getting their thoughts out there without attack or censorship consequence.
I keep seeing a lot of weird stuff coming out of Australia. Now, it is a continent, not a country. It's states and provinces are not all crazy.
When things like this happen, it is not only easy but, mandatory to distrust government. It just is. You cannot have common sense and look at this with lenient eyes.
Europe is protesting in the millions. It remains to be seen if it makes a difference. The fall of the Eastern bloc by millions of people taking to the streets in 1989, was not just vocal. They tore Communism down. Unless that happens again, globalist tyrants have no reason to stop what they are doing. As long as they have the police and military under their control, they can just plow along as they please.
I wonder though, what it would, will take, for Americans to rise up. Death. I suppose people dying from inoculations would make people angry enough. I don't know. Would locking down a 900k populated city for 111 cases and 1 death do it? It doesn't seem to be doing it in Sidney.
I took my stand here in February of 2020. Nothing has happened to change that stance, and everything has happened to put it in concrete.
This event was planned, perpetuated, and propelled by wicked agents of evil. Period.
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300. These Questions Cannot Be Asked Enough - July 28, 2021
Piers Morgan, Geraldo Rivera, and others in the media. Governors, and the Non-President here in the USA and elected civil servants around the world, and of course, Anthony Fauci and the medical cabal all appeal to me, in the most in my face terms, to get vaccinated, blaming the unvaccinated for continued Covid woes. You have all seen the headlines, right?
DO THE VACCINES WORK OR DON'T THEY???
Common sense tells me if the vaccine protects you, what do you care if I get it? You are protected. If somewhere between 25 and 40% of people are not vaccinated, herd immunity will still take place. It should have taken place already. Not every person on the planet will get sick. Most people are already immune to it, even though it's a man-made bioweapon. Viruses weaken over time, as they fight for survival. They do not strengthen. Why is the Delta variant so strong? Why are citizens not being told the vaccines DO NOT WORK? Why aren't records being kept of who is vaccinated? People are receiving shots for free, by the millions, and no records are started. Without records no evidence can exist what happens from receiving the shots. All adverse reactions have no date or time stamp to be studied. Why are illegal immigrants being allowed to come into the nation and not being vaccinated? Why are they being let go and even driven to various parts of the country? If vaccines are so important, why haven't over a million recent illegal immigrants been vaccinated before being allowed to walk American streets?
WHY HASN'T HERD IMMUNITY TAKEN PLACE IN THE USA?
The population was told in early 2020 masks are not necessary. Then, we just had to wear masks for a few months and this would be over. Then, the cabal said, Well, we didn't know enough about the virus. Continue the masks. Lie. Fauci knew about the virus before it even hit America. Then everything became discussion about vaccines, all the while denouncing ANY remedy being used by physicians around the world.
WHY DO FAUCI AND CO. CONTINUE TO DENOUNCE REMEDIES THAT WORK, IN SOME CASES 100% OF THE TIME?
Aside from Hydroxychloroquine, other well known and oft-used medications have been administered in early detection cases and proved 100% successful in treating the virus.
WHY ARE THE INGREDIENTS OF THESE VACCINES AND THE PROCESS OF HOW THEY WORK NOT BEING TOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC?
More people have suffered adverse reactions, serious adverse reactions, and death shortly after receiving the vaccines, in greater numbers than all adverse reactions to vaccines in the last 20 years combined. Why aren't citizens being told this by those in authority? Anyone can find that information from researchers and investigators. The numbers are there. Some believe they are even higher than what little is being reported by the CDC. Doctors all over the planet have begun crusades, literally, to warn people and see the vaccines discontinued until proper time-frame study is done.
If so many people in the medical community are raising their voices, that is a red flag that any kind of vaccination enforcement is wrong. Not just wrong but, criminal.
A traditional vaccine is basically a tiny amount of the invasive particle, with other ingredients to help it work in a small area of the body, generally, the upper arm/shoulder area. The immune system attacks the invader and immunity is built up as a result. Few dangerous reactions occur. Pain, swelling in the injection area. Nausea, headache, stiffness... NOT blood clots. NOT heart attacks. NOT searing, acidic pain. NOT Miscarriages. NOT DEATH. Not anything actually serious, unless someone has a definitive medical reason to have a serious allergic reaction.
These experimental vaccines, which are not thoroughly tested vaccines, they are emergency concoctions, contain ingredients that do not help the immune system. They attack the immune system! They literally change the DNA of the injected. They change your blood cells. They cause microscopic blood clots, which over time, will cause large clots, and bring about death by heart attack, or any other demise blood clots can cause. This information is everywhere now, EXCEPT coming from the very people demanding everybody get jabbed!
https://www.newstarget.com/2021-07-27-medical-bombshell-blood-doctor-releases-findings-showing-modernas-mrna-covid-vaccines-change-red-blood-cells.html
In what world, with any common sense and any integrity, would such information be kept from the populace?
Even if just 1% of people have a deadly reaction, if all 7.5 billion people take the vaccine, DO THE MATH.
In what possible world of sanity can tens of millions having serious reactions and 7.5 million people dead be a remedy?
WHY AREN'T THESE QUESTIONS BEING ASKED BY THE PRESS?
HOW CAN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CONCLUDE THE GOVERNMENT HAS A RIGHT TO DEMAND ANY HEALTH REGIMINE FOR ANY CITIZEN?
How many people die from tobacco use every year? From alcohol consumption? From obesity? Does the government, do politicians now have the right to tell everyone they cannot smoke, drink, eat greasy food, or unhealthy amounts of salt and sugar?
Diabetes has become epidemic. Is that not an emergency? Millions of people needlessly dying every single year, for decades. Why not stop the production of alcohol, tobacco, white sugar, fried foods, and all the rest that harms people, without question, without doubt, just by virtue of beholding the fattest nation on the planet.
I told my wife, officials in Australia are telling people not to talk to each other! She replied, Will they next tell us not to breathe?
INSANITY. These people are lunatics. If they are not evil, tell me. What are they? Just poor, misguided malcontents?
Every fiber of my being went into red light mode in January of 2020. It was obvious something was not right about the way this event was being reported by the msm.
Dozens of questions are not being asked, and if they are asked of these people in positions of authority, they are sidestepped, ignored, or denounced. That screams PROBLEM.
Forcing people to lockdown has been detrimental enough. Forcing people to accept an injection, of anything, is so diabolical it staggers the mind. It makes the Communist Chinese Party look amiable by comparison.
How is it a woman is free to have an abortion, which definitely kills the baby but, people are not free to reject a vaccination that might cause them to have a bad reaction or worse?
The inconsistency there is breathtakingly incredible.
If the government can force you to take an injection, they can demand and force you to take or do anything! If my health decisions are not sacred to me, alone, FREEDOM, LIBERTY, PURSUIT of HAPPINESS ARE GONE! LIFE means nothing more than what a government requires of you!
That is the very definition of Orwellianism!
DO THE VACCINES WORK OR DON'T THEY???
Common sense tells me if the vaccine protects you, what do you care if I get it? You are protected. If somewhere between 25 and 40% of people are not vaccinated, herd immunity will still take place. It should have taken place already. Not every person on the planet will get sick. Most people are already immune to it, even though it's a man-made bioweapon. Viruses weaken over time, as they fight for survival. They do not strengthen. Why is the Delta variant so strong? Why are citizens not being told the vaccines DO NOT WORK? Why aren't records being kept of who is vaccinated? People are receiving shots for free, by the millions, and no records are started. Without records no evidence can exist what happens from receiving the shots. All adverse reactions have no date or time stamp to be studied. Why are illegal immigrants being allowed to come into the nation and not being vaccinated? Why are they being let go and even driven to various parts of the country? If vaccines are so important, why haven't over a million recent illegal immigrants been vaccinated before being allowed to walk American streets?
WHY HASN'T HERD IMMUNITY TAKEN PLACE IN THE USA?
The population was told in early 2020 masks are not necessary. Then, we just had to wear masks for a few months and this would be over. Then, the cabal said, Well, we didn't know enough about the virus. Continue the masks. Lie. Fauci knew about the virus before it even hit America. Then everything became discussion about vaccines, all the while denouncing ANY remedy being used by physicians around the world.
WHY DO FAUCI AND CO. CONTINUE TO DENOUNCE REMEDIES THAT WORK, IN SOME CASES 100% OF THE TIME?
Aside from Hydroxychloroquine, other well known and oft-used medications have been administered in early detection cases and proved 100% successful in treating the virus.
WHY ARE THE INGREDIENTS OF THESE VACCINES AND THE PROCESS OF HOW THEY WORK NOT BEING TOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC?
More people have suffered adverse reactions, serious adverse reactions, and death shortly after receiving the vaccines, in greater numbers than all adverse reactions to vaccines in the last 20 years combined. Why aren't citizens being told this by those in authority? Anyone can find that information from researchers and investigators. The numbers are there. Some believe they are even higher than what little is being reported by the CDC. Doctors all over the planet have begun crusades, literally, to warn people and see the vaccines discontinued until proper time-frame study is done.
If so many people in the medical community are raising their voices, that is a red flag that any kind of vaccination enforcement is wrong. Not just wrong but, criminal.
A traditional vaccine is basically a tiny amount of the invasive particle, with other ingredients to help it work in a small area of the body, generally, the upper arm/shoulder area. The immune system attacks the invader and immunity is built up as a result. Few dangerous reactions occur. Pain, swelling in the injection area. Nausea, headache, stiffness... NOT blood clots. NOT heart attacks. NOT searing, acidic pain. NOT Miscarriages. NOT DEATH. Not anything actually serious, unless someone has a definitive medical reason to have a serious allergic reaction.
These experimental vaccines, which are not thoroughly tested vaccines, they are emergency concoctions, contain ingredients that do not help the immune system. They attack the immune system! They literally change the DNA of the injected. They change your blood cells. They cause microscopic blood clots, which over time, will cause large clots, and bring about death by heart attack, or any other demise blood clots can cause. This information is everywhere now, EXCEPT coming from the very people demanding everybody get jabbed!
https://www.newstarget.com/2021-07-27-medical-bombshell-blood-doctor-releases-findings-showing-modernas-mrna-covid-vaccines-change-red-blood-cells.html
In what world, with any common sense and any integrity, would such information be kept from the populace?
Even if just 1% of people have a deadly reaction, if all 7.5 billion people take the vaccine, DO THE MATH.
In what possible world of sanity can tens of millions having serious reactions and 7.5 million people dead be a remedy?
WHY AREN'T THESE QUESTIONS BEING ASKED BY THE PRESS?
HOW CAN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CONCLUDE THE GOVERNMENT HAS A RIGHT TO DEMAND ANY HEALTH REGIMINE FOR ANY CITIZEN?
How many people die from tobacco use every year? From alcohol consumption? From obesity? Does the government, do politicians now have the right to tell everyone they cannot smoke, drink, eat greasy food, or unhealthy amounts of salt and sugar?
Diabetes has become epidemic. Is that not an emergency? Millions of people needlessly dying every single year, for decades. Why not stop the production of alcohol, tobacco, white sugar, fried foods, and all the rest that harms people, without question, without doubt, just by virtue of beholding the fattest nation on the planet.
I told my wife, officials in Australia are telling people not to talk to each other! She replied, Will they next tell us not to breathe?
INSANITY. These people are lunatics. If they are not evil, tell me. What are they? Just poor, misguided malcontents?
Every fiber of my being went into red light mode in January of 2020. It was obvious something was not right about the way this event was being reported by the msm.
Dozens of questions are not being asked, and if they are asked of these people in positions of authority, they are sidestepped, ignored, or denounced. That screams PROBLEM.
Forcing people to lockdown has been detrimental enough. Forcing people to accept an injection, of anything, is so diabolical it staggers the mind. It makes the Communist Chinese Party look amiable by comparison.
How is it a woman is free to have an abortion, which definitely kills the baby but, people are not free to reject a vaccination that might cause them to have a bad reaction or worse?
The inconsistency there is breathtakingly incredible.
If the government can force you to take an injection, they can demand and force you to take or do anything! If my health decisions are not sacred to me, alone, FREEDOM, LIBERTY, PURSUIT of HAPPINESS ARE GONE! LIFE means nothing more than what a government requires of you!
That is the very definition of Orwellianism!