January 3, 2006

                                  All lies have one thing in common.

     Every lie has to do with claiming false causation.  Each lie says that an event was caused by something that profits the person telling the lie. 

     The ozone hole is a good example.  Someone found that by saying freon caused an annual, natural disappearance of ozone over the South Pole, they could take a .99 cent can of freon, raise the price to $19.99, and make people think it is so dangerous that only a licensed technician could handle it.

      It's easy to see what happened to the profit available from the little can of freon.  Instead of making ten or fifteen cents on each of hundreds millions of cans, manufactures were making ten or fifteen dollars! 

     Oh, pyramid of lies!  Vast mountain of deception!  The wonder of it all!

     The environmental movement proved its worth to those who would lie about causation.  "We turned freon makers into billionaires!  We can do the same for you!"  

     Asbestos manufacturers were among the first to go, destroyed by a howling pack of vicious liars.  Now, of course, our brake pads aren't as good.  On 9/11, buildings whose beams were stripped of asbestos collapsed in the fires, another case of environmentalists destroying thousands of their fellow citizens. 

     The makers of asbestos substitutes are rolling in cash.

     Every section of every store is filled with "healthy" , "safe" products that claim to harm neither mind nor body.  The only things damaged are the souls of those telling the lies.

     Those who loved death more than profit focused on the imaginary problem of overpopulation.  They used the environmental movement to help.  "Millions will die of malaria if we can get rid of DDT!  Rachel Carson can pack an alarmist book chock full of lies, and our media employees will shill it.  Fools will believe.  Millions will die.  The imaginary problem of overpopulation will be solved."

     In some cases, the other side lies about imaginary causes (air conditioning chemicals/ozone hole).  In other cases, the other side lies about imaginary effects (DDT/harming birds).  In either case, lies are compounded until money begins to flow.

Then, another group of liars finds something to lie about.

     Pray that they will stop lying.  Our prayers are the only chance they have.

January 5, 2006

           The First Law of Media Causality: 

           If X, (X equals any unusual event) then Y. (Y always equals Higher Taxes)

    Media makes reality with the simple formula, If X, then Y. The reverse is also said to be true, We need Y (higher taxes) because X is either true, possibly true, can be made to seem true, or is one of those things to at least one or two people known for their sensitivity.

    Our everlasting homework assignment is to absorb the news from any source and identify the constant formula.  For instance,  

     If X equals: "Health care lacking for large number of children!"  (married couples, senior citizens, immigrants, miners, farmers, residents of Africa, etc. may appear instead of "children".), then Y equals:  ("Funds must be made available for doctors, nurses, drugs, sanitation, clean water, etc.")

     If X = "Coal miners buried alive!", then Y = ("more government inspectors and nationalizing of coal mines ar the only ways to ensure worker safety.")

     If X = "Planes crashed into American buildings!", then Y equals "largest possible amount to be spent for security."

     If X = "Lead poisoning destroys cognitive ability of city residents!", then Y equals "All dwelling units to be inspected and repaired by new department of household safety."

     All media releases follow this simple formula.  It's very important to those who want to reduce the free areas of the economy and expand the controlled sector.   One variation of the First Law of Lies:

     If X = "Unregulated __________ (s) is/are a real or potential hazard", then Y equals, "Unregulated ___________ (s) should be taxed, licensed, inspected, and/or eliminated."

     We understand that X always equals something that can be made to appear to be a problem and Y always equals higher taxes, bigger government, and less freedom.  X is stated loudly and clearly, Y is often whispered as an urgent afterthought.

     Though we hate to see our freedom eroded, we have been ordered to love those who make a living by enslaving us.  Dying for truth in the face of injustice is imitating He who appointed the first Pope. 

     It is nice that God has given the tax-addicted enough restraint to take the trouble to lie to us, rather than just sending out the usual Caesar/Castro goons to take what they want.  After they get rid of that pesky 2nd Amendment, they'll be much quicker and far more efficient in confiscating the tiny bits of assets remaining outside their control. 

     After we're disarmed, we'll have the joy of even more enemies to love and many, many more reasons to love them.

January 9, 2006

                         Bad habits are hard to break.  Our idea of time is hardest.

     It's hard to stop drinking or smoking or taking other kinds of narcotics.  It's hard to stay away from drugs like serotonin that we produce in our minds when gambling or buying and selling or involved in dangerous activities.

     It is far harder to break mental habits with which we've grown comfortable.  Most of us are comfortable with the long time spans we hear so much about.  We think it's a sign of education and intelligence to nod wisely and say, "The earth is twenty billion years old."

     That fact fits like an old shoe.  Giving it up is like knocking down the keystone of an arch, a lot of other comfortable facts fall down along with it.  We find that part of our mind which has been carefully decorated with the latest geegaws is suddenly empty.  "Too radical!" we say to ourselves, and retreat into the comfortable world of endless timelines.

     Saying to oneself  "God has the ability to program three dimensional particles." is a first step toward freedom from convention.  Once we see that He, or His angelic sub-programmers, could easily program and arrange enough particles for all creation in a week, fundamentalism begins to make more sense than anything else. 

     Under the "books" section of this web site, there's a free download of "New Road to Rome".  It's a book in three parts, the creation of space and what's in it, another on time, and another on human history.  It's all in a couple of hundred pages.  Consider taking a look.  It's free, but, if you're comfortable with all that time on your hands, you may have a hard time with it.

January 10, 2006

                                                     Time and causation.

     Our human nature is such that when a cause is removed from its effect, it's importance is minimized.  Those who want to minimize God remove Him as far from us as possible.  Evolution was a handy way to remove Him in time.

     Hordes of geologists, biologists, and other tax-addicted people embraced evolution.  It was a perfect system for those who wanted to make God less while making government more.  A few centuries after God-minimizers had removed His Body and Blood from services in many state-supported religions, evolution removed His activity in Creation. Those who wanted to remove God from closeness to mankind moved Him to an ever more distant past so cleverly that those who denied His very existence could call themselves "progressive" and those who chose not to believe such men were called "ignorant".

     As evolution pushed Him farther back in time, His power was diminished in human minds, even if subconsciously.  By relating fundamentalism with an ability to program in three dimensions, we see how He could have programmed the universe in a week.  It is a step toward seeing how powerful He really is.

     We should return to many sorts of fundamentalisms.  Mathematical fundamentalism teaches children to use numbers.  Direct causes and effects, "two plus two makes four" teach a mind to automatically appreciate direct truth.  So, the sort of math taught today avoids such hard facts and the dreaded "rote learning" and paralyzes the students' minds.  

     The same process occurs with reading, writing, and every other study.  Truth is avoided, rather than sought, and all touched by the process are forever less than they could have been.  The result is that scores drop, and "specialists" are hired to try to make up for the confusion it is often too late to repair.

     No surprise.  It's what the leader of the other side has wanted since he became a spiritual virus.

January 13, 2006

                                              Everything's okay.

     Robert Browning's old poem says "God's in His Heaven, all's right with the world."  That sounds good until we look at all that seems to be wrong.

     The poem is right, there's nothing wrong.  The things that we think are wrong are all caused by people with free will who make bad choices.

     Problems in education are caused by people who will not do anything good that might jeopardize their tenure.

     Environmental problems are caused by people who willingly exaggerate and tell lies for money.

     Political problems are caused by people who take bribes to take little bits of created matter and energy from their rightful owners and give them to favored people.

     Problems in the legal system are always the result of people choosing not to tell the truth.

     All the problems inflicted by government stem from hordes of people whose self-deception drives them into thinking that they are helping by taxing and regulating their neighbors into slavery.

     All such problems are wonderful.  They allow the worst among us to determine where they are going to spend eternity by stealing from us.  The very same problems give us an opportunity to show that we have moved into the Kingdom of God by loving our enemies.   With an economy of effort so efficient that it must be divine, God has set up one world that lets everyone be free to decide where they want to spend eternity or be free to decide that's not a problem of concern.

     Truly, God has set it up most wonderfully.  Vain politicians rave on and on, and we have an opportunity love them no matter how much they hate us and lie to us.  

     For those who love their neighbor, God is in His Heaven, and all is right with the world.

Monday, January 16, 2005

                                                 Two desires.

                                                        Part 1

     Everyone wants to make a living.    We all know we need good jobs.

                                                        Part 2

     When we get a job, we don't want someone taking it away. 

     Government exists to develop and protect systems in which bribers can make enough to bribe government agencies to protect their livelihoods.  Today, bribes may be known as "campaign contributions".

     Suppose, for example, that one wants to be a dermatologist.  A governing body of dermatologists keeps track of how many dermatologists there can be without reducing the income of existing dermatologists.  Complicated systems that include qualifying tests, admissions, graduations, and getting hired by hospitals keep the number of dermatologists under control.  Every occupation's governing body prefers that problems with which they make a living be kept difficult to fix.  Dues levied on members provide "campaign contributions" to ensure that organizational desires can be properly legislated into law.

     Suppose, for instance, I discover that using a magnifying glass to focus a beam of sunlight on age spots for several seconds makes them disappear a week or so after the "treatment".

     Should this become publicized in such a way that dermatologists' income might be reduced, the governing dermatologists would soon direct their media shills to solemnly warn us about "The dangers of using magnifying glasses to focus sunlight on age spots".  Access to media is always the result of payola, with funds generated from dues and donations.

     Then, I may discover that a magnifying glass, when used to focus light on moles one or two times for 7 or 8 seconds in mid-morning or afternoon, will cause them to disappear a few days later.  The governing dermatologists will increase the urgency of their media messages, and threaten lawsuits that might accuse me of "practicing medicine without a license".

     After that, I may discover that a person could use a magnifying glass to focus sunlight on small skin cancers, and that they were thereby destroyed.

     Then, one or two dermatologists would break from the herd, and announce that "It is true that skilled, licensed professionals may focus sunlight on moles and age spots and make them disappear.  We have discovered that magnifying glasses made of quartz transmit the full spectrum of light.  They get rid of melanin deposits (moles) in the skin more safely than anything else.  No one but a licensed dermatologist should be allowed to do this. "

     Suddenly, the dermatologists' governing body will work to have laws passed so that quartz magnifying glasses would only be obtainable by medical doctors who are board certified in dermatology.  Some may want to outlaw magnifying glasses altogether.  Others may develop and patent lenses made of materials allowing partial spectrums of light to be focused to remove different kinds of melanin deposits. 

     Such a process would be widely believed to be "progress". 

     Others may think that real progress would be to show anyone who wanted how they could remove moles and age spots for free.

     Imaginative readers may wonder if I actually did make moles and age spots disappear by using a magnifying glass to focus a bright spot of mid-morning light on them for several seconds.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

                                How some Catholic Fundamentalists see things.

     Catholic Fundamentalists often begin their pilgrimage by picturing God the Father as The Programmer.  We believe that He has the power to program in many dimensions, so we think He can program any sort of matter that He wants and make it behave any way He wants.

     We also believe that He is able to program Sub-Programmers, which earlier Christians called "angels".  The nine orders of Sub-Programmers compiled the basic elements into whatever shapes were necessary for The Programmer to have His will be done.

     He needed a stage setting on which actors with free will could freely choose what they wanted to do.  So, the Subs programmed an iron core, wrapped it with various minerals, and set it spinning around a huge version of a breeder reactor to light and heat the stage. 

     He also programmed millions of replicating forms, plants and animals, to make things more interesting.

     One of the Sub-Programmers had an ego problem.  He wanted to run things, so he set up his own operation, in which he programmed viruses to corrupt the free will programs in that section of The Program called the Garden of Eden.

     The nice thing about Catholic Fundamentalism is that it agrees with Scripture, it agrees with every teaching of the Catholic Church, and it simplifies one's mind. 

     Catholic Fundamentalism allows us to sweep our minds so free of clutter and corruption that we can truly become as little children.

     Oh, the joy.

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

                                                         Pyramids

     Many governments build pyramids.  Pyramids are proven to be the best and cheapest way to keep large numbers of people off the street.

     People who study the Great Pyramid often see all kinds of symbolism.  Many miss the point that it symbolizes that a person or organization has enough power to force hordes of people to cut, polish, and move big stones in hot weather.

      When we look around us, we see that our own governments are run by pale imitations of the pyramid builders.  To be sure, Americans can easily be convinced to give up huge chunks of their lives paying taxes to move stones for government projects.  We don't, of course, carry the stones ourselves, but hire drivers to move trillions of tiny stones inside concrete trucks to build roads, bridges, stadia, and all sorts of things we're told we need.  We are reluctant to face the fact of our own, part-time slavery.

     Modern projects, like pyramids, are symbolic.  They symbolize that modern governments hate us so much that they won't let us build real monuments that would generate tourist income for our descendents.  Most of the government projects we are forced to subsidize usually last less than a lifetime or two before they're torn down and replaced with even greater boobery.

     With real pyramids, utter and total uselessness can be mandated.  Egyptian governments didn't lie and make excuses to force people into doing something that could be made to seem useful.  Our weak, modern governments corrupt their power with prevarications, "You need more roads and bridges, even though we barely try to maintain the ones we have."  Real governments, with real megalomaniacs in charge, would make us build pyramids with no silly lies and excuses about being useful.  "Us, useful?  We're here to enslave you.  You're here to be slaves.  Get busy."

    They're just classier.

    The stones, by the way, were paid for with goods and services "donated" at sword's point from every village, institution, landowner, military unit, temple, bureaucracy, and foreign country that could be looted.  But, Egypt's pyramid builders were smart enough to let their citizens be free and productive enough so they could loot them for centuries.

     Egypt's city planners, unlike ours, had enough sense not to destroy all their towns and cities.  They took their projects into the desert and left most of the working people alone.

     We, as Catholic Fundamentalists, should love truth enough to demand real make-work instead of the fake make-work that our government is providing.  We must demand that our government replace bureaucrats who pretend to be useful with ego-maniacal tyrants who will do what government does best, building bigger pyramids. 

     Why, with the money we're wasting on insane programs, we should have pyramids bigger than Pike's Peak in every state in the land, with all sorts of obscure formulas written into their sizes, shapes, and locations.  

     Even Herod, who was no pharaoh, was miles ahead of our own leaders when it came to vicious uselessness and wacko projects.

Thursday, January 19, 2006

                                                    Free will

     Most of us like dogs.  Dogs are one of God's programs.  Why did He go to all the trouble of programming them?

     Catholic fundamentalists think God programmed dogs so that we'd have something handy to remind us how to deal with Him.  Dogs are not overly bright, but they do have free will.  They can decide to make a mess in the house or go outside.  They can decide to chew up things or not.  They can heel or run off to chase a cat.

     Most of a dog's problems come from not obeying their master and making wrong choices.  If they fail to obey too often, they end up in the pound.  Similarly, human problems occur when we make the wrong choices.  If we disobey the Master too arrogantly, we end up in the pound.

     We study Scripture, the Catechism, and the saints to help ascertain the Master's will.  The more we know, the more we pray, and the harder we try, the better we do.

      If we pray, work, and learn, we will be more obedient to God. 

      One of the highest planes of human existence is to use our free will as well as we want our dog to use his.  

Monday, January 23, 2006     

                   Don’t tax you.  Don’t tax me.  Tax that bird up in the tree.

              Some communities try to raise money by taxing more pets.  If there is a tax on dogs, a tax on cats is fair, just, and equitable.  

              If dogs and cats are taxed, it’s only fair to tax pet birds.  Caged birds may spread diseases, and funds must be available for such public health hazards.

              It’s just as equitable to tax reptiles.  Pythons and anacondas may, at this very moment, be returning to the homes from which they were released.  Children may be devoured in their beds by huge, vengeful snakes. 

              Worse, alligators and crocodiles grow to incredible sizes in sewer systems.  Will they attack water treatment plant workers?  High taxes on pet reptiles will defray the costs of such tragedies and make the children safer.

               Many people keep small pets.  Mice, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, and rabbits must, in the name of equal justice, also be taxed.  If these animals escape, they destroy plants, gardens, and fields of grain.  They multiply, well, like rabbits.  Inside homes, they chew through wires.  That causes fires which contribute to global warming.  Licenses attached to tiny collars would let careless owners be arrested and heavily fined.  

              Any pet may cause the next outbreak of bubonic plague.  So, every pet should be in a cage, and each cage should be inspected quarterly by certified inspectors.  Local colleges must offer classes to educate and certify the staff for a new Bureau of Licensed Cage Inspectors.  We must keep the children safe.

              Aquarium fish and snails are pets.  Each one must be taxed.  When released, they destroy native plants and animals.  Sensitive citizens are shocked and sickened at the thought of vicious guppies in public waterways.  Each aquarium pet should be annually micro-tattooed to prove that its taxes have been paid.

              Horses, ponies, and llamas should be taxed by the pound.  A dollar a pound seems fair.  While pigs, chickens, beef, and dairy cows aren’t technically pets, it would be selfish not to tax them, as well.  Leading Democrats and Republicans agree that higher levels of public services are far more important than affordable food.

              Some citizens do not own pets.  They should pay a No-Pet Tax.  When taking the high costs of pet ownership into account, one can easily justify taxing each person who doesn’t own a pet five times more than each pet owner.  This will provide tax equity while putting a stop to tax avoidance.

              The Pet Tax in all its variations will provide vital public services.  Citizens need many more museums, parks, historical sites, environmental centers, wilderness areas, dialogue rooms, and separate biking/hiking trails, each with full time staffs. 

              Good citizens will welcome these new taxes for true enrichment.

 Tuesday, January 24, 2006  

                                                     Foggy Valley

          I can't remember if it's "old men will dream dreams and young men will see visions" or vice versa.  Like most, I don't even know if I'm a young man or an old one.  At any rate, I can't get an idea out of my head.

          Pictured was a huge valley, rimmed by mountains and filled with fog. 

          Each time someone in the valley told a lie, they added to the fog.  The fog grew ever denser.  When someone in the valley told the truth, he'd be surrounded by a clearer bubble.  As long as he told the truth, the bubble remained clear.  Since the truth-tellers could see where they were going, they tended to move around in the valley.  They made real progress.

          The truth-tellers tended to get to the edge of the valley and could see to climb the steep hills that surrounded the basin.  The higher they got, the clearer the air became.  They could see the world beyond the fog.

          Some of the truth-tellers would return to the people in the fog.  They would encourage other people to tell the truth and escape through the clarity they found.  A few would listen and escape, and a few of them would return and encourage friends and relatives to get away.  It was a continuous process that lasted thousands of years.

          Many people preferred living in the fog.  They did not like being told that better vision was possible.  The more their livelihoods depended on deceptions, the less likely they were to want to see and understand more. If anyone had too much of an effect, the foggers put him to death. 

           The fog that each lie produced was a slightly different color.  Lies told for money and possessions generated a light green fog.  Prevarications that destroyed lives were a reddish color.  All the different colors combined to make a thick, white fog.

           Every lie that was told to another was preceded by several lies told to oneself.  "I have to lie, I am going to lie, and it's all right to lie because I really need what I want."

           It was very, very foggy in the valley. 

           It still is.  It's supposed to be.

Thursday, January 26, 2006

                  Pascal.  Great minds can be right and wrong at the same time.

     Many converts were are led toward Catholicism by considering Pascal's wager.  "If the reward is great enough, it's smart to take a gamble.  The greatest of all possible rewards is eternal joy.  If I live as an obedient Catholic, there is a chance that I will gain the greatest reward.  The cost of making the bet is not high, and in fact, makes me a better person.   The safe bet is to be a Catholic."  Hard to argue with that.

     Pascal came to this conclusion after he invented probability theory to help a friend do better at gambling.  "If you flip a coin a hundred times and it comes up heads each time, what are the odds that it will come up tails on the next toss?"

     Instinctively, most of us would say that the odds were better that it would come up tails, and bet accordingly.  "No", said Pascal.  "We have to look at the coin flip as part of an infinite series.  Therefore, the odds that the next toss will come up tails is exactly 50-50."

     There's a problem with that.  There is no such thing as an infinite series of coin flips.  No one can flip a coin forever, so every series must come to an end.  If it comes to an end after a billion flips, the odds of tails occurring on the 101st flip would be close to fifty-fifty.  If the series came to an end after one hundred and ten flips, the smart bet would be on tails. 

     This analysis of probability theory makes the argument for Catholicism far more valid and very, very urgent.  Even the heartiest unbeliever knows that his own life is not an infinite series.  So, the shorter the time left for his series is what must be analyzed for the bet.      

     The biggest gamblers gamble that they'll have time for a deathbed conversion.  After all, it only takes a minute to repent, and if there's a priest handy, the entire power of the Sacrament of Reconciliation kicks in.   Gambling on that much mental clarity in the last few minutes is a foolish bet.

     Understanding that every lost soul lives in a dwindling series gives Catholic Fundamentalists a special duty.  We must not hesitate to remind people that the length of their series, while unknown, is always shrinking.  At the very same time, the risk of a sudden death without time for reconciliation with God is increasing.

     The smartest time for anyone to bet their soul on Catholicism is the first time they understand that their finite series is coming to an end more quickly every day.

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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

     It is amazing that polls consistently show that over fifty percent of people believe that God created the world in seven days.  Such believers are routinely belittled.

     Most such believers have been spared the moral destruction provided by four years of college in secular institutions.  Their minds operate better, without the static and interference caused by those whose professions are designed to drive people farther from God.

     One way to reach those unable to believe that God could create the world in a week is to ask them simple questions:  "Is God powerful enough to program in three dimensions?  Can God program sub-Programmers who have the ability to program particles?"

     Such questions are like very tiny bullets that hit a target of disturbed electrons in the mind of the non-believer.  Answering the question forces them to, at least temporarily, try to order their mind in a way that their thoughts include a powerful God.  That's a big help to them.

     Sometimes, you can actually see them wince at the pain this causes the mind that has accepted a disordered belief system.

     All non-believers ignore that their basic natures are as created, spiritual beings.  A large part of every mind knows this, but is unable to set itself free from the confusing, static producing charges (demons) whose job it is to keep the mind and soul they infect from a closer relationship with God.

     The soul of the non-believer looks like huge Gulliver, tied down by hundreds of tiny Lilliputians.   It is unable to move toward its maker, paralyzed as it is by the seemingly overwhelming throngs of disruptive charges.

     The other side knows that God can program three dimensional particles.  The other side knows that God can program anything He wants. 

     The other side does not want any of us even considering that point.  So, after we make up our minds to be obedient, so that our own behavior does not conflict with what we say we believe, we can ask non-believers "Is God able to program in three dimensions?"

     A conversation-generating variant:  "I have been considering God as a Programmer so powerful that He was able to program angels (sub-programmers) that programmed the earth and all creation in a week.  This belief is separating me from many of my former interests and is causing me to think more about spiritual issues.  Can you help me get back on track by showing me how the idea of God as Programmer is false?"

     The answers to such a question can only help us.

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