Wednesday, March 1, 2006

                       Lies, like germs, destroy those whom they infect.

     Catholic Fundamentalists think that a lie is a living form of spiritual life.  Each lie confuses and distorts reality, thereby moving those affected by it farther from God.  So, we think of lies as alive, a sort of demon.

     Each lie does the devil's work, and spawns legions of similar creatures.  The most common lies come from loving oneself excessively, which is why pride is the deadliest of sins.

     Lies exalt the free-will providing stage He programmed for us as they encourage us to ignore the Programmer who produced it.  Lies, like packs of wolves, travel in groups. 

     When a lie takes root in a mind, it sends out rootlets, seeds, and spores for new lies.  We can tell how immersed a person is in lies by seeing how he feels about his neighbors.     

     Those who hate their neighbors the most are the most entrapped in lies.  No one hated their neighbors more than Mao and Stalin, because no one killed as many people.  Therefore, the closer a person's thinking is to them, the more entrapped in lies he is.

     We can only love them.  Love is like an insecticide for demons.

 March 2, 2006

                                         Lies, like viruses, are alive.

     When we are hit with a lie "You should have a sexual encounter with a person who's not your spouse." and we renounce and disbelieve it, the lie passes harmlessly through us.  If we act on the lie, it hits our soul like a bullet.  Such impacts impede progress on the straight and narrow path that leads from each of us to God.

     Newton tells us that "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction".  We can apply that to lies, as well.  When we accept a lie, the impact, like a bullet, drives us farther from God.  When we tell a lie, we fire a bullet that may hurt someone else.  The recoil of a lie leaving us drives us farther from God.  Catholic Fundamentalists call this "Newtonian Theology".

     To tell or believe a lie puts us farther from God.

     We can often tell a lie by looking at its intended consequence.  All lies encourage human beings to violate one or more of the Ten Commandments.

     Plaques commemorating the Ten Commandments are usually ordered to be taken down from government buildings, especially courthouses.

     The worst kind of any government's supporters do not want taxpayers to be reminded that God does not want people to bear false witness or steal. 

     That's how some courthouse employees make a living.

Friday, March 3, 2006

                     Truths and lies are living things.  They are made out of words,

                              just as more obvious creatures are made of cells.

     A living thing has a life of its own.  It lives, moves around, and multiplies.  Truths and lies do the same things.  Just as God can program angels who, in turn program earth, air, fire and water, human beings can program compilations of words. 

     Like birds in trees, ants in hills, words move around in the minds they were sent to change.

     The words we say or write have an effect on every hearer.  Even talking to oneself or writing in a personal diary can change our mind or keep us from changing our mind. 

     Similarly, every combination of words we hear or read is designed to have an influence on us.  There are only two kinds of word combinations.  Truths are word-beings inspired by God, and are designed to help people move closer to Him. 

     The other type of word combinations, Satanic lies, are designed to distract people from God and focus them on the things that God created (programmed) and that the other side encourages us to use for harm.

     Just as God programmed Creation, we who are made in His image can program words and set them in motion.

     If we use words to separate ourselves or others from The Programmer, we have introduced a virus into a human program.  We will be treated accordingly.

March 4th

                                      Today is our favorite date.

     Astrologers since Babylon have believed that some days were luckier than others.  Some pagans would examine the flights of birds, particularly crows and buzzards, to determine what kind of a day they would have.

     Others examined the livers of sheep.  From such studies, they believed they could see what fortune would bring that day.  Ancient historians tell of battles joined or avoided because of what the liver of a sacrificed sheep looked like.

     Today, however, is different than all days. It, alone among the 365 and a quarter days of each year, tells us what we should do.

     Catholic Fundamentalists, on this one day of the year, should do as it commands.  And, we should do it every day that follows for the rest of our lives.

Monday, March 6, 2006

                                                Remember Omnipotence

    Modern believers have reduced God to the status of a pagan deity.  To moderns, God is not powerful enough to have programmed, or otherwise created, the world in six days. 

     He's been re-defined down to be what those whom He created are comfortable with Him being.  Defining God downwards is any human's greatest perversion of free will.

     It's easy for any of us sinners to be drawn to a large, attractive body of non-judgmental thought.  The other side is skilled in providing clever alternatives to God and judgment.  Big Bangs, Evolution, and Environmental theories are the Devil's Flypaper, where minds and souls are immobilized in pseudo-intellectual goo.

     The more we are inclined to sin, the easier it is to believe that God is neither judge nor omnipotent.  It's amazing, but we can live for decades and never hear any media reference to "omnipotence".  Students in their schools can graduate without hearing the word.

     Catholic Fundamentalists understand that God is so powerful that He did what He said He did.   

     Encouraging others to think of God as Omnipotent Programmer may help them take the necessary additional steps that lead to saving their souls from eternal agony.  Such thinking habits keep us on the right track, as well.

Tuesday, March 7, 2006

     The big, strong trunk of an oak has papery leaves that absorb energy from light.  The feathery leaves build the mighty trunk.

     Our soul, if we let it, will absorb energy from God.  This special energy comes in at least two wavelengths, “truth”, and “love”.  It is broadcast from what people in the Iron Age called the Holy Spirit.  We in the age of computers may think of Him as The Holy Wireless Connector.  He can send us gifts like wisdom, faith, and courage that may be on slightly different wavelengths.

     To open ourselves to those wavelengths, we can take a first step to God simply by thinking about Him.  It may help some to think about Him as able to program actual particles and put them in motion.  It helps to think about living in a universe that He has programmed. 

     As we do that, we see how important He is.  Then, we work toward making Him the center of our life.  If we are grateful to God, we gain strength.  As we do as He commands, like loving our neighbor, we gain more.

     Each time we choose to obey a commandment, we open ourselves to more truth.  Each time we disobey a commandment, we remove ourselves from God.  Loneliness and depression are sure to follow. 

     The energy that comes directly from God can be overwhelming in its joy.  Sometimes, we need energy that’s more focused on a specific need. 

     Saints and angels are there to broadcast on specific wavelengths.  Kindly people are open to St. Francis.  Intellectuals respond to St. Thomas Aquinas.  Fathers relate to St. Joseph.  All who want to be children of God revere Mary, whose child God was.

     Catholic Fundamentalists learn to see all this as joyfully as little children who see their parents.

Wednesday, March 9, 2006

                                                        Avoid mistakes. 

     Mistakes can kill us.  If we think that water boils at 200 degrees, and think water so heated is pure of bacteria, we can die.  If we convince others that we are right, we can kill them.

     If we think that water boils at 100 degrees, we will die from polluted water even more quickly.  The greater the deviation from truth, the more damage we do. 

     The physical world exists to show us spiritual parallels.  If we are wrong about how to obey God, we are in even worse shape for a longer time than if we make a mistake in finding the boiling point of water.

     If, for instance, we want something we shouldn't have enough to lie for it, we will end up with something we don't need.  Worse, we will have a damaged soul separated from God. 

     Just as we study water to find its actual boiling point, we should think through a proposed sin to see what damage committing the sin will do.  That is why we have minds, that is why there is a world beyond each mind, and that is why there is a kind and loving God Who made that world and all therein.

     When we try to avoid small sins, it is almost overpowering when we see people wallowing in vast, stinking swamps of sin.  People telling mountains of endless lies about imaginary problems are almost unfathomable in their short-sighted stupidity.

     It's very hard to love them, but it's a sin to hate them.

March 8, 2006

                                      Stand and fight or cut and run?

     Evil seems overpowering.  Its appearance of power is there to attract worldly people.

     The largest structure that the other side erects is government, and the biggest portion of most governments is "public" education.  This empire of lost souls now stretches from pre-school to post-graduate studies.  It is a sea of nearly unalloyed fraud that swallows endless years.   

     Any government's educational system is designed to produce people who will support that government.  No surprise.  As governments sinks into greater lunacies, its educators teach proportionately more bizarre things.  Students must be dumbed down to think well of the latest lunacies.

     School boards with the power to tax are dominated by members who vote to give raises to spouses.  Teachers and administrators spend twelve or fourteen years to produce students unable to read their diplomas.  The legion of the doomed controls all.  The fraud is enormous.

     What of the souls of those within the fraud?  Can they be saved, or is the presence of the better sort of teacher perpetuating the myth?  Are the handful of good, hard workers within the system guilty of making the immense frauds possible?

     Stalin's secret police interrogated millions of suspects.  Many would not incriminate even one of their neighbors.  Others would give the names of every person they knew.  "If they arrest enough people, the system will collapse."   While those who resisted were brave, those who reeled off the names of hundreds of people to investigate may have done more to destroy the system. 

    It's better to leave an unfixable system than lose one's soul attempting to fix what is unfixable.  Letting a corrupt system collapse from it's own internal contradictions and the battles they cause within it is preferable to helping it exist.  All Christian persecutions are quickly followed by fights among groups of persecutors.  Those who fight the hardest against it may be doing the worst thing. 

     The destruction of innocents is what the other side loves.

Thursday, March 9, 2006

                                           It's a sin to make things boring.

     The most exciting thing on earth is that which promises the greatest rewards.  That, of course, is the Roman Catholic Church and its promise of eternal joy.  Since parts of it have been taken over by leftists, they have done what they could to make it boring. 

     Systematically, modernists have undermined every Sacrament.  They have altered every teaching.  They have separated themselves and their followers from the ancient history of The Church.  They have polluted faith with doubt.  Worse than all those things, they have made our faith boring.

     Thanks goodness for Catholic Fundamentalism.  Catholic Fundamentalism is not boring.  It is a frontal assault on every group more interested in the things God programmed than in the God Who programmed them.

     Once we have considered Catholic Fundamentalism's notion that both Church and Scripture are literally true, many of us will find ourselves accepting it, at first by faith, then by intellect.  Then, just by thinking about God as Programmer of Particles and Systems, we find ourselves far above the other side.  Our view of God and what He programmed becomes clearer.  We see that everything that comes from Darwin (science without God) to Marx (Christianity without God) is wrong.

     We also see that the poor souls wrapped up in such systems are at risk.  Many of them will not be saved.  And, we cannot save them all.  We may be able to save some of them.

     At least, we will not bore them. 

Friday, March 10, 2006

                                               A question of virgins.

     Many who encourage suicide bombers feel that such martyrs will receive seventy two virgins when they enter Paradise.  Few of us can figure out what anyone would do with such a number, and what the other seventy one are doing at any given time (playing cards, watching television, doing their hair?).  Other questions arise.

     Will the martyr have sex with them?  After he has sex with them, they will no longer be virgins, so what happens to them?  Do they disappear, or does he throw them away?  Will he only have sex 72 times, after which more virgins appear?

     The question has divided many into sects.  The Sueemis believe that the seventy two virgins are accompanied into Paradise by a Japanese plastic surgeon, who, by operating, continually restores the deflowered virgins.

     Others are outraged.  "The virgins don't need surgeons.  They stay virgin forever!", insist the Sheeists. 

    "If the martyr has sex with them, how can they be virgins?" the Sueemis reply.  The argument quickly turns to blows, AK-47s, and bombs.

     The Imramist sect believes that the virgins are symbolic, but that line of thought has eliminated most of their young suicide bombers.  "I'm not blowing myself up for 72 imaginary virgins!", they insist.  As a result, young, violent Imramists tend to become Sueemis and Sheeists.  To keep them in the fold, Imramist theologians have issued a fatwa proclaiming that "maybe" and "in some cases" the virgins are more than merely symbolic.

     Imramists teach that food, clothing, and the necessities of life are provided for the martyr and his possibly real virgins in Paradise, so the Imramist martyr no longer has to work.  Imramists attract the laziest suicide bombers. 

     Sueemis believe that the basics are provided in paradise, but that they will have to work to provide their seventy two virgins with luxuries.  There is a vague conception of factories in the sky at which the martyr and his virgins can find lucrative employment manufacturing meteorites.   

     Sheeists believe that in Paradise, they will be given farms, seeds, tools, and implements to make a living for themselves and their seventy two virgins on celestial farms.  Extreme Sheeists believe they will travel around the galaxy in Rolls Royces the size of Greyhound busses on flying carpets.  Their sect is divided, again, into those who believe the martyr rides in the front of the Rolls and those who believe he rides in a throne in the back.  Others wonder if one of the virgins will be allowed to guide the vehicle, and if she will need a driver's licence that necessitates a photo ID.  If the martyr is too good to drive, and the 72 virgins are unqualified, will there be a male driver?  Will he be a eunuch?  Courses, in what are called 'universities' study such issues endlessly.

     Another division between the three groups concerns children in Paradise.  Imramists believe that the martyr may have children with the virgins.  Sheeists think they will have one child per year per virgin, and Sueemis think that there will be no children.

     The recent rise of female suicide bombers has caused new questions to be asked.  "Do I get seventy two virgins, too?", young suicide bomberettes ask.  "They better be men!" 

     "You dare not think so!", insist Imramist, Sueemi, and Sheeist men, suddenly in total agreement.  "That would be a sin.  If you even think about committing such a sin, we will stone you to death.  What is proper for the bomber is not proper for the bomberette."

More on this subject on March 22, 2006.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

                                 There are differences between lies.       

     Just as there are mortal and venal sins, there are different types of lies.  People respond differently to them.  

     When Al Gore said "I invented the internet", he was telling a lie to make himself appear to be more intelligent than he was. 

     Truth-lovers would not forgive his lie for several reasons.  First, it made his vain intellectual pretensions obvious.  Secondly, it insulted our intelligence because the lie was so obviously false.  Thirdly, it had no chance of helping anyone.  That lie cost him one of the small, crucial percentages of votes that lost him the election.     

     When John Kerry told the lie for thirty years that "I spent Christmas in Cambodia", he told a different kind of lie.  It was a lie to mislead people.  It was, worse, a confusing lie.     "I spent Christmas in Cambodia" was told to make people think that he was participating in an unknown widening of the war, and offended two groups.     

     People who supported our troops were disgusted at the lie and worked harder against him because of it.  The second group, who sympathized with the Communists, were disgusted because, rather than working to stop the war he openly criticized, he was, by saying he was in Cambodia, helping to widen it.  No one from the far left or right could trust him.

     When Hillary Clinton said "I made a hundred thousand dollars in a few weeks by trading cattle futures.", no one believed her.  Her arrogance was magnified when she attempted to justify it by saying "I learned how by reading the Wall Street Journal."

     When the lie was thus compounded, she lost permanent believability with those who value truth.  Again, a small, critical bloc of voters was permanently lost.

     The lies above were especially damaging to the tellers of the lies because they were simple and impossible to forget.  They were also told by people who had absolutely no charm. 

     President Bush is frequently accused of lying.  Unlike Gore's lie, Mr. Bush's words and actions are utterly consistent.  Unlike the cattle futures lie, what Mr. Bush is saying does not appear to be making him personally richer, though there is an obvious benefit to war profiteers.

     And, Mr. Bush's words and deeds are costing him a lot of political clout, yet he stands by them, giving himself more credibility than if he disavowed them.

     Helping his plausibility is the fact that no more airplanes have crashed into American buildings.  In the case of the WMDs, any misstatements of fact are so buried in conflicting intelligence reports that no one can be certain if a lie was told.  

     One lesson is that politicians should never lie to look smart, appear idealistic, or get rich.  If a politician is to lie effectively, the lie must complicated, preferably by having elements of truth mixed in with it.

     If more of us simply refuse to vote for the most blatant liar, more elections will be swung toward truth.

Monday, March 13, 2006

                     The brilliant Protestant whom Catholic Fundamentalists salute.

     In 1802, the English theologian, William Paley, wrote a stunning sentence in defense of the belief that God designed the universe: "If you find a pocketwatch in a field, the logical conclusion is that someone dropped it." 

     That simple sentence is a miraculous summing-up of Creationism. 

     At the time, unbelievers were powerful.  They'd successfully revolted against Church and King in France and were gaining strength in England and Germany.

     To gain wider support, the other side had to be able to counteract Paley's simple sentence by finding a way to convince people that the pocketwatch could have appeared by natural causes.

     The other side had no answer to Paley's statement.  Unable to come up with any actual proof of Godless creation, they generated a typical smokescreen.  To counteract Paley's simple logic, Darwin produced the Origin of Species, just as Marx turned out tons of turgid prose to counteract the simple notion that we should love both God and our neighbor.

     Darwin was trying to prove that the pocketwatch could have appeared by a series of natural coincidences.  Those who are led to believe in a universe without God gravitate to Darwin.

     Those of us who believe there's a Creator behind Creation still repeat Paley's proverb:  "If you find a pocketwatch in a field, the logical conclusion is that someone dropped it."

     While William Paley was not a Catholic, our prayers for the repose of his soul would not be amiss.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

                                      Vanity, thy name is government.

     Watching government programs is always interesting.  Each is a pyramid of lies.  People are always driven to climb them.  When they reach the level they think their souls are worth, many toboggan down them to destruction.

     All government programs begin in a lie that springs from vanity.  "I (we) have a duty to make things better."

     Reports are written, committees are established, and the foundation is laid.  Studies are funded, each of which points out the need for each New Program.  Media releases soon convince people that a program they've done nicely without for hundreds, even thousands of years will "help" because "it's so important".

     Often, the New Program's agency is set up and staffed with no one knowing about it.  It's waiting for "a big emergency" to suddenly be put in place.  One day, we travelled through airports unimpeded.  The next day, we went through platoons of inspectors and metal detectors.  Years of work behind the scenes magically materialized thousands of new jobs, seemingly in an instant.

     Those who are promised and given jobs by each New Program become avid supporters.  They have lost touch with the fact that they have a soul on its way to judgment.

     "We need to make an investment in bike trails, more jails, clean air, housing that's fair, our nation's future, transportation, security, education, infrastructure, family farms."  The list goes on until every possible penny is taken from every possible person.   Then, collapse and the process begins again.

     But, each program is built upon the same desire, a need to get money without having to make a free-market customer happy.  

     Unspoken thoughts lurk around darkened souls.  Behind every "we need" is a "you should".  The not-so-hidden meaning of each "you should" is "you will".  That is followed by darker desires, "give us money" and "obey". 

     Vanity, thy name is government.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

                                  The unholy grail:  something new to tax.

     Something new to tax is always the unholy grail for which the other side searches.   Their goal is to tax all human activity.  They begin by believing that we are less than they.  That we are not as smart.  We are not as sensitive.  We are lesser beings.  As taxpayers, we are as helots to the Spartan nobles, Gauls to Roman enslavers, blacks to southern slave owners, whites to the tax addicts who have taken over western countries.

     "This is a democracy." the innocent among us insist.  "We can get rid of tyranny."   

     Sparta's democracy lasted only until their Kings could overrule decisions made by voters.  Roman freedom, just as long.  Our own freedom started disappearing rapidly with the Civil War. 

     Today, paperless voting machines recently mandated by our betters in Washington have officially buried all but the illusion of freedom.  Now, uncontestable elections are decided at the push of a button that rejiggers election results at the whim of our masters.

     From now on, even the remotest possibility that a real reformer could be elected is over.  My fellow slaves, we have met our masters.

     What do we do?  We render onto Caesar what is Caesar's, we love our enemies, and we move into the Kingdom of God.

     We'll be happier there.  We'll be poorer, here.

Thursday, March 16, 2006

                            Conventional Reality or the Kingdom of God?

     We are aware of two realities.  Conventional Reality is mostly made of press releases.  They are carefully designed to benefit various special interests.  We become aware of their true nature simply by examing what appears on media and figuring out who benefits by the press release.

     All press releases benefit one or more groups dependent on getting money from taxpayers.  They are easy to identify, once they're looked for.   With a little thought, the group or person who benefits from every article disseminated by print or electronic media can be easily seen.  Associated Press "news" items are simple, and those who profit from their "news releases" are easily obvious.

     When we like the news, what we like are the press releases we are seeing.  What the undiscerning do not understand is that all news, except the occasional emergency, is made up of press releases.  Emergencies, after an hour or two, are also turned into press releases to encourage funding for agencies involved.

     Any time the news has a positive slant toward something, someone paid for it.  Press releases rarely, if ever, appear for free because every press release influences cash flow.  News always benefits someone on the other side.  Most people think that Conventional Reality is real.

     Some press releases are more permanent.  Obelisk carvings last a long time.  Most books and novels published by mainstream publishers with sales to public libraries are longer-term press releases for some favored point of view or another.  Public school textbooks are largely comprised of mind-warping press releases for various special interests. 

     The Kingdom of God is different.  The only press releases (news) about it, and us, are negative.  Believers are routinely scorned, mocked, maligned, slandered, and brow-beaten by people who are costumed and scripted to appear believable, intelligent, and caring.

     Welcome every opportunity to be scorned, mocked, maligned, slandered, and brow-beaten by those on the other side.   If that happens to us because we're right, we know we're in The Kingdom.   If it's not happening to us, we should be bolder.  The Holy Spirit (Holy Wireless Connector to us Catholic Fundamentalists) will give us courage, if we ask.

     We should ask for that.  Wisdom, too.

Friday, March 17, 2006

                                                      Particles

     After God, neighbor, angels, plants, and animals Catholic Fundamentalists love to think about particles.  We see them building blocks that He lovingly programmed to produce Creation.  Scientists used to study and teach about Creation.  When intellectual endeavors were overwhelmed by government funding, God was omitted from Creation.  The word, "Creation", with a capitol "C", is now being omitted from Creation. 

     Once we understand that God has the power to program things that appear to be particles and program people with free will who can choose to see those things as God-programmed or as self-occurring, we move into the Kingdom.  There, vision better than 20/20 allows us to see things invisible to our neighbors.

     We understand that particles were programmed, organized, and set in motion simply to produce a stage, on which we can strut around and make decisions. 

     Some of us will look beyond the stage, and see The Invisible Producer.  Others will be blinded by the starring nature of their role and see little farther than the end of their noses.

     Part of The Particle Program's brilliance is the uncertainty He programmed into it.  The more we know about a particle's position, the less we know about its nature.  The more we know about its nature, the less we know about its position.

     We are drawn to God because He loves each of us enough to do the immense work of providing nothing but the certitude of uncertainty to let those of us who find Him have the joy of finding He Who is Certain.

     We can begin, and sustain, our pilgramage by thinking of particles as tiny bits and bytes, programmed by the Divine Programmer in at least three dimensions.

Monday, March 20, 2006

                                       Polygamy and power structures.

     Polygamy allows rich men to corral all the women.  If there are one million people in an area, and half are women, there will be 500,000 men.  If each polygamist has four wives, 375,000 men will have no wives or children.  If polygamists have an average of two wives, 250,000 men will be deprived of wives and children.

     This is why polygamist religions begin with rapid expansion.  Taking over new areas is the only way single men can find women.  After they reach their natural area of expansion, polygamous societies tend to decline for an obvious reason.  Their gene pools continually diminish in variety.  Skills tend to move to the middle of the bell curve.

     Over time, polygamous societies produce ever fewer Newtons and Edisons.  The increased policing needed to control young men without families of their own imposes huge costs on the society, keeping investment capitol from forming.

     There are historical indications of this.  Throughout the last third of the first millenium, a polygamous empire made great advances in medicine, mathematics, and other sciences.  By the last half of the second millenium, that same culture had reached a point of stagnancy.  No intellectual advances were made in any area.

     As polygamists prosper, they get more wives.  That accelerates the intellectual decline.  Reduced genetic variety, combined with the less motile sperm cells of older men, produces unaviodable results.

     Young, single men in any society cause most of the crime and disruption.  They are easily organized into military or para-military groups.  Since they are kept from having permanent attachments of their own, they are easily encouraged to destroy other people who are "different" or who have more.

     It is a fact that older rich men control every society.  When wealth is measured by wives, and many men are wealthy in wives, revolution can only be avoided by getting young, single men to focus on destroying others.

     Polygamy exalts selfishness.  It is impossible to bring political stability to a polygamous society without mandating monogamy or sacrificing people within striking distance of angry, bitter young men who are given a few dollars worth of weapons and a lot of encouragement from older, selfish, wealthy men who value their own gratification more than the well-being of their own sons.

    And daughters.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

                                    Virgin awards revisited since March 10th.

     On March 10th, the issue of awarding 72 virgins to each suicide bomber was explored.  Another part of this profound theological problem concerns the rewards, if any, for failure.  Many times, suicide bombers and bomberettes make mistakes with their detonation devices and blow themselves up.

     Co-religionists of a theological bent worry about this.  The Sueemis think that a suicide bomber (they do not address the sex or number of virgins, if any, awarded to suicide bomberettes) who is blown to bits while assembling or prematurely detonating the bomb gets the full allotment of 72 virgins after death.  "His heart was pure, his intentions were good, and he should be awarded accordingly."

     Sheeists are as harsh as Calvinists in their assessment of failure.  "Failed suicide bombers are an embarrassment.  They get no beautiful virgins at all.  They are the despised of Paradise.  They spend eternity with grotesquely ugly prostitutes disfigured by horrible diseases."

     Imramists take a middle ground.  "Failed martyrs do get 72 virgins, but only after the successful martyrs are finished with them."

     Theology Departments at many universitites are struggling with this problem.  The issue has become so divisive that some faculties are recruiting suicide bombers and bomberettes to blow up those with whom they disagree.

     "That is true scholarship.  Those who are right will be those who are not blown up.", agree spokesmen for all three sects.

Thursday, March 23, 2006

                               Excessive love of cash crushes goodness.

     Those committed to maintaining cash flows hate having them disrupted.  Those invested in buggy whips hated cars.  Those invested in Old Media hate the internet.

     It is a law of Catholic Fundamentalism that:  Established cash flows tend to be directed by those not smart enough to threaten others in the cash flow.

     Diversions of cash flows are attempted by criminals, who try to dip into a cash flow by force or fraud.  Diversions are also attempted by those smart enough to see some advantage invisible to the intellects controlling a cash flow.

     The most disruptive people are the most intelligent.  Thomas Edison, for instance, disrupted thousands of cash flows, with inventions that destroyed everything from vaudeville to oil lamps.

     If Thomas Edison had been in medicine, cancer would be cured.   People that smart are usually filtered out of medicine.  Medicine, after all, is a very large cash flow.  One example of money's power in medicine teaches us a great deal about reality: 

     When Sister Kenny invented a polio treatment that actually worked.  Her solution was to wrap afflicted limbs in very hot, moist towels.  Her inexpensive therapy stopped muscle atrophy almost as soon as it started.  She had committed the world's greatest sin:  she took away one cash flow without adding a new one.

     Salk, on the other hand, developed a vaccine for polio that could be sold at a great profit to entire populations of wealthy nations.  He diverted a huge flow of cash into the medical monopoly.  He was hailed as a genius;  Sister Kenny as a crank.

     Poor people in poor countries could not afford the vaccine, but they could afford hot towels.  Because of the desire to maintain cash flows, no hot towels for them. 

Friday, March 24, 2006

                                                    Cash flows.

      An examination of old media shows one common denominator.  They will automatically criticize anything that might interrupt Old Cash Flows.

     The war in Iraq is opposed, for instance, because it takes money that academics would like for the public school system.  It takes money that greens want for environmental "studies" and activities.   The war takes money road builders want, and money that many groups think would be better spent on them.

     Those in Old Cash Flows envy the money now being spent in Iraq.  It is a law of history that Old Cash Flows hate any New Cash Flow.  When Johnson was president, he tried to keep Old Cash Flow people quiet by promising "guns and butter".  The "butter" fundees in the Old Cash Flows still wanted more.  They were willing to let millions of South Vietnamese be slaughtered to get it.

     Every special interest, and we all have special interests, is automatically against any redirection of cash flow.  At the same time, most of us want more cash to flow through our own stream.

     When we understand that those swimming in Old Cash Flows automatically criticize all activity, except that which maintains, increases, or does not threaten existing flows, we make an important step forward. 

     All societies have problems as more laws are enacted to protect Old Cash Flows.   Such laws inevitable strangle society.

Monday, March 27, 2006

                                           Cash flows and lies.

     Lies told to protect cash flows are expensive.  They are developed at great expense by the most creative prevaricators money can buy.  Lies told to justify large cash flows take advantage of many media outlets, and are very expensive to distribute. 

     More expensive lies are told to justify maintaining big cash flows than anything.  We are familiar with all of them, but there are so many that they form an alternative reality.  Those who question lies too effectively are soon burnt out, bought out, or thrown out.

          "Public education is working." 

          "The Post Office is the best way to guarantee mail delivery."

          "The dedicated people at your public utility care about you."

          "Our roads and bridges are getting good, long-lasting repairs."

          "Shop downtown.  It's fun, it's safe, and there's plenty of parking."

          "Vitamin pills will make you healthier."

          "Our borders are secure."

          "Public water and sewer systems are better than wells and septics."

          "Unborn babies are simply masses of undifferentiated cells."

          "Powering automobiles with hydrogen will solve all our problems."

     Every human activity, outside of monasteries and convents, generates press releases.  Most of them are utterly wrong, and, while not insane, their purpose is different than their appearance. 

     Catholic Fundamentalism helps us get away from lies by giving us an immense body of truth to keep us busy exploring. 

     Try reviewing "New Road to Rome".  You can download it for free in the "books" section.

     You know people who are angry, rightfully, and upset about the way things are.  As you explore Catholic Fundamentalism, tell them about it.  It's a good way to replace anger with joy.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

                                               Truth in numbers.

              Catholic Fundamentalists search for quantification, using Scripture and Church teachings as a guide.  Searching for hard numbers used to be common in Catholic theology.  A hundred years or so ago, one dividing line between a mortal (damnable) and venal (purgatorial) theft was computed to be $20.00. 

              Adjusted for inflation, that may be as much as $2,000 in today’s money.  A guide, once established, tends to be useful.

              We can check out the status of our own soul by using the above figures.  First, we have to determine if it takes multiple thefts that amount to $2,000.00 to send us to Hades, or if it takes one, intentional theft of $2,000.00 to do so.

              It seems unreasonable that there are many people whose conscious actions or inactions have not cost their neighbors at least $2,000.00.

              So, all of us should be thankful that The Church has provided the Sacrament of Confession (Catholic Fundamentalists have a hard time getting used to "Reconciliation".  It's the only hope we have, except for the possibility of direct forgiveness.  We all know that can be a lot more flexible than having our sins analyzed and forgiven by a man who's experienced and has insight as to the sincerity of our innermost being.

                                           Truth in numbers, Part II

              God has a formula that determines how many non-productive people a country can support. 

               We get an inkling by looking at obese people.  We know that when a person gets too fat to move, he will die.  The same thing happens with countries.  Those carrying too much fat are conquered, plaralyzed by the most bloated parts of their bodies.

               It's sometimes hard to tell who's useless.  When one farmer could grow enough food for two people, we needed almost fifty times more farmers.  Now, one farmer can grow enough food for a hundred people.  Five thousand people in the right kind of factory can make enough cars for a million people.  Before American textile mills were destroyed, one mill could make all the cloth that millions of people could use.  What happened to those displaced by new technologies?  They either gained new skills, retired, rotted, or went to work for government agencies.

              Automation caused new government agencies to pop up like mushrooms. 

              If we total up all that is bought and sold in a free market, and divide it by the number of people needed to produce, transport, and sell all those things, we get the number of productive jobs that a free market needs. 

              The country with the highest percentage of people doing useful work does the best.  The more featherbedding or bureaucratizing, the worse for everyone, especially those involved.

Thursday, March 30, 2006

                                  The Unprogrammed Programmer

     It's easy to be overwhelmed by the lies that surround us.  We may begin to care more about things that were programmed than we care about The Programmer.

     As soon as we feel ourselves focusing on programmed things, it's a good idea to immediately think about St. Thomas Aquinas.  He looked at God as the Unmoved Mover.  To Catholic Fundamentalists, Aquinas's Unmoved Mover is the Unprogrammed Programmer.

     When we let programmed things lead us away from Him, we become less. One "trick" to get our attention focused back on the Unprogrammed Programmer is to immediately define the distraction.  Then, we should automatically ask ourselves why the Other Side produced the distraction. 

     The answer is always the same:  "In this case, The Program was distorted to distract many souls, and mine particularly, from thinking about The Programmer."

     Asking "Who benefits?" is English for "Qui bono", showing that the question has been used to get closer to truth since Roman times.

     Ask "Who benefits?" after being exposed to every news release.  The question is the mental equivalent of using a vaccination to protect your body from disease.