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Monday, July 2, 2007 Never, never solve a problem. The only problem that a Babylonian wants to solve is to increase funding. They never seek an actual solution to any real problem. It is their refusal to use their minds to solve problems that leads to their sad eternity. Endless objections to any solution flow easily and endlessly from the leftist mind. In fact, the careful nurturing of problems provides most of them with their "jobs". This, unfortunately, separates them from God, Who desires men to do good. The more objections they find to doing good, the farther they are separated from God. At Judgment, this is found to be their own fault because they have freely allowed the demons of chaos and confusion to rule in their minds. They could have chosen to spend their lives loving their neighbors. They have not. Instead, they have embraced reasons to take money from their neighbors. By taxing vast amounts of money from their neighbors to keep problems from being solved, they are guilty of stealing. Those who lie to justify theft are guilty of participating in what Dante calls "Complex Fraud". They are then condemned to the 8th circle of you-know-where.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007 Galatians, Chapter 5; 1, For freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery. Last Sunday's reading helps us understand how Catholic Fundamentalism set us free from the intellectual slavery that leads to the actual slavery now being imposed on many Europeans. The other side has developed depraved theories to separate us from God and yoke us to their plows. When we redefine God as The Programmer, we understand that the Bible's accounts of Creation and all the miracles that follow are the result of His Programming. Darwinism, collectivism, and environmentalism are all seen as dangerous spiritual distractions from God and His power. Simply saying: "God can program energy and particles. He can compile those particles into structures and beings that move through time." is a step toward Him. When we further understand: "The Programmer loves us, and wants us to find Him and the true happiness that only He can provide. He has given us free will to decide whether or not we should leap over the hurdles that separate us. He has programmed fossils, layers of rock, and all the things necessary to provide the Free-Will Programs (us humans) with all the information necessary to allow them to make the choice to follow Him or something less." Examining the human part of the world, governments and human structures, gives us even more opportunities to follow and obey. Will we love our neighbors, even if they roar by on motorcycles? Will we love politicians, even when they steal from us? The Programmer, in His infinite wisdom, provides each of us with hourly opportunities to show that we love and obey Him. We can begin by remembering, "God can program particles, compile them into structures and beings, and allow them to move through time." It helps set us free of the colossal lies so beloved by the other side.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Those leaving The Church rarely think of "playback". Catholic Fundamentalists are sad when someone leaves The Church. It is as if a piece of living code suddenly erases itself from The Program and wants to stand on its own. It can't, though the delusion that it's possible is certainly widespread and as tempting to many as was the apple to Eve. While Church theologians have not yet caught up to the understanding that Catholic Fundamentalists have about the "programming nature" of God, their truth is as immutable, though the Iron Age words they use may not be as readily understood by those bombarded by flows of electrons. Lumen Gentium 14 tells us about those who leave The Church: "In explicit terms He Himself affirmed the necessity of faith and baptism(124) and thereby affirmed also the necessity of the Church, for through baptism as through a door men enter the Church. Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved." However, on the off-chance that we are allowed to defend our decisions in a Heavenly Court (probably better to fall on the mercy of that Court), one who left The Church could argue, "I didn't know that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ. I believed that, as long as I was going to some Christian denomination, I'd be okay." At that point, the soul is treated to "playback". The Guardian Angel, acting as a tape recorder of thoughts, reports exactly as to the thoughts of the person at the time of decision. The Court decides whether or not those thoughts would justify the leaving of The Church for which the ancestors of that soul had withstood dungeon, fire, and sword to remain faithful to Her. Those ancestors may be allowed to act as character witnesses, as well. "John Smith was an embarrassment to all of us. We begged him to be good and stay faithful, but he wilfully ignored our pleas." John, of course, will reply, "I wish I'd heard you, but I didn't. I was too wrapped up in myself." At some point in the proceedings, the Guardian Angel may be directed to provide the "playback" for every period preceding every sin, along with the consequences of that sin. At that point, the soul being judged may cringe away to nothingness. One of our duties, as Catholic Fundamentalists, is to be sure that each soul is prepared for the awful pain of "playback", and does not lose heart. He must summon the strength to beg for mercy as each new sin is brought before The Court. The Court will listen, as long as the pleas for forgiveness begin before the separation of the soul from the body. It is important to remember that The Court has forgiven many terrible sins, and we must not fall into the additional error of thinking we're so "special" that our own sins cannot be forgiven.
Friday, July 6, 2007 Rising or falling? When we wake up, we can choose to do three things with the new day. We choose to draw closer to The Programmer, stay where we are, or distance ourselves from Him. One way to grow closer to Him is to begin the day with: "Thank You for programming me! Thank You for programming a world for me to live in! Thank You for programming my family and my friends! Thank You for programming a social structure in which I can find a place to do my own programming! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! "Thank You for programming Your Church! Thank You for programming all the angels and saints! Thank You for programming holy men and women! Thank you for programming those who would be priests and nuns! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! "Thank You for programming us with free will! Thank You for the Old Program and the prophets it produced to prepare the way! Thank You for the New Program, that lets any of us choose to be a part of Your Program! Thank You for sending the Holy Wireless Connector to keep us in touch with You! Thank You for letting me choose to be a tiny part of Your Program! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!" "Thank You for living for us! Thank You for suffering for us! Thank You for dying for us! Thank You for rising for us! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
Monday, July 9, 2007 Good politicians love their neighbors. Bad politicians merely tax and regulate mercilessly. Love and hate manifest themselves in every area of every life. We are each given dozens, maybe hundreds, of opportunities every day to do something that indicates whether or not we love a neighbor. Some do what they can to help their neighbors, others do the opposite. Hate is like a snowball, gathering power as the hater moves toward Judgment. Tyrannical governments are most filled with hate, and become more vicious toward their subjects as time progresses. Hatred of taxpaying citizens increases as bureaucratic salaries swell far above the levels of the "lesser" citizens. In order to justify despising their neighbors, bureaucrats make them helpless. Their activities are unbelievably micro-managed. People get used to being told what to do. Obedient personalities can easily be led into hating their fellow subjects. "They think they're better.", is a proven way to isolate and destroy groups of citizens who demand meaningful reform. Only the love of God and truth can save a nation from greedy lunatics.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 Why Constantinople fell. When the city was surrounded by invading Moslems, the last Roman Emperor was approached by a Hungarian of dubious sanity and indubitable genius. "I can build you a cannon,", he claimed, "that will throw huge cannon balls for miles. You can destroy the Moslems in their formations and encampments before they can attack." The last Roman Emperor was not impressed. "We don't need to buy your cannon or your expertise. Our walls are so thick that no one can get through them." So, the Hungarian sold his cannon to the Moslems. They pounded the walls with huge projectiles until they breached it. Then, they took the city. Why did the God of the Christians allow this to happen? Catholic Fundamentalists believe that God wanted one Rome, not two.
Wednesday, July 11, 2006 Fragmentation. The Roman Catholic Church has always been beset by those who want to fragment Her. It began in the time of the Apostles, and has continued, unabated, to the present day. The historical constant that accompanies The Church is that She will be endlessly attacked. We see that anti-Christians have made great gains in Europe. That is largely the result of a Catholic Church fragmented by schisms, which are caused by those who love themselves more than God and The Church He began. Without allying themselves with the Kingdom of God, Europe will continue sinking into an insane, neighbor-hating bureaucracy. The bureaucracy will be taken over by one man, and despotism will rule. If that man is a Catholic, like Constantine, Europe will recover. Countless souls will be saved. So, some of our prayers should be that Europe returns to The Church that nurtured it and the God Who loves it. Only Catholicism could unite the Southern Europeans with their Northern kin. Catholic Fundamentalists believe that a very large majority of Northern Europeans are descended from Shem. So are most of the Southern Europeans, some of whom may also claim Ham and Japheth as ancestors.
Thursday, July 12, 2006 Destruction begins with fragmentation. Destroyers identify blocks of people and attack with a single-minded purpose. We see it clearly in Europe. "We must destroy Catholicism. Then, we must destroy those descended from Catholics, along with any remaining Catholics.", decided the enemies of love and truth. "We will replace them with more obedient people who have no idea of God-given rights. They will be our slaves." Between Martin Luther and Vatican II, destroyers gained enough power to come far closer to their goals. At Vatican II, the very Mother of God's announcement to the children of Fatima was ignored. The ancient Mass was watered down in a mad fit of remodeling. Vocations plummeted, Church attendance dropped, and the fragmenters said, "We are making progress." And, they thought they were. Now, of course, more of us understand that God is The Programmer of Programmers. We realize that, simply by downloading a line or so of celestial code in the genes of a European with no more talent than Joan of Arc, Europe may recover in the blinking of a slow eye. Just as Don Juan of Austria destroyed the enemy's sea power in a single battle, just as their Most Catholic Majesties reclaimed the Iberian Peninsula, just as David defeated all his enemies, Catholic Fundamentalists understand that God can re-program as He wishes. Pray that He does so, soon.
Monday, July 16, 2007 Is Heaven in the clouds? A cloud? The earliest section of Scripture describes the original Programming Sessions. It tells us that The Programmer frequently appears in the shape of a cloud. As a Cloud, The Programmer accompanied the Twelve Tribes as they traveled forty years toward the Promised Land. Also, in the form of a Cloud, The Programmer entered the Temple that Solomon built. Is He usually in that form, or did He just appear that way when He wanted to be visible? Catholic Fundamentalists consider seriously the possibility that the eternal and unchanging God is always in the form that allows free reign to His Substance. He, and His Programming Headquarters, may be one, or more, of the clouds passing overhead. How big a cloud would He be? We know the precise size of The Temple. We may assume that The Programmer had it built to provide Him with a comfortable fit. The dimensions of Solomon's Temple were duplicated in the Sistine Chapel, so that those chosen to be re-Programmed with the New Program can as relate as easily to how large God is as could those who downloaded the Old Program. We do not see many rectangular clouds the size of the Sistine Chapel floating through the air. That may be because the Angels and Saints who surround Him have rounded off the edges, adding considerably to the barn-sized mass of Solomon's Temple and the Sistine Chapel. Is The Programmer the huge, billowing cloud above? A flat-topped thunderhead? Spread out in long, wispy cirrus clouds? Filling a long, foggy valley? Spread out in long lines of gleaming brightness moving majestically across the skies? It is so bizarre as to be reasonable that He Who programmed granite may always choose to be in the form of a Cloud, halfway between nothing and everything. We could, if we were so minded, calculate how long it takes a cloud to circle the globe. We could guess that every few months, The Cloud that is God and His Heaven passes directly over each one of our heads. So, we should always assume that The Cloud that glides above us now may be The One Who Knows everything we've thought and said and done since the last time He passed silently overhead. The thought helps keep us Catholic Fundamentalists on our toes. And, our knees.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 God as Cloud, II One of the difficulties in thinking that The Programmer is one of the clouds above the earth is that people say, "Why doesn't He show up on radar? Why haven't airplanes flown through Him? The whole idea is ridiculous!" It was not ridiculous three thousand years ago when His Glory, in the form of a cloud, filled Solomon's Temple. If He is eternal and unchanging, the same, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, what could He be but a cloud, today? So, if he's that close, why hasn't anyone seen Him? There is another world. The Kingdom of God is spirit, and is invisible to all but the enlightened mind. By extension, He is also invisible to the sensors that make some hidden things visible. In fact, we learn a great deal about the nature of God by understanding that He is invisible to radar, sonar, ultra-violet,infra-red, and sound-wave sensors. He has programmed us in such a way that the human eye and ear, no matter how much of the energy spectrum they can sense, can neither sense Him nor make any physical device to do so. Thinking of us seeing God is like thinking that a computer program can see its programmer. The program works in a defined space, doing the things it was meant to do. A computer program can be added to, altered, infected with a virus, and erased. But, it is never aware of the human programmer who created it or causes it to do things. In such a way, each of us, a replicating program with free will, cannot be aware of He Who programmed us unless He opens our heart and mind to His Presence. He will help us begin to understand more about Him within micro-seconds of asking Him to help us do so.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 God as Cloud, III Pictures are often taken of a "cloud" of activity within the human mind. The "cloud" of consciousness moves from one part of our brain to another as it thinks about different subjects. Catholic Fundamentalists understand that "cloud" is what The Programming Guide describes when it tells us, "We are made in the image of God." Our own tiny "cloud" of consciousness is vastly larger than any animal's. Conversely, our individual "cloud" of thought is vastly tinier than God's. Our "cloud" of thought is as much smaller than God's as the tiniest cloud of a "thinking" animal is smaller than ours. When we consider thinking about the similarity in function of the "cloud" to the vastly larger "cloud" of willful consciousness that is God The Programmer, we cannot help but draw closer to Him. The size of God's "Cloud" is as big as Solomon's Temple, which we can easily see duplicated by googling "Sistine Chapel". Our own, individual "cloud", our own spirit, is a tiny puff of smoke. We become humble as we realize more precisely how much greater God is than we are. We are staggered with gratitude as we realize how much A Power like Him loves us and wants us to have the joy of joining forever with He Who programmed us.
Thursday, July 19, 2007 God as Cloud, IV Some men's "clouds", or spirits, are bright and powerful enough to force others to obey their commands. In the old days, such men were sometimes called "Gods". One of the reasons that ego-maniacs hate the Roman Catholic Church in particular, and Christians and Jews in general, is that we all have at least a dim understanding of how much greater God is than the greatest man. Even a man whose spirit filled his whole brain is still pitifully small when compared to a spirit that's as large as the Sistine Chapel. But, if a man could order a billion other men around, then the "cubic footage" of "spirit" under his control may approach or exceed the size of the Sistine Chapel. Such men may believe that they are, in fact God. They cannot be, because, no matter how great the degree of uniformity imposed upon the individual spirits beneath them, they can never be One and must, therefore, become scattered when the superior spirit of the Alexander, Caesar, or Stalin goes off to judgment. The theological mistakes that allow this historically frequent, but never-before-verbalized illusion to exist cause most of the trouble in the world. The best thing for any human spirit to do is to encourage others to become closer to The Programmer. The best way to draw closer to God is through The Sacraments. The second best way is through prayer. Happiest is the soul that travels both roads toward the bright and shining light at the end.
Monday, July 23, 2007 God as Cloud, V One of the best reasons to imagine God as a Cloud is that there are a lot of clouds. We never know if He's one, or in one, of them. "I wonder if that's God?", we can find ourselves saying as a particular cloud wafts by, blown by unseen powers above. Whether it's true or not, it's helpful because it reminds us that we are never far from Him. We know from the First Programming Log (Old Testament) that God once accomplished His Will by having "a cloud, as small as a man's hand" appear on the horizon. It brought a deluge that ended a devastating drought. That means that any, or every, cloud may be doing the Will of The Programmer. It may also mean that any cloud may be, or contain, The Programmer, Program, Holy Wireless Connector and the entire Heavenly Host. "Wouldn't we know that?" the skeptics ask. "Really, how could God, or "The Programmer", as you Catholic Fundamentalists call Him, be that close to us and we not know it." We reply: "He's programmed us in such a way that we are physically unaware of the spiritual realm, the same way He programmed some people to be unable to tell blue from green."
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 God as Cloud, VI Sometimes, we find ourselves thinking about things we should not be thinking about. When that happens, we sometimes tell ourselves, "Stop thinking about that. It's wrong." The part of us doing the actual thinking is the "cloud" of consciousness in our own mind. It is our spirit. The part of us that tells our spirit to "Stop thinking about that." is our soul. The Programming Log tells us that the Word of God can separate the soul from the spirit. When our soul gives our spirit an order, it always knows what is right, but it may or may not require obedience. The "Cloud" which is God, or His chosen appearance, is actually the Soul to Whom everything in Creation is subordinate. He can direct any energy to do anything He wants.
Monday, July 30, 2007 God as Cloud, VII Writing about God as Cloud gave me a new perspective while flying last week. The clouds visible from the plane had taken on a life of their own. It became apparent that clouds were programmed not only to provide water, shade, and climate control, but also that they were connected. The connection between the clouds was not visible. But, each cloud affected the other clouds, the earth below, and the amount of light reflected back into the stratosphere. Looking at clouds on the weather channels showed them free-wheeling over the earth, following patterns that they helped to cause. Then, the thought that God was in, or in direct control, of all the clouds became inescapable. The "cloud-nature" of God was reasonable in that He had chosen to make clouds simply to give us a better idea of what He was like. As a plane rises through the clouds, we see that the bottoms of them tend to be far flatter than the mountainous, moving tops. The whirling midst through which we fly shows how God permeates everything.
Monday, July 30, 2007 Hidden in the fog of hate. The damned soul flees from truth. An underlying mental disorder of those who see no problems not of their choosing is to think and say "nothing is wrong". To them, jihad is not wrong, slavery in many countries is not wrong, Castro's prison camps are not wrong. Nothing that any criminal or foreigner can do is wrong. Everything that their taxable neighbors do IS wrong and must be stopped. We make the mistake of thinking they are merely "mistaken". "Surely," we say, "if only we point out to them that Castro's prison camps are far worse than anything else in the entire hemisphere, they will focus on fixing that far greater evil rather than worrying about comparatively trivial problems in our own criminal justice system." When we say that, we are saying, "I am afraid to understand that such people have chosen to protect greater evil by focusing their lives on lesser evils." When someone worries more about the imaginary effect of DDT on the eggs of birds while millions die of malaria, what they are really saying is "I hate my neighbors and want them to die." That sentence is at the heart of every liberal soul. We can but pray for them to love their neighbors.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 God has turned His Face from us. Reading the Books of Kings and Chronicles is always rewarding. It's a good way to learn history and a better way to learn how The Programmer interacts with believers. "And --------- did what was displeasing to The Lord" is a frequent beginning of the chapters that chronicle the Kings and what they did. Some of the things that were "displeasing to the Lord" were male temple prostitutes, child sacrifice, and worshipping other gods. When the Hebrews did things that were "displeasing to the Lord", The Programmer allowed famine, drought, plague, and war to visit Israel. Today, The Programmer is allowing governmental lunacy to take over countries who have left Christianity for the latest round of Babylonian destruction. The "new lunatics" are raising taxes, destroying education, ruining health care, undermining law enforcement, and, in general, making an awful mess of things. God has allowed them to take over because we have not fought hard enough for Him. We must believe more, and share our beliefs. Their immortal souls depend on hearing the truth, just as ours depend on telling it. So, let's do ourselves, and our enemies, a great favor. Tell people about Catholic Fundamentalism. If nothing else, it's so shocking to many people that it might get them to at least register on the Believers' Bell Curve. |