"Live Free or Die'

Just this week, New Hampshire has created a law the makes churches "essential services" that cannot be shutdown during any state of emergency. Obviously, the governor there, Chris Sununu, is a Republican. No howl at the moon stupid left-wing leader would ever entertain such an idea. This was not another power hungry governor forcing people to do what he felt was best and using the cover of the word "mandate." The bill passed both chambers of The New Hampshire legislature, and was then signed into law by Sununu. You know, like laws used to be passed before covid. 

Congratulations to the citizens of one of the original 13 colonies. 13 Colonies that risked lives, limbs, fortunes, property, and their sacred honor in taking on the world's greatest superpower in the 1770s. The motto of this exemplary state is the title of this piece. All true Americans believe it, but apparently few who live here now have the courage to stand up to tyranny. Shame on us.

Of course, all this begs the question: why wasn't Utah, a state filled with Mormons, at the forefront of creating such a law?

Because Utah, like the Mormon church, is run from the top down. Mormons do what they are told. They like having someone to tell them what to do. New Hampshire is ruled by a free people with no predominant state religion. The irony in this situation can be cut with a dull spoon.

It probably comes down to active Mormons secretly pleased to take a year off from mindless repetition. As Rock Waterman has pointed out time and again, if you are OK with following a prophet, you may all just end up in the same ditch. Or you take a detour through a great and spacious building labeled "Conference Center" or "temple."

I wish there were more sacred honor in this country, but at least in New Hampshire there is still some left. It remains to be seen, if there is any in Utah, or Idaho, or anywhere else. 

I hope against hope, like a back from the dead Gandalf the White, that this moment is the turning of tide. 

Fool Me Once...

Almost everyone has heard the saying, 

    "Fool me once, shame on you.

    Fool me twice, shame on me."

It is one thing to be tricked a single time, but quite another to have it happen twice. There is no shame in being mislead once, but there is a problem if it keeps happening over and over. 

Despite President Nelson's wife's (Wendy) belief that we are down here to never make a mistake, there is no shame in erring. There is shame in not learning from missteps. We are here to taste the bitter so we can prize the sweet. I am not advocating sin, I am promoting repentance. The sooner we learn the truth and live it, the faster we progress toward a better life here and in the hereafter

I write this today in reference to the latest news about covid. I would captitalize covid if it were like the Black Plague or the Spanish Flus. The new "delta variant" is supposedly more contagious and more deadly than the original version. This may be true. The issue is that the original version was not very deadly at all. It was also not very contagious, because of all the false positives from the covid tests. 

I have had family members test positive, with no symptoms, and then test negative the next day, and then negative again. In my extended family of 40 people from ages 1-78, there have been 2 cases of covid. Both cases were mild. Milder than the flu.No deaths and no hospitalizations. The bar for what is deadly and easily transmitted has been set remarkably low.

Side note- I sure hope the companies that make the covid tests are not also making pregnancy tests. We are going to have a lot of women getting excited for no reason.

My research suggests that all this delta variant propaganda is designed to scare people. The media message is crafted to create fear. Fear in the millions of people who had the common sense not to join the world's biggest drug test initially.  The world's power brokers underestimated the number of fools on the planet. There are a lot of them, but not enough got vaccinated in the first wave. The elite needed to create a narrative about a mutation to scare more people into getting vaccinated now.

Here are the lies.

1. covid vaccines are vaccines.

2. covid vaccines prevent you from getting covid.

3. covid vaccines are safe and effective.

4. covid vaccines prevent death.

5. covid vaccines cut out possible hospitalizations.

6. People who are not vaccinated are causing the latest surge in covid cases.

7. Masks are helpful.

8. Social distancing is effective.

Here are some facts.

1a. covid vaccines are gene therapies designed to compromise your immune system and to get your body to attack itself. 

2a. Thousands of people in the US have been vaccinated and then gotten covid, The CDC and WHO lie to cover this eventuality is "breakthrough case" and those are supposedly rare.

3a. Vaccines are not safe and not effective. 

4a. Thousands of people worldwide have been vaccinated and then died either from covid or from the vaccine.

5a. Tens of thousands of people have been vaccinated and then ended up in the hospital from covid or the vaccine.

6a. People are causing the recent covid surge (if there even is one) are because of those vaccinated. This is one is medically complicated, but feel free to look it up on a non US news site.

7a. Masks are like wearing a hat at the beach and hoping your legs do not get sunburned. Good thing covid is not all that serious, because masks are not helping anyone avoid a virus, but they are making a lot of people breathe their own CO2 back in, and preventing normal oxygen intake.

8a. If there were really a plague-like virus going around, do you think 6 feet would be enough distance to be safe? I would be staying 106 feet from any human that I was not related to if all this pandemic BS were true. People would not leave their houses if this were actually life-and death.

Satan and his minion's who run this world (temporarily) would like everyone to get vaccinated in order to kill off anyone with a weak immune system or serious underlying health condition(s). Spiritual darkness in high places would like to sterilize the young, both male and female via this vaccine.

If you do not believe me, ask GOD. He loves all his children, and His Spirit will give you the truth about covid. Then you have to decide what to do with that information. You have the agency to make your own decisions. Do not trust me, do not trust the CDC, and do not trust the US media.

A lot of people got fooled in 2020 about a flu virus packaged as some new lethal plague from China...

... Shame on the governments and leftist media of the world.

If you get fooled in 2021 about a new, improved virus then...

...Shame on you!

 

     

Cut out the Middle Man

Most people understand that if you want the best deal possible for an item you have to go to the source. For example, If I want to save money on a mattress, I should go directly to the factory. If I go to the mattress store in the mall I am going to have to pay more. Why? Because now the middle men have to get their cut. The mattress broker. The truck driver. The salesmen. The owner of the store. I am sure I am leaving out someone in the mattress hierarchy, but you get the picture.

Now I understand that if a person is working 2 jobs and/or raising 3 kids, they do not have time to drive to the mattress factory. A factory that  could be hundreds of miles away. The gas for the drive and the possible cost of having to rent a vehicle large enough to get the mattress home are definite issues. Those issues are the reason hard working people opt to pay more for the convenience of having the mattress delivered to their home. Less time and hassle, but more money. 

Religious people want the middle man to tell them what to do. Mormons want the president of their corporate empire to dictate things. Catholics want the Pope to lead the way. Cults rely on charismatic egomaniacs to charm their followers out of time and money. Spiritual people bypass the middle men. 

Whether it is a cult or a church, there are middle men who still get their cut of your money. You pay for the privileging of getting their best guess about salvation. Usually the less the middle man tells us we have to do, the more we have to pay him for the false sense of security. The middle man knows that if he requires too much time, money, and pharisaical behavior, the less people there will be to keep supporting his pyramid scheme. Mormon Incorporated, is a perfect example of this concept with the recent change from 3 hours of time wasting per Sunday, to now just 2. We humans are mentally flawed, but there is a limit to how much foolishness we will put up with before finding something else.

If you want information from GOD, then go directly to Him and cut out all the self-professed pastors, preachers, popes, presidents, and prophets. That is what Joseph Smith did. Joseph is important not because he led a church but because he got his information directly from GOD. He did it before there even was a Mormon church. Joseph spent his life trying to get others to do what he did, but they were too lax spiritually to do it. They were hard working people on the American frontier, but they could not be bothered to fast and pray until they rent the veil.

There is always a price to be paid for allowing middle men to get between you and the product you want, or you and the information you need. Everyone needs to weigh the costs. With your potential eternal life (the greatest blessing of all), you are definitely going to want to go directly to the source of that gift and make sure you qualify. 

Quitting is for Cowards

 My beloved mother used to say "The Lord hates a quitter." She would bring out this bit of wisdom whenever my sister and I would attempt to quit something. She was right in 1970 and if she were still alive she would be just as correct in 2021.

This post is in response to the all fools trying to make US gymnast Simon Biles look heroic for quitting during the Olympics. This same girl, cost her teammates a gold medal through her cowardice. She's a girl, because a true woman would not quit.

Her waiting to bail out until after botching her first vault attempt also cost a deserving fellow American a spot on the team. Bad choices rarely just effect the individual. 

This is the same girl who has the letters "GOAT" stitched into her leotard. It is suppose to stand for "Greatest of all time." I think it is actually appropriately symbolic in terms of the sheep versus goat issue raised by JESUS. She is A goat, she is not THE GOAT.

Let's not lie to our children, grandchildren, nephews and nieces about how courageous Biles was to quit. She is a quitter, and my Mother was not wrong. If my Mom were a quitter, she would not be my Mother. She tried for years to have children, and finally did the heroic thing and adopted my sister and I rather than quit on the idea of Motherhood.

Satan is the ultimate quitter. In an attempt to make us just as miserable he would like us to give up. Do not give up on yourself, do not give up on your relationships, do not give up on GOD. Only a goat would do that.

Shame on you Simone. And will you be giving your millions of dollars of endorsement money back?

Thanks Mom for being the GMOAT. The greatest Mom of all time.

JESUS Died On His Mission

     Tragically, two LDS missionaries were killed this week in New Mexico. I am not writing this to minimize the devastation for their respective families. I am writing this to get a few people to a better understanding of reality.

I served in Bolivia and 2 missionaries were killed by a gas leak in their space heaters right before I got there. 2 missionaries were killed by terrorists right after I left.

I came within one great welfare sister (who was a registered nurse) from dying of amoebic dysentery. GOD probably let me live because I was such a jackass at the time, because I needed more time to become less of one. I am still alive 35 years later so that should give you an idea of my limited progress.

My point is that there are too many Mormons who believe that if you send your child on a mission GOD will watch over them and no harm can come to them. That would be true if you are like the people of Ammon and you have already shown GOD you would rather lay down your own life than kill an enemy. If you have not yet passed one of many Abrahamic tests on the way back to GOD, then please do not blame GOD if your son or daughter or cousin or parent or friend or neighbor dies serving a mission for the LDS church.

The key is that they are not serving GOD. They are serving a corporation. If the LDS were true then the apostles and seventies would be the ones out literally going door to door throughout the world. The whole world. This would include countries that do not allow missionaries of any kind. Real apostles would risk their lives to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world. Fake ones quote each other every 6 months in a weekend of boring meetings. True apostles would risk time in an earthly prison to get their fellow beings out of going to spirit prison.

We need to stop thinking the gospel is meant to shield us from death and adversity. It is time to wake up to the fact that if GOD's best child died while serving Him, then anyone is fair game. This does not point to a capricious Father in Heaven. It points to the difficulty in becoming like Him. He already died to save the first planet in His infinite creations. JESUS died to save this one. 

Blame Mormon Inc. if your 18 year old son or 19 year old daughter dies while serving Mammon. Or you could blame yourself for being so naive.

Robert Smith on Faith

      Robert Smith has written several books worth reading. He is the author of the controversial blog upwardthought.blogspot.com. He is controversial because he claims to have visited with CHRIST many times, and he believes salvation is an individual matter, not a collective one. 

     His latest book Faith can be downloaded for free at his blog. It is filled with light. Here is one idea that resonated with me, a sinner who has yet to see JESUS.

    

    Every person has within them a faint but pervasive memory of 

    God-planted deep within them from their interactions with him 

    before birth. 

    In a way, every desire we have- no matter how base or carnal-

    is an attempt to either satisfy or silence that deep drive to 

    reconnect with the divine.

(page 114)

There are a lot of things to learn about faith in this book. The first 113 pages are just as good as the one I quoted. I am not through with the book yet (There are 244 pages), but I felt like any honest truth seeker would want to at least check it out. I do not think you would be wasting your time to read any of Rob's books, but this latest one is especially worthy of your attention.

It has the best definition of Faith that I have ever come across.

The Poetry of Paul Toscano

Those of you who know who Paul Toscano is are probably surprised at the title of this post. He is not famous as a poet. He is infamous as the husband of one of the "September Six" Margaret Toscano. He was excommunicated in 1993 as well during that purge of people who were too smart and/or two Christ-focused to be trusted by Mormons Incorporated. Not to be confused with Murder Incorporated, which was much more merciful than the LDS church.

I was lucky enough to discover his writing roughly ten years ago. I was re-reading some of it today in a spare moment. He and I are polar opposites when it comes to politics. I would like to think he and I are kindred spirits when it comes to our ideas about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I cannot write anything like he can (obviously), but I can pass on some of his best work that has touched my searching soul.

In his book The Sanctity of Dissent Paul writes the following in the Prologue.

"The brethren were not chosen primarily to receive revelation for us, 

    but to teach us how to obtain revelation for ourselves."

None of the 15 Pharisees currently running the LDS church would ascribe to this. We all know that "Follow the prophet" has been the mantra for far too long. Seems to me like a recipe for following the prophet straight to hell.

Even the God of this world, JESUS did not tell his disciples, female and male, that all they had to do was trust Him. He told them in 2 different hemispheres, "be ye therefore perfect." 

Trust JESUS and then do what HE does and don't worry about mistakes. It is going to take an almost infinite amount of time to become like HE is. Because of CHRIST, and His father the MOST HIGH GOD, we get to keep trying until we get it right. 

Those bolded and bold words of Paul Toscano's are put in couplet form for a reason. They do not rhyme, and they are not in iambic pentameter, but they are poetry to me.