Disproportionate Body Count, but Israel Is Not Overreacting to Hamas

Israel is not overeating to Hamas rockets, or the cold blooded murder that started the current military campaign.  The hypocrisy of the nations really bothers me with respect to the Israeli and Palestinian conflict.  In war, no sane nation ever hopes for equal body counts on either side, yet for many Jew haters they complain that the body count lopsided  Any country that wants to survive would use disproportionate use of force to stop a conflict.  For example, if Cape Cod, where I live, was shooting rockets Boston, we could expect that Boston wouldn’t stop retaliating until the rockets were no longer being launched.

Connectedness

 Many ideas people have occur at the same time or in close proximity.  Perhaps, this suggests a collective conscience.  For instance, Alexander Graham Bell is credited for patenting the telephone, but at the about same time he applied a German, Johann Philipp Reis, also applied for the same patent.  It was such a short period of time that perhaps the German may have received the patent if perhaps he spent less time warming his lunch, or his wife hadn’t nagged him to take out the garbage sooner rather than later.  Who was first?  And, more importantly; does it matter?  I understand that patents and ideas are very important to business, yet it seems absurd to give a financial monopoly to an inventor, when it was really two or more that had the idea at the same time.  These sorts of things end up in courts, but when it comes to who is first, I wonder if there is usually or even occasionally justice.

New Jews, Babies, and The Making of a Universe: Creations made via expansion, contraction, and essence.

Via expansions and contractions experienced as push and pull with Jewish study material, a potential convert gains Jewishness although the memories, former essence, remain of the time prior to the ceremonial mikveh bath, where upon becoming new Jew the past is seen with a different lens of Jewish essence.  Differently, those that are born Jewish are already born of the Jewish mindset.  Thus, those born already Jewish experience a natural push and pull because they experienced cosmic vibrations that cause Jewishness in the womb.
This pattern of expansions and contractions that yield essence is a common theme in Judaism.  Another example might be that, via expansions and contractions, we are born from our mother, yet the parental DNA, likeness to our parents, remains as traceable essence.  A third example is that via expansions and contractions, tzimtzumim, Gd created the universe forever leaving His Hebrew essence, the Holy language, among all of His creation.tion.

Boston Sox and Secrets of Better MLB Teams – Surrounded With Baseball League Fanatics

The city of Boston is closely surrounded with Boston Red Sox minor league affiliated teams. North, West, and South are covered, and to the East is the Atlantic Ocean. We’ve got 3 of the 4 directions covered. That is about as well covered as is possible. And, we have been winning. I believe that a part of that winning has to do with the expansive area that may call the Boston Red Sox their home team.

Boston has a lot going for it, especially what I am calling the secret to winning at baseball, meaning creating loyal baseball fans at high density. Though technically not a really big city; Boston population density is found in the metropolitan coastal areas. This is a part of developing the attention of the metropolitan Boston area, making for crazy crazed baseball fans.

To the southwest, of course we have the Pawtucket Red Sox who are affiliated with the Boston Red Sox, playing at the AAA level. The Pawtucket Red Sox seem to do no wrong, winning their division probably more frequently than any other team.

I can’t stress enough that Cape Cod, southeast of Boston, is home to the Cape Cod Baseball League, which although not directly Boston Red Sox affiliated, this area makes for a strong attention for the pros. Cape League fans are also usually Boston Red Sox fans. The Red Sox grow young fans at these games, where it is often possible to win tickets to Boston Red Sox games. In fact, what actually got me hooked on Pawtucket was winning a raffle prize of seats at McCoy Stadium, while at a Cape Cod Baseball League game.

Moving on, we have to the north of Boston the Boston Red Sox affiliated Portland Sea Dogs who play at AA level in the small city of Portland Maine. Thus, we draw the attention to the Boston Sox through offering a place to see Boston related baseball games. Here to the north.

Last and least, to the northwest we have the Boston Red Sox affiliated Lowell Spinners, of Lowell, MA, playing at the Short Season A Level in the New York-Penn League, albeit this is the weakest connection though it should not be overlooked.

So, there it is! The secret has been revealed. It is to create baseball culture within a high population density city, metropolitan and suburbs areas.

It is scarcely believable years’ back that the Red Sox could win a world series, and Boston is winning regularly now from a the prospective of a Curse of the Bambino years’ fan. Not every year, but comparatively the Red Sox have been winning a lot. It was only a matter of time before this fan network was built.

DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) and Faith

In study of “Dialectical Behavioral Therapy,” I find that DBT is relevant to faithfulness.  DBT understands that our mind is a product of reason and emotions.  Where reason and emotions overlap, there is wisdom to be found.

Faith that comes from the gut, loving-kindness, causes our hearts to ache for those without faith, as victory comes to those with faith.

Faith may also be rational, connecting to the Mind.  Faith helps explain why some live blessed and why some don’t.  Undersized, malnourished children, with bellies full of worms, AIDS, and malaria; such persons are charged with having to respect their ancestors, even though their ancestors are to blame.  Torah explains this horror.

Yet, my reality is such that when I experience something good, I give thanks.  I thank Gd for not making me like the other man.  Time, reason, tells me my reality will unfold according to Hashem’s blessings, because as though I am puffed up, the righteous will live by my kind of faith (Habakkuk 2:4), both Jew and gentile.

MLB Connecticut Team: Can Someone in All Creation Tell Me Why on Earth Such a Team Does Not Exist?

Capitalism relies on the idea that people will want to have money to spend in order to make more money. For some reason Connecticut has no Major League Baseball team, and yet they are far from the New York Yankees, and the Mets, as well as from the Boston Red Sox. I have no explanation for this, and I am completely baffled. I would have figured that by now some investor would have broken ground for a baseball stadium in Connecticut.

I am completely aware that many teams are experiencing financial difficulties, but I am pretty sure that Connecticut is fairing the weather of the financial turmoil of our nation better than most states.  The exaction of a Connecticut team remains a mystery to me.

Where should they put the team? I would say in rural Connecticut between cities so that there could be a draw from multiple cities from Connecticut, as this state in some ways often seems like an extension of NYC though there are breaks in the population density.  Putting the stadium in rural Connecticut is good for another reason, and that is that the land is most likely to be cheaper there than in the small cities located along I-95.

We could expect to see some draw from places like Providence Rhode Island, which is already a haven for minor league teams such as the Pawtucket Red Sox, and the hockey team the Providence Bruins.  This idea may even draw some fans away from mega-teams like the Boston Red Sox, the NYC Yankees, and Mets although I expect that this may also fortify folks’ interest in sports in these areas.

This Connecticut MLB idea also relies on that not all people are willing to put in any effort to see a minor league game mostly because some people are stuck up and nothing less than the major leagues will due. Fielding a team for Connecticut would certainly fill this niche, and probably do wonders Connecticut’s local economy.

Alternative Use of The Military to Provide Discipline

I am just going to throw this out there for brainstorming. How about we stop flooding our prisons with drug related criminals and start sending these dopes to boot camp, but not giving them access to weapons? We need to give them discipline not punishment.  Prison generally only makes criminals worse.  It is proven ineffective as a correctional means via high recidivism rates.

Also, the answer to some of our problems is to give the little guy a chance to get some discipline in the military, while having special forces being the key to our military. Both missions to Iraq and Afganistan could have been accomplished via special forces.

Federal Debt Fun With Math...Anyone Got A Clue What The Answer Is?

Fun facts and mathematics: How many million dollar bills would we have to print to pay of a trillion dollars of the multi-trillion dollar federal debt?

A trillion is 1,000,000,000,000,000

A million is 1,000,000

Therefore it would take millions of million dollar bills to pay of the federal debt, but that doesn't directly answer the question.

I don't expect anyone to answer because it probably doesn't matter anyway.

Marriage Is Not About Two Halves Making A Whole

There must be some sort of error when translating that two halves make a whole is how marriage comes about, as is described in Cabala.  How about two wholes come together in a way that is mystically higher than if they were separate?  As, what about people that are adults whom have decided to go to rehab in order to put their life back together?  Many good counselors implore to their patients that before they find a romantic relationship, first they must improve their condition.  They are not yet half even, if marital partners may be considered halves!  Are these people in recovery mere quarters or fifths?  Certainly, we don’t call this person a quarter, or a fifth!  Also, Leah, Jacob’s wife was a wife in full to Jacob, assisting him, perhaps more than his loved wife in casting his seed to fruition.  As far as I know, the idea of rehab is somewhat new in history, and that its newness is probably reason for the translational error.

Cain and Abel; The First Ghost Story, and Its In The Bible!

Who believes in ghosts? And, I am not just talking demons here. I mean ghosts of people that haunt certain areas. Yes, I am talking about the ghosts that are in popular television shows like Ghost Hunters. Who believes in Torah, The Bible?

Up until now, I would guess that very few people believe in both, but in reality the Bible believer should believe in ghosts based upon what is written in the Bible.

In fact, I used to be unsure, but now I am certain in believing that Torah supports the idea that ghosts of humans are real and do exist. Believing in ghosts is supported by the Bible. Surprisingly, I was never sure about it until I found that many ghost stories talk about the haunting of a certain place where someone was murdered. This is where the Biblical story of Cain and Abel comes in.

Many people know of the story of Cain and Abel in the Bible. It is probably the most popular biblical story behind the creation story, and the story of how sin entered the world through Adam and Eve.

In the story of Cain and Abel, both are brothers, and Cain slays Abel. Then, God says to Cain, "Hark! Your brother's blood calls to me from the ground. (Genesis 4:10)" I believe that ghosts are people who have been slain such that their blood calls from the ground. 

I believe in the Exodus while science currently does not.

What if something came to light that said that in fact that the Exodus is true? Wouldn’t you feel terrible for having missed out on the Hashem’s truth? Perhaps, science is making a mistake with the dating methods, as we know them. Reason mandates that we can’t really know from dating things for a few years, that things have held stable over millions of years. Sure that is what scientists think now, but the final chapter in science is yet to be written. We have only been using carbon dating for about 60 years! To base our entire cosmogony of millions and billions of years of formation on 60yrs worth of data, as many scientists tell us to do is too audacious. Who knows? maybe given another hundred years of carbon dating on earth, we may have to come up with some sort of correctional constant, and what is to say that 200yrs from now we won’t come up with yet another correction, and so on.  Perhaps, we should give this radioactive dating thing a million years or more of testing before we bet that the Torah is a lie.

Explaining God To Child And A Scientist

When we are about to say that there is a G-d to our children, perhaps, it would be wise to show up with a pair of dice.  Ask the child to roll the dice.  Then, ask them if they think this could create the entire universe in all its complexity as we know it.  That there is a Gd is something any child should be able realize.  It amazes me that so many scientists are atheists.  However, I realize the reasons why scientists usually don't believe, and it isn't the issue with the dice; it is the idea that the world is not humane and could not have been created by a loving G-d, yet scientists usually stop there.  We religionists need to prod scientists further into reading about the blessings and curses in Torah.  G-d has clearly told us that though he wants us to behave, we get to choose, and we can incur the curse of G&d for multiple generations, just as we may incur the blessing for many generations.

Joining The Minority Among Science Researchers: Thinking Outside The Box

It is too early for science to be so bold in its claims with respect to carbon and radioactive dating, which the Rebbe explains in his letter, “The Age of The Universe.” As I once wrote, we don’t have a working Theory of Everything in science. We don’t know how oxidative stresses such as corrosion may interact with many of the current various means for dating the universe. When I read the about the Exodus, I think that it is a sign of maturity to not just discard the story in favor of science. Remember Proverbs, “Fools rush in.” It is better to try to be creative, and to ponder ways science and the Bible might both be true. Perhaps, due to corrosion the Exodus was recorded in the fossil record, in a way that has baffled scientists. Outside of radioactive and carbon dating, the fossil record show two mass exoduses from Africa, but as you know the dates don’t match given our present understanding of science. Yet, it is too far of a leap to say that the dates do not match at all.

On $300,000 a Year Salary Caps to Level the Economic Playing Field

I don’t hate people who succeed. By all means, succeed, everyone should for success, but if only the rich are successful, then we haven’t achieved maximum success. When people who work for the rich are also as happy as the rich that means a greater happiness has been achieved. If we leave behind that deserve more, it causes a ripple effect, magnifying unhappiness throughout the nation, and world. I understand that riches don’t always equate to happiness, but when families don’t have enough money, it ends up putting stress on them, and often breaks them up. Truly, money must be coordinated with happiness at least a little. Rich people can suffer from depression. And, I am aware that all the money in the world can’t buy happiness. Additionally, I am not for raising the minimum wage. However, in order to make the wealth redistribution happen, it would require effort on the part of the state to ensure that nobody is making more than $300,000 a year.

The big question some may have is: Why?

I believe that there is nothing any human being should be able to do and to earn more than $300,000 a year for it. Hopefully, demand alone would then change the scale of our economy and prevent the devaluation of the dollar. Really, bread should cost 5 cents a loaf. The higher prices get, the more people can’t do the necessary math, such that I am trying to prevent people from being sloppy with money.

For leveling the financial playing field, I do not want to be accused of jealousy. Naturally, some will be able to make more than others, and naturally some will be able to spend more wisely than others. This does not bother me. I am not jealous of how much money the rich have. For all I know, I may be rich in my generation simply because my family has no unpaid debts.

What bothers me is the greed of the oligarchy of capitalists. A part of the reason I believe that the $300,000 rule is good is because it will take the wind out of the sails of the greedy. People should work because they want to work, out of zest for their career, and not for the sake of earning more money. I was told, “Go to school for education, not for the money you might get.” It will make room for smaller companies that currently aren’t able to crack into the terse economic crust, giving them a chance. Truly, this oligarchy has prevented the fruition of some really good business ideas.

What I have is not envy of the rich. It is altruistic desire. Envy is far closer to covetousness than plain old desire. And, my desire is altruistic as I have no business in mind that I want to start, only wishing to level the playing field in order that competition should be fair for aspiring entrepreneurs. As far as the self and selflessness debate goes, I do believe that there can be self in altruism. For example, sometimes it is wise to conserve one’s own self, such that he or she will be able to give more at a later date.

Marijuana

The greatest challenge to the world's future is marijuana. Rabbi, we talk of schools as what separates Judaism as a movement. Marijuana undo's education, lowers IQ and damages young developing minds among many other things that are cited in a .gov article on the web. I am very afraid of this plant because its users can see nothing wrong with it, which is probably a combination of addiction and poor judgement. As I write this, more young adults smoke this kind of dope than cigarettes, and they are also proving themselves unable to do necessities, such keep a job. This drug, and the poor judgment caused by it which leads others to harder drugs is in my opinion the holocaust of this generation. I consider it very fearful because I believe that there is nothing more important than the mind. Our large intellectual brains are what makes us special as a species, more than anything else. Look to birds for flight. For speed look to cheetahs. But, for intelligence look to humans.

Life in a Post Capitalist World

If I remember correctly, in high school my teacher taught me how the invention of the assembly line was supposed to revolutionize the idea of capitalism. Things would be made much faster, and by everyone in the assembly line having a small but focused job, there would be extra time for stuff like fun. I don’t think many assembly line workers have free time in mind when they go to work these days.

First of all, assembly lines are usually no longer profitable in America, although we do farm them out oversees to people that we are allowed to pay whatever we want, and there always seems to be takers for these jobs. Let’s look at why? First of all, these workers lack skill sets, so when American Corporations defend the wages they pay overseas they play this card saying offering that we pay them so poorly essentially because we can get away with it. Fast forward to the modern era and now we are closing in on the idea that we don’t need anyone at all, and therefore there is no reason to pay someone anything, because everyone is replaceable.

And, now that I think of that, I don’t agree that people are replaceable just because we can get a machine or another person to do their job based upon a mere whim. A job can be found in Him merely though worship of Him. Yet, that day has yet to fully come, so don’t yet quit your day job. Most people probably like to think they are valuable, and they are, but the difference in today’s world is that their value is not going to be determined by their occupation. Those that accept that people are replaceable are probably going to be the first to say, something like, “Gee! Now that I have realized that I am useless, what can I do now?” For some that thought is pure bliss, for others that thought is a reason for suicide. Unfortunately, some people worship capitalism, as if it was a Gd, and the thought of life without capitalism brings nothing but the greatest sorrow of sorrows.

These are probably the people I least worry about: If you have the knowledge to know you can probably be outpaced by a machine, or someday in the near future, that that is right around the bend, you’ve probably taken some time to entertain yourself spiritually. Possibly, like me, you have gone on the quest to find the one true Gd, or something similar. These will be the types of escapades that will go on more often starting in about year 6,000 on the Orthodox Jewish calendar. This will be the 7th millennium, which in Judaism is known as the age of Moshiach. I like to explain this age as if it were Eden. If you paid it forward and did your good deeds, in the age of Moshiach, there will be no more work for you, although life will be better than just good.

In the Middle Ages and the Dark Ages times were much tougher. Now we have the time to explore the world at our leisure because really, few people need to work more than 40hr weeks, unless they want to. Just as the inventions from 1990 to 2000 where greater in number (and downright amusingness) than we have seen in the entirety of the rest of all other time periods, so too will technology cause us to all be obsolete if we allow ourselves to believe the lies about life in an atheist world.

As we head towards socialized healthcare in America, as well as for places that are more impoverished, such as in Africa through charities such as Heifer International, I think that it is safe to say that we are headed to a world that might be described as being like the Garden of Eden. In my mind, the rules of the universe will remain the same. Live by the golden rule and karma, and chances are that somehow you will come out on top.

If I had to refute the late Christopher Hitchens, then I would say, “Live a life of superstition because I can guarantee you that doing good deeds is the best way to choose no matter how superstitious it may seem.” Ozzy Osbourne was spot on in his song, “I don’t know,” in which he rather ironically claims, “Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself. You got to believe in foolish miracles.” Thus, it is such with reality; if we are able to make peace with our Creator, then indeed He will probably allow us a share of life in a peaceful world for our good deeds. Likewise, I should importantly say, good deeds are not always easy to do. I have spent a good deal of my lifetime trying to communicate over the net the blessings of doing what is moral, and upright. Learning to write didn’t happen in a day, a month, or even a year.

My take home message is to go study, be it books or baseballs, etc., with the aim of making yourself useful, and eventually, though you may crawl and cry, eventually things will work out for Gd. Take for instance the passage in Genesis that Joseph says, “You intended to harm me, but Gd intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.” I guess that makes me a priest of sorts. So, when I go to write, I share what I know for the sake of helping people that I don’t know. In my darkest hour, You were there for me, Gd. You told me of your anger saying, “I am punishing you,” which was as music for my ears because I thought that not only wasn’t there a Gd, but also the Gd I had been told of was a wimp, so I dismissed my knowledge of a wimpy Gd. Gd you were there to accuse me, such that my soul repented out of love for your voice, and I realized that You, Gd, are a vengeful and wrathful Gd. He, Gd, reached out to me, so following that pattern, to imitate His just ways, I reach out to you, in the hope that Eden will be for all of us, from the greatest to the least, and none will be able to say, I am not important, because we can derive that Gd is reasonable because His creation is reasonable, and for His creation to be reasonable, each soul in it must have a share in the World to Come, as each soul has a share from the breath of Gd that came from Him in the creation week of Genesis Chapter 1.

A Spiritual Piggybank

Many people pray, and they find that their prayer gets them nowhere. This does not surprise me, nor does it negate my religion. I won’t say that prayer is important, but I will say that prayer is not a complete perspective. I suggest doing something in addition to prayer.

When we do something for someone else out of charity, while it might be something directly related to the thing you want, it may also be something almost completely unrelated. Showing an interest in others and their doings may be just what we need in order to unlock the gate to the pathway towards Eden. The places we visit on this journey may seem obscure or irregular, but journey onward to the places that Torah takes us on.

Consider this; your good deeds may not pay off immediately. Thus, I suggest thinking of your doings in this world, as is the idea of a spiritual piggy bank. It may take a lot of saving. What if you have a rare disease or a rare problem? With your hard spiritual work, you may have to save up enough spiritual capital to put a doctor through medical school, such that he can help you out of your illness.

G;d gives each of us a mission in this world. This mission becomes clearer as we study. When we study, it is the equivalent of fulfilling all the good deeds of the Torah. In my instance, in my spiritual piggy bank, I had some knowledge of science, but that needed to be unlocked. It was sealed up, until I took the time to study Torah. Once I studied Torah, someone else, my mom, just happened to come across a doctor that could cure me so that my science knowledge need not remain locked up. So, I reached out to G(d and he reached out to me in return, blazing a pathway for my mother to find a cure for me. And, I do admit that it wasn’t a perfect cure, as a still have some problems. However, instead of my problems being to my detriment, they have actually been a blessing for me. This is the way Hashem is able to work his magic in this world.

A spiritual piggybank may have some money in it. But, it must also have good deeds. This is why a Jewish king must not be wealthy. His wealth must come from his spiritual piggy bank that is not of this world in a radical type of way, similar to that of a priest, or a Levite. In Ecclesiastes, King Solomon relates a story about a person who is wealthy, but Gd has forbidden them from enjoying it. This is entirely relative to the idea of a spiritual piggybank, and a proof of it if you believe Tanach is the words of G-d. Money by itself is empty if one can’t enjoy it. This is also the idea of karma, in that there is something spiritual about this world that if we do good things to others, then good things will be done to us in return. Likewise, Leviticus 26 and other parts of Torah relate the blessings of living a righteous life, but that if we don’t do what G&d asks of us then good things happen.

So pay it forward~!~ We all have something to give and a reason for being, or G^d would not permit us to be. G*d is aware of everything in the universe, such that everything in reality is not without purpose. If your spiritual piggy bank seems empty, you may be wrong! Just keep doing good deeds and I believe that if you are able to actually toil in Torah, reading it, even if you are blind and have to learn brail, and observing the ways of the righteous, though things may get worse initially, eventually things will get better for you. Through doing good deeds we must have hope.

Risking a Financial Future That We Can Depend On - Pretend Like We Don't Have a Problem

It used to be that we had a gold standard. Some say that we should go back to that, others say we shouldn’t. I used to fall in the gold standard group, but now I don’t. There just isn’t enough gold around. And, I know that a capitalist system depends on capital, and gold used to largely represent a lot of that capital, while silver dollars and other metals made up the rest of the system. We even got rid of the copper penny. However, such a system can’t last. There just isn’t enough capital money to go around. This is how capitalism works. You either own precious metal or you become dog food.

We are headed in the direction where there is a large amount, a superfluous amount of extra humans. China has tried state run birth control, limiting the size of families, and in the direction we head it looks like other places will follow in the way of China. There will be extra humans, unintentionally poisoning water supplies and food supplies, and it is only because we are proving irresponsible as the leader of all species. As the leader of species, we are failing, and the problem is that there is too much civilized world to natural world. There isn’t room for the other species, as we take up more and more room, and not only that, most of us need not be, most of us aren’t required to make the planet run. There are few essential humans, and if those essentials left, there would probably be people that could take their place. Which begs the question: Why can’t we have a responsible President?

I am about to do a 180 here on my position with respect to President Barrack Obama. When I voted for him the first time around, it was because I thought he as President would get spending under control, and that we would even start to pay back the national debt. That has never happened. When I voted against the President the second time around it was because I thought he was an ineffectual leader, and maybe he is, but maybe that is a good thing.

Thus, I suggest not paying off our federal debt as a possible solution. This is a move to show care for the upbringing of our children, which we don’t desire slavery for. As long as we keep track of the debt, slavery is where our children are headed. So here it is; my radical suggestions.

Don’t look at the money involved.

Pretend like we don’t have a problem.

These things are what the President is doing. We should follow his lead.

Naturally, through overspending, things are going to get harder for some folk. Our money will become less valuable. We will be removing another financial standard that our capitalist system works with and that is okay. The first standards we removed were the relationships of the metallic value of our metal. Now we should remove the credibility of our financial standards even more.

7 Things about me that you may or may not know

1. I was an Electrochemist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA for a few years, and as a result I believe science can be a crooked discipline full of lies and false claims.

2. I have been on 4 missionary trips to La Romana in the Dominican Republic in order to build a hospital for Hatian refugees.

3. I practice Judaism as a religion. However, I am not Jewish nor Christian.

4. I played guitar in an ensemble for the New England Jazz Fest.

5. My former best friend and best man at my wedding is no longer my friend because he mistreated my son. My son was so young he could barely stand, and this monster of a man blew marijuana smoke in his face.

6. I believe that I talked to G-d when I was a student at Rutgers in New Brunswick, and this led me to believe that I am the messiah, but not Gd.

7. I have a diagnosed digestive enzyme disorder that causes me to experience a high on opiates if I consume gluten, milk, or milk products. This disorder may have led some people to think I was shy in high school, but under normal circumstances, meaning when I am not eating these foods and I am taking a digestive enzyme, I am much more able to be outgoing. Also, I have a milk and milk products allergy that if I consume, or sometimes I am just around milk, it causes me to get brain fog.

On the CCRTA: An Example of Extracting Goodness Out of Negativity

I am a firm believer that good things happen to good people; but, how soon do I question my own comfort in that I have lost the favor of God?

The other day I took the bus and because the schedule wasn't clear I ended up missing the bus. I wondered what had I done to merit losing a ride and having to have my wife pick me up. I became angry, but I thought to myself that I am heading down the wrong path, and that instead of counting what is wrong, that I should be counting my blessing and trying to extract the good from this seemingly negative situation. The results started when I contacted the bus company. The management agreed with me that this needed to be fixed, and not only that, they agreed with my suggestion as to the way it should be fixed.

So, through being tactful, and not expressing anger, I was able to offer a potential fix. This fix is a blessing that may help up to 1,000 people or more over the years as the bus system becomes more popular. So, though I was quick to anger with G_d I was also quick to forgive, and Gd brought me even more blessing instead of pain.

I had missed the bus so that many others will not miss the bus. What a blessing to get a chance to change the world for better and for the sake of goodness!

Ethics of the Fathers 5:11 "There are four types of temperaments. One who is easily angered and easily appeased--his virtue cancels his flaw. One whom it is difficult to anger and difficult to appease--his flaw cancels his virtue. One whom it is difficult to anger and is easily appeased, is a chassid. One who is easily angered and is difficult to appease, is wicked."– www.chabad.org

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The rest of the blog is copies of emails that verify that indeed what had happened was indeed a very positive thing. If nothing else, missing the bus started me on the walk to home, which gave me a considerable work out, benefiting my health.

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The following is a slightly edited email Posted to the CCRTA (Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority)

To the administrator of the Cape Cod RTA website; this is a complaint about the Bell Tower Mall stop. Reading the website, it is entirely reasonable to think that the bus pulls right into the Bell Tower Mall parking lot. I did not know that the CCRTA bus does not go there, nor is that indicated on the website that the bus does not go there (in the parking lot). Consequently, I missed my bus and had to have my wife come pick me up, totally defeating the purpose of the bus system.

There is an easy fix to this problem. Simply put an asterisk next to the Bell Tower Mall stop entry on the webpage, and at the bottom of the webpage please write, “Bus does not stop in the Bell Tower Mall parking lot and must be flagged down on route 28.” This could have saved me a great deal of time, and will probably be very useful for future customers.

The following was the brilliant response of the RTA to me:

Dear Mr. Hamilton:



Thank you for your email note of earlier today. We always appreciate receiving correspondence from our passengers and public. Immediately after yours arrived today, CCRTA Administrator Tom Cahir, called me into his office to discuss your recommendation. After reviewing your concern and suggestion, we both agreed that putting a footnote in both the web site and Rider’s Guide schedules makes a good deal of sense. Thank you for that suggestion.



When we were constructing the schedules, we attempted to make the stops clear by stating that the stop was on Route 28, and then added the “@” symbol to show where on Route 28 the bus would stop. Looking at the schedule from your perspective, I can see how it could be misinterpreted. The last thing we want to do is be confusing and inconveniencing to our customers. I am sorry that you were unable to board our bus conveniently today. We also do not want anyone else be inadvertently inconvenienced.



Therefore, we would like to use your good suggestion in our next printings of the public Rider’s Guide and on our web site. The footnote idea is a good one and seems to be the most clear. We will work with our staff to make those adjustments.



Again, thank you for taking the time to share your opinions on this. If you have any further questions or thoughts, please feel free to contact me directly.



All the best,



John



John F. Kennedy

General Manager

Eastern Mass Transit Company / Cape Cod RTA

MV Transportation, Inc., Division # 198

40 American Way

South Dennis, MA 02660

508-385-1430, x118

What’s In My 100 Disc Changer 2014: Good Stuff in Time for Day After Thanksgiving Christmas Shopping!

Firstly, I may have reviewed a few of these albums already, elsewhere. I find that occasionally, and by accident, I review an album twice, but often both reviews are very similar.  However, the vast majority of these albums are in my 100 disc changer because I plan to review them someday, and of course because I love to listen to them.

These albums are that which is in my player. I can vouch for this: I have already listened to some of each of these albums and each does seem to be quite good.

To be less confusing to those who might be interested in purchasing any of these albums, only the name of the album is given, and not disc 1 or disc 2, even if each separate disc has a name, such that I don’t arrive at the number 100 in the list, as labeling which disc is in my player for multi-disc sets, especially when they aren’t even near each other in the player, is of no assistance to a potential buyer. For instance, with Steven Wilson, though both Grace for Drowning cds are in the player; I do not label each of the Grace for Drowning cds that are in the player, meaning that there is only one entry for Grace for Drowning though the set has 2 discs.

1. Dregs of Earth and What If by the Dixie Dregs

2. Grace for Drowning by Steven Wilson

3. In Absentia by Porcupine Tree

4. Free Fall and Unsung Heroes by the Dixie Dregs

5. The Wake of Magellan and The Dungeons Are Calling by Savatage

6. Live at Birdland by John Coltrane

7. Back in the World of Adventures by The Flower Kings

8. Spontaneous Combustion by The Liquid Trio Experiment

9. Soul Sirkus

10. Kings of Damnation Era by Black Label Society

11. Without a Net by the Grateful Dead

12. Metatonia by Porcupine Tree

13. Self-titled by Niacin

14. III Sides to Every Story by Extreme

15. …And Justice For All by Metallica

16. Emergent by Gordian Knot

17. United Abominations by Megadeth

18. Stardust We Are by the Flower Kings

19. The Ritual by Testament

20. Bridge Across Forever by Transatlantic

21. Individual Thought Patterns by Death

22. Live at Budokan by Dream Theater

23. The Kindness of Strangers by Spock’s Beard

24. Drukqs by Aphex Twin

25. The Odyssey by Symphony X

26. Machine Head by Deep Purple

27. The Raven That Refused to Sing and other stories by Steven Wilson

28. Listen by Jordan Rudess

29. Start Today by The Gorilla Biscuits

30. The Essential Frank Sinatra: The Columbia Years

31. The End of Silence by Rollins Band

32. Doin’ Something by Soulive

33. Effigy of the Forgotten by Suffocation

34. Toxicity by System of a Down

35. Scenario by Al di Meola

36. Led Zeppelin and Tony MacAlpine mix cd

37. Aenima by Tool

38. Fire Garden by Steve Vai

39. Surfing With The Alien by Joe Satriani

40. Secret Story by Pat Metheny

41. Retrospective by Django Reinhardt

42. Deadwing by Porcupine Tree

43. Here In the Now Frontier by Queensryche

44. Full House by Wes Montgomery

45. Fear of a Blank Planet by Porcupine Tree

46. The Vibe by Roy Hargrove

47. Empyrean Isles by Herbie Hancock

48. Up All Night by John Scofield

49. Greatest by Bee Gees

50. Lightbulb Sun by Porcupine Tree

51. Amazing Journey w/Mike Portnoy

52. The Rainmaker by The Flower Kings

53. Coma Divine by Porcupine Tree

54. The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd by Charlie Byrd

55. The Uplift Mofo Party Plan and The Abbey Road EP by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

56. The Blue Note Years: The Best of Kenny Burrell by Kenny Burrell

57. Transgression by Fear Factory

58. Impressions by John Coltrane

59. Birds of Fire by The Mahavishnu Orchestra

60. Coast to Coast and High Tension Wires by Steve Morse

61. Industry Standard and Full Circle by the Dixie Dregs

62. Retropolis by The Flower Kings

63. The Best of Earl Klugh by Earl Klugh

64. First Meditations by John Coltrane

65. Virtuoso #2 by Joe Pass

66. Space Revolver by The Flower Kings

67. Super Hit by Ted Nugent

68. Eat a Peach by Phish

69. II Pornograffitti by Extreme

70. Like Minds by Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes, and Dave Holland

71. School Days by Stanley Clarke

72. Youthenasia by Megadeth

73. Coda by Led Zeppelin

74. Vulgar Display of Power by Pantera

75. Midnight Blue by Kenny Burrell

76. Gretchen Goes to Nebraska by King’s X

77. Ok Computer by Radiohead

78. Greatest Hits by Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble

79. Freaky Styley and The Abbey Road EP by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

80. Born This Way by Lady Gaga

81. Fusion by Wes Montgomery

82. Shadows Fall

83. What Did He Say? by Victor Wooten

84. Live by Bill Frisell

85. A Dramatic Turn of Events by Dream Theater

86. Pork Soda by Primus

87. Twilight in Olympus by Symphony X

88. Sex and Religion by Steve Vai

89. Notes on a Dream by Jordan Rudess

90. Pick Hits Live by John Scofield

91. Surrealistic Madness by Candiria

92. Enter Suicide Angles and Character by Dark Tranquility

Why I Don’t Like Cannabis

The problem with marijuana is that far more people are interested in smoking it as dope than the other usages of marijuana, which indeed can be good.  Do not delude yourself.  Smoking this kind of dope, marijuana, gives users motivation to find excuses that glorify this plant's usage.  How many people glorify pot who didn’t smoke it first?  My guess is very few.  This drug is at its worst when people’s judgment is so impaired that they can’t see anything wrong with recreational use of pot at any time.  The addiction in people is so strong that they find reasons to justify using this dope, while most dope smokers have never spent even close to the amount of time engaged in the so called positive uses of marijuana other than "getting high," which I believe are many, as most plants are useful, and everything has a purpose, even Satan.  People smoke the stuff, get doped up, and then forget to the motivation to accomplish any of the positive uses of marijuana.  And, when was the last time you heard of someone risking breaking the law to accomplish anything other than getting high on this dope?  If you have, then at least it is rare, and accompanied by recreational use.  The most disgusting aspect of marijuana is that people order their lives around it, glorifying it at virtually all costs.  When users are high then they are happy, but when users aren’t high, then they are planning the next time they are going to smoke their dope or they are promoting its usage either as a drug or trying to justify smoking because it has so many other uses.

MASS Health, ACA, charity, Science Funding, Talmud, NGO, Environment, Zerah, Esau, Freewill, Soul, Jews Have Torah

I come from MA. I know about Mass Health. This is a fact. If you apply for it through any other means than being in person, then whatever papers you have filled out for snail mail are tossed in the trash. Folks don't have the time for stuff like website applications even in my state, which is orders of magnitude smaller than the scale of trying to achieve socialized health care. A much better way to do this has been pointed out by Robert Reich, and that was to extend Medicare to include health for all. In addition, I believe that trying to insure the entire country will be a difficult if not impossible task, especially since it requires more bureaucracy than Mass health, and believe me, it is no easy walk in the park to get health care here. Many providers often complain that Mass Health doesn't pay them, even though it should. Really, the best way do do this would be Medicare and via separating the union with respect to health care as places like New England, Mid-Western, etc.

One thing that I don't get about ACA is why so many folks that comment also can pay out of pocket are more concerned about second tier Americans than third and underclass tiers? I myself pay out of pocket for my psychological care. I would guess anyone who trusts regular health care for psych would be nothing but a disaster, such that out of pocket psychiatrists that do not accept health care is the only way.

Conservatives often give to fund their priests, but that is all. Ever heard of a conservative give no an NGO (Non governmental organization) like Heiffer International? Probably not. I do admit though that the shoebox charity of Christian is quite good. I, myself, have done missionary work in the Dominican Republic doing things like pouring cement to build a hospital. Often I am very suspicious of Christian charities like the Salvation Army because really their assistance is often motivated by Jesus and is not humanistic.  (This is probably more like what Christians are like in the Bible belt. I have evidence that Christians are not like this where I live, Cape Cod)

I don't buy that. I live in Massachusetts, sometimes called the blue-est state. Far fewer people in my state go to church and still far fewer are zealous about their religion here. And, guess what, our water is clean and through legislating charity we have one of the most robust states in the union. Boston has weathered the financial storms of economic demise far better than many other USA cities.

One fact is, if you give many but not all people a sense that Zeus is watching the behavior of men, then, the majority of men will use belief in Zeus as a reason to behave, and they will behave just as well for Zeus as they will for Jesus.

There is ample evidence to suggest that Zeus was Zerah son of Judah, born by Tamar, and brother of Pharez.

If Jesus was the Messiah, then please explain to me why after his coming here life expectancies decreased. Also, that Jesus walked the earth reminds me of a silly old song my mom used to sing, "And, he walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me that l am his own."

Thanks ... for not praying for me. When Christians say that to me (That they are gonna pray for me), I take it as a common passive aggressive cheap-shot.

Exactly, when Isaac blessed Jacob, he gave a lesser blessing to Esau. In the Bible Isaac represents justice. Thank you for at least trying to show some discretion over who and what you pray about. Indeed, you are trying not to caste pearls to swine (why it is written "before" beats me. Its almost like poor English, as if the pearls turn men into swine). It should be, don't caste pearls to swine, if you are concerned with parsimonious English.


Thank you for taking time to address this with me. I am not Christian. I believe that the religion of Judaism is correct though I am not a Jew, meaning I do not have Jewishness that one supposedly gains through ritual conversion.


First, let me address the issue of free will. I do believe G@d knows us, and even controls our destiny to a certain extent, but that we also control our own destiny because we have souls. These souls give us purpose, and individuality. Most Bible's include this in the creation account where G_d say, "And let them rule." "Let" separates our souls from being G-d's automatons. "Them" is plural indicating our individuality. To "Rule" over creation is the purpose of humanity. Also, several times in Torah we read that if we do good things, then eventually good things will happen to us, and that if we do bad things we will eventually fall from grace through the evil of G!d. A couple of time in the histories of the Jewish kings in Tanach G:d is called evil. In addition, G=d is the ruler over Satan, the Angel of Death, and so on. So, because we have souls we can choose to a certain extent how we are to live, and G$d may or may not punish or reward us, according to His perfect wisdom. Thus, as the rule of karma applies, if we do good, then eventually good things will happen to us, and if we do evil eventually G-d is probably going to multiply our afflictions.

I do agree with you that the Christian message is quite muddled. To believers, however, to be a Christian is secretly defined as doing what is morally upstanding, while shunning evil.

I do not have a good answer with respect to radioactive dating and the Bible. So far as I can conceive, there once was a time where humanity became nearly extinct due to an ice age, according to the fossil record. The entire world is thus thought to have been repopulated by 70 individuals, according to science. I believe that Noah's flood was actually due to global warming and thawing a glacier, and that the 70 individuals that scientists say repopulated the world, are the 70 nations of the Bible following the flood.

I believe that it is possible that we have miscalculated the age of the birth of Hebrew. There is ancient Hebrew (no vowels, only consonants), as our human ancestors probably could only speak with consonants (see The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins), and there is modern Hebrew, which of course has vowels. Modern Hebrew was created through isolating a child in Jewish culture, and deigning the words he came up as Hebrew. Please keep in mind that no one had spoken perhaps middle Hebrew or Ancient Hebrew for roughly 2,000 years before Modern Hebrew was created. Talmud and Torah through the Middle Ages etc were studied in the vernacular, but the Hebrew was only read, not spoken. This is one reason I believe Hebrew is very similar to old French according to Rashi, meaning that Rashi had adopted old French into a Hebrew creole. Rashi is best known for writing what is often called the most important commentary on the Torah.

Forgive me if I am in error in the delivery, but if I can remember correctly, reconciliation of the modern dating system science is possible through Torah. Observing the dates of the Bible, I was able to conclude that through taking Torah (non-Tanach {I think it was}) dates and connecting them with modern dates, I was able to come to an interesting conclusion with respect to the Hebrew word “Yom,” which can mean either day or age. This word “yom” is also used in the creation story, which is why some folks believe in the Day-Age Theory. At the time of the flood, G-d numbered Noah’s years, saying that man’s days are numbered 120. If you factor in Torah one of the years of a person’s life is actually 120 years of our time because of this verse, then we are accurately able to date the time of near human extinction in the fossil record in Torah. In addition, the fossil record contains 2 departures from Africa, one being that of Abraham, the other being that of the Israelites fleeing Pharaoh. Using this system, it is also possible to conclude that the Canaanites were the Neanderthals, and that for some of us our ancestors intermarried with them, as we have their DNA. There is definitely fossil record of Neanderthals in Israel, which is the land of Canaan. Additionally, I am fairly certain that while all know white people have Neanderthal DNA, it is the Jews that are Jewish via lineage that have the highest concentrations of Neanderthal DNA.

This raises an interesting question, which you, yourself, posed. Why the hell is everything with respect to the Bible so muddled, be it any religion, as though I like Judaism on paper, I still think people are people? For one, Paul and the Talmud are correct on one thing, that the Jews have Torah. However, that is not to state that the Jews fully comprehend Torah. That is, G-d gave the Torah to the Jews in a state, very similar to the way the Jews are now, and not all comprehend this Torah though many of the Jews wrestle with it in their life, and indeed some go on to become Rabbis and probably fewer become students of these Rabbis.

One conclusion is that each name of every person in Torah, or at least Genesis is actually a tribe, and not a single person.

I resent that about donating other people's money. i do give money to charity, and I am a charity case. The Bible says that the poor should not be so impoverished that they are unable to give back, and that describes my situation. There, in the play by play I did charitable a good deed by letting you know that. I used to be an electrochemist several years back, and having mental illness even I could see that I would cost tax payers less on SSI, not to be confused with SSDI, if I just take a check and stop doing science. Plenty is already known in science and people need to put that to use and not just publish paper after paper. The system is archaic. Science is supposed to be repeatable, but recorded written and moderated commentary on articles isn't done, especially since terabyte drives are commonly available. The Jews have been doing this since the Dark Ages through Talmud. Science isn't all that grand and it costs a lot of money, so I decided not to add to the problem, and see what I could do that might benefit people in the form of charity.

My Collected Thoughts to the Chabad.org Article, “Why Don't You Spell Out G-d's Name?” By Aron Moss

Dramatic Pause, Then Thought, and Least of All Execution

If I ever wrote about Gd when I didn't know Him; that is when I used God. However, because of that I have this wonderful neural pathway where first I think of The Blessed Be He, as God, but then I pause to think about how I will communicate my idea about G_d to an audience. That pause is crucial to paying respect to G:d, such that I give Him His due respect. The actual way G-d appears in my writing has very little to do with the personal respect I attribute to Him, but rather through permutations of God, anticipating them, and trying for slight randomness before writing Gd with variability gives my brain the kick it needs to continue treating God with the utmost respect. Thus, the written form is not as important as the thought behind it. However, for someone reading this the cryptic nature of my post may cause additional thoughts for the reader that are also beneficial, as it should be clear far beyond a reasonable doubt that I'm trying to show the utmost respect.

Craig Hamilton
Sandwich, MA

I have a second opinion about vowels. I believe Hebrew was originally spoken without vowels and thus none are written. There is ample evidence to show that the hominid ancestors of humans could speak on only using consonants. If you need a reference that confirms that hominids at one time could speak only with consonants, then I suggest the book, “The Ancestor’s Tale” by Richard Dawkins.

Craig Hamilton
Sandwich, MA

Goad

I no longer use God or G-d, but Goad. Goad is much more descriptive than G-d. Everyone that conceives of G-d has his or her own idea of what G-d is, and they not only vary from religion to religion, but even among followers of particular religions. Let's be frank. Goad is an Almighty and Universal motivator. Goad motivated the universe into being. Goad motivates us to be ethical and Goad rewards us and punishes us according to the Goading we receive from Goad. We could even consider ourselves to be imitating Goad if we do some of the motivating ourselves.

Craig Hamilton
Sandwich

Note 10/25/2013:  Obviously I no longer do this.  Additionally, two spelling changes where corrected.

- Google says -

~search results~
660,000,000 for God
127,000,000 for Craig
92,100,000 for G-d
2,580,000 for chabad

By those rules, I would say, "Even if I post my name, God, and or G-d it ends up in the same place." nych nych nych nych

Craig Hamilton
Sandwich, MA

Note 10/25/2013:  These search results seem to change daily.

Judgement

That the author attempted to show respect shows good intent. He has greater righteousness than that person that paid attention to spell check. It is likely that any attempt to show respect to the divine Name that gains popularity is likely to receive recognition by a computer program. However, I would say that since we now know that G-d is in some spell checkers, I would say, “Spell check should be ignored when considering respect to the Name.” Upon analysis of writing, we will simply know the meanings of various forms of respect.

Craig Hamilton
Sandwich, MA

I think you misunderstood. I do not understand how what you write beyond your third sentence refutes me. 
My suggestion is that people worshiped Odin after his death when polytheistic mythologies were generated in Norway. In fact, several people in my line had the same deification lie generated, such as Beowulf, Thor, and Zeus. Likewise, I want no generation of a lie that I am a deity either, as it is possible people are already calling me "Lord Chaos" in internet mythologies, as "chaos Craig" was my nickname years ago (Internet Book of Shadows).

Craig Hamilton
Sandwich, MA

Note 10/25/2013:  Never mind this post.  It is crud.  See craig-ancestry.blogspot.com for more.

I count Odin and Thor in my direct paternal ancestry and I suggest posthumous deification occurred. Does Paul Bunyan ring a bell? King Wittekind son of Odin, another of my paternal ancestors was a Norse Pagan and forced into Christian conversion after Charlemagne executed possibly 4,000 of his men at Verdun. Anyone who has studied mythologies of other cultures understands that most "gods," were actual people, having an actual day of birth and a day of death. King worship is common to Jewish history as well. It may be an area of confusion in popular thought. Check out the book Antiquities of the Jews (Flavius Josephus) for examples of king worship of David son of Boaz.

Craig Hamilton
Sandwich, MA

Note 10/25/2013:  Never mind this post.  It is mostly crud.  See craig-ancestry.blogspot.com for more.

Faith is Logical!

Driving Force = Matter / Decay

If God is "Driving Force," then Driving Force is one, while matter and decay describes the cycle of reality.
If a human is "Driving Force," then decay is variable, while matter is the flesh. The driving force of a human is the soul. The goal is for humane Driving Force, such that freewill connects us in harmony; otherwise stated for a human to be of God. Reworded, the goal of freewill is to find the meaning of God, and not only know this meaning, but to act in accordance to the will of God. Thus, decay of human flesh always perverts the meaning of God, the Collective Singular that we live in. To disbelieve in God is to deny Torah, or literally to believe that there is no consequence for action.

Craig Hamilton
Sandwich, MA, 

Any chance that we won't outspend our debt limit again in a few years if we raise it? Zip, Nope, and None!

Do we actually believe that there is any chance that we won't outspend our debt limit again in a few years if we raise it?

This is not the same as paying our bills, as the President says because when we pay our bills, debt should decrease.

This is the exact opposite of what is happening now. Now we are running up our bills with no end or hint of responsibility in sight if we write ourselves another blank check in 2 weeks and a mid-October fiasco probably coming up.

Whoever would come up with such a smoke screen idea that paying our bills is merely keeping track of the debt and not paying the debt down is a filthy liar!  Oh yeah!  That would be President Obama, and possibly the Legislature, which should call the President on his lies, as a responsibility of the checks and balances our government is supposed to work on.

Smoke screens on the economy.  Smoke screens on the governments debt.  Failure to work toward a fiscally responsible goal.  I bet the death of Osama bin Laden was a smoke screen too given all the bull our President tells us.

What Is The Worst Kind of Corruption?

Judges hold the key to freedom.  Police are sometimes overzealous and have guns.  Politicians could sodomize each other for all I care. I don't believe politicians have had any sort of sovereignty since Obama took office, not like what happened when Bush Jr. was in office.

People feared Shrub because he was borderline dumb and he had the legislature by their balls. Obama may have some accomplishments, yet some of them I imagine are faked, such as the slaughter of Osama bin Laden.  President Obama's asshole commentary on the economy leads me to suspect that because it is so full of distortions that it is essentially lies.

Politician or judge depends on who is in the position of power that makes for the worst kind of corruption.  Serving on the Supreme Court is a life sentence, and under our borderline corrupt Supreme Court, there is potential for some really bad decisions.  However, I think 5 to 4, that vote that wins usually reflects my opinion though most opinions I agree with and they are better than 5 to 4 decisions.  If that wasn’t the case I think that would be very horrible.

Under Bush Jr. we had the horrible Patriot act and the even more horrible Patriot II act.  I remember those times being paranoid.  The legislature was in power then, and I feared them for no other reason than the amount of poor decisions they made.  That was when the economy was in a downward spiral.  Currently, President Obama is doing a good job remaining composure, such that the Union hasn’t crumbled.

Under Obama though perhaps I should fear him like a leader, I just don't.  As far as a judge goes, I have only been called to do jury duty once and they didn't take my panel. That is the closest I have been to a courtroom in my life.

I do know what it is like to be locked up for mental illness.  After a few weeks it got boring.  I felt trapped.  However, I would liken that sort of lifestyle to living in a city.  I don't like the city; all eyes are watching so it would seem.

Syria and Russia - Not Our Allies, Not Even Close

I don't care who does what on whom in Syria because both the Regime and the Rebels are our enemies.

The whole deal with Russia is a distraction. Russia is not our ally, so what will Russia do during chemical weapons inspections; flip a quarter. The odds are 50/50 and not only that, they shouldn't matter.

It shouldn't matter because we shouldn't be the world's policeman when we are starkly in debt.  We need to stop making excuses for ouselves to raise the debt ceiling, and get things under fiscal control. 

I am surprised that President Obama is still pushing for war despite Russia's action.  I would have thought that he was looking for a way to back out of the chemicals weapons corner that he put himself in.

One of my Facebook friends posted the following truth that I think is very important before we go into this war, and why we should not go to war, even for a short period.

Mish Shedlock notes the quote of the day goes to Abby Martin who says "We're killing Syrians to Show Syria that Killing Syrians is Wrong.". I (my Facebook friend) would modify the quote slightly to: "We're killing Syrians to Show Syria that IMPROPERLY Killing Syrians is Wrong."

Judaism and Creationism: What Came First, The Chicken or The Egg?

It is said that Adam and Eve were created with the appearance of being 20 years old in the Garden of Eden.  How can this be so?  If Gd created the universe with the appearance of age, isn’t that deceptive?

The very meaning of deception is to create something that looks a certain way such that one would only think that it would be a certain age through analysis.  In the answer, there is an unfolding of the very meaning of age.

The world was made not with the appearance of age, but with the appearance of perfection, because the L-rd Gd would only create something perfect, and leave it to us to keep it that way.  And, He promises that eventually earth will be like it was in Gan Eden.  The only requirement is massive amounts of righteousness.  Gd did not make a world where Adam would look at a tree and think, wow that tree looks old.  That was not the intent.  Gd’s intent was for Adam to look at a tree and think, not about its age, but just simply, “Wow!!!  That looks perfect!!!”

We know this because the L-rd Gd is good.  His ways are worthy of emulation.  Because Gd is good we can know that the world was not created to deceive us that the world was old, and aged.  That would be an action not attributable to a Mighty Deity.  The Almighty Gd created the world to look perfect in an ageless way.  We humans often place too much emphasis on the beginning and ending of things such as life cycles.

Torah does not lead us to believe that things were created with the appearance of age.  However, Torah does lead us to believe that the world was created in a state of perfection, Gan Eden.  Things where not created with the appearance of age; they were created in their ideal state; something time does not know.

Chances are that we didn’t grow up in the Garden of Eden.  The world we grew up in was imperfect.  However, that perfect way that we probably never knew was outside of age because usually we associate age with death and dying, but yet the Garden of Eden had neither of these things.

In Judaism, our souls are eternal, such that birth is merely a state of the soul.  As time passes, we gain deeper understanding to the world at birth, so it is true that birth is an earlier state of life, and that infants aren’t born with much more than they need to know, and primarily what they do know revolves around motivating parents or care takers to feed them and change their dirty diapers, etc., through crying.  However, it is such that before we were on earth we did not know of age, and we came down to earth, and suddenly time became a very important issue of our lives; in fact for most of us, too important!  Our slavery to the clock in fact is one sign that we live in a fallen and imperfect world.  Gan Eden didn’t last long!

So, looking at a perspective; did the chicken come first or the egg is that chickens were created before they came into being, before time, as what we would call before an earthly state, but that the first chicken came to earth at a state of the universe known as the Garden of Eden where everything was perfect.

It is such that probably Gd probably started with a flock of chickens some with their eggs ready to hatch in the Garden of Eden with grandiose splendor.

2nd Why I Say That I Am the Messiah

A part of the reason why I cleave to the idea of being the Messiah is because I have bipolar. I gave up on the cyclic idea of, "Now I am manic and the Messiah, and then when I am not feeling so good saying that I am not the Messiah." There will always come another time when I think that I am the Messiah, so I will own it and I will wear it on my soul.

Does Kerry Have A Conscience?

I can't believe Kerry is on board with bombing the Syrians. I would have expected him to resign. I voted him for President. This action, bombing the Syrians, is something he is saying is something that only someone with a conscience would do.

The way I see it is that the people of Syria had no good choice! Most of the people we are going to bomb had no other choice but to be in the Syrian military or be a rebel. Those in the military were just following orders where the price for disobedience was death. The other alternative, being a rebel, was never really an alternative at all, as that also carried with it the death penalty. Either side you may choose if you are a Syrian is a death penalty because President Obama is only going to be kicking Syria, our enemy, when they are down. This military action by us is far from courageous.

Napoleon's quote: "When you're enemy is making mistakes, don't stop them in the middle."