Background
When I was twelve years old I had the first of a series of these strange experiences. I felt a ‘presence' enter the room in which I was sitting and the feeling of this presence was so real that it caused me to look up and towards the left which was this sense of presence seemed to be ‘located'. It seemed to enter the room like ‘a gust of wind'. I dismissed the feeling as being similar to that strange and passing feeling of deja vu that people occasionally experience. Next I heard a voice, in my left ear. It was barely audible, almost a whisper, and it sounded ‘tinny', and the words were very rapid. It said, ‘The telephone is going to ring. You're grandfather is dead.' This experience scared the living daylights out of me, and I was also prepared to dismiss the second part of the experience as some type of strange mental aberration, like the first. I thought to myself, ‘I will wait and see if this actually happens.' I was about to dismiss the experience and ignore it as a curiosity (a trick of the mind, like deja vu) when suddenly the phone rang. All my senses became heightened. The sound of the phone ringing seemed to be amplified. Perhaps I could have heard a pin drop at a hundred yards. A great wave of fear went through me. My mother picked up the phone, there was silence, then the sound of the phone crashing to the floor, and my mother ran up the stair steps in tears. It was about fifteen minutes later that she returned and told me that they had just phoned to inform us that my grandfather was dead. I just nodded my head. I already knew. The weeks that followed was some of most awesome of my life. I was haunted during the day and haunted during the night. The dead were every where. The very air that surrounded me was heavily populated and the universe seemed to be a very different place indeed. I was surrounded by ghosts.
After about three weeks I managed to make an adjustment that allowed me to live with this new experience, and I seemed to ‘return to normal' but looking back on the experience I can see that it changed me in profound ways. I studied all sorts of ancient spiritual texts over the next two years looking for clues that perhaps over the course of human history perhaps traces might be found that would indicate that others had experienced something similar to what had just happened to me. Eventually I was attracted to the most ancient form of Buddhism.
Sidebar : I am referring here to Buddhism in the beginning, when it was a practical philosophy, and before the myth making of religion transformed it into the type of ‘popular Buddhism people might be more familiar with today. During my investigations I found that religion repelled me. According to the most ancient Buddhist philosophy, which actually contradicts Buddhism as a religion, people should not speculate on what happens to people ‘in heaven' as an example, because all such religious dogma can never be anything more than speculation. Religious texts and religious authorities teaching what are supposed to be authoritative dogma that purports to explain these highly speculative descriptions of reality should be rejected and all individuals should be regarded as equal and thus there is no insight or understanding that is unique to some ‘great religious authority'. This is a lesson that needs to be learned in Christian, and Muslim, not to mention Jewish cultures, where the dogma of ‘the unquestionable authority of the supposedly divine individual' is used as a prop to support what in the end are highly speculative doctrines.As I mentioned previously I responded to this strange premonition event by studying the past, looking for clues that might have been left behind throughout history that would indicate that others had left behind traces of their own experiences that would relate to what I had just experienced. This required me to plow through piles of religious obfustication and religious mystification, and out of it all, ancient Buddhism seemed at the time the most attractive philosophy. This experience with struggling with the cloud of dust, and the muddying of the waters by religion was very worthwhile and continues to influence me to this day, since the function of religion, it seemed to me, was to catch those searching, as I was searching, trapping us in a net and then distracting us and leading us astray, thus protecting the status quo.
The story is told of how the Buddha was consulted by the Kalamas, who were confused by the conflicting claims to religious authority by various sects operating at the time. Each sect was dogmatic concerning their own traditions and doctrines and condemned the others, and the Kalamas told the Buddha that "we always have doubt and perplexity among ourselves as to who among these venerable recluses and brahamas spoke the truth and who spoke falsehood." The Buddha replied,
It is proper for you to have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful. Now, look you Kalamas, do not be led by reports, or religious tradition, or hearsay. Be not led by the authority of religious texts, nor by mere logic or inference, nor by considering appearances, nor by the delight in speculative opinions, nor by seeming possibilities, nor by the idea that "this is our teacher". But when you know for yourselves that certain things are wrong then give them up and when you know for yourselves that certain things are good then accept and follow them."I also found ancient Buddhism to provide a practical way of viewing the world as a form of cause and effect. For example if you pollute a stream you get a polluted stream. This is obvious, and the principle applies more broadly in that nothing happens without there being a root cause and the results just follow logically.
A brutal social order creates a brutalized society and the circle of brutality continues for another generation. Religion on the other hand tends to mystify cause and effect and thus distracts from real solutions.
Let me give you just one practical example of how the process of religious mystification works in the real world, which can then be contrasted with the practical philosophy of Buddhism before it became distorted by the process of changing it into a religion. The reason there is child prostitution and child thieves stealing food in poor countries is because of ‘individual child sinners' who ‘need Jesus'. Religion justifies the status quo and then concentrates on ‘solving' the problem by converting ‘one child sinner at a time.' The selected child will then appear on Christian Television announcing that he is now saved and will preach the saving message of Jesus to other hungry, prostituted, stealing children. Now if you recall the ‘anti-Chavez' demonstrations in Venezuela, you might have seen that the protestors were all remarkably white skinned and very well dressed and quite rich. That sea of white faces and well dressed white people driving up to the anit-Chavez protest in their SUVs might give a person the idea that Latin America is a white country. The so called ‘anti-Chavez strike' was actually a lockout as these descendants of the white colonialists of the past locked out their brown skinned workers so as to create ‘strike' that could be reported in the western press as one more reason for a coup d'etat. Currently in my country (Canada) Amnesty International has launched a campaign to pressure these white people to get them to stop paying off duty police officers to murder thousands of brown skinned street kids every year, because, being hungry and starved after all, they practice child prostitution and also steal food when they see an opportunity to do so, and these white people like money. (Chavez was planning some poverty reduction moves, which would of course require taxes, which is the real reason for the white protests and the constant attempted coup d-etats. Which isn't surprising, because people who routinely murder thousands of street kids every year, to save a few bucks on stolen food or to ‘clean up the street of dirty child hookers' are the same immoral types who want to hold onto their cash even if it means a coup d'etat.) Now, Christian television parades ‘saved Child prostitutes' who ‘found Jesus' and are now ‘evangelists' who are going to ‘save the souls of more child prostitutes.' This is a truly classic example of the deleterious effects of religion and its mystification of cause and effect, since the ‘sinners' are hidden from sight, and the root cause of the problem, which is the lingering result of white Christian imperialism and colonialism, is never mentioned. Rather it is hidden, and the problem is mystified, and it is obvious that the so called solution (saving souls of street kids) is misdirection, which is what religion does (after being saved by Jesus and not prostituting themselves or stealing any more they can starve to death content in the knowledge that a big pie is waiting in the sky for them when they die).
Here there is an element of truth to be found in original Buddhist philosophy, in that the Buddha concluded that all suffering on earth was caused by greedy desire. There is some danger in his proposed solution, in that he suggests that one withdraw from desire, and this can easily be twisted into a passive withdrawal from the world, but there remains an element of truth in his analysis of the root cause of the problem of suffering on the earth.
I include this side bar here, even though it is a bit of a digression, both to explain my position on religion, and why I oppose it, and in the hopes of making certain that the strange stories that I tell do not lead others towards religious mystification, which is something I oppose. Even the most practical philosophy can be twisted and become a religion. Both Buddhist religion and Christian religion are remarkably similar in that regard. For example according to the mystification and myth making of later Buddhist religion the Buddha was a special, and authoritative, divine being who entered his mothers womb in some sort of ghostly form to be born as a type of god like being in human form. The Buddha would be appalled. But the story should sound familiar to anyone in a Christian culture. According to the earliest Christian documents, the Christ figure stated, ‘you must not call me good, for no one is good except God.' He also stated that all authoritarianism was to be resisted, for ‘the great Lords of the world lord it over people and exercise authority over them. But it must not be like that for you.' Compare this to the perfectly ‘sinless', absolute authoritative ‘Lord Jesus' who demands your ‘complete surrender' and who is ‘taking control of your life as your personal Lord and Master, taking complete control'. All religion is about mystifying and then justifying the power of elites, and ultimately this is about money and wealth, and religion is obviously the tool used to protect money and wealth, and there is no better example of this than the perversions of both original Buddhist and Christian philosophies, not to mention the everyday examples of how religious mystification works, such as the example I gave above, the story of ‘saving child prostitutes from being sent to hell by Jesus' (a true real world story, and just one many of the same type). Mystification is used to target victims and protect the guilty, thus supporting the status quo, which in the end is about protecting money, and thus is religion is always keeping people busy doing worthless projects while what really matters is left undone. As I mentioned this side bar is a digression, but nevertheless I feel it is important to make clear my position on religion, in particular when I am discussing these strange events, which lend themselves to the development of superstitious mystifications, which I oppose (and so even though such side bars are a digression, they nevertheless serve a useful purpose).
A few years later my family went on a vacation at Banff National Park in Canada and the next strange experience took place. I was fifteen at the time and about three years had passed since the initial experience I describe above. During that three years I had undergone some profound changes, which, in retrospect, I can see were the product of this first experience. I had become radicalized. And I questioned everything. As time went by I became more and more aware that ‘the status quo' and the commonly held beliefs of my society were corrupt and inadequate. This collection of superstitions as well as the commonly held assumptions and beliefs of society were inadequate, and yet these things were held to be true with a kind of religious fervor. This religious belief system extended beyond even religion, to the every day ordinary system of beliefs that even non-religious people held to be true. For example, my society would tell me, and would continue to tell me, to this very day, that out of the ordinary events do not take place. The whole world can be encapsulated in conventional beliefs and conventional thinking. I knew that this was rubbish, through personal experience, and yet I encountered a resistance which I came to perceive as increasingly arrogant and even atrociously ignorant. This remains my view of the surrounding culture to this day - arrogantly ignorant. I also encountered the New Religion and the New High Priests of our culture. This new religion is called Science and the High Priest is now the Scientist. Now I should point out here that I have nothing against Science or the Scientific Method per se, however I do fiercely resist Science as Religion, and I also oppose the High Priests. Science is not the ‘explanation for everything', and yet what science does not understand and what science cannot explain is trashed and debunked. The arrogance of this new religious mindset that has infested our culture was always obvious to me, and it could only be the True Believer who could remain blind to this fact, just as the High Priests and the True Believers of the past missed certain pertinent facts that were not encapsulated in their narrow (religious) view of the world. Science is poor religion, and I have clashed constantly with this New Faith, and will continue to do so. Science is a poor choice for the new religion, but then aren't all forms of religion impoverished? Science as religion is no different in that regard, and its greatest weakness as a form of ‘religion' lies in the fact that it is strictly limited to whatever can be measured with a ruler or poured into a beaker. This is fine, for the purposes of science, and it should be no other way. It is, after all, science, and that is how science works within its limited domain. To hold that what science cannot measure or capture in a beaker ‘does not exist for the purposes of science' is something that I can understand and accept, but when science becomes the New Religion, when it moves out of the lab, and then begins to provide the religious explanation for reality, based on its own texts, and thus declares as a form of dogma that what is not in the Sacred Texts (the peer reviewed religious journals of science) is anathema, well this dogmatic rising new religious mindset is more than I can stand (and I protest). My days of clashing with this new religion and this rising new Priesthood are not over yet, for reasons that would be obvious when you consider what I have to say. Furthermore, there is some evidence that exists that might even fit within the narrow definition of science, and it is also interesting to note that when you provide evidence that contradicts accepted dogma and sacred doctrine suddenly science is no longer interested in evidence. They won't get away with that sort of cheating. I won't let them.
You know our ancestors had to topple the priests to advance scientific inquiry, and the thought that now the scientist will become the New High Priest is more than I can stand, and thus I find myself resisting scientists just as scientists resisted priests, and for the same reasons. Science has its place, and in its place it has its purpose, and its value, but when it arrogantly defines The Nature of Reality and The Meaning of Existence and The Limits of Understanding, in other words when it moves out of the lab and into the pulpit, well now we have a problem that is going to have be dealt with, and a challenge that I cannot ignore. My purpose in mentioning this is to bring to your attention the kind of struggle I found myself mired in during those early years as I stumbled upon something that was beyond the pall of the faith and the doctrine of the surrounding culture.
Now speaking of that of which science has nothing to say, and thus is not real and cannot exist, and yet which exists nonetheless, I continue my story. I was at Banff National Park. Years of resisting the pressures of my culture, and its ignorant viewpoint, and years of resisting the dictates of the New Doctrine of Religious Science (as I might call it) had radicalized me, and I doubted everything and I questioned everything. I was also in deep distress as I considered the wide spread corruption of the planet (street kids being murdered by cops paid for by rich white colonialists, babies left to starve at the rate of thirty or forty thousand per day, because feeding them would cost money and thus challenge the status quo). I became quite clever during those years, very wise, wiser than my years, in that I finally concluded that the corruption of the world was caused by the greedy desire for money, and that the lies and misdirection of propaganda, and of religion, were just tools to hide this fact. All problems must be hidden, so they won't be solved, because solving them would cost money, and that would level the playing field, thus threatening the powers that be. Therefore the aim of all religion, and all propaganda, is to suggest that the problem is not one of money. Religion will tell us the problem is one of ‘individual sinners' rather than a sinful social system, and non-religious propaganda will also distract and confuse and kick up a cloud of dust, since to tell the truth is to spend money, which is what is really required to solve these problems, and given the wickedness of greed, that particular solution must remain forever off the table.
By the time I was fifteen this became my ‘thumbnail sketch' of all propaganda and religion in the world - its all about money and keeping it, all therefore all religion and all propaganda offensives can be dissected by looking at the problem and understanding how it will cost money and how that is not going to happen. The nature of the propaganda or the religious doctrine then becomes clear since it is clearly designed as a tool to hang onto money, you know, such things as avoiding being taxed to get street urchins out of a life of prostitution and food stealing. Shooting them costs money as well (you have to pay the off duty police officers who murder children in countries around the world) but even though that solution costs money as well, it still works out to be a bargain, since they won't be stealing and you won't be taxed. Religion can create a distraction, and avoid talking about money, which is what religion is all about, by keeping everyone concerned about how little Juan will be sent to hell by Jesus if he isn't saved, and religion can also offer ‘a solution', that won't raise taxes or cost a dime, by holding little Juan up as an example, now that he is saved and is out telling the other street orphans about Jesus. Take any filthy propaganda or any religious doctrine and as a first step find the money, and then the propaganda comes apart at the seams. For example, we are starving out tens of thousands of children a day, each and every day. This is why we need to support genetic engineering of the food supply, you know, to feed the poor. Once those food patents go through, a spirit of generosity will result in the revenues being set aside and like the good fairy, that new patented, engineered food will feed the poor. Of course, today the world is over producing food, and the glut is driving down prices, which means farmers require subsidies or they will go bankrupt, given how prices would be far below the cost of production. This world wide food glut caused the WTO talks to collapse in the latter part of 2003, since the American government could not convince poor countries to allow the United States to dump their surplus commodities onto their markets. According to the research done by FoodFirst.org (see their page Ten myths about starvation) the world is currently producing about 3500 calories per day, enough to make everyone on earth obese. So the problem is obviously not that the food supply is not engineered and patented. Follow the money. According to propaganda the world is over populated and the solution is the castrate the poor. You here that one a lot, over and over again. However, when people are poor and hungry, they have more children. Its called ‘Social Security' poor people style. You see, when you get old, you can get one carrot from one child, a yam from another child, and not be an extreme burden on just one or two children. Large families are a survival strategy, and while we might wish to castrate the poor, and then slash the budget, as happens now, you can understand how the thought of starving to death in old age doesn't go over well. Especially after all that budget slashing that has been going on in recent decades, which makes large families even more important, given how wrong it is to have support programs in the modern world. Look around the world. Every support program is being slashed to ‘encourage investors.' Follow the money. Look, if we have to feed people with all that left over food that would cost money. Follow the money. No propaganda offensive can survive this simple technique. I discovered this principle by the time I was fifteen, so that strange experience I had when my grandfather died bore some interesting fruit, which helps to explain why religion exists, and why religion muddies the waters.
Now what I had discovered plunged me into despair. Money and greed were the root cause of these horrible problems in the world. The powerful were entrenched, and the roots ran deep, and the weak were destroyed and swept away. Those around me were propagandized and kept in a state of abject ignorance, with their heads muddled by the carefully crafted doctrines of religion or should this not work, by the devious machinations of more secular propaganda (the end result is always the same). Each and every day I had to wake up in the morning and endure the offense of acts of vicious cruelty, and a world wedded to greed and thus wedded to violent solutions. I had no choice. The entire planet was being poisoned by the lethal spiritual toxins that were the end product of this cruelty. This in turn had led to ruthlessness, hard heartedness, as well as being the true root cause of all the violence in the world, violence which therefore cannot be solved with more violence. When you see violence promoted as a solution, such as, for example, the so called ‘War on Terrorism' you know that once again a non-solution is being offered as a distraction. While the ‘War on Terrorism' will cost money, fortunately it is money that will be spent in the proper way (going into the pockets of stock holders in the Military Industrial Complex). And no matter how much that ‘War on Terrorism' might cost, it will still be a lot cheaper than taxes. If you think long term, you will see that although the military consumes about a trillion dollars a year on the planet, many tens of trillions over the course of the last century, money that could have brought peace to the planet, it was still worth it to waste our time using violence as a solution, since, if you do the math, it was still cheaper than taxes to put an end to suffering on earth. Its one of those deals where you have tens of trillions of dollars of wealth, and you spend a trillion to make damn sure you will keep the rest. It is still not as cheap as keeping the trillion as well, but sometimes you have to spend money to make money. Its called being realistic. Almost all of the military money spent each year is not spent to protect Chad from the evil nation of Mali, but rather the money is spent on quelling internal revolts, to protect ‘Columbia' from the legions of poor people in Columbia, to kill union organizers, who will cost money if not stopped, and to just basically keep money. Follow the money. Spend a trillion to keep tens of trillions. Its called being realistic.
That evening while I was in Banff Park, I was desolate, and I thought to myself, ‘why not try saying a prayer.' Looking back on it now, I can see that this too was one of the products of that experience that took place when I was twelve and my grandfather died. What I am saying here is that ‘praying', while it might seem like a worthless thing to do, actually seemed like a realistic possibility to me, and this type of thinking was due to the influence of a prior exceptional experience which had opened my mind to such thoughts. I said three prayers. The first went something like this. ‘I am a child of God, just like that Jesus Christ figure. Give me a sign.' The second prayer I can't remember. The third prayer went something like this : ‘We both know I am getting this sign someday, so I might as well get it today, but if not, then very well, for I am going to carry on no matter what happens.'
None of these prayers produced any results and I remember having this sinking feeling inside, a feeling of total futility. I walked over to where my parent's had parked their car. I crossed my arms on the hood of the car and then laid my face down on my crossed arms. Then I felt something like ice cold water that seemed to rain down from the inside of my head, and then overflowed down the back of my neck. This was followed by contractions in my neck muscles, a couple of tentative contractions, and then a sudden grabbing, and I found my head lifting involuntarily off my crossed arms. When my head was raised there was in the sky in front of me a bright, white, luminous, circular object sitting motionless in the sky. The object suddenly accelerated, moved into a small cloud a short distance away. I waited for the object to emerge from the other side of the cloud but it did not. And then the cloud dissolved and disappeared and there was nothing there.
An animated gif of the object at Banff
I trembled violently. My whole body shook from head to toe. I went into a kind of shock. I stumbled about for a minute or two. And then the object appeared rising up from behind the cover of the tree tops. It was much closer, extremely brilliant, and due to the way that brilliant light refracts off of the cornea of the eye, it appeared to have four long ‘spikes' of light extending from it. The air must have been humid because it was surrounded by a huge shimmering rainbow. This rainbow had a powerful emotional effect on me, because I interpreted it, based on cultural symbolism by relating it to the mythological Ark story (where the rainbow was a peace sign, and a sign of Covenant, a type of promise).
An attempt to sketch the object surrounded by the rainbow halo.
I was fifteen at the time, and in my province, people get their driver's licence, called a ‘learner's licence' when they are fifteen, followed by a full driver's licence when they are sixteen. About two months after the event I described above, I received my licence. This image is quite strange, but I display it here, at the risk of encouraging the kinds of superstitions I disapprove of, because it is one scrap of evidence that supports the story I am telling above.
The licence. The number is circled. It reads, '0 9 0 6 6 6 0 6'.
At this point I feel that it is important to once again digress, in order to discuss the meaning of symbols as a method of communication. It is my judgment that the best way to understand the relationship between the two events I describe just above is based upon their symbolic meaning. Communication can be accomplished using significant symbols, just as effectively as by using words, spoken or written. Now in order to understand the symbolic meaning of these two signs it is required to examine the source document for the two symbols. For example, everyone is familiar with the notorious ‘6 6 6' symbol. In a previous chapter of the same document, we read the following. ‘I saw another angel coming down out of heaven. It was wrapped in a cloud. The rainbow was on its head.' So then what we see here are two sides of the same coin. Now one side of the coin is covered, you might say. You can't see it directly. I am telling you about it. The other side of the coin is visible. I bring this visible symbol to your attention simply because it is one scrap of evidence that I can produce that lends support to what I told you before. If you continue to read I will produce more of these bits and pieces of supporting evidence.
Now what we see here is communication using cultural symbols. It remains then to attempt to interpret the meaning of these culturally relative symbols if one is to understand the meaning of the communicated message. At this point I will simply share with you what I believe, and the reason that I do believe what I believe is best understood when you consider the symbols above. What I am saying is that I believe what I believe for a reason, and I have just graphically illustrated the reason why I believe as I do in the diagrams above and in the following discussion of the meaning of these cultural symbols in the previous paragraph.
Before the Christian age, crucifixion was a political statement being made by Caesar. The meaning of the message was 'I am Caesar. Screw with me and this is how you will be tortured to death.' The entire Roman economy was dependant on the wealth generated by slaves, who were kept in line using the threat of crucifixion (torture). The post Easter meaning of the crucifixion became an insult to Caesar, and the political content of this new subversive message could be described using the phrase, 'Caesar crucifies slaves, but God raises his victims from the dead.' A revolutionary interpretation of the white washed Easter story...When Easter rolls around it is a good time to remember the disappeared in Argentina. These were mostly young people, in their teens and twenties, who were dissidents and protestors, and who were tortured and then murdered by the right wing despots of Argentina, and who then disappeared. Their mothers protested for years in every increasing numbers, and to this day justice still has not been done, in that their murders granted themselves immunity (nice job, if you can get it). Now granted, we don't take the opportunity to remember such things at Easter, because, you see, we have religion, and the purpose of religion, as I mentioned previously, is to make sure no one thinks of such things. Rather, at Easter, people have been trained, by religion to think, ‘I deserve to be crucified. Jesus took my rightful place on the cross, and paid the penalty I deserve to pay myself.' Ideologically, these religious mumbo jumbo performs the function of white washing the role of the state in torture and political murder, as well as justifying the death penalty. This is similar to saying, ‘I deserve to be disappeared by the death squads. We all do.' Actually truth be told no one ever deserved to be so tortured to death by Caesar, and no one deserved to be disappeared. Easter, the religious celebration, is a corrupted perversion of everything sacred and holy, which is why we have Easter every year...It is also a masterpiece in the annals of propaganda, a truly devious twisting and flipping upside down, a work of art, and for that reason Christian religion is a role model for all other propaganda assaults, in that it shows just how it really is possible to suck the marrow out of the bones of any symbol or movement, and after corrupting it, force it into service of the powers that be, as a prop for the status quo...The Christian religion is such a masterpiece, such an artful piece of deception, that when Easter once again comes in a couple of months time, no one will even think of those kids who were crucified in Argentina...they will be to busy thinking about how everyone deserves to be crucified, this justification of the torture state and oppressive power being the function of Christianity, which is why Caesar chose that thing as the official state religion (Caesar's approval being a a sure sign that this religion had, by the fourth century, become totally corrupted, completely rotten through and through)...
There is much more to this story that I could share, but I don't want to make this overly long. For example, there was that bit about the ‘moving bed' which happened when I was eighteen. I was telling my story to friends of mine over at his house, and in the weeks that followed, the place developed fame for having a ‘haunted bed.' What used to happen is that at night the bed would start shaking and then it would begin to move across the room. People used to come over and sleep on that bed just to find out for themselves. His mother was so full of horror that just the sight of me caused her to stutter uncontrollably, since after telling these strange stories, apparently her house was being haunted. What does the symbolism of this event mean? I haven't got the slightest idea. It did, however, for the benefit of those friends of mine, confirm the story I had been telling them. Another significant event happened about five years ago, when I once again told some friends about these events, and we then went out to the lake. As we were standing outside, looking up at the sky, a small dot appeared that looked like a satellite passing over. It then began to speed towards the earth, until as the distance decreased it became clearly visible as a round circular, glowing white object, which changed trajectory, moved horizontally across the sky, before once again changing direction and heading straight up, fading away to a pin point and disappearing. I do not have an animated gif but however I did create a small AVI media file which attempts to illustrate what this looked like ... Lake.avi (22 kb)
There are other stories I could tell, but I have told them before. What is significant about these events is that they were experienced by groups of people, which indicates that what we are dealing with here is an external phenomena, and not some sort of internal mental abberation. There were also many people in my hometown of Melville Saskatchewan who saw these objects in the months following the event at Banff. I recall on fellow, his name was Craig, who was bursting with enthusiasm and carried a telescope with him each night, waiting for another opportunity to see these craft. Our local paper was a kind of ‘evangelical fundamentalist Christian paper.' For example, the headline one week was that two Mormons had come to town to save souls. They had their pictures on the front page of the paper and so on, and page after was devoted to ‘Church News' (Mrs. Smith played came to town from Langenburg and played the organ during hymn time at the Baptist Church, which graced them all). The situation and the talk and the rumors became so intense all over town due to the nightly appearance of these objects, that even this fundamentalist newspaper was forced to write up mocking little pieces about ‘UFOs' which appeared on the front page of the paper. I spent several hours a few years ago running through the microfilms of those papers and ran off photocopies of those stories which I should scan and post as a curiosity (at the moment I cannot remember where I put those photocopies).
Contrary to certain popular beliefs, none of these sightings or events have taken place in secret, but rather, from the very beginning, as long as I have been aware of these matters, they have taken place in public. This continues to be a public event ( I am thinking now of the very public events that took place in my hometown of Saskatoon about four years ago).
Now that I mention events that are public this brings me to more recent, and also public, events, which I have often discussed before, but will briefly summarize once again.
In the time before the Summit of the America's in Quebec City I was making plans for some type of symbolic public display. I had been distressed by that so called ‘Battle in Seattle.' It took my mind back to those earlier days, before Banff, when I was so distressed by the corruption of the world. I saw a lot of myself in those people, and so I thought to myself, I must intervene. Of course, by ‘intervene' that would be in my usual weird way. Let's just say that my intervention was less than successful for that very reason, however, as the saying goes, it ain't over till the fat lady sings. It ain't over yet, and I still have work to do for that very reason.
Now one must understand my ‘weird' background to even begin to make any sense out of the following story. My idea for an intervention was to borrow a mythological symbol to use as a ‘protest banner.' The symbol I borrowed from the 13th chapter of the book of Revelations where this is this woman, who was having labor pains as she struggled to give birth to a child. Meanwhile a fire breathing dragon was waiting to devour the child the very second it was born. The woman gave birth, and her child was snatched right up to heaven, safe from that fire breathing dragon, and the woman then grew the great wings of an eagle and flew off to Eden where she was now safe from that Dragon. This myth seemed to be the perfect metaphor for what I had in mind.
My idea was to create a ‘banner' to ‘unfurl' at the Summit of the Americas. The banner would be thousands of miles long and would shaped like a wing and made out of clouds, and would be unfurled over the Sahara desert, which would be Eden, symbolizing a transformation of the Desert into the Garden of Eden. Now in order to understand why anyone in their right mind would even seriously consider such a ridiculous sounding plan you would need to understand the way my mind works, and in order to understand that, I would have to share a story with you, which helps to explain it all. I am not like everyone else, so naturally, such an idea would make perfect sense to me. And so on Friday evening, April 20th, I began to spam the planet, sending emails and postings to newsgroups with the title ‘Fly to Eden on Stork Wings with Yahweh.' That should read ‘Eagle Wing' not ‘Stork Wing', by the way, but I was in to big a hurry to start spamming to double check just exactly which bird I was supposed to use as a symbol. I have links to various newsgroups where I posted that ridiculous ‘press release' which includes the ridiculous sounding content of that press release, as well as the reactions of those who read it (which includes such remarks as ‘shouldn't you be down at the airport handing out flowers', and so on). I spammed all the news organizations, churches every where, I spammed the planet. I was so busy spamming that if you check the dates on some of those newgroups postings you will see that I started Friday afternoon, was still at late Friday night, and I finally stopped spamming sometimes late Saturday morning. I was busy. Links and the content of the press release are found on this page...'Eden Wing' press release
Now the Summit of the Americas had no doubt been planned out by Karl Rove to be a propaganda triumph for the United States, and a celebration of the glory of the new Bush Administration. For example first there was the ‘triumph' of the Summit of the Americas, strategically timed to coincide with Earth Day. This was followed promptly by a tour by Prince Charles which took him right straight through my home town a few days later. And then, the icing on the cake was an extravaganza involving live broadcast from the international space station. And so it came to pass that as this obviously carefully choreographed and well planned propaganda event played out that one of these objects paid a visit to the international space station immediately after the appearance of that wing over the desert. I watched live, on television, as the space shuttle cameras showed one of these objects fly into view outside the International Space Station. This was followed by a failure of all the computers on the space station. This included the main computer, the back up computer and the back up back up computer (the space station operates with triple redundancy, and they all went down). That was just remarkable, and it was the first time I had ever seen one of these objects on live television. The timing, coming as it did right after that wing, was impeccable. Given how that wing was planned to ruin the Summit of the Americas, the appearance of that craft also ruined the propaganda triumph of celebrating the glory of the American Military Industrial Complex, and so it was ideologically in synch as well. (The main purpose of the space station is to develop the weapons that will allow the Pentagon to dominate the earth from orbit, and NASA is now primarily a subcontractor to the Pentagon).
The tape is currently being kept hidden, which I consider to be wrong and immoral. However to their credit, NASA did, at one time, admit that, yes, they did capture such a craft on the space shuttle cameras. Someone at NASA probably caught hell for that gaff, given how that tape is supposed to be such a great big secret now. Offsite link on the BBC: UFO Video goes to Hollywood - a quote from the article: "officials at NASA are said to have asked to examine the tape, because they believe it shows the same type of craft once spotted by the space agency's own cameras during a space shuttle mission. "
The Hidden Prophecies
Of course, in order for my plan to work I would have to have a powerful mystical experience and thus get in touch with future events. I won't bother to explain what would make someone think they could do that, any more than I will try to explain what would make someone attempt to make a thousand mile long wing cloud to use as a banner. That's just me. I am not like other people. Therefore, I go ahead and do things that anyone else would consider crazy at worst, or a foolishly destructive risk at the very best.
Now these are the hidden prophecies because in a leap of faith I released them into the wild. Given how ‘false prophets' are completely discredited at church, I did so with the sure and certain conviction that they would survive, you know, to be used as a tool to destroy me later when I got all my predictions wrong, and thus became a false prophet. I was ‘playing right into their hands.' Of course, if I got it right, which is what actually happened by the way (more on that later) well then it would be the churches that would be facing ruin, for, you see, they behaved dishonestly and with great immorality and crookedness they hid those prophecies, and thus were eventually exposed as oppressors.
Over the past couple of years I have received signs and clues that indicate that I was correct and those prophecies did in fact escape into the wild and that they thus survived. It would not be possible for those churches to burn every last copy and thus successfully complete the act of oppression and escape scot free. Its to late. For example, in one part of those prophecies I lamented the fact that I was not a poet, and I also said that I really wished that I had musical talent so that I could create an emotional connection and communicate that way. I then proceeded to write a poem, which I said, was the best I could do, unfortunately. One line of the poem went something like this...'If Yahweh should go, leave me down here on my own, still I'll wait for it. How long must you for it. How long must it take for this....I was scared and completely unprepared, yet still I wait for it...' After writing that I moaned about how I wished I could write music and sing. Now, it seems unlikely that the lyrics of that song by Cold Play (‘in my place') mimic that poem and it turns out to be coincidental, especially the climax of the cold play song (sing it out, come on and sing out for me). I still recall the bizarre feeling I had when I first heard that Cold Play song on the radio. So then, I assume that yes, those prophecies from Earth Day, escaped into the wild, and then given how damned eerily accurate I was, actually became notorious, so that copies were flying around all over the place, eventually making it into a song. Which means that my strategy was successful, and the church cannot burn every copy, and thus win that way. I made a leap of faith, and it turned out all right.
Someday you will be able to read those strange Earth Day prophecies yourself, given how they escaped into the wild and can no longer be hidden or destroyed by churches. I say hidden by churches, since there is nothing to gain in those churches in showing around those prophecies, since I did not fail, unfortunately, and thus, since I was not a false prophet, churches have no reason to allow anyone to read those prophecies. Of course they can't burn every copy either, since its to late for that, and being an oppressor is a bad idea, but I guess once you have sunk so deep into a sin as those churches have, and now risk being exposed as an oppressor, well it only makes sense for those churches to continue to do everything possible to hide those prophecies, even though, as they could tell if they purchase that Cold Play CD and then read those prophecies again, its already to late...
Now those Earth Day Prophecies remain significant today, not only as part of some plot I dreamed up to expose oppression at church, but also because they are not completely done yet, since they extend into the year 2004. What I decided to do here is partially reconstruct those Earth Day prophecies here today. Someday you will be able to read them yourselves, given how they can no longer be completely destroyed and wiped off the face of the earth, and then you can confirm that everything I am about to tell you below is true (which is the reason why lots of churches are hiding them, because otherwise those people at church might regard me as a prophet, instead of regarding those other Palestinian bashing Sharon praising prophets as being prophets, even though they couldn't predict what they themselves were going to have for breakfast tomorrow. This would be a problem since those churches were counting on protecting those other prophets since those prophets are real helpful in protecting the status quo, and in particular protecting Israel. And Israel is a cash cow, worth billions in donations, you know what with the way Israel ‘proves prophecy', and so you can see how once again I am threatening a billion dollar church industry by threatening their so called church prophets, and thus the reason why those churches want to burn every single copy of my Earth Day Hidden Prophecies, if only they could, you know, if only it wasn't already to late...as I said, follow the money and everything always makes sense...).
Now where was I...oh yes...I was going to reconstruct those Earth Day prophecies so you can understand why those churches are still hiding them, in order to keep sucking on the tit of that big multibillion dollar cash cow they got going over there...As well, given how well it began, I think one can assume that it will continue to do well, and thus we can predict what still has to happen in 2004, just based on my previous track record....
The Earth Day ('Hidden') prophecies were written on April 22nd, Earth Day, 2001. The center piece of the whole prophecy was a prediction of 9-11 followed by what I referred to as the ‘rise of Nazism in America.' According to the prophecy before the end of September, 2001, two tall buildings and one flat building ‘with many wings' would be bombed from the air in the continental United States. This is followed by much of what I called ‘prophetic mockery' which pervades those prophecies. As I put it, I planned to do all my mocking ahead of time, in keeping with how this was supposed to be a ‘prophecy'. I stated that all those churches would have to do is to hang onto my prophecies until October 2001, and if two tall buildings and one flat building with many wings did not get bombed from the air, then I was a failed, false prophet, and given how false prophets get their reputations ruined in those churches, they could finish me off. It was only four months from April to September 2001, and then I would be completely ruined. As I wrote, those two tall buildings would be bombed from the air, and then they would fall down just as though someone had placed demolition explosions in them. I then followed this with a graphic description of how buildings fall right down into a heap when demolition experts bomb them. That would be how those two tall buildings would fall down. But not right away. No, those buildings would stay standing for about 45 minutes to one hour and then fall down. That, I said sarcastically, would give those churches time to declare me a false prophet because those buildings, while they did get bombed, did not fall down in a big heap as I predicted. Just as those celebrating churches cracked open the champagne to celebrate my failure, suddenly, there would be a rumbling and a roar as those buildings came down, just as though an expert had demolished them.
The whole prophecy is just riddled with sarcasm like that. Fro example I also told the story of someone who got a good job offer but it meant they would have to move into the top floor of a really tall building in the United States. My advice to them was to take the lousy job which meant they got a cubicle right beside the exit door so they could get to hell out of that tall building. This was followed by sarcasm targeting the media. I pointed out how when the Americans bombed buildings in Iraq and showed videos, the video would be cut off quickly after the bombing. Don't want people to see all those Iraqi people jumping out of those buildings to their deaths to avoid being burned alive. I mean, you do realize that when you do a ‘surgical strike' on a building people are running around on fire, screaming, and other people are jumping out windows to escape the flames. However, as I said, when the American buildings get bombed the video of people jumping out of windows to their deaths to escape the flames will be played over and over and over again, which of course is just what happened. I also stated that the people who worked in those buildings would receive the message ‘everyone remain seated in your office. Everything is under control,' and as I wrote, when you hear that one, get the hell out of that building. You have, I warned them, 45 minutes to one hour and then I described the pancake thing that was going to happen to them, you know when one floor pancakes down on the floor below, crushing everyone to goo, and then another and another. I wouldn't take a job up high in a tall building, I sarcastically suggested, at least, not until October 2001, and I don't care how much they pay they were offering for that job. I'd take the lousy job on the ground floor right by the exit door.
I also had a special prophecy for the people in that ‘flat building with many wings.' I sarcastically referred to them standing outside that building smoking cigarettes and feeling relieved that only one wing got bombed and they got out alive. No, I said, you people in that flat building with many wings, you got nothing to celebrate, because we will be back to deal with you later. You see, those people in that flat building were going to be held responsible for the use of Napalm on human beings in Vietnam. I then stated that later it would all make sense, even if it seemed unfair to single out those people in that flat building and punish them for that Napalm. In retrospect, it makes perfect sense, when you consider that the ‘flat building with many wings' turned out to be the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
I then predicted that as a direct result of having those buildings bombed, we would then see the rise of a Nazi state in America. Laws bearing an eerie resemblance to laws passed by Hitler and the Nazis would be passed as Americans were stripped of one constitutional right after another. I then indulged in some more mockery and sarcasm, by suggesting that there would be those who would find the idea of a Nazi state rising up in America laughable, but then I said, just wait till your buildings get bombed from the air and fall down, and the war starts. Things will look real different then...
Now this next part is really weird. After those buildings got bombed and fell down I stated that the Americans would go out and bomb one of the poorest countries on earth. You could find that country listed right near the bottom of the list of poor nations. And the bombers would not be from that country, but rather they would be from a nation which is your ally. And you don't want to be launching war against your ally, even though the bombers came from your allies country. Therefore, I suggested it would be required that you bomb some other country, even though the bombers did not come from that country. The real reason for bombing that poor country had nothing to do with those buildings falling down I predicted, but rather they were planning to bomb that poor country for a long time, and suddenly they saw their chance. I then got really sarcastic and stated that if they could control themselves and not bomb that poor country, then they would make me a false prophet. However this would require that they use long term thinking, and balance out the benefits of destroying a prophet with the short term benefits of bombing that poor country. Of course, being as dumb as a stump, they would be arrogant and just go ahead and bomb that poor country, doing just exactly what I said would happen, and thus make me a prophet. I was so confident, I insisted, that I would even show them how to ruin me, and they would go ahead and do it anyway. Which they did. Now that part where they made that prediction come true, and get stuck with a prophet to deal with, well that time is now, but you know I guess they figured they would cross that bridge when they came to it. At the time they had to bomb a poor country, even though the bombers came from their ally, because it turns out they were wanting to bomb Afghanistan for a long time, and even though doing that was going to make me into an astonishingly accurate prophet, they did it anyway. Interesting, and remarkably stupid, but I wasn't to worried as I wrote these things down. I know their human nature to well to ever be worried about what such people might do, and so I arrogantly bragged that I had nothing to worry about, and everything would turn out just fine for me, which it did.
After bombing that poor country, I then predicted that it was on to Iraq to conquer them for their oil wells. The prediction of that Iraq goes as follows. The result would be another Vietnam style quagmire ultimately resulting, once again, in the humiliating defeat of the United States. But first the whole filthy situation must get completely out of hand and degenerate into a world wide jihad of muslims versus Rome D.C. I also told the religious right in the United States to rejoice for, finally, after years and years of anti-Muslim agitation, constant Muslim bashing ‘news clips' on their tv channels, they were finally going to starting up a global Holy War with the Muslims. The rest of that prophecy states, and they will be so damned sorry they started that jihad, so damned sorry. This makes the Iraq war prophecy of great interest because its only half finished at the present time, and there is still a way to go. Of course events are already spinning out of control, and the prophecy concerning that arrogant act is that it will only keep getting worse and worse. In the end the Americans won't be getting that Iraq oil, just a jihad that spreads and gets wildly out of control.
There were two interesting weather predictions. One related to terrible floods in Europe during the summer of 2002, as well as floods in the dry desert regions of China. The China prophecy came with this sarcastic retelling of the Noah's ark story. Those people that got flooded out but they had a chance to build an ark, but you know how nobody ever listens to a damned thing I tell them. There was also an interesting Mad Cow Disease prophecy, but I cannot remember the details.
Prophecy 2004
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win." M. Ghandi
Now what is of particular interest here is the part of those prophecies that spill over into 2004. Now 2004 is supposed to be ‘my year.' Has anyone ever heard, I asked, of a whole year that winds up belonging to just one person. 2004, I predicted, belongs to me. So what that means then is that if those churches, and anyone allied with those churches, wants to save the day, they must only crush me and oppress me until the end of December 2004. Come to think of it, if they can crush me and oppress me until spring or perhaps summer that might be good enough as well, since I have to claim 2004 as my year, and just claiming the last few weeks of December doesn't really seem to do it for me.
Now the center piece of those prophecies, the bulk of those prophecies was the prediction of 9- 11, followed by the rise of a Nazi state in America, the erosion of their constitutional rights, and the invasions I mentioned above, ending in defeat for America due to a rising tide of Muslim Jihad as the nation descends into another Vietnam style quagmire in Iraq. It is always interesting to jump into a prophecy half way through, even if you were not lucky enough to jump in at the beginning. Unfortunately I could not let people jump in at the very beginning because as I stated in those prophecies, I had to ‘injure, trap, and snare' lots of churches using those prophecies as bait, and this requires me to be heavily oppressed.
There are still, however, a number of prophecies that must come true in 2004 or I will be completely ruined. And its only January so those churches can still hope, I suppose. Maybe, even at this late stage of the game, they might yet prevail.
It is essential that the climate change over the Sahara, and that it begin the transition to becoming the Garden of Eden (as I call it). This was predicted to happen in 2004. The signs are quite promising as for the last month big winter storm clouds have been moving into the Sahara from the Atlantic. Now winter is the bone dry time of the year on the Sahara, or at least its supposed to be, so this is quite a promising sign. Given how the rest of those prophecies already turned out so well I look forward to a greening Sahara in the months ahead. (Already the vegetation maps are showing the first signs of green, and given the size of those storms, that is what one would expect).
It is essential that the Americans be defeated in their attempt to seize Iraq's oil. Once again the signs are quite promising. That jihad is already pretty bad, but I think, for the purposes of fulfilling prophecy one can only hope that it gets a hell of a lot worse, and real fast, too, thus making it clear to the American people that they are going either be fighting that stupid international jihad forever, or they can just pack it in and get out. Having already been to Vietnam, perhaps it will take them less time to realize that its time to go than it did that last time, especially with that jihad just getting worse and worse and spreading and spreading. As I said, its only January, and we still have months to go.
There remains one particularly hideous event that must happen this year, and that is the Big One in California. Earthquake that is. Once again the signs are quite ‘promising'. California has been shaking real good all throughout December, including a nasty one in the middle of the month, and another nasty one a little further down the Pacific Coast in Mexico, which was felt as far away as Mexico city. A California Earthquake, the real one, would of course make a big difference in that jihad in Iraq, given how California is one of the main centers of the American Military Industrial Complex, not to mention being the fifth largest economy in the world. Its loss will be an extremely painful blow to Rome on the Potomac, and this means that the Muslims will be launching jihad attacks against a seriously wounded snake, and that would have to be a lot easier, not that they are finding it to hard to manage now, but as I said, it can get even easier.
According to what I wrote on Earth Day, the Americans screamed bloody murder when they got two of their buildings knocked down and that one ‘flat building with many wings' got bombed as well. Apparently it never occurred to them to think about, ummm, the flattening of Hanoi, where they got just about every building knocked down. As I stated, if they complained about that bombing of their three buildings, just wait until that Big One hits California, and something more along the lines of Hanoi comes down upon them. Now there is something to really complain about, and I don't think anyone will even think to put in a complaint about those three buildings any more after that one. After all, when you consider the number of buildings that American bombers have knocked down just in Iraq alone over the last decade, what's three buildings, and of course if you add on all the other buildings, you know the thousands and thousands of buildings that Americans have routinely Napalmed and bombed and knocked down during the course of the last century, what's three buildings. It was just your turn, you see. What comes around goes around. And yes, even Rome can take a turn, even the empire can be bombed, which is outrageous, of course, but things happen, even though, God knows, they shouldn't.
Now as I said previously, every single sin on the earth has as its root cause, the love of money and pure and simple greed. On my television, every day now, I see Amnesty International appealing for money and letter writing campaigns to stop white colonialists from hiring off duty cops to murder hungry street urchins. Its cheaper that way. And even after all these years I find that I must still wake up every morning to the knowledge that thirty or forty thousand children are reaching the end of the road of the cycle of hunger and malnourishment and are dying. Now, as I understand the world, I am expected to put up with this, and so I don't have a problem expecting the world to put up with something as extremely damaging as a California Earthquake. You see, the problem with this place is that people are arrogant, and consequently they are blind, and they don't know how to accurately calculate the true costs of the decisions they made. And no doubt later on they will scream and complain bitterly when the price is extracted, but I for one will not be joining in the chorus of lamentation, for you see, what comes around goes around. It is your turn now. It is 2004, and that means that it is time to pay the piper. I guess people imagined that through oppression and violence and clever propaganda and deception they were just going to save a fortune in money, but it just wasn't meant to be...
So then the two biggest stories of 2004 will be the greening of the Sahara and the collapse of Imperial America, both at home and on the battlefields of the Crusade. As I told the religious right, they would be real sad that their prayers were answered, and they got to go on a jihad against those Muslims. They will also be real sad about those prophecies, and everything else that they have done, real sad, so sad. But then it is still early in the year, and so what if the rest of those prophecies actually happened. The remainder will fail, and perhaps they might yet save the day.
This brings me to the third biggest story of 2004. This was not included in those (hidden) Earth Day prophecies I mentioned above. I am just tacking this one on today. The third biggest story of the year will be the destruction of the International Space Station.
Now allow me to explain the reasoning process I have gone through to draw this conclusion. As we know, Saddam used to be a chum of Washington, D.C. American corporations armed Saddam with weapons of mass destruction, the State Department approved shipments of biological weapons such as Anthrax and Botulism to Saddam in Iraq back in the happy days, back when Saddam was a tyrannical son of bitch, but he was ‘our son of bitch.' Now we know from history that Washington has never had a problem with tyrants in the past. Last year the Americans tried to seize the weapons of Mass Destruction report handed to the United Nations, and they went at the thing with a giant eraser, on the grounds of what they called ‘National Security.' Fortunately some good person leaked a copy and it turns out that Washington was just erasing all the evidence of American corporations arming Saddam with weapons of mass destruction, the State Department sending him samples of biological weapons such as Anthrax and so on and so on and so on. We know from the documents that have come out recently just how Washington had no problem with the death squads making kids ‘disappear' in Argentina. As it says in those official diplomatic messages, the United States was sympathetic to the killing of those kids and protestors, and understood why the Argentina Saddam wanted to do that, but they only hoped that they would hurry up and get all that mass murder over with before the end of the year, because Washington was starting to worry that it might leak out into the press. Washington had no problem participating in the mass murder of up to a million Indonesian leftists during the ‘year of living dangerously.' The communiques address the possibility of public disclosure of U.S. covert action and involvement in the massacres by noting that "The chances of detection or subsequent revelation of our support in this instance are as minimal as any black bag operation can be."
Now Saddam is not stupid. You see before Saddam was naughty and attacked Kuwait, he called on Washington to get permission, just like a good dictator should, because, as I said, he wasn't stupid and understood the rules of the game. (The only bad tyrant is a tyrant that doesn't follow orders from Washington, or even worse, a tyrant that acts independently.) Saddam talked to the Ambassador who told him that the United States had ‘no interest' in what was called Saddam's ‘border dispute with Kuwait.' Now Saddam made a misjudgment on this point, and assumed that he had a green light to invade Kuwait, when actually all he was told is that he could dispute with Kuwait over the border, not the whole country. Saddam had permission to perhaps take a few miles along the border but he did not get permission to take all of Kuwait and that was his mistake and that is why he is in so much trouble. Washington only likes to let obedient tyrants have weapons of mass destruction, like Musharef in Pakistan. Saddam was naughty and it was required that Washington make an example out of him so that all the other tyrants of the world would get the message and understand that first you phone Washington, and then you act like a tyrant. You can only practice tyranny, maybe gas some Iranians and use Weapons of Mass Destruction if you have permission to do so, just like Saddam had permission to use lots of Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Iranians. This is why Rumsfeld could shake Saddam's hand while he was using Weapons of Mass Destruction on Iran, because it was alright back then. He had permission.
Now we know that this is how the world really works, and it is for reasons such as this that the space station must be destroyed in 2004. Previously I told you the story of how one of these space craft I described appeared on the shuttle cameras outside the space station before knocking out all the computers on board the space station. This was symbolic gesture. For example, you could send flowers. That would be nice. You could wreck all their computers. That would not be nice. Now let us play the game by the rules established by Washington over the course of the last century. We know that when tyrants have permission, and when they don't they get in trouble. For example, when the international community passes a resolution telling some tyrant ‘no more Weapons of Mass Destruction' that means he has to give them back. The fact that he was allowed to have them before doesn't matter. He has to give them back. The community has spoken.
Similarly, when the United States and the Pentagon are told, not by myself, but by these people above, that they are forbidden to use the Space Station to develop weapons of mass destruction to deploy in space, that means they cannot do so. When a super power gives orders to some diddly squat banana republic, the banana republic obeys the super power. This is how the world works. Now if a banana republic does not obey, then if a super power is to maintain any credibility at all, it is required that action be taken. If the resolutions of the United Nations are to mean anything they must be enforced. Similarly if the Universal resolution passed against that banana republic known as the United States is flaunted then all resolutions of the universal community lose their meaning. It therefore follows that if there is to be any respect for universal law ever on this sorry planet, the Untied States must have their International Space Station destroyed. What the generals of that banana republic known as the Untied States must understand is that when the super power says no, NO MEANS NO. And we all know what happens to disobedient tyrants. And we can't allow you people to set the bad example, not if we want Universal Law to ever mean anything again. Now they already had words with you people, and they already passed the resolution against you people, and who knows, maybe they have had a few more words with you since then (but then you would be keeping that secret now wouldn't you.) I thought it would be good if I were to interpret for you what they are saying, and drive the point home, since based on my observations, you are continuing to develop your Weapons of Mass Destruction program in defiance of the Universal Community, and so I thought I would try to straighten you people out on this matter, for all the good it will do. It won't do any good, and I know that, but at least when then that thing does do the meteor and comes down, everyone will quite clear on what happened and why they did it.
This is the last thing I plan to write for a while. I will be busy in the times ahead doing the Adlai Stevenson thing over at the Security Council, you know lobbying to get that space station brought down, urging the council to enforce their resolutions and so on. Now this next bit is going to sound particularly weird, but then I am a particularly weird person, am I not, and so I share with you the fact that I am also lobbying hard to be able to set the date for the California Earthquake. I make note of the fact that Eden Wing took place on a significant date, a day rich in symbolic meaning, and I make note of how we make use of symbolic communication repeatedly over the years. As well, one repetitive theme of mine is that bit about ‘calling 9-11 on this place' and thus given how the prediction of 9-11 was the pivotal center piece of those Earth Day prophecies I was telling you about above, it seems to me that the fact this event took place on 9-11 seems to be another example of one of those days rich in symbolic meaning for that very reason.
Now given how we are going to have a California Earthquake in 2004 in any case, it seems to me that it should take place on a date which is rich in symbolic significance, and for that reason I have looked at the Calendar, and I have concluded that the best date for this event would be February 25th, 2004, and so I am going to lobby both to have that space station knocked down and also I am going to lobby hard to fix the date for that inevitable Earthquake, which is going to happen in any case, so that when it does happen at least it will really mean something.
February 25th is Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday begins the forty days of lent. The symbolism of Ash Wednesday seems appropriate to me, and after studying a calendar I cannot find another date so suitable. Traditionally the ashes for Ash Wednesday were created by burning the Palm Fronds the church had previously used to celebrate Easter in the year before. A little oil is mixed with the Ashes to make them stick when applied to the forehead, and then it was a tradition to hurl the penitents out of the church for forty days, the fasting and repentance of lent finally culminating in the celebration of Easter. The ashes were supposed to help the Church develop an attitude of humility, while the forty days of suffering during lent was intended to lead to repentance. Now given how much I hate Easter you can understand why I would want to burn that Church's palm fronds from last years Easter Celebration. I really hate that whole bit of having people carrying on about how ‘I deserve to be crucified, but Jesus took my place and paid the price I should have paid.' Even worse is that bit about how ‘I killed him, I killed him, I killed Jesus.' Now actually that was Caesar. But then of course if you were some imperialist and a supporter of Caesar you did take part in the crucifixion, and you were also guilty of making those kids disappear in Argentina, the mass murder in Indonesia, and other crimes of the state, and if that it isn't a reason to stick some ashes and your forehead and kick you out of church for forty days I can't imagine what would qualify as a legitimate cause.
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Amount of grains produced in the world which are consumed by livestock - 80 per cent...
Amount of grains produced which are consumed by human beings - 10 per cent...
Amount used in industrial processes - 10 per cent...
Cattle return 1 gram of protein for every 50-100 grams of protein they consume...
Information sources - United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, United States Department of Agriculture
12 myths about hunger - Foodfirst.org
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"The Spirit of Yahweh GOD is upon me, because Yahweh has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of Yahweh's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to give them a garland of roses instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh in glory. They shall build up the ancient ruins, they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations ...
"I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall exult in my God; for I have been clothed with the garments of salvation, covered with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so Yahweh GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations." (Isaiah chapter 61 verse 1)
