Good Morning Florida Keys

http://www.iherb.com/Source-Naturals-Wellness-Formula-Herbal-Defense-Complex-180-Tablets/4562?at=1

Strangely enough this was on one my open windows… the funny thing is that I don’t remember looking up this stuff and in fact it was the first time I saw it! When I read what it was… it seems to be an “super” natural antiviral – antimicrobial medication and of course I though of you and your arm… I know of many things I could recommend but I abstain because of the spirit thing… yet this one came out of nowhere… definitely not from me… so I am forwarding to you and that’s all I am doing!

My reply:

Thanks, will sleep on it, see what the angels say. Don’t want to piss them off any more than I seem to have little trouble doing.

I gather the hacksaw solution appeals not to you, either.

All those protobiotics I take (I eat lots of yogurt) obliterated by the sulfa drug.

What a trip, my life. Do you think I could get away with charging for admission? I’ll save you the trouble of writing it – LOL.

Sancho’s reply:

Milk’s not a good thing… maybe raw goat milk… if you can find and prepare it yourself into kefir, otherwise, better stay away from commercial yogurt and any pasteurized, homogenized dairy product. Ask your doc to test your vitamin D levels and check you for hep C.

Yeah those oral antibiotics are deadly to our friendly flora… maybe you should move up to North for a spell until them tropical little critters go back to the background… you know that they are never really eradicated they are like weeds in the garden always ready to take over if one is not diligent(spiritually or otherwise).

Life is full of it!!! And then we die! LOL

My reply:

Nothing in horrendous nap dreams about the herbal formula.

Cancer is not a tropical little critter.

Sometimes you sort of remind me of a couple somewhat younger I met when they lived in NYC, near St. Mark’s Square. New Age squared, they were. Raw foods, grew their own sprouts and wheat grass, only organic food, filtered water, no meat of any kind, no booze, meditated, did tai chi, yoga, visioning, they died of cancer in their 40s. By then, they were living in Los Angeles. I remember one day telling him just one breath of LA air undid all of his diet and pure water for that day.

No, the foul LA air did not do in either of them. The foul air inside of them did that. The foul air nothing they ate or drank, nor anything they did, was dealing with.

Before that, he was taken over by what had ahold of me. I introduced him to it. He was Jewish. Very big stretch for him to deal with the Christ and Archangel Michael, and just as big a stretch for him to believe Lucifer actually exists. He got cured off all of that, but eventually it was more than he was able, or willing, to deal with and he turned against me and we parted ways in the human sense.

Sancho’s reply:

I thought you said that it was a possible MRSA infection and it was being treated with prescription antibiotics, Bactrin?! At any rate… no I am a little older than your friends(who apparently always end theirs days under tragic circumstances ) and I am not a fanatic about anything… if I did, I would have parted ways with you a long time ago… anybody can be and often is my teacher!

There is Karma in life… we act, do things or don’t do things… consequences follow… telling the World about it, doesn’t change our karma… but hopefully we can learn to correct our course! I’ve never compared you with anybody… and you are not the only person in my circle of acquaintances that say that they have spiritual experiences… I know of one who assures me that he is a wayfarer for recently departed souls… swears that he was very busy after 911, etc., etc.! The funny thing is that he’s not selling anything… not even a book or a blog and in fact this has caused him more problems than anything else… his wife kicked him out, took everything he had, etc., etc.

Later,

Before reading Sancho’s last, I came out of a nap dream in which I handed a man whose house I was in, we both were armed, I with an automatic rifle of some kind, he with an automatic pistol, a key and a pair of spectacles. Then, I went online, found Sancho’s reply, connected that to the dream, and wrote this back to him:

I wrote it is an infection of some kind, which is not responding to Bactrim, which causes me to wonder if it is the cancer returning. MRSA would respond to Bacrtrim initially, based on what I know about it. This infection is not responding. Cancer does not respond to antibiotics. Ergo, it looks like cancer, or something the angels cooked up to make my life even more interesting, and to give others a chance to read about stuff they might never read anywhere else.

You have been a fanatic recommending to me half-baked biological cures and/or causes. You sounded, in that regard, like my two New Age friends, whose lives ended tragically. I have friends living quite well, although their lives are tragic in some or more ways and not tragic in other ways. You strike me as a truly tragic person, groping for and never even touching what is just beyond your reach.

Karma can be burned, or lifted, but it’s not up to the person who created it to decide if that happens. [Karma also can be taken on for someone by someone else, knowingly or unknowingly.] A big piece of a serious spiritual walk is dealing with/experiencing one’s own karma. You continue to speak to that which you do not know from experience and therefore have no standing to speak to it as an authority. Bad karma to speak to it at all, as an authority, if you are not qualified. Bad karma to criticize what I tell you about my life, unless you are walking a parallel trail.

If I were to meet or correspond by email with your friend who says he is a wayfarer for souls, I would know quickly whether or not he is a wayfarer. If that is what he is, he’s not supposed to be selling anything he does as a wayfarer. Commercing in spirit work is prohibited, as is asking for donations, or for anything. People charging money, soliciting donations, other favors for spirit work are phonies.

I wrote a number of spirit-work books which were published, all but the last one by me. I had hoped they would earn money, but after the first non-fiction book did not, I stopped trying to sell the non-fiction books and gave away thousands of copies, which I then had the means to do.

The first novel went nowhere when I tried to sell it, so I gave it away. The second and third novels were not published. The fourth novel, the last, was published by a print-to-order publisher on its dime. It went nowhere, although a few copies sold, perhaps 15, counting the handful of people who paid me, even though I intended to give them the book. The rest of the 100 copies I had purchased with the author discount I sent to the landfill. [I also gave copies to the local library system.]

The three good morning websites are now my books, far more comprehensive than anything that could be published through a publishing house, and human editors and publishing company owners don’t get any chance to crimp or twist the product to their ends. My websites were not my idea, but were “suggested” to me by friends acting as agents for the angels running me.

A website would not have helped your friend with his wife, unless he was making a living off of it. I’ve been in the same place with women. One took most of what I owned after I had supported her and her son for eight years. Her karma is not something I care to experience. Her karma may not even come into play in this life. But it will come into play.

I have done wayfarer work a few times. The old fellow who started the massage school I attended in Santa Fe, my brother last year, his first wife this year, the federal judge for whom I clerked, my father, my first daughter’s first child who was reluctant to be born, but I would not have used the term wayfarer to describe it. It was given to me to do, I did it. Perhaps there were other instances when I was a wayfarer, which I don’t now recall.

In the broad sense of trying to show other people the way to change their lives and evolve their souls, I am a wayfarer pretty much full time. A utility man, a troubleshooter, re accelerated spirit development and spiritual welfare. If he is a wayfarer, your friend may well be experiencing tremendous spirit acceleration for holding true to his calling, instead of succumbing to the demands/opinions of others. He probably could teach you a lot.

I am amazed, as much as you hold forth, that you know and have experienced so little that really matters during your later years after your father and husband responsibilities have waned. Seems truly tragic to me.

All Hallows Eve is tomorrow, the holiest day on this planet. I tend to dread holy days, as the spirit work tends to be super intense.

Don Q

Sancho’s reply:

Sloana! You sound like a bitchy, stuffy, old broad! Maybe you are the reincarnation of Helena Blavatsky…. or was she a previous incarnation of you? Anyway… you are a pretty funny dude… just like my wayfarer friend! LOL Lighten up… it will all be over soon!

My thoughts:

I had heard some of Blavatsky, I recalled she had started the Theosophical Society, to which J. Krishnamurti had belonged. I had heard lots of slams of her. I had read the Rudlolph Steiner ran with her for a while, then left and seemed to branch out on his own, although apparently he had confederates, as per: The Spear of Destiny, by Trevor Ravenscroft, which book I have recommended to many people because it portrays what really fueled Adolph Hitler’s rise to power and it shows a side of Rudolph Steiner, Hitler’s spirit adversary, not presented in any other writings about Steiner I ever saw. My stepson in Colorado went to a Waldorf School, which was the form of education Steiner developed. So I had reason to read up some on Steiner from that angle. But I had no idea he was a principal character in Ravencroft’s book, when someone loaned it to me to read after hearing from me of my own experiences not of this world. Someone like Sancho, who never had any direct experience with the supernatural might have a difficult time taking in Ravenscroft’s report. As might Helena Blavatsky. In the Wikepedia report on her, it says she debunked the notion that Lucifer was evil and claimed that was church propaganda. Blavatsky would have seen it differently, if she’d had the kind of experiences Steiner had, after he moved on from her circle and influence. She also would have seen it differently, if she’d had my experiences.

According to Wikipedia, Blatvasky was sharply criticized by then contemporary pundits, called a fraud, a charlatan, etc. So I pulled this from Wikipedia:

H. P. Blavatsky herself said, that one of the main reasons for the many attacks on her and on the Theosophical Society, which she was a co-founder of was:

“you must bear in mind how many powerful adversaries we have aroused ever since the formation of our Society. As I just said, if the Theosophical movement were one of those numerous modern crazes, as harmless at the end as they are evanescent, it would be simply laughed at? as it is now by those who still do not understand its real purport ? and left severely alone. But it is nothing of the kind. Intrinsically, Theosophy is the most serious movement of this age; and one, moreover, which threatens the very life of most of the time-honoured humbugs, prejudices, and social evils of the day ? those evils which fatten and make happy the upper ten and their imitators and sycophants, the wealthy dozens of the middle classes, while they positively crush and starve out of existence the millions of the poor. Think of this, and you will easily understand the reason of such a relentless persecution by those others who, more observant and perspicacious, do see the true nature of Theosophy, and therefore dread it.”

I rather imagine Blatvasky would have had a rather rough go living in Rudolp Steiner’s skin during World War II, when he was in spiritual warfare with Hitler and his top henchmen, who viewed Steiner as their greatest threat, as he could travel in spirit and evesdrop on their pow wows, which they had the spirit faculties to perceive, and then he reported what he had learned to the Allied Command. Twice the Nazis tried to assassinate Steiner, and twice their effort was thwarted by what could only be assigned to divine intervention. All as Ravenscroft told it. The Spear of Destiny is about the Grail Knights. The real Grail Knights. Not recommended for the faint of heart or members of the ostrich clan.

As for me, in a dream last night, I had it out with my first wife about two things she didn’t want to take the full load for. I told her that was too bad. I was not there either time it happened. She was there. I had nothing to do with it. It was hers. I conject one thing was the death of our son, the other thing was the death of my younger daughter’s first marriage, which I tried to save and for that was cast out by my daughters. I conject the second thing because when the dream ended, I was in the city where my younger daughter lives. Also where she once asked me face-to-face if I had any advice for her? I said never let anything come between her and her husband, even if she had to kill it. I reminded her of that after she had let something come between her and her husband – medical school and her mother. I did not hear from my daughter afterward, nor from her sister. My older daughter had told me of the marital difficulty, which had led to my writing to her sister to remind her of what we had discussed and to encourage her to save her marriage.

That’s right, what I just wrote is part of what caused the cancer lesion on my left (female) forearm, and hopefully that part of the cause is now resolved. I see the surgeon tomorrow. The way the infection around the stiches looks, tomorrow is shaping up to be an interesting meeting. I have found myself feeling sorry for the surgeon for having ended up with me as a patient.

Happy All Hallows Eve, earthlings.

I usually can be reached at keysmyhome@hotmail.com, but today I’m somewhere else.

“…Am having some ‘fun’ dealing with a cancer lesion I recently had removed from my left (female) arm. The surgeon said he got all of it, then it started getting infected – why was I not completely surprised? And then the antibiotic did not make it go away and it seemed to progress a bit – why am I not surprised? Don’t know yet if it’s bacterial or more of the cancer – basil-squamous mix, the doc said. It is karma-rooted, have been writing about that and grossing some people out. Maybe I just get a hacksaw and cut the forearm off. But then, no telling where the ‘symptom’ might show up next, probably slightly more inconvenient. And being left-handed, it might prove somewhat difficult to type and even more difficult to write longhand, unless I could get my phantom left forearm to fully materialize, which probably would be when pigs fly …”

I turned in last night, hoping for help with all of this. I was pounded in dreams throughout the night and into the light. Most of the dreams were about the school district. About my relationship with the school district. I suppose the dreams mean I am to run for the school board seat held by Duncan Mathewson. Perhaps if I get on board with that, the infection will go away. Getting on board is going to take some doing. A new body. A new personality. Otherwise, it’s going to be another typical Sloan race, and meanwhile, my left arm rots off?

As I wrote to Deer Ed yesterday, “I seriously doubt I will be at Fantasy Fest tonight. What’s the point, given how fantastical my life is?”

I usually can be reached at keysmyhome@hotmail.com. Meanwhile, an old folks joke from a Birmingham amigo:

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A 90-year-old man was told by the Doctor that he needed a sperm count as part of his physical exam.

The doctor gave the man a jar and said, ‘Take this jar home and bring back a semen sample tomorrow.’
The next day the man reappeared at the doctor’s office and gave him the jar, which was as clean and empty as on the previous day.
The doctor asked what happened and the man explained, ‘Well, doc, it’s like this — first I tried with my right hand, but nothing. Then I tried with my left hand, but nothing.
‘Then I asked my wife for help. She tried with her right hand, then with her left, still nothing. She tried with her mouth, first with the teeth in, then with her teeth out, still nothing.
‘We even called up Arleen, the lady next door and she tried too, first with both hands, then an armpit, and she even tried squeezin’ it between her knees, but still nothing.’
The doctor was shocked! ‘You asked your neighbor?’
The old man replied, ‘Yep, none of us could get the jar open.

Key West channel widening study

Distant in-law Ron, a developer, who has spent lots of time vacationing in Key West, responded to yesterday’s adult ed post:

SLOAN – i really like the silt picture! AND i am still available as a consultant on the channel widening deal.

while i am at it…. i think the “wisdom of sloan” is an accurate call. AND just wondering, are you giving any thought to moving back to Bama ?

your observations on the School Board seem to offer legitimate concerns that the community would want to see the light of day. the good lord knows that the bad apples must hate to see your smiling face at the meetings and the good apples say i am glad someone said what we don’t have the nerve to say.

further to the point…. living in North Carolina, i always keep a couple of bouquets of silk flowers in the trunk in case my ol ’92 Road Ranger quits on me. funny stuff about the south…. we seem to have more fun and more drama in the southland and most folks don’t get too up-set by it….. I swan!! Regards,

Ron

My reply:

Hi, Ron. Thanks.

At the recent school board meeting, I spoke briefly with a younger fellow I’d never met before, he had something to do with some agency not part of the school district. He said he had read everything I had ever written. I said he was fucking crazy for sure.

No sense of even visiting Bham anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean that won’t change without notice. The two couples from Bham who just dropped by about ten days ago could have been a signal for me to start thinking about moving back up there, or living there part time and down here part time.

I dreamt in a nap today of telling some nice younger woman, who was coming on to me some, that maybe we could go to my parents’ home, they have been away for a while, maybe we could have the place to ourselves if they haven’t come back. That dream could be about work down here, too, a new topic coming in. Or it could be about something else. Probably, it is not about a human woman, although it could be.

I do wonder from time to time why I’m still being held in the Keys, which lost their glow for me years ago, partially due to being homeless here, partially due to running for office so many times, partially because I was doing it solo, and partially just because, I suppose. I can piss people off anywhere, had plenty of practice before arriving Keys in late 2000. And, yes, some people seem glad to have me around.

Right now, the front burner is this infection in the surgical wound, which doesn’t seem to be responding to the sulfa drug (Bactrim). The doc suggested Keflex. I said Keflex will tear up my G.I. tract and asked if Bactrim would do as well? He said yes. I said Keflex won’t stop staph, he said it will, but not MRSA variation. I said MRSA I was worried about. Docs down here seem to like Bactrim better for MRSA, at least in early going, before it gets out of hand. MRSA strain of staph has harder time with Bactrim. Or so one of my docs told me a few years ago. The Bactrim seems to be tearing up my G.I. tract.

I told someone at Coco’s Kitchen the other morning that I need to do what I’m being told to do, so the medicine the doc prescribed can deal with the infection. Otherwise, the underlying current remains unresolved and the infection remains and/or gets worse, and I start doing round after round of antibiotics until, or if, the angels step in and put and end to it, which is what happened with the MRSA infection in March 2004. I’d had it since June 2003, terrifying is hardly sufficient an adjective. For all I know, the MRSA was karma, too, re my sister.

One sort of funny sidebar with the recent surgery.

When I went back to the surgeon on Tuesday for post-op evaluation, I asked why they had prepped the left side of my pubic area to due surgery on my left arm? He said that was where the skin graft would have come from if he did not feel he could close me back up with stitches. I was astounded, asked if he had told me that before? He said he had told me, it would be like a hernia down there. (Maybe he told me just as they started applying the anesthesia, I am sure I would have jumped out of my skin otherwise.) I said just hearing that was like going through a 9.0 earthquake.

Soul-programmed memory of the surgical gouges out of both sides of my pubic region, and out of my butt, for the MRSA surgery will go with me to the grave.

I had thought, I didn’t have the sense to ask, they would take the skin graft from my leg. The reason I didn’t want a skin graft was I would have two surgical wounds healing in the subtropics, never a good idea.

Life’s a bitch. Would love to see a different side before the last roundup.

Sloan

Ron’s reply:

Pubies on he arm….. hmmmmmm!!! Good luck with those health issues, they sound beyond serious. Ron

Beyond serious indeed. After replying to Ron, I checked out the Coconut Telegraph of bigpinekey.com and found this, which looked like it might be related to the dream of my father and mother being away, and about my visiting Bham soon, metaphorically:

“From Sloan’s own blog, his own words, on his Good Morning Florida Keys site: “In fact, as I have now written in two recent posts, I molested my younger sister when I was 15.” Fifteen is certainly old enough to know better. Maybe it’s time we just start ignoring what this delusional, sick, self-appointed judge of everyone else’s character has to say.”

My reply:

I have pled guilty on all counts several times now. For all the world to see. And I have paid horribly and still am paying horribly for it, and I deserve it, as I also have written lately, even though there still are people I know who do not believe karma can work in that way.

What a dilemma the folks on the Coconut Telegraph face: whether to believe someone who is fully transparent and judges himself, or someone who will not even tell them his/her human name

Meanwhile, maybe the CT critic might wish to stand in front of a mirror for as long as I have been stood in front of a mirror, since the fall of 1988, and see if that changes his/her outlook. The life review can be done in this life, or after this life. There is no getting around it. Great news, huh?

When I finally crawled out of the sack this morning, too late to get this post into the Coconut Telegraph for no-edit Saturday, I found this in my inbox:

“hey sloan. i probably dont agree with you politically on a federal level but i enjoy your writings and read them all the time. the sloan basher must be pretty sick. it seems to consume him or her. i saw these and was snapping pics in my tractor trailer of jobsites, road const. etc. so i snapped off a couple here. I-295 s.b. in jersey. keep up the good work. Capt. Andy”

The owner of a golf course in Georgia was confused about paying an invoice, so he decided to ask his secretary for some mathematical help.
He called her into his office and said, “You graduated from the University of Georgia and I need some help. If I were to give you $20,000, minus 14%, how much would you take off?”
The secretary thought a moment, and then replied, “Everything but my earrings.”

From The Citizen yesterday:

The Marathon resident, first elected to the school board in 2006, said he will speak to anyone interested in the presentation, and encouraged them to call him at home, 305-289-1553, or email him at

John.Dick@keysschools.com.“I want people to ask me tough questions,” said Dick, who at Tuesday’s regular school board meeting will unveil his presentation on the half-mill referendum that asks for “flexible funding” for the public schools.

The board meets at 5 p.m. Tuesday in the Marathon High School library.

A year after the School District fell into scandalous straits, with administrator Monique Acevedo embezzling $413,000 to spend on frivolous luxuries – after her superintendent husband Randy bent the rules to promote her – Dick wants to ensure that voters know some recent facts:

Student SAT scores are above the state average; teachers’ salaries have increased by almost 14 percent over the past five years and remain the highest in Florida; and the number of administrators has shrunk by 29 percent.

In 2008, 14 administrators were earning more than $100,000 in salaries, for a total of $1.59 million. Today, only nine administrators take home $100,000 or more a year, for a total of just over $1 million.

The district remains in compliance with the state’s class-size regulations, while enrollment has fluctuated between 8,300 and 8,400.

“I was the biggest critic of the district’s spending for many, many years,” said Dick. “It’s far better than it was. I hope that the community will come forward and renew the half-mill.”

On the Jan. 31 ballot for all Keys voters is a measure to allow the School District to move more than $9 million in tax revenue to the general fund.

“No matter how anybody votes, the tax bill won’t change,” said Dick. “What will change is what we can do with the money. If it doesn’t pass to the general fund, it’ll go back to the capital fund.”

While the general fund is for salaries and other day-to-day operations, the capital fund is for major projects, such as new school construction. The district has no plans for anything like that in its near future.

The five-member school board spent the past year grappling with a $10 million budget shortfall that led to the outsourcing of custodial services and a mandatory seven unpaid furlough days for all employees, along with a freeze on teacher raises.

So if voters don’t pass the Jan. 31 half-mill referendum, Dick says, the board will have to shed an additional $9 million from its budget the next fiscal year.

“I have a feeling it would have drastic results, and not good for the classroom,” he said. “And terrible results for our employees.”

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Hi, Norma Jean. Thanks, I hope the surgery was successful, too, but it will be a while before that is known. I had a bunch of nap dreams after putting up yesterday’s white male supremacy – America’s heritage post. In one dream, I was told, “We love what you posted today.” The rest of the dreams seemed centered around what had caused the cancer lesion, which was my messing with my younger sister when I was fifteen and she was five. I imagine the same thing caused all the other physical travail I have experienced. Maybe I will get some relief from that now, maybe not. Not my call.

If I had to hazard a wild ass guess, I’d say this forward was put together by a hard-core Republican Christian. Some of what is averred down through the part about Thomas Jefferson, I knew, some of it I did not know. Ass-u-me it’s all accurate, for further discussion.

Apparently, the ass-u-me’d hard-core Republican Christian, needs to read the Declaration of Independence again, and then explain why come it did not cite passages from the Bible as authority for the Colonists telling King George to take a hike? If ever there was a time for the Founding Fathers to declare their Christian faith as the cause of their actions, that surely was the time to do it, don’t you think?

The fact is, Thomas Jefferson was paranoid about Christians trying to take over the government, and he was quite outspoken about that, and about his disdain for Christians who lived Jesus mostly in the breach. When Christians tried to make the Virginia Constitution a Christian document, Jefferson led the charge to stop it. Eventually, he published his own cut-and-paste version of the Gospels, called the Jefferson Bible, which distilled Jesus down to what Jefferson felt was important about Jesus.

Personally, I think the Ten Commandments are terrific. I think they supersede any religion and are universal and all people should live by them. As Moses was given many, many, follow-up commandments to pass on to his tribe, by which they were to live, the founders of the new country called America passed many, many laws, by which Americans were to live. Federal and state laws. But none of those federal or state laws were the Ten Commandments, per se.

One of the Ten Commandments keeps calling out to me:

Thou shall not commit murder.

I wonder how the ass-u-me’d hard-core Republican Christian, who put this forward together, and any Americans who agree with the forward, would feel about George W. Bush being prosecuted for murdering and maiming who knows how many Americans and Iraqis, by starting a war for which he had no justifiable evidence? For starting a war after being told by his own CIA that they had no justifiable evidence? For starting a war based on what he had been told by the Prime Minister of Great Britain? For starting a war based on lies? Maybe in Great Britain the King, or Queen, still can do no wrong, but the Declaration of Independence ended Kings and Queens in America, and their soverign immunity from prosecution for crimes they committed.

Another thing that keeps calling out to me is, I wonder if the ass-u-me’d hard-core Republican Christian who put this foward together is all in a dither about organized prayer not being allowed in public schools? And if so, how that squares with Jesus’ crystal clear instructions to pray in secret? Matthew 6: 5, 6. And how Jesus’ instructions to pray in secret square with each session of Congress starting with a prayer? And how Jesus’ instructions to pray in secret square with praying outloud in churches? Or praying out loud in the presence of anyone else, such as saying grace before a family dinner?

When asked about the commandments, did not Jesus say in the Gospels that the First and Great Commandment was to love God will all of your heart, and all of your soul, and all of your mind? And the Second Great Commandment was to love your neighbor as yourself? And on those two commandments hung all the law and the prophets? If someone lives by those two laws, does not all else follow? Yet Jesus gave a commandment to pray in secret, did he not? A commandment I rather imagine the ass-u-me’d hard-core Republican Christian who put together this forward honors mostly in the breach. I also imagine, as in ass-u-me, this ass-u-me’d hard-core Republican’s real bitch is the ban against organized prayer in schools, as that issue seems central to the foward – Congress allows prayer, so why don’t schools allow it?

Something else that has been calling out to me, since yesterday, is the Columbine School massacre some years ago. As I recall, two deranged white kids took automatic weapons to school and went on a spree. It was horrible. I wonder how the ass-u-me’d hard-core Republican Christian who put together the foward feels about attempts to ban those kinds of weapons? I wonder if that ass-u-me’d hard-core Republican Christian is a card-carrying member of the National Rifle Association, which has opposed the banning of such weapons under the right to bear arms part of the Constitution? But that’s not the main reason I bring up Columbine School today.

The main reason I bring up Columbine School is because the father of one of the massacred children converted his loss into a crusade that finally had him preaching to Congress that his son’s murder was cause to allow prayer in public schools because he was sure his son was praying, and other children were praying, which I have no doubt they were, before they were massacred. I watched this father preach to Congress on television. I watched members of Congress appear to be swayed. And, I wondered to myself: What did the massacre have to do with public prayer in schools? If public prayer had been allowed in Columbine School, would that have prevented the massacre? Not very likely. If the Ten Commandments had been hung in the halls of Columbine School, would that have prevented the massacre? Not very likely? Did the Ten Commandments prevent George W. Bush from starting a war based on lies?

It’s so terribly easy to quote the Bible to justify your position, and so terribly hard to remember anything in the Bible that disagrees with your position, is the point I’m trying to make. My experience, Christians are masters at ignoring parts of the Bible, which are inconvenient for them to take to heart and live by. I seriously doubt it matters not a twit nor a twat to God that Moses and the Ten Commandments are featured on and in federal buildings in Washington D.C., or that “In God we trust” is on American greenbacks, or that “under God” was finally put into the Pledge of Allegiance to make America out to be more godly than the Soviet Union. I imagine what matters to God is how Americans live. I imagine the same is what matters to Jesus. And all the rest is irrelevant.

Saying it another way: talk is cheap, action speaks louder.

Sloan

I usually can be reached at keysmyhome@hotmail.com.