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New Year:The Wheel Goes Round Slowly by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
New Year, Slow Beginnings
New Year:
The Wheel
Goes Round
Slowly
Burn The Calendar !
There is an old Ozarks superstition and wives’ tale that says, “Every January 1, you throw away the old year’s calendar.” Usually there was some kind of logic or type of explanation that suggested a common sense approach to Life.
I don’t remember my mother or grandmother’s explanation of the logic. They both were simply efficient about getting the calendar off the wall and outside into the trash.
January 15, 2013, my old calendar was still on the wall. I needed a photograph for this article, so off the wall and into the yard goes the old calendar. The Year 2012 was not one of my favorite years. Good Riddance, 2012 !
One flick of my trusty Zippo lighter and I got to watch 2012 go out in a blaze of glory. Nikon D 200 Photo by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
After New Year’s Day, the theory is that the world is ready to pack away the holidays and get back to work.
Have you ever noticed how slowly the world at large usually seems to move ahead in the new year ?
You can blame The Twelve Days of Christmas from December 25 to January 5 and celebrate Christmastide and The Twelfth Night on the evening of January 5, but, that does not explain the slow take off for a New Year.
The Old Christmas Day is January 6. The Feast Of The Three Kings, which is the first Sunday of the New Year, can work out to January 6, 7,8, or 9, and depends on if you use a Julian or Gregorian Calendar.
However, The Old Christmas Day and The Feast Of The Three Kings observances are not sufficient reason to explain why the world at large takes a slow stride into the early days of January.
Wherever you are in the world, when a New Year starts you can run the celebrations and the observances period about as long as you like and can afford.
If you can afford the time off in The Real World of earning a living, you can even postpone getting back into “The Work World” until you observe Candlemas on February 2.
Humans throughout history obviously have not been in a hurry to get back to work in the New Year. The world’s major religions accommodate the reluctance by a host of various religious holidays to help the average human to ease into January.
Why are people slow to jump feet first into the New Year ?
We humans jump up and down for the New Year’s Eve celebration and are anxious for the New Year. Yet, at the stroke of midnight, we seem to ease off and step back.
Why is it after January 1, humanity seems slow to move bravely and confidently into January and the New Year ?
In my life time, I have noticed people may have to go back to work after January 1, but their heart is not in it.
Anyone can sit at a desk, keep the lights on and run the heating or air conditioning, but, to “do work” that accomplishes something requires the initiative to be willing to undertake tasks.
I have noticed that it seems to take about the first two weeks of January before people “get down to business” and “get back in the game” of earning a living.
It seems there is a cautious need to ease into a New Year like a hot bathtub of water by putting one toe in first.
Like an old steam engine, we seem to have a need to build up a head of steam to finally get rushing down the tracks into the present.
Perhaps, all of humanity is “A Bunch Of Lazy Bums.”
No doubt, everyone will have a theory or come up with a theory.
The best theory that I have come up with about the caution of a New Year is : Capricorn.
Salute The Goat
I applaud the ancient Western astrologers. Sometimes the ancient astrologers were “dead on” when they selected an animal to represent a cross section of humanity. They definitely got it right when they chose The Goat to represent Capricorn and the people born under that sign.
“Goats Are God’s Weed Eaters”
Capricorn is one of the most reserved signs of the Zodiac.
I grew up around livestock on a farm. My mother, the hog farmer, had hair goats to eat away the brush, sprouts and cedar tree saplings.
“Goats Are God’s Weed Eaters.” If a goat can nibble away at a half inch or inch thick sapling, then, they will eat it down to a stump. They, like their appetizers, which means they start with the the lush green leaves of a bush, vine or sprout first.
Goats can be curious. A kid might run up to you in the field and a billy goat might slowly saunter toward you to check you out in the pasture.
Ozark farmers in the 1960s took pride in their goats. Goats are not pretty creatures. They have a Minus Sign pupil in their eyeballs, which gives their faces a distinctive character.
All goats, billy goats, the kids and the female goats all have “chin whiskers”, which most people call, beards.
Wool goats have wavy or ringlet strands of hair that hangs down aound their body. In the winter time, poor old wool goats seem weighed down in a mink coat that seems bulky and heavy to carry and wear.
Don’t “kid”, (pun intended – on the farm, a child of a goat is called a, “kid.”) yourself, an old wool billy goat in the heavy wool coat can move and “charge” at you quickly.
You violate an old billy goat’s “personal space” and if he thinks you are a threat, head down and horns “locked” in your direction and he will come at you with the speed of an Olympic sprinter and the strength of a small bulldozer.
Ozarks farmers always claimed, “Goats will kill brush.” Goats will nibble saplings and vines down to stumps and roots, but, in time, Mother Nature will bring the brush back.
Goats Versus Sheep
Goats will eat grass down to the roots. Ozarks farmers never liked sheep because sheep would eat grass and the roots, which meant you always had to reseed and re-sod the pasture.
Grass seed is expensive when you have to buy several acres worth plus fresh topsoil and fertilizer.
Ozarks farmers know livestock can be “skiddish”, which means they frighten easy. A loud noise will send chickens and turkeys to the four winds. Horses, cattle and goats usually don’t frighten easy.
Early Bible writers obviously weren’t farmers or had a low opinion of humanity, every sheep I ever saw was stupid.
Sheep scare easy and you always have to watch them to make sure they don’t do something stupid like wander off a cliff or out of the field into the highway.
Wolves, coyotes or packs of wild stray dogs get in sheep, they run and get “mowed down” by the hungry predators. Goats initially run, but, then, some stop, turn and fight the predators. Battered, beaten and bloodied, sometimes an old billy goat will win and the predator is dinner for the buzzards.
Goats Are The Weather Warriors
Goats are “sure footed.” Their hooves are designed to allow them to stand and walk in the most challenging terrain.
In wintertime in southwest Missouri, horses, cattle and sheep can’t always stand up in the cold, ice and snow.
Horses, cattle and sheep have to lay down out in the pasture because they can’t walk in the terrain and weather. Goats can.
One winter in my childhood, I witnessed goats unable to stand for a couple of days in the winter.
However, Mother Nature had dropped hail and ice mixed with the snow for a couple of days, so that one to two layers or sheets of ice coated the earth underneath the picturesque blanket of snow.
Roads were closed. Snow plows with their weigh and chains on their tires were carefully trying to break through the sheet or sheets of ice that covered the asphalt under the snow.
When a ton-and-a half or two ton dump truck fitted with a blade to act as a snow plow finds it difficult to move along a road without slipping into a ditch, you have to give a goat in the field credit for trying to stand up.
For a couple of days, that winter, even a goat could not stand up. When the animal tried to rise the hooves slipped and slid on the sheet or sheets of ice beneath the snow.
The poor goat ended up spread eagle on the ground with his or her legs spread out to the sides.
The Dead Of Winter Remains Alive
In The Missouri Ozarks
I believe that the severe winter was either The Winter of 1967 or The Winter of 1968. It was an “Arctic Winter”, Heavy snowfall all winter long. Extreme cold temperatures. And power lines were down two or three times, during that winter. It was a Frozen Hell. It was masochistic winter that tortured man and beasts in the southwest Missouri Ozarks.
That severe childhood winter of the 1960s is why when “The Experts” talk “Global Warming”, I laugh.
In situations where “The Experts” talk and try to convince me of “Global Warming” and “Climate Change”, I challenge them to go spend a winter in the southwest Missouri Ozarks.
If “The Experts” still have all their fingers and toes free of “frostbite” and have not “froze to death” out in the woods or the countryside come Spring, then, I might listen.
It does seem that there is a “Climate Change” because the southwest Missouri Ozarks, now, can receive a tornado in January. However, where winter weather is concerned the temperatures are still bone-chilling and you get heavy snowfall.
Granted from the 1980s through the early 1990s, the winters in the southwest Missouri Ozarks did not seem as severe as in the 1960s.
Check with The Stone County Old Timers and they will tell you Mother Nature has a strange sense of humor about winter weather in the southwest Missouri Ozarks. There can be two, three or a few years were winter seems almost mild.
Just when people start to smile positive “Climate Change”, Mother Nature pulls out all the stops and you wonder if any person or animal can survive the cold and snow until spring.
The bright side of that devastating 1960s Winter in the southwest Missouri Ozarks was, in the spring and summer there were less ticks, chiggers and snakes because Mother Nature had “killed them off” with the severe winter.
The Naked Goat
Sheep farmers always claimed sheep wool was better than goat wool, but, in the 1960s in the Ozarks wool goat farmers had a market for the wool. Wool goats like young boys are not fond of “haircuts.”
Of course, in the wool goat’s case the annual “haircut” is more like a “bikini waxing” in that you have to remove all the hair, i.e., wool against the goat’s will. Electric shears are faster.
Uncle Richard DeLong only had the manual scissor shears, which meant the bawling, moving, fidgeting wool goats would sometimes get their skin nicked by the shears.
The end result is poor wool goats with their “nicked shaving cuts” looked comical.
Think of a close friend in full body Long Johns pink underwear that the worn and frayed arms and legs seem at least one size too short. Then, image the trap door in the back of the clothing,
The poor goat’s sheared backside would wave the trimmed tail as the sheared animal with the fresh haircut quickly exited the pen to the freedom of the pasture.
If you think the mental picture of a freshly sheared wool goat is funny, then, visit a farm and help a farmer at wool shearing time.
Hair goats have the same “work ethic” and eating habits of wool goats, but their hair is more like a windbreaker in the sense that while it keeps them insulated in the winter they can easily move around.
In the spring, a hair goat naturally sheds the hair like dogs and cats do at the right times of year.
Hair and wool goats were also used to provide milk, cheese and as a source of meat.
I am a “picky eater” country boy. I never drank goat milk, ate goat cheese or goat meat. I have put a big nipple on a bottle and fed baby goats from time to time.
Goats Adaptable Livestock
Goats are resourceful livestock. They seem to adapt well to almost any terrain, although I would not recommend trying to raise a “pet goat” in a Madison Avenue New York City apartment.
Goats love plants. They do not discriminate between briar bushes, orchids and prize roses, so you definitely have to fence goats off away from gardens and flower beds.
Goats don’t require gas, electricity or catalytic converters; sorry OPEC.
Goats are environmentally friendly and they provide biodegradable nutrient rich fertilizer for your lawn or pasture.
Capricorn Humans
Samuel E. Warren, my father, Uncle Richard, Uncle Hobert and Uncle Joe DeLong were all born under the sun sign of Capricorn. My Rising Sign is Capricorn and I have worked with many Capricorn natives in my life time.
The goat is not as pretty a mascot as a ram, bull or eagle. Yet, the goat is a steady, determined, industrious, hard working, resourceful creature that braves terrain and weather to carry out it’s life mission. Goats are curious and have a subtle sense of livestock humor.
Talk to a farmer or watch hair or wool goats in a zoo or petting zoo and you will wonder if God has a sly sense of humor because the noble characteristics of goats do seem to be ingrained into Capricorn humans.
In my experience Capricorn human are conservative, cautious, curious, deliberate, determined, resourceful, and hard working.
If there is a fish or sea aspect to Capricorn, then, I consider it the sense of humor. Capricorn humans have a subtle sense of humor that often flows past their fellow humans.
Saturn The Ultimate Foreman
A Capricorn human’s biggest challenge is always Saturn, which a person might call Fate. In ancient Roman mythology, Saturn ruled agriculture, liberation and time. In a early 21st Century sense, then, Saturn is “The Business God, who decides promotions, schedules and time off.” The ancient Romans identified Saturn as a “God Of Wealth.” The ancient Romans had Saturn pegged as “The Work God.”
As “The Boss Of Bosses”, the bottom line is the ancient Romans realized that Saturn was not going to “cut them any slack.” Saturn was not going to go out of his way to give anyone “time off” or “promote” a person if they didn’t “earn the promotion.” And, Saturn was “ A Grade A Rule Book Stickler,” who demanded “by the book, all the time, no exceptions.”
Obviously, Saturn had to be a pagan God, because no human would ever want to work for such “A Dictatorial Boss.”
Saturn ruled agriculture, which meant farming and food. In an early 21st Century perspective Saturn or Fate is the God Of Agribusiness.
As a God Of Wealth, Saturn signed the paychecks and As the God Of Agriculture, He got to say, who got to Eat and who went Hungry.
The only time, the ancient Romans ever “Got to Stick It To The Boss” was once a year at the annual festival of “Saturnalia,”
At Saturnalia, the ancient Romans had free speech, switched jobs, ate like pigs, partied like wild men, got drunk and gave gifts. Sound like an office Christmas party ?
Bingo !
Saturnalia was celebrated December 17. Today Saturnalia is celebrated December 25. The “get even with your boss” pagan god party became the Christian Christmas holiday
Historians have not discovered why the date moved from December 17 to December 25.
Crafty Christians
Early Christians however, when they “stole” or “ripped off” pagan ideas liked to “Christianize” them. For instance: Christian churches were often built on pagan worship sites.
If the move to December 25 was to “Christianize” the holiday, early Christians “outsmarted themselves” and did Saturn a favor by moving the holiday from Sagittarius right smack dab into “Capricorn” a Zodiac Sign ruled by Saturn.
The W Word : Work
Whatever mythological God rules a sign is considered the “ruler” of the sign, so since Saturn rules Capricorn, Capricorn humans are “the employees of Saturn.”
If you move the mythological religious god concept to a philosophical and psychological concept then you can swap the name, Saturn, for the word, Fate.
Look at your calendar, from December 22 until January 19, during the Zodiac Sign of Capricorn; haven’t tasks seem more time consuming?
Doesn’t it seem to take longer to get even the minor jobs done?
Even if you were able to take time off from work for Christmas and or New Year’s: doesn’t it seem that now your work has piled up and you are paying for the time off ?
Time is another trait that the ancient Romans attributed to Saturn. Saturn truly was an “Equal Opportunity God” because He didn’t discriminate. Saturn made “everyone work like a dog.”
Regardless, whether you call the ruler of the sign, Saturn or Fate,
Capricorn humans always seem to really have to earn their “pay” in Life. They work hard.
Capricorn humans don’t seem to get “the breaks” that people born under other sun signs seem to get on the job.
However, when a Capricorn human earns a promotion, award or honor; they “earned the recognition through hard work.”
Some sun signs can be a boss’ “pet”. In my life time, I have noticed, seldom, if ever, is a Capricorn a “bosses’ pet.”
Fate or Saturn keeps a Capricorn human’s “nose to the grind stone.”
When you look at the month of January and wonder, “Why does it seem the New Year always seems to get off to such a slow start ?”
Consider that Capricorn is the steady sign, which is conservative and steady; not fast and impulsive. Saturn or Fate demands due diligence, hard work, attention to detail, procedures by the book and hard work.
Short cuts usually just mean more hard work or going back and fixing the mistakes caused by short cuts. Saturn The Ultimate Foreman is looking over your shoulder.
Fate is in charge !
Saturn is in charge !
Aquarius En route
On the bright side, look at the calendar. A shift change is coming.
January 20,Aquarius The Water Bearer reports for duty. Aquarius is more laid back, more flexible, and tends to think “Outside The Box.”
While Capricorn demands rules, regulations, procedures and wants to “Do It The Way It Has Always Been Done”; Aquarius usually takes the risk of tossing or, at least, putting aside the rulebook.
Aquarius is an air sign, which means you can breeze back in to the daily responsibilities of Life.
Keep in mind, the ancient astrologers chose “Waves Of Water” as the glyph or logo for Aquarius, which should be a subtle reminder to let your emotions ripple along on the job.
In the Real World, when Mother Nature adds significant amounts of cold or hot water to air the result is an ice storm or thunderstorm that can grow violent.
Violent air creates hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones. Try to learn to heat up and cool down at regular intervals in your work day, so that you don’t let the stress of daily life cloud your judgment and send you thundering in the wrong direction.
Best Wishes for Clear Skies and Smooth Sailing !
Sam
Links
Twelve Days Of Christmas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas
Old Christmas Day
http://www.christmas-time.com/cp-old.html
Feast Of The Epiphany Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Epiphany
Candlemas Time and Date.Com
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/common/candlemas
Capricorn Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_(astrology)
Capricorn Astrology Online
http://www.astrology-online.com/capricrn.htm
Capricorn Sun Sign Zodiac Signs Astrology.com
http://www.astrology.com/capricorn-sun-sign-zodiac-signs/2-d-d-66920
Saturn Mythology Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(mythology)
Zodiac Sign Dates
http://www.whats-your-sign.com/zodiac-sign-dates.html
Star Cats Personal, Relationship, Family Astrology
Honor The Friend by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
Treasure the Damon and Pythias’
Relationships Of Your Life
Honor
The
Friend
by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
Iremember friends.
In life, you, my reader, will remember friends.
Friends are the unique people, who add spice and meaning to your life. The ultimate concept of a “Friend” is the classic story of Damon and Pythias.
Phythias stood ready to “give” his life for his friend. Damon returned and the devotion of loyalty, fidelity and friendship, so impressed the king that the issue was settled and the king allowed both men to enjoy the “freedom” of their lives.
In Life, there are different levels of friendship.In my life, I have had friends my own age, friends who were younger than I and friends who were older.
The older friends were sometimes employers, supervisors or bosses who I respected for their integrity and credibility.
A friend is someone that you can rely on and they can rely on you.
Fools Fair Weather Friends
“Fair Weather Friends” are the fools in Life, you meet, who show up to party with you. If you are paying for the food, buying the drinks and are in a position to pay the tab or the bill, then, you will find you have “scores of friends, followers, groupies, and companions ready to be your buddy.”
Of course, when your wallet is empty, they will slip into the shadows.
The first time Life puts a crisis in your path, the “Fair Weather Friends” will have lost, misplaced their cell phones and changed their cell phone numbers.
After all, they are already “too busy” leeching, bumming and being a parasite to another person, who is celebrating a great moment of Life.
A Fair Weather Friend is always a “prostitution” of the word, “Friend.”
Fools are The Fair Weather Friends that are pathetic people, who are simply the cancerous bacteria of Life. The minor role of any Fair Weather Friend in your Life is to clarify the true meaning of the word, “Friend.”
Friends, true friends, do not leave you in time of trouble. They help to the point they can and will still be there once the trouble passes.
A friend may not always be able to go shoulder-to-shoulder with you to “combat” the trouble head-on, but, usually they will be in a position to provide advice, guidance and counsel that will help you.
A friend always maintains their integrity, credibility and devotion to you. An acquaintance or an associate is a “temporary friend”, who will exit out the side or back door anytime the “heat” of a Life situation starts to rise.
The trick in Life, is the ability to look at and think about people and decide where they stand in your Life. Realize, we all have relationships in Life. Everyday our Life changes and the lives of our friends also change.
Relatives,spouses, Life events and the natural progression of “Time” can change your relationship with a friend. You loose contact with the friend.
Remember A Friend Always
The important fact is you never loose the memory of a “Friend.” Years later, when you are faced with a serious life situation you will remember the “Friend” of that event and you will know how to approach the situation for a successful result.
Years later, you will be able to reflect and remember a “Friend” or “A Roster Of Friends” who have added meaning, enjoyment, happiness, joy, laughter, and depth that changed the shadow of your Life into the pyramid that will stand the test of the ages in the Real World.
“The Ancients”
“The Ancients”, those early, superstitious humans that inhabited planet earth and eeked out an existence in stubborn soil, under moody skies and facing angry seas, where smarter than we, modern humans, give them credit for.
The ancients took note of their lives and the world around them and left behind stories, sculptures, paintings, drawings, sketches and other items that would be documented by scholars and uncovered by archaeologists.
Their pagan gods and goddesses inspired their simple imaginations and gave their dubious lives meaning in a world that was alive at a level far beyond their simplistic interpretation of life.
Their understanding and attempts to solve the curiosity of their lives allows us to pass on those lessons as stories, TV shows and movies to inform and entertain ourselves and future generations.
“The Story Of Human Nature”
The true genius of their daily lives is “The Story Of Human Nature” survives every generation for the next.
Emotions The River Of Life
The emotions of human nature is still the same basic water that has always flowed in “The River Of Life.” A friend, who stands on the shore, may have worn her Roman tunic and carried her shield and worn her sword. You might have called her, “Isis, Diana, Fortuna, Juno, Athena, or, Hera”
In the 21st Century, a friend may stand on the shore of The River Of Life in a bikini,a business skirt, a uniform, a simple dress and, one would hope, the gender appropriate attire, unless of course; it is Halloween, the holiday, which tosses out all rules of dress for a comfortable costume.
A friend is a friend, regardless of the time period of history. Emotion is the key that always unlocks the feelings that identifies a “Friend.”
Time and the events of Life will age you and your Friend. Fate and distance will demand circumstances that will keep you from a Friend.
Your mind will never delete, corrupt or misplace the memory of a Friend. Because in Life, whether it is two weeks later or thirty years later, when you notice a man on the street or a woman in a cafe; your mind will quickly identify your Friend.
Associates, affiliates, acquaintances, groupies, fans, and Fair Weather Friends are the respective props and holiday banners of our lives that end up in the dumpster of our daily memories and activities.
The Immortality Of Friendship
A Friend is a person, who can step through the mists of Time and step back into your Life and the “friendship” resumes as though only a few minutes might have past.
Children, spouses, jobs, travel and all the events of Life, will have changed you and your Friend, but, the immortal genetics of Friendship never change.
The truth of the Damon and Pythias story is the voyages, crisis and disasters of Life will always challenge you, but, Friendship is a value engineered into your immortal soul and no force on earth can destroy a Friendship.
People can decide to end a Friendship;but, no force in the Universe can destroy a Friendship.
Usually in The Real World some of the best stories of Friendship are found in the annuals of War. War is the entity that rattles Time and consumes lives. The human struggle for survival creates and solidifies Friendship quickly.
Peace time relationships that evolve into Friendship usually require more time and day to day interaction to allow the Friendship to grow into maturity.
Fabulous Feast For A Friend
A true friend is always a “Friend.” A Friend lasts a lifetime.
In The Real World, Viking feasts should be held in great oak halls. Huge torches should burn away the evening hours.
Valkyries from Valhalla should descend and slide a chair up to the feast table to celebrate the glorious banquet held in the “Honor Of The Friend.”
Waves of music should rush through the caverns of the great hall. Wings of aroma of mutton, pork and sides of beef should tickle the noses and salivate the tongues of guests.
Joy and laughter should thunder off the walls under the bright campaign streamers of your Life that decorate the great hall. Platters of vegetables should glow like ripe jewels and the sweetness of fruit should blanket the senses.
Your Coat Of Arms and your Friend’s Coat Of Arms should be side-by-side as “The Great Shields” and be the centerpiece of the evening hung in the command position on the great rafter over the head table.
You and your friend should sit under The Great Shields, feasting, toasting, and laughing. Your karaoke voices should sweep through the hall to announce your deeds to the assembled guests. Great animal skins, symbols of your great hunts should line the hall for your guest to sit on.
On either side of The Great Shields are the other Coats Of Arms, campaign streamers and prestigious sheepskins that document the voyages and battles of your life.
Of course, the evening would be devoted to feasting and storytelling. You and your friend while away the hours with the tales of your triumphs, tragedies, successes, failures, and the stories of your lives.
Honor Your Friend
Of course, in The Real World, no one goes out of their way to find or rent you a Great Hall for a banquet feast for a friendship reunion. However, your mind and your imagination can make the necessary arrangements and host the monumental occasion. After all, a true Friend is always a Friend for Life.
Honor yourself; Honor your Friend.
Go ahead, pick up the cell phone or log on the Internet and try to find a Friend of your past.
A New Year is always a wonderful time to try and “check in” with an important person in your past that you call,”Friend.”
Sam
Auld Lang Syne Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne
Damon and Pythias Wikipedia
Adolph Hitler Reborn Editorial by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
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Adolph Hitler Reborn
Pope Enron
Pope Francis I “preaches” his “Hippieism” message to the Masses of listeners gathered on the Saint Peter’s Basilica Square.
Pope Adolph
Pope Adolph Hitler I “preaches” his “Aryan Master Race Message” to the Masses of listeners gathered together in town halls, auditoriums and by their radios before and throughout World War II.
by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
Adolph Hitler had a reputation of being a charismatic speaker, who motivated people.
Hitler’s Dream Of World Domination had one major flaw: people will not willing surrender their personal freedom if they feel threatened.
Adolph made people, especially The Jews, feel threatened.
Pope Francis I is a pope – no one feels threatened around him because he is a “Holy Man.”
Pope Francis I appears in public or on TV and people surrender their Common Sense like an old coat.
Pope Enron’s message of The Poor, Love, Peace, Mercy, Justice, Ecology,, Humanity, Humility, Compassion is a global addiction that people are “snorting” through their skin pores.
The Sleep Sheep People Of Planet Earth are “hooked” on Pope Enron’s humane humility.
I have never believed in The Apocalypse, The Rapture, Armageddon, The End Times, The Anti-Christ, Pete The Roman, The Great Whore Of Babylon or any of the other Doom And Gloom Prophecies Of Humankind.
Anytime I sensed I was beginning to consider “The Prophecies”, I would switch on my Second Brain Cell and the Common Sense God gave me would remind me, “Hey, Sam, those are the stories written by religious writers and old dead prophets to make a buck in their lifetimes. Some of the stories got collected and published in the Holy Books.”
Adolph Hitler and other charismatic speakers got inside peoples heads and go beyond Common Sense of the people.
Hedonistic Holy Men
In my lifetime, I have witnessed the results of what happens when a speaker gets in someone’s head and robs them of their common sense.
People were shocked by the insane deaths caused by charismatic Holy Man Jim Jones.
People were shocked by the insane deaths caused by charismatic Holy Man David Koresh.
People were shocked by the insane slavery imposed on the citizens of Iran by the charismatic Holy Man Grand Ayatollah Khomeini.
Pope Francis I has gone all the charismatic dictators and insane Holy Men one better. All the rest relied on a message of Hate and Violence to rally people to action.
Pope Francis is encouraging everyone to lay down their swords and beat them into plow points.
As a child I never knew what reincarnation meant. By the 1970s, I had an understanding of “The New Age Concept Of Being Reborn.”
If a charismatic speaker of Adolph Hitler’s legendary charisma where to be reborn as a globally respected Holy Man what would the impact be on humanity ?
Violence and War puts people on the defensive.
Love and Peace have people purring like kittens. No one feels threatened or paranoid. People are at peace within themselves.
Religious Addiction
The World’s Old Traditional Religions have always understood the propaganda process to get people “hooked” on religion. You give people nice words and a feeling of calm and the sense that all can be right with the world.
The World’s Old Traditional Religions prevent people from “sobering up” because “withdrawal” back into The Real World is just too “painful”. So people continue to get their “religious fix” and stayed “doped up” within the realm of religious fantasy.
A World Without God, Yahweh, or Allah is just “too painful” a thought for religious people to consider. Naturally, they are convinced that their particular religion holds “The Patent And Copyright On God”, so they dare not step out into “The Sunlight Of Secular Sobriety.”
If a man or woman truly wanted to be the legendary “Anti-Christ” all they would really have to do is step into the shoes of a global religious figure and promote their own personal agenda using the vernacular and jargon of that particular faith.
Pope Francis I has already inherited 1.2 billion Sleep Sheep People worldwide.
Now, he simply reaches out to the rest of the world with the harmless gestures and cozy words that make everyone want to snuggle up for a long winter’s nap.
Adolph Hitler needed the Real World munitions, money and supplies to wage his War Of Hate.
Pope Francis needs no Real World resources to wage his War Of Love because people like the children in the pied piper are dancing their way into his camp.
The Poker Bluff Of Islam
Pope Francis I called “The Poker Bluff Of Islam.”
Throughout the 20th Century anytime Hate, Violence, and Murder “Put Islam In The Headlines”, the senior clerics rushed to open their Qur’an
The Islam and Muslim clerics always pointed to the words of “The Poor” and “Charity” and people would “buy” the words.
Now, Pope Francis I has exposed “Islam’s Achilles Heel.” He has held out an olive branch for an interfaith dialogue.
Islam has “NO CHOICE” but to accept to backup their claim that Islam is a religion and not a Terrorists’ Faith.
Islam and the Muslim World has to accept the pope’s invitation to “lull” Citizens Of The World back to their state of mental sleep.
“Communism‘s Achilles‘ Heel”
Now, Pope Francis I has exposed “Communism’s Achilles’ Heel” of “Paranoia.” He held out an olive branch to China.
China has “NO CHOICE”, but to accept because “The Political Cold War Hate And Propaganda” made “Communism A Satanic Form Of Dictatorial Demonic Social, Religious And Economic Government.” People in the West, East, Middle East, Latin America and Europe are all terrified of the idea of Communism.
China will have to accept the pope’s invitation to “play down” the global uneasiness of Communism.
China’s continuing support of the sadistic, psychotic, unstable “Fat boy Of North Korea” means China needs some “positive press” in world headlines.
China’s continuing support on the United Nations Security Council of the sadistic, psychotic, irrational, religious nut jobs of Iran means China needs some “positive press” in world headlines.
In The Spotlight
Pope Francis I has Islam and the Chinese Communists, center stage in the world spotlight, right where he wants them.
Islam and China have “To Accept” the invitation or risk “a swift negative global reaction” that neither Islam or China can afford.
Peace is one message you can not kill with bullets. Love is one message you can not kill with bullets. Charity is one message you can not kill with bullets. These messages survive every War.
Pope Francis I has chosen “The Right Messages” to get the obvious combatants talking.
Religion remains “The Global Drug” that keeps people “high” on Life.
If someone can use religion to get people to willingly surrender their freewill, then, the War Of Slavery and Servitude is won without firing a single shot.
Could Adolph Hitler be reborn as a pope ?
Anything is possible in the Real World.
It will be up to the Sleep Sheep People Of The Real World to decide in they wish to curl up in the storytelling words of a religious Holy Man or cling to their God-given Common Sense.
Pope Enron, I have this hangup about skull caps. The gray Nazi SS service cap with it’s silver human skull insignia was impressive, but equally ominous and infamous. The white Catholic skull cap might be to hide your hair loss or to keep your bald spot warm. Either way, I don’t like skull caps.
Sieg Heil to you, Il Duce !
I don’t like dictators. Whether they wear a business suit, a military uniform or appear as an old man in a white dress – I have no use for dictators.
Pope Enron keep preaching your “Hippieism”, social, political, religious and economic philosophy.
I ain’t buying. I enjoy the unpredictability of Life.
God and I, we call it, “Freedom !”
Sam
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Written by samwarren55
March 23, 2013 at 2:50 AM
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