By now you all know about the awful series of train station bombings that took place in India for the evening commute. All the bombings were stratigically planned to take place along the same rail line just minutes apart. I think as of now over 140 people have been killed outright, to say nothing of the injured. I don't like Randy Rhodes' take on this. According to her, at least she was vaguely implying, it's because India just tested a missile one day after a Pakistani commercial flight crash under "mysterious" circumstances. They don't know who did it though it has all the ear marks of Al Quaida. Randy didn't like George Bush for not condemning India for the missile test. They didn't sign any treaties so they have the right. That's how I see it. Perhaps those Al Quaida members will come back as a cow or something in their next life. Preferably not one of these "contented cows" that live in pastoral bliss here in California that pull pranks on humans, but a real cow raised almost entirely in confinement who's udders are bursting with milk most of the time because of the way they have been overbred. Clearly Islamic extremist are nuts, and they have know knowledge of God. I feel it necessary to re state this. If Bush were a more popular President than he is he could exercise some of his political capital and go after the terrorists. I'm sure India has the world's sympathy. It really is time this sort of violence be brought to an end with international cooperation.
They say that the average wedding in America costs $28,000. That's what a confortable house cost forty years ago. For a lot of people even today that's a whole year's income. I guess I don't see the point in such an expensive wedding when it's probably going to end in divorce. Divorce seems to be a birth right of the rich. The richer you are and the more famous you are the more you're likely to get a divorce. Having some corporation sponser your wedding to me seems the height of tackiness. What must the Russians and the Chinese be making of this news that we in America are so crass we have corporations sponsor our weddings? Of course Paul Mc Cartney was criticized for not having an ante nuptual agreement with Heather. Rather than be critized he deserves praise for not doing this. I'd like to know when they're going to get around to eliminating "till death do us part" from the ceremony. What I find most obscene is the way the Catholic Church deals with marriages that don't last. They have them but they end the marriage by annulment and not divorce. To me any marriage annuled for any other reason than fraud or incest is an abomination tword God. You are in essence calling the innocent person a liar. As such by seeking an annulment you yourself are breaking the commandment by bearing falst witness against your neighbor. You know what I think about no fault divorce laws. I think they are immoral and ought to be eliminated. But I know they won't be.
Apparently the book "Silent Coup" is about John Dean. I baught the book sometime around seventeen years ago but I guess I never got around to reading it. The only thing I remember about the book was it said that Bob Woodward wasn't who he claimed to be. The book supposedly claims John Dean is the primary cause of Watergate. John Dean sued over this book for years in the early 1990's. Mike Wallace was about to interview the author on his show, but when he realized what a liar he was he called John Dean instead to interview him. John Dean never profitiered from Watergate parlaying the incident into some high or low political. Instead John Dean went into business to earn an honist buck. The myth of the right is that all of the whistle blowers of watergate like Mark Felt are only in it for the money. What Dean observed was people who were considered fringe characters in his day 35 years ago such as Gordon Liddy are now considered main stream by the Right. The last thing Liddy was doing was telling people how to murder A T F agents on his radio program. John Dean was shocked at how regimented the Republican Congress was during the Clinton impeachment trial. My only complaint is that they didn't include Whitewater, Travel Gate, or Rose Law Firm in the proceedings along with Monica. I didn't know that Clinton had something like 62% popular support even at the height of the impeachment hearings. Now John Dean is writing a book on the Bush Adminestration. He says they may not be Fasciests but they are the clossest thing to it. This is a read I am looking foreward to. I guess Bush people have in common being unusually bull-headed. Nobody can tell them anything. Just how old is John Dean now anyway?
I want to talk about the morality of the real Jesus Christ, the one who actually lived. Unlike the Christians of today who believe the louder and longer and more empty headed your prayers are, the more spiritual you will look in the eyes of others. Jesus said to go into your closet and pray to your father in secret. Classic Christianity teaches that we are all Brothers in Christ and children of God. Fundamentalists prefer tallying the people destined to go to Hell. Jesus said to pray for God's will to be done. According to the K F I jock, God has predestined all from the beginning so his will is "locked into" happening from the foundation of the earth. The real Jesus suggests that what happens on earth is not necessarily God's will and that it can be changed. Jesus saw the Kingdom of Heaven as something that men will bring about on earth. He didn't see it as a place, but as a state of being. Jesus said to forgive others if we are to expect forgiveness. This puzzled me. Am I to forgive Charles Tex Watson for the Tate - LaBianca murders. I'm not even qualified. Jesus gives us hints what he meant. He said "Whatever you mete out to others will be dealt back to you". George Harrison sang "Whatever you do will come back on you". Jesus said "By the standard you judge, so shall you be judged. Jesus said to ask and it will be given unto you. He didn't say "Ask, but if it's denighed and you don't accept that you are spiritually inferior". He said knock and the door will be opened. He said to seek and you will find. He said blessed are the pure at heart and those who hunger and thirst for rightiousness for they will be Satisfied. They will see God. He didn't say "Except if you're a Hindu or a Moslem", either. He meant everybody. As to the sincere - - some teachers say that Christianity is like dialing up a phone number or a security code. If you're one diget off you don't get in to see the Man. Jesus asked one man, "Why do you you call me good? Nobody is good except God alone". Jesus also said "Call no man on earth Father. Jesus also taught, as to Bhudists and Hindus, "Narrow and hard is the road that leads to salvation, and few there are that find it". Salvation is a path, not a magic formula or a security code. St. Paul said "Work out your own salvation". I think most people instinctively know all these teachings, but I feel it necessary to remind you of them because there those people out there in Evangelical land, who would rob you of your faith. Finally, Jesus said to become as a young child. One thing about children is they aren't embarrased to ask questions. Children learn from experiance. Above all children GROW, which shows that religion isn't a stagnent thing. And when children are lied to they get madder at the teller of a lie than adult would. Children are the fastest to spot hypocricy. Above all, children live in "The Now". Meditate on this truth now.
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