Today 1150 KTLK sounded like it was being taken over by a conservative during the Randy Rhodes show. Did you know the CIA says Castro is going to die next year? Apparently he is morbidly ill and near death and dying either of pancriatic, stomach, or colon cancer. People are apparently dancing in the streets at the mere thought of Castro's death. You know, I'm still wondering whether or not Illian Gonsolaz was brainwashed by his mother and grandmother and other relatives in this country. I've heard reports that Ilian's grandmother used to routinely sexually molest him. Ilian seems happier now that he's back with his father in Cuba. Several years ago I heard that Castro was on the verge of becomming a born again Christian. The KTLK DJ seemed to portray Cuba as more backward than it in fact is. The littericy rate for kids is actually quite high in Cuba. Someone needs to tell the host that Cuba is no longer a Soviet sattalite. Apparently according to this host, George Bush has plans to invade Cuba this year, but the only thing that worries them is that he says the Soviet missiles in that country from 1962 are still there and that's why we havent invaided before. I don't believe any of this. Even is Castro dies next year, which I doubt, his brother Raul seems to have the government well in hand. It was Harry Truman who first said that America made a mistake not giving Cuba aid in 1959 before they asked for it and before they turned to the Soviets.
I don't trust Rudolph Juliani now that he's running for President. I don't see the appeal of the man myself. He was famous for a few brief weeks after the 9 - 11 crisis but come election time that event will be seven years in the past. Hopefully Al Qaida won't be as big a threat them if the democrats in congress straighten out the mess in Iraq created by the Bush adminestration. It seems that our presence there has in fact heightened divisions between Shiite, Suni, and Kurd. Personally I'd trust either John Mc Cain or Joe Lieberman any day of the week before I would trust Rudy Juliani to run the country. I've heard he has fasciest tendencies. I don't like the idea that Juliani has chief of the Guardian Angels- - Curtess Sleewah - or whatever his name is. Apparently police beatings are much more comon now in New York than we were led to believe. Curtess likes to joke constantly about "wood shampoos" adminestered by Cops. And Howard Stern adds that the one thing the LAPD did wrong in the Rodney King beatings was that they did it out in the open and not in some private back room. In the first place I don't see how Juliani can possibly get through the Republican primaries. I wouldn't vote for him and I'm still a Republican. He's pro gay; he in favor of extreme gun control, apparently; and he is pro abortion. I don't know where he stands on first amendment rights such as freedom of religion and I'm not sure I want to find out. It would seem that John Mc Cain has had much more hands on experiance at the reins of government. What has Juliani been doing. Going around the country and making speeches? Juliani is all image and no reality, and a fast fading image at that. Hopefully in these two years the democrats will have done more to implement the recomendations of the 9 - 11 commission, and Juliani will be irrelivant.
I find it a disturbing trend today that there is pressure to conform behaviorially. There is a growing near obcession with the biology of the brain, which they say can solve anything from drug addiction, to depression, to homosexuality. If homosexual's brains are different perhaps it's because of the Biblical verse "They receive in their own bodies the penalty for their deeds". God may well have intended that our brains change from year to year but that they do it from the experiances we create for ourselves and the way we condition ourselves. It would seem in this day and age personal responsability is out the windows. I don't need to tell you how disgusted I am with all this obcession over consuming various fats. It seems as if trans-fats have become the new tobacco. Back in August 1997 Rush Limbaugh did a parody on "Big Fat" that was sort of a parody of Big Tobacco, saying one day we would be as obcessed with poor eating habits as we are with smoking. You remember the Stephen King story "Quitters", don't you? Right after they cure the guy of tobacco they begin working on his eating habits. I think we may well be too concerned about certain occupational safty regulations. I realize there are extremes and it's a continuoum, but small businesses are finding themselves increasingly hampered by ISHA regulations. Not only do we have "Equal outcome based education" but we are also trying to declare all problems and tribulations of life as somehow "illegal". Sometimes when a person trips on a step it's nobody's fault but his. It's our business whether we want to sear seat belts or motor cycle helmets, or smoke or eat fast food. When we give Ritilan to our kids we just might be snuffing out some creative genious down the line. Society seems to be having an increasing intollerance for "different" people. In the old days they accepted these "differences" as just parts of peoples' personalities. One thing that bugs me is these psychological "normalcy" tests. They seem to have them for everything and my first impulse upon taking one is to cheat and look in some book to find out what the correct answers are.
Now they are going back to wishing people a Merry Christmas in department stores such as Wall Mart and Macy's. This to me is a good thing. They rightly call it a "Christmas" sale and not a "Holiday" sale. Euphamisums have always driven me nuts anyhow. It's time we just called a spade a spade. I don't want to do anything to styfle people's holiday spirit. It's so rare that we have it anyhow- - we need all the unifying fources we can get be it manger scenes or crosses on top of buildings or spelling out words on signs such as "Noel".
If I actually put out another book people could buy I'd call it God is Dead. Scientists have proved predestination. So the following things are irrelivent or impossible - - Prayer, Maracles, Divine Jealousy, Sin, Personal "testing", Divine intervention into this World, or God "Changing his mind" I'd have all those terms on the back cover or some place. Also with this theology Evolution becomes much more probable than before. Other things I'd bring out in the book would be that it wouldn't be necessary for Christ to suffer and die on the cross because since there is no free will anyhow, God could program us any way he wanted to. One other concept that would be out the window is Chance. The word IF would not exist. Things that happened are certain to happen and there is no way by which Anything could be Avoided in the past or in the future. There is no abstract "Divine ideal". It doesn't exist. People talk about mathematical odds with Evolution. Either something happened or it didn't and you don't think of one in a million, if those are the odds, all you have to worry about is the One, because that's the one that counts- - the one that Actually Happened. (Selah) In terms of an afterlife, this is a fairly simple concept. In Eccliastes it says "The spirit of a man when he dies goes back to God, who gave it (in the first place)" In other words the Afterlife isn't come "New Experiance" but a return to an old one. It's an existance in what we call Eternity where there is no Time as we know it, which the Bhudists call Nirvana. It's indeed an "extinction" of all existance. But have you considered this idea? Even DEATH as we know it has to have Existance. If you remove all "existance in time and space as we know it" not even DEATH can exist. Not only that but when we think of this life (IF we're even able to be conscious of it at all) it will neither be in the past nor in the future but at some point on the "googooplex continuoum". The entire Universe in fact will be just another point in Nowhere. The truth is that God never needs to "test" us, nor put us through any Trials, to somehow "Proove" our worthyness. God is not "Curious"; he knows everything already. If God listened to Lucifer in the testing of Job in the Bible, it was only because he wanted to and NOT because he wasn't sure whether or not Lucifer was right and somehow needed to "find out" for himself. In like manner God didn't need to "find out" whether Abraham would be obediant in sacrificing his son Isac. He knew that already. God doesn't need to test us to "find out how much we can bear". He already knows our breaking points, and if we crack, it is nore his doing than our choice. Some may say "Perhaps if God had intervened in Cain's life sooner and counsiled him, he wouldn't have killed his brother Abel". The one thing God is incapable of doing to the slightest degree is to Change what IS and what MUST BE. In this way there is no sin because there is no other way things could conceivably happen. Few people would argue with the proposition "What God Wills Gets Carried Out". Why would God "Will" something that he knew to a metaphysical certainty would Never Happen? (Selah) With examples like this I would fill my book with the cover title "God Is Dead", and perhaps with a sub title "A new scientifically demonstrated theology for the 21st. Century".
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