Thomas Sowell nails liberalism to the wall. Pass the darts.

Thanks to a very nice birthday gift of some book credits for Audible I'm no longer dithering about thinking I should be dead, and henjoying reading, meaing listening, to books again.  Another book by Douglas Murray and Thomas Sowell's the Vision of the Anointed, are taking turns entertaining me.  Well, depressing me too.

The Vision of teh Anointed is a fairly old book but it's awfully relevant right now.  Liberaism is lieralism wherever you find it, and that's what Dowell means by "the vision of the anointed," the views of liberalism, the aointed bieng the way liberals think of themselves as appointed over everybody else to determine how to run the world.  He wrote another book on gthe same subject, A COnflict of Visions, that I was trying to get through bewfore I got this owne, and this one is a lot easier to read and covers a lot of the same ground.  It kind of romps along whackig down liberal ideas right and left with a welath of facts and statistics and mountains of common sense.    I guess you can't whack much with a mountain can you.  Oh well.

Actually, probably Sowell could whack with a mountain, twirl it over his head even and bring it crashing down on a liberal idea with barely any effort.   Yep, the superman of the war between the visions.

Why on earth do we have to put up with this insanity?  Why cat't we get rid of this utter stupidity?  It's ruining the world.  But it s purveyors are so smugly convinced of their rightness and the moral inferiority of their opponents we can't get past the sheer selfrighteous arrogance of their posturing.

Swowell contrasts what he calls the tragic view with the view of the anointed.  the tragic view is realistic, the anointed's view is sheer imaginarary lunacy.  You gotta read it, I can't do it justice.  They are always setting out to right some wrong in society, just as it has been bgetting better as Sowell points out, and always make it worse and deny that thyey anmajkemake it worldse.  Racism had just about disappeared and they'ver been treating it as a huge problemaem that tneeds their tender ministrations to make it go away. for instance.  Or the crime rate, or poverty, etc etc.  Whatever they decide is a problem they set out to cure it and make it ten times worrse.  You've got to read it.  

I've If I get my thoughts beter orgaized maybe I'll come back and say more.

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Trump and Pope Leo

 Pope Leo keeps saying thigs against the war with Iran that clealy criticize Trump and since this is from the level of a world authority and an authority looked to by milions of Catholics, over a billion, it carries weight, and although I might cringe a little at Trump's willingness to responsd to him as he did, mostly I'm glad that he did, for all the reasons I've often talked about here.  The Popels were once the rulers of the western world, self appointed of course, usurprers of that wrole but overn worse than that of course usurpers of the role of Christ in the world, and still accord themselves the right to rule kings and Presidents of nations.

The horrors of the rulership of the Popes in teh late Middle Ages are just about forgotten in the west and desperately need to be rrestored to the consciousness of today's Christians in particular but eveybody for that matter.  Especially cCtholics.   They murdered true Christians in the millions for refusing to accept Catholic doctrines, calling the true tdoctrines of the Protestant Reformation heresies although they are the ones with the heresies.  The Roman Church is mostly a revival of the pagan religons of Rome, most of which go back to Babylon, all the relgions that are opposed to Christianity, althought Rome also incorporates enough Christian teaching to confuse a lot of people and fool the unwary into accepting them as Christianity, even the foundational Chrsitainity of the West.   

We've forgotten the Protestant Reformation, even most Protestant Churches have rorgotten it.  the Reformation restored the true Chrsitainity that had been lost under the Roman usurpation, threw out their paganisms and brought back the pure gospel.   These days even Protestant leaders bow to Rome, some I mean, there are still a few who know the truth and kjnow that the Pope is an imposter.   Unless the truth is rediscovered the false Church of Rome is going to reclaim its power in the world and that means a renewed Inquisition against those who oppose them.  Inquisition means murder and torture of dissidents.   One thing that is very clear if you know anything about Roman dioctrine over the centuries is that they strongly oppose the concwepts of freedom of religion, freedom of Speech and all our individual freewdoms because they maintain that only Rome has the right to determine the truth and everybody else must obey.  Nboody thinks of that anywmore and probably doesn't believe it when I say it here iether.  

People nbeed to learn some history, a lot of history.  I recently reread a couple of books maybe everyone else should read, at least Dave Hunt's A Woman Rides the Beast, which is all about the history of the Roman power in the world./    H Grattan Guinness's Romanism and the Reformation is another that does that same work.  The end times theology of Guinness isn't to be trusted in my opinion bnut the portrait he paints of the Roman Church is very good.Hunt' end times vision excludes the idea of a Pope as the final Antichrist, which I think is a big mistake, and I've argued here that he must be a Pope for many reasons.  If some other figure has a name or title that convincigly adds up to 666 that would convince me that it imight not have to abe a Pope but that's all that would do it becaue the  numver is too compellingly embdded in a Latin title of the Pople in my opinion to allow for any better derivation of it to come along.

Trump should definitely reject the churzpah of the Pople in his pronouncements about what he does as President.  I would hope that American Catholics would also realize that the Pope should ot be obeyed in such a conflict, but of course the problem in America has always been that Catholics could choose what a Pope says over what our laws and leaders say.  That is why many people were upset at the thought of John F DKenney's becoming President, that he would represent the Pope against our institituions.  And it certainly did happen that way in the Middle Ages when papal decreses could turn a whole population of Catholic subjects of European kings against their king and force the king to give in to tthe Pople.  We are historically a Protestant nation but thgat may not guarantee that Americans would have the wisdom to reject a papal decree if one came down.  

I couldn't hear what the Pople said in response to Trump, I've tried to get a source I can hear but haven't yet found one.  All I can make out is something about the gospel and not being a polictical figure or something liketh at.  Well, the Pope as a matterof fact IS a political figure.  The Vatican is a sovereign nation unto itself and has that standing among the other nations of the world.  As for tyhe gospel, Jesus preached to individuals.  Only individuals can be saved, not nations.  The leader of a nation in this fallen world has an obligation to the citizens of that nation to protect them against other nations that would harm us, and against immigrants who would infiltrate us from within and harm us that way, which is another policy of Trump's, his polcity of deporting immigrants, that the Pople ha objected to.   Trump's job as President is pto protect the nation and the gospel does not apply to that understtaking.  That  The gospel isn't even rightly presached in the Catholic Church.  Catholics really don't know hot wo to be saved.  The principles of the Reformation have been denounced by Romae as heresides, and cursed as heresies to be shunned, those principles by which a person can be saved, but to Roman they are heresies so the average Catholic doesn't believe in the very truths that would save him or her.    Catholics who think they are saved  need to rethinik it and get out of the so cLLED CHURCH OF rOME WHERE TEHQYy cannot be saved.

Anhywahy, certainly we should treat a wrold leader with common respect, but truth ius truth and as Jesus disciples said when it was demanded of them that they obey the authorities and not preach the truth to the people, we must obey God aND NOT MAN.          The gospel does not apply to a national leader, but it does apply to individuals and Catholics are in real danger of missing eternal life because they are not taught the true gospel in their paganized Church.  

It is alarming to me that someone like J D Vance has become a Catholic.  There are certainly a lot of good patriotic Catholics in America, but is their allegiance going to stick with America or if challenged by a Poplee go against America.  that's a real caadanger, but besides that they are not saved and we were once a Protestant nation and the more we can do to reclaim that earilier status the better.  When a Pope is invited to speak in our Congress that is a travesty , a horror, a treatchery, and if we knew our history as we should the whole nation would have risen in outrage against that when Pelosis and Baynor did it and then when Pope Francis was invited later.  as well.    We need to wake up.

By the way if the Pople is concerned about people being killed in a wayr  he ought to consider that that is the reason Trump is doing what he is doing, trying to prevent the death of milions by a nuclear bomb and a much worse war by intervening now before it is too late.  

 esides, the idea that the head of the Church that tortued are murdered millions for the crime of disagreeig with them is almost laughale.

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Try that one again.  Besides, the idea that the head of the institution that murdered and tortured millions for the crime of disagreeing with him cares about what happens to people in this ar now is almost laughable.

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Friday

Well, Leo answered Trump, saying "Blessed are the peacemakers" to jutify his own position and accusing Trump of using religion to justify iliitary action or somethig like that.  I can't figure out what he thinks amounts to his using religion but anyway.  

The mailn roblem is that Trump is  pursuing a just war on behalf of innocents threatene by a malicious aggressort, and even Catholic doctrine promotes a just war as a righteous thing to do, although Pope Leo dodesn't seem to knowabout that or care if he does.  Or maybe he's just i that mode where he must claim his papal infallibility and can't back down, I don'tkknow.

then Turcker Carlson called Trump the Antichrist.  Wow.  Mockeing God or putting himself in the place of God or something like that?  Wow.  That is exactly what the Pope does, that's the definition of the papacy in many a Catholic declaration.  That's why people need to get more acquainted with history.  The Poppe puts himself in theplace of God Himself, Christ Himself, that's on their books.  The doctrine of the Inquisition is also still on their books, nevr rescinded, and in fact is still practiced out of sigh in tsome third world Catholic countries, such as in parts of South America where indigenous Indian tribes are persecuted for refusing to become Cathlic.  I reported on one such story on my Cahtholicism blog a few years ahgo.    Also on their books is something like a hundred anathemas, meaning curses, abainst Protestant doctrines, none of that having been rescinded either.  They are a lot more ciiliczed about it than Islam, but rally when it comes down to the root of it all they have the same attitude toward the rst of the world, tht they and only they have a right to have any say in anything in this world.  And that means killing h opposition is often caLLED FOR.  Or torturing them for their own good, which is a catholic thing I don't think the   Islamiosts are into, I mean otnot for thei good of the victim anyway.

Sean Hannity and his Producer Linda were jokiing around about going to the perarly gates on his show a couple days ago, she saying she didn't think they'd let her in and Hannity saying he'd vouch for her.  They were joking but she's a cATHOLIC AND HE GREW UP A cATHOLIC ALTHOUGH     hw'a now going to a Protestant Church as I under stand it.  Anyway, although it was jokking around it's so not what slavation is it makes me wonder if they have any clue at all how a person gets saved and I suspect not.  By now Sean shoujld but it doesn't sound like he does either.

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Cancer and the plant based diet

 I hear of people dying of cancer who are doing chemotherapy and have a short time to live and I want to scream at them that maybe they can csave themselves if they go a compleely dirrect direction.  Remember I said MAYBE, because I can't promise anything but I've been reading Christ Wark for some time off and on and I'm convinced that he kept his cancer from recurring by sticking to a raw plant foods diet.  On his website, CHiris Bwea Cancer.com I think, which is also the title of his book, Chris Beat Cancer, I can't type it straugight , sorry, anyway he has interviewed many cancer survivors who discovered their own plant based route to ridding themselves of the disease.  

Many diferent cancers have been successfully treated by some version or other of this diet, but that doesn'tmena there aren't some it wouldn't work for, or in some cases be too late for it to work, or that all versions of the diet will work either.  But the anecdotal evidence is very strong, and his book backs up wihis website with lots of statistics about the effects on cancer cells of different kinds of foods.

The mainstay of this diet is carrot juice, a half gallon a day taken in eight ounce doses througouthgt thte day, though I read one case of a woman who did it on forty oucnces a day and skilpped most of the rest of the diet Wark recommends which is a lot of raw rebevgetables.  

He does , or did, the half gallon of carrot juice every day, plus two huge salads of raw vegetables and greens, and a smoothie of mostly berries which are also highly evffective against cancers.  Carrot juice, cruciferous vegetables like vroccoli, cauliflower and red cabbage, plus raw spinach and other greens and kale, plus blueberies and strawberries, are the big ones, but lemons an crambnberries are also big, in fact cranberry shoujld be put above the others.  All this is in his book, from about chapter eight through ten.

I've never done tthis so it's pretty cheeky of me to be making such a big deal out of it.  All I can say is it I had a way to do it this is what I woulds do if I found I had cancer, and when I say if I had a waY, IT'S     very labor intensive.  Cleaning and trimming in juicing carrots is a LOT of wqork, and just washing and chopping vegetables takes time too.  I've done both for periods of time even without cancer as a reason for it and it just wears me out.

Chris Qark  was inspired by books and testimonies of other cancer survivors and fitness teachers and health clinics.  Carrot juice is big with all of them by the way.  

It does need research if you want to convince yourselvf,, it's not something to takeanybody's word for, and that takes time unfortunately, which you don't have if you've only been given a short time to live.   And I think it's somewhere in Wark's book that eating this way can interfere with chemotherapy so unfortunately it isn't something you can just do together , or at least not without some conflit.  

I personally knew a man who kept his prostate cancer at bay for something like twenty years just by drinking carrot juice.  I didn't know him all that well but everyone in town knew him, it was a small town and you'd see him frequently at the market with a cart loaded with carrots.    I don't know what else he did, if anything, all I know is that he rank a prodigious amount of carrot juice.  

Cooking the foods is OK too by the way, although Wark was sold on the raw regime.  Just stuff yourselvf with vegetables however you can manage to do it, lots of them cooked or raw, whatever you can tolerate, and although Wark is a purist who wouldn't eat anything else I gather that some people did find on a generatlly healthy diet of meats and carbs along with the vwgetables though the veggies were emphasized.

Wark has one story in his book I particularly enjoyed, in chapter ten I think.  A Greek man living in America got diagnosed with terminal lung cancer at the age of sisty six in the seventies and decided to move back to his home on a Greek island to die among family and friends.  He'd been given hnine months to live as I recall.  They all grow gardens on this island so he sgtarted one too.  He spent a lot of time with his friends, eating with them and dancing the Greek dances and all that, and he started going to church again too.  Nine months came and went and he was no where near dying but doing just fine and kept on doing what he was deoing indefinitely.  In fact he olived another thirty years and ddidn't tie until he was ninety six.   Don't you like that story?  Oh and although his diet was mostly plant based and came out of gardens of all his friends, they also occasionally had fish and meat, just not very often mostly because it's expensive, and they drank a lot of coffee and wine which Chris Wark thinks is a bad idea for cancer sufferers, which it probably is as a general thing but the point of all this is that there are many different ways to do this diety.  Just adding a lot of vegetables seems to be the kley, but surely other factos are important in different cases too.

So when I hear of people dying of cancer and I know they are not going to be told that diet ccould help and that they are going to have to suffer the oisons of the usual cancer treatments which in themselves would kill you if their dosage weren't carefully controlled, I want to scream, no no no, at least TRY this.  Shovel it in , shovel in those vegies.  Get a juicer and gulp down taht carrot juicew.

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Out of sorts

 Today I turned 84 and I'm not dead.  I haven't had any more portentousthoughts or dreams or images.  I'm sort of disapointed.  I've run out of things to occupy me, things I want or need or should do.  With nothing much to do I see no reason to be here at all.  I'm doing nobody any good.  I was really hoping those might realy be portents of death.  I don't usually get images of death coming into my head like that, it ought to mean something, but whateer it means apparently it didn't mean that I'm about to die.  Not immediately anyway.   I got the usual phohne alls, a few cards in the mail and slipped to my door.  That's nice but I dn't deserve anyone's attention.  I stay holed up liike a hermit?  A mole?  Holed up anyway.

I know the nation is under judgmetn and I know I have an obligation to get that maessage at least written down.  I can' do much more than that.  If Elon Musk wanted to finance the effort I could mayb e have a few billion printed messages droped across the country from an airplane or something like that, but all I can do is write it here and if anyone sees it, especially someone who wants to spread the word further.  hooray.  But that's really all I can do.    I'm still hoping for Trump's efforts to save us abbut if we are under god's judgment I know it can't accomplish what we'd all like it to accomplish.  They who hate you will rule over you, God said to the erring Israelites, and He could be saying it to us now.  We see them gathering around us, sleeper cells and all that, for years now, and nothing is stopping it.  trump is working on it but not directly and anyway the only thing that would take care of the problem , if anything can at lthis late date, ias repentance from evdrything the nation has done to deservie it, confesion and repeaentance, doing away with the offense that is bring ging down God's wrath on us.

If I had ayobe to share my interest in creationist issues that would be a reason to tay alivew, but I don't.

Somethign g Bret Weinstein said recently hit me as something I could answer here but it's just a side issue and I'm not fired up about it.  He said how the idea of the Jews regarding themselves as God's chosen people bothers him because every people's God regards them as a special people.  And I just want to say that's not true.  He is just assuming it.  there isn't anything in any of the religions that I know of that even hints at a chosen people in that vague sense or certainly the sense in which the biblical God made the Jews His chocsen.    It's uique.  He made a covenant, an actual legal agreement, with Abraham, to make of him a great people and make them a blessing to all nations.    It's not just having a people of His own He treats as special at all, He has a purose for the raising up of a special people.  

He is the one true God and He wanted a people to represent Him to all the peoples of the earht, learn  His waysa, learn about Him, learn His minsd and His intentions, obey His laws and lteach them to all their generations and to other people.  

AND, to be the people from whom would come the Messiah, the Saior He promised to send to the world as far back as Adam and Eve, to save the world from the sin and death that their act of disoebedience brought upon all their descendants.

Of course Bret doesn't beinlieve in God so he feels he can say anything he wants if it fits into his evolutionary lens worldview, and of course the idea that all religions are the same at bottom is just standard glop from that oint of view.  All are chosen, the Jews not chosen in any special way at all.

Even though I think I want to die I'm not really depressed.  Just sort of fidgety and out of sorts whatever that means.  

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It's now a Happy Message but it's the truth and shouldn't be ignored: we are under God's judgment

 It isnot fun havig to write that the natio is under God's judgment.  I dread it, I try to avoid it, but I know it is the truth and avoiding it puts me at odds with god.  Writng about it probably puts me at odds with ltos of people I'd raher not be at odds with, some good solid conservatives, but I don't want to be the kkind of coward who wants the praise of men at the expense of god's praise.  If He is bringing judgmetn against America, and I know He is, it has to be said because there are things that can be done and unfortnatrely they don't always coincid witht e things the conservatives are doing right now, even though in a way the effort is to do something in roughtly the same direction.  That's the hard part.  Supporting Trum p is dsupporting a lot of right things, righteous thihngs opposed to evil thihngs, things that cry out to be done to protect the country.    The problem is that if those evil things are coming against us because we are under God's judgmetn for our sins as a nation then we aren't going to be able to succeed.  You can't fight God and win.  He is giving us mercy,  lot o f mercy and I inhope He continues, I hope He'll let us win the midterm elections, I hopep He'll let us keep Trump and let Trump continue to succeed.  But if we are under His judgmetn and we are not directly dealing with that fact, and we aren't, then we are going to continue to be under His judgment and all the effotts to right the wrongs can only have a very limited success and always be on the verge of being defeated.  We could very well be deaefeated becausae we are under God's judgmetn and nboody is taking that into account.  

The evils arrayed against us are real evils.  Real threats by real evils.  Islamic jihad is a real threat by a real evil ideology.  An Islamist nation is a real threat based on ahtat evil ideology, an ideology that wants to rule the world for its evil relgion.  Of coure all these evildoesers thingk they are in the right, they think they are the righteous ones.    Nine eleven was  God's judgmetn on us, a judgment we ignored so that's why it has continued , why Islam has only grown in favor and power over us sincew then, but that certainly does not make the perpetrators right and righteous, it just makes tem toolds of God to carry out His judgment against us.  They will be judged in turn.  When He broughtthe Assyrians and the Babylonians against His people Israel they were His tools of judgmetn against them and they did great damage to Isarael, but that didn't make them right in God's eyes, just tools for His puprposes.    There was nothing right about the flying of planes into the twin towers but nevertheless it was decreed by God as judgment against a sinning nation.

A nation that started out strongly Christain.  That makes a differentce.  GThe more you are given the greater your resonsibility.  We were once strong representatives of the living God, the God of the Bible, but over the years we degenerated until in the last half cewntury or so we must clearly be seen as having made ourselves Gods enemy in many ways.  Atheists think that's wonderful of course but then they are puaart of why we are being judgmed.   Supposedly we are growoing out of religion, it's just an oldfashioned or primitive idea once useful to the human race perhaps but fundamentally false and we can only benefit and become materrure human beings by giving it up.  

The problem is that that is falsek.  God is real, as real now as He ever was and He stil acts as He's always acted toward human beings.  It's all there in the Bible for us to learn from.   NOtrhing happens withiout God.  If evil things happens that can't happen without God just as good things happen because of Him.  Hes omnipotent, H'es omnisicent, He's eomnipresnet.  Nothiong happens withouit Godl  Even the evil that comes against us.  Satan may be its immediate agent, or proximate cause, or evil human beings, jihadists or God haters or America haters or atheists or whatever, but they are still all in God's power and not able to act unless He is willing that they act according to their own motives.  Yet in the end those with evil motives will be condemned for their evil motives.  Being a tool of God's dcertainly doesn't convfer righteousness on a person.  YToy u still have to repent and become a follower if you are to be saved.

Scripure says, I know it is in the prophet Amox but I couldn't get the right address from asking Alexis, just somewhere in Amos it says, "If there be ewvil in a city will not the Lord have done it?'  Yw YYes that is in the Bible.  God did the evil if there is evil in a city, and that scripture certainly describes the evil of the attack on the WTC, evil in a city and won't God have done it?

There is another scripture verse, in Isaeiah somewehre, in the fiftyies I think, chapters I mean, maybe the forties, where God says and I can't remember the first part, He does good or soemthing like that but I'm sure that's not the workdding, and evil:  I Am God, I do good and I do evil.  Somethig like that.    God is in charge.  Somewhow the Church doesn't keep that in mind or make the use of it that should be made of it.   Evil comes upon us because of sin .  ththere is no other reason for it.  Jesus could not die becauase He was perfectly righteous.  If you are perfectly righteous you cannot die.  Deahth is the wagews of sin.  Sin is why we experiencew all kind s of unpleasant things, not all physical but cerainly the pysical pains and injuries and calamities and death as well.  the wages of swin sin is death.  That 's what it says.    By one man sin entered thw wrold and death by sin.  GThat was Adam.  But by one mad now we can have eternal life if we acknowledge His sacrificewd, His death in our place to pay for our sins, then and then only can bwe be saved from our sins.  There is no other way.  Sin brings calamity anbd death.  Someone had to pay the price we owe, take on HImslef the calamity anbd death that we owe for our sins.  Jesus did that so that we don't have to.   

This happens to be ouhow reality is structured.  We live in a moral medium as it were, a soup, an atmophere, we are encased in it, it rules us every moment though we have no sense of it.  Righteous ness brings belessings, sin brings death or cursings.  That's what God tells us throygygh Moses too when He gave Moses the tablets of the Law on Mount Sinai.  Of course we enlightened aAMericans have gthrown them out, torn them down adn rid ourselves of such primitive stupidities, but they go on jdugmeing us nevertheless.    They should be posted in every institituion of the country, and eveyone should know them.  God said in giving the Law to His people the Israelities, that He was giving them a choice between belssing and cursing, life or death.  Obey the Law and you will be blessed, otherwise you will be cursed.

  Well, we are living iin a fallen world, a world damaged becaUZE OF  the sin of our first pparents, and we ourselves have inherited their sin nature as a result of that Fall.  We therefore have astorong tendency rtoward disobeying God.  As one result of the Fall we lost the faculty that they had had before the Fall, that was the means by which they were able to communicate dirctly with God.  Without that faculty it is as if God doesn't sexist at all because we have no way of apprehending Him sincew we lotst that faculty.   So we sin and sin and sin and sin.  nAnd if we rebelliously reject the whole idea of God we may si even more than the natural person does without any rebellious motive.  We are sinners and we earn all ikinds of calmaitieis and death  by it.   

And over the eyars America has become a place where some sins are perretty much a way of life.  Divorce for instance.  God concdemns diveroce.  Pornography.  Yes ALL KINDS OF SEXUAL SINS.  aBORTION BY WHICH MILLIONS ARE MURDERED VEVERY YEAR.   gOD hears their blood crying out from the ground as He heard the blood of Abel.   The travesty of same sex marriage is a big one.  We just put that on the record of national sins quite recentlyu.  It's bringing more of those evil things against us that we are trying to fight because  but can't fight forever als lon as we do nothing to correct the sins.   

We are under God's judgmetn.  Treum p is a mercy from God but Trump can't overturn God's judugmetn.  That takes  apisirtual change of heart on the part of a great number of Americans.   Read the prayer the prophet Daniel give in SDaniel Nine.  He repentsfor the sins of Israel that brought on their judgmetn of exile in Babylon.  He repents for his own sins fand for the sins of the nation, he acknowledges the sins and asks for mercy.  That's the least Chrsitsnians should be dowing.  doing.  I'm typing a lot of afalse letters, sorry.  My findgers seem to ahve some other message i mind.    But I am still trying to talk about God's jdugmetn and what we can do about it.  Ideally we would trun back our laws that are the legalization of sin against God, but at least we can pray and confess and repent of whatever our own part in them my be or may have been.

Judgment is deaht and edestruction.  It couldn't be happening to us if we were in the right wiyh God.  Obviously we are not. Obviously we have a long list of sins by now that are bringing itg down on us.

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Rapture or Death

Qhen I was a child my family would take a trip to Canada every soummer where my father had grown up.  He would get us up at four A M becue he didn't want to spentd two nights on the road.  On one tripp he took a diferent route than usual I guess so we could have some varied scenery, a winding foad through mountains which passed alittle tow called Bend, Oregon.  As we approached the town I was looking out the window down into the valley and it was bathed in a special light at that time of day and sruck me as something otherworldly, heavenly.  We never went that route again bugt that lovely sight stayed with me.  

A couple nights ago I dreamed about it, being on that road and looking down at that town from the road.  It wasn't as beautiful as I remember it in reality but I knew it was the same place and I asked whoever was driing the car if we were on the Bend road and he said yes.  

 PRETTY     idea of what Heaven might be like.

Then I've had other klittle death thoughts happen too lately.  The saong "I'll Fly Awqa" which I never sang in any church I've been in but know from somewhere or ogther, came up when I aswas asking Alexa to search for some old folk songs.  W  Some glad moring when this life is over, I'll flay awa, to a place where I will live forevr, Ill fly away.  

Then about an hour ago a German song I haven't thought of in years came into my mind, one of those "art sons" I think, Bist Du bei mir, geh ich mit freude, zum sterbe und szu meine ruhsh.    With You beside me I will go with joy to death and to my rest.  

I guess I'm writing this in case it's a portent and I'm going to die soon but I have no other reason to think I am.  Except the usual tiredness and aches and pains.  Could live for years with those things.  But who knows.  So if I die those are happy ways to  die and I'd want to leave on that note.

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listeneed to more of Rob Carter and have to correcxt a mispimpression.  He actually says something pretty much like what I'm saying about isolation of a small gene pool being the way groups tget characteristics that differentiate them from other groups.