Kooks and Spooks

A minister friend of mine called me recently and related the details of the funeral of a man we both knew. Since I cannot see obituaries, and I hear from very few people, I did not know he had died.

This man came from a family of wealth, owners of a large farming implement and hardware distributorship. After college, his brother ran the business, and because of his efflorescent personality, he was used strictly in a public relations manner, calling on stores on the east coast, just staying in touch and keeping their business. Since this only took a few days each month, the rest of his time was spent in doing things which he enjoyed. You can say, without fear of contradiction, that he was a sportsman: hunting, fishing, golfing, season tickets to everything at the university, attending all national play-off games. He was a womanizer, adulterer, a country club “good ol' boy”, he had a repertoire of dirty jokes that could not be surpassed. He never went to church, proclaimed to be indifferent about the entire matter. My friend was his wife and two children's pastor. His wife was a remarkable Christian woman, rearing two fine children by herself.

He fell dead on the golf course, first stroke on a Monday morning. The wife, the brother could have played the hypocrisy part and had the funeral at their church, but they did not...the funeral was at the funeral home, running over with outstanding people (like the atheist Robert Ingersoll's obituary in the paper, no scriptures, no singing). An expensive casket, he, dressed in his hunting outfit, his golf trophies displayed on the end of the casket, three large, blown-up pictures attached to casket just above him. One of him with a large fish which he had caught in a contest, one of him on a golf course, holding a golf trophy, one of him in his hunting outfit, holding his gun beside a fallen deer. Before and after the service was his favorite Sinatra tunes, a recording of his alma mater song, a recording of the navy hymn (since he had serviced two year in the Navy) were played. Her minister, my friend was used just in a prayer. One of his Unitarian pastor golfing buddies was used for the eulogy, of course, he talked about universal restoration, that he was now on the golf links of heaven. A totally likable man, but totally lost.

There is nothing the human mind enjoys more than deception. The first thing Jack Lulanne gave up when he started on his health quest was sugar. Sugar is the most addictive substance known to man and can destroy the body. We live in a world of diabetes, so much sugar comes from the pulpit, “everyone who dies is going to heaven.” The older I got, the more I realized how little I knew when young. I had studied subliminal perception, been exposed to Chinese indoctrination and mind control during the Korean conflict. One night, in the officer's quarters of the Army hospital, where I was on staff, an officer who had been a prisoner of the Chinese in Korea, began to throw things at the television. He said, “this thing is following exactly the mind control tactics which we swallowed in Korea.” He said, “they have captured every form of mind control and now use it on television to control the American people.”

This week, at a lavish dinner put on by Obama to honor the Chinese premier, a Chinese pianist, played the victory song from the Korean war. The song “My Homeland” portrays American troops as “jackals”. One foreign guest said later that “it was supposed to be an insult to Obama and his Americans, but they were too stupid to be insulted. They were oblivious to what was happening.”

We know that from 1950 to around 1970, MKULTRA (ultimate mind control) was used by American forces in military situations. Many of us were probably subjected to it, mind control about many things. It was far more effective with trauma, those who had been wounded, and we have learned that it is far more effective with a nation that is wounded such as the Oklahoma City bombing, the 9/11 episode. Almost like hypnotism, psychologists and psychiatrists unable to disassemble it's effects, we have mind control in the country involving everything, which has resulted in political correctness, an almost total control by government and media.

No one has been able to convince me yet that a nation that has come so far has fallen so fast, that we have lost all of our values. We learn that 90% of all 10^th grade students have experimented with alcohol. College students spend more money on alcohol than books. 60% of all college girls have STDs (sexually transmitted diseases), 1/3 of all American college students use marijuana. Those my age have seen America change completely in our lifetime, we live longer, the American man can expect to leave to age 77, females to age 79. Just 100 years ago, the life expectancy was only age 40.

The home has become a filling station, changing and filling. The church, just a habit. The baptistry is the least used area of the church. We say we want consistency, honesty, truth, but in every way, every day, we chose deception. Perhaps the greatest deception is in music, man is a music receptor. King David was 62 when Solomon was born, the Old Testament is filled with David's music, words and instruments. Solomon, King David's son; the greatest temple in the world was filled with music, Solomon wrote over 1000 songs (1 Kings 4:32).

The failures of this world are simply a failure of education, we must learn that students aged 10-20 live for music. Classical music is not popular with the young, starting in 1960, it was learned that rock n' roll, beat and words, cause sexual arousal, Elvis, Chuck Berry, the Beatles, leading to drugs and mind control. Bruce Springsteen and others teach rock music as a form of religion. Like the new television program “Skins”, popular in England, exploiting every youthful decadence, nudity, drugs, prostitution, homosexuality, an attempt to make the things which God hates totally acceptable by young people. The greatest words or song for a young person, Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. (Psalm 19:14)