Shook Up

Please don't ask me what's on my mind... I'm a little mixed up, but I'm feelin fine (words of Elvis Presley in his song All Shook up) We live in a mixed up world of mixed up values/.

I was sitting across the table at a a civic club luncheon from the pastor of a large baptist church. He was bragging about the expenses of his dog, veterinary bills, food and toys. It cost more for this preacher to feed his dog than I spend on my own food. I said to him, “Is this what our Bible calls “unnatural affection”” ? Of course I knew that the Bible was referring to homosexuality, (Romans 1:26, Leviticus 20:13) I realize that a pet gives unconditional love but, one having traveled the world, having seen so many starving children, I simply cannot understand the money spent on animals.

For instance, an employee, now working for me formerly working for a dog trainer. The owner, trainer of dogs received $50 per hour to train a dog, receives $50 for a dog to spend one half hour in a pool, receives $20 for an hour in the agility yard and orders special beef for the dogs of some owners costing from $5 to $20 per pound. Josh, another employee who, with his wife, spent over $50 per week for dog food for just one dog. I was raised on a farm where our dogs worked for their keep. They were fed table scraps, which they loved but they accepted the responsibility of patrolling the entire farm, keeping all the other animals in line.

In this world of mixed up values, where trainers are paid to discipline dogs but children go without discipline from anyone, where many adults as well as children can never afford to eat meat. God will supply His own discipline. Man is the only animal, with a soul, who knows that he will die.

There are 23,000 nuclear weapons in the word today. Half of these owned by Russia and America. There is no way to determine ownership or trace smaller, suitcase type nuclear weapons. We know that many terrorist groups have them... bought and sold like commodities. The most used terrorist weapon, plastic explosives, C4. Many innocent children, as well as animals will be killed by such.

When Jesus Christ left this earth, He said, “Occupy till I come.” (Luke 19:13) Many of the world's problems would never have appeared if follower's of Christ had heeded this admonition of taking His place, occupying, until His return.

Starting in Egypt, protestors about tyranny, now Egyptian coptic Christians being beaten down in the streets. Protestors in other places finally uprising against Muslim tyrants (Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Saudia, Yemen, etc.) now the popularity of protestation spreading to America. It is called occupying, communists and communist sympathizers, spoiled brats of American largess who do not know what they are doing. Freak show Hippie types, liberals and a few conservatives disgruntled with the world bringing on more rapidly than the world thought possible, acknowledge the corruption of both Wall Street and Washington, DC. Most of these folks are all mixed up, do not know what they are doing, or why. IF they were fit to occupy the shoes of working people, they would not have the time for such protestations.

These protesters and their organizations are financed by George Soros who is trying to buy the world, who made his billions in Satanic enterprises. (buying and selling Jewish humanity in Europe)

The one lesson history has taught us, more than any other, it is better to obey than sacrifice. (1 Samuel 15:22) Rebel liberals know nothing about Hitler killing 50 million attempting to occupy, to change the world. From dumbed-down schools and universities, these rebel liberals learned how to put a condom on a cucumber, but nothing about the history of the republic, capitalism, free enterprise, the honor of work.

Society is falling through our hands like a ripe fruit. It was scary enough for Obama to be elected the first time, a Marxist, Muslim sympathizer without credentials of any type (valid birth certificate, social security number, ethic of accomplishment.) even scarier, after a season of disaster, some still support him. If nothing else, this shows how mixed up people can become. The occupier of the White House, many occupiers in government must be removed.

Comictry

An antiquarian book collector for over 50 years, I have maintained in my home a world class collection of 1^st edition books, magazines and other ephemera which I now sell online. Among the collection, 17,000 old comic books. From civilizations beginnings, once shown in drawings in ancient caves later described in ancient tomes, men have been fascinated-intrigued with differences in one another. In the recesses of the mind, in comic books and other drawings... today even photography and video games. The imagination of men run wild in costume and exploits.

We fantasize about history before the great flood of 5000 BC... Babylon. The first Jew, Abraham, moving 600 miles north, encountering remnants of the civilization of Noah. We know that Cain, first born son of Adam, migrated into Africa... the tribes of Israel migrated from the desert encountering seven civilizations in the promised land. History, warfare, even to this day, marked by man's attempt to bring others into conformity. Most believe that you either master other cultures or other cultures will master you.

At a Medical Museum in Berlin, Germany, Africans recently protested about skeletons, stolen from Namibia during the German occupation of west Africa, studied by the Germans for their differences from Eurasians. They had done the same with skeletons of Aborigines in Australia. Protests occurred when Germans called ;the skeletons THINGS. Amid the music, grand solemnity, words connected with the German gesture toward African differences, the sentiments of the descendants of these people stated that their was no dignity toward the bones which were at one time alive.

This writer has been astounded troubled for years with a lack of privacy and dignity accorded the dead. People at the Vatican were lined up for miles to stare at the dead body of Pope John Paul.

As a totally blind, 100% disabled, service conned medical officer of the Korean conflict. I have been told by others how people stare at me and other disabled in public. At one time, in modern etiquette, it was considered bad manners to stare at anyone any different. WHY WOULD THEIR BE A VIEWING AT ANY TIME ANYWHERE, THE DEAD REMAINS OF A ONCE LIVE, VERY PRIVATE PERSON. You certainly take away their dignity because they cannot look back, have no idea of their appearance to you.

Once, a good friend gave me a tour of his funeral home. He said, “From the time we pick up the body, we show all the privacy and dignity we know how to show to a deceased person. We keep them covered with a sheet throughout the preservation. He, like me, felt that all deceased should have a closed casket with the possible exception of a final look by the family. I have heard of photographing the dead. On the cover of magazines, Princess Grace of Monaco, Emmett Till of Chicago (lynched, started the entire civil rights protest), a spy from National Enquirer paid much money to photograph Elvis in his $8,000 casket (identical to the one in which his mother was buried.) and his photograph on the cover of the magazine.

I was in the nation of Nepal, small village, an old monk had died. Around the clock, the people were celebrating his life, dancing and chanting around the Buddhist temple. I had a small shadow of sight in one eye at the time, enough so I could see what was going on. I was told that it had been several days, the body was decomposing, was asked if I wanted to view him? I do not want to infringe on the privacy of another human being, dead or alive.

In clinical death, the Christian dies once, the unsaved, dies twice, clinical and spiritual. The saved, dying once because born twice, physical and born again as a Christian.

In Hell, there is no light, all darkness. In Hell, no laughter, dancing, music, a horror pit for eternity. Heaven is beautiful, lighted bliss for eternity. I know people who think they will go to Heaven when they die, who never enjoyed worship, God's people on earth. I know those who went to church their entire life, who could not quote one verse of holy scripture... tell you anything about their religious beliefs. The Bible, God's inspired, inerrant word, His love letter to His own, instruction-answer book for everything in life.

The homosexuals number about 3 percent of the American population 0.2 percent gay households, yet the gay agenda, in the media, in the education system dominates the population. 82 percent of all Americans claim to be Christian yet allow this small percentile to dominate their lives, allow such a practice as staring at the deceased, family and friends to persist.

God can forgive any sin, heal any wound. The book of Revelation was not put in the Bible by mistake. God tells us what He thinks of false religions, not doing things His way, after all, He is Sovereign, He is Boss. We cannot sing, as did Sinatra, (I did it my way) and please God. The greatest joy of human existence is preventing sorrow to God because He created us for His joy. Life is not comictry, wild imaginations.