Glass Gloves

Inner Pharisee ?!?!

shohn — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:00:33 +0000

Howdy Ya’ll:

Recent economic and societal conditions have forced many of us into
“harder” times relatively speaking. Perhaps part of this is a movement
from above to force us as a nation, family, and individual to pay
attention to things we have forgotten about (family, children,
spirituality, etc.). I know this has certainly been true for me.

It is not often that I encounter a deeper spiritual interpretation
that is not all “new age” and watered-down, draws from the Bible; is
not “judgmental”, “preachy”, “too churchy”; can be easily understood
by all, etc.

The following audio presentation is one of those rare gems I thought
was worth sharing:

Inner Meaning

Feel free to forward as appropriate - I may have missed a couple.

God Bless,

Shohn

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Almost Better than Bumper Stickers

shohn — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:07:51 +0000

I have a couple of bumper stickers on my car.

One gives an 800 number for those with an unexpected pregnancy. There is also another sticker that says “Silence kills Babies - speak out against abortion”.

This is to send two messages - one gives the person something they CAN do. This is the 800 number.

The other sticker appeals to what seems to be a primarily male mindset that treats a unique genetic sequence, which is formed (read - new life) as the female egg is fertilized by the male sperm, as a piece of tissue. It attempts to shock the reader a bit.

I purposefully chose NOT to put the one that says Abortion is murder, though I believe that to be true. The reason being was not to continually remind mothers who have been conned into that of the guilt that it may bring up.

Here are the bumper stickers (11 hits). You can, of course, choose one less shocking.

Here is another action you can consider:
Rejoice Ministries Billboard

Although, I don’t agree with all their theology and such, much of what they say seems to be spot on.

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1st Peter

shohn — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:36:39 +0000

Well, I had some friends over last night and we did a bible study on 1st Peter Ch 3. Charlene of Rejoice Marriage Ministries sent out a message about 1st Peter Ch 3 this morning as well.

1Pe 3:1 In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;
1Pe 3:2 beholding your chaste behavior coupled with fear.
1Pe 3:3 Whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;
1Pe 3:4 but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
1Pe 3:5 For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
1Pe 3:6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
1Pe 3:7 Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

It has some good stuff in it.

I’ve been trying to work out this Sarah dream business a bit still. I suspect that sometimes that we are given things like this because it is what we need to hear at the time.

Sarah was the princess, meaning daughter of the King. She gave birth to Isaac who gave birth to Jacob and Essau. Mother of Israel. All kinds of directions this could be taken I suppose.

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Would I walk out?

shohn — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:21:02 +0000

The italicized text below is from the online article at http://www.diarmani.com/Articles/Armani/Alternate%20Endings.htm (17 hits)

I find it interesting because as I get to know myself better and work on my problems, I wasn’t sure that if in the face of danger would I be one of the 7 mentioned in the article below, or in the group that walked out. In some respects, I have a similar time with what’s left of my marriage. Who are we really - I suppose we only know when put to the test.

Montreal Massacre: Alternate Endings

By Christopher di Armani

Gamil Gharbi single-handledly changed the face of Canadian gun politics. He became the embodiment of everything that man-hating feminists despise. In their horror and fear they lashed out at every Canadian male, and continue to do so today.

Someone said at the time, “The blood of these fourteen women are on the hands of every man”. Complete and utter garbage, but the national media lapped it up.

But what was the real problem in Montreal that fateful December day? Was it a lack of “gun control”? Not according to the Montreal Coroner Teresa Z. Sourour. She said quite clearly the exact opposite, not that anyone in government or the media noticed.

“The issue of firearms control has intentionally not been addressed. With the unlimited ammunition and time that Marc Lépine (Gamil Gharbi) had available to him, he would probably have been able to achieve similar results even with a conventional hunting weapon, which itself is readily accessible.”
Indeed it wasn’t until 2004, a full fifteen years after the event, that we were finally able to get the government to translate her report into English. (see diArmani.com for Ms. Sourour’s full report. [doc format])

Was it the failure of mental health officials? I doubt it. We did not have “thought police” in 1989 (and thankfully do not today either), and until this event, Mr. Gharbi apparently didn’t exhibit much in the way of abnormal psychology.

Was it the failure of police responding to the scene? Ms. Sourour said yes. I disagree. Sure, they formed a perimeter and sat outside waiting until Gharbi offed himself, but that is not the root cause of the high death toll.
The failure that day was with our manhood. Or more to the point, our lack of one. For thirty years or more, men had been “trained” to be obedient, to do what they’re told, to be more “feminine”, less “manly”.
So they did exactly what the lunatic with the gun said. They abandoned their sisters to a sure and horrific death.

They left the room.

I pray that the faces of those fourteen dead women haunt every single male who did as Gharbi ordered, every single night for the remainder of their spineless lives. They were there when it counted. They could have saved the lives of their fellow students and they chose not to. Shame on them all. They failed the woman, they failed themselves, and they failed Canada.

Let’s imagine, for a moment, two alternative endings to Montreal on December 6, 1989.

Let’s imagine that a single one of those men had the courage to say “No!”

Imagine if he had gathered his thoughts and his courage, and simply stormed Gharbi. Sure, he might have been shot, even killed. But his actions would have showed clear leadership, and surely one or two other men would have joined the battle. Gharbi would have been taken down in the very first classroom, with perhaps three or four wounded or dead.

That’s a far cry from 14 dead & 29 wounded.

But wait! you say, That’s never going to happen! Who in their right mind is going to confront an armed madman in a school shooting?

Nobody!

Are you sure?

Because there are 7 young men at the Thurston High School in Oregon who are living proof you are wrong.
Yes, the young man leading the counter-attack, Jacob Ryker, was shot multiple times. He didn’t let that stop him. He continued on until the man with the gun was disarmed, and he lived to tell about it. Not only that, he was awarded the highest honour in the Boy Scouts of America for his bravery and leadership. (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/08/11/national/main8610.shtml)

Now let’s look at another scenario, one that seems to disturb so many Canadians today.

Imagine our laws were different.

Imagine that, instead of doing their best to disarm every Canadian, our government believed in our inherent right to defend ourselves. Imagine they had the common sense and the decency to promote lawful concealed carry for any law-abiding citizen that can meet the same proficiency with firearms and use of force training as our police officers.

It’s not that difficult a threshold.

Had there been a single law-abiding citizen with a concealed handgun in Montreal’s l’Ecole Polytechnique that fateful day in 1989, the outcome would have been different. It would have been swift and effective.

Gharbi pulls his rifle out of his duffel bag and points it at someone. He might even get a shot or two off. Then some man or woman with the foresight (and the training) to carry would have stopped him dead.

We wouldn’t be holding candle-light vigils for fourteen dead women, believing that if we just blame enough men for the tragedy, it won’t happen again. The cold, brutal reality is so completely the opposite.

Look at every school shooting in North America and what do they all have in common? “Gun-Free Zones”. Every school has, as its published policy, no legal firearms permitted.

It didn’t help in Columbine. It didn’t help in Tabor. It didn’t help in Virginia Tech. It didn’t help in Dawson College. And it didn’t help in l’Ecole Polytechnique in 1989. Nor will it help the next time some unbalanced individual with a gun goes on a shooting rampage in the next “gun-free zone”.

The time has come to stop pretending we can light a candle to stop the violence. The time has come to focus on solutions that work.

Guaranteeing the death of our young people is not something we should be proud of, yet that is what we do every time we legislate another “gun-free zone”.

The only people who obey the rules are the law-abiding. People like you and me.

We do not walk into a school or a mall and start shooting people.

Yet we are the very people the state demands be defenseless in the face of evil.

It’s time that changed. It’s time our politicians paid attention to us and the real solution we offer.

It’s time concealed carry was made accessible again.

Yes, I said again.

It wasn’t so long ago that concealed carry was a realistic option in Canada, and obtaining a concealed carry permit wasn’t a big deal.

It’s already legal. The law is on the books. Our bureaucrats simply deny every application that doesn’t meet their “criteria”. (read every application)

Let’s tell our elected politicians we want them to take control of the unelected bureaucracy and make concealed carry accessible to ordinary Canadian Citizens.

Again.

—

Christopher di Armani is a freelance writer and filmmaker who resides in Lytton, BC, Canada, with his wife Lynda and their two dogs, Koda and Tuco.

Christopher can be contacted at christopher(at)diArmani.com or http://www.diArmani.com.

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British Court Justice Shakes the Nation

shohn — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:59:12 +0000

British Court Justice Shakes the Nation: Only Reaffirmation of
Marriage Can Mend Britain’s Broken Family Structure
Teresa Neumann (June 18, 2009)

“There is no quick-fix solution, although the reaffirmation of
marriage as the gold standard would be a start: statistically, it has
proved to be the most enduring relationship, and the best environment
for children.”

(United Kingdom)—UK newspapers are buzzing this week with statements
from Justice Paul Coleridge who claims that only marriage can mend
“broken Britain.” The sensation his stand is causing in Britain may
not get much airtime in the U.S., but Breaking Christian News is here
to see you read about it.

Listing a litany of statistics regarding children from broken homes,
The Daily Mail quoted Coleridge as saying marriage should be promoted
by the government to end the “social anarchy of family breakdown.”
Coleridge also said mothers and fathers “who fail to commit to each
other [are] engaging in a game of ‘pass the partner’ that has left
millions of children scarred for life.”

The Telegraph U.K. ran a commentary by Coleridge which read, in part:
“There is a tendency, especially among the chattering classes, to
assume that we have attained a social utopia, in which we are entirely
and happily free from taboos, stigmas and other constraints on
behaviour. It sounds so beguiling: let us all do what we want, when we
want and sort out any mess as we go along.

“But surely the test of any social change is whether it enhances
people’s lives or makes them more miserable. And this is where I take
issue with the modern view of the family. If it is so successful, why
are the statistics for separation so large? More significantly, why
are the family courts overwhelmed with cases involving damaged,
miserable or disturbed children? How do other children, caught up in
less serious separations, really feel? Do they relish the endless
changes of partner, or adapting to a new step-parent and
step-siblings?

“In the end, however,” concludes Coleridge, “it is the behavior of
individuals that has driven us here, and it is only changes in
behavior that can make a radical difference. The time has come for a
major examination of all the issues surrounding family life, so that
we can stand back and remold our behavior for the benefit of us
all—especially our children.”

God bless you, Justice Coleridge.

Source: Paul Coleridge - The Telegraph U.K.

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Doing the Karma Twist

shohn — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:07:06 +0000

Well, really this started with World War II and women leaving the home and entering the work force. Well really we could go back to World War I then since it helped precipitate WWII. Well really we could go back the to ……… you get the idea. History repeats itself and causes are triggered.

Make no mistake, I’m not supporting the idea of “pregnant and barefoot” and a woman being lorded over by her husband, but it does seem like we’re missing quite a bit now a days. Perhaps in due time the way this place works will make a course correction. God willing, maybe my marriage will be one of the ones to help turn us back in the other direction at least. During the pregnant and barefoot era I’ve read that average time till orgasm was about 2 minutes with the female rarely experiencing this thing hard-wired in us to want to make babies. It is now up to 20 minutes or so I’ve read. Women are able to do many more things and have many more choices available as well; however, it seems that the “fem-nazis” as they are referred to in some circles, may have helped raise up an unanticipated consequence. It all started with WWII. Right.

Anyway here is the article. Gives you some thing to think about anyway.

Quoting the online article at http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=101344 (No hits):

The National Bureau of Economic Research released a study to be published soon in the American Economic Journal that shows women’s happiness has measurably declined since 1970. It’s no surprise that this has stimulated much comment.

This study covers the same time period as the rise of the so-called women’s liberation or feminist movement. The correlation demands an explanation. You can read the entire study at the Eagle Forum website.

One theory advanced by the authors, University of Pennsylvania economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, is that the women’s liberation movement “raised women’s expectations” (sold them a bill of goods), making them feel inadequate when they fail to have it all. A second theory is that the demands on women who are both mothers and jobholders in the labor force are overwhelming.

I’m neither an economist nor a psychologist, but I’ll join the conversation with my own armchair analysis. Another theory could be that the feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy in which their true worth will never be recognized and any success is beyond their reach.

What has been the impact of feminism on the nation? Don’t miss “The War on Fathers: How the ‘feminization of America’ destroys boys, men – and women”

Feminist organizations such as the National Organization for Women held consciousness-raising sessions where they exchanged tales of how badly some man had treated them. Grievances are like flowers – if you water them, they will grow, and self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

Another theory could be the increase in easy divorce and illegitimacy (now 40 percent of American births are to single moms), which means that millions of women are raising kids without a husband and therefore expect Big Brother government to substitute as provider. The 2008 election returns showed that 70 percent of unmarried women voted for Barack Obama, perhaps hoping to be beneficiaries of his “spread the wealth” policies.

In the pre-1970 era, when surveys showed women with higher levels of happiness, most men held jobs that enabled their wives to be fulltime homemakers. The private enterprise system constantly produces goods that make household work and kiddie care easier (such as dryers, dishwashers and paper diapers).

Betty Friedan started the feminist movement in the late 1960s with her book “The Feminine Mystique,” which created the myth that suburban housewives were suffering from “a sense of dissatisfaction” with their alleged-to-be-boring lives. To liberate women from the home that Friedan labeled “a comfortable concentration camp,” the feminist movement worked tirelessly to make the role of fulltime homemaker socially disdained.

Economic need played no role in the feminist argument that marriage is archaic and oppressive to women. A job in the labor force was upheld as so much more fulfilling than tending babies and preparing dinner for a hard-working husband.

Women’s studies courses require students to accept as an article of faith the silly notion that gender differences are not natural or biological but are social constructs created by the patriarchy and ancient stereotypes. This leads feminists to seek legislative corrections for problems that don’t exist.

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Kitchen Sink

shohn — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:42:49 +0000

I’ve been trying to ramp up my lucid dreaming / out of body experiences / meditation. I tried a new herb called “Holy Basil” coupled with spinach for dinner, Vitamin B supplements, electric massager, Brainwave Mind Studios Volume II, fruits and vegetables throughout the day (very limited eating out), Valerian root supplement, etc. Although I had dreams last night, and remembered them, I was too lazy to get up and write them down. They weren’t excessively vivid though.I woke up around 5:47 this morning feeling relatively rested and decided to pray for what’s left of my marriage and my family. I prayed protection around her phone, her mind, her car, the kids, and the house where she resides at present.

I then got up and got rid of my water intake from the night before. I decided to lay down on the floor with a guided meditation track. I used the one from Kelly Howell called Universal Mind Meditation. Started with my breathing exercises and after about 20 minutes I started fading in and out again. During this phase I saw a mental image of gallon of distilled water - upside down. A bit later I saw another mental image (as though it were in my field of vision) of a glass of water being filled. I’m not sure what to make of those images.

I woke up briefly and rolled over onto my side almost in fetal position. It felt so comfortable. I could just lay like that for a long time. I then dozed off and started fading in and out. I realized my head was on top of a book and I started reading the book. I thought to myself, this is weird - I am dreaming, but there is sufficient resolution in the dream for me to read out of a book. Cool. I keep flipping pages, but they weren’t real pages. It was as though my mind was “seeing through” the pages and I was able to read without turning the pages by adjusting the level of transparency in each previous page or by adjusting the depth of my apparently see through vision.

I then got up sort of groggy. I didn’t see my body on the floor so I figured I was really awake. I turned to get up and peeked out the door to make sure no one was in the living room (I have a room-mate now). I was going to walk through really quick like and get a glass of water yet I was still naked as the day I was born, so I was sort of sneaking about all tip toe style.

I walked into the kitchen and thought, you know - “it sure is light in here. What’s with the lights being on?”. As I was contemplating this, I thought to myself “Perhaps I am still dreaming?”. “Let’s test this” I thought. I thought to myself “I need to get outside and see if I can find a license plate number or something to recall when I wake up, if I am dreaming. Well, I don’t know how much time I have. Let’s try to fly. If I can fly, then I am probably still dreaming.”

I jumped up and much to my delight and slight embarrassment my naked body is now soaring over the kitchen sink. As I made it over the counter, I went into what I now call “the white zone” where I knew I was still dreaming, yet was awake. This happened once before. It feels sort of like the static on a television with no actual signal being received.

Perhaps this is the narrow path that Yeshua spoke of. Straddling the point between conscious and subconscious, though I’m not really sure.

Some have informed me about the middle when performing breath exercises. It makes me wonder if it is similar when going between awake/dream state.

It was very difficult to maintain this state and I woke up.

I had been practicing rather attempting various “higher” thought forms over the last couple days and attempting to be more aware, but the scenario for this dream seemed to be driven once again by feeling lethargic as I dozed in and out. The lethargic / comfortable feeling seems to be driven by the right amount of heat, coupled with perhaps time of day, spinach, and binaural tracks. One more thing to note, when I woke up at 5:47 AM - I was very very hungry. They say that less energy is wasted on digestion provides more energy for spiritual/mind movements.

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Amazing Study from University of Wisconsin

shohn — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:11:52 +0000

This is an amazing study from the University of Wisconsin’s National Survey of Family and Households.

They followed 645 couples who were extremely unhappy. Five years later they re-interviewed. What they uncovered was amazing.

AmericanValues.org, in its executive summary of this study, lists the following three conclusions that shocked so many.

1. Unhappily married adults who divorced or separated were no happier, on average, than unhappily married adults who stayed married. Even unhappy spouses who had divorced and remarried were no happier, on average, than unhappy spouses who stayed married. This was true even after controlling for race, age, gender, and income.

2. Divorce did not reduce symptoms of depression for unhappily married adults, raise their self-esteem, or increase their sense of mastery, on average, compared to unhappy spouses who stayed married. This was true even after controlling for race, age, gender, and income.

Here’s the best part…

3. About two-thirds of unhappy spouses who avoided divorce ended up happily married five years later. The unhappiest marriages experienced the most dramatic turnarounds: 78% of adults who said their marriages were very unhappy and who avoided divorce ended up happily married five years later.

These findings are very surprising in a culture that teaches us divorce is an easy way to end your problems quickly.

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Strength and Guidance

shohn — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:54:34 +0000

I received more bad news yesterday. At least I have the kids with me this week. As I went to bed last night, I decided to pray for “strength and guidance” on what to do next.

A couple of weird syncros today. Who am I kidding. I’ve gotten used to the syncros now. It seems to happen about once a week at least.

As I was headed to work, I started thinking - well - on the bad news, just forgive her. You have to. Okay, forgive. Some time ago I had established the number 555 as meaning “forgiveness”. Long story, but sort of my own little mental trick I guess to keep me going. Anyway, I said forgive and then I turned on the radio.

It was the song “All Apologies” by Nirvana. I thought to myself, now that’s funny and ironic. A few minutes later I passed a car with license plate 555. I saw another one on the way home today. Yeah, I know you probably think I’ve lost it. Whatever - it keeps me going at least.

What is also weird, is I had sent my wife an email about a few things. Basically, she had decided to bring the person she was seeing around our kids. We’re not even “legally” divorced. Grrrrr..

Excerpt of my email to her in Italics

Exo 20:17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

Please do NOT and I repeat DO NOT covet your neighbor’s male servant or his ox!!!!!!! and especially his DONKEY!!!! Seriously, you know the commandments and stuff, and I’m not your God,

Well, I sent that out, and I decided to read the Charlene Cares message again this morning. It was neato because Charlene happened to cite that exact passage. Now, I know that may not seem out of the ordinary, but I’ve never seen her cite that one, nor have I ever cited that one so it did seem to be some sort of coincidence.

Well, I was thinking about my prayer for “strength and guidance”. Later this evening, a person from another marriage ministry accidentally sent me a message sent for another, but it was weird because I wasn’t on the recipient list. Perhaps I was accidentally blind carbon copied? I asked the guy who sent it to me, and he didn’t have any real answers either. But what I found neat was what got “accidentally” sent to me. I’ve excerpted below:

What should we do when the Devil comes along? ‘And having done all… stand.’ Indeed, ‘… God is able to make [you] stand’ (
Romans 14:4 NKJV), not in your own strength, but the strength of Jesus Christ. By yourself you’re an easy target, but in the strength of the Lord you can stand and not give in. So today when Satan shows up with his temptations, announce that you’re going to stand in Christ. Let him know you’re going to stand until the shaking stops, until the wave of loneliness passes, until your marriage is restored, until you come out of debt, until the struggle is over, until the tempter loses his power to trap or topple you. When you do the standing - God does the strengthening!

Paul said, ‘I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me’ (
Philippians 4:13). Note the word ’strengthens.’ He won’t just strengthen you once, He’ll do it again and again. He’ll strengthen you every time you face a difficult challenge, every time a memory comes back to torment you, every time you’re reminded of your imperfect past, every time you face a difficult situation. Drawing from God the strength you need to stand up to the enemy will take effort. It will take your praise, your prayer, your getting into His Word with an intensity you never had before. But the truth is - you can stand if you want to! (The Vine by Bob Gass)
Faith and Marriage Ministries

http://www.FaithAndMarriageMinistries.org

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[S]ynchronicity

shohn — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:12:30 +0000

Well, some interesting things have happened lately as far as increasing of syncros and such. A syncro is a coincidence of personal significance or a coincidence that rises way above the level of chance forcing the poor recipient to either think he has gone crazy or to say…….. “Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatttttt ….. what do you waaaaaaaaant from meeeee??????” in a shrill banshee voice. I’m kidding about the crazy part…. no.. really kidding about the banshee part. That was fun.

Back to syncros, sometimes I blabber things up a bit in my writing, so I thought I would include this handy video to explain what I am talking about:

Around May 21, 2009 - every where I looked, the number 333 would show up. Clocks, receipts, license plates - all day long. I wasn’t sure what to make of this and am still not. I even woke up at 3:33 AM that morning. Think something was trying to tell me something?

I had mentioned awhile back that I had hired an astrologer. Well, anyway she told me that “Mercury was going retrograde” during the month of May, which would generally mean that this could manifest as communications getting messed up, wires crossed, computers/traffic etc. would have problems, opportunities to review past, and that it was VERY likely that I would run into people I hadn’t seen in awhile. Well, my computer did get infected with spyware, and tons of people I hadn’t heard from made contact with me with such messages as “Blast from the Past”, or people I have emailed for about a year now never bothering to respond - all of a sudden wrote back, etc. It was a wild experience to see again, the “astro” influences. Come on man, the moon affects women every single month and you whether you like it or not - your system as well. Get over the weirdness of this. I’m not saying that there isn’t a lot of quackery going on in this space, but that there is something to this. It may be an art more than a science though. Want something to really freak you out? In the writings of Josephus, he noted the astrological signs being on the adornments of the temple prior to its destruction in 70 AD. Why would the temple have astrological stuff on it? Think mister.

For some time I had held that the butterfly was a symbol for me to “keep” going due to a prayer I had held late one evening. Without fail, just about every time I have thought of quitting, butterflies would randomly show up not much longer. This was sort of an event that I guess I wound up hardwiring into my psyche / your thoughts become your world engine, that invariably produces butterflies when I get hopeless. I had a bizarre dream last night (well all my dreams are bizarre). In this dream, I hugged my wife around her stomach as she was loading up our kids in a mini-van. She was friendly and contemplated coming home, but not right now. It was weird holding her once again. Felt nice. My little teddi-bear I suppose. Well, later on in the dream, I was driving my car and a butterfly became attached to the wind-shield. I recalled thinking… dude, I need to get a picture of this so people will believe me and not think I’m making this stuff up. So I broke out the iPhone and was trying to take a picture while driving. This dream was quite vivid, but not the most vivid I have ever had. I thought it was real enough, that there I was gathering evidence for my blog in which I am now writing. Unfortunately, pictures taken of butterflies using the dream version of my iPhone, are difficult to merge into this reality. Dang! I thought it was funny.

Moving on, the other thing is that I had mentioned “Living Scriptures”. In that our very lives are scriptures. In general, we Americans don’t see things this way. To borrow from the movie, Pulp Fiction, “I’m an American, our names don’t mean sh**”. Despite cultural filters built into my mind, I saw an interesting pattern yesterday and today. On Sunday, I was over at my mother in law’s house and we we began discussing our various marital challenges, the song “Burning Down the House” came on by the Talking Heads. My mom calls me up Monday and informs me that her house got broken into. I’m trying to understand the significance of this event in her own life and mine, and as I am sitting there thinking, that song “Burning Down the House” comes into the forefront of my mind. A couple seconds later, mom says - this is a life changing event, but not as significant as when my house burned down that time. Queue Twilight Zone music. Well, it’s not that unreasonable and at this point, pretty much could be chalked up to randomness. Well the day proceeds.

The next day, I get sent some emails from a friend of mine. I felt drawn to read one. Here is the link (16 hits) and an excerpt:

If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there, telling him how to look on the positive side of the situation.

My mom called me up again at the same time I was reading this email. What I found interesting was that several times during the conversation she would say the words as I was reading them… for example she would say I’m just going to be positive, it could have been worse right as I was reading the italicized words above. This happened two or three times. Now, I don’t know if this was some crazy mother-son psychic connection thing going on, was planned by higher power(s), or was just something I’m reading way too much into, but the emotional effect was very similar to the Volkswagen commercial above - which you should really watch.

As this proceeds, I think how ironic that I am reading about a guy who got robbed as my mom is describing how she got robbed. I wonder to myself, was this planned from above? What is the spiritual significance again? What is the living scripture here?

On Monday June 1, 2009 - Shohn’s mother’s home was broken into by thieves coming to rob and pillage anything of immediate value. They avoided the antiques and the check books, but they looked for cash in the mattresses and took easily transportable electronic equipment used for entertainment and work. My mother has contacted the higher authorities including the local sheriff’s department and it appears that her insurance will cover the loss. She has not had anything this shocking happen since her house burned down.

What is the relation of our home to higher meaning? Our home - our place of safety, being defiled by marauders? Is this allusion to our spiritual house being broken into by thieves as well, or is it just some drug starved teenagers robbed her

I wonder if her house would have had problems on her astrological chart. It would have been her 4th house I imagine. Too bad I don’t know her birth time.

As I contemplate all of this, I look over at my radio and note that it is playing a song from the Hail to the Thief album, by Radiohead.

This morning, in my inbox is the message “Unwitting Thief’s Conscience Spurs Him to Return..” from Breaking Christian News.

Weird eh? Now the ordinary person would probably look at something like this and dust him or herself off and go on about his or her life, not unlike our friends in the VW commercial above. I guess I’m losing some of my American culture, as I see something of significance here, though I don’t know what it is yet.

Pay attention!

Last Wednesday I went dancing with a friend of mine. During this event I read an article in Time magazine about the revival of “predestination” - a theological tenant that makes no sense to me. I read the article and then awhile later, my friend and I begin to converse about spiritual things. She eventually begins to speak about “predestination”. I find it somewhat odd, but go on about my business and continue to listen. I give her my more esoteric points of view and then we move on to more important things like orphaned stray cats she takes care of and some pastor she was having problems with. The next morning as I arise from my slumber, I am drawn to open the book “Last of the Mohicans”sitting in my closet. I’ve never read this book, though it is on the to-do list. I turned it directly to page 134, and there it is talking about “predestination”. Twilight music…

Other events, on Friday of last week a friend of mine emails me about some lady named Ruth - a counselor with whom she was dealing. Awhile later, a woman from the tax appraisal office calls me up to discuss my protest of the taxes on my house. Her name is Ruth. Later on this weekend, a pastor buddy of mine connects with me and says we are to do a Bible study from the book of Ruth on Pentecost. He goes on to inform me that it is one of the biggest days because of the marriage, Moses, the Spirit coming, on and on. I tend to view the scriptures in a much more allegorical sense now, but am able to take away much of what he is saying as valuable once I look at it from an allegorical sense as well. Ruth.

Finally, after all this - we get to the big cheese. 777. What? Well around March of this year, something happened with this bible passage jumping out:

Mat 7:7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”

Awhile later, July 7th is magnified on the calendar and a bit later a woman in need calls up asking for help to pay a bill. She needs $77.

Weird, eh? Well it gets weirder. Over the next week or so this number 777 starts showing up. I start thinking one day.. man I don’t know, I’m probably just going crazy. This is so stupid. As I conclude this thought, a car turns the corner and on its license plate are the numbers 777. Chills.

I forget about this for a while and then it comes to the forefront of my mind again when leaving work in April. I had a friend with me at the time and I told him how weird it would be if the 777 license plates showed up again. They did in full force. I saw two on the way home, and there was one parked across from my house when I got home. I’m thinking what are the odds. Play Texas lottery!

I forget about this for a bit and then it comes to my mind again. This time though and unlike my butterfly in my dream, I am able to capture this unicorn:

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Hopefully, it is clear enough for you to see. 777 baby. The weekend before Memorial Day, I am headed to see my mom and once again, I get stuck behind the ol’ 777 license plate. I’ve never noticed this before my whole life. Maybe it is just a mental game.

Well I asked my astrologer what sort of influences and energies we had coming up, particularly in the area of my love life. I wanted to know whether to fish or cut bait basically because I was getting frustrated again, but I didn’t want to lead my astro chick on either. She gave some dates for likely influences and then said… July 7th is going to be a big one for you probably, Jupiter conjuncts with Venus. I don’t know. We shall see what unfolds.

Here is the cool part. Since you have read this, this stuff will probably start happening to you. I don’t know why it works that way, but every person I’ve interacted with about this stuff….. it starts happening to them

Now we have discussed [S]ynchronicity. There are other topics to discuss, namely, [M]arriage and [S]ex.

I’ve been learning recently that our definition of [M]arriage in a modern sense is not quite what it used to be. We now seem to enter into [m]arriage. I’m defining [M]arriage as the ideal case and [m]arriage as what our modern society does.

One is more spiritual in nature, a lifetime bonding - an agreement to spiritually raise one another, to remain true, and the other is a joke. I think I shall attempt to explain and underscore where we are getting it wrong, at least, as far as I understand it TODAY.

My fingers are tired, this shall be the subject of another article.

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