Canto
XXIV
Gangster
Gospel
Canto XXIV
Petrus Romanus
A Beautiful Mind
In comedy, there's an old stock device whereby an underling posits a great idea to a boss who then retorts, "Great idea! Glad I thought of it!" But what difference does it make where our ideas come from so long as we think them? We are all oracles of our relative muses (though we don't always obey them!), which is why a Christian mind is sharper and more creative than that of a non-Christian. Stress impairs memory which is why you can't ever remember where you put something until you stop trying to remember where you put it; but Christians, having already found what all men seek, are under no pressure whatsoever which decreases both the biochemical affectations of stress and enhances mental and physiological faculties! You really can be a better you!
Furthermore, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the retarded. They are not born retarded, they are labeled retarded by the leave-all-children-behind public school industrial complex!
Like homosexuals, the retarded have stunted their own physical development by reason of their own original sin. But as soon as wicked Monday-school teachers brand them as retarded and segregate them from the general population, they become obedient to a Universe that continually validates their so-called condition. Instead of teaching them that they are 'different' or 'special', we should be telling them that they have the ability to live like everyone else should they decide to. Everyone who has had a relationship with a retarded person knows that there are flashes of brilliance which usually occur in moments when they are 'caught off guard'; but when the moment passes, they apparently revert back to their conditioning.
Retards have an important earthly ministry and those who convert will all be given new sinless bodies in heaven as well as expert angelic psychotherapy to enhance their mental capabilities (as will we all!) But if you tell a child he won't get better, you step on his faith!
(Prov 21:11) When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise:
And in case you were following the money, public schools under No-Child-Left benefit from classifying struggling students as ADHD learning-disabled because they get special accommodations on standardized tests (not to mention increased government funding for special education programs) and under NCLB, schools are penalized for not testing well -- and guess who determines whether or not a student is 'disabled'! Yep, the Pharmaceutical-backed APA-member school psychologist!
And what is ADHD anyway? Not paying enough attention, massa'? I's real sorry, massa'! Please don' hurt me, massa'! Maybe if you weren't suffering from BAHT, I wouldn't have ADHD! That's 'Boring-As-Hell-Teacher'! But if you want to treat a child like one of Pavlov's dogs, don't be surprised if later on he bites you in the ass!
Right now, what our kids need is the Word of God brought back into the public school curriculum. Our children are given classroom rules-and-consequences, but without the intellectual underpinnings to support their adherence. The bad teachers whine about the lack of 'home-training' while the good teachers are being hamstringed by religious prohibitions which preclude the instruction of absolute morality.
If you teach a child that he will be sent to detention for throwing a crayon, he will understand that there are temporal consequences for his actions. Times change.
If you teach a kid that talking in class impedes his classmates from learning, he will understand that there are social consequences for his actions. Societies differ.
If you teach a child that the decisions he makes now will affect him the rest of his life, he will understand that there are personal consequences for his actions. People die.
If you teach a child that he will never die and therefore has a real relationship and responsibility to the Universe and the people in it, he will not only obey the classroom protocol, he get his friends to as well! Jesus saves!
The teachers unions argue that higher salaries attract more qualified teachers; but a true teacher sacrifices for their students. The higher the salary, the cheaper the teacher; but what the schools need now is not more uniforms or standards. What we need right now is a national debate over the nature of reality. What is life? What is truth? What is beauty? And if any teacher denies the existence of abstract reality, they forfeit their right to be in it. But what's wrong with the schools today is that the plastic coins used to teach kids about money are exact replicas of US fiat, only with the words "In God We Trust" omitted.
Why Must I Study?
I began my teaching career on the other side of town...
One day, a student asked, Why must I study?
I answered, "So you can support yourself economically."
But the child answered, Even if I got all A's, my parents couldn't afford to send me to college... and even if I got a good job, my impoverished family would bankrupt me cuz I'd have to support them...
I ended my teaching career in the plum suburb...
But the child laughed, I'm set for life with a million-dollar trust fund!
So now I ask you...
Why must I study?
School Prayer
I looked at my keyboard -- you wanna know Y?
Because I was searching for the letter I.
Searching and searching -- unable to C!
O where on this keyboard could the letter I B?
I really should know where these letters all R!
But how can I learn when I don't know what 4?
Without a higher purpose to aspire 2,
Our children won't learn that the I is next to U!
It's a Hazmat Life
Recent studies show that women who are under stress during pregnancy, can affect the hormonal development of their fetuses. While these hormonal imbalances don't have any impact on whether or not your child will sin, it would have an 'inspirational' affect on the direction that your child's sin would take in the world:
Children whose mothers were overly stressed during pregnancy may themselves be more vulnerable to anxiety as a result, research suggests. High levels of stress hormone may cross the placenta and affect the baby in the womb in a way that carries long-term implications, UK scientists believe. A Bristol University team found anxiety in late pregnancy was linked to higher cortisol levels in children aged 10.
(BBC News: Pregnancy stress 'passed to baby')
Hence, inasmuch as there are differences between Christians and non-Christians (whereas Christians have substantially lower stress-hormone levels than the rest of us), only baptized Christians should be granted marriage licenses and afforded reproductive rights. The Catholic Church does not recognize faithless marriages and neither should we:
(Deut 22:9) Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
The book of Ezra warns against mixed relationships, but it was not the ethnic origins of the spouses that polluted their blood; rather, it was that they were "doing according to their abominations" (Ezra 9:1).
Sin, not race, was the problem! A "mixed multitude" followed the Hebrews out of Egypt during the Exodus (Ex 12:38) and Moses' wife was Ethiopian, but racist Jews redefined the word "Ethiopian" to mean "beautiful" (just as they did "virgin" to mean "maiden"), but instead, they've exchanged Yahweh for Baal (which is why they practice "Ka-Baal-a"); they're as wicked today as they were in the wilderness!:
(Num 12:1) And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
Christ himself had Moabite ancestry (Matt 1:5), but Ruth had converted to the true faith before meeting Boaz and was thus sanctified (Ruth 1:16). However, racist Jews omitted the Book of Ruth from their medieval codices in order to avoid the spectre of an 'impure' David. But if America desires to maintain its racial superiority in the world, we must delegitimize non-Christian procreation:
(Ezra 9:1-2) Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 2For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
It is not a violation of civil liberty to prevent non-Catholics from marrying because anyone can become a Catholic regardless of age, race or gender. And by the way, GLBT is not a gender, it is the negation of it and a crime against reality! You can put lipstick on a pig, but it still ain't kosher!:
(Deut 22:5) The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
The reason why ethnic Jews are the Chosen People is because in divinity, they are the 'church of the firstborn' (Heb 12:23). Everyone is born speaking Hebrew until they acquire a tongue-language; everyone is Jewish until they discover what race they are: it is the precursory race, the template of humanity and as pure as they are ethnically is as pure as they are spiritually -- they are strict, dogged and exacting! We should be so lucky as to have them in control of our media! Befriend a Jew, and your phone will be ringing off the hook; Cross a Jew, and the universe will cave in on you before you can say 'Oy Vey!'
But of course, Jesus of Nazareth was (of all historic Jews) the most biologically pristine. He was King of the Jews, whose biochemistry was so unadulterated, that the traces of DNA on the 'hem of his garment' could raise the dead. Even the Roman centurions cast lots for his vesture (Matt 27:35) and Catholic Church history is rife with examples of relics, shrines and saint's knucklebones which were thought to be endowed with mystical properties. Similarly, Elisha didn't receive Elijah's spirit until he donned his mantle (2 Kng 2:13) and later, when a dead Moabite corpse was unwittingly cast into his sepulchre, it was instantly resurrected upon contact with Elisha's bones. Hence, not only do biochemical sin-contaminants harm, but the psychic secretions of the morally pure can heal -- even resurrect!:
(2 Kng 13:20-21) And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. 21And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
Remember Bethesda? Whenever the angel disturbed the pool, it was endowed with healing properties precisely because the angelic biochemistry had imbued its waters. Similar other healing pools have been noted throughout human history -- and even the Catholics have a tradition of anointing themselves with Holy Water blessed by a Priest. When Benny Hinn lays hands on the sick, his biochemistry heals them so completely that they oftentimes fall backwards onto the ground, not to mention the Catholic Rite of Apostolic Succession which involves the 'laying on of hands'.
(1 Tim 4:14) Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
At the Last Supper, Christ drank from the cup first before giving it to his disciples (1 Cor 11:25), a tradition which is lives on the Catholic Liturgy; but Protestants forego this tradition (or use plastic shot glasses!) to avoid germs -- and yet in the two thousand-year history of the Church, no one has ever contracted a disease from Catholic Communion. There is even a Tradition of the priest placing the wafer on the communicant's tongue with his own hand, and let's not forget that the very word Mass (or Missal) comes from the Latin phrase 'Ite, missa est' (as in the old days, unchristened proselytes were 'dismissed' from the congregation prior to the Eucharist.
And this brings me to my next point: You may have heard of the urban myth of 'energy vampires' (or people who just seem to zap your energy simply by being around them) - these are reverse healers, people who are so exceedingly wicked, that they emit an aromatic sin-aura which can interact with your own biochemistry, making you feel absolutely drained (so-to-speak!) Contrarily, the 'halo' (or nimbus) of medieval Christian art or even the so-called 'after-glow' of the young woman who has just recently lost her virginity can be seen as projections of positive energy-auras. And then there's the proverbial 'green thumb' which prospers everything it plants, but the negative energy-auras of the wicked can accumulate in houses where violent acts had occurred or even settle over the grave-markers of the undearly departed, entrancing visitors with negative impulses, foul smells or psychoactive hallucinations. People with severe sin-disorders can even produce auras so vile, that they can be lethal to plants, animals -- even humans (as is the case with such unexplained phenomena as spontaneous human combustion). But if you feel that your home is contaminated by a negative spirit-energy, try doing what the Catholics have done for centuries, invite an exorcist to sprinkle your home with holy water!:
Latin Rite for the Preparation of Holy Water
Deus, qui ad salutem humani generis maxima quæque sacramenta in aquarum substantia condidisti: adesto propitius invocationibus nostris, et elemento huic, multimodis purificationibus præparato, virtutem tuæ benedictionis infunde; ut creatura tua, mysteriis tuis serviens, ad abigendos dæmones morbosque pellendos divinæ gratiæ sumat effectum; ut quidquid in domibus vel in locis fidelium hæc unda resperserit careat omni immunditia, liberetur a noxa. Non illic resideat spiritus pestilens, non aura corrumpens: discedant omnes insidiæ latentis inimici; et si quid est quod aut incolumitati habitantium invidet aut quieti, aspersione hujus aquæ effugiat: ut salubritas, per invocationem sancti tui nominis expetita, ab omnibus sit impugnationibus defensa. Per Dominum, amen.
God, Who for the salvation of the human race has built your greatest mysteries upon this substance, in your kindness hear our prayers and pour down the power of your blessing into this element, prepared by many purifications. May this your creation be a vessel of divine grace to dispel demons and sicknesses, so that everything that it is sprinkled on in the homes and buildings of the faithful will be rid of all unclean and harmful things. Let no pestilent spirit, no corrupting atmosphere, remain in those places: may all the schemes of the hidden enemy be dispelled. Let whatever might trouble the safety and peace of those who live here be put to flight by this water, so that health, gotten by calling Your holy name, may be made secure against all attacks. Through the Lord, amen.
2nd cen. AD Kushan coin with an image of the Buddha (spelled 'BODDO' in Greek script) enveloped by his aureole.
Guadalupe image with body aura (also known as an 'aureole').
When Moses was transported from the top of Sinai to 1st century Judaea to receive the Ten Commandments from Christ himself, he was witness to the Transfiguration with Peter, James, John and Elijah (Matt 17:4), and apparently, the aureole that had enveloped Christ was transferred to him upon his receipt of the stone tablets:
(Ex 34:29-30) And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. 30And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
Hence, Peter was prevented by the Transfiguration from erecting tabernacles for Moses and Elijah since the Feast of Tabernacles hadn't been instituted until after Moses descended Sinai (Ex 23:16) -- an' fi all yu' Rastas out dere, Sinai backways is "I an'I(s)":
(Ex 31:18) And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
And if one's positive and/or negative bio-aura can heal others or perhaps even infirm them, then why wouldn't it also have an impact on the global environment? The Japanese architectural style of Fung Shuei was in fact developed to refocus these negative energy contagions from buildings and residences while at the same time cultivating a positive spiritual atmosphere. It also stands to reason that periods of worldwide apostasy would have deleterious effects on the planet vis-à-vis the so-called 'vile vortices' (including the Bermuda Triangle among others), which have caused the unexplained disappearances of aircraft and ships -- perhaps even the recent Air France calamity, not to mention the confounding of navigational equipment, mass-hallucinations and other apparently mysterious phenomena -- but if our sins could adversely impact the global environment, why wouldn't then our righteousness heal our land? Perhaps instead of worrying about our carbon footprint, we should be taxing non-Christians for harming the planet with their toxic sin-emissions!:
(Gen 6:11-13) The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. 13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Of course, it would be the height of intellectual dishonesty to restrict our knowledge of the material universe only to what can be observed through an electron microscope! Scientists are baffled and befuddled by the unexplained "dark" energies that Draconian Mechanics simply cannot resolve! That we are biologically and mentally subjected to subatomic and/or motive forces, evading the detection of even our most advanced magnification systems, should absolutely and unequivocally be taken for granted -- and yet don't the parapsychologists and ghost hunters (all of them branded scientific heretics by the Cult of Newton!) detect these things with magnetometers and other such devices? -- which brings me to my next point...
POP QUIZ: Why would modern medical science suppress ancient knowledge of natural healing methods?
A. It's too easy, makes too much sense, and costs too little!
B. It makes White people look bad for not thinking of it first!
C. Follow the money! -- i.e., you can't put a patent on nature!
D. It makes medical science look bad because religious folks came up with it!
Of course, people who eat the way the Bible prescribes tend to be healthier than those who would eat road-kill, but that's another story...
Bio-energy also plays a significant role in non-Western mystical traditions such as Qigong and Tibetan Buddhist meditation. Here, the life-force (or Shakti) resides within certain meridian points located throughout the body, and it is the purpose of Tantric meditation to exert one's Shakti from the base meridian (or chakra), bringing it into mystical union with the Divine Feminine. Several Eastern therapies and techniques have their basis in this esoteric philosophy, including Chinese acupuncture, Qigong meditation, Tai Chi and Japanese shiatsu massage. But the White racist Amerik.k.k.an Medical Association can't stand to be one-upped by the little guy!:
(Jer 46:11) O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
Ever have a visitor to your home and your normally shy cat walks right up to him and starts purring? -- he might have a positive energy-aura! But if a stranger enters your home and the dog won't stop barking, then be careful, animals and plants can sense people's negative auras as well (or even your own should you get into a trouble!) Is your dog acting strange lately? Did a houseplant suddenly wither? It might be a good idea to get a medical checkup! -- No sense in waiting for the modern medical science establishment to catch up with the Farmer's Almanac!:
"There have been a number of examples of dogs being able to sniff out disease," says Russell.
"One recent report, for instance, involved a dog repeatedly sniffing a particular area of its owner's leg, and the owner turned out to have a cancer in that area.
"Are there biological markers in sweat that are indicative of a particular type of disease, and that dogs, with their heightened sense of smell, are able to pick up?"
(CNN.com/technology)
Every race is conceived in perfection and there is no biologically inferior race, but there are biochemical differences between the Christian race and non-Christians which modern scientific research is now beginning to recognize. There is no gay-gene or God-gene either, but sinning children alter their own physiological compositions during the process of sexual maturation and (should they themselves have children) can pass on these biochemical imbalances to their own children, inspiring (but not compelling) the path of that child's sin in a direction it otherwise might not have taken. You can't spend nine months swimming inside a wicked woman's amniotic fluid and not have it affect your prenatal development (or the rest of your earthly life for that matter!) Hence, in order for the Christ-child to be 'born perfect', it required an exceedingly righteous and pure woman who herself was without the stain of original sin; and though the historic Mary was not per se the Immaculate Conception (God is), insofar as she converted as an infant and remained sinless throughout her youth so that her adult physiology was unmarred by original sin, she was as immaculate as it gets, and had to be for the Christ-child to be born pure -- a sinless chick from the Annunciation to the final weaning!:
(Luke 11:27) And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
And if a mustard seed of faith can move a mountain, then why wouldn't a righteous man's biochemistry have influence over his seed?:
(1 Cor 7:14) For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Thai-dye
Little Tukta from Siam
says, "How lucky that I am
flying out to London town
in a graduation gown!
But the British consulate
doesn't have my passport yet?"
Little Tukta, can't you see?
It's an opportunity
to forgive the enemy
(impudent bureaucracy!)
When we learn to look within,
all we find is death and sin;
when we learn to look without,
Jesus will remove all doubt!
Now that you are on your way,
I have but one thing to say:
Never leave the God you know
When your flight reaches Heathrow!^^
Fun-n-Games
At the Church Hall in Falmouth, Trelawny, on Friday nights meet the AYF (or Anglican Youth Fellowship). Although the official age of membership is 15-25, exceptions are made. The AYF has a staff of 4 officers: a secretary; a treasurer; a vice president and president. After-church concession sales contribute to the AYF budget, which usually is spent on transportation to the annual retreat.
In America, people drive to church; in Jamaica, people walk. This makes church-shopping much more cut and dry, the chief theological concern being distance from residence. And because all of your neighbours attend the same church you do, this affords the Parish Priest extraordinary license to publicly ostracize those who fail to attend regularly without excuse. Thus are the lines blurred between social and spiritual salvation as perhaps they should be in a religion where God is both man and spirit.
Like most Jamaican institutions, AYF never begins on time. But when it does, it usually begins with singing and praying, the attendees forming a human circle, holding hands and swaying to a capella gospel music. Songs like:
Bind us together, Lord
Bind us together with
Chords that cannot be broken;
Bind us together with love.
Then, there is 'Fun-n-Games'. One game, 'Apple Turnover', is played by having someone stand in the centre of the other circular-seated contestants. Every third person is thence assigned a fruit, either: apple; banana or cherry. If the standing person yells 'cherry turnover!', all the cherries have to exchange seats and in the confusion, the standing person attempts to steal one of the seats. Thus, whoever is left standing becomes the new fruit caller.
Another fun game is 'Dog-n-Bone'. 'Dog-n-Bone' is played when all separate into two teams (usually along age or gender lines), and stand facing each other in two opposing ranks at either end of the hall. Each team member is assigned a number, at which point, a handball (or other small item) is placed midway betwixt the two teams. A number caller then calls a number and if that's your number, you must run to retrieve the aforesaid item (we never had a ball) before your opponent, returning to your end of the hall with it. However, if your opponent manages to tag you while you are in possession of the item, you must release it which, no sooner than when the item (we usually used the keys to the church hall) tumbles to the floor, is when the true genius of the game is revealed -- which is to say, that both opponents are seen huddled over the object, waiting for the other to lunge at it in order to tag him (or her) and, thus, compelling him (or her) to drop it once again, initiating yet another stand-off, this delicate choreography continuing for as long as it takes for one of the aforementioned opponents to both redeem the said item and escape his (or her) pursuers as he (or she) attempts to tag him (or her) yet again! Trust me, it's more fun than it sounds.
Imagine I'm an Enigma
Imagine I'm an enigma ...... A misunderstood mister who dissed his sister (but now, how much I've missed her) ...... A man who once prayed to someday repay the one whom he depraved (but now, it's too late) ...... The one who bravely paved the way for him to say, "My soul is saved" ...... The one and only Son who came to make a way for everyone (and now it's done) ...... The one who gave his all to call a saint whose name was Saul (but now it's Paul, y'all) ...... The one who (by his stripes) restored the blind man's sight forevermore (Praise ye the LORD) ...... But as for me and my house? ...... I am the charismatic-addict praisin' Jesus all diseases have been cured (Word is born) ......
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LORD JESUS CHRIST,SON OF THE FATHER,SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVEIN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVEDFROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,WHO ONCE WAS MARY,BE OUR ADVOCATE.AMEN.
LORD JESUS CHRIST,
SON OF THE FATHER,
SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.
LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVE
IN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,
THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVED
FROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.
MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,
WHO ONCE WAS MARY,
BE OUR ADVOCATE.
AMEN.
