The Seven Faces of Evil
By Chaumont Devin
Honolulu, May 28, 2002.

"The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom." --Solomon.

"Wisdom begins when we dare trash all our old fears and replace them with
a genuine respect for truth--what really is instead of what we have been
told or imagined.  Before I learned to respect truth above all else I had
no wisdom." --Chaumont Devin.

Prolog.

In this work I will show that mankind is currently undergoing a major
evolutionary innovation, howbeit one that is not primarily of the body but
of the mind.  I will describe this innovation, show how it is being
artificially kept from coming to full bloom, and explain why we must
either embrace it quickly or die.

Some may take exception with me for writing of our ills, but isn't it true
that this is really the concoction we best love?  And how can I, poor
mortal that I am, hope to sell any of my words except I write what people
love?  Like others, I crave money, notariety, and fame, so I am determined
now to tell you all I know as I best can.

"Man, on the whole, does not want to choose; he wants to have the feeling
that he ought to do this or that according to a code laid down by
authority." --Abraham Myerson.

"Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are
useless." --H.  G.  Wells.

In the following pages two kinds of creature will emerge.  The first is an
automaton that makes its way through the world by comparing everything it
sees and hears to a kind of superlibrary of platitudes, sayings, and other
snippets of wisdom.  Among these it finds matches, which it processes
against the real world in order to determine its next course of action or
step.  The second is a machine that really thinks.  It also has a sort of
library of wisdom, but when it finds matches with the real world, instead
of just shoving these into some kind of rough-and-ready processor and
moving on, it adds the match to the store of information it has been
gathering, keeps looking for unnoticed details, then critically evaluates
the whole.  Its next step does not depend solely upon the matches it has
found in its library of wisdom.  In fact it may reject them all out of
hand in favor of some new thought it has been able to synthesize from the
available information.  This second automaton is a prototype for the kind
of human machinery I am trying to develop in my readers, because it is
only people capable of looking at reality and really seeing what is out
there in this way who stand any chance of saving the world--otherwise we
are lost.

"Mankind must see clearly in order to rid itself of unnecessary
suffering." --Abraham Myerson.

An important goal will also emerge, and this is to debunk a host of false
propositions that tend to get lodged in one's library of wisdom, and thus
to unmercifully drive the great masses of humans who belong to the first
category of automata described above.  In many cases it may be impossible
to make people really think, but at least we may be able to alleviate the
perpetual sufferings of mankind and of this planet somewhat by debunking
the most dangerous snippets of false wisdom now happily lodged in our
minds.

Another goal will be to make the reader aware of the importance of truth,
and the hidden dangers lurking in seemingly innocent lies.  This may sound
trivial, but in fact it is not, since most of us have been assiduously
taught to lie from the time we were children.  True, when our mothers have
caught us lying they may have washed our mouths out with soap, but at the
same time we have been told to tell the truth, we may also have been
taught to lie in a hundred other subtler, more powerful ways.  In fact, I
don't think I have ever met a human being much beyond infancy who has not
somehow been taught to tell lies, or at least to accept or believe them.
So the very foundations of our lives may be a veritable litany of lies,
any one of which is dangerous because there is no such thing as a safe
lie.

"The profoundest instinct in man is to war against the truth; that is,
against the Real.  He shuns facts from his infancy.  His life is a
perpetual evasion.  Miracle, chimera and to-morrow keep him alive.  He
lives on fiction and myth.  It is the Lie that makes him free.  Animals
alone are given the privilege of lifting the veil of Isis; men dare not.
The animal, awake, has no fictional escape from the Real because he has no
imagination.  Man, awake, is compelled to seek a perpetual escape into
Hope, Belief, Fable, Art, God, Socialism, Immortality, Alcohol, Love."
--Jack London.

Lies warp and twist our minds into dangerous paths, and this is the reason
we have wars and find ourselves forced to make war in order to defend
ourselves from wars.  Is the human race essentially insane?  Of course it
is.  Just read history.  No sane creature could possibly do the things we
have done.  Human intelligence is haphazard and new, and has a long, long
way to go along the evolutionary path.  It is being developed, debugged,
and perfected all the time, and right now the main focus of this process
is still upon human violence, where we have been stuck for the last few
thousand years.  We are creatures of incredible violence, and this
violence must be curbed ere we can go on.  At this moment man hangs in the
balance.  All of the world's scientific research could still be blown up
by some kind of coordinated terrorist attack before tomorrow.  100
suitcase-sized nuclear bombs have gone missing in Russia, and this may be
only the tip of the iceberg.  Islamic fanaticism doesn't happen to be
showing its anti-scientific side just now, but it has definitely done so
before, and is primed soon to do it again.  Islam has been viewed as
benign because it bears the sacred stamp of religion, but the erstwhile
threat of Communism will probably seem as nothing before the Moslems have
done.  So man may continue to evolve, or he may be cut short by this
evolutionary experiment we call the mind, which surely has no guarantee of
evolutionary success any more than did the armor of the dinosaurs.  Recall
that the same intelligence that brought us up from the stone age has also
given us our fanatical delusions and the religions that bedevil our minds.

"Truth is not a popular thing." --Greig Win.

"The world owes its progress to those whose anger, sustained and
intellectualized, becomes the power behind reform." --Abraham Myerson.

Anger is often thought of as madness or violence, but in fact it is not.
It can be a natural infusion of boldness that gives us the courage to
challenge foolishness, shake off the intolerable, and move on.  Anger
against British imperialism got us freedom from England.  Anger against
slavery got us abolition.  It is sad that anger against unreasoning
superstition and tradition has not got us psychological freedom and
control of our minds.  Pray when will we stop chasing our tails in the
dust and reach for the stars?

Chapter 1.  What Are Good and Evil?

Just what is evil?  Evil exists only as the parasite of good, nor can evil
exist where there is no good.  As an example, suppose we perceive strength
as being good.  Then weakness is evil, and exists only as the parasite of
strength, and cannot exist where there is no strength, etc.

Intangible examples  of good and evil include the following:

Truth, falsehood.  Honesty, deceit.  Strength, weakness.  Courage,
cowardice.  Love, hate.  Honor, dishonor.  Mercy, cruelty.  Purity, sin.
Health, illness.  Wisdom, folly.  Knowledge, ignorance.

But although the basic ideas of good and evil are themselves abstractions,
and may apply most powerfully to abstract things, they are not necessarily
limited to the world of thought alone.  Thus, for example, if Cheeze is a
desirable thing, and mold is an undesirable parasite that grows upon
cheeze and takes away from its substance, then mold is an evil and cheeze
is a good.  Or if pure steel is desirable, and rust exists as an
undesirable parasite upon pure steel, then rust is an evil and pure steel
is a good.

Yet the thing that is evil to one person may be good to another, and
therefore, at least as far as material things are concerned, it is not
always possible to determine absolutely what is evil or good.  As an
example, to the man who is sharpening his knife, pure steel is good, and
rust is an evil to be ground away.  But to a man trying to produce iron
oxide, say in order to be used as a magnetic recording medium, the iron
oxide is good, whereas any particles of unoxidized steel are bad.

From the above analysis it may be gathered that good and evil are
essentially nonmaterial entities that can be easily recognized in their
pure and abstract forms, but which may be confused when seen in physical
objects and substances.  So here, although far less ambiguous than the
nonmaterial list above, are some material things that are generally seen
as good and evil:

Warmth, coldness.  Coolness, heat.  Sweetness, sourness or bitterness.
Pure steel, rust.  Cheeze, mold.  Clean floors, dirty floors.  Dry earth,
mud.  Perfume, body odor.  Clean walls, graffiti.  Green grass, weeds.

Notice that in this last list, many people might perceive some of the
things I have called "good" as being evil, and vice versa.  For example,
some may prefer graffiti to "clean" walls, and perceive bare walls as
something evil.  Thus although it is possible to define evil as a parasite
of good that cannot exist without good, it is more difficult to define
good, which may mean different things to different people.  But this is
still fortunate for me, since I am writing about evil, and not about good.
 I may not be able to define good, but I can certainly define evil,
because evil can only exist as a parasite upon good, no matter what one
may perceive as being good.

Chapter 2.  Falsehood, the Worst Evil, and Sophistry, Its Handmaid.

But if any evil can be defined as a parasite upon some good, and cannot
exist without the presence of that good, then truth must be good because
falsehood is a parasite upon truth and cannot exist anywhere without
truth.  And since truth lies at the very foundation of everything we have
ever known about the universe, it may be said that reality itself is based
entirely upon truth, and therefore that truth must be the most important
good in the entire universe.  As an example, take any proposition about
the physical universe, such as Einstein's famous E=MC^2.  This statement
is either true or else it is not.  If it is true, then it will work when
applied to the physical universe, but if it is false it will not.  We
assume it is true because it has been proven correct in all cases we have
been able to observe.  Thus in common with many other similar
propositions, E=MC^2 must be part of the truth upon which our universe has
been constructed.

So if truth is the most important good in our universe, upon which its
very existence must clearly depend, then the perversion of truth must be
the worst evil--not murder, not rape, not sexual perversion, but mere
falsehood.  Yet this may be hard to believe, for which one of us has never
put on some false pretense or told some "white lie?"  Is it possible,
then, that something as commonplace as mere falsehood could be this
monstrous evil?  We shall see.

Falsehood is insidious, and doubly so because those who begin by lying
often end up believing their own lies.  Thus, once an individual or a
group of people have agreed with themselves or with each other upon some
falsehood, there is a heavy price to be paid in terms of maintaining
normal psychological equilibrium, and hence sanity.  Just like an
addiction to drugs, the telling and believing of lies works profound
changes upon the human psyche.

Most children in Christian households have heard that it is a sin to tell
a lie, but many Christian adults do not know that it is written that those
who love a lie will be excluded from the city of god (Rev.  22:15).  In
the following pages I hope to show why it is just as evil to believe a lie
as to tell one.

"people are prone to believe in the reality of the things they think ought
to be so." --Jack London.

* How to recognize lies.

  One way to recognize lies is that most of them come well hidden in
bundles of truth.  When a man wants to poison and rob you, he doesn't
usually hand you a glas of straight cyanid.  Instead, he mixes an
infinitesimal trace of arsenic with a glass of fresh orange juice and bids
you join in a toast to prosperity and long life.

Many of the lies that rule the world can be classed as those of sophistry,
which means "plausable but misleading argument."  Pay special attention to
abstract nouns that have been formed from verbs to which some kind of
universal meaning has been attached.  Such nouns include the following:

* Violence.  You see someone club your mother and snatch her purse at a
bus stop and you kill him.  You are automatically wrong, because killing
is a form of VIOLENCE, and all VIOLENCE is automatically evil.

* Rape.  Some young girl offers you sex and you take it, and it turns out
she is 17 instead of 18, so you have RAPED  er.

*Sexual Harassment.  You say something to an unreceptive woman who does
not look quite unreceptive, and you become guilty of SEXUAL HARASSMENT.

* Unbelief.  You can't quite see how everything your pastor, priest, or
rabbi tells you might be true, so you are an UNBELIEVER and a SINNER bound
for HELL.

Notice how in every case above except for that of "rape," the noun is
taken from some verb or springs from some concept of action which might be
either good OR bad, altered slightly so that it can only mean the bad, and
then applied to something irrelevant.  The same thing can be done to make
bad things look right.  For example:

* Love.  Love is good, and hatred is evil.  After the movie, I let Charly
screw me in the back seat 'cause I LOVE him.

The trick is to find some noun for an action, get it accepted as either
always good or always bad, and then use it to justify the wrong meaning.

* Terrorism.  In 2020, the Chinese empire annexes America, and the Chinese
governor of California entertains himself by raping movie stars.  By some
unknown means, Dick Tracy gets into the palace, drags the governor out of
bed, and holds him at knifepoint.  He forces the governor to give his
harem safe conduct to India, which has not yet fallen to the Chinese, then
stabs the governor to death when they are gone.  Dick Tracy is found
guilty of TERRORISM, and publicly executed upon a stake set up on stage in
the Hollywood Bowl.

* Euphemism.

Another important tool of falsehood is euphemism.  A euphemism is an
expression that sounds good or only moderately bad that is used in place
of the truth.  The advantage of the euphemism is again that it SEEMS to
tell the truth when it doesn't.  Examples are:

* Illness or Problem.  Correspondence has recently been brought to light
in which a Roman Catholic Archbishop writes to his subordinate parish
priest about molesting children.  The archbishop, who is covering up for
the DEAR parish priest, writes of the priest's ILLNESS and PROBLEM.
Instead of stating clearly that the parish priest is sexually abusing
children, the children are never mentioned and the priest is said to have
an illness or problem when in fact it is the priest who is creating the
problem.

* Refugees.  The Republic of Indonesia forces .25 million people out of
their homeland of East Timor and into Indonesian prison camps at gunpoint.
 Many are tortured and murdered at sea, and the women are repeatedly raped
in the prison camp, but the international press calls them REFUGEES and
not HOSTAGES.  This is an excellent example of the deliberate and
calculated use of euphemism to deceive.  To the average man, who never
encounters either in real life, it is apparently easy to confuse the ideas
of HOSTAGE and REFUGEE, so that REFUGEE is allowed to stand.  The
consequences of allowing this lie to stand have been most terrible for the
people of East Timor.  I wonder how any American senator and his wife and
children would like being held hostage in a similar situation and then
forgotten as "refugees," or "part of the international refugee problem."

* Religious Strife.  It is reported that the Islamic Jihad has driven .5
million people out of the Moluccas, slaughtering between five and ten
thousand persons in the process.  This carefully crafted jihad against
Moluccan Christians is funded by Middle-Eastern Arabs and top Indonesian
government officials.  Assault rifles, grenades, and mortars are brought
in to destroy the unarmed and peaceful Christian population.  Instead of
calling this an Islamist terrorist attack, the international press calls
it "religious strife."

Euphemism is probably one of the most dangerous forms of deception because
it can produce so much evil for such a seemingly insignificant and
seemingly innocent effort.  Human beings are naturally averse to
confrontation, and naturally love the glib euphemism as soon as it is
introduced, and the untrained and undiciplined mind simply cannot see the
dark shadow of its consequences.

* Conditioning and Tradition.

"Lies need only age to make them respectable.  Given that, they become
traditions and are put upon a pedestal.  Then the gentlest word for him
who attacks them is traitor." --William Raine.  "Train up a child in the
way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
--Solomon.

"When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from
childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for
that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and
conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast
a doubt upon the validity of that superstition.  .  .  .

"Whenever we have been furnished a fetish, and have been taught to believe
in it, and love it and worship it, and refrain from examining it, there is
no evidence, howsoever clear and strong, that can persuade us to withdraw
from it our loyalty and our devotion." --Mark Twain.

This is almost, but not quite, correct.  In fact some people do finally
discard the blinders of conditioning and tradition and learn to think for
themselves.  I did it, so I ought to know.  thus what Solomon and Mark
Twain have written is a lie, albeit one well bundled in truth.

And yet I cannot say that I am 100% free of my Christian past.  It
continues to haunt me, and to influence my mind.  Sometimes I see this,
but at other times who knows?  I may not.

"there are thoughts that will haunt us in spite of ourselves, and to which
it is in vain to say, Begone, and let me be merry." --Sir Walter Scott.

And yet:

"There is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets
his heart to it." --H.  Rider Haggard.  The awesome and bewildering power
of conditioning and tradition are evident everywhere around us in full
glory at all times.  The Roman Catholic Church has just released thousands
of pages of scandal (June 5, 2002) of the most sordid kind, but no matter
what their priests do, good Catholics will remain unshaken and unmoved.
They cannot help themselves because they have been systematically trained
to be slaves of tradition.  All they can do is to try to bear up under
their scalding shame.  He who rideth the tiger can never dismount.  Bill
Clinton could not shake loyal Democrats in America by desecrating our Oval
Office in Washington.  Much less could the Holy Father shake honest
Catholics even were he to find a way of raping the Holy Mother of Heaven
in the sacred oval Basilica of Rome.

There is ample cause for loyalty to tradition.  The cultural traditions of
our forebears enabled them to avoid death by freezing in the arctic,
starvation in the jungles of the Congo, and thirst on the deserts of
Arabia.  In primitive societies, the details of material culture have been
hammered out and refined over millennia, and there is small chance that
any individual could stray far from these and survive.  To our forebears,
then, the secrets of tradition were as powerful and seemingly miraculous
as science is today.  To stray from tradition alone was to die.

Traditionalism is also a powerful tool in our time.  Japanese businessmen
in Hawaii realize that open competition could drive them to extinction and
deprive their children of jobs, so they tend to stick together and hire
only Japanese.  As a computer programmer, sometimes I have volunteered my
energies to improve government services.  In such cases, I have found that
although I was able to get good cooperation from management, people in the
computer support sections of these organizations perceived me as a
dangerous threat.  They were not interested in maximum efficiency or
innovation, but in enjoying comfortable jobs.  Management might summon
them to consult with me, and they might politely act pleased, but as soon
as the opportunity arose, they would quickly conspire to make it
impossible for me to continue my efforts.  I could not understand this at
first, and their duplicity stung me, but now I think I see what is going
on.  Traditional and ethnic solidarity enable us to enjoy a modicum of job
security without pressure.  It may be dead boring, but just being able to
keep doing the same thing unchallenged for eight hours every day and
getting paid good money for it enables people to live comfortable lives,
raise families, etc., and for most of us, this is vastly more important
than personal integrity.  Thus even in modern times, our traditions serve
us as a shield against uncertainty.

"Men who get on don't question the fundamentals of our social system."
--William Raine.

By the way, I have only touched the tip of the iceberg of evil in Oahu and
Honolulu.  When I lived in Makaha, I was nearly killed by a man with a
15.5 pound boulder, but I was saved by the flawless reflexes of a girl
named Elis.  I had never met this man in my life, and he had no quarrel
against me except my white skin, which he cursed loudly in his attack.
Although I pressed my case against him, he was neither picked up by the
police nor given any sentence at all.  Many of my neighbors at the Makaha
Surfside Condominium were single-parent mothers living on welfare.  Their
menfolk would come to stay with them for awhile, then they would throw
these men out of their apartments, usually with loud curses and
unprintable language, and finally they would let them back in to restart
the cycle all over again.  My next-door neighbor dealt openly in illegal
drugs, and often engaged in bloody fights with his spouse.  Until the
1990s, prostitutes and drug dealers plied their wares freely on most
street corners downtown and operated out of government housing projects.
Promiscuous teen sex and illegal drugs are rampant in all the high schools
I know of, and the women tend to be hard as nails.  Once I was waiting for
the bus by Waianae High School.  With me at the bus stop were some school
girls.  The one of them doing the most of the talking was loudly employing
the f- and the sh- word between almost every other word she was saying.

"Such language!" I hazarded when I got the chance.

"Ay!" she shot back.  "You no like hea, then why you listen?"

"Please pardon me, Madam," I replied, "but this IS a public bus stop, and
I may be able to close my eyes, but I can't close my ears.

I have often felt genuine sorrow over the women of Honolulu.  After
circling the world three times,  I think it is probably safe to say that I
have never seen finer specimens of female flesh anywhere.  Dark, fair,
skinny, fat, short, tall, any possible mixture of all the races under the
sun--Hawaii has it all.  How sad that these finest creatures I have ever
known must also be the wretchedest, most miserable, and most vulgar in the
world when I should have expected them to be the very best.  And yet a
moments reflection will tell us that this is precisely what we should
expect.  No evil ever existed alone, but only as a parasite upon good.
Thus wherever there is greater good, there is a correspondingly greater
potential for evil.  So it is precisely here, in this very approximation
of Paradise, that we will find all of the world's most degrading evils.

"Some minds move among a group of orthodox and accepted ideas, and always
view every new idea as if it were a time bomb set to go off shortly.  They
not only suspicion new ideas: they actually fear them." --William Raine.

"Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as
little as the waves wear a cliff." --Mark Twain.

People bound by a common tradition present an impenetrable wall of
solidarity against men of reason.  People who love truth cannot understand
this, because they expect others to agree with them and support them when
they are right, whereas people living in the brotherhood of tradition see
those who expect others to support them just because they are right as
insane.  So there is no fellowship between light and darkness, and the
children of light will immediately clash with the children of darkness at
every encounter, nor can these two types mix any more than can oil and
water.  The best we can hope for is some kind of uneasy accomodation.

At first the children of darkness were in the ascendancy.  The children of
light hid themselves in caves, learned to pretend, or got fed to lions.
But over the millennia, the children of light have increased and become
strong, and this is why the world now prepares for battle.  America, with
all its evils, has become the stronghold, not of Christianity, but of
freedom and truth, and therefore also the Great Satan who must be
destroyed.  Uncircumcised Arab women in America dare to flaunt the sacred
veil, to think for themselves, and to  sleep with white men, and for such
sacrilege we must now be destroyed.  Arab women have no right to do these
things because they are, and must remain, the sole property of Allah and
Islam.

All libraries of wisdom have always been rife with lies.  We quarrel less
and cooperate better when we believe the same lies.  Religion helps us
live close together in large numbers by supplying us with artificially
constructed common libraries of lies.  This may be why the origins of all
our modern religions can be traced back to the first millennium BC, when
populous nation states were emerging.  As our children grow up, we fill
their heads with the common lies of our particular superstition, and when
they grow up, they will be able to cooperate with their fellows better for
sharing these lies in common.  These traditions provide warm, fuzzy
feelings of brotherhood, and help shield us from the poverty and misery
that await us outside.

But lies hold us back, and keep us from progress, so I will say the
following:

TRAIN UP A CHILD TO THINK CRITICALLY AND ANALYTICALLY FOR HIMSELF, AND HE
WILL THINK FOR HIMSELF ALL HIS LIFE, throw down strongholds, and reach for
the stars, and there is no way you will ever be able to know from what he
will or will not depart, and whither he will go.  Only train him early to
love truth and hate lies, and take care not to poison his mind with lies
of your own.

There may not even be any such thing as a species of action that is ALWAYS
either right or wrong.  Nor is it probable that there is any such thing as
a saying or quotation that is ALWAYS right and works every time.  This is
why it is essential that we should always critically analyze each thought,
taking every possible fact into consideration before believing what we
hear or coming to decisions.  Life is real and dynamic, and far too
complex to be safely negotiated using any kind of prescription, and this
is why we have been endowed with minds that are capable of thinking for
themselves.  Confining one's actions to the prescriptions of some religion
or tradition is nothing but a glorified act of lobotomy calculated to
deprive us of the use of that organ we need most to survive.

* The Father of Lies?

"The press of the United States?  It is a parasitic growth that battens on
the capitalist class.  Its function is to serve the established by
moulding public opinion, and right well it serves it." --Jack London.

True 100 years ago, and still true today.

Chapter 3.  The Dangers of Living Alone.

Although there are many people of exceptional intellect in today's world,
and although many of these, through mastery of their own minds, have
learned to live well enough alone, the basic human design is not well
adapted to complete solitude.  In fact careful observation will show that
most people living alone are suffering from dementia to one degree or
another, and that although living alone takes a heavy toll upon the
emotions, in most cases this dementia is tied to delusions.  It is
apparently natural for the human mind to be deceived, either by
misinformation gotten from outside or from false conclusions arrived at
from within.  But in a group, the very first beginnings of any false idea
are quickly shot down before they have the opportunity of taking root and
getting strong, and the native human psyche relies on this premise for
balance.  It is true that this process comes with a price, because along
with false ideas, good ones will also inevitably get shot down whenever
they fail to conform strictly to the ideas of the group.  This is why the
greatest scientific innovations have generally come out of societies in
which people tend to walk alone, and almost no scientific innovation ever
comes from societies in which the individual is too firmly bound to
his/her group; and this is why the greatest personal happiness can always
be found in the poorest societies, where people live lives closely bound
up in extended families, be they ever so poor.

* Suicide.

But as disgusting and troublesome as the milder forms of dementia may be,
they usually go no further than being a handicap to the sufferer and an
annoyance to his or her acquaintances and friends.  Thus, although at any
given moment up to 25% of the US population may be suffering from some
kind of dementia, the nation keeps plodding along with its usual small
daily ration of murders, suicides, and rapes.  Yet in most "developed"
nations, this daily ration of suicides is unacceptably high.

So why do people commit suicide?  There are many reasons, of course, some
of which make perfect sense.  Many people simply have no other means of
escape from great sufferings caused by physical trauma, disease, or old
age.Others suffer under an excessive burden of bad memories which cause
them intense psychological pain.  They have no great goals to live for,
and they would rather be dead.  This has been a basic human right since
the beginning of time, yet our all-wise leaders have seen fit to lock up
Dr.  Kavorkian and throw away the key.  It apparently pains them that old
folks can actually take charge of their lives and work out real decisions
while they themselves can but wallow.

But many people have unwittingly set themselves up for suicide in the
following manner:  Person A intensely loves Person B to the exclusion of
all others.  They live happily together, and because both are totally
satisfied by one another, they keep to themselves and seek no other
friends.  At last, Person B grows weary of Person A and betrays Person A
by leaving.  Person A becomes convinced that life can have no further
meaning without person B, and there is no one around to convince Person A
otherwise, so Person A puts an end to it all by committing suicide.

What has happened?  Person A has believed a fatal lie, and being cut off
from close contact with others, the natural system of checks and balances
has failed.  Person A has died as a result of believing a seemingly
innocent falsehood, namely: I simply can't live without him/her.

Thus even the most trivial falsehood can be deadly to individuals who
suddenly find themselves living alone--especially those who have never had
to live alone before, and are unfamiliar with the potential deceptions of
solitude and their effects upon the human psyche.

* Delusions about Invention.

Suicidal delusions can kill.  Other delusions create cranks who live alone
and imagine that they have made or else are on the verge of making great
discoveries.  Ideas spring up spontaneously during normal mental
processes, but when these are not in keeping with reality, there is no one
around to shoot them down.  Every healthy mind should have its share of
fantasies, but not all minds are strong enough to recognize the ones that
are out of keeping with reality on their own.  Stronger minds may
consciously adhere to something like the rigorous steps of the scientific
method, but weaker or less disciplined minds are often quickly swept away.

I once knew a man in Honolulu who believed himself to be a great inventor
and told everyone so.  This delusion gave him a wonderful sexual
advantage, because there are many unattached women in Honolulu who would
like to be the lady of a great inventor, although they themselves are
unable to discern whether a man who seems gentlemanly and kind and talks
intelligently might really be a great inventor or not.  I wasn't quite
sure just what he might or might not have done.  When I met him one day,
he had a broken wrist.  He said that he had been working on an
anti-gravity machine which had gotten away from him.  At last he invited
me to his apartment, where he showed me another most amazing machine,
carefully and neatly crafted from a host of mechanical parts.  It was a
perpetual-motion machine, he said, and he spent several minutes explaining
its various complicated features to me.  His command of English and his
entire manner had been so convincing that it was not till then, and only
then, that I could tell he was a crank.  His fancy machine really didn't
work, and the things he was saying were quite wide of the mark.

* Religious Delusions.

Another kind of falsehood that prays upon the minds of those who live
alone is the deception of religion.  Here the fantasies are not
mechanical, but social, moral, and mystical.  A somewhat differently
oriented mind is working, probably alone in some desert wilderness or
under some great tree.  Most religious cranks get scoffed at and ignored,
but every once in a great while one of them is popularly believed, usually
with dire consequences for all mankind.  Of course I know that it is
impolitic to speak out clearly of these things.  Even in our comparatively
enlightened modern times, and to our everlasting shame, hardly anyone will
ever dare.  But weren't the founders of all the world's "great" religions,
at one time or another, people who cut themselves off from the checks and
balances of other human minds for long periods to be completely alone?
Wasn't the founder of Taoism a loner?  Didn't the Buddha starve himself in
the Himalayas many months or even years, and didn't he sit alone for forty
days and nights under the Bodhi tree, where at last he received his
"enlightenment?"  And as soon as John had baptized Jesus, didn't Jesus go
up into the wilderness for forty days and nights to be "tempted of the
Devil" all alone?  The problem with this class of delusions is that,
unlike the mechanical variety, they can never be tested, and hence can
never be debunked or disproved, so that once they become established in
the minds of men, they can never be uprooted for all time.

And what makes religious delusions doubly dangerous is that, provided
those who first experience them are only ordinary men, then it naturally
follows that, given the right set of conditions, the exact and selfsame
delusions can be experienced by nearly any other ordinary man.  This is
what gives religion its mystical dimension, and its profound sensations of
brotherhood in the mystery and in the faith.  This seemingly magical
ability to experience some particular delusion, which generally happens
when some special set of physical and psychological conditions have been
met, is so convincing to the simple that they often become willing to
suffer any torment or perform any act, no matter how inhuman, for the sake
of the religion with which they associate the delusion.  Thus even suicide
and wanton murder are as nothing to the fanatical followers of Bin Laden,
because they have somehow been "enlightened."

"Do not speak ill of the religion of the land, or make a mock of it by
your way of life, lest you should learn how cruel men can be when they
think that it is pleasing to their gods." --H.  Rider Haggard.

Once again I must apologize for speaking out against religion.
Personally, I have nothing against any religion except Islam, which has
caused the destruction of my ancient and beloved Moluccan homeland, driven
my childhood playmates from their homes, burned their peaceful villages,
and subjected their innocent countrymen to death and unspeakable torments.
 All ideologies become dangerous the moment people are willing to kill for
them.  Once upon a time the thought of Communism struck terror to our
hearts, but I suspect that poor Communism, which must have been without
any deep mystical experience beyond the brotherhood of common hatred, will
not be able to hold a candle to violent Islam in times to come.

And yet I find Islam both interesting and esthetically pleasing.  It is a
most marvelous artifact, art form, belief system, moral framework, etc.,
but I fail to see how it has anything to do with God.  And dear
Christianity would frighten us out of our wits over sexual immorality on
the one hand while telling us that it was the selfsame Christian God, and
no other, who blessed mankind with some of the largest penises in all the
animal kingdom and specially designed our females to play with them and be
hot and sexually receptive all month long from about the tender age of six
to ninety-one.  Now I am 60, and it has been a long, hard struggle to
shake all of the old bugaboos from my mind, and I am not so sure that I
have really succeeded, even as I write.  How is it that we, as human
beings, are indeed so frail, just as all religions tell us, that having in
us these incredible thinking machines, the finest in the known universe,
which we call "minds," we never use them?  What if we could just see all
religions for what they really are, and perhaps enjoy their innocent
deceptions the way we might enjoy a movie instead of letting them control
our very lives?

I would not have spoken out against religion, but religion is a deadly
falsehood that needs to be exposed.  Indeed, I would have been totally
hypocritical and irresponsible to have written this book about the faces
of evil without mentioning these facts.  By keeping silent, I should have
contributed to the general conspiracy that is now in the process of
ruining our planet, ruining our futures, and ruining our lives.  Shame on
those who keep on being silent when they know well the truth concerning
what is going on.  This is a conspiracy of falsehood that endangers the
whole world.  Do we really want our children to become idiots like
ourselves, or do we want them to understand what is happening, deal with
it, and move on?

Chapter 4.  The Myriad forms of Sophistry that Stultify Our Personal
Lives.

* Delusions of Victimization, or The Devil Made Me Do It.

"Those who represent themselves as born to ill luck can usually trace the
ill luck to errors or shortcomings of their own." --HORATIO ALGER, JR.

Another kind of falsehood that plagues the human mind is the idea that
everything that happens to us and everything we do is caused by things and
persons other than ourselves.  It is certain that environment plays the
critical role in our development, but it is also certain that we will
never improve ourselves unless we take charge of our own lives.  The
actions of people who wallow in self pity and self excuse lack something
known as "consequence," and have no power to improve or change their
lives, whereas people of consequence, no matter how miserable, can think
and act and change the world.  I fail to understand why Christians must be
told this.  Didn't Jesus say that even with an infinitesimal amount of
faith, such as that which might be compared with a grain of mustard seed,
men could remove mountains?  Yet we continue to find ourselves forever
faced with Christian weaklings who barely have faith enough to get out of
bed in the morning, wash their faces, and comb their own hair.

"The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves that we are underlings."
--Cassius.

* Emperor Sung's 100% Natural Serpent Oil from Beijing.

 Another kind of falsehood and deception that causes people misery and
sucks all the money from their pockets is snake oil.  And, mind you, it is
of critical importance that this snake oil must be NATURAL.  Have you ever
heard of any snake oil that WASN'T natural?  Never mind.  The snake oil WE
use must be NATURAL, and that's that.

The wise and gentle Chinese believe firmly in the Ying and the Yang, and
would drive the black bear and the seahorse to extinction just to live
another day in fair Beijing.  Yet do Chinese live one whit better or
longer for all their deep-breathing exercises and praying-mantis-dropping
tea?  No, but probably much less.  How grievous it is for us who have
lived long in the Orient and become intimately familiar with many real
Chinese, their illnesses and their multitudinous and enthralling
superstitions to become the captive audiences of our New-Age friends who
would expound to us the finer points of accupuncture, energy, ying, yang,
and the Ai Jing!  We dare not open our mouths because of course we know
nothing of all these wonders, so we must just content ourselves to smile.

"Anybody who promises you health by buying a certain product is a quack."
--Dr.  Erny Portner of Honolulu.

Why are so many people obsessed with the word, NATURAL, these days?
NATURAL food, NATURAL remedies, and NATURAL everything else?  I will tell
you.  It is simply because they are cowards who are afraid to grow old and
die.  They know that Western medicine cannot keep them from dying or keep
them young, so they allow their idle minds to wander to the east.  Could
it not be that somewhere out there, far away and unbeknownst to modern
science there might really exist some wondrous NATURAL cure or knowledge
that will keep their useless natural selves alive?  Surely, and people
ultimately believe what they want to be true, whether it be reasonable or
not.  I am 60, and in much better shape than most people my age, and I
thrive upon natural MacDonald's hamburgers and Hershey's chocolate bars.
And I say that people long to be deceived because they have no idea of the
sinister power behind falsehood and self-deception, which may yet gobble
up our precious planet.

* The Amazing Things That Can Be Done Through The Power of Our Minds!

"Impatient of evil, men seek to annihilate it by denying its existence or
by loudly chanting that good thoughts will destroy it.  These are typical
impatient solutions in the sphere of religion." --Abraham Myerson.

Can we really change anything by thinking about it or by forcing ourselves
to believe things we know are not so?  Every Christian ought to know the
answer to this one.  "Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit
unto his stature?" Jesus asked them (Matthew 6:27).  And yet...

I once met a New-Age lady in Honolulu who was, frankly, quite well endowed
on the physical plane, and had a most charming voice.  She was of Filipino
origin, but American born, well-spoken with perfect English pronunciation,
and apparently quite intelligent.  I was single at the time, and as soon
as I met her, I knew that there was some sort of physical attraction
between her and myself, although I failed somewhat in my attempts to
secure a true meeting of our minds--a problem that was further acerbated
by my discovery that she was also endowed with a live-in Chinese sex
partner.  And I confess to a feeling of great loss as she began to expound
her spiritual beliefs to me one day at a bus stop.  Yet she remained
undaunted by my doubts, and wished to open up a business with me.  One
day, while we were discussing these plans on the telephone, she explained
to me the principle of visualization.  She said that what we must do was
simply to visualize all of the things we wanted, and they would be so.  So
she went on to tell me of the office we would have in Manoa,  with its
desks and chairs.  But this cute little picture made me love her, and the
unfortunate visualization that immediately sprang into my poor, troubled
head was one of her on our office floor under me!  And all this time, I
kept wondering about her relationship with the Chinese.  In the end, she
lost faith in the whole thing, and left me to find my own way home from
some place near Aiea, and it was clear that her trick of visualizing
things didn't work.

But isn't this kind of self-deception quite harmless?  Indeed no.
Building up such a structure of falsehood in the mind takes energy that
could be put to good use.  Then, putting one's faith in empty
visualizations opens oneself up wide to needless disappointment, emotional
distress, and confusion.  And finally, it hurts others, just as this lady
ended up hurting me.  But Christians should know all of this.  After all,
didn't Jesus say that foolish men build houses upon sand?  That's all this
visualization business can ever really get us, so that when we put forth
our hands for the silver palaces, we find that all we have gotten is sand.
 It is sad that Christianity itself really offers nothing better when all
is finally said and done.

Falsehood is dangerous.  It thwarts human growth and destroys people's
lives.

* Miracles and Supernatural Healing.

The votaries of all sorts of religions bear false witness to miracles and
healings.  When I was a boy, my Christian parents assured me that they had
seen many such things, all of them absolutely true, and I believed them.
One of my first physical problems was caused by my teeth, which they told
me I should brush but then never made sure I did so.  By the time I was
14, I was a devout born-again Christian myself, and my front uppers were
rotting out, which rather cramped the sweet style of my smile.  But never
mind.  God would heal them, and the excruciating pain of tooth decay gave
me some idea of how much I would have to be compensated, and how wonderful
my life would be in Heaven.  I grew up with a minimum number of dental
visits.  Deep down in my heart I hated the institution of dentistry, and
went into a state of denial.  When I was working for Boeing, sometimes I
had to visit that old dentist in Seattle, because if I stuck to my faith
too strongly, and couldn't show up for work, I would almost certainly get
fired.  Whenever I entered the dentist's clinic, my emotions would be all
aboil, and to top it all off, he had this friendly young female assistant
who would deliberately push her lower belly up hard against my shoulder
through the most excruciating moments so as to shame me into not screaming
and provide physical comfort to me in my pain.  One time she talked to me
when the dentist was out of the room, and her words ran swiftly to matters
of sex.  So I was a missionary's son?  Well, she had once known the son of
a preacher, and he had been famous (or maybe infamous) for his sexual
doings.  Unfortunately, I was also in denial about God's power over
masturbation, and, needless to say, I would then have to go home and
masturbate over the memory of her warm, lower belly for days.  It is
impossible to say now just how much good, young semen this wasted.  And
when I got into adult life, and became a missionary in Buru, it was ever
malaria in the jungle, of which I might well have died without chloroquin.
 But my missionary parents had taught me well, and even of this defeat to
malaria I was still in denial, so I prayed and popped chloroquin pills in
the jungle.  Then at last it was blindness--Retinitis pigmentosa, for
which there is no known cure--but still I kept on hanging in.  My physical
blindness was terrible enough, but my spiritual blindness was worse.  I
kept reading Job over as long as I could still see, and even as I write
this, I can hear the words, "Though Thou slay me, yet will I trust Thee,"
echoing through the corridors of my mind.

But I was decidedly lucky, for I have read of others more heroic than
myself who were arrested for believing and trusting in God, and not taking
their dying children to the hospital.

"Hiding one's head (and brains) in a desert of optimism merely perpetuates
evil, even though one sufferer here and there is deluded into happiness."
--Abraham Myerson.

So can these seemingly innocent falsehoods about Jesus healing the sick
really be evil or dangerous?  Definitely, because they can kill you, maim
you, and otherwise destroy your mind, your future, and your life.  And
much as I would like to, I cannot spare Christianity in this thing,
because it is patently treacherous and quite false and dangerous to life
and limb.  And along with Christianity, of course, must go Hinduism,
Buddhism, African shamanism, and all brands of Eastern meditation.  All of
them are equally dangerous, and make an ass and a dupe of their luckiest
users, and cold dead men of the rest.  People who hold religious or other
superstitions about health can destroy their own lives through neglect of
personal medical care, nutrition, and basic hygiene.

* Sexual Taboos.

What is marriage, and can the creator of the universe really be watching
us all the time to see what we will do next with our genitalia?  The
answer to this question would seem to be obvious to suckling babes, and
yet the whole world is full of people who live in something like terror
over sexual taboos.  How many times have I endured questions like, "Do you
masturbate?"  "Is masturbation a sin?" etc., and how many times have I
cringed to hear such things discussed openly before men, women, and even
children?  Wouldn't it be better for people to ask, "If I do this or that,
will it hurt anyone?" because if people would only ask this, many terrible
things could be avoided.  So we have been lied to about sexual taboos, and
these lies have hurt us.  I cannot count all the times that lovely women
have let me know in some way or other that they would be willing to give
all to me, and yet I have had to turn them down, not because they had
husbands or lovers, but because of my Christian sexual taboos.  How sad to
have trashed such splendid opportunities for some foolish sexual taboo
that a moment's unbiased reflection must show to have nothing whatever to
do with any creator or God!  How sad not to have used the splendid members
of my body to fulfill the purposes for which they were obviously designed
and created while they were still perfect and young!  Looking back now, I
cannot help seeing these things as almost a crime against my own being and
life, not to mention the many disappointments I have given to good women.
These horrible, stultifying things sprang from the falsehood of sexual
taboos, and they have stolen much from the enjoyment and pleasure of my
life and the lives of others which were our common heritage and
birthright.  Are sexual taboos a falsehood?  Of course they are, and they
can hurt people very much.

* Marriage.

But the most rediculous of all things related to sexual taboos must be the
American institution of marriage.  In the first place, it has no meaning
whatsoever, since American law provides perfect freedom for sexual
activity of any kind among consenting adults.  Then, any American marriage
contract can be freely broken at any time without fear of the law.  And
beyond this, hardly anyone in their right mind could take such vows
seriously, since most couples have already flouted the whole idea of
marriage already by indulging in premarital sex.  Meantime the American
divorce rate is creeping ever upwards towards 100%.  And finally, the
participants have sullied the sacred bond of their love by paying for
their marriage liscence, the reverend, the church, and many other things
with dollars, and can expect to get ripped off royally by the lawyers when
the bubble finally bursts.  Since the whole institution of marriage is so
thoroughly bound up in falsehood, I think anyone who gets married in
America should be ashamed of themselves for being a conformist hypocrit
and a complete fool!

Is marriage then evil?  Of course it is, because the whole thing is a lie.
 Once people are married, they begin to get the false idea that they own
one another, take each other for granted, lose respect for each other, and
finally fall out of love.  It would be much better for people to really
love and respect one another without taking vows they know they will
break, show honor and stability toward one another, and do what is right
by their children instead of using them as living weapons with which to
hurt one another.

* The Great Horror of Nakedness and the Corresponding Obsession with
Clothes.

As I may have written already, I was brought up as the son of American
missionary parents in Indonesia, and later became a missionary myself.
Perhaps this will help to account for some of my strange insights and
views.  Among other things, my Southeast Asian experience has made me very
skeptical and critical of the American obsession with clothes.  Having
grown up in a land where the sight of a naked woman in the stream was
quite commonplace, and where many children wore pretty much nothing until
they were twelve, sometimes it is hard for me to maintain a straight face
when I hear people talk.

One of the difficult lessons I had to learn about Americans was that many
of them perceive nakedness as some kind of sin.  At first this whole idea
was incomprehensible to me, having never heard anything like it where I
grew up, and never read anything of it in the Bible.

As a teenager, I was also surprised to find that some Americans even
thought "mixed bathing," in which male and female human beings actually
went swimming in the same water, a sin.  After I grew up and began to
bathe my own children, I would strip them all naked at once, throw all of
them into the shower together, and let them splash on, and this continued
until they were big enough to take their own baths when they got to be six
or seven years old.  But I learned that to many other Americans, such an
outrage would be close to the ultimate horror.

Well, since my children were all used to seeing each other naked, they had
little enough interest in the naked human form, and never a sexual hangup
of any kind that I could ever find.  But one of my friends was VERY
careful never to allow his boy children to see his girl child, and vice
versa, and I cannot say the same for him.  In fact I noticed that his
children evinced a great and precocious interest in sex which virtually
exploded into life when I absent-mindedly made some remark.

So is nakedness sin?  Of course it is not, and here we have another great
and very American lie which drags in a whole litany of sexual perversion.
In fact, I am convinced that any unnatural obsession about covering up the
female crotch can become an inexhaustible source of sexual perversion,
just as can any obsession that results in putting it up for public
display.  Human sexuality is tricky, and those who get it wrong tend to
end up in mental asylums.

"beauty, dependent as it is to a certain extent upon the imagination, is
never so beautiful as when it is half hid." --H.  Rider Haggard.  .  .  .

"She who hides her beauty often seems the loveliest.  .  .  .

"What man is there that a veiled woman does not interest?  Indeed, does
not half the interest of woman lie in the fact that her nature is veiled
from man, in short a mystery which he is always seeking to solve at his
peril, and I might add, never succeeds in solving?" --H.  Rider Haggard.

* Exhibitionism on Public Beaches, or Collecting Flies.

"Let us honor the wifehood of our native land.  It is the fountain of all
truth and righteousness, and if the fountain should become impure, all is
lost.  .  .  .

"When a woman falls she generally descends to the lowest plane." --John N.
 Reynolds.

Let us talk about American women who find it necessary to lie about
beaches in the sun in scant bikinis.  Can it be possible that such beings
have healthy human minds?  Hardly, as any halfwit might readily see.  Yet
their thinking has become so twisted by the culture from which they spring
that it may be impossible for them to understand this or even think much
about it at all.  They are not apt to see the subtle difference between
wearing a bathing suit to go swimming and stripping down as far as
possible in order to cause erections and arouse male passion, and heaven
help those who dare mention this distinction!

Now let us suppose that the lady is lying supine and spread eagled in the
sun.  About her hips and vulva is some kind of bandage so small that pubic
hairs can be seen everywhere, and the bandage has assumed a little cleft,
sinking in some distance between her labia majora.  And due to the lack of
space in this book, I will not even mention the bandage that somehow
covers her nipples.  Suppose I or someone else were to walk by and say,
"Excuse me, madame, but you have failed to completely cover all of your
pubic hairs.  Well, in America it is well known that men have been taken
to task in courts of law for talking about pubic hairs, and instead of
doing something to cover these exposed bristles, she would almost
certainly look daggers at me to show that she perfectly understood my
intentions, and considered it a great insult that some stray dog like
myself should dare imagine grappling with HER.  The last thing she would
think of is shame.

But if these women are only interested in collecting flies, then why
bother with bandages or bikinis?  Why not just strip down completely and
show us their glorious all?  Is not honest nakedness the stickier fly
paper?  Aha!  but the answer to this is a long one, and frought with
sexual perversion at every turn, for not only is the lady perverted, but
so are the police and the laws of the land.  In short, for the difference
of a couple of bandages, she would be arrested for indecent exposure, and
fined.

In fact there is deep-seated sexual perversion in America, and it has to
do with the American idea of nakedness and clothedness, and the warping of
minds that results from always keeping the pubic region unnaturally
covered under threat of the police and the law.  These things are
obsession!

Why do I say this?  I know it because I have lived in societies where the
bare female breast and a skirt from the waist to the knees was standard
attire.  At first I was shocked, but it took only a few days to get so
that I barely even noticed at all.  It is ever the things that people try
to cover up and hide that become their obsessions and cause unnatural
warpings and twistings of their minds.

So I say that the difference between a real naked woman and one pretending
to be clothed by a bikini is a falsehood, and by now you know that I
perceive all falsehood as evil.

But please tell me, you psychologists and psychiatrists out there, aren't
these poor half-naked women being burned by the sun on our beaches really
there because of some desparately hidden and overpowering desire?  Just
imagine what our myriad female progenitors might have gotten in our
ancient forests for "accidentally" raising their drab skins and furs.  For
those of you who are male, what images flash through your minds at the
sight of pale buttocks and thighs?  Might it not be true that there lies
buried deep in the breast of every healthy woman some primordial and
terrible need to be held immobile and probed hard by strong and strange
men?  For an instant please dump your conditioning and see if this be not
so.  Are not stolen waters sweet?  Didn't our ancient mothers need fast
encounters with strong strangers from time to time in order to ensure that
I would finally be me and you would be you?  If marriage had ever really
succeeded, could our race now be what it is?

And if these things be true, then instead of allowing our pristine beaches
to become steaming laboratories of sexual passion where frustrated and
lewd men gather to drool while our poor, confused women strive to passify
their suppressed desires without knowing how or why, might it not be wiser
to loosen up somewhat on the laws against sexual harrassment, so that
instead of being treated as some monumental crime, a solid male slap upon
some strange but shaply female buttock might only bring laughs?  Mightn't
some other set of proprietary rules allowing for a little more rough
physical contact between men and women provide a kind of safety valve
capable of letting off enough steam to avoid gross sexual perversion
without causing real harm?

I think the institutionalized exhibitionism on our beaches and streets
deserves further study.  These naked women on our beaches are there for
one reason, and that is to attract weak men like whores, and this is
clearly a sickness and an evil, and we need to own up to it and deal with
it and move on.  Also, dressing and acting in ways specifically designed
to arouse an erection in strangers with no intention of delivering the
goods sends a lying message, and no lie is without evil results.  In
nations with laws like the ones we have, there is no real reason for woman
to wear anything at all, since the very clothes they put on are more
suggestive than nudity itself.  Women would quickly start dressing more
honestly were our draconian rape laws relaxed.  I think we should decide
what we want once and for all, and if it is nudity, which it seems to be,
then we should allow women to go naked wherever they wish at all times.
In fact, for them  nudity should be a basic human right, just like freedom
of expression and freedom of speech.  But I think men should be required
to wear something over their penises, be this nothing more than a penis
sheath or long gourd, because I simply cannot see a society in which naked
men are allowed to wander about "accidently" touching bare female skin
with these organs.  What I am describing is not without precedent.  It is
pretty much the system that the wrong-headed Republic of Indonesia has
been trying to stamp out in the highlands of West Papua for about two
generations.  Personally, I think it makes eminent sense, especially for
climates like that of Hawaii.

* Can the human sex drive be weakened by avoidance?

Apparently not, but avoidance can result in perversion.  Men who try to
become pure celibates end up molesting children.  Also, it appears that
the more one tries to avoid thinking of sex, the more tantalizing it
becomes.  Christian men who attempt to be sexually pure are kept
tirelessly undressing women in their minds or imagining how it might be to
probe their warm, wet vaginas under their skirts, etc., all the while
chattering obsessively about scripture and the evils of committing
adultery in one's heart, as if denial might yet somehow work where all
else had failed.  Men who fear "jail bait" use their minds to undress
little girls, and the long list goes on.  And because of the promise of
ultimate Hell fire, I dare say that some men are even now living in abject
terror of themselves.

But "he who rideth the tiger can never dismount,"  so unless one has no
sex drive, therefore, the only way to solve the sex problem is to find
some way of channeling his/her libido harmlessly away.  For some, a hug or
a kiss or even just a little male/female companionship may do.  The idea
may just be to take off the keen edge or to draw off enough of the heat to
make life at least bearable.  Others may find that a little horseplay can
help.  Perhaps a little shoving, bumping, tickling, slapping, or shouting
at each other may do.  Still others will find nothing for it but desparate
grapplings in the dark.  But if one wishes to be happy, then it is best to
make sex an object of pleasure instead of an object of suffering,
distress, and foolish prayers, because after all we are still ourselves,
and whether we make a Paradise or a Hell of our lives will depend finally
upon us.

The sex drive, of course, is a strong one, else we would have ceased to
exist, and all strong drives can go dangerously wrong, with terrible
consequences to body and soul.

* Mutilation.

If you have followed me thus far and fail to see that man is absolutely
stupid and unwilling to use his/her mind, then I have certainly failed.
Nevertheless I will continue.

Besides the mere psychological forms of suffering described above, the
human obsession with sex can result in more concrete, permanent, and
irreversible damage.  In many cultures--perhaps nearly all--some form of
physical mutilation or other is practised right down to this day.  It may
be the piercing of an earlobe, or the tatooing of a moustache upon a
woman's upper lip, but whatever else, it almost always involves the
enitalia.  For example, a girl may be subjected to female circumcision at
about the same time as her teeth are filed, so that a quick glance at the
teeth can tell one the girl's status vis a vis the all-important GENITAL
mutilation.  In the US, traditional mutilation is limited to males.  It
consists of the removal of the foreskin from the penis during infancy, and
true to the universal spirit of genital mutilation, it is performed
without anesthesia.

And in every culture in which it is practised, physical mutilation must be
provided with some rationale.  So here come the falsehoods and lies.  It
may be the will of the gods, the proof of manhood or womanhood, the
opening of a way out for unborn babies, or anything else.  For the
American case, I have heard at least two: (1) "If you leave it on, someday
it may become infected."  I think I rather like this one.  So may his
FOOT, so why not cut THAT off without anesthesia as well?  And then I have
been told (2) that it is the will of God, because He commanded it to be
done by the children of Israel, which is probably the right and original
story.

Are any of these old wives' tales true?  Of course not.  In one place the
Bible tells us that God gave the covenant of circumcision to Abraham, but
in another place it says that Moses gave it to the Jews because of the
fathers, while in reality circumcision had probably been around for
thousands of years before Abraham OR Moses.  They are lies, and if I have
done my duty in this work, by now you will have guessed that no good can
ever come from lies because they fight against the very foundations of the
universe itself.

I think the only spirit or god that ever taught men to mutilate their
helpless and terrified offspring must be some brutal instinct buried deep
in the genes of all men, else why this weird preference for mutilation
without anesthesia in a land where anesthesia is almost universal?  I
shudder to contemplate such a demon.  Can it be that such things are in
me?  But of course they MUST be, and hence it is imperative that I think
ere I do!  But I would ask you of those doctors among us who put their
hands to these mutilations, abortions, etc.  Do they ever think too?

Of all the stupid things that men have institutionalized and taught
themselves to believe, the various kinds of mutilation must be among the
most idiotic, because they destroy the very host of life itself, which is
the physical form.  How men have despised their own bodies!  I sometimes
find myself wondering what they will think of the things they have done to
themselves and others when they die.  Then I have to remind myself that
dead men don't think at all, and I smile because once again my dead
missionary parents' ideas are at work on my poor, simple mind!

What a wicked, cruel trick to cut off the foreskin of an infant without
anesthesia under the pretext of carrying out the perfect will of some
bloody, murdering Hebrew god!  What a dispicable and cowardly thing to cut
out the clitoris of a terrified young girl beside some lonely mountain
stream!  Yet these things give us deep satisfaction, else we would never
dream of doing any of them.  How terrible are the bugaboos of our minds,
and what a very long way we have yet to go upon this evolutionary journey!

These organs that have been removed can NEVER be replaced, and they both
perform important functions in sexual intercourse, otherwise they would
not be there in the first place.  Their removal will make it impossible
for the victim ever to know the complete range of feelings involved in the
sex act as it was originally designed.  But we know all of this very well
and care less, because we also know that deep within ourselves exists some
primordial need that is satisfied by the terror of genital mutilation.

The indirect object of the sex act is to produce offspring, but its direct
object is to stimulate profound reaction.  The rape of a virgin, for
example, may give peak satisfaction by producing a frenzy of shock,
ecstasy, and fear, whereas consenting sex with an experienced woman may
produce nothing more than a little mild pleasure.  A more satisfying
result might be obtained by first surprising and terrifying the
experienced woman with some stabbing or slow torture--hence sadism.  The
general rule seems to be that the greater the reaction produced, the
greater the sexual satisfaction of the party causing the reaction.  If
this rule be true, then it is easy to understand how a woman might derive
a mild jolt of sexual satisfaction by causing an erection in someone who
sees her walk by.  Unfortunately, this sexual satisfaction will not be
shared by the male sufferer, who will not have caused any reaction at all.
 For him to produce a profound reaction, he would have to run after the
cause of his erection and immobilize her in his arms.  Then her pulse rate
might shoot up, and she might be filled with a mixture of surprise,
trepidation, and desire.  At this point her male counterpart would find
satisfaction enough, but by the laws of our land, stand in peril of being
picked up for sexual assault.

Sexual perverts derive satisfaction from hiding in the bushes at night and
frightening women with hissing sounds, etc., because fright, especially in
the sexual connotation, is an appropriate deep reaction.  And besides
fright, this kind of encounter also seems to stimulate genuine female
sexual responses, however unwanted and unbidden.  This once happened to
the 19-year-old daughter of an American missionary friend in Singapore.
What surprised me was that, after coming into the house and telling her
story, she expressed feelings of guilt which she was trying to shake off.
I could not understand this at the time, but now I think it must be
because in such cases there is a genuine sexual interaction that takes
place between the pervert in the bushes and the lady on the sidewalk.
First he causes a reaction in her, and this gives him satisfaction.  But
this satisfaction is a deep reaction caused by her, so she finds herself
rewarded by a jolt of sexual satisfaction of her own.  In this way, even
without touching, and much against her own will, she has had a genuine
sexual interaction with a pervert in the bushes, and this makes her feel
guilty and disgusted with herself.

Some couples enjoy sexual intercourse that borders on violence.  This is
not hard to explain in light of the above.  He gets rough, and this gives
her sexual satisfaction because this roughness of his is a reaction to
her.  He feels her pleasure, and gets even rougher, and she goes out of
her mind, and so on.  She may get hurt, and he may get scratched, but it
will all have been so intensely exciting that they will soon be quite
willing to try it again, and deep in her heart she may feel proud of the
fact that she has the sexual power to make a man like HIM do something
like THAT!  And she may even tell her best friend.

I have written the above to establish an understanding of the direct
object of sex in order to better understand the ubiquitous phenomenon of
genital mutilation.  Now imagine the shock, terror, and confused sexual
impulses of a young girl being stripped beside some lonely mountain stream
for purposes of irreversible genital mutilation.  What object could ever
bring greater sexual satisfaction?  Now hold her cowering in the stream!
Now touch her shrinking and trembling genitalia!  Now savor her silent
horror!  Now cut and inflict deep and unbearable pain!  Now watch her
despair at the permanent and irrevocable results!  Now you have gone
through the steps, and you understand what they mean.  Perhaps you could
never do them, because you have been conditioned to feel the pain of
others as if it were your own.  Her pain might haunt you for the rest of
your life.  But Sadam Hussein could probably do it without batting an
eyelash, and so could an innumerable host of other crazed Arabs and
oOriental madmen.  I am convinced that in general the torture of the
helpless springs from the same vision.  The experience of the circumcising
surgeon may be but a shadow of this primeval vision, but it is such a
shadow, nevertheless, else why is it done sans anesthesia?  By what right
can one human being justify the perpetration of such a wicked atrocity
upon any fellow woman or man--much less a defenseless infant or child?
From such horrors all mankind should shudder and slink away, but instead
we just take them in stride, for as yet we have never even begun to know
the meaning of shame.

You may be sorry you have read this, but I am not.  Why?  To quote William
Raine: "Society wants to go along comfortably without being disturbed by
anything unpleasant or capable of harrowing the feelings.  It wants to
hear as little about the distresses of other people as possible."  People
tell us ignorance is bliss, but bliss for whom?  Certainly not for the
innocent victims of violence who cry out for our help in this world.
Instead I hope I have stung you as Socrates stung the ancient Athenians,
not to poison the bearer of bad news, as they did, but to think and to DO
before it is everlastingly too late for all of us.

So what IS mutilation, and where does it come from?  Again, it would seem
that any fool might easily answer this question without trouble were
he/she only to try to reason it out instead of repeating some memorized
formula.  If the genitalia are almost always involved somehow or other,
and if it is a well-known fact that the cutting of genitalia is associated
with sadism, then where else might mutilation come from except from the
ancient institutionalization of this disease and perversion of the mind?
Anyone involved in any of these things in our time deserves to be covered
with shame because such things are simply inexcusable.  But if people are
willing to perpetrate and suffer the cruelest of physical mutilations in
order to conform to the dictates of religion or tradition, then clearly
they will do the same or worse to their spirits as well.  Is this not why
the bright eyes of children become the dull eyes of adults?  So beware of
convictions, because history says that people can be convinced to do
anything the human mind can imagine, and beware of what you are taught,
because history says that the things you are taught can kill you.

* Sexual Promiscuity.

Some people believe that sexual promiscuity is okay.  This is a lie that
can destroy our lives.  People who fall into sexual promiscuity get
diseases and make themselves less and less capable of loving and being
loved.  It is harder to love just one woman or man when one has had many,
and it is hard to love anyone we see as a slut.  In fact virginity is
evidently deemed so important to our designer and creator that the female
body has been specially contrived so as to reveal whether or not a woman
is a virgin at a glance (or, for those of us who are blind, a quick
probe).  In fact, it is almost impossible for many men to love women who
have given their virginity to others as well as they can love women who
have been punctured by themselves.  Just why these things are we do not
seem to know, but their existence cannot be denied.

* Higher Love.

One of the greatest mysteries in our universe is the phenomenon of pure
sexual love.  Although almost everyone has experienced some kind of sexual
affection, it is evidently true that many people have never experienced
pure sexual love--probably because of some deficiency in their social
conditioning.  But for those fortunate persons who HAVE, this pure and
true love is probably the most precious thing they have ever known.
Sexual promiscuity can spoil it, or even keep it from ever happening at
all.  Another thing that seems to destroy it is any shadow of dishonesty
or deception.  This love can only be experienced by those who can know and
believe their own feelings.  In societies where people do not trust their
own feelings or take them seriously, this love is devalued, put down, and,
if possible, completely destroyed.

One of the most interesting tales I have ever heard about love was told to
me by a man and wife I met in Indonesia, where human rights have been so
frightfully abused, and romantic love has been so despised.  This man and
woman had never set eyes upon each other until they saw one another in a
crowded bazaar.  Both were young.  He was handsome, and she was beautiful.
 He immediately asked her to marry him, and she agreed without further
adoo.  To some, this tale may seem to simple for true love to have been
involved.  And yet I believe it must be people like these, who believe in
themselves and take their own feelings seriously enough to trust them in
making decisions, that experience the highest, most noble forms of sexual
love.  These are people of consequence, whose thoughts and actions have
meaning.

* A Nation of Whores.

"women folk are hard to teach; they never learn nothing till it's too
late, they don't, and then when they've been and done it they're sorry,
but what's the good o' that?" --Rider Haggard.

I cannot count the number of times I have been taken to high levels of
intimacy by American girls who were interested in nothing but playing some
game with my feelings, and I see that it is extremely difficult for any
higher level of sexual love to exist in a society such as our own, where
mothers push their daughters to begin dating at 14 or 15, and insist that
they do not date the same boys (go steady) until they have been out with
many, pawed by many, kissed by many, and other things by many.  What could
be any greater crime against love than this thing, and what could be more
shameful and dishonest?  But parents who have never known higher love
cannot see this, and don't know what to do with their children, so they
read books with these disgusting formulas and attempt to implement them.
The tragedy is that the highest love cannot exist except in the presence
of the highest standards of honor, faithfulness, and personal integrity.
By encouraging our children in any other direction we are robbing our
daughters of the capacity to love and setting them up to be whores.  It is
true that all whores begin life as pure virgins.  It is not true that all
good housewives and mothers begin life as whores.  In fact, we might as
well chop their feet off and tell them to walk.

So I perceive the current American idea of love as nothing but confusion
and lies, whose tragic results can be seen everywhere without end.  Was
any lie ever good, or "healthy," as I hear Anericans refer to the
lovemaking attempts of their poor, confused children?

Who has bewitched us?  How can we be so stupid?  No one could have done
this to us but ourselves.  Anyone else would have perished by nuclear
holocaust.

"What man is there who does not prize that gift most rare and beautiful,
that one perfect thing which no gold can buy--a woman's unfeigned love?

.  . .

"I dare say it is a form of selfishness, but what every man desires is
something that cares for him /alone/, which is just why we are so fond of
dogs.  .  .  .

"The woman who as we believed adored us solely has probably in the course
of her career adored others, or at any rate other things." --H.  Rider
Haggard.

* Human Sacrifice, Sin, and Hell.

Can the master and creator of the universe, if there be such a being,
really have any interest in what you or I do?  Of course not.  To such a
being, you or I would be less than a couple of cockroaches.  But here come
the lies: God cares very much about YOU.  You may never have heard him nor
seen him, and he may never have answered a single prayer of yours in your
life, but just believe me right now that he loves you and cares deeply
about you, and give your heart to Jesus, the Buddha, or the fat Brahma
Bull, and my brother, my sister, YOU will be SAVED!  You are a sinner, and
there is no forgiveness for sins without the shedding of blood.  Yes, God
is almighty, and God created the universe, but he can't forgive sins
without blood.  God LOVES blood, nay, IS OBSESSED like a SADIST with
blood, and your sins are SO TERRIBLE that this blood cannot be the blood
of a chicken or goat.  It must be the blood of a man, and a far better man
than YOU are.  Nay, but it must be the almighty perfect son of Almighty
God himself, or YOU DIE, and if you don't believe all of this right now
and swallow it all down in one gulp, my friend, YOU are going to HELL,
where you will burn for ever and ever without respite or end.  And do you
know what?  God is doing all of this to/for you because HE LOVES YOU!

Pretty sick when you tell it all straight like it is, isn't it?  But of
course we have heard it all so many times over that we aren't even shocked
or surprised, and we are SO stupid and SUCH gulls that we almost believe
it all over again!  This is man--that incredible being with the incredible
mind that he knows all about how to think with for his sex games, but with
which he stolidly refuses to think about much of anything else whenever he
has some ready answer, prescription, or formula!  Dear me, even great
scientists believe everything I have written above lock, stock, and
barrel, so why not you or me?

Then is man really a sinner, is there really an original sin, and does man
need a savior?  Think it out for yourself this time instead of snapping
back with Aunty Suzy's terrifying Sunday School lesson, and you just may
get it right.  Can these seemingly innocent things hurt you, and are they
really lies?  Of course they can and of course they are.  They can take
over your weak mind, fill you with terror, destabilize your thinking, and
make you suffer and belch up money to the church all the rest of your
life.  I think all lies are deadly, and these things are rank lies.

So all our lives we have been assiduously trained to see good as evil and
evil as good.  Is it any wonder then if we fail to reach our potential
when we have been stuffed with such lies?  The miracle is that not all of
us are perfect monsters!

As I hope I have shown, seemingly innocent lies are quite deadly, and have
lethal power to stunt our physical and psychological development, and
reduce us to dupes if not mental retards.

* The Spirit Realm and the Fear of the Dark.

So is there a spiritual world that exists alongside this material realm?
I used to think so, but now I do not.  And yet I can never quite feel 100%
sure.  Sometimes it would seem that there is, but then alternative
explanations are found for experiences and phenomena, and it would seem to
be the case that there is not.  So because I cannot be sure, I will hazard
a working hypothesis, and say plainly that the myth of the spiritual
universe is just another lie that holds men in bondage and ignorance.  And
so is the myth of the immortality of the soul, eternal Heaven, eternal
Hell, and so on.  And in this latter matter I do believe that I be on
somewhat firm ground, because I simply cannot see why a superior being
such as the intelligent creator of all life should want to keep me alive
past my lifetime.  Why should He, when my friends cannot even tolerate my
presence for more than half an hour or an hour at a time, and that only
upon special occasions.  If I can manage to bore my peers so much in this
world, then certainly I would bore God.  To him, I should think, I would
probably have somewhat less than the intelligence of a cockroach as
compared to me.  So why would the master and creator of the universe (if
there be such a one) want to keep me alive to bore Him for thousands of
years?  This would certainly seem foolish, since I am much more useful as
the evolutionary experiment that I am, just like some certain cockroach
might be interesting to me for a generation or so if I were trying to
improve cockroach breeds.  And why, oh why, should a master and creator of
universes wish to keep me forever in HELL?  Are the creators of universes
also blessed with faulty DNA that leaves such monstrosities as sadism
hidden deep in our genes?  Shame on us for even thinking, much less
believing, such things!  How basely have we been duped by those who
manipulate our abject and miserable minds!  First the boogiman, now Hell!
What next?  Pergatorium, of course, and Limbo!  Indulgences, Anyone?  I
tremble!

And almost as bad as superstitions about an eternal hereafter, and eternal
bliss or the unending vengeance of some becrazed God Hell-bent upon
punishing us for some kind of crime that makes less than no sense, perhaps
even, for example, some "original sin" that we know nothing whatever about
at all, are the unending beliefs in ghosts, magic, and talismans.  How
these things have stunted our minds, and served to focus them on red
herrings that get us nowhere.  How they have paralyzed us with fears of
the dark, fears of days and hours, fears of petty dieties and of ghosts.
All these things are but lies, which serve only to keep us from thinking
and acting like men.

Where DO these things come from to pester our lives?  Doubtless from
foolish women who have been too lazy to discipline their children and keep
them indoors in the night.  "Did you see the goblin out there in the dark,
just waiting to gobble you up?"  Some children may be strong enough later
to get such things out of their heads, but most won't, so before long all
the woods will be peopled with goblins, hobgoblins, etc.  "Impossible,"
you might say, but just read back through the preceding pages to see how
doting we are, and how unwilling to use our own minds to make any least
determination on our own when we have ready answers to recite from our
dear parents mouths and from THEIRS before THEM!

"This is how African superstitions are kept alive.  Sooner or later some
saying of the sort fulfils itself and then the instance is remembered and
handed down for generations, while other instances in which nothing out of
the common has occurred are not heeded, or are forgotten.  --H.  Rider
Haggard.  All lies are dangerous, as I have just said, and the great
danger of these lies is this:  Whenever a man believes in the
supernatural, and especially the disorganized supernatural of hobgoblins,
it is always much easier to attribute any unexplained phenomena to these
spirits than to trouble with bothersome investigations.  So the mind
filled with spirits and spiritual explanations becomes useless as an
observer or a person of science.

Once I brought the Haruku fisherman, Ama Uneputi, to Buru with me.  There
he built a canoe with the help of some friends, and one afternoon brought
in roughly sixty bonito fish in the space of about an hour.  Such prowess
had been unheard of in Buru before that time, and I had hoped that he
might teach some new skills to the men of Air Buaya, which was a Moslem
village nearby.  But when I suggested this to them, they said that of
course Ama had done what he did using magic, and therefore it was useless
to try to learn any new fishing technique from him.  So this stubborn
superstition and lie kept them from the beautiful gift of knowledge that
Ama had been willing to give them, which might have dramatically improved
their own lot.

* The Superstition of Reincarnation.

Of what use are lives which we do not remember after death has shut the
door of each of them? --H. Rider Haggard.

The folly of reincarnationism is simply this: We ARE our memories.  Erase
our memories and we are nothing.  Without our memories, we would not even
know our own names.  It is therefore quite impossible for anyone to have
ever been anything he/she cannot remember, because what we cannot remember
is not part of us.  We cannot even remember enough of our childhood
memories to enable us to be the same children we once were, let alone
persons from the past of whose memories we can really remember nothing at
all.  True, the human mind is the greatest of all modelers, and it is
therefore possible to model past lives in our imaginations, and then to
push these models into our long-term memories so that they actually become
part of us.  Recall that we ARE our memories, and therefore even
artificial memories can become part of us.  But such artificial memories
are merely yet more deception and falsehood.  The reincarnationist first
convinces him/herself to believe a lie, and then goes about trying to
convince others that his/her lie is the truth.  And so we see once more
just the same old human process of creating, believing, and broadcasting
lies.

But can such seemingly innocent lies be dangerous?  I fear that many will
fault me for saying so, and yet I would be remiss here to fail to point
out the inherent danger of ALL lies.  Lies enslave.  People who agree to
believe lies give up something of their priceless intellectual freedom
with every additional lie they believe, and the lie of reincarnation is no
feeble lie.  The defense of reincarnationism is just one more sorry device
with which men seek to paralyze and poison their own minds.  All such
philosophical and religious -isms serve only to prejudice our minds so as
to make it impossible for us to see the truth, even when it stands naked
before our very eyes.  These superstitions rob us of our natural
greatness, and make myopic insects of our minds.  Those who promote them
keep on polishing and shining them as if they were some wonderful
forbidden fruit, and presenting them with smooth words that would put
Eve's serpent to shame.  But as soon as we believe them, we find ourselves
excluded from Eden, because our superstitions blind us and keep us from
thinking freely, whereas to tHINK abundantly, clearly, and freely is to
walk in Paradise with God.

* The Fudging of Data.

Once when I was in Ambon, a college student brought his lab work to show
my friend, Andy.  The readings he got did not match the ones in the book,
so he was fudging them to make them look "right."  How sad to think of the
many monumental scientific discoveries that might have been missed had
others been of the same mind!  Here is another perfect example of the way
in which just a few little lies might completely block one's pathway to
greatness.

* The Yea and the Amen.

I was once listening to an evangelist in Santa Anna, California, near
Disneyland.  I think his name was Kenneth Copeland, and my dear friends
wanted him to heal my poor eyes.  He got us laughing by mentioning
Disneyland, "where," he said, "a certain mouse has a lot of people in a
trap," and I suppose this was true, but I am not so sure where HE had US.
The main thing was that he got a lot of people saying "amen" to almost
everything he said in his tiresome bombast.  And then (it had to be), he
came to the matter of money for him.  "God wants to sanctify your spirit,
soul, body, and pocketbook," said the evangelist, and then there were more
of the usual amens.  By then, I suppose he might have said almost anything
and gotten amens.  "Give God a dollar, and He'll return you a hundred," he
said, meaning Kenneth Copeland instead of God, who can never have needed
dollars from the beginning of time.  "Amen" and "amen."

And then there was the Jonestown mass suicide in Uruguay, and I wanted to
kno why, but the media didn't say.  Why should they care about the reason
when they had the story?  But finally one day I happened to be listening
when they played the tape recordings that had been gathered about Jim
Jones, and I knew the answer for myself.  This Jim Jones had a loud and
intimidating voice such as one you might hear in a good military
commander, and no matter what he said, all his people said, "Amen!"  In
this way, if the great spiritual leader Jim Jones wanted sex or disciplin
or whatever, it was always "amen," until when he wanted suicide it was
also "amen," and the grave.  And how could a leader like Jim Jones go
crazy?  Easy.  All he had to do was to get himself into that kind of
position of power that brooks no feedback save "amen," and it was only a
matter of time, because as I have said, there are some disciplined men who
can handle loneliness, but most of us go berzerk.  So all of Jim Jones'
lies went unchecked and AMENed, until finally they bore their result,
because all lies, even little ones, can be deadly--especially when
clustered in bunches.

But this YEA and AMEN are the very tools by which lies are propagated and
reinforced, be they religious, political, or whatever.  So it is crucial
that we understand what is happening in such situations, and never allow
ourselves to start down this road.

* How TV Can Ruin You.

Another lie we are told is that TV can't hurt you.  Nothing could be
further from the truth.  Since we are primarily creatures of eyes and
ears, the best and most direct way of getting straight into our minds is
through things like TV.  It is nonsensical to believe that TV cannot
affect our minds, because all TV in America is commercial, which means
that it is paid for by people who have irrefutable proof that it CAN.  If
this were not so, there would be no TV in America, because all of it is
commercial.  TV is not cheap, and these people are using it on us and
paying atrocious prices to do so because they know it works with
incredible power.  Even just a few seconds of commercial can change your
mind, change your loyalties, and change your whole life if only it happens
to hit you in just the right way at just the right time, etc.  Once upon a
time, TV commercials were short and to the point, but now they keep taking
up ever more of the program, and one cannot escape them, even when one is
already paying dearly for cable.  Yet we tolerate them, because besides
having this incredible power to control our minds and make us do things,
TV is also addictive.  It becomes part of our lives, and we can't live
without it.

But so what if it does?  How can any of this hurt us?  It can hurt us in
many different ways.  In the first place, because it is addictive, it can
change the way our minds work, chew into our time, and keep us away from
physical and mental exercise--especially the reading of books.  It can
also keep us away from deeper, more meaningful conversations with our
friends by always babbling on distractingly in the background.  So
television addiction can rob us of personal, intellectual, and social
development--in other words, it can make us retarded, and keep us from
developing our full physical and spiritual potential as human beings.

But this is not the end.  Allowing ourselves to be pumped with commercial
advertising can result in other kinds of addictions that are dangerous to
life and limb.  As an example, many people become addicted to Coca Cola.
This addiction is dangerous because it can block the normal flow of feces
from our bowels, and the leeching of container-wall material may affect
our bodies in other ways as yet not known.  And television-induced
addictions of this kind are not cheap.  Each one of them can cost us many
dollars per year for something we have never needed or for something that
could cause us harm.

And finally, non-advertising TV content can corrode our moral values and
alter our outlook, character, and personality.  If just 30 seconds of
Coca-Cola commercial can wreak havoc with our bodies and minds, then just
imagine what the many hours of content can do to us each day.  Idle women
sit watching soap operas day after day, and these programs keep getting
more and more depraved with every passing year.  The results cannot but
help be devastating.  TV excites our deepest sexual passions without
accompanying fulfillment, and this is unnatural, and alters our sexual
habits in the real world.  Overexposure may cause us to despise love, not
take our own sexuality seriously, and many other sinister things.  By
constantly bombarding our minds with the unnatural, TV can change our
whole perception of reality to the point where we start seeingevil
everywhere, and lose the confidence we need to interact with other
ordinary human beings.  For example, long exposure to the homosexual
obsession may cause parents to suspect homosexuality in their children
when it is not their, and to inflict deep psychological wounds by bringing
the sacred honor and integrity of their children into question for
nothing.  This embitters their children against them, and causes their
children to despise them.  The constant bombardment with unnatural sex and
homosexuality may also have a stimulating effect, and cause people to seek
these things or to believe they need these things.  In fact, because TV
can mold one's mind, it can easily become the cause for different kinds of
mild insanity, and for sexual and psychological abnormality.

And lastly, TV can destroy your prospects by robbing you of something
called "consequence."  People who watch TV can get so they never do
anything themselves.  They watch people sing, but they never sing or
whistle themselves, and automatically despise all REAL people who do.
They may even forget how to carry a tune.  They watch people fight, but
they never fight.  They watch people climb mountains, but they would be
afraid even to climb onto their roofs.  They watch people exercise, but
never leave their chairs.  They watch people kiss, but they never make
love.  They watch people laugh, but they never smile.  They watch people
die, but somehow keep on living.  They are asked rhetorical questions, and
never reply.  It is not hard to imagine what happens to a person who lives
like this day after day.  They become habituated to the idea that they and
their actions mean little, and so there is nothing they do that has any
consequence--that does anything to alter their lives or their world.

But TV could not be the evil that it is without having a correspondingly
powerful potential for good.  We learn many wonderful things from TV,
experience important and meaningful emotions, pick up good things we can
immitate, etc.  The evil of TV is simply the lie that says it is
comparatively harmless and keeps us from seeing all the other, bad things
it can do to us at the same time it does good.

* The Tyranny of the Mouse.

It has been said that Disneyland is a place where a certain mouse has a
lot of people in a trap.  But it is doubtful if poor old Walt Disney could
ever have dreamed of the numbers of people who might be enslaved by yet
another kind of mouse.  Sound and graphics have tremendous power over our
minds, as I have mentioned above.  But surprisingly enough, it turns out
that the success of the greatest movie and television producers pales in
comparison to the success of Bill Gates, because Microsoft has cranked
this human addiction to bright screens up to an amazing new level.  I will
not belabor this point, because the results of this addiction are plain to
see everywhere around us.  Instead of freeing people from drudgery as it
was supposed to do, Microsoft has made the computer a chain that keeps us
tied down for hours to our chairs.  Processes that were once fully
automated now require constant attention to shephard them through to
completion.  Pop-up windows appear out of nowhere in the middle of our
work at every step demanding immediate attention, else we cannot proceed.
And we are kept glued to our screens because each one of these steps we
complete rewards us with a sense of accomplishment, even though we have
not accomplished anything at all for which we have not already paid dearly
when we first bought our computer systems.  And alongside this sense of
accomplishment when we are accomplishing little or nothing is the delusion
of learning.  People sit for long hours trying to figure out how to do the
simplest of things because Windows is supposed to be intuitively obvious,
and when they finally succeed, they believed they have really learned
something and are on their way to becoming computer experts when they
might have learned more by doing a crossword puzzle.  This delusion is a
sad one, and has become yet another evil that saps the strength and
potential of the unwary at great monitary and human cost.

* Radio and Rock-n-roll.

The price of radios has now fallen below any of our wildest dreams, so
people are naturally apt to by radios for their children.  What they fail
to realize is that in the hands of a child, a radio constitutes a pipeline
straight to Hell.  If there was really a Satan who could speak to people's
minds, would you really want to help him by providing him an extra 24-hour
conduit straight into your child's brain?

Radio programming was once one of the finest art forms and the best
sources of good information in the world--but not since the record
producers got ahold of it.  Here, once again, we have a situation in which
we have a high-quality communications medium at the mercy of the
unprincipled dollar.  Again, without commercialization, we would have no
radio in America--unless National Public Radio might somehow survive.  But
the plight of radio is worse than that of TV, because the main sponsors of
radio are record producers Hell-bent upon selling rubbish products to our
children under different phony guises.

It is impossible to document the metamorphosis of radio from one of our
finest sources of good information and entertainment into the blaring
monster that it is today.  The reason for this is simple.  A lot of it was
done using drugs about which people are not free to talk unless they want
prison.  Record companies provided cocain to disk jokeys for playing their
"songs," and pay them in other ways now.  Why?  Because there exists a
well-known psychological principle, and it is this:

PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS WANT MORE OF WHAT THEY HEAR MOST.

This is the principle that makes Chinese order music from China, Indians
order music from India, and Mexicans order music from Mexico.  People
always want to hear the music they have heard most, and especially the
music they heard most in their youth.

All this is good, and would have worked out well for the world without
greed.  But wherever great good is, there also is great potential for
evil, so evil people have figured out how best to pervert this great good.
 They learned that whatever songs were played most on the radio, without
much real consideration for quality or taste, those were the songs that
sold.  And this knowledge was an AMAZING new way to make millions of
dollars!  Just think!  One might make up almost any stupid song, press it
onto vynil, and sell MILLIONS of copies!  All one had to do was to make
sure it got played enough times over the air.  So began the great radio
conspiracy.

Of course this knowledge had to be kept secret, or at least not made
perfectly obvious, so various means would have to be devised in order to
keep the public in the dark.  One would not be able to just go off into
some laboratory to do the work.  "Rock stars" and "rock groups" would have
to be organized who would tour the nation and be famous.  So these people
latched onto young men like Elvis Presley, made them what they were, and
helped them to their deaths.  I suppose the deaths must have come as a
surprise, so I will not try to hold them responsible for that.  But these
record companies and promoters are guilty of more sinister crimes, because
they have had no respect for us or our youth, and have deceived their ways
into the sanctity of our minds.

Here are some of their most blatant lies:

1.  "Rock-n-roll is the natural, popular music of America."  Certainly
not.  It is the unnatural product of their machinations which has been fed
into our minds by conspiratorial deception and careful design.

2.  "Rock-n-roll is kids' music, arising spontaneously and naturally from
our youth."  Nonsense.  Most of it is probably written by conspiring old
men.  Behind every Elvis Presley is some scrofulous old promoter making
millions off the game, but although we know this, we are unwilling to see
it, because we would rather repeat snippets and slogans than ever to use
our minds.

3.  "Rock-n-roll is harmless."  Surely, and the moon is made of blue
cheeze!  If just thirty seconds of television commercial can make you run
out to buy cokes, just think what hours and hours inside those headphones
ought to do!  You know the answer: cynicism, sexual obsession and
perversion, drug use, vile and wrongheaded ideas about every kind of human
relationship--you name it.  It's all right there, isn't it--right inside
your headphones and your head, screaming at 100 decibles?  Incredibly,
these people don't seem only to want our money.  They also seem to want
our own eternal souls!  I have heard "singing" about unwed mothers giving
birth and murdering their babies in the restroom over the PA system at
Pizza Hut.  I have heard "singing" about sex and "shit" over
taxpayer-funded university FM.  I have heard women screeching their
orgasms to the world.  I have heard all manner of sucking and thumping
sounds, and I have heard words about all manner of psychological and
sexual perversion.  How the record producers must laugh at what suckers
they have made of us on their way to the bank!  MacDonald's couldn't do
better by putting cow turd in their burgers instead of ground beef!  For
goodness sake, we  ARE our memories, and having heard all these rotten
things, they remain indellibly stuck in our minds.  How can I ever forget
all the orgasmic gruntings, moanings, and wailings that have been
accidentally pumped into my mind on FM.  Must I be afraid even to turn on
my radio?  These things are forever stuck like parasites in my mind, and
hence become part of me.  I did not need to hear them and I did not want
to hear them, but there they were before I knew it on my radio and
straight into my mind.  Because of this I am a different, more bitter man,
and in the sacred inner sanctum of my mind I am forced to carry the sleezy
feelings of pimps and whores.  I cannot get rid of these sensations
because they are firmly lodged against my own will, and become an unbidden
and unwelcome part of my being.  And yet I have never once used my
headphones for the express purpose of listening to rock-n-roll.  I wonder
what would have happened to me if I had.  No wonder people are so
different now from long ago.  It is impossible for them to help becoming,
at least to a certain degree, what has been pumped into their weak minds
by the radio.  It is psychologically inevitable that they should and must
be the exact way they are.

4.  "Rock-n-roll is pleasing."  So is the tortuous reading of the
Koran--to Moslem ears.  They tell us it is good, but it seems to make them
want to kill, else I am wrong.  Nevertheless, it is the milk upon which
they have cut their teeth, if not their tongues, as rock-n-roll, which
make us screw, is ours.  Or how about loud cymbals accompanied by flutes,
which makes us red-haired devils flee but draws Chinese along?

If we be but machines, then wind us up, and we will play your song.  But
if we be truly men, then we will think,  and we will feel, and we will
know, and we will tell you right from wrong!

Chapter 5.  Other Kinds of Evil, More Lies, Etc.

* Patience.

"One meets every day men and women who help injustice and iniquity by
their patience.

...

"Organized wrong and oppression owe their existence mainly to the habitual
patience of the oppressed.

"The East, bearing a huge burden of misery and essentially pessimistic,
exhorts patience.  The West, eager and full of hope, is impatient."
--Abraham Myerson.

Politicians often tell us to be patient and work hard, because we will
surely get our rights as soon as this or that five-year plan has been
done.  And we are usually willing to buy such rhetoric, because even the
trivial experiences of our own lives have taught us that big things
require time, religion asks for patience, and those who make demands will
be despised.  But where human dignity and human rights are concerned, the
gospel of patience and deferred fulfillment is a lie that has empowered
and enriched the human monsters of the earth.  What people really need to
do is to get up, get mad, and demand their rights NOW, because as a
general rule, people will get whatever they are willing to tolerate.
Tolerate a dictator and you will have a dictator.  Tolerate another
five-year plan and you will have another five-year plan, and so on.

This kind of thinking is exactly the same as that of the abused wife.  The
abused wife keeps suffering beatings because she believes that if only
this or that happens, things will get better.  And the abusive husband may
keep her hopes alive by apologizing, attending counseling sessions, etc.
My advice to the abused spouse is to leave immediately.  Never allow
yourself to get beaten a second time, because in general, once started,
abuse always ever gets worse.  Forget God and the church and your marriage
vows, because if any of these things had any merit, you wouldn't have been
beaten in the first place.  You are only deceiving yourself, and all
deception is dangerous and evil, both to yourself and to others.

* Ahimsa.

A great deal of confusion has been spread over the world about the
subjects of violence and nonviolence.  Some of this springs from religious
and pseudo-religious teachings, but one of the most important sources for
theories of nonviolence has been the methodology, known by the Indian
term, AHIMSA, employed by Mahatma Ghandi to combat White supremacy and
colonialism in South Africa and India.  Many have attempted to idolize
Mahatma Ghandi as a great man (which he undoubtedly was), and then to set
up the concept of ahimsa as some kind of universal principle that always
works everywhere every time.  This idea was subsequently strengthened by
the shining successes of Dr.  Martin Luther King, who used the same
strategy in the US.

But the acceptance of ahimsa as a universal principle was a sad mistake,
as people are slowly learning now.  I say "slowly" because it takes a very
long time for the general human population to realize that some principle
may be wrong once that principle has become accepted and established.
Thus ahimsa ideas continue to flourish in places like Western Europe,
where they will clearly work because they work upon that breed of White
man and that set of laws current in Western civilization by the start of
the 20th Century.  The shocking truth is that ahimsa does not work at all
where Islamic and Arab populations are concerned.  Nor did it work well in
Peking.  And yet this failure should not be shocking, because we knew all
about it during WW2, but we chose to forget.  Ahimsa works upon refined
and Christian-educated British army officers living by a British code of
honor who naturally sicken at the spilling of innocent blood when the
innocent blood is being spilt by British troops.  It does not work upon
religiously crazed Arabs who are willing to indiscriminately kill
thousands of innocent men, women, and children, and then to throw in their
own lives for good measure, because as soon as they have shed innocent
blood, they instantly grow thirsty for more.

So the universal principle of ahimsa is a lie, and a very dangerous one
that has already cost thousands of valuable lives, and the terrible truth
is that the price of freedom is eternal vigillance at arms.

* The False Hope of Disarming the World.

"Firearms render wars less frequent and less bloody." --Dr.  David
Livingstone, of Africa.

It may surprise the reader that the gentle Dr.  Livingstone, who willingly
gave his life and his all in Africa, should have penned something like the
quotation above.  Just imagine the immediate flaming that would surely
take place on the Internet were those words to be posted today.  Many
people would instantly see the author as some kind of untamed and
uneducated savage sadly ignorant of the shining principle of ahimsa.  But
Dr.  Livingstone was no uneducated savage.  Instead, he was an educated
and critical observer writing down exactly what he saw.

Today we are constantly bombarded with a steady stream of disinformation
and well doctored information by our controlled news media.  Sometimes
this news contains blatant lies, but cleverly inserted in ways calculated
not to alarm.  As an example I would cite international news media
reporting of recent events in Timor.  Paid killers, hired and trained by
the Indonesian military for terrorist operations designed to suppress and
silence the unarmed East Timorese population were carefully termed
"militia."  Then, when 250,000 persons were driven out of their homeland
and into Indonesian prison camps at gunpoint, large numbers of them being
tortured and murdered along the way, these unfortunates were not even
given the dignity of being called "hostages," which they clearly were.
Instead, they were carefully termed "refugees."  And right now the British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) calls most Palestinian casualties
"victims," and the Israeli army the "occupational force," as if no battle
is ever really lost or won.  Why doesn't the BBC also call the British
army the "occupational force?"  Didn't it come into England with William
the Conquerer and remain ever since?  It must be because of some BBC
statute of limitations, but we are never told what this is.

If, after reading thus far, the reader is still not convinced that even
seemingly innocent lies can be deadly, then I have failed my mission in
writing this book.  Lies stuck idly into people's heads by themselves and
their friends are already enough to be deadly.  How much more dangerous,
then, are lies deliberately broadcast all over the globe by the
international news media?  May the reader judge for him/her self.  These
lies keep causing untold more homicides, tortures, rapes, hopelessness,
and heartbreak in order to further justify and enrich a few corrupt
individuals, when just a little bit of truth might have saved many lives.

But now speaking of "doctored" or distorted information, this is the kind
of lie that lies buried in news texts as a hidden assumption that acts as
a kind of land mine placed to trap the unwary.  And one of the most
commonly appearing lies of this kind, were it written out clearly in black
upon white, would read something as follows:

WEAPONS ARE DANGEROUS, THEREFORE DISARMING PEOPLE IS THE WAY TO BRING
ABOUT SAFETY.

As anyone who understands the world (and especially our founding fathers)
will tell you, such a statement is not only false, but simpleminded and
stupid.  Yet it keeps playing over and over again throughout the
international media like some broken record.  And what it really means is
"Disenfranchise the people while quietly arming their overlords."  So what
happens when we decide to disarm a particular group, for example the Irish
Republican Army?  Does this mean that the British government will also lay
down its arms?  Of course not.  What it means is that the British
authorities get to keep THEIR arms while the IRA loses theirs, and this
means that if the government does something the IRA doesn't like, and then
provides no way for the IRA to redress the problem by some means of
appeal, that the IRA will then just have to accept what the government
says.

Now this may be okay in Great Britain, where the government is
comparatively honest, enlightened, and gentle, but what happens in places
like Indonesia?  Here is what happens:  The region now governed by what is
called the "Republic of Indonesia," which has really always been a
military dictatorship, and never any kind of republic at all, is a vast
tapestry of cultures, languages, ancient kingdoms, and tribes stretching
across more than 3,000 miles of Indian Ocean.  The rulers of this vast
region are a people known elsewhere as the Javanese, because they are
drawn mainly from tribes on the island of Java.  So the International
community decides that this vast region, once ruled by the Dutch under the
general name of the "Dutch East Indies," is to become a republic with its
capital on Java Island, which will henceforth be known as the "Republic of
Indonesia."  At first there is some show of sharing power with other
peoples across the region.  But as is apt to happen in such circumstances,
power is quickly consolidated into the hands of the Javanese.  The
Javanese then seize all arms from the people, of course without any
international outcry because getting rid of weapons is supposed to be
good, and declare that the people have no right to bear arms.  Then the US
starts to develop business interests in the region, and decides that it
needs to protect those business interests by further arming the "Republic
of Indonesia" to the teeth.  The US even sets up an M16 rifle factory in
one of the major cities of Java, and grants the "Republic of Indonesia"
the right to manufacture M16s.  But by this time, the "Republic of
Indonesia" is just another way of saying "the Javanese," and any other
tribe that wishes to arm or defend itself is automatically a rebellion,
and its leaders guilty of sedition, and no friend of the good old USA.  At
last, the Javanese, who are almost all Moslem, decide that they would like
to see all the rest of the region become uniformly Moslem like themselves,
so they allow elements from the Middle East to come in, arm themselves,
and recruit terrorists for a great Indonesian Jihad.  The world hardly
notices.  The Jihad tries a few tricks to see what will happen.  Over 100
Christian Chinese women and girls are publicly raped on the streets of
Jakarta, the capital of this "Republic of Indonesia."  Many of the victims
are also violated with sticks, pieces of wire, broken bottles, etc., and
bleed to death.  Others have been tossed live into burning houses.  Again
the world hardly notices.  Things are looking really good for the Jihad
and the Javanese, so they move straight into all of the unarmed Christian
areas with guns blazing.  Many of the Christians are well educated, and
believe in the principle of Ahimsa, so they gather in churches for prayer
while their villages are burning.  The Javanese then simply pour gasoline
on the churches and burn them, cutting down anyone who then tries to
escape.  All of this works really well, almost beyond the wildest dreams
of the leaders in Java, and members of the armed forces are seen shooting
their weapons into the air and hugging Jihad leaders after the Christian
populations have been put to flight and the villages are burning.  This
thing is truly wonderful, because the Christians are being killed and
driven away from their homeland, and Javanese people are being moved in by
the thousand to take over the land.  And many Christians have been
successfully forced to become Moslems and circumcised.  Now the whole
"Republic of Indonesia" will truly be one!

Such phenomena are hardly surprising, since they result from principles
understood before Machiavelli.  What happens is the very personification
of simplicity.  Group A is heavily armed, while Group B has no arms at
all, and Group A and Group B live more-or-less side-by-side.  Small things
happen, the people in Group A pull out their arms, and the people in Group
B cower.  The people in Group A notice, and experience a kind of
satisfaction.  They begin to see themselves as superior by virtue of the
fact that they are armed, and the bullying begins.  The idea of the
superiority of Group A over Group B becomes more and more entrenched until
finally the people of Group B are thought of as being little better than
dogs.  In fact, the less reserved members of Group A are often heard
referring to those of Group B as dogs, and even stupid dogs.  At last the
people of Group A decide that they could really use the property of Group
B better than the people of Group B, that the people of Group B, who are
manifestly retarded ought to adopt the religion of Group A, etc., and
Group B gets driven from the land and scattered or annihilated--whichever
seems more convenient.

Of course none of this could ever have happened if Group A and Group B had
been equally armed.  Any bullying attack by Group A would have been
quickly rebuffed with appropriate loss of life, and the members of both
groups would quickly have seen that "violence doesn't pay," and desist.
So disarmament does not stop bloodshed, but equality of arms, or balance
of power, surely does.  The idea that disarming populations generally
brings peace and stability is therefore a dangerous lie with which we are
being poisoned by the media every day.  Instead, its natural result is
genocide.

But there was another reason things were better in Africa when people were
armed, and it is a social law expressed roughly as follows:

THE BETTER PEOPLE ARE ARMED, THE LESS THEY WILL FIGHT.

This assumption can be verified everywhere, but in case the reader fails
to see it, I will give some examples.  Parents fight less than their
children because a fight among parents is vastly more dangerous.  In
general, people trained in martial arts have also been taught to avoid
getting into fights.  Before the terrible twentieth century, Europe was
almost continuously at war, but the horrors of modern warfare and modern
weapons has taught the Europeans to form the European Union.  People have
fought battles with stones, cudgels, spears, swords, and guns, but
although the US and the Soviet Union were armed to the teeth with nuclear
weapons all during the years of the cold war, no one has ever dared fight
a war in which both sides used nuclear weapons, and there has never been a
war between the US and the Soviet Union.

* Does Violence Work?

So it is clear that the better people are armed, the less they will fight,
and vice versa.

The next great lie in my list is the statement:

VIOLENCE NEVER WORKS

or

VIOLENCE CANNOT WORK

as we are always hearing out of the middle east.  This is the worst kind
of lie, because it results in limitless atrocities and protracted misery.
Sometimes I almost have to smile when I hear well meaning Americans
reverently echo these phrases.  I wonder why, do they think, there is
peace in America?  Is it really impossible for them to understand that the
USA is by far the most violent nation on earth?

The reason there is peace and stability instead of bloodshed in America is
simple.  The Japanese tried to crush us, but instead we crushed them with
such violence as they never dreamed.  The Germans messed with our friends,
and we turned Germany into a trash dump.  The Russians built thousands of
missiles and nuclear warheads, but were too wise ever to use them.  And
don't even think of invading our homeland, because our men are smart,
strong, and well armed.  There are plenty of firearms in every American
neighborhood, and plenty of big men who know how to use them.  God knows!
even our woman may know how to shoot better than your best marksmen.  This
is the real America, the beautiful and the strong, and of it we have a
right to be proud.

But I am constantly hearing, especially from Christians, that violence
never pays, and that America is free because its people were righteous and
trust in the Lord.  My friend, our forebear, George Washington, was faced
with a terrible enemy against which nothing would work except violence,
and he marched his ragtag, sick, starving and bleeding army barefoot
across the ice of the Potamac to give the dear British the violence they
needed, and that is how America got peace.

And American missionaries living unscathed with native peoples being
slaughtered all around them keep praising the Lord and thanking God for
His protection, when the only reason they are being left alive is because
of the sure threat of overwhelming American violence.  In places like New
Guinea they are apt to lash out against the poor natives and tell them
that they should be trusting in God like the missionaries do instead of
trying to defend themselves against the murdering Indonesians, and many of
them are probably convinced that the natives are simply getting their just
deserts for their sins against God.  Most missionaries are pretty
intelligent and capable people, and it seems hard to believe that they
could be so wide of the mark.  But their internal reference libraries are
chuck full of snippets of wisdom and whole verses from the Bible, which
they dote upon, read, and memorize every day.  Their minds tend to run on
automatic by processing information from the real world through this one
reference frame, so they naturally come to a point where they see
everything in terms of the words of the Bible instead of the real world,
fitting themselves into the category of God's annointed and the natives
into the role of dark sinners who must be destroyed.  God is almighty, so
it naturally follows that all these things that are happening are because
of His will.  They are special in the eyes of God, so they are
miraculously spared while the natives go down all about them!

Meanwhile Arab Terrorists continue to wreak indiscriminate violence by
suicide bombers, Israel attacks the West Bank, the violence stops, the
world cries, "Violence doesn't work!" the Israelis pull back, the suicide
bombings start up again, and the cycle is repeated and will be repeated
for as long as Israel is held back from finishing its job.  The Arabs
suffer from no ahimsa delusions.  They perpetrated devastating violence
upon us because they know violence works, and their violence has changed
America.  But we are more violent than they are, and by our own violence
we may yet survive.

Nonviolence is nothing but a lie and a delusion, and if we really believed
it, America would be gone.

* Commerce.

Is it really true that the love of money is the root of all evil, as Jesus
has said?  Maybe so, but without money and the desire for money, we would
not have flush toilets, hot and cold running water, toilet paper, TV, or
pretty much anything else.

"no permanent elevation of a people can be effected without commerce."
--Dr.  David Livingstone.

A lot of Christians and a lot of charitable organizations would have us
believe that the world needs a hand out, but this is a dangerous lie.  By
giving people handouts we develop dependencies instead of making it
possible for people to help themselves.  What is needed for the starving
peoples of Asia and Africa is not another handout, but a little
well-targeted, overwhelming violence to put a swift end to unreasonable
and despotic regimes so that people can have a chance to crawl out of
their hovels and find their ways in the world which God gave them.

It is not commercialism that is wrong, but it is rather the state of
spiritual blindness that keeps people from seeing things as they are, and
keeps them relying blindly upon hackneyed sayings and platitudes passed
down by their forebears instead of actively using their minds.  Our brains
are filled past overflowing with these old sayings and platitudes, and we
keep spilling them all over the country wherever we go.  Thank God, my
American missionary parents raised me at the edge of the Moluccan rain
forest where the "savages" taught me to speak Malay, so I may not have
heard quite as many as you!  Maybe this is what gives me this critical and
analytical edge, and eyes that really see things in the real world.

* Wages and Corruption.

It may be thought by some people that because government employees accept
bribes, they should be paid less wages.  This does not apply to America,
but it is true in other parts of the world.  The idea is false.  It is
precisely by paying government employees less wages that corruption