Evolutionism and Creationism

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Evolutionism (the "-ism" marks it as a philosophy, not science) has had as many illogical and emotional proponents as the unscientific creationism. Since creationism is generally associated with some idea, concept, or type of God or, at least, guiding force, it has been widely held that it is in the realm of only religion. So, evolutionists say, it should never interact with, or blend with, scientific evolution.

This is "exclusivistic" thinking. (It excludes rather than includes.) But from a more inclusive perspective, there is no valid objective or scientific reason why the two perspectives could not be combined.

Despite their historical polarities as "opposites," creationism and evolutionism do converge, if viewed with an open mind. For this to happen, the mind must be open to both sides, both ideas.

I suggest the "evolution-design integrative theory," or "edit," as exactly this kind of fruitful compromise. It recognizes evolution as a process, but also openmindedly leaves room for the concept that it was a guided process. This does not necessarily involve either the Jewish or Christian God. Perhaps the guiding, organizing principle exists within the cell, or even the biomolecules. This is "God in matter," if you like.

This is not creationism, at least, not in its traditional historical definition. But it does help to explain the astonishing complexities of biostructure. The simple unguided "coming together" of the correct biomolecules has been likened to an explosion in a printing-shop producing a complete dictionary! If anything, the cell is even more complex than a dictionary!

That some mysterious "organizing force" or "patterning agent" brought together the right biomolecules does not imply intervention, invasive or intrusive maneuvers by a personal God. But it does explain very much, especially in the earliest phases of cellular evolution.

The mystical tradition has never believed in a "God out there." The mystics have thus been severely persecuted, by Islamic, Jewish, and Christian fundamentalists for "atheism," which, of course, misses the point entirely. Mystics believe in a very different kind of "God." They believe that God is the Power of Love, and this God is "interior," or "inside." Usually, this is interpreted, correctly, to mean that God is within the mind; but it could also imply "God" within the cell.

Perhaps, by extension, it could be said that even a "form of Love" attracts macromolecules or biomolecules together. This is as good as any explanation, and it is better than the argument of "randomness" (remember the dictionary). If evolutionists and creationists were not so stubbornly resistant to compromise, if each were not so exclusive, a compromise such as "edit" could be taught in schools, and we could finally solve this hundred-year-old problem.
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A Christmas Tale

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If this one were any cornier, we would have to serve it for dinner! But if you like corn, you're gonna love it! It has the true spirit of Christmas.
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His wife had passed away. It was just another day to him. He didn't hate Christmas, just couldn't find a reason to celebrate. He was sitting there looking at the snow that had been falling for the last hour and wondering what it was all about when the door opened and a homeless man stepped through.

Instead of throwing the man out, Old George as he was known by his customers, told the man to come and sit by the heater and warm up. "Thank you, but I don't mean to intrude," said the stranger. "I see you're busy, I'll just go." "Not without something hot in your belly." George said.

He turned and opened a wide mouth Thermos and handed it to the stranger. "It ain't much, but it's hot and tasty, "Stew ... made it myself. When you're done, there's coffee and it's fresh."

Just at that moment he heard the "ding" of the driveway bell. "Excuse me, be right back," George said. There in the driveway was an old '53 Chevy. Steam was rolling out of the front. The driver was panicked. "Mister can you help me!" said the driver, with a deep Spanish accent. "My wife is with child and my car is broken."

George opened the hood. It was bad. The block looked cracked from the cold, the car was dead. "You ain't going in this thing," George said as he turned away.

"But Mister, please help .." The door of the office closed behind George as he went inside. He went to the office wall and got the keys to his old truck, and went back outside. He walked around the building, opened the garage, started the truck and drove it around to where the couple was waiting. "Here, take my truck," he said. "She ain't the best thing you ever looked at, but she runs real good."

George helped put the woman in the truck and watched as it sped off into the night. He turned and walked back inside the office. "Glad I gave 'em the truck, their tires were shot too. That 'ol truck has brand new .........." George thought he was talking to the stranger, but the man had gone. The Thermos was on the desk, empty, with a used coffee cup beside it. "Well, at least he got something in his belly," George thought.

George went back outside to see if the old Chevy would start. It cranked slowly, but it started. He pulled it into the garage where the truck had been. He thought he would tinker with it for something to do. Christmas Eve meant no customers. He discovered the the block hadn't cracked, it was just the bottom hose on the radiator. "Well, shoot, I can fix this," he said to himself. So he put a new one on.

"Those tires ain't gonna get 'em through the winter either." He took the snow treads off of his wife's old Lincoln. They were like new and he wasn't going to drive the car anyway.

As he was working, he heard shots being fired. He ran outside and beside a police car an officer lay on the cold ground. Bleeding from the left shoulder, the officer moaned, "Please help me."

George helped the officer inside as he remembered the training he had received in the Army as a medic. He knew the wound needed attention. "Pressure to stop the bleeding," he thought. The uniform company had been there that morning and had left clean shop towels. He used those and duct tape to bind the wound. "Hey, they say duct tape can fix anythin'," he said, trying to make the policeman feel at ease.

"Something for pain," George thought. All he had was the pills he used for his back. "These ought to work." He put some water in a cup and gave the policeman the pills. "You hang in there, I'm going to get you an ambulance."

The phone was dead. "Maybe I can get one of your buddies on that there talk box out in your car." He went out only to find that a bullet had gone into the dashboard destroying the two way radio.

He went back in to find the policeman sitting up. "Thanks," said the officer. "You could have left me there. The guy that shot me is still in the area."

George sat down beside him, "I would never leave an injured man in the Army and I ain't gonna leave you." George pulled back the bandage to check for bleeding. "Looks worse than what it is. Bullet passed right through 'ya. Good thing it missed the important stuff though. I think with time your gonna be right as rain."

George got up and poured a cup of coffee. "How do you take it?" he asked. "None for me," said the officer. "Oh, yer gonna drink this. Best in the city. Too bad I ain't got no donuts." The officer laughed and winced at the same time.

The front door of the office flew open. In burst a young man with a gun. "Give me all your cash! Do it now!" the young man yelled. His hand was shaking and George could tell that he had never done anything like this before.

"That's the guy that shot me!" exclaimed the officer.

"Son, why are you doing this?" asked George, "You need to put the cannon away. Somebody else might get hurt."

The young man was confused. "Shut up old man, or I'll shoot you, too. Now give me the cash!"

The cop was reaching for his gun. "Put that thing away," George said to the cop, "we got one too many in here now."

He turned his attention to the young man. "Son, it's Christmas Eve. If you need money, well then, here. It ain't much but it's all I got. Now put that pee shooter away."

George pulled $150 out of his pocket and handed it to the young man, reaching for the barrel of the gun at the same time. The young man released his grip on the gun, fell to his knees and began to cry. "I'm not very good at this am I? All I wanted was to buy something for my wife and son," he went on. "I've lost my job, my rent is due, my car got repossessed last week .."

George handed the gun to the cop. "Son, we all get in a bit of squeeze now and then. The road gets hard sometimes, but we make it through the best we can."

He got the young man to his feet, and sat him down on a chair across from the cop. "Sometimes we do stupid things." George handed the young man a cup of coffee. "Bein' stupid is one of the things that makes us human. Comin' in here with a gun ain't the answer. Now sit there and get warm and we'll sort this thing out."

The young man had stopped crying. He looked over to the cop. "Sorry I shot you. It just went off. I'm sorry officer."

"Shut up and drink your coffee." the cop said.

George could hear the sounds of sirens outside. A police car and an ambulance skidded to a halt. Two cops came through the door, guns drawn. "Chuck! You ok?" one of the cops asked the wounded officer.

"Not bad for a guy who took a bullet. How did you find me?"

"GPS locator in the car. Best thing since sliced bread. Who did this?" the other cop asked as he approached the young man.

Chuck answered him, "I don't know. The guy ran off into the dark. Just dropped his gun and ran."

George and the young man both looked puzzled at each other.

"That guy work here?," the wounded cop continued. "Yep," George said, "just hired him this morning. Boy lost his job."

The paramedics came in and loaded Chuck onto the stretcher. The young man leaned over the wounded cop and whispered, "Why?"

Chuck just said, "Merry Christmas boy ... and you too, George, and thanks for everything."

"Well, looks like you got one doozy of a break there. That ought to solve some of your problems."

George went into the back room and came out with a box. He pulled out a ring box. "Here you go, something for the little woman. I don't think Martha would mind. She said it would come in handy some day."

The young man looked inside to see the biggest diamond ring he ever saw. "I can't take this," said the young man. "It means something to you."

"And now it means something to you," replied George. "I got my memories. That's all I need."

George reached into the box again. An airplane, a car and a truck appeared next. They were toys that the oil company had left for him to sell. "Here's something for that little man of yours."

The young man began to cry again as he handed back the $150 that the old man had handed him earlier.

"And what are you supposed to buy Christmas dinner with? You keep that too," George said, "Now git home to your family."

The young man turned with tears streaming down his face. "I'll be here in the morning for work, if that job offer is still good."

"Nope. I'm closed Christmas day," George said. "See ya the day after."

George turned around to find that the stranger had returned. "Where'd you come from? I thought you left?"

"I have been here. I have always been here," said the stranger. "You say you don't celebrate Christmas. Why?"

"Well, after my wife passed away, I just couldn't see what all the bother was. Puttin' up a tree and all seemed a waste of a good pine tree. Bakin' cookies like I used to with Martha just wasn't the same by myself and besides I was gettin' a little chubby."

The stranger put his hand on George's shoulder. "But you do celebrate the holiday, George. You gave me food and drink and warmed me when I was cold and hungry. The woman with child will bear a son and he will become a great doctor. The policeman you helped will go on to save 19 people from being killed by terrorists. The young man who tried to rob you will make you a rich man and not take any for himself. "That is the spirit of the season and you keep it as good as any man."

George was taken aback by all this stranger had said. "And how do you know all this?" asked the old man.

"Trust me, George. I have the inside track on this sort of thing. And when your days are done you will be with Martha again."

The stranger moved toward the door. "If you will excuse me, George, I have to go now. I have to go home where there is a big celebration
planned."

George watched as the old leather jacket and the torn pants that the stranger was wearing turned into a white robe. A golden light began to
fill the room.

"You see, George ... it's My birthday. Merry Christmas."
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(Thanks to Chris Finer)

Christian Peacemakers Respond

CPTnet
19 December 2005
BAGHDAD/AMMAN: Christian Peacemakers in Iraq and Jordan respond to Presidential address

Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) members working in Iraq and Jordan reacted early Monday to U.S. President George W. Bush's address about the war in Iraq. Reached by telephone in the team's Baghdad apartment, Maxine Nash noted how the war has affected the services on which Iraqis rely: "I tried to watch President Bush's speech," she said, "but I couldn't; there was no electricity."

Citing the failure to rebuild basic civilian infrastructure, the thousands of Iraqi detainees in U.S. detention centres, and tens of thousands of civilian casualties and injuries, CPT has asserted that the United States and Coalition Forces have failed to bring peace and true democracy to Iraq. Yet, in his address, the president insisted that the way to defeat what he calls terrorism and make way for democracy is to continue to go "on the offensive."

Regarding this claim, full-time Iraq team member Peggy Gish, 63, commented in Amman, "based on my three years of listening to Iraqis who have suffered the pain of war, U.S. and Iraqi forces' 'on the offensive,' means continued mass arrests, house raids and bombing of civilians, continued illegal detentions, torture, and abuse."

Sheila Provencher, 33, who left Baghdad for Amman three weeks earlier, added, "Where are these seven out of ten Iraqis that he quotes as saying that their lives are going well? I wonder whether the poll he quoted is like another I read about recently, which omitted the entire Anbar province because of security concerns."

"I noticed that the president framed his argument for the war almost entirely in terms of what he called the 'global terrorist movement' that will attack America wherever they can,'" Provencher continued. "Ironically, he does admit that the desire to attack Americans has attracted Al Qaeda into Iraq."

"But," she added, "he does not seem to realize that there are thousands of members of a nationalist Iraqi insurgency who will use force to end the American occupation of their country, without using suicide bombers or civilian attacks. If he fails to understand the true nature and grievances of the nationalist insurgency -- namely, that they perceive themselves as fighting for the freedom of their country -- he will never understand that the very presence of U.S. troops exacerbates the violence."

CPT has worked in Iraq for more than three years, focusing on the plight of Iraqi detainees and their families, the effects of U.S. and Iraqi offensives in civilian areas, and the development of Iraqi peace and human rights groups.

Instead of further offensives, which only increase the violence and chaos, CPT representatives currently living among ordinary Iraqis in Baghdad recommend the U.S. state its intention to withdraw all U.S. troops immediately (beginning with urban areas), stopping U.S. bombing, and providing sufficient funds to the Iraqi people to rebuild basic infrastructure.

CPT further urges an end to illegal detentions and torture in U.S.facilities and a fair and speedy judicial process for detainees. It also urges that the U.S. government employ diplomatic means to pressure the Iraqi government to take corresponding actions regarding detainees held in Iraqi detention facilities.

At present, four members of CPT remain missing in Iraq after their disappearance in late November.

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(Thanks to Barbara Siler)

Bush Numbers

From the Magazine | Essay
Check Out My New Numbers
By PATRICIA MARX
Posted Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005

After a cascade of opinion polls showed that George W. Bush's popularity had descended to an all-time low, the most recent numbers reflect a slight improvement for the President. Despite those gains, however, Bush's approval rating (40% last week) remains dismal. So why is President Bush happy? "Well, according to those expert fellows," the President might explain, "the margin of error on these things is really small, so that means we're making less errors, and that's a good sign. And here's something else that folks should keep in mind. There hasn't been a big hurricane in this country in a couple of days, so we're achieving victory status on that too. But the really good news is that in terms of the polls that my people in the White House have totally made up, I'm actually doing fantastic." A sample:

69% of heads of families who have saved $1 million or more due to the President's tax laws enthusiastically support the President's tax laws
56% of voters think Bush did not intentionally deceive the American public about the reasons he went into the Food Emporium
Experts tell us that according to a random sampling conducted at zoos around the country, most chimpanzees are disinclined to voice any objection to the way the President pronounces the word nuclear
100% of Americans 18 months or younger seem to give the impression that they are not disappointed by U.S. negotiations with North Korea over, oh, something or other
96% of the Wilmerding family in Akron, Ohio, think Bush is doing a really terrific job as President
51% of scientists believe the Big Bang led to greater upheaval in the world than the American invasion of Iraq
57% of senior citizens say the President leads "strongly and decisively" when it comes to the bunny hop
62% of educators are pretty sure that the President is smarter than SpongeBob but not smarter than Dan Quayle
only 2% of Americans who have at least four years of college education blame George W. Bush for the defeat of our country in Vietnam
87% of the ranchers in Montana say they are in favor of the way the President handles dry brush and scrub on the Crawford ranch
51% of those who watch the nightly news see nothing wrong with Bush's green windbreaker with light blue lining
23% who filled out the questionnaire on Whitehouse.gov believe the President was involved in the breakup of Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey
58% of the top brass in the U.S. military say hip-hip hooray to the President for his refusal to set an artificial timetable for withdrawing
security guards from Home Depot
97% of stem cells zealously endorse the President's stem-cell policies
86% of the ExxonMobil management are of the opinion that we should stay the course in Iraq until the last drop of oil is pumped
99% of some people we know believe a certain person in the press who leaked the name of the Vice President of the U.S. to the American public should be prosecuted
49% of Jenna Bush's friends approve of the wet bar on her grandfather's boat in Kennebunkport
63% of the Bush clan think there are all too many Barbaras and Georges in the family, but they do not wish to get rid of any of them
An overwhelming majority of both Democrats and Republicans agree with Donald Rumsfeld's recent statement: "There is compelling evidence that al-Qaeda is linked to al-Qaeda"

(Thanks to Geoffrey Stoermer)

Presidential Library Destroyed

BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY DESTROYED BY FLOOD
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Crawford, Texas -- A tragic flood this morning destroyed the personal library of President George W. Bush. The flood began in the Presidential bathroom where both of the books were kept. Both of his books, including “A Boy and His Goat” have been lost.

A presidential spokesman said the president was devastated, as he had almost finished reading the second one, "Wiretapping for Dummies."

The White House tried to call FEMA but there was no answer.

Important: Gator’s Humor can also be found on his web site.
http://gatorsden.org

(Thanks to Ty Scharrer)

More Dream-symbols

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Re your dream: Your friend represents "trust." What does Dan [pseudonym] represent? They get together on a motorcycle at the beginning of the dream. This is the part of yourself that is moving, growing, making tracks, making progress. These two qualities are in the lead; they are creating spiritual, intellectual, or emotional growth for the rest of your mind. That is why they are "moving," and doing so together.

The "old furniture" represents old ideas (thought-structures) in your mind. You "trust" in them, for they belong to the man who represents "trust." But they are not in very good shape, and might not be very useful. For they need fixed up. In terms of spirituality, these could reflect old ideas or dogmas from religion. They are not bad; they just need repair, restructuring, reconstruction, and "fixing up." So, do not throw away ideas just because they are old. Some are worth keeping, such as faith in Jesus Christ, works of penance, and moral guidelines.

The "apartment" above the garage is the higher part of your own mind. This is where trust does the reparations. Also, art is done here; this is how you interpret the world, and create beauty.

His complaining wife is the part of your mind that is not happy or satisfied. Perhaps you are confused about trust. Perhaps you fear trusting the wrong ideas, or the wrong people. She is the part of your mind that tells you not to trust just anybody. For Love is given freely to all; but trust must be earned by a person's trustworthy behavior.

The good news is that the wife was not unhappy that you were there; this is evidence of selfacceptance. She is upset only because she fears trusting the wrong people, or the wrong ideas. "I don't want you to leave! she said," you say in your letter. So, this part of your mind likes the other parts of your mind; that is interior integration, a very good sign.

You write, "Then, I went into the bathroom, and my friend was trying to open the door to get into the bathroom, and I did not want him to come in." The "bathroom" represents interior purification-- a major and very common theme in many dreams. You cannot self-purify if you are trusting too much, and that is why you want to keep your friend ("trust") out of the part of your mind that purifies you spiritually ("bathroom"). You simply cannot grow if you trust the wrong people, or the wrong ideas.

You write, "So I hold the door with my foot." The "foot" is the symbol of pisces energy. If you have pisces energy in your chart, you are using this spiritual energy to make sure that you do not fall into gullibility, as so many "spiritual wannabes" do. If you do not have this energy in your chart, you can "borrow" it from others. This holding closed the door against overtrusting is very healthy.

You write, "My friend was too nice to me, as if he liked me as a woman, and not just as a friend." This part of your mind, the part that can overtrust and become gullible, is still confused about Love. You need to learn more about It. You need clearly to distinguish cosmic Love from romantic Love. A Love can be both, but they are two very different kinds or types (varieties) of Love. There are many types, and many powerlevels, of "Love," and they are all very different. You do not "love" your dog as you love your mother; and you do not love her the same way that you love a child; you love a sister differently, and a stranger with still another kind of Love.
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Increasing Body-energy

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You need to do several things, and your donkey [body] is telling you to do them. The low-energy is a communication from your body. Here are some things that you need to do every day to gain the energy that you have lost:

A vegetarian diet gives or provides energy, and that is very good; red meat drains energy. But it is possible that you are also still adapting or detoxing. Time will tell. Your diet might need more complex carbs-- especially healthy fruits and grains. Try to make sure that you are getting enough calories-- a minimum of 1800 on days when you are very active, less on less active days.

Try to do some spiritual reading every day.

Try to get regular sleep, at the same time every night. Try eight hours, and see whether that is too much for your system. Melatonin can help you sleep. It is the natural chemical produced by the brain that causes natural sleep. You need only one milligram per night, and it comes in a sublingual form (melts under your tongue). People over fifty might need two milligrams, and older people can use still more.

Listen to energizing music. I do not mean hard rock, acid rock, or heavy metal, which can be harmful to the energy system, but upbeat "new age" music.

Meditate every day. Use the "pervasive" system if possible.

Exercise aerobically once a day. Try to do this for one-half hour. Make the time to do this; the time will not just "come to you." You must schedule it in, and then, treat it as a sacred activity, for loving your body is sacred.

Visualize your body in an "egg" of brightly colored light. Picture the light penetrating into your body, inside as well as outside. For relaxation, use blue; for energy, use bright orange or red.

In your world, surround yourself with red as much as possible. Wear red. You can buy a bright red "theater gel" and place it on a window through wich the sun shines, and then, take an "energy bath" every day. You can also get a red "party bulb" and put it in a lamp in the dark, when watching tv or listening to music. (If you want relaxation, use a blue bulb.)

Get a very clear crystal and hold it in your left hand for fifteen minutes a day. This will charge the system with energy.

These are just a few important "energenic" (energy-generating) ideas. When you do them so often that they are a routine, others can be added to the list.

If you cannot do them all, include in your daily routine as many as you can. Each one is energenic, and each one will help.
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The Christmas Gullibility Test

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Are the following statements true or false? To make it easier, send the statements you believe are false to Gator and I will post how many got them all correct: Just send me the question numbers for your answers.

Write: gatorsden@intergate.com

1) The word 'mistletoe' means 'dung on a twig' in Anglo-Saxon

2) It was illegal to celebrate Christmas in puritan New England.

3) The modern image of a fat, red-suited Santa Claus was invented by the Coca-Cola Company.

4) The bones of the original Santa Claus (St. Nicholas) are preserved in a church in Italy.

5) Jesus Christ was born on December 25.

6) Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair campaigned to ban all christmas programs, songs, and carols from public schools.

7) NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) tracks Santa and his sleigh every year on radar.

8) The Bible tells us that three wise men visited the infant jesus as he lay asleep in a manger.

9) The suicide rate rises dramatically around Christmas.

10) Christmas only became a legal holiday in England and America late in the nineteenth century. Before then people were expected to go to work on Christmas Day.

11) The Canadian Post Office has given Santa Claus his own official postal code at the North Pole.

12) Abbreviating Christmas as Xmas is disrespectful.

(Thanks to Ty Scharrer)

December Humor

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An international chess tournament is held in a swank hotel in New York. Everyone who is anyone in the world of chess is there. After a grueling 4 hours of chess, the players and their entourages retire to the lobby of the hotel for a little refreshment.

In the lobby, the players get into a big argument about who is the brightest, the fastest, and the best chess player. The argument gets loud, each player claiming that he is the greatest chess player of all time.

One security guard in the lobby turns to the other and says:

“If there's one thing I can't stand, it's chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.”

(Thanks to Ty Scharrer)

"Satan" and "Devil"

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Surprisingly to most, the "satan" (originally a common noun, not a name) is mentioned only three times in the totality of the Hebrew Scriptures, and is not a major component of the Greek Christian Scriptures either. "Lucifer" is not mentioned at all-- not a single time-- in all the Christian Scriptures.

Jesus and all other mystics recognized that the "devil" is fear. The principle of the antipolarity of Love (God) and fear (devil) is stated clearly in First John 4:18: "Love and fear cannot coexist. Where Love is complete, fear is cast outside."

It follows logically that the conceptual "opposite" of God (God has no real opposite) is the "devil," and so, it is the opposite of Love-- fear.

The "satan" has played a part in Christianity after its primitive period (the first century) because people are more easily entrained in the fearself than in the Love-Self. All this interest in the "satan" arose because the official Church became negative instead of positive. Superstitions arising from belief in a "satan" led to the terrible nightmarish tortures of the Inquisition and the "witch-hunts," which were a shame to any half-civilized person.

Descriptions of them are so horrendous that I will spare your sensitive soul by not describing the ghastly tortures, but they were inhuman and beastly. All these gratuitous acts of sickening violence were the result of a superstitious belief in a personal "devil."

Since we follow the principle, "By their fruits you shall know them,"and since the fruits of a belief in this personal devil have been unadulteratedly abysmal and "demonic," we mystics refuse to buy into the ignorant superstition that there is a real "person" who is the real opposite of God.

Every being, even the worst, has some "God" or "Love" deep within, waiting to be awakened and "fanned" from an ember into a warm flame. Still, somewhere in the cosmos is the very worst, most ignorant, being ever. If you want to call it "the devil," or "satan," that is fine.

Mystics are realists, and we realize that this is a fact. But we do not believe in the fairy-tale that some "angel" rebelled against God, out of pride, and became the "satan." This is a very old Jewish fable, but is not Biblical. This is a good parable, warning against pride, but we do not believe that it represents historical fact.
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Heneghan Smoking Gun Theory

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Dear Shining Thunder,

Just when you thought the "stories" couldn't get any stranger, we find a version of truth that actually goes beyond anything dreamed up by the Hollywood money machines. The future, if nothing else, promises to be interesting. The rest is as I received the multi-forwarded information.

Enjoy.
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Friends,

This partly incoherent posting nonetheless poses a couple of interesting possibilities.

I remember a friend who had worked on classified projects telling me that it was fascinating to see how they were systematically leaked, part truth, part falsehood, part distortion, so that it would make it harder for anyone to tell, when something was leaked later, how much was real. This has those same earmarks.
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Hatred + Anything = Hatred.
Love + Anything = Love.
Your choice, every day.
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Subject: Strange but Probable

WHAT'S THIS ABOUT THE "SMOKING GUN"? ???

Tom Heneghan appeared in a short audio briefing on cloakanddagger.de for Tuesday, November 22, 2005 and made a bold prediction in light of the recent revelations of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Heneghan has been reporting for a week now that the primary reason for the outing Plame was not in retribution against her husband Joe Wilson for disputing claims that the government of Niger had supplied Iraq with nuclear materials. But rather, he was outed for the role of her CIA team in the interruption of a covert plan to smuggle weapons of mass destruction into Iraq before the war. Heneghan is now saying that this new evidence is the smoking gun about to crumble the Bush administration at any time now.

"The Bush administration needed to out Valerie Plame and destroy her credibility because her team, linked to Brewster Jennings and associates, had interdicted and completed a sting operation against this group that was trying to plant weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, so that the American troops that arrived in Iraq during the period of the warfare would have WMD´s waiting for them," concluded Heneghan. The WMD´s originated in Kosovo and Bosnia; and they were to be funneled through Turkey by rogue arms dealer and international terrorist Gary Best to Iraq.

"They were given orders to move VX nerve gas from Turkey into Iraq. This was to be hidden in Iraq and later used as evidence that Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction," said Heneghan of the original plan.

Heneghan also reported that a secret group of Mossad agents, working as Israeli military personnel based unofficially with the U.S. military in Iraq, were waiting to receive both the VX nerve gas and aluminum tubes in the latter part of October 2002.

"The group that was in Iraq that was to receive these WMD´s from this Bosnian group was a secret Mossad/Israeli team, and were attached to group known as J2X Joint Intelligence Liaison in Baghdad," Heneghan said of his U.S. intelligence source confirmations.

Plame and her team uncovered this plot in November of 2002, and subsebuently no WMD´s have ever been found in the country of Iraq to justify the war.

Washington Post Editor Bob Woodward found out about Plame´s discovery in June and July of 2003 from Richard Armitage and Dick Cheney. Ever since then, he has attempted to discredit Plame and disrupt the grand jury investigation into her outing; and he continues to do so.

"Mr. Woodward, who knows this case is about to explode in his face, decides to trigger an investigation of the CIA. So what did he do two weeks ago? He leaked a story in his Washington Post about black prisons. This story has now caused a new investigation about national security leaks," said Heneghan of Woodward´s role in the plot.

Current CIA Director Porter Goss has launched an investigation through the Justice Department to find the sources of leaks about these black prisons. The leak actually originated with Dick Cheney and prominent members of the Republican Party, who then passed on the information to reporter Dana Priest; she subsequently authored the stories that appeared in the Washington Post.

"What Porter Goss has done is create an investigation that will end up investigating himself," surmised Heneghan.
"The defense of this administration has constantly been to blame the CIA. The fact of the matter is that (former CIA Director) George Tenant has recently written a report which he has given to Porter Goss. It is a damage assessment report on how many agents were killed because of the outing of Valerie Plame. It will deal with an attempt to plant the WMD´s in Iraq; and Mr. Porter Goss refuses to publish the report. He claims that it is national security," stated Heneghan.

This report by Tenant has been subpoenaed by Fitzgerald; and the Bush administration is attempting to quash it by claiming national security reasons. Heneghan revealed several weeks ago that Tenant was given a $36 million bribe to take the fall for the failure to find WMD´s in Iraq, among other issues. But this was falsely blamed on poor intelligence work by the CIA. Tenant was also recently granted transactional immunity by Fitzgerald in exchange for his testimony.

"Once this report is in the hands of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, the entire White House will come down like a house of cards" predicted Heneghan. "This Tenant report includes a reference to an attempt to plant WMD in Iraq. THAT IS THE SMOKING GUN, folks," he declared.

The WMD discovery is also linked directly to 9/11. For the money that was paid out for these covert operations was supported from funds that originated from the Philippines.

“What connects the dots between 9/11 and the WMD´s in Iraq is the money. There was direct money that was being paid through Switzerland to pay off Osama Bin Laden for his role in 9/11 for being the patsy and the fall guy for the September 11th attacks," Heneghan said. "There is an old saying, 'Follow the money.'"

Heneghan also revealed that the Bush administration continues to explore ways to cause a distraction from the Fitzgerald investigation by staging further acts of terrorism in the united States.

"Bush was in Mongolia discussing with certain people an attempt to trigger a new 9/11 Two. Right now the U. S. economy is on the verge of collapse, despite the stock market's having gone to 10,900. The reason this is occurring is because we are no longer reporting M3," said Heneghan of the current economic climate.

"They can print as many Euro dollars as they want offshore now... and pump them into the U.S. stock market by making these funds available to certain offshore entities and major U.S. brokerage firms (including Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns). What you have now is the Federal Reserve buying stocks. This is being done as an emergency measure due to the state of chaos this administration faces," warned Heneghan.

Heneghan also detailed the ripple effect that these developments, mentioned in the Tenant damage assessment report, might have had with the Israeli government.

"One of the reasons Ariel Sharon has resigned as the head of Likud Party (The National Liberal Party) and will be setting up his own political party, is because he himself has identified through his own internal investigation this renegade Mossad team linked to Benjamin Netanyahu. He was operating with Bush and Cheney without the [knowledge] of the Israeli government," Heneghan disclosed.

(Thanks to Tom Gustin.)