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SUPERBOWL STUPERBOWL AND SATANISTS
2/05/06

For all my international readers who do not understand the All American pastime of the STUPER BOWL please allow me to explain this insane custom. The STUPER BOWL IS: A flagrant American day of waste. Yes , STUPER BOWL SUNDAY is the day that many Americans sit around a living room , game room, sports bar, or where ever a television is tuned into the STUPER BOWL so they can drink beer, eat buffalo wings, chew on potato chips, nachos and all the junk food ever made in the world . The wealthiest 65,000 American STUPER BOWL fanatics will spend 4000 to 7500 dollars for a seat at Ford Stadium in Detroit today to watch 22 men beat, pull and run after each other in order to tackle , hurt, or humiliate one an other for the sole purpose of possessing an oblong shaped, pig skinned covered, brown ball.

Many of my international readers are familiar with soccer and the World Cup but the World Cup is an international competitive event which hosts many nations. The STUPER BOWL is a purely American sport, played by Americans, and watched by the world, an estimated one billion people. The STUPER BOWL is a great American event unlike any other of our various holidays, because it is not an official holiday but is very much a religious event for millions of Americans played out for their entertainment on Sunday, their day of worship.

Americans are famous for their aggressive behavior and eccentric obsessions. On STUPER BOWL SUNDAY men , women and children, dress in their favorite team colors, tee shirts, blue jeans, sweat pants, hats, etc. They have been known to paint their faces and wear every sort of outrageous costume to celebrate this event. Billions of dollars will be spent on snack foods and hor’derves, hamburger, hot dogs, fried chicken, hams, pizza, roast beef, ice cream, candy,cakes, and every type of famous American junk food, and billions of dollars on every conceivable beer and hard liquor. Oh, and we can’t forget the credit card purchases of millions of large screen televisions.

This year’s world famous STUPER BOWL half time event will be a mixed performance of Motown singers, like Aretha Franklin , who weighs in at 300 pounds, as large or larger than most of the football players. She will sing the national anthem. When asked by an interviewer what she would wear to the event, she said, “Jeans and a sweatshirt.” This will be one performance that will mock not shock the world, especially if it is viewed in any African country where millions of people are starving. What a wonderful world spectacle of American Black Women. One day after the funeral of America’s most revered and dignified Black woman, Coretta Scott King. Then once the anthem is sung the STUPER BOWL planners decided to top off the half time event with the Rolling Stones, the world’ most aged rock band, famous Satanists, creators of such unforgettable songs as Sympathy for the Devil. The Stones are a noble forthright example of American culture, a satanic British Rock Band. Yes, this is a great Sunday holiday. All that would be needed to show the world the epitome of American hypocrisy, decadence and stupidity would be an opening prayer by G.W. BUSH. This could well cause a sudden global, human physical chain reaction; that would become known as the great American burp and fart heard around the world.

L.A. STEEL

POPULATION REDUCTION AND THE GLOBAL 2000 REPORT
1/29/06

It is a frightening and harsh truth that I have discovered recently. I know I should have known about this long before now but I ignored the report out of fear for what it stated. I ignored the words because I could not comprehend what they meant. I ignored all human suffering but my own. It will go away I thought, just as a cut or bruise or cold will go away. But truth of population reduction will not go away only people will disappear. Only the planet that we know will disappear unless we do something about planned population reduction. The first thing to do is to be aware of it.

The Millennium Institute created a report entitled Global 2000 completed and published in 1981. This report was commissioned by the Carter Administration and completed during the Reagan presidency. What it showed as present and historic fact was then used to predict future effects of the growth of global human population. What it predicted was that at the current rate of human population growth the world could not sustain any more than four billion people. The planet human population today is approximately 6 billion people. The effect of this over population accounts for past, present and future government strategies surrounding global natural resources such as oil, natural gas, lumber, valuable minerals, coal, water and farming lands.

The Global 2000 report shows that peak oil production has already begun and by the year 2070 all known world oil reserves will be depleted. It shows that by 2070 at the current rate of human population, 12 billion people will be living on planet Earth. If this is allowed to happen unchecked, then governments will no longer be able to govern effectively and more and more wars will break out, more revolutions, more bloodshed, more religious and secular arguments and eventual global war. Wide spread famine and disease will become the common cause of death for billions of people around the world. The first to die are those who are already dying by the millions in the third world countries of the southern hemisphere. The stories of genocide we hear from so many countries are real global weather modification by those governments of the Northern Hemisphere are being deliberately carried out, who desperately need the natural and enslaved human resources of these exploited countries. War and political unrest are simply diversions for the true motives of Globalist leaders, to capture the wealth and control all world regions that contain natural resources, by reducing the populations by war, contaminated vaccines, privatization of all resources, water, land, minerals and are enslaving the indigenous people of these countries, by creating and maintaining enormous barriers to prevent education and economic independence.

Genocide is not restricted to third world countries. It is prevalent in all industrialized countries as well. The indiscriminate testing of bio weapons on unsuspecting citizens. The contamination of water and food supplies with known toxins and chemicals such as mercury, pesticides and known carcinogens is well reported and well known. Yet little is being done to protect us. Our complicit governments are well aware of these experiments and mass murders being carried out but are not speaking out to warn or protect the People they are suppose to represent. This blame and shame doesn’t just belong to the U.S government but to all industrialized governments, because they are all aware of the problems they would face if too many people remained alive.

The AIDS pandemic began in 1980, and was suspected then of being caused by the artificial creation of the virus spread by the U.S government into the gay communities to eliminate their populations and then to depopulate as many areas of the globe as possible, to comply with the global population reduction goals set by the industrialized countries. The estimated goal for population reduction globally was to reduce the population to 4 billion; which would require the extermination of 2 billion people by year 2000. Even with all the wars and plagues up until the present day the population remains at approximately 6 billion and this number must be reduced to 4 billion to sustain the eco balance of human population to global resources. In the 21st century it is predicted that all wars will be fought over limited resources of water and oil and other precious resources. We are seeing that prediction coming true when we simply observe the many wars now being fought around the world. Most are caused by land disagreements and ancient hatreds between cultures, caused by previous genocides carried out by both warring parties and flamed by their mutual distrust of each other.

The most difficult decision of course, once intelligent and rational people are made aware of this existing, ruthless and calculated program of global population reduction, is that of who will be sacrificed? Who will be deliberately massacred, starved or killed by manmade diseases and disasters so that others can live? Is it now the survival of the fittest? Social Darwinism? Will we begin to see the disappearance of certain minorities, Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and Caucasians? Perhaps religious factions, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists their all being attacked from within their own countries and from outside and most of these religions’ hierarchies have ordered the persecution of others as many of their own followers have also been persecuted. This form of ethnic or cultural cleansing and genocide has been practiced and condoned by human societies since man’s creation. It is simply a side of mankind that it’s “enlightened” members prefer to ignore; unless they themselves are faced with persecution and the threat of death or enslavement. Then it becomes an issue of self defense, dog eat dog, everyman for himself or organized resistance, etc. Within everyone is the desire to live, it is just that some are far better at survival than others and are more aware of the survival skills needed to remain strong, healthy and aware of the existence of potential predators.

So the great question is, who will be destroyed first and the answer is, the weakest. Who will be second, third and fourth? They will also be the weakest and most vulnerable. Then it will come down to the survival of the most cunning and strong. Not so much the most populated or the richest, but the cleverest, the most physically healthy, the most aggressive, the most adaptable, protective and the most ruthless. Frightening choices, frightening consequences, but it is real and present and vicious massacres are being carried out now and have been since the beginning of human existence. It appears that Mankind’s prolific ability to reproduce has outpaced its natural predators; until finally the world’s deadliest predator is threatening to destroy vast numbers of the global human population for sake of its own survival and that predator is mankind itself. Will love, compassion, mercy, wisdom, prayer all help to bring about a divine solution? The last divine solution was a worldwide flood. The next foretold divine solution is again the final destruction of mankind, but not again by flood. Maybe there is a better solution but world leaders have not found it yet, no one has found it yet, unless it is faith. If faith in divine intervention saves the planet that will be wonderful, but if it does not; then evolution will take its normal course in creating a more viable human species, or eventually bring about the extinction of mankind.

L.A.STEEL

THE DON QUIXOTE IN ME
1/1/06

Democratic chivalry best describes the greatest essence of every man and women who dreams the impossible dream and fights the unbeatable foe etc. etc. Anyone who has ever read Don Quixote or seen the movie or play of Man from La Mancha has got to have identified somewhat with either Don Quixote or Sancho Panza. I identified with both. Sancho was a realist and loyal servant to a madman, who began to understand the madness of Don Quixote. Always questioning and doubting the actions of his master. He reluctantly played the part of a squire to a mad knight on his quest only to find himself unable to reach the level of self abandonment or allow himself to see the world in a different light.

To become a self proclaimed knight of chivalric deeds on a quest to right the wrongs of the world one cannot consider his immediate circumstances or his immediate difficulties. He must look to the future and present, with the optimism and faith of the full and complete metamorphosis of reality. Everyone has done this in their minds by moving from one room to another, or one memory to another. With each thought and motion we change our reality or view of all we see. A different angle or idea can solve a problem or right a wrong. “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.” One man’s dream is another man’s reality. How does it happen? How does it become? Simply through the imagination of the dreamer. Don Quixote saw a barber’s brass bowl as a golden helmet. He saw an old nag as a mighty steed. He saw a prostitute as a lady of refinement and virginity her beauty worthy of his love, her memory worthy of his poetry. I am not saying that he was right but, I am saying that if we do not know the character of a person prior to meeting them, and they present themselves with charm and dignity, most people will accept one another openly and often will think the best of the other person.

I try hard to honor my friends and I am not a rich man who can afford lavish gifts for those I care for. But I can give generously all the praise and gratitude I can sincerely bestow on all who I am grateful for or indebted to. In this way I raise my friends to the status of noblemen and women because to me they are. If a man esteems his own life worthy of having such good and true friends, then his friends if they are true must consider him honorable and worthy of their friendship as well. A man or woman who lives either in madness or reality and their estimate of those they wish to have around them is their only compass and measure to determining the value of their own lives..

L.A. STEEL

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A BUSH GONE NEW YEAR
12/28/05

Well it’s time to make my New Year resolutions. I take a lot of time thinking about it every year. I ‘m not sure why since I break most of them by February. To be truthful I usually forget what they were by February. This year however I am only going to commit to one or maybe two resolutions and keep them in the forefront of my thoughts each day.

My first resolution is that I am going to try and be a better person. As I get older each year I get a little more worried about you know what. I don’t like to think about death but only a fool would ignore the inevitable. Aging is a complete and utter downer. No matter who you look at age has a definite effect on everyone. When I was a kid I would watch Jack Lalane. I’m sure many of my readers haven’t a clue who he is but Jack Lalane was Mr. Health. He had a Health show on television during the late 50’s and early 60’s. I recently saw him on an infomercial selling health juice or something. He was like a hundred years old and was swimming across a lake. He didn’t look as good as he did in the 60’s but the fact that he was still doing the breast stroke at his age was admirable. But that was Jack Lalane not L.A.Steel. I never could swim across a lake nor could I stomach all the health juices either. I was a strict vegetarian in my early twenties, made my own bread, ate nuts and berries, studied Kundalini Yoga, fasted, meditated and practiced advanced positions of the Kama Sutra and became downright impossible to live with, or so my first wife said. She may have been right but I felt very self righteous then and was the healthiest I’ve been in my life. Well after five years of being Mr. Clean and having stopped smoking, drinking and eating meat I finally broke my stride and fell into temptation. Yes folks temptation. Not Crack or heroin or insanity. No nothing so troubling or menacing, nothing as debilitating as those. I fell into complete and utter collapse of discipline by a simple, hell created, CUPCAKE.

This wasn’t your ordinary cupcake. I had for a long time learned to curb my obsession for sweets. I could turn away from any kind of confection previously created, until this new cupcake suddenly appeared in the grocery store freezer. That fatal day when I happen to walk into a major supermarket for a loaf of multigrain bread and plain yogurt, I saw these frozen cupcakes in the grocer’s freezer. Yellow cupcakes with multi flavored icing a six-pack to be exact. There was natural orange, natural strawberry, deep fudge chocolate, milk chocolate, coconut and natural vanilla . Many of my readers may know the name of the maker of these hellish creations, but I will not divulge the name for fear that some other poor , highly enlightened vegan may fall as I did.

I have long since lost my obsession to these cupcakes after several years of cravings and a weekly habit of six to twelve cupcakes a week, my favorite being natural strawberry. I was fortunate that no one could buy a six pack of just strawberry cupcakes, or I would have suffered far more by my gluttony. Even had I remained at only a six pack or two a week I could have broken my addiction down to a manageable six pack on the weekends, but these demonic cupcakes were a gateway confection to the world of confections that I had turned away from five years prior, and swore I would never return to. Upon my decent from vegan enlightenment into the sugar high of natural flavored icing, artificial additives and colorings I fell into a despair of indifference to my health and began to walk less, bicycle less, and on certain occasions indulge in my old vices of Jim Beam and Ale. I don’t know why I liked Ale, can’t stand the stuff now, but for some reason the smell of it was enough to sense I was going to suffer if I drank it. I never suffered drinking it, but subconsciously it worked and created the slight illusion of suffering with each bottle I drank.

Finally after ten years of failing to return to my ideal weight and vegan enlightenment, I stood on the bathroom scale of contentment and found I had gained a shameful amount of weight. What a complete and utter idiot I had become. What a fool to his own obsessions. I swore then and tried to keep my promise to myself that I would do all I could to return to my ideal weight. Like all resolutions that one seemed to fade into the sunset as well. But over time I resolved to accept a reasonable diet and decided to compromise with my weakened determination and my body, to reach a level of comfortable co- existence, a proper balance of virtue and vice.

As for the title of this article, in some way I’ve succeeded in achieving the goneness of G.W.Bush, by not mentioning him until now. Perhaps if the world would consider to not consider Bush at all in 2006, or his cronies my second resolution will be achieved ; that of G.W Bush becoming completely and totally irrelevant to the present and future existence of mankind. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

L.A. STEEL

TOOKIE vs THE TERMINATOR
12/15/05

By 9:15 pm on the night of Stanley Tookie Williams execution, I could no longer allow myself to watch or listen to the insipid and insidious debates over Arnold Schwarzenegger’s decision to grant clemency and stop the execution, or to let Stanley Tookie Williams die. The decision was predetermined twenty four years before, when four brutal murders were committed. Tookie Williams was the founder of Los Angeles’s most notorious street gang. Could he have possibly been innocent of these murders, maybe; but what difference did it make to the guilt or innocence of one of the most feared men in the country? Would Jesse James or Billy the Kid have been acquitted for a murder they didn’t commit, with the jury fully aware of their notorious reputations? It is highly doubtful.

If we consider the worth of a man or woman’s life upon their conviction of a brutal crime, how are their virtues weighed? Remove the weight of anger and hatred and desire for revenge and consider only clinical justice. Can a judge or jury be clinically objective once they are made aware of all facts, and have listened to all arguments by the defense and prosecution? I do not know. But let us assume that it can be done, and was done in the Tookie Williams trial. The ultimate verdict was the death sentence. He survived twenty four more years in prison, this was clemency by the judicial system, granted to him despite his later execution. Many convicted criminals have faced their executioners in far shorter time.

I believe Tookie Williams may have purged his soul before he was executed. He refused his last meal and any spiritual council in his last hours. He was prepared for the final decision and might have even welcomed it; as the final escape from his 24 year isolation on death row. Would clemency to life in prison have made any difference to him by then? He had done all he could do to try and redeem himself, try to show his rehabilitation; but to the actor now Governor, who created the film roles of Conan the Barbarian and The Terminator, the word rehabilitation isn’t pronounceable, much less a comprehensible concept. Could the families of the murder victims accept that the rehabilitation and lifelong imprisonment of a cold blooded killer, was worth the lives of their murdered family members?

Stanley Tookie William’s ultimate guilt or innocence will always remain a question for any who remember his case. Innocence or guilt is often confused and rationalized and the story of Tookie Williams will be forgotten within the next six months. His memory will be associated with the gang he co founded and guilt will be associated with his final reputation. As for the state of California and it’s prison system Stanley Tookie Williams has become a statistic, dehumanized and deleted from the prison population, no longer a burden to society. Those who mourn now for Tookie Williams do not mourn the man, few of them ever knew. They mourn the ideal that he represented to them. He may have inspired some with his words and attempted rehabilitation, but Death is final for both Tookie Williams and his victims. Who mourns for the victims? If the spirits of the slain are satisfied a universal justice has been served.

The biblical story of Christ on the Cross states that in his final hour he blessed the convicted criminal who was crucified next to him. Though Christ had the power to save himself and the man next to him , he did not. Perhaps God embraced the criminal as his soul passed on. Perhaps Christ was with him and gave him hope and foreknowledge of the afterlife. Perhaps as Tookie Williams prepared himself for his death he calmly accepted his fate as he accepted God. We will never know, but we can believe that all death is destined and so is life after death.

The argument over the Death Penalty pro and con, I have discussed often on my radio program. My co-host Leila is a devout opponent to the death penalty where as I am ambivalent about it’s use. I can wholeheartedly support the death penalty for heinous crimes, in which the offender either truthfully confesses to the crime or is found guilty on all counts with unquestionable proof and positive DNA results. The most critical of all areas argued in this debate is the credibility and availability of such concrete evidence. My sole defense of the death penalty is related to this area. If all proof of the intent and commitment of the diabolical crime is rightfully admitted by a competent defense, and seen and understood by an untampered and unprejudiced judge and jury, then a sentence of death by the jury’s decision should be carried out. In Stanley Tookie Williams case none of this solid evidence was admitted at his trial. No DNA, No eye witnesses, nothing but circumstantial evidence and the testimony of an inmate informant. There may have been more evidence that convicted Tookie Williams; however I am citing all that has been released to the public. Mr. Williams retained his plea of innocence to the crimes up to the moment of his death. Was justice served in his case? I do not know. All the evidence submitted in his defense during subsequent appeals could not overturn his original conviction or commute his sentence to life in prison.

Statements by the prosecution stated that this case was solid and Mr. Williams’s guilt of the brutal murders of four innocent victims was proven beyond doubt to judges and juries and reviewed many times over 24 years, resulting in the same outcome. If I or anyone were a juror or judge in this case we may have been obliged to vote the same way. One extenuating circumstance that would obviously cloud the Stanley Tookie Williams trial would be his notorious reputation as the founder of a ruthless street gang. What was his vision and intent when he formed his gang? Were murderous and brutal methods encouraged and employed by the gang members; and was the mimicking of their leaders and following their examples encouraged? Was the gang formed for self defense against the violence of other gangs; or was it founded for the same reason most street gangs are founded for, the promotion of criminal and violent behavior?

If Tookie Williams spent his years on Death Row writing against gang life and gang activity is considered by his supporters to be proof of his rehabilitation; then obviously is initial intentions when he founded his gang, were based on less than noble ideals; that spawned the creation of a well entrenched violent street gang. I believe the system worked properly in the case of Stanley Tookie Williams, whether justice was truly served and he was innocent, as he claimed to his death will always remain a question. In this case the accused was convicted of four horrific murders; and he accepted his own execution stoically. He must have understood that his case, having been processed exhaustively through the U.S judicial system for 24 years, and he was still found guilty, his crimes far outweighed any further reason for tolerance toward him by the people of California. They could no longer support or justify, any further reason for Stanley Tookie Williams existence. The truth of his guilt or innocence will remain a topic of debate. However to most of the American people this case will be forgotten. Tookie Williams has become a prison statistic, dehumanized to a deleted prison number and an empty, San Quentin Death Row cell; soon to be filled by another occupant.

L.A. Steel

MISLEADERS AND MALCONTENTS
12/07/05

I have no faith in any American political party. The dripping hypocrisy of our political figures is beyond any fictional character imaginable. Each and every political incumbent in the U.S is a sad and silly figure of a sick society. Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, G.W. Bush, etc.etc. there is no difference between them. They all salivate when the congressional dinner bell rings.

Rich, contemptible, indifferent, stupid, arrogant, American politicians are all well greased and oiled parts of the monster machine that daily rolls over and crushes the American people. They talk big and bold, and scowl and shout and wiggle and grunt before the CSPAN cameras,( if they even show up on the floor of the House and Senate.) Thieves, cowards, and contemptible hypocrites, are the groveling and ignoble characteristics that make one worthy of the ranks of the worst leaders of our times. Leaders such as Tom Delay, Bill Frist, Dick Cheney, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and we must not forget to mention the noble characteristics of the great appointed members of our government. Overseer of the Death Squads in So. America. Negroponte now head of all U.S intelligence agencies, orr Condi Rice chosen for her position as Sec. of State not for her qualifications but for her loyalty and ability to lie. The list is endless and implicates virtually everyone in the U.S Government.

I am jaded and I’ll be the first to admit it; but after so many years of being deceived and disappointed, dejected and outright disgusted by the American political process, I’ve come to the belief that becoming politically jaded is the only right I have left as an American, that hasn’t been modified or compromised by our great leadership. The joke is on us. It is a sick and very sad joke but it is never the less a joke. The dialogue on the war in Iraq, the dialogue on the numerous issues facing this country are all tainted by ignorance and propaganda from all sides of the issue except the side of those who are severely effected by the outcome of these dialogues. I reserve the use of the word debates because it has been so abused and distorted in the American political lexicon, that it barely has meaning anymore.

I have either lived too long or not long enough to properly grapple with this all encompassing issue of being an American. Living in America is a blessing. There can be no doubting that as far as I am personally concerned. But as all good has its evil counterpart, I fear that the evil in this nation now has overwhelmed its people. I fear that the selfishness and arrogance of Americans has overshadowed all reason and rational thought with regards to the rest of the world. Americans are the most myopic people on the planet. We do not see or wish to see the suffering that our government and corporations are causing to the rest of humanity and the global environment. We elect idiots and imbeciles to office who are dominated by corrupt advisers and influenced by soul less corporations and ambitious militarists. We content ourselves with materialism and entertainment, television and receive our news from mindless news anchormen and women,( more noted for their hairdos than their integrity) and corporately biased media that brain wash and manipulate the masses. We serve up truth deficient mass education in our public and private schools in the same way we serve nutritionally deficient school lunches. Our educational system is in sad need of repair both physically and systemically. The wealthiest people on the planet are ranked below all other industrialized nations for the quality of our educational institutions and graduates. Inner city high schools have upwards of a 63 % drop out rate. Private secondary schools and public and private universities are corrupted by either Christian Fundamentalism or atheistic ideologies of secular humanism. Art and literature are reduced to second rate status as schools loose their souls, these areas of knowledge loose their sanctity. Liberal arts and philosophy have lost their once high status and are scorned by many public school boards as irrelevant and not necessary for a rounded education. Reading , Writing and Arithmetic are still considered the standard even though the level of American literature has been reduced in the 21st century to a sub standard status compared with other industrialized countries.

Believing again in a great America of true untarnished ideals that stand as true universal virtues of a highly civilized society; is now the vision of mad prophets and fringe populist political platforms. Idealism is only for the innocent, and even the innocent are rapidly being devoured by innumerable outside influences. Innocence at the age of 16 is unheard of in the United States. Innocent idealism and creativity is impeded and mocked by our society. War, pollution, waste, excessive greed and corruption are the bylines of our newspapers and news reports. Pornography and impossible to attain images of beauty ,wealth , status and materialism are depicted in every magazine, billboard and television advertisement. We have become a nation of people programmed daily, to consume and contribute to the mindlessness and madness of our own compulsions and addictions. Americans are forever looking outwards, never satisfied with what they have or who they are , never knowing or caring about other people or nations; not even caring about their own families and neighbors. We are a selfish nation. We are a nation of many fools.

I cannot denigrate the entire American society , because I am well aware of many noble Americans. Many friends and acquaintances of mine have greater convictions than my own in the fight of spiritual warfare, that we are engaged in this country. These people remain activists and altruists; who still believe in the good of mankind and in the greatness that could be America. For these few I retain my hope that the future of America might be brighter than ever; but I am a fool and too often fooled. My greatest idealistic hope, dream and faith in America, are rooted in the preservation of American freedom, liberty, peace and prosperity and that America’s common soul may become enlightened, to embrace the divine power of universal awareness and compassion in time to save itself and the world from self destruction.

L.A. STEEL

QUR’AN CONTEMPLATION # 2
11/19/05

As I plow through centuries of rigid beliefs I understand why we are desperately loosing the struggle in Iraq. Did anyone even attempt to read the Koran or a history of the Middle East before they decided to go to war with an Arab nation? If they had they would have never attempted this lame brain war against the most rigid and hard line religious people in the world. No one can conquer the unconquerable.

SURA 5 ” …Only, the recompense of those who war against God and his Apostle, and go about to commit disorders on the earth, shall be that they shall be slain or crucified, or have their alternate hands and feet cut off, or be banished the land; This their disgrace in this world, and in the next a great torment shall be theirs- Except those who ere you have them in your power, shall repent; for know that God is Forgiving, Merciful. O ye who believe! Fear God. Desire union with Him. Contend earnestly on his path, that you may attain happiness.

“As to the infidels-if that they had twice the riches of the earth to be their\ ransom from torment on the day of resurrection, it should not be accepted from them! and a dolorous torment shall be theirs Fain would they come forth from the Fire; but forth from it they shall not come; and a lasting torment shall be theirs. As tho the thief, whether man or woman, cut ye off their hands in recompense for their doings. This is a penalty by way of warning from God himself. And God is Mighty, Wise. But who ever shall turn him to God after this his wickedness, and amend, God truly will be turned to him for God is Forgiving, Merciful.”

“… O Apostle! let not those who vie with one another in speeding to infidelity vex thee; – of those who say with their mouths, ‘We will believe’ but whose hearts believe not; – or of the Jews- listeners to a lie – listeners to others- but who come not to thee. They shift the words of the law from their places and say, ‘ If this be brought to you, receive it; but if this be not brought to you then beware of it’ For him whom God would mislead, thou canst in no wise prevail with God! They whose hearts God shall not please to cleanse, shall suffer disgrace in this world, and in the next a grievous punishment; Listeners to a falsehood and greedy devourers of the forbidden!”

“O Believers! Take not the Jews or Christians as friends. They are but one another’s friends. If any one of you taketh them for his friends, he surely is one of them! God will not guide the evil doers. So shalt thou see the diseased at the heart speed away to them, and say, ‘We fear lest a change of fortune befall us.’ But haply God will of himself bring about victory of event of his own ordering: then soon will they repent them of their secret imaginings. Then will the Faithful say, ‘ What are these they who swore, by their most solemn oath, that they were surely with you?’ Vain their works; and themselves shall come to ruin. O ye who believe! Should anyone of you desert His religion, God will then raise up a people loved by Him and loving Him, lowly towards the faithful, haughty towards the Infidels. For the cause of God will they contend, and not fear the blame of the blamer. This is the Grace of God! On whom He will bestoweth it! God is Vast, Omniscient!”

“… Infidels now are they who say, God is the Messiah, son of Mary; for the Messiah said,”O children of Israel! Worship God my Lord and your Lord.’ Whoever shall join other gods with God, God shall forbid him the Garden, and his abode shall be the Fire; and the wicked shall have no helpers. They surely are Infidels, who say, ‘God is the third of three; for there is no God but one God: and if they refrain not from what they say a grievous chastisement shall light on such of them as are Infidels.”

All right I have failed the Mensa test by five points because in all fairness of time and talent and ability I couldn’t answer the last question. The question was completely absurd to the common brain, but to the brain who wrote the test it was considered an act of genius. So it was obviously beyond me. I wasn’t given a pass or membership and I was told that they were sorry. So here I am trying to convince the world that the Koran and Bush and this War and all the Mensa warriors who got us in to this Iraqi Insanity are completely STUPID. Until someone unlocks the secret of the Qur’an for the rest of the world to attempt to understand it, the better off the world would be. As would be the way to open all religions to the scrutiny they deserve.

What’s more amazing is that any great religion can and has fostered tremendous followings, people who believe in their leader to guide them to the pathway of an enlightened life. I am of that mindset that will never give adoration or complete faith to anyone but God. I always questioned the trinity idea. Thought the “One God” theology was far greater than the” Three God Theory” I believe as it states in the Koran that God is one God is not three or 2 or many in one but that God is one. But I’m not about to cut off anyone’s feet or head or whatever body part, because they don’t believe in one God. For some reason I cannot visualize a God that would be petty enough to consider the thoughts of an inferior spirit. God is omnipotent, God is blind but sees all, God is holy and blessed, and God is all greatness. For this reason I ask that my head be spared the blade for blasphemy and all readers who have attempted to understand part TWO of Contemplating the Koran.

L.A. STEEL

CONTEMPLATING THE QUR’AN 

11/16/05

“The infidels resemble him who shouteth aloud to one who heareth no more than a call and cry! Deaf, dumb, blind: therefore they have no understanding.”

“Oh ye who believe! eat of the good things with which we have supplied you, and give God thanks if ye are His worshippers. But that which dieth of itself, and blood, and swine’s flesh, and that over which any other name than that of God hath been invoked, is forbidden you. But he who shall partake of them by constraint, without lust or willfulness, no sin shall be upon him. Verily God is Indulgent, Merciful.

“They truly who hid the Scriptures which God hath sent down, and barter them for a mean price- these shall swallow into their bellies naught but fire. God will not speak to them or assoil them, on the day of Resurrection: and theirs shall be a grievous torment.”

“These are they who have bartered guidance for error, and pardon for torment; But how great their endurance in fire! This shall be their doom, because God had sent down ‘the Book’ with the truth. And verily they who dispute about that Book are in a far-gone severance from it.”

“There is no piety in turning your faces towards the east or the west, but he is pious who believeth in God, and the last day, and the angels, and the Scriptures, and the prophets; who for the love of God disburseth his wealth to his kindred, and to the orphans, and the needy, and the wayfarer, and those who ask, and for ransoming; who observeth prayer, and payeth the legal alms, and who is of those who are faithful to their engagements when they have engaged in them, and patient under ills and hardships, and in time of trouble; these are they who are just, and these are they who fear the Lord….”

The Qur’an: Sura 2

According to the Koran the angel Gabriel (of Judeo Christian fame) appeared to Muhammad and told him that he would be a prophet of a new word of God, and that is how the Islamic religion began. (Aprox.625 AD) Why should anyone deny this word over any other? I mean did anyone witness Moses or Abraham or Jesus talking to God? Everyone just took their word for it and trusted them. So why should we not believe that God spoke to Muhammad? More people believe in Islam than in Christianity though both religions are derived from the same geographical area and ancestry and worship the same God Head. As I begin my general study of the Koran to seek some of its meaning, I will bring a few quotes and observations forward. So far I see nothing to be afraid of , nothing to obsess about , and I was surprised that the Koran states the Islamic acceptance of Judaism and Christianity, as its foundation and Moses and Jesus as prophets, and even defends Jesus’s virgin and divine birth. I’m afraid that some of the fundamental concepts of Islam got seriously mistranslated and maligned through the centuries. I see no valid reason to doubt the Koran as a holy book, just as I consider the Judeo Christian Bible to be the word of God written through prophets.

I hope to continue my research and share it with my readers. If anyone more advanced in their knowledge and study of the Koran would be interested in conversing with me and my readers please use the forum on this site. I realize most of the people in the world haven’t read the Judeo Christian Bible yet, but there are enough English language websites and Bible thumpers around to easily find one; but there are very few English language sites that try to understand and objectively compare the Koran with other holy works. So expect a few more articles on the subject good or bad, but I promise my readers I will be fair and honest, if for no other reason than my fear of divine retribution.

L.A. STEEL

SLIGHTLY ON THE LEFT
8/17/05

Just slightly on the left side of sanity is a small and comfortable place where I often dwell. Yes, often in my normal everyday battle for sanity I retreat to this corner, just left of my center mind that seems to welcome me like an old friend with a welcomed inner smile of warmth and rationality. “Welcome my friend,” it says to me.” Welcome to your true nature.”

That left leaning corner of my mind is often softly lit. Like a small study in a large house, remote and hid away from daily activities of business and mindless living. In this left corner of my existence I contemplate the many wonders of my life. I muse with the wit and wisdom of great and near great thoughts. I think of left leaning thoughts that seem to so often occur to me from nowhere.

I do not consider my thoughts as liberal or conservative or sane or insane I merely consider them. What makes sense to me may make sense to someone else, but often what makes sense to someone else makes no sense to me. When I find myself in this state of trying to make sense of something that makes no sense to me at all, but appears to make sense to other supposedly thinking people, it is then that I involuntarily retreat to my slightly left side to try and justify or rationalize the thoughts and beliefs of others. I will reference many books on the subject or Google an unfamiliar name or phrase or philosophy. If this doesn’t produce the answer I need then I resort to deductive reasoning, and if all fails to produce an adequate and satisfying answer, I just lean back in the left leaning part of my mind and accept the possibility that there is no adequate answer to my question and accept my left point of reference as an eternal blind spot to understanding anything to the right of sanity.

L.A. STEEL

I HEARD SOMEONE CRY
7/15/05

I am never too distraught when it comes to someone’s death from war especially people I never knew. I’ve never been very good at suffering through funerals. I have seen death in many faces and have escaped from it several times, but I have never welcomed it. I have never been obsessed by death or summoned its presence for myself or anyone else.

I have never considered my death as a means of protest. I have always valued my life highly and the lives of others. Here in Connecticut, the capital city of Hartford has had 14 murders so far this year. All from gang related shootings and drivebys. I have not attended one of the funerals nor have I sent a sympathy card to the parents of the children murdered. I did not know them. I do not live in Hartford, I seldom ever visit Hartford, but I often think of Hartford at least 14 times this year alone when each murder was reported in the news. Each time I shook my head in disbelief and ask myself what is going on and why can’t the police stop these murders? Why can’t someone stop these murders and suicide bombings and wars? Then I realize they cannot be stopped, they must continue it is the way of this world, murder and mayhem disease and devastation, poverty, famine, genocide, injustice, sorrow and pain. They are the way of this world and a part of the human experience.

I must visit Hartford if I wish to understand what is happening there. I must visit Iraq and Palestine and Darfur and the Congo and all places where death stalks those who live there. But I dare not now for I am very busy. I am so busy being busy at busy things that I will probably never get a chance to visit these places. Maybe I will send a card to all these victims’ families. But if I did that I would have to send millions of cards at least thousands each day. That would be far too expensive and time consuming a task for one man to undertake alone. So I have decided to shake my head and say why can’t someone stop the killings in Hartford, Iraq and Palestine, Darfur and the Congo. Why can’t someone stop these killings? I cannot stop them, I do not know how to, maybe no one does and that is why it continues. I can think of no way to stop or prevent these killings unless those who are doing the killing no longer have a reason to kill or have all been killed themselves. The solution is in the eternal circle but someone must break the line, step outside the circle’s barrier, to end the circle of violence and murder, and create for all a new line to follow upward and outward towards infinity forever embracing peace, love and the onward ascent of mankind towards the purest enlightenment.

L.A. STEEL

6/23/05

My first experience of racial hatred and violence was when I was in the second grade. I was eight years old. I went to elementary school in a small town in the state of Maine. To many the state of Maine is a land of forests and lakes and laid back lifestyles but to a child and adolescent who grew up in the fifties, sixties and early seventies in the small rural towns of Maine cruelty and racial violence was a way of life. American versus Canadian, black wasn’t even a word yet that described Negroes. Spic was the word for Latin Americans, wop was the word for Italians, Chink was the word for Chinese Americans, Japs were for Japanese and Gooks were the latest racial slang for Vietnamese. French were Frogs, British were Limeys. Most of these names are still heard in various corners of certain homes and bars around the world and in Maine. I have heard them all used in Connecticut as well.

When I was in the second grade I had a friend named Guy. Guy was, honest, funny, and full of energy and a very rare child. Guy was the only black kid in town. His parents were the only black family within 30 miles. I had never met a Black person before and my parents had met very few if any in their lives. That was the way it was in Maine. There just weren’t many minority people in the state. Without firsthand knowledge of different cultures and races, most people are likely to believe what they hear and see on television and in magazines. At that time during the early 1960’s the South was still segregated and the North was intolerant and racist in more subtle ways. Black and Hispanic people were not well received in most white cities or towns and were looked upon suspiciously by police. Indians in Maine were treated with little respect. Many tobacco stores still had the wooden Indian on display and Saturday matinees were slaughtering the dignity and respect of Indians every week. This is amazing when the majority of towns and states in this country have Indian names. Movies and television programs were depicting all minorities in harsh stereotypes depicting them as slaves or savages or poor boy Buckwheat, or one syllable Tontos, or wise cracking house servants to some white, celebrity comedian.

My family had just moved into town and it was my first week of school. I had made fast friends with Guy in a few days and we played together during recesses and had lunch together. Other kids warned me not to be friends with Guy because he was black. They said their parents didn’t want them playing with blacks. I didn’t know why. I didn’t ask my parents if I could play with Guy. I just played with him. I never thought they would object. I couldn’t understand why they would. Guy was one of my first friends in that new town and I liked him. That was all I cared about and I guess I’ve always been that way when it came to choosing my friends.

One sunny afternoon during my first week of classes, Guy and I had come in from recess and we were talking to each other as we sat in our seats when Mrs. Robinson our elderly rigid second grade teacher, became angry at the class for continuing to talk and singled out Guy who was sitting at the desk next to me as we were both talking to each other. I can remember the hellish hateful look in her eye and the shrill scream she directed at both of us. ” BE QUIET ! HOW DARE YOU CONTINUE TO SPEAK WHEN CLASS HAS BEGUN!” She picked up a large history book and charged over to Guy’s desk. She told him to put his head down on the desk and he did, then to my horror she smashed the book on the top of his head as his head bounced against the desk. Guy did not cry. He did not speak out. I thought he was dead or knocked out but he wasn’t. He remained quiet as though this had happened to him before and was his expected punishment. I must of had my mouth opened or said something and Mrs. Robinson looked at me with dead cold eyes and told me to put my head on the desk. I refused which angered her even more. As she moved to my desk I stood up and ran away from her toward the front of the room. I remember my classmates all laughing at me and Mrs. Robinson demanding that I sit back in my seat. I looked at Guy who seemingly recovered as he shouted, “Run, Run, Don’t let her hit you!” Then she grabbed Guy by the scruff of the neck and began to shake him. I ran out of the room down the hallway towards the principal’s office and banged on the door , ran in the office and told the principal that Mrs. Robinson nearly killed Guy and she was trying to kill me. She could see the real fear in me and told me to sit down. I told her that Guy was being killed by Mrs. Robinson and she better go to the room to save him. She tried to calm me down but I wouldn’t. I told her if she didn’t save Guy then I would and I ran out of her office and back to the classroom expecting to defend Guy but the Principal followed me.

As we entered the classroom Guy was standing near his seat refusing to sit down as Mrs. Robinson was threatening to hit him again. The principal shouted to them to stop, as she entered the doorway. They both stopped and were immediately summoned into her office. Another teacher was called in to our classroom to take over until they returned. I wasn’t called into the meeting. I remember Mrs. Robinson came back into the classroom shortly after but Guy did not return to the class for the rest of the afternoon. When Mrs. Robinson came back into the classroom she stared at me with stone cold eyes as if I were dead to her. She resumed the class as I sat quietly in my back row seat waiting for Guy to return but he never did. That was the last class Guy went to. The next day we were told that he would not be coming to school anymore . I was crushed , I remember crying from fear, anger and loss not knowing what happened to Guy. When I went home that afternoon I stopped by his house. It was a big brick house on top of a hill that looked over the town. I remember how big it was when I walked up the driveway and knocked on the door. I knocked several times but no one answered. Then I went around the house to the back yard but no one was there. I remember feeling sad that he wasn’t home but thought I would stop by again the next day. His house was on my way home from school. I remembered him saying that his family moved a lot because his father was in the Air Force. The base was some 30 miles away from town. I found out the next day that his family had moved. I guess they were in the process of moving before Guy got in trouble.

,That incident never left me it has always been an indelible memory that grows more horrid with aging perspective. As a child I only felt pain, sorrow and loss, as an adult I see it for what it really was hatred, racism, ignorance, cruelty and insanity.

Today I read that Edgar Ray Killen was found guilty for the murders of three civil rights workers who were beaten and shot in 1964. He received 10 years sentence for each death a minimum of 20 years without parole. Killen is 80 years old. He will spend the rest of his life in prison for their murders. After his sentence he expressed no remorse. Mr. Killen is a Baptist preacher.

I wonder if old Mrs. Robinson is still alive? She would be nearly 100 years old by now. I believe she was nearly 60 when the episode with Guy happened. I wonder if she ever realized what she had done to him and almost did to me. I remember that I went home that afternoon and spoke to my mother about what happened and she seemed upset at what I told her. Nothing more was ever said about Guy to me, but Mrs. Robinson stopped teaching our class and we got a new teacher for the rest of the year. I never saw Mrs. Robinson again and one of my friends said that she had been fired. I have always thought that was a good thing.

L.A. Steel

6/9/05

On occasion I have to keep my mouth shut before I explode in anger in polite society. I have always struggled to find a way to express my anger non violently or non verbally so not be arrested or shout out a vulgar statement at someone that I will later regret. One effective method of working out my frustrations I learned from my younger brother.

Many years ago when my brother was very young, he had a tendency to get extremely angry at one thing or another. His temper was uncontrollable at times especially when he was teased or when he lost at a game or when he felt he was cheated. He learned after many failed attempts at fighting with his older brother or failing to win an argument with our parents, that shouting , screaming or hitting , besides being hurtful to himself, were not effective methods of releasing his pent up anger. One day he got tagged out of a backyard baseball game while running to first base. I remember him stopping cold, raising his arms, his face got scarlet red and he began to twist his feet into the dirt and shake his legs in a spontaneous dance, then he moved into a full ” Twist” and ran around the back yard until he calmed down. Sounds strange and maybe my brother suffered from some form of loser’s rage but, it seemed to be an effective temper management treatment for him under those circumstances.

Every so often when I get to a point that I might lose my composure and get very angry in polite society, I stop and think of my brother’s technique and start to tap my foot. If the anger doesn’t subside I then stand up or walk around the room. If that doesn’t subdue my anger then I begin the dance, not to any music but simply to the atonal rhythm of my anger. Each emotion has it’s own rhythm that can be expressed in a physical motion, a low kick, a high kick, a striking at the air, shadow boxing. It is an effective form of meditation. I have often taken a swing at an imagined opponent or kicked the ground in frustration and anger. Sometimes I’ve done it in full view of others, who probably thought I was crazy. It is a method of anger management that I recommend to anyone who feels the need to strike a blow for justice, to playfully strike out at an enemy or Bush and Cheney. Imagine them as the physical recipients of your expressed anger and you will suddenly sense the physical and spiritual benefits from the sense of release you will feel, by dancing out loud.

L.A. Steel

5/25/05

I have been an independent activist most of my adult life. I have chosen my battles carefully after much research and validating my heartfelt commitment to a cause or to an injustice. I do not take my involvements lightly and I try to understand the motivations of both sides of an argument before I take my own stand on issue. I have spent great amounts of my personal time and money producing a weekly television and radio program to try and inform and expose the issues for what they are.

I have done documentaries on Nuclear Power Plants, the Adult Entertainment industry, environmentally safe energy producing alternatives, Washington D.C peace rallies and local and statewide protests. I was campaign manager for a Connecticut Gubernatorial Candidate in 2002 and the only independent producer invited to film the 2002 Democratic State Convention and interview the candidates and the delegates. I promoted my candidate though I maintained my political independence to any party. My candidate stood for the people of Connecticut and was the only candidate to publicly denounce John Rowland as a criminal and his Republican administration as completely corrupt. Our indictment of John Rowland proved to be valid and he has recently resigned as Governor and is now serving a prison sentence.

In March of 2003 I began my weekly radio program on Wqqq 103.3 fm. I was one of the first and only liberal talk shows in Connecticut and the only consistent voice on commercial radio in New England that vehemently publicly attacked G.W. Bush’s policies and the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. The L.A. Steel Talk Radio Show preceded Air America by more than a year. I withstood personal attacks and the inability to gain private or commercial sponsorship because I continued to attack the sacred cows of consevativism and condemn the Bush administration for their dictatorial policies and criminal actions. My program though heard only in Connecticut, Massachusetts and upstate New York has attracted major journalists, authors and activists from around the country. Ed Asner, Jesse Jackson, Greg Palast, David Ray Griffin, Jim Marrs, Alex Jones etc. as well as many local and statewide activists . I have done this all as an independent producer without financial support from any foundation or corporation. The effects of my work have been numerous and have aided, inspired and encouraged other national, statewide and local activists and organizations. My listeners have supported many of the causes and have bought the books of the authors I have featured. Countless numbers of people have been affected both positively and in the case of a corrupt politician, negatively by my efforts. I urge all who read this to join or get involved with a movement that serves to bring justice, freedom or social and environmental changes for the betterment of humanity. Individuals can topple governments, create new institutions, educate the world, create the next great invention, create the peace plan for the Middle East, or create a crime watch organization in their neighborhoods., or help the homeless in their town or city by volunteering or donating money or simply by acknowledging a homeless individual as a fellow human being in need of kindness and compassion.

The effect of all independent activists around the globe has inspired change and revolutions. The causes independent activists take on are many and diverse but it is through these committed men and women, who feel the need to fight against and expose the corruption and injustice in their societies, that the education of the masses is achieved. Activists fight against the indifference, cynicism, ignorance and hatred of all who try to drown their voices of concern against injustice, genocide and devastation to the global eco system. Activists are the front line soldiers who cry out the alert and stand guard against the onslaught of predators intending to harm a sleeping citizenry. Activists are arrested and routinely censored by those who sponsor corporate terrorism, the torture and systematic murders of millions of helpless people and the extinction of countless animals and vegetation around the globe. Human rights activists, animal rights activists and environmentalists are noble and concerned individuals who are worthy of great respect.

I am an independent activist because I cannot identify fully with most groups who eventually develop agendas that are either overly expansive or ambitious or dangerously combative, or non combative. I prefer my own pace of action, I prefer to choose my own causes to promote and become concerned with. But I highly encourage anyone to join a concerned citizen group, help these good and brave people who put their principles ahead of their own personal safety because they cannot help themselves from shouting out against the wrongs that they see. An independent activist like me lives by his own code of justice as do all individuals who care about their fellow men. We are like the Lone Ranger or Batman or some other idealist avenger who dreams of a better world and hopes that in some way we can make our dream come true.

L. A. STEEL

5/20/05

We have all seen or heard of some miracle or form of healing not considered possible by the medical or scientific communities. We have heard of people who can create masterful illusions that confound all senses. We have heard of shamen and medicine men or psychics or spiritualists who have communicated with the dead or healed the living by magical incantations. Mankind has always been susceptible to a hoax or a con. World governments and religions operate by their masterful illusions of godlike or militaristic supremacy. Their illusion is based on the false belief that those who follow them actually believe in the institutions and authority. Most follow for the sake of convenience and expediency. The power of these institutions is given to them by the passive collective beliefs and cynicism of their followers.

All spiritual and political leaders are master manipulators, show men or illusionists. Many years ago I read a book by a man with only one name, Neville. He wrote and lectured during the 1960s and 1970s. His writings and lectures were based upon the power of the imagination and how it alters the physical reality and can change the world as it changed his life and that of his many students who used his techniques of visualization. Neville’s book was entitled The Promise. It took for one of its major premises the teaching of Christ who said “Knock and the door will open…, ask and you shall receive”. Neville states, that all prophets were not people who saw the future, but they saw visions of how they would like the future to be. They gave their followers a vision to embrace and a lofty ideal to center their existence upon for an individual and a society to achieve.

Neville’s book cites example after example of his students and himself creating first in their minds a complete vision of what or who they wanted to happen or become. Within days or weeks after using the technique of visualization their physical lives were completely transformed by a miraculous healing, a sudden increase in great wealth, or a perfect relationship, friendship or marriage. This process of visualization has been used and perfected by artists, athletes and entrepreneurs for centuries. So many successful people have discovered that visualization of their goals was vital to their achievement of it. Visualization is the force and foundation of all the greatest achievements of mankind. “If we can imagine it we can have it.”

Many who are reading this article might be wondering if I have put these practices to use in my own life. The answer is yes. Have I had success in achieving my goals and transforming physical reality? Yes, Yes, Yes. When I have applied the strict discipline needed to accomplish self abandonment, by my intense focus upon my desired vision, remarkable results occurred. I will admit that I have failed to achieve immediate results in some of my visions but I continued my visualizations for several months until the goal was achieved. But as a toothless child cannot chew a large steak, so is the person that cannot fully visualize their great success. We can only achieve what we are able to fully conceive. When we first visualize our desires we encounter many self doubts, and we must keep in mind the desires of others and that their imaginings of us may, if we do not recognized them , be interfering with own vision of what we want to achieve and what we believe of ourselves. If a person can successfully visualize his desire, could that desire be injurious to someone else or to you. Perhaps that other person wants your job, your wife, your wealth, your life. Unless you have your own powerful vision of what you want to create, then you are doomed to become part of someone else’s vision. If we do not have a vision of ourselves as we want ourselves to be, then someone else will create us the way they want us in their own vision. Remember that nature cannot tolerate a vacuum.

Disciplines of auto suggestion, focus and the wise use of imagination equate to the high art of visualization which will transform one’s desire into reality. The old adage of “Beware what you wish for, it might come true” was first stated by someone who understood the effects of Visualization. We unconsciously create our own reality everyday by the positive or negative thoughts we project. The imagination can create war and conflict just as it can create peace and harmony. If the collective consciousness of the people all over the world can be directed to the visions of doom and gloom prophets why can’t their collective consciousness be revised by a new utopian vision, a vision where all men and women cooperate fully with each other to ensure a seamless reality; where universal freedom, peace and love are the eternally indestructible walls that will protect and defend human civilization. We are all only a thought away for that vision to become reality. Gandhi said, “You must become the change you wish to see in the world.”

L. A. Steel

5/13/05

Acceptance and tolerance, anger and aggression, compassion and wisdom, omnipotence, karma, balance, right, wrong, imbecility, genius, hatred, forgiveness, death and reincarnation, strength, weakness, soft, hard, high, low black , white, large small. The compensatory compulsions and laws of man and nature, universal laws of new and old, past, present and future dictate against the errors of man and nature. The existence of good and evil are merely the opposites of a karmic or compensatory correction.

What is evil to one is good to another. The death of an animal in the wild is good for another animal that kills it to eat and survive. Natural selection is good for some and bad for others as perceived by mortals. But is it perceived by an omnipotent god in the same way? One can only wonder how it is viewed by the creator of the universe. If God is omnipotent he would know and fully comprehend his own creation and the pain and suffering that is caused to it by its mere existence. If he created all physical and spiritual reality then he would have planned for the death and suffering of man and animal as part of his cosmic creation and consciousness.

If there is a God and an intelligent design to creation then mankind is included in this plan and must in some way mirror his creator, just as all of nature mirrors that same creator. A creator cannot create something that did not originate from himself or herself. Mankind strives to create systems imitating the great moral and physical vision of a god like ideal, either by erecting grand architecture or in grand judicial and governmental or spiritual institutions all designed to operate within a concept emulating the better part of man, the godly side of man. These institutions are created by societies to harness, shelter, tame or punish the darker side of the individual and preserve and promote the best qualities of mankind for profit or power. These institutions were designed to enforce the preservation or destruction of our own species and protect other species from extinction or to promote their extinction. The parallel powers are inherent in all man does. He chooses whatever power is most expedient to achieve a specific task. How like God this is.

Human beings create great institutions to protect and defend themselves from themselves. All humans realize that their great achievements are collective actions focused upon solving a unique problem. All leaders of great and small countries know they cannot lead effectively without the consent of the people of their country. The collective will of a people can conquer the world, and create the reality it wishes to live in. If an omnipotent God created mankind then all men must ask themselves for what possible purpose were they created for? Their destiny would have been designed for them. Is God an angry and unforgiving god who sadistically demands his creation to sacrifice their own lives and the lives of their children to him and still maintain constant adoration of him, or is life as we know it in the flesh merely an illusion, a physical mask of the spirit, an involuntary expression of the spirit of humanity, just as each flower or tree or bird or animal is a physical expression of their individual spirits?

The collective wisdom of humanity throughout the ages has been against the destruction and extinction of our species and our environment. Instinct granted to animals causes the propagation of their own species, is this instinct not also prevalent in the human species? Based on the brutal history of mankind a student of anthropology would have to seriously wonder what human destiny has and will become. Is the grand design for us to adapt to our changing environment during our short passage through life or are there divine laws and protective systems in place to neutralize all harm done by us to ourselves. An omnipotent being capable of designing the universe would never leave the destiny of anything to chance. In the mind of an omnipotent being there can be no such concepts as chance, circumstance, accident, there are no maybes or perhaps or what ifs. The only possible perspective of an omnipotent God would be one of absolute factual knowledge of all possible concepts, all impossible and possible, imagined and unimagined things. This God would be all knowing all seeing and all feeling. If a person believes in the intelligent design of creation then he can never question who or what he is, he was created for a divine purpose. The life that he or she is currently living the good or evil of one’s choices may be an individual’s only allowance of free will, but in either choice a destiny and future would have been created for you before deciding on which path to follow. Just as we would follow a path in a forest, the forest already exists as do all paths, we must merely decide which path to take.

The universe as mankind perceives it is a physical reality. What us from seeking beyond our known reality is fear, ignorance and arrogance. So many people feel that they know all they need to know. Highly learned men and women believe they know most of everything in their fields of study and that they can dogmatically teach what they know to others as truth even though their entire understanding may be completely false. The only protection the individual has against these errors and deceptions is faith in his own core value. The unique belief in what and who he or she is. This core value is the veiled deity within us. Upon that unveiling of our personal deity we discover its identity is the same in all people. Our collective smiles, our frowns, our anger, our love, our hate is really the reflection of God. A divine omnipotent creator with no beginning or end would express himself through his creations much as humans do. If we err then we erase the error and begin again and again until we are happy and proud with the result of our efforts. An omnipotent God would know what a perfect universe is and what the perfection of mankind will be as an intricate part of that universe. Good and evil as present existing powers must exist for universal equilibrium, the advancement of human learning and ultimately the ascension of mankind to its highest potential, that physical and spiritual perfection of its unique creation.

L.A. Steel