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Prophet’s Path: Final Draft
If you are inclined to comment or just help me edit for typos and such, now is the time to get involved. Here are the links to what I regard the final draft. I am particularly interested in answering questions the material raises so I can reach for some essential clarity. I’m including all the chapters by links below because some have been rewritten.
Introduction — initial considerations
Lesson One — the necessity of mysticism
Lesson Two — basic justice
Lesson Three — just government
Lesson Four — final matters
A note for those who are interested in participating in a virtual Prophet’s Academy: This blog serves as a means to publicity and so forth, but my actual ministry operations are on another blog. Anyone who wants to actually work with me in studying the prophetic ministry itself will need to visit there on a regular basis. I sincerely hope this thing gets bigger than just me a couple of associates. I have no interest in running a big show, just getting one started.
City Planning: Yes, But No
The concept of city planning is not the problem we have, but everything we pass through on the way to corrupt and oppressive messes.
I realize it’s not possible to simply create a fresh start here in the US. We are in too deep and there’s really nothing left to save. Pretending for a moment we are around to see a fresh start, I believe the blanket hostility to urban planning is unjustified. I’m neither left nor right, nor do I pretend to be centrist. I’ve already indicated my politics and economics are tribal. Decentralized local government is the key. Social policy belongs to the social leaders, who should be related by blood or marriage to everyone they lead. Civil government takes care of defense and other emergencies. But whomever owns the property should have full freedom to decide how it gets used. A city should be entirely private property, preferably within one family. In the future, we should never permit anything resembling corporations as they now exist. All property must be owned by real people. Call it what you will, but this is what God had in mind when He revealed His Laws.
Having lived in Europe some, and visited a lot of the US and other countries, I’ve seen the full range of good, bad and really ugly. In some future world, I hope things tend to the good for awhile, at least. Barring some devastating plague which nearly depopulates the earth, I think it’s safe to assume the human population won’t recede all that much during the collapse of Western Civilization. Thus, what follows is purely an academic exercise. If you aren’t amused, you can stop reading anytime.
Let’s think clearly about planing our privately owned city. I can think of an immediate example. A primary issue which continues to drive me nuts is automotive traffic. We Americans have made a fetish, even a deity, out of private car ownership. This is sin. It’s hardly necessary for life, but we have allowed life here to develop under the expectation every responsible member of society will be owning a vehicle for personal use. Bad idea. Very bad. You can come up with all sorts of reasons, but were I advising the owners of a planned city, I’d warn them to lay out no streets anywhere near the center of town. For at least a few square miles, there should only be pedestrian, bicycle (or similar human powered conveyances), and service vehicle traffic. The latter should be restricted to non-business hours mostly, except for emergencies. Most of the rest of the outer areas should be well served by something in the way of mass transit.
During the life span of most major cities, those which prevented people from ever developing the car habit in the city center have typically offered a much higher quality of life. If your entire business and government sector develops with the impression this will never change, people who spend much time in the area will simply get used to it. No one will create a work schedule and life habits that depend on private autos.
I write this in part to shock my fellow Americans into rethinking what they hold sacred, as it were. Frankly, a part of why God is dumping His wrath on us right now is related to the habits of mind which sees people throwing a fit, making all sorts of demands, composing vast books of theory, why the city government must not restrict people’s “right” to own and drive their car, and park near their destination in the city. That sort of approach to life is evil. It’s part of the mass mental illness called “democracy.” Make sure cities are wholly owned by private families, and advise them to stand firm on such things. “You wanna come do business here? You do it our way.” Since today’s corrupt civil government operates that way anyway, let’s be honest and keep it manageable.
The notion of secular bureaucratic government entities having total control of whole areas of any nation is an abomination to God. All government should be tied directly to the people who live under their care. Not elected; that’s foolish. Family; folks who darn sure better love you. Someone who takes the time to actually seek your best interest, suffer with you when things aren’t so good, and knows enough to keep cars and trucks out of the city center.
More Prophet’s Path
Two more chapters:
Warm Up to Massive Crime Wave
Most of us spent too long in relative comfort to imagine how bad it will get in just a short time.
Economic depression is here. It’s going to get worse and take a very long time to pass, easily a decade. It doesn’t matter who or why, nor even that this was planned for us. It’s here.
You can easily find reports from all across the US of copper thefts. In some places, they have begun stealing high tension lines while hot. This means the folks stealing it include genuine technicians, or people who were smart enough to get the training somehow before stealing. And it’s not just copper; all recyclable metals are being taken.
In our minds, we need to imagine anything in large quantities and unattended. If there isn’t a living, breathing guard — and maybe needing to be armed — then anything worth stealing will be gone. So in one case we had fellows removing metal highway guard rails. Think of all the infrastructure which isn’t being actively guarded. It won’t matter if it takes some work to disassemble or cut something; that can be done quicker than you might expect.
Then there is all the other stuff folks might imagine they can sell. Nothing is sacred; one batch of thieves hit a disabled children’s camp. They knew what it was.
At the same time, tax-sourced budgets are collapsing. A great many jurisdictions are scaling back or disbanding police forces. In many places they have long stopped responding to certain classes of crime reports. Now you have to come in and file, and who knows whether any action will ever be taken?
I won’t bother to analyze it right now. This is just a warning to thinking people. Look for things you would never imagined before. It’s going crazy.
Prophet’s Path: 2 Chapters So Far
The first two chapters of the manual, Prophet’s Path are finished. Regular readers won’t find too much new. They aren’t linked anywhere else; this is the advance draft. The finished product will be available in plain text, HTML, PDF, Open Document (.odt) and probably MS Word. It’s all public domain. Comments welcome.
Funeral for Welfare
Say your goodbyes to the Great Society and all the various federal programs associated with the War on Poverty. The federal government is surrendering.
I had not been aware of this previously when I predicted it was all about debt slavery and economic control. I may have been wrong about a general conscription of some sort; that was just extrapolating. However, I had seen concrete evidence of the intent to economically humble the US so as to make all resources and assets serve warfare. From the old “guns-n-butter” model, we know more warfare (guns) means less welfare (butter).
However, we now have solid evidence Obama is using this debt ceiling theatrics for plausible deniability. Given he has been the consummate liar on everything else, why should we believe him now when he claims he wants to protect the welfare programs? Indeed, the George Washington blog quotes several people in a position to analyze in detail. They all have been saying this very thing: Obama planned from the start to ax federal welfare outlays. To maintain his election constituency, he will pretend he’s a progressive liberal to the end, who really wants to raise taxes and fund welfare programs.
Instead, he knew this was coming and will perform his TV role to the conclusion of the program. But according to the script he has to finally cave and cut those programs because the Boehner and friends “forced” his hand. He gets to blame the GOP for being impossible, and it will be presented as the only way he could save Social Security and VA checks. Okay, so those will be cut the next time. But at least no one talks about cutting the military except a couple of nut cases kept on hand just for their shock value.
Say goodbye to Welfare.
Notes in Passing on Theory of Government
There is such a thing as good government. You aren’t likely to see it, but it won’t hurt to know something about it so you’ll know how to criticize what we do have.
1. Prophets have always condemned credit and interest because that’s God’s Law. God is better at human economics than we are. A credit-based economy, with a credit-based currency, is not better than the ancient system. Everybody wants to forget humans are fallen. When credit is strictly non-interest based, used only to help the poor get by as God says it should be used, things can’t get any better. Granted, a primitive economy suffers ups and downs based on the human tendency to miscalculate and mis-allocate resources in pursuing meeting human needs. It cannot be prevented. All attempts to dampen the natural ups and downs only make things worse. In a debt-based economy, you grant unlimited power to the creditors to manipulate the economic cycles to their benefit, and it will never match the needs of the broader population. Regulations will always be broken, because regulators are human. Nobody is that good; give someone power and it will always go wrong. You cannot craft a system which guarantees stability, because you cannot craft a system better at handling human failure than the one God described long, long ago.
2. No human on this earth can possibly be competent to manage an economic system bigger than a village of 75-100 people. Given the average quality of those likely to rise to such a position, a safe limit is 50 people. Putting the wisest people into groups and committees will actually reduce their capability for anything more than simple cooperation and coordination between their various individual responsibilities. Committees cannot decide anything really important; decision is always an individual exercise. Never trust anyone who likes committees, and especially trust no one who likes to govern.
3. Given Breivik himself bluntly stated the need to support Zionism, that question is settled. But another is emerging. I’m willing to bet at least some part of the Norwegian police were in on this from the start. Where did he get the official uniform? Their explanations of how it took so long to respond to the scene on the island don’t add up. This I say as a former cop. Cops are people, too. There have always been a significant portion of every police force up for sale. In this case, I’m willing to bet a significant hope from allowing Breivik to succeed was creating that missing element of fear. Norwegians are too peaceful and secure in their insular society to permit easy manipulation of their politics. Having dared to challenge the Zionist political orthodoxy, the first step in forcing them back onto the reservation is to make them fear and distrust. Granted, one should never trust anyone in a uniform, but this is a perversion of that virtue.
4. Did you notice the falseness of the Norwegian peace? It was based on centralized control. It worked because the economy was quite solid, and folks were comfortable. This left them extremely vulnerable to the lone gunman attack. With all the hassles and the false sense of safety, no one else was armed on that island. Indeed, no one even thought in terms of disabling the gunman, and there certainly was no one competent to consider it. A true pacifist is ready to fight for peace. Not in the sense of clobbering everyone until they are forced to be peaceful, but a real pacifist recognizes genuine threats to peace, and is ready to die for it. Had I been there, I probably would have gotten shot eventually, but not before I had done my best to either rush, or draw the gunman into a trap. I’m willing to bet he would not have imagined anyone daring to hit back with improvised weapons. Peace is not the absence of violence, but the determined opposition to it. The most peaceful society is the one that hates war because it understands it all too well. Good people don’t want control, but will exert it only so long as necessary to keep it from the hands of others.
5. Any plan of government which assumes human nature can be shaped and modified is doomed to failure. If you plan realistically for a normal background level of death and destruction instead of trying to create an artificial bubble of safety, you will approach the best things can be. Normal human activity is risky, variations are a necessity. Planning for maximum allowance in human variation is wisdom. Planning to stay out of the way as much as possible is moral goodness. Having something better to do, and always being frustrated because governing keeps you from it, makes you a morally fit ruler. Peace is not having everything under control, but is reducing chaos to a tolerable level of least harm. Wisdom is recognizing when you cannot and should not try to control.
Help Wanted: More Prophets
If it were up to me, I’d open a Prophets’ Academy.
Let’s get this out of the way first: I don’t care if what I post here every day is absolutely bonkers. This is the best I know and my spirit as at peace with Almighty God. That’s more important to me than any measure of success on a human level. Nothing I say is intended to represent coercion in any way. The objective is simply to get you asking God on a level of sincerity and honesty He’ll honor. There is nothing which presupposes you’ll come up with the same answers. If you start writing stuff which is too different from what I promote, all that means is I don’t have to work with you, and you don’t have to work with me. You certainly don’t have to take me seriously.
I don’t like working alone. It gets old. I deeply miss those days in my youth when other kids were willing to adopt enough of a like mind we could have fun together and be best pals. It brings a sense of peace and rest against a crazy world. Who’s to say it wasn’t insular and unrealistic; that wasn’t the point. Reality itself is pretty shaky and hard to pin down, so anything which brings a certain sanity and peace by at least finding you aren’t totally alone is a good thing in itself.
Externally I was pretty darn conventional most of the time. Internally, I always knew something wasn’t right, that some inner voice called me to another world. All the orthodox and not-so-orthodox teaching about reality coming at me always failed in some aspects. It’s not that I thought I was smarter than the rest of the field, but simply that I was wrong for going along with everything or anything offered. So I held in myself some eternal tension between what I could find to use and the sure knowledge something better had to be out there somewhere.
Even my sense of search was twisted and perverted by the mental framework provided by my world. Once I understood that, there was no turning back. It’s not a question of finding all the right answers, but of asking the right questions. My sense of assurance and peace with whatever passes for reality has never been so solid.
If I did have a Prophets’ Academy, this is what I would teach. I’d offer the path I took, but offer it as an example of how not to be forced onto the wrong path. I don’t want you to echo what I say, parrot what I write. I want you to address your world from the same sense of assurance and mission. I would love to see more people hammering at the false reality thrown up around us today. The mission is not to knock it all down, but only to hammer at it. People who learn about the hammer will then knock down their own walls of falsehood. It’s about the hammer, the individual path of peace and sanity available only by getting rid of the lies.
Naturally I’m going to have the strongest affinity for those whose words present a general train of thought which sounds familiar to me. That’s what we need from each other, a sense of safe familiarity. If I understand it, I know how and how much I can trust it. It becomes a point of reference, right or wrong, which saves me time. I don’t have to all the way back to zero and recalibrate when things get a little shaky. The more we agree on after having done that enough times, the less time is wasted getting on with the mission. Right now, it’s pretty lonely.
If you have the burning itch, the sense things aren’t quite right, and you need another system to get you through this mad universe, feel free to steal my stuff and learn what I have to teach. The only thing I hope to gain is to shed this sense of loneliness. You can keep your money, your personal habits, your sense of who you are, whatever it is you bring with you. All I ask is you make room for one more friend. But the friendship is all about the purpose, the shared calling and task. Don’t get involved if you can still walk away from it. You have to be a helpless captive to something you can’t ignore.
This is just one store front in the massive cosmic franchise, and the possibilities are endless. Help wanted: more prophets.
(This also serves as notice I’m writing a training manual for prophets.)
Oklahoma Metro Police Will Be Overwhelmed Soon
I am utterly certain Oklahomans will reject my previous message. If they react at all, it would be with contempt, particularly the part about this being a word from God. But He has more to say.
Had you bothered to read, you would have found numerous studies and warnings showing how the entire US stood on the verge of a total breakdown in social order. It never would have taken much, but we had it too easy. Had you asked at any time leading up to today, you would have been told by any number of experts it was coming. Had you bothered to ask God, He would have told you the same thing. Crime is already soaring, and we haven’t seen anything yet.
Welcome to the new normal. All your nightmares about life becoming very dangerous, where the predators are too numerous to deter, and their schemes and techniques will be too often successful, is upon us. You can’t put this back in the box; it can’t be turned back. It’s coming. God says so Himself.
While the blame for this lies squarely on the shoulders of civic leaders and law enforcement theorists who have created the mess we now see, that’s no longer the point. What matters is predicting what’s about to come. This is a warning from God Almighty.
Because modern civilian police philosophy excludes involving the citizens in crime prevention in any meaningful way, there is nothing which inhibits crime except a tiny number of authorized people. The methods and philosophical assumptions of the police, that they are the only ones permitted to act during emergency situations, will insure things will be far worse than they have to be. We see this all too clearly now.
The incidents will become more numerous, the perpetrators more bold, and everything you take for granted goes out the window. Whatever social restraints once existed are gone. The few things which could have held back the flood were trashed long ago as primitive, quaint and old fashioned. As police and civic leaders struggle to keep the lid on this, they will fail. They will learn nothing. They will then propose and execute ever more draconian measures. These measures will also fail. They will fail to reduce crime, instead creating a situation where simply being a human, who does the normal stuff humans are supposed to do, will result in harassment, arrest, loss of large amounts of property, and torture and death — at the hands of the police. Innocent people should dread the police.
Already it is increasingly difficult to differentiate between cops and any other organized thuggery. Except you are already paying fat salaries to the ones with badges, and the full weight of government authority backs them when they commit their crimes. This only feeds the general misery, accelerates it dramatically. This is why I have warned readers for the past few years: Never call the police, or any other emergency personnel, if you can avoid it. You cannot trust them. Indeed, they are now a greater threat to you than just about any other humans you encounter at random. It has become their official duty to treat you like a crook regardless of lacking any sliver of accuracy to their assertions. The police are the enemy of everyone who isn’t police.
The number of “good cops,” reasonable people who don’t like the depredations of their fellow officers, and who are willing to give an honest report later, are so rare as to be statistically non-existent. And a fellow officer actually trying to restrain another is simply unimaginable these days.
They don’t work for you any more, citizen. They are quickly making themselves the enemy. That business with false arrests of juveniles in Bricktown is just the tip of the iceberg. Very soon this will be almost uniform throughout the entire nation. It’s already a serious problem in quite a few major cities. These are not aberrations; these are the new normal. This is a very painful and nerve-wracking “damned if you do; damned if you don’t” situation.
The warning I give particularly to Oklahoma City and surrounding Metro areas is we are just starting down this path. Pray for mercy.
God’s Word on Police and Law Enforcement
Having so long criticized policemen in the US, I was moved to pray for a vision of how we might move things back toward sanity. What follows is some of that vision. My authority from God is limited to simply declaring His truth. Once you read this, my mission is done. You are then accountable to God alone.
During the period of time I served in the US Army Military Police, a person whom I still believe was speaking for God prophesied that my time in uniform was not the start of a career enforcing the laws of men, but was the birthplace of my calling to know and proclaim God’s Laws. I had to understand what was wrong, had to know it intimately and first hand, and take it before the Lord. In the past few years, much in my life has changed. I now sit before this computer keyboard with an overwhelming sense God has called me to prophesy of His Laws. This is far different from what I imagined it would be, but also far better than I had dared to hope.
No one, least of all yours truly, pretends this is even likely to catch significant notice, much less foment change. Somewhere between His perfect Law and where we are today is a place which could bring us closer to Heaven, and a bit farther from Hell. What I offer is most certainly within reach of the American people as they are and as they live today. It is realistic. It will also be a wrenching change in many ways. The biggest changes are not in policy and practice, but the underlying assumptions. We have it all wrong, and God is very angry. What I write here serves to reveal some of why His wrath is already falling upon us now.
While I wore the MP brassard, I was told to have the confidence of an angel of light, to betray no doubt about what I was doing while in uniform. This, despite knowing full well none was so perfect as to be always correct. We were trained to take our doubts in private to our superiors and hone our professionalism to the highest standards, always prepared to make adjustments as we learned. Wearing that emblem of authority was a high honor easily lost. Today I wear no marks of man’s authority. I’m just the messenger, a living lawbook of God.
This brings us to the first point: In God’s eyes, people with badges and uniforms are not “law enforcement.” They are policemen; they police. They come along after a mess has been made and clean it up. The citizens are the law enforcement. It rests upon them to make things turn out right. It is to our benefit and it is our problem. We are our brother’s keeper. Passing the buck is a sin; it is poking a finger in God’s eye and petulantly demanding He fix things after all we’ve done to destroy it. Enforcing the law begins with each of us doing the best we know, and then doing everything we can and should do to keep others from destroying the responsibility which falls to us.
The only reason we even have policemen as they now exist is because society as a whole has refused its duty. America began without policemen, and the Constitution presumes we are the enforcement. But God Himself has not permitted us to hire thugs to enforce our personal vision of heavenly comfort on the rest of the world. Yet, that is precisely what modern civilian police forces are. One portion of society demands everyone else conform, and they have the political power to make it happen. They don’t have to get their hands dirty, and are insulated from the blowback of their evil demands. Virtually 90% of law enforcement activity today arises from a very narrow concept of what constitutes proper behavior. This is a hideous tyranny.
Want people to behave differently? You offend God Himself when you hire armed thugs to do your dirty work. Get involved yourself in good responsible efforts to change society, or shut up and stay out of the way. Those who aren’t willing to accept the risk their vision could be rejected are children of Satan. Good people do not want to rule over others, directly or indirectly. Might does not make right. Thus saith the Lord.
Defending against warfare and genuine threat to civil order is the proper role of civil government. It has no business poking around in social matters. The business of social welfare was granted by God to social authorities only. Social authority is not about waving weapons at people, but persuading and building relations. People aren’t free if they don’t have the freedom to dissent, to be different while harmless. You are granted persuasive authority as soon as people realize you are willing to sacrifice for their welfare. God Himself will support that. Otherwise, you have no business getting involved. If you don’t bleed, you don’t lead. God knows if you fake it.
Of course, law enforcement begins at home. The only people over whom you have any legitimate authority are the people in your family who recognize you as head of household. Here again is that business of God’s requirement we live in the extended family setting if at all possible. Given that won’t happen much in America today, let’s settle for you policing your own household first. Start caring and start paying the price. Learn what it takes and create an atmosphere where the folks closest to you are eager to work with you for a peaceful and harmonious lifestyle. We don’t have room here to discuss all that means, but God demands it. You must obey and commit yourself to it or face His wrath. It can be done and you must begin today if you haven’t already.
With your immediate neighbors, someone has to take the initiative to negotiate the conflicting wishes and desires. If you think about this for just a few moments, you will come to the realization it would require a vast change in how we build our homes and plan our neighborhoods. Again, we don’t have room to address that here, but note in passing we may work on that someday. For now, we work with what we have. You are not permitted to dominate by forcing your comfort at your neighbor’s expense. There is no one correct and civilized standard for landscaping and decoration. That sort of arrogance comes from Satan. Yes, cutting your grass is a valid demand from your neighbors, because there are known health hazards for failure, hazards which most certainly do affect your neighbors. You cannot, by sloth or by excessive zeal, externalize the costs of your comfort onto others. There is room for give and take and negotiation.
Eventually you can bring together other neighbors if one household refuses to negotiate. You must make that effort yourself, genuine and repeated, before you take it to someone else. Overly loud music which shakes your windows is an example of wrong. An occasional bit of noise in the front yard from an exuberant party is not. God hates the so-called public drunk laws, as well as most drug laws. Someone making a fool of himself in public is not your problem unless he starts urinating on your flowers. He should get in trouble for harming the flowers and making a stink, not for being drunk. On the other hand, it’s not a crime to punch out a drunk crunching in your flowerbed if that’s what it takes to get him out of it. Put up a good fence, make sure it’s just inside your actual property line, and be done with it.
Given a little time, it won’t take much to understand the difference between real harm and prissy-whiny nonsense. The Nanny State is an abomination to God. Humans are pretty messy, and even worse when you get them close together in large numbers. There are distinct advantages to a high population density, and hassles to match. Take your pick, but the vast majority of what we see today is unreasonable demands for one particular narrow concept of what is acceptable.
You cannot and should not try to control people’s behavior at large by force, much less what they think or say. It’s a sin to even want such power. Rather, you should do the work to restore a sane civil society. No, it’s not a concrete goal you can attain and get on with your business. It’s an aspiration, a never ending commitment which makes life worth living. Just because certain real harms are associated with behavior which is not itself any real harm to you is no justification for seeking to squelch the latter. Your rights end in a much smaller circle than is commonly imagined. A very large area of “crime prevention” is an insult to God’s justice. For the most part, you do not prevent crime. You cannot hinder human behavior which is not immediately harmful, and you aren’t permitted to call something merely repellent “harmful.” You can make crime costly, but aside from taking the responsibility for being on guard against it, you cannot stop others from sinning, and most certainly you can’t keep them from wanting to sin.
God’s justice says we err too much on the side of restriction. Most civil laws on the books today make God angry at us. We have to learn this world is fallen, badly broken, and bad human behavior is the norm. All the more so with Western Civilization being such an insult to God. We cannot even get close to what God says is possible, so for as long as we are Western, life should suck.
To reduce crime, you don’t hire more armed thugs with badges, and you surely don’t give them some uniquely privileged status to torture or kill on a whim. To reduce crime, you make good weapons widely available, utterly legal and require training in their proper use as part of learning to read and write. In a world where “open carry” is common, you’ll have fewer people wrongly killed than in the current system where personal weapons are restricted. This has been proven, but no one who handles the statistics is willing to be honest about that. The only people unarmed should be those who have refused to accept the training after abusing a weapon, and those who simply don’t want to carry one for whatever personal reasons. In this crazy world, no one has the inherent right to disarm anyone, except in the most extreme cases.
That silly video where a loud bang results in every customer taking a defensive stance, pointing a gun and scanning visually for threats should not be a joke, but the norm.
The only reason to have policemen is to investigate and report after a crime — a real crime — is committed. They would be armed for the same reason everyone else is, but not necessarily with bigger and better weapons. They don’t have more authority! They can get involved same as you when they see crime happening and try to stop it. They should never be permitted to stop anyone from using their own lawful weapons for lawful purposes. This business of them having a unique right to control every situation on behalf of the State just because they show up is simply evil. They have zero mandate from God to keep the peace beyond what any other citizen has.
Thus saith the Lord.
