"Free Spirits"?

I have known and sure others have known folks who refer to themselves as "Free Spirits". I never did get what it meant really, apart from somewhat non-conformist..and I could live with that.. being a bit not the expected myself. After taking a quick Loose round the web, this sites seems to promote Free Spirits As anyone who goes to that site can see, the first associated link on the site is Astrology!

Have been reading my good bud, ;-) Martin Luther's book, Bondage of the Will. Where he makes an utter refutation of Erasmus' propagation of "Free Will" and this seems to be applicable to some degree too to those who refer to themselves as "Free Spirits". I think the true kind of Freedom is like ugh.name!! Good ole Google! I think the true kind of free Spirit would be the freedom hollered loudly, by William Wallace (providing the freedom hollering is an accurate depiction) in the movie Braveheart. But here is a short excerpt by Martin Luther on "Free Will" which by the same token seems to apply too, to "Free Spirits" or those who claim to be such:

"The Thing defined, if closely examined, is undoubtedly of greater extent than the definition. This is the kind of definition that the Sophists call vicious --that is, one in which the definition fails to cover the thing defined. For I showed above that "Free will" belongs to none but God only. You are no doubt right in assigning man a will of some sort, but to credit him with a will that is free in the things of God is too much. For all who hear mention of "Free Will" take it to mean in its proper sense, a will that can and does do, God-ward, all that it pleases, restrained by no law and no command; for you would not call a slave, who acts at the beck of his lord, free. But in that case how much les are we right to call men or angels free; for they live under the complete mastery of God (not to mention sin and death), and cannot continue by their own strength for a moment. Here then, right at the outset, the definition of the term and the definition of the thing are at odds, for the term connotes one thing and what is really in mind of another. It would be more correct to call it "veritable will" or "mutable will". In this way Augustine, and the Sophists after him diminish the glory and force of the term "free", qualifying it with this limitation, which they call the "vertibility " of "free will". And it becomes us to speak in the same way, lest we befool men's hearts with swollen and vain glorious words; as Augustine also think. We should speak according to a definite rule, in sober and proper terms; for what is wanted in teaching is implicitly and logical correctness, not the high-flown figures of a rhetorical persuasiveness."






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Another 24 hours:

You ever feel like your a "Dead man Walking" in that one foot is always in the valley of death. I do. The last 24 hours and more have felt such. My body from head to feet has been wracked with pain that would make the popish pope cuss and narcotics (legal) of any strength wouldn't kill it. Its the first time since this thing started eating away at me almost three years ago, that I was physically unable to stand through pain. And at these times seeing as there's not an organ throughout unaffected, including my brain, depression and all the ghosts of long ago, come back and threaten to overshadow. At almost five am this morning, I hadn't slept at that time, I thought death was a real possibility, and it often is while this thing rages throughout my body with nothing at present but symptom management. It was five am. No one around. No one to call for help. And I thought my worst fears of dying alone may come true. And it seems like last nite was wept in bitter tears and a crying out for release from my God.

For almost four weeks now have been phyiscally unable to go outside the house. Been throwing up on and off for the last two, and so can't eat cos I throw up, can't sleep cos of pain, can't go out in case I throw up. Life don't feel like a bowl of cherries. And somehow, I cling to the fact that my God, must have a plan in this. That is can't all be for nothing, the last three years and the thirty odd before that taken by other means. And every time I feel in the valley of death, I cling to the next line from Psalm 23, "I will fear no evil, for you are with me."

And in those terrors of the moment, or hour, or day or however long it lasts, you think about how life is going on all around you everywhere. And you are coping with what seems to be the impossible to cope alone with. And you feel forgotten by God, and you think that everyone in the business of there continuing life when yours has come to a stop and isn't really going anywhere had probably forgotten you too. And when feeling yu are staring death in the face, you feel tormented and sad that if you're forgotten now already, if you go out of this world into the next, in a minute you're life will have meant nothing to anyone. And the tears and the fears go on. And often in these dark hours, days, weeks, Psalm 88 seems to say it all:

1O LORD, God of my salvation;
I cry out day and night before you.2
Let my prayer come before you;
incline your ear to my cry!3
For my soul is full of troubles,
and my life draws near to Sheol.

I am counted among those who go down to the pit;
I am a man who has no strength,
5like one set loose among the dead,
like the slain that lie in the grave
like those whom you remember no more,
for they are cut off from your hand.
6You have put me in the depths of the pit,
in the regions dark and deep.

7Your wrath lies heavy upon me,
and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah
8You have caused my companions to shun me;
you have made me a horror[2] to them.
I am shut in so that I cannot escape;

9my eye grows dim through sorrow.
Every day I call upon you, O LORD;
I spread out my hands to you.
10Do you work wonders for the dead?
Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah

11Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,
or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12Are your wonders known in the darkness,
or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

13But I, O LORD, cry to you;
in the morning my prayer comes before you.
14O LORD, why do you cast my soul away?
Why do you hide your face from me?

15Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,
I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.[3]
16Your wrath has swept over me;
your dreadful assaults destroy me.

7They surround me like a flood all day long;
they close in on me together.
18You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me;
my companions have become darkness


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I couldn't possibly comment! (as all the best known politicians say!)

Not a Bright Little yellow B.U.S. (Brain of U.S)

By George, he doesn't get it!

As Refererneced in blag# George Bush is a curious fellow. I mean Tony Blair maybe a LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! and not Brain of Britian, either, but George Dubya will never make a nice little bright yellow B.U.S either. (Brain of the U.S.) which is just one of many reasons he always reminds me of the town drunk rather than Prez of the U.S. Now wonder Blair and Bush could join hands and cover each other, as there ain't much to choose between 'em on different things!) Click the play button the mini player to see Curious George at his awesome best: (and turn the sound off the audio file on windows player (top left) to stop the music to hear ole Georgie boy)

This is an Apple Quick time Movie. It may not work without the The Apple quick time player if you don't have the plug in:

But guess it explains the pic below

I guess it also explains his extraordinary talents for not noticing his book was upside down below:

He certainly is a curious fellow though!

"The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence."
Robert J. Shiller,

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Am not Brain Of Britain you know! Sheesh!

What do they expect, brains as well?!

The result of my I.Q. test was a big fat -2 with the comments by the test makers of:

"Not only are you lacking in cerebral heft we're wondering if you're really a member of the human race. Are you able, at least, to talk to animals. Dr Doolittle?"

See if you do any better. I.Q. Test

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I know where babies come From! Susan and Beth been showing me lots of new stuff!!

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Well, in case anyone thinks I may be an Islamic fundamentalist! Am not! Saddam needed stopping of that there was little doubt! It don't take being B.O.B. to know that! I do however obejct to being systematically lied to about events surrounding that and other government dirty dealings by Prime Minster Tony Blair!

A few of the lies from the government which won first won election by after years of conservative dirty dealings they sold themselves as "the Party you can trust"

Truth is under threat as never before. Blair uses our soldiers to kill and to die for his lies, and uses their deaths to support his lies. He heads the most manipulative spin machine east of Washington. The media is run by his cronies; journalists who refuse military control are ‘accidentally’ bombed. From Blair Faced Lies

"Pinocchio" Blair's Lies Unravel
BUSH AND Blair's charade that their imperialist war on Iraq was provoked by Saddam Hussein's possession and threatened use of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) has exploded in their faces.
A recent NOP poll says most respondents in Britain believe Blair lied about the supposed threat. What's more, 68% believe the Butler Inquiry into WMDs will be another whitewash for the government, like the Hutton Inquiry. 51% thought Blair should resign. From Socialist Party

How the battle lies were drawnThe WMDs haven’t turned up. In 1999 there was no genocide in Kosovo. But, says Neil Clark, Tony Blair has never allowed the facts to get in the way of a good war If you ever get to Belgrade Zoo, don’t miss the snake house. There, in nicely heated tanks, you will see two rather fearsome-looking pythons, one named Warren and the other Madeleine. The names of Bill Clinton’s secretaries of state — Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright — will not be forgotten quickly in the capital of the former Yugoslavia. Seeing the two pythons slithering in their tanks reminded me of the murderous foreign policy of the Clinton administration and the enthusiastic support it received from New Labour. From The Spectator

NOW SING ALONG PLEASE!! LOUD AS YOU CAN:

Tony Blair is telling lies doo dah doo
Tony Blair is telling lies doo dah doo dah
Tony Blair is telling lies doo dah doo dah day.

Tony Blair just dressed it up doo dah doo dah
Tony Blair just dressed it up doo dah doo dah
Tony Blair just dressed it up doo dah doo dah day.

Tony Blair deceived us all doo dah doo dah
Tony Blair deceived us all doo dah doo dah
Tony Blair deceived us all doo dah doo dah day.

Tony Blair tells big fat lies doo dah doo dah
Tony Blair tells big fat lies doo dah doo dah
Tony Blair tells big fat lies doo dah doo dah day.

Tony Blair just broke the law doo dah doo dah
Tony Blair just broke the law doo dah doo dah
Tony Blair just broke the law doo dah doo dah day.

Ahem. I thank you.

Please sign this petition below @ No more lies Mr Blair

To: Prime Minister Tony Blair
We believe that the credibility of Tony Blair, the government and the country will not be restored until there is a full, open and independent public inquiry into the reasons we were taken into war in the first place. We call on the government to abandon the Butler fix, and instead launch an investigation that will finally tell us the truth.
Sincerely, The Undersigned

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

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I may not be B.O.B. but this WASN'T ME!

"As if there were safety in stupidity alone"
Henry David Thoreau

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Long endless Nites.

Have never slept well as long as i remember. Yet when I do sleep, sleep through anything. About two years ago, we were having new windows fitted throughout the home, and while the builders hammered the big six feet wide eight feet high French window out downstairs immediately below where I slept with a sledgehammer, me and my dog Scampi slept on oblivious to everything.

Yet the nites used to be hardest. Voices that never had a source apart from in the realm of "mental illness' world that were forevr tormenting, torturing and driving to despair. Faces of the past, that never quite die from the memory no matter how you try to erase And I was joking with friends tonite, than when I get my diagnosis confirmed, I plan to take on the whole of the psyche world for thirty odd years of misdiagnosis, and neglect which has led me to my current condition, and I joked that I would tell them they traumatized me at nine years old by labelling me (wrongly) as schizoprhenic. But, there is an element of truth to it. As the last four or five years possibly longer my sleeping got worse and worse, and I had no idea why. Even on nights the "other voices' were silent, still sleep would not come. And was awake and yet without the River of tears. . But still sleep never came. Up until abuot four years ago, I would be awake for 36 hours straight sometimes, and still go out for a 12 hour day with friends. People could not believe how awake and alert I was during those times, and full of energy. As battling 30-40 seizures of varying degrees daily that alone should wipe anyone out. And the nites went on, endlessly.
And the label of schizoprhenia was there in my mind and after so long thought I would never be free from it medically speaking. And so even when the "other voices" were not active and folks asked me why I wasn't sleeping, people knew I had this label, and it seemed easier to just say "the other voices kept me awake" rather than a dead stoopid answer of "I don't know!" Even in the medical community this would be my static answer. As an answer of "I don't know" as to a thing like sleep, would likely be a signal for them to think I was going off the rails mental healthwise. They "knew" I had schioprhenia so an answer of "the other voices kept me awake" would be accepted without question or unneccessary interference.

But I have no time for medical people full stop and never have had. I've had and experienced some very bad things at the hands of "the caring community' And I got trapped into this label of schizopherenia with it seemed no chance of ever being free of it. And my nites are still endless... its is now almost six am here in merry ole England, and I slept for 45 mins earlier till pain made it too difficult to stay in bed. i have a doppleganger foam thingy on top of my matress along with an inflateable matress..and the pain in my back even with morphine when laid on it doesn't allow sleep tonite. But the sleep thing and so lacking it generally I found out abuot 18 months ago, is a common symptom of serious neurological desease. And I am waiting for confirmation of my illness. but I know and everyone who knows me knows this is what's wrong with me. For thirty odd years the only real medical problems I had was uncontrolled seizures and so called schizophrenia. And then when I got sick now, the two often major symptoms..normally one or the other that this illness maybe present are seizures and/or schizoprhenic like symptoms. And it progresses and now I have a cluster of deaseses all caused through negelct and in being too late in detection, and there is little doubt that it will see me off before most people think of as there time. And I am not angry at the doctors any more. As I changed my family doctor and she took one look at my persona when I changed and she interveiwed me and wrote on her computer "Not mentally ill" And sometimes when things are happening, at the time, we wonder where God was in all of it. How could He let such and such happen. And yet, only in this illness alone, do I get to make everything over the last 30+ years make sense at least medically speaking. I finally get the vindication not just before God, but before everyone who wrote me off as a hopless mental case who would likely always be on psyche drugs and in and out of psyche hospitals, and I plan to have my day in court. As in a way, tho I understand God's hand was upon everything, they still robbed and took any chance of any "normal" kind of life. And after losing about 15 years inside those psyche places, I want vindicating and I want to show the psyche world for what they are. And I will do this if I have the time to do it (D.V.) As there are no doubt times when people need psychiactric care and treatment. yet the signposts were there all along the way in my own case, and year or two of misdiagnosis I think we all could think.. okay, they did there best...but 30 odd years is beyond a joke.

And the nites will no doubt continue to be endless. and long and sleepless. but I have this time to write my refutation of all things psyche and of how against ever principle in the Bible the whole thing is. I may not be B.O.B. but, the facts are all there in medical records for anyone to see. The crazy Calvinist has never been more sane or determined to stir up this hornets nest of vipers and see what falls out. And its not vengeance, tho I want them to admit they were wrong, but it is, about justice. For all the otehr people incacerated inside mental hospitals needlessly, and perhaps somewhere down the line will also find themselves terribly ill, which is largely due to negelct and overlooking the obvious cos they want to hang these labels on people and justify their profession. And its for the lives lost that just became statistics. I could have been a statistic, but God preserved me and my sanity. And everything happens for a reason. To make the psyche world sit up and take note of how far they will go in being wrong, seems to my reason and my mission.

And one thing about these endless nites now. I am never alone throught them. God is my ever present help in trouble. And I read, favourite scripture texts, friends like Martin Luther and many other great Reformers of the past, and I listen to music, and if the music makes me weep, its normally not with despair, but with a sense of sorrow of how Paul described loss and elsewhere the wasted time and years before He was saved:

What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ--the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. From Phil 3



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Own Worst Enemy?
Robert Lee Brock, an inmate in Virginia, has filed a lawsuit against himself, claiming that he violated his own civil rights by getting arrested. He is suing for $5 million and is asking the state to pay, since he can't have an income in prison.


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Stoopid Is As Stoopid Does
True Dumb fact: a man was hospitalised in Andover Township N.J in Septemember and his wife was also injured, by a quarter stick of dynamite that blew up in there car. While driving around at 2.a.m. the bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out of the window to see what would happen, but they apparently failed to notice that the window was closed!


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Righteous judgment: Am not B.O.B. (Brain of Britain) you know!!!

Gal 5
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

I recall asking someone who seemed to know all things certainly much more than I did, about that verse "judge not lest ye be judged" I wasn't a Christian then, but disliked the thought of having to pointy fingers at everyone else..and somehow figured that was what it meant that it was not for us to judge. And the person said the verse was over quoted and used as an ensigna not to judge far too frequently and taken out of all context. And not being B.O.B. (brain of Britain) I believed them. And way down the line I still believed that somehow we are supposed to judge everyone. Still as an unbeliever. And in circumstances I don't wish to go into, but almost two years ago, I found the fingers of Deejay is damned pointing my way by the very person who had said the judge not lest ye be judged verse was taken way out of context. And whether they were right or wrong about me at the time is besides the point, I could understand there being upset but also, was too pig ignorant about Godly things to see further than feeling condemned and abandoned through this judgment. But I also saw the same aspersions cast about someone else, in fact multiple folks, and knew this was not right. I may not be B.O.B. but ain't stoopid you know!!! And really some of these folks had more right to judge me for whatever reason than the first person did, and yet they didn't. And slowly though I often feel so stoopid through my cognitive abilities rapidly deteriorating in many unseen or probably unnoticeable to others ways, I think I was awed by knowledge and brain power or so it seemed as I am quite easily impressed.. And yet over the last while, God has removed the scales from my eyes, and it took me looking death in the face day after day, week after week, to want to know Him and at a time when my brain-power is at an all time low. Yet its not brains that open the Scriptures to anyone. I can read for hours upon a day, Scripture and other things too, and not remember any of it in less than an hour. Not consciously anyway. Yet when God comes near, He reveals Himself in all His Glory, wonder and power. And when the normal means of getting to know and to understand God through meditating and having things fixed in your memory is not the norm as it is for most people, then God will use supernatural means.

Luke 13 For nothing is impossible with God.

And it has seemed to me, that to point a finger at anyone and call them ready for damnation is against everything that Jesus teaches in the Bible. He spoke harsh words to the Pharisees by calling them a brood of vipers, but, not like the sin I mention above when just anyone who don't fit into your view you can toss them out of the Kingdom. (not God mind you...but us mere mortals) And have seen repeatedly, by people I have since learned have a much higher esteem for obeying God and His word than those who point the fingers at everyone else and call them fit for damnation, and learned for myself from Scripture that this is totally wrong. There may be time for righteous judgments, but that doesn't mean ANYONE has the right to usurp the place of God. No one. And yes, brain power can still intimidate me at times, one thing distinctly that does so, is my seeming lack of it. And yet, as Martin Luther wrote in his letters to Erasmus who was a very learned and scholarly man compared to Luther, he just about covers it in the below. (From Bondage of the Will)

"I am inferior in learning, ability, numbers, authority and everything else. Even you think so! As far as I you from your letters and books, you would stand revealed s such an ignorant simpleton that you could no, or to have pt utter a single syllable of explanation. Or suppose I should press the question, which of all those of whom you can boast can you prove for certain to be, or to have been, a saint or to have possessed the Sprit, or to have wrought miracles? I think you would sweat freely over you answer, and fruitlessly too! You say many things that are commonly accepted and publicly repeated in sermons; but you would not believe how much their credibility and authority they lose when brought to the judgment of conscience. "Many are accounted saints on earth, whose souls are in hell."

"Why do you not rather marvel at this Erasmus: Since the world began, there have always been superior talents, greater learning, and a more intense earnestness among pagans than among Christians and the people of God. It is as Christ Himself acknowledges: "the sons of this world are wiser than the sons of light" (Luke 16:8) What Christian can be compared with Cicero alone (to say nothing of the Greeks) for ability, learning and hard work? What then shall we say hindered them from finding grace? Who dare say that not one among them pursued truth with all his heart? Yet we are bound to maintain that not one of them reached it.

"The Saints are pearls and precious jewels, which the Spirit does not cast before swine; but (as Scripture puts it) He keeps them hid that the wicked may not see glory of God! Else, if they were open to the recognition of all, how could they be so vexed and afflicted in the world as they are? So Paul says: "Had they known him, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory," (1 Cor 2:8)

"Charity always thinks the best of everyone, and is not suspicious, but believes and assumes all good of its neighbor, calls every baptized person a saint. There is no danger involved if she is wrong; it is the way of charity to be deceived, for she is open to all the uses and abuses of every man, as being a handmaid of all, good and b ad, believing and unbelieving, true and false. Though we should all look on each other as saints as a matter of charity, none should be declared a saint as a matter of faith. "

Ps. 119:130 The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.

"Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons."
Will Cuppy

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This thing called Love?


This Thing Called Love? Well Ike and Tina Turner said it this way? What's Love got to do with it? Mind you, if I'd have been married to good ole boy Ike I may have been befuddled about it too!! I have never been technically "in love' and can do quite without it thank you very much! I love plenty of people, but not "in love" as in courting or such forth. Tho, sometimes now, I think at this time in my life when, sick, disabled, and even possibly without all the time in the world compared to most folks my age, it seems more possible than ever. But, never being in love, doesn't mean one isn't a romantic, and/or doesn't know how to spot a couple whose going through the motions of marriage, and those who love each other in a Biblical sense of the Word. That's not to say unbelievers can never be in love for there entired married lives cos they can. But, ole Miss Marple of the hearts can tell when love is the real thing for folks or just making do. And not sure how. Little things I guess. One thing that people who are not in that union of oneship don't do or I've never seen them is hold hands as they walk, see, little things! And if you listen to ones unsaved friends you hear wives often moaning and saying stuff like one of them has to go, her or her husband, for little things like not helping around the home. Which even tho you can udnerstand to an extent is way beyond the norm, when the husband is at work all week for very many more hours than your average working man. And this throwaway concept of marriage, just cos it don't all work out like in Cinderella, is a sign of the times. In days of our Grandparents and beyond, if a bad marraige was made, they stuck at it, stayed in it, for better or worse. They got on with what they were given, and made the best of even a terrible situation. (mostly) Other folks often never knew what went on behind closed doors even if the husband was brutish in his treatment of his wife. She respected him as her huband to not kiss and tell even when in a thoroughly miserable marriage. And for the wives to have six or more children was quite the normal thing to do, before the age of contraception and birth control and "The Woman's right to choose" And if she ended up with 18 children, and either a widow or in a thoroughly miserable marriage, she was strong and just got on with what life had dealt her. And even tho a total novice in matters of the heart, well, one can see the difference in a Biblically grounded marriage and those of the world. The wife submits and acquieces still to the authority of her husband. Its her duty to serve him as a wife and be his help-meet. And basically folks get on with whatever comes along in these marriages too. Good or bad. I ain't exactly sure what this crazy little thing love is, as in to feel, but I do know what it looks like to see a real match made in and for Heaven, and those who survive, but only just and only cos at the present time can find no way out of it, and they stay for convience not out of love or duty to there husband. Or they would never so easily have the "its him or me" mentality over such little things as an over-cooked pizza or some other trifle.

Genesis 2:23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman, [1] ' for she was taken out of man." 24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

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