That is Completely UN Scriptural

“All I really needed to learn I learned in kindergarten. Don’t move. Sit still. Shut up. Don’t rock the boat. Don’t make waves. Don’t ask questions. Follow orders. Accept your lot in life. Follow the path chosen for you. Please others. Ask permission first. Keep up with the Joneses. Follow trends. Aspire to the norm. Stay inside the lines. Eyes on your own paper. Never switch position. Accept and employ categorization. Don’t attract attention. Keep your head down and your eyes shut. Do not attempt to make changes. This has all been preordained. Don’t take a chance. Ignore your conscience. This is all there is. Remain silent. Obey.”

Author Unknown

So I’m going on about 7 days now without smoking. I was up to about three packs a day of menthols. I’ve tried to quit before and though technically I can’t say that I have quit until about 6 months to a year, I think it will be okay once they taste “nasty” again.

Anyway, I used a hypnosis CD from Paul McKenna. I’ll see about putting up a link to the site. I have to comment that I tried his program three times, but I made a slight adjustment.

Someone told me the following: The reason your relationship with your bride is messed up is because his relationship with His bride is messed up. I took my last three cigarettes – created a little fire and burned them on my garage floor and watched the smoke rise up after that. Then I used Paul’s techniques for controlling the urges as they came. His techniques seem to be largely focused on classical conditioning with a twist.

Think of something nasty and associate it with squeezing your left thumb and middle finger together (e.g., drinking from a spittoon).

Think of something awesome to give you a dump of endorphines to fight off the urge to smoke. Squeeze your right thumb and middle finger together for this.

So I’ve put in several requests at http://www.the-dhn.com/ for Reiki healing of my wife and hopefully restoration of our marriage and family. I’ve also been altering my prayers to be more visual in nature. I imagine us laying in bed together, on the beach as a family, putting her clothes back into our closet, etc and the emotions it generates. This comes forth from Mark 11:22.

Anyway, the last two-three weeks have been rough, but it may be getting better.

Also, got a tarot card reading and it basically said that we would fight for a bit, that she has someone else in the way, but it was God’s will for us to be together. I decided to start learning Reiki healing whatever that means and to focus on being the best man that I can be even more.

Someone told me recently that my relationship with my wife reflects my relationship with the Creator. Yeah, I know me and the Creator like to argue sometimes, but I didn’t think it was that bad – though it does make sense.

The trouble with these sort of things is that it is difficult to identify the source of the healing as she starts to act nicer.

Okay, so I’ve been trying to grow spiritually. Well on the to do list were the following:

Convert to Vegetarian – done since the first of May give or take

Quit Smoking – 7 days now. Will write a separate post on how I did this.

Stop Drinking – Haven’t drank a drop since mid-May of 08.
Start Exercising – Yeah got this started. Been lifting for about a week and swimming about two – three times a week, and walk about 30 minutes a week.

Start Meditation.

I’ve been listening to a number of medidation tracks trying to become better at meditating and what not. Anyway, I’ll post a separate article about this.

I had a thought come to me the other day. It is a possible explanation as to why women tend to live longer than men. So here’s the thing – I have a sneaking suspicion that women typically marry men older than them. This may or may not be true, but from what I’ve read at least in more ancient accounts it was true.

So let’s say the idea of transmigration of souls is reality. It makes sense to me, but I’ve never been able to prove the truth within myself just yet, so it is purely intellectual at this point.

Anyway, if women tend to live longer than men and the natural tendency is for women and men who are married to remain locked into a karma loop until they both live out the divine pattern of man, woman, and child in harmony – then it would not be surprising for the man to die first so that he can then be re-implanted into a new body and given a couple years to grow before woman does the same.

I suspect that couples that actually have broken free of the karma loop are those that die within a couple days or months of each other.

This is all just a guess.

Milk chemistry indicates that the donkey is man’s closest relative.’- (Morris, Henry M., The Twilight of Evolution, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1967).

“What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days in which the evening is named and the morning, were without sun, moon and stars, and the first day without a heaven.   What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in paradise in Eden, like a husbandman, and planted therein the tree of life, perceptible to the eyes and senses, which gave life to the eater thereof; and another tree which gave to the eater thereof a knowledge of good and evil?  I believe that every man must hold these things for images, under which the hidden sense lies concealed” (Origen – Huet., Prigeniana, 167 Franck, p. 142).

I guess it depends on whether or not the theory of relativity and what not has been made known. I read something on that site called www.yadayahweh.com that discussed an alternative view of the Genesis account. Given that Origen may not have been schooled in the intricacies of Einstein’s theory of Relativity, he may have had a skewed perspective.

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/mar06/comments/1273

So… I had joked around about this awhile back, that is putting chips in one’s head to access the Internet, global encylopedia’s of knowledge, etc.  I said I would wait until version 2.1 to get my brain implant to work out all the bugs… well in this case, I guess it is helping folks, but I can’t  help but wonder what the “they” will think up next such as wireless embedded Internet chips that bypass your visual cortex and show real time sports scores or something. Let’s think about this in practice though…

Bob, hold on a second I’ve gotta reboot my brain implant….blank stare. Spaces out. Starts dancing like Bettie Boop.

Okay, now what were you saying?

Based on the article, it looks like we’re only another 50 years off maybe, eh? What messed with me though is – we’ve already got chips in the head, but we still don’t have flying cars. I’ve always wanted a flying car. Vroom. It has been promised for over 50 years now, and we still don’t have flyin cars. Dang. Someday, at least, we’ll be able to browse the Internet wirelessly through brain implants.. this could bare startling implications for the mark of the beast folks.

Thought this was sort of an interesting comment from a forum I read the other day…. enjoy.

Which brings up a good point. If Jesus had been able
to live for another 30 years on planet earth he
probably would have ended up having 20 kids of his
own. Now those would have been some good gospels to
read about. Could you imagine that? I would have
loved to have seen Jesus in a parenting role. Just
imagine being 10 years old and your dad is Jesus. You
wouldn’t be able to get away with nothing. No
throwing rocks, no beebee gun fights, no tackle
football. Dang.