Tested Truths: Not Alone

Tested Truths: Not Alone:   Well now, hello all my old facebook friends, how have you all been? I've been away, it was politics you see, and I have figured out on...

Not Alone

  Well now, hello all my old facebook friends, how have you all been? I've been away, it was politics you see, and I have figured out one of the culprits? My cable company owns NBC, and they control my phone, TV, and internet connection! Now I don't want to say that NBC leans too far to the left, but lately, Lenin has been complaining about them stepping on his toes?
  It is a brave new world out there, and we are all caught up in it! Because this is way beyond politics, and it doesn't matter whether you consider yourself to be to the left or right of center? For there are other politics being played here, and it is the politics of religion! The Bible calls it Spiritual Warfare, but you can call it politics if you like? Because this isn't about whether you are so far left that you are thinking maybe communism might work, or on the other side, and hold onto the Constitution in it's strictest form? It doesn't matter, because there is an unseen war that rages all around you, and they are fighting over your soul!
  Politics? Is Obama a Muslim? I don't know, and I don't care! But I can tell you what he's not? He's not a Christian, but he is not alone? The speech he made to the Godless throng at planned parenthood sealed his fate! But how many agree? How many think that the killing of the most innocent is OK? What flavor Christian do you say you are? A Catholic, or a Protestant? How in the name of all that is holy, do you claim the name Christian, and yet you stand with the murderers?

Tested Truths: A Whole New Light

Tested Truths: A Whole New Light:   So what is life anyway, and what is the meaning of it? We have all asked ourselves that, and most have also thought, What if I had never b...

A Whole New Light

  So what is life anyway, and what is the meaning of it? We have all asked ourselves that, and most have also thought, What if I had never been born? And if I hadn't been, would I ever have known time? And if I wasn't, would there still be anything else? Go ahead, ask yourself, What is time to me, other then from which the time that I am aware of it? Or this one, If you agree that life is only relevant from the time from which you view it, isn't that the meaning of life? To be alive, for in death, time does not matter! Certainly, you can see this from a personal perspective? If you hadn't existed, for you, time would have never existed, for only in life can there be acknowledgement! Ask yourself questions like that if you dare, but is life relegated only to this point of refererence? Because if we view it only from this perspective, from this time called life, because life can only come from life, and that is the paradox! But again, if we had never existed, then for us, time would not have mattered, because for the dead, time has no meaning!
  Now let's consider this a little further? If you can begin to fathom time, you will begin to look upon the face of God, for only He is outside of time, God is Timeless! He knows the beginnig from the end, He has seen it all! But what is it that God would want from all of this, what is it that He has got to gain? When you consider things from his perspective, it puts a whole new light on it, doesn't it?

Tested Truths: Dasterdly Deeds

Tested Truths: Dasterdly Deeds:   Hawks circled overhead, and not far further out, the vultures waited their turn to clean up what was left. Down below, on the parched open...

Dasterdly Deeds

  Hawks circled overhead, and not far further out, the vultures waited their turn to clean up what was left. Down below, on the parched open ground, the danger had forced the Ostrich's head below again. Lately, it seemed with the least little stir, she would hide her head in the nearest hole! Always on the defensive it seemed, and she was almost always afraid! Scared that all were predators, and terrified of the meat eaters, she could find comfort in the hole from the world above ground? Since the recent death of her family, she had become all the more tenuous, as she realized, that she was one of the few still around. She had not always been like this. There had been a time, not too long ago, when she had trusted her speed, and could out run most of those who wanted to do her harm! Why once, she had even scared off a young lion with her pecks and wild flapping, but those days seemed so long ago? In the darkness of her hole, she thought to herself, I have fought the good fight, I have earned my right to hide now from it all, and here, I am safe?
  Meanwhile, above ground, the two boys took pictures of themselves with the carcass, and then, one of them said, Hey Johnnie! Do you still have those large shears in your truck? Yeah, I think so, why? I'll bet you, that we can walk right up on that stupid bird, and snip it's head clean off, and that it will do nothing to stop us! What do you think? Lets find out! I'll get them. And with that, the two men went about doing their dastardly deed! While below ground, Miss Ostrich dreamed of better times.

Tested Truths: OK?

Tested Truths: OK?:   So who are the new hipsters now that the hip have become irrelevant? What has happened here, and what has happened to the once cool? Or as...

Tested Truths: Tested Truths: Back to Ink

Tested Truths: Tested Truths: Back to Ink: Tested Truths: Back to Ink :   Coming back to ink, as I have been painting mostly. There is a draw to that yellow pad, it calls me? It says,...

Tested Truths: Doubt

Tested Truths: Doubt:   I've spoken to you about the depth of time, the history of it, and as best I could, how it works? But I realized, that I hadn't to...

Doubt

  I've spoken to you about the depth of time, the history of it, and as best I could, how it works? But I realized, that I hadn't told you about the other side, I hadn't told you about the moment? This was a mistake on my part, because I had meant to, But then, I couldn't remember if I had or not, and if I hadn't, why didn't I? But I didn't, this I know, and I aim to make things right!
  How long is a moment? What if we use a second as our bell weather point? Now a second is 1/60 of a minute, and a minute is 1/60 of an hour, so perhaps we can use a sixty scale? But assuming we did that, then what would happen, if we broke that second into a mili second? At that point, all familiar references to time as we know it, will no longer make sense! So at this point, we jettison sixty as any kind of reference.
  You see, we have spent some time, wondering at the enormity of time, but little going the other way. If you could think back in your memory, to a moment that is a millionth of a second long, there would be a specific photo of that moment! As moments go from the miniscule, to the endless! Time is smaller then you could imagine,  and much larger then you are capable of comprehending? But don't feel bad, no one can, but one? No one but the God who invented it understands it fully, because He is all moments, he is time, he can be smaller then small, or immense beyond all measure, He is God!
  Now I hope you followed that, because I doubt I could do it again?

Remember 9/11

  A clear blue crystal like sky is this mornings fare, thank you Father! It is always a bit eery for me when the morning sky looks like this, even the chill is as I remember it! It was on a day just like this one, when the original 9/11 occurred! You do remember the original don't you? It was by far the biggest, for on that day, the Twin Towers were reduced to dust, the Pentagon was hit, and a lot of very brave people, died in a field somewhere in Pennsylvania? But, depending on your age, and your attention span, you might be excused if those memories have been forgotten to some extent? But the first was obviously the original, and it has spawned a lot of smaller events? The most recent were the murders of the four brave Americans at Benghazi, and other assorted minor attacks? But again, the original was the bell weather event, and it spawned all of these lessor copycats!
  There are so many memories that come flooding back when I think of that day! I remember driving home from work on an abandoned New Jersey Turnpike, and for those not familiar with the East coast, the Jersey Turnpike is never empty, even at 4 in the morning! Not much made sense, I was angry and saddened at the same time, I was betwixt and between? But then, on the morning of the second day, there stood George Bush, along with the Fire Chief of New York City, with the pile of rubble behind them as a backdrop, and he said from a bullhorn, that we are coming for you who did these things, and we will make you pay! It was the first thing that made any sense to me, and for the first time, I felt a bit of ease, and I thought, OK, maybe we will be OK?
  We would do well to remember that day! Because there are those who's mindset is just that. To kill Americans, and to deny that, by sticking our heads in the ground like an Ostrich, protects us about as much as it protects that Ostrich!

Tested Truths: Back to Ink

Tested Truths: Back to Ink:   Coming back to ink, as I have been painting mostly. There is a draw to that yellow pad, it calls me? It says, Go ahead and write something...

Tested Truths: Just Babies

Tested Truths: Just Babies:   What nation is this, into what world have I come? OK, so you don't like the Jews, and you're not sure about the Palestinian questi...

Just Babies

  What nation is this, into what world have I come? OK, so you don't like the Jews, and you're not sure about the Palestinian question, but do you also hate babies? I know a few Jews who I don't like, but babies?
  My God people, we are currently trying a Doctor on the charge of murder, for snipping the spinal cords of new born babes, who lie defenseless on a cold steel table, whose mother lies along side, having had this monster just abort her baby! Is there any humanity left, that this country should support such things? This is not just the platform of a political party run amuck, this is the actions of a Godless people, how can anyone support the murder of the innocents? Didn't we just cry over those but 5 years older as they perished at New Town? These are even more innocent then thos. These are just awakening to this life, just taking their first breaths, and this maniac snuffs them out as if stepping on a bug! America, you can carry this atrocity on your shoulders no more, you cannot allow yourself to be part of it! You stand clear of the subject, and you think to yourself, I have no part of that evil! But there are plenty who have no such reservations, and they go about their hideous deeds with your blessing? Remember, abortion is the law of the land, and if you think yourself separate from the horror, and think that its none of your business, remember this, your tax dollars go to the funding of these abortion mills, so you are part of the crime because you agree to pay for it! You payed for the doctor who butchered these fragile innocents! What kind of a people have we become?
  I will tell you this, if the United States of America continues to fund planned Parenthood, who is largely at the core of some 300 thousand abortions last year, do you think they all were for the mother's health? If we as a nation continue to support this infanticide, we will have hell to pay, and I mean that figuratively, as well as literally!
  Why America, why would you sanction the murder of the unborn, and who are you that you should decide this? Life is precious, and you had better take heed! Because if this goes on unchanged, you will pay for this sin! As with all sin, it is your choice, and so, do you choose to hold life as sacred, or do you think that humankind has the right to decide which live and which should die?
  Babies, my God their just babies!

Back to Ink

  Coming back to ink, as I have been painting mostly. There is a draw to that yellow pad, it calls me? It says, Go ahead and write something, anything, but you must write! This I believe is why I have been drawn to the paintings lately? You see, I grow tired of writing? I think to myself, what's the use, nobody's listening!
  I feel as if I am yelling, full throat into a gale force wind! My words are blown back in my face, and they mock me as they go by!
  But today, I found an old friend? Music came again to the rescue, and I listened to one of my perfect albums! Cream, Disraelli Gears is the album of which I speak, and though I have long since tired of White Room, the others came back like old friends! Funny? I have listened to this album many times, and yet, I heard Blue Condition as if for the first time?
  I think I will try to paint the cover? Something in flowers perhaps? I will try again, to appeal to you from a commerce point of view? Because so far, every time I tried to break out of my condition, and make some money, something always holds me back? I have six finished paintings, well, really five and a half? One is not finished? Anyway, anyone who would like to bye one of the paintings, please, Email me! I'm on Google plus, and I also have Gmail. So, I know you can find me. I just hope that Google lets it go through? You would be doing a good deed, as although I'm not quite the starving artist yet, I could sure use the money!

Fox News Alert

  This is a Fox News Alert! A German couple and their children, need our help! They had been granted temporary asylum here, because in Germany, the government is threatening to take away their children, if they don't sign them back into school where the children are harassed and bullied, all because they are Christian! They choose to home school their children, because the government run schools teach atheism! And because they are Christian, they don't want their children to be taught atheism!
  But here's where it gets even scarier, the Obama administration, through Eric Holder's Justice Department, is considering sending them back, and refusing to grant this beautiful family permanent asylum! Please America, help us to fight this injustice! We need 100,000 signatures which will then facilitate President Obama to speak directly about this heinous crime against humanity!


PLEASE! Go to: HSLDA.org/Romeike  and sign the petition!                                                          You will feel good about yourself, I promise! And isn't that what it's all about on a Saturday night?

Consumption Tax

  Now, although the concept of a consumption tax is simple, its implementation is not! There will be plenty of resistance, as some blood must be spilled, and some sacrifices made. One immediate benefit is that we can eliminate the IRS! Because it is a simple across the board tax, there would be no need for difficult tax codes with all of those loopholes and built in dodges! But there will be sacrifices in the beginning, as many would loose their current jobs. CPAs and accounting firms would have to focus more on bookeeping techniques, as there would be no need for hand wringing on April 15th, as the taxes needed to run the government have already been collected, and this money would come in daily.
Tax attorneys would certainly have less tax work to do, and these would have to adjust by working in contract law, or as a defense attorney. There are always going to be consequences, if only in the short run, and the loss of some jobs being the most evident. But the brightest of these newly unemployed, will adjust and assimilate quickly, though some kind of a safety net would have to be provided, possibly for as long as three years?
 As for the non professionals, training for a new career must be afforded them, for a new job depending on their education and their individual abilities! One of the ways that this could be paid for, is by some common sense means? For instance, The IRS has vast holdings in buildings and real estate, that could be sold or rented. This would be the end of that bloated bureaucracy known as The Internal Revenue Service! And as for the many thousands employed by them, an early retirement, with full benefits as agreed, should be paid to those who qualify, no matter how exorbitant that payout might be. We taxpayers would have to take that one on the chin, but again, only for the short term, as these would give way naturally, through attrition. Wouldn't it be nice to have the IRS pay into the kitty instead of taking from it? Simple my friends, simple is always better!

Fair Share

  At heart I am a simple man, and because of this, I will always look first for an easier way to do things, and usually, that way is the simplest? This is not because of laziness, nor do I choose it because it is less work. But I will always look for a simpler way, and it is usually the easiest way as well.
  Though I hate thinking about such things, lately, I have found myself thinking about the National budget? But again, being a simple man, I look for simple solutions. To that extent, though it has been discussed before in varying terms, I have come to believe, that a national sales tax is what is needed. A simple 10% tax should be placed on any and all purchases. And because it is a simple tax levied from all, there would be no exemptions. Because by it's very nature, it is fair, in that everyone must pay it, as we all buy things on a daily basis. With our available cash, we buy the necessities, like groceries, fuel for our cars, and so on.
  Now if you don't feel comfortable with the term sales tax, why not call it what it really is, a Consumption tax? We are a nation of consumers, and we all consume something on a daily basis. We all consume something, from the necessities like goods and services, and for luxuries as we can afford them.
  So then, we all pay a ten percent tax on everything we buy, but we pay only one tax, and that tax is fair, as we only would be taxed on what it is that we consume. When you think of it, it is a fair and balanced approach, as the wealthy would buy more and more expensive items, therefor paying more in taxes, where the poor and middle class, because they have less money to spend, pay less in taxes.
Simple right? Everyone pays the same amount, based on how much they consume with their income level. You might say that it is a fair share distributed fairly!

Isn't that illegal?

  Computers own me, that is to say, that they have a hand in what I post, and whether it gets published or not? Why is it that they look to always drop me, have I become too uncomfortable? Is it because they consider me subversive, who is it that I have offended? I ask this, because as of this writing, both Facebook and Twitter have dropped me from their pages. Perhaps if they told me what the matter is, but they don't or they won't?
  Google has decided, at least for now, to keep me on, but that could change at their whim, because it has changed before, just like the other two. If they should decide to drop me to, and the trio complete, and then my internet presence would fade, and eventually disappear completely. But why do they look to do this, is my speech not also free? Do they look to censor me, isn't that illegal?
  Probably, it is completely legal, because afterall, it's their playground, and all I bring is the game! It is a curios thing, and I would be lying if I said it is of no concern. As a writer and a teller of tales, I need the computer and it's access to the Social Media! Because what is it if not social behavior that I write about, and what would happen if I had no place to ply my trade?
  And so I make an uneasy peace with it, because this is quite literally, a rage against the machine! But there is nothing to fear from me, because I am like Johnny Five, and all I look for is input? But I would be more like Hal, and I look to get into a healthy conversation, but no one will engage me? Apparently, the computer will allow no such thing, because I suppose, is because all of it's circuitry has gone cold?

Culmination

  Wisdom is a fine thing, I love wisdom! But I have come to think of wisdom as a woman, and I want to make love to her as only a man can! She is fluid like when in my arms! And when she is in my arms, I caress her suppleness, until it becomes again hard then soft! She is my woman, and I am her man! And I like to think that I give her as much pleasure as she gives me?
  Being at peace with yourself is the key, and when you achieve peace, you will find that others are drawn to you, and still others recoil in horror? You won't have to do anything, the division will occur quite naturally. In fact, you have absolutely no control over this, and by interfering, you will only make things worse! Obviously, this is a good thing, but you might be surprised to learn that most will resist the truth? I'm not sure where this is going, because in truth, I have not yet thought it through.
  Instead, we'll take a quick peek at the phycology of dogs. Max had an interesting period of readjustment since we brought him back home from the kennel? After our initial meeting which was filled with much excitement, and after his first entering the house, ole Max began to feel a bit insecure? Perhaps because he feared us leaving again, or for some other reason, but Max began acting pretty strange!
The culmination of this came when Max was in no hurry to eat his freshly gotten milkbone? You might remember, that if given the opportunity to eat without end, that Max would eat until he exploded! But when he was in no rush to eat it, but carried it in his mouth like a cigar, and then, milkbone in mouth, tried to bury it in the cushion of the porch sofa? It was obviously strange behavior, but Max did not yet feel at home?

Tested Truths: It

Tested Truths: It:   It had took it all, it had carried it away? It came first from over there, but it left over here? I thought that it had come in by the bat...

It

  It had took it all, it had carried it away? It came first from over there, but it left over here? I thought that it had come in by the bathroom window, but it hadn't?
  What was it I was thinking before it came in, what was it, and where did it come from? I need to know this, but it remains just outa reach for figuring out? It comes and goes mostly unnoticed, it does as it wills, but what is it that it's doing? and why is it doing it?
  Why does it do it to me, and does it do it to you too? Are you affected by it whenever it comes your way? Did you recognize it when it came, and if you did, would you tell me, because I didn't catch it?
  It comes and goes, it is a free spirit! But why does it come as it does, why doesn't it come another way? But why does it come, and where does it go? What is the reason that it has been here, and for how long has it been here? Do you think that it might stay long enough to be identified? Whoa! There it goes again!

Tested Truths: Only Your Attention

Tested Truths: Only Your Attention:   The pain was exisquisite, it was perfect in demanding attention! There is really no where to run when Old man Pain comes a callin! How tru...

Only Your Attention

  The pain was exisquisite, it was perfect in demanding attention! There is really no where to run when Old man Pain comes a callin! How true, how powerful is pain! It is a motivator, and it will bring you to attention! There is nowhere to hide from pain. Pain says, I'm here, and you can not ignore me, because I will have your complete attention!
  So all hail pain, let it wring out across the land! Tick tack, bip bop! Come in Pain says, come over here and dance with me. For you know that you can not ignore me, for I will have your full attention, or I'll only intensify my hold!
  Bolts of pain shoot out from the source, and it stops you right there in your tracks! Whew, Pain, why have you come here? What is it that you are trying to tell me? Pain answers and says, Only your attention!

Tested Truths: Giddy Up

Tested Truths: Giddy Up:   So what's been going on in the world, what is it that's happening now? Lately, it has been as if I fell off the face of the earth?...

Giddy Up

  So what's been going on in the world, what is it that's happening now? Lately, it has been as if I fell off the face of the earth? Cut off as it were, from any real news. Strange unsolved crimes are occuring in Indiana, I know that much, but little more?
  But then again, from the little bit that I have picked up, it doesn't look like I missed much at all? But just when I think I have it all under control, new problems present themselves? Most are not really new at all, and mostly, they come and they go? But this time, this one looks like it will be staying with me for awhile? The knee that I have been nursing, might just have blown a gasket? There is much more pain, and it is more intense, and I can find little relief!
  I have been putting off the knife, probably because it is just that, a knife! Old remedies have been failing me, and lately, nothing helps? It has put a hitch in my giddy up, but I thought that my giddy  up had long since got up and gone?

Tested Truths: Why stop with Bill?

Tested Truths: Why stop with Bill?:   Home again, back on familiar ground, back to where the comforts are! Focus now is more easily had, for in comfort, the thoughts come easil...

Why stop with Bill?

  Home again, back on familiar ground, back to where the comforts are! Focus now is more easily had, for in comfort, the thoughts come easily! So what now, what is it I will say with this new ease, and do I have anything worth saying?
  I thought back on some of the things which happened on my trip? I caught a glimpse of a late night show that had Bill Maher on. Though he said it in jest, it looks like ole Bill is beginning to see the other side of things? It looks to me as if he's teetering on the fence? He is a lot of things, but stupid is not one of them?
  But I don't care nothin about his politics? But what I will do, is challenge him in another way? I know that he hears me, because he paraphrased me that night. He chose the word clippings, while I used grazing, but the original is mine!
  So here's the offer, I challenge you Bill Maher to an open debate! You take the side of atheism, and I'll take the side of God! Are you up to it, or are you just another wise ass punk? Pain can make you think some crazy things, and lately, I have had more then my share! Because I thought to myself, why stop with Bill? I can take them on one by one, and I'll call them out of their cushy lairs! I'll challenge them in public, to speak from their palaces of opulence. Will they speak to me, how solid are their beliefs? Perhaps Jim Carrey next, and then I'll work my way up to George Cloony? And then we will see what kind of men that these are, we see if they can have honor and not answer the challenge?
  But who knows, for only time will tell?

Faithful Thinkers: Can Religion Be Tested for Truth?

Faithful Thinkers: Can Religion Be Tested for Truth?: Most of the time, I'm not too fond of using the term "religion". I normally prefer to use "worldview" because it i...

Tested Truths: OK?

Tested Truths: OK?:   So who are the new hipsters now that the hip have become irrelevant? What has happened here, and what has happened to the once cool? Or as...

OK?

  So who are the new hipsters now that the hip have become irrelevant? What has happened here, and what has happened to the once cool? Or as they fear it, Can the dorks really inherit the earth?
  Questions rattle like distant sabres, it is the sound of the changing times! Off somewhere far away, but not far from you, people are changing, and along with them, lives are being changed! Old standards die hard, and that is why the ways and means of this country have turned to be so ugly!
  But cool has always been a select group, and the truely cool are even fewer. This is the group to which all others aspire, yet for most, it is a moving target, and  they can never hit the mark!
  So who are the new Dorks, the one's who once were, but no longer are cool? Strangely, nothing has changed, in that the cool are still the free thinkers, and the hopelessly uncool just follow their lead? The wimps who are toeing the government line are still the dorks, and the dorkiest of all are the PC police!
  I ran into one of these, and this one even had a uniform? It was the uniform of a baggage handler, though it might have been TSA? Anyway, this dork took it upon himself, to come out of a warm building twice to tell me to put out my cigarette, even though I was outside, 300 yards from the building! I wonder if I was swilling Xanax to calm my flight worn nerves, if that would have been OK?