A Soldier Fights Not Because He Hates The One In front Of Him, But…

…because he loves those People Behind him.

 

I saw this misleading poster on line and I would have to disagree.

For one human being to kill another there must be, in most instances – hate.

Thinking about killing in the military prompted me to write a little bit about Dehumanization.

The Soldier generally must hate or at least think of the ‘enemy’ he is shooting at as not human.

That is why the military dehumanizes the enemy and gives them names that are not considered human…something our species has been doing through-out history.

Jap, Towel Head, Chink, Kraut, even The Red Coats are all words we are familiar with and which take the Human out of Humanity.

This is of course de facto racism.

The average Vietnam Vet (and we all know a few of them) called their ‘enemy’ Dinks, Gooks, Slopes/Slopeheads and Slants – after all, the enemy to many of these soldiers & marines were just little bastards that lived like animals in the jungle – thus it was ok to treat them accordingly.

The Soldier/Marine has been indoctrinated, brainwashed (not unlike a cult; which the military has all the hallmarks of) and there is a seething hate that takes years and conscious effort (as it did for me) to reason away why we should not hate others for no reason other than the government and its Propaganda Machines told us to.

And while I’m on the subject… here is a quick little digression:

Governments sometimes present “Enemy” civilians or soldiers as less than human so that voters will be more likely to support a war they may otherwise consider genocide.

Such efforts often depend on preexisting racist, sectarian or otherwise biased beliefs, which governments play upon through various types of media such as CNN or Fox News. They present their “enemies” as barbaric, undeserving of rights, and a ‘threat’ to the nation. We see this perpetuated on these moronic media outlets (mentioned above) and other Idiotic ‘News’ sources (that the rest of the world calls propaganda).

Alternatively, states sometimes present the ‘enemy’ Government or a country’s way of life as barbaric and its citizens as childlike and incapable of managing their own affairs. We see this happening in the Middle East in countries and cultures that are far older than young, ignorant Amerika.

Such arguments have been used as a pretext for colonialism… which we see happening in Iraq (which now sports the biggest US Embassy in the world… no,  The US is not pulling out of Iraq anytime soon).

Most  soldiers love their friends and family ‘back home’ and want to help them… BUT most soldiers are not thinking, I am protecting my family who are safe back home by killing these people I do not hate in this country where my family does not reside (sounds absurd when you move the words around a bit, eh?).

The average American soldier, whilst in another country, shooting at people that did nothing to him personally (but who is shooting at them non-the-less), is thinking, I want to get the fuck out of here and in the meantime just follows orders and waits out his time so that he will (perhaps) get his GI Bill – IF he makes it out – and a shiny piece of metal to put on his chest (rats also like shiny things – we find a lot about humans by studying rats – don’t we?).

The military goes to great lengths to instill in its soldiers a willingness and even eagerness to commit violent and brutal acts without question… and if they do question then they are UNPatriotic and may even get a court martial for refusing to go against their Conscience (Muhammad Ali – who was not even in the military got his Championship Belt stripped from him for refusing to go to Vietnam to kill people that never called him a nigger – another dehumanizing word that slave owning whites and other bigots used so they could keep treating blacks inhumanely).

It works.

What the military does NOT do is spend any time or effort to debrief or UNtrain this mindset once the troops leave ‘Enemy’ Land. Treatment for those who suffer depression, guilt and may even develop suicidal tendencies for what they have seen and done is woefully substandard.

Military training, is an extremely effective method of changing the mindsets of the newly enlisted, often teenagers, so they are ready, willing (and even eager!) to spontaneously kill other people.

Consider how intense this training must be in order to turn a normal, fun loving, teenager with hormones bursting from his every pore into a killer – who does not question authority -  in a matter of weeks.

I should know, I spent almost a year training for one of the Army’s Elite Divisions.

A critical part of this training involves dehumanization. The idea here is to make trainees think of the enemy, not as opposing soldiers but as less than human. Animals. There is far less of a possibility that an Amerikan soldier will shy away at the order to kill when he believes that what he is killing is not a Human Being at all, but a lower form of life deserving only loathing, disgust and hate.

A soldier fights and shoots at others because he was trained to obey orders without question, and has been brainwashed to think the enemy is less than human. His family back home barely works into the equation… and the hate (mixed with fear and ignorance) he feels in the combat zone is very real and very dangerous.

Peace in the Middle East.

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Bitter Mad Woman: When Past Relationships with Born-again, Republican, Evengelical, Erstwhile Chums emerge and Go Completely Fucking Mental.

Here’s an ongoing  story about a Boy and a Girl.

The Story, the Saga, the Epic Nightmare continues!

Childhood Church Buddies, separated for 30 years and then re-united through a Social Networking site.

One would think they could pick up where they left off 30 years ago, but alas! It was not meant to be.

Time, Experiences, and a Vast Ocean all have their part in how things turned out.

Read on Dear Reader and hope this never happens to you… and if it is does, turn into a positive experience, something to better your life and others around you.

There have been a few Updates & PROgression in this ongoing drama… kick off the shoes and get the mind ready!
Social Networking Sites have their Pros and Cons, I focus on the Pros i.e. Putting Ideas out there to seduce a friend (or Foe!) and entice dialogue where those reading, hopefully, will take something away to somehow enrich their Lives as it somehow does mine.

Often posted are Quips slamming organized Religion, Politics and poking a bit of fun at things that happen in our Day to day Lives. Nothing too serious or grave… just asking questions and watching the People react.

From the interesting debates – debates that were fun, not ‘too’ serious, and offered a little something for everyone – many of you witnessed the emergence of my Erstwhile Chum named Kristen (I’ll keep her full name off my Blog for now).

Many of you – some of you long time friends here in Taiwan; others long time participants on the goings-on on my Wall, blog and other media – began asking who this woman was and why she hated me so.

All of the Kristen Hullabaloo these last few months has spurred me to write a bit of History (scant as it is) and my thoughts on the whole affair.

I must preface with what I am to write with -I know her about as well as she knows me -  which is not very well at all.

All I have to go on are memories, my journal I kept from then, my poetry (some of the poems dedicated to her, I’ll post a few in the near future) her posts and limited information about her from her profile, but I will be as articulate as possible and recollect some events as best as possible.

I do know this, she is a Born Again Christian Evangelical Fundamentalist who loves Jesus and who votes mostly Republican.

Writing this piece (written in haste and only two revisions) is as much for me as it is for you, Dear Reader.

Questions abound concerning Kristen. Who is she? Why is she so bitter? Where is her sense of humor? Is she for real? Were you lovers at one point? Was it a Bitter Break-up? Is she dangerous?

Rather than answer each question individually (very time consuming), I tried to get all the bits (I slammed out in an hour as succinctly as possible) in this all encompassing Narrative.

Apologies for any discombobulated bits.

Get yourself a cup of tea, or a beer, perhaps a glass of wine; sit back and enjoy the Latest Diatribe (or Pertinent Information for some of you!) so you know how to deal with this woman (and there are more like her in the world) in the future when her proverbial pen vomits on my little piece of Cyber Space (or, egad, yours!).

Kristen and I were Church Buddies at a church called South Shore Baptist Church in the very affluent town of Hingham (where Kristen apparently resides now). I think I was about 8 or 9 when we started going to that church. I enjoyed my time there mostly, I made friends, went on their picnics; went on their Jesus Camp-esque retreats and summer/winter camps.

I was, to many I suppose, your average Christian Kid trying to do right by Jesus.

When I was about 12 or 13 – you know, when the hormones get going and you start to re-think looking at a girl with lust in your heart as a sin – I started asking questions about what I believe.

Kristen and I would have long conversations, sometimes on the church steps; sometimes by phone, the conversations were often about Jesus, our lives, my relationships with people, her relationships with her mother, which at the time were not good… especially if her mom knew she was talking to me.

Her mom absolutely deplored me.

Lots of Christian Moms deplored me, but Kristen’s Mom took first place.

Note that I have fond memories of Kristen that I try to keep alive despite her recent on-line activity.

My rebellion at The Church was evident and many of the parents cautioned their children (my friends/acquaintances) to stay away from me as I might corrupt them. Kristen still snuck phone calls to me and I called her too. When her Mom answered I disguised my voice and asked for Kristen or I would hang up the phone and try again later. We were buddies… and I must say that she did stick to her guns – despite her mother – then, as she does now.

Note this relationship between Kristen and I was friends only, I don’t think either of us ever thought it was more than platonic. In my mind, she was kind of like one of the boys. She was tall and athletic and had a nice loud boisterous laugh and I remember she had a great sense of humor (I’m not sure where that Sense went).

I continued going to the church, but was rebelling even more – giving smokes to the church boys; sneaking whiskey into Sunday school; and at the same time struggling with my relationship with Something I was not sure existed, at least not in the sense I was being taught.

Prayers went out for God to show his grace on me, I even made the ‘prayer chain’ (this is what X-ians do when they feel there is an Emergency Need and someone needs help – helping without really getting their hands dirty) so that I had about 100 people praying for me in one night.

I look back on that time, and I must admit, I am a bit flattered now!

Their God must not have been listening, or had another plan… because I, except for the occasional visit to the church when I was 15 to see some of my buddies, stopped patronizing the Church and went out into the ‘real’ world.

I hitchhiked across the great ol’ US of A and was gone for months (this is another piece I have been working on for a year or so and will publish soon – Hitchhiking Adventures Across Amerika).

When I got back to Massachusetts, I was almost 18 and I joined the Military soon after. The Military got me out of my Childhood.

At once, I was thrown in the Mix with people from all around the States, mostly from the South.

I trained, fought & killed with the elite 82nd Airborne Division and was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

I think I may have called Kristen once or twice from a pay phone my first year in, but we never saw each other again.

I had little or no contact after I was 17 years old with Kristen until 2009 when we found each other on line and became ‘friends’ again… and that is a mighty long time.

Letting go of the Past and accepting the Now can be a difficult thing after not seeing someone for so long. Meeting someone after years of no contact can be a bit traumatic as no one is the same they were 25 or 30 years ago. Based solely on her posts, she too is not the girl I knew 25 or 30 years ago. She seems to be struggling with this.

However, after just under two years of Wall Posts, Emails and the like with Kristen, and observing how she interacts with people in the Forum, she, in my opinion, which I know are like assholes (opinions that is, everyone has one), has become a bitter, man-hating, angst filled, self righteous, old lady. The kind I used to run away from when I was a boy… I mean, you can’t berate an old lady, can’t beat em’ up either… staying clear of them and waiting for them to die is about the only solution.

And yes, it pains to me to describe my Ol’ Chum this way.
Kristen apparently married, had a very unpleasant divorce (this may be where the Man hating comes in) and then met Husband Number 2. He also sounds like a very interesting guy as you will see in a moment.

Her second husband (would love to meet the first husband, perhaps I will someday, he must be a hoot) apparently is as brash as she is.

I am flattered that they sit around and talk about me at home… nothing like a bit of Old Woman gossip about little Ol’ me … it tickles me pink.

Here’s an example of what they chat about – directly from the Horses Mouth:

(Posted by Kristen) “So occasionally I will talk about Paul’s posts with my husband and kids. The response is always the same. Tonight I brought up this thread, and my son said: “He would never make it in the real world.” My astute, no-holds-barred, in-your-face husband said, “A grown man who sits on the computer playing bickering games. Doesn’t he have anything better to do with his time? Doesn’t he have a house to work on or a lawn to mow?” And then he remembered Paul’s comments and said: “Oh, right. He doesn’t ‘own’ anything. What a f*ing loser.” As the aunt whom I adore says : ‘Nuff said.’”

Of course calling a Dog a Cat doesn’t make the Dog a Cat.

What Kristen and her In Your Face husband, does not know is that I ‘owned’ 3 English Schools for 14 years, an entertainment company, a Martial Art School and now for all intent and purposes and for the sake of argument, I ‘own’ The Refuge Community Venue.

All were/are successful.

(Note –  I like to call myself the assistant director – and yes the janitor -  at The Refuge as it is run by the Community and everyone helps out, and contributes vastly to the organization of The Refuge Community. It is a true Social Experiment that seems to be working… no one ‘owns’ it in the American I want to own everything sense. It is a Community Venture).

Let me digress a quick moment on this matter and mention my thoughts on owning a House or a piece of Land:

The problem with the word ‘own’ is that the word is arbitrary.

Mr. Astute also thinks he ‘owns’ his house. Does he?

Does anyone own their house in the US?

We can all agree that One must pay taxes on the house that they bought. Those taxes can be raised, changed and the person that owns the house does not have much say in it. What happens when Mr. No Holds Barred doesn’t pay his taxes?

Well, he gets into trouble.

And what happens if Mr. In Your Face still refuses to pay his taxes (and then the back taxes and the subsequent interest on the taxes)?

I’ll let you answer that – but try not paying your Taxes on your Land/House and see if it is still yours when you get out of Jail.

(…and wait, did The Astutes buy the house outright? Do they still owe the Bank? Do they have a mortgage? I don’t know, that is personal information, but if so, they don’t own shittles.)

Owning a house is a fallacy.

‘Nuff Said.

The house does own you though.

The ‘owner’ of the house is chained to it.

No Freedom for that Fat Cat, is there?

Funny thing is, Kristen is in Real Estate, she sells this lie to people. (She also works with Children).

Digression complete.

Why haven’t I blocked her?

(MY NOTE: I eventually and reluctantly had to block her as you will soon find out)

Why haven’t I shoved her out of my Cyber-Box and barred the Door?

I was actually wondering the opposite.

Why hasn’t she blocked me?

What is going on her head that she would stay acquainted with a Rapscallion like me?

There are a few reasons why she remains on my People I Know list.

It could be that there is always that thread of hope that she will ‘come around’ one day and be nice, that she will debate and parley for the sake of Truth & Fun and learn how to Agree to Disagree.

Perhaps she will – one day – understand that she takes this a lot more seriously than many of us (or at least I) do.

Perhaps she will see that I am trying to get under people’s skin now and again… proverbial slaps in the face to wake people up (I get those slaps constantly… but I don’t get bitter about it… I embrace it).

Perhaps she will understand that many of us have very busy lives and only get on-line when we can (for me I post a bit of info for awareness sake and f*ck off. I read the Comments when I can and learn from them. I comment when I have time… though she has taken my silence as not being able to debate or not being smart enough).

Perhaps our Dear Acquaintance Kristen may even one day dispel of the self righteous, snarky, demeaning, holier than thou, boxed in, angst filled characteristics she displays with vigor whenever she responds to anyone’s posts that she disagrees with.

She has not learned the Art of Agreeing to Disagree.

If there were People out there that felt they needed Saving through Jesus, she is definitely not his Poster Child… and if anyone was teetering on the Jesus Fence, all they had to do was log on to some of the Dialogue I initiated, take a look at The Self Appointed Jesus Rep and be pushed onto The Other Side.

You know, the Fun, Grass is Greener, Search for Truth with an Open Mind Side.

But come Boston Paul… a thread of hope? That may be asking too much, there is not much that hangs on a thread. There must be more reasons for not blocking this ______ woman!

Indeed there is!

She’s a Writers Dream.

She is my unsuspecting Muse.

Hemingway, Poe, Kafka, Kundera – all  wish they had a Kristen.

You can’t buy one in any store, very difficult to find one on-line, she is all mine (and I share her with all of you).

Take and do what you will, don’t worry, it seems she can take it.

This very piece I am writing now has been inspired by her!

I have not thought so much about my Church Days as I have recently with Good Ol’ Kristen of The Wall.

I look back and have a few fond memories of being at The Church. Kristen has brought a few of those memories out…

The differences between us are vast now, as I chose to take Life by the reigns and Ride while she still sits in her little house in Hingham with her 2nd Husband and her Jesus and her daughter off at school and her son wondering who the hell this guy is on the other side of the planet that does not know what real life is (Join the Military, young boy, see some combat, have a few bullets zip past your ears, watch a friend die, kill someone, then come back and we’ll have a chat about Real Life… meanwhile Young Lad, you bask in the upper-middle-class fantasyland mommy & daddy have created for you and perhaps one day, when you break out of your safe little Hingham, Massachusetts Life, you will discover what is real and what is not.).

Kristen seems to have a lot of time on her hands. She is frustrated with many things in her Life me-thinks and I am her release, her scapegoat… we can’t take that away from her.

On another note, for those who know me personally and have not heard much from me, here is a quick update:

I am very happy where I am in my Life. I am surrounded by intelligent beautiful people that care about the Community, the World and little old me… who could ask for more?

I look down that long road I have traveled for 45 years.

I see Happiness at the beginning of that Road, Happiness only Children seem to have.

Then I see confusion, bitterness & searching for almost quarter my Life, then Happiness again.

Y’all know the allegorical Valley of the Shadow of Death?  Well – allegorically – I made it through.

I might add one last little bit to this piece.

I lived with Kristen’s Cousins for a total of one year – we’ll call them The Martinis.

It was some of the greatest moments of my life.

‘Chad’ and I are Life long Brothers – soul mates. Chad even came to live with me here in Taiwan for a year. Sister ‘Julie’ (also Kristen’s cousin) is a beautiful person with a hint of rebellion in her too (it’s been a while since I have seen her, there may be more than a hint of Rebel.)

The Martinis were a wonderful influence on me in many ways and I believe they helped shaped who I am now… and yes they were a Christian Family too… but not the Kristen kind of Christian.

Julie and Chad have also smashed out of their Boxes, so I know staying in said box and being the various adjectives Kristen is described as above and below, does not run in the Family.

Looking back, I see an emergence out of the Darkness onto a new path, the Path I am on now.

I have a beautiful Wife of 12 years and a Beautiful Son of 6 years who is my Everything.

If there is a God, that God sent Kristen to me, not to help save my soul (as she may hope), but as an instrument …and yes Entertainment.

I copy and paste every bit of Hilarity she posts with relish.

Indeed, like many of you, her posts at times make me wince, laugh at loud and indeed, give a bit of topic to chat about over beer and foosball when we all meet on the weekends.

She also gives us a bit of a glimpse of what goes on inside the mind of these Born Again Fundamentalists – this is valuable information. She may not strap bombs to her Chest and carry out Terrorist Attacks in the name of her God, but she would if she were commanded by Jehovah, I reckon.

To many of us who have got to ‘know’ her on-line in Various Discussions, she represents The Demented Jesus, the Awfully Affluent, the Ornery Old Caged Minx.

She is our very own Facebook Jester dancing around, falling down and getting back up unaware of the Smiles, The Grimaces, The Laughter.

She delights us all.

I may revise and update this bit when I get the chance, but in the meantime, I have to go mow the lawn of the House I do not own.

Peace and Love y’all.

INTERESTING UPDATE February 6 2012:

Sometime at The end of The Summer of 2011 I had to block Kristen from The Social Network Site. (Kristen can find me here… and she does read my Blog [Hello Kristen!] – she never dares comment of course for this small town, middle class Woman would never get away with what she has been trying to get away with when debating with an Intelligent International Audience), but she was just too much for many of the friends, acquaintances etc that I am connected to there.

People did not want to comment anymore because of this bitter woman.

It was either lose smart, intelligent people (who I also may or may not agree with) or Kristen.

I chose to lose the latter.

Months of quiet and relative peace ensued.

Then just a few short weeks ago, Kristen began looking for my contacts on-line and writing them private letters.

Here is one of them – Let the Good Times Begin!

From  Kristen:

Hi-

I saw your responses to Paul’s post about things all theists should keep in mind or something like that. Here is an exact quote from a message he sent me about a year ago on FB. You can imagine that it is only a small portion of a much longer, preachier, message from him. I am sending it to other people too. Thought you might find his flip-flopping interesting. He claims to be an atheist in order to align himself with the Cousin Avis of the world (great guy, I don’t blame him – that is pure sarcasm, by the way), and yet this is what he truly believes, at least according to him.

[BP:  Cousin Avi is a Very Good Acquaintance of mine that I do enjoy talking to on occasion. Aligning myself with Cousin Avi? I’m not sure what that means… since Cousin Avi and I probably disagree more than we agree.]

I will never understand why anyone would think Paul is a great guy. Charismatic, yes. But a great guy?! Those of us who knew him in his previous life see right through the act.

[BP: Kristen only knew me through my previous life at The Church. Me being a Christian was The Act… what people see now is The Real… as real as I can be).

At least most of us do. Poor Susan Howard is not known to have much going on upstairs, and the woman from his graduating class is just as clueless (and pretty angry).

[BP: This is how Kristen talked in the Debates as well… demeaning, name calling… what would your Jesus do Kristen? Would he act this way? Poor Susan Howard? How so? ]

Everyone else from his life before his move to Taiwan has very little to do with him. One of the guys he considers his closest friend actually warns people to not get involved in his posts. That speaks volumes!

[BP: I have been in Taiwan for over 17 years and have not been back to the states for over 5 years. When I left The States my relations with my family and friends were excellent and for the most part –as time not only heals wounds but nudges us from A to B are pretty good now considering I do not live in Amerika anymore.  Who is this ‘closest’ friend?]

I hope you appreciate how he adds the caveat at the end – essentially “my theism is better than your theism,” and his use of the word “tenants” instead of “tenets.” Anyone can kill this guy with intelligence and logic (i.e. So you believe in a god of your own creation who has lesser morals – no dogma=no law=no one does anything wrong – than you do? So you worship a lesser being? Um, what?!?)

[BP: My sentiment exactly…  Um, what?!?]

Please note that I never published any of this in response to his bizarre rants about me – but I felt it was kind of timely in light of his post about theists, and I am more than happy to provide context – in particular our more pleasant exchanges when we first became FB friends:

“Note that I am not an atheist. I do believe in the possibility of a higher power (as any skeptic studying the various tenants [BP: Ooops there's the typo!] of physics should).

Unlike most religions, there is no dogmatic mire in my belief of a higher power I believe may be there (using rationale philosophical deduction). ” – (a.k.a “Paul Davies” and “Boston Paul”) 1/18/11

[BP: Yes, I see my Tenants & Tenets Typo…  what can I say? Because of a Typo, Everything I say after is wrong…. Yes that’s it!]

And since Cousin Avi was so vocal on Paul’s post, I thought I should include some of his comments. Here’s what he had to say to me about theists (Paul never disclosed that he considered himself a theist…obviously):

[BP: I am so happy she included this, it is worded well and describes Kristen (in light of recent events concerning Kristen) to a T!]

From Cousin Avi:

“Since you are the sort of gutless, stunned, stupid, yammering fuckwit who insists on having the last word and then running away like the coward you are [BP: she blocked Cousin Avi after not being able to keep up with the Dialogue]- completely and utterly lacking in anything like the conviction or principles you pretend to have but so plainly lack – I forward this to you, you simpering, Jesus cock gobbling bitch. You were told at least four times to FUCK OFF; to take your narrow minded, ignorant, uneducated, stunningly stupid, insistently myopic, willfully blind ass sucking religious bullshit off somewhere and blow it up the hind quarters of someone dumb enough to consider the tripe that spills from your mouth as anything other than sewage flushed from a decaying, desperate, putrescent cavity. But you can’t. You not only insist on remaining stone fucking ignorant of the world around you, simple scientific fact, the mountains of evidence piled up by great thinkers and researchers, history, geology, physics, chemistry, cosmology, biology…to name but a few disciplines…you further insist on trying to condescend to your intellectual betters as though you had some basis for doing so; as though you knew anything beyond your certain, completely fucking insane, unwarranted, unprincipled, illogical, ginned up, papier mache fantasy god – a thing for which you have no evidence whatsoever (which makes you exactly like every other stupid fucking theist of any stripe), and yet which permits you, in your infinite fucking brainlessness, to not only dismiss all those OTHER theists (all as fucktarded as you are), but the greatest minds in history and the entirely of scientific progress. You. Stupid. Fucking. Cunt.” -Cousin Avi

[BP: Cousin Avi does have a way with words!)

My friend – who Kristen contacted - replied:

I happen to know Paul very well. He's a fun loving, peaceful guy with a big heart. You on the other hand, I don't know at all. I can only guess from the nature of this message that you are not a good person. Seriously, who does this? This is vindictive. Please don't message me again.

[BP: Kristen of course messaged him again]:

Kristen:

A peaceful, fun-loving guy does not post stuff attacking theists all the while claiming to be a theist himself. Who does that?!? He has you duped. You won’t hear from me again.

[BP: She is a bit confused on my Theist Views… but oh well].

My friend then writes:

You have gone out of your way to try and contact friends of someone that you don’t like, just to slur his name. You’ve gone behind his back to try and get his friends to turn against him. I say again, YOU ARE NOT A GOOD PERSON!

She then breaks her word and contacts my friend again with this:

Kristen:

I contacted people who had posted on his derogatory thread about theists. The point was not to turn people against him or slur his name. The point was to demonstrate, using his own words, that Paul is himself a theist – albeit a closet theist. A closet theist who slams theists. Kind of ironic and hypocritical, don’t you think? I thought it might enlighten you, but you missed the point. For the record, I never said I didn’t like Paul and I never said you weren’t a good person because of things you said that I didn’t like. I don’t like the approach that Paul chooses to take, and I don’t care for his double-speak. He is a poser. Your comments about him being a peaceful, fun-loving guy with a big heart would never jive with anyone who has known him in his “previous” life – namely his family. Ask him about his mom sometime. Or his little sister. Ask him about his Aunt Marilyn and Uncle Tom. ASk him what he said to them when they buried their son. There is so much you don’t know. But I don’t think that makes you a bad person.

[BP: I’m pretty sure everything with my family is cool… my sister and I have always had an on-off relationship… but My Mother? My Uncle Tom and Marilyn? My Cousin Tommy who was like a brother to me as kids growing up?  What did I say while I was in Taiwan and they were Burying my cousin in Amerika? Pray-tell!  Kristen, I know you are reading this, do you have one shred of evidence? I never thought you would be a Slanderer, or guilty of Libel! My, what time does to the Soul!]

Kristen then goes on:

By the way, Paul and I have a very long history. I have said plenty to his face. Feel free to share his comments about being a theist with him. You can tell him it was from me. And while you’re at it, maybe you could ask him why he is a liar and a hypocrite. He unfriended [BP: I blocked her] me and told people it was because I had contacted the powers that be at FB and said he wasn’t using his real name so they forced him to shut down his account. [BP: Someone did and it may have been her I never said it was definitely Kristen … but we’ll never know... she was the only one to use my full name in her posts to me, FB might have picked up on that.] That is a blatant lie. First of all, his old account is still active. Secondly, who cares?!? I certainly don’t. And he still isn’t using his real name. No one cares. He didn’t like that I had things to share about him that he would rather people didn’t know. This of course was after he went out of his way to write 7 or 8 blogs about me (yes, you read that correctly). [BP: Basically I just reposted her dialogues with my commentary, it makes for awesome reading!] He insulted my mother, my son, my husband. And me of course. [BP: I did not really insult anyone... But of course Kristen has not insulted anyone, eh?] Real nice. Paul is only fun-loving when you agree with him. When you don’t, he is psychotic.

[BP: Everyone is psychotic, some of us hide it better than others… that is how e all get along!]

My friend then wrote “You come off as a mean, spiteful person. So full of hate. The more you write, the more I don’t like you.” And subsequently blocked her.

Then I started getting Emails from a variety of people saying that Kristen had contacted them.

Hey Paul,

I debated whether I should send you this, but I feel perhaps you should know that that woman, Kristen, has emailed me privately to besmirch your name. It’s not the first time, but it is the first time in a while. I have provided below what she wrote and my response. Again, I’m not sure what good it will do, and I’m not trying to prove you or her wrong, but I think maybe you would like to know that her efforts to slander you continue. See below:

Kristen sent the exact same letter to Friend 2 and he replied:

please do not contact me with this sort of email, please. I rarely ever see Paul, I feel he is a bit kooky sometimes, but at the same time a well-meaning and giving individual. I have no problem with him at all, mostly because I do not find my self-identity in his belief system or in critiquing it. He has his beliefs and they are his own, just as I have mine. He is a bit inflammatory, and sometimes rude, but sticks and stones, as they say.

I do not understand why you put so much personal effort into denouncing one man. As far as I know, he is not a thief, rapist, or any of the many things that far surpass his “evil” of talking shit. You personal mission to destroy his name to others has not succeeded, nor will it. People are allowed to make up their own minds, and if you’d just put yourself in others’ shoes and considered: What if someone from one of your present list of real or online friends’ past kept railing against that friend? What if you had never ever met that person? Would you be prone to believe them? I doubt it. You appear to us who do not know you to be obsessed. Again, I don’t care why. But I will not just jump on your bandwagon and hate a man who has never wronged me just cause you say so.

I do not see him much at all, we live in different parts of Taiwan. But as far as my experience with him, he has never wronged me, nor have we ever had cross words for each other. I wish you would just respect that and remember, he isn’t a rapist or thief. Any killing he ever did was at the behest of his nation, for which many would call him a hero. That he doesn’t, and takes no pride in his actions, is to me, a noble trait.

Cousin Avi, on the other hand. I do not know him at all and have only ever seen him once in my life. I find him to be extremely odious, bitter and unhappy. And if his words sting, just imagine what it must be like to walk around day to day with the impotent rage and frustration so evident in his horrible texts. As they say, it truly does “suck to be him”.

I don’t know you, so I won’t assume to your motives or tell you what to do. But I think, since you are a Christian, you should just ask Jesus what you should do. Should you use this amount of energy to lambaste one man who frankly, one offends your personal sensibilities, or should you use this vast resevoir of energy to do something to help yourself, your family, community, world, etc….

Happy new year, and God bless. I am not averse to having continued contact with you and discussing things like religion and life, but I do not condone this sort of vindictive behavior.

These were just two of the few.

I have not contacted any of her friends. But as you can see, I have kept the transparency.

Stay tuned!

Peace and Much Love

LAST UPDATE February 6, 2012

Boston Paul Sentiments

This is  a collection of  boston paul quotes found all over the Internet. There will be more added as time goes on and we dig them up.

If you find any quotes by Boston Paul anywhere on the Internet that are not listed here, please post them in the Comments and we will add them later!

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On Governments/Nations/Flags/The Military & War:

1. Old Tom Jefferson was a Closet Anarchist!

2. Amerika is not my enemy. The forces that control it are.

3. Following a Government blindly is the epitome of Ignorance and the American ‘Fathers’ are rolling in their graves.  Thomas Jefferson is clawing his way out to Bitch Slap the Ignorant Populace.

4. Some defend their country on social networking sites; others actually go to another country to defend their country, then murder its citizens.

5. Amerika is not made up of Brave Revolutionaries forging a Life & fighting Tyranny anymore. Amerika has degenerated into a Populace of Whining Ignorant Pussies that know how to Follow, Obey and Not ask Questions while their Government is Sodomizing them.

6.  I’m just knocking Amerika off its pedestal, its People & Culture are no better or worse than any other country.

7. People follow blindly. They regurgitate Nationalistic Rhetoric and think it is their own thoughts their own ideas…

8. The Box many live in is Big… but it is still a Box.

9. We should always question a Government and regard it with Skepticism.

10. I am anti-flag.   I am a Peaceful Anarchist.

11. I am first and foremost an Earthling. Mammalian Piss in the form of a piece of cloth does not represent who I am.

12. People dying and killing for colors. Love the red white & blue! Lynch the black man! Bomb the yellow Man. Don’t let Old Glory touch the ground!

           This is Ludicrous at best.

13. Amerika is not a country , it is a Corporation. You do not live in a Zip Code anymore, you live in a Tax Code.

14. Killing an Enemy for the State is still murder…and what a cop-out, BS, Brainwashed Statement when a soldier says, “I was just following orders.”

15. What are the ‘good’ American – and often Christian – soldiers doing in Iraq and Afghanistan?  Simple. They are Murdering its Citizens.

16. Take Pride in being an American? Usually we take pride in something we have done, something that makes a difference. People who take pride in being from Syria, or Canada, or Brazil, the US or someplace in Africa are prideful of what?  That they just happened to be born on a patch of Earth, and someone gave that patch a name. And that Patch was probably taken from someone else anyway… can’t get my head around that one.
17. Dissent and speaking up about these things is what used to make the US great… now one is suspect for Voicing Dissent and exercising Freedom of Speech.
18. ‘We The People’ I love it! We! The People!   No flags there. No mention of skin color.   Immigrants are not excluded.

19. We The People. Damn Straight! No us or them just ‘We’.  No Patriotic Jargon (which many confuse with Nationalistic Rhetoric), just We… let’s keep it like that, WE’re on the right Path.

20. Making a demeaning comment (as politicians often do to their opponents to display superiority and make their opponents look silly no matter how right their opponent may be) is not unlike our Mammalian Cousins tossing feces at each other…

21. It’s a sad day for Democracy when people are voting not for someone but against someone else.

22.  Governments do not want a free thinking People. Revolutions start when People are allowed to think.

On Vegetarianism:

1. I am not a Vegetarian, I just don’t eat Animals.

2. I have a hard time eating anything that could walk around and look at me before it was Murdered.
On Topics of Society, Peace & Love, Health & Other Topics:

1. They don’t allow Facebook in the loony bin.  Wait. Facebook IS the loony bin!

2. Another’s Post to BP  “At my kid’s school they gave them a questionnaire about their feelings.” 

BP: This is called profiling.  Something they do in these Indoctrination Centers they call Public Education.

3. Information is controlled… for Information is Knowledge, and it’s been said that Knowledge is Power.

4.  They say there is a fine line between Love & Hate. Often people scratch their heads, for how can there be a fine line between what seems to be opposite extremes?  That fine line is Passion.

5. Passion is Energy. And Pure Energy does not know if it negative or positive, bad or good, love or hate. Passion is directed through a medium (like electricity is through a conductor).  We are that Medium.

6. At the risk of sounding pretentious, those of us that have various insights of the world are often scorned by those who do not.

7. Another’s Post to BP: ” Tell me what happened to you. There is some majorly intense, repressed anger lurking under all the peace & LUV stuff.”

BP: All this Peace and Love stuff?   You make it almost seem like the Latest Fad!  When one has been in the Belly of the Beast and has clawed his way out; when one is sick of looking at all the war, hate, separation of people because of colors of skin & colors of flags; when one has seen what happens behind the scenes in government and religion; when one is sick of having Freedom being taken away while others accept it because they blindingly trust their government; when one wants to share what they have learned through experiences, trials, tribulations and is scorned, dubbed weird or eccentric; when one has seen government sponsored murder…  Peace & Love, Dear Friend, take on a whole new Meaning.

Don’t confuse my well directed, focused, Majorly Intense Passion in these matters for anything else.

8. Being Peaceful and Loving and wanting that in the world, does not mean I am a big fucking pussy and will let people walk all over me, Ol’ Chum.

9. Sleep is precious oil for my soul and sanity…

10. If someone is not feeling the love, often they should be taking a look inward and try to figure out why they feel this way… not blame it on someone else.

11. On the Bible: I speak Chinese and English (and dabble in 3 or 4 other languages) things do get lost in translation… or cannot be translated properly at all…how can we know Truth when we can’t understand the Language of Truth?

12. Money has turned People into Slaves. This is Genius. We hear, “Work Hard and you will be Rich someday…”  This, for 99% of the People, will never happen. But you will be making others rich, eh?  I think I’ll just enjoy my Life.

13. The Aramaic word for Virgin and Young Woman can be the same… and scholars believe that the Virgin birth did not happen. That a Young Woman gave birth to Jesus, not a virgin.

14. I’m exactly a 180 degrees on the left side of the Balance. I am no more Sad & Pathetic than those that keep professing Jesus is Lord.

15. Response to Christian website that states humans cannot be good without God:

I’m Good. People around me are Good.  We don’t have gods or your God in our Lives. We are still Good.   We don’t live with the Guilt many Christians, Jews and Muslims live with because they are not able to live up to the impossible Morality pushed on them by a dogmatic religion.
We are Free. Love for Humanity is our Moral Code.
We believe in Humanity and the Good Mother Earth from whence we came and to where we will return.
The Bible is so filled with contradictions how can anyone decipher it and come out with some kind of Morality?
How can anyone honestly believe in a Mysterious Omniscient Sky Wizard that rules over all?

We stopped believing in Fairies, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny (all stolen from the Pagans by the way) when we were children, one would think adults would stop believing in the Sky Wizard as well.        Peace and Love

16. It’s been said Home is where the Heart is… and Home is where I hang my Hat…  Home is….

17. It took me years to realize that when we hold on to anger, the one we are angry at wins.  We are using synapses -and other bits in our brain- energy, time – and all that is dedicated to focusing our anger on an individual, situation etc.  Letting go’ takes on a whole new meaning when we realize this.  Often we are angry because of what is going on inside us, and not the thing we are angry at.  What a joyous feeling to address a problem that gets our emotions going, understand why we are feelings the feelings we feel, addressing it, then letting it go and moving on to other things in our lives. And as a last resort for those who can’t let it go, remember this bit of Sage Advice:  The Best Revenge is Living Well.

18. A thriving economy throughout the ages has always needed slaves.

19. I like to shatter paradigms.  It is what I do…  If no one knocks me off a pedestal, I jump.

20. .don’t think of things as being good or evil — they just are.   Our experience of them makes them positive or negative for us.

21. On Public Education:  The problem is not so much the teachers as it is the system. The best teachers in the world are stuck in a rut (or better – a rock and a hard place) because of what they want to do and what they must do.

22. Public Education is designed to produce workers. People that obey.

23. Children should be outside all day playing and learning. Not stuck inside a classroom all day into the late afternoon. Then going home and getting their homework done before bed.

          This is not natural…. not the way our species has developed over the past few hundred thousand years.

24. Public Education – in its present form, in most of the world -  is Evil.

25. On Religion and Politics:  I learned that discussing Politics and Religion can be touchy topics. People do not like their boat rocked. But without the boat being rocked, there would be no progress.

26. Fuck the FEDERAL RESERVE.

27. The more I know, the more I realize I don’t know.  Doesn’t stop me from trying to know though…   …beats the sh*t out of ignorance.

28. We should always question what we believe, to not do so is the epitome of idiocy.

On Our Species:

1. Human Nature? This is a word that is tossed around the lexicon like dice in a cup. We are still trying to figure out what Human Nature is.  Humans do stupid things, not because it is human nature, but because we are still thinking like mere mammals.

2. I am first and foremost an Earthling. Mammalian Piss in the form of a piece of cloth does not represent who I am.

3. Response to a pro-American post - I’m proud and thrilled to be an Earthling.  Thanks for the Men and Women who gave their lives for Amerika? Men and Women from all over the world have given their Lives for one country or another at any given time. Why does one love their country?  If we all loved the Earth instead of a specific place on it, what a joyous place it would be to live.

4. We are in control of our own lives. We make our decisions and must live with them and deal with the subsequent aftermath.

5. Murder: Because of ‘A’ – ‘B’ dies.

We’ll call them Adam & Bruce.

Adam kills Bruce. What we must look for is intent. Why did Adam kill Bruce?

Here are the possibilities:

A. It was an accident.
B. Bruce is killed through mistaken identity
C. Someone told Adam to kill Bruce.
D. Adam was protecting someone else from Bruce.
E. Adam didn’t like Bruce.
F. Adam thought he was protecting his country & fighting for his Freedom and Bruce was the Enemy.

G. Bruce took Adam’s sandwich.

6. A starving child steals something to eat. Is this right or wrong?

7. If I can’t stop myself… no one can.

8. The Written Word is Solace, A Sword, A Universe in a World.

9. Our Species has been trying to figure out what Human Nature is since we swung down from the trees and realized we were Human.

10. “Lust is Oblivious”

11. It says in the Bible, Thou shalt not Kill.   Yet Christians have been killing in the name of God and Jesus for at least 1500 years.

12. I love Lust.   Rules against Lust go against the very essence of Nature.

GENERAL:

In Kindergarten, they taught us…

*to share

*not to fight

*to be nice

*to clean up our messes

*to help our friends and family

*to be ‘Good Samaritans’ and

*to work together…

…then some grew up and became Politicians and/or CEOs of major corporations.

*Resources are not shared, they’re often stolen and re-sold;

*fighting is rife in the Middle East

*can’t be nice when your cheating the populace

*messes are made and not cleaned up (oil spills, corporations like Monsanto destroying or ecosystems etc)

*friends and family are often put on the back burner for the sake of a career

*and many Good Samaritans are Good because of tax breaks.

~Perhaps we should take that Kindergarten Mentality and all start working together to make the world a better place…

It seems many of us forgot almost everything we learned in Kindergarten.

What Happened?

HUNDREDS QUOTES COMING SOON AS THEY ARE SENT IN AND EDITED.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS AND TIME.

PEACE AND LOVE

Last Update: Thursday, July 21, 2011

Anthony David Weiner’s Penis: A Thought

The Penis Scandal

I’m trying to think of good reasons for the recent hullabaloo concerning a Man’s Genitalia.

I’ve pondered. I’ve gone over it in my head. And after about 3 minutes I came up with this:

We are Mammals.

Mammals have sex.

That is how we all got here in the first place, EH?

It’s funny how Rulers of yester-year had hundreds of Wives and Concubines – this showed their Potency, their Vivaciousness, their Vitality.

Now they are scorned if they can’t keep their Peter in their Pants.

I’d love to steal a look on the computers of the People that Complain about politicians and their Sexcapades.

I bet we’d find lots of juicy tidbits, eh? Then we can wait till the Complainers are Famous and we’ll Scream it out to the world:

Immoral! Immoral!  This mammal was caught doing what Mammals do!   Copulating!   Ye Heathen!   Having sex with Women! Sex with Men!  EGADS The Thought!

Good God Ye Sexual Beings!

How can one be in a Leadership Position when they are (egad!) having sex… secret sex?

Horrors!

George Bush and Obama and all the rest of the Puppets have not got caught (yet) showing their penises, BUT hundreds of thousands have been killed in the Middle East because of a senseless war.

SHOW US YOUR PENIS OBAMA AND STOP THE WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

Focus People. Focus.

Hypocrites  are not pleasant to be around.

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Osama Bin Laden: The World Rejoices! … or does it?

Osama Bin Laden is Dead! The World rejoices! Or does it?

I have been repeating my thoughts around various parts of the internet, so some of this may sound familiar to you, but here it goes:

Here are a few Things of Note I would like to mention that seem to keep getting lost in the whirlwind academy award-esque Drama that has been folding & unfolding and creased so bad that the best dry cleaner in in Washington’s China-Town couldn’t straighten it out.

First, it should be well known that Osama Bin Laden (OBL) was never charged with the 911 travesty by the FBI. Here is the link to the site:

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/usama-bin-laden

and

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten

The FBI has recently updated this and put a red deceased sign across his mug.

Note that Osama was on the FBI most wanted list but NOT for 911. The FBI states that there is/was not enough evidence.

Bin Laden has admitted to everything he was part of in the past and I’m sure for a Terrorist, 911 would have been the Crowned King of Terror… what Terrorist would not want to boast that (s)he orchestrated an event like 911 then subsequently take the credit for this heinous deed?      OBL did not.

NOTE:  praising a Heinous Act and carrying out a Heinous Act are two different animals.

One should not get assassinated because one praised 911.  And why did OBL praise the perps of 911 (would be ironic if the US Government had something to do with 911, eh? OBL praising a US deed? Don’t laugh, the US let Pearl harbor happen, did they not?)

Also know that I’m not condoning anything OBL has done. I abhor his acts of Terrorism as emphatically as I do the American Government’s Acts of Terrorism in the Middle East. Violence is to be abhorred no matter who the arbitrary Good Guys and Bad Guys are.

Why does the Public feel the way they do about OBL? Let’s ask a question to answer a question: What Medium have the American Masses  – and the rest of the world – been using to get their information?

The Popular Media? Media controlled by Huge Corporations? Those very same corporations that control governments – including The Government that is occupying much of the world in one form or another?

They are praising the Death of a Villain because of what the Media has purported him to be? No Trial? No Justice? Hell… no Body, no autopsy, no independent observers, no record of his capture, it all sounds like something is Rotten in Denmark to me.

Remember too, OBL was an ally with the US government until early 1990s as they had a common enemy with the Soviet Union. The Bush Family is still friends with the Bin laden Family in Saudi Arabia. Last I heard, they still send each other Holiday Cards.

Conspiracy Theories: I am a skeptic and I do ask questions. The problem is that now if someone questions the government (especially after 911) they are dubbed ‘conspiracy nuts’ which then means that no-one gets a Voice.

It is an ingenious trick of the Media: Trust your government wholeheartedly, don’t ask questions – and if you do, you’re a nut. This is a very stealth way to suppress Freedom of Speech… and many Americans – and a couple of Canadians I know – have fallen into this Trap.

Sadly, most Americans – once Ferocious Warriors -  for Freedom & Peace, have been reduced Blithering Sheep who don’t ask questions, jump on the Nationalistic Bandwagon and attack anyone who thinks differently.

Everyone is caught up in the Media Blitz, The Band Wagon Hatred in the name of misconstrued Patriotism (AKA Nationalism).

Very few know one iota about OBL save what they hear on CNN, FOX and other Powerful Corporate Controlled Media.

People are talking much the same way they would a TV show (who shot JR?) It seems the Realness is taken out, but the Drama is not.

Movies, Dramas… a good book, a real or fictitious story – all evoke Emotion… sprinkle a bit of Fear & Ignorance ( ignorance oft resulting in fear ) and you have your Frenzy; your Nationalistic fervor… your Lynch Mob.

So questions I have – but may never know the answers to – are simply:

Is Osama Bin Laden merely a Glorified Scape-goat?

Is he a Myth devised by the CIA (he worked with them in the 8Os)?

OBSERVATIONS: What impact will this have on OBL’s Family (again -friends with the Bush family… what effect will this have on the Bush/Bin-Laden family Relationship)?

Is he the relative of the Bin-Ladens (and other Saudi Nationals) that were whisked out of the country hours after 911 when all planes were grounded? ( that’s power!)

What will the Movie they make be like? And how will this re-enforce the Myth, the Legend, the BS, The Untruths, The Misconceptions and the Nationalistic Fervor one country has and uses against another?

We have hit a cross roads. What does it take to achieve World Peace? The Killing of more Villains to pacify the Ignorant Masses?

Power to The People.

What is Power? Knowledge.

What is Knowledge? Information.

Where are we getting our information from then?

Will update soon.