Death and Taxes

Death and Taxes

I was once told that there were only two things in life that were certain: death and taxes. I’ve decided, after much deliberation, that at least one of these things is one hundred percent certain, maybe.
Taxes are just about a certainty for anybody who falls under the jurisdiction of a king. Kings demand taxes. But, if you live on a deserted island alone you might just about be able to avoid paying taxes. What about death? I’ve never heard of anybody being able to miss their appointment with death. There is something in the Scriptures about this appointment with death:

Heb 9:27 And²⁵³² as^{2596, 3745} it is appointed⁶⁰⁶ unto men⁴⁴⁴ once⁵³⁰ to die,⁵⁹⁹ but¹¹⁶¹ after³³²⁶ this⁵¹²⁴ the judgment:²⁹²⁰

There was only one person in the Scriptures, at least for the time being, who hadn’t kept that appointment and that was Ěliyahu. The Scriptures don’t mention anything about any escape clause when it comes to keeping our appointment with death so I believe that given time even Ěliyahu will have to die also.
Now, I have, or had, four living brothers and two living sisters. One of my brothers has just kept his appointment. His name is Thad. Thad was a young man by today’s standards; he was only fifty four years old when he kept his appointment. My mother used to say that only the good die young. Yahoshua was in his early thirties when he died and he certainly was good but, what about Thad; was he good?
Since our death date is appointed then I have to assume that it means that all of our work will be done when we keep that date. But, does that mean that you’re good when you die? I don’t think so but, I believe that we might be able to get a clue about whether a person is good when he dies. I say a clue because there aren’t any of us, or very few at least, who can read a mind to know what another person really thinks about. Before I go on I’d like to say that I understand what the Scriptures has to say about good men and that it might be nearly impossible for a man to be good without outside help. However, a person may leave clues behind that would indicate what it was that filled his heart.
Thad was a man who had his share of personal flaws. There were times in his life when he drank too much, smoked to much, maybe used drugs and probably engaged in other activities that would be considered wrong by almost anyone’s standards. In fact: he was considered by some to have done things that they had absolutely no proof of what so ever and if they had proof it was incumbent on them to present that proof to the authorities so that he could be dealt with. Those people have treated him according to their beliefs. Was he bad or evil when he died? I don’t believe so. He quit drinking, he quit smoking, and he stopped engaging in activities that almost anyone would consider evil. I believe he had the help of יהוה’s Ruach haQodesh. He wrote about יהוה and Yahoshua. He read his Scriptures and they were seldom far from him. Now I say that a man won’t turn his self around unless he’s convinced that he had been going in the wrong direction. I say that a man who does turn his self around is a man who’s heart is in the right place. This is what the Scriptures have to say about repentance:

Lev 26:40 If they shall confess^{3034 (853)} their iniquity,⁵⁷⁷¹ and the iniquity⁵⁷⁷¹ of their fathers,¹ with their trespass⁴⁶⁰⁴ which⁸³⁴ they trespassed⁴⁶⁰³ against me, and that⁸³⁴ also⁶³⁷ they have walked¹⁹⁸⁰ contrary⁷¹⁴⁷ unto⁵⁹⁷³ me;
Lev 26:41 And that I⁵⁸⁹ also⁶³⁷ have walked¹⁹⁸⁰ contrary⁷¹⁴⁷ unto⁵⁹⁷³ them, and have brought⁹³⁵ them into the land⁷⁷⁶ of their enemies;³⁴¹ if¹⁷⁶ then²²⁷ their uncircumcised⁶¹⁸⁹ hearts³⁸²⁴ be humbled,³⁶⁶⁵ and they then²²⁷ accept⁷⁵²¹ of ⁽⁸⁵³⁾ the punishment of their iniquity:⁵⁷⁷¹
Lev 26:42 Then will I remember^{2142 (853)} my Brit¹²⁸⁵ with Jacob,³²⁹⁰ and also^{637 (853)} my Brit¹²⁸⁵ with Isaac,³³²⁷ and also^{637 (853)} my Brit¹²⁸⁵ with Abraham⁸⁵ will I remember;²¹⁴² and I will remember²¹⁴² the land.⁷⁷⁶
Lev 26:43 The land⁷⁷⁶ also shall be left⁵⁸⁰⁰ of⁴⁴⁸⁰ them, and shall enjoy^{7521 (853)} her sabbaths,⁷⁶⁷⁶ while she lieth desolate⁸⁰⁷⁴ without⁴⁴⁸⁰ them: and they¹⁹⁹² shall accept^{7521 (853)} of the punishment of their iniquity:⁵⁷⁷¹ because,³²⁸² even because³²⁸² they despised³⁹⁸⁸ my judgments,⁴⁹⁴¹ and because their soul⁵³¹⁵ abhorred¹⁶⁰² my statutes.²⁷⁰⁸
Lev 26:44 And yet⁶³⁷ for all that,^{1571, 2063} when they be¹⁹⁶¹ in the land⁷⁷⁶ of their enemies,³⁴¹ I will not³⁸⁰⁸ cast them away,³⁹⁸⁸ neither³⁸⁰⁸ will I abhor¹⁶⁰² them, to destroy them utterly,³⁶¹⁵ and to break⁶⁵⁶⁵ my Brit¹²⁸⁵ with⁸⁵⁴ them: for³⁵⁸⁸ I⁵⁸⁹ am יהוה ³⁰⁶⁸ their Elohim.⁴³⁰
Lev 26:45 But I will for their sakes remember²¹⁴² the Brit¹²⁸⁵ of their ancestors,⁷²²³ whom^{834, (853)} I brought forth³³¹⁸ out of the land^{4480, 776} of Mitsrayim⁴⁷¹⁴ in the sight⁵⁸⁶⁹ of the heathen,¹⁴⁷¹ that I might be¹⁹⁶¹ their Elohim:⁴³⁰ I⁵⁸⁹ am יהוה.³⁰⁶⁸

I had a lot of interaction with Thad the last two years of his life, more than all other people except my father and I could see that Thad was a humble man. He treated all the same; Yes Mam and yes sir were often the words that you would hear coming from his mouth; he even addressed me and his brothers and sisters that way. To my knowledge, he never considered himself to be above anyone and often found good things to acknowledge in those others around him. He was a humble man in my opinion. He even acknowledged to me that his past life style was responsible for the frail man that stood before me but, he never complained about that condition. I’d say that he accepted his punishment. Was he in the land of his enemies? Oh most definitely. Only a man’s enemy would speak things publicly about him that they had no proof of. My children were very often in his presence alone and all of them say that he never attempted to do any of the vile things that his enemies have accused him of; though I doubt that he would have considered them to be his enemies. Though I don’t remember any specific time that he acknowledged to me that יהוה had walked contrary to him, I don’t see how he couldn’t have admitted that fact to יהוה; the scriptures don’t declare that that statement has to be made before other men. I know in my heart that he fulfilled all of the requirements so that it could be said that יהוה was his elohim and that יהוה will keep his Brit with Thad.
So, if we weep we weep for ourselves because we have yet to keep our own appointments but as for Thad we can rejoice because he has kept his. Now it’s time for him to move onto the next level.
Katrael.

conspiracies

Freedom and Conspiracies

What is freedom, what is liberty and are there conspiracies?
A few definitions are in order: But first, you may wonder why I like to include definitions in my work? The reasons are simple: first, it puts us on the same level of understanding. How can you understand what I’m saying if the words I use to describe something mean something different to you? Second, if what I have to say is true then it’s true for all time. How will someone in the future know what I’m saying if my words mean something different from the words they use? A new Rosetta Stone will be needed in the future to understand the things written today. Something that will be the key to understanding in the future what was said in the past; a link between now and then.
Why should I have anything to say; aren’t there enough people out there already saying the same thing and maybe saying it in a better way? I should be saying the truth, you should be saying the truth and everybody should be voicing the truth. That’s the only way that the truth can be truly spread, by each one of us saying it.
What is the truth? This is a harder question to answer because the truth often seems to be one of perspective. Sometimes the truth has to be revealed a little at a time; like the truth that the world is round and not flat and that the world orbits around our sun and not the other way around. It took a long time before these basics were understood and it took brave people to express these truths before they were accepted.
But, isn’t all of this that I’ve written so far just a waste of words? Not if it helps you to understand how I think and it could be that how and what I think are important things to someone besides me. If I’m able to help one person on their journey to the truth then I was successful. And it doesn’t matter if that one person is alive today or won’t be alive for a thousand years to come. Hopefully these words will somehow survive me to be read by others.
So, what is freedom? To me freedom is the ability to do the right thing. It’s not the ability to do what I want because what I want to do may be harmful to someone else. I may have the ability to do whatever I want regardless of it’s benefit to others but, if that’s freedom then freedom isn’t necessarily a good thing to have. The Nazi’s were free to impose their will on eleven million souls all in the name of advancing their idea of a better society. Were the Nazi’s right? You’ll have to be the judge.
So here’s a dictionary definition of freedom:

1 : the quality or state of being free: as a : the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action b : liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another : INDEPENDENCE c : the quality or state of being exempt or released usually from something onerous <freedom from care> d : EASE, FACILITY <spoke the language with freedom> f : improper familiarity g : boldness of conception or execution h : unrestricted use <gave him the freedom of their home>
2 a : a political right b : FRANCHISE, PRIVILEGE

So it appears that one man’s freedom could be another man’s enslavement.

How about liberty? Here’s the definition:

1 : the quality or state of being free a : the power to do as one pleases b : freedom from physical restraint c : freedom from arbitrary or despotic control d : the positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges e : power of choice
2a : a right or immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant : PRIVILEGE b : permission especially to go freely within specified limits
3 : an action going beyond normal limits as a : a breach of etiquette or propriety: FAMILIARITY b : RISK, CHANCE <took foolish liberties with his health> c : a violation of rules or a deviation from standard practice d : a distortion of fact
4 : a short authorized absence from naval duty usually for less that 48 hours

So now, it looks as if liberty and freedom are the same thing but, are they or should they be? Webster’s dictionary uses variations of the words liberty and freedom in both definitions. The problem is that these definitions are correct but, while in my opinion, they convey a dangerous thought: that having freedom or liberty means that one can do anything just as the Nazi’s did to eleven million souls. One thing becomes apparent to me: we will always have the freedom or liberty to do the vary same things the Nazi’s did when they exterminated eleven million people against their will.

How about a conspiracy? Here’s a definition of conspire first:

transitive senses : PLOT, CONTRIVE

intransitive senses
1a : to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act or an act which becomes unlawful as a result of the secret agreement b : SCHEME
2 : to act in harmony toward a common end <circumstances conspired to defeat his efforts>

Here’s the definition for conspiracy:

1 : the act of conspiring together
2a : an agreement among conspirators b : a group of conspirators

There are plenty of people who are scheming to break the law and not just the civil laws but the moral law. These are people who create viruses to infect peoples computers that are designed to destroy the work or other peoples minds and hands. These are people who conspire to relieve you of your life, liberty, property and happiness. There are so many of these people that it is estimated that a full twenty five percent of every dollar we spend (that is what’s left of our income after taxes) goes toward paying for the loses created by these people. We need vast armies and police forces to protect us from them. We spend a fortune to build prisons to hold them all at a cost of over twenty nine thousand dollars a year to house each one of them. The cost of supplying an army is a pure cost and other than protecting our liberty has no other benefit to us. If people learned to behave these cost could be eliminated.
The true cost of this isn’t just in dollars either. The crimes these people commit against us creates mental scars that linger with the victims the rest of their lives. These scars are painful to endure. So it looks like there could be an abundance of conspiracies going on.

But do these conspiracies end with just the people we consider to be criminals? No. Our politicians, doctors and lawyers are in there also. Our politicians scheme up ways to separate us from our monies by ever more ingenious ways. The taxes we pay are often hidden ones. They have convinced us that taxing corporations is a good idea all the while we fail to understand that the corporations only passes those taxes back onto us in the cost of their goods and services then we turn around and pay sales taxes on those hidden corporate taxes that we pay. The amount of corporate tax paid isn’t itemized on your sales receipt so there’s no way to know how much corporate tax you’re actually paying to the government. Ingenious. Then somehow they convinced us that it was a good idea to pay real-estate and property taxes. If we fail to pay them we lose our properties. Who owns these properties if they can be taken away from us if we aren’t able to pay them? They do. All we’re doing is paying rent to the king all the while we are tricked into spending our hard earned and heavily income taxed money to maintain properties that are even more heavily taxed when they are maintained by us. If we added up all of the taxes and fees that we pay we might be astounded to find that our government consumes close to sixty percent of our income and it’s always looking for ways to get more. Now I’m not against all taxes but lets be open eyed about it. Let’s require our government to be honest about how it goes about relieving us of our money. Let’s require the government to allow us to actually own our properties by removing these property taxes. Let them stop taxing corporations so that we don’t end up paying sales tax on corporate taxes. Let them lump all of the different taxes together and create one giant sales tax or income tax to pay for all of our needs. But our politicians are too smart for that. They know that if they did it we’d be outraged, rebel and then drag them out of their offices in chains and hang or shoot them. So they have all of these tiny little fees and hidden taxes that are most effective at nibbling away at our money. But, this is just the beginning.
Our doctors are in there also. They have an interest in maintaining the status quo. Although I will be fair because there seems to be a movement by some physicians to actually begin taking care of their patients by advising them to eat healthier. However for the most part the sick care industry doesn’t make any money unless you get sick. The doctor won’t make money from a person that doesn’t need them. So our sick care industry has coupled itself with the bad food industry with the result being that a much weakened body requires the use of the sick care providers to keep us alive. But, we are complicate in this conspiracy. I watched a commercial the other day that was singing the praises of a patented drug that would allow a person to eat anything they wanted; the drug was designed to eliminate heart burn and the resultant damage caused by acid reflux. The problem of heart burn is remove but, the damage and weakness caused by this poisonous food isn’t apparent to the person eating it because it takes years before the damage and weakness get to the point that it becomes debilitating. By that time the sick care industry has no idea what it was that caused this damage and weakness but, that doesn’t matter because they’ll be glad to help you continue to kill yourself for a healthy fee. It’ll take most of your hard earned resources or if the politicians have their way, the resources of everyone, to pay those fees. They’ll just spread the cost of killing ourselves to everyone so that we can continue to eliminate ourselves. Did someone actually sit down and scheme this system up? It’s taken many lifetimes for this system to become all pervasive. So it doesn’t seem probable that this sick care system was the design of one group of men. But, maybe it was. Or maybe there’s another entity, a being, at work.
Let’s stick with men for now. Our lawyers are in there also. They don’t make money unless you need them. So they often become judges and politicians who influence the making of law that guarantee that we will have to seek out their expensive advice and expert services in our courts. Are all lawyers bad? I’ve pondered this question for years and still am not sure about how many good lawyers there might actually be. Face it, there are few of them who are willing to work for free. I don’t blame them, college is expensive and everyone needs to make a living. And again we are complicate in this scheme. There are enough just laws on the books which we are often willing to break. Then we require those expert services to keep the punishment to a minimum. But, there are over three million laws on the books and sometimes we just end up in the wrong spot at the wrong time and we get tangled up in the legal system and that’s when we want the best lawyer our money can buy.
So I’ll be fair and say there is a real need for politicians, doctors and lawyers. Our politicians can help us to collect our efforts to provide roads, schools, armies, police forces, water systems and a host of other services that we really need. Our doctors, when they are at their best, help us when we get hurt and require fixing and when the real cause of our disease may be hidden from them and us they can bring us relief from our misery. Our lawyers can help to insure that we are able to carry out our wishes in a way that protect us and others from our own misguided efforts or that will protect us from the conspiratorial intent of others. But, if we are too busy to keep an eye on these people or are too naive to see what’s really going on then we are doomed to become victims.
How many of us actually understand what’s happening? Precious few. Am I one of those who sees anything going on? I think so. So I’m a voice crying out in the vast wilderness of blind souls who are hoping that somehow they can make it through this vast dark wilderness to the light of abundance. I’m attempting to help lead, even if it’s only a few, to this abundance. But, I have my own blindness to deal with also that was created by the generations before me who themselves were blind. But, my eyes are being healed and as they get better I’m able to see more and more which allows me to help lead the way to those that I’m closest to. I can’t help everyone but, I can help some.
Katrael

Warning, Our leaders are lying to us!

Quote:
Tell me what you need and I’ll tell you what you lack, tell me what you have the most of and I’ll tell you what you take for granted.
The truth is often hard to discern. As hard as we try to figure out what the truth is we find ourselves running up against our egos and our own unwillingness to give up our pet theories. The world is awash in this problem and it has been a problem as long as there have been humans. The world is flat, the world is the center of the universe (though it is to us because of our perspectives), the church is inerrant, I have all of the answers, the scientific view is the only view, the key to understanding everything about us lies in understanding evolution, there is one master race and so on. Today I’d like to focus on a few other cherished assumptions: The world is overcrowded and if we chose to feed the people of the world organically grown food we have to decide which populations of the world to sacrifice to starvation.
The issue of an overcrowded starving world promises, at least in my mind, to be a complicated issue, one that will take some time to explore. As usual I intend to express my theories about this and since theories are like opinions and opinions are like certain parts of our anatomy that everyone has I see no reason to be ashamed.
Naturally I disagree with this notion that we need to starve much of the world population to live organically. But lets look at some facts first: The world population is reaching the seven billion mark. There is only so much dry land of which about one fifth of it is dessert . Total surface area of the earth is 196.8 million square miles, total land area 57.3 million square miles or about twenty nine percent . 45.84 million square miles are left of which only a portion might be usable for agriculture. Thomas Robert Malthus, a British economist of the late 1700's was the first modern man to say that the world was over crowded. The world population 1650 was around 550 million and climbing and by 1850 the population had soared to 1.1 billion. The population stood at just over six billion in the year 2000 and now in 2011 stands at nearly seven billion almost a one billion increase in only eleven years where it took almost six thousand years to reach one billion(or four billion years if you believe in evolution). It’s estimated that the world population will reach the ten billion mark by 2035 but I believe that this figure will be exceeded if the current trend has a chance to continue unchanged. This population explosion is alarming to many of our planets greatest thinkers who see the need to reduce the population growth to zero by maintaining a two point one percent offspring per woman birth rate (many feel that it would be even better to reduce the population of the planet, the lower the better).
Two of the things cited for this astronomical population growth is that people are living much longer healthier lives and that the green revolution has made it possible to provide food to maintain this massive increase. But, current agricultural technologies won’t support this ten billion person population. The worlds food reserves have already dropped from eighteen months to less than thirty days. It doesn’t bode well for our beleaguered planet.
Many feel that our salvation lies in two areas: population control and new technology. The challenge of establishing population control is created by the developing nations whose populations continue to explode.
Many of the developed nation’s native populations are beginning to shrink as a result of their fertility rates dropping below the two point one percent offspring per woman level. Let’s take a brief look at these population trends. I was led to believe that affluence leads to a lower birth rate because people don’t feel the need to have so many children and that poverty forces people to have many children because they die off and only a few survive. I don’t remember where this notion came from but, it seems to be a part of me. I do agree that poverty can be a spur for many in undeveloped countries to have children because they feel that somehow having more children increases the likely hood that some will survive to reproduce. But, some one pointed out that the drop in the birth rate in developed countries, for most of the citizens, doesn’t stem from affluence but, from the fear that a certain life style can’t be maintained if a family has too many children to support. So, they make decisions to undergo voluntary sterilization so that the family can adequately provide for the children they do decide to have. Using the United States as an example: the birth rate in the 1950's soared with the baby boomers because they felt it was possible to adequately support that decision to have children. We were far more affluent then than we are now, we have been steadily losing ground with each passing decade to inflation and taxation. Everybody who has had only one or two kids understands the reason for their decision to stop having children and I’m quite sure that it didn’t have anything to do with the notion that they were just so rich they decided that it wasn’t necessary to have anymore children. The individual tax burden has steadily increased while our valueless severely inflated currency has left us with less to raise a family on. Taxes continue to escalate in these developed countries to where it’s estimated that as much as fifty percent of our gross income goes to pay for all of the known and hidden taxes we are forced to pay. Couple that with the idea that we are forced in many places to build houses we can’t afford (Meriwether county where I live has a fourteen hundred square foot minimum for new houses and a two acre minimum outside of the city limits ) and it’s no wonder that many decide to limit their family size. It looks to me that our politicians found a way to convince us to curb population growth without violence. The implications behind this decline in birth rate could be frightening for those of us who look at the changing demographics and realize that this nation could one day be Islamic by default. We’ll simply vanish creating a vacuum that will be filled by something. If you don’t want your grand children to live in an Islamic country or a country devoid of your current values then you need to have more children and raise them to think like you want them to so they can pass those values onto their children. No body will have to drop bombs on us to accomplish a cultural change in this country and in other developed countries that have experienced this drop in fertility rates which are a result of the increasing poverty.
We may have more technological toys to play with but, we aren’t wealthier for having them. In fact it’s my opinion that these are things that keep us distracted from the real issues. It’s through these things and our educational systems where we are bombarded with this idea that we are living in an overcrowded world. The real issue may be that we are being dupes to a segment of our society that has an agenda that may be contrary to the one that is built in to our nature; the need to thrive and multiply. And certainly we seem to be willingly following their lead. We are inundated with images of poverty stricken starving nations that are full of teeming masses unable to support themselves due to overpopulation and other causes and that we are somehow responsible for this dilemma because we have so much that we greedily take away from the rest of the world. This all looks to be true on the surface of things but, is it? Could it be possible that we haven’t contributed anything to the world for what we got from it? I believe we did indeed provide a benefit for what we received but, this is a whole different issue.
So, how many people can the world actually support? The February 2011National Geographic states that if we took all seven billion of us and put us shoulder to shoulder in one place that we would only fill a five hundred square mile area. Plenty of land left over isn’t there? So there doesn’t really seem to be a space problem only a food problem; how do we feed even more than we have?
Soil fertility has been plummeting through the advancing centuries and especially the most recent decades. Our European ancestors that first waded ashore here found a land where the average depth of top soil was above twenty four inches. That great covering of fertile soil has dwindled to just a few inches in most places. Where did all of that great soil go? In my opinion you have to look in the bottom of the ocean to find it. Our current farming practices loosens and destroys the vital elements that create the matrix that holds our top soils in place exposing it to erosion by wind and especially rain. It only took our ancestors four hundred years to destroy what took thousands or billions of years to make. So I ask a few questions here: Do we have to farm that way? If we can feed seven billion people on the depleted soils we now farm how many could we feed if there were a better way of farming?
Anybody who gardens or farms using conventional methods knows just how energy intensive this style of farming is. The recommendations are to turn the ground over year after year to aerate the soil, to bring the nutrients up to the surface for our shallow rooted crops to take advantage of and to make it easy for those preferred crops to spread their roots out. But, as pointed out earlier, this plowing or tilling the ground exposes the soil to erosion but, it also makes it just as easy for those plants we don’t want to take advantage of our efforts; also necessitating the use of mechanical or chemical weed control. The first form of weed control is energy intensive requiring our physical labor or the use of machinery. The second form of weed control exposes us to chemicals that may be harmful to us in the long run. Then there is the problem of pest control. Pests often find things to eat the same way we do; they see it. It’s easy when we have vast tracts of land planted in just one crop. There’s no way to hide it and we are vastly outnumbered by our insect antagonists. There is always the option of walking out into the field and simply eliminating pests by hand but, this really doesn’t work. Anybody knows, who has tried to garden without using chemicals, that it’s only a matter of time before the bugs overwhelm any physical effort on our part to control them. Many of us will turn to chemical means to eliminate the pest problem. There is a third type of weed and pest control that comes through technology: GMO’s.
This is a budding technology that is finding increasing support by a public influenced by those who have control of that technology. This GMO situation is becoming so prevalent that even the heirloom seed industry is finding it hard to weed out the GMO’s in seed they have to procure from outside sources . It’s one thing to eat an apple that you can wash a chemical off of (maybe) that the body knows how to digest and assimilate but, what about an apple that has been genetically modified so that nothing but a human is willing to eat it? Are you sure you want to eat something that not even a bug wants? Or how about a GMO that has natural herbicidal plant genes spliced into it? Will our bodies really know what to do with it? If we evolved slowly over billions of years what chance does your body have to suddenly evolve a strategy to deal with this new challenge? Slim to none for you or for your kids for perhaps thousands of generations. And if we were created then there is little chance that our bodies will ever find a way to deal with these new challenges without direct modifications of our bodies own biological systems. We’re being told that we have to decide whether we want to eat at all or starve; that the only solution to our dilemma can be found in GMO’s. Do you remember Mad Cow Disease? That was caused by feeding animal by products, such as blood, to animals that are vegetarians. Sure, it only looks like a few individuals died from that disease but, how do we know how many have been adversely harmed by this tainted meat in ways that we haven’t been able to ascertain yet? Remember, the decision to feed these animals that way was decided by people who were supposed to know better than we do but, in the end nature showed us the folly of this practice. Do you want to be the natural example of what happens to an organism that eats a GMO that the body has no idea of what to do with? I’m only asking the questions because I really don’t have an answer except to point out the colossal blunders foisted upon us by people who go against the natural system. This ranges from introduction of foreign species into areas where there are no natural controls them to feeding animals things they aren’t supposed to eat.
If man is so smart that he can find a way to allow his population to dominate the earth in only a few thousand years why can’t he find a way to work with nature instead of trying to bend it to his will? How was it possible for the earth to build up that great store of top soil in the first place? How do we cooperate with nature?
First, we need to abandon this destructive practice of plowing land for crops. We can’t afford to continue this practice if we want to continue to feed those that are already here. There has to be a system that doesn’t require plowing. Certainly we’re smart enough to figure that out? Second, we need to stop burying our valuable organic wastes in one spot and find a way to return it to the land where it came from. Certainly we’re smart enough to figure that one out? The Chinese used a system centuries ago that recycled human excrement back into the soil, how do you think their population was able to grow like it had? What about kitchen, and yard wastes? That technology has existed for a long time. We should be able to figure out how to get nature to cooperate with us in the weed and pest control departments without having to resort to energy or chemical intensive measures.
It looks as if there is a way to do all of this.
Much of this can be accomplished with no till agriculture. It’s not really a new concept but, an older one that seems to have been discarded or overlooked as not feasible. It’s accomplished in much the same way as you do with a flower pot. You add succeeding layers of organic materials, mostly compost, then you plant in the last deep layer of compost like you do in a flower pot. You plant thickly and in blocks instead of rows that discourages weeds and you alternate plants so that the pests have a more difficult time finding its food source. You also can plant your crops at times that helps to offset the natural time table of your pests. I know this one works because I’ve done it. I managed to get my corn planted early enough so the corn matured before the worms had a chance to find their way into the corn. Consequently I was eating fresh corn from my garden earlier than anybody else and it didn’t have bugs in it. I didn’t try a second planting but, may have been able to do that and got a second corn harvest from my garden in that same season. Of course this second harvest would only be possible because of the area of the country that I live in; the summers are longer here. It’s something I’m going to try. Instead of turning the ground over you simply continue to add compost to your garden to the vacant spots created by your harvest. These vacant spots are covered from the compost sources you created from your kitchen and yard wastes. There is always more loose aerated nutrient rich soil for your crops to grow in and that same newly added layer of compost helps to smother out any possible weed seedlings that may have fallen in your recently created short term vacancy. Planting densely not only eliminates places for weeds to grow in but, the dense root structures helps to hold the soil in place helping to eliminate erosion. This erosion fighting ability is enhanced by the solid border you create around your plot and by the raised bed character that you create by not digging down into but, by building up. The dense planting style helps to shelter your dirt from the drying sun and wind and the rich organic material itself is naturally water retentive thus helping to eliminate the need to water more often. In fact the hardest part of this farming practice is the set up phase; once the set up is completed you only need to add material to the vacant spots you create as you harvest. Not only do you fill the blank spot with compost but, you plant a different plant that will grow in that spot during the next seasons so there is never a real vacancy for a weed to take advantage of and planting this way creates a natural crop rotation system. There is very little maintenance required, instead it’s just a steady harvest and replanting procedure to follow. But, this system gives you the advantage of a steady supply of fresh organic produce nearly year around.
I know that there are few people willing to use human excrement as compost because of the fear of disease and this is surely nothing to be taken lightly. My study of this issue says that proper composting will eliminate any threat from harmful pathogens. Surely people who could put man on the moon could find a way to accomplish this if we already don’t have a way to do it? One thing is for sure: you can’t continue to take away without putting back in kind. You can’t have a checking account that you continue to write checks against without making deposits with dollars or you’ll run out of money and may even end up in jail. Our ecosystem is the same way. We need to put back what is removed or we eventually will have an ecosystem that is bankrupt. We’re almost there now. It’s not too late though.
And lastly there is something that I haven’t covered completely: fertilizers. Composted manures (human including) are nutrient dense by nature. It puts back the same nutrients that were remove in the first place. But, if you want to add something back that is removed from the soil by rain then you can use a foliar spray consisting of sea water or sea salt. Where do you think all of that salinity in the ocean came from in the first place? It was washed from the soil by the rain then ran off into the oceans by way of our rivers and streams and then was concentrated by the natural evaporation process powered by our sun. There is a natural resistance to this idea of using sea minerals as a fertilizer in some of the higher institutions of learning because of the fear of a build up of salt in the soil. This isn’t a problem because the concentration of salt is so dilute that the build up never occurs. Also, you’re not digging down into the dirt and your watering cycles are so reduced that there is little danger that any salts already present in the soil will ever have a chance to accumulate on the surface. It just can’t happen. There is virtually no danger of poisoning your ground as long as you follow the guidelines. The advantage to using sea salt is that it contains almost every vital element needed by your plants and is directly absorbed by the leaf and stem structure of the plant itself. Ever heard of or used Miracle Grow? Miracle Grow is sprayed directly on the plants also. the difference between sea salt and Miracle Grow? Sea salt is vastly cheaper to use. You can fertilize for as little as six dollars per acre per application. If you have to apply it twice a season that’s only twelve dollars per year per acre and you’re not using just a few harsh chemicals that don’t contain everything that a plant needs. There’s plenty of sea water and sea salt to go around. Many ships use desalinization equipment to provide fresh water that comes form areas of the ocean that aren’t polluted. The by product of making fresh water from sea water is sea salt; a concentrated fertilizer that is easy to ship. The whole ocean isn’t polluted because the ocean has a way of creating a chemical balance naturally. The sea water and salt only need to be harvested away from the sources of pollution. The harmful pollutants chemically combine with other elements and precipitate out and settle to the bottom.
The drawback to this idea of no till agriculture is simple: not everybody is going to want to grow their own stuff. Many of us are just happy to spend our life doing whatever we have picked for a profession that specifically didn’t include playing around in the dirt. So let them enjoy themselves doing whatever it is they like to do. Those of us who love working with nature can still produce the bounty that is needed to support those who are the engineers, builders and maintainers of our other systems. Nothing changes in that department. The only thing that changes is we cease to rape our planet at the expense of future generations. This farming practice should be able to be developed so that every nation, every people can take advantage of it. This system holds the potential to eliminate starvation in parts of the world that currently don’t have the energy and economic resources that we have that allow us to currently rape our land. A peasant that uses this system can easily provide for their family and others without the grueling physical labor or the expensive machinery and chemicals foisted onto us by our system of people who have a vested interest in maintaining things the way they are. It also eliminates the unknown dangers lurking in GMO’s, if there are any. Another drawback is the fact that this type of farming doesn’t lend itself to large scale planting and harvesting techniques currently in practice. Planting and harvesting using this system is currently a hands on experience. Oh well, I’m sure that with our growing computer capabilities that this is only a short term problem. Maybe the equipment and programs could be developed that would show us how to modify this system to lend itself to mechanical planting and harvesting? I’ve got faith. That way the giant food conglomerates can continue to monopolize our food production processes and continue to provide us with the nutritionally bankrupt garbage they foist off on the world as nutrition. They have a way of taking something packed full of natural wholesome nutrition and destroying it while managing to generate huge profits at the expense of the health of the people. Anybody remember the movie Super Size Me? While much of that movie centered around a certain company, it was really about the food INDUSTRY as a whole and what they create. The movie didn’t do any good to change the system except for some of the individuals who permanently modified their eating habits after watching the movie. The giant food companies are even busier finding ways to separate us from our money while providing poison to us. There will never be anything better for us than the fresh mature food straight from the healthy plant it grew on. Any kind of processing only removes the natural wholesome nutrition found in freshly harvested organic food and this nutrition found in fresh food is a major consideration when it comes to making decisions about how much food is really needed to provide good nutrition. This problem of adequate nutrition in food is why the food industry finds it necessary to fortify their garbage with cheap chemical nutrients that the body is barely able to do anything with because the food industry is fully aware of what they do to the food before it reaches your mouth. Here’s an example of this fortification with chemical nutrients:
Notice the list of vitamins and minerals? Now look to the list of ingredients at the bottom. See what is used to fortify the product? They are all chemicals. This cereal would be almost completely devoid of nutrition without these chemicals. The question you might be tempted to ask: is there anything really nutritious about this food? The first column next to the list of vitamins shows the percentage of nutrients without milk and the column next to that shows the nutrients with milk added.

How do the cattle get all of their protein, vitamins, enzymes and minerals? They get it all from the grass they eat. It’s not cooked or processed in any way before they eat it. Their bodies knows exactly what to do with the grass they eat. There is a fascinating book “Wheatgrass Natures Finest Medicine, seventh edition by Steve Meyerowitz” that does a good job of covering the topic of the nutrient content of different foods and maybe I’ll include some information from the book next time. This subject of nutrient value in foods is a whole different subject and it needs to be covered more completely at another time so, I’ll end it here with this: It doesn’t matter whether we evolved or were created; our bodies know what to do with what it either evolved using for food or was created to use as food. Anything else is foreign and harmful to us because our body’s vital resources are used up in the body’s effort to eliminate this source of pollution; these are vital resources that are needed to maintain health against a host of other challenges that have always been present with out the added stress of new problems. I only add this to help you think about the possibilities. The real issue here is: are we being lied to about our overcrowded starving world and the options that are open before us to help deal with this issue?
Katrael.

Endnotes:
1: World Book Encyclopedia 2002 Standard Edition
2: World Book Encyclopedia 2002 Standard Edition
3: World Book Encyclopedia 2002 Standard Edition
4: Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company’s 2010 seed catalog.

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You Say You Have Heartburn? Good!

You Say You Have Heart Burn?

Be Happy, It’s Good For You!

Your probably thinking “What? Has he gone nuts?!” No I’m serious. You need to be happy. Why? Because it’s your body talking to you; trying to get your attention and you should be happy as long as your body’s talking to you. What’s it saying?
Have you ever noticed that you usually don’t get heart burn until after you’ve eaten something? That’s significant. Now let me ask a question here: do you get heartburn from everything you eat? I’ll bet you don’t. Most people who get heartburn, if they are anything like me, get it mostly when they eat certain types of food. In fact we may know that we’re going to get it and we already have our roll of antacids handy. Those antacids are wonderful...right?
I don’t think so because using them is only a way of avoiding the real issue: your body doesn’t want you to eat that particular food because it’s harmful to you. It’s your body’s way of giving you a friendly reminder it doesn’t like what you’re feeding it. The heartburn disease is your friend; friends tell friends when they’re doing something wrong.
You may think that little purple pill is your friend if you think it will allow you to continue to treat yourself like a garbage can. You’ve done yourself tremendous harm by the time you need that little purple pill. But, I’ll admit here that you may need that purple pill if it will allow your body to heal itself. But, I really believe that if you stop putting garbage into yourself that you won’t need that little purple pill after all.
Your probably wondering what you should do? Expand your horizons. There are other things to eat that won’t upset your system like those foods that cause heartburn. Find them, eat them and thrive. Your body is also talking to you when you don’t get heartburn after you’ve eaten something. What’s it saying? It’s saying that what you ate was more acceptable but, maybe not best.
By the way, heartburn disease may not be the only way your body is talking to you about the food you eat. The allergy disease may be doing the same thing only in a different way. Learn to listen to your body when it gives you disease symptoms. You’d much rather deal with first level disease than second or third level. Most disease (all disease) is a way of your self telling yourself that you’re doing something wrong. Listen to yourself.
Tomorrow I’ll offer some suggestions as to what you can eat as an alternative to heartburn producing poisons.
Katrael

Disease and Raw Food

Disease and Raw Foods.

Maybe you’re wondering if I’m making a pitch here for eating a raw hamburger? Or, maybe I’m making a pitch to eat nothing but cooked foods? You’d be closer to right about the raw hamburger, but, I don’t recommend raw meat. If you’re going to eat meat cook it because generally you don’t have any control over what took place during the raising and butchering processes. Eating raw meat is probably a good way to get really sick.
I wrote about heartburn yesterday and said I’d make some suggestions. This is from my own experience: I don’t get heartburn from the raw foods I eat. I don’t remember eating any raw foods that caused me to have heartburn and if it did I avoid eating what gives me that disease. I don’t like taking pills that only treat the symptom and don’t address the cause.

Raw foods are boring!

They sure can be. Let’s ask ourselves a question: Is it better to be bored eating raw carrots of temporarily happy eating something that causes long term disease? Consider this: your attraction to cooked foods may bring you long term physical discomfort compounded by prolonged visits to the doctors office or the hospital in an attempt to fix what you’ve done to yourself; not to mention the financial drain it may have on you or the country in general. We don’t live in a vacuum where our actions are isolated from the world around us. Others suffer with you when you suffer.
There are numerous books written on how to prepare tasty raw food that doesn’t require cooking. It’s a matter of making up your mind that eating raw food is better than eating cooked food.

Are Raw Foods Really Good For Us?

I realize that there is controversy over this subject of raw vs cooked food. Even the prestigious Reader’s Digest prints articles proclaiming that cooked food may be better for us. Why? It’s the opinion of cooked food proponents that say that cooked food is easier to digest than raw food. Is this true?
Maybe we can apply some logic to the question. First, does cooking food change the nature of the food? The answer to that is yes it does. Cooking denatures food. Denatured simply means that the thing is no longer in it’s natural form.
Second, what does the body require? Well, I’d have to say it requires natural foods to thrive. Cooking is an artificial process that requires heating and denaturing food. If we evolved we probably started out eating raw food and that’s what our bodies evolved around; raw food. If we were created we probably were designed to survive off of raw food. The breast was never equipped with pasteurizing mechanisms.
That should tell us something. If you believe in creation you probably don’t read anything in your bible where the Creator instructed the first two people on how to use the microwave or the stove. There’s no mention about cooking to begin with. I think that if you believe in cooking that what you might really be saying is that the evolution process or the creation process produced physical bodies that lack the ability to function properly in the environments that they developed in. To me this begs the question of evolution as a superior process. And it could be an insult if you think the Creator was deficient when he made the body and that now we need cooked food to survive and thrive. These are only my opinions of course.

Another issue is the one of nutrients.

I don’t think many people will argue that many nutrients are lost in the processing and cooking of food. Wheat that is ground and bleached has to be fortified the same way many of the packaged foods are or there wouldn’t be any nutrient value to it. The food manufacturers fortify their foods with artificially produced vitamins because they are cheap. This fortification process should be a clue to us that the food manufacturers know they have destroyed the nutrient value of the food. They are guilty. If we revisit the evolution or creation issues we can ask the same thing: aren’t the vitamins, enzymes and minerals naturally found in raw foods superior to artificially created nutrients?
Is the heartburn you experience from food, whether it’s cooked or not, caused from the inability to digest what has been eaten? I believe so. It takes enzymes to properly digest food. Many of the foods we eat contain enzymes that are lost due to processing, cooking, premature harvest and from sitting on the shelf too long. So we may eat raw food from the supermarket that lacks the nutrients we need because it was harvested too early or because it sat around too long. Then we might end up with heartburn because the food and our bodies lack the enzymes necessary to properly digest it. This inability to digest food because of lost enzymes may be the very reason that so many feel that cooked food is superior to raw food.

What’s the point of all of this?

We already know what disease is; that it’s the body’s way of telling us something is wrong. I feel sorry for anyone who has resigned themselves to the idea that growing older is synonymous with becoming diseased. Granted, we have to die but does that mean it has to be due to cancer, heart disease or some other gruesome problem? Does everybody die with some gruesome disease?
No, they don’t. So my next question is: if some don’t die with a gruesome disease why can’t we all die easy? I believe we can. I feel that the body will just shut itself off when it’s time. No prolonged pain or suffering, just a quick and easy passing. I’ve even seen evidence that some people are capable of determining the point of their own death. Kind of like they just decide it’s time. I’ve seen it happen to people who just seem to give up. Maybe that’s where the saying about “gave up the ghost” came from?

Why should it matter how you or I die?

I can flippantly say that it doesn’t matter to me how you die. I can say that it’s your business if you want to experience a painful and prolonged death. I won’t feel it.
Remember: we don’t exist in a vacuum. Your or my suffering has to be shared. It’s expensive to die a prolonged death in the hospital. I realize that we will always need doctors, nurses and medical facilities but, wouldn’t it be better to put more of that money toward other causes, like improved housing or buying nice gifts for everybody?
Then there’s the issue of people who love us. I don’t now of anybody who truly loves me that wants to watch me die a protracted painful death. If that’s love I don’t want it. So maybe the real issue is not the length of life but the quality of life?
We might die from some kind of trauma and that’s where doctors shine the greatest. I want the best doctor to put me back together if I get hurt in an accident. But, why choose the hard long painful way of dying if there is an alternative? Look around you. Isn’t there an awful lot of suffering out there? Ask yourself why and then look for the answer. Is the answer I’m offering the right one? I think we owe it to ourselves to find out.

So?

If our well being is linked to what we eat, then wouldn’t it be better to find the best food we can eat? Since time and processing are the biggest destroyers of nutrition wouldn’t it be better to pick it and eat it right away; even if you feel that you have to cook the food? Don’t have time to garden? This is where we can help each other. There are gardening systems that while they have to be initially set up, they don’t have to require as much energy and time as you think. My theory is that you’re going to spend that time gardening anyway: producing an income to pay the doctor or just spending the time in the doctor’s office or hospital. Stay out of there, eat healthy. Also you’re going to be spending the time gardening in the form of fuel and time going to the store to buy your food. Spend less time in the store where you’re getting questionable quality food and spend it in the garden. The Food4Wealth system of gardening is well worth every penny and every minute you’ll spend getting it set up and running. The time you spend now will be time you can use for other better purposes later. 
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Disease is Our Friend

Disease is Our Friend

Disease is a symptom and it’s our friend because it let’s us know something is wrong that we need to take care of. It’s the symptom that drives us to go to the doctor to get relief. I want to talk about other causes of disease but, I want to talk about URCs first. URC’s are a cause of many diseases. Remember the definition of disease? “Not at Ease.” Disease can be broken down roughly into three levels. I’ll use thirst as an example of a first level disease.
Thirst is our bodies way of saying it’s becoming dehydrated and at the beginning thirst is a first level disease. It prompts us to find relief in a glass or two of water. If we ignore that first level disease long enough it could progress to a form of second level disease called heat exhaustion. But, heat exhaustion is only a symptom of too much heat and not enough water. I know about this because I’ve suffered from it. It gives you a headache, dizziness, nausea and weakness that will cause you to seek relief from the heat but, you may have lost the Thirst level disease signal in the process. Many people suffering from mild to severe level heat exhaustion won’t drink water and that’s one of the vital things the body is crying for at that stage but, since the thirst signal was ignored the body begins to shut down to reduce the heat producing activity and to preserve the vital fluid it needs to cool itself with. The third level of this disease is heat stroke. By this time the body has lost too much water to be able to sweat to keep itself cool and now the body temperature is rising to the one hundred four degree level at which point important proteins begin to denature, that is cook like and egg does. It’s at this stage that a person requires outside intervention in order to survive. Death will result without proper intervention. So when we pay attention to our friend the thirst disease we can avoid the more unpleasant and much stronger second and third level diseases. What’s this got to do with URC?
URC stands for Un-Resolved Conflict. Symptoms of URC are unhappiness, depression, rage, antisocial behavior, self injury and a host of other mental and physical behaviors. Sounds like I think I’m some kind of an expert...huh? An example of a first level disease caused by URC is unhappiness. It may just be a thought of something that makes us feel temporarily unhappy. It’s our minds way of saying that it wants us to possibly avoid the subject or maybe more importantly find a way to deal with what’s making us feel unhappy in an appropriate manner. A second level disease caused by URC may be rage. The rage may be the symptom of a whole bunch of URC;s. At this point we are nearly out of control because we’ve been unable to resolve conflicts possibly unrelated to what’s causing us to rage. We may be striking out at the people around us in an way that’s out of proportion to the irritation from that person and this rage may be a form of temporary relief from the real URC. Raging may be the minds way of wearing us down so we can relax. Ever experience rage. I have and I know that it will leave you exhausted but, it never resolves anything itself; in fact it may produce more URC that will need to be resolved. An example of a third level disease caused by URC could be the real thoughts of suicide. A person won’t survive without outside intervention. Pay attention to that friend unhappiness and figure out what is really wrong. The real problem may have been lost or mixed into other issues that you find impossible to deal with because you haven’t dealt with the real cause yet. Ask yourself the question “what is really making me unhappy?” and maybe you’ll be able to deal with it. The unhappiness disease is really your minds way of getting your attention about an URC much in the same way the thirst disease is your friend telling you to get out of the heat and drink water before more drastic disease symptoms appear. Maybe there is someone that you need to face that you have an issue with that requires you to forgive them or they to forgive you? Sometimes we need someone’s help to reveal the cause of our disease if we wait too long to deal with it.
Tomorrow I’m going to talk about Heart Burn.