Derelict Pentecostal Preachers

Derelict Pentecostal Preachers

Those of you who know me, know that I love a good laugh.  I am the last person to judge harshly anyone, because I know that the more mistakes we make the higher the probability of us getting the right answer.

However, this subject is so hilarious, that I have to both laugh and make fun of these clowns.  So, what is this all about?  Well, read on.

There is this equation that we Ex-Pentecostals bring up all the time:

The Self-Righteousness of a Pentecostal preacher is directly proportional to the number of skeletons he has in his closet.

I am laughing out loud as I write this.  I know of at least ten pentecostal preachers who are with their second or third wife, and are raising kids from their present wife - another man’s kids.  So, they are raising another man’s kids and spreading another man’s sperm for the next generation.  How much of a chump!  And, to make things even more hilarious, their present wives are refusing to have children for them!  So even their wives see them as chumps who are not even worth breeding with - they see them as a paycheck only with the occasional resentful act of sex perhaps once per month or every two months. What a bunch of chumps!  

How can a so-called “Man” have any authority as a Man when he is his wife’s number 3 (only counting marriages!) and she does not even breed with him???!!!  My friends, these are the so-called leaders of Pentecostal churches.  These are the pathetic derelicts who are “leaders” of these organizations.  

I just spilled my coffee writing this stuff!  I mean, you cannot make this stuff up, it is so hilarious and pathetic!

So, what are you to do when another self-righteous Pentecostal preacher talks about holiness and not smoking, drinking, etc, and other minor vices?  Well, see if they broke the Ten Commandments of “Thou shalt not commit adultery!”  Remember smoking, drinking, and cursing are not violations of the Ten Commandments!  

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So, you screwed up in the past right?  A few divorces, a few kids scattered about the country - we all get it.  No problem!  But, you cannot be a Holy Man.  Period.  So shut your trap and find another line of business, but you are not a preacher and you never were one, and stop pretending - NOW!  Or else…a power that is ten times as strong as you will arise from the ashes and unleash the Furies of Hell upon your head.

Subliminal Communications

Subliminal Communications

Richard Nongard, an expert therapist who specializes in hypnotherapy - usually to help people break harmful habits such as smoking - explains that hypnosis is simply a relaxed state of mind akin to meditation.  The brain frequencies are a little higher than sleep, but much lower than for something like driving your car in heavy traffic, where the frequencies are much higher given the focus needed to stay alive!

I have been studying body language for about 2 years in the field now in both sales and with social experimentation.  The magisterial source on body language is What Every Body is Saying by Joe Navarro.  After some experimentation and understanding of the animal brain (or lizard brain, or amygdala), I made a diagram that explains what is going on.  

Our conscious minds communicate mostly with words and simple gestures.  However, the Lizard Brain communicates also, but it operates below the level of the conscious mind.  Once you study and practice the subject of Body Language from experts like Navarro, you can read what the Lizard Brain is thinking and communicating.  Have you ever spoken with someone and felt a sense that something was wrong, but you could not explain it?  Have you fallen into a feeling of closeness with someone but you had not known them before and you cannot explain what happened?  Well, it is all very simple!  You Lizard Brain is the answer to these questions!

Our animal or Lizard Brains are prehistoric and ancient.  It developed way before the neocortex where consciousness and language reside.  The animal brain is exactly that - it operates on an instinctual animal level, and we cannot directly control it.  Nobody except psychopaths can control their body language.  Nobody cannot not communicate!  Read that previous sentence again…  When speaking with someone, our Lizard Brains are sending and receiving messages on an unconscious level.  It instantly reads body language, and it instantly communicates at all times with all the Lizard Brains in the same room.  You have to understand this point to really get this.  (1) The Lizard Brain cannot not communicate, and (2) The Lizard Brain is instantly and always communicating with all other Lizard Brains it is in contact with in the same space.  

So, it sends and receives signals of body language, sight, smell, touch, taste, etc at all times.  How does this happen?  I created a diagram to illustrate my findings of this phenomenon from my personal perspective.  Look at my diagram below:

How do we use this information if the Lizard Brain cannot be directly controlled?  Good question.  The answer: we can indirectly control the Lizard Brain.  We can change our body language through the techniques used in Method Acting.  With the use of our visualization and imagination, we can fool the Lizard Brain to react in any way we choose - if we have the skills to imagine that we are really in a particular situation.

For example, if you want to imagine yourself as powerful and care free, imagine that you are driving a Ferrari, with a pile of money on the back seat in wrapped rubber bands containing one million dollars in cash.  Imagine you are driving 80 miles per hour and the wind is blowing in your hair and you are thinking about this cash in your back seat.  Feel and imagine.  Guess what?  Your Lizard Brain will emit the body language of a care free millionaire enjoying a fine ride in a fine car!  And then what?  All the other Lizard Brains around you will sense this and respond appropriately.

It is that simple.  There is a lot more to this, but this should give you a rough sketch.  Have fun!

Joe Istre

Science as Divine Revelation

The last few nights I have been re-watching the Jeffrey L. Kasser lectures on the Philosophy of Science.  These lectures could be the foundation of a new type of learning if people recognize its importance.  The conclusion of this series of lectures is that we have no good way of defining science; neither do we have any good way of defining anything as un-scientific, or even pseudo-science.  Point by point Kasser dissects every attempt through the ages to define science, and we come up empty.  The biggest bogey is Astrology.  Can we reject Astrology as pseudo-science?  It is not clear how to do this.   Can we say that it cannot make accurate predictions?  No, because medical science often cannot make accurate predictions, and neither can climate models.  Some times the predictions are inaccurate.  In fact, often, in some cases, the predictions are wrong, as in Psychology.  Can we deny the scientific status of medical science, climatologists, and Psychologists?  No, but using this methodology, neither can we deny Astrology.  Another proposal is that science always makes progress, and we can call Astrology pseudo-science because it has not made any progress in centuries.  On the contrary, chemistry has not made any significant progress in over 100 years, but it is a solid, indisputable science - without question.  Another argument is that science always has repeatable results.  Many hard core experimenters fall into this trap.  However, this is false.  Again, medical science is not always repeatable, and neither is climate science, or Psychology.  Our cures for cancer in many cases have no clear repeatable results.  Nobody can predict hurricanes.

We can go on and on forever, finding criteria for defining science versus pseudo-science, but in all cases, the criteria are failures.  The criteria become too strong for some cases, and too weak for other cases.  

Another interesting subject within the sciences is the establishment of Causation.  Typically, we collect data in numerical form about one thing, and compare it to the data for another thing.  How do we say one thing causes another thing?  The strange answer: there is no method to establish causation.  We all establish cause by saying, “I know it when I see it.”  When I was in college studying circuits and signals, one method used to establish practical causation was superposition.  When I changed the input and had a proportional change in the output, I can infer that the input causes that particular output.  However, this is a pragmatic rule of thumb in engineering, and not a scientific principle that establishes that something caused another thing.  

So, if we have a few rules of thumb in both science and engineering used to establish things as true, can we claim Scientific Privilege?  Science is supposed to be special.  We have solid rules of thumb in construction, and within the trades to establish methods to accomplish things and determine facts.  Is science just another trade like plumbing and welding?  Well, the more we look into what goes on within science, the more it appears that it is no different in principle from welding and building construction.  

There is a lot of support for the idea that pragmatic men working on problems in business or in the trades discover principles that are later integrated into science.  Issac Newton, the greatest genius of the ages, took the practical work of Kepler and others and integrated this into a whole in the most magnificent scientific theory of the ages: Newton's Laws of Motion.  Einstein did the same thing when he investigated the data from previous decades, and made the magnificent observation that everyone misinterpreted the data because they assumed that physical objects and time were constant instead of assuming that light was constant and everything else changed.

Many advances in science appear to be accidents that a genius recognized, synthesized, and then introduced to the world.  

True advances in science have nothing to do with methods.  They use the same methods plumbers and construction workers use.  What makes science magic is the geniuses that have vision, and receive a revelation from God, and then it all comes together in an instant at one point in time - as all revelations do.  Teasing out a revelation is what takes time and effort - writing the book, etc.  But, science, at root, is Divine Revelation.