Oracles Previous postings from the William Thomas Sherman Info Page 2008. By William Thomas Sherman 1604 NW 70th St. Seattle, WA 98117 206-784-1132 [email protected] http://www.gunjones.com ~~~~~~*~~~~~~ TENETS *If we ever experienced a problem anywhere, it came about, in some degree, due to certain wrong assumptions, either co-present with, or just prior to the given problem’s actually taking place. * Unless you believe in God, the One, and or the infinite, every assumption is contingent. * PROCESS (or if you prefer spirit, or activity) PRECEDES IMAGE. Image may, to some extent, (and sometimes almost perfectly) represent process. But process is always superior to and always more real than image. If process precedes image this might suggest also that mind precedes matter and energy. * Everything we believe, or say we know, is based on a factual or value judgment. Both kinds of judgment always entail the other to some extent, and nothing can be known or exists for us without them. * No fact or purported fact is true or false without someone to assert and believe it to be such. If an assertion or claim is deemed true or false then, and we are thorough, we should ask who is it that says so (or has said so), and what criteria are (were) they using? There is no such thing as "faceless" truth or reality -- at least none we are capable of knowing. * You can't escape reason. If you aren't rational yourself, someone else will be rational for you; nor do their intentions toward you need to be friendly or benevolent. * Every point of view and opinion has its truth to it -- even the most abhorrent and unacceptable to us. This said, we are naturally inclined to assume that some opinions have much greater truth to them than others. Even so, what little truth there is in any point of view must, at least at some juncture, and certainly with respect to issues of heated controversy, be justly and reasonably respected. Why? Because we would not be honest (and therefore not truthful) if we didn't. *Ultimately, and when all is said and done, thought without heart is nothing. * Most, if not all, of society's very worst problems arise from (certain) spirit people and those who listen to them -- whether the former comes in the shape of "God," angel, devil or what have you. It is these people who are most the source and cause of real unhappiness. If then you chance to have contact with such, while having (one assumes) overcome their lures, deceptions, and pretenses of benevolence and higher knowledge, I recommend that this (i.e. "unhappiness" or "unhappiness itself") is what you call them. Blame them for (most) everything wrong; for it is it is they who have been and are the ruin of everyone and everything (that is, if anyone is or could be said to be so.) Motto: "When you can face me I'll consider taking you seriously." Note. The “oracles” are given, top to the bottom of the text, in order from the most recent to the very earliest entry (just as originally presented at gunjones.com); the very first you see below then is the last entered at the website, while the very first entered for the year is given as the last item in this text. 1 or122 ************************************************************************************* For your New Year's twilight pleasure -- (from Basel, Switzerland 1992.) [Dire Straits] See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mff0oDxmx8U ~~~~~~*~~~~~~ Make that more like 16 years. Some of you need not have explained to you how it is part of more involved demonistic teaching to get their follower to believe that those notables who everyone assumed were do-gooder people were all along and in reality up to something, their sly sophistication being lost on the less observant and less informed. You who know better will of course know that in most instances this is merely a lot of self-serving nonsense and propaganda designed to sway and indoctrinate the credulous into thinking serious wrong doing is more common, especially among the historically famous, than it actually is. Even so, many will be inclined to believe such and similar things if told to them by a spirit person of seeming unimpeachable authority (but who also just happens to do the wrong thing "a certain way.") ~~~~~~*~~~~~~ Those girls remind me of some cute little cat that is beguiled and lured into a cage in order to get a nice bite to eat, having no reason, as far as they can see, to be suspicious. And though when captured their abductors tell themselves they mean well -- well, I myself don't think so, and feel sorry for the cat. ~~~~~~*~~~~~~ Fear usually arises from feeling weak or believing yourself to be weak. But observe, if you are strong or at least believe you are strong you will not fear. ~~~~~~*~~~~~~ Words increase the amount and can enrich the quality of your concepts, and the more concepts of which you are capable the greater your capacity for thought, expanded choice, and new opportunities -- at least if your heart is in the right and makes essentially the right choices at the outset. This latter is why serious discussion and analysis are considered useless to people who have no heart to begin with; for, yes, without heart expounded thought, poetry, or rational disquisition are indeed mere blogging. ~~~~~~*~~~~~~ 2 Random Oracles continued Now demonism, devilment, sorcery... there's a bum idea. And who was it that came up with it all in the first place? Satan? The evil one? Ah, now there's a villain and a scoundrel if ever there was. Look at all the problems he ended up causing! Even so, even so, you are as much to blame as he is for believing him when he told you he was God. They, or at least their benefactors, actually killed her father so why would they be above abusing her? Maybe I do deserve it. But even if I did, they should get someone else to do it. He should not be still so privileged. Is it possible that a being who (at least relative to everyone else) was impervious to all pain and suffering, and who always did himself or promoted evil doing in others could exist? And yet if we assumed he was as powerful as that it would be granting him quite a lot now wouldn't it? ~~~~~~*~~~~~~ From about late 1915 to early 1916, Nurse Eleanor Place at County of London War Hospital, Epsom, Surrey & Shiregreen Military Hospital, Sheffield collected verse, jokes, drawings, etc. from wounded and invalid British and Empire soldiers recuperating and convalescing there, and below is a selection from her scrap book of that period. While these poems might not perhaps rank with the likes of those of Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, or Siegfried Sassoon, in more than just a few instances (though by no means all) they at least certainly have a better than average merit and well reward perusing. (Note. The original Nurse Place's book is in the hands of a private collector in England, and these transcriptions of mine were done from scanned images of its pages.) "Look up, to give to life a nobler work, And speak high words of cheer when thou shalt find One chance, to be an angel on the earth. A benediction to thy suffering kind. "Leslie F. Cooper, Sgt – Major 7th Battn A.J.F.[?] Shepperton, Victoria, Australia" ************* "26-1-1916 "The happiest hours I’ve spent In my life Were in the arms of another man’s wife – My mother! "Yours sincerely Thomas Horton Sgt 2nd Btn West Yorkshire Regiment Wounded at D’Aubeso Ridge, France 11th June 1915 Entered City of London War Hospital 20th June 1915 Received 22 wounds: in head, face, back legs and R foot." ************* 3 "Just a jaunt to Epsom On a wintry day, Three hours at the pictures - (Hang what people say!) A little tea at Riddington's Followed by a kiss Duty may be beastly rotten But time off's duty's bliss. _*_ "A hasty change into the pink Hies he to the ward - (Surely someone saw us - That man with laughter roared.) Oh! Take that smile from off your lips That twinkle from your eye - Look demure to unconcerned Sister's passing by! "Dec. 1915 [S?]. R. Page" ************* "Here's to great changes in the New Year! "He's true to God who's true to man; whenever wrong is done To the humblest and weakest, 'neath the all-beholding sun, That wrong is also done to us; and they are slaves most base Whose love of right is for themselves not for all their race. "Harold D. Meakin wounded at Hill 60, Sept. 25th 1915" ************* "Jan. 9, 1916 "Let's do all the good we can, Let's always have courage to try, Let each think and act like a man, and each on his own strength rely. Whatever life's journey beset, Or in what direction it lays, We must never give up nor forget, With the will there is always a way. "Pte. George Lechie, Gordon Highlanders Wounded at Loos [? sic] 25 Sept. 1915 Admitted County of London Hospital Oct. 3rd 1915" 4 ************* "Pte. A. Welch 2nd D.L.A. no. 10144 61 Lichfield St. Gateshead on Tyne co/ Durham "The rocks are high the sea is Deep Thinking of you i [sic] cannot sleep If you love me as i love you Here's to the Home with the Red Brick Floor Here's to the lassie who stands at the Door Here's to the lassie's Heart that jumps with joy To hear the whistle of her soldier boy _*_ "The while the firelight brightly burns I dream the rosiest of dreams I wish that they would last my Dear Until i wake to find you here." ************* "Albums "We may write our names in albums; We may trace them in the sand; We may chisel them in marble With a firm and steady hand [.] But the pages soon are sullied Soon the names will fade away, And every moment will crumble Like all the earthly thing's decay But dear friend there is an album Full of pages many white Where no name is ever tarnished But forever pure and bright In that book of God's life album May your name be penned with care.