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Rants on Child Abuse/ and Books to Support and Teach


       I have a passion in life few of my family members know of, I hate anyone who does child abuse, and that includes all kinds of it. I hate physically abusive parents, I hate mentally abusive parents and I hate emotionally abusive parents too. I lived through all of it as a child myself and had to overcome it all as a man as I matured and aged. It is no fun to have PTSD as a child due to it all and have to deal with it when no one knows you really are! I also hate sexual abusers and padophiles of all kinds no matter who they be. The sad part is the world is filled with these monsters and we should eradicate them all or lock them up. They ruin children and people of the future, and make more of themselves, because the victims become abusers, because they don’t know better. Sadly it is a cycle that is sad in life and societies. Laws need to be put in place to halt this disease and problem in American and other societies. The innocents don’t know the difference and follow suit due to the parents who did it to them, they don’t understand what they do, for it is all they know.

Next rant, Wars, I hate wars, I hate hearing Americans are dying for countries who hate us even if we are trying to help them. Say hello to countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, all Muslims, we don’t believe in their ways so they hate us. Sadly, What they don’t know and will never understand is freedom for all. Now I am not knocking all Muslims, my step-father was a Muslim and he raised me ok, even if he was verbally and emotionally and physically abusive. He taught us not to lie, not to steal, be respectful to all and to work hard so those traits I give to him. Yet his anger fits and hurting of others including the children he raised was far wrong. 

OK, I have ranted enough on those subjects for all to see, I will now give ya links to two stories I did and am Selling on Amazon’s Kindle E-books; they concern abuse that occurred in my family and why it happened, welcome to them and I hope it helps mothers and fathers out there not to treat their children the same, they don’t deserve the pain folks! Link #1—-“Confrontations With Mom”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DC3BQK0

“Abraham- A Man of Contradictions”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CWNZ3Y6

I hope these stories will save some children pain and suffering at home. they deserve better than this!

 

 

Life, Limits and Questions


      As we go through life we face different things that affect our lives, we face loses, we face gains, we face births and we face deaths and ultimately we face reality and our on demise. Sadly, it is a truth of human life on the planet earth, that we have a limited life span. It’s a matter of fact not fiction we all have only so much time to do what we must do and get it done. Sadly, no matter what happens the human body begins to malfunction, break down and give out, muscles go, organs fail and yes we even get diseases and cancers. But it is the spirit of humanity that keeps us going, the interaction between human beings that makes life worth living, is it not?

       Each day we face endings that we wish we didn’t have to face, a pet dies, we bury or cremate them and life goes on, a parent dies and we think we will miss them forever and want them back, but nothing we can do, can make that so, yet life goes on. A parent dies and we wonder why so soon, why at that time did they have to go, we don’t have the answers, but we do know the emotional feelings of the lose. So yes we have no defined times for our lives, some children are born and die the same day or minute, some get killed out in the world playing, and some grow older and die from many causes, but we can’t define why they were all taken from us, can we?

         The biggest mystery in the world is still human life and intelligence and how we live a life span and contribute to humanities continued existence. We do it by interacting with other humans, by protecting our planet we live on, by protecting our own families and creating them. Amazingly it is all this interaction that makes humanity so human and vital on Earth.

      Mankind’s existence is not solved as to where we really came from, evolution does not give us the full answers, religion doesn’t either, it’s still the oldest question known to humanity, what came first the chicken or the egg? We shall probably never know for sure, whether the galaxies and planets we live on were created by a supreme being or it came from a big bang off a star or anything else. The old argument of Evolution vs explosion or big bang theory doesn’t really tell us much does it? For in the end the real questions are simple ones regarding it all. If a God or Supreme Being created it all, where did he, she , it come from and why did they do it? Or if it all came from a big bang off the sun or another planet then why did it happen and what caused it all? The bottom line is mysteries like our creation as a human race is and will always be unanswerable by humans, we can’t get to the point of where we came from if we don’t have any real clues  can we?

       The only way to solve any mystery scientific or otherwise is to dig as far as we can into our own past, and planets history. Yet even with the clues we gather and facts we now know, the answers do elude us, don’t they?

         Some people, believe that knowledge is power and power is to be a leader and in charge. I say real power and knowledge is knowing your own family history, where you came from and where you may go to in the future. The real power in life as a human being is being connected to those you love in such a way as you make a difference in a positive way for all of them. Life shall go on, long after I am gone said my  stepfather  said to me, live it to the fullest, and enjoy it and never forget those you love!.  As he said, I shall be gone soon, as the hours days and weeks pass, and they become months than years, I shall be gone but humanity will be here. The clock shall tick the time shall pass and life will change, enjoy it while you can. For life is limited for all women and men!

 

         

Catholics/ Molestors, Hypocrisy!


Every now and then, there is not much to say about politics, except it exists and a race is on. Such is the case currently in the run for the White House this year.

     So with that said there are other things in the world to consider that politicians do not consider. For Instant lets discuss the Church, of course there are different denominations, so when I refer to church I am talking Catholic. The Catholic Religion and it’s churches and Priests and of course it’s Pope.

       The real thing to discuss is the hypocrisy that the church lives in daily with its Preists and Nuns and rules. It’s really something when you come to think, it took them decades alone to translate Mass from Latin to English. Then they tell  must attend their building every Sunday and on Religious Holidays to be a good parishioner, plus they pass a basket for money, crazy huh. Stop and look for yourself, Vatican City is rich, The Pope is carted around in fancy garbs and head dresses and driven in specially made carriages. The Vatican needs our money like we need to be broke.

       The hypocrisy of the Catholic church goes much deeper, when you stop to think how many of their priests are arrested for sexual molestation of children. Each day a priest somewhere is arrested or accused of such charges and no one stops them. The church when they find out hides them, and moves them to a new one, why? These priest need defrocked and disowned not forgiven and moved to a new location. And why won’t the church, allow women to become priests? I will never understand that one, besides women are much better at celibacy then men are. The Church is nothing more than an organization collecting money for preaching the bible, and building itself huger each day, on the pennies and nickles and dimes of its attendees.

      The hypocrisy of the Roman Catholic Church is known now throughout the world yet people blindly follow it because they only know the faith they were taught and given. Sadly, the church acts against abortions, it acts against things people need and have to have, In the end the church enforces its rules upon the attendees and if you don’t do it their way, it’s the highway so to say. They excommunicate you for not attending, or disagreeing with their ways and rules, sadly it is true. Why?

       The biggest sin I have ever seen in the Catholic Church is the fact their priests, molest some children and get away with it. The second is how they have grown adults who molest children in their churches that take communion every Sunday, and at home they are molesting their own children, but forgiven by the church for doing it each week.  This goes deeper than the church and it’s ways it is protecting sick human beings who do this stuff behind their mates back and get away with it, because they scare their kids into not saying a word. Or as I have seen myself and lived through I can show the damage of such a case and tell you it not only affects the man or woman doing the molestation, it affects the children it was done to in their adulthood, ruining them, and then gets passed down to their children and affects their marriages too. To stop it you have to get the molester out of the church and turn he or she in to the law. Yet, the molested won’t do it, because they will still love the parent who did it to them. Sad little circle isn’t it, I know of a case like this now, where a man walks free after molesting his children for their childhood to teen years and not a one of the four of them who had it done to them will say a word to officials. Fear is what this man used and he instilled it in his children so much, it ruined their lives too and affected their children. Sad isn’t it that the Church allows this to carry on and protects their priests and these molesters who come to their church every week, as good catholics.

       

Wakes/ Funerals, Families and Me


      Families, some are close, some are apart and some estranged, but let someone die and everyone comes out of the wood work. It’s amazing if you have a family member die, how many people who you haven’t seen in decades suddenly show up. It doesn’t matter if your religious, or not or what religion you are lost relatives tend to pop out of the wood work.

      No one likes wakes and funerals and i am no exception at all. I hate the fact people want displayed after their death, for all the family and friends to see. I hate having to pretend to know someone you really don’t because it is family, but many in the religions of the world perform this rituals and ceremonies because it is what they were taught by their churches and parents. I understand the traditions and reasons, I don’t understand the real purpose of doing it all except the cost and hours the immediate family must sit there and greet strangers not really known to them.

       The American way of life promotes family and it promotes traditions , but this wake , funeral thing is one i will never understand or want for myself. I am a man who was outcast and a lone wolf for at least 24  my life, never wanted or cared for by my immediate family, just taken care of because I was theirs. I was beaten, harassed, thrown around and abused and mentally tortured in ways by my whole family as a kid. Then I was used to do work and rebuild a home with my step-father who, beat me with boards, shovels, lead pipes and more to keep me inline. In the meantime I never knew what a hug or a kiss from a mother was, she was too busy taking care of the only child she did care about her first. The rest of us, of which there were four more, were after thoughts is all. Yes she performed the protective angel part in front of friends and family, but let me tell you mom was not a loving woman. As her second husband said for all the years they were married, she had no motherly instinct at all.   Family is not necessarily, blood and flesh, nor are they always the ones you live with. But they are the ones who show up, assist you and care for you when you are down and out, or hurting in any way. That is the way family is supposed to be, not what was given to me as a child and son.

      Wakes and funerals even for a full-grown man are scary, and dark and sad. To stand there and greet people as my dead one lies there is not my thing, greeting people who may have known them but not us is rough too.  In the end I just couldn’t force anyone to go through that when I die. So for me I will have no part of wakes and funerals, but I will have The Service I honorably served in for my country, cremate my body and take my body to sea and bury me there. It is cleaner, less of a scene and I don’t have to worry who shall cry over me or not, or show up or not, I will be at eternal rest in the ocean from which all life came from in the beginning.

 

My Religious Thoughts/ My Beliefs


      I received a comment today on a piece I wrote about Jesus and The Bible, claiming I only skirted the issue and know very little about religion or Jesus Christ. I never said I was an authority on this subject, just that I was expressing my views on it and why I chose not to be dedicated to it or attend church on a weekly basis or even holidays of the church. I find it interesting that a reader would send a comment such as the one, I got. It means to me, that someone was reading and it hit a sore spot in their beliefs and they decided to comment. Good for you!

       As I said before and I shall say again, religion is a choice, some choose to follow and dedicate themselves to and others do not. Religion to me is not the full commitment to a church or a certain religion, it is an internal belief you carry with you daily in your heart, mind and soul. ,yet you do not need a Paster, a Preacher, a Priest to tell you to believe, or to give penance or how to pray. Nor do you have to pay for a religion to build a church, please read your own Bibles if you think I am wrong, one of the first things it does say is, God sees and hears all, no matter where you are!

      Jesus is a figure in time, who was made into a Savior by the Disciples surrounding him and believing in the way he lived and wanted to live. Yet research will show you the man in mortal form had his own faults just like me and you. His story resounds the way it does, because of the portrayal put into pictures and words, not because it is the truth. If you create a church and want a pack of people to follow you, you must have a strong symbol they can worship and believe in.

        The Bible itself, with each chapter and verse is a long tale of creation, exodus, and saving. Each chapter or book is written by a different man, a human being, the imperfections of it can be found if you study it closely. Now I can not say if the events, people or places and times are correct, but I can say this, as a writer and story-teller it is easy to see how the story could be handed down generation to generation to get it completed and accepted by churches world-wide.  Ever wonder how or why we have two versions alone just in the Christian Faith, never mind what the Muslims have and believe, or the Hindus, or the Jews. Why is that so, and where did they all come from? So many stories are written on Jesus, and the times of his life. The stories alone of the creation of the world and the powers it took to create it, well, you can see what I am getting to.

       To the person or persons who made their comment on what I wrote I give you this as my answer, I lived the Catholic Faith from birth to the age of 12 years old. I was baptised, I made my Communion, and Confirmation and went to Sunday School and read my bible many times over. Religion is still a choice, not a forced item in world and American culture. We choose what we believe because it is indeed a constitutional right in America. I tire of people who believe and then force their religion on others or attempt to do so, it is wrong. So please don’t come in my direction telling me I don’t understand religion, Jesus or the Bible, because I do very well. Step back yourself and question your own beliefs and make sure you are right enough to believe them yourself, before you try to force them on another.

       The Catholic Church and many other Religions do not allow women Priest or Paster and that in and of itself is wrong also in my book. Mother Mary could have preached and I believe had her own book for the bible which the Catholic Church disallowed in theirs. Sadly, the simple act of not allowing female Priests or Preachers is wrong, for God Created all Men Equal and that includes women.

         Yes I know there are many different Religions, many different beliefs, all I ask is a right to choose what I want to believe in and not be forced to believe in something I don’t. I also reserve and protect my freedom of speech, whether in the verbal sense or written sense thank you. I shall write, talk and live free, in the Land of The Free !.

      One more note before I end, The Churches of the WOrld are hypocrital, in many ways, and childrena nd young adults have been molested and sexually abused by Priests, Preacher and more world over. They take the one with the accussations against them and swap them from one church to anothe rto hide them, but it doesn’t stop the abuse and molestations.  So if the Chjurch no matter what Religion, does not allow female Priests or Preachers, does not stop the sexual abuse and molestations of children and young adults that happens daily, why should i go to a hypocrital organization totpractice my faith or beliefs when I don’t believe in what it is doing itself.

 

Trayvon Martin, Justice


Lets discuss something, I find a problem with America, its media arm so to say. As we all know, media is going electric data route like all things these day, which to me is fine if it happens. On the other hand, magazines are dying out because of the price raises of them, these days and the average income of the American Household.

         Television is today the ruler of the media age, but for how long  with some of its bias views of issues and people. Almost every story is colored by some bias and more, stories that flash across CNN, Fox, and more all are colored by the stations political lean, or the newscasters view on a personal basis Some are pushed by racist announcers and newscaster while others do it out of fear for their jobs, and the racist comments allowed and the actions of certain people can cause great harm to America.

       Trayvon’s case, may have been a crime, or it may have been what Zimmerman said it was? Only time and a full and fair investigation can prove that.  The New Black Panthers have no business in this and will only make it a larger issue, and they have no business in putting a bounty on a man’s head. Violence will only beget violence Martin Luther King said and I agree. We must all live in America no matter the color, nationality, race we may be, it is a Republic not a Communistic country, nor do we allow such tactics here.

       The Trayvon Martin Case has parents of all colors, nationalities and races, protecting their own children and working overtime to keep them safe now. This case does not affect just blacks, it affects all races and colors in America. Why was a man who is a volunteer for a block watch team carrying a weapon that was fully loaded? How can anyone say a child of seventeen attacked this full-grown man, after being followed by him causing his own death? Isn’t a full-grown man the size of George Zimmerman big enough to stop a seventeen year old from attacking him without a gun? Many questions come up in the case and I am sure given the time, the truth shall come out if legal authorities are allowed to do their job. The New Black Panthers aren’t needed here in this case, nor wanted by the Martin’s, Trayvon’s family. They don’t want revenge, they want justice is all and the Justice System needs time to do its job.

        Like all Americans and parents around the world, we empathize with the Martin family on their lost, and feel the pain of it. The color of our skin does not matter it is a child that is killed and gone, we all feel the same. Yet groups like The New Black Panthers come out and put a bounty on a man’s head and talk like they will kill him if they can. We don’t need organizations like the New Black Panthers, or any others who speak of an eye for an eye as a solution. What we need is peaceful solutions and a country united in finding the truth.