Occupy Wall Street

September 17th begins Occupy Wall Street one more step in the beginning of an open non-violent revolution in America.  With injustices unaddressed, inequalities unaccepted, the promise of humanity unmet and unkept; change was and is the only absolute.  Change is desired, deserved.  The people everywhere have been used and abused by powerful, unjust, inhumane "titans" long enough.  The right to life, liberty and the freedom to pursue happiness should be more than words...particularly in the country that spawned these words.

Are we grown enough as humanity to control ourselves?  I would have thought so, but then I've always thought so.  Freedom doesn't mean "free" to enslave another, it means free from "enslavement" in the physical and mental sense.

Here's an image worth a thousand words....the establishment protecting what it considers to be important.

Your Taxes Protecting the Bull

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There comes a time when enough is enough, and all people being created equal must mean more than just the 1 percent.  The current crop of journalists most likely will not cover any of this protest since it does not come with a proper brand name and advertising budget, nor is there a pre-designed press release.

Come join, learn, inform, share.  We all know it's wrong even if we don't each know every piece.  A better just world system is necessary and we can only achieve that if we begin to have discussions of what the better and best options are and understand the implications in both the short and long term to ensure we don't have the ends justify the means.

May the most noble and  peaceful spirit of all humanity endure and overcome.

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A COG in the Death Machine

Cults will often try to redefine commonly used words and understandings, usually warping them slowly into something new.  Then the old understanding disappears over time, to be replaced by the new concept.

For example, a word like family, especially when preceded by the word "the."  The preceding any noun suggests uniqueness in our linguistic understanding of the world.

Also, "the" as a word infer original/all-inclusive, or overarching.  It implies that you must select whether or not you're a member of the defined group.  If you select affirmatively, you expect yourself to comply with their terms.

A phrase such as Children of God implies everything that exists in the known universe, and the not yet.  Is it possible to select the negative in this category?  Are you able to say, no thank you, I would prefer to not exist than be part of this COG?


If the term is not all-inclusive, did you come first even before starlight existed and are you the only one?

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from  Johnathan J. Stegeman

Food Water Shelter

Even Chuck Norris has a bad day now and again. Just don't tell him I said that

Warning: This post may seem rude to you. It was not intended that way.

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Faith and Charity serving your Poverty needs since and until forever.

Since 1954 this one conglomeration of divine intent has probably had at least 200 million people of faith offering $10 a year. Over 40 years that is $80 billion dollars. Honestly I imagine this is a fairly conservative estimate, because they refer to themselves as international and people are actually more generous than that.

$80,000,000,000

You can purchase a water well drill for $12,000.00 500 of them would cost $6 million. As you fix one place, they would likely want to pass the good fortune along. That's how you keep the good things going.

Personally, I would buy the patent rights for some water purification system and allow the people to build their own machines for water purification. Pipes for running in-house water would come later without any help.

However, you can apparently buy a commercial-style reverse-osmosis system for $5k or so. 3400 of these systems would at least get you well started. $17 million plus $6 million makes $23 million.

You would want to filter all the water used in the community, business and residential and reclaim any chemicals that were used to be repurposed and good clean water goes back out. To do otherwise is like throwing away money. As you haven't begun yet toxicity should not be an inherent problem.

So Water: $23 million... and be smart about it

$20 billion in high quality seeds that reproduce true. This is a high dollar figure and you may not spend that much. Keep in mind, you don't have to buy seed twice if you get good quality. So getting the best and plenty of it would be a good investment.

So $20,023,000,000 total so far.

There is a natural selection process when dealing with seed. You keep the ones that produce the most fruit for the soil and conditions in your area. It takes one season to figure this out, sometimes two.

Some plants will resist insects and even thrive in dry conditions naturally, if they are accustomed to it. It's an improve, improve, well, that's about all we can do and how do you like it kind of process.

The most flavorful would probably be the next selection made regarding food. This is often left to the gardener. When the particular variety becomes popular among gardeners, or restaurants, farmers might then also pick it up and see if it looks like good opportunity, if they can get it to produce in quantity, while maintaining the flavor the people like.


I have things growing in very sandy soil. With no petroleum products or other weird chemicals. I've been shocked at how much fruit they are willing to produce. It takes more water to get it started than it does once the soil becomes more complex.

In a few years, once it has been compost-treated into the loamy type of soil it will probably take half the water it does now and produce even more.

Gardeners help with this process also, finding the right soil-water-sun mixture for the area. Thinner soil would allow the plant's roots to burn and wither from the heat in high desert like this one.

In particularly arid areas greenhouses could be employed while the soil itself is being worked with to adjust it and improve its fertility naturally.

You can make glass that reduces the impact of the sun on things, and that concentrates the effect of the sun more. We should take advantage of these technologies to ensure that there's plenty for all of us.

Hunger is horror, especially when some of us have so much and so much technology to stop it.

You can buy an 8 by 12 structure to assemble yourself for $800 or so. Therefore, for an 80 by 120 structure, I expect you might have to spend $10k to build it. If you have volunteers from the area it might cost even less. It's for their own use anyway. So, 60,000 commercial greenhouses could be built for $600 million.

Greenhouse soil is a separate subject, probably be relative to the area and can be created from decaying plant life, and other waste products. So, I'll double the price of the greenhouses to $1,200,000,000.

So $21,223,000,000 total with greenhouses and soil.

You would pay a few salaries, of course, and would need an initial food and water supply to get started, plus other tools, and that patent if you were me. I'd double the whole thing for convenience sake, $42,466,000,000 total in today's dollars.

Let's just say $45 billion and be done.

Building and infrastructure is mostly a knowledge exchange. Most places on earth have their own materials. If they are so far in the desert that you have to ship everything in you probably want to help them move instead and then use some anti-desertification methods to reclaim the area. We don't have to ship in marble from far away to build a house.

When a man is fed, he'll build whatever else he needs on his own, if he knows how to and has the material. The material we use to weave clothing also grows like food, so the seeds for that would also need to be purchased once.

Once you've completed the water, food, and shelter, the rest is just what the people there want to do for themselves. You can offer educational materials, particularly regarding the full circle of production and reclaimation, but it's up to them what they accept and reject. Your job is done.

Not everyone wants to live in New York City and have a high-power executive job. People want a good life by their own definition. A really good life usually involves a lot of learning. Learning what is expands the options there are to select from.

One generation later, or less, you get your full return on investment. Places that used to have very little for themselves now begin to export things like art, unusual food stuffs, new additions to the science fields, technologies, medicines, and so on. Everyone wins.

I have to think that if they intended to fix the problems they talk about they would have already done it.

Regional politics, and social unrest can absolutely prevent an organization from being able to assist. I won't deny that. A junta would just snatch the money, say thanks, and ask for more for his friends.

Your $45 billion wouldn't go far in that environment.

The leadership in many of the areas they claim to serve has changed several times since 1954. Nonetheless, I really think by now you could have gotten a good, peaceable word in, so you could do you work of allowing people to eat well, and live comfortably by their own effort.

Imagine a world where all people were so empowered that charity as we know it was replaced by just caring for one another like humane persons.

Walking the Walk.....not.

Granted this is Canada......but then again, this is Canada.

Unity Centre of Winnipeg whose mission statement can be seen on their website notes among other things: 5 Basic Principles of Unity

God is Absolute Good, everywhere evenly present

Many paths lead to the one loving God

Our essence is of God and therfore every human being is inherently good

Prayer and Meditation increases our awareness of our oneness with God

Knowing and Understanding Unity Principles is not enough – we must also live the truth that we know

Well, I suppose that's true unless......you happen to be poor and in need.

“Winnipeg: A busy church food bank, known for offering warm drinks and snacks to its regulars, has announced it’s closing because it is attracting too many poor people.

Thank you Newsvine for the find.

Catholic Culture Shock

Image From Standing On My Head

Down the Rabbit Hole, once...

Some people may never know their children are being used by a cult member.  If you are a parent, you child WILL be afraid to tell you.

Cult people use very strong threats against the families of the children they have abused.  They may also expose them to a murder in person to prove their point.

They are likely to tell the child that if they say anything that's not nice about the person they will kill their relatives, and they'll kill a pet if the child has one.  After the pet is dead, they'll keep a trinket.

The collar of the dog that got hit by a car, or a missing animal's paw.  They'll show it to your child when you're not looking and tell them, you don't want this to be them do you?  Children are unusually obedient when their parents are threatened.

In this way they can stand right next to you and you are completely unaware.  Many cults will steal your children if they can, and make something new of them.

Cult people tend to expose children to extremely unusual experiences.  Think of the rabbit's foot, a sign of good luck for regular kids.  They might have a live pet rabbit they share with your children. They'll let your children name it, and consider it their own pet.

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Once the child has developed an attachment to the animal, and comes to visit it on their own, it has become a friend.  Then they'll kill the animal and offer it to the child as food.  They may even force the child to participate in the process of preparing the creature as food, or they may offer it raw.

"Here, have his foot.  You can love that instead.  It's the same thing, plus now we have dinner.  You don't want us to starve to death do you?"


After an event like this, the cult member will introduce your child to other adults.  In the child's mind every adult he meets who is friendly with the cult member obviously agrees with their behavior. The cult member would definitely encourage this type of thinking. The world can become very frightening very quickly.

Image from: RobertSabuda.com Children's Books

At this point they'd probably introduce the child to a few of their actual cult friends.  The child is even more likely then to think that every person they meet is also part of their inner circle.

If they were caught by a non-affiliated adult they would probably just say, "I was just trying to make them a little tougher."  Beyond that, as an adult, you would have no idea what else they had done and said with and to your child.

The Flipside of the Coin

Coin base from Coin Replicas

Center image base: September 9, 2009 Photo by Ray Tamarra

Coin of the Realm

Coin Of the Realm of Funk

 

Coin base from Coin Replicas

Face from Triplets Then There Were Five

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When the rapture comes...

I could create an invisible army of 8 million men among you, from zero, on your dime, and with your own children. I'd only need two tools, both of which are readily available to me.

First, a charity of some kind; and second, the concept of educational perennialism. I would abuse your compassion, accept your kind donations, and spend that money on promoting my other message. As my message caught on more money would roll in from my new followers, along with more reverence for my cover cause.

If just 1 percent of your 400 million person population goes along with my training program and puts two children into it, you would have 8 million merciless homegrown soldiers on your doorstep within 15 years. On the other hand I could also import them from overseas on your dime, and you might never see it coming.

Details of the fact follow:

This is the Wikipedia page for this educational perennialism concept. I could use any other socially prepared foundational term that works for me. I would just have to fit it into my model. It's really only the screen or curtain, if you think of the saw the lady in half trick.

The concept is extremely flexible, yet has good bearing and strong foundations for the name and quote people. We need better education everyone already agrees we are not serving our children properly, and the term perennial fits in well with the lifelong learning idea.

This is the low down on EP:

1. Perennialists believe that one should teach the things that one deems to be of everlasting importance to all people everywhere.

This is the rationale piece, everlasting importance to all people. This statement basically tells people look up, the left hand says the future is the past. What are the people going to say in response? While they are figuring that out I move on to step 2.

2. They believe that the most important topics develop a person.

I agree. If educators say something is important I expect a fair portion of the people will listen and take a note for the future. An educator said this was important and they don't want to sound uneducated. You would want to carefully insert your messages as important ones. Remember this: Your Message Here

3. Since details of fact change constantly, these cannot be the most important. Therefore, one should teach principles, not facts.

An amazing spinning sentence that delivers the concept, "do not teach facts."

This was so elegant I had to use this EP concept for something. They're saying is F the Facts, it's the principles we need to focus on. How many details of a fact makes it a new fact? Water is wet or frozen, fresh or salt, potable or not. Is salt water still water? Is still water really water? Is water ice water or ice? Yes, no, who cares! F teh F!

It's the principles we are focused on. Water is one potential receiver-transmitter of wave energy, later we'll talk about waves.

4. Since people are human, one should teach first about humans, not machines or techniques.

Funny, since people are human I assume they are already experts on humans. Not only do they know them, they are one. However, I could absolutely teach them about these people and those people, and make them see the difference.

5. Since people are people first, and workers second if at all, one should teach liberal topics first, not vocational topics.

A more detailed reiteration of four.

Liberal topics first: Some sort of canon of history books to teach you how you are, once you know how they were and could be. They might mean art for all I care, and intend to teach your kids how to paint and play music first, then math and reading. Music is math plus system, so it might actually help.

I can use it otherwise, liberal topics first is a very, very flexible concept.

Workers second if at all. Most of us recognize that we have an economic structure that leaves people out in the cold unless they have acquired a desirable skill set.

By accepting this type of educational model you have just given me and my team permission to teach your children how people are first and then the skills they need to actually survive. At that point survival will mean do as I say.

We have done this by subjugating survival skills training into this interesting and tidy term "vocational." This was actually done before my time, but it's still a useful and ongoing idea. The subjugation of this type of knowledge is easier now than it was then, because desirable skills in the current job market might mean something totally different next week than it did last year.

Vocational, it sounds like vocal, like this is where we train professional talkers, vocational school. Sure, we'll teach you how to feed yourself, after we're done talking.

I personally would want to deliver this with a big revival to spark interest in the church and put the people that come in to see what it's about into service for me. It's easy to type people for what they're willing to do for you, as a ministry. This is Cultism 101.

Cult leaders are tool users also; remember this. They use sensory deprivation and bombardment, drugs, starvation/enforced fasting, hypnosis, strong threats and happily give proofs of their willingness to follow through on them.

They use these tools on children as well as adults. These things will stay with your children as they grow up. The reactions they have are uncertain, unless they've been trained and accepted a particular response to reiteration of impulses given while under the influence of these techniques.

I could easily put a happy face on this, something that looks very high-minded, kind, and far thinking, while using the exact same language to invite those who also desire unnatural power to join me. This also allows me to be overtly religious, while not alarming the secularists too much.

In fact, with a second team I could bring the secular people right in with the religious ones, with the same intended outcome for the work. They both have a branch of this EP concept, so it would not catch the attention of the non-religious as something unusual. It might be made to sound like common sense.

Power-hungry people can be any way you are, hippies, businessmen, church-focused, soccer moms, atheists. They do whatever it takes to fit in with your group then add their weird ideas to yours as you become used to them.

Sometimes they act superior to you and see if it sticks. If and when someone believes they are superior, they go back and look at what worked to cause that thinking in that person. Then they just push it along with minor adjustments until everybody agrees and accepts it as truth.

The outward message could be something as simple and unoffensive as "we should get along," while pointing at some horror elsewhere. When you notice the same thing is happening at home, they get right out in front of it so you think it's being taken care of.

If you continue to complain, they point to incorrect reasons, individual persons (the blame game), and invalid solutions to the problem itself. Before the non-cult people manage their case-full of undesirable options, the Lord's Army is marching down the street with no resistance. They own your place and your stuff, start over (from infant for those that believe in reincarnation, atheists to nil, all others to the back of the line).

When the rapture comes, can we have your stuff?

The Golden Rule

What happened to this vision of harmony? Is it still the direction we're going?

The Power You Need; The Name You Trust

Jesus^TM


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Before You Switch Your Child

Please consider what the long-term effects might be. Consider your responsibility to their success and health before you begin. Success is not the ability to obey you at all times.

In my opinion, as a parent my job was to help my son become a capable and happy adult, and to help him find the good stuff. In turn, he showed me the new things, it was a wonderful experience. It's not easy. You find all you do is keep them from jumping off cliffs, for the most part.

Original Image from:
morgueFile Public Image Archive From Creatives for Creatives

Hey, I've seen that one, careful... slow down, have a good look first.

The world we were all born into can be strange and difficult, and we as adults don't always know our own way around things, so it's hard to give good directions to success to your children.

A beating won't help. A beating is not a swat on the butt, "stop that, go to your room. I'll deal with you in a minute," because you needed immediate control of the situation.

Beating of children from my experience is a long-lasting, regular and/or ritualized process. (meaning there are specific tools, repeated phrases, and tested techniques that are repeatedly used and quantified for results). They do suggest you use it regularly, not as a response to a specific case of misbehavior.

One good way to tell if it was the folks I knew: Does the child look like they were attacked with a Cuisinart? That's probably them.

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Abuse like this has strange aftershock-like ramifications from the child's point of view, in mind and body. It is not possible to make them a better person by abusing them.

Before I explain what it's like, let me say I love my mother. She taught me patience, love, empathy, understanding, yoga, and how to inquire rather than fear. When you do that the ball is in your own court. I knew she wanted me to be happy in life; she made sure I knew it. She was paralyzed and in the hospital when this was happening. When she got out it got fixed.

They begin with a very sharp, shocking set of blows. You tense your muscles as a natural reaction. You expect the entire whipping to be that tough, but after a few strong smacks you become numb in the area they're hitting.

I was expected not to cry, complain, or speak of the process at all. If you cry, they cover your mouth or push your face into a pillow, which makes it difficult to breathe. I had seen this done to others and expected it if I cried out.

You will absolutely learn not to express your pain to them. It's useless to cry out, nobody will help you in any way. The truth is, expression of pain encourages them to hit you harder.

Twenty to thirty minutes into the session the world turns to red and shadow. Sounds in general become terribly distorted, and a hollow roaring begins in your head.

They said that the roaring was the devil was speaking to me. So, mentally I tried to ignore the noise at first and asked god for help. Then I started to feel detached. There was nothing I could do to stop the process. Even if you wear one out, they'll pass you to the next one.

The new caner's arm is always fresh, and they will usually pick a new spot, as the various areas become numb. The front above the waist was off limits. So, only the back, legs, butt and feet (tops and bottoms) were the acceptable targets.

After a while you forget what the world was like without pain. You forget who you are, who they are, everything but the searing in your body and the terrible roaring in your head like a wind tunnel.

You're not sure where the lash is. It's everywhere at once. It's the air on your skin. It's like the Balrog is attacking you.

Image: Durin's Bane

When the cold comes you black out. I don't know if they continue to beat you after that.

The world is blurry red and shadow for days afterward, literally it looks like red and various shades of brown-gray and black there are no other colors. The sky is brown-gray. You body is full of spiky sensations like knives stuck in you.

You DO NOT SQUIRM. You barely sit, unless they got your feet. In which case, you have to decide between the feet and the butt as to what pain you can tolerate better. The roaring in your head comes and goes. You move carefully, but not so carefully that it shows.

After a week, five days maybe, the world starts to sharpen up, but now it's just black and white or brown and yellow. It's not like TV there are not that many shades of gray. The roaring is much less frequent. The pain is more like bone pain than superficial or muscular.

Over the next few days the nerve endings start coming back to life, so you get the sensation of little electric shocks and springs popping in various muscles that used to be numb on the surface. In 10 days or so you can see color again, but the world is progressively darker each time they beat you.

The bruises go from blue to purple, then they turn yellow in the middle. It was scary when they turned green. You fear gangrene if you know what it is.

Your view of the world changes over time, visually and mentally. It's blurry, out of frame, as if you're not really in it for years after it stops. You don't get this way the first time, at least I didn't. It's a cumulative effect.

You begin to want to destroy things, just to get them away from you so you can have a moment's peace (if i could just get rid of this whatever it is I'd be fine). It's not like a childish fit of anger, it's a cold gnawing sensation.

You don't cry. You don't laugh. You fear. You only feel empowered by your ability not to feel anything, physical or emotional, pain or pleasure. You need to become a blank slate for them. That is the demand.

Years later, if you're not like them, you're likely to think destroying yourself might be the answer. We did, but you're not supposed to hurt your family like that - besides, you could have just let them kill you back then.

The process instills a very strong soldier-like response and stiff self-control, but like you are barely hanging on to your aggression. You need the self-control, so you don't do to anyone else what they did to you. You feel you are removing your links to humanity to escape transgression.

It forces a kind of "resistance is futile" point of view on you, as if they've stolen something from you that you can't retrieve. This is particularly true if you see them in public and they are doing well. Depending on the cult, they will probably have minders come and go to check on you if they had you as a young one.

After you've been beaten enough times the sensation of pain itself starts to change shape. You get used to it and you change your reaction to it. It's a sharp knife, that you think you might also like to use for yourself, even if you're not sure how to use it yet, because you really know nothing else.

Later they would have introduced me to proper emotional responses by the book, whatever they meant by that. I don't remember what the name of the book was, thought I'm pretty sure they meant literally by the book.

They didn't get that far. My mother removed them as much as she could and allowed me to find my own way back to natural emotional responses.

The Harvest

All things come from seeds
The seeds
(thought and words)
become the harvest
of another's interpretation

Support and Counseling

Hotlines:

National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center - For Americans experiencing domestic violence while living overseas. Phone: Crisis Line: 866-USWOMEN (879-6636)

Websites:

TheHotline.org

ChildWelfare.gov

HUD.gov - Links to Local Government Services and Non-profit Agencies listed by state

WomensHealth.gov Advocacy and support resources Listed by State with additional information and resources on-site.

Help for Abused and Battered Women - Domestic Violence Shelters, Support, and Protection - Scroll to the section titled "If you are being abused, remember:" and continue reading, it's helpful information if you want to help someone.

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence - Mainly political advocacy and social awareness building at this link. Don't go to the main site for physical help. The different state coalitions have the emergency contacts and resources for families on their sites:

State Coalition/Network Links

Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Alaska Network on Domestic and Sexual Violence

Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Arkansas Coalition Against Domestic Violence

California Partnership to End Domestic Violence

Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence

DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence

Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence - No
Services at this site

Kansas State Hotline 888-363-2287

Help Change Kansas offers additional resources.

Kentucky Domestic Violence Association

Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Maine Coalition To End Domestic Violence

Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence

Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence

Michigan Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence

Minnesota Coalition For Battered Women

Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence

Montana Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence

Nebraska Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Coalition

Nevada Network Against Domestic Violence

New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence

New Jersey Coalition for Battered Women

New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence. They don't have any numbers to call on this site. The focus is on advocacy, awareness and training.

Use the National Domestic Violence Hotline for crisis 1−800−799−SAFE(7233) or TTY 1−800−787−3224

New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence

North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence

North Dakota Council on Abused Women’s Services

Ohio Domestic Violence Network

Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence

Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence

South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault

Tennessee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence

Texas Council On Family Violence

Utah Domestic Violence Council

Vermont Network Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance

Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Washington State Native American Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Assault

West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Please feel free to suggest support and counseling links or phone numbers to add this list. We will continue to add more, also.

Safe Shelter

Safe Shelters

If the shelter is being run by a closed group it is not a safe shelter. If the program is open to volunteers, then it is up to the volunteers to make it safe, and they usually will. More eyes spot dangerous things and unusual behavior more quickly. They are there to help, not control.

Volunteer 211 and most other groups do want volunteers. That is how they manage to do what they do.

Dial 211 - 2-1-1 is the national abbreviated dialing code for free confidential access to health and human services.

Blatant Plug: You can also dial 211 to volunteer.

Homeless Shelter Directory - Click your state on the map, then scroll down. They have them listed by city.

ShelterListings.org - Click on your state name, then on your county name on the right, scroll down for the listings.

NationalHomeless.org

WomenCareShelter.org

An alphabetical listing of links to Available Resources and Information from the various states from HUD dot gov

State Specific

Washington DC Shelters and Soup Kitchens

Housing Idaho - - Housing Idaho has links to regional services on the left

Iowa State Resources

United Way of Kansas

State of Louisiana Resources

MassachusettsHomeless.org The links on the bottom left give you the phone numbers of regional organizations that can help

Montana Homeless Services

HELP of Southern Nevada

Home 4 Hope in New Hampshire

New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness

Apparently the problem of Homelessness has been resolved by Workforce Partners in Oregon, at least according to HUD. Congratulations...

Unless, of course, they have merely provided this s-sp-am to the rescue. In which case, I'm sure there are other resources they haven't thought of.














Please feel free to suggest known safe shelters, particularly if you have personal experience with one, additional links and telephone numbers. We will also try to add more.

A 7-Year Old Child Was Murdered

I took 7 hours to kill her. Somehow, the cult members claim this is what their god expects them to do. Implicitly that means that's what their god expects YOU to do.

Their apologists in this practice say these particular parents just lost control. It went on for a number of days with prayer breaks, and 7 Hours of actual beating. You don't "lose control" for hours and days with prayers in-between.

Are this one child's sisters and brothers going to be adopted by more people like them? How many more children are living in environments like this? Some of them recommend beating children as young as 5 months.

This is from Observe To Do Dot Com

At five months, she was too unknowing to be punished for disobedience. But for her own good (and our peace of mind), we attempted to train her not to climb the stairs by coordinating the voice command of “No” with little spats on her bare legs.

The switch was a twelve-inch long, one-eighth-inch diameter sprig from a willow tree... She had assumed the association of the painful switch to the stairs and my command. I had communicated to her my will and my resolve.

Typesetting choices are mine; the words are theirs

Personally, I don't think this child will ever trust their parents with anything as they're growing up. The parents are now a source of pain, rather than a source of solutions and comfortable space to just be (outside the impression of friends and rivals). It sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen.

If Lydia, or any of the other child victims, had been adults the perpetrators probably would have gotten the death penalty, life in prison in the most liberal states, for torturing someone to death

On the other hand, if the district attorney where they live was a friend, they might have walked away with nothing. In a small town it would have sounded like silence.

Nothing ever happens in those places.

Are they making case law for lenient sentencing in their child murder cases and creating acceptance for themselves? Hey, we're just abusers, not killers, it's not that bad...

What is the Meaning and Purpose of Life?

To be loved, learn, experience, expand and find joy in the creation that you are part of. Every child knows this, unless we teach them otherwise.

What do you think?

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A Spiritual Emergency

Christians: Who are these people?

• A revival leader who kicks an elderly woman in the face, now hopes to soon be returned to the pulpit
• A minister who suggests you beat your children into submission with a switch
  
• A father who poured acid down a child's throat to remove the "witch" from their midst under a pastor's direction
• Missionaries that claim to be supporting first responders in emergencies, while actually abducting children, saying the children need and are going to better homes (these got back to their regular homes)
  
• People who suggest women should submit to men, rather than being treated as equal persons
• People who want to reverse hard-fought battles of law against child-labor and slavery as if we didn't have enough problems
• People attempting to usurp the common sense of loving parents, with outrageous recommendations created by their so-called experts
• Groups that expect unquestioning obedience to their personal version of deity from anyone that lives in their community - which they appear to this is the whole US. What about the rest of us?
  

This is weird cult behavior...

You appear to be worshiping a book from my outsider's point of view. A book that's been rewritten several times to boot.

God speaks to everyone the same in their heart. It's easy to hear. You don't even have to know how to read, you're born able to receive the blessing.

Do you like it for yourself, does it bring you joy? Okay, then that is the selection you should offer to others... in everything including your own behavior. Your children will be like you are, so be careful... you're going to get old some day, you'll probably want fond memories.

You can't really control any one else anyway, unless you want to stand on top of them and force them to act according to your rule always... which sounds like a ridiculous amount of work. You can teach them if you've found something that works well for you. A lot of people will demand proof, so be prepared.

That Theonomy thing (apparently another rude Calvinist perspective), sounds way too much like Theosophy to me. Maybe they should choose a different name. I thought the Christians claimed the Theosophy folk were... heathens.

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I feel compelled to whisper to someone, wait... honey, I think some of those people they've been arresting are satanists. I know about them... you probably don't.

They keep children in cages like you keep cans on the shelf. I know, I've seen them and been in one. It should be easy to spot them. They enjoy causing agony to others, primarily. They can call themselves anything they like. The devil lies, you know.

The ones I knew did. One was the pastor of a local church during the day. He liked to burn children to death. It was his favorite excitement. He took his work as god's representative a little to literally. He knew people, if you know what I mean.

People like that are raised in an environment that makes them that way. They saw and were forced to participate in horrendous things at a very young age, usually after pain-based training. It appears they only feel empowered when they are injuring something else.

We need to talk about this as a world, or at least amongst ourselves. There should be a limit to pseudo-political tolerance for extremist views like this. Most of us are rational, and don't accept this type of behavior. It's illegal. We need to enforce the law.

Religion is just a cover for these people, like an apron or a veil. They use it to keep you from seeing how they really are. If you fall for it, you're on the ground with a black bag over your head, and in chains.

You can't let these crazy, violent people raise children. That's why we have child services at all. Do you want to be the one who gave permission to the man who had his sons tie their sister to a futon frame, to be beaten into a coma?

These people are sociopathic. They are not concerned with their eternal souls, or yours. They just want to force a lot of weird ideas down your psychological throat. If you're willing to accept it as normal, or unable to stop them from creating acceptance for themselves, they'll be everywhere.

They make more like themselves by enforcing obedience, and then forcing participation, which eventually makes the person feel re-empowered. The hardcore ones will just kill those that don't comply and give their will over to them.

Does this sound over the top to you? You would not believe how much I have toned this down. How many of them does it take before it's an emergency? They're putting a Christian label on child abuse and any number of other things most of us are unwilling to tolerate.

How many of them are there?

How many of you are following them, because you've been convinced that their ugly rhetoric and dangerous teachings are the word of god, the Infinite Being, and universal creative force?

Are we the only ones who see this, due to unusual exposure?