trump, Clinton debate: benji's perceptions

if you listened without watching, you might have thought Hilary was winning.... But if you actually saw Hilary grinning smugly the whole time, you might end up wondering if it was because she was happy noone put her in a straight jacket and hockey mask. Clearly the term poker face was far from her mind. Her campaign manager, another woman, also smiles smugly and cockily, most likely they are both confident noone will punch them in the face, being women.


trump scowled the entire time, presumably because America is a mess or whatever reason, it seemed sincere enough.


neither party was able to hide much in terms of their faces

50 shades of hammer pants

howdy dirty sluts

i'm really pissed off!  I've been jacking off to evil internet porn for days and days now, like five or so i'm guessing........ actually it's been a week now............... the dumb bitch I was dumb enough to marry was just being obnoxiously rude and it was just all I could take so I just shut down and stopped talking to her about exactly a week ago now........... that meant instead of hanging out with her for half an hour on Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday between 115pm and 145pm from when she gets home from work to when I get home from work, I just left as soon as she arrived without even talking to her.......... Friday morning til 145pm and all day Saturday was our main time together as a family but i'm continuing to just ignore her and slam doors and stuff..........

this also means i'm not making eye contact with my kids or talking to them much......the girl was very insistent on being friends and that was heart warming I suppose but i'm not going to be a nice guy to them if their mom is treating me like a piece of total shit...........not going to hate on them either, just shut down my heart............. anyway it's not easy and it has been hell to some extent

I had a cigarette today for the first time since 22nd july........... just the one.......... I also drank some rakia and rented out the carpet cleaning machine with the little tank that fills up with dirty sudsy water, the same one I rented out when the brad pitt vehicle 'fury' was out at the cinema............ so the carpets are hella clean ---- turns out 'fury' is only $4 so i'm going to watch that........... not sure how i'm going to take care of the kids tomorrow without the dumb bitch doing all the heavy lifting but it turns out i'll just bring them to the local church and they can go to sunday school there and there'll be someone interesting to talk to afterwards, the kids can play with their buddies there and hopefully the sermon won't be too retarded and stupid.......... the afternoon will probably suck --- i'm not sure how to entertain my kids without getting down onto their level, which i'm capable of doing, so maybe better just to shock them into just playing amongst themselves........ have already slammed enough doors around for that to be feasible

first i'll watch my fury movie,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA8bEGM8EgQ


then i'll watch the real deal tonight, it was a VERY good movie as I recalled it:  the director david ayers really got them to get super authentic and it really shows.... not like oliver stone's 'alexander' where they all look like they came out of a hairdressing salon and had their nails done and wearing freshest linens and all.....

Yet what the gossip magazines won't know - what the wedding cover story of People couldn't guess at - is the seven months of torture he'd go through making Fury before he got there.
The boot camp that broke him. The on-set fights he would have to split up. The days and nights eating, shitting and sleeping in the tank for the sake of authenticity. A director who made them literally fight each other, who waged psychological war, who made them as close as brothers so they could hurt each other as only brothers can. The small matter of Shia LaBeouf pulling his own teeth out.


great --- didn't have to go fishing around for my wallet and punching in credit card numbers after viewing my little 'fury' videoclip above......... that puts me in a good enough mood to offer johnny depp some charity in the form of a joke which was apparently the favorite joke of my teenage years buddy with the uncanny looking similarity to Winston Churchill, to wit:  "why are there so many refuges in Australia for battered women?" my buddy would ask and then pound his fist into his open palm and deliver his favorite punchline:  "because they don't f*cking listen!"


ok it's time to watch the movie, lights out!


well that was a hoot and a holler.......... so on the radio the other day, some guy was talking up a charlston Heston movie --- it's not something benji would generally think about --- Charlton Heston -- in fact, benji could only tell you that maybe he's from the 50s or something -- benji doesn't know anything about him except he was like brad pitt will be to future benjis of the 2060s, just the shadow of a name of some Hollywood movie star from wayback when --- no future benjis of 2065 are gonna even remember one of brad pitt's movies same way benji doesn't remember any of Heston's movies

now let's talk about marriage.............. after reading over and over again sweedenborg's book on conjugial marriage......etc....... it seems that benji is screwed.......... no one wants to mess up......... it's obvious sex is the glue that keeps a marriage together, especially when partners are at age of having sex......... I think in my marriage my wife thinks it's all a joke, it's easy to think marriage is a big joke -- or else she wants to be the boss.......... she seems to be happy not to have sex unless it's at the cost of just being rude and snarky and generally disrespectful............. that's where sex becomes a power struggle.......... it seems to me that the society I knew, and actually I've known quite a few to be honest, if you count all the places I've visited, even briefly, like xinjiang in china or wherever...... morals are on the lax..........nobody gives a shit........ I can't stand the idea of sharing my kids with some other dad and remarrying and having a shared family, it is totally alien to me......... i'd rather just go live in northern spain or suicide or whatever....... definitely I would turn my back on my kids, if I had to, without question......... it wouldn't be their fault or mine and my wife would just have hell to pay for it whenever.......... I think it's a pity women are so uppity these days about everything --- they sure are nowhere to be seen when it's time to fight a war.......... nowadays everybody is a big pansie anyway and no one fights a war, least not in Europe, france just gets shot up and trucked down a little over the last year and everyone's like ho-hum, where's the next pokemon --- the entire nation of Syria has been turned into a pile of rubble........... I remember having a student from Syria in 2008 in sofia, Bulgaria......his name was zeki......... which is Syrian for 'smart'.........to think back then he had a nation and now he has a pile of bricks and rubble and corpses for a nation.........good job barry (Obama)...... see it's tough being a u.s. president!    anyway, that's all digressing, back to being married, I am absolutely going of my mind not having sex, my skin is burning -- internet porn is the only way I can bust a nut and it is just turning my brain into turd porridge........... Australia is so hardcore goody two shoes, one time about two years ago I tried slapping my wife into submission and she called the cops, they immediately put a cease and desist order on me without even consulting my wife, I told her to have it removed or i'd move out and she did but at the same time, she threatens to call the police if I even yell at her so I can't even be a man in my own home and tell my wife what to do, society is against it here............... this leaves me with the option of half-arsed sticking around with prostitutes behind my wife's back............ leaving the country............. leaving the home which I am certainly going to do -- the mother in law's coming out anyway so it's game over............ I can't believe my wife or anyone thinks it's wise to just break a family up for no good reason apart from a little pride and a preference for peace and quiet during tv time........... I'm not sure what to even do with myself after I move out to make way for my dumb fat bitch mother in law.......... at least she can take care of my kids.......better to have blood taking care of them than some total strangers at a daycare centre............ the workload was too much for me and with my stupid dumb bitch of a dumb cunt wife acting the fool over the past few months with her funny ideas about women's liberation -- she'll end up getting raped by some strangers in a future lifetime -- she's just making her own bed --- fuck her............. i'm really upset


look at this stupid life coach corey wayne, you can tell he doesn't know anything about being married:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15ahFSyeTwY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn-AGeKr97I


Lao-tzu:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EXoutAIG4k

Lao-Tzu    and  his  contemporary  Confucias

purple ribbon, purple sprite

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ROUWFMf1Vq4

brangelina affair, depp off the rails -- benji sympathizes

hey so this is a picture of Angelina's kids, there's one missing, if you have a look at the three of the left you can see an amazing similarity to pitt and jolie, my understanding is that these three kids share the two actors' genes and certainly their faces definitely do seem to reflect that so they're quite cute actually.......... they have also adopted three kids, the eithiopian girl in the photo and the Vietnamese guy and another kid, not sure who........

must be quite tricky being in the media spotlight like that a lot........for everyone involved........ so actually I would just suggest to jolie and depp who is off the rails a little lately, to attend aa meetings with regularity -- even if you go a month without drinking sometimes or whatever -- or the people at the meetings are all wannabes or too square or whatever......... that'd probably be a good idea for both of them............... turns out jolie is friends with gwen Stefani, benji can definitely relate as benji is bffs with murphy who collaborated with benji's chart topping starry starry pudsy (murphy did the music, it's pretty rocking), obsoib:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spRBW8lUnV8

nice crutches pax, just sayin'

hey wow, thanks to revisiting that hit, turns out there was that sunflower photo to be found and a bunch of old movies benji had made.......... not least, the one about the tank builder from munchen.... just sayin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b5Gsqlkx14

talk about a walk down memory lane......... who hasn't thought about getting a divorce, too, right?

kids are always messing with eachother --- gets annoying

unwinding with todd and friends after hours of bus driving

look at this article from ny times;


http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/opinion/two-ex-spies-and-donald-trump.html


assuming the writer sourced the real former secretary of defence, Robert gates, and not just the creaky sounds of his midnight shopping trolley, realize then that Robert Gateshead is foolish. That's why you shouldn't recruit cia agents from university football teams. Try the skate park.


now read Bob's article to wall street journal:


http://www.wsj.com/articles/sizing-up-the-next-commander-in-chief-1474064606


benji can't read it as unwilling to spend $1 for two months membership of wall street journal.... Regardless, it's safe to assume Gates is a silly pants and his wall street journal article would reflect that.... Toodooloo for now, tralala

spring equinox today, it's the first day of a new year, winter over............ did bill and hilary clinton have winter shot in the head and make it look like a suicide???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmqPJvIRIoo


why are 35 people that got in the way of the Clintons found dead with a 45 bullet in the head in the same place and all ruled suicides?

those are the kinds of questions this film asks

fancy a chinkarino anyone? make mine a chinkarelli!

family guy, mcfarlane and co ---- special guest writer/director: benji

roll credits -- norah jones music plays....    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbjZPFBD6JU


todd from wedding crashers, 'death you are my bitch lover'   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AabNXXFdHuA

introduces himself, again............. hi i'm todd from that vince Vaughn movie wedding crashers....  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFyoehy1zNI

Todd announces he's going for a jog and sees the grim reaper jogging towards him, they wave at each other.... then Todd sees bette midler jogging and decides to run in a different direction to avoid her but she follows him so he starts sprinting..............

then Peter is watching the academy awards but everyone is wearing t-shirts that say: 'team adultery' instead of tuxedos and dresses.......... it turns out everyone's  a winner coz they're all on the same team....they have movies with titles like, gee i'm so awesome I had sex with your best friend behind your back..... Peter is in a babbling, baby mood so just gurgles 'with your curly hair and baby blues, go baby go go' (some garbage)............he droops over and falls asleep, changing the channel in the process

there's some tv show on a different channel: women that rape dudes with a hilarious voiceover guy announcing the show then some woman yelling: 'shut up fatty, i'm going to rape you, what are you going to do about it?' and some scared looking 50 something fat guy looking petrified like he might have a heart attack

.......... the moon climbs higher in the sky, peter is still asleep on the couch ---- now rolf harris is on the tv in her majesty's prison with his wobbly board.......... the voiceover announcer guy says, now rolf harris will dedicate a new song to young americans aged 11 to 24, or 25.........  'humpin' everything in sight yeah yeah yeah, hump it all hump it all, yeah yeah yeah, better hump something before I fall asleep, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah'..........

it's daytime, Lois walks in the loungeroom shocked peter has left the tv on all night

to be continued.... (maybe)

family guy's 2016 spring schedule starts this weekend immediately following the summer break

gym week 25, 7km

sore back, may require few days off work.... Possibly from Chinese back massager.... Doing back stretches on big gym ball, see selfie below... 40 sit ups, car vacuum inaccessible at nearby gas station today

j'objecte (I'object)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXy5KeM8VsI


objects:  it is a curious fact of human existence that even the most world denying kind of fakir we might find in india, must have some kind of objects at his disposal such as a bowl to eat from, a blanket, etc...............

nowadays it's popular to have a cell phone as a person's most prized possession and there have even been studies undertaken by various universities on the topic of happiness and what causes it, that shows that citizenry in places like communist china, with access to internet, are markedly happier than those without internet........... the fact that a  hand phone can deliver internet too, something which was somewhat rare even ten years ago, shows that information is going to be on tap for centuries to come.......... what is stronger than information on tap, perhaps, is culture and tradition. In culture we would include a language. A language is a complicated and sophisticated code that allows various people to communicate pretty much anything they want to.......... a lot of wars break out amongst humans over cultural, linguistic lines, even putting religion aside completely, but this is disgressing from the topic of: objects.........

recently, after many months of procrastinating on the subject of finding a certain electrical plug in God know's whichever place it could be, the writer just took it for granted that the comfortable black chair in the lounge room, with the padding on it that has a built in massager, would not be used, for the purposes of massage, but merely for sitting............. so despite many months passing without using the massage........ common sense prevailed and it turned out the plug for the labtop computer, which is a more or less standard plug, and which, in the case of the labtop, may have been conducive to rendering the writer's reproductive seed less effective (just sayin') as some studies now say that the vibrations of internet/wifi from labtop computers, when placed in the lap, damage the male reproductive drive.........again, digressing...........the point is, the massage chair is back in effect and the lymph system, of said writer, can now benefit from the fortuitous push from said massage chair......... talking again about objects, the health food store today quoted $28 Australian dollars for a bottle of 60 milk thistle pills, to be taken once daily...... that's around 50 cents per pill, per day......... apparently this milk thistle and massaging of the lymph system can help resurrect smokey/tar-filled lungs, so they say

anyway, getting back to objects.......... another object I remember I had once was a very small air mattress that came with a sleeping bag on purchase........ the sleeping bag got good use but the air mattress was the kind of thing you'd only use maybe on a rock or something like that..............God knows there were enough rocks where that sleeping bag was used, but not the air mattress, even one time, most definitely, right close by to the sphinx in cairo where there is a little cemetery close by around 20 yards above the ground with rocks to sleep on there...........

still this air mattress never got used, it seemed superfluous, so it was strange, one day, to pick it up and use it various months in a kind of self-imposed Guantanamo bay phase of my life that involved sleeping on a floor in an arrangement that somewhat reminded said writer of being an intern in Guantanamo bay (holding cells)........ so you see, it's funny how you may have acquired some object and never use it and then one day come back to it

now let's bash the new York times.......... are they joking? they have some thing on their website, it is a total joke, if it was referring to gargamel and smurfette and who was going to end up happy, it might be funny, but instead it's their election predictor and it's saying Clinton 95, trump 5 percent chance of winning, and then, those funny people there, God only knows what is going through their funny little minds, are now saying Clinton 75, trump 25 percent............ apart from the fantasy land of ny times and some random journalist like yahoo's matt bai, or some occasional random Clinton supporting from barry (Obama), the isolationist, one really cannot exactly see a groundswell of support for Clinton, even in the media............. benji predicts a trump victory in November


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWEcymDP5aI


news flash! this just in! the black plague kills over 100 million people around six hundred or so years ago! sorry for the delay in reporting that but it's big news anyway!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death

bus fire billowing smoke completely shuts down Sydney harbor bridge today; got a plait anybody?

traffic banks up for miles concurrent with benji's shift. Thankfully, benji not affected




http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/bus-blaze-on-sydney-harbour-bridge/news-story/37bb4a10e11122f1a1c74bba76a3e7e2


they just had the staind singer guy on fox and friends... But he's going back to his roots which is possibly the good ol' boys from the blues brothers.... Continuing that French theme from last post, you know who kicks arse? So much better than country music from America? François Hardy, she is great, enjoy:


http://youtu.be/6MhRUMsbAQc


hey wow, who knew François sang this French doozy of a song? It seems vaguely familiar...
http://youtu.be/mwhX5V1Gn6w


so did we ever mention that old flame of benji's that was delighted benji's coiffure was likened to the appearance of a potplant? Maybe that's a story for tomorrow, or maybe no

bon soir!

voila, on mange le riz au lait et regarde les fox et amis aux fox news canal.... J'ai fini le traivalle du jour. Donc, aujourd'hui, j'ai connu une femme de quatre vingt treize années, c'est tellement vieille! Même si, elle a le cerveau fort.


Alors, elle est anglaise et m'a dit que elle a été vivant en l'australie quatre années maintenant. Sa coupin vivait dans l'australie quelques années pour les années de deusieme guerre mondial.... Avec l'armée britannique. Ça fait vraiment longtemp!
. . .


http://youtu.be/KlvXSE72kFM

gym week 24: 4km

new honey regime, minimum one tablespoon honey per day, also occasionally using 1kg dumbbells while running, total 2km extra weight . Made the acquaintances of one mark and one 'simmo' today at gym, generally not talking to anyone here except Marie the reception woman and the daycare ladies, one of which is Russian so associated with relatively small Russian community of Sydney




1km + warm down = ~ 80 calories or 340kj


1 fried egg is around 95 calories per serve. Eggs are high in protein. Not eating meat apart from infrequent servings of seafood, consuming red kidney beans, tofu, eggs and nuts for protein

gym week 23: 4km

movie review: old school, 2003, vaughn ferrell et al

somewhat amusing look at 30 something guys with issues transitioning to adult life. Free love ain't free, take your chastity pledge now




http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0302886/reviews?ref_=m_tt_urv#showAll

soda is fattening but can be peppered with hard liquor

here's that lung detox video: Essentially, even a non smoker would do well to try the milk thistle detox, pot smokers that don't smoke cigarettes too. Strangely they don't mention pineapple which has special properties that can help rebuild lung tissue


http://youtu.be/IOCewG8uApM

check out the soda, cheap! That's what's awesome about America: The cost of living is so affordable.... Just drank some Bulgarian rakia today, so strong, had to sleep it off.... That's my second time drunk in four months. Typically I'd get drunk once or twice a year these days. We had some company today so for some reason just preferred to be a little drunk, Bulgarian rakia had me buzzing after one glass.

movie review: brother nature, 2016 (paramount movies)

genre: comedy


that's funny, had been anticipating watching this movie for a week or so now, woke up super early from some dream about a casino and now watching the part of the movie where the casino figures

in my dream I was with one of wiffy's buddies and it was the most amazing casino thing you'd ever seen: the interior of the casino had a massive wall of glass that gave out right onto an underground tunnel opening of a freeway that essentially just fed into another bigger tunnel chamber, what was strange, watching the cars fly by in the casino tunnel is that there were actually pedestrians ambulating near the mouth of the tunnel feeding into the bigger underground chamber (that the huge bright hotel wall/window let out on) - you had to worry about those pedestrians being hit by the cars flying around at 80 miles an hour

going to keep watching the movie, maybe will record more of this dream later!

check out this youtube video on how to detox your lungs after being a smoker (today is going to be day 50 without a smoke for me and I've been fishetarian for a few weeks now too!) -- apparently you have to have one spoon of honey a day plus lots of the right greens (or nuts) --- just acquired a nice jar of honey recently from hawks nest up north of here recently on a holiday

the indian guy's getting the haircut and his mom is saying how it should be, the indian guy is roger's campaign manager, roger just found out he'll be running for congressman unexpectedly (u.s. senate or representatives)........

so anyway, in the dream it was the weirdest thing because it turned out that gnarly hotel casino place with the amazing window wall connected to the crazy underground freeway was in fact the yihe hotel resort where I was working from august 2004 thru march 14 2005 when I left for nyc -- this date is also the date my son alex was born in 2013............ so anyway, being in the casino and seeing the little daycare centre/school where I was working in 2004 in reality, was actually connected to the casino in the dream, I met some of the teachers there and they were actually able to speak English, like americans, in the real world there was only one other teacher and it was an American guy called Robert.... I think Robert was from maybe a military family with a divorced mom, or maybe his dad died fighting in a war I have no idea, I had the impression his parents were divorced but never asked him despite seeing a photo in his room one time.........the resort was the bomb due to the largest pool with wave machine - four star hotel resort living non stop for 7 months, sick............. check out the website; www.yihehotel.com.cn         it's only 640am here, everyone's still in bed, going to keep watching the haircut!

Todd's about to tell a scary story....so this guy, Robert, we were friends on facebook for a while maybe i'll add him again.......we never really loved eachother to pieces exactly, but we were like brothers........ at one point I called him on the phone from the other end of the atrium as our rooms at the start weren't next to eachothers, just to tell him to stop saying 'gay' all the time, like everything I was doing was 'gay' or that's 'gay'........ he was fine with that.........very diplomatic conversation, ha ha........ he was with some chinese girl the whole time, don't know if he stayed with her in the end or what happened......... he was from Florida, this guy........ so he tells me: but that's the way I grew up! that's just what we said as kids! that's gay, totally gay, so gay....... it's true, American guys are like that, everything is gay with them, or lame or totally............ gets very clichéd and annoying after a while, no wonder Russians don't like americans...........

facebook is meant to be so intuitive but doesn't even remember me and Robert were facebook friends years ago.........weird.........

totally can't find him even though we were facebook buddies years ago -- super weird....... alarm is going off across the road --- so this guy Robert, he was a vegetarian and would go buying chickens and turkeys and what not made out of tofu from some shop in Guangzhou -- they were good old days let me tell you --- i'd just met Desi days before i lobbed up to that hotel job -- we'd spent a month together in Bulgaria but we didn't really get to know eachother much at the time

see this movie cameos Rachel maddow who is msnbc's bill o'reilly but of the fairer sex --- compare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKiJs8Kzj04

you can't give books to Bengali kids -- they're ultra muslim conservatives, they'll chop your balls off if you read a book ---- still wondering why i left alex with a Bengali woman and her two kids for a few months on Saturdays when he was like one --- how he hated being left there --


the end of this movie is schmaltzy nonsense, i paid $5 to watch this............ so anyway in that dream there were some other teachers at this daycare/school at yihehotel......... there wasn't really a casino there in real life.......  can't remember it now

kids are up - time to go!

ralph waldo Emerson on Swedenborg

http://www.emersoncentral.com/swedenborg.htm




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Carmel

presidential race: Clinton and Trump on Lauer's NBC vehicle; bromance or foemance - my American buddy Todd

watch this spot for benji's take on the Clinton and Trump on Lauer's NBC vehicle, coming soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC2n-MYkXBY

watching around a quarter hour or more of this, both sides of the fence, it's tighter than a mofo -- going to be a very close race, just look at my wedding photo why don't you

it's bold of Clinton to stand up and sit down a lot and do all the chinese body language but it would be more presidential for her to park her arse like Trump did the whole time






separately, ignore this section if you're totally not in the mood for arguments about potential afterlifes like reincarnation or eternal hell, whatever: It's basically some dialog between myself and a buddy who is a preacher in Swedenborg's 'new church'. Todd can fix my 50cc scooter Colleen, plus he's already helped me with some small things on my car, he's a good guy and so is his wife, she's Canadian so I can practice French language with her, my wife can play social tennis with her, whatever. I would totally alienate a buddy if I felt that it was more important to state my beliefs clearly even if that's obnoxious to whoever.




Todd says:


The common example people look to when trying to validate reincarnation via the Bible is that of John the Baptist.  In Malachi 3:1 the Lord tells us, “I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me” and that “I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes” (Malachi 4:5).  However, John the Baptist is not Elijah himself, but rather he operates with the “spirit and power of Elijah” (Luke 1:17).  When later questioned directly whether or not he is Elijah, John states, “No, I am not” (John 1:21).  As a result we can safely assert that the Bible does not teach reincarnation. 




I reply:


With regard to Elijah. It is common for Jews nowadays to celebrate him. Just because Jews don't understand reincarnation any more than moslems do is not a reason to put either on a pedestal. In fact, one look at their problems in the middle east shows you how far both are from Swedenborg's innermost spiritual heaven where spiritual wisdom is strongest. The Nazis didn't believe in reincarnation either and Elijah didn't save the Jews from hitlers gas tanks and genocide.


Swedenborg repeatedly discusses how embarrassed people are in the afterlife by their beliefs on earth which they recall perfectly well, ie with regard to cosmogenesis, etc. You're going to experience that yourself with regard to your idea about the soul being generated in the female reproductive organ which is incredibly ignorant and will certainly be a cause of embarrassment to you according to Swedenborg. Swedenborg states that soul personality's are not admitted to heaven until they are instructed and disabused of their false beliefs which are inadmissible in heaven. Your humble friend is happy to give you a headstart on that and save you some embarrassment, however that can't be forced into you like the Spanish inquisition forced Sephardic Jews to convert to 'christianity', Swedenborg rightfully asserts that freedom is essential to regeneration.
Eternity is a mighty long time and you would be hard pressed to write a thousand words on how you see your own eternity playing out. Don't you think you'd get bored of heaven and hell and eventually want to experience the challenge and potential for growth and mastery that only comes from life in the physical world? Be it this planet or some other similar one? What is it about heaven or hell that you wish would save you from the torment of monotony and boredom you would eventually find there? What do you expect to do there? Keep Jesus cool with a fan? Sing songs, play Nintendo?
Do you know that Swedenborg states that fools are rendered silent and move around lopsidedly and stupidly in heaven as they cannot foist their nonsense onto anyone there? That's what hell is for!
To eternity is a long time, easy to banter the expression, Swedenborg is short on explanations of how it plays out though.
You still have not explained why it wouldn't be better to gas all of earth's children and thus vouchsafe them safe passage to heaven For eternity as you whimsically put it. Maybe making mistakes and experiencing some hell is better than a planet where all human life is eradicated to extinction for the sake of saving people from hell like some kind of over protective mother. Maybe hitler and the nazis wanted to save the Jewish people from hell by stopping them from sinning excessively, maybe that's what they meant by final solution. Yes, it's puerile to entertain warped and stupid notions.


Yes sirree bob, you sure have some funny ideas!  Here in Sydney we have an expression: if all of blacktown jumped off the Sydney harbor bridge, would you? I wouldn’t! All of America and china and india and Australia could go ahead and jump off it and I still wouldn’t jump off it!  But if peer pressure did move me to believe something, then maybe that’s why reincarnation seems like something believable, since most of the world’s population believes in it anyway, Buddhists, hindus, etc

Why doesn’t sweedenborg talk about seeing and talking to Jesus in Heaven, since he is so fond of Him? And why doesn’t he mention the Buddhists and hindus in any detail? Why didn’t he visit some more advanced aliens’ heaven and get some technology from them so we can all travel around faster than the speed of light! Sure Sweedenborg is a great soul, a mahatma, as the hindus say, no doubt, and his revelations constitute a genuine case of mystical illumination which the buddists aspire to after their master Buddha achieved his own kind of illumination under the boddhi tree.

In short, everything of the nature of denial of reincarnation goes against the teachings of the gospels and there’s nothing in sweedenborg’s writings that I have seen that warrant it either. It was once fashionable to consider the earth as flat and today’s quantum physicists are in the fashion of considering travel faster than the speed of light as impossible also, this is all just ignorance.

If those weren’t compelling enough arguments for you, be aware that sweedenborg reports that in heaven the angels marvel and are shocked by the beliefs of the people of the Christian church, especially given they have the bible to read. He further states that there is only a ‘slender hope’ in heaven that anything good will come of the Christian church. Neither did he state that he had a mission to found a new church, he merely states the truth: that God has seen fit for him to witness various aspects of heaven and hell and report it.

Finally: the balance of facts. You know that the ancient Egyptians were one of the most advanced civilizations on earth, they had primitive batteries and light bulbs, made excellent beer, had the number pi written down in their pyramids to thousands  of decimal places, they had advanced culture and art in many practical fields of human existence such as sculpting, furniture making (carpentry), fashion such as jewellery, etc........... reincarnation was a common belief with the masses there same as it was in Palestine during the time of Jesus’ ministry which is self-evident in the gospels. The Egyptians believed, taught and represented in their hieroglyphs that the soul of the man (it’s ba and ka) would be weighed and measured (depicted by a heart in hieroglyphs) against a feather – representing truth ‘maat’ in Egyptian).    Sweedenborg rightly points out, perhaps, that hell is founded on adultery. Jesus stated something like just by looking at a bikini hottie on the beach and lusting after her is committing adultery in the heart. Therefore, I would think it’s better to be pure of heart and not an accidental adulterer or adulterer by intent, and not profess a belief in reincarnation, perhaps, then to be a believer in reincarnation and by a serial adulterer which is the case with some people.

A man’s ka and ba undergoes various changes ‘to eternity’ so a soul personality may profess a belief in reincarnation in one lifetime, and then not believe in it in a future lifetime, generally just due to the common belief of the time. Certainly in north America, north of mexico it is more commonly believed that it is good to carpet bomb southeast asia and not profess a belief in the law of eternal return than the contrary, that isn’t necessarily a good thing though, but religions and beliefs change.

You understand that sweedenborg talks about the old church and how faith and love were alive and well there and he gives names of various gradations of these ancient races of man as they appear in genesis. What sweedenborg church people do not understand, generally, however, is that these tribes are the same ones referred to by mystics that write of ancient atlantis and Lemuria. Lemuria was a supercontinent that was sunk under the pacific ocean by volcanic fire. Only Australia, California/Oregon/western Washington and a few other places remain of it today. Australia’s aborigines are relics of the ancient lemurian races. Some of these races, spanning millions of years time, were so advanced that they manifested the same goodness and purity here on our Earth as do Angels of very high levels of heaven such as sweedenborg’s first or second level of heaven (where souls are wiser than the outer levels). This is what sweedenborg’s ancient church (on earth) refers to (in a small part), however sweedenborg doesn’t go into detail about it.

Sweedenborg is not the only mystic to achieve illumination and therefore great wisdom, we already mentioned Buddha. Jacob Boehme is another prominent case. Sweedenborg states that the muslims generally go to heaven and many catholics, generally to hell. But I would bet my bottom dollar, sooner or later, sweedenborg will reincarnate as some modern day American that professes Catholicism as his religion due to his childhood education and upbringing. Regardless, you can see if moslems get into heaven with their jihads and chopping off of hands and polygamy, certainly Buddha and the Buddhists are going to heaven!


Todd says:

When we look to an eastern view of reincarnation we can quickly see the Bible discounting it as a legitimate possibility. Matthew 25:46 specifically tells us that believers go on to eternal life while unbelievers go onto eternal punishment, with the key word being “eternal”.  Similarly, Jesus told the criminal on the cross, "Today you will be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:43), and mentions nothing along the lines of, "You will have another chance to live a life on this earth." 

 I reply:


As stated to you yesterday in person, my understanding is that Jesus did not get a pass from his dad in Gethsamane when he pleaded to avoid the bitter prospect of cruxifixion. Instead he went off to eternal punishment: getting cruxified on the cross. I told you that my understanding is that this is the punishment he faced for actions he perpetrated as a conqueror and virtually invincible reformer/general: alexander the great. This is not something i’ve read somewhere but something that has occurred to me personally, whether true or false. The notion that Jesus is paying for the sins for millions of souls on earth that incarnate after him, such as you and I, is only true in the sense that they have some direction from Him on how to act in their own lives, including turning the other cheek and letting their enemies best them.

So you see, eternal punishment applies to everyone, even the son of God. That is why he is punished on the cruxixion: because you’re right about eternal punishment. The notion that Jesus is the only son of God is not actually true in absolute terms. Putting aside countless other planets where this scenario has played out, on our own planet, the famous chinese philosopher Lao-Tse is said to have been born of immaculate conception. Most likely this was one of Jesus’ earlier incarnations. There is a black-skinned sage, Jasper, also said to have been born like this and the Hindus feted Krishna was also born in this manner, to a virgin mother. The notion that only Jesus was born to a virgin mother is a white supremacist notion and utterly fallacious, along with the notion that Nazis are doing jewish children a favour by gassing them to death and thus saving them from hell.

Jesus told the criminal he would be in paradise with him possibly because he thought the criminal would avoid hell for his sins, possibly due to paying compensation enough by being cruxified, can’t say. Regardless the gospels do not say that jesus died on the cross but that he gave up the holy ghost, which is the same holy spirit that descended in the form of a dove during John’s baptism of him. Jesus did not die on the cross but came near to death and then resuscitated himself to perfect health in the few days after he was retrieved from the cross by “Helios”, his mystery school of which he was the dean, consisting of 12 disciples (Iscariot was replaced), eacho of whom had 11 disciples of their own, his entire school consisting of 144 members. Jesus went on to live a very long and advanced life in the Mount Carmel region of northern Palestine, probably living over 100 years of age. Some legends have it that he married mary magdeline and had children with her however I don’t know anything about this myself so wouldn’t offer an opinion.

If you really are interested in the truth, get a copy of the Mystical life of Jesus by h. Spencer lewis, amorc books and the secret doctrines of Jesus by h. Spencer lewis amorc books. Sweedenborg states that many church people are not interested in anything about the church or its ideas but only with social standing or lifestyle that if affords. Each person, according to sweedenborg, is examined in the afterlife as to his true beliefs and true motivations and he keeps nothing a secret. I know personally that I will have to give an account in the afterlife of uncharitable thoughts towards others as often I absolutely hate people that force their mobile phone conversations onto me. I am heartened though, by Jesus’ example in the Temple where he gets ‘hands on’ and forcefully throws people out and manhandles people, although his constant scorn of the Pharisees and sadducees is heartening in this respect.


Todd says:


There are at least two ways in which the Writings address the issue of the chronology of the soul’s creation and consequent attachment to a body.  The first is in reference to the actual moment of conception where we are told,

It is well known that a person's soul begins in the mother's ovum, and is after that developed in her womb, and is there surrounded with a tiny body, which indeed is such that by means of it the soul is able to function properly in the world into which it is born. (AC 3570.4)
Therefore a person’s soul does not exist in any form before conception, and cannot properly function in the world without a body.  Further, that a soul stays with that person forever.  The Writings give no credence to the idea that after death a soul can enter back into another body, in fact calling it an, “absurd notion that someone's soul can cross over into someone else” (TCR 171).




I reply:


The notion that the soul comes into existence due to the creation of a physical body is tricky. Swedenborg goes to lengths to equate heaven and goodness with the divine (the world of soul/spirit), and the evil and the hell comes from putting nature and the body before and above the soul and spirit. Saying a soul cannot exist without a body is folly because it puts nature above the soul for which the subscribers of that idea, hell will have to be paid. If you think the soul doesn't exist before birth than you're saying it's not eternal but finite, like the body is finite. You're denying divinity and therefore affirming nature and placing your chips on the odds (hell), not the evens (heaven). Gambling is evil anyway.

You mentioned in your van on Wednesday, the number of soul personalities in the world at present, inferring they couldn't have lived on earth before. In your email you mention the generation of a new soul personality by the action of a womb in creating a vehicle for the supersoul. Swedenborg defines the soul as the LIFE of the spirit. What he is calling spirit I am calling soul personality which we both agree survives death to eternity, experiencing heaven and hell, good and evil in the creation, which we might call eternity. It is not my understanding that a soul personality can survive even in hell to eternity, it can actually be destroyed in very wicked and irredeemable cases although this would occur on a cyclical basis with millions of earth years intervening. There are numerous spiritual egos or entities that abide in heaven or hell that are not incarnating on a planet as a baby, even once, or they are on the bench for aeons waiting their turn. Earth and other planets are supposed to be footstool kingdoms to heaven, witness the lords prayer. However humans have free will and are ignorant and create the hell themselves. Sweedenborg says this himself. The hell the nazis created saved no soul personalities from hell merely by killing their bodies before too much sin was commissioned, they will simply reincarnate and make mistakes and learn by trial and error. God isn't a pervert. If you're interested read this link, interesting arguments are raised as to why Swedenborg's spirits of planet mercury are dressed in European clothes from his time, answer because that's the spin his brain puts on it being an untrained seer. Your genesis of the soul in the womb quote from Swedenborg just demonstrates the fact that he missed out on training from mystery school but it makes little difference in the long run as he testifies well to the truth. The Jewish book of Genesis states the body is a living soul with the first breath which God breathes into the nostrils at birth. Only crazy republicans in America and ignorant  and bigoted bible bashers and such like believe the soul fully occupies the fetus before breathing commences. The soul personality can make contact with the new family a few months before birth and prepare to say bye byes to its buddies in Heaven (by now it would have been freed from hell, if there at all), Swedenborg also states numerous examples where spirits go back and forth from heaven to hell 'to eternity' as you say. That was a very long answer and it's really not a joke, if you think it's poppycock that's your affair. God bless.


Link follows:
http://blavatskyarchives.com/psychicversusinitiate.htm