John Kitchin:  Engineer, Author, Minister

Copyright 2010, John Kitchin.  All Rights Reserved.

So, how is it that an author and engineer has a nonprofit website?  You have to stand for something, whatever that is, and this is what I stand for:

I worship the real truth, as opposed to what is supposed to be true.  Real truth is rarely seen in any of the media.  I also believe that there is no difference between the people doing the helping and the people being helped.  They are us.  There are not two classes of people.  You need to payback in kind those few rare agents which helped you for your own benefit, and not to enrich themselves.  And, conversely, never again trust or cooperate with agents which harmed you.  Help expose them instead.

A society which favors corruption over truth can only promote evil, purporting it to be good, or at least necessary.  The forces of evil include the media, the religions, the professions (with a few exceptions for certain rare individuals), and the government.  Government includes the political system, the police, the legal system, the schools, and the economic system (with a few economic system exceptions).

The forces of good include volunteers, professionals working pro-bono (free), charitable contributors, whistle-blowers, most nonprofits, and a handful of individuals in education, other government, corporations, and even the media.

The whole essence of the "hippie movement" of the 1960's was that large numbers of young people found out that there isn't any God, heaven, or hell.  They knew that their parents didn't believe in God, yet went to church every Sunday and pretended to.  Their parents had money, yet never seemed very happy.  So, if there isn't any God, heaven, or hell, shouldn't they work on being happy?  After all, Earth is all that exists, and then you die and become nothing, right?

A lot of this philosophy went into media such as Playboy Magazine, which was a literary publication more than a billboard for nudity.  Hedonism, the Playboy Philosophy, says that sacrifice today in preparation for tomorrow is ridiculous.  With possible nuclear war, will there be a tomorrow?  How does that make you feel about having children?  Planning for retirement?

Allen Ginsberg's "Mad Magazine" made jokes about all the hypocrisy, which at least gave comic relief to a world that was spouting "true" lies faster than anybody could listen.  But if no God, then what do we believe in?  People.

Long before I paid a very dear price to find out that nobody (without exception) in the religion business actually believes in God, or anything else they're teaching, I still knew the truth, deep inside.  I didn't want to, but I did. 

[THIS AUTHOR EVENTUALLY RUNS DIRECTLY INTO GOD]

Ministers sacrifice to create a false God for people to have something to believe in.  That's all, and it's been that way for 10,000 years, going back to the beginnings of religion.  None of the religious leaders have ever, in all of history, believed in God.  They create a God for you to believe in, because they believe you need one.  They believe in you.  People.

Belief in people, but not in God, is what caused the hippies to investigate unusual religions, encourage racial and sexual equality, and found such organizations as the Peace Corps.  If we are all that is, let us be something and stand for something.

But if we are also Hedonistic, where do drugs fit in?  That is, can dope make somebody happier?  What about someone in a wheelchair, with most of their mental faculties gone?  Dope can certainly be a bad thing, dealing with addiction, the law, and impaired functioning.  But it can also be a good thing, particularly for some people.  That is the connection between the hippies and drugs.  Almost everything in the news media is and was complete bullshit.

Happiness in a jar?  Well, the religious leaders do now have a machine that puts out human love.  Most religious brainwashing (called "Socialization"), uses the old-fashioned way:  Eucharistics, first put into widespread use by the Ancient Egyptians.

There is the effect that the preparers of the eucharist (or kosher food) are believed to be telling the truth, even when they are lying.  Magic perfect for religion and govenment.  If you can lie but everyone believes you, then you're a minister.  If you're really good at it, they call you a police officer or newspaper reporter.

If you are exceptionally good at being able to lie, yet everyone believes you, then you're a news anchor or an editor (or an attorney).  The best of all liars are selected to run for public office, or become a judge.  Welcome to reality, of the true and ugly variety.  Teachers need to be good liars, too, because they all must teach at least some things that they know are completely untrue. 

All philosophy, of course, is personal opinion.  I've only given you 1/10 of 1% of a dose of truth, because most people can't handle much more, at least at first.  Learn.  If everything you were ever taught was a lie, then what is true?  You're not helpless and stupid.  Learn.  It's your right, and essential for you to do well in your life!

RELIGION:  Am I an atheist?  No, I'm clergy.  An atheist does not believe in God, or gods, but is not absolutely certain.  An agnostic is even less certain.  It's only members of clergy that know for sure that there isn't any God.  But, in reality, there is a God, at least as a concept, and also in the things people do.

One definition of the Holy Spirit is as follows:  "A religious concept wherein the actions of people on Earth collectively represent the power of God in action".  Also, "The Holy Spirit is thought to be the female complement (nurture) to the male-depicted God (creator of nature)."  Sounds like Mother Nature, the Goddess California (goddess of the horn-of-plenty) to me.  That is also the Buddhist God:  Not a being, but the embodiment of the whole universe.  That makes Buddhism the only old, established religion without God as a being.  Scientifically, God exists, if God is nature.  And, God appears to use the workings of science to do His creating and Her nurturing.

I looked into the roots of where Christianity came from, and found Judaism.  Judaism came from Semitic and Egyptian Paganism.  Before that, Ancient Babylon, and even earlier, tribal shamans, witch-doctors, and medicine men.  All religion is descended from Ancient Paganism. 

Try reading the best book on religion I've ever found, "Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets", by Barbara G. Walker.  Although somewhat sexist anti-male, she does give accurate answers to most of the tough religious questions.  Who was Jesus?  Who wrote the bible?  Where did the Star of David symbol come from?  Her bibliography alone is a masterpiece of religious reference.  The bible is the word of God, unless you interpret it literally, and then it becomes the word of Satan!

Regarding religious philosophy, consider this:  Overpopulation is the source of all evil.  Not enough jobs?  No, too many people for the number of jobs in the economy.  Shortage of housing?  No, too many people for the amount of housing available.  Not enough food?  No, too many people for the amount of food available.  Too much pollution?  No, too many people for the amount of pollution that we and the earth can clean up.

All problems in the entire world are caused by having more people than resources.  Does that make abortion good?  No, but more humane than war or disease.  It makes birth control good.  War and disease reduce population, but at a great cost.  People harmed are missed as friends, family, and may be someone that was depended upon.  Even the Old Pagan Rule that a baby is not a human life until it is one year old, the ancient birth control method of infanticide, is more humane than disease or war.  Today, we have birth control.  If only we would use it!  Birth control prevents abortion!  Do you dislike abortion?  Then you must support birth control! 

POPULATION REDUCTION AND CONTROL NEEDS TO BE CONSIDERED RELIGION'S PRIMARY GOAL, AND THE HIGHEST COMMANDMENT OF GOD.   It means the least suffering for all.  Below that, quality of life issues are important:  Is our greatly reduced population getting enough to eat?  Medical care?  Shelter?  Clothing?  Sex?  Sleep?  And, finally, happiness issues regarding self and others.

So, these are the 3 questions to ask yourself every day:  (1).  How have I helped reduce the evil of overpopulation today?  (2).  How have I helped make sure that people have a place to stay, enough to eat, clothing, and medical care?  (3).  How have I helped myself and others to be happy?  Note:  Failure of task (1) makes tasks (2) and (3) ultimately impossible.

Only half-seriously, has anyone ever considered a Sacrament of Abortion, where God, thru His clergy, has determined that adding to overpopulation would be a terrible mistake?  Yes, birth control would be far preferable.  But if population reduction is GOD'S PRIMARY COMMANDMENT, where does that leave us on the religious issue of abortion?

Planned Parenthood is at www.plannedparenthood.org.  Zero Population Growth is at www.zerogrowth.org.

My Relationship With God:

When I was a very little boy, I tried to be as good at reading and writing as I could.  My dad was an office manager, and had to initial paperwork a lot.  Copying him, whenever I drew a picture or painted a watercolor I initialed it as mine.  Not being old enough to understand the alphabet, I used a 5-pointed star to indicate me.  Quite probably, some of my early drawings are still extant.

Later, when I learned the letters of my name, my real initials, I added "JAK" to the star.  Later yet, I learned that a star with 6 points is easier to make, by drawing two triangles.  Now my JAK initials were on a Star of David!  Genetic Memory?  Oh, definitely, but I didn't know that until recently.  The whole A.D.D. thing consisted of that, and the reason the ADD and autistic kids are shunned from participation in religion is that their genetic memory ("instinct") is at odds with society's "truths".

The reason the red butterfly is afraid of the green snake is that grandpa butterfly saw grandma butterfly get eaten by a green snake.  The memory was passed down, so that not all red butterflies had to learn by observation, nor by being eaten themselves.  We call Genetic Memory "instinct", and all species have it, especially humans!  Over 90% of DNA is memory molecules, the other 10% or less containing the blueprint to build an organism!

I had only medium aptitude to write well, but devoted my life when young to keep getting better.  By high school, I wrote almost as well as today!  I was given something like 20 college credits for my work accomplished before college.  Brainy?  No, socially inept, with a penchant for playing chess and other board games, such as Clue, Monopoly, Finance, Careers, Life, Square Mile, and more.

SECTION BEING WRITTEN HERE ABOUT MY BAKING BREAD, PRETZELS, BREWING BEER, FEAR OF HEIGHTS, AND MY NOW COMPLETE ACCESS TO MY ENTIRE "INSTICTS" OR GENETIC MEMORY.

Genetic Memory had me go into psychology, because there was much I needed to know, both about psychotropic drugs and about certain mental diseases.  At one point, knowing nothing about the religious secrets, and singing almost daily in a church choir (going to communion sometimes 5 Masses a day), I went on a scavenger hunt for some unknown reason.

I found a clean box in the trash, which used to contain altar breads.  These are the crackers used for communion in church services.  It was empty, and into it I placed several items, including a brand-new and still-wrapped condom!  I honestly didn't know, and took the box into my pastor's office to ask him what it meant.  The pastor had me seeing a psychiatrist, and the doctor told me to go to the pastor whenever I had a question of an unusual nature.  How's that for genetic memory? 

How's that for someone with ADD unable to hold back the knowledge, even though the psychiatrist was feeding me anti-memory drugs!  I had such a poor memory that I could not remember my education in clinical psychology and psychotropic drugs!  The pastor had me arrested.  When I got out of jail, he greeted me on the front steps of the church with the gnostic handshake.  Not the best move, as no one had yet explained anything to me!  I thought he was using some sort of electronic device.  I said nothing.  Still taking the anti-memory drug, maximum dose.

But now, I suddenly needed that drug.  Why?  After jail, church wasn't the first place I went.  I needed a break, and went out to a wilderness area, the only human for many miles around.  I'm suppressing it to this day, because what I experienced was so extreme, but I ran into God the Creator that night.  Really.  On the way home, I had an auto accident on a deserted road with a parked car.  Somehow, I made my way home.  Police had a note on my door:  Hit and run. 

I explained that I could remember nothing.  Just then, I realized that the drugs I were taking suppressed memory.  It's a good thing, though.  I stopped taking them, and the pastor got a court order that I take my anti-memory drug.  When I refused, I was sent to jail, and the drug forcibly administered there.  Well, all that is what I get for going to communion 4 or 5 times a day when singing various church services for several years!

I sought help from supervisors, bishops, to no avail.  Finally I found one outside of conventional religion, a Pagan Bishop.  As a victim of the legal system (often), the educational system, the psychiatric profession, and also gnosis under the Catholics, Mormons, and Jews, I both got ordained and unanimously appointed and consecrated a bishop.  None of them even knew that I met God one night.  In fact, I myself didn't know until recently, and was an atheist member of the clergy in the meantime.  The memory of God is starting to come back.  How appropriate.  I'm not certain what percentage of people He shows himself or herself to, but I sure know why I was one of them!

And, if, like most people who are gnostic, you don't believe in God, all I have to say is, well, boy, have you got another guess coming!  I  just might write a treatise like this on how to meet God one-on-one.  Let's see you deny His existence then!  I did, for 20 years afterwards, not remembering the incident.  Memory suppression drugs work really well.

The biggest mistake I ever made in my life was to fill in one particular box of the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee student enrollment application with the word "atheist".  It was the box asking my religion.  It meant that no one of any spiritual tradition ever contacted me or taught me anything.  It's more than likely, however, that the ADD would have precluded my participation, anyway.  But, participation, if granted, would have eliminated the ADD itself, and also improved my memory.

Anyway, if you can do grad-level research as an undergrad, knowing nothing about spirituality, what could you do if you did know?  Yes, it is THAT important!  It is the difference and defining factor.  I never gave nor received any love in my life until I acquired the unpaid job of dealing with it wholesale.  Nowadays?  Catch my recent bio, a diary on Page D1.

So, if I jump into bed with several gnostic women at the same time, I've earned it, even irrespective of running a rescue mission.  And, perhaps I was contacted at the University by members of my "religion":  Several atheist women gave me tantric sex, although I had no idea how it worked.  One was a nude model for university art classes, stared at 8 hours a day by as many as 200 students.  Sex with her nearly killed me.  That, too, helped inspire my editorial (Page C3, #3) about lethal tantrism.  Death by love in capital punishment cases.

Right now, I need to bring out the memory of my meeting with God 20 years ago.  My psychiatrist won't allow this, but guess who has a pharmacy license, plus an education in psychotropic drugs?  Shouldn't surprise you.  Picked up the package inserts for Namenda and Aricept.  Is experimentation with drugs anything new to an old hippie?

In the meantime, if anyone fills in the Religion Box on the UWM enrollment application with the word "atheist" or "agnostic" I claim them as clergy!  Oh, yes I can.  I'll send them a bootleg copy of a book written by John Schlitz.  I can do that, because I hold the copyright. 

TO BE CONTINUED.  COMING  EVENTS:  The Problems With Jesus, and another article, Meeting God.  Both are currently being written.

Copyright 2010, John Kitchin.  All Rights Reserved.

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