fully tax the catholic church on all USA propertes they own

 fully tax the catholic church on all USA properties they own

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edward w pritchard

If I were President I would fully tax the catholic church and others on all the USA real estate properties they owned. Starting in twenty five years from the present. The money would be used appropriately to help the  downtrodden. For a twenty five year period the tax would not start provided the catholic church and other churches went back and re reviewed their position on each religious schism or scriptual controversy they fought and or murdred people over, that is those who they intellectually diagreed with. In addition all religious organizations in the USA must publically forgive John Rawls for his positions on all matters they disagreed with him overs by admitting that in matters of opinion both sides are partially right and wrong at the same time. 

seventy first birthday

 seventy first birthday

fiction 

edward w pritchard

About ten years  ago a noted local heart surgeon told my family gathered in my room at the hospital after a heart procedure and  a heart attack that I probably wouldn't make it till morning. Somehow I have survived nearly ten years and I credit my still being alive along with various pills daily to listening to blues music, three cans a night of beer and a proper outlook on the world., and walking around the world more than three times on the canal paths in the local area where I live.  

Bessie Smith, Elmore James and Snooks Eaglin are my only friends anymore. Several times a week I converse with them as I listen to their philosophical thoughts expressed through music. 

As you get older there is less to fret about. As an example in my case I don't care if I have a 4,000 square house properly remodeled and filled with more expensive furniture than I can sit on. 

Most days I hope for a clear night to watch the evening sky, planets and stars as I walk and walk along the lake walking and walking to keep myself alive. That's about it really.  Excuse me it's time for me to go back to reading a few high brow books on various subjects, joyfully interacting with the grandchildren,  and spending many hours at the gym trying to extend my time as a sentient being. 

Someone said " Life has no meaning , only the beauty of it's intricate design".

what ever else they said about Jesus

whatever else they said about Jesus

fiction

edward w pritchard

Whatever else they said about Jesus, Jesus never sent important information to his twelve disciples by email.

Jesus never had twelve way phone conversations either. Face to face conversations is how Jesus communicated, whether to twelve people or an entire sermon on a mount. 

We should take a lesson from Jesus' communications style. No phone chats and no emails. 

Face to face conversations in business and personal life is how Jesus handled his personal life and business life.

 

james Booker and Jesus part 2

 Why would Jesus return to the earth for the second time as James Booker, the New Orleans piano prodigy? And why would Jesus return to the earth to full fill his prophesies of the second coming as a homo sexual drug addict? And why would the staff in the emergency room at the hospital in New Orleans refuse to treat James Booker when he was sitting in the hospital waiting to die of Kidney failure.

Was James Booker Jesus returned? Listen to James Booker's Oh Holy night rendition for clues. Do you need your Jesus to be perfect? Do you need your Jesus to be perfect, without sin,  and without human attributes and faults ?

Course I, me, don't really believe in any thing at all super natural. I said that because I just can't stand to hear about good old Jesus, who may not of even have been real suffering through a short life  like they said and ending up -for real on a cross and then dying and that was so final. So I made up that part about Jesus and James Booker both having been reborn and coming back to life. Both of them and us too are  just so lonely, 

I can understand why folks would exaggerate a bit that about there's a better life a coming after we die. It's just for me I wish it were real in a proven scientific sense. So I won't say anything about was Jesus for real and all. And if I have to believe anything scientific provable about James Booker, I believe he did walk around sometimes when he was down and out looking for marijauna cigarettes on the ground like he earlier would sing at the piano when he played " King of the road." It's a provable scientific fact, us being so lonely and all believing in a fine  afterlife sometimes at 3 am in the morning.

James Booker New Orleans piano man came to the earth at his second birth as a stand in for Jesus

James Booker New Orleans  piano man came  to the earth at his second birth as a second stand in for Jesus

fiction

edward w pritchard

Why would Jesus return to the earth for the second time as James Booker, the New Orleans piano prodigy? And why would Jesus return to the earth to full fill his prophesies of the second coming as a homo sexual drug addict? And why would the staff in the emergency room at the hospital in New Orleans refuse to treat James Booker when he was sitting in the hospital waiting to die of Kidney failure.

Was James Booker Jesus returned? Listen to James Booker's Oh Holy night rendition for clues. Do you need your Jesus to be perfect? Do you need your Jesus to be perfect, without sin,  and without human attributes and faults ?

politics as usual in america

 politics as usual in america

 fiction

edward w pritchard

Now that women are joining in the spoils and fame of politics in america it's not unusal to see a pretty blonde govonor or lady senator in trouble for some minor violation of the ethics code. Yes, the good old boys of fifty years or more ago could get away with misfeasance as politicans but my how the current news media like to spinkel the internet with sad pictures of female politicans in situations of damsels in distress over minor violations. 

I like it too at some level but lets give the ladies a break and respect their position and give them a chance to learn the ropes of politics as usual. 

worst lightening strikes in history

 worst lightening strikes in history

fiction

edward w pritchard

Lightening frightens us all. It's not unusual to have reports unverified and less than scientific that lightning killed up to 300 persons in ancient babylonian times or native americans at youngstown ohio sometime in the past. Of course there are no scientific provable witness collaborations. Although there at Youngstown there is a large rock that was split !/3 2/3rds by gods' wrath, lightning. 

But what of lightning strikes on distant galaxies that perhaps wiped up to billions [ 300 billion] life sources?

sometime in the distant past with no witnesses or collaboration. A tragedy indeed long since forgotten or unknown. 

Don't carry an umbrella in a lightning storm. There is a connection between god's moods and lightning deaths among sentient beings. Be safe around lightning, although the odds of being emulsified are low its an absurd way to go.