The six degrees of separation: "Yes we're all cousins. That's what I believe. "Cause we're all children - of Adam and Eve". Elvis said that. The experts are telling us now that we are all more connected than we thought. We're all 30th. Cousins or closser. I don't know but I imagine if a person has nothing but, say, Scotch - Irish ancestry, his clan might even be closser than that. I imagine he'd be a little closser to anyone in his race than the Blackest pigmy in central Africa. Some may wonder that a White from good Aryan stock is ninety percent related to a Black. That is false. In fact, human beings are 96% related by comon DNA genes to a champansee! That's quite a lot to fathom. Jesus Christ was called the "Son of David". Everyone expected the Jewish Messiah would be a Son of David. But you've got thirty generations between the time of King David and the first century BC Jews. That's spreading your seed over an awful lot of territory. Easily over half the people in Isrial could qualify as Messiah under those conditions. The other condition of qualification for Messiah is that you come into your own 490 years after a certain proclamation given back in 425 BC in the book of Daniel. Of course the book of Daniel wasn't written till mid second century BC and if you look at a "list" of false Messiahs on the internet, Jesus is the fourth in the list that extends to the seventeenth century. The concept of even having a Messiah didn't exist that long before Jesus. Still the concept of all of humanity being brothers under the fatherhood of God is a nice one to believe in. They say that we know anybody if you extend out our circle of aquaintences six links out on the chain. That if if you extend a list of people that I've met and cover all the people THEY have ever met, that will be one degree. If you do that five more times you have the "six degrees of separation". People are basically alike in their hopes and dreams, as evidenced by the song "We're all water" by Yoco Ono. "There may not be much difference". As such the Golden Rule usually makes sense. I suppose an area where the Golden Rule runs into problems is when it comes to "whitnessing" my religion, if I myself am unconfortable with my own religion. By the term "witnessing" one would assume that I would give an honist "testimony" of my life. If our goal is to make other people happy, what may "get them off" may not necessarily be the same things that gets Me off. Democracy rests in the belief that there is safty in numbers. If a million people have one oppinion about a certain subject it's a sounder idea than if just ten or fewer people have that oppinion. I think we are going to see a "wave" of oppinion on election day as the huddled masses yearning to be free come out from under their shells to express their oppinion in the voting booth. In 1975 there was a spirit of unity in this country we haven't seen since. We all just came out from under the comon trauma of Watergate and we were yearning to be free and make the nation's bi-centenial a meaningful one. We should recapture that spirit.

You know, the odds of a bunch of any given song lyrics pointing to the same incident get slimmer the more examples you draw from. "Look to the summer of '75; all the world is going to come alive" by the Jefferson Starship is one. "With your long blonde hair and your eyes a blue" by the Beatles is another. "You know my name - look up the number" alludes to Zachery's first address adding up to fourteen, as the date of his birth add up to fourteen as to the letters Z A C H E R Y reduce to fourteen. (8 plus 6) There is what sounds like a train whispering "Brian Jones - Brian Jones" on the fifth track of the ninth studio Rolling Stones album in the US. Here are cases where with each quote you reduce the odds of the quote pointing to a comon event. In the next posting we will go into this "Zachery" stuff more if you're interested. My point is that Chuck Smith doesn't have any monopoly of prophetic "odds".

We still have political news. It seems that there is a Christian pastor of a mega church in Colorado Springs or some place that is on the verge of being outed. This pastor has the ear of President Bush and speaks to him frequently. Now a guy has come foreward and he claims to be armed with letters and taped conversations that prove a homosexual relation between this man and the Colorado Pastor. It may not be true but if it really occurred it will be another nail in the Republican's coffin. One more nail in the Republican's coffin is President Bush yesterday saying that he thinks Dolnald Rumsfeld is doing a "Fantastic Job". That's a pretty strong adjitive. What it has the effect of doing is to undercut the claims of every other Republican running trying to distance themselves from Donald Rumsfeld. Now they're stuck with him. This is just another area where in my oppinion the President goofed. The way things are going there may yet be other political surprises between now and Election day.

I wrote a line in a book I wrote in 1980 that a bird cannot fly without a left wing AND a right wing. Ballance is the key. The American public, like the PH in a human's blood stream, is constantly regulating itself to keep its ballance. I believe most people are basically good. Some people are temporarily misguided. There are a few people who appear to be evil with a heart of blackness. I really don't know what God will do with them. In the movie Twelve Angry Men, the more you whittled the jury down to those voting guilty- - the more irrational their reasons became. I believe this is the case with the conservatives in the United States. I believe there are still essentially reasonable people out there in "Jesus Land" in the red states. I have to confess that lately I'm come to look at them as sort of an alien race, but I know it isn't so. All they need to do is see the "heart" of President Bush for what it is. It isn't that Bush is a bad man. He just lacked the social maturety required of a man who is to be elected President of the United States, and we are all paying the price.