Introductory remarks.  First of all blog search isn't that effective.  Google seems to have dropped "Blogs" for reading from their headings both in firefox and in Chrome (which are identical).  I want you all after or before reading this blog to read "Before You Accuse Me, Take a look at yourself for the Messiah Psychological Profile test.  It's in Cosmic Tides.  Oh, Google eliminated Desktop too, and that didn't make my search for this posting easy.  It's one of the black blogs - in November 2011.  Also that Semaphore made easy was on October 19th.  I wasn't sure whether I gave you that list or not but I did.  There is one line I thought I needed to add but I already noted that Ringo wanted a blue Apple record logo.  We had a pretty good dinner tonight.  It was meat balls with barbecue sauce over noodles, but the brocolli was limp as usual.  We had rainbow sherbet for desert.  Don't say the word "Rainbow" to Jimi Hendrix.  It gives him drug flashbacks just thinking about it.  I am encouraged to see that my ratings are noticably up the past couple of weeks.  And now on with the presentation.

WHO IS REALLY THE BETTER MAN?

JESUS CHRIST OR OUR MARCUS ARELIUS

Prod by Winston O Boogy

Yesterday i was mentally wondering what the nature of the final posting for this blog series would take on.  But a voice told me "You'll find out in due time, probably tomorrow.  Last night at 2:30 I awoke and suddenly  I had the Answer.  But first I went outside and had two cigarettes and stared at the full moon.  Then I came back in and write down a bunch of notes by way of outline, and then went back to bed.  I will do the rest of this blog as soon as I get around to writing it.  And if everybody is In, the Ceremony is about to Begin.


But first- Dead people go through temporary "phases" they later drop.  Jim Morrison had a period around the 20th anniversary of the Monkees when he was "into Monkee songs for a few months.  Mal Evans doesn't usually show his feelings to Outsiders, but early last fall, Mal could not conceil his sense of personal hurt when   Johnny Cash turned his down on doing some personal favors he'd asked him to do.  John Lennon right now is in this phase of "Exploring and understanding the feelings of others" perhaps at the recent urgings of "Pink"

THE PERSONAL NEED FOR PERFECTION:  Both Jesus and Marcus have a strong personal need to see themselves as "Perfect" and such should always be strived for.  No excuses are allowed.  "Standard behavior is substandard, and substandard behavior is substandard and substandard behavior behavior will not be allowed".  Both are defensive to the point of pugnacity when they feel someone is personal challenging their moral credibility.

PEACE AND LOVE  Jesus loved to throw around words like Peace and Love and Hope and Faith.  Marcus on the other hands has an almost antipathy for this words, which he claims "That to overuse such words is to devalue their true meaning, and I won't do that".

SCIENCE AND EDUCATION   Jesus was at best wholly apathetic to the whole idea of math and science knowledge and education and "expanding your mental capacities" in general.  Marcus makes it a point to learn all he can about everything.

PERSONAL LIFE AS WITNESS   Jesus made Himself the center of everything he preached and subordenated all else to it.  Marcus on the other hand is almost Howard Hughes like in his dislike of bringing up his personal Life as any credentials for whatever religious values he espouses but conspicuously keeps his own life out of the moral values he is teaching, personal in the matter of his own sex life.

HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY    Jesus knew what it was like to be homeless and impoverished.  Marcus has never known either homelessness or poverty yet he tries hard to be understanding in this area.

PRAYER AND PIETY    Jesus spoke often on the value of prayer and was known to one and all as a praying man.  Marcus only mentioned Prayer as a "last resort" when nothing else will work.  Unlike Jesus who never worried about the Future or God's wil at all, Marcus was beset with anxieties about the future all his life, but felt any "solutions" were hopeless.

GIVING TO POOR    Jesus and Marcus are pretty alike in this area.  Neither liked to talk about how much they personally gave to the poor.  Both Jesus and Marcus had an antipathy about committing themselves to any "pledges" or promises to do so, but there is evidence none the less of a certain generosity displayed in both.

CLENLINESS AND NEATNESS    Jesus and Marcus were alike in that neither liked extremes in either cleanliness or neatness.  They both seemed to pursue a middle road.  However in his later years, Marcus took on the nature of kind of a neatness and organizational freak.

WORLD GOVERNMENTS AND INTERACTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES      They could not be more different here.  Jesus was apathetic about governments and laws and regulations and "circumstances" in general and  tended to denigrate the whole idea that "fairness" was any idea in human commerce.  Marcus on the other hand made it as his central doctrine a need for secular government and organization and fairness in all things.

QUOTATIONS    Jesus and Marcus were both alike in that their speech is often riddled with quotations, of the Bible and other people, and also cliche second hand phrases.  Neither was particularly clear on just how they regarded the veracity of Scripture.

PERWONAL GROWTH   Jesus and Marcus were also both alike in the idea of devaluing the whole idea of "personal growth".  They seem to believe they were both born with adult knowledge and awareness and seem to deny at times they even had a child hood.  Both tend to view the world as made up of "good people and bad people" and these never change.  However both are camilian enough to be pragmatic in their speech to adapt their words to fit the crowds they were addressing, but deep inside their own values rarely changed.

FOOD AND DRINK    Neither was picky either about foods or alcoholic beverages.  They generally didn't have banned foods they wouldn't eat.  However Marcus won't eat horse meat or monkey meat, or dog & cat meat, or the brains or genitals of any animal.

FAMILY     Once again Jesus and Marcus are alike in that they both seemed self concious about their own "genetic stock" and tended to shy away from any talk of race.  Neither had any sense of "pride" in their own families. Neither regarded "Family life" as that important.  Both seemed to have a definite antipathy tword other close family members, and clashes with them were particularly apparent.

CHILDREN   Both tended to be protective of the innocence of children.  Both value the feelings of children and believe they have something to teach adults about open mindedness, and to remind ourselves of our own emotional aging.  Marcus goes farther and teaches that "Children are so in need of protection, they need to be protected from Isolation and Ignorance of the dangers of the World around them, and should be protected from smothering guardians".

CONFESSION    Jesus believed that one should be blatant in confessing all of his sins in public as in "confessing your sins before men".  Marcus believed the most important "confession" was to admit the truth first to yourself, and then to a close friend whom you can trust.  And save any further talk for a future time.

WOMEN      Both Marcus and Jesus were rather "color blind" and asexual in how they regarded the moral values and worth of women.  Marcus regarded evaluating a woman's actions for good or for bad strictly in terms of how they respond as another Human Being, and not which particular gender they are a member of.

HEALING   Jesus healed people all the time and had unlimited ability to work any supernatural wonder he chose to perform.  Marcus can make few claims to either healing others or any supernatural ability.  However there are isolated incidences in Marcus here and there.

FUTURE     As we said here the difference could not be more stark.  Jesus was never for one moment uncertain about the future of the Next Life.  Marcus's whole life was riddled with uncertainty, and often said that he has no idea what the future holds, particularly after he dies.   "Tomorrow Never Knows" was his watch word.

MUSIC AND ART    Jesus never at any time expressed an esthetic enjoyment of music or art.  Marcus' life was filled with strong like and dislike preferences for both Music and Art.

RISK TAKING      Jesus and Marcus both claimed to say risk taking was a good idea.  However Marcus lived by the credo that "To not make a Choice is still making a Choice".  Not to take a particular RISK is itself a "risk" of sorts.  Marcus regarded Jesus as a bit of a moral coward for not really stepping up boldly to the plate on certain hard issues, which he prefers to ignore and rest on his laurals instead.

GEORGE                 Wanted a Red Apple

RINGO                    wanted a Blue Apple

The NUJV Lennon    wanted a Pink Apple
JOHN                    wanted a White Apple

MARCUS and PAUL wanted a Green Apple

DENISE                  never weighed in.

So we went with the Green because it's the only color that got two Votes

Writing Proclivities

JOHN     Tends to do songs about "The Way things Ought to Be" in Society or else introspective songs that tend to center on the past more than on the present

GEORGE   Writes songs about money and the economy, or else about the Weather, or else songs involving his Hare Krishna faith

RINGO   Writes mainly torch love songs usually of a Country &Western bent

DENISE   tends to do moral, didactic songs, and has an antipothy tword Viloence and Men and particularly Violent Men.  She is also given to sarcasum to the point of unintelligability

The NUJY Lennon   alias 'Pink" has a proclivity twords story telling songs laden with hidden meanings often of a surreal nature and tends to wear his feelings on his sleeve in his songs, at least the earlier ones

Marcus:   Likes doing late '50s and early '60s Rock and Roll and trusts in the lead guitar playing of George to insure the songs are duly "Beatled up"  He's not that into writing his own stuff but when he does it tends tword a type of social advocacy "Flame Thrower" variety and like Denise his lyrics take on an "Us and Them" mentality

PAUL     Likes doing story telling songs that mean nothing, often of a descriptive "travel log" nature, or else straight out stereotypical love songs.