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Household Gods by Aleister Crowley

“Household Gods”
I followed the ripple
Of the stream; I crept
Where waters wept
The floss in the foss
Gurgling across
The bosses of moss,
Like a dryads nipple
In the mouth of pain
- Aleister Crowley –

Another Senseless American Shooting

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Shifman Family Lawyer Statement:
"My client's mission in life will be to try to prevent any such tragedies from ever happening again," he said. "This country, this world, needs to address mental illness and the ramifications from not recognizing these illnesses."

Shifman said the family is "staunchly against guns" and supports gun-control laws. "They are extremely, extremely upset that anybody was hurt under these circumstances," he said.

(BTA) Statement: "It is time to stop solving our problems in America from behind a Gun - Common sense, decency, compassion, empathy, and social responsibility has always been the key, unfortunately macho mentalities and  action hero fantasies and the monetary backing of those who prosper from senseless violence that have  prevailed instead in this country  for too long - It is truly the crossroads for true "change" in this Nation, and not idle talk of lasting peace for all our countries citizens when it is politically convenient to do so, and muffled silence when it is not."

The Man Who Dressed in Feathered Robes

The Man Who Dressed in Feathered Robes By Tom Armstrong

To sing in the hallelujah chorus
Tore the purdah from the green skinned
And henna streaked bellies of the maids
Of Samark and lied the lie cheated
The babies fell into Hell and rose
Again to dance in the golden pavilions
In heaven the man whose hauteur was
Impeccable stripped himself naked
Marched out onto the scorched sands
Of the Haj al Jarha raised his arms
To the sky and cried Command Me!
The Lord somewhat startled said,
“Bring me a cheese Danish that
isn’t at least a day old and I will
bless thy seed for generations to come”
Oh! The man said.” I was expecting
something more spectacular.”
“You’ve come to the wrong place.”
Said The Lord.

Burning Down the Ghetto

Burning Down the Ghetto

The ghetto will still always burn in its unfortunate inhabitants minds, even if they move away!

The things they saw or the tragedies that tormented them while incarcerated physically and mentally in the roach and rat-ridden slums, dirty streets, run down shops, and vacant doorways – forever haunts even the ghosts of poverty.

Two Presidential Criminals

Two Presidential Criminals - All it took was the promise of change and hope, the race card,  and a Wolfe in sheep's clothing to pull the wool over everybody's eyes for another 8 years - Gullibility mixed with social apathy - we all make it too easy for them!

REVOLUTION (BTA)

The Man they called a Beast

The Third Time that the World Died!

A man walked up to me in my normally chaotic subconscious, an aspect of my psyche of perpetual pursuit by dark themed antagonists. I enjoy on a nightly basis the continual loops that repeat themselves over and over again in my sub-conscious dreams. Seeing how everyone is a helper or a hinder-er in the chaos that is my nightly mental conspiracy, this is all that reigns supreme in my unconscious sleeping brain during nightly struggles between good and evil that end in tragedies regardless.  I usually try to sleep without fear of the other inhabits of my dreams by ignoring them, therefore removing their power from them. I am somewhat suspicious of the unknown stranger in both my waking, or in this case subconscious realities of self, but this guy seemed way out of place in my nightly apocalyptic visions of the subconscious “Reality.” I was accustomed to a certain degree of rationalism, and this apparition was very serious and rational in the perceived message that he seemed to be trying to impart unto me, closely looking me in my mind’s eye and telling me in a calm soothing voice, “ It’s all going to be alright in the end – regardless of life’s upcoming outcomes.”

Bloody Emotions

American Independence Day - Revisited

Social Hysteria Experiment

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The Social Hysteria Bug

Social Hysteria:  When many people in a community behave or react in such an extreme and uncontrollable way due to fear, anger, and/or other emotional states.

Social hysteria, or otherwise commonly known as mass hysteria, group hysteria or collective obsessional behavior, has been around since the beginning of human history.  As long as fear has been a part of our human nature, the spread of that fear has been intentionally used for political and military advantage, or unintentionally has wreaked havoc on whole communities and societies with breaking news, a simple rumor, or coincidental happenstance that spirals out of control with dangerous, devastating, and deadly results.

Adolescent girls have notably been the main culprits of documented incidents of mass hysteria manifesting itself physically in the form of strange unexplainable medical ailments.  The most common manifestation of social hysteria in young girls is when a group of pubescent girls, usually in a school setting, all claim to be afflicted by a mysterious group illness. The latest major documented incident of this type manifested itself in the town of LeRoy, New York in 2012.  Twelve high school girls developed Tourette’s like symptoms that were rumored to be transferred to other potential victims simply by texting one another. The school was immediately tested for toxins and none were found, the strange affliction was deemed to be the work of conversion disorder, otherwise known as mass hysteria.

Early recorded incidences of mass hysteria have affected whole towns in the past, along with people of all ages and walks of life.  Adolescent girls have also and unfortunately in the past, brought upon far darker miseries on their communities with their outbreaks of mass hysteria. The most famous American incident of documented social hysteria is of course, The Salem Witch Trials of Massachusetts.  In 1692 four adolescent girls began to have uncontrollable fits that were blamed on witchcraft, and after the mass hysteria cleared finally, 25 citizens of Salem and its surrounding communities were put to death for being witches or witch sympathizers.

Pubescent girls can’t be entirely blamed for mass hysteria and conversion disorder though, one of the earliest and most famous incidents of mass social hysteria happened in Strasbourg, Alsace in 1588 while it was part of the Holy Roman Empire. A  portion of the town’s residence decided to go outside and dance in the streets for hours uncontrollably, then after days of no rest the towns people literally started to fall dead where they danced  due to heart attacks, fatigue, and exhaustion after days of pure unstoppable human social hysteria.

Mass hysteria has been a driving force in the old world’s public, political and societal history, and with today’s lightning quick social media entity driving our future it  will certainly continue to rear its dangerous ugly head  even in these modern “enlightened” times. One may not be able to always control human nature nor mass hysteria, but being aware of its impact on your community, country, or world is a positive step towards finding immunity from catching the affliction yourself.

Land of the Free?

Do you still believe them when they tell you this is the land of the free - More like the land of the selfish and gullible apathetic!

Recipe for Disaster

Whistleblower in the Morning’s Mist - by Brian Thomas Armstrong

Whistleblower in the Morning’s Mist

by Brian Thomas Armstrong

The Whistleblower’s flute plays its shrill song as it echoes in the morning’s mist of the surrounding woods outside the giant intricately painted canvas Teepee.

The sand painting on the ground inside the Teepee is almost finished as the dark Otshee Monetoo that hides within me is partly ejected through my guts as I heave black bile from my mouth to the ground and the sand painter stifles an inner groan as he destroys the intricate colored masterpiece he has toiled over.

The peyote tea was strong medicine and I have forgotten how many days it has been since I entered the sacred circle within.

I hear the shrill whistle of the Whistleblower outside the Teepee as I recover from my retching – shreeeeee shreeeeee shree shree shreeeeee shreeeeee, the only reality that is left to me is here, and I focus on the small fire that crackles in the middle of our circle and keeps the tea warm, flaring in puffs of colored smoke as the Shaman tosses strange fragrant powders into the flames.

A young couple tries to leave the circle of the giant tent but they are stopped at the door and sternly told to sit back down and return to it lest they break the strong magic, and risk a black cloud raining down misfortune on us all for angering and disrespecting the spirits that were called upon by the Shaman.

How long has it been? How much longer can I last? Are they killing me?

Once again the Otshee Monetoo that hides within me is partly ejected through my guts as I heave black bile from my mouth to the ground and the sand painter stifles an inner groan again as he once more has to destroy the intricate colored masterpiece he has toiled over.

Once again I hear the shrill whistle outside the Teepee as I recover from my retching – shreeeeee shreeeeee shree shree shreeeeee shreeeeee.

I Love America, Weed, and Our Troops.

Hitler's Ghosts by (BTA)

The Worth of a Mans Life

Your own perception of a good life is what is recorded in your heart, and pumped through your blood for judgment in the after-life when you stand before your maker. God cares not of what others judgmental perceptions of someone's life is when it is not their own. Your own learned perceptions through your own experiences when alive in this world, and the actions and choices you made along the way regarding the tests that were on the pages in the great pre-written book that is life. That is what truly matters to god, and that is what a man truly owns when he sees God for himself. At that time God truly sees who and what that man really is, and where he is destined to.

Cardinal Sins by Brian Thomas Armstrong

Ronnie the Drunk Obnoxious Clown by BTA

GMO Attack by (BTA)

Democracy?

Obama Bird

Drunk First Ladies

Seattle Washington: Got Weed?

Violent Statues

(BTA) The New American Revolution

I Want You for the New American Revolution!~ 

Republicans: Is Jeb Bush their only option in 2016?

Republicans: Is Jeb Bush their only option in 2016?

I say good for us all if Jeb Bush runs in 2016, then Hillary would be a cinch for President  - We would have a strong president that everyone respects in Hillary Clinton because of her accomplishments not her color or gender, one who actually has the experience and the personal integrity to back up an American presidency and keep our allies our allies,  not to mention one who would know and understand as a mother that even one innocent child's life is not worth the easy drone strike a coward takes to eliminate a politicians perceived threat to the U.S rather than a proven one. Oh well - history repeats itself by trusting women in our society with the vote second once again, valuing the strategic political pull of one’s racial status in American society over the ones that raised us, teaches us right from wrong, and loves us unconditionally regardless of our faults - The Strong Women in our lives of every race color and dimensions are the true time tested heroes of our society. Too bad - 8 more years of a prosperous "Clinton Era" would have come in handy in 2008.

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Social Chaos by Brian Thomas Armstrong

The Thorns of Life

The Thorns of Life  by Brian Thomas Armstrong

Thorns were cast on fertile ground
while seeds were thrown on coals
From the thorns grew evil souls
From the seeds grew fire
The flames grew into funeral pyres
as evil souls were tossed
When the purifying fire did cease
the angels they did rest
after casting seeds on fertile ground
from souls who passed the test.

Life of a Monster - by Brian Thomas Armstrong

Before there was Nothingness

Before there was Nothingness

by Brian Thomas Armstrong

In the Beginning there was Nothing

Except for what Existed 

A spark ignited the Darkness

And fire was Born

Burning in the Earth

Waiting for what Existed Before

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Before there was Nothingness - by Brian Thomas Armstrong  -   http://youtu.be/7PQE42xhSO4

GM Murder

We bail GM out with our tax dollars for having bad business practices while their CEO’s give themselves millions of dollars in bonuses and raises while putting thousands out of work.  Then they pay America back by pompously and purposely letting our citizens’ die for a decade to save another buck. This time no bail out, it’s time to sit back, do nothing for GM, and watch them die for a decade with no help in sight until it’s too late – Now that’s Justice! 

Obama Care: Take Your Medicine Middle-class

What a victory - 7,000,000 people signed up for health care they still can't afford under threat of more fines and selective overtaxing for those who don't conform. What a triumph for Democracy!

Jesus Chillin By Brian Thomas Armstrong

Birds on a Foggy Branch By Brian Thomas Armstrong

Pope in Prayer by Brian Thomas Armstrong

The Eyes of a Child

A Young Girl Looks upon the Sea

A Young Girl Looks upon the Sea

By Brian Thomas Armstrong

A child looked out upon the dawn and wondered of her father

The mother held her tears and watched the girl stare out the window

A mast, a ship, a darkened haze floating in the horizon

But none was seen among the waves, and the child feared her father taken by Poseidon

All day she stood there gazing out and not a word she said, unspoken worries her mother shared
for she also feared her husband dead

All night again the child stayed gazing at the darkened sea, but in the new dawn still she waited

and still no relief for them had come to be

Some say the sad girl waits there still, and on darkened lonely nights

If you go to her old cabin you can see her in the window staring out upon the stormy waves

when you turn out the candle lights

The Old/New Law of the Land

Catholic Cigarettes

I Have a Dream

My dream is that human nature catches up to human enlightenment and that they become confidants and friends. When that happens I dream that mass media will spread like lightning
mass understanding and cooperation rather than mass hysteria and public strife.

My dream can be found in everyone, everything, and in every religion. My dream is faith in humanity that gives me faith in myself.

Mine is a social dream of a
better world.

The DC Obsession with Dr. Seuss

The DC Obsession with Dr. Seuss

                                           

Is DC Crazy, or just orally lazy? – Asked the common man.

The Palin answered no! , and then babbled about her Uncle Sam.

Pork was served up Texas style, when Cruzy brought green eggs and ham.

The Markey he then quoted the Lorax, in a Massachusetts scam.

Crazy! Lazy! Dumb, or Stingy, in D.C ask someone who knows,
 even though who knows, who knows, why their Dr. Seuss hat shows!

The New American State Capitalist: Pot, booze, and cigarettes; in that order.

With Washington State and Colorado taking the lead in the new American capitalistic experiment that is legal heavily taxed, heavily demanded for by the public recreational marijuana,  as long as the State of the Union doesn't spin out of control  because of new state laws such as I-502 (WA.) and Amendment 64 (CO.) other states are sure to follow Washington and Colorado like dominoes.  It seems unlikely our nation’s kids will suddenly turn to hard drugs like heroin because marijuana is so readily available now, if anything I should hope it will help steer people away from the new national epidemic of heroin deaths and addiction, given an easily accessible relatively safe alternative for self- medication such as marijuana.  A sure bet is that every state in the union will soon follow Washington and Colorado once the great experiment pays off in a few years. How could they not follow when other states see Washington and Colorado’s monumental debts disappear because of the gigantic revenue, jobs, and of course tax income that legalizing marijuana will bring to both struggling post-recession state economies?

One could say that the old “free capitalist” is returning to the modern American state business man’s attitude towards their perceived states’ rights, and the Federal Governments perceived authority over those rights. The other great American experiment happening right now is how far these states can push it with the Federal Government before having to run for cover?  In the age of the World Wide Web, the public opinion forum is truly becoming the new supreme World ruler.  This new people’s media army can and will topple governments, dictators, and the like. If enough public social hysteria is generated through social media and the Nightly Fox News Team, public perception and American drug laws can change back and forth in American history quicker than most political analysts can ever accurately keep up with or predict them.

A “free capitalist” can be likened to the good old small business owner of the entrepreneurial capitalist days of the cowboy era. Basic and simple to follow standard ethical rules consisted of: Unless it involves horse thievery, outright murder, or too much public, social, or commercial embarrassment, you can pretty much sell anything  to anyone  who wants it and will pay dearly for it, without raising to many eyebrows. Back in the 1800’s until the early 1900’s, this was just good old fashioned capitalism at its finest. In those days that was the American dream, and semi-unregulated entrepreneurship was the only true road to success for the little guy at that time.

According to a recent CBS News poll presented this past January; Americans who support legal weed finally outnumber those who don’t in American society.  It is a close divide though on the legalization issue at 51% in favor of legal marijuana, compared to 44% against. With a growing modern sentiment of indifference against marijuana, and the perceived public need to move on when it comes to weed and focus on bigger issues in American politics, and especially abroad, it won’t be long now until most the other states turn to legal marijuana to cure their financial ills. Now that neither political side cares anymore enough to try to stop the inevitable pot invasion of America, it can now be seen as a much better political and capitalistic tactic to make a profit on pot if people want it, as long as everyone can get away with it by everyone paying the right happy to take your money local authorities.  Here’s to you Washington State and Colorado for bringing back good old fashioned American State Capitalism at its best.

 Passive aggressive shadow casting

Grumpy Hitler Cat

The Changing American Presidential Perception of Native Americans

Last year in Nov of 2013, President Obama welcomed for the fifth time 566 federally recognized tribal leaders to the White House Tribal Nations Conference. As early as 2009 Obama showed an honest interest in not only the Native American vote, and his next re-election bid, but also in re-building a positive connection between the original American indigenous population, and the traditionally mistrusted by Native Americans -  American Federal Government.

The American President of the past mirrored the common white settler or soldier's overly negative mistrust and blatant dislike for the Native American.  George Washington compared them to wolves and as beasts. Andrew Jackson was quoted as saying the Native American had neither intelligence nor moral habits. With such presidential condoning of racism and fear mongering towards the original inhabitants of North America, it’s plain to see how easy it was for the governments of the time to remove, eliminate a perceived threat from the Indian, and exterminate when necessary the Native American peoples’ in such a grand scale that Adolf Hitler would certainly truly appreciate its evil magnitude.

Of course it would take decades and even centuries for an American president to acknowledge the simple fact that Native Americans were the only ones technically here first when President Franklin Roosevelt said that only full blooded Indians were native to this country, and everyone else was basically an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants. As you can imagine, at that time in history Franklin Roosevelt was certainly courting the immigrant vote and not the Indian one, but at least it was a nice mention.

By the late forties and early fifties, American Indians had become an American Christian duty to civilize the old perceived savage into a non-scary educated member of society. Unfortunately again for the Native American, this new found white Christian perception of the Native American Indian was nonnegotiable by the Indians themselves. Once more Native Americans were forced into unbearable circumstances in the form of religious boarding schools in order to let Christ himself cast the savage demons from them. Decades of this practice were echoed in President Harry Truman’s  words on the American Indian when he stated:

"The United States, which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world, cannot omit a fair deal for its own Indian citizens."

Truman seemingly was tired of the old Indian Office’s bureau style education and land use regulations perpetrated on the Indians under their supposed care, but President Truman was still of the popular belief at the time that total assimilation was the only hope for the survival of the Indian race. As a consequence of this misguided perception of what the American Indian’s true needs were, many reforms and subtle breakthroughs in Indian rights and recognition were swept aside to accommodate Truman’s way of thinking towards Native Americans.

Forms of this assimilation theory towards the North American Indian populous remained all the way into the Reagan years when then President Ronald Reagan, obviously in his “clueless years”  stated that maybe America had made a mistake and shouldn't have humored the American Indian in their wanting to stay in such a primitive lifestyle – Why didn't they just come out of the reservations and join us in the cities and be good citizens right alongside us?

To re-iterate the Republican perception of the plight of the Native American Indian some years later, with a quote from the incredibly knowledgeable on the subject, George W. Bush:

"Tribal sovereignty means that. It's sovereign. You're a… you're a… you've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity."

Which otherwise means they basically got nothing coming from the Bush administration.

Barack Obama has at least seemed to have ironically fulfilled one of his promises in both his presidential terms, the promise of choice in American inclusion, rather than past forced exclusion, assimilation, or threatened extermination for the Native American.

"We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our past, we will move ahead together in writing a new, brighter chapter in our joint history." - Barack Obama

The Republican Fox and the Democratic Chicken

Remembering our Modern American Mass Shootings, and Those to Come.

On a cold January Thursday morning in 2010, Timothy Hendron was in his car preparing to enter his work at the ABB Power Factory of ST. Louis. What was different this morning was that Hendron was armed this time with an AK-47 style assault rifle, two hand guns, a pump action shotgun, and hundreds of rounds of assorted ammunition in which to re-load them with.

Timothy Hendren then proceeded to ruthlessly cut down and kill two innocent fellow co-workers in the complex parking lot, and then killed another person and injured two others when he entered the industrial building shooting indiscriminately throughout the facility. His mass shooting spree continued unhindered until an employee with a concealed handgun started firing back at Hendron as he approached potential victims who were hiding down the hallway in a break room.

Timothy Hendron then went on to take the easy way out as many mass shooting spree perpetrators do; he blew his own brains out before the cops could get to him.

It would be fairly obvious to conclude that Timothy Hendren was not very happy with his employer or fellow employees, that fails to explain his extreme actions though. Hendren’s neighbors seemed surprised when told the news of his psychotic rampage and the outcome of his deeds. The only real clue to what sent this man over the edge was that he was active in a labor lawsuit involving the ABB Company’s pension plan. Now a pension plan would obviously stir emotions in most of the people it pertains to, but going on a killing spree over it is certainly like cutting your nose off despite your face, especially if you don’t intend to be around to enjoy retirement anyway – What are these people thinking when they turn into homicidal maniacs over daily life issues? – Are these newly indoctrinated killers a different breed than your run of the mill serial killer, or hopefully you and me?

What makes seemingly “normal” people do such unreasonably abnormal violent things? That question has been in debate for as long as the problem has existed without a clear cut scientifically proven theory as of yet, outside of the basic age old faults of human nature itself.

Envy of ones co-workers would seem to be an obvious factor in wanting to shoot them, along with of course a basic sense of daily aggravation with the people they work with, but still these common irritants rarely end up in a mass shooting spree. There has to be something about these “types” of people that set them apart from the rest of us who don’t kill several people when things start to not go our way.

 Mass shooting perpetrators are said to have similarities to their serial killer cousins such as hurting animals in their youth, or some form of past abuse in their childhood. This may tie them together according to an on-line article in the Huffington Post Science section that was posted soon after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Although their killer traits may be similar to that of a sociopathic psychotic killer, they have a major difference, a serial killer kills from obsessive compulsion or mental defect, or just plain because they are evil rotten human beings, but these “mass shooters” held down jobs and lived with family members.  These people weren’t there just for a cover story to elude detection from law enforcement and the rest of society; these people dealt with these future mass murderers on a daily basis, and they still had no clue or prior warnings about their neighbor, family member, or co-workers evil intent welling up inside them.

 Something made these people snap and suddenly have no regard for any life what-so-ever, including and especially  their own; call it an ultimate inferiority complex that serial killers rarely share with mass shooters.

This type of mass shooting epidemic was nothing new to the year 2010, society had already endured a long string of violent, senseless shooting sprees. From Virginia Tech in 2007 when Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 innocent souls on campus, and then of course killed himself last instead of first like normally depressed people would have, to the shocking shooting betrayal in 2009 at Fort Hood when Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded 30 before being brought down by a police officer. Obviously with Major Malik the strains of the gulf war and the rhetoric of Al-Qaeda had something to do with this shooting spree; but then again the military found him “sane” enough to counsel their troops as an active duty officer and trained psychologist – ooops to say the least, obviously this had more to do with Major Nidal Maliks general mental state at the time of the incident,  rather than the mental stresses of dealing with the war on terror,  along with the strain of simultaneously being an American Muslim officer in the U.S. Army.

Over and over again,  be it school, workplace, or movie theatre, the main theme in these maniacs picking places to enact their twisted revenge on the rest of us,  is designed to hit us exactly where we usually feel the most safe,  at school, at work, and of course a military fort or movie theatre. These violent nuts have one thing in mind and in common during their mass shooting sprees – teach society a terrible lesson they won’t soon forget for kicking them around mentally or financially for so many decades,  and then of course after their terrible deed immediately opt out of life’s contract. This suicidal tendency of snubbing their nose at society one last time by giving us the same guarantees they were given when arriving on earth, seems to serve as their final explanation of their heinous actions – No One Said Life Was Fair! This mortal trait seems to be another defining difference between the mass killing spree shooter and the average serial killer – I’ve never heard of a serial killer wanting to commit suicide on purpose, even when surrounded or caught red handed by the police. A serial killer’s ego usually would never even consider taking such a societal commoner’s mentally un-superior way out such as self-murder.

The modern accepted definition of a “spree killer” is someone who has committed two or more murders without a cooling off period. This is what separates them from your ordinary serial killer. Not having a proper cooling off period seems to be another of the most prevalent traits that all “shooting spree killers” have in common. If someone in their lives saw the warning signs a head of time,  possibly these terrible incidents would be growing  fewer instead of more frequently,  if the perpetrators simply had a cooling off period to get their heads together and realize that shooting co-workers, or  perfect strangers simply because your angry has no basis in rational “normal” societal thought and should be deemed as what it is – absolute insanity with still no definite reliable diagnosis, prognosis, nor cure to imply this national epidemic of indiscriminate shooting sprees will end anytime soon.

 With Newtown’s 26 dead being freshly remembered, let us remember all the other shooting incidents that fell before it, and also remember that without some sort of drastic action, regardless of the latest politics on gun control, we will still have no more control over stopping mass shooting tragedies in the future, than we do today.