DUST, DIPPERS, WATER
Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
Before I begin to pour out my soul in this blog page, I want to take this time to thank God.
As we enter into this season of giving, I'm thanking God for so many things.
As we enter into this season of giving, I'm thanking God for so many things.
If I was to start naming things that I thank him for, I would undoubtedly, leave a great portion of things out. Because I am unaware of all the things he does for me. All I know is that he is, forever, working behind the scenes on my behalf and on the behalf of all his children(key word: children). He is, forever, opening doors for me that I am unable to see. He is, constantly, keeping his hands of protection and mercy all around me and those that I love.
Right now at this very moment, all my needs or met.
Further, I am also assured, that he is about to release blessings in my favor greater than I could ever think or imagine.
Further, I am also assured, that he is about to release blessings in my favor greater than I could ever think or imagine.
How can I be so assured?
I'm assured because I stay connected to God via his spirit.
I strive to live my life, on a daily basis, proving to "the God that created and developed me in the womb" that I appreciate the manifestation of his powerful, wise, and intelligent spirit intervening in all my daily affairs by ordering my thoughts, steps, and actions.
I can never thank God enough for his consistent and constant spiritual presence in my life.
He persistently reminds me that I have been regenerated into a spiritual being having a human experience.
I am no longer a human being following a powerless religious dogma and belief that has lulled - too many of us - to sleep.
Rebirth has awakened my dark and dull understanding of who and what God really is and what is required of me to stay connected to the source of all life.
I am forever thankful and mindful of the fact that, so easily, my life could have taken another turn or twist.
I strive to live my life, on a daily basis, proving to "the God that created and developed me in the womb" that I appreciate the manifestation of his powerful, wise, and intelligent spirit intervening in all my daily affairs by ordering my thoughts, steps, and actions.
I can never thank God enough for his consistent and constant spiritual presence in my life.
He persistently reminds me that I have been regenerated into a spiritual being having a human experience.
I am no longer a human being following a powerless religious dogma and belief that has lulled - too many of us - to sleep.
Rebirth has awakened my dark and dull understanding of who and what God really is and what is required of me to stay connected to the source of all life.
I am forever thankful and mindful of the fact that, so easily, my life could have taken another turn or twist.
For example:
I remember Malcolm Bliss Psychiatric Hospital in St. Louis Missouri.(a.k.a the crazy house)
As a child growing up in the 50's and 60's, I remember all too well, Malcolm Bliss being the place where people with mental health issues and psychiatric concerns went or were taken for care. Every once in a while I would overhear someone saying, "They took him to Malcolm Bliss: Needless to say, you seldom heard about them coming back. And if they did come back, they were never quite the same.
Some people didn't belong there.
Some may have behaved in an irrational manner one day and found themselves swept away to Malcolm Bliss for financial gain. Because in those days, when poverty was at an all time high, who ever admitted/committed you would receive a stipend for turning you in.
While, on the other-hand - some most definitely - needed to be restrained from commingling with other ["normal"] city residents. Why? Because they had proven that they could not live peacefully and honorably in civilization.
Currently, there are not many - if any - such facilities any where in the country adequately equipped to properly care for and restrain, such an enormous amount, of adults and children suffering with "mental illnesses and disease."
Unfortunately, due to political oversight, or by intent and design, people in desperate need of psychiatric care have become our neighbors.
They live in our communities, they work beside us, they share the highways with us, they use public transportation, they move freely in our shopping malls and grocery stores, they are in our military, on our police departments, in our jails and prisons(guards and inmates), and {God help us} they are holding positions in our schools, hospitals, and places of worship.
In the 1970's, if you were a person with virtually, no conscience, connections, cash, and you had a desire to make a plethora of money, you could purchase a 55 gallon drum of Phencyclidine (PCP), also known as angel dust, dippers, or water for around $25,000 - $35,000 dollars.
The DEA determined that individuals trafficking in PCP derived a gross income from their initial investment to be in the millions of dollars, depending on how the product was dispensed.
In 1978, People Magazine and Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes, called PCP the country's "number one" drug problem.
Why?
Mainly because of the psychological effects consistent with the short term use and long term mental disabilities associated with the use of the drug. Effects including but not limited to:
- severe changes in body image
- loss of ego boundaries
- paranoia
- depersonalization
- hallucinations
- homicide and suicide impulses
- aggressive behavior, altered mood states, and an unpredictable, unnatural physical strength.
Studies indicates that there is an extremly high rate of irreversible loss of brain function attributed to chronic users of PCP in any shape, form or fashion.
I would be lying if I said that, prior to my federal incarceration in 1986 for cocaine trafficking, I didn't sample PCP as a potential business venture. In my pursuit to obtain a fortune - by any means necessary - I had to know - first hand - the effect of the product that I was contemplating investing in.
I would also be lying if I said I sampled it more than once.
Why? Because once was enough!!!!!
Why? Primarily, because I never wanted to be THAT HIGH!!!!!!
Thank God he never let me have the mind to want to be "so high" on narcotics or alcohol that I wasn't conscience of my whereabouts and surroundings.
Further, I couldn't comprehend or stomach the devastation and havoc I saw PCP having in our neighborhoods and communities. Therefore, I opted out of it being part of my entrepreneurship in narcotics.
Cocaine was bad enough; but at least it originated from a naturally growing plant/leaf and was not concocted in a factory or laboratory somewhere.
Today, you can walk into any convenience store, tobacco shop, or head shop and purchase(cheap, real cheap) Synthetic cannabinoids or sometimes - misleadingly - referred to as synthetic marijuana.
Synthetic cannabinoids has the same - no actually - a worse effect on humans beings than PCP ever had. Why? Because synthetic cannabinoids has proven to induce cannibalism in its users.
Yet, you can buy it............ right over the counter or on-line.
Recently, it has been reported that the drug is being given away to homeless residents in St. Louis and other major cities in hope that the users will kill each other. Rumor has it that the "new age urban loft dwellers" don't want them(the homeless) hanging around blighting their communities and entertainment venues so they are handing out "death packets" for free.
Something is seriously amiss in amerikkka. And considering who the current POTUS is.......things are only going to get worse....much worse.....before they get better.
If you don't know God......you better get to know him.......soon.
Marvel not, ye must be born again!!!!
TG4RG
As a child growing up in the 50's and 60's, I remember all too well, Malcolm Bliss being the place where people with mental health issues and psychiatric concerns went or were taken for care. Every once in a while I would overhear someone saying, "They took him to Malcolm Bliss: Needless to say, you seldom heard about them coming back. And if they did come back, they were never quite the same.
Some people didn't belong there.
Some may have behaved in an irrational manner one day and found themselves swept away to Malcolm Bliss for financial gain. Because in those days, when poverty was at an all time high, who ever admitted/committed you would receive a stipend for turning you in.
While, on the other-hand - some most definitely - needed to be restrained from commingling with other ["normal"] city residents. Why? Because they had proven that they could not live peacefully and honorably in civilization.
Currently, there are not many - if any - such facilities any where in the country adequately equipped to properly care for and restrain, such an enormous amount, of adults and children suffering with "mental illnesses and disease."
Unfortunately, due to political oversight, or by intent and design, people in desperate need of psychiatric care have become our neighbors.
They live in our communities, they work beside us, they share the highways with us, they use public transportation, they move freely in our shopping malls and grocery stores, they are in our military, on our police departments, in our jails and prisons(guards and inmates), and {God help us} they are holding positions in our schools, hospitals, and places of worship.
In the 1970's, if you were a person with virtually, no conscience, connections, cash, and you had a desire to make a plethora of money, you could purchase a 55 gallon drum of Phencyclidine (PCP), also known as angel dust, dippers, or water for around $25,000 - $35,000 dollars.
The DEA determined that individuals trafficking in PCP derived a gross income from their initial investment to be in the millions of dollars, depending on how the product was dispensed.
In 1978, People Magazine and Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes, called PCP the country's "number one" drug problem.
Why?
Mainly because of the psychological effects consistent with the short term use and long term mental disabilities associated with the use of the drug. Effects including but not limited to:
- severe changes in body image
- loss of ego boundaries
- paranoia
- hallucinations
- homicide and suicide impulses
- aggressive behavior, altered mood states, and an unpredictable, unnatural physical strength.
Studies indicates that there is an extremly high rate of irreversible loss of brain function attributed to chronic users of PCP in any shape, form or fashion.
I would be lying if I said that, prior to my federal incarceration in 1986 for cocaine trafficking, I didn't sample PCP as a potential business venture. In my pursuit to obtain a fortune - by any means necessary - I had to know - first hand - the effect of the product that I was contemplating investing in.
I would also be lying if I said I sampled it more than once.
Why? Because once was enough!!!!!
Why? Primarily, because I never wanted to be THAT HIGH!!!!!!
Thank God he never let me have the mind to want to be "so high" on narcotics or alcohol that I wasn't conscience of my whereabouts and surroundings.
Further, I couldn't comprehend or stomach the devastation and havoc I saw PCP having in our neighborhoods and communities. Therefore, I opted out of it being part of my entrepreneurship in narcotics.
Cocaine was bad enough; but at least it originated from a naturally growing plant/leaf and was not concocted in a factory or laboratory somewhere.
Today, you can walk into any convenience store, tobacco shop, or head shop and purchase(cheap, real cheap) Synthetic cannabinoids or sometimes - misleadingly - referred to as synthetic marijuana.
Synthetic cannabinoids has the same - no actually - a worse effect on humans beings than PCP ever had. Why? Because synthetic cannabinoids has proven to induce cannibalism in its users.
Yet, you can buy it............ right over the counter or on-line.
Recently, it has been reported that the drug is being given away to homeless residents in St. Louis and other major cities in hope that the users will kill each other. Rumor has it that the "new age urban loft dwellers" don't want them(the homeless) hanging around blighting their communities and entertainment venues so they are handing out "death packets" for free.
Something is seriously amiss in amerikkka. And considering who the current POTUS is.......things are only going to get worse....much worse.....before they get better.
If you don't know God......you better get to know him.......soon.
Marvel not, ye must be born again!!!!
TG4RG
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