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Judge Boasberg is Out of His Mind and Should be Impeached: When throwing rocks at glass houses, make sure they can’t come back

Republicans should have already referred James Boasberg for impeachment for his judicial lawfare against the Trump administration for gross overstepping of his authority, an attempted erosion of the President’s Article II powers, and made an example of him.  We did not elect these judges into their positions; they were appointed, and if they don’t do a good job, there needs to be a mechanism to eliminate them.  And that is the complete case with this goofy judge thinking he has the power to stop the President from sending prisoners and violent criminals out of America, to an El Salvadorian prison.  And it’s not just in America but across the world. We recently saw judicial tampering in France to knock off a political rival there, who was up in the polls and poised to beat Macron.  We also saw judicial overreach in South Korea to remove President Yoon through impeachment.  What we are seeing on the world stage is essentially a replay of the Book of Judges from the Bible where flawed personalities are positioning themselves to have kingly power, which they abuse, and to use that power to remove the ability of people to vote for their representation, rather than having an authority system imposed on them.  This judicial loser, Boasberg, in Washington, D.C., is way over his skis, and he should be thrown out of his office by Republicans defending the President.  But this lawfare system evolved to protect the establishment from the will of the people, not to enforce their will, and we see it in literally every country.  The problem goes back to before the Bible, not just in the United States.  And too often, Republicans have their hands dirty from their own antics in the cookie jar, so when they need to defend a judicial topic, they can’t, because they played the game themselves and can’t cast stones against the glasshouse they live in.  Another thing I say all the time is make your life so that you can cast stones and shatter people’s glass houses.  And be sure to judge often.  And be sure, while you’re doing all this, to live in a house made of bricks and that it’s impenetrable to any rocks coming back at you.  You can afford to throw rocks at other people and break their glass houses, but they can’t do the same to you.

All this judicial radicalism reminds me of a local issue, and it comes up every week as a question given to me about why I don’t want to run for the Lakota school board, even though I get asked about it every week, many times a week.  One of the big reasons I have watched over a long period of time is that being elected into a school board position is useless because lawyers run the public school in my neighborhood, which was never clearer than in the case of Darbi Boddy.  To help with the school board issue, I have put my name behind several people to be elected or to sit on the school board and to help get management there that could represent voters and give kids a decent place to attend school.  But in the case of Darbi, one that I recently worked with to be on the school board, who I thought was doing an excellent job was removed from her seat by the lawyers who protect their system from the crazy voters who might want to manage their school system and the tax money that feeds these schools.  When they couldn’t get rid of Darbi any other way, a judge, who I know, stuck his nose into the situation and pitted one school board member that I worked with to get elected against the other one and imposing a restraining order that essentially kept Darbi from doing her job and getting her off the school board on a technicality.  So, for all those people wanting me to be on the school board and to do what I do to help voters have real representation, I live by a few rules, and I would never put myself in one of those positions where some stupid judge could throw rocks at me.  I throw the stones so that they never come back.

I felt so bad for Darbi because she wants to help politically and could be good in politics.  But the system wants to protect itself just as it has been doing with Trump, which is why you don’t see Republicans rushing to Trump’s defense in that Boesman case.  They like having these lawyers in control because it gives them fake power that is always enforceable by the invisible overreach of the judiciary.  And it’s in every local consideration.  Even I, knowing all the players, did not know just how bad the situation was until I watched that process work against Darbi Boddy.  Nothing changes because the lawyers run the schools, and the only people who survive on these school boards, no matter what they are, stick around because the lawyers let them.  The lawyers want easy money, and taxpayer-funded schools are ripe ground for exploitation, and there are always court cases when many thousands of people are involved, from students and their parents to unionized staff.  Lawyers run public schools, and I don’t like lawyers.  I do legal work for fun.  I think only con artists do it for a living.  And if I were on the Lakota school board the way it is now, it would be a glasshouse with a foundation of lawyers who keep it all held up, and that is not something I’m interested in. 

It’s good to have this conversation.  I love the idea of judicial oversight.  For fun, I spent considerable time a few weeks ago at the Supreme Court, so I’m certainly not talking about anarchy.  I know a lot of judges and have known a lot of lawyers over the years, and the key to those positions is that to do their jobs, they have to be good people.  And most people in legal work are not good people.  They are trying to hide from the world that they are bad people, trying to hide it with long black robes and legal scholarship.  However, the system itself is poised toward corruption, and you can hear that in the Boesman case, where he thinks he has authority over Trump’s Article II responsibilities as an elected office holder.  Boesman is out of his mind, and I would like to see my congressman, Warren Davidson, move to impeach Judge Boesman immediately for tampering with Trump, our elected representative.  But then again, many Republicans saw this all happen to a local politician, Darbi Boddy, and they hung her out to dry.  And let me say this, that would never be me.  And when we work to find people who want to be on that stupid school board, good, quality people are not running and staying on the school board because the lawyers keep proper management of the school, or the Executive Branch, from happening.  And until we deal with the problem of judicial overreach, where judges want to be unelected kings, we will always have a broken system.  And it won’t be reformed because the lawyers protect themselves with legal technicalities, so good work can’t be done because their targets are always in court, from shattered glass houses.  Don’t live in a glass house; be sure the rocks only go one way.

Rich Hoffman

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God Won’t Leave Me Alone: ‘The Politics of Heaven’

Absolutely, the number one question I get asked every week, without fail, is when I’m going to write another book.  And my answer is that I usually write them every seven or so years, which has been true throughout my adult life.  My two favorite things, reading and writing, are activities I spend a lot of time doing, so it’s natural that writing a book is something I tend to do.  But this one is different, because lately my answer has been that I’m writing one now.  It will take a few years, and I didn’t go into it with a publisher in mind or some means of distribution.  It’s currently in the raw writing stage, which is the most fun and where the quality of a project like this has the most impact.  And this one is different for me, as it’s a big project and will be a pretty big book. It’s called The Politics of Heaven. I feel I have to write it because God won’t leave me alone about it.  He talks to me constantly about writing this book and the urgency was certainly more frequent after a trip my wife and I recently took to Washington D.C.  We were on the fifth floor where they do their big presentations and enjoying the view of the Capitol and Mall in front of us when the urgency from God was nearly as loud as a screaming kid begging for a candy bar.  This project was one of those things I had planned to do in a few years, about on schedule with my usual 7-year pace between projects.  But this one couldn’t wait.  God wanted to express himself, and it just couldn’t linger.  So, we’ll see how things go and what options present themselves along the way.  However, for the sake of what I do, I am shifting my focus to this project, as well as several other urgent matters that have arisen in conjunction with it.

I saw this at the Museum of the Bible and remembered it from an article I read back in 2007.

Strategically speaking, I see an opportunity here that is unique, and it’s something I originally started thinking about heavily while I took my family to the Sainte Chapelle, with its high ceilings and magnificent stained glass windows, obviously mimicking Heaven and the human ascent into it.  Paris had been getting frequent attacks by Muslim radicals, and it was more than just a war going on over religion.  And I had been thinking that someone needs to write a book in a unique way that puts things in perspective with people.  What is excellent about Christian writers is that they produce a lot of material.  Some of the most prolific writers in the world are associated with Christian scholarship and have been in the business of analyzing scripture and its applications.  I enjoy them.  I look forward to every new addition to Biblical Archaeology Review that I get, and I hadn’t been thinking about it too much, just enjoying them.  But the problem is that this is a strategic necessity.  People with Trump in the White House are looking to fill a void that has been put in them, politically, and what I do that most don’t is deal with politics.  To me, politics is like baking a cake.  You make it, people eat it, then everyone sits down and watches a football game and falls asleep on the couch.  But these messages to me, and how do I know they are from God and not some random spiritual stranger like a homeless person begging for money, are urgent and time-driven.  I have some experience in this area, and this isn’t my first time.  And this time he certainly wasn’t shy about it, frustrated by the limited means that there are to communicate across dimensional time and space. 

It will be a very interesting book. Probably nothing like it in the world.

The Bible is selling very well, with a spike in sales directly tied to the expanding economy and the politics behind it.  For what people have witnessed over these last three decades, who could expect otherwise?  People want goodness in their lives, or at least the pursuit of it.  People were hungry to understand how to extract goodness from something, which, in most cases, is a relationship with the most essential piece of literature the world has ever known —the Bible.  But for most, these are very purposeful excursions into the battle for good over evil, and people usually keep it all to themselves.  But the time we’re in now is different; this is a political enterprise, and it involves a spiritual realm at war with each other, and we’re reflections of that war, where individual battles are erupting all over the landscape.  And politics is kind of my unique thing that is different from what anybody else writes.  Specifically I want to deal with the political problem of the spirit world constantly trying to attack God and his creation from the border of the firmament and to chronical the attack vector of many demonic entities as they were captured by the Apocryphal book The Testament of Solomon which I argue should have been one of the Books of the Bible where God gave him a ring to control the demons of earth and force them to build his temple.  I think this is more than a fantasy story by post-Second Temple early Christians.  I believe there is compelling evidence to support this story, which is very relevant to our present time. Many of the evils we have been witnessing can be firmly attributed to the influence of occult magic and the yearning for it, with numerous factions now working against us.  And is best captured in the Bible in Ephesians 6:12. 

It was stunning to see this in person. God was talking to me in a very literal way.

One of my favorite books in the history of the world is Graham Hancock’s “Sign and the Seal,” which is about the purported discovery of the actual Ark of the Covenant, allegedly located in Ethiopia at Axum.  I will have more to say on the recent revelations from the CIA on this topic soon, but needless to say, I think that book is one of the most fantastic adventure books I’ve ever read, and I’ve read a lot of them.  However, there is much more to the story, and I believe several steps can be taken beyond the adventure part of these stories. We know enough to peek behind the veil at a real war that has taken place and to understand our role in that war.  And part of that strategy is to enable people to form a relationship with the Bible and to continue gaining perspective on how it can improve their lives by helping them win battles they may not even be aware of.  It is my intention for them to figure it out, which is why this urging from me is so timely.  It’s a project that can’t wait.  Of course, I will continue to do all the other many things that I do.  This will be just another project to add to all the others.  However, due to the timing and necessity, I’m doing it now rather than five or more years from now, when I’ll be well into my sixties.  This is an effort that requires a voice that understands politics and can put it into perspective, so people can fight the battle that needs to be won by the forces of good.  And for that to happen, context is in short supply and needs to be made much more abundant. 

Very big stuff

Rich Hoffman

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Why America is the Best: Understanding Gideon and George Washington

While visiting George Washington’s home at Mt. Vernon, I was very interested in why it is OK for us to say that America is the best country on earth and that we should preserve it very boisterously.  And why George Washington?  Well, we named our capital city after him and think of him as the ultimate Founding Father, the pacesetter who started something new in the world, and we have measured everything thereafter with him in mind.  So, what made George Washington so great?  And why do Americans feel like they must always tell the world that they are the best and greatest?  Our form of government is by far the best, and it’s an unquestioned reality.  But if you’ve ever traveled the world and dined with acquaintances from other countries, and you’re watching a news report in which someone from America comes on and says that America is the best country on earth, it can get a little weird. In that case, it can be a little uncomfortable because the people you eat at the table think the same about their country.  What makes it more accurate for us in the United States than for them, whoever they are?  That’s happened to me a lot of times.  Yet, I think Americans should say such a thing because I believe our form of government is superior to that of anywhere in the world and that we should be proud of it.  We should even brag about it like we do.  But why?  You can understand something instinctively, but to actually “know” it requires much more understanding and perspective, which is undoubtedly the case with this topic.  And now that I’ve visited Mt. Vernon with my wife, George Washington’s home, I think I understand it much better.

I think the key to understanding why America is the best country in the world is literally a “key.”  The key that George Washinton used to hang in the entry to his house that his friend and long lost adopted son Marquis de Lafayette gave to him that used to be the key to the Bastille’s main gate, once the French stormed it and destroyed it as a symbol of tyranny during the French Revolution.  George Washington kept it to show how a country can overthrow tyranny, and even though the French Revolution got well out of hand while the American Revolution slightly before it was much more civil and orderly, the reminder that the people ultimately have the power to rule over themselves was represented in the key, which Washington understood as literally the key to setting up a proper government for the people and by the people.  George Washington liked his house so much that he didn’t want to be away from it with commitments to power and was always reluctant to achieve any high office.  But as to that as well, why?  Then, of course, you would have to understand the Bible, the primary literary entertainment at the time of these revolutions, and the forming of our country.  They didn’t have television shows or music to entertain themselves with thought, but they did have the Bible.  And George Washington would have shared the Bible with just about everyone pursuing a life of thoughtful understanding.  One thing that I have always thought about Biblical studies is that they are narratively, really insightful, psychologically.  I’ve read most of the foundation religious texts of the world, and I can say that the Bible is a brilliant enterprise that served as a good guide through the foundation of a new country.  It was the first to figure itself out, as the Bible had spent the previous 1500 years being fleshed out as an idea.  And the ideas formulated in the Bible essentially laid the groundwork for the creation of America.  So George Washington, by way of dinner conversation, would have spent a lot of time reading and talking about the Bible with his dinner guests at Mt. Vernon, which would have happened all the time. 

I spent most of the previous year leading up to Trump’s election reading various books about George Washington because I felt that the world would need to understand what was about to happen, and to understand America, you have to understand George Washington.  And to understand that, you must understand George Washington’s home of Mt. Vernon.  So that’s what my wife and I did to celebrate Trump being back in the White House; we visited Mt. Vernon to unpack why putting Trump back in as President was necessary and why he should be so boisterous about why America was the best country.   It ultimately comes down to how George Washington thought and how much the Bible influenced him, especially the Book of Judges and the character within that book of Gideon, the military hero who saved Israel with only 300 men but was the reluctant hero always trying to downplay his efforts.  I often see our form of government as a republic as a deliberate attempt to fix the problems in the Book of Judges, where God wanted people to rule themselves. Still, the failure of the regional judges drove the Hebrew people to demand a king to rule over them. The wheels fell off the apple cart, leaving the kingdom to become divided by God’s anger after the death of King Solomon.

I think Washington modeled himself after Biblical characters with his approach to leadership and, most notably, Gideon himself.  Gideon’s conquests led to 40 years of peace during the rest of his lifetime. Still, before he died, he had made a gold ephod from the spoils of war that some Israelites began to worship. Once Gideon wasn’t around anymore, idolatry started to poison the minds of the people, and one of his 70 sons, Abimelech, led an uprising that killed all the others and drove them to a fallen society.  Thinking about human nature through this story, George Washington was trying not to make the mistakes of Gideon.  Rather than become just another corrupt king with multiple wives, like Gideon, Washington stayed loyal to Martha and kept himself grounded at Mt. Vernon all his life before and after the Revolution and his two terms as President.  George fought off the hungry temptation to be romantic with Sally Fairfax, the wife of his very good friend William, and the couple for which Fairfax County is named today.  But being inspired by Bible stories, Washington wanted to avoid those pitfalls and stayed grounded throughout his life.  However, once he was out of office, like Gideon’s sons, it was hard to pull together a republic without everyone fighting all the time, which was undoubtedly the case with subsequent presidents like Adams, Jefferson, and Madison.  And like the story of the Book of Judges, leadership always failed.  And the way that America set up its republic form of government to resist those temptations, for society to call out for a king and to give them unlimited power, our government was built on the Book of Judges from the beginning to correct it.  That was certainly at the core of George Washington’s belief and why he thought the key to the Bastille was so important.  It was more important for people to rule themselves and to throw off the oppressors of social order than to conform to it.  Because once a person has collected such power, as the Bible shows, they all fail.  So Washington and our American form of government set everything up to resist that temptation and to give people just enough power, knowing that the faults of humanity were always very close.  And like his temptations with Sally Fairfax, he would keep those lusts cool and always on the back burner, where they belonged.  If a leader can’t govern their emotions, how can they govern other people?  Because of these concerns, and after several hundred years, they led to President Trump, who found that balance late in life on his own terms.  We can say that America is better than all other forms of government because it was built with these concerns in mind, which had previously destroyed every society people had in it.  And we have now sustained ourselves for many centuries on a premise of restraint, which George Washinton started, based on the Bible story of Gideon, the reluctant military general whom God worked through directly to save his people, even if only for a short time.

Rich Hoffman

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Controlling Demons to Try to Destroy the Trump Administration: The Lesser Key of Solomon

Among many things, I am an expert on the occult, not a practitioner.  Long before the established religions we have today, there was a cult of planet worshippers who sought the help of supernatural aid frequently, and they had sacrificial cultures designed to appease them.  I don’t even pray to God for myself, let alone conduct magic ceremonies.  I see those types of people as weak and diabolical.  I have written a lot about the evil of Aleister Crowley and Jack Parsons, one of the founders of NASA, and they believed in the help of supernatural aid to help them accomplish their desired tasks, and they were often successful.  When you study the Bible, there is a lot of communication with spirits, angels, and demons to help with earthly desires, so we should not assume that all that desire went away. Instead, I would say that the desire to have relationships with entities outside our terrestrial boundaries is as intense as ever.  If you’ve ever been to the Denver International Airport, you will start to get a good sense of it, and as is predictable, Democrat politics has festered into that specific area purposefully.  Like with Aleister Crowley and the Denver Airport, Masonic lodges are part of the story, and of course, with them, we are talking about their reverence for the ancient builders of King Solomon’s Temple, and specifically Hiram Aboff, of Tyre, who was said to be the architect of the famous temple.  And this is where I think we have to think about these supernatural entities when we ask the question about why so many evil things are happening now against the Trump administration, such as terrorist attacks, airplane accidents, and political upheaval.  To understand all those motivations, I think you can look to a simple book such as The Lesser Key of Solomon and remind yourself that many thousands of people turn to books like that in an attempt to conduct the armies of darkness against the forces of good and that many are putting curses on the Trump administration as we speak, to stop him.

This is a very ancient practice passed down over a very long period of time

Speaking of curses, just because someone intends harm on you, even from the spirit world, doesn’t mean they will succeed.  Take me, for example. I am speaking to you after four decades of ill intentions cast upon me by almost every malicious character you can imagine.  So, there are always countermeasures.  And I have studied the world’s occult practices to understand the enemy’s weapons.  But I would never use them myself.  To me, asking for help from anybody or anything is weak.  I don’t even ask for directions to a gas station from GPS.  So witchcraft or practicing magic is off the table.  I see them as just as foolish as ancient practices of demonic appeasement with human sacrifice.  But with all that said, my daughters were traveling recently and found themselves in Salem, Massachusetts, which is covered with reverence for witches and all those who think Harry Potter sorcery are a good idea.  They were in an excellent bookstore filled with books on the occult, so they took a picture and sent me an extensive sampling, asking if I wanted any of them while they were there.  I spotted one that I have had my eye on for a long time: The Lesser Key of Solomon, edited by Joseph H. Peterson.  I have read different versions of that book, allegedly written by King Solomon himself and transferred through time to the present through oral traditions and esoteric references.  So they picked it up for me, and it is quite an interesting book, to say the least.

I am working on a line of thought that I have on the Kofun tombs of Japan and how they connect to the empire of King Solomon.  These tombs are all over Osaka. I have seen them by the hundreds, and I think Solomon’s influence ended there at the Pacific Ocean along the Silk Road in ways that nobody has adequately studied or understood.  In Japan, they communicate with good and evil spirits all the time, on just about every street corner, and they call these spirits kami.  In Islam, they call them jinn.  In Western cultures, we call them angels and demons.  In Japan, it always amazes me how people openly seek to appease these spirits and help them in some way or another with incense and prayer.  So I think The Lesser Key of Solomon is one of the reasons that they built all those kofun tombs in the shape of a keyhole, as a way to lock away the people buried there from the evil menace of a hostile spirit world that might harass them in death.  You might recall, dear reader, that the story goes from the Apocrypha text removed from the Bible called The Testament of Solomon, for which The Lesser Key is an extension, that King Solomon was given by God a ring that could seal away demons and actually employed them to his wishes.  It’s an old take on the Arabian Nights stories of the Genie.  The story goes that Solomon captured all these demons to help him build King Solomon’s temple which is why Master Masons and people were so inclined to seek The Lesser Key of Solomon so that they could also command spirits like King Solomon did to build the temple and conduct his business of an empire that extended far away from ancient Israel.  That’s how Aleister Crowley and many like him from the occult practitioner sciences that predate the Hebrew people by many thousands of years get involved in all this demon worship by trying to command spirits as Solomon did for the perpetuation of some terrestrial cause. 

The critical point to remember here is not the conduct of morality attached to discussions like this but understanding the intent.  There are many people in the world, especially practicing Democrats, who seek supernatural aid to help them achieve some political cause.  And the demon world is hectic trying to grant their requests.  And I can assure everyone that all over Washington D.C., wannabe witches, and occult practitioners are trying to put a curse on everything that the Trump administration tries to touch.  So when we see all the crazy stuff in the news and wonder why so many people are doing so many bad things, it’s not always the CIA conducting some coup attempt or the FBI trying to do the same to keep Kash Patel from becoming their boss.  It goes even deeper than that to why people think what they do and how those thoughts pop into their minds.  To deal with this occult menace, we have to admit that it exists in the first place, which many are reluctant to do.  But when I see the kind of news stories that have been common since Trump was elected, I see occult attempts to stop the political tide that so many desire.  But many scandalous characters are seeking the aid of the spirit world to overthrow our political order with a lot of personal investment.  And I think it will get much worse. Yet that doesn’t mean that all these evil intentions will be successful.  All it does mean is that we must look at where the problems are and see the threats for what they truly are.  And not illusively of their origins.  And fight those fights at the doorstep of the enemy. 

What amazes me about all these images is that they look so much like Indian art, crop circles, and ancient mound construction

Rich Hoffman

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The Bible Says Earth is Roughly 6000 Years Old: Understanding water displacment

I really like people like Mel Gibson and Ken Ham, one the famous actor, the other the creator of The Ark Encounter just south of Cincinnati.  However, both believe in the scriptural understanding of the earth’s history, that it is roughly 6000 years old.  I would argue that they aren’t wrong if you measure years differently than we do on Earth, but that is an entirely different discussion.  Regarding earth sciences, it says that life on Earth is billions of years old and is at apparent odds with scriptural timelines.  Within these kinds of debates, the truth gets concealed from people, which is partly on purpose and other parts unfortunate.  It’s challenging to put science into a belief system, just as it’s hard for people who build a belief system in science to alter a previous assumption because of their emotional investment.  I don’t hold it over Mel Gibson in any way; I can’t wait for his new movie on the Resurrection of Christ.  That will be a life-changing movement for all human history and change the world.  I believe God’s hand has pointed his life in the direction of making this movie the whole time.  So I can’t wait for it in 2026 or 2027 when they finally finish the movie which is a sequel to The Passion.  Because I love the Bible and have had a relationship with it all my life, it comes up a lot more now. How can you love the Bible and love science? The two are incompatible.  I hear all the time that Earth is only 6000 years old and that Charles Darwin was an absolute idiot.  I also hear a lot that we never landed on the moon.  But I think there is compelling evidence in both categories that will erase any doubt very soon, so people believe what they believe, and if it holds them together as people, that is the important thing.  But that doesn’t make everything a fact.  

Mel Gibson is a very smart person who is very passionate about many things, making him a great actor and creative director.  But he has lived a very rocky life, living hard and going through many women.  For a period in the 80s and 90s, he was the sexiest man alive by many considerations, and it was hard for him to maintain his sanity, I think, being a hand of God and having every woman in the world throwing themselves at his feet already undressed.  So, I don’t blame him at all for holding onto scripture like a disabled person holds on to the handrail while going down the steps.  But he recently said something on the Joe Rogan Podcast that was very interesting and part of the movement of trying to fit science into scripture, which is popular these days.  However, I argue differently because I see science trying to force understanding into the same problem, where new evidence is ignored to maintain a scientific narrative.  I’m just going to say it; everyone is going to be screwed up in a few years once we get out into space to discover that humans came from out there, not through Darwin’s evolution, and that many of the things we believe are going to be shattered with new evidence.  That doesn’t make scripture any less relevant or some scientific method.  It just means that discovery gives new evidence and that we must let that evidence tell the story.  Not to make the story fit our assumptions. 

I think these tunnels under the Temple Mount are older than when Abraham went there to sacrifice Isaac to God. And is why the politics of religions are designed to make real excavation impossible.

Anyway, Mel Gibson was telling Joe Rogan that he doesn’t believe the idea that the ocean levels weren’t lower during the Ice Age, as I have been saying, 400 feet lower.  Mel Gibson said that if you put ice in a glass of water when the ice melts, the water doesn’t displace itself over the rim of the glass.  The level of the water doesn’t change.  And from the point of view of mass and how we measure it, he’s got a point.  But he was missing that during the Ice Age, massive amounts of Earth’s water were tied up in glaciers, and those giant blocks of ice were coming down over both poles and were mostly over land.  The weight of the ice itself is what caused the Great Lakes in North America.  The weight was so great that it flattened the earth’s crust in that location, which is still rising back up to a circumference, pushing the water out and into the St. Lawrence Seaway and, ultimately, the Atlantic Ocean.  Another several thousand years, and the Great Lakes won’t even be there.  So because of this massive effect of glaciers displacing large amounts of water over the land masses, the world’s sea levels were 400 feet lower.  At that time, you could have walked from England to France without getting your feet wet, except for a few ancient rivers.  And the Persian Gulf was above water all the way down to Dubai.  Most of Florida extended well into the Bahamas, Cuba, and the Yucatan Peninsula.  If you have read the Book of Morman, there were old civilizations in North and South America that the Nephites and Lamanites interacted with when they migrated from Jerusalem around 600 B.C.  Even then, it looks like land mass was lost to the sea. 

I would further offer that if you look at the previous shorelines of water levels that were oceanfront during the Ice Age, we will discover a lot of ancient civilizations and that the assumption science has of linear technical development is ridiculous.  Rather, we are dealing with the Vico Cycle here, where human civilization has started and stopped throughout history.  And that history goes back millions of years.  Not just 10 thousand years.  And likely goes out into space.  I think there is compelling evidence that Jerusalem goes back to settlement with a cave system under Mt. Moriah and that the Temple Platform that King Solomon built his temple on, and the current Dome of the Rock was significant, perhaps even millions of years ago.  And many of the world’s religions have purposely been put at each other’s throats to conceal the truth, which we’ll likely figure out once we start colonizing Mars.  Much of what we know now about everything will change with new evidence, and we have to be willing to look at that evidence without losing the importance of our belief systems.  It can be tricky business, but it’s not impossible.  Everyone must understand that the bad guys out there purposely seek to pit people’s beliefs against each other to conceal or use the truth to their advantage.  So, because Mel Gibson doesn’t quite understand water displacement concepts and how they relate to ocean levels, that doesn’t mean that what he says in his movies, especially the upcoming Resurrection, is false.  It’s just perspective.  The art says what it says.  And that is the same whether we are talking about the Bible, the Book of Morman, or the Quran.  I find them all very fascinating, and there are certain truths there.  But there is a lot else that science is unpacking, and our scope will increase with new information.  We must have the guts to look at that information and not hide from it, which is the case with science and what we look at regarding previous ocean levels.  And what we will discover under the water, especially off the coast of Cuba, India, Japan, and the Persian Gulf.  It’s going to be a mind-bending few years of upcoming adventure.  And we will all be better off for it.

Rich Hoffman

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A Shadowman, a Knife and a Dead Rabbit: The politics of the spirit world

The thing I spend the most time thinking about is the politics of the spirit world.  The political motivations of demons, kami, and jinn depend on what culture we’re dealing with worldwide, whether in the Orient, the Near East, or the West.  Every culture has a reference to such creatures, and I’d say that science is finally starting to root them out of mythology and to understand them and their residence in quantum physics.  Like all living creatures, they have a political system that is alluded to in the Bible, the Quaran, and almost every religious document ever known.  In Jewish tradition, these are the Elohim, the Divine Council of God, who have always been there.  They work and plot against God, and our lives are often the battlefield of their designs and manipulations.  I think about the role that they play in our lives and what their politics are as much as I do think about Republicans and Democrats in America and sovereign nations around the world fighting it out against communists.  So when Aaron Rogers gives interviews about a shadow man who looms in the distance wherever he goes, holding a knife and a dead rabbit, I don’t think he’s crazy.  This has been a problem for him since he started going to ayahuasca sessions in Peru and started what many people believe has ruined him as a professional football player and put him in an over-the-rainbow status of the loony asylum.  But I don’t think he’s crazy at all.  I’ve seen plenty of shadow people like Aaron Rogers has seen, and I don’t do drugs in the least.  But when Aaron Rogers started taking ayahuasca from the shamans in Peru, seeking meaning in his life like so many do these days, he trained his mind to see things that were always there.  Only now is he seeing it in a way that many did in the Bible and starting a relationship with the political order of scandalous demons who are always lurking just beyond our perceived reality.

When I hear Aaron Rogers tell the story, it’s obvious to me what happened.  You might take the same route to work every day and not see a Cybertruck that parks somewhere along your standard drive.  But one day, you start thinking about buying one because you saw an advertisement or interacted with one in some way that caused you to start thinking about them, and suddenly, on that same route to work, you start seeing that one parked in that parking lot.  It was always there, but your mind switched to seeing more than your eyes were trained to see under normal conditions.  People who take ayahuasca, I think, aren’t hypercharging their brains with psychedelics and inspiring their imaginations to see illusions.  But they see more of what is always there, which looms in quantum physics.  We see lives that are always there but exist outside our dimensional reality. Interestingly, when the world’s noise was less, people had much more open relationships with the spirit world than they do now.  The Bible is filled with such experiences, as are most religious texts.  I have witnessed on a mass scale how the Japanese honor the kami of the spirit world on almost every street corner in even their most cosmopolitan cities.  Everywhere are shrines to the spirit world, hoping to appease their help and avoid harm from their strange political order, which looms through our lives in various ways.

I think one of the most significant pieces of literature that pulls mback the veil to this kind of activity is the excellent book of the Apocrypha, a book I think clearly should have been part of the general body of work that is the Bible, the story, the Testament of Solomon, as in King Solomon, son of David, part of the line of Abraham and a hand-picked king for God to lead his people in the hostile promised land where there was a battle between Baal, Moloch and the Hebrew God Yahweh.  Many times, I’ve told the story about my obsession with King Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem and why they built it there.  There is a lot to think about regarding that Temple and its place in the narrative of the Bible.  The story goes that King Solomon had his temple built by jinn, the demonic spirits that are so openly talked about in the Quran, the same thing we call demons in Western culture, and essentially the same characters that you find in the streets of Japan in the kami.  Solomon is given a ring that controls the demons and makes them do what he needs them to do.  Otherwise, they are always working a kind of mischief quite pronounced in their political order, which seems to always run at the cross purposes of our lives.  They use us for their political games that have an inspiration beyond our standard line of sight.  So Solomon uses this magic ring to force the demons to his will, and they build the Temple of Solomon, today’s most contentious piece of real estate on planet Earth.  Solomon blew it when he wanted to sleep with one of his many thousands of wives, and she demanded that before he touched her, he sacrifice five grasshoppers to her god Moloch.  And for that, God got mad, split up the kingdom between Solomon’s sons, and the destruction of Israel started for this original sin. 

I’ve been to many of the great cathedrals of Europe, especially the one in Canterbury.  I have had an obsession with the Canterbury Tales most of my life and a deep longing to live in the world of James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake.  In all these places, I see the deep fear of what happened to the human race, which was what essentially happened to King Solomon.  There is a deep desire to hope that Jesus can save all humanity from this aggressive political order.  The characters are very terrifying and are in every culture of the world, but like the Tower of Babel story, everyone has had their impressions changed enough that nobody cooperates.  But why?  How did we arrive in those conditions?  When you study how Democrats have played the Saul Alinsky game against Republicans for many years, you begin to understand.  They learned their tricks from the demons of the spirit world and used their strategies in our conscious reality.  And like Trump is now doing what King Solomon failed to do to the world, the aggressors are always there.  And they have political motivations that look mysterious to us because we don’t usually pay them much attention.  But in cases like Aaron Rogers, who punched hyper-reality into his brain with ayahuasca on occasions now from the shaman in Peru with that strange brew common there, you sometimes see these characters from Solomon’s stories and his downfall, chasing you around with a knife and a dead rabbit.  They are not there for our benefit but to use us for a massive overthrow of the world as they know it, and we are learning about, in quantum mechanics and a linear timeline that is all at once, ever-present.  I don’t think Aaron Rogers is crazy.  He is waking up to a reality incompatible with the perspective of a human life.  However, a reality that we all know and fear looms outside our observable reality and is vulnerable to motivations only they understand in their politics of the spirit world.  So if you happen to see a shadowy man holding a knife and a dead rabbit chasing you around, don’t be surprised. 

I understand Melania’s hat. She knows………it’s time to turn the tables

Rich Hoffman

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The Reality Beyond the Blue Pill: It costs a lot to live a red pill life

I have had to explain many things this year because the questions keep coming.  I have a sales gear where I can go around a room and talk to people.  But anything beyond the first layer of conversation I usually stay away from because it essentially comes down to a blue pill versus red pill kind of thing, and there is a cost to the latter.  In the movie The Matrix, which I have referred to a few times over the last couple of decades, I think they best explained the difference between a blue pill life and a red pill.  For the blue, it’s all about the feeling of connectedness with other people that blue pillers strive for.  A sense of being plugged into the world around you comes with a nurturing feeling.  Knowing what Jake down the road is doing with his new lawn mower comes with a sense of belonging, and most people in the world want and need that feeling.  In the movie, we call those people blue pillers.  But if you want to see what’s really happening, you take the red pill.  And it’s then that you realize that all humanity is a giant computer program and that the forces that want to control you use this kind of matrix to harvest your mind and thoughts and that the roots of all tyranny come from this exchange.  For most people, they don’t want to know.  They enjoy being plugged in and could care less about actual reality because the illusion makes them happy.  But then you have the red pillers always looking for the truth.  And once they know the truth, they can never go back to the blue pill life.  One interesting thing about President Trump, which is evident after his second inauguration, is that he genuinely likes people.  He is a very social creature, and you would have to be for a job like that.  There’s a lot about Trump that I personally understand.  But for me, anything beyond the surface of talking with people gets very painful, very fast. 

Usually, in a crowd, I stay in the back of the room and just let people talk because there is no way to turn off the firehose once I start talking.  That is another reason I write these articles every day.  I care enough about people to give them whatever truth from my perspective they can handle and at whatever rate they choose.  But I go cold quickly to engage in a conversation about the details of human interaction.  I’m not interested in how to make a brisket or what social compliance score someone’s kid has managed to gather toward social acceptance because, as far as I’m concerned, those things are all part of a grand illusion connected to living life.  But I’m only interested in what real life is about beyond that connection.  And in that way, the reality is different for people depending on whether they are blue pillers or red pillers.  If you take the red pill, you can see a lot of stuff behind the scenes.  You will have great insight into the truth of reality.  But the cost is that you can’t often share it with people.  When people would rather talk about the illusion, such as the cost of a new lawn mower and who just bought one, or where little Suzy is going to attend college after their parents saved their money for more than 15 years to send her there, there isn’t any room for discussions about the matrix they are all plugged into which prevents them from understanding the forces that are working against them. 

Due to the end of the year and all the social engagements that come with Christmas, New Year’s, and Inauguration parties, I was often asked what kind of music I like to listen to.  The discussion usually spawned from classic rock examples, and people noticed my indifferent face.  They’d ask me, “who’s your favorite band?”  And then there is an awkward pause.  “I don’t like anybody.  I don’t listen to music.”  At least not in the way that they do; I see music as a purely blue pill experience.  There is a reason that so many songwriters are druggies and seem to be inspired by some hidden hand felt only through intoxication.  And that the political order of a massive civilization of ultra-terrestrials that exist outside of our four-dimensional reality feeds off our sentiments and passions in ways nobody seems to understand and that the way they harvest off our emotions is through popular engagements like music, where people feel compelled to dance to a catchy beat.  That’s when the eyes go blank, and everyone looks at you disdainfully because they don’t want their blue-pill reality shattered.  The correct answer would have been, “I like Led Zepplin or Stevie Ray Vaughan.”  I can never give an answer like that.  I put up the most recent viewership to my blog site, which is up over 80 million these days.  I get a lot of emails for which I only have time to read or answer less than 1% daily.  But people usually take a peek, or they follow diligently.  But they don’t have much to say in response because it comes down to a red pill thing, and it’s not for everybody. 

I wouldn’t trade away a red pill life for anything.  The insight you can have from that perspective is extremely valuable.  But to have it, you do have to disconnect from the illusions that we all are born under.  I think of it best from the Book of Ephesians in the Bible.  It is one of my favorite parts of the Bible because it was written by people who were functioning from the red pill life and trying to display it for the blue pillers.  The Matrix movie puts it successfully into crayon for everyone, which is artistically functional.  I know a lot of people these days are starting to want to peek behind the curtain into the psychedelics of the ayahuasca experience.  The football star Aaron Rogers has been going to South America during the off-season to speak to the plant teachers and give people the firehose of reality just lurking outside our reach, which makes him sound pretty crazy.  People naturally think he’s fallen off his rocker.  And people, through intoxication, get a sense of that reality just beyond our site.  And I would say it’s very dangerous, but if you peel back the layers just a bit, most people agree that something mysterious is beyond their reach, which is terrifying.  To hide from it, we have developed reality, which essentially is being plugged into the blue pill life.  Sports scores, music, food, the consumables of culture.  And it provides insulation from an actual reality.  But I can’t do it; those lives just aren’t compatible.  And there is too much that is valuable in the truth of reality.  But most people don’t want to know about it, or they can’t afford to learn.  They might be interested in small doses.  But they blank out if there is anything more than they can handle.  So, there isn’t much to say under those conditions.  And that’s why I usually don’t have much to say when the content is a blue-pill conversation.  Once you peer at reality for which it is, which also the Dune books do a good job of considering, the world of the Bene Gesserit order, who built a kind of Matrix existence to rule all humanity while the actual reality existed outside their manipulations.  There is a cost to seeing beyond that order.  And I wouldn’t trade it away for anything.  But the price is that most of the time, you have to sit in the back of the room and keep it to yourself because to speak too much only shatters the illusion people want to live with, and they get very mad when that happens unless they are incredibly ready for the content.  So, there isn’t much to say until their minds are correct, which doesn’t happen too often.

Rich Hoffman

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The Empire of the Snake: Why Islam will always be at war with the Bible

It’s almost comical to see modern science tell us that the Serpent Mound in Ohio was built by Indians when they could barely get up each day to eat food.  About an hour east of Cincinnati, the Serpent Mound is one of the most mysterious places on earth and is revered archaeologically as high or higher as the Great Pyramids of Giza.  What makes Serpent Mound so astonishing is the very advanced mathematics and knowledge of the stars that it would have taken a culture thousands, if not millions of years, to develop.  Admittedly, I have been to the Serpent Mound site lots of times.  I have even gone there to think and get away from the world’s chaos on really bad days.  If I’m having a terrible day, don’t be surprised if you find me there reading a book, or looking at some crop circle that sometimes happens across the street from the park entrance.  When I go to Serpent Mound, I think about many things, but it’s never about Indians.  The site was never intended to be a burial mound for a ceremonial culture.  But a reference to the stars and, specifically, the constellation Draco.  It truly has an ancient feeling to the place that is bizarrely intelligent, not the sentiments of a hunter-gatherer culture.  Even more mysteriously, the entire site is built on the edge of a massive crater left over from a crypto explosion many millions of years ago.  So, how did they know where to put the Serpent Mound when there isn’t any evidence to the naked eye of this explosion?  The people who pay reverence to the site with the construction of Serpent Mound would have had to know what the geology under the ground would eventually show, and that is the alarming part of the place and the peek back in time toward an entirely different global civilization that nobody has yet figured out because they are asking all the wrong questions about the evidence that we do have.  We had a global civilization of star worshipers who used to build earth effigies that contained very advanced mathematics.  And something happened to them that was very traumatic. 

It’s coming up a lot lately because of the recent terrorist attack in New Orleans from a radical practitioner of Islam; what is the primary difference between the Christian Bible and the Muslim Quran?  That’s an interesting question because both religions have many of the same characters, so how could they have such a radically different approach to the world?  One pronounced difference is that Islam and Christians have almost the same Adam and Eve story, except in Islam, the Devil is the villain.  In the Jewish and Christian faiths, the snake gives Eve the apple and tells her to eat from the knowledge of good and evil.  The more you dig, the more it is realized that the religion of the Arab people, the same descendants of Mesopotamia, and the original antagonizers from the Land of Canaan were these same people.  And that Yahweh’s fight against them traces back to this essential difference.  In Islam, the snake could be a jinn, a helpful or harmful spirit.  This view of snakes traces back to an Empire of Snake worshippers who had an obsession with star worship and traumatic crises culturally when it comes to the memory of the constellation Draco, Sirius, and many others.  Things get wild when we consider that Thuban, the pole star, lines up with Serpent Mound from approximately 3942 BCE to 1793 BCE.  And if that was the only case with those dates, we might assume somebody made a mistake.  But this same kind of math can be found in the Pyramids, Stonehenge, and even at another giant earth effigy just to the south of downtown Hamilton, Ohio, at the Fortified Hill complex, which during the same period lines up to the constellation Pleiades.  If you want to check it out for yourself, just visit Pyramid Hill Park, and you’ll get a fascinating perspective on the scale of our subject. 

To Islam, the snake is beneficial, just as it is viewed in most cultures of the world with ancient reverence, especially in the Orient, where serpents, dragons, and all species of snakes are seen as helpful entities, not enemies.  But to Western culture, dragons are to be slain.  Snakes are the embodiment of evil.  And to this very day, at the center of conflict between Christianity and Islam is the reverence of the snake and what we should or shouldn’t be doing with them.  For the same reasons that modern archaeologists can’t figure out the Serpent Mound’s relationship to the constellation Draco, they are looking for Indians who would evolve even to begin to understand those kinds of things. What they miss is a clear understanding of the kind of rebellion that Yahweh was advocating for, which is clearly expressed in the Bible as a crisis against the global power of snake worship that inspired the conquest of the land of Canaan to begin with.  And that’s where things really start to get interesting, especially when the most common theme that emerges from the use of psychedelics in religion shares a relationship with snakes as one of the primordial terrors that come from visits to the spirit world today.  Practitioners of the ayahuasca experience that shamans from South America utilize and have become very popular, know what I’m talking about. Most all experience snakes as dominant figures in that hidden kingdom.  And it looks like it was primarily psychedelics in the form of mushrooms or other plant-based agents that helped form the basis for the world’s religions.  And Yahweh was rebelling against the Empire of the Snakes, not submitting to them. 

Therefore, we had an entire world that traded with each other for obviously tens of thousands of years.  Probably much longer.  They did not behave as modern scientist lazily concluded, and that is as hunter and gatherers who migrated to North America from the Jomon people emerging out of Japan and crossing the Bering Strait without any advanced knowledge of the greater heavens that wasn’t at the center of their worship, a crisis for them in great turmoil yearning for celestial bodies.  I have also been to many Jomon sites in Japan, dating from 14,000 BCE to around 300 BCE. Many of their artifacts can be found buried offshore when sea levels were over 400 feet lower during the Ice Age.  All this matters in understanding the vast difference in Western civilization, how it works, and why the East is and will always be at war with it.  Islam is a religion of the East.  Their concepts of the jinn, evil spirits, are almost identical to the Japanese kami and the spirits of the Indians.  And they all stand, just as the land of Canaan did, against the advancement of Western civilization and its blaming of the snake for all that went wrong in the world, as opposed to an artificial Devil as Islam does.  And with that straightforward distinction, we see the root cause of much of the trouble.  The Empire of the Snake is old and global.  It took a rebellion to stand against it and overthrow it, which was captured in the Jewish stories about the conquest of the Land of Canaan and why that was necessary.  It also explains why those who still worship the snake have so much trouble in the world and why Western civilization can be said to be so much better.  Because the anxiety of snake worship never took that global civilization to a healthy psychological place.  We will find the same crises once we land on other stars, such as Mars, and find ourselves homesick to beliefs that resonated from those faraway places.  Only to have a religion come along and fight against that ancient reverence and deal with what is before us in a psychologically healthy way.  At the heart of that, we can then understand why Islam will always be at war with Christians because, for them, the snake and its old empire is a cry for home, a sense of belonging that they will never have again.

Rich Hoffman

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I Understand Why God Destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah: The mob outside Lot’s house were not worth saving

The city of Sodom

I’ve been thinking a lot about Sodom and Gomorrah this holiday season, 2024, and going over into 2025.  Not just in the usual things, like where they were as cities along the Dead Sea in the time of Abraham.  But I’ve been thinking a lot about Lot and his wife and daughters being warned that God was going to destroy the city and that his family needed to leave.  Because God couldn’t find one good person to save, he sent a couple of angels to retrieve Lot so he could destroy everyone else.  I honestly understand God’s frustrations and anger, and I have been thinking a lot about just pushing the button and erasing the whole thing.  I believe that, in my case, I know more than ten people in my life who are worth saving.  But I can understand Yahweh’s predicament.  I would say I am a very positive person. Extremely positive.  I have a personality that can carry risky relationships, so I have allowed in my life people here and there over the years who are very self-destructive in the hopes of pulling them up off the mat and giving them psychological access to a good life.  Wealth is measured in many ways, so I consider such an opportunity much better than handing someone millions of dollars.  A bankrupt personality will blow through money like hot butter right out of the microwave.  So before you can attempt meaningful wealth-building, you must fix what’s wrong with people deep inside themselves.  So, my policy for over four decades has always been to give a few wild characters a chance to do the right things and have access to a better life than they would ever get.  And to show them the way to a righteous existence. 

The angry mob that wanted to rape God’s angels. Driven by lust, greed, and animal motivations

This year, for whatever reason, I had to associate with a more extensive sampling of people during the Holidays, which was very tiring.  I tend to give myself a lot of time to think. I usually read three books a week, but through the Holiday season of 2024, I was having a hard time completing only one because the demands for my time were very intense between family engagements, professional contacts, and random chaos.  I saw more people than I cared too, which didn’t allow for a lot of room for me to have the patience to carry out some of the diabolical reform projects that I usually do without them impacting me personally.   And while all this was going on, I felt I could hear the voice of God whispering in my ear, “Stop wasting time on these losers.  Dump them and free yourself from the shackles of their pathetic existence.”  And I kept thinking about the losers who saw the two angels go into Lots house to warn him of what God planned to do.  And they gathered around it and demanded that Lot send his guests out into the street so that they could have sex with them and rape them against their will.  Lot, trying to be the peacemaker, instead offered to send out his two virgin daughters.  But these were homosexual men who gave the name to the process of sodomizing victims because of the debauchery of Sodom, the destroyed city.  And they wanted to rape the two beautiful angelic men.  There is a lot wrong with all of that, from the mob that wanted to rape the angels to Lot offering his virgin daughters instead.  I would never do that.  People have asked me what I would do in Lot’s case. Well, I would have made it so that every one of those mob members would never sit at a dinner table again.  Sending my daughters to a mob of rapists would never happen under any circumstances.  No threat of violence can’t be overcome with superior methods of aggression, to be nice about it.

The angels had no choice but to blind the aggressors working against Lot
And God eradicated the city because not one person was worth saving turning it all back to dust for which it came

The people I am referring to just wore me out were people who might otherwise be in the mob that Lot had to defend himself from.  If you know the story, the angels, seeing Lot’s predicament, took pity on him and just turned on the mob and blinded them so that they could all escape, which they did and joined Abraham in the desert before God destroyed the place.  Along the way, of course, Lot lost his wife because she looked at the destruction.  Then Lot was sleeping with his daughters, so there were other problems.  But the moral depravity of society, in general, is what we’re talking about here and whether or not members of the mob could have been reformed if only someone had tried to find the good in them.  And this hasn’t been a come-lately project for me.  I have done this as a policy, trying to help people who are just bad and rotten to their core; I’ve wanted to give them a seat at the table and teach them how to thrive there.  But in most cases, if not all, they always let me down.  And we’re not talking about a person here or there; we are talking about many hundreds, and in some cases, many thousands.  After many interactions with those types of people in my life in 2024, I had to reflect and ask if there was one worth saving or trying.  Or were the angels right about everything, and the only way to move forward is to blind everyone and leave them to ultimate destruction, and that we should never do like Lot’s wife, we should never look back, lest we destroy ourselves in the process.

Sodom before
Sodom after

I’ve never felt that trying to help these kinds of people took much away from me that I couldn’t replace with my upbeat personality.  And that’s the only reason I haven’t just pushed the button and dropped all those people from it.  I get to a point where I move on when people disappoint me.  And I try to help someone else, hoping that one or two good people can be found and reformed somewhere along the way.  But truthfully, once people are broken, they don’t come back.  They stay broken and try to destroy whatever is good around them.  And there is no way to help them, no matter how hard you try.  I think the tipping point for me occurred during the subway story of the woman who was lit on fire by an illegal immigrant.  I was sitting at a table in a nice restaurant with a party of people who were personal projects of mine, some working out well, some not so much so, and I caught that news story on the television over the bar.  I looked at the table before me, thinking about all the evil on display, and I realized that the Angels had the right approach.  In many cases, the people I was dealing with were already blind; I was trying to help them see.  But I decided that night to let them stay blind and stupid and leave them to their misery.  And I was going to move on from those people that history has known as the mob outside of Lot’s house.  And rather than trying to save them from desiring such depravity, God had the right idea when he planned to wipe them all out.  Because there was no way to save them, these were the same malcontents of Ham who laughed at Noah’s nakedness when the other children sought to save their father’s dignity by covering him.  There was no way to save such evil.  And that is an admission that is sometimes necessary.  I certainly understand why God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, and even to this day, nobody knows much about the ancient cities because they were so bad that there wasn’t anything left worth knowing.  And that is the same case with most people.

I get it

Rich Hoffman

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The Evil of Sandbagging: Why a $359 Steak is good and well worth it

For many reasons, the problem of sandbagging came up over this last week on several fronts, and as I say in my book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and everywhere I go, all the time, one of the most evil things you can do in life is under commit and over perform, or at least, intend to.  Even under the most optimal conditions, people never end up overperforming once they realize their efforts’ expectations have been removed from them.  In short, this practice is called sandbagging, which I have never done as a person, and I never will.  Even under conditions where I was the only person doing the work, just good enough, or putting forth a lackluster effort was never acceptable.  This topic came up as people were telling stories of my past and why I used to ride bicycles to work while sick, through the snow, and under all kinds of horrendous conditions.  And from their point of view, it might have looked a little wild.  There are a lot of stories from my past that people like to tell because many of the things I do and have done are considered excessively pro-work.  So, of course, this provoked biblical reference because people seem to understand them as a common source of information, and I went on a long explanation that seemed to explain things well to those listening.  Keep in mind, the reason I hate organized labor so much is that they come from communist backgrounds, and, of course, they have a very anti-Christian view of the world.  Their practice as a communist organization is to withhold work from an employer to gain leverage for their financial position, and that is what Marxism is all about.  They are God haters and withdraw work to get some advantage in negotiating their terms.  This is why I call it evil; a lack of work is detrimental to the human race. 

I think a lot of people go to church, and they read the Bible.  But I don’t think they understand the point of many stories.  They learn the basics and believe that Jesus died on the cross for their sins so they can do whatever they want and still get into Heaven.  Which, of course, isn’t true.  It’s a fantasy for bad people to continue to be lazy slugs.  Most people do not understand the story of Cain and Able, the first kids of Adam and Eve, and why God was so insistent that the land of Canaan, named after the son Cain and all his descendants, why God wanted to punish the kid so emphatically.  It all started with two sacrificial offerings.  Able was a shepherd who offered God the best of his flock.  And God saw that he put that extra effort into what he dedicated to God and that Able was good.  On the other hand, Cain threw together just any old sacrifice as a farmer.  And what he gave to God was not the best of himself.  Sure, he gave what he was required, but he withheld his sacrifice, and that angered God immensely.  Something he never got over, as Yahweh of the Bible.  Now, God wasn’t mad because he wanted more.  He was the creator of the universe; he could have anything he wanted.  What he was angry at was the effort between the two boys.  One gave everything he had.  The other held back and sandbagged the efforts, keeping the best for himself.  Of course, Cain didn’t like being shown up by his brother Able, so he killed him, and this is something we see even today.  People who sandbag their efforts seek to destroy those who want to work hard and do well in the world.  And from this straightforward sentiment, most of the evil in the world is born.

Even in sexual practices, much of the evil in the world comes from the basic notion of sandbagging.  A man doesn’t want to work hard to have a wife.  So he hires a prostitute or goes to a strip joint.  Or develops a porn addiction.  A man doesn’t want to work hard to earn a woman’s attention, so he drinks too much and seeks to get her drunk so that she lowers her standards of him.  A person can’t deal with reality because they shrug away the pressure of responsibility, so they turn to drugs and alcohol for relief from social judgment.  Essentially, most of the evil done in the world comes from a sandbagging mentality.  And this is why each time God had to deal with the vile evil of the original sin, from Adam and Eve and their kids, it is the efforts of Cain that Yahweh sought to destroy.  Because Cain was lazy and a sandbagger, all his descendants had the same trait, which led to the massive amount of evil in the world before the flood came and tried to wipe them all away.  But then again, they would rise into Sodom and Gomorrah, the Tower of Babel, and even the Giants in the Land of Canaan that God told the Hebrew people to destroy completely.  The evil God was mad at was the lazy, sandbagging nature of the descendants of Cain.  Jesus, on the other hand, was born from the line of Seth, a third child that Adam and Eve had to replace their murdered son, Able.

That is always how I have seen work and why I say that lazy people who sandbag, those who hold back their good work for better pay or some social leverage, are evil.  I’ve never been a sandbagger in any way, and I find the trait repulsive in people.  Those who withhold their effort are like the descendants of Cain, and I don’t like them.  I may put up with them in the world.  But I don’t respect or enjoy them as people, and I think of them like Yahweh did in the Bible.  I understood the story of Cain and Able as a very young person and took it to heart, and I have always worked hard because there is goodness in the effort.  But people who like the bad guys in the world are the sandbaggers, and they defend their position by withholding good work for leverage in the world that is essentially evil and leads to most of the bad things humans do to each other, some of which have been described here.  Sandbagging leads to evil.  People who don’t like good work tend to desire to be bad and sell it like cheap cologne at a flea market.  And justify its cheapness as a bargain.  Rather than enjoy something at full price because they worked hard for it.  They are always looking for a way to give as little amount of something as possible, which makes the effort evil. 

This particular story of Cain and Able came up while I was dining with friends at the excellent restaurant Son of a Butcher at Liberty Center in Butler County, Ohio.  There are a lot of great steak restaurants in the city of Cincinnati, but many are saying the steaks at this place are the best.  These guests were well-traveled as we discussed nice restaurants in India, London, China, Paris, and Japan.  These people traveled everywhere and were used to the best. They told me that the steak they had at The Son of the Butcher was the best they had ever had.  I recommended one that cost over $359 each, and we bought a whole table full of them.  So we talked about why that steak was so much better than other steaks in nice restaurants worldwide.  And if you’ve ever been to the S.O.B. restaurant, you would know it’s a pretty crazy place.  But what it all comes down to at that restaurant is that they work hard in the front of the house and the back, in the kitchen.  The food shows they do a good job and give their best.  It’s worth $359, and a check for around $3k instead of a trip to Dollar General and a hamburger at Burger King.  It’s all food, but some comes from hard work, and some from just doing the basics and barely getting by.  So I told them the story of Cain and Able, and they understood, even if they hadn’t been thinking about hard work in quite the same way.  In many ways, it all comes down to embracing evil to make the least effort in the world.  Or to put forth the best and to expect the best, not because it’s expensive or fancy.  But because it is moral and sound, it represents God’s good intentions in the world and a people worth making an effort to do work in the world that everyone can and should be proud of.  Evil people, like Cain, would hear that people worked hard and went to a place like S.O.B. for a $359 steak, and they would plot a way to steal from them, just as Cain killed Able for making him look bad instead of giving their best and earning their right to get a nice steak dinner.  They would put more effort into plotting and scheming for collective bargaining contracts to do the least work to get as much for nothing as possible.  And they would do that because they are the bad guys in the world.  And for me, they deserve to be wiped away just as Yahweh has done in the past because they are worthless hindrances to the perpetuation of the human race. After all, they are evil sandbaggers.

Rich Hoffman

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