KING OF ANDERSON COUNTY

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X16 MAKING THE SLAVE CLASS

7 DEC 2016 - 2JAN 2017   SALVATION ARMY #3   TYLER, TEXAS

XIII. THE LADEN WEIGHT OF IRONY

The Director is on vacation and this is the B-Team. These ladies exhibit some fine bureaucratic thinking. Since I did not go to the hospital, they are giving me a referral to go to Highway 80 in Longview. They claim that my dropping out unnerved everyone. None of the residents seem unnerved. The ladies in charge seem unnerved. This is all rubbish and I feel seriously manipulated because bucks are being passed. They think that they are protecting themselves. This is pathetic, I ask the lady in charge if their actions were Scriptural. Blowing me off was her response. Sooo, is this a church or just another government subsidy.

X15 MANIPULATION AND PARADOX

7 DEC 2016 - 2 JAN 2017   SALVATION ARMY #2   TYLER, TEXAS

VIII. CHURCH 

It is Sunday. I am told that their church services are essentially singing songs and a brief message. Depth is my desire because I miss church being a transcendental experience. I open my laptop in a parking garage, read aloud ten more chapters of Job, I pray, and then I feel better. That was church.

X14 DEJA VU

7 DEC 2016 - 2JAN 2017   SALVATION ARMY #1   TYLER, TEXAS

I. ANOTHER LAST PLACE TO BE
It is time to try something else because I am restless and nowhere. A friend takes me to this clinic and there is nothing that they can do. They call a deputy and he takes me to Tyler. This is the second time that the Law has enabled me to leave town and that is not a bad thing. Memory resounds through irony. He drops me off at the Salvation Army and I check in and go to sleep. We are still repeating steps.

N14 THE KING OF SHEBA

It is as if I am touring the local narcissists. I live with them in their natural habitats, I note their behavior, attitude, and habits. The remarkable thing about them is the delirium and banality that is prevalent throughout their grandiose lives. The irony of a great vanity is how little it holds. 

X12 WHERE BEDLAM IS HELD

I. SODOM AND GOMORRAH

In Genesis 18, the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah is so great that YHWH tells Abraham that he is going to destroy the city. Abraham intercedes for Sodom and asks that YHWH does not do this thing if he finds fifty righteous men in Sodom and Gomorrah. YHWH is merciful because He allows Abraham to renegotiate the deal from fifty to forty-five, forty, thirty, twenty, and then ten. I assume that ten was the final offer because Genesis 19 opens with some men of the city wanting to rape two angels.

A13 OUR DAYS FADE AS PAGES

I. THE TRUTH OF ALL PHILOSOPHY
If one has ideals, one must also lay claim to hypocrisy. The tragedy about being human is that hypocrisy is difficult to elude. Error seems to be an essential part of human nature. The nature of sin also resides in those essentials and acts of betrayal can usually lay claim to sin. Despite all of my ranting about fear, there are moments in which I am held in its possession. Hypocrisy may be the truth of all philosophy in regard to people  only begin at the betrayal of our ideals.