Why Didn't You Call Me?

Remember this: No one would answer.

I don’t care about people hunting. It is the shooting from a truck that bothers me.

As posted yesterday about the nut shooting from the truck window. I called the local DNR office to see if I could report the problem; the line rung on and on with no automated system with voice mail, or direct calls to an after-hours report line.

I decided to call this morning because those people will be out hunting today and probably the 1^st.

I leave a message at the local DNR office. Officer calls me back. I begin to tell him about this person shooting from a truck. He asks me why I didn’t call him yesterday. I told him I called the office-no one answered. He tells me he was in my area up to 7 pm. I replied how was I supposed to know that? I figured if the person was desperate enough to shoot yesterday, given there was only two more days to the season-they would be out shooting tomorrow. Besides, they already realized they were seen and decided to leave.

I told him that every time I call the after-hours number the person there replies like battery acid and that I didn’t have good experiences with the DNR people on duty.

This is the modus operandi of DNR employees in dealing with caller complaint.

The officer does not take down the complaint and listen to you.
The officer becomes argumentative about why you are calling.
The officer whines there isn't enough help to cover the complaints.
You are suppose to magically know daily schedule of the DNR officer so as not to impose inconvenience on him.
The officer will defend the criminal because it is two days left to the season and why bother? Right? 

   I finally became frustrated and told the officer he wasn’t interested in listening to my complaint. All the officer had to do was pencil my complaint down and tell me he would look into it. This is not what they do. It becomes a reverse argument based on implied lack of response on the part of the caller by the DNR investigator.

The truth seems to be: They just don't want to be bothered.

Somehow, you are the guilty party. I replied that I felt he was defending the person breaking the law. He was trying to reason with me why he shouldn’t bother to look into this person. It was more important to disregard my complaint, upset me and I was already bothered by the shooter from the truck window. It is not my problem the DNR doesn’t employ enough staff to do the work.

I thought about calling the main office in the upstate, but if this officer’s attitude is a reflection of the overall attitude of the state DNR employees-it is a waste of time and effort.

When you have to use the current behavior of a DNR officer as the prime example for why you weren't Johnny-On-the-Spot for calling, is a sad indicator of the treatment a caller complaint is going to receive when calling that agency regardless of the content of the complaint.

Some of the money coming out of your pocket is probably paying that employee for extending to you a poor example of bad customer service. 

But you better be respectful of them at all times even when they are disrespecting of  you? How is that right?

What good is a state agency when the workers refuse to do their job? How safe are you actually as a private land owner when someone agitates your property boundaries out of hunting desperation?

Written by: Angelia Y Larrimore

Vehicle Hunters: Dogs, Guns, and Blatant Disregard

Remember this: This ain’t the O-K Corral.

I have a current, active hunting and fishing license. I’ve been several times since my escape from that land: the Southwest.

For the past two years, the last couple of days of hunting season bring out the worst desperation for hunters. Every year it gets worse.

I am not sure what drives this need to do desperate acts. Is the stress and pressure to keep up, produce a product, and suck up to everyone to stay in the nook of their good graces that much of a problem in the hunting world? Is it worth it and for how long?  

I was having a tire plugged and doing some farrier work on my pony. The other horses alerted me that something was amiss out by the road. I looked up and saw a dark blue, Chevrolet truck parked in the road at the edge of the other pasture. This pasture extends out to the woods and my horses ramble around wherever they please eating.

I thought, “How creepy. Not sure if that is someone casing the joint, or just being a douche.”

I turned my head to grab the part to put air in my tires when I heard a loud shotgun go off. I jerked and looked straight at the vehicle. Three more were popped off. I said some profanities.

Every horse person in the known universe can concur: You do not mess with my horses.

This person was sitting in their truck shooting out over the pasture from the window. The truck was parked a stone’s throw from the neighbor’s residence. The wife is always in the house but hardly ever comes out.

I wasn’t sure what they could be shooting at. The woods were two pastures away. I couldn’t remember if it were dove hunting season-but still-no one is supposed to shoot from a vehicle especially out over someone else’s private property.

It agitated my father, who sent me after another truck while he watched the dark blue Chevrolet now backing up to hide behind the neighbor’s magnolia tree. Someone has been trespassing on his property and menacing him while he hunts. He can’t hunt in peace because of the boundary agitation by out-of-community hunters and community hunters skulking about in vehicles.

Now the private land owner that hunts is being assaulted by the vehicular hunter, who acts pretty much like a scavenger predator (coyote) at the boundaries.

I don’t think anyone foresaw this problem with landless hunters not willing to hunt sparse public land then converging on the areas outside of private land owners while trying to circumvent the land owner’s request for hunt lease funds in lieu of access; then trying to figure out how to run wildlife off of rest areas or quiet hunt areas in private lands by using trespassing hunting dogs, gun fire from mobile vehicles, and trespassing by driving onto ungated private land as a get-in and get-out scenario.

Just because you have a hunting license doesn’t give anyone the right to expect a property owner to hand over access to their property and open the property owner up to liability because of someone’s potentially hazardous pastime.

I left and followed another one barreling down the road. You find out one hunter-he or she knows who the others are because they are literally sucking at pack hunting. Low and behold, he was crawling under the neighbor’s cattle gate to grab a hunting dog.

The problem with hunting dogs with this scenario is putting them out on the boundary of a private area you have no access to, then know those dogs are going to cross over that inaccessible land without permission of the land owner in hopes of driving animals off-this is probably done while another hunter is in a stand trying to hunt that area with a valid hunting lease.

It is blatant disregard; much like someone shooting out over my horse pasture.

I thought of some suggestions. People like the option of suggestion.

If hunters are going to be allowed to hunt with dogs, those dogs should be microchipped, wearing identification collars, or collared with tracking systems. If a private landowner should find one on their land, should be able to require a payment of a return fee to have that dog relinquished back to the owner-payable by the owner to the landowner. Also, there should be accountability on the part of the hunter using the hunting dog. That dog’s identifier should be register with the DNR for monitoring for a fee that way if the hunter is unwilling to pay the return fee on the dog-they should be fined for negligible abandonment. This would reaffirm accountability when the dog walks out in front of someone’s vehicle and causes that person’s property to be damaged and in need of repair.

Now, this business of shooting from a vehicle can cause all kinds of problems. You never know when you are pointing a weapon at someone’s property, even if you think it is the woods, that there might be someone standing right there or walking by that could catch the spray of it. It is also wrong to open fire around residential areas far from the woods, even if you’re shooting at birds out of bird hunting season. Home owners don’t want to be menaced by out-of-community vehicular hunters blasting away for unknown reasons and scaring people.  This is a good way to get shot at by senile, older people who take offense at unwanted gun play from hooligans.

This has become an embarrassing and shameful way to be. Deer feed people, even undeserving, selfish people. Yet, the very animals everyone claims as “only for food” are treated like corn fodder, nothing more than an object, not deserving of any kind of respect.

Hunters are state constituents with a purchased privilege to do an activity. They are not God, nor are hunters entitled to walk around like John Poppy Cock demanding non-hunting participants smooch posterior because of implied and expected erroneous, cognitive delusions of being an alpha hunter; one that uses everything under the sun to catch a sad little deer.

There possibly is plenty of deer in the upstate. Several years now, my observation is the steady lack of visuals on deer. In order for me to even hear a buck, I have to listen in the dark after 10 pm. Not only the animal but the human is menaced by the ever imposing presence of vigilant hunters waiting to score.  

I would hate the idea that people are so hunter-greedy someone wants to make deer hunting a nighttime sport-because I am a hunter, I don’t apologize- blah, blah, blah.

Everything is eventual, per Stephen King, at the rate hunting is traveling it will reach its carrying capacity before it makes a free dive.

I ponder that hunters lost sight of how to be. Hunting appears to be an ever-growing soulless dead thing that no longer knows how to be-at least from my vantage point.

Is this the irony of hunting? To be a soul-less dead thing much like the multitude of soul-less dead things that is the eventual outcome of its labors.

Written by: Angelia Y Larrimore

Hiding in the Grass

Remember this: Count your accomplishments to know your effectiveness.

I was watching this eagle hunting on a field; decided today would be a good day to go hunting. I went down to the woods, realized the lane was slick as eel crap. A fat doe walked out in front of me like she was grocery shopping. I had Nena Two Feathers with me. We got out and walked around the grassy, wildlife lane I cut with the lawnmower. I walked up on the sandy hill and cut some witch cane, then walked over to the other stand. It was 12:30 pm. I could hear either someone sitting in the woods blowing like a buck, or a buck. I would later hear this again mixed in with the sound of a bull. These are two distinct sounds. I walked back to the truck and left.

I went back around 2:30 pm. There was no bait anywhere. I decided not to go into my dad’s man cave of a stand. Walked through the briars and mud to get to my stand I hadn’t been in for two years; sat there for a while in the calm, watching a squirrel dig nuts out of the leaves. I was reading this book called The Luminaries, when I heard a lizard scurrying under the black trash bag. I looked out the hole. At the end of the lane in the woods, two doe walked across. One stopped, and I could have tagged her out, but decided she was far away for a shot. The temperature began to drop and I was getting cold. I heard something crashing through the water in the swamp. I sat there a while. I heard this high-pitched, musical sound that was like a loon call. I relieved the trigger of my rifle, put my book in my bag, then put everything on my back and crawled out the deer stand. 

I slowly made my way through the woods and the water to the man cave. I put my rifle down with my backpack. I took my broken camera out then walked over to the side of the duck pond, which is elevated. I got down on my stomach, crawled up the side in the mud and briers then waited to see if I was discovered. 

I could hear and see the migratory birds calling and playing in the water. I started to laugh at my shenanigans of trying to take a picture of ducks with a broken camera. I watched them for a while. If I had stayed still, I could have gotten away with it for a long time. I finally stood up to take a photo; they flew off. I laughed, but was like meehhh, at the same time. I decided I was going to build a nature blind so I can take photos, undiscovered, in a couple of days.

Listening to those ducks was the most tranquil thing. I began reflecting on my successes, riddled with typos, with this particular construction into creative writing.

My greatest success here is: I wrote bulk posts and didn’t have to kill one animal to do it. This illustrates the unnecessary activity of people who chose to kill to compliment a work, instead of it just being for food. There again, if you’re hunting something for food, then happen to write something up, it is all in your intention.

My point got across in whatever form it took. I didn’t have to sacrifice my ethics or morals to appease a public audience, because doing such was quietly expected.

In order for you to prove yourself, and be accepted into the social media hunting community, it is implied to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt of your validity. I said, “Screw that.”

The bulk of the photography I used was images I took myself. My critique of issues I wrote was directly from my train of thought. Some of the posts are responses that required thought. Ideas just appeared for me to write, which I am grateful for. I didn’t have to hijack people for content, or mine for gold on other people’s pages due to the desperation to be prolific and relevant.

I offered friendship, it was denied. No big deal. I still did what I wanted. I was able to express myself in a creative way. I didn’t want the bad company, or the faux friendship people extend to those they idolize, and douchey people full of their own celebrity. After all, you are still just a regular person; nothing more.

I was reading a book about Georgia O’Keeffe. The writer asked O’Keeffe if she would agree to the writer penning a biography. O’Keeffe tells the author she can write the book only by the information she finds, not what O’Keeffe divulges. I realized even published this wasn’t the deeper version of O’Keeffe. People should have some option of privacy, even in their thoughts.

I wasn’t interested in mining other living peoples’ lives to steal a story that wasn’t mine to tell or take, even though people probably sampled from me. I do like getting my point across to people out to do harm. There are those people that watch what you are doing, get pissed, want you to shut up so they can write the same thing, kind of. Why?

I would suggest this. It is because the individual is enamored of you and can’t express this to you, or they think they are the expert and feel it is their place not yours. These people have all of the connections in the world-so they use you, then hope and pray no one realizes what they are doing. 

With that being said, there are people reading, get the message, and pass it for the truth it is. You know who you are.

The best decision I made was not be accessible by comments. I sidestepped lots of negativity. I can gladly say, I didn’t fight with anyone, other than the random comment by a fake profile, about hunting. My last count was three negative interactions over five years. As a person, I was irrelevant, but as a vat of knowledge, I was priceless.

When it came to people and situations, I deferred to my I Ching of Everything question. There is a simple formula for determining any situation or person by asking these two questions in one:

Are you an Asshole, or are you not?

Drowning down reality with a lot of word play can be relegated to a simple yes or no answer. Don’t complicate things.

What would I know? I am just the voice that speaks from the ether.

Written by: W Harley Bloodworth

The Fishing Net

Remember this: Spread the fishing net wide.

Usually, I write about four of these conjoined writings on one topic. I have been watching CNN still. This will probably be my last unless something speaks to me.

I was watching The Morning Joe and was impressed by Mika Brzezinski’s suggestive words to Mr. Scarborough about not continuing or pursing negative, repetitive content for the day. The change in dialogue and approach was noted and applauded.

Moving on

Everyone knows the story of contaminated smallpox blankets, indigenous America, the Spanish, and the Wooden Horse of Troy.

I am sure someone on social media is saying this information is all a historical lie concocted by the concept of white supremacy. That is not my premise, but the one related to terrorist riding in on the wave of fearful people running from the ones purposed to be walking within their numbers.

When you gaze upon social media, you see page after page saturated by this sentiment contributed by faceless posters to spread information to polarize the constituents of American for purposes of internal social strife. Regular people seem to have a problem saying, “No”, and engaging in this following of negativity and hate. There are people in America with an addiction for following different radical ideas themselves. They have yet to act on this.

This misuse of Social Media is one of the complaints of the POTUS and his administration. The use of social media to spread hate speech, contributing and recruiting sensitive targets to do their bidding, and eliciting the use of fake identities to hold dialogue and conversations of inflammatory natures, while social media does nothing to monitor this derogatory past time.

Responsible application makers, social media wingnuts, and people participating in those avenues need to be more responsible and selective in the garbage left out on the curve. Turn it in and for those receiving the information, take it seriously.

Syrians, or people moving into other areas are considered the smallpox blankets, or the wooden horse as expressed by politicians and other people talking out the side of their necks.

There is always the potential at any given time for someone to turn into a radical. Look at Trump; perfect example. He is radicalizing right before our eyes, and it is not even based on a religion. As a Presidential candidate, he is polarizing and doesn't seem to understand there is a population of people he will have to work for. It is not a business. The American people will not be working for him, or will they? I began to visualize a movie entitled, "New America: Trump's National Sweat Shop."

One point exposed that hasn’t been addressed is: The lack of interview and dialogue from the internal and external Muslim community regarding the negative affect the religious extremist jihadists are exerting on global public relations of the non-radical Muslim faith.

Pertinent questions should be asked in the vein of:

How is the behavior and publicizing of extremist religious jihadist affecting the present and future of the Muslim faith?

What are the plans of the present Muslim faith’s participation in helping to disclose jihadist identities to prevent more harm to the Muslim faith?

These are just a couple of questions to facilitate the participation of Non-radical Muslims, foreign and domestic that should be asked.

There is no dialogue or conversation from the Syrian refugee camp either. Why is this?

One of the issues from the POTUS was aligning non-radical Muslim followers as integral members in the spread of messages throughout the Muslim communities to clarify their stand on, or against jihadist behavior, why hasn’t this been pursued?

This is crucial to the worldview, diplomacy, and diffusing fear and misunderstanding of the Muslim community throughout the world. Interaction amongst all people at this time is demanded.

Once again, non-radical Muslims are given no voice; no voice whatsoever, in a time when their collective and individual voices need to be heard. That would be indicative of how important their role is, and how as a Nation, America and other countries can validate non-radical Muslim existence in forming a coalition to oppose the further development of religious, radical extremist groups, both foreign and domestic.

Non-radical Muslims could be a serious benefactor to illustrating to other Muslims on-the-fence to how becoming a religious, radical member of an extremist group is self-defeating, a distortion of the message of the Quran, and a destructive factor in spreading the non-violent word of the Muslim faith. Give non-radical Muslims their voice in the world to help fight the very Jihadist that is misrepresenting the overall religion to the point of subterfuge.

So far, the jihadists have all the News Media’s attention. Turn that attention away from the jihadists and shine the light on the non-radical Muslims that have just as much to lose as the Syrians. Their whole world is being threatened by the actions and behaviors of strangers, or people they are not directly affiliated with in the Middle East. 

It seems every news outlet is avoiding the Muslim perspective. Do not neglect this perspective.

When it comes to the non-radical Muslims, you have the effect on worldview, the individual, and Islam itself in the negative and positive connotation.

Radicalism must be disclosed as the misrepresentation by a minority onto a majority of non-radical Muslim followers. Only through terror tactics does this minority slowly become a majority by driving all others out.

At this current time, what is the jihadists’ effect on non-radical Muslims, their presence in the world, and how non-radical Muslims combat internally and externally, this jihadist presence and stream of belief.

In closing, do not leave a stone unturned, especially a would-be ally. 

Written by: W Harley Bloodworth

My Critical Thought….

Remember this: Words and language matter. Be careful where and how you drive the Verbal Car. The meaning can end up anywhere-lost or found.

My thought process of life scenarios are in terms of hunting. People conducive to hunting understand a train of thought with experience. It is the application in lieu of scenario, or applied to it.

I have been asleep for several days with CNN playing in the background. I finally decided to get up. 

I have loved all sacred religious text with an appreciation because of a philosophy teacher. Given the content, especially when comparing, you find a lot that is the same and different. It can still be appreciated for each stand along interpretation. It is meant to be appreciated, not used for terror. Why would anyone want to use their religious text in such a contrary way to bring shame to their God?

The teacher makes all the difference. Bows to Miyagi.

Let us imagine a mountain goat or for others, your basic goat. Much like the sacrificial goat of yore, Goat is an idea. Goat is not an insult here.

Goat held the value of a human life in the religious text-in trade. Think of the sacrifice of Isaac, or Ismail by his father, Abraham. Angels intervene and off the ram goes in would-be subjugate's place.

What I have seen and heard in the media has cause for great concern.

There are attacks on the US POTUS for not having a plan, as demanded by Joe Scarborough from The Morning Joe. I had to force myself to watch. Mr. Scarborough’s form of interviewing the people on his show comes across as an aggravated assault on the viewer, by a person cross examining a person, already perceived to be a liar.

The POTUS is the goat being set to sacrifice. Yet, he will get intervention on a Sovereign's behalf. All he need do is wait for the calm within.

My critical thoughts on Mr. Scarborough’s demands to know the stratagem were questions: Why does media personnel need to know military, or executive strategies if the first reaction is to place those maneuvers on the global news. The global news then gives the upper hand to groups that these maneuvers are trying to counter?

My hunting thought is: Never freely tell them where you hide your goat, especially if you are hunting a goat-specific target.

This was illustrated by the airing of the extremist groups’ call to arm foreign followers with weapons and attack; free of charge, no need to apply, effortless utilizing of the News Media to advertise a terrible call to arms. 

In the News Media’s eyes this is reporting and validating the storyline of a religious extremist group, not advertising for them for free. Yet, the News Media passed that destructive message along like the river pours into a much bigger ocean. Who will pay for that?

The News Media told religious extremists, otherwise not in contact with the head, where the goats are located.

For politicians engaging in non-compassionate reactions of fear for the sake of their states by proclaiming no-entry to Syrian peoples fleeing their homelands, instead of being empowered to stand and fight, would you want to be treated that way? Is there not a better way to handle displaced persons than angrily, or giving little regard for women, child, and elderly people with nowhere to go?

My hunting thought is: Progression. You see people starving. You shoot a goat, but do not want to share because you are scared you are going to starve too. There is a limited supply of goats. What do you do? Watch people starve, with food in your bowl, or spread that goat out? Better yet, teach those people how to preserve goat meat and make it stretch. Better yet, help them realize you are all in that together, compromise, form a decent plan and spare as many people that you can while not making enemies.Sometimes, you have to let the animal pass. Draw in the one you want.

After all, that is what I see. Someone wanting to draw someone into a fight. A fight to martyr others for a cause. So it is martyrdom, not serving God, but selfishness.

There is also the perpetuation of the politicians running for office, who are not elected, to give their opinion of what the POTUS should be doing. You are not employed in that job yet. If you are holding or entertaining language that is derogatory to the support of your present POTUS, what will you do when you might be elected? How will you turn your personal prejudices on any group of people if it is detrimental to your campaign, or employ as the future president?

I see a president losing hope over the actions and behaviors of his constituents. I would say to that POTUS, do not lose heart. Everyone has a dark moment. Some of us have more than others. You will be lifted out by a very unique and special event.

Is this what America wants?

I say, swamp the whole lot of candidates and bring us someone with caliber. There doesn’t seem to be anything here.

Once more with feeling

None of the Presidential candidate elects for our future president are worthy; toss those bad fish back.

There is a proclamation of war by France; good on France. There should also be an understanding that religious extremism is a global problem and that requires more than one group, agreeing or not, to work together to solve that problem in a way to cause as little casualties as possible.

My hunting thought: It is called a driven hunt by location. Animals talk to one another; they look for food, water and shelter. To deprive them of that is to make them move in the direction they do not desire. Once that is taken away, they sit still for as long as they can, then they turn and fight.

Humans are no different.

When it comes to the News Media and Politicians safe in their beds or work, to call for troops to go into a zone and act as Stormtroppers, sacrificing themselves for other people’s safety-yet what those soldiers are seeing is selfish, greedy people calling to segregate and exert prejudice on a weakened people-what do those soldiers have in the way of example for selflessness and compassion when the ones calling for an angry response are not the ones suffering the work? The soldier has the right idea, but not the civilians frothing at the mouth to sacrifice someone, then later realizing that same soldier has no one to take care of them.

One of the ideals of the military is to serve selflessly the civilians and the world in times of peace and war. What message are we sending our troops? I am a selfish civilian, go fall on a sword for me while I take selfies, drink haterade, and go down and burn some businesses because I am upset.

I can see why there is no action to place a movement of troops on foreign grounds. Maybe the powers that be are trying to be smarter from earlier conflicts. Why should the powers that be continually be pressured to put soldiers at risk for the backlash to come on their decisions through News Media ready to uncover the truth at political shadiness or the appearance of? Who got the backlash for Benghazi? Who is being held responsible for intervention in the early stages of the present extremist groups’ evolution from some past point on the timeline?

Sad thing is, the News Media is driving this. When did the News Media become the weakest link and helper to extremist groups in the intelligence community by leaking as much information as they can scrape out the information coconut?

I watched some of the videos of the extremists. The individuals appeared to have a laughing smirk, much like someone who doesn’t believe in the religious text, more so than the idea at getting attention by harassing a world entity. To many times these people appear, by media standards of information passage, to be displaced persons living with the reality their lives aren’t going anywhere so, where do they find glory and fame?

On the other hand, instead of simply worshiping, a caliphate had to be formed in order to construct a cure for what they perceive as a beast against their religious doctrine that they must destroy. The West might look like Sodom and Gomorrah to the Middle Easterner, when considering some of the reports, there are shady thing just as bad going on in their prospective countries. Bad press is...bad press.

My hunting thought: Stop chasing imaginary dragons to kill. Practice your religion in peace.

Anything God or Allah wants to do, I am sure has the power to do it, there is no need for a human to take it upon him, or herself to intervene; that wouldn’t be Godly, that would be humanly. The Great Mystery most likely doesn’t want calamity stirred up.

What do I know of the Great Mystery? I go to sleep. I wake up. I am, you are, everything outside my perception is mysteriously awake, aware, and evident, if not illusionary.

When did the whole of existence become reliant on the written word in a sacred text, when the Great Mystery is transcendent to the verbal diatribes of man?

Yet, watch CNN’s dialogue on the Paris terrorist attacks. Watch the presidential democratic debate. It is there. People are more concerned on the use of a word. Hawkish became the pivot word. Stratagem became the pivot word. Refugee became the pivot word. Word meaning and usage was being used. We can’t even speak, or worship with language because of the distorted meaning of the word.

Once in my philosophy class, a proficient and critical thinking teacher, Professor Blackwell, who as a chaplain said some remarks. I gathered this from his words, “People now worship the Word more than they worship the God.” This isn’t an exact wordage, as words mean everything,but the meaning is clear. He also said, “You can tell the kind of man you are dealing with indicated by the sacred text that he carries.”

Stop making the goat into an ancient Oak Tree. They are already the same thing; divine.

People can’t see the entity behind the words, so the words become the embodiment of the entity. Yet, walk out your door. That spirit awaits, but what if you don’t live in a beautiful place, does it matter? If all you see is a place where it looks like they test the nukes, do you feel the same way? If not, why do you not change your environment and your way of thinking, or the direction your thinking goes?

My hunting thought here is: Contemplation in the mundane hours while you wait, bring about the greatest realizations, until you stop thinking, and you begin to experience Being.

Let the goat be the goat.

Your inner world becomes your outer world. If you are afraid of Syrian refuges, what are you really afraid of? If you disdain American living, what are you really afraid of? If we should only let Christians in, what is that really saying?

Question the Goat for what it is.

If you demand to know a strategy from your POTUS, do you have little faith in his ability to do his job? If so, would you like his job, and do you think his job requires keeping stratagem close to the vest? Do you think you should be given clear access to all information, when you are the informant for the side doing the damage? Should we sacrifice our compassion because of the fear? Should we sacrifice what America stands for because of bad people out of fear? Can we not show that fear will not rule our lives?

As a world, we shouldn’t be driven by evil men through a set-up to prove we are as bad as they proclaim we are. Instead, show who is the contrary one. Use the sacred word for our benefit to prove a point to others who might be targeted to be enlisted into their following.

Now the religious extremists dabbling in terrorism are the same as Isaac aka Ismail from the Quran, willing and ready to die for the vision of his father, Abraham, because of God’s commandment. How do we know this? 

Someone interpreted the word based on the vision. At the same time, they are the Goat, sacrificed to the vision. The conundrum here is being both, and not one, or the other. This dictates that there is no intervention on God, or Allah’s part. If so, is God, or Allah really not agreeing to this? Could this be more-a scenario built by humans with no will of God or Allah invoked? Good question.

Another good question is, how many times does this Ismail/Isaac scenario have to play itself out before someone realizes it is man-made. 

If an angel of God, or Allah comes and tells you to stop, would you? If someone comes to you and says, “I have a vision. Just stop what you are doing, it is wrong.” Would a terrorist stop, if that is the word, and the word is believed? Can anyone believing this stop the non-believer that doesn’t go by the word? Are you not held as much hostage by what is actually a selective believer or manipulator of the word?

As far as visions, God can use a braying jack ass to pass a message. 

Do you think eventually the higher power you worship will not show its displeasure if you have faith in this belief?

When you apply the victims of Paris, they are the sacrificial Goat to the idea, but there is no favor for the terrorists because they are hiding, or on the run.

If the Middle East wants to do something more devastating than total destruction, express and illustrate Peace for one hundred years on the world. Stop destroying. Stop hurting one another. Thrive and grow. Be something the Universe would be proud of. Express divinity through acts of kindness, compassion, and down right badassery in supplication to whatever God or Deity you chose to be an apostle to.

Just a suggestion.

Be the Human Being your God created you to be; spread that. 

Can we sacrifice the idea of the goat, in order to save the human being at the hand of the human being? We shouldn’t have to sacrifice the idea of the Goat, either.

The idea of God is not impressed by killing the idea of the Goat.

Trust me, I am one goat that is not worth it.

Written by: W Harley Bloodworth