Archive for June, 2010

An old question asked …..

“What’s the Difference between ‘being OLD’ and ‘being an ELDER?'”
I have seen many deaths over my years.  A number of older age.  Some held Great Respect among the mourners….some, though, well….seemed the “mourners” where happy he / she had finally DIED.
Why?  Why the DIFFERENCE?
The “Thank GOD He / She’s Gone” ones were “WHIP BEARERS”.  “TOSSING their WEIGHT AROUND”.   DEMANDING “Respect”.
The “Gee, this is sad. I’ll MISS her / him” ones, on the other hand….LOVED.  CARED for people.  CRIED for those “hurt”.
REACHED OUT!
No “whip” in hand.
THAT is an ELDER!
Which are YOU?  Do YOU “DEMAND” respect?  or EARN it?
HOW will YOU “Meet your Creator”?          ?                  re

(edited by WS)

This family KNOWS Poverty.  11 yrs. of it….REAL Poverty!  Living in a condemned “NOT FIT FOR HUMAN OCCUPANCY” sign on it…WAY off in the woods.

NO Welfare.  No Food Stamps.  A young daughter.
At first it was HARD!  Note: “at FIRST”.
I was quite capable of working, yet a WALK of 2 1/2 miles to a road to HITCHHIKE on.  Hard to get a job with no reliable transportation.
Within a 5 mile radius a number of neighbors would have me fix fence / cut grass / weeds, paint / etc.  Enough to get MINIMAL needs.
NATURE and KNOWLEDGE provided the rest.
At first it was DARN Hard.  Miserable, really.  PRIDE KILLER!
And then, one day, as I strolled the forest, praying….I came to the conclusion “I’m Poor…I MIGHT AS WELL ENJOY IT!”
THAT REALIZATION and STATEMENT CHANGED MY / OUR LIVES!
I “dug in” MAKING THINGS!  Things from Nature, Things from JUNK (left on the place).  EVEN MADE A “JEDI” SPACE SHIP…BIG!…from old car sections.  Our daughter’s new “toy”.
And CABINS!  An 8×16 ft. Trappers Cabin and later a LIVING Willow “dome”.  Both well hidden away.  Christy’s Hide-A-Ways…AND MINE (to contemplate in).  Even dug a deepish Wading Pool in a little creek that ran by both.  Christy LOVED these places!
I wore a Loin Cloth and hand made (by wife) “Moccasins”.  Saved my ONLY PANTS for town trips.  Cardboard in my Street shoe  (the TOPS looked nice, and all I had).
Our barrel wood stove had HUGE rust holes…SMOKING THE WHOLE HOUSE when lit.  Fixed these with rusted screening and coated with Wood Ash and Salt.  “Cementing” the spots shut.
I LEARNED TO ENJOY “BEING POOR”!
Christy got her leg fractured (horse kick)…NO $$ FOR HOSPITAL!  Knew my “Medicine” for pain.  Made her crutches from tree forks.  “Cast” of salt and flour mix, on ripped old bed sheet.  SHE THOUGHT IT WAS “COOL”!
Yes, I know “poor”  AND THE WONDER OF IT!
REALLY learned to “TRUST IN THE CREATOR” during that time…AND NEVER LET GO!
Folks…many out here think they are in a “bad way”.  Many ARE!  WHOLE FAMILIES on the streets…sleeping in cars.  Miserable!
THEY / YOU CAN “MAKE IT”!
Relax  Relax  RELAX!  “Bend like a Green Reed”.  WE CAN “MAKE IT”!!!
It is a GIFT,  a TIME To LEARN!

aho?

re

Fear

FEAR will BRING RESULTS YOU ARE “Concerned” (fearFULL) of.  EVERY SINGLE TIME!
 
YOU FEAR you’ll Catch the Flu….and get Flu Shots…or GET the flu.
 
FEAR brings on OLD AGE.  You FEAR “I’m getting old” and you DO.  Aging is NOT Natural but you’ve ACCEPTED that it IS!  “SO BE IT”! or so it WILL Be!
 
FEAR causes DEATH…Break-Ups…Etc. Etc.
 
“What I’ve FEARED has COME UPON ME!”  (O.T., Jacob).
 
The CREATOR SAYS :  “Fear NOT”!
 
Well?
 
Are you going to believe HIM, or what YOU PROJECT!   ???
 
Well?
 
“THOUGHTS are REAL”   and you’ll note SPOKEN THOUGHTS bring ON the REALITY(s)!  More so then not.  Aho?
 
LUCIFER / SATAN are ANGELS
 
YOU HAVE DOMINION over ALL Angels.
 
Tell These ANGELS to “GET THEE BEHIND ME”.  It / They HAVE TO OBEY!
 
Ok, enough said.  SELAH (Think On This)….then ACT ON IT!…Oh Prince and Princess….CHILD OF THE LIVING GOD!  re

(edited by WS)

Voodoo?

ANOTHER phone call…this from a Christian sister (of long standing).  VOODOO against her.  NO KIDDING!

 
“What can I DO!?  I’m getting SICK now, RE !”

 
(dang.  What a DUMB Question)

 
Be ABOVE their FEAR GIVING ‘TRICKERY’!

Don’t TELL me you “TRUST FULLY IN GOD”DAD”!  YOU’RE PROVING TO ME you are NOT!

 
Those things left at your place are SIMPLY A TRICK, to MAKE  YOU   F  E  A  R !  And you ARE!  ANY who pour SALT around their property ‘CAUSE SOMEONE TOLD YOU IT STOPS SORCERY…is SHOWING you think MAN’S WAY, with OR without God, And thus ARE “FEARING”!

Sure, you PRAYED while “doing so”.  WHERE IN GOD’S WORD DOES HE SAY TO DO WHAT YOU’VE DONE!?  NO WHERE!!!!!

 
You’re “trust”, is “trust”, alright, With a PINCH OF SALT!

 
YOU DESERVE to “be sick!”

 
Now, STOP THAT “BS” and STAND!

 
Don’t come to ME with YOUR PROBLEMS like this Any More!  YOU’LL GET THE SAME ANSWER!

 
Now, SHUT UP and PUT UP!  STAND in HIM….TOTALLY!  THEN you WONT “get sick”!”

 
grrrrrrr

                   re

ZZ Zip Stove

RE responds to a couple of emails about camp stoves used in his friend’s dome:


He left at 7:08 AM this morning.
Yes, we sure did.
SMALLER and MORE EFFICIENT FIRE….using the ZZStove.  I convinced him to buy one ($70.00)…a Back-Packer stove, sis. I’ve told all of this stove before. You too.  UNBELIEVABLE Stove.  Can Cook a meal with One PINE CONE (did, so know).

You oughta have SEEN his  J  O  Y  over buying this!  Just RAVES after RAVES, all nite long!   (YOU TOO should check it out)!  Please, DO SO!
The SIERRA Model.  NOT THE MORE PRICY ONE.  GB   re
2nd Email:

Think i know your stove.  Basically unfolds to 2 “legs” with a stick-up portion to hold a pot / etc. above the fire.  Super lightweight aluminum.  Right?

Had one myself.  Then realized I could do the same with 3 stones or a pressed mound of dirt (as “legs”).  So gave it to a Boy Scout.  Then eventually made a tin can “hobo” stove.  Worked darn good BUT was “tippy”.  Then, in mid ’60s bought an all brass Top O’ The Line (from Sweden) White Gas one.  WELL OVER $160.00!  In the ’60s, THAT was ALOT of $$!  I was the envy of many fellow campers, BUT it was HEAVY, Hard to FIND White Gas (almost IMPOSSIBLE today) AND you needed to lug stove AND fuel around.  Got to NOT liking it.  Gave IT away, too. Then one day I saw a SMALL write-up on the “ZZ”.  Price was right so decided to order.  LOVED IT IMMEDIATELY!  I’ve worn mine out. Not by USE but by several MOVES.  Sigh.

Told Adam of it and showed him my “old Jalopy”.  He too liked what he saw (tho no longer works) and ordered.  Mine is over 16 yrs old..they’ve Updated to EVEN BETTER!  WOW Yes, it IS “Even Better”!!!

Now to get Me one when I can.

This has a 3 way cooking “way” (so too my oldie)…9 volt battery for forced air (High Altitude cooking) and #1 no motor running.  Just as my oldie.  IDENTICAL in USE, just BETTER CONSTRUCTION…and WITHOUT Weight Gain! BETTER FRYING PAN and POT TOO!!!
I showed Adam how to get his fire FAST Started;  DRIED WEEDS!  With TINY TINY TWIGS above. VerrROOM..OFF SHE GOES! Then to “bigger” stuff.  A Pine Cone..Thick Stick…Etc.

And Does it EVER Throw out HEAT!  Enough to comfortably heat the dome (12 or 14 ft. Dia. x maybe 8 ft high, I think).

That blower TOSSES up any Smoke!  Once going, turn blower off and smoke has plenty of air below to NOT LET smoke billow…goes straight Up / Out too!

Battery lasts for HOURS and HOURS AND  H O U R S!!!  Alot easier to carry a spare in a pocket then all the Fuel these “modern” types use.  Easy to PACK OUT a tiny 9 volt then a BUNCH of LP Mini Bottles, too!

This stove is UNBELIEVABLE!
2 I’ve shared with have bought.  One a camper in Holland.  SHE LOVES LOVES LOVES it TOO!  Thanked me PROFUSELY!
I’ll try to buy another very soon.  “Depending”….aho?
ALSO, this stove is rated as USEABLE when “NO OPEN FIRES PERMITTED”!  LEGAL!
Sparks?  TINY and LOW.
The PERFECT “Run” stove (if you’re running “fancy”).  Aho?
No! Hole in top of dome NOT MADE BIGGER!   ( :
re

Time To Wake Up

Told you:  TIME TO WAKE UP.

NOW is the TIME to UNSCREW YOUR LOUSY “EYES” and get RIGHT!

REFOCUS!
“Love OTHERS as you LOVE YOURSELF!
Well, “believer(s)…IF YOU CAN’T LET GO OF YOUR “Hates” and “Holdings”….YOU DON’T LOVE YOURSELF at ALL!
In this, you are CHOOSING to GO AGAINST WHAT “HE” TELLS YOU TO DO!
It means YOU ARE  N O T  “Happy”, at ALL!….WITH GOD!
You are “saying” “SCREW YOU, GOD!”  “I WANNA Hold this”.
You are NOT happy!  Not with “HIM”.  Not with YOU!
Our BIG BROTHER, the ONE YOU Claim to “Follow” has “failed you”…AND YOUR’ NOT ABOUT TO GIVE INTO “HIM”!
Y O U  Are CHOOSING to be YOUR  O  W  N  “GOD”!
CHRIST SACRIFICED for NOTHING!  GOD Wrote for NOTHING!
“FORGIVE ONE ANOTHER”…..Well?

And may I suggest YOU APOLOGIZE TO THE Great THREE-IN-ONE and START LEARNING TO LOVE…YOURSELF!?
HE Died for YOU … JUST AS YOU WERE!  He KNEW …and KNOWS…you are a “work in progress”.  a DIAMOND in the rough.  TRUST HIM.  TRUST THAT!  And LEARN to REALLY FORGIVE!
THEN, you are Forgiving YOURSELF!  THEN you are REALLY STARTING To RETURN!  Aho?  re

Why be thankful?

Email from one who “had a TERRIBLE Life”…”WHAT IS THERE   TO    “BE   THANKFUL  FOR?!”

 
ANOTHER “Searcher”…and one who ISN’T UNDERSTANDING her “curse”.

 
Well, WITHOUT THAT “MISERABLE LIFE”…she WOULDN’T BE ON HER PATH/SEARCH NOW!

 
That Upbringing was USED BY THE CREATOR to HELP MAKE HER GROW!

 
THANK GOD FOR HER “MISERIES”!

 
AND THANK GOD She HAD EVIL “DOERS” who HELPED HER ON HER LIFE!

 
You?  

 
              re

I Can’t Sleep!

“I CAN’T SLEEP!”

This from one in a phone conversation today.
Got me to thinking…HAVE HEARD THIS MANY MANY TIMES over the years.

ALL from ones SEARCHING To LEARN! “Connector” seekers. Aho?

EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM see this as a “CURSE”!

Oh boy, must I “tell” its’ reason Over and Over…to “BELIEVERS”?

“Believe” in WHAT!??? IF THEY  I N S I S T  ON  N O T BELIEVING WHAT THEY READ IN THE GOOD BOOK…then WHY claim to be a BELIEVER!

OK, I “know my place”. That being to EXPLAIN what BIG BROTHER (Jesus) SHOWED…and actually TAUGHT.

Taught in a WAY that was…but was NOT TO BE COMPREHENDED by the masses in general. THAT Comprehension is NOW TO BE REVEALED “T O D A Y”.

It is THE    T I M E    TO AWAKEN!

Do you recall He had to PLAINLY EXPLAIN to His DISCIPLES one (more?) of His telling(s) to the general masses? THEY DIDN’T UNDERSTAND ANY BETTER THEN THE MASSES DID!

Rather a bit frustrating to The poor Guy! sigh

OK, maybe I can help explain. Lets start Here: YOU ARE DOPES! ( :

There, I SAID IT! And probably JUST HOW HE FELT with His “followers”.

He had more “politeness” then I do, I guess. POOR GUY!

Well, I “AINT” HIM!…so HANG ON, you “Believers”!

“I CAN’T SLEEP!”….NOT A “CURSE” at ALL! a GIFT! “DAD” is GIVING YOU A TIME TO BE WITH HIM! a TIME of “The PRAYER CLOSET”! ALONE, just YOU and HIM…TOGETHER! J U S T YOU TWO! NO Distractions…His PRIVATE TIME, With YOU!

USE IT! Use it as JUST THAT! HE WANTS TO START TEACHING YOU…but YOU, you “dope”, see it as a “CURSE”!

“GOD is IN A LL THINGS”! THIS is a “THING”! SEE WHY IT is HIM “doing”…and SHUT UP YOUR’ COMPLAINING AND LEARN, darn it!

IF you CLAIM to be “a Believer”…YOU HAD BETTER LEARN HOW TO BACK YOUR’ “word” UP!!!

We call this SLEEPLESSNESS Time: “Time to / of CONTEMPLATION(ing).

LET YOUR’ MIND “Wonder”….THINK of things TO Think about…things to think ON…things to think “WHY”? “WHAT”? / Etc..

Don’t FORCE yourself to “contemplate” something on…ALLOW “HIM” TO CHOOSE! You will find the “things” narrow Down and Down…till ONLY ONE THING REMAINS. THAT is what “He” wants to TEACH YOU ON!

NOW do you understand WHY YOU “CAN’T SLEEP”!???

I’d consider APOLOGIZING to “Dad” for “cursing” the “CURSE”.

Remember, “believer”… “PRAISE GOD IN  A L L !!!  THINGS”!!

Aho?

re

Hey Red Elk,
I heard once that a soul is split in the beginning of time (when the void contemplated itself) and when that soul splits it creates 2. A positive and a negative. Then one is the “man” and one is the “woman”. The two go into life and one will die before the other one. So during the process of reincarnation the soul may run into the “soul mate” but that person may now be a brother, father, grandfather, older or younger acquaintance, etc.

So therefore, truly meeting your “real soul mate” is not very likely but once in awhile they do join up after a few life times again.

So is that true or possible do you think?

I know 7 years ago my boyfriend and I didn’t get together, but we had some things to complete and once we did it seems as if we appreciate each other more so.

Also we are experiencing this thing we call “melding” where when we “cuddle” (oh god, I can’t believe we cuddle during sleep – neither one of us has before with others the way we do now) we can’t tell where one persons body ends and the other persons body begins. We lose sense of our physical selves and feel essentially like there is only one. Sometimes I grab my hand and start patting for his to see where it is that he is holding me because I can’t tell.

Any thoughts?

Red Elk Responds:

That “cuddling” is also called “Spooning”.

Lets go to Scripture on this “oneness”; “And the TWO will become ONE”. That “ONENESS” you are experiencing is the RARE one. Why? Most NEVER FIND IT…so go from One mate(ing) to another…and on and on.
The sad thing is an “opposite” takes advantage of this. Out for Self LUST while the other is out for TRUE COMMITMENT…True and UNCONDITIONAL  LOVE. “ONENESS”! Aho?
The LOVE wanter is Almost Always SO DARN GULLIBLE! And the LUST “lover” is SO DARN a LIAR!

What a mess our world’s people have become. sigh
A “split” in human original making? No, sis. Not THERE…and not THEN. The “split” came IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN. When the Creator “BIRTHED” WOMAN FROM THE BEING (rib) OF MAN. Thus the TWO actually WERE “(of) One”. Aho?

There is So MUCH to tell….only time WITH YOU/Mate can eventually help you UNDERSTAND via a Very LONG            T A L K ….not a simple “writing”. Just TOO MUCH.

The things our Great One has SHOWN and thus I’ve SEEN, is almost unfathomable. Just so DEEP it’s almost indescribable.

THIS is just but ONE. Aho?

You and I have spent time together….more so then most. You’ve seen things (with me) that others have NEVER seen (remember the Speeded Time and FAR LESS GAS on our trip from California?).

Yet that was CHILD’S Play to me. “Daily Events” (if called for).

Those I’ve Seminared to…generally a 2 1/2 day affair…get Only an INTRODUCTION to the knowledge “Papa” has given me. A MERE “SCRATCH” of the ‘plastic cover’ on an expensive book. EVEN MY WIFE HASN’T A CLUE TO THE THINGS I KNOW…and we’ve been married (“one”) for Over 40 YEARS!

I suppose I will die long before All I’ve learned can be shared. Then, too, DAY BY DAY, I AM STILL LEARNING!

(How CAN I teach “catch-up” under THESE Conditions?! IMPOSSIBLE!).

Yes, I can answer your question…explain better for you to understand. But not THIS (“E-mail”) way. AND you’d need more then 2-3…or 5-10 HOURS….perhaps DAYS, to finally grasp it. And this on THIS QUESTION ALONE (only). Sorry. Aho?

God Bless

re

PS:  You CAN learn by ASKING and SEEKING from “HIM” tho. Just will take your EFFORT and DETERMINATION. “Your HUNGER!!!
I’m not the Only one “He’s” willing to give to….just waiting on YOU.

Aho?

re

Having a ball!

 

Got something to share.  See the time this is being done ( 12:07 am – WS)?  Why so Late?  Well, HAVEING A BALL!  Adam (#2 Co”owner”) and Sky and I have been out in #2 dome “shooting the breeze” around Adam’s new ZZ-Zip Camp Stove  (he LISTENED TO ME!).  Dome all closed and NO SMOKE!  WARM inside (I’m in a T shirt).  I’m in now while they’ve headed to town to buy MARSHMALLOWS!  WE ARE HAVING A BALL!
Spent nearly the whole day berming this dome.  4 to 5 wheelbarrows will FINALLY Finish it (outside)!    TIGHT FROM DRAFTS / WINDS and COLD!  Went in, made the fire, closed the door and goofed off.  Lots of Laughter!  Will go out again when they return.
Been planting live “clump grass” in the berming as we go.  MAKES THE DOME LOOK REALLY REALLY “COOL”.  Like its been there for a CENTURY!  Also “set” a long Half Log along one side up on berm as a SEAT for 3.  We’ve set and rested our backs against the “skin”, sunny side, and relaxed from digging work.  NICE!  I mean REALLY Nice!
Been a great day.  HECK OF AN ABODE!  So PRIMITIVE and so COMFORTABLE!  Price STILL : 10 CENTS!!!
Any staying a night in this will LOVE IT!
Also, Sky and I have been “roughing out” HIS dome (to be).  Making him wait till both #1 and #2 are FULLY Done first, tho.
He’s “chomping at the bit!  ( :
Really WANTS to DO!  PTL!
Pictures taken….might be a book(let) here.
Dirt to dome forming the Bath Room for both…Tub and Pot basically.  “2 birds with one stone” so to speak.  Aho?
So, coming right along.
Who knows, might be a VILLAGE!
The “Yesterday and Tomorrow” village.  ( :
Wish YOU were here!  ( :    GB    re
(PS: the fire pit has 3 “tiers”…2 being grates.  On Top Grate we set a flat Lava Stone…its heated from fire below as we are “off” awhile.  ( :   re )
(WS)

ABOUT 2 hrs and 20 mins. sleep last night.  WORTH IT.  GREAT Time in the dome!
KNOW Sky will NEVER Forget….even long after I’m “gone”.
Know what I mean?  (Surely we ALL have “Good Memories” .  Things we’ll NEVER Forget…Aho?).
Sorta Kinda “Pass-On memories”.  REMEMBER!  ?        ( :   re

(edited by WS)

AHO!   YOU mean “Good Memories” Made?

I’m so “woozy” i could DROP!  But dinner in 1/2 hr.  Hate cold food and no would DARE wake me!  ( :   But, Boy, AFTER!!!  

Meachelle needed $$…took even my PENNIES!  ALL!  (Laundry).  My PENNIES for gosh sake!  ALL 8 OF ‘EM!   sigh   ( ;  

(Been there, Done that).   ( :

In all truth, sis, I’M GLAD FOR MY “BACKGROUND”…and my GETTING USE TO TRUSTING “POP”!   I’m RELAXED and SO IS MEACHELLE!

Not many can claim that.  Just havent learned to REALLY (and CONSTENTLY)  T R U S T “Him”.

SAY they do… ’til push comes to shove.  Poor buggers.

I really feel for them…ALL.  sigh

A Creator SO VERY REAL, and “children” that PANIC at the drop of a hat.  

Wish I could help……………………… Wish they would HEAR.  Aho?    

That’s why the Domes….HOPE!

Better then ULCERS! 

(Doesn’t take a Medicine Man to TRUST….just  GUTS!)   Aho?

GB    re