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Things I can trust:

hot showers
aroused women
Jesus
ranch boys (to be ranch boys)
flip flops
eggs
meditation
monday
jon stewart
basketball
11/16" buzzer attachment
night time

There's got to be some basics in life. Things that you know what to expect from! Things you can count on to enjoy! Here are mine.

Date an Outsider

As part of the Change Program and re-evaluating our official stances on everything, I would like to suggest a minor change.

In secular society, many workplaces have what they call a "no inter-office relationship" policy. This means that no dating, non-sexual affection, or sex, is allowed between co-workers. There are many reasons for this--favoritism between a leader / team member in a relationship, debilitating office gossip that tends to follow inter-office romance, tension that occurs when one partner wants to end it before the other--even cases of sexual harassment.

But the main reason inter-office relationships are frowned on is that it creates in the workplace an unfavorable climate towards ...working. Workplace decisions should not be clouded by the possibly career-impacting influence that stems from an emotionally charged atmosphere. So "fishing off the company pier" is looked on negatively, and "getting your honey where you get your money" is discouraged.

In the Family we now have a longer term vision, and just like we're learning the hard way about higher education, secular employment and schooling, etc, I wonder if we either should now or will eventually have to come to grips with the inter-office dating that runs rampant through our workplaces.

People, we should only allow sex / dating / relationships with outsiders! This would mean, conversely, no sex / dating / relationships whatsoever with other Family members (with the possible complication / exception of marriage).

If you are allowed to date your witnessing partner, you can't help but eventually consider it. Soon, your work time and energies, instead of going toward the Offensive begin to be taken up by small emotional conflicts and quickies. You start holding hands when you're out, and eventually you're thinking more about what your partner is wearing / thinking, instead of feeding the sheep sitting before you.

All of this is augmented considerably if he or she is the only person you can feasibly date in your entire city or area.

Very few people, devout Christians or not, are mature enough to separate their professional and personal lives when the two come into such close contact. Human nature craves too much that interaction with your significant or not-so-significant other. The lines gray between work and play, and when there is an area witnessing offensive, manpower flocks to it, abandoning their own works. --But not for the witnessing as much as the sex. And then entire stable missionary works can be upset by the accidental babies that occur in opposite ends of the continent.

And life becomes difficult when you have to continue living with or having contact with someone after it's over. If one of you doesn't move far away or stop frequenting the same places, then there is a mountain of working out to be done, usually during work hours. Either way, the Offensive takes the hit. Although we're all very dedicated people and experts in many spiritual areas, I don't know if you can expect us to be relationship experts too.

If you want to be successful in your work life and communal life, support the Date-an-Outsider project--and keep your personal life where it belongs.

Trust me, i know.


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Let the Dead

by Gabe Raveney (Let the Dead manager)

The guys moved out here after prayer, counsel, and much thought and began building on this plan and goal, that of reaching our field, and in particular, the youth, with their band. Once out here they encountered many setbacks, hardships, adjustments, and I saw them wonder whether they could achieve the lofty ambitions they had set out for. However, they stuck it out, and then asked to be a part of our home as A-MMers and asked to use our personnel and what resources we could offer them to aid in surmounting the challenges still lying ahead of them. After MUCH thought, prayer, discussion and counsel, we agreed to do just that and began investing time, effort, thought, planning, preparation, and everything else that goes into accomplishing an endeavor like this.

Together with their Home and the band, we charted a 6 month plan, clearly outlining what we wanted to accomplish and then further broke it down into incremental steps which we could thus gauge and monitor overall progress so as to be professional in this ministry. This plan included detailed steps that we wanted to take in marketing, promoting, and propagating their music and band and thus, the message. We wanted very clear and controlled avenues by which we could clearly see growth in sales, revenue, exposure, and most importantly be able to showcase these exact figures and charts to those interested third parties who could finance, back, and “pick up” their band. As such we had very detailed actions of how we would record, mix/master, finalize, register and copyright, and then put out our name-brand and marketable items.

In seeing that the Family is changing in that in the Word, Mama and Peter have greatly emphasized facilitating anything mission related and aiding in any cause or endeavor that is being used to preach the Message, we decided that we would not only market in such a way as to be able to clearly distinguish and judge accurately the level of success we would meet, but we would also be able to appeal to our brethren in the Family to help us in what ways they can. Our goal was thus to clearly explain why we weren’t releasing the songs for free and as a Family geared product, but were rather viewing this whole project as our joint-Homes' Offensive project and were thus asking any interested individuals to help support the band and project by buying their songs/merchandize for a purpose.

The purpose of taking the steps we did were:

So that were an outside investor, record label, promotion company etc, inquire into the intrinsic value of this group, we would have chartable growth, sales, and support laid out in a clear and verifiable way whether it’s through our registering with itunes (which we have done) and they would thus be able to quickly assess statistics, or whether it’s through hard-copy distribution and sales from CDs and merchandize that they sell. As such, should a large group, or even just a small percentage of individuals, care to help support this project and work, they could easily and quickly buy them not only for their own edification, but primarily to further the chances of success for this endeavor. Being that we are a large and multi-national group, this is an ideal way to prove their ability to be a viable asset to any outside investor or backing agent. This is obviously not to get rich off of others, but to prove that the band does have potential to grow, to sell, and to thus expose their product and message.

Our Homes have greatly supported and facilitated this project and without giving you every detail of how we’ve gone about it, I can simply tell you it has been a monumental undertaking thus far and will only grow exponentially should we be able to hold to and progress along the charted path we have projected for ourselves.

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(So pretty much the gist of that is that these guys need sales of their songs/products to Family members so that, until they develop a secular fan base, they will still be able to show any interested record label that they have value and potential, due to all the sales to Family members. I encourage you to buy a little something from them, to help them get off the ground. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find any songs/products available to buy yet, that I could link to with this post, and they declined to provide me with a Paypal account connected to the band. The music is not currently available to buy on ITunes, and my SD asked me not to host the songs privately for now.)

(But links to all those things will appear below if and when I get them.)

Let the Dead Myspace

The 5 Totally Hottest Apostates Ever (of all time)

In celebration of our new and continuing sense of positive relations with our ex-members, this blog has decided to announce for your benefit the 5 all time hottest apostates ever. Looking past our differences and focusing on the shallow things in life that really matter, the criterion are, 1: that they are or have been genuinely and actively at odds with the Family, and 2: that they are hot. Countdown.

Hottest Apostate Ever #5:
Juliana Buhring

Together with her sisters, this fine young lady recently co-wrote a bleak anthology on allegedly negative past experiences in the Family, promoting it through TV appearances and a widely circulated website. This, together with her pouty smile, statuesque neckline, and beautifully etched features, qualifies her smashingly as the fifth hottest apostate ever.


Hottest Apostate Ever #4:
Miriam Padilla
An experienced globetrotter extraordinaire, this lovely woman has helped to incite persecutions in Japan and Argentina, among other places. She has great taste in jewelry, knows how to accessorize, and while worried for our safety, somehow manages to look downright sexy.


Hottest Apostate Ever #3:
Jim LaMattery

Old fashioned good looks and a killer smile make this bright man a prime candidate for the first of our top three hottest apostates ever. An apostates' apostate, and a true professional, this man knows how to make his opposition count--even to the point of drawing criticism from other apostates. He has been banned from certain ex-member sites, and threatened to sue others in his whirlwind of righteousness, but always manages to bounce back.


Hottest Apostate Ever #2:
Cherish Lloyd
This outstanding woman whose amazing looks have only been surpassed by her wits, is currently deceased (kidney infection). May she rest in peace. She made TV appearances across Latin America with a counter-cult purpose and a tale to tell... but all I could think of was how beautiful she looked when she was angry. She went on to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography.


And #1 Place for the Hottest Apostate Ever of all Time goes to...
drumroll...

Davida Kelley
Our undisputed winner, as a foxy adult fetish model and talented actress, left the other apostates no chance. Her slight disagreements with our lifestyle and occasional conflictive campaigns pale beside her ravishing looks and voluptuous body. And red suits her gorgeously. Under dreamy eyes and luscious lips, lies a passion for passion unsurpassed by any other apostate to date. It's an honor to be fought by this one.



So let's live beyond our differences and realize that we're all just a bunch of hot people fighting each other. Why not stop and admire each other for what we are and what we like, rather than what we aren't, and what we dislike. We'd all look hotter in love than in hate anyway.

In Defense of Like

I would like to make a short apologia for the common usage of 'like' in today's English. Displeased critics often attempt to mimic the singsong banter of youth by placing 'like' in front of every word, and then rolling their heads in disgust. Critics, it is often you who are most responsible for the misuse of this word! We who use it know what we're using it for, and there's a definite set of rules that go along with if you want to pick it up. It's also just plain not funny anymore to put it after every single word as a way of mocking young people.

So listen and learn.

'Like,' in today's colorful usage form, was first made popular almost 40 years ago by a California freshman subculture widely known as 'valley.' 'Valleyspeak,' or 'Valspeak' as a sociolect came into being before some of you were born, and when the rest of you were still very young, so you really have no place rejecting it as a 'modern day' abuse.

'Like' is generally used:
To imply an exaggeration (it was like huuge)
As a filler (instead of 'um,' 'basically,' 'irregardless')
As a replacement for the word 'said,' a quotative (he was like, "hey")
To indicate something obvious (like hello)

Consider this:
Like was first used as a subordinating conjunction ('looks like rain', as opposed to 'looks as if rain were coming') in a 1954 cigarette ad, for which it received a similar outcry from critics.
In fact, "(t)he appropriateness of its usage as a conjunction is still disputed.... In some circles it is considered a faux pas to use like instead of as or as if, whereas in other circles as sounds stilted." (Wikipedia)

Consider this too--Jesus uses 'like':
(Jesus speaking in Greater Faith, Part 1, #3628:) These men and women of old were ... full of faults and failings‚ with, like passions, like sins, like shortcomings. But they made the decision to trust Me and have faith just because I'd said so, or because My Word said they should.

Two Wrongs

Today we were out witnessing and we were in the car and I parked and turned it off and took the keys out and Clay was like, "Hey I forgot to roll up my window." So I was like, sure, and I put the keys back in and turned them and she rolled up her window. Then we all got out and I was like, "Everyone remember to lock their doors." So then we all slammed our doors shut and started walking to the restaurant.
Then about halfway there I was checking in my pockets and all of a sudden I was like, "OMG, where are the keys?" And I realized I had left them in the car. So we were all, "Oh no what are we going to do?" So we go back to the car and the keys are still in there, the lights are on and they're still in the ignition. I checked my door handle just to be sure but of course it was still locked so then I went around to check all the door handles and by a miracle of God Clay had left her door unlocked even though I had made sure to remind everybody to lock their doors. So I was like, "Phew," and I went in and rescued the keys and we went to the restaurant.

So it turns out that TWO WRONGS REALLY DO MAKE A RIGHT!


Disclaimer to important people: This is not to be misunderstood that doing wrong things is fine. Doing wrong things is very bad and you should not do wrong things. However, if you should accidentally do a wrong thing, Jesus can still turn it around and make it right! Jesus can even make one wrong a right!

5 Things I Love About Jesus

Random: His ability to be random. I know he has a whole intricate plan for the universe and all, but I love how he can still be perfectly random about the things that don't have too much bearing on His plan. Like the bark on a tree, or where the next branch will pop out. Either that or it's not random at all and that branch needs to be exactly there for the universe to run right--but in that case I love how He can still make it look random to me, and I appreciate that much.

Intricate: The other side of random--his ability to be intricate. I love how he can make a whole career out of having seemingly random things happen to you, but then at the end they all come together like the usual suspects and make perfect sense and you're like, aha! It wasn't so random after all! I think that takes a pure genius.

Colour: His obsession with colour. But he's not like some psychedelic hippie God splattering fluorescent around with a wide brush where He trigger-happily pleases. He puts just enough khakis and greys so that when something bright and orange does spring out at you, you can still be like wow.

Passion: His way of being passionate about everything He does. Like for instance if I was gonna create an insect I'd be like okay, a head, few legs, a body--maybe a stinger or something. But He just can't stop at that. He has to get all into it--"Oh, and here I could add some antennae with trillions of little hairs on them to give the insect sentience, then maybe some fold-up wings to hide inside its shell, a compound eye, a few Malphigian tubes (yes, now I'm looking at Wikipedia.....but just to finish this sentence), a trochanter over here, mesothorax over there, and ah yes a subesophageal ganglion." (He's crazy.)
When I create a cloud, I start with a blank piece of paper. Then I draw a line on the bottom and three humps on the top. And I'm done. When He creates a cloud, first of all He has to start with an insanely complex background of atmosphere, then He bunches together millions of microscopic icy crystals (all with their own distinct form and six perfectly asymmetrical sides), an intricate water cycle to give meaning to that cloud, and of course shades of pale and grey to render it in full 3-D. Then He sends a wind and makes it dance.
See what I mean? He just can't seem to get involved in a project without giving it His best. And that's great.

Caring: How he cares. Boy does he care! He cares about everything! I mean every single little tiny microscopic little tiny itsy bitsy little thing. He actually cares about the life and times of every single blade of grass in My front yard. Probably breaks His heart every time a snail dies. Imagine how much importance He puts on YOU. Imagine the detail, care, and planning that must have gone into your existence, your life, and then death.
Wears me out just thinking about it. I am so lucky to have Him.

The Forsaken Frontiers of Sex

When you look at the progress that as a species we've made in the fields of math or science, say, it is quite impressive. Or aerodynamics. You could study that stuff for years and STILL not know all that is possible to learn on the topic. There is also no way you could invent or discover all those enlightening things in one lifetime. It took us thousands of years of generations each building on what the other had learned to get to the insane amount of complex truths we have nowadays.

Back in the day, your father would come up to you when you turned eighteen. It would be time for that talk. He would say, "Look, son, there's something I have to talk to you about. I've been doing quite a bit of studying and research over my years, and now I'm getting to be an old man. But in that time I've learned that you can take one big rock and ADD it to another big rock, and then you'll have TWO big rocks!" It was simply amazing back then.

And then you could go on and study and research and discover that, wow--if you took those two rocks, and MINUSED one of the rocks from it, you'd be back at ONE rock again! So you'd pass that on to your son, and he'd go on and discover something new and wonderful in his lifetime. And eventually they were getting to cool things like division and Pythagorean theorems and nuclear physics. Today it takes at least twelve years just to get the minimum of knowledge you need to survive in these times.

See why the human race has such a problem with good sex? --You can't pass that kind of thing on to your kids!

Imagine your dad: "Hey, son, I want to show you this little trick that I learned on your mother." --It just doesn't work like that! One generation hasn't been able to build on the knowledge of the others before it, and thus discover great and wonderful new things. If your dad told you anything about sex at all it was probably vague and far too minimalist to actually do you any good. So here we are, still stuck in the sex stone age adding big rocks together.

Eventually they invented sex experts, who try to do their best--but we've already lost thousands of years of time that could have been spent discovering wonderful new things about this crucial field of research. We're still like, "Uh, I just put it in and wiggle it around, right?" when, imagine, we could be onto polynomial orgasms to the thirteenth power and astro-fusion sex positions. This deeply saddens me.

So, it's up to us. (Someone has to take sex seriously.)

I commission you, for the good of humanity, to go out and learn all there is to know about sex. But once you've done that, don't stop there! Build on that. Discover new things with your partner. Multiply! Divide! Calculus..ify!

And write it down! For God's sake write it down so other generations can benefit from it, and discover more, braver, newer things. And we, we will not be satisfied until we have sent a man to the moon! It has finally come the time to push back the forsaken frontiers of sex in the name of higher learning. In the name of mankind!

Godspeed.


Joe.

Sex makes everything complicated

--Even when you don't have it, the not having it... makes things complicated.

Which is why it's usually better to have it.

...some say.




--The Holiday (2006) (look it up)

Bitterlind Syndrome

(ML 32:7)
JENNY LIND, THE FAMOUS SWEDISH NIGHTINGALE, was considered one of the greatest popular singers of her day. Her music teacher said, "Jenny, you've got everything to make you the world's greatest singer, but one thing!" "What in the world is that?" she asked. "I practice all day long, and you say I have tremendous range, versatility, and talent! What haven't I got?" "To make you a truly great singer", he replied, "you have to have a broken heart!" So he thereupon proceeded to break it for her! She fell in love with him, and he jilted her. Then she began to sing from her heart!--The songs she sang became her own--songs of loneliness and tears--not just a collection of words and music--but it was her own heart cry!



Yes, that's a beautiful story, but what about the music teacher? Oh, he was villified and demonized in all her songs hence, when she failed to recognize the favour he was doing her. Also, from then on she was a b%$@** to every other guy she ever met, even causing a few to actually die of broken hearts. Hopefully this got back to the music teacher, to which he probably rolled his eyes.

I'm telling you people, it's all in the way you look at things. Are you a jerk? Or a music teacher?

Diana...

...which consists of the artists you know as Gavin, Rachelle Spring, Gerardo, and Godfrey. You may have heard of these guys, but you probably weren't able to download their songs (available at the bottom of this post).

Upon first glance at their "band photo" (pouty, wannabe rock star faces), and the relentlessly self-promoting "write-up" on their Myspace, you too may be wondering--what? Are they for real? This sounds like the kind of stunt that Joe Amaranthine guy would try to pull...

Here is what vocalist/bassist Gavin had to say about their new direction and its atypical approach.

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Gavin:
well when we prayed the Lord showed us to try a different approach (break the mold,out of the box)...and not go the tipical we're dropped out of this world, get saved or go to hell, america is the whore way ha! theres nothing wrong with that, I've done it for years and have written countless songs about it....and its a really good method for personal witnessing. but we're trying something new with the offensive and all, we're focusing on mass witness.

and the way we're doing it is by trying to get ourselves in the market and gather a following where with wisdom preach that God is love and that love is the answer and witness....but I think the world has changed and beating people with a stick with heavy dropped out stuff from the begining can scare the mojority...but good for personal witnessing at campuses etc...know what I mean. I'm MM and while I'm doing all this Im also producing a new witnessing Aurora GP CD for the whole family in Brazil. So I guess the thing is just to keep trying new things and be open.

but our objective is to get signed and start touring and playing at as many places as possible...the band has already been approached by a couple record labels including Universal Music and fuel records EMI etc...so if its of the Lord then no man can overcome it. Jesus would hang out with the harlots and tax collectors at night the the diciples asked him why he wasn't with His followers, He said that its the sick that are in need of a physician. So we're not trying to hit the christian market or family market we want to help the sick....so in order to do that we have to hang out with them ha! anyways Lord knows whatsup and He has a plan....so we'll see.

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I think Vas would agree there.

01 Call It A Day
02 Kerosene
03 CrashMonday
04 Room For Love (Reprise)

Click on a song to download.

So Damn Meaningless

I am going to show you a video of a System song, with a purpose.

Point Number One:
I guess we all have our share of friends who have left their calling.
I didn't used to have my share. Just a few years ago I wasn't really close to anyone who had taken extended furloughs from their professional missionary heritages to pursue secular interests, and I didn't really know what it felt like. That all changed fast enough.
(Bear with my doublespeak diplomacy here. Anyone who knows me knows that I often have a sharp tongue, call things as I honestly see them, and rarely pull punches, but that I don't mean to offend or make the person feel unloved. The diplomacy is something I am learning for the case of those who don't know me.)

Point Number Two:
I firmly and redundantly believe that all inspired songs have their roots in the spirit world, whether for good or for bad. I don't normally encourage sharing System music for Family or would-be-Family members, but I think that God was talking through this one: Atrophy, by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. Have a listen.

Thousand Dreams music video -- Caney Creek Heroes

I love this song.





Thousand Dreams music video -- High quality download
Thousand Dreams song download

Click on a title to download.

STEM -- PES 2009

Anyone up for another made-up mini-album?

I sure am!

To the tune of Masa's Polka for the People, Gabi's Holy Project, Cheap Studio's "EP," Immortality By Death's "offensive album," etc., I present you one more fun and frolicking fake mini-album from the archives of fate and piracy, for as long as it lasts.
These are the tracks that even Steven cannot post himself. I can't even post them either, these below are secret links to a nondescript warez site where someone uploaded them, to save you from searching yourself! Enjoy!


STEM -- PES 2009
All new songs written, performed, and produced by Steve McNair and Masa Rider.



01 Born To Win
02 Love Of The Game
03 Get Your Game On
04 High Stakes (PES Version)

Click on a song to go to the secret warez site, where you can then download the song by clicking on it.


Disclaimer to Konami:
These tracks have been posted without the knowledge or consent of Steven McNair or Masa Rider. In fact, I had to dredge them up myself from the slimy pits of the warez swamp world, because those jerks wouldn't send them to me!