Greetings and Salivations!

Hello Fellow Travellers:I am the Ranting Reverend, spiritual guide to the truly twisted. Any questions on issues of spirituality and religion I would be hapy to offer my immoral support.Quote of the day- "Sacramental wine isn't just for Sundays and don't drink the bong water if it is older than your socks" Blessings!Rev Ev

Our Thoughts Create Our Reality

We travel through life with blinders on, placed there by parents, schools, relatives, and society but mostly by ourselves. Science, for the last three decades, has functioned under the concept that travel beyond the speed of light was impossible. Scientists at USC at Berkley have recently proven that travel beyond speeds of 2 or 3 times the speed of light is possible, even commonplace (well for subatomics anyway). This has opened the doors for new experiments that prove space, time and thought are interconnected. Buddhists have said for centuries that our thoughts create our reality, that we are all interconnected through what Carl Jung described as the collective consciousness. The blinders we place on ourselves are a barrier we must learn to eliminate. You are capable of anything you set your mind to. The boundaries between Esoterica and the Scientific are slowly being narrowed to the point where religion and science finally return to their beginning as the tools for growth, discovery and advancement of the human spirit and psyche. With the beginning of the new millennium, we look to the future and we see the hope of a new age free of bigotry, intolerance and the denigration of humankind for the material gain of the few.

Food for thought.

Blessings!!Rev Ev

You have probably all heard of the expression "Finding yourself". I have had friends, and myself to a certain extent, that strongly believe that you have to travel in order to find yourself. I have found through personal experience and through words of wisdom from a History-Scholar-friend-of-mine that "If you can't find yourself where you are, you never will". I am here, here I am. Strangely enough it is easier to be introspective when you remove yourself from distractions of family-ie the Parental Guilt Complex.
The message here is that there is no instruction manual for life. The only thing you can do is live your life the best you can and try to learn from your mistakes. It takes a lifetime to do that. Try to pass along a little of what you have learned, but don't get pushy about it! If I could learn from mine I would be one of the most knowledgeable people on this little planet.

Who would have thunk it, a little common sense from Rev Ev!

Blessings Rev Ev

Revised Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments were handed down several centuries ago and are generally common sense. However this does not stop people from ignoring them or twisting them for their own purposes. What follows is a list of the “Revised Ten Commandments” courtesy of the Ranting Rev:

10- You shall not covet thy neighbor’s house, car or stereo system nor his token wife or the nor any of his stock portfolio
9- You shall not rat out your neighbor to the Feds or Crime Stoppers, unless you really need the money
8- You shall not steal (D’uh)
7- You shall not commit adultery, even if you are going through your midlife crisis and your wife has denied you relations and your secretary is willing
6- You shall not commit murder, unless the order comes from the Don himself
5- Honor your Father and your Mother until they get really old and no longer make sense because of all the alcohol and anti-depressants
4- Remember to take a day off, relax for Christ’s sake!
3- If you take an oath in his/her name and break it he/she will be really pissed. Marriage and court are included in this one.
2- You shall not worship any idols, your Grandmother’s china, Beanie Babies or your Harley Davidson

1- You shall have no other Gods before him/her, not Elvis, not the Backstreet Boys, not Celine Dion, not Bill Gates and DEFINITELY NOT BRITNEY FUCKING SPEARS!!


Blessings

The Ranting Rev

Step One

Step One- pull your head out your ass
Step Two- dig the SH#% out of your ears
Step Three- NO

I have found this three step process very helpful in dealing with friends, family members and members of the general public on numerous occasions. Sometimes this can also be useful with overly-persistent sales people who wish you to consume their product faster than you can pay for it like any good drug dealer would. The prescription drug industry is the topic of a future blog.

Perhaps I should introduce the Ranting Rev! That may be helpful.

Rev is an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church and its appointed Executive Director of the Atlantic Conference. Rev is a writer and a musician, a father, a brother, a poor excuse for a son on occasion, a husband, a lover, a seeker of truth and hope. I always try to see redeeming qualities in all people and are often disappointed. I remain an optimist in the midst of stupidity, mediocrity and apathy.

My topics of post shall be offensive to most sane people, introspective to some and generally annoying to others. If I have not pissed off somebody of a differing opinion then I shall be truly perturbed.

I welcome all people who are interested in expanding their consciousness as they may in turn help me do so as well. I make no claims on a direct line to God, Allah or whatever name you may chose to use to describe the massive ball of matter and energy that is our place in the universe.

Flames are always welcome and they will be ridiculed for sport and on occasion a cause for thought.

Blessings Rev Ev