I was listening to a talk show on radio (which of course means I’m old. Don’t rub it in.) and the guest was saying that if our country became totally cashless, we’d eliminate or at least reduce the illegal immigration problem. I can see how it would help, because if all payments were electronic, you’d have to have a bank and that would require legal ID, i.e. proof of citizenship. Of course anyone can get counterfeit forms of ID, but if we converted to biometric types, that would make it difficult. So far, I’m thinking this is a good idea, as long as there’s an easy way for skilled workers to obtain work visas and a path to citizenship. That doesn’t exist now. We are a country founded by immigrants, and we should welcome those with the skills we need. I also think it would help with our drug problem. After all, drug dealers don’t take Mastercard or Visa, do they? There’s a virtual form of cash called Bitcoin, so that would have to be made illegal. The only thing that concerns me–and I’m sure there will be more because I only just now started thinking about this concept–is the homeless. They rely on cash donations so what would become of them? Any ideas?

Enjoy Part Two of this series!

Me: What about this. Some people say, “Why do you have to kill the baby? Why can’t you just carry it to term and give it away to people who can’t have children?”

(Long pause. Jamie is clearly listening, then she laughs.)

Jamie (still chuckling): He’s pretending to unroll a list.

She mimics this.

Jamie: And it hits the floor.

Plunk.

Erik: Really? Well, that’s just another judgment. That’s you coming in with a belief system that that life that was either accidentally made or made on purpose is more valuable than the life you’re about to lead because with pregnancy comes a whole shift. Women sometimes, even in their 6^th month, can’t work anymore. They can’t even stand. They might not be able to earn an income and feed the other children they have.

Me: That’s true.

Erik: There are so many other elements that might interact with this. They might feel shame because they’re single, they’re young, they’re this, they’re that, and the choice of terminating the pregnancy is much more value to them than giving life to it and handing it on. Before someone thinks that way, I’d encourage them to look at the adoption lists worldwide and see how many babies are waiting to be adopted. Then someone who has the thought, “You should give birth to the baby you have and give it life and adopt it to somebody else” I challenge them to fulfill that and adopt one. I’d go, “Oh, you don’t want to adopt a baby? Well why do you have that choice? You want her to make that choice, but (unintelligible.)

Me: Five was enough [for me!] Where do you think these covered up gray roots came from?

Jamie laughs.

Erik: I like the casual look, Mom. I like it.

Me: Yeah, I know. Just a t-shirt, ratty cutoff jeans shorts and flip-flops today.

Erik: I like the hair.

Me: Oh, you know what I did? I always wanted that expensive keratin treatment, but I was too cheap to do it, you know, where they flat iron keratin into your hair at the salon. I bought some online for 34 bucks and did it myself, and it worked great. It’s flat ironed, and I can’t wash it for a couple of days. We’ll see if I look like Little Orphan Annie after that. Who knows? So yeah, I’m really excited about that. All right. So anything else on the contracts? Oh yeah. Here’s another one. Does the baby who was aborted, miscarried or stillborn often come back to the same parents?

Erik: Yes. More often than not, the child that was aborted, miscarried or stillborn comes back to the same mom.

Me: Okay.

Erik: And even in different ways. Let’s say one is miscarried or stillborn and they found out the woman can’t carry a baby to full term. That one will go a round about way, get born elsewhere, get on an adoption list or go through a surrogate. It’s amazing.

Me: Okay. That’s good. You know, when all of this is not so on the fringe, then they might be able to channel the baby that they’re going to abort or channel the soul of the miscarried or stillborn child, just communicating. “Is this what you want?” “What was I supposed to learn from this?”

Erik: I’m all for that. I wish people would start doing that now more.

Me: Yeah, I think it would be very valuable. They’d have peace—

Erik: Ditto.

Me: –if the baby said, “Hey, yeah. I’m not into this, man. Take me out.”

Jamie: “I’m out of here.”

Wow, this was shorter than I thought! Sorry.

Check out our interview on the Whitley Streiber Show. Subscription information is below the story he wrote about his paranormal experience that happened during the show. Pretty amazing. For the backstory, Anne is his recently deceased wife.

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Have a wonderful weekend, guys! I plan on working on my rose bushes and decorating the inside of the house for Christmas. Yay!