Yesterday’s post title was a nice, old memory and today’s is on Memory Lane, too, but just two decades old, not four. Romance language names for Christmas refer to birth, appropriate to a new time. Are we in one? We turn elsewhere for answers.
ST: Esteemed Committee, last post we didn’t ask any questions.
Erik: Nope.
ST: Were you all there?
Erik: Of course, remember, I’m Honorary Chair?
ST: Tell me when my departed Uncle Oscar will give me the winning lottery numbers.
Erik: That’s a psychic for ya, all the answers to everything. Not true but so easy to believe.
ST: Erik, yesterday we were asked in a comment about Columbine High School, Colorado killers.
Erik: Yeah, they’re remorseful but they’re not who they were, nobody is. The person’s image of the last life is what’s remembered, but that’s not who anybody is anymore. Like I show up as Erik in 2009 but I’m not that way naturally. It’s simpler to be the image of the person you were to help get recognized.
ST: You and everybody else in Heaven can make yourselves look the way you want to be seen?
Erik: Yeah, pretty much.
ST: So…show up as a Klingon. (Star Trek character for non-fans)
Erik: That’s just like a disguise or a costume, but your personality and thoughts can’t be covered up, but others can’t cover theirs up from you either, so it’s all good.
ST: You can keep yourself unable to be seen by humans?
Erik: Sure, I do it a lot.
ST: Why can some people see you?
Erik: They chose that ability; most don’t.
ST: I can’t see you like I see anybody else, but I hear your thoughts as thoughts; like no words.
Erik: Right, and others hear the words spoken and see me, too. But I can control that, too.
ST: Can you just show up anywhere and mess with people?
Erik: In theory yeah, but in practice, no. Their Guardians, their Angels, would not let me.
ST: Guardian Angels have power over visitors?
Erik: Total, like even God or Jesus might need an appointment with them if they insisted. So like think of a huge machine gun that can instantly obliterate any approach, that’s the power your guides have.
ST: Does it get misused?
Erik: No. Would you save up your garbage, wait for collection day, grab all the trash from your neighbors, put it in a car or truck and drive down the road dumping it? But like, you could. That’s the understanding of messing with humans, it isn’t done. You’ll get messed back with right away but you never do it.
ST: So these mass killings are contractual?
Erik: Mostly yeah, but not every detail.
ST: I can see the interest in knowing something about the killers in Columbine, but personally would not want to. Connecticut, either.
Erik: The Connecticut kid, ‘cause he was still pretty much a kid, that won’t be possible for a while, moot point. (Pretty big word for Erik, wow.) The Columbine assholes, it’s possible but you’d be surprised because they’re not those high school jerks. Nobody who does shit like that continues on the same way. Plus, why give attention to them? There have been complaints about that, wall-to-wall coverage and attention these idiots get. That’s a part of it, for sure. One of your prominent spokesmen on this is getting fried on TV right now, and nobody’s listening to him. The NRA guy.
ST: That’s everybody’s favorite person to hate.
Erik: Like he went and did it. Keeping a gun away from somebody? Let’s magically snap a few fingers and make ‘em all disappear and there ain’t gonna be much change. All these countries that ban stuff considered dangerous, yeah if there’s no use for it but why did it get invented? ‘Cause there was a use for it. Norway’s pretty safe for this, until you get attacked by a bear or a human that thinks he is one. It’s really popular to say the USA is gun violent, but so’s Europe and they don’t have all the dangerous wild game in so many places.
ST: There’s gonna be a lot of disagreement on this, Erik.
Erik: To listen to a lot of talk, you’d think the gun had magical powers to create crazy ideas, and if we could just erase ‘em from existence, these tragedies would stop. Well, they wouldn’t. Never have.
ST: I already expect a lot of resistance to this Erik, not that I mind, discussion is never bad but your mother’s said pretty clearly what she thinks of the controversies with politics.
Erik: Well, this ain’t politics but nobody can resist that, so I guess it becomes that, but the issue is bigger. Most people are not driven to craziness by a video game, but guess what? Some are. Which ones? Good luck figuring that out. So let’s ban games? The dude in Connecticut could have just as easily used a knife and then taken his mother’s car, waited for the end of a school day and driven over at least as many as he attacked. That’s what he would have done. He killed his mother to buy time to break into the gun cabinet.
ST: The argument is she should not have them.
Erik: Then change the friggin’ US Constitution, dudes!
ST: I have often believed illegal drugs – bad, bad and double bad, including marijuana respiratory damage – should be legal, like alcohol. Would this work?
Erik: It will work, ‘cause that’s what’s gonna happen. Violence and crime will pretty much go away from it and yeah, some people will fry their brains on the shit. Welcome to freedom, they’re not doing it now? Just fast forward, pass a Happiness Law all over the world. While you’re at it, pass a Healthy Law, too. Also, an Educated Law. So anybody not happy, healthy and educated under those laws, wham! Lock ‘em up. That’s fuckin’ utopia.
ST: Everybody in prison?
Erik: Keep up with the rules for everything and you’ll all be there without going.
ST: So what’s our message?
Erik: Kim Kardashian’s a nice piece of eye candy for a lot of people so keep paying attention, watch her shake that stuff (Anybody remember K.C. and the Sunshine Band? Erik’s got that music playing right now and he’s swinging his hips and arms to the lyrics, “Shake, shake, shake! Shake that booty!!) but really, how much attention gets paid to stuff that ain’t important? What’s entertainment and what’s important?
ST: We decide that.
Erik: Damn right, and you get what you decide, too. So the whole gun shit thing is gonna come down to this; where does protection end and does bad shit start? So redraw your line, stand on it but look on both sides of it all the time and soon, y’all might see the line is a little blurry and it always was and some bad shit might happen because of it. Just sayin’.
ST: We still haven’t asked The Committee anything.
Erik: Let’s rename the site, Channeling Committee, just for one day.
ST: Very funny.
Erik: We’ll bring out some people from audit committees, you name it.
ST: Should I give The Committee a new name?
Erik: The Travelling Wilburys; George Harrison would like that, and he’d probably want to join.
ST: You know, Erik, life sucks right now for a lot of people. Happy Christmas images ain’t happening for everybody. This isn’t new but that doesn’t help anybody feeling a little low. Or a lot low.
Erik: Convert to Islam, Judaism, Buddhism or be an atheist.
ST: Seriously, what can you say about that?
Erik: Just kidding, but I said it so people can see, with my stupid example, there are choices, and that’s not stupid. Seriously, everybody has choices. So what I’d say, if you feel down, don’t blame yourself or anyone else, and don’t feel guilty about it, either. You don’t blame other people and you don’t feel guilty about a stomach virus but it still makes you feel like crap. Same thing with feeling down, it’s OK and it will pass. What everybody wants to know, when will it pass?
This’ll help; look at things you have around you that you like that you wouldn’t want changed. Do you want your tent burned down, your tricycle stolen or the keys to your rocket ship confiscated? I know your answer, I don’t have a tent or sleep in one, I can’t fit on a tricycle and a rocket ship? So you have simpler stuff, like family or a favorite shirt. You wouldn’t be happy to lose those either but you just don’t think you will. Probably won’t. So? Appreciate ‘em just the same and be glad for that. To everybody who ain’t goin’ to a Chinese restaurant on the 25th, Merry Christmas and even if you do, Merry Christmas.
