March 24, 2,006
Fibroid Tumor

We have been asked what race is it in "The Truth Is Here" that practices Islam and is compatible with humans?" Well, the race isn't in "The Truth Is Here." They didn't join The Galactic Community until several years after "The Truth Is Here" was written. They were known before then, but were isolationists, would have nothing to do with outsiders. Suddenly a few years ago, they started sending representatives to people and started trading with their neighbors, applied for membership to The Galactic Community, and were readily accepted. They're called The Faxins. Their bodies are humanoid, they have five fingers and four toes. Their skin is commonly tan but they have some that are pale. What differs them from humans are their mouths and eyes. Their mouths are narrower and longer. Their jaws protrude a little beyond their face. Their eyes stick out beyond their ears in sockets. They can look straight ahead, or even swivel their eyes in to get clear vision of something extremely close to them, or swing them out so they're looking to the side. This gives them a tremendous range of vision, which was important for survival on their world. They're a little shorter than humans, the average height is 5' 6" for the males, 5' for the females. But aside from these small differences they evolved from a creature very similar to those that humans evolved from. Nature always seems to repeat the same patterns when similar ecological conditions present themselves!
Well, here's the good news! Gerald's medical tests came back pretty good. It's not the Lipitor that's causing the problems, but the mild diabetes. The bad news is they believe Linda has a fibroid tumor and surgery is probably going to be necessary. How much surgery, they're not sure yet. We should know after the next visit to the doctor. Of course this is going to cause many difficulties because we can't even pay our bills now. We don't know how long Linda will be laid up, and Gerald can do virtually nothing without her. We'll have to see what we can put together. This will probably be when somebody wants us to go somewhere. Everyone in The Afterlife is extremely irate that we don't have the resources yet to do our Work. We have so much to offer but people reject us for the flashy and the entertaining. Our Work is steady and true, but they want excitement. We're going to have to get more "Here's Jesus!" together and get a bunch of them put up ahead of time so they'll be available. Speaking of "Here's Jesus!" Jesus suggested a very novel way of solving our financial situation in yesterday's episode, that we put a small amount of money in the bank and have it build up. And then in the future, if they develop time travel, come back and give us $600,000 to prove that time travel exists! If these people show up now would be a great time for them to do so. Someone was surprised that Kurt Cobain was in The Kingdom Of God. Well, he's not. He's in a hospital in The Spiritist Republic, and making a surprising recovery. The current crisis seems to have forced many who were struggling to pull themselves back together, literally! There are rumors that Cobain may do a concert with John Lennon's new band, Beatles & Friends before the upcoming seance for John. He's working on some new material, a little bit milder than his old stuff. That is probably going to be an occasion that will shut down a great deal of The Afterlife! Anybody that isn't busy will be somewhere watching that performance! The Kingdom Of God has so much power right now. If They could just get people to use it! But we seem to be having a great deal of difficulty accomplishing that.

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No Sense Of Humor On Haven

Again and again people ask "How can a society like The Havens evolve without any kind of fictional entertainment?" People can't imagine a race without a Shakespear or a Micky Spillane, or an Agatha Christie. How can a society function without fiction, without humor? To some people it simply does not seem possible. We can tell you, any type of humor as it's practiced on Earth would not be acceptable to The Havens! Human humor always degrades someone or, something, attacks some aspect of society. The Havens would simply have not been able to deal with it. If some production group had pulled a stunt on someone like the things we see on t.v. the person would've probably killed them and not been prosecuted. So humiliating someone would've been totally unacceptable to the Haven society. The idea of doing such a thing was simply beyond their thought! It would not even be considered! Only an enemy would do something like that to someone and you destroy an enemy.
Human society would have a very hard time understanding that. They would say "Oh, it's just a joke! They didn't mean any harm. Don't you have a sense of humor?" Unfortunately a Haven would answer, "No, I do not." They would not be able to comprehend this idea, at all. If anybody on Haven produced a show like South Park and attacked the priesthood, they would all be gathered up and burned alive with their wives and children. You can understand why no one there ever even considered starting a production like that!
The Haven culture was so different that humans would've had a very hard time functioning in it, as Havens, who have taken on human form and now live among them, have a hard time functioning in the human society because much of what humans do is completely contrary to their way of thinking, because literally, they had no sense of humor!

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