More about charitable giving / cult delusions

In my previous blog post I explain how a surprising number of people dispense their largess to the little people and call it "charity" according to how they think it will benefit them in their "astrology charts." They don't generally care or are not imaginative enough to think of where the need is truly the greatest, and the most logical. So people with "lots of Leo" will tend to give to "sports and arts" while those with "strong 12Th houses" will tend to "donate" to "hidden places" such as "hospitals and prisons." I wish I was joking but I am not. They tend to choose from a bizarre menu that they feel is "given to them" based on hokum about "karma," what I call "manipulative past lives" (people claim to have them and know what to 'do' about them and worse, abuse others according to their mistaken beliefs). So they honestly do not even think of doing charitable work "around the clock" in areas that are identified through regular normal fact based human kindness and logic.

Here's an example of the difference between me and them. When I first had generous paychecks with money that I could reliably spend on helping others, I decided to do sponsorship of children, like many millions of people do. In these programs you send money on a monthly basis in order to help a specific child stay in school, meet basic school needs, etc. There are many famous programs. I decided to select one that deals exclusively with Native Americans here in the USA. Why? Two reasons. One is that I grew up near a reservation, so to me it's not an exotic far away need but a "local issue." I saw as a child the poverty first hand, since my mother and I would drive to the reservation to buy apples and corn. Charity is best and strongest when you get involved with people and situations that you know something about yourself. The second reason is that there were many scandals during that time about poverty in the USA. The great expose about Appalachia and its hidden, deep poverty was a huge topic during my formation as a future charitable giver. I could not understand giving to international programs without giving even more to solve the poverty situation here in the USA. And so those were the two reasons I researched a number of worthy organizations but quickly chose the one exclusively for Native Americans.

Now, I know, even though no one has ever said this (or anything else honest) to my face that the cultists who stalked me never realized that I selected Native American charity for such a simple reason. They are blinded by their own lenses of stereotyping everything as having hidden motivations. And so my several decades of sponsorship and even more "incriminating" (from their point of view) interest in Indian culture could only mean.... yep, you guessed it, "past lives," "Karma," "the great injustice of the robber baron white man," "where are Injuns in her astrology chart, drool" and all sorts of conclusions that I was "drawn" to the Indians for "spiritual" reasons. Yes, I liked reading about their culture (not so much the history) and also their religious practices. I mean, duh, you know who I am by now. Of course I'd be interested in their religious practices. But that doesn't mean I was going at is as a "questor" who is "trying to find answers" or worse, "endorsing a *said in pretentious tone* P-A-T-H-W-A-Y." Yikes.

And so over the past several decades there have been HORRIBLE cascading events and oppressive decisions made by cultists in control because they were too damn arrogant and stupid to actually ask me, "Why did you choose to select Native American child sponsorship?"

If they had asked me this question, they would have learned not only the truth about many things (there is no such thing as reincarnation, it is always a good time to be charitable, and the best charity is where the need is the greatest when the need is the greatest) but they also would have learned another essential thing about me. They would have learned that I am vehemently against abortion and that by investing in the Native American families who I sponsored, many of whom oppose birth control because of their understandable genocidal concerns, I was expressing in the pragmatic dollars and cents way my support of large families that use neither birth control nor condone abortions. My conversations with them were very informative of my previously held belief that the way to fight abortion is to coalition with people who love children and who want to have large families, it's as simple as that. By coalition I mean to make it financially and otherwise feasible for those who might feel pressure to abort to be able to have their child, even if it means subsidizing them. Yes, I told you, I'm a liberal, in the proud, not dirty, sense of the tradition. As I've blogged before I believe that if society organized around charities in order to help surprise pregnancies result in live births instead of abortions, through money and educational/job alternatives and a strong system of adoption and orphanages, we'd not have seen the murder of millions of preborn babies in this country. My long term commitment to the Native Americans was the amount that I could personally afford of expressing support based on this set of values and how I felt practical help is better than confrontation or ignoring when it comes to the scourge of abortion in this country.

Now, my families were not ever thinking of abortion, as I said, they told me this is a dire reminder of genocidal times and against their pro-life values (though this of course is changing as the pro aborts and secular society target the poor young Indian youth). So I'm not saying that my sponsorship was necessary for them to have their children, as they would have done so anyway. But my point is that my sponsorship was my way to glorify and support those who were so determined to be pro-life and produce large, loving families. I did so as long as I could, until the cultists caught up with me and cost me my career, my means of earning a living, and my home. I had to stop sponsorship then, and it's been more than a decade since I've been able to participate in that way. There's worse to this story, but no reason to go into it now, except to say, use your imagination about what people who think that I'm interested in Native Americans because of their stupid, mean, ignorant and craven "past life" and "karma" would do (imitate me but with an ugly twist, since there's the assumption of that light and dark "war" that they live in delusion of, and also, well, think about casinos and so forth). They would assume to be "charitable" where there is lots of money and "luck" involved too. Also, since the cultists did not recognize my Catholicism and my authority to speak to its everlasting truth (even though the evidence was no secret and right in front of them), they assumed all sorts of conclusions about divinity and faith matters on sometimes "evidence" as weak as whatever dorky book about Indian lore I might decide to peruse or to buy. I've explained in previous blog postings that like the Buddhist search for "reincarnated lamas," these unfunny clowns stalk what people read and buy, to see "what objects" they are attracted to because they "tell you about what they are *said in pretentious tone of voice* D-R-A-W-N to spiritually." Cultists would manipulate which children were assigned to me for sponsorship, what would happen to them at work and in school (what opportunities they got, for example), and "study" how "lucky" or "not" my "involvement" was with these different kids and their families and then either infiltrate the families on their own for their own "spiritual benefit" or conclude that "bad karma" was being "worked out" and terminate relationships. It's an ugly, ugly, UGLY problem and one that they think I'm too stupid to know how pervasive it is, but I know, oh Lord, do I know. More importantly, though, they forget that God knows all along and does not depend on human witness, deduction or clues. He knows even when these pathetic thoughts of the cultists were formed in their deluded and sick minds.

So much that is simple and good has been ruined.