Peter Brown and the Four Laws

Though I avoided folks yesterday, today I actually stopped and talked to two folks during my break between English and Math. First I was asked by an alumnus to sign a petition to get Peter Brown onto the Mayoral ballot this fall. Now I've seen his big ass sign a few blocks away, and believe that everyone should have the opportunity to run, so I put down my John Hancock and filled out the petition.

Looking over his pamphlet and his website, I like the guy. No where on the pamphlet or website does he mention any of the "hot button issues" of national politics. Instead he is focused on things that are important to the city, things that are working towards making the city safer, most cost effective and most of all hurricane proof. Hell, he is even the City's quality-of-life "green" Council Member.

As we continue to look he is an UofH alumnus, and from there went to Berkley and Penn...nice credentials. Finally, and it took Wikipedia till we found it, we have his political party. He is a Democrat (the city council is non-partisan). The best news, in a sad way, is that the current Mayor (who the wife and I are fans of) is term limited so we don't have to be torn. So yay me for signing said petition.

Now then...onto why I have that graphic posted. Earlier in the day I noticed that the only group still out and about today was the Christian groups. Luckily none tried to hand me crap so I didn't have to inform them that if I touched it my Elder Gods require I eat them on the spot, so problem avoided. Since my English Prof let us out so early I had over two hours to kill before Math.

I ate some food and then moseyed on over to a park bench (where I experienced the squirrel mentioned earlier) to smoke and basically people watch. About a half-hour into this a man approached. An older man, even older than I, with a binder of some sort. He asked if I could bother answering some questions for a "class" and at the top of his paper it said Philosophies of Life. I was just waisting time so I did the friendly thing and said sure, I got time.

After some getting to know me questions, and thanks for military service, we got into the are you religious questions. I responded in the negative. Then there was a question of, how you rate your philosophy of life? Definite, Vague, None. I thought about this and replied, "Well, it's somewhere between definite and vague. I have a philosophy of life, part of it is definite and part of it is vague."

It was at this time that I apparently began to speak Klingon. With the confused look in his eyes, I took pity and told him to just put down definite. We then moved on to the question of if there was one root cause of the world's problem what would say it is? There was about twenty options ranging from Sin, Economics, Environmental, Money, etc...but sadly no option for religion so I went for intolerance, which is really just the same thing.

Then came the preaching, in a way, do you believe in the Four Laws? Then came out a tiny pamphlet, which is pretty much verbatim (down to the images) of the site linked, with little places marked with pencil to emphasize his little points. I figured we shall go over these...


1. God LOVES you and offers a wonderful PLAN for your life. (citing John 3:16, 10:10)
God LOVES us...yet we will all burn in hell for eternity for returning that love...or if we don't do what we say. Apparently God is Ike Turner.

2. Man is SINFUL and SEPARATED from God. Therefore, he cannot know and experience God's love and plan for his life. (citing Romans 3:23, 6:23)
This section makes no real sense. We are sinful, and that is why we die according to the bible versus. How you get being separated from God and not experiencing God's love and plan I'm not really sure. Then again we're going back to Ike Turner of us not doing what God said, his plan, and we gonna die for it. The only bonus is the image of Sinful Man firing arrows up towards a Holy God, go sinful man, don't take that abuse!

3. Jesus Christ is God's ONLY provision for man's sin. Through Him you can know and experience God's love and plan for your life. (citing Romans 5:8, 1 Corinthians 15:3-6, John 14:6)
At this time I was informed that there is actual evidence that 500 people saw Jesus after he died. I was not impressed as Elvis has had more sightings last week. Though looking up the "evidence" on the internet it appears that the "500 people" statement comes from Paul...who wasn't even around with Jesus at the time. I think we have more evidence of Tupac and Biggie still being alive.

4. We must individually RECEIVE Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God's love and plan for our lives. (citing John 1:12, Ephesians 2:8,9, John 3:1-8, Revelation 3:20)
This one doesn't exactly pass the logic test. According to Law #2 we are separated from God and cannot know his plan. Yet this is saying accepting Christ is a special legal loophole that lets you see the Director's Cut early. Finally there is Revelations in which Jesus is knocking on my door, not Heaven's, and wanting to come into me. Isn't possession one of the things Jesus spent his life fighting? Why use possession as motivation to get someone to convert?

After going through his spiel, in which I was very kind and courteous, he asked if I believe in this? When I said a very definitive no he then looked into my eyes no doubt ready to begin preaching the word of God and fish...but no doubt he saw the endless depths in which the Elder Gods stir and thought the better of it.

He thanked me, went on his way, and then the squirrel mischief began. This just goes to show that I can be cordial with the religious folk.