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Key West spring breaker
First today, a new “addiction marketing myth (scam)? page at goodmorningkeywest.com, prompted by a vicious van dweller criminal amigo snowbird dropping this into my Facebook time line yesterday.
You might find reader comments under the article more interesting and informative than the article itself. Looks to me, based on the number of pop ads for rehab programs that came up while I was opening each part of the article, I think maybe the main article is a rehab industry attempt to enroll new addict clients. Click on this link http://goodmorningkeywest.com/?page_id=29867 to see the article and many reader comments, starting with mine.
I’m not an addict, never was, using the definition, I always was able to stop drinking without withdrawal, and I was always able to stop drinking for long periods of time - years. I do not drink now, but not because I don’t want to, booze makes me physically ill in my liver and GI tract - just one beer or one glass of wine does that. So, I don’t drink beer or wine, which I used to enjoy drinking. I have had a lot of dealings with addicts, mostly booze and tobacco. I have lots of dealings today with homeless addicts, in Key West there I live. Mostly they use booze and tobacco, but many of them use spice, a blend of potpourri and bug spray. Some get prescription narcotics one way or another. Some get marijuana. My girlfriend, now in the county jail for violating her probation, which required she not drink booze, is homeless when she is not in jail, arising out of her boyfriend dying while she was in jail the first time, for aggravated assault, a felony, while she was drinking. When she was released on probation, she had no money and no place to live. She told me in a letter yesterday that she is really struggling with giving up booze and cigarettes, her two oldest good friends. She is off booze and tobacco now, in the jail, where she went through withdrawal for the third time in jail. She has done private rehab many times. She always went back to using. It cost her dearly, using, I will not say the details. But she knows it cost her dearly. I’m a mystic, so I don’t view life like non-mystics. I am in ongoing engagement and conversation with angels, mostly them conversing with me in various ways, most often in dreams, but they can and do speak to me in plain English in my sleep, at times. And they have ways of conversing with me when I am so-called awake, eyes open, mind so-called engaged. Just me saying this next thing, I find it hard to imagine anyone using a narcotic, prescribed or not, who does not know the risk of becoming addicted. So I find it hard to accept addiction is not something people choose, who keep taking a narcotic, knowing what it c an lead to. I have attended maybe 200 AA, NA, ALANON meetings, I have heard many addicts speak. I learned alcoholics do not tend to view themselves as drug addicts, but simply as alcoholics, even though booze is a narcotic, which NA recognizes. I did not attend those meetings because I was an addict, but for other reasons. In one stretch, because I was struggling with a horrible black night of the soul, and I felt some kinship with other people struggling. In the second, later stretchm because I had been living on the street and now was in a homeless shelter which required clients to have clean urine and attend AA/NA/ALANON meetings regularly. Over the years, old timers in AA and NA told me, reluctantly, 95 percent of people who enter those rooms return to their habit. I have seen in my ife that the relapse rate is very high. I’m going to toss in something mystical, now. This I learned from the angels. The core cause of addiction - narcotics, addictive behavior patterns, co-dependency, etc. - is injury to, even destruction of, the internal feminine, which in Christendom is called the Holy Spirit, the Divine Feminine I usually call it, the anima, the Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Jung seemed to have called it. Without her restoration in a person, addiction recovery is very difficult, an act of will and stuggle ongoing, it seems. I have worked therapeutically with many people. Quite a few were addicts. I have no help for addicts. It’s on them to want to stop using, and then engage the ongoing struggle to say clean after rehab. The only real help I see is supernatural intervention into addicts, an infusion of the whole Divine Feminine. Without that, it’s the ongoing grind to stay clean, has been my observation. There are ways an addict can help initiate the infusion. Stop pointing the finger elsewhere. Take their own inventory ongoing. Stop crusading to save this or that perceived victim, or to right this or that perceived wrong, with which the addict as identified and merged psychologically, and actually is trying to save self by trying to save other. That’s a start, but the real cure has to come from the supernatural realm, and that doesn’t seem to happen much - a miracle. I tell addicts, who say they wish to stop using, to ask God to help them stop. I had the 12 Steps applied to me, when I was living in the homeless shelter. Applied to me by the angels who run me. It was terrible. I learned the 12 Steps are a bona fide spiritual method, if used as originally designed by Bill and Bob. That’s very different from reading the 12 Steps. That’s very different fro attending meetings. It’s not imaginable, having the 12 Steps imposed on you by angels, until is happens to you. Just me talking, I think it would be a great thing if the 12 Steps were imposed by angels on every human being on this planet. Meanwhile, because I am a mystic, I once had exquisite experiences with psychiatry. I know for a fact that drugs psychiatrists administer to their patients are addictive, and stopping using those drugs causes awful withdrawal symptoms. I have heard the same from psychiatrists’ patients, who tried to stop taking their meds. And I know for a fact, and have heard from many psychiatrists’ patients, that the meds themselves create awful side effects. And, i will toss in, I have had psychiatrists come to me for help, and psychologists, and licensed clinical social workers, and addiction counselors - not for chemical addiction issues. In all people who came to me for help, the core cause of their difficulties was internal feminine disorder, or destruction, and/or absence. Also was demonic infection, which is not as severe as demonic possession, but can move in that direction. But that, usually, was secondary to the internal feminine disorder. All of that the angels took me through in myself. It was a long, not fun process, and it’s still underway. As for psychiatrists treating addicts, I don’t see psychiatrists know how to really treat any serious mental illness, but that aside, I don’t see how they can expect their methods to work on an addict who still is using. Finally, based on the number of pop up rehab program advertisements, this article is sponsored by that industry, which might be why it stirred so many different reader responses.
Meanwhile, Comcast had a power outage last night,
and the Internet went down on Comcast’s cable throughout the Keys. I told my gracious host Todd German this morning, when something like that happens - power outage - it always means change headed my way. I said I’d heard on US 1 Radio this morning that a construction crew had cut a major fiber optic cable. Todd chuckled, said maybe the angels made the construction workers w cut the cable. I thanked him for moving me quicker to that same conclusion that I had yet reached.
Todd
Todd asked me if I’d received any action yet on my announcement in yesterday’s more cuckoo’s nest adventures in Key West and beyond post, that the angels seem to be moving me toward running for President of USA in 2016? I said, no, except for his inquiry but at least doing that might be fun, even if it is crazy.
Somewhat in that looney toon arena, amiga Christine Russell, sometimes of Key West, replied to yesterday’s post at goodmorningkeywest.com:
Hello Sloan!
I was just talking to a friend of mine in Panama whom I recruited to volunteer with Spay Panama. She has now volunteered with us 3 of the last 5 days. She LOVES our work we are doing and the difference we are making across Panama. It is so wonderful to spend time doing positive things, rather than beating ones head against the wall repeatedly - repeatedly - repeatedly…….. I was telling her about some my future ideas and plans with Spay Panama, and that some of the vets and volunteers may think I’m a little crazy 
And then within a few minutes I came upon your blog today - talking about “CRAZY” things and people.
“Crazy” isn;t it a good thing? God I would hate to be thought of as one of the lemmings that drank too much of the Kool-aid. I don’t think I have to worry about that happening
So here is what I and Steve Jobs think about the Crazy Ones - where would the world be without them? And though I am NO genius, I am proud to the thought of a little crazy
Have a wonderful crazy day Sloan!
C
Here’s to the Crazy Ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs - Apple
I replied:
Hi, Christine -
The way I look at it, when someone attacks me as being crazy, either I am crazy, or my attacker is, because if I’m not crazy, what does that make the attacker? Or can we both be crazy? Or is crazy relative? And is that’s the true theory of relativity? Or is the true theory of relativity how relative God is to someone, or someone is to God, as in up close and personal? Damned if I know.
I don’t know where the world would be without me, but I imagine a lot more people will be glad when I am not on this world than the people who wish I was still around. Maybe I’ll like not being here anymore than I liked being here, time will tell. Kari has caused me to want to stick around, but the angels sure did go out of their way to make that a relationship for the gods to ponder and, I suppose, be amused by.
Am having a wild email back and forth today with a former Key West city transit bus driver, now living in Homestead, because he could not afford to live in Key West after he retired. He seems lots better educated than me, in the English grammar and literary sense. Have to use the dictionary sometimes, when I read what he is writing today.
I wish I had some place else than Key West with something going on I like. I’d be there, if the angels would let me be there, with Kari. I told her in the jail visiting room today, that I announced this morning that it seems the angels are causing me to think about running for president in 2016. Kari said, good luck winning. I said, no chance of winning. She said, I might get more votes than Hillary Clinton. I laughed, said not a chance. Kari said, at least Hillary is better than Bill, he’s deceitful. I said, I don’t know what Hillary is, she keeps changing, like a chameleon, like Barack Obama.
Hillary won’t get my vote. Nor will any Republican, as things now stand. Nor anyone else. I suppose that narrows it down to me :-). Well, I seriously doubt I could do any worse in the Offal Orifice, and maybe I would do better.
It occurred to me today to say, my platform is Biblical: If elected, I will do whatever God tells me to do, and I will not do what God tells me not to do. That ought to wrap up a landslide win for me, since I suppose at least 90 percent off all American voters claim they believe in God :-), and I suppose I will be the only candidate saying Jesus, Archangel Michael and Magdalene Melchizedek are my Board of Directors :-), they own me, direct and correct me day and night.
Yeah, that ought to bring in lots of Christian, Catholic and Mormon votes. Lots.
Sloan
P.S.
Who invented the rule that poetry must rhyme, have pentameter, be cast into verse? Yes, please tell me who invented that really silly rule? Surely it wasn’t the maker of the first stone - otherwise there’d be no stones to break all those slaving rules!
Angel transmission to me, February 1994
Amigo Tim Gratz of Key West replied to the Dr. Ben candidate for President part of yesterday’s post at goodmorningkeywest.com:
I strongly support Dr. Carson [for President of USA]. He was raised in poverty to become the youngest and firdt black head of neurosurgery at prestigious John Hopkins Hospital. As I am sure you know he is famous for separating cojoined twins when other doctors were unable to do so. His life story is told in a movie in which he is played by Cuba Gooding, Jr. He received a prestigious award from the NAACP, the same award the NAACP gave to Rosa Parks.
And he is a Florida resident as well (the third Floridian in the race; the GOP has a surfeit of candidates for sure).
Tim Gratz
I replied:
Does Dr. Carson still believe homosexuals choose to be homosexual? If so, you still strongly support him?
What if he had said instead, people in slavery today choose to be slaves?
What if he had said instead, children choose to be molested by their parents?
I like his war stance, too. Just what we need, more stupid rich white men’s wars waged by a black President from humble, or at least, modest beginnings.
From Paul, the former Key West City Transit bus driver, who replied to the cruise ship dumping their wastes in the sea part of the day before yesterday’s myth, artificial intelligence, supernatural symposium, Key West and beyond post at goodmorningkeywest.com:
Oh Resplendent One!
Yesterday, the Doctor spake: ” NOT one cruise company coming to Key West utilizes treatment… besides, they empty their bunker oil – treating it with the same noxious/ toxic chemicals used in the Deep water Horizon disaster ” …
Ohhhh, Mighty One !!!
Is This not ACTIONABLE ???
I mean - It’s a Federal ( expletive deleted ) Bird Sanctuary - and Much, Much More.
Nah - am - sayin ?
Y’ Fee - mee, mannn… ?
She - eee - eee - iiih …
later
“cartoon” by Arnaud Girard,
co-editor/publisher of www.thebluepaper.com, aka Key West the Newspaper
I replied:
Resplendent One? Ha!
Whatever,
As you read in yesterday’s post, Dr. Weinstock declined to take his allegations to the local government authorities and to the local mullet wrappers, because he was too busy working on his book about what humanity is doing to (killing) the oceans and the planet.
As far as I know, cruise ships are not regulated on the open seas, and there is no action the US, the Florida and the local governments can do about that, but ban cruise ships from calling on US cities, which is what I keep saying Key West should do. And, it seems, I’m the only person who has told the city officials to do that.
Jerry Weinstock, the blue paper [www.thebluepaper.com], Last Stand, the Marine Sanctuary, Reef Relief, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, I don’t hear them calling for cruise ships to be banned from Key West, by Key West. Leaves me wondering what’s the point? Or, am I crazy, or, am I the only sane person in the city when it comes to cruise ships calling here? I ask the same question about other stuff going on in the city, and in the Florida Keys, too.
Doesn’t feel like resplendent. Feels like, hmmm, several colorful metaphors come to me, which the school district’s pristine server surely would throw back at me.
Sloan
Paul wrote:
Maybe 10 or more years ago , at a City commission Tuesday night meeting, this, from an unfamiliar blond, maybe 30s: “Yeah. And I now represent the Cruise Ship Industry here, and we realize that there are some of you who don’t like what YOU feel to be our excessive presence here.”
Standing in the left front corner of the room, near the podium, she faced backward, toward the audience and said clearly: ” But let me assure you: We know ‘you’ plan to oppose our expansion in Key West. You should know that WE have OUR “Talons” planted deep in Key West, and WE will oppose YOU and all your silly, counterproductive ‘efforts’!”
…that was the word, Sloan, “Talons”…
OK. Reality? They got a budget that could squash France.
Without question, they - the Cruise Ship Industry - have long demonstrated the ability to dribble, casually, the Florida Governor, whether Republicrat or Republicrat, like a Harlem Globetrotters basketball. So …
What can you do? Even with a long sustained effort?
Probably not too much, net, net, net.
( look at Last Stand in recent years, anyway. Or Reef Relief, again, in recent years.)
They, the KW money players, might purposely factor in 1 or 2 out of 6 Reps in the City, or 1 of 5 on the County Commission as bona fide ‘loose cannons’ - but I believe the rest of them toe a pretty tight line.
At least on the ‘Money’ votes.
You gotta have a couple of ‘sort of genuine’ elected officials - unconstrained - to maintain the appearance of a “real” elected democracy. Verisimilitude is a necessary ‘biggie’.
BUT, ‘they’ will not permit enough elected opposition to disturb the occasional “money vote”, like, say, the per person fee for Cruise Ship Passengers at Key West.
… of course, Sloan, you know all this stuff, already…
Never Mind!
I replied:
Gosh, Paul, I had to go to the dictionary to make sure I was reasonably close to grokking,
re·splend·ent
r??splend?nt/
adjective
attractive and impressive through being richly colorful or sumptuous.
“she was resplendent in a sea-green dress”
and again for
ver·i·si·mil·i·tude
?ver?s??mili?t(y)o?od/
noun
the appearance of being true or real.
“the detail gives the novel some verisimilitude”
synonyms: realism, believability, plausibility, authenticity, credibility, lifelikeness
“the verisimilitude of her performance is gripping”
How can the angels possibly have such an ignoramus pronounce, or would announce be more better, that he was told by angels to toss his hat into the USA President Circus Circus in 2016, on which you made not a mention in your erudite emails today - I had to look up the spelling of erudite, which brings Socrates to my mind,
er·u·dite
?er(y)??d?t/
adjective
having or showing great knowledge or learning
but I imagine old Socrates, the resplendent gadfly bathed in verisimilitude, were he able today, would say he simply had common sense, which otherwise seemed sorely lacking in his society.
I did not know about the talon-ed lady, maybe she had resplendent green eyes, maybe she was dressed in a resplendent green sheath dress, maybe she reeked of verisimilitude, given she seemed to have spoken truly, and maybe she reeked also of common sense, knowing the people she addressed on both sides of the dais would succumb to filthy lucre sprinkling down from cruise ship haven, er, heaven, money being more important to them than anything, probably least important of all to them, the ocean and its creatures and vegetation, given how the money god, that would be Mammon, just about always trumps resplendent Mother Nature and common sense.
Yeah, the green peace folks had themselves a little revival when, in 2013, the city started leaning toward bringing in even bigger sea-killing monsters, and more of the regular size sea-killing monsters, and after crushing that referendum the greenies and their allies all went back to sleeping and patting themselves on the back, all the while nagging in their souls, chewing their brain cells like little pac men, because they now knew, thanks to then Chamber of Commerce President Robin Lockwood, M.D., that the dirtiest, worst possible cruise ships were calling on Key West, and had been calling for decades, and they had done zip about it, and they intended to do zip about it, and they have done zip about it, and they will not do zip about it, because deep down inside Key West is the WHORE OF THE CARIBBEAN and they are its loving, doting, loyal subjects.
Translated, no way in hell the resplendent, verisimilitude, erudite magnificent 7 on the dais now, or in the future, are going to ban cruise ships from Key West, which defaults to Mother Nature all and any means, fair or foul, to defend Herself. Maybe while at it, She will she will clean house in Tallahassee and Washington, D.C., too.
Meanwhile, Key West and Florida Keys waters are awash with resplendent flesh-eating bacteria, which is condition known to all local physicians and divers, while the mayor of the pig trail end of this little asteroid belt flat denies is the case, the ocean is clean and beautiful, he said during the Pirate Radio mayor candidate debate in 2014, after I described the resplendent MRSA problem in Key West waters. Google image MRSA and get your eyes erudited and verisimilituded.
I haven’t been in the ocean down here since a Key West surgeon, Michael Klitenick, in June 2003, carved 3 horrific MRSA abscesses, 2 out of my groin and 1 out of my butt, and told me I then could do anything I wanted to do but go into the ocean. Later, my primary care physician, Ian Garriques, M.D., an infectious disease specialist, had a letter to the editor published in the Key West Citizen, saying MRSA was pandemic in the Florida Keys. Not epidemic, but pandemic, as in, hmmm, resplendent plague.
No way does Mayor Cates or the Key West Chamber of Commerce or the Florida Keys Tourist Development Council warn tourists, or locals, about the MRSA pandemic, which, that pandemic, perhaps is one resplendent way Mother Nature is striking back at the Whore of the Caribbean and all of her subjects and their guests?
Meanwhile, Elliot Baron gave me a hard time about using the photo of him on the retired Coast Guard Cutter Ingram during the run up to the bring in bigger and more cruise ships referendum in 2013.
I got the photo off of, yep, Elliot’s very own Facebook page, where he was beating up on cruise ships and their allies in Key West pretty darn good. But, Elliot told me, he didn’t want the photo all over the place, after all, he was a respected businessman in the city, he owned a popular restaurant, Mangia Mangia, and he didn’t want to lose any business there because of that photo he’d had taken of him on the Ingram plastered all over the World Wide Web, in Key West.
Chow maim,
Sloan
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