People love to leave their best impression.  IG, FB, TikTok & X are filled with good fortune.  Good folks on lavish vacations, new cars, remodeled homes, infinity pools, pricey ‘fits’ for every day of the year, perfect bodies, or even just “# blessed I found the love of my life.”  If social media were a gauge for human success, we’d want for nothing.

I try not to use it as a ‘show & tell’ for adults, but sometimes my lack of revealing personal issues lead some to believe I don’t have any.

And that impression couldn’t be farther from reality.  The truth is, the last 6 years have been the most challenging of my life.  I don’t talk about it publicly other than broad-strokes… because it’s ugly.  It has to do with people.  Trust.  Betrayal.  I chalk it up to paying a karma from long ago, and some beliefs that may need an adjustment.

Back in the 80’s there was an SNL skit with Al Franken playing a character named Stuart Smalley… an insecure, effeminate man in pastel blue and purple sweaters looking sheepishly in the mirror, reciting things like ‘I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it people like me!’

It was pretty funny actually, but as I got older I realized it was also a little sad, because it ridiculed and laughed at something most people desperately need… and now more than ever.  Positive reenforcement.  Positive beliefs.  Positive affirmations.

Before I had a hit song on the radio, I was in a state.  My first record had gone straight to the ‘has-bin’ and my deal with Warners was in jeopardy.  I struggled to make rent.

Funny side note… one day Michael Bay, the director was still in college and you know… a rich kid from Brentwood, all that.  Anyway he visited my apartment because our girlfriends were friends, and as he stepped inside he looked all around, up and down along the walls and ceiling in amazement.  I wasn’t sure what he was going to say but finally he opened up his mouth and laughed ‘you live here??’.  Ha!  Funny I was kind of proud of that apartment until that day!

Anyway, a dear friend and sort of guru handed me a copy of the Louise Hay book ‘You Can Heal Your Life’ and said ‘Jude I think you need this’.  I did.

One message from the book was that whatever is wrong with you is due to your very own belief system.  True or false I liked it.  It left me in control, not anyone else.  It also came with a tape of daily meditation/affirmations.  I did it every day.  Until I felt a shift.  And you know, it worked.  Not only then, but every time I’ve had to reinvent or realign myself.

The next record ‘A View From 3rd St.’ wasn’t exactly Dark Side Of The Moon on the richter scale, but it did a few significant things to change the quality of life.  I created my own signature sound… plus ‘Baby, It’s Tonight’ was a huge radio song and earned a good deal of money from airplay.  It also allowed me to keep my record deal.

Coming from a fairly healthy amount of dysfunction… little play on words there… I like what Tony Robbins says about self calibration.  He likens it to a pilot with a navigation system.  The plane drifts and constantly goes off course.  The navigation system adjusts repeatedly and brings the aircraft back to a place where you can literally land it on a dime.

That’s most of our brains, emotions and life.  Constantly going off course and in eternal need of calibration, realignment and self-care.  It’s like our bodies and the gym.  We don’t go to a gym and work out for 6 months, then say ‘ok i’m good!’.  We have to eat right and constantly work our body parts with motion and muscle.  The same is true with ‘E’motions and mental health.

In my  Fresh Coffee YouTube page, I’ve created 10 videos with subliminal affirmations.  This is music you can put on and just go about your business, but the messages are heard through the subconscious.  There will be more in the next year with real voiceovers.  It’s fun to create, and well… I do it because I need it.  Feel free to check them out sometime, or there are many others online.  Consistency is key.

https://www.youtube.com/@freshcoffee6879

I’d open up about the pineal gland and what TV, film, music and graphene oxide, aluminum, fluoride and wi-fi are doing to us, but it would make this post conspiratorial and too long, so will have to save it for another time.  Cheers!
Jude

Disclaimer:  I have no intention of making this a religion based page or to preach to anyone.  This is a current topic, and one way overdue.

SO… the world has stepped in to act as our conscience and lend at least a grain of sanity into the Cloward-Piven reshaping of this poor ol’ country of ours.  Never has a land tried harder to appease everyone’s everything.  Never has a land been so shamed for doing so.

The Olympic committee barred Lia Thomas from competing, because that’s the way it should have been all along, duh.

Then, with so many Catholic and Christian countries around the globe like Italy, Mexico, Spain, Phillipines etc., witnessing the opening ceremony to the games act out a Last Supper blasphemy ritual, these Catholic countries didn’t waste a minute to call out what has become a very normal blatant disregard for Christianity.

Thank you world.  America would never have the fucking balls.  If they did, they’d surely point out the equally hard to swallow beliefs of Muslims, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists…  but you’ll never hear that.  Why?  The answer is simple.  They don’t fear Christians.  It’s like that scene in 1985’s “Witness”, where the local teens are all picking on the Amish as they try to get through town, because they know the Amish won’t fight back.  It’s ‘against their religion’.

All one needs to do is watch any modern American or British show to see how our film and television makers feel about Christ.

Remember when Larry David ‘splashed’ on the painting of Christ’s face, and the naive and brainwashed Christian mother and daughter thought Christ was crying.  guffaw guffaw.  Not.

How about the more recent EVIL, where Kristen delves into the world of Catholicism and Exorcisms and becomes a demon who cheats, lies, murders.  The list goes on and on so much that it’s impossible to keep score.  I notice it in almost every show I watch.

It’s never a Muslim, never a Hindu or Buddhist, never a Rabbi… always Christ, and to be honest people have had enough.

If you don’t believe me, you’re probably not a Christian so you wouldn’t notice.  I’m not a church goer, but I pray with consistency, and i do come from that small town, middle class world of church goers and feel passionately willing to fight for their right to believe what they want without ridicule from a completely hypocritical media, who by the way pays homage to Satanic symbolism on an equal basis.

Walking on water, Immaculate conception, miracles… whatever.  I also believe in the rights for Muslims to believe in 72 Virgins, for Hindus to have a series of Gods and past lives, or for Jews to think they’re ‘ God’s Chosen Ones’, even though all are hard to grasp with our limited logical and dimensional minds.

If I had to guess, based on shows i’ve watched on Netflix, HBO and the rest, my number would be 85% of all shows have at least one scene with a smear toward Christianity, using insanity, violence, poverty, drug abuse, hypocrisy or worse… pedophilia, incest, child abuse, mass murder.  They’ve also managed to tie this to southerners in general.  The southern accent automatically makes you a Maga hat wearing AR-15 toting Christian right wing nut bag menace to society… an existential threat.

Producers of all film and TV need to be held accountable, for this is the REAL hate speech, and these are the first people at the podium calling others racist, homophobe, xenophobe, antisemitic.

I’ve seen so many posts on social media since the Olympic opening with people saying to Christians, ‘get over it’, or ‘you’ve jumped the shark of sensitivity’, but you know what?  People have had it… especially coming from those who profess to love so much, then publicly seethe, dox and spew venom on anyone who disagrees with their extremely narrow-minded rainbow agenda.

The world owes Christianity a profound and sincere apology.  One massive boycott from Christians would affect any product on the market.  They’ve done their able best to make sure most Christians don’t have a microphone to organize this, but keep pushing, media  -they’ll make a microphone of their own.

I just don’t see Kamala in there.  I don’t see democrat puppeteers sticking with her.  This is a formality… a sequence of getting Joe out, having him do the ethical thing by choosing his VP, then causing a reason she can’t continue.  Somehow, some way, they’re going to make Michelle come out of hiding, incensed with anger, proclaiming she didn’t want to do it at first, but now (due to recent events) feels a calling that she must do it.  Must do it for minorities, for black women everywhere.   The nation will go wild and it’s Obama 2.0.   Newsome will be her running mate.

If I’m wrong i’ll eat my post 🙂

Both sides are well aware of the fact that Americans have the attention span of a gnat.  They love to jump on the latest trends as if they’re on the cutting edge of facts.  Remember the viral photo of Zelensky and his wife?  I saw it about 100 times in one day at the beginning of the Ukraine conflict.  Where are they now?  So in 2024 it’s best to catch people pretending they know before too many facts are revealed.

Whatever they do, I pray they don’t resort to the usual ‘lone gunman’.  Everyone’s onto it.