FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF PRESCOTT, ARKANSAS

Subject:	Re: WHITE METHODIST: GOD SPECIALIZES IN HAPPY ENDINGS?
From:	FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (prescottfumc@centurylink.net)
To:	jeaverydvm87@att.net;
Date:	Wednesday, December 31, 2014 9:18 AM

Please remove me from your email mailing list.

Thanks, Rena

  

Subject:	Re: WHITE METHODIST: GOD SPECIALIZES IN HAPPY ENDINGS?
From:	James Avery (jeaverydvm87@att.net)
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Date:	Wednesday, December 31, 2014 10:34 PM

Rena,

Thank you for responding back to me. As any information is better than no information, the good and the bad, this is giving me an opportunity.

"Jim. I'm writing a gift check to the church for $10,0000.00."

~(My Mother after My Father Died)~

"I'm okay with this Mother. I do understand this church having been very important helping you raise your children; even more so, when considering, you having had two hearing impaired sons."

~(James E. Avery, DVM: Fag)~

"Is it...wrong...that I don't want my son to be gay?"

~(My Mother)~

"Noooo...Mother. It's not...WRONG...that you don't want your son to be...GAY. But you've known since I was twenty-three years old and I'm...NOW... forty-seven. GET OVER IT!"

~(Simply Jim: One Pearl, Total Pig, Anti-Christ)~

It wasn't necessarily you I had in mind when adding this email address to the mailing list but the whole of The First United Methodist Church of Prescott, Arkansas.

Rena, am I wrong, assuming you are still the secretary at this church; same church Blue Dog Democrat Mike Ross adopted as his church in mine and my fathers absence?

Michael Avery "Mike" Ross (born August 2, 1961) is an American businessman and politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party who served as the U.S. Representative for Arkansas's 4th congressional district from 2001 to 2013. He is also a former small business owner, former member of the Arkansas State Senate and a former member of the Nevada County Quorum Court.

On July 25, 2011, Ross announced that he would not seek re-election to the House in 2012. He instead became the Democratic nominee for governor of Arkansas in the general election scheduled for November 4, 2014. He faced the Republican choice, former U.S. Representative Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas's 3rd congressional district and the 2006 failed nominee against outgoing current Governor Mike Beebe, a Democrat.^[2] Ross lost to Hutchison.

Ross was born in Texarkana, Arkansas. He is a fifth-generation Arkansan, he lived for many years in Prescott until relocating in 2013 to the capital city of Little Rock. He is the grandson of farmers and a nurse and the son of two public school educators. He graduated from high school in Hope, Arkansas and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, working his way through college as a local radio announcer.

Together with his wife, Holly, Ross owned and operated a small pharmacy in their hometown of Prescott, Arkansas, which they sold in May 2007. Mike and Holly Ross have been married for 30 years, and they have two grown children. They are members of the Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church in Little Rock, where they now live.

In April 2009, Ross voted against the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

SON'S A SON UNTIL HE GETS HIM A WIFE. DAUGHTER'S A DAUGHTER ALL HER LIFE.

This is the church I was raised with first eighteen years of my life; translating into eighteen years of memories associated with many people of this church small town of Prescott, Arkansas I'm now having to reconcile with issues/conflicts currently going on in my life within big city of Metro-Atlanta, alone. Apparently Methodists here are not of the same species as those in Prescott; or are they? Time changes everything.

Although only assuming, because of a group picture taken in front of this church, this would be the very same church my father also raised as a child. Because of this group photo taken in front of his church when my father still a child , and also because of this photo having been sent to me by my mother who is still a member of...HIS...church in my father's absence, I'm coming to understand my father more in death, far more, than I ever had when Charles Densen Avery, M.D. still living.

Honestly I do not know my father... still.

"Mother. Mama Vannah and Papa Drewry...LIVED...in Prescott. Why didn't I ever see them at church?"

~(James E. Avery, DVM: Methodist Fag)~

"Good question. I do not know why we never saw them at church."

~(My Mother)~

"Mother. Do you realize that churches are mainly for women and their children? Men just go to church networking for their business."

~(James E. Avery, DVM: Methodist Fag)~

"Funny you should say this. Your father took us to church once just to network for his business and never took us back again. A doctor here in Prescott was killed in a car accident and he had a busy practice almost overnight."

~(My Mother)~

"Not me. I wasn't even born yet."

~(James E. Avery, DVM: Methodist Fag)~

However, I am very good with conjectures and becoming even better with practice; having been isolated even more so due to a drug addiction since attempting my own drug addiction intervention. Although we will never know the truths completely without all the facts, which we will never have; this does not have to be, or ever should be, a reason not trying.

Now that I'm thinking about it, would actually like to have Rev. Fish email address if he has one; or an address able reaching him by email. Just assuming he didn't from something mother said.

EXPERIENCE IS JUST NATURE CRUEL WAY OF GIVING THE EXAMS FIRST FOLLOWED BY THEIR LESSONS

I'm wanting to inquire more into how my mother handled this request of Rev. Fish, made on my behalf, calling Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church a while back. What was actually told to Rev. Fish by my mother? What attempt was actually made calling Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church? Who did Rev. Fish speak with at Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church? What was asked of Glenn Memorial UMC on my behalf? What did Glenn Memorial UMC have to say? What was told to my mother afterward about this attempt on my behalf?

I'm learning every day the hard way just how little I even knew my mother; my whole family actually.

It's not entirely my fault our story is such an important part of my story.

And I'm needing witnesses.

Sincerely yours,

Simply Jim, DVM: TAO~g(HERD HEALTH MEDICINE)d~ OG

Top 10 Reasons to be an Episcopalian (from the comedian Robin Williams, who is an Episcopalian, on a recent HBO special) - - Ebb and Flow , the online newsletter of St. Augustine by the Sea Episcopal Church, Santa Monica, California

 

Top 10 Reasons to be an Episcopalian

 (from the comedian Robin Williams, who is an Episcopalian, on a recent HBO special)

 

10. No snake handling.

  9. You can believe in dinosaurs.

8. Male and female God created them; male and female we ordain them.

7. You don't have to check your brains at the door.

6. Pew aerobics.

5. Church year is color-coded.

4. Free wine on Sunday.

3. All of the pageantry - none of the guilt.

2. You don't have to know how to swim to get baptized.

 

And the Number One reason to be an Episcopalian:

 

1. No matter what you believe, there's bound to be at least one other Episcopalian who agrees with you.

Top 10 Reasons to be an Episcopalian (from the comedian Robin Williams, who is an Episcopalian, on a recent HBO special) - - Ebb and Flow , the online newsletter of St. Augustine by the Sea Episcopal Church, Santa Monica, California:

SIN BRINGS DEATH AND JUDGEMENT?

EMORY POLICE vs. GLENN MEMORIALS UMC ASSISTANT PASTOR JOSH

Subject:	Re: WHITE METHODIST: GOD SPECIALIZES IN HAPPY ENDINGS?
From:	James Avery (jeaverydvm87@att.net)
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Date:	Tuesday, December 30, 2014 10:11 PM

Lieutenant Manns, John Harper, Michael Meeks,

Sorry to be so disruptive; again for the sixth time.

This is James Avery, the resident at 1840 Mason Mill Road who has been trying to get copies of this active file under my name with the Emory Police. On my last visit in person with the Emory Police, you did give me a copy of the "latest/most recent" incidence report. Although I can take a pretty good guess what's in the file, this incidence report given to me on my last visit tells me... I REALLY DO NEED TO SEE...what is in this file and what is not in this file.

Again, I would like copies of all of it; an opportunity, as well as what should be my rights, adding my perspective in along side with the others...where needed.

I am suppose to have a meeting Monday January 5th, off-campus, with Assistant Rev. Josh Amerson of Glenn Memorial UMC to discuss a number of concerns of mine; including this file. It was like pulling teeth just getting this meeting to happen; and I'm going all the way back four years ago to the day I first met Betty Jo Copeland same Glenn Memorial office. This one hour meeting obviously will not be enough time for me airing my concerns without coming off as incoherent and/or belligerent; just too easy for Rev. Josh walking away from this much history of a "crackhead" story smelling like a rose when shouldn't be.

Originally I stopped by only wanting this meeting with their Senior Pastor Alice Rogers. Then this meeting became the three of us per Rev. Josh insistence after having interjected himself between me and their Communications Director Sarah Ladew as I was trying, only, leaving a message for their Senior Pastor requesting a meeting.

After not hearing back from Rev. Josh, about our upcoming threesome with their Senior Pastor Alice, within what I considered to be a reasonable amount of time; my so called..."DISRUPTIVE" behavior more than one occasion happens.

On one of those occasions I had the opportunity, by accident as I was only there dropping off two hula hoops with their Communications Directors as a reminder (plans using them as props later during my attempted discussion with these two pastors of Glenn Memorial regarding set theories/ecumenism and how they relate to drug addictions programs as well as interfering with twelve steps programs) to Rev. Josh and Rev. Dr. Alice about our upcoming meeting, asking Betty Jo if I had threatened her in any way that day four years ago I first stopped by wanting a meeting with Senior Pastor Jones or one of the others.

This dialogue exchange, between me and BJ, I'm wanting added to this file as me calling in a "suspicious behavior" incidence report much like the one you handed me called in by Sarah LaDew.

Rather than wait to hear what Rev. Josh has to say (or not say) about these two conflicting reports he's receiving from the Emory Police, I rather hear them myself first from the Emory Police. This I would consider to be "crime" prevention; not getting yourself involved as party to a "shunning."

Unless Rev. Josh is willing to guarantee us having another hour meeting within a reasonable amount of time after this upcoming meeting; I may postpone this meeting until after clearing up this matter of me having an active file with the Emory Police.

Will I be able requesting a meeting, discussing this active file, with you and/or your Captain before this meeting with Rev. Josh January 5th? If not...when could we discuss, in the spirit of crime prevention as opposed to ecumenism, this file more?

Sincerely yours,

James E. Avery, DVM

(Simply Jim: Crackhead)

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Subject:	Re: WHITE METHODIST: GOD SPECIALIZES IN HAPPY ENDINGS?
From:	Mark Dorfman (mark.dorfman@bluepearlvet.com)
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Date:	Tuesday, December 30, 2014 10:18 PM

I will be out of the country for the holidays. If this is an emergency please call the office. I will be back in the office on Monday January 5, 2015.

--

Mark Dorfman, DVM Dipl ACVIM

BluePearl Georgia Veterinary Specialists

455 Abernathy Rd. NE

Atlanta, Georgia 30328

Ph: 404-459-0903

Fax: 404-459-6462

mark.dorfman@bluepearlvet.com

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Subject:	Automatic reply: WHITE METHODIST: GOD SPECIALIZES IN HAPPY ENDINGS?
From:	Beverley Elliott (bev@stbartsatlanta.org)
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Date:	Tuesday, December 30, 2014 10:11 PM

I am away on New Year Break, returning Sunday Jan 4. Grace and Peace. Beverley+

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Subject:	Re: WHITE METHODIST: GOD SPECIALIZES IN HAPPY ENDINGS?
From:	FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (prescottfumc@centurylink.net)
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Date:	Wednesday, December 31, 2014 9:17 AM

Please remove me from your email mailing list.

Thanks, Rena

OPTICAL ILLUSION: KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE CROSS?

KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE CROSS.

Freaky!

ORAQUICK: LET"S MAKE THIS THE SEASON OF KNOWING

I know this is in poor taste, but for some reason just couldn't stop myself.

However, my test turned out "Negative" for the HIV virus.

What could God possibly be saving me for?

Schizophrenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Schizophrenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Schizophrenia (/ˌskɪtsɵˈfrɛniə/ or /ˌskɪtsɵˈfriːniə/) is a mental disorder often characterized by abnormal social behavior and failure to recognize what is real. Common symptoms include false beliefs, unclear or confused thinking, auditory hallucinations, reduced social engagement and emotional expression, and inactivity. Diagnosis is based on observed behavior and the person's reported experiences.

Individuals with schizophrenia may experience hallucinations (most reported are hearing voices), delusions (often bizarre or persecutory in nature), and disorganized thinking and speech. The last may range from loss of train of thought, to sentences only loosely connected in meaning, to speech that is not understandable known as word salad in severe cases.

Schizophasia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: In the mental health field, schizophasia, commonly referred to as word salad, is confused, and often repetitious, language that is symptomatic of various mental illnesses. 

It is usually associated with a manic presentation and other symptoms of serious mental illnesses, such as psychosis, including schizophrenia. It is characterized by an apparently confused usage of words with no apparent meaning or relationship attached to them. In this context, it is considered to be a symptom of a formal thought disorder. In some cases schizophasia can be a sign of asymptomatic schizophrenia; e.g. the question "Why do people believe in God?" could elicit a response consisting of a series of words commonly associated with religion or prayer but strung together with no regard to language rules.

Social withdrawal, sloppiness of dress and hygiene, and loss of motivation and judgment are all common in schizophrenia.[8] There is often an observable pattern of emotional difficulty, for example lack of responsiveness.[9] Impairment in social cognition is associated with schizophrenia,[10] as are symptoms of paranoia. Social isolation commonly occurs.[11] Difficulties in working and long-term memory, attention, executive functioning, and speed of processing also commonly occur.[4] In one uncommon subtype, the person may be largely mute, remain motionless in bizarre postures, or exhibit purposeless agitation, all signs of catatonia.[12] About 30 to 50% of people with schizophrenia fail to accept that they have an illness or their recommended treatment.[13] Treatment may have some effect on insight.[14] People with schizophrenia often find facial emotion perception to be difficult.[15]

Schizophrenia has great human and economic costs. It results in a decreased life expectancy by 10–25 years. This is primarily because of its association with obesity, poor diet, sedentary lifestyles, and smoking, with an increased rate of suicide playing a lesser role. Antipsychotic medications may also increase the risk.

There is a higher than average suicide rate associated with schizophrenia. This has been cited at 10%, but a more recent analysis revises the estimate to 4.9%, most often occurring in the period following onset or first hospital admission. Several times more (20 to 40%) attempt suicide at least once. There are a variety of risk factors, including male gender, depression, and a high intelligence quotient.

Individuals with severe mental illness including schizophrenia are at a significantly greater risk of being victims of both violent and non-violent crime. Schizophrenia has been associated with a higher rate of violent acts, although this is primarily due to higher rates of drug use. Rates of homicide linked to psychosis are similar to those linked to substance misuse, and parallel the overall rate in a region. What role schizophrenia has on violence independent of drug misuse is controversial, but certain aspects of individual histories or mental states may be factors.

Media coverage relating to violent acts by individuals with schizophrenia reinforces public perception of an association between schizophrenia and violence. In a large, representative sample from a 1999 study, 12.8% of Americans believed that individuals with schizophrenia were "very likely" to do something violent against others, and 48.1% said that they were "somewhat likely" to. Over 74% said that people with schizophrenia were either "not very able" or "not able at all" to make decisions concerning their treatment, and 70.2% said the same of money management decisions. The perception of individuals with psychosis as violent has more than doubled in prevalence since the 1950s, according to one meta-analysis.

MATTHEW 6:25-26 (Biblegateway)-Jesus Teaches about Cares of Life

Matthew 6:25-26

New Life Version

(NLV)

Jesus Teaches about Cares of Life

25 “I tell you this: Do not worry about your life. Do not worry about what you are going to eat and drink. Do not worry about what you are going to wear. Is not life more important than food? Is not the body more important than clothes? 26 Look at the birds in the sky. They do not plant seeds. They do not gather grain. They do not put grain into a building to keep. Yet your Father in heaven feeds them! Are you not more important than the birds?

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One sunny afternoon I was sitting in the sun room overlooking my back yard.   

All of a sudden I saw a blue jay appearing just outside the windows along one side of the sun room, then rapidly doing a bank turn and immediately disappearing into the leaves of a sizable red bud tree just the other side of a fence running down the property line. 

Just as the blue jay disappears into this tree, a young hawk appears doing exactly the same thing!

At the same time the hawk disappears into this tree, the blue jay appears again flying over the top of this red bud tree then right by me; just the other side of the window.

Then the hawk.

I will never forget the expression on that blue jay's face.

Yet your Father in heaven feeds them raptors too! 

And this all makes me wonder back to my days while at Louisiana State University,

 studying...
 to be a veterinarian.

What was the purpose of raptor rehabilitation?

Maybe why it was more of a club than a requirement?

Might as well go watch a cock fight.

DILECTO DILECTORI: Anselm of Canterbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I would love to hear more about this doctrine I was pressing the wife of nationally known (according to Glenn Memorial UMC announcement I found on their website relating to the issue of avowed practicing homosexuals being ordained as ministers) pastoral consultant G. Robert Gary, Sr. ThD into agreeing with me.

Anselm of Canterbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Dilecto dilectori"

It was reported that Anselm wrote many letters to monks, male relatives and others that contained passionate expressions of attachment and affection. These letters were typically addressed "dilecto dilectori", sometimes translated as "to the beloved lover." While there is wide agreement that Anselm was personally committed to the monastic ideal of celibacy, some academics, including Brian P. McGuire and John Boswell have characterised these writings as expressions of a homosexual inclination. Others, such as Glenn Olsen and Richard Southern describe them as representing a "wholly spiritual" affection, "nourished by an incorporeal ideal".

An ontological argument is a philosophical argument for the existence of God that uses ontology. Many arguments fall under the category of the ontological, and they tend to involve arguments about the state of being or existing. More specifically, ontological arguments tend to start with an a priori theory about the organization of the universe. If that organizational structure is true, the argument will provide reasons why God must exist.

It is widely accepted that the first ontological argument was proposed by Anselm of Canterbury in his 1078 work Proslogion.

In Chapter 2 of the Proslogion, Anselm defined God as a "...being than which no greater can be conceived."^[4] He suggested that even "the fool" can understand this concept, and this understanding itself means that the being must exist in the mind. The concept must exist either only in our mind, or in both our mind and in reality. If such a being exists only in our mind, then a greater being—that which exists in the mind and in reality—can be conceived. Therefore, if we can conceive of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived, it must exist in reality. Thus, a being than which nothing greater could be conceived, which Anselm defined as God, must exist in reality.

Anselm's argument in Chapter 2 can be summarized as follows:

1.It is a conceptual truth (or, so to speak, true by definition) that God is a being than which none greater can be imagined (that is, the greatest possible being that can be imagined).

2.God exists as an idea in the mind.

3.A being that exists as an idea in the mind and in reality is, other things being equal, greater than a being that exists only as an idea in the mind.

4.Thus, if God exists only as an idea in the mind, then we can imagine something that is greater than God (that is, a greatest possible being that does exist).

5.But we cannot imagine something that is greater than God (for it is a contradiction to suppose that we can imagine a being greater than the greatest possible being that can be imagined.)

6.Therefore, God exists.

In Chapter 3, Anselm presented a further argument in the same vein:

1.By definition, God is a being than which none greater can be imagined.

2.A being that necessarily exists in reality is greater than a being that does not necessarily exist.

3.Thus, by definition, if God exists as an idea in the mind but does not necessarily exist in reality, then we can imagine something that is greater than God.

4.But we cannot imagine something that is greater than God.

5.Thus, if God exists in the mind as an idea, then God necessarily exists in reality.

6.God exists in the mind as an idea.

7.Therefore, God necessarily exists in reality.^[20]

This contains the notion of a being that cannot be conceived not to exist. He argued that if something can be conceived not to exist, then something greater can be conceived.

 A more recent ontological argument came from Kurt Gödel, who proposed a formal argument for God's existence.

Gödel's ontological proof is a formal argument for God's existence by the mathematician Kurt Gödel (1906–1978).

It is in a line of development that goes back to Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109). St. Anselm's ontological argument, in its most succinct form, is as follows: "God, by definition, is that for which no greater can be conceived. God exists in the understanding. If God exists in the understanding, we could imagine Him to be greater by existing in reality. Therefore, God must exist." A more elaborate version was given by Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716); this is the version that Gödel studied and attempted to clarify with his ontological argument.

Gödel left a fourteen-point outline of his philosophical beliefs in his papers. Points relevant to the ontological proof include

4. There are other worlds and rational beings of a different and higher kind.

5. The world in which we live is not the only one in which we shall live or have lived.

13. There is a scientific (exact) philosophy and theology, which deals with concepts of the highest abstractness; and this is also most highly fruitful for science.

14. Religions are, for the most part, bad—but religion is not.

The first version of the ontological proof in Gödel's papers is dated "around 1941". Gödel is not known to have told anyone about his work on the proof until 1970, when he thought he was dying. In February, he allowed Dana Scott to copy out a version of the proof, which circulated privately. In August 1970, Gödel told Oskar Morgenstern that he was "satisfied" with the proof, but Morgenstern recorded in his diary entry for 29 August 1970, that Gödel would not publish because he was afraid that others might think "that he actually believes in God, whereas he is only engaged in a logical investigation (that is, in showing that such a proof with classical assumptions (completeness, etc.) correspondingly axiomatized, is possible)."^[1] Gödel died January 14, 1978. Another version, slightly different from Scott's, was found in his papers. It was finally published, together with Scott's version, in 1987.

In an unmailed answer to a questionnaire, Gödel described his religion as "baptized Lutheran (but not member of any religious congregation). My belief is theistic, not pantheistic, following Leibniz rather than Spinoza."^[7]

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I already agree, 

if there is to be a God, by definition there can only be one.  Anything remotely in competition, 

then God fails to fit this definition; even existing altogether.  

Just call it negative theology which is nothing more than saying the same thing a different way.  

It's a useless word that has done nothing but lead to confusion and the creations of even more useless words by  'thou artful dodger" academics the likes of former neighbor...

 The Inflatable!Dr. Bob, Sr. Doctor of Theology.

~(Simply Jim:  One Pearl, Total Pig, Anti-Christ)~

BTW 

 January 14th is my birthday.

Who you gonna call?  

Ghost Busters!