Sunday, May 31, 2015

EMORY POLICE ACTIVE FILE: WHAT ARE THEY SO BUSY PRAYING FOR..?

EMORY | Police Department
Records Manager / Uniformed Services division

March 12, 2105

Dr. James Avery, D.V.M.
1840 Mason Mill Road
Decatur, GA 30033

Dear Dr. Avery:

I received your public records request for four Emory Police reports. The relevant statute, O.C.G.A. 20-8-7, which governs "public disclosure of campus police records," provides that:

"Law enforcement records created, received, or maintained by campus policemen [sic] that relate to the investigation of criminal conduct and crimes as defined under Georgia law and which are not subject to protection from disclosure by any other Georgia law shall be made available within a reasonable time after request for public inspection and copying."

One of the reports you requested, regarding case number 1102044, documents an investigation into a crime as defined under Georgia law. A copy of that report is enclosed.

Since the other three reports you requested do not document allegations of criminal conduct, they are not subject to release under the statute.

Please let me know by return mail if you have any questions regarding our handling of your request.

Regards,

Edward M. Shoemaker
Records Manager
Emory Police Department

Enc.

Emory Police Department
1784 North Decatur Road, Suite G-01
Atlanta, Georgia 30322

-10-1.727.6115
40-1.727.8039 L\X

***

EMORY Emory
Police Department \8J CRIME REPORT
1784 N. Decatur Rd., Suite G-01, Atlanta, GA, 30322
PHONE: 404-727-6115 FAX: 404-727-8039
LOCATION OF OCCURRENCE / ADDRESS DATE / TIME REPORTED ICASE NO.
Administration Bldg / 201 DOWMAN DR, Atlanta, GA 05/17/201112:14 1102044
CODE SECTION CRIME CLASSIFICATION LOSS RECOVERY
16-5-90 (A) Stalking (Misdemeanor) STALKING 0 0
FROM: DATErTlME TO: DATErTlME I APPROVED I CASE STATUS
05/16/2011 16: 10 YES Active
ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES ITEMS IN REPORT
DALCOHOL RELATED D DRUGS INVOLVED D SENIOR CITIZEN DARREST OCCURED D SUPPLEMENT D PICTURE/IMAGES
DTRAFFIC RELATED D GROUP/GANG INVOLVED DWEAPONS INVOLVED D DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DFOLLOWUP oPROPERTY/EVIDENCE
COPIES TO
D CAMPUS LIFE D FAC MGT D HOUSING D TRESPASS FILE D OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNo
D BLDG MGR o PARKING OFFICE D RISKMGMT
INV I ,NAME: SUFFIX
I~CE
IETHNICITY SEX
I~GE I~OB
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IWT IHAIR IEYE

S AVERY, JAMES EDWARD M 49 01/14/1962
SSN DRIVER'S L1C NO, STUDENT ID TYPE
042290976 GA Other

ADDRESS TYPE STREET NUMBER STREET NAME SUITE NUMBER CITY STATE ZIP
Home 1840 Mason Mill Rd Decatur GA 30033

NARRATIVE

On 5/17/2011 at 1335 hours, I met with Stephen Sencer, Senior Vice President and General Counsel,
in reference to a stalking report. Sencer said that on 5/16/11 at 1610 hours he was asked by Audrey
Turner, Business Manager for the President's Office, to speak to a male subject who wanted to see
President Jim Wagner. Sencer said that the male subject, later identified as James Avery, told him that
he wanted to see President Wagner. Sencer said he asked Avery, "What do you want from Jim
Wagner?" Sencer said the subject started rambling that the president had not responded to the earlier
package he left. See case number 1102003

Sencer said at that time he advised Avery that he was not going to be able to see President Wagner.

Sencer said Avery gave him an envelope to give to President Wagner. He escorted Avery down the stairs and out of the building. Sencer said that he did not feel threatened by Avery, but did say Avery appeared to be confused.

Detective Meeks retrieved the paperwork that Avery left with Stephen Sencer for investigation.

REPORTING OFFICER I REVIEWED BY I~PPROVAL DATE
JOHNSON, DARRELL ALLEN, RICK, SGT 05/17/201116:14
SIGNATURES I PRINT DATE AND TIME I ~RINTED BY I PAGE NO.
03/12/2015 14:05 SHOEMAKER, E M 1of1

***

Stephen D. Sencer

Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Senior Advisor to the President

As Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Steve Sencer is the chief legal officer for Emory University, including Emory Healthcare, as well as affiliated entities such as The Carter Center and DRIVE. Sencer is also Senior Advisor to the University President, advising the president on strategic priorities and initiatives. Sencer has taught courses at Emory’s School of Law and the Laney Graduate School, is a senior fellow at Emory’s Global Health Institute, serves on the Global Health Chronicles Advisory Board, and co-founded the Emory-South Africa Drug Discovery Training Program and GAP BioSciences, a life sciences business education program taught in South Africa.

Sencer specializes in legal issues relating to higher education, scientific research, technology transfer, global health, risk management and corporate governance. He serves on the Board of Clifton Casualty Insurance Company and served a three-year term on the Board of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. He serves on the AAU General Counsel Committee and the United Educators Legal Advisory Board.

Sencer has a BA (Honors) from Wesleyan University and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as Managing Editor of the Michigan Law Review. He practiced law with Williams & Connolly in Washington, DC, and King & Spalding in Atlanta, GA, and served as a trial lawyer in the DeKalb County (GA) District Attorney’s office. He clerked for Judge Amalya Lyle Kearse on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, sitting in New York City.

I suppose this is the guy who walked me down the stairs and out the side entrance. Remember him being sort of a little guy..?

***

NARRATIVE

On 10/7/14 at approximately 1515 hours, I spoke with the complainant, Glenn Church Communications

Director Sara Ladew, by phone in reference to suspicious activity. Ms. Ladew informed me that subject

James Avery has been showing up at the Glenn Church requesting a meeting with the staff pastors.

Ms. Ladew stated that Mr. Avery showed up at Glenn Church on 9/24/14 and spoke with Business

Administrator Betty jo Copelan to request a meeting with the staff pastors. Ms. Ladew said that Mr.

Avery showed up a second time on 10/6/14 at approximately 1530 hours and spoke with her requesting

to meet with staff pastors. Ms. Ladew informed me that Mr. Avery was not confrontational during either

incident. Ms. Ladew told me that during both incidents, Mr. Avery showed them emails that he has

sent to Reverend Josh Amerson and Dr. Alice Rogers requesting a meeting with them.

Ms. Ladew said that Mr. Avery has been requesting meetings with Dr. Rogers and Reverend Amerson

because he wants to discuss "religion" with them. Ms. Ladew stated that Mr. Avery told her that he is

an atheist and that he has questions for Dr. Rogers and Reverend Amerson. Ms. Ladew informed me

that Mr. Avery also told her that he was a previous meth addict and that he wanted to talk to the pastors

about meth usage.

Ms. Ladewadvised me that she was reporting these incidents to EPD because she was aware that Mr.

Avery was involved in previous incidents that were connected to President Wagner. I advised Ms.

Ladew to contact EPD if she or any staff members observe Mr. Avery at the Glenn Church on a later

date.

I provided Ms. Ladew with the case number for this report.

Although mail poststamped March 13, 205, I'm just now opening it. Only one out of four reports I'm understanding to have been included in this active file I'm having with the Emory police was released to me by the Custodian of Emory Police Records Mr. Shoemaker.

I wonder if Mr. Shoemaker even aware that a Detective Meeks had already given me what he said was the most recent incidence report which had been called into the Emory Police by Sara Ladew, Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church Communications Director.

The more they hide, the more I'm learning about our secular Methodist institution of Emory University.

And what I'm learning about our Methodist...
it's not pretty.

ADDITIONAL READING:

Re: Overdose Awareness and Prevention Night

Saturday, May 30, 2015 6:16 PM

From:
James Avery <jeaverydvm87@att.net>
Subject:
Re: Overdose Awareness and Prevention Night

To:
Josh Amerson <JoshA@glennumc.org>

Cc:
Alice Rogers <alicer@glennumc.org>, Angel Ashe <fastframe299@gmail.com>, Bill Britt <billb@prumc.org>, BJ Copelan <bettyjoc@glennumc.org>, Britt Skarda <bskarda@phumc.com>, Captain Cheryl Elliott <celliot@emory.edu>, " Ph.D LMFT LPCCarol Pitts" <cpitts@cccgeorgia.org>, Charlotte Shirley <office@central-ucc.org>, Christian Boone <cboone@ajc.com>, Clairmont Baptist Church <fred@clairmonthills.org>, Deborah Schneider <Dkschneider@dekalbcountyga.gov>, Dyana Bagby <dbagby@thegavoice.com>, Eileen Parker <eileenparker2003@yahoo.com>, ArkansasFirst United Methodist Church of Prescott <Prescottfumc@centurylink.net>, Fred Pitts <Fred@clairmonthills.org>, GAVOICE <editor@thegavoice.com>, GODHATESFAGS <ChosenOfTheLordAndPrecious@wbcstuff.com>, " Jr.J. Silver" <jsilver@dekalbcountyga.gov>, " Jr.J. Adams" <jladams@dekalbcountyga.gov>, John Bugge <engjmb@emory.edu>, John Harper <john.c.harper@emory.edu>, Julie Meeks <JAArms@alo.com>, K Inglesby <singlesby@hotmail.com>, katrin lavell <kattisan@comcast.net>, Kim Stewart <kimsteam@hotmail.com>, kristy baranik <katnippr@hotmail.com>, Laura Smallwood <lsmallwood@sfvs.com>, Lauren Brown <lcbrown@dekalbcountyga.gov>, LSU Association <info@lsualumni.org>, Lydia O'Neal <lmoneal@emory.edu>, Marie Lance <bustinash@hotmail.com>, Mark Dorfman <mark.dorfman@bluepearlvet.com>, Mary Paris <Maryp@glennumc.org>, Mary Hinkel <hinkelfamily21380@earthlink.net>, Medlock Bridge Animal Hospital <mbah.vet@gmail.com>, Michael Meeks <mdmeeks@emory.edu>, Mike Ross <mike@mikeross.com>, Officer Lorena <blorena@dekalbcountyga.gov>, Patrick Noonan <Patrick.Noonan@emory.edu>, Priyanka Krishnamurthy <pkrish4@emory.edu>, "Rev. Beveryly Elliot" <bev@stbartsatlanta.org>, "Rev. Blair Setnor" <blairs@glennumc.org>, "Rev. Dr. Beth LaRocca-Pitts" <bethlp@stmarkumc.org>, "Rev. Jill Evans" <office@emorypresbyterian.org>, "Rev. John Turlington" <jturlington@stmarkumc.org>, "Rev. Joseph McBrayer" <jmcbray@gmail.com>, "Rev. Joshua M. Noblitt" <jnoblitt@stmarkumc.org>, "Rev. Kim Sorrells" <ksorrells@stmarkumc.org>, "Rev. Owen Stepp" <owen@clairmontpres.org>, "Rev. Susan Pinson" <spinson@glennumc.org>, Sara LaDew <saral@glennumc.org>, Sarah Oh <abbottanimal@bellsouth.net>, Sharon Hiers <sharon@stbartsatlanta.org>, Thomas Manns <tmanns@emory.edu>, trace carman <tracecarman@hotmail.com>, William Mac Thigpen III <mac@stbartsatlanta.org>

Good question!

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On Sat, 5/30/15, Josh Amerson <JoshA@glennumc.org> wrote:

Subject: Re: Overdose Awareness and Prevention Night
To: "James Avery" <jeaverydvm87@att.net>
Date: Saturday, May 30, 2015, 8:46 AM

?

-josh
(with apologies for
iPhone typos)
--------------------------------------------

> On May 30, 2015, at 12:59 AM, James Avery <jeaverydvm87@att.net>
wrote:
>
>
> Overdose Awareness and Prevention Night
> May 31, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Ward Hall
>
> All youth and parents are invited to this program.
>
> Drug overdoses

have overtaken automobile accidents as the leading cause of accidental death in the United States.
>
> Georgia Overdose Prevention,
a group of parents, health care professionals and friends who have been personally affected by drug addiction and overdose will discuss their experiences with the loss of their loved one, the new GA Medical Amnesty Law, recovery and hope.
>
> Dinner is provided.
>
>
> Dear Rev. Josh,
>
> Since our one hour meeting January 5th at Ink and Elm, been mostly keeping myself busy with church
services held at St. Mark "United" Methodist Church and participating in some their bible study classes. Well... not exactly... busy; distracted more like it. You remember Beth don't you?
>
> I don't understand? Why didn't you just ask Rev. Dr. G. Robert Gary, Sr. ThD and his wife about me? Those two, once living directly across the street from me, not only knew me far better than the Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. Beth LaRocca-Pitts of St. Mark "United" Methodist Church at the time, Bob and Janet Gary are members of Glenn Memorial "United" Methodist Church. Not her church. Your church!
>
> Even I didn't know much about the Senior Pastor at St. Mark "United" Methodist Church except for what I've read off the Internets. How could she possibly have been an authority about my needs when having declined, and still continuing to do so, a meeting with me.
>
> Even the Presbyterian Elder President of Emory, during our time in need of a courageous university, a member of neither one. Or ever, a member of the First "United" Methodist Church of Prescott, Arkansas I grew up with the first eighteen years of my life. And still I'm continuting to be affected by that church as my mother still a member.
>
> Now back to Bob Gary where it all gets very interesting. Oh the irony here!
>
> Plus G. Robert Gary, Sr.ThD is a differernt kind of Reverne Doctor than both The Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. Alice Rogers of Glenn Memorial "United" Methodist Church located on the campus of a secular Methodist institution and The Rev. Dr. Beth LaRocca-Pitts of downtown Atlanta's St. Mark "United" Methodist Church which takes me almost an hour getting to The Rev. Dr. Beth's Wednesday afternoon Bible Study 101 Class. Bob thinks he's a real doctor! And one still listed, on their website, as still working just down the street from both of us at (Pastoral) Care and Counseling Center of Georgia; where they are supposed to be offerring couseling for drug addictions and anger managements.
>
> HO ~(6!9)~SEA
>
> New International Version
> As marauders lie in ambush for a victim, so do bands of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem,
carrying out their wicked schemes.
>
> King James Bible
> And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
>
> All of this, the way you tag team off each other, a form manipulation and deception of a bible scripture having become nothing more than a dope on a rope played on a loop:
>
> For God so loved the world
> (past tense)
> that he gave his one and only Son
> (past tense),
> that whoever believes in him (within context still past tense) shall not perish but have eternal life.
>

> JOHN 3:16
CHRISTIANITY IN A NUTSHELL
A CASHCOW!
>
>
> So far, I've attended, sat through, observed several of the Sunday morning Faith Seekers Bible Study Class and several of their Senior Pastor, The Rev. Dr. Beth LaRocca-Pitts, Wednesday afternoon Bible Study 101 classes; in addition to attending the Sunday Workship services.
>
> After members of St. Mark had been served their Wednesday evening dinner, I've also attended two of Rev. Dr. Beth's archeological presentations afterwards; another one where Rev. Dr. Beth tries answering any questions we had about the bible.
>
>
> "I would like your help in getting copies of a file I'm having with the Emory Police."
>~(Simply Jim: Methodist Fag the Political Catalyst)~
>
> "Abolutely not! Uh-huh! No way!"
> ~(Rev. Joshua Noblitts: Minister of Social Justice )~
>
> "I'm willing to pay you for your service through this outside business of yours."
> ~(Simply Jim: Methodist Fag the Political Catalyst)~
>
> "...(silience)..."
> ~(Rev. Joshua Noblitts: Minister of
Social Justice)~
>
>"It's even listed in your profile on St. Mark's website that you serve as a member of the volunteer Chaplain
Corps for the Atlanta Police Department..?"
> ~(Simply Jim: Methodist Fag the Political Catalyst)~
>
>"...(silience)..."
> ~(Rev. Joshua Noblitts: Minister of Social Justice)~
>
> "Do you realize that every second that a church space is sitting empty it's nothing but a symbol of gold hoarding..?"
> ~(Simply Jim: Methodist Fag the Political Catalyst)~
>
>"...(silience)..."
> ~(Rev. Joshua Noblitts: Minister of Social Justice)~
>
> "What does God's silence in the penultimancy mean and do for you would do the same for me should I choose to allow letting one doing so?
> ~(Simply Jim: Methodist Fag the Political Catalyst)~
>
>"...(silience)..."
> ~(Rev. Joshua Noblitts: Minister of Social Justice)~
>
> How does one sell a drug to an audience that has already bought it; you might as well just call yourself a drug dealer."
> ~(Simply Jim: Methodist Fag the Political Catalyst)~
>
>"...(silience)..."
> ~(Rev. Joshua Noblitts: Minister of Social Justice)~
>
> "Beth is nothing but a Catholic Fag Hag."
>~(Simply Jim: Methodist Fag the Political Catalyst)~
>
> "SHE'S METHODIST NOW!!!"
> ~(Rev. Joshua Noblitts: Minister of Social Justice)~
>
>"...(silence)..."
> ~(Simply Jim: Methodist Fag the Political Catalyst)~
>
> "I must be going now."
> ~(Rev. Joshua Noblitts: Minister of Social Justice)~
>
> "Did you hear about the teacher in California who hung herself just for her students to find first thing this morning in their classroom?"
> ~(Simply Jim: Methodist Fag the Political Catalyst)~
>
> "Noooooooooohoohoohoo!"
> ~(Rev. Joshua Noblitts: Minister of Social Justice)~
>
>"I'll send you the link."
>~(Simply Jim: Methodist Fag the Political Catalyst)~
>
>
> Even join them for four of their Wednesday evening catered dinners. Poor Rev. Joshua Noblitt. After
choking on his hamburger that first evening I sat down with them for dinner, him and me alone at our table, only saw him again one other time when excluding his particpation with Sunday Worship services.
>
> Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy! You should have seen that smile on his face as he quickly breezed in and out the second time I ate with them. Talk about forced! Maybe even set a record!? Quiness Book of World
Records perhaps!?!
>
> "I've since gotten a letter from the Emory Police two months ago. Haven't opened it yet. Believe it's time I open it and I would like for you to be there when I do."
> ~(Simply Jim: Methodist Fag the Political Catalyst)~
>
> "I'm having no part of it."
> ~(Rev. Joshua Noblitts: Minister of Social Justice)~
>
> "But you are already part of it. You're Methodist, remember?"

> ~(Simply Jim: Methodist Fag the Political Catalyst)~
>
>
> Well Beth has given her last class, until they start back up again in the Fall, this past Wednesday; that very small group of us wrapping up with readings from Book of Hebrews. Don't understand why this class is so small with the numbers of member this 'Miracle on Peachtree' now has? She's extremely smart, and for the most part, pretty frank with her answers to our questions even mine. Not only have I've learned a lot from our Rev. Dr. Beth about our bible, also learning a lot about them; by extension all of us.
>
> But she's pretty hard to pin down afterward, or anytime in between these church services, for the more serious conversations/discussions needing to have with her. All of you are like this.
>
> So, I'm being made to behave like a "lionfish"; sucking out little bits of informations out of all of you here and there where I'm able. Later, graudally piecing them together when nothing better to do all alone inside my home with a cat named Tater Tot; the 'Lady of the House'.
>
> And St. Mark's First Gentleman The Rev. Dr. Mark LaRocca-Pitts has given four lectures, so
far, out of a five lecture series to St. Mark's Faith Seekers about what the bible has to say about healing.
I'm observing both to be wonderfully nice people as well as an extremely intelligent couple; when they want to be.
>
> Glad for the gay community [at(?)large] having them as allies.
>
> Finding both apparently to be quite adaptable/flexible with their personal beliefs. A bit too malleable for spiritual leaders I'm understanding should be fearing God and nothing else.
>
Having learned a lot from Beth during our study of the Book of Ruth, Book of Jonah (my favorite), and Ecclesiastes (her?favorite):
>
"I don't understand why we can't just get rid of 'Son of Man' and all become, instead,

SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF A FISH NAMED WANDA?

At least this gets our Darwin Fish back into the picture."
>
> This I volunteered to some laughter as we were wrapping up with the Book of Hebrews. And as usual,
they don't laught long; if at all.
>
> "I really do believe... every day someone is dying for our sins so that we may live. But the way it's worded, technically then, you only need one. You do realize this don't you? I don't like the way it's becoming nothing more than a blank signed check; the gift that keeps on giving."
>
> Rev. Dr. Beth wasn't even able answering my question about the difference between someone a good Christian, someone a bad Christian, and someone not a Christian? Because I had forgotten to bring the hula hoops with me, told her to pretend there were three of them on the floor before her. Then I asked her which rings she would place us in..?
>
> Didn't even try.
>
> Which, by the way, is not the same as saying she didn't have an answer to this question..?
>
> And yes, I went back to Target just to buy two more hula hoops to replace the two Glenn Memorial
wouldn't return back to me after the three of you (you, Alice, and Beth) concurring together and FAKING out of a meeting with me end of last year and still continuing to be a bunch of RELIGIFAKES.
>
> "Not my place to say who is a Christian and who is not a Christian."
> ~(Brother Fish)~
>
> She could have just given the very same answer given to my mother by the current pastor of the very
same First United Methodist Church of Prescott, Arkansas growing up with first eighteen years of my life.
>
> Remember the question I had asked of you at Ink an Elm, "Why believe in God?" I've asked this same question of Rev. Dr. Mark; at the end of his first lecture series about Biblical Healing. He said he needed some time to think about his answer to this question. Wonder what's taking him so long..? This Sunday will have been three weeks. Although I did not bring up the question again anytime during his following two lectures, intuition is telling me Mark hasn't forgotten.
>
> So...this past Wednesday I asked his wife, Rev. Dr. Beth, to remind him I'm still waiting for an answer. She said she would be sure and tell him.
>
> Well, he didn't volunteer an answer this morning either. Then again, in a way, he did.
>
> "Faith in what?"
> I asked when he ties Jesus healing to those having shown faith first.
>
> "In God! Jesus!"
> Rev. Dr. Mark was definitely irritated by this question.
>
> "But that's confirmation bias. It would not have worked for Jesus healing someone who didn't display faith first? He was being selective. Working the same, as you just mentioned earlier, about it being wrong claiming misfortune by those Pro-Gay as being God's punishment.
>~(Simply Jim)~
>
>"THAT...Jesus...WAS AGAINST!"
>said Rev. Dr. Mark as he pierced the air with his index finger; or maybe it was...ME...he was pointing at?
>
> And I even brought KRISPYCREME donuts again!
>
> "Sometimes one has to die before they can heal. That dying...CAN... also be a form of healing,"
> he even claimed earlier during his lecture.
>
> "Yeah right!" I'm thinking. "When God tells you to kill; YOU KILL!"

>
> Even attended couple of Sunday services at Clairmont Presbyterian Church just right around the corner from where I live. That sign out front, Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying, just could not pass up hearing what our Rev. Owen having to say.
>
> And he wraps up his sermon quoting this line from the movie Shawshank Redemption; but not until after volunteering, first, Morgan Freeman being a favorite of his!
>
> MINE TOO!
>
> "SIR, WE WISH TO SEE JESUS."
>
> What makes this even funnier; how he starts off his sermon telling us it's not your job as pastors giving advice; at least he's not here to give advice... twelves steps to a more successful...whatever. That it's your jobs as pastors "just pointing" us in the "direction" of Jesus!
>
> "THAT HIM RIGHT THERE! THAT ONE! THAT ONE DOING ALL THE TALKING!

SURROUNDED BY THAT CROWD! THAT CROWD JUST LISTENING TO HIM DOING ALL THE TALKING!!!"
>
> Should someone maybe be "pointing" out to our Rev. Owen Stepps..."THAT ONE!"...Morgan Freeman... AN ATHEIST?!
>
> They don'tparticularly care for my presence either.
>
> Even Janet Gary, replying back to an email I sent her with a link to my first blog when only four articles posted at the time:
>
> PALE BLUE DOT:

>
> Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our
species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

> The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a
fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

> Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

>The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

> It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
> --Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
>
>
> "CARL SAGAN IS A WISE MAN."
> ~(Janet Claire Segers Gary)~
>
>It's all becoming just too funny really. And I'm actually starting to enjoy this.
>
> As far as my crystal meths addiction goes, all you need to know:
>
> An hour here, an hour there, an hour anywhere...
> is a hour we know for a fact, I'm not alone at "HOME" inside with "TINA".
>
> +
>
> It's not the
> Vf = Vi + at
> that kills you, it's the
> F = mass x change in Velocity/change in Time
>
> Within the gay community, of course, crystal meths would be given a female name; not meant to be a compliment.
>
> And our Glenn Memorial "United" Methodist Church, who's purpose is Loving God/Loving Neighbor,
has been oh so very kind these past five years in helping me with the addiction.
>
> The purpose of this email, I'm deffinitely wanting to attend this event Sunday evening May 31st at Glenn Memorial.
>
> A CHILD IS NOTHING MORE THAN A BLANK PAGE UPON WHICH EVERYONE LEAVES THEIR MARK.
>
>~(CHINESE PROVERB)~
>
> Please do not hold it against me that I am no longer youth or a parent..?
>
> Do I need to make dinner reservations?
>
> Or are we going to continue praying for an ?ACCIDENTAL? overdose..?
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> James E. Avery, DVM
>
>
> P.S. There is an expanded version of this email uploaded to my blog
www.minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com

CHRISTIANITY IN A NUTSHELL: A CASH COW!

TANYA SMITH: MEDICAL AMNESTY LAW

Mark LaRocca-Pitts: WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT HEALING..?

LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE..?

"I dress the wound, god heals it."

~(Sigmund Freud)~

Austrian neurologist, Father of Psychoanalysis (1856 - 1939)

Freud regarded the monotheistic God as an illusion based upon the infantile emotional need for a powerful, supernatural pater familias. He maintained that religion – once necessary to restrain man's violent nature in the early stages of civilization – in modern times, can be set aside in favor of reason and science. "Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices" (1907) notes the likeness between faith (religious belief) and neurotic obsession. Totem and Taboo (1913) proposes that society and religion begin with the patricide and eating of the powerful paternal figure, who then becomes a revered collective memory. These arguments were further developed in The Future of an Illusion (1927) in which Freud argued that religious belief serves the function of psychological consolation. Freud argues the belief of a supernatural protector serves as a buffer from man's "fear of nature" just as the belief in an afterlife serves as a buffer from man's fear of death. The core idea of the work is that all of religious belief can be explained through its function to society, not for its relation to the truth. This is why, according to Freud, religious beliefs are "illusions". In Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), he quotes his friend Romain Rolland, who described religion as an "oceanic sensation", but says he never experienced this feeling. Moses and Monotheism (1937) proposes that Moses was the tribal pater familias, killed by the Jews, who psychologically coped with the patricide with a reaction formation conducive to their establishing monotheist Judaism; analogously, he described the Roman Catholic rite of Holy Communion as cultural evidence of the killing and devouring of the sacred father.

Moreover, he perceived religion, with its suppression of violence, as mediator of the societal and personal, the public and the private, conflicts between Eros and Thanatos, the forces of life and death. Later works indicate Freud's pessimism about the future of civilization, which he noted in the 1931 edition of Civilization and its Discontents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

~(Voltaire)~

French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

Like other key Enlightenment thinkers, Voltaire was a deist, expressing the idea: "What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason." Voltaire held mixed views of the Abrahamic religions but had a favourable view of Hinduism.

In a 1763 essay, Voltaire supported the toleration of other religions and ethnicities: "It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?"

Christianity

In a letter to Frederick II, King of Prussia, dated 5 January 1767, he wrote about Christianity:

La nôtre [religion] est sans contredit la plus ridicule, la plus absurde, et la plus sanguinaire qui ait jamais infecté le monde.

"[Christianity] is assuredly the most ridiculous, the most absurd and the most bloody religion which has ever infected this world. Your Majesty will do the human race an eternal service by extirpating this infamous superstition, I do not say among the rabble, who are not worthy of being enlightened and who are apt for every yoke; I say among honest people, among men who think, among those who wish to think. ... My one regret in dying is that I cannot aid you in this noble enterprise, the finest and most respectable which the human mind can point out.."

In La bible enfin expliquee, he expressed the following attitude to lay reading of the Bible:

It is characteristic of fanatics who read the holy scriptures to tell themselves: God killed, so I must kill; Abraham lied, Jacob deceived, Rachel stole: so I must steal, deceive, lie. But, wretch, you are neither Rachel, nor Jacob, nor Abraham, nor God; you are just a mad fool, and the popes who forbade the reading of the Bible were extremely wise.

Voltaire's opinion of the Christian Bible was mixed. Although influenced by Socinian works such as the Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum, Voltaire's skeptical attitude to the Bible separated him from Unitarian theologians like Fausto Sozzini or even Biblical-political writers like John Locke. His statements on religion also brought down on him the fury of the Jesuits and in particular Claude-Adrien Nonnotte. This did not hinder his religious practice, though it did win for him a bad reputation in certain religious circles. The deeply Christian Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote to his father the year of Voltaire's death, saying, "The arch-scoundrel Voltaire has finally kicked the bucket ...". Voltaire was later deemed to influence Edward Gibbon in claiming that Christianity was a contributor to the fall of the Roman Empire, in his book Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

As Christianity advances, disasters befall the [Roman] empire —arts, science, literature, decay —barbarism and all its revolting concomitants are made to seem the consequences of its decisive triumph —and the unwary reader is conducted, with matchless dexterity, to the desired conclusion —the abominable Manicheism of Candide, and, in fact, of all the productions of Voltaire's historic school —viz., "that instead of being a merciful, ameliorating, and benignant visitation, the religion of Christians would rather seem to be a scourge sent on man by the author of all evil."

However, Voltaire also acknowledged the self-sacrifice of Christians. He wrote: “Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery, the sight of which is so revolting to our delicacy. Peoples separated from the Roman religion have imitated but imperfectly so generous a charity.” Yet "His hatred of religion increased with the passage of years. The attack, launched at first against clericalism and theocracy, ended in a furious assault upon Holy Scripture, the dogmas of the Church, and even upon the person of Jesus Christ Himself, who was depicted now as a degenerate". The reasoning of which may be summed up in his well known quote,

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities".

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

CHRISTIANITY IN A NUTSHELL: A CASH COW!

Overdose Awareness and Prevention Night

May 31, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Ward Hall

All youth and parents

are

invited to this program.

Drug overdoses

have overtaken automobile accidents as the leading cause of accidental death in the United States.

Georgia Overdose Prevention,

a group of parents, health care professionals and friends

who

have been personally affected by drug addiction and overdose

will

discuss their experiences

with the loss of their loved one, the new GA Medical Amnesty Law, recovery and hope.

Dinner is provided.

Dear Rev. Josh,

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2014/10/dear-josh-nothing-happens-until.html

Since our one hour meeting January 5th at Ink and Elm,

If we were to turn Atlanta's clock back 22 years to June 23, 1991, we'd find thousands of people participating in the 20th annual Gay Pride March.

We'd also be witness to what became known as the 'Miracle of Peachtree'--where several midtown churches actively supported the marchers as they made their way along the route to Piedmont Park.

This Day in History: The 'Miracle on Peachtree'

been mostly keeping myself busy with church services held at St. Mark "United" Methodist Church and participating in some their bible study classes. Well... not exactly... busy; distracted more likely

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2014/10/pretty-boy-sunday-responds.html

. You remember Beth don't you?

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2015/05/rev-dr-beth-larocca-pitts-catholic-fag.html

I don't understand? Why didn't you just ask Rev. Dr. G. Robert Gary, Sr. ThD and his wife about me? Those two, once living directly across the street from me, not only knew me far better than the Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. Beth LaRocca-Pitts of St. Mark "United" Methodist Church at the time, Bob and Janet Gary are members of Glenn Memorial "United" Methodist Church. Not her church. Your church!

Even I didn't know much about the Senior Pastor at St. Mark "United" Methodist Church except for what I've read off the Internets. How could she possibly have been an authority about my needs when having declined, and still continuing to do so, a meeting with me.

Even the Presbyterian Elder President of Emory, during our time in need of a courageous university, a member of neither one. Or ever, a member of the First "United" Methodist Church of Prescott, Arkansas I grew up with the first eighteen years of my life. And still I'm continuing to be affected by that church as my mother still a member.

Now back to Bob Gary where it all gets very interesting. Oh the irony here!

Plus G. Robert Gary, Sr.ThD is a different kind of Reverne Doctor than both The Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. Alice Rogers of Glenn Memorial "United" Methodist Church located on the campus of a secular Methodist institution and The Rev. Dr. Beth LaRocca-Pitts of downtown Atlanta's St. Mark "United" Methodist Church which takes me almost an hour getting to The Rev. Dr. Beth's Wednesday afternoon Bible Study 101 Class. Bob thinks he's a real doctor! And one still listed, on their website, as still working just down the street from both of us at (Pastoral) Care and Counseling Center of Georgia; where they are supposed to be offering counseling for drug addictions and anger managements.

HO ~(6!9)~SEA

New International Version

As marauders lie in ambush for a victim, so do bands of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem, carrying out their wicked schemes.

King James Bible

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

All of this, the way you tag team off each other, a form manipulation and deception of a bible scripture having become nothing more than a dope on a rope played on a loop:

For God so loved the world
(past tense)
that he gave his one and only Son
(past tense),
that whoever believes in him (within context still past tense) shall not perish but have eternal life.

JOHN 3:16
CHRISTIANITY IN A NUTSHELL
A CASH COW!

So far, I've attended, sat through, observed several of the Sunday morning Faith Seekers Bible Study Class and several of their Senior Pastor, The Rev. Dr. Beth LaRocca-Pitts, Wednesday afternoon Bible Study 101 classes; in addition to attending the Sunday Worship services.

After members of St. Mark had been served their Wednesday evening dinner, I've also attended two of Rev. Dr. Beth's archaeological presentations afterwards; another one where Rev. Dr. Beth tries answering any questions we had about the bible.

"I would like your help in getting copies of a file I'm having with the Emory Police."