Hello Lauren,
There is no need to type the notes. If I can read my handwriting, I sure I can read yours. Last thing I 'm wanting to do is distract you from your studies.
Hopefully I will get to see the finished article?
Drive by my place today if you get a chance. I've made two new signs using the names of four books. But the clue to reading these two signs is the Trinity Time Warp Dance sign. Just follow the arrows.
Calling today's collections of signs...Project Ezekiel 33.
Best wishes to you as well,
Simply Jim
Hi Mr. Avery,
No trouble at all!
Unfortunately, the audio recordings I got of the interviews were not great so most of what I have is from my own handwritten notes. I can try and type some of those up (may take me a little while to get it to you as I took a lot haha). Most of the information I've used in the article has to do with some of the fact checking questions I sent you recently (still going through your responses).
And yes, I did get to speak with your sister and your mother and they were very helpful. Thanks again for passing on that contact info - I really appreciate it.
I'm so sorry to hear about your eye troubles but yes, I've heard Emory has fantastic medical facilities.
Best wishes,
L.A.
Hey Lauren,
Don't mean to trouble you, but would it be possible for me to get a copy or transcript of the two interviews? It would be of some help to me to be able comparing what I've talked about to the way it was received. I really do not remember exactly what all I've said to you.
My sister texted me recently, so I told her that you might be calling with some questions.
I hope that was okay...
Sincerely yours,
Jim Ed
p.s.
Pretty much blind in my right eye. Ishemic optic neuropathy. Irreversible. Have an appointment with an Emory Optic Neurologist May 13th. Dr. Rivellese doesn't think I should wait that long; but I'm insisting we go with Emory. That's the earliest appointment I'm able getting. Everybody is making a big deal out of the fact that I don't have health insurance. I only threatened to stop paying the premiums on my insurance trying to jar my mother awake. It didn't work. So I went ahead and stopped paying the premiums.
Hello Lauren,
Fifth Question: Dekalb Regional Crisis Center and Georgia Regional Hospital
Admitted to DeKalb Regional Crisis Center twice; then referred both time from there to Georgia Regional Hospital because of "disorganized' behavior. The third time to Georgia Regional Hospital was the time my mother had me involuntarily committed and I ended up being there for five weeks; the time I was so furious (LIVID) for two weeks because of DeKalb County having taken advantage of a middle aged self-avowed practicing homosexual's complicated relationship with his eighty year old rural Arkansan mother.
And I had already told her to stay out of it; that I saw no reason why they could not have had me committed themselves if they thought I really belonged there.
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The same day that Dr. Parker approached me and told me they were going to let me go, even that they took into consideration the above neologism I had created believing it better applied to my situation then bipolar, was the same day Dr. Parker turned around and started walking away as I tried explaining why it is that "Tina" is my addiction. After being there for five weeks, that was my first chance talking with the doctor assigned to my case about the meths addiction; outside of the first two weeks I was completely unapproachable because of my personal space having been violated by my mother and sister.
Then I was told my mother was on the phone. She was not happy hearing, from me, that I was being released. And she doesn't understand why they won't tell her anything about my case.
I won't let them!
Earlier I had even received a call from my sister during that first two weeks, when I was either a raging manic or sleeping, informing me that my youngest niece Dana had just given birth to a healthy boy, Cruz Ryder Rodriquez, the Devine family and Avery family first legal alien.
"I'm glad to hear everyone healthy. I'm going back to sleep now," was all I said to my sister before hanging up the phone.
WHAT PART OF LEGAL IS IT THAT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND?!
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Sixth Question: Torch Song Trilogy?
I'm going to say Leaves of Grass is my favorite movie.
Believe this finishes up the questions for this email.
Sincerely yours,
Jim Ed
Hey Lauren,
Thought I try and finish answering the questions that came with this email.
Second question: Although my mother was a Wolfe, her mother was a Franklin.
Franklin strongly supported the right to freedom of speech:
In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech ...Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech, which is the right of every man ...
- —Silence Dogood no. 8, 1722
Like the other advocates of republicanism, Franklin emphasized that the new republic could survive only if the people were virtuous. All his life he explored the role of civic and personal virtue, as expressed in Poor Richard's aphorisms. Franklin felt that organized religion was necessary to keep men good to their fellow men, but rarely attended religious services himself.
" All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. "
-- Thomas Paine, 1794.
-- Thomas Paine, 1794.
At one point, he wrote to Thomas Paine, criticizing his manuscript, The Age of Reason:
For without the Belief of a Providence that takes Cognizance of, guards and guides and may favour particular Persons, there is no Motive to Worship a Deity, to fear its Displeasure, or to pray for its Protection ... think how great a Proportion of Mankind consists of weak and ignorant Men and Women, and of inexperienc'd and inconsiderate Youth of both Sexes, who have need of the Motives of Religion to restrain them from Vice, to support their Virtue, and retain them in the Practice of it till it becomes habitual, which is the great Point for its Security; And perhaps you are indebted to her originally that is to your Religious Education, for the Habits of Virtue upon which you now justly value yourself. If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it.
According to David Morgan, Franklin was a proponent of religion in general. He prayed to "Powerful Goodness" and referred to God as "the infinite". John Adams noted that Franklin was a mirror in which people saw their own religion: "The Catholics thought him almost a Catholic. The Church of England claimed him as one of them. The Presbyterians thought him half a Presbyterian, and the Friends believed him a wet Quaker." Whatever else Franklin was, concludes Morgan, "he was a true champion of generic religion." In a letter to Richard Price, Franklin stated that he believed that religion should support itself without help from the government, claiming, "When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support, so that its Professors are oblig'd to call for the help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one."
In 1790, just about a month before he died, Franklin wrote a letter to Ezra Stiles, president of Yale University, who had asked him his views on religion:
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and I think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble. I see no harm, however, in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequence, as it probably has, of making his doctrines more respected and better observed; especially as I do not perceive that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the unbelievers in his government of the world with any particular marks of his displeasure.
"The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites."
-- Thomas Jefferson
" I was born a heretic. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
-- Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906
(women’s suffrage leader, reformer)
-- Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906
(women’s suffrage leader, reformer)
Arnold's birth records indicate that he was born January 3, 1740 (Vital Records of Norwich (1913)).
Because of the change from Julian to Gregorian calendar and the change of the beginning of the year from March 25 to January 1,
Arnold's date of birth is recorded in the Gregorian calendar as January 14, 1741.
"Judas sold only one man, Arnold three millions",
wrote Benjamin Franklin of Benedict Arnold, an American general who defected to the British Army during the War of Independence.
Demonized as a traitor in his home country, he relocated to England after the war, but was viewed with mistrust even there.
Remember me affectionately to good Dr. Price and to the honest heretic Dr. Priestly. I do not call him honest by way of distinction; for I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude or they would not venture to own their heresy; and they cannot afford to be deficient in any of the other virtues, as that would give advantage to their many enemies; and they have not like orthodox sinners, such a number of friends to excuse or justify them. Do not, however mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that has brought upon him the character of heretic.
~(Benjamin Franklin)~
Interesting how I not only share the same birthday with Benedict Arnold; even gave up on being one of the jocks and started bagging groceries at Liberty Value Mart (right across the street from First United Methodist Church of Prescott, Arkansas )last three years of high school.
I'm also even surprised you found these pictures within my blogs to begin with. Now I'm curious just what all have you looked at within these four blogs. What impressions, if any, they have made upon you so far?
"When the people find they can vote themselves money. They will herald the end of the republic."
Benjamin Franklin
I'm going to leave this question of whether or not I'm a D.A.R. good citizen/success for you to answer..?
Far as I'm concerned, the game is not over til the day I die: Then I am free, my fate set.
Third question: Had roughly thirty signs in the yard today.
Taunting/daring them more than anyone caring stopping long enough to read even one. Just being a "mockingbird" one should say..?
Fourth question: Signs and monkeys have been stolen in the past.
At first, just some of the signs would disappear after dark. One morning, while my mother and sister visiting, I woke up finding one of the monkeys missing. After me and my sister went shopping for a replacement first thing she got her makeup on that morning, I later found "Hear No Evil" stuff in my
mail(ma?le)box..?
Another morning, found two monkeys having gone missing leaving one large noose (mi?ne) and one small noose (Tater?Tot) left hanging off the cross; "Speak No Evil" left laying on the ground at the base of the cross still wearing the noose around it's neck.
Eventually "Speak No Evil" goes missing as well. Needed replacing anyway as it was turning green and beginning to rot.
The "Methodist Fag the Political Catalyse" sign got stolen twice. The second time in broad daylight! They did me a favor anyway; misspelled first two as CATALYSE instead of CATALYST
Fifth question: DeKalb Crisis Center and Georgia Regional Hospital
(working on it)
;@
Sincerely yours,
Jim Ed
Hi Mr. Avery,
I can't make it tomorrow. I did want to ask what you mean when you say: "Then, I'm able seeing no reason why it should be wrong of me taking everyone down on the way with me when making this jump with truths for the truth."
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by that and was just wondering if you could clear it up for me/explain - a little concerning.
Thanks,
Lauren
I can't make it tomorrow. I did want to ask what you mean when you say: "Then, I'm able seeing no reason why it should be wrong of me taking everyone down on the way with me when making this jump with truths for the truth."
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by that and was just wondering if you could clear it up for me/explain - a little concerning.
Thanks,
Lauren
Hello Lauren,
There is been a new development to my story; just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE
If true,
"you shall know the truth, then you are free?"
And also true,
"if you want to know the truth, then you are going to have to jump?"
Then, I'm able seeing no reason why it should be wrong of me taking everyone down on the way with me when making this jump with truths for the truth.
Would you be interested in joining me for the 10:30 A.M. Sunday worship service at Clairmont Presbyterian Church tomorrow morning? As it is within walking distance from my house, you could meet me at my house, say like 10:00 A.M., then I can try bringing you up to date as we walk to this church.
Or you could just meet me there; telling you all about it after service over. I will be sitting way up front if I'm not late; otherwise way in the back.
Or you could just wait until you wake up; then surprise me.
I will definitely be there. Just too interesting a bread crumb Mother Nature having laid out for me finding to ignore?
I have been attending a variety of churches lately, so joining me would give you some insight into my life lately.
Sincerely yours,
Jim Ed
Hello Lauren,
Sorry that I'm just now getting back to you with the answers to these questions asked within this email. As I get so very little emails (except for spams, philshing scams, etc.), I do not check my emails as frequently as I do my cellphone. I do not even check my cellphone for text messages/missed calls as frequently as I go onto the Internets reading the latest headlines on Google News.
Fiirst question: First United Methodist Church of Prescott, Arkansas.
Sunday
Feb 20th, 2011
Dearest Jim,
I'm feeling like I have let you down again. You know I have absolutely no access to Mike Ross and I'm just an old lady who's trying hard to take care of myself and not become a burden to my children. I can hardly bear to know that you are so miserable and unhappy but there's not much that I can do about it. Actually we are beginning to become a little angry with you.
Surely you must know that your bad choices got you into this mess. No one will be able to help you until you seek help to get off this mind disturbing drug. If you do that, then we can talk about these other issues. I've told you that I can understand how you got where you are. We love you very much and want to help.
We would still like to come see you during Spring Break. That will be in March. I'm not sure about the date.
Love,
Mom
p.s We can take your cats if you need help with them.
"Mother. When comparing me and Mike "Avery" Ross to the story of Cain and Abel, which one of us two would you pick to be Cain?"
~(Simply Jim: One Pearl, Total Pig, Anti-Christ)~
"You."
~(Betty Jo "Wolfe" Avery)~
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 districtfrom 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 Governor Mike Beebe, a Democrat.[2] Ross lost to Hutchinson in the general election.
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.
Ross was thrust into the national spotlight on July 21 when he and a group of seven Blue Dog Democrats on Energy & Commerce bucked their party's leaders and brought the committee mark up process of H.R. 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, to a halt. (This piece of legislation would eventually die and never receive a vote on the House floor. H.R. 3962, Affordable Health Care for America Act, is the House health care reform bill that would eventually be considered by the House of Representatives, and Ross voted against that bill.)
Ross has consistently voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare. He was one of three Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to vote to repeal Obamacare and continued to vote to repeal the law throughout his tenure in Congress.
In 2011, he co-sponsored HR 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.The bill contained an exception for "forcible rape," which opponents criticized as potentially excluding drug-facilitated rape, date rape, and other forms of rape. The bill also allowed an exception for minors who are victims of incest.
In April 2009, Ross voted against the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Ross also joined 14 other House Democrats in voting against the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010.
Ross is against gun control and is one of the few Democratic members of Congress to consistently earn an A+ rating from the National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund.
Throughout his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, Ross was consistently ranked as one of the most independent and moderate Members of Congress by National Journal. When Ross left Congress in 2013, he was ranked as the sixth most conservative Democrat in the entire U.S. House of Representatives.
on April 17, 2013, Ross formally announced his campaign for governor in his hometown of Prescott.
On April 29, 2013, Ross tweeted that he had raised more than half a million dollars in the first ten days of the campaign.
During his campaign for Governor, Ross announced his plan to create a "senior bill of rights," which would result in services for seniors centered on seven policy areas, including healthcare, food security and more simple access to information about government programs.
"That's what I thought you would say, Do you even realize, it was...MY...distant cousin throwing...YOUR...gay son under the yellow school bus in order to satisfy...HIS...political ambitions?"
~(Simply Jim: Abel Lives?)~
"(silence)"
~(Hell Betty Jo: Big Bad Wolfe and Her Three Little Pigs)~
Saturday
May 21, 2011
Dearest Jim,
I sure do wish you would call me! I dusted your room Thursday and felt so sad. You know its pretty much like it's always been and holds a lot of memories. Life can be so sad! Donna told me that you said you weren't going to call me.
Donna and Stephenie are trying to arrange their schedules so Donna can bring me to see you on the thirteenth of June. You know Donna babysits Landon. If your house is not repaired we could stay at a motel. Maybe it would be better if we waited until July. We would like to be able to stay with you.
Jim, we never realized that you were so unhappy. We thought that you had your own life and were satisfied with it. Donna and I came away from there feeling hopeful that things were going to be better. We had such a nice time. We enjoyed you and you seemed to enjoy us. I knew there were still problems, but I had been so miserable that I just had to feel better for a while.
We do love and want to help you but we see that business of wanting to speak before the church as crazy. What's going to happen? I can only imagine the worst. Would you seek professional help if I paid for it? there will be no peace for me as long as I know you are so miserable. Surely you know there are a lot of miserable people in this world.
Donna called this morning. She's feeling pretty bad - dizzy and nauseated. I took my car in last Saturday and had it readied for a trip to Atlanta. This new car is eight years old.
You're on my mind all the time. I love you. Let us hear from you.
Mom
p.s. You're not responsible for all of my sad feelings. Donna, David, Stephanie, Dana, and others have helped.
Second question: Although my mother was a Wolfe, her mother was a Franklin.
(Working on it)
;@)
Hi Mr. Avery,
Just pulling together some final touches on the article and wanted to write to you to verify a couple of things. Some of the questions may sound a little strange, but they are just trying to get at some of the details of your personality to really give a clear picture of you.
First, can you spell the name of your hometown for me again?
Also, I noticed on your blog that you have photos from your 1980 Prescott High Yearbook, and it says that you were voted most likely to succeed and a D.A.R Good Citizen. Is that right?
How many signs would you say you keep in your yard on a daily basis?
I notice sometimes you take the signs down in the evenings. Can you explain why you do this?
Have you been admitted in Dekalb County Crisis Center more than once, or was it just the one occasion, for five weeks, when you were involuntarily committed?
I know you mention Torch Song Trilogy as a film you set up for your mother and sister. Would you consider this one of your favorite films?
Thanks so much!
Lauren
Hi Mr. Avery,
I know this is short notice but just had a quick question for you. For the interview today, any chance you'd want to meet somewhere (maybe Einstein's Bagels) for coffee. Might be easier to sit down that way and coffee/bagel my treat for all your help. If it's too much of a hassle for you I can certainly just come out again, just thought it might be a little easier to sit down especially since I'm a little more constrained for time today.
Thanks so much and just let me know! (If I don't hear from you I'll just come by your house as planned).
Lauren
I know this is short notice but just had a quick question for you. For the interview today, any chance you'd want to meet somewhere (maybe Einstein's Bagels) for coffee. Might be easier to sit down that way and coffee/bagel my treat for all your help. If it's too much of a hassle for you I can certainly just come out again, just thought it might be a little easier to sit down especially since I'm a little more constrained for time today.
Thanks so much and just let me know! (If I don't hear from you I'll just come by your house as planned).
Lauren
Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow afternoon at 1:00 pm.
You asked if I have another court hearing pending? Not yet! LOL
Could you do around 1:00 tomorrow?
In looking at my schedule, I don't think I'll be able to stay long enough to get a chance to look at the documents (again, thank you though) and ask the few follow up q's I have. Maybe we can schedule another time for that though!
Thanks again,
L.A.
In looking at my schedule, I don't think I'll be able to stay long enough to get a chance to look at the documents (again, thank you though) and ask the few follow up q's I have. Maybe we can schedule another time for that though!
Thanks again,
L.A.
I have no plans for tomorrow except for this interview. I'm usually up late, so waiting until this evening getting back to me with a time for this meeting not a problem.
Hopefully tomorrow will be another pretty day also.
Sincerely yours,
Jim Ed
Hi Mr. Avery,
Sorry - just saw your note on google. I would love to do an interview tomorrow. Can I get back to you this evening with a time? As far as meeting in your house, I really appreciate the offer. I'm not sure if I'll have enough time to do that tomorrow re: looking at the emails/documents (though maybe we can schedule another time for that if not) but let me try and see if I can move some things around on my end and see.
I will let you know this afternoon or evening if that's okay!
Thanks,
L.A.
Hi Mr. Avery,
Thanks so much for getting back to me. To start, I just have a few questions which I listed below. I may have a few follow up questions if that's okay, I just thought we could start here. I really appreciate your contributions! Please feel free to add any information you wish.
L.A.
1. How long have you lived at your house on Mason Mill Rd.?
2. When and why/what made you start your yard display?
3. What kind of response have you gotten (especially from the neighborhood) in response to your yard display? Any significant opposition?
4. What is the reasoning behind the display/ what do you hope to accomplish with it? Any main messages you hope to articulate? Do you think it is important?
5. Can you walk me through your routine a bit i.e. when you usually go out to the yard in your mask, some of the main things you do when you aren't participating in your display etc.
Sorry - just saw your note on google. I would love to do an interview tomorrow. Can I get back to you this evening with a time? As far as meeting in your house, I really appreciate the offer. I'm not sure if I'll have enough time to do that tomorrow re: looking at the emails/documents (though maybe we can schedule another time for that if not) but let me try and see if I can move some things around on my end and see.
I will let you know this afternoon or evening if that's okay!
Thanks,
L.A.
Hey Lauren,
I'm assuming that you haven't checked your Google Page since having replied back to you about scheduling a follow up interview. I'm available for this interview anytime today or tomorrow.
What time works best for you?
Sincerely yours,
Simply Jim: Mature?Methodist?Crackhead
Hi Mr. Avery,
Thanks so much for getting back to me. To start, I just have a few questions which I listed below. I may have a few follow up questions if that's okay, I just thought we could start here. I really appreciate your contributions! Please feel free to add any information you wish.
L.A.
1. How long have you lived at your house on Mason Mill Rd.?
2. When and why/what made you start your yard display?
3. What kind of response have you gotten (especially from the neighborhood) in response to your yard display? Any significant opposition?
4. What is the reasoning behind the display/ what do you hope to accomplish with it? Any main messages you hope to articulate? Do you think it is important?
5. Can you walk me through your routine a bit i.e. when you usually go out to the yard in your mask, some of the main things you do when you aren't participating in your display etc.
