Paranoia

18.12.2006 05:33 UFO - Source: UFO Digest

Glenn Kimball is an author, educator and lecturer. He has successfully completed all course work for a Ph.D. in Communications. He was the former president of International Exchange School and has taught school at Southern Illinois University. He has been collecting ancient texts since the age of fifteen and is famous for being able to integrate very diverse texts into a contiguous story line. Due to the censorship of time and doubt, most of the documents and oral stories chronicling the early life of Jesus were destroyed, lost, or forgotten. After 25 years of research, during which Kimball visited museums, Indian tribes, medicine men, and universities, he assembled some of the missing links and unsolved mysteries of Christianity.

Paranoiaby Glenn Kimball
Posted 00:15 December 18, 2006

The following is a classic definition of Paranoia:

"This condition manifests itself as an unwarranted tendency to interpret the actions of other people as deliberately threatening or demeaning. People with a paranoid personality disorder are suspicious of other people, and they are usually unable to acknowledge their own negative feelings towards others."

In reading these symptoms it strikes me as apparent that we all experience portions of the condition to one extent or another. Perhaps we have evolved into a people with extreme paranoid tendencies. Some of the most acute examples I see everyday in a small portion of emails that I receive. What strikes me first about these particularly vehement letters is that there usually don't express specific objections. Most of this kind of communique contains fact less name-calling or outright objections to the existence of God. In every case these people have a difficult time acknowledging their own bias, preferring to see themselves as objective.

One particular recent objection criticized me for not dealing with the "Gospel of Judas" which was the "real" history of Jesus according to the letter. I reminded them that we had done a class on the Gospel of Judas . The real story of the Gospel of Judas is extremely revealing. In other words, they spoke before they found out what we have been doing. That is very common for critics. It is easy to express negative feelings without having to do your homework.

The Great Randy is perhaps the classic case of all times of this phenomenon of paranoia. He gets plenty of television time because all he has to do is to remind the audience that he was a former magician and therefore should be able to detect a deception. This somehow excuses him from having to do his homework. That is a classic symptom for critics. They use their credentials as the critique rather than expending the effort. As most of you know by now my father called the critics the "lazy man?s researchers". They don't have to disprove anything. They merely have to mock the topic to appear to be intelligent. However, in the case of the Kimball College we treat difficult subjects head-on. We consider that if our children are having to face these objections to God in school, we need to address them first.

Most of the negative feelings about God are either masked-feelings of guilt or repetition of the popular line that religion is responsible for all wars. God isn't responsible for any wars. Men have that dubious distinction. God may get the blame, but if philosophy of the "founding fathers" of this country was truly followed, we would allow religious freedom to everyone, rather than blaming god in the process. I am both frustrated and saddened when it is patently obvious that most of the skeptical feelings toward god in this country come from people who clearly live on the edge of society's mores. It is easier to say god doesn't exist than to admit that our behavior deficiencies. I am sure the people of Sodom and Gomorrah held the exact same opinions as many of our critics today. The "New Morality" isn't new at all. We will either learn the lessons of history or relive the consequences. Mortals didn't write the rules.

Many times I simply ignore critical letters. However, I still respond many times in hopes that something I can say will put us back into a productive dialogue. It almost never works. Once someone "draws their gun", figuratively speaking, all chance for reasoning is gone. That is amazing behavior for people who pride themselves in looking objectively at both sides of the issue. One of the characteristics of the true scientist is that they have the ability to change their mind. I know I change my mind a couple of times a day.

A notable recent example has come in the choice of classes for the month of December. I have long had issues with classic Greek historians. They were wonderful at collecting and preserving ancient texts, but were often some of the strangest characters in history. My son reminded me that Hesiod may have preserved a large body of strange ancient texts, but also was responsible for some amazing insights into history and prophecy. Not only was Chase right, but his insight was wonderful. This class on Hesiod will be one of our best. We live in a great day when children can teach their parents if the parents are willing to learn. My father had a hard time listening to my opinions. In his day sons were not people to listen to. They were people who should do the listening. The critics all want to teach me what they know, but are unwilling to learn from what I say. This behavior is a form of paranoia. Somewhere in the immature mind it is difficult to teach and learn at the same time. I have often offered to the critics a dialogue opportunity with me if they take the classes. In other words if you investigate what I am saying and then comment with your own evidence to the contrary, I am the most willing to learn. I only get sully when I can't strike this bargain.

Hesiod reminded us of ancient prophecies which spoke about the coming of an acute paranoia of our day which would be unlike that of any other epoch of time. When I read his main treatise again, I was stunned. That is exactly what is wrong with our society. We look for the "conspiracy" before we even know the whole story. Most of the conspiracies we assume to be real in the world, simply don't exist. Human beings have a very hard time keeping a secret in the first place. Given enough time the secret seems to always leak out. We have a hard time making things work when everyone knows what is going on. Most of what we presuppose as a conspiracy really is something else entirely. If we were to learn the truth about many of the secrets of governments etc, we would find out that the parts that the government has been hiding from us reveal government incompetence and not government conspiracy. For example once we found out about the real nature of the ?Project Blue Book? we learned that it was an amateurish attempt to pacify the media and not a competent commission at all. There were only three people on the staff. One of those staff members was a glorified secretary. Another was a man whose job it was to deny everything period. The only serious researcher in the group changed his mind after investigating hundreds of sightings. That is embarrassing. The government hates to appear like they don't know what they are doing. If there would have been a serious cover-up of secret government knowledge they would have been a part of a much larger staff of people.

Most of the documents that have been released under the "Freedom of Information Act" with large portions blacked out were not blacked out by some knowledgeable staff who knew some clandestine secret, but were blacked out by staff people who were assigned to keep technology from the enemy or to protect the government from embarrassment.

Churches are the same way; perhaps even worse. At least government officials don't begin with the presupposition that they are perfect. Most of the time documents that didn't fall easily into religious protocols and dogmas were hidden so that the churches didn't have to explain their existence. The churches didn't know why the documents existed.

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