Unlike “Navin R. Johnson”, Steve Martin’s moronic characterization in the 1979 comedy film “The Jerk” , I was not born a “poor black child”. I arrived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on the 18th of October in 1946 - the firstborn of European immigrant offspring. My father’s parents were Irish and my mother’s parents were Sicilian. Although I was born in New England and could characterize myself as “a Yankee”, the Lion’s share of my cultural identity rests in background of the people who had a hand in raising me. What I know about the warmth and affection among extended family members, I learned from my mother’s Sicilian people. My incisive wit is… brought to you by the makers of …my father’s Irish people.
Read More1. Woe (sorrow; calamity; disaster), who make making laws that are unjust and those who issue decrees (enactments; proclamations; prescriptions; ordainations) of oppression. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. In order to deprive those who are poor (disenfranchized; deprived of legal rights; ; poverty-stricken; impoverished) and to withhold justice to those who […]
1. Until now, Israel’s people have been walking (living; groping; stumbling) because of “darkness” (ignorance; lack of light, knowledge and information) , but they’ve seen (perceived; received) Isaiah’s great light (revelation; vision). Light (truth) is now dawning (breaking; shedding) upon those living in Mormonism’s kingdom of Darkness. . 2. You (Jehovah) have increased (magnified) the authority of a goy (non-Israelite; Gentile) people, and as a result, there’s no […]
“Assyria, the Lord’s Instrument” 1. The Lord, God said to me, “Inscribe (carve; deeply impress; imprint) the Great Isaiah Scroll * (Qumran Book of Isaiah) within yourself (your soul) and write about this (our) generation of Israel’s people in the literary-style (expression; diction; phraseology; way of speaking , writing) that is used by common (rank and file; ordinary) […]