Relational poverty — greatest comedian Kinohi Betts

Sensei — Your Hilo High ’67 peer Chock (Tai On & Laura’s son) (Lorrin?) manages the 2 story wood frame bldg. astride the former downtown Kalakaua St. Bank of Hawaii — for his mom’s Chock LLC. Laura (age 97) is in Honolulu. POINT is that Paul `Thome’s identical twin brother Harlan aka Mana — leases as lessee this bldg. & the whole SE quadrant of Keawe & Waianuenue Sts. from the Chock LLC. Harlan stages as master lessee the Comedy Sketches on the large showroom size ground floor of this bldg. Paul `Thome is NOT comedian Kinohi Betts’ business mgr. or agent. But Paul is `kine-dah’ an uncle type to Kinohi & the slate of young 20s age group comedians. Haven’t heard back from Paul about my asking Kinohi to do Kinohi’s 5 minute physical facial comedy to honor your dearest wife Bernadette & Andi of Ken’s 

 Pancake House for our belated Mother’s Day table-talk meal at Coconut 

 Grill.

From Seto Sensei — Hooray!!

 Another example of how interconnected 

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 we humans are.  Yes. Lorrin is the correct name of my classmate.  And how surprising that he is intertwined with Paul ‘Thome because he is “kine-dah” an uncle type for his identical (!) twin (!) brother Harlan who leases the building from the Chock family corporation which Lorrin manages.  Sorry 

 to read about any person’s health condition.  Laura was always kind 

and polite towards me.  No problem for Bernadette and me about Paul not getting back to you yet.  Whoever is there with us on Mother’s Day will be wonderful.  Thank you for all the effort you are putting in to host the get together of your “tribe” 

(as An’drea has affectionately called us) who are your friends and fellow members of the Community of Fate

.  You definitely have the spiritual gift of hospitality and tribal leadership.    As to your message Wednesday, May 8, 2024: The band 

 starts playing in my soul whenever I read about Athens (reason, science, logic)  affirming Jerusalem (faith, spirit, divinity) and vice versa.  And so thank you for sharing the article by Ryan Cragun in the NY Times and the research done by Mateusz Blukacz.  I rejoiced 

 in reading that recent studies are indicating that even the un-affiliated to a particular church receive psychological benefits via their faith.  And I was also elated 

 to learn that those who attended church at least monthly as adolescents are more inclined to be “joyful” as adults.  Alleluia!!  That is fantastic information. 

   Last week or the week prior, you really got me thinking 

 when you cited that while church affiliation is decreasing 

, the percentage of atheists in the U.S. remains surprisingly and un-intuitively  pretty constant 

.  That got me thinking that God’s grace 

 continues to abound in spite of institutional churches 

️ declining.  And then your article yesterday about the un-affiliated demographic and those who attended church 

️ as adolescents further confirms that Jesus 

 is working through the un-institutionalized, “invisible” church.  Very uplifting 

realization as we come to the close of this week.  Thank you for your posting.

My reply — Spiritual aid access via the Internet & social media has everything to do w/the unaffiliated continuing to be affiliated w/Christ.

From Seto Sensei — Great point!!!

 My response — Actually, atheists comprise only 1% of non-church goers. You mean agnostics, correct? YET, agnostics comprise only 10% of non-church goers. The other 89% of non-church goers are the unaffiliated like Mew Lan & your Jr. (Seto Sensei’s & Bernadette’s Hakka daughter & Hakka son) Good job, Sir LoL

. Despite 

absence from church- going (think individualist Tajiri — joking!) — the unaffiliated are right where

 they are

 best situated

 — in Christ’s bosom 

.

From Seto Sensei — Amen! Yes, the unaffiliated are in Christ’s blossom!! 

 Thanks for correcting me. 

 Of course, I should have typed agnostics. 

 My reply — Blossom is the metaphor for bosom. Good job, Lazareth (poking at New England inflection

). See 

Scripture

.

Abraham’s bosom.

Self-serving self-envy

Wow, the most recent neuro-science studies indicate that spirituality — even un-affiliated w/a particular church

 — increases psychological well-being. Ryan Cragun’s Secularization yr. 2023, re: NYTimes April 19, 2023 — Losing Religion?; Mateusz Blukacz’ Spirituality, Health, Psychological Well Being, in Frontiers in Psychology 11 — yr. 2020 #10.3389. YET, those who attended church at least monthly as adolescents — are more likely to be joyful as adults. Althea Nagai’s Family & Religious Practice, in Marriage & Religious Institute — updated yr. 2024. And active religious adults smoke cigarettes 

 less & drink 

 less. Pew Research on Religion & Happiness yr. 2019, updated yr. 2024 Seto Sensei reminds us that prophet Samuel’s very last words in the Book of Judges were that Israelites had fallen into the “my personal truth” identity politics mode — not thinking about one’s selfish impacts on others, much less on oneself — that “every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” Judges 17:6. Seto Sensei emphasizes that “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes.” Proverbs 12:15. Reflect on Exodus 20:3-4 — when you start worshipping the false God of social media & start making yourself as a false idol — you come up empty in the end because after you’ve dismissed everyone else as not your equal or better in calibre — no one will talk w/you anymore. Seto Sensei knows from life experience & the illumination of Christ’s Wisdom that no society can exist in which self-envy is raised to the status of normative value & virtue.

Picture Perfect? Ask TnT, as w/Lennon-Ono

Shaffer asks what’s universal reconciliation. Truncated — that everyone is capable of being Saved. No Hell below us — above us only sky (Lennon’s 

). Lennon is picture perfect in his head, compared w/others. Did you ever hear him or his (devil) fiendish wife Yoko Ono for even once — apologize (for anything)? Hmmm, I don’t recall TnT — Tajiri & `Thome doing much more differently. We’re ALL descended of Adam & Eve. We ALL are so far apart & away from perfection that our mankine’ is a joke (to Satan). I don’t rule out that Lennon & soon Yoko Ono shall have major league repenting to do.

Oh, and Methodist Church Peanut Butter Grace Meal Ministry fellow beneficiary Aaron asks to explain spirit compared w/Joseph Smith’s Egyptian mythology — that corporeal (physiological) man can become a god. Okay, where Smith & No Hell Reconciliators go off the rails per Genesis & Job & Hebrews, etc. — is that the spirit of man that God put in us all (Cf. redux Corina’s Bible refrain — God put Eternity into the heart of man) IS NOT IN OUR FLESH — BUT IN OUR HIGHER REALM — OUR HUMAN SPIRIT THAT GOD INFUSED — THAT IS NOT TRANS-MUTABLE (TRANS- MUTATION) (TRANS-FORMED) IN THE FLESH. https://www.mormoninfo.org/?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpdbjhqeBhgMV2MzCBB1LlweGEAAYASAAEgIfwPD_BwE Smith’s & Universal Reconciliators’ boo-boo is errantly conflating spirit w/corporeal (anatomical) body. No way, Hoe`zay. We’re all descended from Adam & Eve, esp.

 Tajiri & Thome. No exceptions on the fairways 

(of life).

From Seto Sensei — Serene orthodox response to sadly conflicted Lennon and Ono, Joseph Smith, Universal Salvation aka Reconciliation, Arminius, Erasmus, etc. Apostle Paul and the other Gospel authors, most of the Early Church Fathers, and Athanasius, Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, etc. — would all cheer for your pristine Biblical, theological exposition on Jesus’ atonement , soteriology, the Fall, and the Community of Fate. You nailed it!!!  John 6:63, “It is the Spirit who gives life, the flesh is of no avail”.

Tree of Life (Seto Sensei) vis a vis Tree of Knowledge (Tajiri, `Thome)

Pastor Hana

Pastor Hana age 66, who has a 

front bridge for her missing front tooth — is out of sync w/our houseless community. She forces weight- heavy 

 apples that obviously are ungum- able (houseless have no teeth from no dental coverage & from Ice meth use) onto them despite their begging off these useless apples. Disposable apple sauce & apple juice packets are ideal. Granted, she has no control over supply chains — but don’t force apples on the houseless. She doesn’t have an issue w/her cooking, because she doesn’t cook. She preaches & emotionally scalds (judgment) the houseless. Her for`tay.

From Seto Sensei — 

 So very sad.

 May Hana be transformed with the compassion and reasonableness of Jesus. 

 My feedback — She’s a remarkable blessing in her feeding ministry. We just accept her minuses w/her plusses.

Hmmmm….

Tree of Life (Seto Sensei) vis a vis Tree of Knowledge (Tajiri, `Thome)

Thought — 

 of Knowledge — is the enemy of Flow —

 of Life. Genesis; John 5:39-40; etc. Cloud (meaning obscure in mankine’s self-caused myopia — Adam & Eve & we all descended thence-from) of The Unknowing (Father God) — this Medieval monastic parchment 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloud_of_Unknowing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Razor%27s_Edge

gives us all solemn sobering pause. Satan is responsible for Hell. As Kazakhstan Christian Alexey Katko says — DON’T blame God for Hell, for Satan. Christ manifested corporeal(ly) from God Who IS Spirit. UNLIKE other faith belief systems — God by way of His Son Christ puts in each of us — human spirit. From the ground up

, NOT top-down

. Not a sphere we don’t have. We each have our human spirit. Sadly, Universalists or Universal Reconciliation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_universalism#Eternal_hell_in_Christian_history, Mormons, even Arminiushttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arminianism#Theology — errantly stretch this realm of human spirit’s Providential Blessing from God thru Christ — to fit cookie 

 cutter consumer & cosmetic Christianity for the unknowing teeming masses (marketplace). Alexey says — just as we shouldn’t blame God for Hell & Satan — we shouldn’t exalt ourselves for our human spirit from God thru Christ. Our anatomical (physiological) bodies are corporeal, not spirit. Hebrews NT clearly enunciates that Christ died for our sins, that our human spirit transcends above & beyond our emotions & even deeper soul — corporeal nonetheless — these are not our human spirit. Transformation & transcendence are spiritual, NOT corporeal, not anatomical. YET our human spirit is NOT God’s Spirit (Corinthians). We do not become Gods ourselves. Joseph Smith hyped Egyptology mythology about man becoming a god. Cloud of The Unknowing. Parchment 

 of humblest spiritual abode in Christ our Savior & Redeemer, Literally. Written by Seto Sensei, or at least someone like him.

From Seto Sensei — Serene orthodox response to sadly conflicted Lennon and Ono, Joseph Smith, Universal Salvation aka Reconciliation, Arminius, Erasmus, etc. Apostle Paul and the other Gospel authors, most of the Early Church Fathers, and Athanasius, Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, etc. — would all cheer for your pristine Biblical, theological exposition on Jesus’ atonement , soteriology, the Fall, and the Community of Fate. You nailed it!!!  John 6:63, “It is the Spirit who gives life, the flesh is of no avail”.

Picture Perfect? Ask TnT, as w/Lennon-Ono

Muddy Waters & Joe Bonamassa — check out saxophonist Ron Dziubla

Sui generis sua sponte — Kinohi Betts’ genius of simplicity

Paul `Thome’s material that might ruin sui generis imaginative Kinohi Betts.

My feedback to Paul `Thome — These are comedic koan — Harvard & Yale kine’. These don’t fly 

 in Hilo. These fly well in New England, aided by 

. Kinohi’s material is sui generis sua sponte. Genius of simplicity.

Paul, I want Kinohi Betts to pre`zent his 5 minute facial physical comedy. Are you on to it

Earlier this evening text from Paul to us communicants — Comedy Writer You Analyze and see what genre of humor would best fit the following texts. Then make three jokes based on the text: Germany’s Leo Strauss (not 

 pants) 1899-1973 — spoke of the so-called diametrically opposed schools of Western thinking — ancient Athens (e.g. Socrates, Aristotle) — who promoted natural rights based on reason & political compromise — vis a vis Jerusalem (God & Son Christ, Holy Spirit, signified later by Augustine & Aquinas) — whose natural law was given via all- knowing inscrutable God — yet per Aquinas was comprehensible thru the lens of reason & natural instincts (like Athens). Tajiri is Jerusalem, yet digressing from Strauss (not contempo operative Bob) & Father of modern conservatism Edmund Burke 1729-1797 — Tajiri’s Jerusalem is NOT Strauss’ & Burke’s Athens. Yet Tajiri — who entered elective politics at his Jungian Synchro- nicity (in his numerology mind) at age 31 — would’ve felt right at home w/the oldest youth talent incubator in the conservative movement — Morton Blackwell’s Leadership Institute that germinated at Tajiri’s age 31 in 1975, & formally opened its doors in 1977, w/Tajiri’s inaugural elected solon term as Hawai’i County Council Chair. Blackwell’s prominent alumni incl. U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell & former Vice- President Mike Pence. Tajiri’s odyssey to political conservatism is a sobering fly on the wall account of creeping grumpy aging. (joking) [Please write in English language. Comedy Writer] The text you’ve provided leans heavily into intellectual and philosophical humor, with an emphasis on historical and political satire. This kind of humor works well for audiences that appreciate references to philosophy, history, and politics, often skewing towards a more educated or specialized crowd. The tone is cerebral, playing on the contrasts and absurdities within intellectual debates and political careers. For this style, jokes could involve puns, unexpected comparisons, and absurd extrapolations that play on the intellectual content. Here are three jokes based on the style and content of the text: Philosophical Mix-Up: Leo Strauss and Edmund Burke walk into a bar. Strauss orders an Athens on the rocks, and Burke says, “Make mine a double – one for me and one for my shadow, tradition!” The bartender nods, “So, a conservative and a classical realist walk into a bar, and all I get is an existential crisis!” Modern Politics Meets Ancient Philosophy: Why did Tajiri refuse to debate in Athens? He heard the dress code was “Socratic casual” and he couldn’t find a hemlock-proof vest! Historical Crossover: What happens when you cross a Jungian synchronicity with a Leadership Institute? You get a politician who psychoanalyzes his votes, dreams about filibusters, and thanks his archetypes in every speech!

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My non- comedic feedback — Actually, Strauss repudiated Jungians — Machiavelli was the 3rd born (in birth order) son of a noted legal scholar & lawyer. Jungians say that being “lost in the crowd” of sons turned Machiavelli into a ruthless merciless plotter & schemer — heartless & dying to be heard, no matter how many heads he was going to lop off by guillotine. Strauss said NONSENSE in rebuking Jungians. “Pie in the sky” was Strauss’ retort vs. Jungians. Actually, as w/Augustine & Luther vis a vis Arminiushttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arminianism#Theology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_universalism#Eternal_hell_in_Christian_history , & as w/Rousseau vis a vis Erasmus — Germanic culture Strauss & Jung had a philosophical “tension” b/n them. YET, Strauss rebuked Machiavelli as despotic in doctrine & Strauss advocated Madisonian representative democracy aka Tajirian Delight

Ala Loop — credit to Corina Garcia

Tajiri & Jimmy Arakaki say that it is actually our Christ communicant Corina Garcia that is to be credited for the Ala Loop (Kurtistown) to Akolea Rd. (Wilder Rd. at mauka Kaumana 5 mile marker along upper Kaumana Drive) alternate traffic arterial to Hwy 11 — to alleviate traffic gridlock & auto use pollution & wear tear. Jimmy’s Puna Makai alternate arterial b/n Don Pakele (Kaulana’s dad) roots historic Papa’i (Law of the Splintered Paddle) cove a mile+ north of Ha’ena Beach at Shipman’s Kea’au seaside villa compound — & Mauna Loa Macnut Factory fields – parallel to the coastline — turns West or inland by the Airport area sewer plant — & merges w/the Leilani St. area sector.

Tajiri’s slide to grumpiness — or is it slide toward Leo Strauss? LoL

Germany’s Leo Strauss (not 

 pants) 1899-1973 — spoke of the so- called diametrically opposed schools of Western thinking — ancient Athens (e.g. Socrates, Aristotle) — who promoted natural rights based on reason & political compromise — via a vis Jerusalem (God & Son Christ, Holy Spirit, signified later by Augustine & Aquinas) — whose natural law was given via all- knowing inscrutable God — yet per Aquinas was compre- hensible thru the lens of reason & natural rights (like Athens). Tajiri is Jerusalem, yet digressing from Strauss (not contempo operative Bob) & Father of modern conservatism Edmund Burke 1729-1797 — Tajiri’s Jerusalem is NOT Strauss’ & Burke’s Athens. Yet Tajiri — who entered elective politics at his Jungian Synchro- nicity (in his numerology mind) at age 31 — would’ve felt right at home w/the oldest youth talent incubator in the conservative movement — Morton Blackwell’s Leadership Institute that germinated at Tajiri’s age 31 in 1975, & formally opened its doors in 1977, w/Tajiri’s inaugural elected solon term as Hawai’i County Council Chair. Blackwell’s prominent alumni incl. U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell & former Vice- President Mike Pence. Tajiri’s odyssey to political conservatism is a sobering fly on the wall account of creeping grumpy aging (joking

).