TMJ - Writing Projects |
A preview of writing projects currently in development...
[Excerpt] " Arianna, Stature Of A Perfect Man, Series: The Day Of The Lord, Series: The Appearing Of The Lord, Thoughts and Meditations of an Inquiring Mind are previewed ..."

TMJ Online : The Blog |
A blog where I can now chart my progress when it comes to my over all General Health and Nutrition...
[Excerpt] "The birth of my little girl has forced me to re-evaluate my diet and lifestyle....Unlike what most people do, those who jump on the physical fitness band wagon at the beginning of each new year, my plan is more for the long game..."

TMJ - The Kingdom |
A play by TMJ based on real life experiences, people, incidents and events...
[Excerpt] "Set in 12th century Moorish Spain, Tristan Kerbouchard is wanderer, soldier, scholar, a seeker of knowledge, follow him on his journey to the find the holy land and the preparations he makes for the return of the king..."

TMJ - On Origins Of Consciousness |
A few thoughts highlighting the questions that surround the origins of consciousness and matter....
[Excerpt] "Although psychology encompasses a wide variety of theoretical and applied disciplines in the sciences, there are questions still largely left unanswered by ..."

TMJ - Human Rights and the Necessity to Separate Church and State |
Comment on how merging church and state infringes on basic human rights...
[Excerpt] "In light of the rise of Islam, and the laws Islamic states adopt and practice around the world today, there should be some concern expressed when such a radicalization of government and the judicial branch is changed to accommodate the teachings of religious texts that do not recognize basic human rights..."

TMJ - The Problem With Organized Religion |
Comment on the state of Christianity and the existence of God...
[Excerpt] "We all have on occasion encountered that one adherent of one of the various forms of Judaism that exists in the world today, who would like to talk to you about he who is known as the Christ or the prophet Muhammad, in some cases maybe even John Smith but with so many interpretations of bible in the world today - what is the common man to make of all this? If you factor in folklore, philosophy and science, one cannot help but feel overwhelmed with the countless attempts to explain the classical questions of humanity..."

TMJ - Debt, The US Economy, And The Need For Financial Reform |
Comment on the origins of debt, and the past and present political policies that have contributed to the current level of debt in the US...
[Excerpt] "A closer look into the origins of the current public debt in the US will reveal that debt and the government of the United States have a long and inseparable history together.
Debts incurred during the American Revolutionary War and under the Articles of Confederation totalled ...."

TMJ - The Blind American : The reality of uninformed American tax payer |
Comment on the uninformed consent of the US taxpayer and their support of the Republican party...
[Excerpt] "With Obama currently at a dead lock with republicans over raising the debt ceiling, and one of the key issue being the end of Bush era tax cuts, it is hard to imagine how some Americans, at least those who tend to lend their voices to social media sites and chat forums can support the Republican bid to allow the top income bracket of tax payers to withhold the income they should be paying towards taxes under normal circumstances...."

TMJ - Human Rights And The Necessity To Separate Church And State |
Comment on the need to recognize human rights and what this means for the separation of church and state...
[Excerpt] "In light of the rise of Islam, and the laws Islamic states adopt and practice around the world today, there should be some concern expressed when such a radicalization of government and the judicial branch is changed to accommodate the teachings of religious texts that do not recognize basic human rights...."

TMJ - The State Of Democracy In The US |
Comment on the forces currently shaping the political landscape of US both at home and abroad...
[Excerpt] "Although the concept of democracy is Athenian in origin, the fundamental principles of democracy even today, remains the same. In theory, democracy allows..."

TMJ - Colonialism and the need for Political and Economic Reform |
Comment on colonialism and the need for First Nation people to make political and economic reforms..
[Excerpt] "After reading comments made by Shawn Atleo about the “colonial mindset that established the residential schools”, I thought it necessary to take a further look into Assembly of First Nations Chief’s stance on some political issues he feels should be a concern to Ottawa and First Nation people in particular..."

TMJ - Idle no more..! Please! |
Comment on the idle no more movement, its origins and the reasons why First Nation People should not support this movement...
[Excerpt] "With the attention the idle no more movement has received nationally in the last few months, I thought it necessary to respond to an issue that I have been avoiding for quite some time now. That issue revolves around my ethnic background and centers primarily on my cultural identity..."

TMJ - William Marrion Branham : An Inquiry |
An Inquiry on the man named William Marrion Branham and the scriptural relevance of his ministry as it relates to prophecy...
[Excerpt] "I grew up in a small part of the Christian world that is known as “The Message”. Like many things in this life that is beyond my ability to control, this was something that I could not avoid but what my father thought and still believes is the wisest way to live for not only himself but his entire family The subject of our origins is indeed an interesting one and like..."

TMJ - The Question Of Intelligence, The Failure Of Logic |
Comment on the failure to identify supernatural phenomena through the use of reason and logic...
[Excerpt] "In this day and age it is hard to imagine how with the availability of this vast wealth of information, technology and literature at our fingertips that we could potentially fail to identify the presence of a supernatural entity at work if and when such a source chose to appear..."

TMJ - The Message : An Inquiry |
An Inquiry on the state of the message as it is today...
[Excerpt] "For contemporary Christians today, a large part of the ecclesiastic pie belongs largely to the more popular and well known theologies that emerged after the time of he who is called the “Christ”, but for a smaller part there remains a sliver with the initials W.M.B written all over it.
This study will attempt to summarize and assess ..."

TMJ - The Message : Cult Or Organized Religion? |
A study on whether or not the Message has organized or not...
[Excerpt] "Could what some critics say about the message, its churches and people be true? Do cults exist within? Is “brainwashing” in use by some ministries? Are people being intentionally manipulated and mislead by radical church doctrines that are facilitated by nothing more than the ”cunning and craftiness” of men? Are these the people ancient texts stated would be “tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men” or are there some among them who are truly intelligent and self aware of the spiritual state of the message as it is today?..."

TMJ - Core Spiritual Subject Matter |
A Review On Core Spiritual Subject Matter that every believer should familiarize themselves with...
[Excerpt] "After years of study I am pleased to bring you the fruit of my labor. The following presentation covers subjects that are critically important to understanding what a true and legitimate Christian experience is and what it is composed of.
I have taken the liberty to take the original experiences of legitimate but elect believers and break them down into identifiable parts and properties that we could study as subjects on their own..."

TMJ - WMB : The Third Pull |
A study on the third pull, what it is and what it is not...
[Excerpt] "The third pull is a fascinating subject.
There is very little that is said in the message today about what this event is and what it means for the elect believer today.
In fact I think you will find that if you are to look for definite answers the third pull will for the most part remain as elusive and shrouded in mystery much as it ever was when first mentioned by William Branham.
What is peculiar about this event is what the third pull is itself..."

TMJ - Ascendance : Mark of Iniquity |
A study on the nature of two branches of knowledge at work within two kingdoms...
[Excerpt] "If we were to look at the first sacrifice made by man we would find a man spilling the blood of an animal to present to this God of the ancient Hebrew texts an offering; an offering that symbolized even a greater sacrifice that this man named Jesus would endure here on earth to reconcile those who were lost back to God.
In that time a son of God (elect believer) presented something back to this God and it was supernaturally vindicated with a response. A response that..."

TMJ - The Message and the Image of the Beast |
A study on what the Image of the Beast is today...
[Excerpt] "There is a question that I would like to ask of anyone who would claim to believe in the ministry of William Branham. That question would be this: What God do you believe you are worshipping today, if any, and what are you worshipping if it isn’t God?
The worship of a historical God..."

TMJ - Attrition |
An assessment of popular beliefs and misconceptions that exist in the message today...
[Excerpt] "If we are to believe In God, what shall we believe and why?
If we are even the most liberal or conservative believers in Christianity, can we ignore how significant the book of revelation is today and the relevance is has to the “end time”?..."

TMJ - Ronin |
Study on the characteristics that will define the individuals that will be apart of the last church age...
[Excerpt] "If we are to look at literature that covers the subject on the “elect” or “bride of Christ” today, there are some interesting parallels that can be made between what Enoch accomplished in his time and what the bride is expected to accomplish now in our time..."

TMJ - Hodiernus |
A closer look on whether or not the Message has organized or not...
[Excerpt] "Where are we today in terms of scriptural and prophetic events? What principles and commandments can we operate properly by before the third pull begins and then after? Can any minister say, and if not, who can tell?
Despite what many men in the message might believe and this might come as some disappointment to their followers and a good many others, we are all not “elect” or “bride” or “believers” even in the sense that William Branham defines these terms..."

TMJ - Praetorian |
Study on what the manifestation of the elect will mean in all things...
[Excerpt] "The issue of whether not the presence exists and whether or not a ministry and it’s people are actively taking part of it can be determined by not only each person’s individual experiences but what sort of works they present to each other.
While non-presence ministries encourage people to have false experiences within their congregations as evidence of the presence of “the Holy Ghost” or “Spirit of God”, the ministry that caters to the elect will not..."

TMJ - Myrmidon |
A confrontation of current forms of legalism and how it effects election...
[Excerpt] "In anticipation of any attacks on me, my work, and those who are following me in what I am doing, I offer this response to anyone who might be inclined to take issue with me not just on one subject, issue or event, but in whatever else you might say, think, and believe in this life about the spiritual aspects to this life and world.
To those who might question any actions of mine, past or present, I offer the following response to any current or future attempts to attack the credibility of me or my work and those who might follow me..."

TMJ -Sproule’s Vox Vocis Versus Id Populus |
Ruling on the ministry of T.A Sproule Versus the people...
[Excerpt] "If I were to personally discover that without the presence of a supernatural phenomenon all ministries within the message would have little choice but to organize and recede into states of legalism, would my logic be sound or inherently flawed?
Furthermore, if I am to find fault with a ministry because of this lack of presence, have I answers to those questions which at present they do not? For it is one thing to criticize objectively with just cause chiefly in the pursuit of truth, but quite another to criticize with malicious and unconstructive criticisms while failing to provide those answers which legitimate believers genuinely seek in those places which at present I do not..."

TMJ - Series | Faith
A study on the subject and concepts of faith as it concerns the elect today...
[Excerpt] "Faith is an interesting subject. It encompasses a wide variety of belief systems, is interpreted and practiced differently in each culture, and is the cornerstone of almost every walk of life that recognizes a higher power as the creator of all living things..."

TMJ - Series | Demonology
A study on the use of faith and the sources that are an antithesis to this...
[Excerpt] "With the study of faith comes a whole other dimension we must take a serious look at it. In this study we will be looking at some of the root causes of some of the obstacles we as elect believers must face while here in this life and world.
When it comes to supernatural healing and faith there are a wide variety of factors we must consider before this type of divine intervention will occur..."

TMJ - Language Of The Gods
A study on this language spoken by the Gods...
[Excerpt] "In this study we will be taking a closer look at a language that is as fascinating as it is relevant to elect believers today.
When you read about believers from the past whose own stories fill the pages of the bible today, you become consciously aware of paranormal activity that inevitably accompanies such experiences if and when the supernatural sources behind these experiences begin to operate..."

TMJ - Who is like the lord?
My Journey, a reflection on where it all began...
[Excerpt] "I never thought when I first began this journey it would take me to where I find myself now, standing on the very precipice of this life, about to step into other dimensions of a whole new world.
I previously believed I would find what realities lay in that great beyond through other means, perhaps a natural death or accident, or maybe even some sort of catastrophic event.
But where I find myself at this moment, in this very place in time, I realize that every decision I have made has brought me closer to what I thought would never occur..."

Series | The Day Of The Lord
A series of studies that covers major events and prophecy on the world stage...
[Excerpt] "We begin part three of this study with a look at the twenty fourth chapter of Matthew. Although I did cover a portion of these prophecies and parables in another work I will be revisiting them here to give a more clear and accurate picture of where we are now in a revised time line of end time events that involve these specific verses of scripture.

For those who are just joining this whole process now I did identify these key events over thirteen years ago long before main stream Christianity began to touch on these verses of scripture publicly and long before these events became glaringly apparent on the world stage..."

TMJ | "Behold, I stand at the door and knock"
A brief look at this verse of scripture that identifies key spiritual events found in prophecy that must occur in this time...
[Excerpt] "In this study I wanted to conduct a quick study on this specific verse of scripture that is found in prophecy due mainly to the spiritual significance it has for elect believers who are alive today.
Even as I write this there are supernatural events taking place right now that are occurring exactly according to prophecies found in scripture whether you believe in the spiritual sources behind the bible or not and whether you are consciously aware of these events taking place or not. These events are taking place with or without the approval and acknowledgment of those within the scientific communty and what is really the collective consciousness of the world at large. I need not tell you that the involvement of the vast majority of each people, culture and nation is neither required or necessary for these events to take place. Scepticism and unbelief have no bearing on how these events will play occur and when they will be fulfilled..."

Joe Weisenthal - Why The Obama Recovery Has Been Much More Impressive Than Reagan's | Weisenthal discusses some of the differences between Obama's economic recovery indicators and Reagan's...
[Excerpt] "The 2012 election will revolve around the economy, and somehow Obama will have to make the case that he should be re-elected with GDP growing below historical trend, and unemployment above 8 percent.
James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute has been doing a lot of work comparing the Obama recovery to the Reagan recovery, pointing out how much more robust the latter was..."

Ann Werner - American Socialism | Werner discusses the realities of social programs and how they effect middle class Americans...
[Excerpt] "The other day, while driving home from work, I saw a window decal in a pickup truck in front of me at a stoplight. It read: Socialism is un-American. I caught a glimpse of the man behind the wheel and he was an older person: gray hair, wrinkles – you know, the over 65 type of person who gets Medicare benefits and perhaps he’s even collecting Social Security. If he isn’t he will be soon enough. I’ll bet he doesn’t think of those things as being un-American. But they sure are socialist..."

Thom Hartmann - Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years | Hartmann discusses the failures of supply side economics and the illusion of its successes...
[Excerpt] "This weekend, House Republican leader John Boehner played out the role of Jude Wanniski on NBC's 'Meet The Press.'
Odds are you've never heard of Jude, but without him Reagan never would have become a "successful" president, Republicans never would have taken control of the House or Senate, Bill Clinton never would have been impeached, and neither George Bush would have been president..."

Chomsky - Superpower, And Failed States | Chomsky discusses US foreign policy and the definition of a failed state...
[Excerpt] "The selection of issues that should rank high on the agenda of concern for human welfare and rights is, naturally, a subjective matter. But there are a few choices that ..."

Chomsky - Reasons To Fear US| Chomsky discusses the US National Security Strategy implemented post 9/11...
[Excerpt] "Amid the aftershocks of recent suicide bombings in Baghdad and Najaf, and countless other horrors since Sept. 11, 2001, it is easy to understand why many believe that the world has entered a new and frightening "age of terror"...

Chomsky - Chat With Chomsky | The Washington Post's readers have a little Q & A with Chomsky...
[Excerpt] "Arlington, Va.: Why do you think the US went to war against Iraq?
Noam Chomsky: Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world, it is right in the midst of the major energy reserves in the world. Its been a primary goal of US policy...

Chomsky - It's the Oil, stupid! | Chomsky discusses what has long believed about the primary motivations behind the Iraq war...
[Excerpt] "The deal just taking shape between Iraq's Oil Ministry and four Western oil companies raises critical questions about the nature of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq — questions that should certainly be addressed by presidential candidates and seriously discussed in the United States, and of course in occupied Iraq, where it appears that the population has little if any role in determining the future of their country....

Chomsky - Viewpoints: Where now for capitalism? | Chomsky discusses briefly the 'the profoundly undemocratic character of state capitalist institutions'...
[Excerpt] "Markets have inherent and well-known inefficiencies. One factor is failure to calculate the costs to those who do not participate in transactions. These "externalities" can be huge. That is particularly true for financial institutions.....

Kevin Philips - Radicalized Religion: As American As Apple Pie | Phillips discusses the rise of the religious right under George W. Bush...
[Excerpt] "Few questions will be more important to the twenty first century United States than whether renascent religion and its accompanying political hubris will be carried on the nation’s book as an asset or as a liability. While sermons and rhetoric propounding American exceptionalism proclaim religiosity an asset, a somber array of ...

Naomi Klein - Blank is Beautiful: Three Decades of Erasing and Remaking the World | Klein discusses the the idea of disaster capitalism and the driving forces behind economic "shock doctrine"...
[Excerpt] "I met Jamar Perry in September 2005, at the big Red Cross shelter in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dinner was being doled out by grinning young Scientologists, and he was standing in line. I had just been busted for talking to evacuees without a media escort and was now doing my best to ...

Nicholas D. Kristof - Bonuses For Billionaires | Kristof discusses the Republicans unwillingness to compromise with Obama over debt talks...
[Excerpt] "The first few times I heard House Republicans talk about our budget mess, I worried that they had plunged off the deep end. But as I kept on listening, a buzzer went off in my mind, and I came to understand how much sense the Tea Party caucus makes.
Why would we impose “job-crushing taxes” on wealthy Americans just to pay for luxuries like federal prisons?...

Nicholas D. Kristof - Republicans, Zealots and Our Security | Kristof discusses the economic and financial implications of a US debt default...
[Excerpt] "IF China or Iran threatened our national credit rating and tried to drive up our interest rates, or if they sought to damage our education system, we would erupt in outrage. Well, wake up to the national security threat. Only it’s not coming from abroad, but from our own domestic extremists....

John B. Judis - Stop Blaming Wallstreet | Judis discusses what has happened to American industry and global capitalism in the last four decades, other than simply wall street as the cause of America's financial and economic woes...
[Excerpt] "As the U.S. economy fails to recover, there is a growing fear that the United States has entered a phase of long-term decline. Conservatives blame "big government" for throttling entrepreneurship; liberals tend to take aim at Wall Street. Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi memorably described Goldman Sachs as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." Among less inventive critics, the term in vogue is "financialization." According to author Kevin Phillips, who popularized this notion...

Christopher Brauchli - The Tax Burden of the Very Rich | Brauchli Discusses the disparity between the top income tax bracket and the lower...
[Excerpt] "The purpose of this piece is to identify for readers how an unjust tax system treats the very wealthy. Once that is understood it is easy to understand Senator Orin Hatch’s recent comments...

Michael Nairne - Low-rate World | Nairne discusses the cycle of asset back credit bubbles...
[Excerpt] "It takes a brave soul to read a newspaper today with a steady hand. The world seems to lurch from crisis to crisis. One day it's the possibility of a financial contagion sweeping through Europe. The next, it's the spectacle of political gridlock in the United States that could lead to a debt default. Story after story recounts languishing growth in most of the developed world along with sputtering employment gains...

David Korten - How to Liberate America from Wall Street Rule | Korten discusses what fundamental changes and reforms that need to be made to the US financial system...
[Excerpt] "The dominant story of the current political debate is that the government is broke. We can’t afford to pay for public services, put people to work, or service the public debt. Yet as a nation, we are awash in money. A defective system of money, banking, and finance just puts it in the wrong places...

Thomas L. Friedman - Make Way for the Radical Center | Friedman discusses a new movement called Americans Elect that want a different alternative to the two party system available in the US...
[Excerpt] "DID I mention that I’ve signed a pledge — just like those Republican congressmen who have signed written promises to different political enforcers not to raise taxes or permit same-sex marriage? My pledge is to never vote for anyone stupid enough to sign a pledge — thereby abdicating their governing responsibilities in a period of incredibly rapid change and financial stress. Sorry, I’ve signed it. Nothing more I can do....

Michael Tennant - Afghanistan Reconstruction: Billions Spent, But No One Knows Just How | Tennant discusses the billions of dollars in unaccounted for losses in the reconstruction costs of Iraq...
[Excerpt] "Waste, fraud, and corruption are endemic to government projects. At least projects that take place close to home, however, can be monitored and the corruption exposed. Imagine how much worse such projects must be when carried out in foreign countries, far from the watchful eye of the taxpayers funding them....

Jennifer Yachnin - Senate Procures Influx of Millionaires | Yachnin discusses the "millionaire's club" of congress...
[Excerpt] "The Senate’s famed “millionaires club” is becoming a little crowded. According to a Roll Call analysis of Senate financial disclosure forms filed in 2010, more than half of the chamber’s membership, 54 lawmakers, reported a minimum net worth of more than $1 million. Another four Senators fell short of that mark by less than $100,000...

Mark Trumbull - Bush tax cuts 101: Do tax cuts for the rich help the economy? | Yachnin discusses the "millionaire's club" of congress...
[Excerpt] "Are Bush-era tax rates for the rich a kind of rocket-fuel for the economy? Or would this be an unfair giveaway to the rich at a time of historically large federal deficits?
That's the politically volatile debate surrounding the tax-cut deal worked out by President Obama and congressional leaders this week...