Proof of Reincarnation?
A powerful story. It appears to support the theory of reincarnation. I’d like to know what you think.
A Ritual for Murder, Chapter One
NOTE: With the exception of light editing, this story appears here as it originally did on another of my blogs (which is now shut down). I want to thank Shaitan from The Pagan Circle for saving this for me, as I thought I had lost it. Thanks, Shai! The rest of the series will be password protected.
When the manila file folder slapped down on my desk, the first thing I noticed was its thickness. They say size doesn’t matter, but when its a murder file, it does. The larger the better, in my view.
It was near the end of the day, around four, when the thick manila folder came into my life. It seems cases like this always came around when things were getting “interesting” in my personal life. Julia and I were getting together for supper tonight. She was making pot roast.
As usual the dick that left the folder scurried away as quickly as possible, so he didn’t have to actually speak to me. People around here are like that, you see, fearing what they don’t understand, and hating what they fear.
I let the disdain of the dick slide past me as I opened the thick manila folder. On top of the stack was a picture. A good looking woman, brown hair hanging over her forehead, full red lips pushed open by her tongue; her white teeth barely visible. Her blue eyes, the color of the sun-bathed ocean, were wide open and a look of shock was on her pretty face. My first thought was ‘It happened quick.’
A second photo displayed her torso. Clearly visible on her chest (what was left of it) was a pentagram written in blood. The north point rested just below her neck and the “east-west” points each came to a stop on her rib cage. The two “south” points were perfectly in line with her legs. The middle of the pentagram was missing (as was the middle part of her torso.)
I read the dry report, written to convey information only and to distance the writer from the grisly scene he witnessed. “Victim found in the middle of the room. Victim was naked; arms outstretched as if in a giant hug. Victims legs were splayed apart. No obvious signs of sexual activity (though an examination will reveal more.) Victim found lying in middle of giant pentacle with five black candles at the points. Layout suggest Satanic ritual murder.”
Satanic? No, not Satanic. That’s the fear element coming out again. A pentagram on her chest and a pentacle on the floor? I took another look at the photos. Whoever wrote the report, a C. Johnson, he misidentified the symbols used. Both were pentagrams.
Why would the killer use a pentagram? Let me see, what do I know about pentagrams? They come from ancient Babylon; were once used by early Christians to represent the five wounds of Jesus; are now used by various Neopagan faiths; and have ties to Freemasonry.
Why would he use this particular symbol? Does it mean something to him? Absently, I page through the other photos looking for another clue. Three photos catch my attention. The killer wrote a word on her forehead. It wasn’t visible in the first photo because of her hair. It said: Vidi. Latin for “I saw?”
I check the next photo. It’s the bottom of her right foot. “Veni.” Latin for “I came.” I had a hunch of what would be on her left foot and I was right. “Vici.” “I conquered”. The louts in homicide probably didn’t know what it meant, which is why I got the case. This may prove a motive, but I reminded myself not to get to attached to one line of thinking. It may not mean exactly what it appears as.
I set aside the word photos and flipped through the rest. Various shots of an over packed bookcase; a dirty stack of laundry; dark paint on the walls; a pile of, what looks like, occult related books; and a shot looking down into the trash can of empty bottles of red wine.
I set those aside for a moment and take a closer look at the written report. Who found the body? A cleaning lady, Mrs. Doris Malchett of Atlanta. Mrs. Malchett cleaned the house of the victim, Rachel Douglas, and discovered the body of her employer at 9 AM today. On site examination marks the time of death at around 1 AM this morning.
Hmm, I hmmed. One AM. The coroner should have finished by now. I stood up, swept the photos back into the folder, grabbed my coat, picked up the folder and headed for the door. Time to talk to a coroner about a dead woman.
I guess the pot roast would have to wait a little longer.
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Inglorious Marvel/DC Parody
Too funny!
Pre-existing Condition clause: The True Evil of Health Care
A lot has been written lately about health care reform and whats needed to change the system. While I wouldn’t mind a universal health care system, I think that level of change will be a generation or two in coming. Like the Civil Rights Movement (which is still waging a war with hatred), health care reform will take place slowly, over the course of many years.
That’s the nature of social reforms, and health care is nothing if its not a social reform. Injecting change into such an industry is time consuming and labor intensive, as we’ve all seen from the endless debates taking place in cyberspace and on the twenty four hour news channels. The endless droning of talking heads, with small, eight second interruptions for sound bites, is more likely to put one to sleep than lead to any real changes.
And I don’t think a massive overhaul is necessarily the best thing. I would be satisfied paying for health care if the two following points were addressed:
1) Make it illegal, across the board, for insurance companies to deny anyone coverage due to any form of pre-existing condition. This would include any ailment, be it cancer, AIDS, or dog bites (I’ll explain why I mention this in a bit) or yeast infections.
2) A limit on prices companies can charge is put in place to prevent private companies from gouging consumers. Further, this price is derived on a sliding scale format with no more than 10% of a families total income devoted to health care. If a universal option is taken completely off the table, this should be a balancer to the Private Sector Overlords who decide who lives and who dies.
As with government, some form of checks and balances MUST be in place for a workable health care system.
A Dog Bite a Day Keeps the Insurance Company From Paying (‘Cause It’s a Pre-Existing Condition)
Back in ‘07, I took my wife out to eat on her birthday. We went to a nice restaurant and enjoyed an excellent meal. When we returned home, I noticed our two dogs were getting rather aggressive with each other. We headed out to the dog pen to bring them inside when they started going to town on each other. It was bad. The worst fight they’ve been in since we had them.
I tried to separate them and in the process got bit on my right hand. Once I got them apart, I headed to the ER with my wife and mother. I got in pretty quick, as dog bites are treated as being rather important, and I got treated.
Near the end of our stay in the ER, I filled out the reams worth of paper work that accompanies any ER visit, including insurance forms. We paid the co-pay, and went home.
A few weeks later, I got a letter from the insurance company stating I was not in their records as being covered. Our coverage was through my wife’s employment, so she talked with the insurance company and finally convinced them that a) I existed, and b) was covered since they were taking it out of her check every two weeks. The agent she spoke to said everything was fine.
Six weeks or so later, I received a bill from the ER doctor (since they are all subcontractors now) for $650.00 (or so; I don’t remember the exact amount), and a letter from the insurance company saying that my dog bite was a pre-existing condition and they don’t cover pre-existing conditions.
Now, anyone who is at all intelligent will realize that a dog bite is not, in any way, a pre-existing condition. It defies the laws of common sense to even think that and any rational being should see that.
Yet the insurance company was adamant. I had to pay out of pocket for the ER visit AND we still had to pay our premiums for coverage we didn’t even receive!
So, as I see it, one of two possibilities needs to happen:
1) Full Universal Health Care for everyone, regardless of any other factor to ensure what happened to me doesn’t happen to someone else;
or
2) Tighter regulations on insurance companies and a complete removal of the pre-existing condition clause from all levels of policies offered by ALL insurance companies. No exceptions and no loopholes.
Combined with option two, above, a across the board reduction of costs to the consumer by, at minimum, 90% so that everyone has a real chance at coverage.
Otherwise, it will be business as usual and some faceless nameless murderer in a suit will decide if you get to live or die.
Organized, legal murder for the sake of the almighty dollar.
Opinions, discussion, and rebuttals (so long as you are civil) are welcome.
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