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Good evening, this is Arlo Johnson and Vernon BC coming to you tonight at 8.52 p.m. on November the 21st. This is the la another chapter in uh in this uh in this uh book I'm doing the uh Harlow's Soul Talk number nine. And uh I've tried to be pretty careful with it, gone over the over things so far, so that uh there isn't too much wrong with spelling and grammar and whatever. Hopefully better than the first ones I did. But anyway, I was going to talk about the difference. Like, you know, what I was just talking about previously in the last chapter was how we were living at that time. Now, in when I look at it back in in retrospect, you know, I didn't consider us to be poor, but I didn't consider us to be rich either. Like we had everything we needed all the time. Like, not that we thought about it, but there was food around and all kinds of it all the time. And uh I didn't really realize at that time that I was living in a little bit of a factory system where I had to help along with everybody else. And in my case, sometimes I had to do a fair amount because I was the oldest. And um, you know, we had a large garden, big garden. We had a garden that we plowed with a horse. My pony, Tony. We had a little um cultivator he pulled, and uh I don't know if we plowed it up in the spring or something, I think. Sometimes we did. And uh, I mean it was a big garden. Weeding, weeding. A lot of weeding about it, but you know, because black dirt and things grew in there and potatoes grew in there like crazy and uh all kinds of stuff. We had a big basement. I mean, it was eight-foot basement, full basement. There was two windows on the west side. Like the house was raised, you had to walk up about four steps to go in the house. And there was a narrow windows, two windows facing west, and I think they were the only ones, if I remember right. And anyway, we'd take one window out in the fall and whatever, and we'd back up with a with a sleigh or a whatever, and we'd have a wagon box full of coal, and we'd get about two wagon boxes of coal for the winter. And we'd back up to the house there and shovel it in through this window, and it would just pile up down in the basement in a big pile of coal. And we had a big furnace. I mean, it was like a big old furnace. I don't know where, I don't know where we got it from, but it kept that house nice and warm, that's for sure. It was big. Now that the the thing is the big difference. It's it's hard to imagine the difference. The whole world has changed since then. And it's changed some for the better, but I think on balance, mostly for the worst. We've lost we've lost the innocence and uh I don't know what you call it. Believability. We didn't when somebody said something, we believed them. We believed that people were honest and didn't lie. And basically, they might have embellished a bit, but they didn't lie. No, this neighbor of ours, I remember he used to uh we'd go, we'd go through his farm on a Sunday and go across his farm and another farm to go to church. One mile. Instead, you know, that was supposed to be a kind of a road there, but it wasn't built yet. So we went through his farm with the horses and the wagon and whatever, and they'd get in the wagon and go to and whatever. And uh he had he had uh the knack of uh kind of embellishing a little. In the spring, somebody would say to him, like on a Sunday at church, you know, after church, people get talking or whatever. And I remember this one uh spring, you know, June or whatever, whatever it was, and this guy said to this uh neighbor, Hansel Johnson, they'd say, Hansel, how how's your uh how's your uh wheat crop coming? Oh, he said it's about uh this high, about it's about this high. And as he said it's about this high, his hand kept raising up and up and up and up. And you knew he was BSing. And everybody said, oh yeah, oh no, ah, yeah, to get a kick out of that. You know, but he had to embellish, he said. He had to add on. But people knew that, it didn't matter. It uh people knew it. The uh you know when I think about it, these farms, like a lot of them were one quarter section, 160 acres. And how I don't know how they manage things must have been so darn cheap, like lumber or whatever, that you could just buy fifty dollars worth of lumber and you could practically build a granary. And uh, because there they had buildings on these farms, each small farm. There'd be a house, a pretty good-sized house, three-bedroom house or better, and a barn, a big red barn, and then granaries and machine shop, and this and that, and all kinds of buildings. And uh and then machinery, equipment with machinery, and other stuff around, and it was uh it was like an interesting place. It was always interesting. There was always things going on, doing something. I mean, my grandpa had a a real machine shop full of things, like a forge and and uh whatever, and big uh tools in there, and he had uh an ice house. You'd go from the house back on a little curved path, and on the path on the left-hand side you'd pass this big mound in the ground and uh and uh steps down in the in the going down to an ice house. It was buried in the ground with at least four or five feet of of uh sawdust on top of it, and uh and I think it was like about an 18-inch door, thick door that would close and it was like uh angled, and it would go in and close right in, and it would be full of big, three foot by two feet by three feet chunks of ice, which had been cut out of the lake in the winter, and everything was set on top of the ice, cream cans, eggs, meat, whatever, was sitting on top of the ice. And as when it when you got to the middle of July, the uh they were sinking down into the ice a bit, and of course melting, but the water would go right into the ground, just seep away into the ground. And then you go past that place, and then here's the machine shop. I used to, when I was like six, seven years old, I used to go there and my eyes just big saucers on the eye, I said, oh, that's tools and forges and angles and big saws and stuff. How that all got there, I don't know. And then go back out there again towards the house, and on the right hand side was what they called the summer kitchen. And it was a kitchen with stove and everything in it, but that's basically it. It was a just a small little house with a big stove in it, and other kitchen stuff. But I mean, no tables and chairs or anything really because well it was a table and chair in there, but it was uh that was the cooking house. And uh that kept the the heat of whatever out of the house in the summer. They'd carry it from the the uh outdoor kitchen into the house. Just come carrying it in every day. Yeah, and uh oh, I remember my memories of it, you know, it was all everything was big and green and this and that, all these buildings, machine sheds, big grandpa parked his car in there, and other sheep sheds and granaries and whatever, pump houses, and then over to the barn, which had horses, cows, pigs. Grandpa continually went into town at nine o'clock in the morning. Not every day, but just about every day, hauling in milk, eggs, milk and eggs mostly, I guess. Milk and eggs, milk and eggs, uh cream and eggs. Cream can would fill up right away and into town with it. And eggs, so many eggs, cartons of eggs, and basically they lived on that. They got when they got money it was for grain or hogs selling hog, grain, or cattle. That would be most likely in the fall. Pigs could be during the year. And uh it's funny how how how when you look back and realize that you were a cog in a big wheel. I mean, at that time where I lived in Alberta was an agricultural world. Every half mile down the road, one mile down the road was another farm. All doing the same thing. And all shipping it into town and going from there, railroad into Edmonton or whatever. And that's only one little corner of the world. That's funny. It's uh it's really funny that if the your real reason for being born is to realize who you are, that you are a child of God, and that your whole purpose for being here is to make arrangements to understand what you what you uh you believe in and who you trust, and who you pray to, and who you believe in. That's the only reason we are here, is to make a decision because we're passing through this world. We're not in this world, we're passing through, and that's a fact. It's like you come in this end and boom, you're in this physical world for a while, and you go through the world, you go through and boom. You end here and you're finished, and your spirit goes back to where where it came from. You've now made a decision, yes or no. God knows what what decision you made ahead of time, but even I don't. Now that's a hard thing, I think, for people to realize. To get away from the idea that that what they can build up on this planet and how much money they can acquire and pile up and get is an important thing. No, that's a hard thing to say no to, but it's no. It's really here to develop your spirit and mind as to where you really came from and where you are uh designed to go with all the things that God has done to make it possible. The uh people I I don't think realize or just stop to realize why I have another book that I wrote in here about the Israelites. And basically I say, where did the white race come from? White people. I'm not saying that to be racist or anything, I'm saying that to be saying, where did the white race come from? And it all boils back down to Israelites. You know, I lived in a white race nation. Everybody around me was white. I thought nothing of that. There was no bragging about it, that's for sure. And we were some of, you know, we started out pretty darn poor, but not uh we were only poor in one thing, and that is money. We were not poor in anything else. Not in food, not in lodging, not in families, not in uh support or whatever. We had a coffee pot that was on our stove from about 6.30 in the morning on till maybe 10 in the 10 o'clock or 11 at night. Every day. It would really get it was a pretty good sized coffee pot too, because I mean there was most likely 12, 15 cups of coffee in it, but Mum was continually remaking it. Continually. Because there was people coming and going every morning. And in the afternoon too, but especially in the morning, around 9, 10 o'clock. Yeah. Come swinging in, come, and then they'd just get in, get in the door, sit down. We had a big kitchen table, you know, and a big stove beside it in the bed and whatever. And windows, all windows looking out on the farm, and that's where everybody met. And that's where everybody sat around. We had like 12, 15, 18 people sometimes sitting around this table. It was a big table. And that went on all the time. Never, as long as I can remember, it never changed. And uh the visitors were always generally the neighbors in the morning, other people in the afternoon or evening. But usually they had to be in the evening, because during the afternoon or whether we'd be out maybe in the field or doing fun away or something. Yeah, I uh I often wonder how my mother, who was a meek little girl that dad married, she wouldn't say shit if her mouth was full of it. Was very meek and But mm very frugal and very smart. She ended up handling all the money all the time for Dad and and uh he didn't mind. She was in charge of it. And when he needed money, he'd just say, well, I we have to do this now and we have to do that now. And she'd do it. And yeah, the uh the thing is I get thinking about it and I quit talking here. Shouldn't do that. I talk awful slow as it is. But uh I uh I have a manuscript of this that is uh kept. It's uh printed right out. As soon as I'm finished this, it turns into a manuscript and I can print it all. Mind you, I have to, I have to uh edit it so much that well that's that's all I can do is have to do that. Now the uh the thing is how do you relate to somebody? How do I relate to somebody? What these eyes have seen in, you know, going on going to be 91 years, a few months. I expected a a woman to phone me from Seattle today. I phoned her about a cruise. I wanted to get some information in. Oh well, you got you should do it right now, you know, because it could change, because fill up, and then you won't get away, da-da-da-da. Anyway, I finally got a hold of her and I said, Well, how much is this gonna be? You know, this casino cruise. I've been on quite a few already. Anyway, there that's where they give you a free cabin and uh base, well, that's basically what they give you. And you have to pay the taxes and the port fees, whatever. But instead of paying like two, three thousand dollars for a cruise, the one I'm gonna sign up most likely tomorrow, it's for an 11-day cruise for $465, and that's for the top suites. I get a suite with a balcony by myself. I can't I could never go cruising on anything if I had to pay double on anything else. You go there, oh, the price is this much. Oh, you're just you. Alex, this is based on the uh occupancy, uh the double occupancy. Well, no, it's not uh, you know, $2,500 for a week or two weeks. I just say, ah, I can't do that. Anyway, I'm gonna I'm gonna do I'm gonna sign up for it tomorrow. It's five months from now. It's in April the 26th. Goes from San Diego down to Puerto Villar, back up to forget a couple of stops, Mazatlan, uh Cabo San Lucas, and then it'll be back to San Diego and all the way back right up to Vancouver. 11 days. That's not too bad. I've been on uh well just one that was 22 days, and it was but it she only paid about four or five hundred dollars, six hundred dollars, went through the Panama Canal from Fort Lauderdale right to Vancouver. Right around North America, the whole bloody way. Well, not all the way around, but um so uh the I've been I had been around on quite a few I I like cruisers. I uh very partial to them. I hardly go ashore anymore because of the walking and everything. My big problem is now getting from uh from a taxi cab into the ship because you have to line up to get on the ship and it's a big lineup deal and checking in and doing all this, and my back just kills me. Getting through airports, I got that down now so that I insist on a wheelchair, and somebody takes me through in a wheelchair, right from the the doors of the uh airport right to the door of the plane. And that's happened all the time. Really worked slick, boy, for me. And when I get off, there's a wheelchair waiting right at the plane door for me to go back out through the airport, which is just as hard. Oh I thought, my gosh. Now the funny thing is, on this cruise that I'm gonna most likely sign up for tomorrow, she said, uh, do you need uh uh uh assistance at all for accessibility or something? Well, I said, kind of. I said, I uh I have a wheelchair I go through the airport in, and I said, I, you know, uh bet I I do have a disability deal for my back. Oh, she says, then you know what the the rule is if you don't have a uh uh you know an uh uh an accessible suite, we have to give you a bigger unit to make sure it's accessible. I said, is that right? Yep, she said. I can't give you just an uh ocean view. She said, I'm gonna have to give you a suite to to fill it, to uh, you know, to satisfy the regulation. I said, well then I am needing. And I chuckled. And she laughed. She said, Yep, I can do that. I thought, well, I better do this. You know, that's the top-notch units on this ship. And sometimes I I think they're like in the thousands and thousands, ten, twelve thousand dollars. And I'm gonna get it for 465 bucks. And I single. I don't have to pay double or nothing. And uh the idea is I have to kind of uh a little bit of on the outs with Holland America because uh they think that uh they they say you're supposed to gamble and spend money on here, you know. That's why we're giving you a free unit. And I kind of say, well, you know, I don't mind playing these games. If there's no money involved, uh at the end of the cruise they say, oh, you owe us. The last couple of times they'd say, Oh, you owe us thousands of dollars. I said, Oh, there's no money involved, what do you mean? No, I said, I'm not gonna pay you that. You know, I was just playing it. You were g you were giving me debits, little debits for credits or whatever, if there's no money involved, and I didn't make any money, I didn't take any money out. I actually paid, played with my own money a couple of times, and so you got in one case I know they got about four thousand dollars, and another case maybe about sixteen hundred or twelve or something. But I'm uh three-star mariner with Holland America. This obviously has uh quite a bit to do with it, because she says she's talking away and she says, Oh, I see. Yeah, you qualify for this now and you qualify for that. Well, I guess the higher up you get in the mariner list, I've got another 120 points to go to four-star mariner. I'm at 75 points now, which means I have sailed with them 75 days. Two and a month. Well, better than nothing. You know, I have to I have to say it's it's uh I think it's one of the best ways, and I think in in one way it is just as cheap or sometimes even cheaper than some other holidays. When you, you know, if you have to rent a car and uh pay for a hotel and whatever, and uh if you have an all-inclusive, there, you know, there's so much for that. Different ways are a different type of holiday, but it's all one place. The one thing I like about cruising is you get on for once, unpack your suitcase or your bag or whatever, and you don't have to pack it again until you leave. And you've been halfway around the world, different cities, towns traveling uh uh in a ship. Big difference. When uh me and my wife used to go down to the States in the winter, we went down quite a few times, I never wanted a motor home. I thought they were ridiculous to have to pay that much for a motor home to sleep overnight and then pay to be able to sleep overnight at these parks, and then eat in a restaurant anyway. I didn't believe in that. I like going to a motel, pull up in front of the motel, park, go in, and nice big room bathrooms and TVs and whatever else, and no hassle with a big unit worrying about getting down the road. And I did that for years, and I I I believed in that and I enjoyed in that. I never once had a problem getting a room getting out of a room. Not because we'd stop at like three in the afternoon and get get into town, whatever time we were going to. And then we'd have that time to kind of lay around and maybe go up town a little bit, go to some stores, maybe, look around, drive around, look around at the at the town, and then go for supper, and then back to the motel again. Watch TV. And then we'd see what's going on in this town. You try to get a newspaper of some kind. Yeah, the uh before I quit tonight, I I want to go over one thing. This is we're getting to the end here, so hopefully you're still with me. It is so important that people, and I say this because my sons and daughters and what daughter and everything, they do not think about this. And I don't know how in the world I can can uh get them to understand what's important here. You know, I understand what God means. He said, if you lose your life, you gain it. For my if you lose your life for my reason, you gain it. Well, you know, if your life is so tied up with uh being uh up with the Joneses, say, or whatever, and following the latest fad with everybody, and and there that is a big problem because people can get uh pushed into believing stuff if they think that everybody else is doing it, and I'd look, you know, if I don't do it, I'm gonna be strange and gonna be ostracized or thought badly of. That's the big thing. People are people are now controlled by low-level fear. They they're more worried about what the neighbors think, what their school board thinks of them, or this group over here thinks about them. If they go to a party, they're all ha ha ha ha. The latest jokes about someone, usually politicians or politics, and the politics can be the dirtiest ever. And it's ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, I hate that. I'm going to have to do something. I don't know what. Miserably fail to understand what God has done and provided to set up a system so they could believe in Him and what He's done and what has Jesus Christ done, that Jesus died in your place and in my place, so that you could exist as his son in the future. That was the only way he could do it. He had to create all the stars and the universe and blah blah blah to start with, to make it so that we could even live on this planet. Everything had to be just right. Distance from the sun, tilt of the earth, all this stuff. The weather had to be just right. We wouldn't exist or live otherwise. There had to be agriculture, because we were living in a physical body, and you had to feed it. And the future, if they looked into it, or if you look into it, and if I look into it, blows you away. At least it blows me away. I mean, it it's beyond what I can imagine if that's how great it is. It's way beyond. Now how can you turn that down? That's because now you are you are in a position of I mean existence. As a not as a human. You'd be in existence as a son of God forever. No higher no higher uh existence or whatever. Not n nothing higher than that. Uh he uh created male well he didn't create male and female, he created male in his image. And then he created the female in the image of the male. And he didn't create anything else and call them his children. His sons. No. No angel, no animal, no being, not nobody except you and I. That's why it's so important to him. It is terribly important to him. Everything hangs on that. It's coming to the point where it his plant has been a pretty good plant. It's produced now most likely close to a hundred billion people over time. They're all sorted away and they're all waiting because they're all stacked away in his bank, his memory bank, his whatever, of all his children. He is God Almighty, and he wants you as his ston. Now I know that that sounds a little, you know, uh, I don't know, strange or whatever you might say, but God is God and he his ways are way higher than our ways. His ways are perfect. He doesn't want any bittering like there is on this planet between male and female, because he had to make them a little different. Because one had to be a nurturing, caring uh the woman had to be very, you know, being able to actually suffer better than the man to be able to take care of her children and you know, look after that, bring them up. And then he didn't want any uh any uh interference in in his uh family. He wanted sons who realized who they were, realized who he was, who loved him and wanted to be with him and would worship him because it is required. It he is so great that it is a requirement that he be worshipped by his children and well all the beings. And the uh the business that uh women will not be in his kingdom is a stark reminder how different he runs things than we would run things. But it does not in any way take away from women's value and men's value, neither one. Because neither one will be the same as they are here now, they will be changed in an instant. They will be sons, they will look like sons, they will look like young sons. When I say young, it seems to me some I sometime somewhere had a feeling that it discussed that somewhere, and it was like the the sons of God were like twenty years old or something in our idea. And uh they would be most likely, you know, well proportioned and good looking and whatever, even though they they don't have a a material body, but they have a spiritual body, which is I don't I don't know what how that works. But obviously it's a body that lives in a different realm than we live now, and is eternal. Something to think about. In fact, I tell people, I well I don't tell too many because I don't get to, but the whole thing is the idea that you are on this planet is not for raising kids, getting married, raise kids, start a business, get a job, blah blah blah blah, retire, and then die. That's not it. That's what'll happen, but that's not the reason for it. The reason is to become one of God's blessed sons. That's what he wants. And then he's going to. This world and everything in it is going to phase out. The world, this world is going to phase out in a blaze of glory, fire, fire, burning, whatever. So that's and the thing is that's not my idea. That is God's idea. Every single bit of it. Nothing to do with me. But I didn't realize it for a long time. And I hope you do. I hope you realize it as soon as possible. And not be a total that your life is not a total failure. Giving it up. Don't do that. Anyway, good night and God bless you.