I love it when unpublished, anonymous snarkers try their GA-style humor in the comments section.
Flash news for y'all - Your publishing house sold my Liberalism: Its Cause and Cure for years and gave me the publishing rights. The book went through three printings, so someone was buying it. Liberalism will be available soon, via Lulu.
According to the logic of many Sausage Factory graduates, you are in fellowship with me and approve every word I have ever published, every book I have ever quoted, every comic book I have ever read. See the fake blog for examples of WELS illiteracy.
That also means Liberalism will be a free download for anyone.
NPH is currently selling Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant.
NPH wants me to review its books, and I have several more to write up in the near future.
Justification will be done fairly soon, March, God willing. I can do revisions instantly through Lulu, so I can move that along. Future question - do you subscribe to the Unaltered JBF?
More bad or good news - Printed copies of Thy Strong Word are gone, except for the second-hand market. I found all the files on my computer. I will probably print each chapter as a small book and everything together as a monster book.
All the PDFs are free from Lulu. I could charge but I would rather sow the seed than build new barns. Look what that did for St. Marv of Schwan. Premature death. Second wife went back to Rome. Foundation loot facilitated WELS/LCMS financial meltdowns.
I gotta hand one thing to Marv, and only a billionaire could do it. He proved once and for all that money is NOT a Means of Grace.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Unpublished Snarkers Get Themselves into Trouble":
Brett,
I am firmly in Pastor Jackson's camp. However, I am one of many people who absolutely cannot be publicly associated with this blog. It is not a matter of faithlessness or cowardice. It is simply a matter of survival. I do not know if you have every been under the authority of the CG crowd, but they are unforgiving and ruthless when openly challenged. Here is the choice many of us face: openly attack and undermine them, and lose the ability to do what good we can for and with faithful people in the WELS or resist them behind the scenes and continue to serve, encourage, and strenghthen those we are called to serve and serve with.
Not all of us have the luxury of fighting our battles out in the open, and life is not always as black and white as you may like it to be. Believe me when I say that hundreds of little skirmishes in WELS and its institutions are fought every day (still at great risk to those who fight them) in ways that you will never see or know about.
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GJ - I don't remember "fighting a battle out in the open" ever being a luxury! I do know the apostates never fight in the open. They deny, deceive, and destroy.
I recognize that there are many faithful pastors who are doing the best they can. I have been impressed with the number of LCMS pastors who identify as pro-life Book of Concord Lutherans.
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Scott E. Jungen has left a new comment on your post "Unpublished Snarkers Get Themselves into Trouble":
Brett,
I'm going to have to second that Anonymous 4:08PM has to say. I'm in the Northern WI District, can you imagine having to fight Deputy Doug publicly? Who do you think makes up the call lists for the District? Since I'm no longer a WELS called worker, I have the freedom to speak my mind. I've already had my "means of income" taken away. There's nothing the district as a whole can do to me. Anonymous 4:08, feel free to look up my e-mail address in a WELS 2008-2009 yearbook and contact me. I'm the son of a CIA cryptographer, I know how to keep a secret!
Hi Steve! (inside joke to a friend I've steered to this website.
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Scott E. Jungen has left a new comment on your post "Unpublished Snarkers Get Themselves into Trouble":
Dr. Jackson,
Ooops! It should read "second what Anonymous 4:08..." I've already seen you wield a pretty mean red pen so I will correct myself.
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GJ - I chasten those whom I love.
There are many different ways to blow apostasy wide open. Providing information that I can publish is one way. Many people participate. I shared some between two researchers and one said, "That person is doing some heavy-duty research." They did not know each other and still do not. Others get in touch with each other various ways, but I do not reveal sources unless there is an agreement to do so. Once two people got together for something worthwhile and I did not even know the identity of one of them at the time.
The Internet means that most of us will not meet each other face-to-face on this earth.
I think it is essential to know how the money is being spent on apostasy and to stop it every way possible. Anyone can oppose these louts to their faces. Not everyone feels strong enough to do so, but there are those who are glad to do what is necessary and possible. Not attending is another vote against apostasy.
Pastors and councils and voters can write letters. A letter has a lot of impact. It should be factual, doctrinal, and copied all over the place.
DP Robert Mueller did not even acknowledge my letters, so I sent one all over Creation. That shocked him. "Why did you do that?" He must have heard from a few people. I said, "You never even acknowledged my letters."
Some people start blogs. A blog can be read all over the world and gets picked up by various softwares and Google. The best blogging is persistent, but even a good collection of facts, documents, and opinions will get around.
When I was your age, I would say to a new blogger, I did my own copying, addressed my own envelopes, paid my own postage, and reached about 20 people at the time, most of them trembling in their rabbit-warrens, fearful that someone would see my envelope on their desk. Now people can read it without fear of discovery and act upon the facts.
Ah, how the apostates are crying and whining now. Team Ichabod can outproduce them easily, by multiples. Over 40,000 pages were read here last month. Meanwhile, the CG experiments are oozing flop-sweat and clawing for more money to support their Copy and Paste Ministries.
This is what tickles me the most. What is the one prevalent theme of the Shrinkers in WELS? Right. They plagiarize.
What do they do to counter me, after howling about my creative artwork?
Correct. They plagiarize, without permission, from my blog. I am happy that they do. If I were not proud of Deputy Doug's graphic, I would not have designed and posted it - truly a labor of love. If five more people see it, I am happy, even if the thief is ranting about something he cannot comprehend, drunk or sober.
The Shrinkers cannot compose a case for what they do, so their only refuge is to obsess about what I do and call it a sin. A fake blog aimed against one person is rather peculiar, most people would say. I am not going to say the guy was potty-trained at gunpoint, but something went terribly wrong in his upbringing.
I assume he will run away and erase all his files, as he did twice before. If so, I will be crestfallen, because his fulminations are the nilhil obstat and imprimatur of this blog.
