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I don’t have a problem with saying “Happy Holidays” referring to the holidays in December, but I’ve never heard so many advertisers go out of their way not to mention Christmas. We have a right to celebrate Christmas and the Jewish people have the right to celebrate Hanukkah. Just mention the specific holiday as well as the umbrella term, holidays. Though, the commercialism of the season isn’t the point of Christmas and Hanukkah, it bears reminding the advertisers that the spiritual meaning behind these celebrations inspired people to give gifts in the first place. And it also bears mentioning the meaning behind Christmas and Hanukkah is God.

Meanwhile, my e-books are free on the Smashwords sale. I’m thinking of making Contagion Phase 1: Biosphere into Book 3. Beginnings is really Book 1. I hadn’t planned on writing the third book, but right now Books 2-4 all go together, and Biosphere is more of a spin-off. But then, I’ll to see how hard it is to change it.

Meanwhile, the content editing (editing round 1 of 3) of Mind Master Chronicles: Butterfly is progressing, but it’s time consuming. I have to make sections I wrote out of order all flow together. Plus, I have to write sections to fill in the gaps. I do five pages at a time. It will take at least three months for it to be ready.

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11/26/25

I feel slow, but really what do I have to compare it to? I finally got Contagion Phase 2: Beginnings done and published. I am starting the editing on Mind Master Chronicles: Butterfly (Book 4). I’m not sure when I’ll be done with that one as the content of Book 5 got mixed in with Book 4. Mainly, my time has been limited by the four trips I’ve had to the hospital this past year. I’ve also been doing a lot of physical therapy for Super Stump (right leg/ amputee) and Lefty (left leg/ stroke survivor). God helped me figure out I have a beef allergy in addition to my gluten allergy. Both flare my ulcerative colitis. Usually, it’s hard to pinpoint a trigger. This time I was able to. And before this I didn’t realize one could be allergic to beef. I’m still writing as much as I can. Right now, it’s four books but not every day. I’m entering my six e-books into the Smashwords End of the Year sale for free.

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The only thing Apple accomplished with that desecration of the Holy Eucharistic bread scene in the Your Friends & Neighbors episode is encouraging the bullying of Catholics, some of whom have been their loyal customers for years, and the encouragement of the desecration of the Holy Eucharistic bread, where Jesus Christ is present. When you suffer from an ideology that has no truth in it, you mock and bully the one that does. Obviously the Apple company has put hatred and toxic ideology over business considerations. There are plenty of bad acts Apple TV wouldn’t dare depict on TV lest it be seen as encouraging the behavior. Encouraging the bullying of Catholics and the mocking of Jesus Christ is apparently fair game in the eyes of some ideological radicals.
Apple is trying to normalize the bullying of Christians and the desecration of the Holy Eucharistic bread. I can’t see where a company which shows such ugly disrespect for its own customers has many prospects for growth in the future.

Please write a letter to Apple TV asking for an apology and removal of the offending and irrelevant scene.

https://catholicvote.quorum.us/

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I’ve added more books to my writing regime, but I’m only doing a page a day of any one book. My priority is getting Biosphere 3 done regularly, but I’m chipping away at four others now. It keeps things interesting, and I don’t want to lose that inspirational feeling. Writing is a discipline like exercise, it becomes easier to establish a routine with it the more you do it. But notice that is easier not easy.

I am almost done with round 2 of 3 of editing of Beginnings. Butterfly typing has been increased to 4 pages a day. I proofread 5 pages a day of the typed pages to catch up on the time I lost.

Physical therapy takes a lot of time. Super Stump and Lefty (left foot) are making a lot of progress with standing. I’m opting for a walker rather than a prosthetic.

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When I shelved books at a local library (in the liberal state of Minnesota) years ago, young adult was Sweet Valley High. The content is a lot more mature now. Bookstores have mature content in the children’s section. That’s why I decided to list all my books as adult fiction. I figure no one will know what ya means anymore.

Meanwhile, I’ve gotten back into a routine of writing, editing and typing. So, I’m making progress.

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12/19/24

Pre-orders are up for Contagion Phase 1: Beginnings (May 7, 2025) and Mind Master Chronicles (Book 4): Butterfly (Nov. 7, 2025)!

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Writing Update

12/11/24

I’ve entered all of my available Ebooks in the 8th annual End of Year Smashwords Sale #EOYsale24 #smashwords. All of my available Ebooks will be free during the sale. The sale runs from Thursday, December 12, 2024 to Wednesday, January 1, 2025.


https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/JAChandler1
https://www.smashwords.com/dashboard/sitewidePromos

 Break the Leg to Bend the Knee

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1415973

 Contagion Phase 1: Biosphere (always free)

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1545993

 The Mind Master Chronicles (Book 1): Labyrinth (always free)

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1353449

 The Mind Master Chronicles (Book 2): Puppet on a String

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1386746

The Mind Master Chronicles (Book 3): The Pretender https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1624381

I’ve set up for the Ebook of Contagion Phase 1: Biosphere to be free from now on. It may take some time for the free price to come into effect on some sites. Meanwhile, I’m getting the second book in the Contagion Phase series entitled Contagion Phase 2: Beginnings ready for pre-order. I hope to release it in May 2025.

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Enabling Addiction Is Not Love

Drug addiction is one of the few things people can get involved in that is still considered a problem — something that needs to be repented of. Still, there are efforts to normalize even this behavior despite the fact that it’s obviously self-destructive and destructive of others. The consequences can be rather overt. Drug addicts rarely claim to be happy people. The high doesn’t last. The withdrawal is crushing, and it almost always requires debasing yourself to finance it.

And yet, there are always people who equate unconditional love with unconditional support of the addiction. And it’s true that the addict believes the codependent enabler is the person who loves them the most while they are in the throes of the addiction. But in actuality, it is the person willing to risk losing the relationship if the person doesn’t repent who truly loves the addict. And if the addict repents, they almost always see that.

The same is true for other addictions as well, including the addiction to sin in general. Love is wanting to see a person freed from the addiction from the high — free to reconcile themselves with God.

Using a person’s addiction to gain control and influence over them, so you can artificially become their “special person” isn’t love. In other words, encouraging or enabling them to sin, so they’ll need you and, therefore, make you feel special isn’t love.

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The Evil of New York’s Proposal 1! Vote NO!

Proposal 1 coming up for vote in New York is evil. It’s an attack on religious freedom. Many people in the past came to this country to escape religious persecution — to avoid having to choose between their lives and God. One of the major components of the US Constitution is protecting citizens from having to make that choice. Proposal 1 aims to replace a real Constitutional right (freedom of religion) with new rights based on their woke pseudo-religion. The woke aren’t content with their own free will. They are bent on forcing their will on others under penalty of law, if need be. The woke don’t respect other people’s religious beliefs. If you don’t agree with wokeism, you will be made to pay. Don’t want to kill an unborn child? Too bad, no exceptions, according to Kamala Harris. Don’t want your child groomed for pedophilia? Physically mutilated in the name of gender identity politics? Too bad. The children don’t have to have to have their parent’s consent, nor do the parents have the right to know. So after the children are brainwashed by perverted adults, they can be easily conditioned to be exploited by them.

The states think they own your children. In fact, they already think they own everyone who resides in those states. And they want to own everyone in the country, too.

I’ve become convinced it’s not okay to abandon dissenters in woke states to woke tyranny — to woke people, who don’t respect other people’s free will and autonomy. What if residents in places like New York and California can’t just leave? They are fellow US citizens and their and their children’s Constitutional and God-given rights are being stripped away from them. Even more disturbing, what if the Dems take the presidency, the US House and Senate, and thereby pack the Supreme Court with woke justices? Then, they can rule against the states on every decision. Then, there will be nowhere for anyone in this country to run to. Then, we’ll all be in the same position as those in New York. I hope those trapped in New York are able to dodge this latest bid at total woke tyranny! I hope all Christian and Jewish people pray and vote and conscientious objectors vote against this latest attack against our freedom. Vote Republican down the ballot! And if you live in New York vote “NO” to Proposal 1!

https://x.com/Attorney_Cox/status/1847223602359460039

New York Voter Registration deadline – Sat Oct 26 mail postmarked / online/ In-person

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Another Attempt at the Triumph of the Woke Will.

The 2024 Olympics began with an opening ceremony which blasphemed God and His Messiah, Jesus Christ. That alone should tell you all you need to know about the kind of people you’re dealing with. Of course, they weren’t done there. Besides, in effect, dedicating the Olympic Games to Satan, they also engaged in various displays of sadism. There were the cardboard beds that were supposed to reduce carbon footprints. A human life isn’t allowed to make an impact on the world around him/her — unless, of course, that person is elite. The athletes in the Olympic Village were also not provided enough non-vegan alternatives for their diets. You do have to, in the very least, transition to a vegan diet. It would have seemed to me a simple thing to give the athletes a menu survey if the dieticians really couldn’t figure out what the demand would be for non-vegan food rather than punishing the non-vegan athletes.

And then there’s the fact the athletes weren’t supplied air conditioning during a heat wave. You’d think that for seventeen days these woke elites could make an exception. After all, how many exceptions do they make for themselves every day? But for the most exceptional athletes in the general population, no exception is permitted to be made. The elite have to take a hard line on us peons. And what better way than to make an example of the most accomplished of our representatives?

Why not humiliate and shame them publically? Why not get them to swim in a river of excrement in order to earn the shiny trinkets and accolades of the elite class who now have a monopoly on all the attention and shiny trinkets. How much amusement these woke elites, these sadists must have gained having these prize non-elites debase themselves for their approval. They even have had one of their elected stooges show how it’s perfectly fine to dive into a river of human filth in order to compel the athletes to do the same. Of course, it’s okay for her. She’s just a peon like the rest of us — another non-elite who they can laugh at — so desperate to serve her woke masters that she’s willing to throw her health away to do so.

So then came the boxing match between a biological woman and a person who identifies as a woman despite previously failing to meet the International Boxing Association eligibility rules.

“The International Boxing Association (IBA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are at odds over whether Khelif should be able to compete in women’s competitions. IBA president Umar Kremlev told Russian news agency TASS that Khelif and another boxer had ‘XY chromosomes,’ the typical genetic makeup of males, and that is why they were disqualified from the World Champion­ships in 2023, Reuters reported. However, the IBA, which is Russian-led, is itself controversial, having been ousted from Olympic competition oversight over ‘governance, finance, and ethical issues,’ Reuters reported.” (McBride, 2024)

Still, it’s clear that the Olympic Committee in their great woke wisdom has decided to use gender identity rather than biological sex to determine eligibility. “Also fueling controversy is the fact that the Olympics stopped testing for gender in 1999. ‘The decision to abandon compulsory gender verification in Olympic competition was taken in 1999, following many years of debate,’ according to a 2008 Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine article, ‘Intersex and the Olympic Games.’ ‘As with previous Olympic boxing competitions, the gender and age of the athletes are based on their passport,’ the IOC says.” (McBride, 2024)

The only rational criteria to determine eligibility should be biological sex. If they allow anyone who identifies as a woman to participate in women’s sports, eventually no woman will make the cut, and it will all be biological males in sports. Is that the point?

I personally think they mostly just enjoy watching a woman get shamed and beaten myself. I think the woke are moving us toward a sadistic society where non-elite people are conditioned to be masochists. I think if they have their way they will have us giving our will over to them and to Satan for a couple of pats on the back and a few golden trinkets. Then, if that doesn’t work they will try to force us to submit our will to them for food and water, for energy, for medicine, for shelter, for survival. Yes, this Olympics is a preview for the world the woke want us all to be living and dying in — a world straight out of Dante’s Inferno. A world where they not only challenge our right to free will, but they challenge God’s will as well. And it all started with the blaspheming of God and His Messiah, Jesus Christ. One cannot underestimate or condone the significance of that.

(McBride, 2024)

McBride, J. (2024, August 5). “Olympic Committee Issues Correction on Statement About Imane Khelif’s Gender.” heavy. https://heavy.com/sports/olympics/imane-khelif-dsd/

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