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I went over the final list of Mayoral candidates last night and found something
interesting. One of the candidates is named David John Wilson, and his
political party or principle is something that some people may think is
something I would cook up. Therefore:

I, John Charles Wilson, hereby certify that I did not change my name to David
John, and I am not him. The similarity between our names is pure coincidence. I
don't know him, and I don't think he is intentionally drafting off my "fame" as
a candidate in past elections. We are both just cursed with excessively common
name combinations. (The main reason I use my full name is because I was once
mistaken for another John Wilson who was wanted by the cops in Sacramento, CA.)

I am sitting out this year's elections for health reasons. Maybe in 2021, I
will have sufficient stamina to run a semi-serious campaign once again.

Thank you.

May you heal soon. Good luck.

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John Ferman
Kingfield Neighborhood
Minneapolis, MN
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> On Aug 16, 2017, at 11:23 AM, John Wilson <<email obscured>> wrote:
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> I am sitting out this year's elections for health reasons. Maybe in 2021, I
will have sufficient stamina to run a semi-serious campaign once again.

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John Wilson
Posted at 4:23pm

"I went over the final list of Mayoral candidates last night and found
something
interesting. One of the candidates is named David John Wilson, and his
political party or principle is something that some people may think is
something I would cook up. Therefore:

I, John Charles Wilson, hereby certify that I did not change my name to David
John, and I am not him. The similarity between our names is pure coincidence. I
don't know him, and I don't think he is intentionally drafting off my "fame" as
a candidate in past elections. We are both just cursed with excessively common
name combinations. (The main reason I use my full name is because I was once
mistaken for another John Wilson who was wanted by the cops in Sacramento, CA.)

I am sitting out this year's elections for health reasons. Maybe in 2021, I
will have sufficient stamina to run a semi-serious campaign once again.
Thank you."

John,

I am sorry to hear about your health issues. I think you would be a valuable
addition to the field of candidates for Mayor of Minneapolis. I appreciate your
support of the Basic Income Guarantee, which is the political principle that
will appear beside my name on the ballot. Troy Benjegerdes, is another
candidate who also ran for Mayor in 2013, and he will be on the ballot again
this year. He also supports the Basic Income Guarantee and he has also been
active with the BIGMN group that is based in Minneapolis.

I am a devout Agnostic so I cant agree with your Lauralist religious ideas, but
if it turns out that there is a god, I am pretty sure it is Laura Ingles
Wilder. At least there is a far better chance that it is her than YAWH or
Allah. After all, she did not have to inspire infallible men in order to get
her books written. She could write them and have them all turn out the way she
wanted, and unlike the Bible and the Quran, they are all the same, except for
having been translated into various languages. Unlike the Bible, there is no
question about what she meant to say, at least in the English versions.There
are over 100 versions of the Bible, and that is just counting the complete
versions. There are many more partial versions as well.

The world would be far better off with Laura as God too, I mean, if we have a
god. She is much less temperamental than YAWH. She would be far less likely to
have a fit, and decide to destroy everyone on Earth except for Noah and his
family, some just for having thoughts. He killed them all by causing a flood
and then he put the eight people, who were the only ones to survive, on an over
crowded boat filled with huge wild animals, and all of the animals to be left
alive. YAWH then put that boat under the command of a binge drinker,
apparently just to demonstrate what little care he had for humans or animals.

Yes, Laura would be a much better god than YAWH. Still, I am going to remain a
devout Agnostic and continue to pray to the goddess Agnos at least six times a
day, even though, unlike YAWH and Allah, she has never expressed any need to be
prayed to, or to have any needs at all. Why six times a day? It is a matter of
merit. If Allah deserves to be prayed to 5 times a day, I think my god deserves
to be prayed to more. My “prayers” though are just reminders to myself that we
cannot really know anything for sure about the true nature of God, or gods, and
as humans we probably cant be absolutely sure about anything else either. I
know this because I was sure donald trump would never be president of the
United States.

I hope you are doing better soon.

Captain Jack Sparrow
Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate
http://occupirate.blogspot.com

http://johncharleswilson.name/2014/02/07/laura-ingalls-wilder-is-147-today/

https://occupirate.blogspot.com/2016/03/tthe-problem-with-three-abrahamic.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_Bible_translations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism

https://occupirate.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-basic-income-guarantee-and-other.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah

Mr. Sparrow's screed about the Jewish and Christian faith simply confirms
that while he has a much smaller bank account, he is as ill-informed and
just as bombastic, guileless, and clownish about people of faith as the
blowhard Mr. Trump is about racism. Mr. Trump fooled enough people into
voting for him to actually win an election - something (thankfully) Mr.
Sparrow will never be able to do.

Jim Bernstein
Fulton

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From: Minneapolis Issues Forum [mailto:mpls@forums.e-democracy.org] On
Behalf Of CJ Sparrow
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 1:42 PM
To: mpls@forums.e-democracy.org
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Disclaimer: He is Not Me

John Wilson
Posted at 4:23pm

"I went over the final list of Mayoral candidates last night and found
something
interesting. One of the candidates is named David John Wilson, and his
political party or principle is something that some people may think is
something I would cook up. Therefore:

I, John Charles Wilson, hereby certify that I did not change my name to
David
John, and I am not him. The similarity between our names is pure
coincidence. I
don't know him, and I don't think he is intentionally drafting off my "fame"
as
a candidate in past elections. We are both just cursed with excessively
common
name combinations. (The main reason I use my full name is because I was once
mistaken for another John Wilson who was wanted by the cops in Sacramento,
CA.)

I am sitting out this year's elections for health reasons. Maybe in 2021, I
will have sufficient stamina to run a semi-serious campaign once again.
Thank you."

John,

I am sorry to hear about your health issues. I think you would be a valuable
addition to the field of candidates for Mayor of Minneapolis. I appreciate
your support of the Basic Income Guarantee, which is the political principle
that will appear beside my name on the ballot. Troy Benjegerdes, is another
candidate who also ran for Mayor in 2013, and he will be on the ballot again
this year. He also supports the Basic Income Guarantee and he has also been
active with the BIGMN group that is based in Minneapolis.

I am a devout Agnostic so I cant agree with your Lauralist religious ideas,
but if it turns out that there is a god, I am pretty sure it is Laura Ingles
Wilder. At least there is a far better chance that it is her than YAWH or
Allah. After all, she did not have to inspire infallible men in order to get
her books written. She could write them and have them all turn out the way
she wanted, and unlike the Bible and the Quran, they are all the same,
except for having been translated into various languages. Unlike the Bible,
there is no question about what she meant to say, at least in the English
versions.There are over 100 versions of the Bible, and that is just counting
the complete versions. There are many more partial versions as well.

The world would be far better off with Laura as God too, I mean, if we have
a god. She is much less temperamental than YAWH. She would be far less
likely to have a fit, and decide to destroy everyone on Earth except for
Noah and his family, some just for having thoughts. He killed them all by
causing a flood and then he put the eight people, who were the only ones to
survive, on an over crowded boat filled with huge wild animals, and all of
the animals to be left alive. YAWH then put that boat under the command of
a binge drinker, apparently just to demonstrate what little care he had for
humans or animals.

Yes, Laura would be a much better god than YAWH. Still, I am going to remain
a devout Agnostic and continue to pray to the goddess Agnos at least six
times a day, even though, unlike YAWH and Allah, she has never expressed any
need to be prayed to, or to have any needs at all. Why six times a day? It
is a matter of merit. If Allah deserves to be prayed to 5 times a day, I
think my god deserves to be prayed to more. My "prayers" though are just
reminders to myself that we cannot really know anything for sure about the
true nature of God, or gods, and as humans we probably cant be absolutely
sure about anything else either. I know this because I was sure donald trump
would never be president of the United States.

I hope you are doing better soon.

Captain Jack Sparrow
Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate
http://occupirate.blogspot.com

http://johncharleswilson.name/2014/02/07/laura-ingalls-wilder-is-147-today/

https://occupirate.blogspot.com/2016/03/tthe-problem-with-three-abrahamic.ht
ml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_Bible_translations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism

https://occupirate.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-basic-income-guarantee-and-other
.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah

CJ Sparrow
Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis
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Thank you, Jim Bernstein. I would have missed Sparrow's screed without
your response since I often just delete him without reading his posts.

Fredda Scobey

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Jim Bernstein
Posted at 11:20pm, Aug 16

“Mr. Sparrow's screed about the Jewish and Christian faith simply confirms that
while he has a much smaller bank account, he is as ill-informed and just as
bombastic, guileless, and clownish about people of faith as the blowhard Mr.
Trump is about racism. Mr. Trump fooled enough people into voting for him to
actually win an election - something (thankfully) Mr. Sparrow will never be
able to do.”

My response to Jim Bernstein:

I did not mention either the Jewish or the Christian religion. I have nothing
against either, religion, in what I believe to be their original form .
Although I am an Agnostic spiritually, I consider myself to be a Christian
culturally. My concern is with the current versions of the Bible which I
believe have all been altered by those under the control of the Emperor
Constantine and even earlier by Kings and other rulers in an attempt to make
God look and act a lot more like themselves. I don't believe the Old Testament
or the god described therein has any thing to do with Christianity or Jesus as
described in the New Testament. The Jesus of the New Testament was loving and
compassionate. He was all about forgiveness and turning the other cheek. In one
parable known as the “Pericope Adulterae" he said “He who is without sin cast
the first stone” as he forgave a woman who had been accused of committing
adultery, saving her from being stoned by the scribes and Pharisees. The god of
the Old Testament is vengeful and arrogant. He is much more like a human than a
god in that respect. The god of the New Testament killed almost no one accept
King Herod of Agrippa which may well have been justified based on his actions
while alive.

The New Testament god may have killed Ananias and Sapphira as well for lying
about the amount of the money they got from selling their land but secretly
withholding some of it for themselves. In Acts 5:1-10, it says that first one
and then the other fell dead at Peter's feet when he questioned them. While it
has been widely speculated that they both died as the result of a divine heart
attack, I think it is more likely that Peter killed them. We know that Peter
lied at least three times when he denied Christ three times, so why should God
kill others for the same sin Peter has committed at least three times and yet
Peter was never killed for any of his lies? We also know that Peter had a
tendency toward violence as demonstrated in John 18:10 when he cut off the ear
of the High Priest’s servant who came to arrest Jesus. Peter was also involved
in sorcery as demonstrated when he cured people just by having his shadow fall
on them and several other incidents demonstrate his powers of sorcery as well.
https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Miracles-Of-Peter

The god of the Old Testament killed millions, not just the ones I mentioned in
the great flood, which was nearly everyone on Earth, estimated at about 20
million. YAWH as described in the Old Testament could accurately be described
as both a serial killer and a mass murderer.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Examples_of_God_personally_killing_people

In contrast Satan only killed a few and those were as a result of a deal he
made with YAWH.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Examples_of_Satan_personally_killing_people

I object to the parts of the Old Testament that are hate speech, for the same
reasons I disagree with all hate speech. It calls for the stoning of
homosexuals, women and unbelievers. At lest one verse in the Old Testament also
demands, not only the killing all of the women and children of a defeated
tribe, it also demands sex slavery of young girls who have “not yet known a
man”. http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/num/31.html

I am not criticizing any of the Abrahamic religions. I am criticizing the texts
used by most modern version of these religions which I do not think are
original to any of them. I just want those portions of the bible which contain
hate speech, (1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.), and which condone torture, (9. 10.),
and slavery including sex slavery, (11. 12.), to be removed from these books.
I don't believe a caring and loving god would have put them in any book he
wrote and I don't believe the common people would have found it in their
interest to include such passages either. Therefore these passages must have
been added later by those who would benefit by having god look and act more
like themselves.

I didn't mention Judaism or Christianity in my above post because I don't think
the current versions of the Bible, especially the Old Testament, have anything
to do with either religion. Christ would certainly not recognize the
“Christian” religion as it is described in the Bible, which includes the Old
Testament, or practiced by most modern churches as anything he practiced or
taught. He was not about material things or violence or vengeance and therefore
we can’t call much of what passes for “Christianity” truly Christian. I believe
the same about the Jewish religion. I think what passes for the Jewish
religion, as described in the Old Testament, has little if anything to do with
the original forms of Judaism.

You are right though, by taking the positions I have taken not only on
religion, but on the minimum wage, the police, or the Vikings, it will cost me
not only money but votes. The alternative is to act like most other politicians
and say what is popular at the moment regardless of what I believe to be true.
Im sorry, but I just don't want the money or the votes that bad, and if that is
what it takes to win an election, I would rather not.

https://occupirate.blogspot.com/2016/03/tthe-problem-with-three-abrahamic.html

1.Bible Gateway: Leviticus 20:13

2.The Religion of Peace: Islam and Homosexuality

3. Bible Hub, Adultery: Deuteronomy 22-22

4.The Religion of Peace: Islam and Adultery

5. Bible Hub, Blasphemy: Leviticus 24-14.htm

6. Wikipedia, Islam and Blasphemy

7.Bible Hub, Witchcraft: Exodus 22-18

8.Wikiislam, Islamic Witch Hunts

9. Salon: The Bible is Filled With Torture: 9 Ways the Good Book Condones the
Worst Behavior

10. The Religion of Peace: Quran and Torture

11. Bible Gateway, Sex Slavery: Numbers 31:17-18

12.The Religion of Peace: Islam and Sex Slavery

Those who have not done so should check out John Charles Wilson's monthly
column on transit in the Alley Newspaper. The August edition has the title,
"Public transit availability and Public versus private ownership".
http://alleynews.org/2017/08/public-transit-availability-and-public-versus-private-ownership/

Captain Jack Sparrow
Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate
http://occupirate.blogspot.com

Thanks, Captain!

It is great to see that people appreciate my transit column.

Have a great day and good luck!

Sincerely,
John Charles Wilson

(P.S. Next month's column will be even better, tackling *three* major issues at
once.)

You think you've got it bad?

In 1931, Minneapolis elected William A. Anderson mayor. Things did not go well
for him, and he was defeated in the 1933 election.

Actually, from 1929 to 1941, incumbent mayors were defeated in six of seven
elections; three of them went down in primaries.

In 1935, former Mayor William A. Anderson did not seek a comeback, but a
different William A. Anderson ran. The other one received attention during the
campaign for being a drunk driver, something that did not receive as much
opprobrium then as today.

Former Mayor Anderson was appointed to the bench and died in 1954.

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