Slow Down to a Dollar - once per month

[observer]

From the Outreach Mission Kit: gcyouthministries.org/Ministries/YoungAdults/OutreachMission/tabid/178/Default.aspx

Slow Down to a Dollar: The statistics on poverty in the world are almost too large for us to grasp: 1.2 billion people live on less than one dollar a day....It may be
a moral issue for those of us with means that we are able to go through our days without giving much thought to people who live with so little. But perhaps it is because those numbers are so staggering. In fact, some suggest that we suffer from compassion fatigue....
One simple idea for combating this compassion fatigue is to try to live on less than one dollar a day once per month. Commit to doing this for a year with a group of friends who also want to go on the same spiritual journey of keeping the poor alive in their hearts. After the year is up, evaluate how the discipline has shaped your lifestyle and commitments regarding the needs of the poor.
Living on less than one dollar will be a challenge, because you will have to
deprive your body for 24 hours. You will probably have to fast for the day.... Your beverages will consist of water from the faucet. And you won’t be able to drive very far, because you’d probably use up one dollar worth of fuel in just a few miles.
If you want to turn this into a truly honest exercise, limit the time your lights are on, the time your heater or air conditioner is working, the time your TV is running and the time your computer is powered on....



One simple idea for combating this compassion fatigue is to try to live on less than one dollar a day once per month
...by eating other people's food, drinking their beer once per month.

Food for thought

[trabuco]

The only thing that would relate to EARONS here would be his power to choose, we all have, and he chose

to be John Wayne and seek his own brand of justice. Deceived and so easy to be. We all battle it daily.

Satan said "you can be a god like him, you don't have to listen to him."

No one has ever been good at doing God's job. It makes more trouble for us.

And Satan says, "Now look at what you've done." 

The great deceiver loads us down with guilt and shame and convinces us that no one

want anything to do with us. Nobody wants you.

So you say, alright then, if I'm going to be the bad guy I am going to be a good one.

It is being deceived into believing there is no Law while the deceiver knows the Law does exist.

"Without the Law there is no sin."

"The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the Law."

"Two things have I required of thee; deny me them

not before I die:

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me niether poverty

not riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or

lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in

vain."

[Deleted]

Jun 28, 2016 21:21:33 GMT trabuco said:

"Without the Law there is no sin."

"Two things have I required of thee; deny me them

not before I die:

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me niether poverty

not riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or

lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in

vain."

And?...........................

[Justflint]

Had enough ramen noodles in college.

[trabuco]

And nothing. Probably a big mistake posting that here but I can't explain what happened past that. It just happened don't ask how or why. I have no answer for it.

[trabuco]

Jun 28, 2016 21:30:29 GMT Justflint said:

Had enough ramen noodles in college.

I hope you don't mind Justflint but I like your post and would like to take it a little farther, further, whichever it is.

I read on this board someone asking why we thought he wore the mask? The ONS bludgeoned his victims faces, not

their legs, arms, just their faces. And the poster asked why we thought he did that and he wore a mask?

The wanton. Those in need. Those who are hungry. Those who are doing without who are looking at those who have an

abundance but through the eyes of the hungry they appear to be ungrateful. Ungrateful with eyes that look down on the

hungry

and the destitute. The ungrateful who look down with lofty eyes at me doing without. But one day it so happened

everything necessary for the perfect

storm was present and one replied "You think you are better than me?" "You are nothing but a vapor, you could be here one

minute and gone the next." "You are at mercy for your next breath just like me and you think you are better than me."

The EARONS was about vengeance and recompense imo.

[observer]

This post may be too loose of a connection except for a potential ritualistic pattern which resulted in extreme deprivation once a month and then perhaps an extreme rebellion to it later.

Or maybe not.

www.saccentral.org/our-history/

By 1973, the building had been completed (including the 82.5 million piece Italian custom made mosaic of the three angels of Revelation 14), and the 700-member church came together for a dedication service where thanks to God were given and the loan notes were burned.

With the building completed the church could now focus on soul winning without distraction. And it did. An outreach in Rancho Cordova and West Sacramento resulted in a company and a church. By 1977 the church developed a mission statement, developed the Academy of Lay Ministries Training Course, and began live radio broadcasts.

- Seems like each neighborhood in 1976 and 1977 were within outreach distance of an SDA church. 
- Sac Central ended up at a location on the American River (next to Sac State)


- You can trace an imaginary path by car from Sac Central SDA Church to each of the lower clusters of attacks which may fit outreach activities in 1976
     1. Cluster of attacks 1,3,6,8,16,32   : Hwy 50 E to Mather Field exit (N)
     2. Cluster of attacks 2,7,22 : Head East on Fair Oaks Blvd
     3. Cluster of attacks 11,14,19,25,28 : Hwy 50 to Watt Ave exit (N)

Prime outreach areas in 1976?  He could have used outreach activities to scout those neighborhoods.

His exit path would probably be the following:
  1. Cluster of attacks 1,3,6,8,16,32 :Head West via canal or backyards to fields on the western side of those subdivision.  Then right at American River trails.  There is a bridge at the William B Pond Area
  2. Cluster of attacks 2,7,22 :  Head East and you are right at the American River Trails
  3. Cluster of attacks 11,14,19,25,28 : Head North and you are right upon the American River

Jog/bike in either direction

[almagata]

Jun 28, 2016 22:06:26 GMT trabuco said:

Jun 28, 2016 21:30:29 GMT Justflint said:

Had enough ramen noodles in college.

I hope you don't mind Justflint but I like your post and would like to take it a little farther, further, whichever it is.

I read on this board someone asking why we thought he wore the mask? The ONS bludgeoned his victims faces, not

their legs, arms, just their faces. And the poster asked why we thought he did that and he wore a mask?

The wanton. Those in need. Those who are hungry. Those who are doing without who are looking at those who have an

abundance but through the eyes of the hungry they appear to be ungrateful. Ungrateful with eyes that look down on the

hungry

and the destitute. The ungrateful who look down with lofty eyes at me doing without. But one day it so happened

everything necessary for the perfect

storm was present and one replied "You think you are better than me?" "You are nothing but a vapor, you could be here one

minute and gone the next." "You are at mercy for your next breath just like me and you think you are better than me."

The EARONS was about vengeance and recompense imo.

Trabuco,

I can see your point with the murders but why the rapes?

[Justflint]

Jun 28, 2016 22:06:26 GMT trabuco said:

Jun 28, 2016 21:30:29 GMT Justflint said:

Had enough ramen noodles in college.

 The ungrateful who look down with lofty eyes at me doing without. But one day it so happened

everything necessary for the perfect

storm was present and one replied "You think you are better than me?" "You are nothing but a vapor, you could be here one

minute and gone the next." "You are at mercy for your next breath just like me and you think you are better than me."

The EARONS was about vengeance and recompense imo.

Vengeance and Recompense.  Or vengeance and Jealousy/recompense.  Jealousy/recompense for those that didn't appreciate how good they had it in EAR's eyes.  Vengeance against his abuser.  Dual competing compulsions for his acts.  Not just one.  

I understand 1986 more now.  Possibly why and what that means to finding him.

[cornbread]

Jun 28, 2016 22:26:48 GMT observer said:

This post may be too loose of a connection except for a potential ritualistic pattern which resulted in extreme deprivation once a month and then perhaps an extreme rebellion to it later.

Or maybe not.

www.saccentral.org/our-history/

By 1973, the building had been completed (including the 82.5 million piece Italian custom made mosaic of the three angels of Revelation 14), and the 700-member church came together for a dedication service where thanks to God were given and the loan notes were burned.

With the building completed the church could now focus on soul winning without distraction. And it did. An outreach in Rancho Cordova and West Sacramento resulted in a company and a church. By 1977 the church developed a mission statement, developed the Academy of Lay Ministries Training Course, and began live radio broadcasts.

- Seems like each neighborhood in 1976 and 1977 were within outreach distance of an SDA church. 
- Sac Central ended up at a location on the American River (next to Sac State)


- You can trace an imaginary path by car from Sac Central SDA Church to each of the lower clusters of attacks which may fit outreach activities in 1976
     1. Cluster of attacks 1,3,6,8,16,32   : Hwy 50 E to Mather Field exit (N)
     2. Cluster of attacks 2,7,22 : Head East on Fair Oaks Blvd
     3. Cluster of attacks 11,14,19,25,28 : Hwy 50 to Watt Ave exit (N)

Prime outreach areas in 1976?  He could have used outreach activities to scout those neighborhoods.

His exit path would probably be the following:
  1. Cluster of attacks 1,3,6,8,16,32 :Head West via canal or backyards to fields on the western side of those subdivision.  Then right at American River trails.  There is a bridge at the William B Pond Area
  2. Cluster of attacks 2,7,22 :  Head East and you are right at the American River Trails
  3. Cluster of attacks 11,14,19,25,28 : Head North and you are right upon the American River

Jog/bike in either direction

I was about to say this should probably be in the "Cafe" subsection, but you saved yourself.

[trabuco]

Jun 29, 2016 2:41:15 GMT Justflint said:

Jun 28, 2016 22:06:26 GMT trabuco said:

 The ungrateful who look down with lofty eyes at me doing without. But one day it so happened

everything necessary for the perfect

storm was present and one replied "You think you are better than me?" "You are nothing but a vapor, you could be here one

minute and gone the next." "You are at mercy for your next breath just like me and you think you are better than me."

The EARONS was about vengeance and recompense imo.

Vengeance and Recompense.  Or vengeance and Jealousy/recompense.  Jealousy/recompense for those that didn't appreciate how good they had it in EAR's eyes.  Vengeance against his abuser.  Dual competing compulsions for his acts.  Not just one.  

I understand 1986 more now.  Possibly why and what that means to finding him.

Covetousness.

1. Envy is what you feel towards someone when he has something that you want.
2. Jealousy is what you feel when you have something you really like and don’t want to share.
3. Covetousness is what you feel about the thing you want that that other person has. This sinful feeling is the result of having the wrong attitude toward material things.

[trabuco]

Jun 29, 2016 2:16:16 GMT almagata said:

Jun 28, 2016 22:06:26 GMT trabuco said:

I hope you don't mind Justflint but I like your post and would like to take it a little farther, further, whichever it is.

I read on this board someone asking why we thought he wore the mask? The ONS bludgeoned his victims faces, not

their legs, arms, just their faces. And the poster asked why we thought he did that and he wore a mask?

The wanton. Those in need. Those who are hungry. Those who are doing without who are looking at those who have an

abundance but through the eyes of the hungry they appear to be ungrateful. Ungrateful with eyes that look down on the

hungry

and the destitute. The ungrateful who look down with lofty eyes at me doing without. But one day it so happened

everything necessary for the perfect

storm was present and one replied "You think you are better than me?" "You are nothing but a vapor, you could be here one

minute and gone the next." "You are at mercy for your next breath just like me and you think you are better than me."

The EARONS was about vengeance and recompense imo.

Trabuco,

I can see your point with the murders but why the rapes?

Sorry for the delay. I just now saw your question. The rapes are going to be more difficult to justify even by his reasoning. I'm hoping someone will chime in and help us out with that question. One thing to remember is most likely the EAR began with breaking and entering and theft. But again, and it just keeps recurring in so many cases that I try to understand. We all hear that voice that says "I could do something if I wanted to and no one would know but me" but what keeps you and I from acting on it is our Conscience that argues that point and says "You most certainly will not harm that person or entertain such evil thoughts. Shouldn't you be getting on along now? Duty is calling?"

But with the EAR there was no duty calling. Time is what EAR had. Much of his time was idleing and "an idle mind is the Devil's workshop". Like the song "Too much time on my hands" posted in Cafe 'favorite song thread'. Read the words. "It's a wonder I'm not a criminal, I've got too much time on my hands" because of the thoughts you have when you have nothing but time especially at EAR's young age. Your thoughts will wonder to "You suffered, you were wronged the way they treated you and you didn't deserve that treatment." "That has really caused you a lot of pain and heartache and where are they today?" "Still walking on people and have everything they want" "That's effed up, but what are you going to do about it?" The EAR had no direction or structure in his life as a child, teenager and young man. It is obvious. He wasn't made to work. He did his own thing from an early age and he had to grow up very quickly which robbed him of his childhood. Not trying to make excuses for EAR here just trying to explain how one ends up with the hand he has. My only explanation for the rapes is he was breaking in houses first so he was inside and one night he heard that voice that said "O.K. you got the goods so now we leave. Wait, you know what, looking into the bedroom at the woman sleeping, you could do something if you wanted to." There would be no rebuttal.
 

[Justflint]

Jun 29, 2016 4:28:03 GMT trabuco said:

Jun 29, 2016 2:41:15 GMT Justflint said:

Vengeance and Recompense.  Or vengeance and Jealousy/recompense.  Jealousy/recompense for those that didn't appreciate how good they had it in EAR's eyes.  Vengeance against his abuser.  Dual competing compulsions for his acts.  Not just one.  

I understand 1986 more now.  Possibly why and what that means to finding him.

Covetousness.

1. Envy is what you feel towards someone when he has something that you want.
2. Jealousy is what you feel when you have something you really like and don’t want to share.
3. Covetousness is what you feel about the thing you want that that other person has. This sinful feeling is the result of having the wrong attitude toward material things.

Semantics escape me while I am in Will Graham mode.  The following is opinion but as close as I can figure.

If it was a dual impulse that led to this last crime, he almost had to have been close.  Very closely associated at least in EAR's mind.  Closer than he should have been.  He saw or met Janelle once or saw her picture.  That's the Vengeance impulse.  She resembled someone who triggered that one. Probably saw her in person imo well before the crime.  

The Other component was also first hand.  Someone in the family or an acquaintance/neighbor describing some of the recent problems while she was in the hospital or her going to the job corps school etc.  The squandering of what he always coveted in his mind.  He would have been interested in this conversation and kept it going if this was after he saw Janelle.  The impulse piqued at that moment.   If he heard this before he met her I think he might have been obvious in his attention to her physical form or a picture of her if he was in the home.  Either way a meeting that might stand out in a memory, if asked in the right manner to the right person today.  Someone who was close to Janelle or knew her spoke to EAR.

The perfect storm.  The event didn't match his fantasy in this case exactly either.  His paranoia reigns and keeps him quiescent.  Eventually he may change his MO or has.

I don't buy he went dormant for 5 years then decided to go for a walk/stalk/kill again.  Then nothing for 30 years unless he died  in the early 90's.  Something triggered him in 86 and I don't believe for a minute it was happenstance or every day life.  The chances of that not occurring again after 86.  No, I think 86 was a misstep in EAR's mind.  He was in Irvine.  Almost 100% if I am right about him.  Someone close the family if not family talked to him.  Even if it was one of the sympathetic anonymous people we complain about the little things in life about.  The ups guy, a neighbor, etc.

If this doesn't pan out eventually. I'll back away and come at this in another direction.  

[Justflint]

Jun 29, 2016 5:05:07 GMT trabuco said:

Jun 29, 2016 2:16:16 GMT almagata said:

Trabuco,

I can see your point with the murders but why the rapes?

Sorry for the delay. I just now saw your question. The rapes are going to be more difficult to justify even by his reasoning. I'm hoping someone will chime in and help us out with that question. One thing to remember is most likely the EAR began with breaking and entering and theft. But again, and it just keeps recurring in so many cases that I try to understand. We all hear that voice that says "I could do something if I wanted to and no one would know but me" but what keeps you and I from acting on it is our Conscience that argues that point and says "You most certainly will not harm that person or entertain such evil thoughts. Shouldn't you be getting on along now? Duty is calling?"

But with the EAR there was no duty calling. Time is what EAR had. Much of his time was idleing and "an idle mind is the Devil's workshop". Like the song "Too much time on my hands" posted in Cafe 'favorite song thread'. Read the words. "It's a wonder I'm not a criminal, I've got too much time on my hands" because of the thoughts you have when you have nothing but time especially at EAR's young age. Your thoughts will wonder to "You suffered, you were wronged the way they treated you and you didn't deserve that treatment." "That has really caused you a lot of pain and heartache and where are they today?" "Still walking on people and have everything they want" "That's effed up, but what are you going to do about it?" The EAR had no direction or structure in his life as a child, teenager and young man. It is obvious. He wasn't made to work. He did his own thing from an early age and he had to grow up very quickly which robbed him of his childhood. Not trying to make excuses for EAR here just trying to explain how one ends up with the hand he has. My only explanation for the rapes is he was breaking in houses first so he was inside and one night he heard that voice that said "O.K. you got the goods so now we leave. Wait, you know what, looking into the bedroom at the woman sleeping, you could do something if you wanted to." There would be no rebuttal.
 

IMO: 

EAR doesn't seem to fit in a classic category of rapist that fits all his traits to me.  I don't think rape was a 100% motivator other than the terror it would/might instill.  The fear he created along with his control, that fed his feeling of punishment and vengeance is as close to sexual excitement as he could get.  The act itself and the woman's age and other attributes meant little.  Other than seeming to maybe have an upper age limit of early middle age  and a dislike of resistance/disturbance by others/ and possibly body scars.  The sexual things he said to women sound "scripted" also in most cases.  Like an awful 70's porno.

Not to belittle the act of rape, it just may not have been what he was really into.  IMO something he thought would magnify the terror in female victims and possibly the effect to them afterwards was also a motivator.  It may have only been a part of his MO behavior that was adaptive and not an absolutely necessary part of his fantasy.  

[trabuco]

Jun 29, 2016 5:36:56 GMT Justflint said:

Jun 29, 2016 5:05:07 GMT trabuco said:

Sorry for the delay. I just now saw your question. The rapes are going to be more difficult to justify even by his reasoning. I'm hoping someone will chime in and help us out with that question. One thing to remember is most likely the EAR began with breaking and entering and theft. But again, and it just keeps recurring in so many cases that I try to understand. We all hear that voice that says "I could do something if I wanted to and no one would know but me" but what keeps you and I from acting on it is our Conscience that argues that point and says "You most certainly will not harm that person or entertain such evil thoughts. Shouldn't you be getting on along now? Duty is calling?"

But with the EAR there was no duty calling. Time is what EAR had. Much of his time was idleing and "an idle mind is the Devil's workshop". Like the song "Too much time on my hands" posted in Cafe 'favorite song thread'. Read the words. "It's a wonder I'm not a criminal, I've got too much time on my hands" because of the thoughts you have when you have nothing but time especially at EAR's young age. Your thoughts will wonder to "You suffered, you were wronged the way they treated you and you didn't deserve that treatment." "That has really caused you a lot of pain and heartache and where are they today?" "Still walking on people and have everything they want" "That's effed up, but what are you going to do about it?" The EAR had no direction or structure in his life as a child, teenager and young man. It is obvious. He wasn't made to work. He did his own thing from an early age and he had to grow up very quickly which robbed him of his childhood. Not trying to make excuses for EAR here just trying to explain how one ends up with the hand he has. My only explanation for the rapes is he was breaking in houses first so he was inside and one night he heard that voice that said "O.K. you got the goods so now we leave. Wait, you know what, looking into the bedroom at the woman sleeping, you could do something if you wanted to." There would be no rebuttal.
 

IMO: 

EAR doesn't seem to fit in a classic category of rapist that fits all his traits to me.  I don't think rape was a 100% motivator other than the terror it would/might instill.  The fear he created along with his control, that fed his feeling of punishment and vengeance is as close to sexual excitement as he could get.  The act itself and the woman's age and other attributes meant little.  Other than seeming to maybe have an upper age limit of early middle age  and a dislike of resistance/disturbance by others/ and possibly body scars.  The sexual things he said to women sound "scripted" also in most cases.  Like an awful 70's porno.

Not to belittle the act of rape, it just may not have been what he was really into.  IMO something he thought would magnify the terror in female victims and possibly the effect to them afterwards was also a motivator.  It may have only been a part of his MO behavior that was adaptive and not an absolutely necessary part of his fantasy.  

You could be right. I myself am trying to understand EAR like everyone else. The EAR does leave us with impression that sex was not as important as the terror but we have to ask could he have committed one without the other?

One of the investigators who finally caught Dennis Rabbitt said, "We were looking for a rapist when we should have been looking for a burglar."