Minnesota is having a moment, and not for the first time. If you aren’t aware, ICE and CBP are conducting operations there in an effort to ostensibly enforce federal immigration law. This effort also seems at least somewhat tied to the “learing” fraud recently uncovered, which appears to be one of many widespread frauds in that and other states. I won’t bother posting any links regarding any of this since my guess is any reader here is already aware, but if you’re not, any search engine will provide the basic context with ease.
Before I continue, I know this is not a political blog and I know none of this is exactly black and white, but I do see a link to these events and what I write here so that’s the impetus for this post.
Nearly three weeks ago, a woman I can only think to describe as retarded, decided it was her moral duty to impede federal agents during their raids. She purposely parked her vehicle in their way and then verbally antagonized them as they told her to exit the vehicle. That alone qualifies as retarded. But then when her lesbian “wife” told her to drive as she filmed the event, the woman slammed on the gas while a federal agent was standing in front of her car. The body cam makes it clear that she was looking at the agent, and, with a smile on her face, she accelerates into him. The agent promptly shoots and kills her.
Bear in mind, she is a mother of 3, although she had lost custody of 2 of them (if reports are true) due to her lesbian pretend wife being abusive. The one child she did have custody of was enrolled in a school that prioritizes teaching your children how to be social justice warriors, since as we all know that is what young children need to learn in school.
I can’t begin to imagine the level of brain rot that would be required to inspire this woman to live life in the way she was. I certainly don’t relish her death, but I cannot see what “good” she was bringing to this world and I doubt it is any worse off due to her absence. And that is what caught my attention about the story since her name was Renee Nicole Good. I’m a little out of my element here, but I’ll play the etymology game.
Renee means “born again”. Nicole means “victory of the people”. And Good means good, obviously. Renee would no doubt say she was well named since that combined meaning would fit with what she clearly saw as her mission. But I see no Good from her actions. Not that I believe the ICE routine is above reproach by any means, but personally I think the ICE efforts, if anything, are lacking in any real bite or effectiveness since deportations are by no means “mass” as yet and even below levels posted by democrat administrations Obama and Biden. And yet we have this uproar by far left ideologues and agitators who are convinced they are out here protecting the modern-day Anne Franks from the bloodthirsty Nazis.
[as an aside: what will come of all of this? TACO. He really does always chicken out and in the end, all this will do is galvanize the left. The rest of us get hollow rhetoric, broken promises, and the prospect of an even more militant and well-organized Left when they invariably rise to power once again. That will be fun.]
Over the weekend there was another high profile ICE killing of a man named Alex Pretti. This shooting seems even more justified than the Good shooting since Alex pulled and discharged a firearm during an altercation with federal agents. He is, like Good, now painted as a martyr and also, like Good, has a name that would seem to vindicate his portrayal. Alex means “defender of men” and he was there, ostensibly, to defend immigrants from detention. Pretti means pretty, but also clever. Either way, it’s a positive depiction of what to me, looking at his actions from the outside, seems beyond foolish and well into potentially evil, just like Renee Good.
And so we have what to me is an obvious inversion of the truth and it brings to mind two scriptures:
Many laud Good and Pretti as the opposite of what they are. Who is the author of this inversion? Over the weekend I found a clue, perhaps:
He also had a post about the federal agent who had a finger bitten off over the weekend:
Well yes, actually, it strikes me as the same energy. Uncover our fraud and arrest our criminals and we’ll pay you back by burning the city while biting off your fingers.
I suppose we have Saruman and Gollum as some potential instigators in Minneapolis and here’s where I can start to tie these events to my own writings.
I once wrote about Saruman aka Baggu Kru on this blog. In-universe (of my writings, at least), he was the party responsible for making Bill’s life hell and I was at one point negotiating with him directly. There was a trade in which Saruman could obtain forgiveness/redemption if he did certain things. The first was to obviously stop screwing with Bill. But then he was also to recover certain 3rd Age figures such as Wormtongue (who had a chance to reclaim his true name of Goldentongue) and help lead a motley crew of dissidents back to Valinor. He was also supposed to find a “hope chest” that was filled with some pretty important items and deliver them directly to Bill. To my knowledge, that has never happened, unless Bill has been holding out on all of us. But then again, to my knowledge, Saruman claimed he could not find it and the last I heard, he was given some general ideas on the direction to look and told to trust in Eru in finding it. Basically “good luck, it’s your problem, not ours”.
Assuming I really was treating with Saruman and assuming he ever had any intention of repenting, I guess you could say he is maybe still out there trying to make good on the agreement. Or he may have said “nah, never mind”. Or maybe he was tricking me the whole time. Or maybe I was tricking myself. There are plenty of possibilities. But what stands out to me with regards to Good and Pretti is that back when I was writing, there was at one point a warning: “Minnesota is falling”. For the life of me I cannot find that snippet in what I wrote so I can’t include the full context, but I am almost certain it was in that period when I was working on Saruman, so there we have another link with him and Minnesota, the other being that Bill was in Minnesota (assuming there is any truth to him messing with Bill).
That state seems to be ground zero for whatever is afoot at the moment.
But wait, there’s more!
Back in July 2021 I had a unique writing experience that came through initially like a rap with a cadence and rhythm to it. I tried keeping up but eventually it morphed more into just normal writing. The first part is lyrical and therefore very open to interpretation much like all song lyrics are, but the latter third or so is pretty straight forward english and to me, pretty hopeful stuff. The speaker takes time to tee off on the OG Minnesota provocateur Saint George Floyd himself:
If you want to read that July writing, you can do so at this link. At the very least, you might like that bit of writing at the end of page 2 to the end, starting from the question posed. Essentially the good guys are saying to the bad guys: “hey we actually don’t have to have some big fight at the end of the world, and we’re actually fine with you guys coming into God’s kingdom as the laborers who joined in the last hour but still get paid the same.”
I like that idea. I find it a Pretti Good message.
WW
The Saruman connection is interesting to think about in connection with Minnesota happenings. I have him as our main devil to deal with here on this Earth, and Nephi prophesied that at a future day from his vantage point the devil will cause rage and anger to occur in Men’s hearts:
“For the kingdom of the devil must shake, and they which belong to it must needs be stirred up unto repentance, or the devil will grasp them with his everlasting chains, and they be stirred up to anger, and perish;
“For behold, at that day shall he rage in the hearts of the children of men, and stir them up to anger against that which is good.”
We have a large chalkboard in one corner of our kitchen where we write schedules and reminders. Over the holiday break, sometime around New Year’s, I think, my youngest son who, as mentioned before when I’ve discussed other events, seems to have a bead on things without knowing it, drew a portrait of an old man with a beard, wearing large glasses, and a striped robe. It took up most lower part of the board. He drew an arrow to the man and wrote his name “Timmy”.
Tim is the name of the Being who popped up over in William’s world a couple years back and who I guessed was Saruman. Anyway, Timmy is still occupying our chalkboard (mostly… a small part of his head and right eye has been smeared).
Reading that stuff from 2021 was also interesting. I caught the mention of a “Red Rose”, since the Rose Stone has become fairly central in my own thinking over the past little while.
When I read the part that went:
“For others enough to merely sit and think
and somberly point the way
for late comers to go…
“…and none shall be prevented
save by their own knowing
of a time not yet come,
or a place still in need of preparing,
or another road in need of procuring. ”
I had a very clear image of a scene from Lost, which I paid attention to since some little symbolic things have come out of that story and its characters. The scene was from the final episode. Everyone is gathering at the church, but Ben Linus sits outside on a bench and doesn’t go in. I didn’t remember much else, so pulled up the clip and found it interesting, starting with the fact that Ben is just sitting there thinking when he encounters a late comer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L5tcJMswh0
LEE
Yeah that Lost scene seems pretty similar doesn’t it? You have Ben, a murderer, exiling himself from the church for a time while no one, not even his victim, stands to bar his way. He would be the angel who stands as a sentinel which was referenced in that writing tongue-in-check.
Your Timmy story is pretty wild. I don’t think I ever told you this but we have some family lore that we invented when we first moved into our current house several years ago. I have done extensive repair/remodeling over the years and no small amount of that time had me in the crawl space. As crawl spaces go, ours isn’t bad. It’s dirty but dry and not too shallow. There are worse ones out there for sure. I was always trying to get my kids to come down and help me do projects and the boys were good enough to help at times. The girls wouldn’t have helped no matter what so as a joke, we told them tales of a poltergeist that lived in our crawl space. The lore was that he was a boy who was murdered down there and decided he would never leave. At times, we said, he would appear to frighten us or just talk depending on his mood. Dark lore, to be sure, but it served to heighten the sense of awe around our exploits under the house. Not only did we succeed at various major projects but we did so despite the presence of our guest, manfully.
One day my second son was down there and had to go out for a tool. While crawling back, his headlamp suddenly burned very bright and then out, leaving him in the pitch dark the rest of the way out. The culprit? Our poltergeist, of course, whose name by now I bet you could guess: Timmy.
WW
The general details of your Timmy’s backstory match up well to Saruman. Saruman was in fact murdered by Wormtongue. After his murder, he was unable (or unwilling) to leave this place, and my guess is that he has been on this earth as a spirit ever since.
Your placing Timmy in the crawl space also matches up well. I’ve guessed Saruman is the Satan that we learn of in the creation myth, and in that story Satan is represented by the Serpent. It was the Serpent who was cursed to crawl on its belly all of its days. So, if there was a space that would be considered appropriate for such a Being, a crawl space would be a pretty good one.
Back when Tim first emerged on the scene, I used the meaning of Tim (God’s Honor) to link him directly to the Devil via the story of the one who was not chosen and who had wanted God’s Honor, as part of what we have in the Book of Moses. I think it was/ is a very direct link, but I think I may have missed something just as simple and direct.
If we look at Tim as an Elvish word (and Timmy as Timi), we have the meaning given as “spark, gleam (of stars)”. In looking up gleam, we get definitions that get at brightness, radiance, etc., with the core root word meaning “to shine”. I think this gives us a clear link to Saruman.
White also originally meant the exact same thing: “to shine”. And White is important because that is the name and title by which Saruman had been known the last time he had a body – Saruman the White, or the White Wizard (at least before he took on the habit of wearing a robe of many colors and calling himself by that new title also, maybe trying to be like Joseph).
LEE
Seems to fit with the headlamp story too, burning bright white and then turning to blackness. Of course, I can’t abide the thought that S is *actually* living in my crawl space, especially since I am due down there for another project in the coming weeks. But it does make for an interesting link. Also funny that now 3 of us independently have a Tim/Timmy connection.
WJT
On 4chan, “Timmy” is a common slur for White men, so there’s another “white” connection.
WW
Yeah, I think much less interesting, at least for me, is the question of whether something was/ is actually down in your crawlspace. More interesting is how and why did the story you guys create take that form? You have these names and symbols (Timmy, a boy who was murdered and refuses to leave as a spirit, a “crawl” space, a light placed on a forehead which becomes dark) that can be linked to the “real life” (potentially) of Saruman. If he is in fact Tim, and our current devil, your story evolved in a way that can specifically link to him in multiple details.
So, how did that come about – what caused the story to take that shape with those details? Or do we just read the details into it retroactively with our imaginations and it isn’t anything more?
I thought of another interesting thing with your link between Saruman and this “Baggu Kru” name you’ve referenced as I’ve thought more on the LDS endowment signs, tokens, etc. I can’t remember where you landed on the full meaning of that name, but Baggu is potentially relevant in the context of signs and tokens (the L and V marks of the garment have been explored in various ways over on WJT’s blog).
In the temple drama, it is Satan who suggests to Adam that he can sell his signs and tokens for money, which gets Peter concerned, who then has to verify with Adam that he hasn’t sold his signs or tokens (to everyone’s relief, he hasn’t).
But Baggu means “To sell, trade” as you have noted.
LEE
It’s been so long that none of us remember exactly how the tale of Timmy came to be or who named him as such. My memory is that it was an attempt on my part to humor my children and add a sense of mystique around our exploits under the house. IOW, it would add an element of achievement and awe around these projects. The boys could enter the breach with me and come out conquerors of a house project and simultaneously, something supernatural, so to speak. I believe one of the kids named him but I don’t know that for sure. That’s about all I can confidently say around how the story came to be. This was back in 2018 or 2019 so it has been a while.
On Baggu Kru, where I landed is that he was Saruman and that baggu meant trader, like you pointed out. Perhaps a play on words for traitor, too. Kru, I determined, was actually Kuru, short for Curumo which was Saruman’s name in Valinor.