Are Dreams and Doppleganger True?

Dreams And Doppleganger

A few years ago in the middle of the night I had a dream that startled me so much that I suddenly sat upright in bed. It was so real.

Years ago Carolyn and I lost a child in a miscarriage, but I had not been thinking on it when I had this dream. What I was thinking about was my father, mother, and oldest brother who had passed away not too long before.

My faith in God and in the restored gospel of Jesus Christ informs me that there is life after death. I had prayed constantly to confirm my faith, which is that we come to this earth to gain a body and to prove whether we will be obedient to God’s commandments. We don’t know everything about life after death, and for most of us it is not a simple thing to understand.

Fortunately, to those who read the Book of Mormon and/or the Bible each day, gospel principles become clear and evident from the words of the prophets. A subject shrouded in mystery gives way to the light of Christ, the Holy Ghost, and light of the gospel.

In my dream I was wondering about my loved ones. I was walking through this broad hallway, and briefly stopping to talk to friends and family members who had passed away. I had left the main group when suddenly there was a tap on my shoulder. I beheld a person who looked quite a bit like my three sons, particularly my youngest son, only slightly taller, and that startled me.

“His only comment was a question: “What about me?”

The dream ended and I rose up in bed shocked.

It was so real I couldn’t sleep the remainder of the night. I told my wife, Carolyn, and other family members that I know the gender of the long-departed unborn life that Carolyn lost in the mid-sixties. They seemed somewhat skeptical – and I can’t blame them.

We believe that children who either died after birth without attaining their majority, and others such as the unborn or still-born, will have a place during the Millennium, a thousand-year time of peace when Christ will rule on earth and Satan will be bound. Only the most worthy people will rise in the first resurrection and be partakers of Millennial life with Jesus. Our faith tells us that others will be resurrected after the Millennium and be assigned that dominion equal to their faithfulness.

It is only natural for parents of deceased children to be reunited with them. To one day be in their constant company would be a blessing, an opportunity to love them as you had loved your other offspring, attending to their needs and training and bringing them up in righteousness as with your other children until they are changed in the twinkling of an eye and given resurrected bodies.

This would be an indescribable joy.

Hub readers may question: Is this man mad? How can he expect us to believe him? But my answer is simple. I testify that though the above may seem unusual to those who are not of our faith, every bit of it is true. I would not lie about this. I have had other dreams about what we call the Spirit World (a realm of life after death and before resurrection). They are probably too sacred for me to repeat in a general article. In fact, I questioned whether I should publish this Hub, based on the personal and sacred nature of the information.

The reason I am doing so is that last night while watching the World Series, game six, someone mentioned the word Doppelganger. Between Andy Pettitte’s near peerless pitching performance and Hedeki Matsui’s tremendous hitting, we engaged in a brief discussion on that word and concept that shows up sometimes in science fiction and the word stayed with me all night.

Let me be clear, I draw a vivid distinction between Doppleganger and spiritual manifestations. The former I consider fiction, the latter, to me, are generally true.

Doppleganger is a German word for seeing yourself or your double.

And as far as I know, that’s all Doppleganger is – similar to parallel universes, worm holes, alien kingdoms, and other science fiction worlds. Most of us believe they could be out there, but who knows for sure? To me they are interesting unproven concepts of movie and novel fiction.

Doppleganger is a second likeness of you seen by yourself or others.

The following are found in Wickepedia:

• Poet Percy Shelly saw himself and then his wife did likewise and in each case more than once. Was the poet insane? I don’t think so, but then I’ve never seen myself coming and going and know of no living person who has.

Shelley's drama Prometheus Unbound (1820) contains the following passage in Act I: "Ere Babylon was dust, / The Magus Zoroaster, my dear child, / Met his own image walking in the garden. / That apparition, sole of men, he saw. / For know there are two worlds of life and death: / One that which thou beholdest; but the other / Is underneath the grave, where do inhabit / The shadows of all forms that think and live / Till death unite them and they part no more...."

· Izaak Walton claimed that John Donne, the English metaphysical poet, saw his wife's doppelgänger in 1612 in Paris, on the same night as the stillbirth of their daughter.

· Carl Sandburg's biography contains Lincoln’s doppelganger experiences:

A dream or illusion had haunted Lincoln at times at seeing images of himself. Google the word Dobleganger and look in Wickepedia. This is a most interesting account.

I would like to know if anyone has had such experiences or knows of other dreams or doppelganger accounts they would share.

THIRTEEN CLONES/TWINS/DOPPLEGANGER MOVIES A Listmania! list by Brian Markowski (Cedar Rapids, IA)

1. Dave DVD ~ Kevin Kline The list author says: "Dave Kovic looks just like President William Harrison Mitchell, so much so that he's hired by the White House to impersonate him for certain public appearances. All goes well 'till the real President has a stroke and Dave finds himself as his replacement."

2. Dead Ringers DVD ~ Jeremy Irons The list author says: "Twin gynecologists share office space and the woman that do business with them in this very creepy film."

3. Adaptation (Superbit Collection) DVD ~ Jim Beaver The list author says: "Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is stuggling trying to write a movie adaptation of the non-fiction book called "The Orchid Thief"; but when twin Donald get's a crack at the script things go from bad to worst."

4. The Prince and the Pauper DVD ~ Errol Flynn The list author says: "After they discover they could be twins, a Prince of England and a poor paoper from the streets of London ex-change roles in an attempt to understand how the other one lives."

5. The Parent Trap (Vault Disney Collection) DVD ~ Hayley Mills The list author says: "Two twin girls seperated at birth discover each other at summer camp. Once the pieces come together, they vow to bring their parents back together."

6. The Krays [Region 2] DVD ~ Gary Kemp The list author says: ""The true life story of twin crime bosses in 1960's London.""

7. Moon Over Parador DVD ~ Edward Asner The list author says: "Actor Jack Noah looks alot like the Paradorian, president-for-life, Alphonse Simms. So much so that when Simms dies the scheaming Roberto Strausmann and right hand man to Simms hires Jack to play the President with unpredicted results."

8. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 and 1952 Versions) DVD ~ Ronald Colman The list author says: "Rudolph Rassendyll, Rudolf V's identical distant cousin, is asked to risk his life and impersonate the would-be king when his relative is kidnapped before his impending coronation."

9. The Man in the Iron Mask DVD ~ Leonardo DiCaprio The list author says: "King Louis XIV of France has a secret twin brother who he has hidden to protect his throne; but will his carless ways force the hand of the royal court to seek out his replacement?"

10. Multiplicity DVD ~ Michael Keaton The list author says: "In order to find more time Doug Kinney opts to have a clone made of himself, and then another and a another, but all clones do not think alike."

11. The 6th Day DVD ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger The list author says: "Adam Gibson is secretly cloned and replaced after he sees something that he wasn't suppose to."

12. Twins DVD ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger The list author says: "Created in a lab, twins Julius and Vincent Benedict are prepared for society...well Julius is. He's perefct, but the smaller Vincent is sent to an orphanage. Years later the twins unite to find their mother."

13. Big Business DVD ~ Bette Midler The list author says: "In the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identcal twins are born on the same night at the same hospital of course they get mixed up. 40 years later the twins are forced to meet due to the closing of the Jupiter Hollow factory."

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America Has Become A Junk Bond Haven

American Slavery and Junk Bonds and Over-Spending Are Related

By Don White

China is livid. Great Britain and the West feel cheated. Americans are beginning to realize Obama has sold Americans and their children for a mess of pottage.

To know how America is traveling from the greatest nation on earth to the poorest, one must understand how President Barak Obama saw us coming. We were softened up with pride and get-rich schemes of the 1960s to the vastly over-financed housing market to personal debt. We have become a nation of big spenders and high leverage and meager savers. Fifty years ago our savings rate was the world’s highest. Now we’re seduced into buying the new car today and paying later.

Half of Americans are already in bondage to banks, with average credit card debt over $7,000 per cardholder. Yet, wasn’t it just yesterday that Obama announced he would be propping up banks and other credit institutions? Why? Because of the massive number of Americans who defaulted on houses, cars, vacations, boats, home remodeling, purchase of second homes, college student loans, and on and on – and they didn’t pay up.

The Honeymoon is over folks, start paying for only that which you can afford.

Our Spending Problem Is A moral Issue

Bailout mania is a real problem in this nation. It’s a moral issue and moral issues are taught in church. But half the country doesn’t go to church anymore, though they may espouse a religion. More and more people are becoming atheists – fifteen percent. In twenty years experts say it will be more than twenty-five percent. When a nation leaves God, history tells us it falls. Look at the Greeks, Romans, Babylonians, the Third Reich, and finally the Soviet Union. Will America be next?

Will the United States fall to it’s own greed and avarice or will our people wake up?

Let’s talk junk bonds of the 1960s and 1970s. They went viral just twenty-one years after the 1929 stock market crash precipitating the great depression. The depression wasn’t fixed by FDR’s spending programs. It took entry into World War II to stop it. It took the revving up of the greatest war machine in the history of the world when unemployment was zero and men went to war leaving their wives, little brothers, and sisters to work in the factories that turned out tanks, warplanes, guns, and ammunition.

The depression was a dismal time. I know, I was a kid during the depression when pants with holy knees and the same shirt five days a week was OK. People couldn’t afford daily baths or showers. No. But Mom made sure we took a bath every Saturday night to prepare for church on Sunday.

My parents were Democrats and they were propagandized to say it was caused primarily by the stock market fall. Very few people held stock, so that was only part right. Demand for consumer goods had weakened, business confidence was shaken and business investment fell as business failures rose. Add that to the market crash.

But by the mid-1950s, Americans were ceasing to regard the stock market with misgiving. They somehow felt it was designed for their getting rich. We even had a modest boom in 1954-55. The American industrial economy had become healthy because of the war – low unemployment, steady growth, and low inflation. Now Obama thinks his Afghanistan war will bring us out of this near depression?

Energetic young men led by social worker Bernie Cornfield and lawyer Edward Cowertt formed Investors Overseas Services (IOS). The name “overseas” was necessary because the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wouldn’t allow such nonsense in America. Poorly financed mutual funds were their game. Today we call it a Ponzi scheme. Banks and insurers also got involved. It was a vast sales organization in which securities salesmen recruited other salesmen and received a commission on their sales.

A German pyramid was eventually six stories high, and only a fraction of the original investment found its way into the securities it was meant to buy. The rest went into all those commissions.

The IOSs had problems primarily in countries like Brazil, Switzerland, and France.

What was Cornfield’s compelling appeal? “Do you sincerely want to be rich?”

Today’s Get Rich Scheme Is Tomorrow’s Bailout?

Today, we are bombarded with get-rich schemes on the Internet. Then, there were so-called respectable icons leading the way. People like FDR’s son James Roosevelt, UN official and GATT secretary general Eric Wyndham White, even Dr. Eric Mende, former vice-chancellor of the German Federal Republic. All lent their names to that phony enterprise.

In 1969, declining sales and securities prices worked their way back through the sales organization. Desperate to hold up prices, Cornfield was persuaded to yield the substantial remaining asset to Robert Vesco who fled with the money to Cuba for refuge.

Cornfield wasn’t charged with any criminal activity, though for months he was detained in a Swiss jail.

Real Estate Investment Trusts – Watch Out!

After that along came real estate investment trusts (REIT) backed by large international banks like Citibank, Manufactures Hanover, and Continental Illinois. They received large investments from OPEC and from the public. It was highly speculative. My wife and I owned some real estate and we thought this was just a good extension of that conservative buy. Boy, were we wrong – we lost our shirts.

What Are Junk Bonds?

They’re bonds without sufficient backing. Here’s a case in point. In the 1990s Orange County, California School Board had money to invest so they bought these D-rated bonds. That was their first mistake. They were offered a whole array of possible investments in various securities. Dealers take a security and cut it into slices called tranches. There were tranches for interest or principle. Then they were cut up in five, ten, fifteen, twenty years and so on.

A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum. The county school board bought a lot of interest tranches, believing that was the best way to make money. But someone else bought up all the principle tranches, leaving those who had the interest tranches out in the cold. You can’t make interest unless you have the principle, dummy.

If that is too hard, think of a milk cow. Farmer Jones gets some people to invest in the cow, others in the milk, and others in the cream. But one day the investor owning Old Nelly securities decided to make a whole lot more money quickly. He killed Old Nelly and cut her up for steaks. Oh, oh. No more milk or cream! Cream and milk securities suddenly became worthless.

Chinese Are Savers, Americans Spenders

Why is China so mad at America? Treasury Secretary Tim Gaithner pulled a number on them. He sold them junk bonds. Yes, investments in an America dollar that are worth only seventy-three percent of value a few years ago and before long the dollar won’t be worth anything. The Chinese complained. Here’s where Gaithner got very creative. He told President Hu Jintao if they would buy the junk bonds, in fifteen days he could sell them back to us and make some outrageous interest. Then Gaithner would put them on the market again in a razzle-dazzle deception befitting the Democrat leader.

Now when Obama gets health care, Cap and Trade, and his new Value Added Tax (VAT), he will need infusions of new money to pay for them. Where will he get the money? He will print new dollar bills. Then he will create junk bonds consisting of the new American dollar. When you go to cash it in five years, the dollar may only be worth ten cents.

What Other Trickery Has Obama Up His Sleeve?

China won’t take them anymore. So what trickery does Gaithner pull? It’s like I said above, but when he gets them back he knows there will be another sucker who will buy this junk on the open market somewhere in the world. This little bit of slight-of-hand dipsey-do is described in a Hub. ·

Obama-Geithner "Dipsy-do" Warrants Big Jail Time
by Don White

How Obama Will Stop China From Downgrading The Dollar

By Don White

I wrote the above articles. I thought Obama loved America, but I was wrong. I’ve learned that Obama has been unsuccessful in getting China from downgrading our dollar. And I’ve discovered that Obama doesn’t give a darned. He wants to make us squirm. “Spread the wealth,” remember? Why? Maybe you can comment on that one. Besides, it isn’t just the Chinese who have the say. It’s the world.

The Wimar Republic of Germany (1918-33) went down just before Hitler took over because their spending got out of hand. They were printing money so fast that soon they didn’t have time to print on both sides of the paper. Now, America is in that same jackpot, thanks to Barak Obama who doesn’t like America, anyway.

I wrote a Hub entitled: “Forget Afghanistan, Obama Is At War With America.” Now when we wonder when he’s going to bring home our boys or strengthen them so that they can fight effectively, can you see the relevance of that article?

Forget Afghanistan, Obama Is At War With America

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Michelle Obama's Ridiculous National Pose

”Let The Good Times Roll”

By Don White

Author’s Note: Half of the following was written tongue in cheek. It’s up to you to discover which half is satire and which is truth. As you know, satire is the lowest form of wit. Since this is only half satire, what does that make the author, a half-wit?

I don’t understand why when we elect a president, the wife, somehow, believes we also elected her…to something. There can be only one president.

Kenneth Walsh of U.S. News and World Report differs. He says they are usually an essential part of the governing team at the White House. Each takes on a project that reflect their core values, such as highway beautification for Lady Bird Johnson and the promotion of reading for Laura Bush. Michelle Obama’s “thing” is reaching out to war veterans’ families.

One time she reserved seats for Shannon Kendall of Georgetown, Texas, and her husband, Maj. Ryan Kendall, an Iraq veteran, who joined her at her husband’s March, 2009 address to a joint session of Congress.

Now her approval ratings have gone up in the polls from 32 percent to 63 percent and only 8 percent negative. Today's Michelle Obama has become what a senior Democratic strategist calls “a superstar.” It wasn’t always like that. About the time she, oops, Barak, was nominated by the Democrats she was the one who said “For the first time in my life I am proud of America.”

U.S. News says her outreach to the military “has important political implications.” Democrats are not known for their love of the U.S. military. Nonetheless, Michelle loves them and that’s all that counts because she rules her home and after five p.m. has the ear of the president. We all wonder if Mrs. Obama is being sincere or just shrewd. Historian Richard Norton Smith says that while he doesn’t doubt her sincerity, “you can be sincere and shrewd at the same time.” Really?

I’ve always had the naïve notion that these wives were just window dressing, assisting their hubbies write speeches, tying their ties, buffering them from inevitable depression and disappointments, and doing other off-stage things to help him. And all along I’ve been wrong. Laura Bush’s reading sessions with kids were really a subversive plot of George Bush to reform our schools; Jackie Kennedy’s love of paintings and clothes was really a plot by Jack to get the economy moving; Lady Bird’s fixing up of all those old post offices was really a plot to put rural people to work. Think of it, we’ve been duped and it is all for the good of America! Dupe us once more, please, would you? Make us believe our dollar is not being dumped into the toilet, or if it is, it’s for a worthy cause.

I wonder what that would be?

But conventional wisdom has held that few voters cast ballots for president based on the candidate's spouse and that’s the case with Michelle Obama who had negative ratings before the election.

Stay Off Stage As Much As Possible

I think it is highly improper and bordering on illegal – isn’t it? – for a Mrs. President to take the lead in anything major while he is in office. Millions of Americans agree with me. Look at how Hillary Clinton’s health-care proposals bombed. She and it were soundly defeated when Bill was president. Democrats came away saying, “It was Hillary’s fault.”

It’s partly because of the “hate Sarah Palin” syndrome. She was a woman running the big state of Alaska and doing a good job.  “How dare she try to run anything like the Vice presidency? That was, however, unlike the reception received by Christeen Todd Whitman (former New Jersey governor and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator under Bush and now a lobbyist),” The politicos didn’t hate her.

Why all the hate and fear?

Americans hate it when someone comes between them and their president. Joe Biden is the perfect vice president. He’s a bland jokester. He just sits there and smiles benignly, applauding at times, playing the good guy, but he’s too dumb to be a threat to Barak.

There is no room for a third party in Democrats’ love affair with Barak Hussein Obama. There’s just the president and the people. Down with any gosh-darned interlopers. And I don’t care if she is his wife.

During the election, Michelle Obama got angry a lot. What was her problem? Michelle clearly has a load of anger inside her that popped out as she made comments. Looking at her background, she enjoyed advantages some Americans never get (taxpayer funded Ivy-league college) and living in a mansion. The IRS says their income in 2007 was $4 million. One would think she would radiate happiness--but no. Obama's campaign was busily protecting her while claiming she had nothing to do with the campaign. What was wrong with that picture? I think Obama’s handlers knew something they didn’t tell.

Our love affair with Barak must be all or nothing

We are fully capable of loving our president and hating his wife. We want to see her only occasionally, and in the background. Lord knows she doesn’t belong in Senate committees testifying or sitting side-by-side with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran like lovers negotiating arm-wrestling rules. That would never do. Parenthetically, I would bet on Michelle on that one, wouldn’t you” Have you seen how puny Mahmoud looks compared to that tall, muscular Michelle who, in heels, actually looks down on Barak? 

Americans hold up presidential wives to a higher degree of appreciation, purity and fidelity. Yes, higher, actually, than they hold our presidents. That’s why wives should remain above politics and stay out of sight.

Is There A Muslim In The House?

Perhaps here in America we should adopt Sharia dress for our women. Wives would wear the niqāb, an Arabic veil which covers the face. Some Muslim women wear it as a part of sartorial hats and hijāb, overly-large plain dresses called burkas that don’t show their lovely shapes and strong arms. Now that’s ultimate modesty. Could Muslims be onto something?

We could spend an entire article on those Michelle Obama arms. She looks more athletic and physical than her husband. I imagine them at night. She wants to go to India on a fact-finding mission but Barak says, “No, honey, it’s too dangerous.” Then she challenges him to arm-wrestle her over it. You know who wins that one. She travels to India taking two jets with make-up artists and a hundred SS men because “…it’s too dangerous.” That’s OK, it only costs two million dollars a jet and several million for the Secret Service.

But look, you can’t measure the great PR this could generate. She could take Deseree Rogers with her – you know, the one who applies her lipstick – and that fine French White House gourmet cook. They would wow their guests and she would always be in style. But why? She’s not president. You just can’t leave Barak to fend for himself like Whimpey often did wolfing down Burger Kings. He would get so heavy he wouldn’t be able to sink his jump shot.

Is Michelle’s Pride the Equal of Hillary’s?

Could Hillary’s lust for photo ops and issue co-opting be a reason she didn’t win the 2008 Democrat Party nomination? People remembered how officious and ridiculous she looked when she was “in charge” of shepherding a losing health care bill through Congress. They resented her, and the more we see of Michelle Obama out there with her own causes, the more Americans will begin resent her, too, unless she confines it to her genuine love for the military. She doesn’t want to be seen infringing upon the presidential power of her husband. He’s our Nobel Peace Prize winner, remember, not her. 

On the other hand, I wonder if Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele could get Michelle to defect over to the GOP in 2012? Hey, Mike, offer her the presidency. If she ran against Barak, by golly, I think she could win. Then Barak could be the First Gentleman and have time to improve his basketball skills and join the Bulls, his true ambition. Is there really much difference between Democrat and Republican lawmakers, anyway?

This love-hate thing for the president and against his wife is a tenuous reaction and must be watched carefully in Michelle’s case. Remember, she’s has a law degree from Harvard and is smarter than Barak. In fact, she may be already running the country and making the big decisions. When Barak falls asleep she gets subliminal thought control of him, telling him what he needs to do the following day. Ah, ha! So it’s Michelle Obama the communist who is in control. I want Barak, the conservative, back – the man who ran for president, not this shabby left wing radical who has suddenly emerged putting us trillions of dollars in debt.

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