08/17/2023
We hope the renovations coming to the shop maintain the integrity of it's original state, and that they don't push the spirits that dwell here out of their home... With all much as I've seen in here over the past 5 years, I hope they'll let me visit during the renovations just to see if it increases the activity, cuz lately there's been an uptick in activity and it feels like they're knowing that I'm going and...I think they did like having someone that talks to them and isn't scared if something harmless and just... Being. And recognizing their being. And not tryn to force them out or being weird... Well, not to them... In sure I'm weird to some of the people that are scared of them... But I'm more worried about someone scared of something they can't even identify than something I can't identify that never did anything to me except run past or peep in a door to see what I was doing, or... Walked around in my ceiling knocking on different spots until I hollered up asking what it was doing up there, causing it to miss a beat before proceeding with... Checking the structural integrity? Aside from being mildly annoying for a few minutes before concluding it's knocking... Without hurting anybody or disturbing anything... They've never hurt me or made me feel threatened. If anything, I think they've helped deter negative energy from people that are threatened by the whole, Fear Nothing-Love Everything, Do as thou whilst-but harm none, and, the whole Love, Peace, Truth, Freedom, Justice business model we operate under. It's strange to consider those things as a threat, until you realize capitalism requires taking advantage of situations in order to make gains off others losses, lack of information or unfortunate situation. Which is why it's called unfortunate, un-remove fortune-belongings. And instead we always told people that brought in something amazing that we couldn't afford to make a respectable offer... And to have that lead to more people saying they didn't really care and giving it a price they were happy with having received and with being able to leave me plenty room to give it's new owner a good deal and everyone being happy... And it's been amazing.
Our main concern isn't even about where were going, it what we're gonna do, because The Universe appreciates being appreciated and recognized and acknowledged, so we know what's next is gonna be epic and that we're gonna be provided for. Whatever energy may have tried to push us out by using circumstances that had ripple effects that people didn't consider, or if they did consider didn't care about, (but we prefer to believe it was just an unintentional oversight that hadn't been considered, or that was presented as an acceptable collateral unfortunate event that would ultimately be a better situation for the community), didn't realize that we realize every blessing come with a curse and curse with a blessing and so, maybe it was a positive force using ill intentions to push us out of the nest and our lil fortress of solitude to start doing something bigger than just being here to provide a morale boost for someone having a rough week up till Wednesday and needing a little inspiration and motivation or affirmation as to why exactly they were gonna go back the rest of the week and keep at it, and not feel so bad about it cuz they got something that makes them smoke out feel good or remind them of a special person place or thing or time that brings then joy.
After 5 years and proving to ourselves and anyone that doubted us that we could maintain a business without having to tap out or fold under and close up and having outside of our control scenarios do us in... We're grateful for the opportunity to bow out gracefully and pursue those bigger contributions to the community and thinking maybe even aiming to bring it efforts to society as a whole. We just hope that whoever replaces us is every bit as successful if not more, and that they provide an experience that will be able to have as far reaching of a draw all we were able to establish, with regular customers as widespread as Tulsa and Kansas City and Springfield, and maybe even having people come from as far as Texas to take advantage of what they heard was an amazing selection that you could only find online, but in a real honest to goodness brick and mortar, and with prices that were better than online stores and discounts for bulk buys that made the trip worthwhile. And in addition to their prosperity by doing so, continuing to help draw people to their shop who will stop for a meal or visit other local business and support them as well before gassing up and heading home and helping the community generate the funds we need to not just continue the maintenance of our city, but maybe they'll be even better and draw enough that we can improve things and add cultural attractions like, a museum of Joplin history besides just the minerals focus that neglects the educational information about the robust produce production and centralized redistribution of foodstuffs and commodities that used to come here from all over the country and ship back out to the districts that needed them, back when we were districts and this area produced record breaking fruits and vegetables. All you have to do is look at the amazing architecture and former services and novelties offered to realize we were WAY more than a bunch of rowdy and uneducated land pirates stripping the land of it's minerals while poisoning the land and somehow building massive old world structures and roads that ran along their rooftops... Then having the Mafia show up in the 30s, coincidentally right when the mines played out, and then try decades of decline, leading to a massive urban renewal deconstruction project on the 50s & 60s removing an abundance of housing and business options, of which 2 hotels are the only places remembered, to make room for modern wood and plaster structures that don't withstand life in tornado alley nearly as hardly as brick and mortar structures, but that look new and modern while there here. After all, doesn't our great city, the crossroads of this great nation-with 5 states to our east and west, 2 to our north and south, not deserve to have it's HISTORY told rather than being represented by and known only for Stories and Tales that neglect to even address the fact that WE were the REASON that America was Once Upon A Time GREAT and that without a Healthy Heart NOTHING can become Great Again and excert any sort of meaningful effort to achieve and obtain Great Things... And that the ENTIRE NOTION OF and ABILITY TO even consider Making America Great Again depends SOLELY on OUR ability to Make Joplin Great Again. And that Greatness isnt achieved by lying and hiding history and being afraid of the repercussions of and consequences that may arise from exercising the reestablishment of the Foundations of Greatness, and The Pillars of Faith that support the weight of Greatness and the Powers and Responsibilities that come with it and eminate from it.
There is Nothing To Fear but Fear Itself... Fear is what brought down This Great Metropolis, the Heart of this Once Great Nation. And the collapse of THIS Great City was what brought about the collapse of This Great Nation...
And Greatness is achieved with dedication and service in the pursuit of achieving and maintaining and adhering to a community rooted in and centered around Love Peace Truth Freedom and Justice being it's guidestones and support structure.
And that without them, or with fake imitation stucco covered twigs pretending to be them, any wolf that comes huffing and puffing is going to blow it down. But with the genuine article, the real McCoy, the authentic and true, no corners cut, no costs spared construction of a community focused effort to reclaim a Greatness that was Stolen from it, by recognizing a history that was hidden from it, WE CAN BE THE CATALYST THAT MAKES AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. But not if we continue to DENY our former Greatness and Lie to Look like we were Never Great... Just cutthroat roughnecks and ra**st and murderers and thieves catered to by capitalists who came and built beautiful buildings and theaters to house and entertain them in their lawless and immoral acts of violent and b***y activities, throwing out their morals that would oppose that type of community standard in their capitalistic pursuit of money money money like Mr Crabs watching nematodes destroy the planet and each other as long as they could stick a straw into the Greatness of those things and suck out some profits while The Greatness created by that depravity lasted and the last drop had been squeezed from the land and then leaving the skeleton of a once Proud center for Greatness that they claim was surrounded by and populated with cave pirates who provided said Greatness before scurrying off with the profits and NOT keeping it local but rather turning it into a wasteland of sorts that seems fur all intent and purpose to be on a slow painful decline despite its best efforts to defy it's destruction and defiled reputation. The denial and suppression of it's TRUE GREATNESS is the ONLY thing keeping this ENTIRE NATION from EVER being able to once again BE GREAT... Because according to what we're told about Joplin it, was never really great. It was essentially a world expo fair with a bunch of mines and entertainment for miners and it only Appeared Great but was actually seedy and dangerous and trafficked prostitutes until the 30s, then apparently must have been the glue holding EVERYTHING together EVERYWHERE because coincidentally, as soon as the mines played out in the 30s the nation plunged into bankruptcy and a Great Depression swept over the land and absolutely everyone suffered. Except whatever Empire built it's State Building in New York at the time and made it the largest building in the world. They apparently did quite well for themselves amongst all the suffering, and even tho I've never seen any other city as magnificent as Joplin once was that was built off the deprived activities they claim built it... But now actively prevent from occurring because they lost their ability to work their magic without having lead dust to poison the land like some sort of magic activation affect that causes the Greatness to Grow out of a Fertilizer Society...?
No, this just won't do. With that kind of absurd assertion and blatantly obvious MISREPRESENTATION the only Greatness America will have Again... Is the Great Depression that they know most aren't scary enough to realize it's the "Great" eluded to in their magic spell of hocus pocus like hypnotizing chant if Make America Great Again if that's the History and Greatness they claim we once were. If we allow for the continued denial of activities and suppression of The Truth regarding the REAL GREATNESS that we once were, RIGHT HERE in this, THE HEART of America... Then there's no official acknowledgement of WHAT Greatness EXACTLY it is that they're referring to. The Greatness that consisted of THE SUBWAY SYSTEM THAT ONCE CONNECTED GALENA, JOPLIN, AND CARTHAGE? Or the Greatness of the Efforts it took to bury, flood, and hide the UNDERGROUND RAILROAD that was used by MELANATED PEOPLE that completely contradicts our ENTIRE FABRICATED HISTORY and whose existence was covered up like dogs placing a couch cushion on a pile of p**p hoping nobody will notice what they've done, and justifying the accounts of atrocities committed and excusing them away as the acts of unrefined miners, and the accounts of destruction by miners and mining, existing hand in hand and side by side with the creation of the Metropolis of the Ozarks somehow and subsequent decline being put forth to explain their underground activities of destroying and flooding a subway system that would expose the fictitious rendition of reality in order to maintain a nationwide denial of The Truth with either the illogical belief that Greatness can be built on the shifting sands of A Lie even as they acknowledge the fact that a Church Needs A Rock of Stability AsA Foundation to stand the tests of time OR the INTENTIONAL construction of an unmaintainable system DESIGNED TO FAIL hoping that when the cards all come crashing down that the Heart of This Great Nation will FINALLY Collapse Upon Itself with Such Force and Fury as to deliver the Death Blow to America as a Whole. My intention is to stop that from happening by FEARLESSLY expressing my OATH OF COMMITMENT TO THE RECOGNITION AND PROTECTION OF THE TRUTH and my unshakable opposition to the continued acceptance and propagation of A Lie created to rob us of our True Potential by denying the existence of our Past Potential having been intentionally and maliciously destroyed and it's True Origins suppressed. If you would prefer a museum dedicated to lies and misinformation, the Smithsonian is already established and everything they want you to see and think is displayed and interpreted for you. And all the oopart (out of place artifacts) concealed in the basement... Not on display. Not in photographed and made available for observation through an online archive that displays what's there and why OUR tax money pays to keep it housed OUT OF SIGHT to justify the costs of housing stuff we can't even see and therefore, if it's not important enough to present and enjoy having to have some sort of value fund in it's concentrated concealment and continued care rather than sold to private collections or consigned to community museums fur public enjoyment and education... Serving no purpose but to cost us money pointlessly, or to charge us for concealing the truths from ourselves...🤔 And then forcing us to pay taxes to support education systems that are mandatory to attend where they only teach us what's in the main display at the Smithsonian and the interpretation of the displayed artifacts mass produced and distributed in approved curriculum based on textbooks provided initially by the Ford Foundation of Public Education, provided by a private citizen who is choosing to invest his fortune in educating a nation. A private individual whose antisemitic beliefs aren't hidden ... But whose involvement in an "attempted" military coup of the nation isn't included in the text books he supplied to the Mandatory public school system that was developed along side reformation and preparatory schools at the exact same time.
If JOPLIN wants to do ITS PART in facilitating the definition of the meaning by and intention behind the Great in Making America Great Again, then we get to decide if that means Resurrection, or Depression. Do we want it to be Love and Light again, or Hate and Darkness? Truth and Prosperity or Lies and Degradation? We MUST act in alignment with our Intention OPENLY AND FEARLESSLY. Because others already are, hidden and scared of this very exposure of their past and present deeds hindering the future intentions by igniting a spark of recognition that may be fanned into a flame of passion and opposition to the fire burning thru The Truth in it's attempt to weaken it's foundation and collapse it in an irreparable and unrecognizable heap of contradictions and hypocrisy that will Never be Great Again.
Which is why I seek to locate one of the MANY empty and NEGLECTED buildings in this Amazing City, Rich With History SO Enthralling that the very TELLING of it would provide the Script for a Blockbuster Presentation that would blow boxoffice records through the roof and provide the city with the revenue to either Rebuild and Restore it's Greatness, or get on with it already and complete the Greatest cover up and Denial ever attempted and undergone. The GREATEST Comeback Victory of ALL Time, by The Truth overcoming all attempts to destroy it OR The GREATEST Upset Victory of ALL Time, by the Lie caring out the Greatest Deception of all time successfully, despite its obvious yet unbelieved existence. My intention is to acknowledge it ALL in a nonjudgemental and unbiased manner, with Integrity and Dedication to nothing but The Truth as presentable in a logical manner, with continuity and no requirements of Faith in improbable and unprovable "stories" and "tales", but with Logical and Displayable Presentation of Facts and Proofs. And the Fearless Pursuit of that being opposed by only those whose goal is Oppression. Silencing a voice of Love and Light, who promotes only Freedom and Kindness and who asks in truth NOTHING but to be left in Peace to assist in the reestablishment of Greatness WE can ALL be PROUD of. Regardless of race, age, s*x, religion, nationality, or any other category they use to divide us and attempt to make us forget we are ALL PEOPLE. Big PEOPLE. Average PEOPLE. Little PEOPLE. Which is WHY it starts with the words WE THE PEOPLE, and doesn't break into separate and divided classifications with different conditions for each the way we PRETEND our society doesn't.
So, yes, please support whatever business replaces this one at 1204 S MAIN. Spread the word of their existence as I'm sure they'll provide something that the people who their demographic is comprised of will be excited to talk about and share with others, and perhaps that demographic will be "a little bit of something fur everyone" and this location will continue to draw support for the community from hundreds of miles away, and offer a fun and friendly experience to everyone who seeks it, near and far.
Thanks to our Tulsa supporters, our KC visitors, our Springfield regulars, our random vacationing travelers who have returned to visit and sent others our way with your raving reviews and, if not in this fashion, in some other meaningful way, we'll continue to serve in providing an effort to dedicate ourselves to providing Love, light, Truth, and Integrity in our effort resuscitate not only the Greatness of Positivity and Abundance ... But the Sense of Community that was not only a result of it, but a key component to the foundation of it.
If you know of a possible location to house the historic artifacts and present the more inclusive History that addresses ALL of Joplin and The True accounts that comprise The Greatest Story Never Told, Until Now... Now it's the time to throw your hat in the ring, walk the walk, and be a Real Leader, putting Our Community First until it's time to step between It and any threat to It's well-being Until said that is neutralized and corrected. Then falling back and enjoying the security and stability that comes with the identification and denial of deception and it's entry into Our Great Community in it's attempts to convert Our Abundance into Intentional Shortages to create a limited supply and heightened demand at the cost of the community for the profit of the corporation, in a manner that deprives us of our Quality of Life, Level of Liberty, and Amount of Freedom to Provide them with the Maximum of all of those with the Minimal output or reciprocation.
This is where we stand, and if you stand with us, we're Proud to stand by Your side.
