The Epic Journey to The Great Palace of Non-Judgment
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Guilty Sinner has a problem with his homeland. His homeland could have been some version of Orange County in the 1970s or the Bay Area of today. It's an inhospitable place, an emotional desert, where only economic victory is rewarded and where no excuses are allowed for failure. It's a humorless, grim world. Guilty Sinner must flee and become a refugee, scouring the world for some place to lay his head, some haven from the economic concentration camp that his homeland always was. He had been given a set of answers from which no deviation is allowed, but he has deviated anyway. He stumbles into a strange new land. He struggles to understand it. Maybe it's too good to be true.
Mel C. Thompson
Mel C. Thompson is a retired wage slave who survived by working through temp agencies and guard agencies. Unable to survive in the real world of full-time, permanent work, he migrated from building to building, going wherever his agencies sent him, doing any type of work he could feign competency in and staying as long as those fragile arrangements could last. He somehow managed to get a B.A in Philosophy from Cal-State Fullerton in spite of his learning disorders and health problems. Unable to sustain family life due to depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, lack of transportation and lack of income, he lives alone in low-income housing and wanders around California on buses and trains. He began writing at the age of 14 and continues till the current day. (He turns 64 in June of 2023). In his early years he wrote pathetic love poetry until, in his thirties, he was engulfed by cynicism and fell in with a group of largely antisocial poets who wrote about the underground life of drugs, sex, alcohol, poverty, prostitution, heresy, isolation and alienation. In his fortes he turned to prose and began to write religious fiction with an emphasis on the comedic aspect of theology and philosophy. He now writes short novels focusing on the attempt to find meaning in a economic world beset with money laundering, unethical marketing, contraband smuggling, human trafficking, patent trolling, corrupt contracting and every manner of spiritual and psychological desperation and degradation. When he is not writing, he wanders from hospital to medical clinic to surgical room attempting to sustain what little health he has left after a lifetime of complications resulting from birth defects and genetic problems. When he is able, he engages in such hobbies as reading, walking, yoga and meditation; and whenever there is any money left over from his healthcare-related quests, he goes to wine tastings and searches for foodie-related bargains. Before the pandemic, he spent many years gaming various travel-points systems and wrangled many free trips to Europe. He is divorced and has no children, no pets, no real estate, no stocks nor any other assets beyond the $550 in his savings account. His career peaked in the early 2000s when he did comedy gags for a radio station and had about 10,000 listeners per week. However, currently, he may have as few as five active readers on any given day. He no longer has the stamina to promote his work and only finds new readers through ran...
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The Epic Journey to The Great Palace of Non-Judgment - Mel C. Thompson
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The Epic Journey
to The Great Palace
of Non-Judgment
Mel C. Thompson
Copyright © 2016 & 2023
Mel C. Thompson Publishing
3559 Mount Diablo Boulevard, #112
Lafayette, CA 94549
melcthompson@protonmail.com
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This book is dedicated to all of the beloved artists, commentators, musicians, actors, producers, writers, photographers, directors comedians and scholars who were caught up the great social media purges and mass media purges that began in 2016 and continue to this day.
This book is also dedicated to all of the thinkers, writers, scientists, college professors and public speakers who now live in fear due to the cold, gray hand of social-justice mass-movements. May they all one day be free from the seemingly irresistible power of peer pressure and prior censorship.
This book is also dedicated to all the beloved friends who perished in the economic purges of the 1980s and 1990s and those who are still dying because of the lack of mental health care facilities and rehabilitation facilities.
This book is also dedicated to all of the workers who are unable to transition into the information-age economy and are slowly being pushed out of their homes and into the streets. May we one day prioritize their struggles.
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Table of Contents
Responsible For Everything In The Universe
The Ancient Dialect
Real Relationships
Opulence
One of Those Sad Countries
Feeling Superior Was The Ultimate
The Bane of Everyone’s Existence
An Extensive Confession Is Quite Necessary
A Humiliating Failure All Around
As For The Alleged Offenses
Tea Houses, Brothels, Temples, Opium Dens
Questions of This Magnitude
Author’s Notes On The New Paperback Edition
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Responsible For Everything In The Universe
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Guilty Sinner had come a long way, or so it felt. He was what we might now call a refugee seeking asylum, although the current version of Victory-Only Dialect spoken in his own country didn’t admit of the words refugee
or asylum.
He was fleeing the doctrine of his being Responsible For Everything In The Universe. His quest was a simple one. He was looking for some sanctuary, a haven where people believed in anything other than his being Responsible For Everything In The Universe. So far he’d had no luck in his search.
Not only was his personal life a disaster, but the personal lives of the others around him seemed to be even more disastrous than his own. To make matters worse, it turned out that wherever he went, none of the governments, religions or businesses seemed to be faring any better. These things wouldn’t have troubled him too deeply, except everywhere he went, he was told that any unhappiness he observed, whether it was his own or anyone else’s — all of it was his own personal creation; and none of the responsibility for any of it could be assigned to any force outside of himself. He was, they reiterated, Responsible For Everything In The Universe.
Life is what you make it,
he was always told. However, never at any point did he recall creating his own life, nor the world that life was lived in. Whether life and the world were made by gods, physics, biology or sheer chance — he had no idea. There was only one thing that was clear to him: This existence was not manufactured by him or sustained by him. He was certain that there were forces larger than himself, whether those forces were the tides, the planets, gravity, entropy, angels, deities, warriors, politicians or scientists. He was certain he was not the final word in terms of how his life went or how the lives of others in the world went. He simply saw no evidence of his having that level of control over anything.
And so he had no relationships