April 6, 2007 journal, blossoms are raining down and pollen is high as azaleas bloom and wisteria adds purple to the surroundings. Spring is my favorite time of year although it is freezing tonight. Easter seems always to bring winter back for a few days and threatens the peach crop now in full bloom. Hay fever has devastated me all this week but now I am getting control back. They say to burn bees wax candles to create negative ions and clear the air we breathe. I see green in ever direction and yellow and get excited to paint. This is Good Friday when the Christian church celebrates the crucifixion of 'Yesu' The Christ whom they most all call "Jesus" the modern name given in the 17th century after having gravitated over several centuries one letter of a time. I believe Christ died on a cross as the sacrificial lamb and that he is the divine Son of God, that he lives today in heaven where he is preparing a place for his saints. Look for the coming of the Lord. Easter egg hunts originated from paganism. A cruise liner has run aground on a Greek Island in the Mediterranean Sea with a 1000 American tourists on board after hitting a wreath while approaching the dock on arrival. The captain has been arrested for negligence, he says the wind drifted him onto the rocks. 2 people are missing and feared dead because the vessel listed immediately to the right. A retired general of the American military has stated that our military defense of the home land is coming unraveled. Washington's crooked politicians from both sides have on sun glasses to hide their faces from reality of a sinking ship or this sinking American Empire While John McCain walks the streets of Baghdad declaring it safe with an army following him and helicopters circling overhead and 60 minutes showing him speaking up foolishly. Baghdad is lost as well as all of Iraq and we are trying to prop it up with human flesh and blood. Impossible. Six more American soldiers will die this weekend. The Pope is calling for an immediate stop to this bloodshed and I appreciate him on this issue although he is portrayed on television as the Great White Father like God blessing the people. I sure do appreciate the Catholic church stand against abortion.. I'm not against Catholic people, I am against the doctrine of Catholicism, the false mother Mary idols of worship and against the Catholic doctrine of forgiving sin or the substitute body of Christ or their priest that are claiming to be Christ. The people are always the innocent victims. What will happen in that day when your money does not spend and there's no food in the grocery stores and Burger King has no beef? I see chaos arising and people being herded into cattle cars like the Nazis did it. There will be no gasoline and no jobs for nobody and people be starving. There will be no safe place and they will steal close off your back and food out of your baby's hand. This is the result of war and it's like that in Baghdad now. It will be like that here also as our economic system comes unraveled. April 8, 2007 journal, a cold Easter Sunday morning with temperature 23 degrees here. The delicious abundent peach crop may be lost to frost unless the wind blows to keep the blossoms dry. list of lies in the book the colorful apocalypse by Greg bottoms compiled April 8, 2007. revelation serious about William Thomas Thompson, list of heroes, lies and distortions. a a statement of facts. to begin reading what Greg bottoms has said about me I find very little to be actual facts. Occasionally there will be some facts of truth but most of it is flavored or colored and told in his own way without regard for the accurate details. He chose the largest name in the industry Howard Finster to begin at Paradise Gardens yet he says he would not watch his childhood teenage film on Finster "less it jog his memory and he get it right". Obviously Greg Bottoms did not intend to get it right on any of the three featured artist. Of the 62 pages on me and my art barely none is actually right and if he did make tapes or notes he did not refer back to them I must assume for the same reason that he did not want to see Finster's again. I am only stating what is wrong with my section. Beginning on page 57 with the name revelation. From his second model book with page 58 blank and page 59 not numbered has lead account up and costs from Acts Chapter 2 . I am always proud to see that scripture quoted and he has a quote from Susan Sontag which is apparently a neutral or meaningless in my case. Page 60 is also blank then there is a number 7 on page 61 he is giving certain background information as to getting acquainted and I find nothing seriously wrong with that text. On page 62 however he begins to confuse names and places and "me in saying demonic conspiracy which I did not say. We were both from a farming family is all the course South" and ". The trip to Hawaii was even more confused were I was guest of the University of nations not and he low but, the west side of upon and I was a long and not with my wife, she had already returned home. To correct a meaningful era on page 62 third pair ground we never supported the University of nations before or sense, we had supported Christian missions mainly in South Africa and Nigeria and Hong Kong through the Pentecostal holiness Church. " The missionary organization that trains preachers and sends them all the world " and action the couple had financial is supported for years". Cox regarding my official condition it was generally as he stated except I never said my hands Coral like all calls and shall yield he raised his hand ". Armed ". I did not seek medical care on the Big of Hawaii, I did use the Veterans Administration clinic in Honolulu Hawaii during the trip. if bottoms recorded as he says then he shut have replayed the recording to get an accurate. It disturbs me even to do so and I agree and of some things may make little difference other things and make a great deal of difference when they are slanted in the wrong direction although this is like way come to compare to things later indicate article of serious politicians violations of fact and human rights. page 64 bottoms description of my seeing the vision to paint art is a figma of his own imagination adding colorful things like birds chirping car engines humming the unbearable pressure of this can't which was not feeling then he " some people just blow their brains out " he said that I did not. I was not feeling of all the separate he quotes me as saying later some people just put an end to it" that is a lie of his imagination because I never said it. The third paragraph on page 64 is totally fabricated after from bottoms mind and description without any relationship at all to what I said I did not see the horsemen of Apocalypse or the warmonger mom or the dragon beast as he claims I did not see the book of local revelation as he claims I did not see the New Jerusalem. That is the vision of John the apostle on the all Patmos and I have never claimed to have scene that vision. I did see the coming a Lord and the world on fire and that is all I saw the. . Bottoms creation then and the last part of page 64 where he seems to be quoted me as saying that when I came to from the vision my wife to Matt was beside me as before listening same old to Matt heavy, Reserve, practical, soft-spoken, solid as ever, after all this false after all these years. I have never a formal life as being heavy and never had heard her called that before but that seems to be a pet peeve for Greg bottoms in describing many people with insults. I consider this a very cheap trick by a nonprofessional and dishonest journalist or writer, I really do not think of it as jour draw a some. I do not consider bottom as not credible or reliable and I would not trust him to write anything about me in the future. 90 percent of this text is a stigma of bottoms imagination. There was an enthusiastic preacher speaking The gospel and to award upon and somewhat imperfect but I never thought of him as a biker or with tattoos and I certainly do not remember it forever cloud spun the Pacific are who said a man or the congregation waving hands. All this makes for a good story to benefit the writer and perhaps it is not worth mentioning other than to establish a pattern of faults caller and imagination to fill in the blanks of bottoms fantasy. On page 65 he gives an account of my having a simulated auto accident when I did not but I may have told him this story as it happened to me. I do not recognize it when I read it in the book as being the same account or a van. I was in Houston Texas after I became crumpled not before. I was driving on the interstate and somewhat distracted I approached stalled traffic in every lane she it will late and seem to panic slamming my crippled foot on a break and its foot slipped off. I had to look down and take my hand to pull my foot loose from between the brake pedal and the accelerator and physically place it on the brake pedal and I saw them I was too late to stop. That did go through what I felt was an accident and I saw in my mind the hood fold up and I heard the crushing and I saw the man in front of me looking back as though he was being hit but then everything came to a still position and I realized that I had not hit the car in front of me by some miracle I believe this accident was actually reversed. This account is all I've ever told anyone and that being very few people. I claim no special place with God and do not count myself worthy of his mercy. It is sad when one takes this and writes his own story any pre-emptive is the real truth and perhaps a miracle if that be how it truly was. As I continue reading on page 65 I can see how loose and careless Greg bottoms writes without regard to the facts in his novelistic and factional trying to make colorful without using the art that he has promised. He is the real artist and architect of this wilderness of is Lomb imagination. I have never stated that I considered continue seeing the callers " his revelation as he calls it " all this a cellular rhetoric silly rhetoric out of bottoms mental pit. Revealing his dishonesty. there was times I had trouble sleeping during the stress of the business particularly during the time of financial strain but I do not recall live during these days. I was not angry as she alleges in the first line of page 66 I was not behaving strangely (who said that?) bottoms did! STATEMENT OF FACT America 0h yes- Dear Laura. The colorful apocalypse book by Greg bottoms has you listed as selling the book if you go through about 50 pages and I want to tell you that the book is trash. Greg bottoms presented himself to Norbert and me as a friendly Virginia boy writing an art book but instead he set out to destroy us with 117 of the 182 pages in the book full of lies about us. The book has no art images inside of it. The way it appears on your website it seems to suggest that you are showing finster images as being inside the book of only black-and-white wrangling pages. we are considering suing Chicago University Press for being a part of fraud and conspiracy to defraud by their deliberate chopping of our collaboration painting we entitled idolatry that they printed on the cover sheet that covers the blank black hardcover. I sent this image directly to the publisher and had they not carefully altered it, it would have proven the author Greg bottoms a liar right on the cover. Greg bottoms classified the 3 artists- Finster Thompson and Kox as from the poor Christian south. The book is a shame and disgrace and belongs more in grocery stores along with National Enquirer and the smut magazines against Christianity. Bottoms claims the 666 number on our idolatry painting does not add up when the Roman numerals are applied as we claim but they do and there is plenty of evidence to prove it. Bottoms invents a new Latin word in his obsessed rage as 'viciviliid' accuses me of using it on my 300 ft Revelation Revealed painting page 84, a word which does not exist in any language in the world. I intend to see that his University of Vermont and University of Chicago are confronted with this phony. Bottoms makes fun of us and our friends/relatives/family like saying my bother had on gold rings with a gold chain around his neck when he never has, even lying about my mother. He tries to make us out to be racist. This is not an art book and I am sure people ordering from you thinking Finster's work is inside will cause you problems. We are demanding the book be recalled immediately and equal time be given us by Chicago University Press to counter its lies and false charges where in many cases he reverses what we say to mean the complete opposite. This is like an attack from the underworld. Bottoms never told us that his brother was imprisoned for murder or attempted murder and he paints us all in the same category as his insane brother while he appears to be insane or schizophrenic at least with a vengeance against Christian people and especially effective artists. please read the review written and posted at the top of the site from Pittsburgh. please also read the rebuttal Norbert has posted on the powells books website in Portland under the colorful apocalypse book