Fundamentals

Before I even start this I can tell it will be a bit of rambling. My mentor once said as the world gets darker the lights will only shine brighter. lol. Miss him. My continued involvement on this earth sharpens the "other than" difference between normal people and those possessing real Christian faith. aka Conviction of things unseen. The extraordinary thing about my experience is that things seem simpler and simpler as life moves on. I used to struggle to see any distinction between myself and how others think and now it hits me over the head like a ten pin bowling ball on a daily basis. Also, it comes down to some very simple bottom line thought lines which spread like oak trees throughout my thought patterns. I thought I'd toss out the ones that come to mind. I'm sure I'll miss a few; they're all intertwined; since the God of Christianity is the perpetrator of all of them.

1. Creation: Already spoke to this in  a previous post. There is a daily onslaught of subtle and not so subtle opining that all things evolution are true and good while anything smelling of creation is naive, stupid and hateful. I don't mean any type of watered down view that thinks the first day might be millions of years. I mean the 6-24 days variety right off the pages. Ya gotta remember Jesus quoted from this historical tomb when it was in it's completed stage. The spirit of the Antichrist is so apparent in this sphere. No worries about the environment, God's going to create a new heaven and new earth. Mr. molecular management.

2. Man is sinful: Meaning man is fundamentally evil. It's not your upbringing, it really is genetic. Well not really genetic but the fact that you are human brings it upon you. The sins are visited from previous generations but only in type. Whoever raises you will shape the way it's expressed. If you were born on a desert island you'd be a sinner. This view is also anathema to virtually every educational discipline. That's what's psychiatry is for, make you better. Listen to Oprah, Dr. Phil, Hollywood, yadda, yadda. Go to therapy. Now all the problems are genetic. Everything and anything except the real source. And God doesn't blame you for Adam's fateful detour, he gave up his son for you to get fixed.

(sidebar: I believe my favorite movie is "Ordinary People". Perhaps because it so accurately portrays the nature of relationships in a family. At one point the main character says he doesn't believe in God. Nevertheless the fundamental theme is his ability to forgive himself. He finds a true friend who leads him there. The irony of this is not lost on me. A movie offering the answers to all our problems denying the existence of he who is the only way. Nevertheless, I appreciate the honesty of the godless reality and the state of mankind without him. A place I am familiar with but no longer frequent)

3. Immortality of the Soul: Sorry, no nice warm bed to spend your afterlife in. Not even a darkened eternal bliss without consciousness. Scary enough. Nope, all souls live eternally. Would you expect anything less from a creator. It's just a question of in what state of mind you'll be in and where that will be. Yep, good old fashioned heaven and hell. I'm shuffled off to the loony bin at this point. The current intelligentsia deals with this in countless ways with endless movies, books, shows to calm any fears. Holding out the heroes and aspirations of money, sex and power on this earth as Satan did to our Lord. Still can't get around it though; it really is a matter of time. No one's ever gone and come back, save one.

4. Jesus Christ being the only means to Salvation: A salvation not required if the first three are rejected. I guess I'm beginning to realize why this would ramble. It's like being in a forest and trying describe each tree and how it intertwines with the others. Basically everything of the "world" is at war with everything in the kingdom. The three I've already mentioned do spread far and wide through a broad range of disciplines. Then I get to number four which is of course what the world is doing everything it can to deny by utilizing lies about the first three. Every day it just becomes more apparent. Especially in a country that was founded by men who believed all of this and embedded those thoughts in a framework to build the greatest country on earth. On every front and by the boldest of steps that is being dismantled as quickly as possible. I believe all in preparation for the end of this aeon. 

Aeon Doodle

I generated a lengthy diary during a pivotal time period in my pilgrims progress. I think it was simply a spill over from not having a necessary third reference point to balance the mental chair. While this is meager by comparison, rereading what I thought a week or month ago still provided a reference point.

At some time I hope to dictate it’s contents into a software tool and limitedly publish those words to those who might find them relative to their experience - an exceptionally small audience by any measure. Nevertheless, this diary was a very useful and necessary venting of some critical issues that eventually came to full resolution.

In the diary I infrequently took to doodling. The primary artifacts were to summarize modes of thinking, and in this case only those of Charles Malik and Anders Nygren. I studied both of their views extensively and found I could render their universe in a fairly simple sketch. I was then able to layout my own thinking in contrast to theirs. This visual method significantly clarified the differences, albeit only to myself.

I wanted to pass along my “History of the Universe” chart at left. I began this blog with a detailed biblical time line from creation to current day based on details passed on from the Old and New Testaments. This drawing has a slightly different theme than that. It is meant to contrast the light with the dark or the Godly with the ungodly. The time bound earth is enclosed; everything within it’s borders is subject to the conditions of the fall. God’s presence through man, up to the time of Christ, is gray as it’s under the old aeon. The arrival of the Son on the scene is white as are all the expressions of him since that time. Also, since that time, the Spirit of the anti-Christ began and continues to grow. The re-expansion of the white bubble is the reformation. I consider Luther, and others likeminded, a reiteration of the original gospel (freedom from the law) as a temporary correction of the ever darkening closure of the spirit of the antichrist. The end of the age is where the time bubble ceases and those who are part of the white are reunited with the eternal word encapsulating this creation.

Hurt Locker vs Avatar

Having endured Kathryn Bigelow’s Hurt Locker, I sat motionless in my semi-recliner musing  over connected feelings from the close of “Eyes Wide Shut” and/or “The English Patient”. From inside I could hear the voice of Elaine, “Oh. No. I can’t do this anymore. I can’t. It’s too long. Quit telling your stupid story, about the stupid desert, and just die already! Die!!”.

My mind wandered onto thoughts of the incredulity that accompanied the Avatar experience. Cameron’s stunning movie pedigree, the concept development coming to fruition 15 yrs later and the pioneering 3D work come as a sharp contrast to what appears as a thrown together, amateurish war commentary vehicle. It wasn’t so much that I preferred the other nominees that I’d seen (District 9, Blind Side, Up in the Air) but that but I didn’t really even grasp the redeeming value or purpose of The Hurt Locker. A pure documentary would have been far more appreciable and applicable to the topic.

We really have some cowboy, with little regard for the safety of his fellow soldiers at the helm of a disarmament crew?  And he’s deactivated 853 situations without a problem. It seems like a rambling piecemeal video reminding us for the billionth time that some people in Hollywood would rather pretend war is avoidable than face the evil that exists. If anyone of them were President in 41, they would have surrendered after Pearl Harbor and we’d all be speaking German or Japanese.

And speaking of Pearl Harbor, any of the 6 episodes I’ve seen so far of “Pacific” are embarrassingly superior to any section or all of THL. So my disturbance is not so much from type as it is from degree. Supporting some twisted, mindless thought pattern through the use of the movie medium is nothing new and even Avatar, from my view, follows this familiar road. It’s the immeasurable variance between the two enjoyment factors that shows as a blue whale on my radar.

Hollywood would like the fact that they entertain us (Avatar) to be replaced with the thought that they are some type of courageous heroes. (THL) In fact the word courage seems to be in every other sentence that drivels out of their mouths. As another contrast, the real heroes’ in “Pacific” don’t like to be described as such because they were “just doing their jobs”; or simply prefer not to talk about it because the degree of the trauma is indigestible. (Continued discussion becomes chewing on regurgitated emotional vomit) Interestingly, the so called courageous actors, directors, producers never show either of these symptoms.

Hollywood talks about and makes movies of topics that they self determine to be counter culture, when in fact they are totally consistent with their culture. This pretence at risk is necessary to cultivate their ‘courage’ on the other end. This make belief world is well beyond the fantasy of Avatar even though they frown on movies of this genre. Of course they think their courage is real, they champion causes no one else will, they stand for right in a world of wrong, they risk everything for conscience and principle. As in Orwell’s 1984, the Ministry of Love is actually hate and those having real courage are maligned and destroyed by those who are motivated by cowardice. More than a reminder that this pretense continues, the Oscar result shows the degree is ever deepening.

Haiti

Read an article in the Telegraph regarding the situation in Haiti. It read, “Max Beauvoir, Haiti's "supreme master" of voodoo, alleged his faith's opponents had deliberately prevented much-needed help from reaching followers of the religion, which blends the traditional beliefs of West African slaves with Roman Catholicism.” It goes on to say that the Christians were getting the bulk of the aid coming to Haiti because they were controlling the airport. He then commented on Pat Robertson’s suggestion that ‘Haiti had made a pact with the devil 200 years ago’ saying “I don't know much about him (Pat) and I don't think I'm losing much, Voodoo has been discriminated against for 200 years…It was developed by our ancestors, it is a way of life. To ask us to stop would be like asking an American to stop eating hamburgers." Mr. Beauvoir is a Sorbonne-educated biochemist. (University of Paris founded in 1253) 


Later in the same article it goes on to say that ceremonies were halted in Mr. Beauvoir’s grand house, which seconds as  a voodoo temple, but they were still going on in the countryside. They reported that the temples are “where followers dance around a totem pole in the grounds to the sound of drums. Bonfires are lighted to attract spirits and the blood of animals, including goats and chickens, is drained and used to heal the sick” and the “elaborate ceremonies include secret languages, people dancing after being possessed by spirits and talismans including dried animal heads.” Apparently in rural areas “people practice the ‘darker’ side of voodoo, summoning evil spirits." 


While many in Hollywood are livid over Mr. Robertson’s comments (esp. Whoopi Goldberg) according to Kompe Filo a believer and Haitian TV/Radio personality “voodoo predicted the earthquake six months ago.” Since that’s the case I would assume preparations were made to deal with the disaster and minimize it’s impact? Another voodoo believer, Monique Henri, wore a cross around her neck while waiting for food to arrive. She said, “The earthquake happened because people were sinners so God was angry, because people did wrong.” I guess Pat is not alone.