Professional Documents
Culture Documents
By McDozer
Alphabetical Index of Recommended Titles * Flatliners
* Freedom Writers
* 10 Inch Hero * Freejack
* 27 Dresses * Frequency
* 5 People You Meet In Heaven, The * Frost Nixon
* 50 First Dates * Gandhi
* A Good Woman * Georgia Rule
* Akeelah and the Bee * Ghost
* Always * Ghost Town
* Amazing Grace * Girl's Best Friend
* An Officer and a Gentleman * Gospel of John
* Angel On My Shoulder (TV Production) * Great Debaters, The
* Answer Man, The * Green Mile
* Antz * Green Zone, The
* As Good As It Gets * Grey Owl
* August Rush * Groundhog Day
* Avatar * He's Just Not That Into You
* Back to the Future Trilogy * Hearts in Atlantis
* Beaches * Heaven Can Wait
* Bend It Like Beckham * Holiday, The
* Best Little Whorehouse in Texas * Hurricane
* Beyond Borders * I Am David
* Bishop's Wife, The * I Am Sam
* Bladerunner * Igor
* Blind Side, The * In the Time of Butterflies
* Blood Diamond * Incredibles, The
* Brainstorm * Inside I'm Dancing
* Braveheart * It’s Compliucated
* Brother Sun, Sister Moon * It's a Wonderful Life
* Bruce Almighty * Jack and Jill vs. the World
* Bucket List, The * Jerry Maguire
* Can't Buy Me Love * Juno
* Chaos Theory * Just Like Heaven
* Charlie Bartlett * K-Pax
* Charlie Wilson’s War * Kate & Leopold
* Checking Out * Kingdom of Heaven
* City Island * Kite Runner, The
* City of Joy * La Vita e bella (Life Is Beautiful)
* Coach Carter * Last Mimzy, The
* Conspiracy Theory * Legend of Bagger Vance
* Constantine * Life as a House
* Cypher * Life or Something like It
* Dan in Real Life * Lion King
* Dreamscape * Lion of the Desert
* Duchess, The * Lions for Lambs
* Edge of Darkness * Little Big Man
* Elizabethtown * Little Lord Fauntleroy
* End of the Spear, The * Little Minister, The
* Endless Love * Love In the Time of Cholera
* Entertaining Angels -- The Dorothy Day Story * Luther
* Erin Brockovich * Made in Heaven
* Everybody’s Fine * Man of La Mancha
* Expelled! - No Intelligence Allowed! * Manchurian Candidate
* Field of Dreams * Martian Child
* Finding Forrester * Master & Commander
* Firestarter * Matrix
* Medusa Touch, The
* Michael Clayton
* Missionary, The
* Mr. Holland's Opus
* My Sister’s Keeper
* New In Town
* Next
* Not Easily Broken
* Not Easily Broken
* Nothing But the Truth
* Oh God Part 2
* Overboard
* Over Her Dead Body
* P.S. I Love You
* Patch Adams
* Pay It Forward
* Pinnocchio
* Pollyanna
* Powder
* Proof
* Quo Vadis
* Reign Over Me
* Resurrecting the Champ
* Ringer, The
* Run Fat Boy Run
* Scarlet Pimpernel, The
* Schinder's List
* Scrooge (A Christmas Carol)
* Second Hand Lions
* Shakespeare in Love
* Shallow Hal
* Signs
* Sixth Sense
* Somewhere In Time
* Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
* Spanglish
* Splash
* Surf's Up
* Tenure
* The Express
* The Go Getter
* The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
* The Kid
* The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
* The Mask
* The Robe
* The Time Traveler’s Wife
* The Truman Show
* Time Bandits
* Trading Places
* Tron
* Troy
* Weather Girl
* What Women Want
* Woo Woo Kid, The (In The Mood)
* Yes Man
The Robe
I watched this movie for the first time around
1976, at the age of 13, and I was totally
amazed that there were movies about what
real Christians are having to go through,
namely persecution, as I had just
experienced in the fact that the folks who
had turned me on to Jesus were being
slandered and maligned by practically the
entire European media apparatus, and
having personally experienced a police raid,
the cops' interrogations and mockings,
followed by the flak from parents and other
folks who thought they had a say in it, just as
it is vividly described throughout the
Gospels. So, if you want to watch a movie
about what's expecting you if you're a real
Christian, this is the one.
Quo Vadis
Endless Love
During a stopover in Toronto on our way to
Peru I watched this movie one night, and
had to walk home crying like a baby all the
way back to the hotel. Not that this 2nd
movie by Zeffirelli I saw could ever be
compared to the spiritual profoundness and
richness of "Brother Sun," but it very
beautifully and effectively drives home the
concept of unconditional and thus endless
love, love in spite of anything and against all
odds...
Pollyanna
Of course, poor Pollyanna has by now
become the acronym for the inability of some
inhabitants of the Western hemisphere to
see reality for what it is, that out-of-this world
optimism that keeps us from seeing the
darker side of reality. But she's still right: "If
you look for the bad in people, you're going
to find it."
Bladerunner
Although I wouldn't necessarily recommend
this movie to the fainthearted, especially
because of one gross scene, I have to
mention this Sci-Fi classic as one of those
that had quite an impact on me.
Apart from that, it has to be said in favor of the movie that it's absolutely not boring, but has
one of those plots that will keep a Sci-Fi fan on the eadge of his seat.
Tron
One night around '82 I went to see this movie with a friend in Buenos Aíres, and when we came we
felt like on an acid trip. Being the first of its kind and a pioneer of a genre, even before the technology
that would eventually make the whole genre even possible, this movie not only has a fairly decent
plot for 80s, but also a good message about an evil computer program usurping the system, which
has to be resisted, eliminated and replaced.
The DVD features some extras that show just what a feat and pioneer effort this movie really was for
its time.
Gandhi
For the young man I was when I first saw this, the movie didn't have that much to offer. When you're
young you still believe in your own strength and all you can do, what the Bible calls "the arm of the
flesh." It took another 2 1/2 decades for the point to sink in of what Gandhi really did, and the great
sample he offered of what can be achieved by passive resistance and civil disobedience based or a
greater moral right. "The meek shall inherit the Earth," and as far as I'm concerned, Christian or not,
may Gandhi be one of them.
Time Bandits
Pinnocchio
I saw this movie once on a missionary
retreat near Buenos Aíres where the kids
were watching it, and something kept me
stuck there to watch it with them. Maybe it's
the fact that I used to lie a blue streak or the
size of my nose that had me sympathize with
that puppet, or the fact that I've been inside
many a whale's belly myself (allegorically
speaking), but I'm 100% convinced that if we
do our stuff right, learn our lessons about
unselfishness, eventually the fairy
godmother will come down and make real
boys and girls out of each of us.
Little Big Man
This is one of my absolute favorite classics
of all times, even though there may not be
any deep spiritual lessons in it, unless you
consider the truthful version of something
that's been sold quite differently as "history"
a spiritual virtue worth spending a little time
and effort on. But Little Big Man is certainly
no ordinary history feature, but rather a
dramedy of the best kind, a movie that can
make you laugh (because as a comedy, it's
a master piece) and weep over the great
"conquests" of the white man that practically
extinguished a whole culture, and maybe
over the fact that he hasn't learned a darn
thing since, if you look around.
Splash
If you're a so-called "realist" in whose life
there is no room for mermaids and the
"anything is possible" mindset of the
believer, don't waste your time. Or if you're
one of those ultra-religious who associate
sex with sin and take offense in the most
natural thing on earth, thou shouldest not
offend thine righteous soul. But if you
happen to have any idea as to what a cool
God we really have, Who made all things for
us to enjoy, including perhaps, a few things
that modern scientists don't believe in and
would mock you for, like mermaids and
unicorns, then you might love this movie just
as much as thousands of others have, I'm
sure.
Oh God Part 2
Now here's a movie that finally talks about
something we have always said that you
have to count on experiencing it, if you're a
true believer, namely persecution. And
children are no exemption, either.
Featuring George Burns in his probably
best role (during his life-time on earth, that
is), as God Himself, winking at the
nonsensical little tiger story, this is a 5 star
classic in my book.
Lion of the Desert
Movie featuring Anthony Quinn in one of his
best roles ever as Libyan resistance fighter
Omar Mukhtar who tormented the fascist
Italian occupants of Libya for years.
Certainly the kind of figure the Muslim world
cries out for in hopes of deliverance from
the Imperialist forces that kill their citizens,
rape their school-aged young woman and
systematically destroy their houses in
today's not any more enlightened world.
Dreamscape
Quite a thriller for those days (1984), about
lucid dreaming and people with the
exceptional ability to enter the dreams of
others, some with good intentions, some
with bad... Gory scenes, but the good side
naturally wins.
Trading Places
I only recently found out what a far-out guy
Aaron Russo was, and that's why I would
certainly like to mention this movie here. I
guess one day we'll find out just how much of
a man's personal experiences and blood,
sweat & tears went into bringing out a certain
truth through a movie. If you get to know a little
bit about Russo's work, you begin to realize
that the making of "Trading Places" (not only
in my opinion the best movie Eddie Murphy
played in) must have been more than a
coincidence. Even though it has that typical
American fairy-tale slant, and an ending that
we will probably never see in real life, it
conveys the truth of "losers turn winners" and
gives the kind of hope without which the
average citizen might as well fold in and quit.
Made in Heaven
Beaches
Touching movie about two childhood friends
who grow apart as they grow older and
come back together again when one of them
falls sick. Great songs by Bette Midler.
Flatliners
Life after death plot which was quite
sensational for that time, but doesn’t quite
live up to the standard of all we’ve seen
since…
Field of Dreams
Ghost
While the vast majority of Christians are
totally panicky about the idea of ghosts
(although their own God is a "Spirit," goes
to work in us through something called the
Holy Ghost and their own book, the Bible,
reports some ghost sightings and
apparitions), for those who know that
ghosts aren't anything to be afraid of, but
simply the state everyone transfers to after
their earthly life while they await the
resurrection, this one's an absolute classic.
Entertaining Angels -- The
Dorothy Day Story
Great movie about an actual, cigarette-
smoking, down-to-earth saint of the 20th
century. Every now and then there comes
a catholic who makes up for all the rest of
them…
Always
Great and touching life after death movie
that’s worth watching again every once in
a while…
City of Joy
Patrick Swayze plays a young doctor who
winds up dedicating himself to the poor of
Calcutta.
A life-changing movie about a changed life.
Freejack
The Mask
I think this movie shows just what spiritual
things (as in spirits) can do to and through
you... or whatever is left of you, when they
do.
Jerry Maguire Just the realization of the fact what a
different type of person someone can be
with the right attitude is life-changing.
Schinder's List
Signs
Life as a House
Hurricane
A nice example of how a greater good can Neat little American fairy-tale with a far-out,
sometimes be achieved by a lesser evil, "anything - is - possible” plot: Meet yourself
such as that of pretending to be something as a little kid!
you're not. This white man posing as an
Indian did more good for the Indian culture Mr. Holland's Opus
and the preservation of not only their lands,
than they ever could have achieved for
themselves at that time. One of my favorite
roles by Pierce Brosnan.
Patch Adams
K-Pax
Regardless of the
controversy around the director of this film, I still
think this movie is one of the strongest
statements describing human bias and bigotry
This is versus anything and anybody who dares to be
different, no matter how innocent. Certainly the
another movie that shows how swiftly
fact that John the disciple was lying on Jesus'
things can change once God puts the heat breast during the last supper would be frowned
on. on by the same type of people who criticize this
movie, the same type of people who live uner the
illusion that they would treat Jesus any better
Finding Forrester than He was treated the first time around. They
still didn't get the point, and God only knows if
they ever will.
Shallow Hal
Luther
Frequency
Where would
we be without Luther? Where would we be if Probably one of the best time travel movies
he hadn’t had the guts? And where would we ever, including the paradox factor of altering
be if God wouldn’t have been on his side to the present via input from the past. I like to see
protect him, as He always does for those who it allegorically in the sense of our being able to
do His job of telling an un-welcome truth in a alter our present reality with the help of input
world governed by lies… from those who walked this earth in the past...
Bruce Almighty Cypher
Manchurian Candidate
What I liked
about this movie is the wise warning
Achilles receives from his mother Remake of old classic about using mind
before going to Troy: “Your great control in order to create assassins. Some
exploits are your downfall.” Seems like folks believe there’s some truth to this
whatever efforts we make to make a story… Tsk, tsk, those conspiracy
name for us and make ourselves theorists…
immortal, that stuff always kills us…
Spanglish Constantine
While I
Sweet movie wouldn’t recommend this movie for
about the contrast between latino culture everyone, nor consider it doctrinally kosher
and average white suburbia, (for the (like the role of “Gabriel” in this movie –
viewer to decide which of the two is more ouch!), it generally does have a positive
real,) plus the conflicts that can arise from slant in the end, and any movie in which
the same… the Devil is licked gives me a little bit of
personal satisfaction…
50 First Dates
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
In the light of
how we’ve become just another monkey
This see, monkey do society, my admiration for
comedy is just that, a neat little comedy, those who dare to stick out & rise above
until you begin to realize how much we’re the norm grows by the hour. Two such
all like the girl in the movie, who has to be people were Sophie and Hans Scholl, who
reminded each day anew of who she really died for their convictions of what was right.
is, and how much she’s being loved.
The Incredibles I Am David
Beyond Borders
Proof Juno
The moral of this British comedy: “The Shows what the Afro-American population
hare never made it, but the tortoise did.” was up against in large parts of their
country until not too long ago… Brilliant, if
you like intelligent scripts.
Surf's Up
Freedom Writers
Ooops, almost forgot about this one! Great
and a must see for anyone dealing with
young people!
In The Time of the Butterflies have given it to them, and in the end, the good
Everybody has heard about the big bad guys side finally won. It has always been like that,
like Hitler and Stalin, and maybe a few others. and it will always be like that, even during the
This movie tells the story of one more of the time of the greatest Hitler this world will have
probably countless other little Hitlers most of ever seen.
us have never heard about and some of his The greatest challenge, as this movie brings
victims. out, is always to wake up the sleeping masses
It makes you wonder where the people who who don't want to know what's going wrong.
stood up against them in spite of the odds took It's always been like that, and from the look of
the courage. But they did. Somehow God must it, it always will...
As someone who grew up on the '71 album "Who's
Next" by "The Who," THE album by that band that's
worth listening to, I was particularly thrilled about
the little historic gem woven into this film when
Meryl Streep (posing as awakening journalist
Janine Roth) quotes one of my favorite songs from
Lions for Lambs the album. A line that has come to my mind
repeatedly in my life, whenever I see one regime or
administration replaced by another, only to change
During the first few minutes into "Lions for Lambs" I
absolutely nothing, especially not for the better:
thought I was watching U.S. government
"Meet the new boss; the same as the old boss!" -
propaganda justifying the "War on Terror" and
Taken from the classical piece of rock music "Won't
presenting the official 9/11 fairy-tale as truth. For
Get Fooled Again."
one thing, I have never met any U.S. troops in real
Except that the title couldn't be further from the
life as educated, well behaved and civilized as in
truth. If there's anything that hits you about the
any of those movies (and God knows I've played
general public per se, it's that they've been fooled
for a lot!), nor could I imagine an American
over and over and over again since the song came
politician in real life as whitty as the Senator Tom
out.
Cruise played in this movie.
The bad guys in the movie are the politicians,
Another 15 minutes into the movie I figured this
sharing the blame with the news media, and the
must have been the smartest piece of U.S.
ray of hope is supposedly the beacon of education.
propaganda I had ever watched.
What American producers like Robert Redford lack
Thankfully, it turned out to be no Neocon
the guts to realize, of course, is that the sacred
propaganda, after all, just a pretty good screen
golden cow of education is just as much a hoax as
monument to the times we're living in, some sort of
politics and the media, and what's worse, movie
"golden finger" on the pulse of our times. The type
makers who paint a reality a far cry from what's
that carries a message, which, sadly, will require a
really happening. As long as people around the
miracle for any significant amount of people to
world can keep their Hollywood scope of things, the
grasp, but part of the message was that it doesn't
world isn't desperate enough yet for anyone to
matter if it's just a single person who gets it, as long
as that person does something about it for a actually do something else besides watch movies
and talk, even though this one was at least an
change.
effort to be a voice for the truth, even if the trumpet
is sounding a signal that won't be understood by
many, much less spur more than a handful to
action, or even more than that special, chosen
one...
Love in the Time of Cholera
Charlie Bartlett
I think the first thing one would have to say Every now and then something happens that
about this movie is, that it's refreshingly threatens to shake all my "Woe-is-America"
different. Maybe only so because of the convictions and what some people would term anti-
performance of the main actor, a kid I'd never American sentiments in its foundations.
heard about, (Anton Yelchin,) or maybe Having watched the 2005 flick "Elizabethtown"
because it was made in Canada... recently was one of those events.
As much as you want to hate Americans for their
It only got a lukewarm rating on the Christian
stupidity in actually swallowing the garbage their
movie sites, probably because of it's blatant President is saying - or the majority of their paid-off
honesty, that's simply too much for that kind of preachers, for that matter - you can't help loving its
religious hypocrisy, where it's okay to culture, its music, and the people who show that
slaughter thousands in the name of God and side of America, even if the only place it actually
President, but sex is a sin... exists is in its movies.
27 Dresses
Ghost Town
Yet another New York fairy tale, trying to
get us to believe that Manhattan is filled
with exclusively lovely people and ghosts,
except, perhaps, for the dentist Ricky
Gervais (the Brit we frowned upon
recently, in "A Night At the Museum")
mimics so superbly that you can even
watch this film twice and still laugh at his My childhood fascination for cartoon movies is
antics. paying off big- time these days, in a way I'd never
Another one for Enneagram freaks: This expected. Because modern cartoons seem to
dude's a fairly obvious FIVE on his way to possess a quality that news channels and official
redemption via the path of love. media sources seem to have lost decades ago,
and thus you can probably learn more about the
Thoroughly enjoyable.
reality we currently live in from this movie than from
being tied to an arm chair and forced to watch Fox
News for 72 hours in a row.
Of course, they wouldn't tell you the truth about the
fake reality that our evil kings are making us take at It certainly drives home the feeling of vindication
face value, forcing us to resort to evil, and the racially discriminated part of the American
especially all sorts of evil inventions, in order to population must have felt after Obama licked
survive. McCain...
Nor would they imply that the underdogs and The acting & directing of this movie are both great.
"Igors" of this world (in News lingo also referred to You'll have to blame the ending on real life & its
as "rebel forces," "insurgents" or "terrorists") are sometimes weird ways.
often a lot smarter than the evil inventors who run
this place.
Well, you'll have to find out who the monster
created in this film resembles in your life. But when The Go Getter
you find out, be careful who you're going to reveal
this discovery to, if you want to enjoy a peaceful
and quiet rest of the evening.
Oh, did I mention it? The sarcastic humor in this
movie is highly contagious, so junkies, watch out!
Then again, some folks - just as with the "Matrix" or
any other movies that are truer than life somehow -
never dig it, and for them it's just a pretty odd
movie...
Possibly because they've never been an Igor...
The Express
10 Inch Hero
Martian Child
I was just reminded of "Martian Child" this
morning, a movie I must have watched before
I started this list, because it belongs here, I'd
say.
Somewhat reminiscent of "K-Pax," the
difference being that this one's based on
actual events. God bless the Irish.
Because that's what it took to make a brilliant
movie like the 2004 gem "Inside I'm Dancing."
Remotely resembling British humor, yet the
latter is infinitely less divine than what the Irish
come up with in their joix de vivre, as opposed your life from a different direction than we
to English cynicism, and in embracing that expected.
glimpse of spirituality that the Brits have traded If you like true-to life stories with a twist of
in exchange for Darwin. determination to make lemonade out of the
Don't know why we missed this one for so lemon life has handed us, and a glimpse of
long. Probably because our corner of the world hope, then you'll probably enjoy this film as
is in a similar dilemma to her Majesty's. much as we did.
But better late than never.
If you can handle hardcore humanity, try to New In Town
see this one if you haven't yet.
Georgia Rule
The Duchess
My Sister’s Keeper
Index:
Amadeus
Antwone Fisher
Avatar
Away from Her
Desert Flower
From Paris With Love
Funny People
Harry Browne
I Love You, Man
Interstate 60
Matrix
Miracle Worker, The
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
New Moon
Pan's Labyrinth
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
Precious
Reign Over Me
Rushmore
Serenity
Skellig
Taking Chance
The Combination
The Corporation
The Lovely Bones
The Road
Triangle
Twilight
Whisper of the Heart
ALL ABOARD SERENITY!
It wasn't the obvious type one would catch at first glance. But one statement in the otherwise quite
action packed & entertaining movie was too true to be just entertainment. The part in which we get to
know the 'Serenity' crew and they talk about how survival is being made tougher & tougher for
independent little guys like them - 500 years into the future - so similarly to the way it is for folks like
us here & now, independent little artists & movie makers. There had to be something else beside
that. And then it dawned on me: "Pax," (latin for Peace), the gas that the government, "the alliance"
(New World Order?) had added to the atmosphere of the planet Miranda in order to free the
population from its aggressions had made 90% of the population so "peaceful" that they not only
stopped fighting, but eventually everything else, too, including eating and breathing, so they just died,
while it converted the other 10% into ravenous & hideous cannibals, attacking everything that moved
in order to eat them alive...
Sounds just like the wonderful "Peace" programs the New World Order so all-knowingly imposes on
us, its victims, 24/7 via the poisonous gases of deceit it dispels into our ether in form of the constant
propaganda that's lulling the majority into a peaceful sleep, do-nothing attitude and spiritual death,
while forcing the minority who won't swallow that stuff into positions of total antagonism and
opposition without limits, also known as terrorism.
In other words, just as the "Alliance" was creating the cannibalistic "Reavers," (if that's the spelling... I
didn't read the subtitles), so the New World Order is really creating terrorism and the anti-western
and anti-American antagonism that's making the poorer minorities cry out for Jihad, a holy war
against all that New World Order tummyrot.
The demons those wise guys on top are creating are literally eating the population of the world alive,
because, as usual, they were too smart to think they had to include God in their program, and as they
say in Germany, "they made their bill without the keeper of the inn."
So, "XLNT!" is my personal rating for "Serenity" on second thought. From what I gather, (as an
outsider, since I never heard of the "Firefly" TV show until I saw the specials on the DVD), the
makers of this movie were a little bit in the same fix that a lot of bright minds find themselves in who
are just too bright to be dimmed by the mainstream hogwash: the fate of being met with a lot of
resistance & cold shoulders. But then there are always those who still appreciate good work when
they see it. True Art fans of the world unite & hop aboard the "Serenity"!
Interstate 60 April 9, ‘07
Once again, we were watching "Interstate 60" last night, an outstanding little movie about an
imaginary but legendary character, sometimes named O.W.Grant, (he's got a few other
names besides), whose job in life it is, to grant one wish to those he comes across, most of
which - to his amusement - are quite foolish and often selfish, resulting in the usual
"leanness to our souls" that the fulfilment of such requests bring. All until he comes across a
different kind of young man who instead of the usual selfish ambitions only has one wish: to
find an answer!
His quest takes him down a bizarre road of events and encounters which first of all seem to
open his eyes to where the answer is not found: Those who seek it in selfish pleasure,
intoxication, clichés, in fact, anywhere else but in the truth, inevitably will be disappointed.
But by refusing to compromise and yield to the ever-present temptations in life, he not only
finds the answers to life's riddles he's been seeking, but also the love of his life.
Sounds like a dream - which, in a way, it is - but it's also that very same day-to-day's reality-
turned-to-dream that we live once we have found the Answer-Man, Jesus, Who supplies us
with the answers to everyday's riddles that life presents us.
As long as we go through life seeking anything else but answers, or even refuse to
recognize the question marks, I reckon, we're not even really living. But for those who truly
wish to see and know and don't settle for any fake, there will be an answer!
The cynics laugh at such starry-eyed naiveté, but they can laugh all they want: it's inevitable
--
There will be an answer!
The Miracle Worker April 18, ’07
We've seen the 1962 movie "The Miracle Worker" the other day, about the early life and conversion
of Helen Keller, the girl who was blind and deaf from the time she was 19 months old, and who was
destined to see what many seeing people could not see, and still can't.
The secret all lay in the discovery of MEANING: that every thing – everything - has a meaning, a
name. Before that, her life was a meaningless existence, a simple grabbing whatever she could in
order to feed and still her hunger without any sense or purpose, just darkness and ignorance. Just
like the countless lives of seeing and hearing people today who are totally oblivious to the fact that
there is such a thing as a meaning and a purpose to their existence, other than feeding and dressing
their bodies, the outer shells of who they really are, or moving that shell from A to B in the most
elegant manner or vehicle.
Oddly enough, this confrontation with meaning sparked the fuse of my own meaning and purpose of
existence, which from this moment on will be to help others become aware of the existence of
meaning. Just like Ann Sullivan, the formerly blind teacher who painstakingly managed to convey the
meaning of Helen Keller's world by spelling out the words into her hand time and time again in an
alphabet for the deaf and blind, consisting of hand signs, I am determined to make it my goal to bring
awareness of the fact that there is such a thing as a meaning and a purpose to this life to the
spiritually blind and deaf I am surrounded by on this planet, fully aware of the fact that I will be met
with even much stronger resistance than Ann Sullivan by the initially stubborn and furious Helen
Keller (especially by those who already think they see - as Jesus experienced in the 9th chapter of the
Gospel of John).
In fact, my own life will be meaningless unless I manage to convey to someone, anyone out there the
concept of meaning, the awesome but true notion, that in fact, our life - and everything in it - does
have a meaning.
Drilled and brainwashed into believing that as results of innumerable random "coincidents" in Space,
zillions of years ago, there is nosuch thing as "meaning" to all of us insignificant "accidents,"
conveying the concept of meaning to people will certainly be a tough job, but the only worthy cause I
can think of. How could I join the masses in their endless game of routinely feeding, dressing and
spoiling merely the empty shells of their true beings, when I have once been blind myself, void of the
knowledge that there was a light, oblivious to the concept of a meaning to anything, much less my
own existence?
It was a medicine I didn't want to swallow at first, a truth I initially refused to hear, the one that
eventually healed me of my spiritual blindness, deafness and inability to truly communicate. I was just
as reluctant to accept and embrace the Teacher as Helen, kicking and slapping His face over and
over again, only to finally succumb into the arms that assured me of their everlasting, unconditional
love.
Yes, there is a purpose to life, ladies and gentlemen, including every oh so seemingly meaningless
thing, event and paradox in it, and thus there has to be One Who puposed it, planned it. And what
other, simpler meaning could there be in life, than discovering that Maker, and finding out from Him,
personally, what exactly it is He destined and purposed us to do?
If you don't know who you are or what you're on this planet for, or you refuse to believe that a
superficial existence is all there is to it, I can personally promise you that - as unbelievable as it may
sound - you can and will find the answers to all those question marks in your search of God, Who, by
the way, is very eager to be found by you! He knows you can't make it without Him, anyway, at least
not truly successfully, and definitely not happily, and He's just waiting for you to wake up to the fact
that He's there. He's been there all the time. With the answers to all your questions, the key to every
door, and a meaning, a name and a purpose to every little thing you have thus far been clueless
about. If you don't believe me, ask Him!
There's a beautiful scene in the movie "Antwone Fisher," which describes death for a
believer, or coming Home to Heaven better than anything else I've ever seen, and is all the
more touching when you realize that the film is a true story. Antwone Fisher is one of those
beautiful people still walking on this earth who never had a true home on this earth during his
early years, having been raised in orphanages & foster homes accompanied by traumatic
childhood experiences.
His Navy Psychiatrist (one of Denzel Washington's best characters ever) encourages him to
go and find his real family in order to get at the root of his problems with aggression &
feelings of worthlessness. And so, when he finally does find the family of his deceased
father, there comes the most beautiful scene in the whole movie, where he enters his aunt's
house and meets all the relatives he never even knew he had, everybody eagerly welcoming
him, introducing themselves briefly to him with excitement, until finally his aunt gives the
signal to open a double door to the dining room, where the old members of Antwone's family
sit awaiting him at a richly decked table, very similar to a dream he had at the start of the
movie.
An old lady (presumably Antwone's grandmother), obiously too weak to even speak, knocks
on the table in an effort to demand attention and beckons Antwone to come to her with
outstretched hands. Gazing into his eyes, hands in his, and recognizing her long lost son in
this, newly found grandson, she finally utters one heartfelt "Welcome," and in this moment
you feel like, if you'll ever make it to Heaven, this will be the only word you'll want to here.
So many of us are wandering through life like Antwone Fisher, like Orphans, oblivious to the
large family that awaits us when we'll finally come Home from this life's search and journey.
We sometimes feel abandoned, too, worthless, often not even due to any wrong we've done,
but simply because we figure that there is nobody who loves us enough to have stuck it out
with us.
And yet, I am convinced that every person has a huge family awaiting them in eager
anticipation, like Antwone Fisher, consisting of ancestors we may never even have heard
about. We may not know them, but they know us alright.
Some folks may not be all too keen on being confronted by no high and mighty angels when
they get to Heaven, perhaps confronting them with all the wrong they possible might have
done. But everybody, I'm sure, can be looking forward to coming Home to their true family,
the ones of whom you'll know, "that's where I belong. These are my people," and I bet that's
one event making Heaven a worthwhile Place to look forward to and hope we'll eventually
wind up there.
Maybe it will take some of us a longer detour to get there than others, but I have a notion that sooner
or later we all will. We all will (John 1:9).
This was the second time we fell for some totally screwed up movie rating from Christianity
Today's movie section. The first time was a while back, when we went out of our way to get
"Millions," CT's "most redeeming" of 2004 or 2005 or whatever, which turned out to be about as
"redeeming" as "George of the Jungle."
But to give "Pan's Labyrinth" a 4-star (highest possible) rating was downright sick.
The only thing it did for me was to give me a speck of greater understanding of Revelations 12:15-17:
"And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to
be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and
swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. And the dragon was wroth with the
woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God,
and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."
It doesn't matter what sort of vomit the Devil spews out, earthly-minded and carnal minded people
will always swallow it, even if they call themselves "Christians." I never understood why this was
supposed to be all that much of a help for the true church, though, until last night. The "help" consists
of that one and only painful lesson: you can't trust them for anything. Not even their movie tastes and
recommendations of what's good or bad. You can only rely on the Lord.
The people the Devil hates and tries to destroy are those who "have the testimony of Jesus Christ,"
and in a later verse in Revelation we find what exactly that means: "The testimony of Jesus is the
spirit of prophecy" (Rev.19:10).
The Devil couldn't care less about pseudo-intellectual pseudo-Christians who swallow his crap,
because he knows he's already got them in his pocket. In fact, his legions of demons are riding on
their backs in their war against the true believers, as depicted in Rick Joyner's visions in "The Final
Quest."
Such people only lead others astray, they think they're doing God service, but are in fact fighting for
the other side, they don't gather with the Lord, but scatter abroad, deceiving themselves and others.
The ones who pose any threat and challenge to the Devil are those who have the testimony of Jesus:
the spirit of prophecy, those who use the gifts of the Spirit (instead of their own misled and
misleading carnal reasoning) and are being led and guided by God's Spirit of truth and accordingly
show forth the fruits thereof.
The total lack of any trace of God's Spirit, of discernment, and instead, their pseudo-intelligent
babble, finally only serves to help us realize that you can't rely on such people's judgment at all. They
swallow the Devil's lukewarm puke, hook, line and sinker, and go, "Yummy! Moooore!" They are
those whom the Lord will spew out of His mouth, because they are neither hot nor cold, but
lukewarm, spiritually wretched and don't even know it (see Rev.3:15-17).
It's because their God isn't really the true God, the God of truth, and the God of love. The only reason
any so-called Christian ("because my daddy was a Christian, and the USA are a Christian nation"?)
could give a top-rating to a ghoulish and hellish nightmare concocted by some demoniac, such as
"Pan's Labyrinth" is because he finally found a movie featuring his true god: Pan himself, the
demonic principality of the mind, the god of (pseudo-)intellectualism and carnal reasoning per se,
worshiped by millions of Satanists and occultists throughout the world, and recognized, fought and
resisted unto blood only by a few who have the testimony of Jesus Christ, the spirit of prophecy and
the other gifts of the Spirit, such as discernment.
Any true Christian or true believer in the true God, or even a sane non-religious person with a half-
way properly working mind wouldn't have given that movie more than half a star, because it is
anything but edifying. It only glorifies murder, cruelty, bloodshed and Satan's wickedness, and only a
spiritually totally deaf and blind person would have fallen for the thinnest layer of sugar coating the
Devil ever had to apply to any of his deceitful devices: the worn out line about preferring to shed
one's own blood to shedding the blood of the innocent. Now, what a revelation!
And such wisdom coming from Pan's mouth in the movie probably means that he must be a "good"
spirit, right?
If Pan be your god, then keep on, dude, and serve him, but me and my house, we shall serve the
living God of truth, Whom you know not, probably have never known, and which is probably why He
will say to you, "I have never known you" (Mt.7:23; 25:12).
Thanks for opening my eyes yet another bit more about where Christians and Christianity today truly
stand: certainly not on God's side. So, get out of our way, and stop wasting our time! We have a war
to win!
The Corporation Nov.9 ’07
Last night we watched "The Corporation," and it confirmed just about everything I often voice so
vehemently, that I later find myself having to apopogize for it, such as in a reaction to an email from
my sister about a book about how Islam is supposed to be the great evil menace of world peace.
You can wrap up just about any old b***sh*t and sell it to people as truth, if you just make the
wrapping appealing enough. After all, it's so much more comfortable to believe that those bloody
Arabs & Muslims are to blame for everything, instead of those liars who are running our everyday
lives, enslaving us by promising us freedom.
It's much more comfortable, especially for people who are easily frightened, than all those
uncomfortable movies & books by people such as are featured in "The Corporation."
For weirdos like me, it's so comforting to find out I'm not the only lunatic who doesn't swallow all that
crap they're trying to shove down our throats, who sees the connection between the 3 rd Reich and
today, and who refuses to watch another minute of the mass-manipulation they're spouting out
through television.
I even believe that "The Corporation" disproves the paradigm of Evolution. See, according to today's
level of "education," evil is a thing of the past.
That was back in the stone ages with that Australian dude, Hittler, or something, and his cavemen.
But since then we've evolved into good people, and all them wars and stuff that Mom and Dad
sometimes watch on the tube, you know, the "Nooz," or something, they're just necessary, because
there are still a few backwards folks around, like them dudes with terbuns and stuff, that haven't
evolved yet as much as we have, so that's good.
Well, according to my beliefs, and "The Corporation" has wonderfully - though sadly - confirmed that,
evil has all else but disappeared. In fact, it's more sophisticated, more cunning, and more omni-
present than ever, to an extent that all those remote control junkies out there couldn't even begin to
fathom...
In other words, we haven't evolved at all, but to the contrary, if anything, we have devolved & gone
further down the drain & the flow of the path the slimy old serpent started us off on 6000 years ago.
His people are getting better at it all the time, and more skilled at making ever dumber and more
ignorant zombies out of the rest of the masses, who couldn't care less what's going on, as long as
they've got their entertainment & their fast food...
They're even so smart that they make the only solution & way out of this whole mess, namely Jesus
and His dropout and anti-System message, look like part of the game by having all those duped,
lukewarm, flag-waving patriots pose as "Christians," and making the rest of the world sick of
"Christianity."
Time for God's genuine Endtime Army to get movin'!
Hold on, Baby, we're coming!
Away From Her April 25, 2008
While a small minority of still clear-thinking Americans, scholars & hobby-psychologists is trying to
figure out what evil schemes are being put to work in order to hypnotize the vast majority of the
American public and keep them in the indifferent stupor that not only enables them to tolerate what's
happening with their country, but to even give standing ovations to the 500th repetition of Bush's
"Anti-Terror" spiel and "We did this to protect our country" garbage, the answer was being revealed
to me the other night while watching a movie called "Away From Her."
Now, while this was not exactly your average action-packed Rambo-type of thriller and I wouldn't
necessarily recommend it, sometimes just one little line in a movie can unveil a mystery that keeps
puzzling thousands. In the movie we see an aged Julie Christie (big star in the 70s) suffering from
Alzheimer, and as her sickness progresses, she finally insists on her husband taking her to a special
foster Home for Alzheimer patients. He does so reluctantly, and for a while comes to visit her every
day, spending a lot of time at the institution.
In one particular scene they're sitting in the TV-lounge and, while watching news clips from the Iraq
war, Julie, during one of her clear moments speaks the words, "How could they forget Vietnam?"
And then it hit me! It's obvious! They've all got Alzheimer! Maybe the government has found a secret
way of infecting nearly the entire population with the disease, and now the President can get away
with nearly anything: they'll just stand up and clap non-stop for 25 minutes whatever he says or does,
because they wouldn't even remember what to do if they would dare stop clapping.
While this is not your run-off-the-mill movie review, let me add that the movie does end with a
surprising little twist, and if you're not the Rambo type, you might consider it well worth watching.
And, hey, at least you won't be one of those desperate losers anymore trying to figure out what the
hell went wrong with America! Now you know.
Reign Over Me
Oct.5, 2008
Last night we watched "Reign Over Me," the probably first serious movie with Adam Sandler in
existence, or at least the first one I saw, and apart from being a wonderful character study (especially
for those familar with the Enneagram), the movie addresses a few interesting points in regards to
9/11, some of which may even say more than the movie makers originally intended. Or perhaps
that's just my interpretation of it, but as with everything in the world, I think it's up to each one of us
and our individual perception, what we make of it, and learn from it, and I have made it clear
elsewhere that I believe that the Almighty has placed more lessons all around us than most of us are
willing to notice, even availing Himself of the creativity of our fellowmen to drive home points that they
may not even have intended to (and that is nowhere as much as a reality as in the art of movie-
making).
Sandler plays Charlie, a former dentist in New York who lost his wife and 3 children during the 9/11
so-called "attacks," which by a growing number of people around the world, and even Americans, are
rather referred to as an "inside job." Charlie refuses to deal with his loss and ( - in the manner of the
Enneagram's personality type SEVEN, whose driving force is defined by Enneagram authors Rohr
and Ebert as "The Need to Avoid Pain," taken to the extreme), he refuses to remember what
happened, and that he had a family at all, and reacts very aggressively to any third party attempts
(such as those of his in-laws) to confront him with what happened.
The friendship of his former college room mate - with the help of a too-cute-to-be-real therapist (Liv
Tyler) - very gradually pulls him out of this, and we watch how beautifully friendship and
communication can change people's lives for the better.
The point which the blessed creators of this movie may not have intended to bring across, but
nevertheless insists on jumping in my face (as I'm sure some readers would), is how Sandler's role
portrays the refusal of the majority of the American public (as well as a substantial percentage of the
rest of the Western populace) to deal with the realities behind 9/11. Although evidence abounds that
the official version of 9/11 is as likely to have happened as the Twin Towers having been erected by
an army of ants, in the typical fashion of pain-avoiding hedonists, most Americans refuse to face the
facts of just how rotten to the core their government really is and how astray they're being led,
willingly manipulated into one war after another and never-ending bloodshed, reacting quite
aggressively to those who would try to confront them with the truth.
If there was any intention from the side of the movie's makers to bring across that sort of message at
all, then the message would read on: "Give us time to deal with all of this in our own fashion!" The
sad part of the real story is, time's running out! If time is money, as they always say, then it's
definitely running out, and whether people want it or not, the truth is going to come crashing in on
them, and already is, as things turn out to be never the same again on Wall Street and elsewhere
around the world.
Today, little Mr. and Mrs. Jones may be pointing their fingers at the greedy stock brokers and shake
their heads at them, "Tsk tsk, those greedy, naughty boys." But in a year from now the repercussions
of what really happened here will have affected their lives to such an extent that there will be nobody
there to shake their heads at, similar to the way it happened in 1930, a year after the first global stock
market crash, which, it seems, is finally finding its match in the events unfolding before us right now.
Of course, way over 90% of the population vehemently refuse to acknowledge what's going on.
They're choosing the blue pill (as in "The Matrix") every day: "Put me back to sleep and let me know
none of all this!"
Well, just as dear Charlie in our movie eventually had to sit down and face the truth and reality of
what happened, sooner or later that will have to be the case with everyone else. The only question is
when and where; whether it will be in this life, or the next.
As far as I'm concerned, an integral and indispensable ingredient of love is truth, and without it, I
wonder how real any of all that love is that people would like to reign over them, or if it's perhaps not
just a bunch of good intentions paving their road to hell. If you want love to be real, you've got to
have truth in it, and when that's the case, I'll agree: Let that love reign over all of us!
P.S.: Don’t get me wrong. It’s not like we don’t all do it. After all, what makes us watch movies by the dozens in the first
place? We all like to get a break from reality, and it’s not like I can’t wait for all the gory stuff to happen, that’s awaiting the
world, according to the Book of Revelation. I remember the first time I read it, I actually felt physically sick, the way Neo in
the Matrix did, when he found out the truth about what the Matrix was, and what his life thus far had been…
But there’s a difference between being optimistic or positive and being naïve. It’s obvious, that basically we’re all wonderful
and often can’t really be held to blame, because we simply don’t know any better. But there also comes the point when we
should know better, because we have been told the truth, and it’s up to us to either accept or reject it, and I’m afraid that a
lot of stuff is coming up around the bend that is going to test our love for how real it is, and I’d just advise anyone to fasten
their seat belts.
Ten Years After: Matrix
If the 1999 epic “Matrix” ranks first on the list of my top 20 favorite movies of all times, even after ten
years since its release, it’s not just because I liked the special effects, but because I believe that
despite its bleak description of our world, it’s probably also one of the most accurate ever to have been
portrayed in any movie.
The vast majority of people live in an artificially created mindset that was ingrainded in them over
decades, and to get out of it is just about as cumbersome as Neo’s exit from the “Matrix.”
I remember the first time I saw the Matrix pretty much exactly 10 years ago, I knew I had seen something very
special. I had watched films before that had had a touch of the supernatural, almost like a message form God,
like Zeffirelli’s “Brother Sun, Sister Moon,” and a few others, but this was special, and there have been very few
movies since, that got anywhere near the deep spiritual significance of the Matrix, as far as I’m concerned.
Don’t get me wrong, I know all about the way the powers that be use Hollywood and all that goes with it to
manipulate the masses.
But I believe that there is a greater Matrix that envelopes the smaller matrix of the NWO schemers and their
god: the bigger Picture of God, that happens to include the picture of our present reality including its evils, and
that when it comes down to it, the Devil is just playing a part if God’s plan, whether he wants or not.
Which doesn’t mean I’m a fatalist, either; nor can I say exactly to what extent free choice effects destiny or vice
versa.
As much as we hate it: we have to leave some of the facts and details up to God & trust we’ll find them out in
His good time…
Some people didn’t understand all the rave and ado about it. They didn’t get it then and they don’t get it now.
They figured, “Cool effects,” but they prefer “Lord of the Rings” or “Star Wars.” I guess it’s like musical taste:
some liked the Beatles, some liked the Stones, or some like Britney…
Matrix was a movie you’ve had to watch it a few times until you really got all the details.
Back then I was still with one foot in the System and one on a banana peel.
But with all that has happened since then, you might say I’m definitely unplugged now (as in living by faith).
Back then, I may have known the way in theory, but I hadn’t really begun to walk in it yet.
I had some rough thoughts and ideas about how the dark forces are manipulating us from behind the scenes,
but I wasn’t aware to what extent.
I was affiliated with what you might call “The Resistance,” but I wasn’t nearly as active a part in it as now.
In a way, having seen the Matrix was perfect preparation for not falling for the lies they told us since 9/11.
While the towers were still burning, Rumsfeld spoke of “retaliation.” And I knew that what I was watching was
propaganda. – The machines at work.
Six months later we watched television for the last time in our home.
We unplugged ourselves from the current of the mainstream media brainwash and started getting plugged in to
the line of communication with the “Top,” call it Zion, call it Heaven…
…Call it Jesus. I guess if Neo represents any one thing it’s Jesus, but also what Jesus can do through each
one of us if we dare to let go of the lie they have told us all our lives and believe that “There is no spoon.”
– The knowledge of the Matrix being a fake enables you to do things that most people in the Matrix can’t do.
I’ve often wondered if that’s what perhaps empowered Jesus to walk on water, etc.: the knowledge that there is
no spoon. If our physical world was just a bunch of encoded information (and they’re finding out that there are
gigabytes worth of information in every living cell… who knows what we’ll yet find out about the make-up of our
universe…), and He knew the code (since He had obviously written it: “In the beginning was the Word = logos
= information…”) then the program He had written was subject to Him, and it was not that He was – as we are
– subject to or victim of the circumstances. – An idea that drives home the level to which His crucifixion was an
absolutely voluntary sacrifice.
Similarly to the way Neo had to decide to risk (and give) his own life for his friend Morpheus, I have also
learned since, how much truth there is in not thinking it’s you, or that we have to do it ourselves, but sometimes
we just have to be there for someone else, and like Jesus said, be willing to lay down our lives for someone
else, and that’s when all of a sudden you find yourself “in the way,” actually walking in it, not just merely talking
about it or dreaming about it.
The big surprise at the end is that not even death can stop that kind of love, but it totally overcomes the Matrix
and its agents. No wonder, if you keep in mind that God is love…
After a while of living in the consciousness of the extent of the Lie, the fake steak of the Matrix becomes
meaningless to you, and money – since you know it’s just part of the lie – becomes almost irrelevant, and in its
present form on its way to history, anyway.
Since Obama, the powers that are working on introducing the new global economic order have shifted to turbo,
and it’s not as if Revelation 13 was like Sci-Fi in some distant future anymore.
Other people apart from us “loonies” can actually see it happening somewhere in the not too distant future –
the cashless society.
It’s exciting.
That’s another thing that has changed: I’m not scared anymore.
It’s like you just know everything is going to be okay, even if they kill you.
Similar to the plots of the sequels to the Matrix, the Resistance isn’t actually always as united as it should be,
and many don’t believe in “the One,” or in anything supernatural, for that matter, and the enemy forces are
sheer overwhelming in numbers; but that’s all the more reason why you can pretty much take for granted that
this war isn’t going to be won by sheer power of force, nor with physical weapons.
The fact that Neo had to take the last steps of his way blind illustrated that it’s only by faith and not by sight that
the final battle is going to be won, and that’s what many people just don’t want to see, because they think their
own arm is strong enough, while their faith isn’t…
Regardless of whether the NWO mind-manipulators had their hands in the making of this trilogy, it wouldn’t be
the first time that God used something the Devil would like to take the credit for.
Some people give the Devil too much credit and are too scared that God is some kind of weakling… They’re
scared of the stars, scared of candles, scared of sex, scared of the wrong kind of music…
Sometimes the battle looks so hopeless, even the Enemy asks us,” why do you keep fighting?” Neo’s answer
to Agent Smith, “Because I choose to” was not appreciated by everyone, but it’s our choice not to give in that is
going to see anyone through in the end.
You simply have to choose to keep fighting the Enemy. What other choice have you got? Quit? Surrender?
The message was, “Hell, no, we haven’t even yet begun to fight,” even if not with those words…
The one thing I didn’t like was the ending of the trilogy. A cop-out. A truce between the Resistance and the
machines, which in the Matrix scenario may have been the only realistic solution, but it won’t be in the real
battle.
Some people hold a grudge against God because of the bloodshed depicted in the book of Revelation or
Ezekiel, and hate the God Who would allow any such thing to happen.
They would prefer for good and evil to coexist peacefully together in some sort of lukewarm truce. But I
sometimes wonder if they ever dig anything at all of what life is teaching us.
I remember reading Revelation as a teen, and I felt very much like Neo did in the scene of movie when he finds
out just what the Matrix is, and the first thing he does is throw up.
It’s a toughie, facing the reality of our world as God sees it, also, or especially in regard to its impending future
(preceding the happy ending) as He foretells it (see Revelation 19-21). And not many people have the guts to
face that reality.
But the only way we’re ever going to have peace and any type of victory is if we have enough guts to hate evil,
and if nothing else in this world will ever teach us to do that, I’m afraid the coming years most certainly will.
Who Are the Terrorists? (Take 2)
February 17, 2010
We just watched “Avatar,” and against my expectations, based on Christian reviews and articles I had
read about it over the past weeks, I really liked it.
Basically, we just watched it for our daughter’s sake, with the usual, “for whatever it’s worth
attitude,” but I guess I’m too much of a nature freak myself to have disliked this movie, and I would
like to express some thoughts here about where I’m afraid Corporate Christendom is mistaken in most
of its mainstream interpretations of the film.
I’m not too naive to not see the obvious “Gaya” message here. But if wanting to save the Earth is
“New Age”, then I have shocking news for you: God is New Age, too:
“And the nations were angry, and Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be
judged, and that Thou shouldest give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and
them that fear Thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth”
(Revelation 11:18).
God happens to love this blue ball, and He apparently does not like the kind of folks who destroy it,
regardless of whether they do it in the name of red-white-and-blue flag waving Churchianity or not.
Oh, so there was talk of spirits in the movie. Real scary. They’re alive! What a shocker!
The problem with Corporate Christianity is, they like to deep freeze everything: they like to deep
freeze the white-hot Spirit of God, if they can, to keep everyone cool and calm in the churches, lest
anyone start any revolutionary fires out there, that the Big Holy Corporation couldn’t control… They
like to believe that the minute you’re dead, you’re first going into a state of spiritual deep-freeze so
you can’t spook around and haunt anybody, but that’s not what we can glean from the Bible: We have
accounts of the spirit of the prophet Samuel, of Elias, Moses, and a cloud of witnesses alive and
kicking from beyond the grave, and God turning the hearts of the sons to their fathers. We have a
Savior claiming to be the Resurrection and the Life and that whoever believes in Him, would never
die, and yet we’ve got all of His supposed “followers” scared stiff of the mere utterance of the word
“spirit.”
Sure, the “worship” scenes were a bit weird. But not any weirder than some Pentecostal worship
scenes you can watch on Youtube…
Then there are the painfully embarrassing parallels in the story of “Avatar” between the Na’vi
(“Natives”?) and not only the American Natives who suffered a similar fate (except for the happy
ending), but every native tribe on the face of God’s earth who simply had to be pressed into the same
civilized molds they reared us in, otherwise they were not allowed to continue to live: “Become like
us, or die” seems to be the interpretation of the Gospel since the birth of the Corporate and officially
recognized and state-supported version of Christianity roughly 1700 years ago.
And of course, the even more painful parallels between the victims in the movie and the real live
victims of 21st century Christendom: “Whoever is sitting on something you want must become your
enemy…” Ouch! Better keep praying for our boys to help our generals haul all that Iraqi Oil on Home
to Daddy, where it belongs…
There was an article out a few weeks ago about young people being depressed after watching
“Avatar” because they would prefer to live in a world like “Pandora”…
Well, can you blame’em? Maybe they just got sick of gray! Maybe they prefer green to the color of
concrete. Maybe they’re sick and tired of the plastic world you’re handing them!
And apparently you haven’t managed to convince them yet that the Place the Christian God has in
store for His believers is actually real, or really where it’s happening. Perhaps, if they figure you’re
going to be there, walking around in your suit and singing those humdrum holier than thou songs, they
couldn’t possibly imagine they’re going to be happy there.
Personally, my own idea of my favorite spot in Heaven is a lot more like the Home of the Na’vi than a
church building. Chalk it up to my early “Tarzan” influences (since I devoured a bunch of antiquated
Edgar Rice Burroughs tomes in my childhood), but I always thought it would be cool to have a home
in a gigantic tree…
Maybe yours is all streets of gold lined with one church building next to another, just like in
Tennessee…
But who says that Heaven has to look exactly the same everywhere? Last I heard, it’s a mighty big
Place.
I also have no problem with the teaching that God is everywhere and in all living things. I think of
Him as being a lot more inclusive than that warmongering, genocidal, separatist version of
Christianity that has always preferred its own philosophy of “kill whatever is different” over its
supposed Founder’s order, “Love your enemies!”
- The argument, of course, being, “Well, who knows what would have happened, if we would have
loved our enemies, instead of killing them?”
I guess God knows. Maybe some day He’ll show all of us what might have happened if the American
Natives would have been allowed to continue their existence prior to their extermination, and what
Christians might have learned from some of them. Or what if one and a half million Iraqis wouldn’t
have been ransacked on grounds of some very shady excuses…
I know it’s tough, learning to love those who are different. We even resist our own children and their
weird inklings to want to watch weird movies like that… (Not to mention our wives’ sudden
inspirations like wanting to get a dog and open up a tattoo shop…)
Funny thing is that Jesus’ message was never about preservation, but much more about “Give it up!”
But that’s not something we’re willing to do. Not for Him, and certainly not for “mother earth.”
We insist on keeping driving our “the-fatter-the-better” cars, and we insist on being the champions of
the world.
We can’t grant “the others” the slightest chance of ever becoming a threat to us. We’ve got to make
sure we remain no.1 “for the sake of the gospel…”
I suppose a lot of Christians would consider me a traitor the way Jake Sully, the character who tells
the Avatar story, was perceived as having betrayed “his own…”
Who would you rather fight for? – A bunch of corporate warmongers, or any peaceful, though perhaps
somewhat strange and foreign culture in touch with nature?
I know, you don’t think you could ever make it without all your high-tech toys and your fancy
Western life-style, but why not be honest about it and admit that you’re having a problem, and it’s not
“the others”? Maybe they only have a weird religion because in their eyes, yours is even weirder!
Maybe Mohammed wouldn’t have even had to cook up Islam, if Christians wouldn’t have been such a
pitiful bunch of idolaters at the time he came around…
Why not be honest and confess that it’s we who are sick, totally addicted and hooked on some shiny
temptation that looks almost exactly like the real thing, but on the inside is a far cry from it?
Maybe the enemies of Christianity wouldn’t have had to cook up their own New Age religion if
Christians wouldn’t always fall so badly for every shiny temptations their real Enemy comes up
with… If we wouldn’t fall for him time and time and time and time again…
(Coincidentally, maybe Adam Weishaupt never would have founded the Illuminati if the church had
allowed him to marry his deceased wife’s sister…)
Our credo remains, “We have declared terror on terror.” – Hmmm.
I guess we’ll all know, someday. And a lot of people are going to be in for a shock, when the Dude in
whose name they did all that killing is going to pretend as if He never even knew them…
Maybe they never even knew Him. Maybe all they ever worshiped was an idea of Him that couldn’t
have been further from the truth.
Maybe the truth is somewhere a lot closer to the middle between those “tree-huggers” and the
“conquistadores” who want to fell every last tree in the name of progress and enlightenment than most
of our conservative brethren would ever have the guts or imagination to consider…
If you ask me, I’d rather be on the side of the victims than on that of the butchers. At least they know
how to fight for real, know how to die, and what they’re dying for.
Maybe our God is going to turn out being quite the totally “Other” than ourselves: A God Who not
only loves the “good,” the rich and the beautiful, but also the weird, the bad & the ugly, and that He
would have wanted us to walk a little more in His shoes, if we were already calling ourselves by His
Son’s name, and loved “the least of our brethren” a little more, instead of butchering them by the
millions…
One really neat thing that was said in the movie was, “You can’t fill a vessel that’s already full.” —
There’s more wisdom in that, and more truth about the reality of Christendom than you’ll ever hear in
a thousand sermons. It’s basically the same thing Jesus said to the Pharisees: “If you knew you were
blind, you wouldn’t be to blame, but because you think you see….”
When we stop learning and all we want to do is convert everybody to our way of seeing things,
something terrible has begun to happen.
You start missing the very purpose for which you were born on this earth. You start seeing everybody
who’s different and doesn’t think and act exactly the same as you do as an enemy, instead of saying,
“I see you.”
Sure, it’s a terrible thing that a lot of our youth are seeing Gaya worship and New Age as a more
attractive alternative to your religion. But maybe it’s because they never really needed a religion as
much as they needed the truth, and we must all sincerely ask ourselves whether that’s really what we
wanted and were looking for and have found – or did we settle for half-truths mixed with convenient
lies?
It has always happened, since the beginning of time, even to people way more perfect than we ever
were, made straight in the image of God…
I agree that James Cameron is sincerely mistaken about a few of his views, such as stated in his “Lost
Tomb of Jesus” documentary, or in the apparent assumption that Arnold Schwarzenegger is or has
ever been anything like good actor (although his acting career definitely supersedes the political).
He’s probably going to get his surprises, too, at the end of life’s road…
But I can also see his point. If Jesus was anything like the majority of His followers portray Him, I’d
have changed over to the “Gaya” camp long ago, too.
I love my enemy enough to be able to learn from him. Unfortunately, sometimes I have the impression
that there’s more to learn from some of our enemies than we can from our supposed friends.
It wasn’t the Romans who were bent on crucifying Jesus, but His own religious leaders…
The Road: Most Accurate Movie Portrayal of Our Future to Date? You Decide!
This movie is probably the most realistic Endtime scenario Hollywood has brought forth to date, and
many people, including the medieval seer Nostradamus have foreseen such times of famine so great
"that man will become a man-eater," giving reason for serious concern about whether this might
actually be a realistic peek into our future. We know from Jesus' own words in the Gospels, that a
"time of great tribulation" is awaiting mankind, such as has not been since the beginning of the world,
nor ever shall be (Matthew 24).
Of course, such thoughts bear very little entertainment value, and we're not likely to find this movie
among the top ten favorite films of all times of very many people, except maybe for the occasional
pessimist, who's just waiting for the day he'll be able to tell us, "I knew this would happen someday."
Thankfully, the makers of this film had enough sense to not let this be non-stop agony without any
hope. The young actor playing the leading role in this film is truly one amazing kid, and you root and
hope and pray for him to make it throughout the movie, against all the odds.
Testifying of some deeper insight than just creating one heck of a bleak scenario movie, the maker
even gives us one prominent clue for the cause of the fate that has befallen manind in his not all that
unrealistic portrayal of what might be our future, if we don't change some fundamental attitudes:
When the father and his son are sitting on the beach (presumably on the East Coast), staring at the sea,
the boy asks his dad, "What's on the other side?" - And after pausing long enough to have come up
with some substantial answer, all the wisdom and information the father has to offer is, "Nothing;"
reflecting quite accurately the general attitude of the average citizen of the world's presently
predominant nation regarding the rest of the world: it simply doesn't even exist, as far as they're
concerned. Adding, "Just another father sitting on a beach with his son somewhere."
While it was somewhat refreshing to see John Travolta in a role unlike any other of his previous parts,
it is questionable whether that factor weighs in sufficiently in order to let the final analysis and
experience of watching this movie be a pleasant one.
Of course, it's all a matter of taste, and if you liked "Rambo," you'll probably also like this one.
Being a European, though, the political statement of the typical "American hero" marching onto
foreign territory in order to "make'em all dead" is not as much a slap in the face as a sad joke and
testimony of the level to which modern entertainment has sunk.
The message is clearly, "Let's kill all the terrorists," and "Arabs are our enemies!" "If you can kill one
Muslim per hour, that's cool, and you're doing the cause of our wonderful New World Order great
service! - Oh, and by the way, never trust anyone! Especially not your European girl friend! - They
could all be in with the terrorists!"
Folks who are familiar with the odds that the official version of "9/11" has any more resemblance to
reality than "Little Red Riding Hood" or "Snowwhite," can, of course, tend to be a little appalled by
such a message, and more so by the naivete of the majority of our fellow citizens who swallow that
stuff by the barrels and without question. After all, something's gotta keep those boys killing
handcuffed children in Afghanistan motivated, and if there's no justification for their actions in the
real world, why, folks like John Travolta will provide all the necessary motivation one needs (perhaps
in combination with a little of that popular white powder he openly advertizes in the film)...
So, in the light of the statement and message of the film, which is so lousy that I couldn't even do the
subject justice, I'm not quite sure whether it's a positive that some of the acting in the film was
actually quite well done. Although it's beyond me how grown up individuals can put their all into
conveying a message like that to our world (a message very unlikely to contribute to making it a better
place), we have seen worse, and less entertaning movies before.
If you believe in the "American Hero," then here's another one for you. - If you value any touch of
reality to some remote degree in your entertainment life, however, you're better off watching a round
of Disney cartoons.
This movie has won me 10 massages in a bet with my wife, since I recognized Mariah Carey in the
social worker Ms. Weiss, and she kept insisting, "No, she looks like Bjoerk."
The credits proved that this was indeed the coolest thing Mariah Carey ever did, to just show up in a
flick the way she really looks without applying "Operation Playmate of the Month" before getting out
of the house!
I'm into movies, so I haven't read the book, thus I can't tell whether the movie lives up to the original
story. But I'd say it has done its job in delivering a dose of Harlem reality to the dwellers of more
pleasant places throughout the globe.
Child abuse is indeed an issue, and the way it's being addressed here and dealt with is very effective.
I guess it's superfluous to say that the gorgeous Paula Patton also did a marvelous job in her portrayal
of Precious' Alternative School teacher, even if her pick of the role may be one of the aspects in which
the film differs from the hard core reality of such actual stories...
But as the movie vividly portrays by Precious' wandering off into phantasy worlds during her darkest
moments, I guess we all need a little time out from hard core reality sometimes, and isn't that, after all,
why we watch movies?
In this sinister, 21st century version of "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly," Sir Michael Caine takes on a
slightly bizarre role of an aged avenger of the innocent, a ficticious new type of Robin Hood, only
fighting in a scenario where the roles have been strangely reversed: the part of the oppressor here has
shifted from the Sherrif of Nottingham to the Outlaws, while the police and authorities are pictured as
rather helpless victims...
Now just how realistic that is, only the good Lord knows, but one thing seems to be certain: Modern
Darwinist education, with the help of Freddy Krueger on TV, Death Metal, Gangster Rap and
Computer Games that will make a ruthless killer out of any six year old, have created a Frankenstein's
monster that is turning upon its once so clever creators, and it seems as if the cradle of Evolution is
one of the hardest hit proofs of that statement.
- Perhaps making many a Brit over 40 wish there were a little more truth to this film than there
actually is...
But then we all know that in real life, violence is not the solution. Not for those who know better. But
it may remain the only weapon of those who were not equipped with the knowledge and morals of the
older generation, grounded in whatever vague beliefs in some higher power, and instead were reared
in the firm assurance that all they are and ever will be is the result of a cosmic accident, proceeding
from the jungles of their ancestors; and so, back to the jungles it shall be...
Anyone who happens to have stumbled into the wonderful imaginary worlds created by the Japanese
Ghibli studios, knows that the planet Pandora of "Avatar" fame was by far not the first fantasy world
someone went to painstaking lengths to (re-)create artificially for the screen.
As someone who wanted to become a cartoonist as a teenager, I am able to appreciate, though barely
to imagine the kind of work and creativity that goes into an animated feature of over two hours, and
that way back in 1984, way before today's computer technology was available that is key in creating
new visual worlds on film nowadays.
Even the detail that went into opening credits blew my mind: made to look like cave drawings or
hyroglyphics from the future, testifying of the demise of civilization, leaving only the post apocalyptic
world of Nausicaa, a young girl who apparently manages to get by in a life of struggle with giant
insects from the ever growing poisonous jungle gorwing in on the scarce remainders of mankind, and
the hostility and love for war which seems to be the one unforgettable quality of the latter, by a motto
which no one since Mahatma Gandhi seems to have attempted to preach, much less live: "Love your
enemies."
While well over 90% of the movies proceeding from the supposedly largest "Christian" nation in the
world depict, justify or downright condone violence and war, here's a movie from a culture that seems
to have learned something from all the senseless bloodshed of the reality of war, and conveys the
message "Blessed Are the Peacemakers" in a better way than you might ever get to hear it from a
pulpit.
While the music isn't always quite as inspiring as most of the film, I would definitely deem it a
recommendable experience worth wasting a few kbs of web space on,
and if you're anywhere near as fanatic about peace as I am, and happen to like animated films, I don't
think you'll be complaining that you want those two hours of your life back after watching this (as I
have read quite a few people do, lately, after watching far more recent movies).
Whisper of the Heart: Corny? - So What!?!
I'm just done staring in disbelief at the screen of my lap top, watching the credits for "Whisper of the
Heart" roll by to the sound of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in Japanese.
This is the sort of film that any heterosexual male should perhaps feel ashamed to have watched, but
then I'm not your average heterosexual male, I guess.
And the reason why I'm not keeping my definite positive inclinations toward this - another 2 hour
animation feature from Japan's Ghibli Studios - as my own dark little secret, is that I've been trying to
remember any Japanese film, or any film made in Japan with real live actors, that would have
managed to convey as much about Japanese culture to the rest of the world as this movie does, and I
couldn't think of any.
"Whisper of the Heart" is a potentially real life story, and I have noted previously that sometimes
animated films can bring home a greater chunk of reality than the evening news...
This story is all about the reality of being human, getting along, coping with the differences between
ourselves and the people around us and our own insufficiencies at the same time, and coping with
what seems to be the greatest hurdle of all for many of us: love.
Probably one of the greatest concerns and an important touchstone of self-worth for a young, (not only
Japanese) teenager is the preoccupation with "corniness." The great law out there in the world today is
"Thou shalt be cool," and we constantly keep checking ourselves to make sure we're keeping it, even
until we're up into our 40s and beyond, and while the issue is obviously a concern for the young
heroine of the story, the film at the same time, sends it to hell.
"So what if anything is corny, as long as it's got heart?" seems to be the unwritten message within the
movie, as far as I understood it.
And I agree. Sowhat!?
The Sad World of Funny People
There have been quite a few bitter, cynical and sarcastic movies out about the nature of the stars and
celebrities in the Los Angeles area. This one is about the "funny" celebrities: the comedians, and one
in particular (Adam Sandler) who finds out that he's got a terminal disease.
I'm not going to wrap up the story for you. I'm just going to tell you that there's a lot of honest truth in
this movie about human nature at the top of the world.
A lot of ugly truth. But the nice difference about this one is that you've got a glimpse of hope here,
that of a few souls actually learn something out of all the sh*t that's happening to them, so, while it is
nearly as painful to watch as all the other ugly truth flicks, this one doesn't leave you hanging there
with an ending that makes you go, "Tell me something new, darnit!"
So, if you're expecting to see Adam Sandler being funny, you might be disappointed. If you don't
mind some raw truth about "funny people" shoved right in your face for you to find out what you don't
want to be, then this might be for you...
I Love You, Man - Or: This is the kind of movie that makes you cringe with
pain and embarrassment throughout 98% of its
“Psychoanalysis of the State of California #
running time over the inability of the supposedly most
572” sophisticated lot of humans on the planet to
communicate honestly and resist the clichés that
have been drilled (by them and their local dream
factories) into the minds of the whole world...
While "Amadeus" is not exactly an edifying, "feel good" movie, nor exactly entirely historically correct, it does
deserve its spot among the cult and classic movies that one has got to have seen.
After all, it teaches a very valid, though painful lesson about our own pop culture of mediocrity in which the
Salieris of the hour are often celebrated as stars while the real talents might have to wait for future generations
to discover their genius.
The truly gifted ones did not always get to enjoying the reward for their brilliance during their life-times, and if
there's one thing we learn from history, it's that we never learn from history.
So, if you can live with the idea that you might not necessarily be able to both have your cake and eat it, too,
and that the result of true genius are sometimes destined to be enjoyed only by your descandants, or if you just
want to enjoy Tom Hulce in the role of his life, you may get a kick out of this film.
The conclusion is just another fairly sad testimony to people's taste in the 21st century.
New Moon: A Lesson from Fantasy Land for Future Sex Addicts
Is it the Pet Shop Boys Revival Band? No, it's your 21st Century Teen Hero Import from Transylvania
Slightly - but only slightly - less pathetic than the prequel, "Twilight," New Moon takes a turn at overthrowing not
only the mythology of vampires, but now also that of Werewolves.
True to the motto, "If you don't want to be a vampire (like the your 1.5 billion peers between ages 8 and 14), try
wanting to be a werewolf), you will only roll your eyes about half as much through this movie if you're anywhere
above (or below) that age range.
Being someone who tries not to utterly waste even an hour and a half of my life without learning at least
something from it, I'll give the movie credit for this much: it will be prefect prep for what you might become a few
years later in your life, I mean, way after you'll be over your present plight of either "I want to be a vampire," or
"I'm in love with someone who thinks they're a vampire:" a sex addict. And that's a reality about 99% more real
than anything this movie deals with, so some day you might actually have to deal with this.
That might be a good time to remember "Twilight" and "New Moon" and how the dude just would have loved to
bite her, but he was being a good little vampire: he didn't. And so should you. I mean, NOT do it. Bite her. Or
whatever. When you've become a sex-addict.
Lovely Bones: Scarier than Death Itself
Caught in the blue horizon between Heaven and earth: the murdered Suzi with some unfinished business
"The Lovely Bones" isn't exactly the bright, cheery movie about a girl gone to Heaven, watching her family, as
some have described it. If they had paid attention, they might have caught that Suzi Salmon, the girl who tells
the story of her murder on December 6, 1973, from the Spirit World, hadn't gone on yet to Heaven, at all,
because she had some "unfinished business" to take care of.
That unfinished business is what makes the film quite a thriller, so, this is not your average "gone to Heaven to
haunt you" type of comedy.
Based on a book by Alice Sebold who had been raped at the age of 18, and was told to have come away
"lucky" to have lived through her experience, the story comes across in such a way that it makes you wonder
whether perhaps the real Suzi had told her story to this writer who could relate to her fate.
There are a lot of bad reviews of the film on IMDB from people who claim to hate it on account of the
"overdone" CGI effects (none of which struck us as "overdone,") but if they're honest, it was probably more
likely that the thought of a life after death scared the hell out of them, or just having been confronted with the
issue in such a somewhat rude, unexpected manner.
If you have a problem with life after death, you'll probably hate this film, but you might as well get used to the
thought anyway. Chances are there's a lot more to it than a few movies.
Chances are, the whole thing isn't going to be half as scary as movies like this one make it out to be.
All in all I found this movie watchable; a little too intense to call it "enjoyable," but nonetheless not an
experience you would regret.
Desert Flower
What makes all the difference in the world between
making "Desert Flower," apparently a relatively
unknown German production, either pathetic or a
revelation, is the fact that it's a true story.
The film starts out promising. After all, you would expect a decent looking person like the one portrayed here by
Kevin Bacon to have a legitimate reason for escorting the body of one of his fallen fellow soldiers half-way
around the world, and that somewhere along the line some sort of plot, story or point is bound to develop or be
revealed.
If you're going to watch this movie with the same hopes we had when we did, however, you will be just as
thoroughly disappointed as we were, unless of course, you belong to the lucky 200 million who sit in the
position to determine just by the pure chance of having been born on the right side of a line drawn on a map,
who of all those who die in an armed conflict during the 21st century may be called a hero and who may not.
The point of the film is not really at the grasp of the uninitiated in the probably most popular practiced religion of
our times (right after materialism): patriotism. - The blind faith that just because you happened to be born within
those borders, whatever you do must be good, and wherever on earth you march and whoever you may kill,
you will wind up being a hero, and that just because that man there happens to be the leader of YOUR country,
he could not possibly tell a lie.
Without wishing to be disrespectful of the deceased to whom this movie was dedicated, I find it nonetheless
utterly disproportianate.
Imagine any relative of the 1.5 million Iraquis killed since the beginning of this war (mostly civilians) watching
this movie!
Or any of the other 6.8 billion inhabitants of planet earth who don't belong to those lucky 200 million, who
wonder just like the long haired "chicken shit" in the movie, just what exactly his friends are doing over there...
There is a promise of a time when people "shall learn war no more." Probably because they will finally have
realized that of all the atrocities they ever cooked up, this idea of killing and be killed for no other reason than
having been born within or outside the margin of some line drawn on a map was the silliest game of them all.
Triangle: Perfect Description of Hell
You can tell pretty much from the eerie feeling right at the beginning of the movie that the young
mother you will accompany for the next 90-some minutes is going to have one hell of a day. In fact, if
you were ever looking for a perfect description of hell, this story is probably it.
Loosely based on the Greek mythology around Aeolus, father of poor Sisyphus, the dude who had to
roll a rock up a hill for eternity, you'll get the gist from the film of what it must be like to fall under a
curse of the kind you're asking for when you mess around with them Greek deities...
While not any more genuinely “enjoyable” than other films of this genre (let’s face it, it take
masochistic tendencies to be into horror films), and the plot seeming to be utterly absurd at times, let
me say this much in favor of the movie, that it all adds up in the end, and the absurdities to wind up
making gruesome sense.
Enough to make you wish that Someone more benignly inclined toward us is in charge than the Greek
gods, because if they and their likes run this place, then woe is us…
And perhaps a little bit like real life, once you make it through all the ugly weirdness, the end turns out to be half
as scary...
So, if you're the kind who doesn't mind wading through a bit of muck in order to get to a nice surprise, you
might enjoy this portion of Grace of the extraordinary kind.
The Combination: Violence, Crime and a Little Romance, in the Land Down Under
While this mix between a drama and an action movie does lend some insight into the plight of the Lebanse
immigrant population in Australia, and may be a must-see for that population group in the same way that
probably every citizen of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, has a copy of "Groundhog Day" at home, unless you're
a Lebanese Autralian or vice versa, "The Combination" probably won't knock your socks off.
It does carry some punch, though, and some lessons on non-vionence, or at least tamer forms of violence than
shooting your opponent.
The romantic relationship between the main character who was released from jail and a young Aussie certainly
lends depth to the plot and saves it from being a potentially one-sided beat-ya, shoot-ya type of action flick.
Those who thought that all Arabs are Muslims will receive a small education bonus from the fact that the culture
depicted here actually deals with Christians, which, of course, doesn't save anyone from the "terrorist" labels of
the bigots...
And ever since ancient Egypt, over Assyria to Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome, people have fallen for
the temptation to allow themselves to be worshiped as something greater than merely human. While the actual
Son of God allowed us to slaughter Him like a common thief...
Perhaps that demonstration of genuine divinity is precisely what stole Zeus' (or Jupiter's, Belus', Ammon's, etc.
- Lucifer's?) lighning rod for the period since, in which emperors seized to demand worship in the Western
world...
But let's not conclude prematurely, or pretend that we had actually learned anything from history, and let us
await what surprises the New World Order will bring... I have a feeling it will contain many ancient washups
(howbeit in modern wrappings for a New Age), including a lot of "Percy Jacksons" in our midst...