What if the world had already been conquered and we didn’t know it? What if America is Orwell’s 1984 fictional world of Oceana and all we know about the past and present is what the Ministry of Truth tells us?
Greg Tinker, a retired 8th grade teacher in Alabama, wrote a very thoughtful piece titled, “The Death of Virtue—A Telltale Sign of Civilizational Collapse.” Tinker began with two poignant quotes: “The path of the virtuous leads away from evil; whoever follows that path is safe.” -Proverbs 16:17, NLT “When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.” -Saint Augustine.
He continued, “We live in an era of unthinkable absurdity. Up is down. Black is white. Evil is good. Light is dark. Truth is a lie. Right is wrong. Virtue is vice. Gender is fluid. And we have thousands of “friends” (on social media).”
From the 1960s to today, popular culture has warned Americans of our imminent demise. Doomsday! What could be a scarier scenario than living in a world where everything we thought was true was a lie?
In verse 2 of chapter 6 of the Book of the Revelation, the Apostle John wrote, “And I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him; and he went out conquering, and to conquer.”
The first conquest of the end times will be with words of peace, not engines of war. The first rider has no arrows, only words of peace. Nowadays we endeavor to distinguish between defensive and offensive weapons. We wage a war of words against a perpetrator of senseless slaughter so as not to offend the aggressor and exacerbate the … uh, war? How does one exacerbate war? What are the rules for not exacerbating war?
Acts of war follow words of “peace” as surely as the red horse follows the white horse bringing war to the whole world: “a red horse went out, and to him who sat on it, it was granted to take peace from the whole earth, and that men should slay one another; and a great sword was given to him.”
As the account continues, the black horse of famine follows the red horse of war. Then the last horse, “an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. And authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.”
We are currently living in a world in which all sides play by the rules of their own words and definitions. Bless the hearts of those who attempt to adjudicate and reconcile all of the words from all of the sides. Saint Augustine’s words were never truer than today, “When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.”
Surrounded by false claims of peace built on rubbish heaps of common lies, how shall we not only survive, but also how shall we find safety? “The path of the virtuous leads away from evil; whoever follows that path is safe.”
Has the rider of the white horse already conquered earth?
9 comments:
Where can one get some of this medicinal weed?
What in the F is this guy talking about?
Things aren't that bad, DL. We just need to hire the BridgeKeeper from The Holy Grail to question our nominees and our elitists:
A) What is a woman?
(Nominee Ketanji: "I don't know" Bwaaaaaaahhhhh, into the Gorge of Eternal Peril
B) What is a baby?
(Nominee "Rachel" Levine: "I don't know, but "chest feeders" may be discriminated against......" Bwaaaaaaaaahhh, into the Gorge of Eternal Peril
C) What is your race?
Senator Spartacus: "I don't know, but white supremacists are our greatest national security threat....." Bwwaaaaaaaaaahhh, into the Gorge of Eternal Peril
Sure would clear a few things up. Just ask them the 5, no, 3 questions.
Well, 11:37 am
I know this will come as a shock to you, but even doctors can't alwaystell males from at birth. And, worse, the only chance to know with certainty comes at puberty.
And, some females don't generate sufficient hormores to ever be classified as a "woman" if that's your criteria. No boob development or functioning ovaries.
Chromosones, you say? Sorry ,1 in every 20000 males is born without a Y chromosone. And, women can be XY instead of XX.
Worse for you, some American scientists now believe they've identified the "gay" gene.
Margaret Mead proved long ago that personality traits won't help as there are societies that have had aggressive females who hunt for food and go to war and their males are submissive and care for home and hearth.
And, no she found active societies while I've been alive.
Anyone who judges the value of humans based on race ( assuming you are white) hasn't met you.
So, when asked that question the answer is " I don't know" since you don't have all their medicial information.
But, only if you weren't prevented from learning based on the notion that all knowledge is good and ignorance is bad, would you know that. There have been lots of very wise and curious humans for thousands of years who passed along knowledge and sadly, those ignorant ones who believe whatever they are told or could see.
You should be grateful you aren't living in a cave still.
1:17, Stan/Loretta, thanks for driveling by:
Life of Brian:
JUDITH: I do feel, Reg, that any Anti-Imperialist group like ours must reflect such a divergence of interests within its power-base.
REG: Agreed. Francis?
FRANCIS: Yeah. I think Judith's point of view is very valid, Reg, provided the Movement never forgets that it is the inalienable right of every man--
STAN: Or woman.
FRANCIS: Or woman... to rid himself--
STAN: Or herself.
FRANCIS: Or herself.
REG: Agreed.
FRANCIS: Thank you, brother.
STAN: Or sister.
FRANCIS: Or sister. Where was I?
REG: I think you'd finished.
FRANCIS: Oh. Right.
REG: Furthermore, it is the birthright of every man--
STAN: Or woman.
REG: Why don't you shut up about women, Stan. You're putting us off.
STAN: Women have a perfect right to play a part in our movement, Reg.
FRANCIS: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
STAN: I want to be one.
REG: What?
STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'.
REG: What?!
LORETTA: It's my right as a man.
JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
LORETTA: I want to have babies.
REG: You want to have babies?!
LORETTA: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But... you can't have babies.
LORETTA: Don't you oppress me.
REG: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! -- Where's the fetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
LORETTA: [crying]
JUDITH: Here! I-- I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans', but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
REG: What's the point?
FRANCIS: What?
REG: What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can't have babies?!
FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
REG: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.
This dumb boomer needs to get a better hobby than exposing how stupid he is to Mississippians. High school paper editorials have more depth and less predictability.
1:17 - In all your elegant dissertation, you absolutely fail to admit (acknowledge if you like) that when hurriedly cranking out an answer, she said what she said while really wanting to say , in all honesty, "A woman is whoever and whatever he or she chooses to be".
You see, the word sex is not man-made, while the word gender is a totally manmade concept. There are two sexes, yet there is an inumerable number of genders according to you people (who invented the word).
Most everybody agrees that 'knowledge is good and ignorance, bad', but what you won't admit is that neither 'knowledge' nor 'ignorance' are what you wish them to be. You don't have the power, authority or gift to define either according to your bent thesis.
Is Daniel proof that white privilege is alive and well? Could any person of color be this dumb and get a job as a professor and be regularly published?
The simple answer is yes. The world has already been taken over by "evil" if that is even appropriate.I prefer to see it as de-evolution much like the Star Trek episode. When half the world ignores simple truths like gender....right and wrong....and can't see logic in why a dude who was swimming with the boys two years ago is somehow ok to be a girl swimmer . "Cause they have friend who" ....is the friend in sports CANNOT be asked. Yes. Humanity is over.
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