It’s like spring break for leaf peepers.
Even those of us not amenable to modernist interpretation of ancient books can’t help noticing some spooky coincidences.
Maybe it’s not a linear path, more like a spiral, so the same view is seen from different perspectives.
There are those who make a convincing case that all the prophecies of St John of Patmos’ Apocalypse had already come to pass shortly after publication. Like 90 AD.
It’s a fascinating book but incomprehensible without deeply spiritual interpretation.
The layers of meaning are delicate like filo dough. This guy rightly divides the word. He’s quite entertaining too. It’s a transcription of a weekly lecture series he did, so it’s informal, yet informative. Can’t recommend it highly enough.
Considering the travails of Christians at Rome under Nero, and elsewhere during some of the later emperors (Diocletian for instance) it’s not hard to see what they mean. It wasn’t written to us, but to his contemporaries. They were literally martyred publicly. Things may seem tough, but not that tough. Not yet anyway.
“That sounds dirty when ‘you’ say it.”
Hilarious
Impossible to determine which shot was fatal, impossible to convict any individual for murder. Not that they won’t still ruin your life for surviving.
When I worked in Hollywood I’d occasionally say stuff like “Hitler was a socialist.” or “Hitler was a a vegan animal rights activist. You’d have admired him.” They knew I was “kidding” but it stung and nettled because it was true.
When questioned about my political party affiliation I’d claim to be anarchist.
Plus I looked like Lenin with my hipster cap and my little van dyke beard. Gotta blend in to survive, I guess.
You’re forgetting inheritances. Boomers, like me are bequeathing properties and estates to their heirs. Also, perhaps you’re discounting the leverage of long term property ownership. Not everyone is starting from scratch working their way up from the bottom without any foundation or backup.
That said, anyone can see the ladders being pulled up so as to eliminate upward mobility for those who will never “own” anything, and be “happy”. Notwithstanding the truth that property owners all know that even with the deed in hand, unless your taxes are paid you don’t actually “own” it. They can, and eventually will raise taxes beyond your ability to pay them. Soft seizure?
I am grateful for having been raised a spoiled clueless American kid who thought the prosperity would never end, but just magically keep increasing for everyone. The promise of a return to that dream compels me to fervently support the only candidate who ever promised to do that, and meant it. To put those pulling up the ladders out of business again, at least for a while seems the next right thing to do. IOW NCSWIC.
One of my dearest friends was an octogenarian Hungarian. He told me 30 years ago that it’s not like they show on History Channel. He had a lot of good stories from his own experience. He taught me how to hunt pheasant and grouse with dogs. I miss that guy. Aufviedersehen Tibor.
I’m well aware of the nature of myths and legends.
There’s an old story of a man and a lion walking and talking. They each asserted the superiority of their species. Encountering a statue depicting a hunter triumphant over a lion, the man pointed to it as exemplary. The lion countered, “If lions made statues they’d look different.”
I understand. “Who writes the history controls the past and present.” It’s part of what drove me to seek solace in religion.
Humans lie. It’s what we do best. God doesn’t lie. He IS Truth with a capital T. God bless you , and guide you to Truth.
I wasn’t there, so I can’t “know”. I also wasn’t in Jerusalem in 33 AD but still I believe in Jesus Christ. You may safely dismiss me as a religious fanatic. God bless you and guide you to truth.
One can cherry pick positive attributes from any society. Admiring Germany from 1933 - 1945 is like admiring the Aztecs, or the Carthaginians. Doubtless there were some good things about them, but they were all blood cults. Corn is good. Alphabets are good too, and sausage is okay I guess, but human sacrifice, in whatever form, clearly is not.
I’m amazed hippies embraced Volkswagens, and our vegan eco-nuts and animal rights activists would have been right at home in Hitler’s Berlin. They tried windmills for electricity too. With similar dismal results.
I agree they think that, but they’re wrong. NCSWIC.
There were British agents operating out of Canada who ran Booth. The Crown don’t like USA.
They’re even more dangerous when they do get their way.
Nazis and Commies are equally abhorrent. Both are totalitarian tyranny. Both are based on lies. Both seek a “new man” by social conditioning. In both cases the state is “god”.
Nikki sez: “Moloch is great! He’s really scary too. Better just give him what he wants. It’ll be fine”. Ask the Carthaginians. But you can’t. They’re gone. Thrown down from on high.
The audience reaction to his bold statement that climate change is a hoax was telling.
They seemed vociferously shocked and dismayed. As did the other contestants. Democrats? Rinos? Shitiots? (Shill-idiots) His anti-war statements also seemed to irritate and provoke all present. He was the only one who backed GEOTUS in any way. Clearly auditioning for the VP slot imho.
I smell a snake. I guess we’ll see.
Future archaeologist will rightly assign religious significance to those artifacts.
Confronted with lack of observable evidence of increasing temps they’ll proclaim success at having forestalled disaster with windmills and solar panels.
At least he didn’t try to talk.
If only. Prodigal turtle?
I told my children that there were colonies of “mole people” who inhabit the dump by burrowing into the compacted waste piles. I told them the mole people relied on can and bottle deposit refunds for income to justify to them my refusal to recycle. “Do you want the mole people to starve?”
I honestly believe my deliberate manufacture of patently ridiculous narratives provided the genesis of their ability to think critically and question authority.
I’m proud of my skeptical sons. Yeah, they’re based.
Angle of the dangle is directly proportional to the heat of the meat.
— Funkadelic
The Red Dinner. I’ll never forget it.
Perfect! Lead by example.
- 1 for Comintern
I think he means the do gooder liberal social science activists got owned.
I encountered the young daughter of sociology professors (a married pair of them) and casually asked her if the social scientists weren’t perplexed by the results of their obviously failing programs.
Absolutely! And they blame the “rats in the maze” for finding all the shortcuts. Yes, they resent the subjects of their experiments for failing to provide the expected results.
Look at the “rat utopia” videos. It always crashes.