Posted on 04/06/2016 5:28:34 PM PDT by Lazamataz
Rudyard Kipling wrote a prescient poem in 1919, called "Gods of the Copybook Headings.". This is, simply put, a must-read poem.
Copybooks were texts that allowed British schoolchildren of the time to practice penmanship, and the phrase they would copy -- often a phrase of a sermon, or some wise aphorism -- would be featured on the copybook heading. Kipling was appalled by the counterintuitive modern thoughts of the day, and wrote the poem to point out how eons of wisdom and experience of humankind were hard-won, and he urged us not to embrace the depraved 'shortcuts' we began to take.
Like Kipling -- though lacking his talent -- I, too, urge us to take stock of where we are. Are we in open rebellion with morality and common-sense? Are we in a pitched war with reality? Have we become a Demonic America?
Take yourself back ten years, and (except for the last item, which is older) ask if you would have physically struck a future-you that claimed that any of the above would come to pass.
I know I would.
There can be no doubt. We are in the clutches of great evil. Common sense has been thrown aside for bizarre and absurd conclusions that fly in the face of 2000 years of civilization, and the ideals of decency that surrounded us.
I have not even discussed other forms of evil, such as the Administration's betrayals of Israel -- including an implied threat to shoot down Israeli aircraft that would have struck Iran's nuclear facilities. There are so many other examples, too numerous to list. It all comes together to inform us that this is Satan's time, a time of unbridled evil.
Back in the 1970's and 1980's, I used to listen Iran call us the 'Great Satan' with a combination of derision and bemusement.
Now, I actually wonder... is that what we have become?
Well, it’s too bad, for them, to close their minds to Biblical truth, if that was the reason. When I see how the “birth pangs” are happening, one after the other, just as predicted (and not in some vague Jean Dixon way, the Bible was quite precise), I don’t know how anyone can not at least consider it. The birth of Israel is often called the “super sign”.
It would be funnier if it were not so sadly true.
RE:”America is satan’s chew toy”
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Thank you Laz for a thoughtful and timely post. As a young girl in school, I was exposed to the “copybook headings” in just about every lesson my teachers gave me to complete. Little moral sayings and teachings were a part of both home and school life.
The poem has given me chills in the past decade because I have literally lived to see it unfold. As you have said, the things that are happening in the world today, and especially in America, would have been viewed as impossible to even imagine fourty years ago.
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When artificial intelligence comes, I hope it has a sense of humor. Then it might keep some of us around just for laughs.
I also think you’re on to something. A few hours ago, a video of some cute panda bears rolling around on a slide popped up in my FB newsfeed. Adorable — until I googled the lyrics for the background music (big mistake). Demon inspired? Probably. But it’s what “everybody” — well, of that age, I guess — listens to and they think nothing of it.
“It is my thesis that when the AntiChrist comes, it will be in the form of Artificial Intelligence.”
When I was a small child there were not televisions in the community. By the time I was in third grade they started to appear in the homes of neighbors and relatives. By the time I was ten my mother had pressured my carpenter father into spending almost two months pay on a fifteen inch Crosley black and white console TV. Some of the old ladies soon were heard to say that nothing good would come of it. Naturally, being a young lad who knew all, I laughed at the idea. After many decades I won’t say that NOTHING good came of it but I do see now that it has been the horse for a lot of evil to ride. You may be right about the AntiChrist.
This country is going to pay some heavy dues soon.
VERY soon.
As in WEEKS.
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It’s scary out there; it’s safe in here.
The Pope- don’t get me started. Sincerely, a recovering Catholic.
Did they request a safe space on their way out?
T4TP.
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