Posted on 05/18/2012 7:10:07 AM PDT by GoldenEagles
WE MUST FIGHT THE GOOD
In a comment to the author of this thread, and speaking to the subject of Libertarianism, I commented in this vein that, "Republicans don't need a Libertarian to tell them that Romney is ripping the very heart of the Republican Conscience right out of the body of the Republican Party." (source)
The Reagan Conscience to be precise.
The moment that idea formed in my mind, I remembered this dramatic scene from "The Matrix" movie series, where "Agent Smith", who represents an agent of darkness and slavery, had thrust his hand into the heart of "Neo" the movie's hero, for the purpose of converting him to another mind-numbing agent of the darkside, and I remembered the special effects were superb, and that this scene would serve as a very dramatic metaphor for what is going on in the Republican Party today.
I share this scene here, for the purpose of offering some encouragement to what appears to be the embattled minority, to continue to stand our ground in a determined manner, with the hope of victory blazing brightly at the center of the mind's eye, to block the RomneyZombies efforts to take over the Republican Party.
In the screen-captured image below, you see where Agent Smith has thrust his hand into Neo's heart, and the darkness is spreading out throughout his whole body, and is nearly consuming him, but he gathers together his inner strength (which can only come from his strong belief in, faith in, and trust in God) and drives the darkness back. This scene is about 2:50 into the clip. Be ready to turn up the volume on your system as the sound track in this clip is very low, and you need to hear every word spoken before the major fight scene begins.
YouTube - a new window will open.)
See how Neo resists the taking over of his heart, yet he still has a battle to fight. And it is a dramatic battle too. The battle ebbs and flows, for a moment victory seems certain, the next moment defeat seems certain, the next moment the hope of victory bursts alive again, and then it is dashed again as more Agent Smiths arrive on the scene.
Of course it is all allegory. The circle he draws around himself in the end, is an allegory for God.
The moral of the story, is that while you must fight, while you must defend your core priorities in God, you cannot win without the Power of God which you cannot access without obedience to His Laws. That is the symbolism of the circle. It is the circle of the Law, the circle of God-Reality, that is where victory and freedom reside.
And yes, to surrender your purpose to the darkside, the purpose that God has placed in your heart, is to die.
The significance of Agent Smith's initial dialog, is in the fact that the dark side will adapt to the appearance of a real threat, and use deception to get the individual to lower his guard, allowing the enemy to gain access to the heart of the opponent, i.e. to his priority system.
This interesting capacity of Agent Smith to endlessly replicate himself speaks to this phenomena of the darkside capturing the hearts of more and more members of the Republican Party, making them into RomneyZombies, totally unthinking, though stubborn, and relentless, adherents to their leader, Willard M. Romney.
Does it phase them in the least that they bow and scrape before a man whose first name is also the title of a horror movie where the nemesis releases an army of rats on his enemies? No. Everybody will remember Bloody Thursday in exactly that way, except them.
The people who have truth still in their hearts, they must defend it. They must fight off the Agent Smiths. And they must come to terms with the source of their true inner strength, which is the Power of God through the intercession of the Lord Christ, whose universal desire and purpose is to raise each Child of God into the domain of Sonship under God, to thus empower them unto the victory in this ongoing battle between the forces of good and evil.
If that power does not start flowing through them now, as it did through Neo for the victory, the soul of the Republican Party will be lost.
The story of Neo is the story of a regular person, drawn into a great battle for freedom, who has to come to terms with who he really is, a Child of God, Heir to the Kingdom, and the representive of the Most High in the earth, with the power to match. Yes, Neo has to figure out what it really means to believe.
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You: "What does one's apprehension of the fleet have to do with all this?"
LOLOL. Well...um...{{thinking thinking trying to recover}}...it's necessary in understanding the SECRET Navel fleet that usually stays under cover...under wraps...an omnipresent fleet only visible to TSA machines and Mad Magazine mail-order Xray vision sunglasses...a fleet that gets around as it pleases by day buttoned up in a sea of darkness...hiding in plain view yet out of the harsh sun of day...growing in size with over-fuling...stealthly gathering something called a codeword "lint"...to be used for secret, unknown and yet-understood Naval purposes....
...and that's my navel-gazing's explanation and I'm stickin' to it. ;-)
FR has been invaded by zombie Obama drones who do whatever they can to bash the presumptive Republican nominee.
It is Orwellian propaganda, at its best.
It'll be great. We can feel really self-righteous for voting our principles and when anyone in the goupe disagrees with us, we can scream, "RINO"!!!!!!! and OUT they go!!!
Can't wait!!
A person coming to the site in the past few weeks probably wouldn't come to this conclusion.
At best this place is full of Vichy conservatives, who having capitulated their values, spend their time telling everyone how smart they are.
I understand your sentiment, but you have to deal with reality.
No one is happy that Romney is the only alternative we have.
But I will not participate in helping Obama get a second term, because your family and mine will be in mortal danger if that happens.
You can be smug, even when they shut the concentration camp door behind you, but I will not visit that fate upon innocent people willingly.
I'm having a bad day...and I really DO know the difference between a naval fleet and a navel fleet. One is found beached and bronzed in Miami, and the other is found offshore in the BIG water...and on which my dad and uncle took off and landed. :-)
Have a good day everybody. Good weekend, too.
Yeah, even the owner is an invader.
Bump your every word, exit82.
Awesome. Now you`re seeing it MY way! ;-)
As I recall, the owner called for a truce.
You are forced to go to battle with the leader you have.
You think everyone wanted Romney as the ‘’leader’’ against Zero?
Where were the conservatives in the primaries and why didn’t conservatives back the most conservative of them?
Face reality. Conservatism failed this time. Conservatism didn’t place a conservative at the head of the ticket.
If the b@stard in the WH wins in November, we’re all responsible.
As I recall, the owner called for a truce.
You are forced to go to battle with the leader you have.
You think everyone wanted Romney as the ‘’leader’’ against Zero?
Where were the conservatives in the primaries and why didn’t conservatives back the most conservative of them?
Face reality. Conservatism failed this time. Conservatism didn’t place a conservative at the head of the ticket.
If the b@stard in the WH wins in November, we’re all responsible.
As you can see, I’m pretty reasonable.
And don't try to even insinuate that I am in any way responsible for November - no matter which bastard wins.
My analogy was not intended to imply you had a choice of “neither” (and neither did I when it happened). Sometimes, despite best efforts (be it healthy eating/exercise or voting conservative in the primaries) you end up with a choice between two very nasty alternatives, and you MUST pick one - and not picking one IS opting for the worse outcome.
If we can prevent Milt from gaining the needed delegates, perhaps we have a chance to select a true conservative as the GOP nominee. But if not, working to keep little barry bastard in office is lining up with the enemies of this Republic.
If we can prevent Milt from gaining the needed delegates, perhaps we have a chance to select a true conservative as the GOP nominee. But if not, working to keep little barry bastard in office is lining up with the enemies of this Republic.
And perhaps YOU are mistaken.
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