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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Hear, Hear!
And that is precisely what makes Romney a more dangerous prospect than four more years of the kenyan.
Last night it became totally clear how to explain why I won’t vote for Ronney. Here is the crux, the end all, reason:
WHICH ONE WOULD GOD VOTE FOR? Neither one so I won’t, either.
Ronney = Romney (Fraudian slip, don’t even want to spell his name right)
I don’t think Romney wants to be saddled with any conservative, or with the presidency, for that matter. he has already showed some McCainian signs of throwing the election.
I think it will most likely be useful idiot wanabe important people. It will be the old man or old lady trying to be important via affiliation. It will be the local political candidate potential person.
They will not be thinkers. They will be tantamount to senile with misguided harmlessness.
Barry “The One” Obama will be please to hear he has your vote.
Romney 2012: At least he’s not a dog eating commie.
What does one's apprehension of the fleet have to do with all this?
Too late, don't you see?..... The GOP are the ones who have handed this to Obama by forcing Romney on voters...the buck stops right there....you cannot blame voters who are not supporting either candidate. .........Both doors lead to the same outhouse.
...I will not consent to either..... It's like asking a woman which method of abortion, the end result is the death of the baby.
Too late, don't you see?..... The GOP are the ones who have handed this to Obama by forcing Romney on voters...the buck stops right there....you cannot blame voters who are not supporting either candidate. .........Both doors lead to the same outhouse.
...I will not consent to either..... It's like asking a woman which method of abortion, the end result is the death of the baby.
Just an extrapolation of the same one who gave us numerous examples of condemning those who refrained from action, preferring to do nothing and thus facilitating evil. Good Samaritan, Parable of the Talents, various others ... sound familiar?
Upshot: if you don’t vote for Romney, it’s that much easier for Obama to win. But then maybe you’d prefer that outcome...
Yes, he’s not the answer. But he’s a more manageable problem than the alternative.
See my prior analogy involving the heart. Been there done that one.
" ... if Romney continues to show weakness in the polls and his ultimate RNC nomination proves likely to fracture the party ... the GOP elite will be more inclined to fracture the DNC party rather than abandon the investment they've made in him. Loosening the strings on the bag of cats that is Obama's eligibility problem would provide just such a fracture. Watch for a cat to be permitted to sneak out of the bag as Romney's performance continues lackluster."The cats are seeing a glimpse of daylight lately. We are the trail blazers and we serve our purpose ... appreciated or not. To your analogy, ctdonath2, we are trying eat right and exercise so we can avoid all the things you describe, including the congestive heart failure. Supporting Romney is akin to sitting in front of the television with a bag of chips hoping nothing bad will come of it.
It is somewhat ironic, since Jim announced the "truce" that those of us who have decided for what ever reason not to support Mr. Romney have become objects of derision and treated to invective in these threads. The forum has come a long way in just a few weeks.
I don't take issue with those who support Mr. Romney, for any reason they choose. But I sure don't understand or appreciate that here on JR's absolutely Conservative forum so many seem to want to turn it into a Republican medium. As I stated in a previous thread, it is apparent to me that quite a few of the Republican faithful have become Conservative In Name Only - CINO's.
But as long as JR allows it, who am I to complain? I simply won't cross sabres with them.
Again thanks for the ping.
Ironic and blatantly SAD!
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....
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