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Time for Action - The Great Gatsby
Celebration Center ^ | May 10, 2013 | Tim Phares, RScP

Posted on 08/30/2013 2:10:05 PM PDT by TBP

Today we saw The Great Gatsby. It’s an excellent adaptation of the classic Fitzgerald novel. The Great Gatsby is about striving, dreaming, and trying to restore what was. Jay Gatsby is a man who has remade himself from a penniless war veteran into a millionaire, all in pursuit of his lost love, Daisy, who is now married to Tom Buchanan. Tom is old money. The green light at the Buchanans’ residence across the harbor represents the dream that is just out of reach for Gatsby. At one point, he’s talking to his friend Nick, the narrator (and most likely Fitzgerald’s alter ego.) He asks if his preparations are “too much.” “It’s what you want,” says Nick.

So what do we want? Is it too much? Is that dream just out of reach? Are you standing on the dock, staring at that green light?

Time for action.

So … Knowing that there is only One, that It is all of us, that everything is that One, knowing that, as Robert Browning said, “Man’s reach must exceed his grasp/Else what’s a Heaven for?”, I simply now know and accept that Life moves forward. We cannot go back. But dreams are always made real, if we focus and follow Divine guidance.

I am thankful for that beacon of light beckoning us all to reach for dreams and I am grateful for the knowledge that we can make of our circumstances whatever we choose to make them. I accept this in gratitude, and I release it to Divine Law.

And SO it IS.


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1 posted on 08/30/2013 2:10:05 PM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP
Today we saw The Great Gatsby. It’s an excellent adaptation of the classic Fitzgerald novel.

I consider that to be an ontological impossibility.

"The Great Gatsby is about striving, dreaming…"

I disagree, The Great Gatsby is about a Marxist view of the world, it is a blatant attack on class which is why it is so much favored in today's high schools and universities.


2 posted on 08/30/2013 2:23:51 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford

The Great American Novel? I didn’t get it at all.


3 posted on 08/30/2013 3:30:47 PM PDT by AceMineral (Some people are slaves of their own stupidity.)
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To: nathanbedford

Yes, it’s a Marxist attack on the wealthy. Daisy marries the rich guy to begin with, then has an affair with Gatsby, then when Gatsby gets shot, she goes back partying with her rich guy husband again. No guilt, no cares.

The narrator says Gatsby was the “true romantic”. That cuts two ways: we feel sorry for a guy who loves a girl so completely—but we also consider him a fool because he was so stupid as to believe some rich bitch like that would have a sincere romantic bone in her body. As a representative of the upper classes she is shallow, callous, unfeeling, immoral, and phony. The Great Gatsby was not ‘great’—he was a fool to believe in the green light “GREEN, MONEY GREEN!!” Get it?


4 posted on 08/30/2013 4:13:44 PM PDT by SC_Pete
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