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The Obsolete man - The Twilight Zone
Youtube.com ^ | 7/26/22 | Twilight bot

Posted on 09/24/2022 4:31:10 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

Rod Serling: You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace. - This is Mr. Romney Wordsworth, in his last forty-eight hours on Earth. He's a citizen of the State but will soon have to be eliminated, because he's built out of flesh and because he has a mind. Mr. Romney Wordsworth, who will draw his last breaths - in The Twilight Zone.

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Thought I would post this considering what is going on today. Sorry but the person who posted it posted it in parts so you'll have to look for part2 part3 etc. to watch the whole thing. Amazes me how many people never saw this.
1 posted on 09/24/2022 4:31:10 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

This is a TZ classic.


2 posted on 09/24/2022 4:33:06 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

One of my favorite episodes!


3 posted on 09/24/2022 4:33:40 PM PDT by catman67 (14 gauge?)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

One of my favorite TZ episodes! :-)


4 posted on 09/24/2022 4:34:31 PM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Ironically he’s called “Romney” lol lol


5 posted on 09/24/2022 4:35:17 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: JonPreston

It certainly is. Rod Serling himself wrote it.


6 posted on 09/24/2022 4:35:48 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734667/?ref_=ttqt_qt_tt


7 posted on 09/24/2022 4:36:20 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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Saw Rod Serling do a lecture/appearance at a college campus. It was memorable, for one reason being the F bombs were flying everywhere. The man was not bashful in his reproach of the establishment.


8 posted on 09/24/2022 4:37:07 PM PDT by Fungi
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I have the entire series on dvd, including one episode they claim has only been shown on TV once. I simply love that series. But if you really watch the message in most of the series you can see where they were laying the groundwork for the political correctness we have now.


9 posted on 09/24/2022 4:38:36 PM PDT by Yogafist (Voting rino is voting for the managed decline of America.)
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“The state has proven that there is no God”

Gee, who is doing that today?


10 posted on 09/24/2022 4:40:04 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I’m a Blade Runner.

I “retire” replicants.


11 posted on 09/24/2022 4:41:19 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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Rod Serling said the biggest stress he got from producing the Twilight zone was having to deal with the networks and censorship. If there was any political correctness, you can bet it wasn’t coming from him


12 posted on 09/24/2022 4:41:40 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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Wow, He was always a tough vet wasn’t he. I actually visited his grave site a long time ago in the 1990s up in Seneca county New York. Just a modest plaque in the ground mentioning his service. The guy was one of the rare ones who could actually be tagged as a bonafide genius as far as I’m concerned


13 posted on 09/24/2022 4:48:41 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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I firmly agree. The man was a genius.


14 posted on 09/24/2022 4:52:10 PM PDT by Fungi
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Burgess Meredith .

5.56mm


15 posted on 09/24/2022 4:55:44 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
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My favorite episode.


16 posted on 09/24/2022 5:03:52 PM PDT by nycgal
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“Let me out! Let me out! In the name of God let me out!”

“Yes Chancellor, in the name of God”


17 posted on 09/24/2022 5:31:29 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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This is the closing narration by Serling, written 100% by him...

“The chancellor, the *late* chancellor, was only partly correct: He *was* obsolete; but so is the State, the entity he worshiped. Any state or entity becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures nations, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, yet convinces nobody; when it dons armor and calls it faith, when in the eyes of God it is naked, having no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of humanity... That state is obsolete. A case to be filed under “M” for Mankind — in The Twilight Zone. “


18 posted on 09/24/2022 5:36:41 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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The link below tells about RS an Army active duty in WWII.

https://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/career-advice/military-transition/famous-veteran-rod-serling.html


19 posted on 09/24/2022 6:29:25 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
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Before he was a penguin, he was a librarian.

But then he broke his glasses.


20 posted on 09/24/2022 6:56:00 PM PDT by x
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