The Dark Lord's Defeat
"I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo.
'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such
times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do
with the time that is given us." J.R.R. Tolkien
Something is happening in our world and there is an uneasy feeling that, like distant rumbling thunderous clouds, is darkening the horizon.
Why is is that? That with all the science and technology, with all the social progress the 21st Century is full of personal, collective, social and international turmoil?
It is an existential morass probably best described by Steve Turner in his satirical poem on the modern mind; Creed.
In the eye of the storm, between WW1 and WW2 he penned his famous words...." Look at the world today. Is there anything more pitiful? What madness there is! What blindness! A scurrying mass of bewildered humanity crashing headlong against each other. "
Like flares in the dark night, Steve Turner and James Hilton shed light into the dark black hole humanity finds itself in. Lured into darkness by the desire to be a god to itself. "Professing themselves to be wise, they become fools"
Darkness is all around and seems much larger than the light. yet it can't overcome the light. Darkness it the absence of light and it has no power of its own. Darkness is unable to penetrate the light, but light penetrates and destroys the darkness.
Therefore our hope lies in facing the light.
"JESUS is the light of the world", And this is the condemnation, that men love Darkness rather than Light!" We have to make a choice. We can see the Light in its beauty and brilliance, but we have to be willing to give up our Darkness, or we cannot enjoy the blessings of the Light's brilliance and radiance.
"HE THAT HATH AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAITH UNTO THE CHURCHES!...These things saith He that is holy, He that is true, He that hath the key of David, He that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept My Word and hast not denied My Name. Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the Word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the Name of my God, and the name of the city of My God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of Heaven from My God: and I will write upon him My new Name. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches!" (Rev.3:6-13).
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Why is is that? That with all the science and technology, with all the social progress the 21st Century is full of personal, collective, social and international turmoil?
It is an existential morass probably best described by Steve Turner in his satirical poem on the modern mind; Creed.
We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin
We believe everything is OK
as long as you don’t hurt anyone
to the best of your definition of hurt,
and to the best of your knowledge.
We believe in sex before, during, and
after marriage.
We believe in the therapy of sin.
We believe that adultery is fun.
We believe that sodomy’s OK.
We believe that taboos are taboo.
We believe that everything’s getting better
despite evidence to the contrary.
The evidence must be investigated
And you can prove anything with evidence.
We believe there’s something in horoscopes
UFO’s and bent spoons.
Jesus was a good man just like Buddha,
Mohammed, and ourselves.
He was a good moral teacher though we think
His good morals were bad.
We believe that all religions are basically the same-
at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of creation,
sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.
We believe that after death comes the Nothing
Because when you ask the dead what happens
they say nothing.
If death is not the end, if the dead have lied, then its
compulsory heaven for all
excepting perhaps
Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Kahn
We believe in Masters and Johnson
What’s selected is average.
What’s average is normal.
What’s normal is good.
We believe in total disarmament.
We believe there are direct links between warfare and
bloodshed.
Americans should beat their guns into tractors .
And the Russians would be sure to follow.
We believe that man is essentially good.
It’s only his behavior that lets him down.
This is the fault of society.
Society is the fault of conditions.
Conditions are the fault of society.
We believe that each man must find the truth that
is right for him.
Reality will adapt accordingly.
The universe will readjust.
History will alter.
We believe that there is no absolute truth
excepting the truth
that there is no absolute truth.
We believe in the rejection of creeds,
And the flowering of individual thought.
If chance be
the Father of all flesh,
disaster is his rainbow in the sky
and when you hear
State of Emergency!
Sniper Kills Ten!
Troops on Rampage!
Whites go Looting!
Bomb Blasts School!
It is but the sound of man
worshiping its maker.
Steve Turner's poem is expounding in to James Hilton's, 1933, novel Lost Horizon.
In the eye of the storm, between WW1 and WW2 he penned his famous words...." Look at the world today. Is there anything more pitiful? What madness there is! What blindness! A scurrying mass of bewildered humanity crashing headlong against each other. "
Like flares in the dark night, Steve Turner and James Hilton shed light into the dark black hole humanity finds itself in. Lured into darkness by the desire to be a god to itself. "Professing themselves to be wise, they become fools"
Darkness is all around and seems much larger than the light. yet it can't overcome the light. Darkness it the absence of light and it has no power of its own. Darkness is unable to penetrate the light, but light penetrates and destroys the darkness.
Therefore our hope lies in facing the light.
"JESUS is the light of the world", And this is the condemnation, that men love Darkness rather than Light!" We have to make a choice. We can see the Light in its beauty and brilliance, but we have to be willing to give up our Darkness, or we cannot enjoy the blessings of the Light's brilliance and radiance.
"HE THAT HATH AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAITH UNTO THE CHURCHES!...These things saith He that is holy, He that is true, He that hath the key of David, He that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept My Word and hast not denied My Name. Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the Word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the Name of my God, and the name of the city of My God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of Heaven from My God: and I will write upon him My new Name. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches!" (Rev.3:6-13).
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