“You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.”
Nice post, Theodore. Yes, darkness lies within the heart of every man; to deny this darkness is to have it manifest in uncontrollable ways, but it will always manifest one way or another. The wise man will confront and integrate his darkness instead of deny and try to suppress it. Regarding human sacrifice, every society practices sacrifices of one form or another for societal cohesion; this is what globohomo is doing now with child trannies.... Girard called this the scapegoat mechanism, and he thought that Christianity was ultimately so radical and revolutionary because it forced society to identify with the victim of the scapegoating.
Junger commented on Heart of Darkness in his World War 2 diaries,, August 16, 1942 entry: "I read Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, a story that superbly describes the transformation of civilized optimism into utter bestiality. Two Philistines come to the Congo to make money, and there they adopt cannibalistic habits. In broader contexts, Burckhardt describes this process as "rapid decay." Both men heard the overture of our age. Conrad perceives something more clearly than Kipling, and that is Anglo-Saxon constancy in transitional situations. That is a remarkable and unpredictable trait in our world, which might sooner have been prophesied of the Prussians. The difference between them, however, lies in the fact that the Englishman can tolerate a significantly greater dose of anarchy. If the two were innkeepers in squalid neighborhoods, the Prussian would expect the regulations to be followed in every room. In doing so, he would actually be preserving a certain veneer of order while the entire building was being devoured by nihilism from the inside out. The Englishman would turn a blind eye to the growing disorder at first and just keep on filling the glasses and collecting the money until finally, when the racket on the floor above got out of hand, he would take a few of the customers upstairs, and together they would beat the others to a pulp.
From the standpoint of character analysis, the Englishman has the advantage over the Prussian in being phlegmatic, while the other is sanguine; objectively, he has the advantage of the seaman over the landlubber. Seafaring people are used to greater fluctuation. Add to this the frequently noted superiority of the Norman genetic material, which is more favorable for the creation of a leader class than the common Germanic stock."
The interesting trek through the jungles of your story finally did pay off. Nice close.
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” That quote from Robert Duvall’s character and the drunken fit of Martin Sheen, which was real, are the only things my memory hold from that movie.
As bad as my memory is I’m surprised it holds that much.
I saw that movie in the theater when it came out. I was only 18 years old. It’s hard to believe I was ever that young.
Sorry, but I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw the typo about the “rouge” general. I was going to try to connect it to the comment about “sanguine” by N.L. but apparently I’m not that clever.
In civilised parts one can say “behave yourself” and the other will know exactly what you mean, even though on the face of it the words mean nothing at all. Even our dogs can understand what it means. Still, not everyone’s dogs can be be taught, if you get my drift.
The Cambodia Killing Fields comes to mind as man’s inhumanity to man as well. However, Jesus’ holy and sinless blood was sacrificed willingly that we who believe would have eternal life.
Satan blinds men’s minds with counterfeit sacrifice seeking what Jesus has already provided. Thank you Jesus.
“When Israel entered the Promised Land, the Canaanites were worshipping demon spirits: Astarte (Ashtaroth) and Moloch. The valley of Gehenna, or Ge Hinom, outside Jerusalem, was the place of human sacrifice of children to these demons. The Jews thought this place so evil that they would not live there but only burned their garbage there, day and night."
Nice post, Theodore. Yes, darkness lies within the heart of every man; to deny this darkness is to have it manifest in uncontrollable ways, but it will always manifest one way or another. The wise man will confront and integrate his darkness instead of deny and try to suppress it. Regarding human sacrifice, every society practices sacrifices of one form or another for societal cohesion; this is what globohomo is doing now with child trannies.... Girard called this the scapegoat mechanism, and he thought that Christianity was ultimately so radical and revolutionary because it forced society to identify with the victim of the scapegoating.
Junger commented on Heart of Darkness in his World War 2 diaries,, August 16, 1942 entry: "I read Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, a story that superbly describes the transformation of civilized optimism into utter bestiality. Two Philistines come to the Congo to make money, and there they adopt cannibalistic habits. In broader contexts, Burckhardt describes this process as "rapid decay." Both men heard the overture of our age. Conrad perceives something more clearly than Kipling, and that is Anglo-Saxon constancy in transitional situations. That is a remarkable and unpredictable trait in our world, which might sooner have been prophesied of the Prussians. The difference between them, however, lies in the fact that the Englishman can tolerate a significantly greater dose of anarchy. If the two were innkeepers in squalid neighborhoods, the Prussian would expect the regulations to be followed in every room. In doing so, he would actually be preserving a certain veneer of order while the entire building was being devoured by nihilism from the inside out. The Englishman would turn a blind eye to the growing disorder at first and just keep on filling the glasses and collecting the money until finally, when the racket on the floor above got out of hand, he would take a few of the customers upstairs, and together they would beat the others to a pulp.
From the standpoint of character analysis, the Englishman has the advantage over the Prussian in being phlegmatic, while the other is sanguine; objectively, he has the advantage of the seaman over the landlubber. Seafaring people are used to greater fluctuation. Add to this the frequently noted superiority of the Norman genetic material, which is more favorable for the creation of a leader class than the common Germanic stock."
OECONOMIA DIVINA (From The Rising of the Sun)
I did not expect to live in such an unusual moment.
When the God of thunders and of rocky heights,
The Lord of hosts, Kyrios Sabaoth,
Would humble people to the quick,
Allowing them to act whatever way they wished,
Leaving to them conclusions, saying nothing.
It was a spectacle that was indeed unlike
The age long cycle of royal tragedies.
Roads on concrete pillars, cities of glass and cast iron,
Airfields larger than tribal dominions
Suddenly ran short of their essence and disintegrated
Not in a dream but really, for, subtracted from themselves,
They could only hold on as do things which should not last.
Out of trees, field stones, even lemons on the table,
Materiality escaped and their spectrum
Proved to be a void, a haze on a film.
Dispossessed of its objects, space was swarming.
Everywhere was nowhere and nowhere, everywhere.
Letters in books turned silver-pale, wobbled, and faded
The hand was not able to trace the palm sign, the river sign, or the sign of ibis.
A hullabaloo of many tongues proclaimed the mortality of the language.
A complaint was forbidden as it complained to itself.
People, afflicted with an incomprehensible distress,
Were throwing off their clothes on the piazzas so that nakedness might call
For judgment.
But in vain they were longing after horror, pity, and anger.
Neither work nor leisure
Was justified,
Nor the face, nor the hair nor the loins
Nor any existence.
Creslaw Milosz.
The interesting trek through the jungles of your story finally did pay off. Nice close.
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” That quote from Robert Duvall’s character and the drunken fit of Martin Sheen, which was real, are the only things my memory hold from that movie.
As bad as my memory is I’m surprised it holds that much.
I saw that movie in the theater when it came out. I was only 18 years old. It’s hard to believe I was ever that young.
Sorry, but I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw the typo about the “rouge” general. I was going to try to connect it to the comment about “sanguine” by N.L. but apparently I’m not that clever.
In civilised parts one can say “behave yourself” and the other will know exactly what you mean, even though on the face of it the words mean nothing at all. Even our dogs can understand what it means. Still, not everyone’s dogs can be be taught, if you get my drift.
The Cambodia Killing Fields comes to mind as man’s inhumanity to man as well. However, Jesus’ holy and sinless blood was sacrificed willingly that we who believe would have eternal life.
Satan blinds men’s minds with counterfeit sacrifice seeking what Jesus has already provided. Thank you Jesus.
my first read of many i hope. looking forward to reading more of what you are offering. 🙏🏻🍀
“When Israel entered the Promised Land, the Canaanites were worshipping demon spirits: Astarte (Ashtaroth) and Moloch. The valley of Gehenna, or Ge Hinom, outside Jerusalem, was the place of human sacrifice of children to these demons. The Jews thought this place so evil that they would not live there but only burned their garbage there, day and night."
https://substack.com/@filiusprodigus/note/c-49813027
Excellent, Theodore. I found this most compelling: “Evil is banal. Trite, trivial and commonplace.
Given its unimaginable supply, who really wants it? Only modern fools.”
I've seen Horrors...
https://youtu.be/BSfTXaqo18o?feature=shared
Absolutely Amazing
No remission of sins without the shedding of blood.
Precisely why God became incarnate and sacrificed Himself, once and for all.
If we are unwilling to accept that sacrifice for ourselves, then the old gods must be appeased, in one way or another.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/KmdAuLYZJk8BAVdj7
Cannibalism is from the Canaanites = The Serpent Seed:
Did Eve Have Sex With The Devil or Did She Just Eat Some Fruit?:
https://isthefathercallingyoutohisson.wordpress.com/did-eve-have-sex-with-the-devil-or-did-she-just-eat-some-fruit-part-1/
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: “The line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.”
Or words to that effect.