http://disqus.com/people/356b3554f68b2d9b1795ab4ec3fa4362/enSat, 27 Dec 2008 04:04:50 -0000http://washingtonindependent.disqus.com/batman8217s_8216dark_knight8217_reflects_cheney_policy/#comment-4662475The problem is that 10000 years from now, none of this will exist. So, the Satanic philosophy says nothing matters and to do what you want. The God philosophy says obey me and you will be rewarded with liberation from the chaos of time, eternal peace. So, is it real or isn't it? Is it a lie or isn't it? Is it just a game played by higher beings the same as we play chess? If it is then choice is an illusion. Maybe understanding why we do the things we do is why we go on. Maybe it's just preprogramed habit. Maybe wanting change is watching the world burn. Maybe having your parent tell you not to touch the flame because it will burn you is not the same as experiencing a burn itself. To want power you must desire control over your life. For the long haul, to control your life you must be willing to control others lives. Eventually others will want control to counteract your control and one thing will lead to another. A rock or a mountain can sit for a very long time which seems almost eternal. The facts show that given enough time even the pyramids will turn to dust and constant rain fall, freezes and heat can shatter any stone given enough time. If all life is just one prodigious gag real, perhaps what it means to be in the image of Him is to laugh right along with him and fear not and hate not knowing that all that exists will one day cease to exist. The promise of being taken into the realm of a timeless existence all hinges on your belief. In one way or another, eventually, all will be taken. Perhaps I'm just praddling on but lastly I will share something personal. Many years ago I had a dream. For years I have tried to decipher it, but I have not been able until recently, I think. I dreamed of a god like figure like something Michaelangelo carved himself. He was striking with a fury that I had never seen swinging a black smith's hammer in his left hand upon an object in his right which he was squeezing intensely upon an anvil. As I approached closer I saw blood every where from his chest to the floor to the anvil. This being had ripped his own heart out of his chest and was striking it into a shiny metal, silver perhaps. As I got closer he turned and looked me in the eyes and to my own horror... hmmmm, well let's leave something to the imagination. You guess. I've been at a loss for years, but recent events I think have given me some insight. I don't see the point in telling or else you'll miss the point. I will say I believe this... the cost of power is too great, often you become what you despise. I think it's impossible for the Batman to do what he does without (whether it be accidental or intentional) becoming what he despises. Can he live with that? Could you?ScotlarocSat, 27 Dec 2008 01:49:42 -0000http://washingtonindependent.disqus.com/batman8217s_8216dark_knight8217_reflects_cheney_policy/#comment-4663422I've read all the coments and people fail to mention the important clues. The Joker (Satan) uses wants and fears (especially money and who makes and controls the money?) to recruit everybody and anybody (he doesn't work alone although it seems so). He recruits the mafia, street thugs, police men and women, people in the justice system and pulls the strings of children with masks and pistols which the police are ready to gun down. He puts men in position in medical garb to assasinate. Who he can't buy he manipulates with fear. He does this with the people on the boats. It was when they could not be bought or motivated by fear that they did the right things. You have to be willing to die to do the right thing especially in extreme conditions. Harvey was a symbol of this path. Although his flesh was ravaged and he did die he still became a martyr, but not one for violence, but for justice and purity of heart. Like Christ his memory will live on. Batman caught the Joker, but did not kill him, but instead jailed him. Michael the Archangel captures Satan, chains him and cast him into the pit. Commissioner Gordon is just a man who has picked the side of justice (rightiousness) to act on and though confused still works with Batman to continue this good, but difficult work. In all the chaos, do we not often blame God for the problems of the world in effect blaming his angels? And also do not people have personal problems and cast judgement on people and things saying it is the devil? If God's ways are mysterious then I believe so is the devil's. And people often, just as Job, are confused between the two to the point where everything is grey. Doesn't the joker wear purple and didn't often kings and religious leaders wear purple? Didn't they manipulate on a mass scale beyond most peoples understanding and not often know who works for them? Isn't the Angel of Death often portrayed as a skeletal figure cloaked in black? Aren't demons portrayed often as having bat wings? So there you have it. The machinations of the devil and the mysteries of God often become blurred to the human eye. Didn't the sight of Angels and Satan and his demons strike fear at times, but at times they appeared beautiful apparently changing costumes at will? The Bible tells us what each one stands for and that even though in reality our lives (for the long haul) are not really in our hands, it's the choice to do good that matters in the end and whether you are a so called law abiding citizen or a convicted criminal we are all in the same boat and it's never to late to make the right choice. And even if we do make the right choice and death is at your front door step, yes some malevolent force can push a button and exterminate us. But, evil will not have our obedience. If the eventuality of all things is death does it matter? You might ask. It claims your life, but not your spirit (not your heart). That is the message of the film. And when we all make that choice, maybe, just maybe, there will be a Dark Knight hidden from us in the shadows fist deep in blood yet wings flying in the heavens to stop Historys Worst Joker from pushing the button. If we fail that test, we will have noone to blame but ourselves. Star Wars, The Matrix, Doctor Who (who has two hearts by the way) use many tricks to fight evil, but in the end it is the heart, it is with love that finally won the day. Vader's love for his son. Smith touched Neo's heart and was vanquished. Doctor Who's love for humanity and a little help from assistants helped him win battle after battle. The war is on going. Like positive and negative, matter and antimatter they are always drawn to one another and only through contact do you find either cancellation or cooperation. The out come is impossible for man to predict most of the time. Man is too small to understand all the things, but from what we can see, life is constantly growing, making, spreading, consuming destroying and rebuilding. It is the way of the universe. Perhaps that is the way of God and his reflection of it is seen here on earth. If government and world government has become a wild beast, ask yourself who is the harlot that is riding it? Remember Sin City? Who controled the assassin? Who is drunk off the blood of martyrs and holy ones? Rev. 17. I think a major world wide battle is about to occur and noone will be safe. Let us all pray that the Ultimate Dark Knight comes to the rescue.ScotlarocSat, 27 Dec 2008 04:04:50 -0000