Jinx, Star Wars and co.

A report on the Apocalypse

The Apocalypse
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You might wonder and have a hard time imagining how Star Wars has any relevance to understanding the Bible. Some Christians may not think that it makes a difference whether it is Star Wars or any other movie on the other hand. Well, yet there is one (so, I'm directing myself to the Christians here, yet, just in regards of the picked form).

I for myself have been waiting for this moment, and some figures left in the shadows possibly too. It is of course literally close to suggest that the upswing in popularity of Novels and other works of Fiction do confirm what is written in Timothy 4:1-3; But to be solid: There wasn't ever a time I suppose where fiction wasn't popular!
To be more elaborate: I'm not a fiend to fiction either! I may be as hardcore Christian as it gets, but still there is a world beyond the Bible. I Love Star Wars ... and in my oppinion this sentence is sortof worn out today. I'm not a day 1 Star Wars fan. I was born 1983, so, how could I? But ... I'll ramble more on that later.

What I have to pick for now from my Star Wars fandom is literally the foundation to understanding my criticism, but this isn't about criticism here. You might wonder what made me an SW fan; And there are many things. The special effects for once - but - one of the core Memories I cherish from the movies is that moment where Luke Skywalker, in Episode VI, turns off his Lightsaber and refuses to strike down Vader.
Its maybe hard to relate to since we usually aren't opposed by Villains such as him; But every once in a while we're opposed by the villain within ourselves. Well, not striking that villain down isn't what I'm getting at either. There are many villains - and sometimes there is that villain in ourselves that Anakin Skywalker had in himself that led him to the darkside. But well, details. Striking down Vader is to me a symbol for letting in to your negative emotions; And yea - if you're looking at my past and understand that I have been aggrovated every once in a while (I'm coming to an end shortly with this 'me' stuff) you may wonder how I have effectively been living up to what I'm preaching to you here. But, what are you looking for? A sign to speak a sentence of judgement, or the Truth? Well, the Truth that judges me? How can I ... I can't? What you want in the end is a good guy, a hero, someone who's doing the right things - not someone who just looks like one - ain't I right here?
You can of course look at that scene and think about how I do not comply to it - so you'll picture me raging and sucking up the evil, turning into a Sith to satisfy my ill wishes. Is that what I am? There are things that appear like it, but if you don't regard the how I got to the points where I've been all along to what took me here today; And only live on the appearances; Then - let me say - you're Jinxed!

So - between you "normal folks" and Christians there is a bit of a gap here. See - if I mentions Jesus' outburst of Zeal while visiting the Temple that one time, they'll possibly understand - and all in all is there no wrong in doing the right thing. But because of taking Star Wars too seriously the wrong ways that is a "dark side" thing.
My philosophy on the force and Luke is anyhow that: That Luke realized that the Dark Side is only evil because the surge of power is misunderstood! The negative emotions aren't what makes a person evil, it are the acts! That to me is symbolized within the green Lightsaber Luke starts to wield after his time on Dagobah and his failed showdown with Vader on Bespin.


I could go on and try to explain everything for you to just understand my core memory and what it meant to me the right way; But I'm sure thats as easy and simple as trying to drag a Star thats caught in the gravitational field of a Black Hole away from it. Quite literally so. See: The thing about things that require you to think about them is, that you don't always feel they make sense in the beginning. Its easy to condemn all Fiction and Fantasy - because so you play it safe. "Not what enters the Mouth defiles man, but what comes out of the Mouth". Matthew 15:11 and Mark 7:15. But to understand the good examples and to make the good examples count - that is difficult!
It is difficult because as you know it is easy to be pointing with fingers at others, but to see yourself at the brink of doing a mistake and pulling the break - that isn't! You might fall into arguments with people of another confession and see how blind and inconsiderate your opposite(s) is/are - but do you see how blind and inconsiderate you are yourself? [What? You aren't blind and inconsiderate?]
See - you know the word: Amateur. It is easy to have an oppinion - and if we want to have an oppinion about God it is easy to have one even without reading a word of the Bible. So yea, quite right! Why would or should someone read the Bible to form an oppinion about God? Blind and Inconsiderate? Anyone?
There are things, common mistakes that the self-annointed Christians and Atheists make. Or those that call themselves 'Buddhism Curious'. I'll just put it out there: If you haven't read and understood the Book of Job, you in my strict and harsh oppinion shouldn't be allowed to talk when it gets to the fundamentals of Christian Faith! Just ... don't!

Alright, alright! You possibly know the story. But so, would a mockery of the story would make more sense to you? It would help you realize how much easier it is to not believe in any of it - so you won't have to believe that God is a person that would allow such bad things to happen for whatever reason. But so is your oppinion and let me add that you haven't understood a word of it!
Job, in that story, is constantly put to the edge of denieing Gods existence because of the things that have happened to him and what his friends make of them. But he doesn't! He knows he did nothing wrong, he knows/believes that God exists, and he isn't willing or capable to budge even a tiny bit from that Truth! He's rock solid! Thats the whole point! Maybe it makes no sense beyond that - but the story nowhere claims that anything else would be of importance! Its so about supersticion! Job isn't supersticious, his friends are for trying to grasp the transcient, that which is beyond and invisible, by looking at that which is superficial without "questioning" that which is underneath those superficial things. Maybe they think they do; But the story is about Job and not about his friends!

Christians have an easy time getting around. "Don't Judge!" - period! Overthinking it takes you down the road of Jobs friends - trying to be right and good and helpful - or "helpfool"? - but still just and simply wrong!


Or, to be more Ahteist compatible: Einstein had a hard time accepting Quantum Mechanics. They just appeared all wrong to him! Maybe we can call that an evidence for God! What Einstein wasn't prepared for was the fact that Physics doesn't have to make proper sense at all when considering that its the creation of a far more superior being ... more than he might be/havebeen able to imagine!


Let's Cockfight!

Because I'm having an oppinion on 'central' issues or riddles of our time, I'm either right or wrong about them! That's just a given fact! Given that not everybody 'has to be' having the same oppinion, they are also either right or wrong about them! Because some would differ - its now so for once the question: Who is right? - but also is it a thing about oppinion that it implies that the individual having one believes that it is right. So, we're practically ending up cockfighting about who is right!

We do nowadays however not discard Einsteins Theory of Relativity just because he wasn't convinced of Quantum Mechanics being a thing! That's just a thing!

You might so wonder: But what can you trust me for then? But yea - can't you tell? How if some of my things 'might be' wrong? Would it change a thing if I acted all cocksure about being wrong in no place? So I'm pressing on the point that you ask God in regards to those things; Then you might notice that I'm apparently all lost like Job - and then you have to make sense of it! Do you believe God, or do you believe those that abuse my badly stupid appearances?


Star Wars!

Yea, sigh - what a mess! I believe you haven't all been into deep discussions on the Internet - and even if you have been reading through the comments beneath various articles you might not have the same experience I do! Well, for once: There actually are people that don't go like "Episodes I-III have been all atrocious!". Yet there are many people that take it for a given fact - and the closer it got to the 17th of December 2015 AD, the more I've been reading comments about how bad Episodes I-III are in direct relation to notions of how positive "Episode VII" will be. To put that into a different context: There then were outcries of TFA being the best Star Wars movie ever - and at that time I did have a hard time finding a review that did contain spoilers! I found one and it turned out that most of TFA is just a revamped Episode IV; And that to me is already more of an atrocity than Episodes I-III could ever be!

But so I'm not looking at the quality of the movie in terms of the visual appeal or how the Characters interact! I'm looking at the big picture!


Now that we have all the ingredients ...

what was I waiting for? What do you think?
Dear Christians: Sorry in case I left you hanging for the most part up there, but - well, if I wanted to write about the good things about Fiction I'd have to totally go out of my way because its practically a dilemma of its own. Well, say I who is ... who? You might wonder whether or not I even have the "Nerd Factor"/Capacity to make such statements. But those 'Nerds' are no different! In other words: There may be these and those! Some would agree and others wouldn't! Those that wouldn't might look more handsome, less 'odd', more like the stepson you would want to have - so - its all about appearances and what 'Nerd Level' I have is written on another page.

You surely couldn't tell from just looking at it! I mean - you might know/understand that I have a faible for Hentai/Porn movies - but there is so much nonsense that just looking an arbitrary Hentai or Porn movie would most likely not be of any help at all! And looking those that I enjoy from a personal standpoint, ignoring 'mass appeal'/quality wouldn't be up for a good impression. So I should recommend Urotsukidoji, any one of them. It isn't one I particularly fancy, but its a good approximation that is also "suitable" to people with no emotional connection to these kinds of things! It isn't particularly emotional - and once emotions are the things that make the entertaining part, you would experience the visuals as embarassing; That because you can possibly see that it are emotions that matter, but you can't fully understand them! So there is Ryde of the Valkyrie for instance - in which Freya, the wife of Odin, gives herself to Orcs as Sex-Slave and allies with them to capture the Valkyries to expose them to the Orcs sexual fancy. It is just flatout embarassing; But as 'being humiliated' >is< a Kink, your inability to relate feeds that feeling, so, your oppinion that I should be ashame fuels my immersion into those things and makes me feel comfortable in that situation. But that isn't really obvious!

So you might as well enjoy SW:TFA - therefore hating on Episodes I-III, but - dear Folks - let me tell you a bit about Darth Vader: Every proper Star Wars fan should know, that Anakin Skywalkers problem was his Love for Padme. We see him as an innocent Child in the beginning, but we also see that as he grows older, he throws all good advise over board to satisfy his desires! It is this lack of self-control that makes him susceptible to the dark side, and finally willing to commit aweful things just to please the Emperor. That is what had him fall. He himself! That is the story that Episodes I-III are telling. Yet people comment on the internet of how "unrealistic" or "unbelievable" or "inconclusive" they were. They mock on about Jar Jar Binx and the many political moments of the movies and think they have a point on how come that Episodes I-III should be considered an abomination by everyone. Then they go on and hate on George Lucas and credit everyone but him for the success of Episodes IV to VI.

It does then finally not really matter what people are saying on the Internet. That is what "we" have been waiting for! It is the moment for when the flaws of fiction - of the philosophical - the not 'elaborated to death' kind of pictures - finally bear that 'vile fruit'. Star Wars is easy to see as 'the' most influencial, largest, famous, beloved (... OK Trekkies, ... you've had your ... 'Into Darkness' too!) Franchises so far - so - its practically 'equivalent' to Fiction! It combines Fantasy and Science Fiction into a Fairy Tale of unparalleled proportions. Its a grand epic. So, it is hard to miss and difficult to talk into oblivion! Its like that raging Predator you don't want to have in your Living Room - kindof! So, except its behind the screen - or you're kindof suicidical!
What I am talking about? Well - here: Revelation 6:5-6. So, its the third Horseman/Rider of the Apocalypse.


That shall be the beginning/footprint to a new understanding of what the 4 horsemen are - and you'll find then how they relate to Hitler as well! The thirs Horseman holds a measurement device and the hints point out that the value of some things will be twisted! So, what happened beyond the shadow of a doubt when it comes to "Episode VII" is, that first Lucas was 'booed' out of Star Wars, so he sold Lucasfilm to Disney. Then he was invited 'on board' to influence the making of Episode VII, but soon George Lucas left and explained that they simply didn't want any of his ideas and so he saw no point in being a part of it. All that is built on people not seeing the good in Episodes I-III, but the bad - and that is what Timotyh 4:1+ is finally about. Its not fiction that is bad - its the blindness unto what fiction delivers!

The 'truth' is what you might think 'are' the Scriptures - but its a bit deeper than that! The truth is what 'lectures' us in fiction. The good things! Here I'd take Star Trek as a better example. Star Trek is all about good ideals, the spirit of friendship, cooperation, science, 'reason', etc. - but removing all that from Star Trek and making it a 'pulp' fiction (no, I Love Quentin Tarantino movies!) helped it gain a greater mass appeal!
Here we can dig deeper into philosophy and history - and thereto I'll just drop the term: 'the commercialization of ideals and truth'. What some people would call 'smart', 'intelligent' or so about movies, referring to 'messages', 'good examples', etc. - is what I call inspired. Well, I call it inspired 'when' it is inspired. But I call it atrocious once I get the feel that its just some petty human beings word sold for divine truth!
But at the core of these things I see that it is the human "shyness" to embrace the Truth that has them fall to this trickery. Or, more to the point, something atheistic. Maybe 'you' dislike how movies want to tell you to be a good person and are scared of how Christian it becomes and so you turn away and don't want to have any of that! But in return you make this world a ... not better place - and - yet you'd willingly blame God for the madness in this world?


Now let us cook this!

Yea, its going to take some time until I can/you will formulate these things in a much better way. That implies some time to be spent on reviewing Episodes I-III maybe. But I yet do want to close this by mentioning some bits of the Matrix trilogy.
The Matrix Trilogy is another one of those cases. The first movie was highly acclaimed and mostly beloved - in contrast to which the Sequels were vastly hated on. The next big gig of the people behind the movie was Speed Racer and the rest is pretty much irrelevant.
Well, the Matrix.
Some maybe slack to understand that the Matrix (1) opened into a weirdly confusing world that was imposing some questions that if unanswered in the sequels would all in all make a truely atrocious trilogy! In the end, Matrix Revolutions, we also get a bit of a weird end. Instead of smashing Smith to bits, Neo allows himself to be assimilated by Smith - which then leads to the winning moment. This really brings me and possibly all of you to that point of fear that is really really, really really scary! You can maybe condense the demand of suicide to one single case - like accepting what I have to say - but that leads to the same problem I have with explaining the Star Wars situation I mentioned in the beginning. You expect that that is the point, but there are many points! It is just the moment in which you may have to sacrifice your life or existence for the greater good. Whatever the context or situation! If you're always going the way that is/feels/appears safest all things considered you'll naturally never get there, no matter how much you would believe that its exactly the same!
I won't tell you that I'm smith in that picture nontheless. Much more is he that Black Hole I mentioned in a metaphor earlier. Once a star gets sucked up into a black hole it breaks apart, simply put - and if you can't escape, you might as well take course on it. Then you'll experience the consequences that were inevitably coming your way; And - now ... let me elaborate what I just tried to tell you!

Lets say that this black hole is that you believe that I am evil or that SF:TFA is a good movie - so, it is here the opposite to what would be in my favour. What would keep you away from dropping into the black hole? Possibly the same things that keep you away from gaining any distance to it! If you however take course on it, assimilate it into your brains and let your intellect do the rest, you'll have it! You'll be satisfied once you've learned enough and then you will want to learn more, comparing it to other stuff. Then you'll see no problem in assimilating the stuff I'm telling you because you're 'safe' within what you have assimilated before! If you don't find Enlightenment or God - you'll have to look for it elsewhere! So, what'd keep you away from what keeps you away from me in that example? Your own worries that what you're revolving around might be wrong!

Friday, December the 18th, 2015 AD