A 1942 film from the Department of Agriculture about perhaps the most historically important non-edible plant to the human species. You heard right, too, if you caught that the word canvas got its name from the Scythian word cannabis.
We are at war with Sativa; we have always been at war with Sativa.
This is not a political discourse or an endorsement of either candidate. If (big IF) I vote for anybody, it will be Cynthia McKinney, because I think she has integrity. I’m chiefly interested in language and invoked symbols in this post. McCain is powerless but Sarah Palin is not. As far as I’m concerned, this race is between Obama and Palin.
Thanks to UV Garden again for this first clip. Here is a pretty disgusting video of some Sarah Palin supporters.. and Sarah being blessed by people standing around her speaking in tongues. This video is just disgusting, especially the person who is screaming about the MURDERERS who take birth control pills.
Here is a video of Louis Farakhan preaching to his people to consider Obama as an ambassador from God. Hard times and struggling people need a hero to worship, and Obama is being offered up for that role. He is trying to make Obama sound like something more than human, like he comes from a special womb, or a magical place.
A lot of people on the web freaked out claiming Farakhan called Obama the Messiah, but if you listen he didn’t really do that. He called Obama the Herald of the Messiah, and I think he mentions how careful he has to be about what he says. In Bible terms, this would cast Obama in the role of John the Baptist. The herald of the messiah, in the case of John the Baptist, prepares the world for the messiah’s coming, anoints the messiah, and is killed.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
Now this was John’s testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was. He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, ‘I am not the Christ.’ They asked him, ‘Then who are you? Are you Elijah?’ He said, ‘I am not.’ ‘Are you the Prophet?’ He answered, ‘No.’ Finally they said, ‘Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?’ John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, ‘I am the voice of one calling in the desert,”Make straight the way for the Lord.”‘
Book of John
The Herald of the Messiah is also the dawn or morning star which heralds the “new sun rising.”
“A light will shine down from somewhere. It will light upon you. You will experience an epiphany. And you will say to yourself, I have to vote for Barack. I have to do it.”
-Barack Obama
A lot of people are riding on their candidate, on both sides, so that they can reshape America in their own image. Besides the messianic overtones, both of these clips also mention a need or desire to transform America. And we will be transformed, by hook or by crook.
I know I am not the only person who gets the chills pondering Kennedy’s very liberal sentiment, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
Messianic links
EDIT: I meant to include this, here’s a great article (from somebody who would think I’m a loon, no doubt, but it’s still a great article) on the the power of image over issues in politics.
Dear god, don’t know if you noticed but
Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book
Us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look
And all the people that you made in your image
Still believing that junk is true
Well I know it ain’t, and so do you
…
The hurt I see helps to compound
That the father, son and holy ghost
Is just somebody’s unholy hoax
And if you’re up there you’ll perceive
That my heart’s here upon my sleeve
If there’s one thing I don’t believe in… it’s you.
Great work lately by the webcomic Sinfest, on the Sovietizing of America.
There are many who have lifted and copied this strip - in this case I am going to respect his wishes not to have his work redistributed and simply link to the Magnum Opus that’s been going around the web - Damn it Feels Good to be a Banksta.
For those of you who haven’t seen Office Space, here’s Kermit the Frog singing the Geto Boys tune this strip is based on.
And now, a word from the President…
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
Gettin voted into the White House
Everything lookin good to the people of the world
But the Mafia family is my boss
So every now and then I owe a favor gettin’ down
Like lettin’ a big drug shipment through
And send ‘em to the poor community
So we can bust you know who
So voters of the world keep supportin’ me
And I promise to take you very far
Other leaders better not upset me
Or I’ll send a million troops to die at war
To all you Republicans, that helped me win
I sincerely like to thank you
Cuz now I got the world swingin’ from my nuts
And damn it feels good to be a gangsta
- Geto Boys
Rigged Farce called Money and Stock Market - Organized United Front - Orwellian Phase - Brave New World - Training Phase, Duty to Serve World State. Club of Rome, “The First Global Revolution” book - Aerial Spraying - Cancer, GMO Food - New World Order- Pyramid in “Wasteland” - Government Demands, Bookkeeping, Punishment. “Sustainability” - Theosophy, Madame Blavatsky, Besant (Standard of Knights Templars), Krishnamurti, Adolf Hitler, Eugenics. Lenin - World System, United Nations - World Without Poverty, Reduced Population - Dubai, Living in a “Machine” - Technological “Utopia” - Fabian Society, H.G. Wells. Lucifer - Albert Pike, “Getting to the Top” - Adam Weishaupt, Creation of Foundations - RIIA - Sterility, Plastics, Bioengineering. Aldous Huxley, Dominant Minority - Psychological Warfare, Doublethink - Internal Armies, Riots, Martial Law. Radio, BBC Propaganda Tool, Daily Dramas - Behaviour Alteration by Technology - Skinner - Hi-Def TV, Scrolling, Cognitive Dissonance, Alpha State - Torture Techniques. “Free Trade”, International Corporations, GATT - Military Strategy, Public Reaction and Confusion - U.S., Weaponized Culture. Published Books and Long-Term Business Plan - 100 Years War - Survival of the Fittest, Selective Breeding - Young Males, Bonding - British Dept. of Defence - First Earth Army, Gene Roddenberry, NASA. Liberals, Totalitarian System.
(Alan’s Websites: cuttingthroughthematrix.com and alanwattsentientsentinel.eu)
I offer up this talk because (a) it’s an especially good one packed with info and (b) I have to repay some “karmic debt” (heh, heh) for quoting Krishnamurti. I love how when some Christian preacher comes out and says some disaster happened because we turned our backs on god, the furious calls for denouncement begin immediately. But, when some New Age guru (or movie star) comes out and says some disaster happened because the victims had bad karma… What’s the difference?
The nice fella they’re talking about at the end of this talk, who started up NASA JPL, is none other than Jack Parsons, buddy to Crowley and acquaintance of L. Ron Hubbard.
I’m now the #4 google search result for the term “noble lie.” I want to be #1!
I will continue to cook up sharp, salient, and occasionally off-the-wall bizarre commentary on this many-shadowed cave we live in. When (usually more mainstream politically- or religiously- minded) folks search for information on the noble lie, I want my site to be right there for them to ponder.
From the stark, moving Auschwitz Alphabet collection:
In this place it is practically pointless to wash every day in the turbid water of the filthy washbasins for purposes of cleanliness and health; but it is most important as a symbol of remaining vitality, and necessary as an instrument of moral survival.
I must confess it: after only one week of prison, the instinct for cleanliness disappeared in me. I wander aimlessly around the washroom when I suddenly see Steinlauf, my friend aged almost fifty, with nude torso, scrub his neck and shoulders with little success (he has no soap) but great energy. Steinlauf sees me and greets me, and with great energy asks me why I do not wash. Why should I wash? Would I be better off than I am? Would I please someone more? Would I live a day, an hour longer? I would probably live a shorter time, because to wash is an effort, a waste of energy and warmth. Does not Steinlauf know that after half an hour with the coal sacks every difference between him and me will have disappeared?… But this was the sense, not forgotten either then or later: that precisely because the Lager was a great machine to reduce us to beasts, we must not become beasts; that even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last–the power to refuse our consent. So we must certainly wash our faces without soap in dirty water and dry ourselves on our jackets.
Primo Levi, Survival, pp. 40-41
From Duncan’s Monitor:
Q. Give me another sign? (Give sign.)
Q. What is that called?
A. The grand hailing sign, or sign of distress of a Royal Arch Mason.
Q. To what does it allude?
A. To the additional portion of the penalty of my obligation, that I would sooner have my skull clove off, and have my brain exposed to the scorching rays of a noonday sun, than divulge any of the secrets of this Degree unlawfully.
Kennedy - Ceannaideach - Gaelic for “Ugly Head”
Dealey Plaza and the overpass / arch. Also referred to as the “rainbow over Neptune’s Trident.”
A Nightmare on Elm Street? Naah..
Links on JFK symbolism
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arise
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to be free
Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night
- The Beatles
The Egyptians had a nuanced and multi-faceted view of spirit. Most fascinating to me is the Ba, the part of the spirit which is the unique identity of the individual, represented as a bird with a human head. After death, this Ba would fly out of the tomb of the deceased, and seek to meet once again with its animating force, the Ka.
This concept has been picked up on by a Hollywood movie or two, not to mention the lyrics above.
When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
..
And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light that shines on me
Shine until tomorrow, let it be
- Beatles
“So Mote it Be, Three times Three times Three” is a popular phrase in Wicca. “So Mote it Be” is a very old phrase in secret societies, and its analogues include “Amen,” (which is also Amun) “Make it So”, and “Let it Be.” Let it Be is not like que sera sera; it’s more like saying, Let there be Light.
As far as “Three Dancing Jews” goes, in Freemasonry the Three Unworthy Craftsmen were named Jubela, Jubelo, and Jubelum.