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Adolph Hitler Reborn Editorial by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
Adolph Hitler Reborn
Pope Enron
Pope Francis I “preaches” his “Hippieism” message to the Masses of listeners gathered on the Saint Peter’s Basilica Square.
Pope Adolph
Pope Adolph Hitler I “preaches” his “Aryan Master Race Message” to the Masses of listeners gathered together in town halls, auditoriums and by their radios before and throughout World War II.
by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
Adolph Hitler had a reputation of being a charismatic speaker, who motivated people.
Hitler’s Dream Of World Domination had one major flaw: people will not willing surrender their personal freedom if they feel threatened.
Adolph made people, especially The Jews, feel threatened.
Pope Francis I is a pope – no one feels threatened around him because he is a “Holy Man.”
Pope Francis I appears in public or on TV and people surrender their Common Sense like an old coat.
Pope Enron’s message of The Poor, Love, Peace, Mercy, Justice, Ecology,, Humanity, Humility, Compassion is a global addiction that people are “snorting” through their skin pores.
The Sleep Sheep People Of Planet Earth are “hooked” on Pope Enron’s humane humility.
I have never believed in The Apocalypse, The Rapture, Armageddon, The End Times, The Anti-Christ, Pete The Roman, The Great Whore Of Babylon or any of the other Doom And Gloom Prophecies Of Humankind.
Anytime I sensed I was beginning to consider “The Prophecies”, I would switch on my Second Brain Cell and the Common Sense God gave me would remind me, “Hey, Sam, those are the stories written by religious writers and old dead prophets to make a buck in their lifetimes. Some of the stories got collected and published in the Holy Books.”
Adolph Hitler and other charismatic speakers got inside peoples heads and go beyond Common Sense of the people.
Hedonistic Holy Men
In my lifetime, I have witnessed the results of what happens when a speaker gets in someone’s head and robs them of their common sense.
People were shocked by the insane deaths caused by charismatic Holy Man Jim Jones.
People were shocked by the insane deaths caused by charismatic Holy Man David Koresh.
People were shocked by the insane slavery imposed on the citizens of Iran by the charismatic Holy Man Grand Ayatollah Khomeini.
Pope Francis I has gone all the charismatic dictators and insane Holy Men one better. All the rest relied on a message of Hate and Violence to rally people to action.
Pope Francis is encouraging everyone to lay down their swords and beat them into plow points.
As a child I never knew what reincarnation meant. By the 1970s, I had an understanding of “The New Age Concept Of Being Reborn.”
If a charismatic speaker of Adolph Hitler’s legendary charisma where to be reborn as a globally respected Holy Man what would the impact be on humanity ?
Violence and War puts people on the defensive.
Love and Peace have people purring like kittens. No one feels threatened or paranoid. People are at peace within themselves.
Religious Addiction
The World’s Old Traditional Religions have always understood the propaganda process to get people “hooked” on religion. You give people nice words and a feeling of calm and the sense that all can be right with the world.
The World’s Old Traditional Religions prevent people from “sobering up” because “withdrawal” back into The Real World is just too “painful”. So people continue to get their “religious fix” and stayed “doped up” within the realm of religious fantasy.
A World Without God, Yahweh, or Allah is just “too painful” a thought for religious people to consider. Naturally, they are convinced that their particular religion holds “The Patent And Copyright On God”, so they dare not step out into “The Sunlight Of Secular Sobriety.”
If a man or woman truly wanted to be the legendary “Anti-Christ” all they would really have to do is step into the shoes of a global religious figure and promote their own personal agenda using the vernacular and jargon of that particular faith.
Pope Francis I has already inherited 1.2 billion Sleep Sheep People worldwide.
Now, he simply reaches out to the rest of the world with the harmless gestures and cozy words that make everyone want to snuggle up for a long winter’s nap.
Adolph Hitler needed the Real World munitions, money and supplies to wage his War Of Hate.
Pope Francis needs no Real World resources to wage his War Of Love because people like the children in the pied piper are dancing their way into his camp.
The Poker Bluff Of Islam
Pope Francis I called “The Poker Bluff Of Islam.”
Throughout the 20th Century anytime Hate, Violence, and Murder “Put Islam In The Headlines”, the senior clerics rushed to open their Qur’an
The Islam and Muslim clerics always pointed to the words of “The Poor” and “Charity” and people would “buy” the words.
Now, Pope Francis I has exposed “Islam’s Achilles Heel.” He has held out an olive branch for an interfaith dialogue.
Islam has “NO CHOICE” but to accept to backup their claim that Islam is a religion and not a Terrorists’ Faith.
Islam and the Muslim World has to accept the pope’s invitation to “lull” Citizens Of The World back to their state of mental sleep.
“Communism‘s Achilles‘ Heel”
Now, Pope Francis I has exposed “Communism’s Achilles’ Heel” of “Paranoia.” He held out an olive branch to China.
China has “NO CHOICE”, but to accept because “The Political Cold War Hate And Propaganda” made “Communism A Satanic Form Of Dictatorial Demonic Social, Religious And Economic Government.” People in the West, East, Middle East, Latin America and Europe are all terrified of the idea of Communism.
China will have to accept the pope’s invitation to “play down” the global uneasiness of Communism.
China’s continuing support of the sadistic, psychotic, unstable “Fat boy Of North Korea” means China needs some “positive press” in world headlines.
China’s continuing support on the United Nations Security Council of the sadistic, psychotic, irrational, religious nut jobs of Iran means China needs some “positive press” in world headlines.
In The Spotlight
Pope Francis I has Islam and the Chinese Communists, center stage in the world spotlight, right where he wants them.
Islam and China have “To Accept” the invitation or risk “a swift negative global reaction” that neither Islam or China can afford.
Peace is one message you can not kill with bullets. Love is one message you can not kill with bullets. Charity is one message you can not kill with bullets. These messages survive every War.
Pope Francis I has chosen “The Right Messages” to get the obvious combatants talking.
Religion remains “The Global Drug” that keeps people “high” on Life.
If someone can use religion to get people to willingly surrender their freewill, then, the War Of Slavery and Servitude is won without firing a single shot.
Could Adolph Hitler be reborn as a pope ?
Anything is possible in the Real World.
It will be up to the Sleep Sheep People Of The Real World to decide in they wish to curl up in the storytelling words of a religious Holy Man or cling to their God-given Common Sense.
Pope Enron, I have this hangup about skull caps. The gray Nazi SS service cap with it’s silver human skull insignia was impressive, but equally ominous and infamous. The white Catholic skull cap might be to hide your hair loss or to keep your bald spot warm. Either way, I don’t like skull caps.
Sieg Heil to you, Il Duce !
I don’t like dictators. Whether they wear a business suit, a military uniform or appear as an old man in a white dress – I have no use for dictators.
Pope Enron keep preaching your “Hippieism”, social, political, religious and economic philosophy.
I ain’t buying. I enjoy the unpredictability of Life.
God and I, we call it, “Freedom !”
Sam
Christmas Cash,Costs,Challenges of The Ozarks 1960s
Christmas Cash,Costs, Challenges
of
The
Ozarks’
1960s
The Old House
Of The Ozarks
This small house beside Missouri State Highway 176 in Stone County, Missouri in The Ozarks can go unnoticed by passing motorists. This Old House served as The DeLong Family Home in the 1960s. Birthday parties, Fourth of July, Halloween Trick or Treat events,Thanksgiving Supper and Christmas Day Dinner celebrations were held in the three – room house, which had a Laundry Room built on in the 1970s. There was no inside plumbing. Uncle Joe built an Outhouse down on the hillside. While the house did not have the social comforts of some 20th Century homes in The Ozarks; it always felt like “Home” to DeLong family members, who returned to Stone County and the Missouri Ozarks anytime of the year. Photo by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
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Home in my childhood was “The Ozarks.”
The Ozarks is one of the places in the world, where myth and reality live side by side.
You live your life in The Real World and sometimes it seems like you look up and see a wild,white-haired Mark Twain smiling down at you with his pen in hand.
The heavy snows of winter fall. The scene looks like a Currier and Ives lithograph on a china plate and then you feel the “bone chilling cold” enter your body. You see your breath. You trudge out of the knee-high snow into the warmth of your home.
You “warm” by the large, rectangular, dark brown “Warm Morning” gas stove and realize winter in The Ozarks means Christmas is usually just days away.
You get a hot cup of coffee and wonder why people think The Ozarks is “permanently stuck in an 1800s Time Warp.”
If you ever watched an episode of “The Beverly Hillbillies” you may believe the fictional characters represent “Life In The Ozarks.”
You would be wrong.
I grew up in the Ozarks and I never ate possum.
I have ate squirrel.
Uncle Hobert DeLong was a “dead on shot” with a rifle. Every time he went into the woods, he came back with a “mess of squirrels” and sometimes “a mess of rabbits.”
Of course, no one remembers Jed, granny and the rest of the Clampett were supposed to have been from Bugtussel, Tennessee and the characters get associated with The Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks.
Cartoonist Al Capp made a large fortune drawing the comic strip of Lil’ Abner for 43
years that reached 60 million readers in more than 900 American newspapers.
Capp’s newspaper comic strip was one of my mother’s favorites. Capp put the characters in Dogpatch, Kentucky, but as a kid everyone though if you were from The Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks, then, you must be like Lil’ Abner.
I never went to a Sadie Hawkin’s Day dance.
Dancing wasn’t allowed at Galena High School in the 1960s. It was an issue that came up with every senior class wanting a “Prom.” The Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the 1960s in Stone County were vocal in their objections and they kept the prom dance out of school.
I graduated in 1973 in a “Graduation Exercises” ceremony, but there was “No Prom” because the churches still didn’t allow dancing in school.
The Ozarks Hillbilly Stereotype
No matter how incorrect the “hillbilly” stereotype is about The Ozarks. Americans and foreigners seem to cling to the dumb hayseed and lazy cartoon and television stereotypes of “The Ozarks Hillbilly.”
The irony is that the Ozarks is pretty close to the center of the United States and it has always seemed like an “undiscovered country” to foreigners and other Americans.
My geographical calculations of “The Ozarks” begins from the southern city limits sign of Jefferson City to the southern city limits sign of Little Rock, Arkansas, which is what I always considered to be, “The Ozarks.”
Stone County, Missouri is in the southwest section of the state and borders Arkansas, which means, “reckon I grew up one of them thar’ Ozarks’ country boys.”
Missourians in the Ozarks joke, “If you don’t like the weather just wait 15 minutes and it will change.” There is truth to that joke. The weather doesn’t always change every 15 minutes, but in a 24-hour day, the weather can change several times in a day.
Pen To Paper
To put pen to paper and write a story about Christmas in The Ozarks, I will have to set the stage.
There are many famous Missourians from United States Army Generals of the Armies John Joseph “Blackjack” Pershing to “The Most Trusted Man In America” Walter Cronkite, but, usually the celebrities are known as Missourians and not necessarily, “Ozarkers.”
Neosho, Missouri’s Thomas Hart Benton put his brush strokes on canvas to paint pictures; I will try to paint a word picture of life in The Ozarks in the 1960s.
Tom Sawyer Childhood
Life in “The Ozarks” in Stone County, Missouri in the 1960s was like “Tom Sawyer on a tractor and in a pickup truck.” Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Midwest buckboards and stagecoaches were replaced by 18-wheelers, Greyhound and Continental Trailways buses.
Rose O’Neill’s Kewpie dolls could be still found in toy stores in the Ozarks. Overall, Life in southern Missouri had not changed all that much since the days of Mark Twain, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose O’Neill.
“The Tomato Factories” of Reeds Spring, Abesville, and Galena in the 1930s had been replaced with “The Garment Factory” in Reeds Spring and Crane and Crane had a “Casket Factory.”
Fasco in Springfield, Missouri employed several people from Stone County. In 1960, Silver Dollar City was just beginning operations. Branson, Missouri in 1960 was “no threat” to country music in Nashville, but, Nashville musicians would begin to head for Branson, during the 1960s. In the area of economics, “times were tough”, in Stone County and southwest Missouri in 1960.
Blood Out Of A Turnip
Every nation has an economy. Money flows around in the metropolitan and urban areas, but in rural areas the ocean of money flows into a narrow stream that sometimes becomes a dry creek bed. In Stone County, it seemed even the rocks in the creek bed were usually “bone dry.”
After The Great Depression and World War II, the United States economy was strengthening. In the rural areas of the Ozarks, being “poor” is still a way of life.
In the early 1960s, the local power companies were working hard to provide, stable and reliable electricity.
Stone County, Missouri had a reputation of being one of the poorest counties in The Show Me State.
Traditionally in Missouri, statistics reveal “Mining” is the major source of manual labor income for the state. Farming comes in second. There were caves in Stone County, but no working mines.
Farming is hard work. Even with good weather and the money to buy seeds, livestock and equipment, farming is a full-time job to make a living.
Gardening maybe a hobby; Farming is a job.
Grandma DeLong like to sum up an economic situation as, “I couldn’t afford to make a down payment on an old settin’ hen with all her eggs rotten.” The purpose of this country statement was to point out that someone was “financially broke.” It was a common financial phrase that you heard in The Ozarks in the 1960s.
By 1960s, some farmers in Stone County had had it with “life on the farm.” Some people sold their farms and moved to other states. Some people stayed on their farms, but tried to get a “public job” at Silver Dollar City.
When it came to money in Stone County, Missouri and The Ozarks in the 1960s “people minded their Ps and Qs” and sometimes the lack of money was described as “Trying to get blood out of a turnip.”
Ozarks Hills And Hollers
Corn and tomatoes were the big income producing crops in Stone County, Missouri in my childhood in the 1960s. There were always stories of some of the corn being used to produce “moonshine” and “white lightning.”
In the early 1980s, I was “home on leave” from the military and a family friend unscrewed the lid on a Mason jar and asked me if I wanted some of the clear liquid.
I thanked him, but decided not to drink the “white lightning.”
The geography of Stone County had some cliffs and bluffs in the landscape of the hills and hollers. When the soil was too rough, rocky or poor to raise any other crop, usually the farmer would sew cane and other pasture grasses.
Fertilize was not all that expensive, but, the amount needed to nourish the soil and get crops to grow was sometimes too big a chunk of money out of a farmer’s budget.
Uncle Richard had one field beside State Highway 176, that the family called, “The Cane Field” because it was too rocky and the soil too poor for any other crop. The cane was used to feed to the cattle in the winter time,
Spring and summer usually the crops grew well and there was plenty of pasture to feed the livestock. Farmers didn’t get rich, but they made “the ends meet.”
Deep Freeze
Winter in southwest Missouri in the 1960s was always Armageddon. Fields were buried under blankets of deep snow. The important contribution of the deep snow and cold temperatures is the weather would kill off chiggers, ticks and snakes as long as farmers burned the brush in their fields and hollers in the early falls.
Burning the tree leaves in the hollers that fell kept deep leave beds from filling up the hollers. In the winter time, chigger, ticks and snakes would burrow into the deep leaves to try and wait out the winter until spring.
Southwest Missouri’s picture postcard “snows” were efficient in freezing farm ponds, which stayed frozen unless you broke the ice with an ax for the cattle to get a drink.
The weight of a Black Angus, Polled Hereford, Jersey or Holstein cow would sometimes shatter the ice and a cow could drown trying to get a drink of water in the winter.
Later in the 1960s, someone invented a device to stick in farm ponds in the winter to keep the water from freezing.
The deep freeze of the Ozarks in winter would freeze trees. The weight of ice on the limbs would cause the limbs to fall and take down electric lines. If you were lucky, you would be without electricity for a day.
On average people usually went without electricity for two to three days usually two to three times,during winter from October through April. The worst case scenario meant you would go without electricity for one to two weeks during the winter.
A Country Mile
The strength of my childhood came from my family in the Ozarks. Momma, Grandma DeLong, Uncle Richard, Uncle Hobert, Aunt Mary, and Cousin Donna were my family in the Ozarks.
In Houston, Texas, I could step out in my front yard. Donna and Debbie Brinkley from the house next door only had to walk out their gate and a few feet to walk into my yard for us to play.
In the Ozarks, neighbors always seemed to live a country mile from your front door.
Thelma Thomas was my closet neighbor in 1960 and she lived about a tenth of a mile from my front door on top of a hill. Her kids were grown with families of their own.
The Galena School District usually included Jenkins and Wheelerville, Missouri, which was only a few miles from Crane, Missouri. And, Crane, Missouri was 10 miles from Galena.The district would extend south to almost Reeds Spring, which was about 15 miles from Galena.
Many of my classmates would have to do chores before catching the school bus in the morning. The bus ride for some of the kids meant they were on the school bus for two hours before they arrived at Galena Elementary or Galena High School. After school, they would spend two hours on the bus once it left the school.
You would see classmates in school, but the distances and the rural road conditions to their parents’ farms meant that “visits” and social interaction was almost impossible, except for possibly on the weekend.
Crane, Missouri was only 10 miles from Galena and we usually only went grocery shopping in Crane on Saturdays.
“Life On Planet Earth Before Electronics”
Children of the 21st Century will think I grew up in The Dark Ages because there was no Internet, no facebook, no twitter, no computers, no X box, no play station and no cell phones.
Yes, there was “Life On Planet Earth Before Electronics.”
Fire had been discovered. My father always carried his Zippo cigarette lighter.
We didn’t have to use stone tablets and chisels because there was an archaic device called, a typewriter that used ribbons, bond paper and carbon paper that helped people put words on paper for future generations.
Telephones Come To Stone County
Telephones were being installed in homes, near Galena and Abesville, Missouri.
In order to have a telephone in your home if you lived near State Highway 176, you had to be willing to be on “a party line”, which meant when your phone rang, your neighbors telephone gave off a jangle sound,
There was one public telephone booth in Galena, Missouri. The phone booth was on the sidewalk by the US Post Office, next to Floyd’s Barber shop, which was next to Rose’s beauty shop, which was next to the Hillbilly Cafe and sat across the street from the courthouse. In 2011, that area is now a parking lot for The Stone County Judicial Center.
The reason why the telephone was so important in 1960 was it allowed Momma to call Daddy in Texas and he could call her from Texas. Grandma and Uncle Richard never had a telephone. DeLong and Warren family members, who lived in other states could call us and we could call them.
In the 21st Century, when it seems children own a cell phone as soon as they learn to speak; it may be hard to imagine the importance of a telephone in your home, but, imagine for a moment that you lived in the snow and ice of the South Pole and you were trying to make a phone call to your grandparents in the United States.
If your grandparents lived in a city like Houston, Atlanta, Los Angeles or New York City, it would be easy for them to place a call. But, if you lived in a remote location at the South Pole, there might not be phone lines or cell phone towers, so you might not get the phone call.
Old Missouri Spring
This old spring is on Warren Land in Stone County, Missouri. The Ozarks area of the United States has always been difficult for “people to live off the land” because the soil is poor and rocky. If you need rain; you will get a drought. If you need sunshine;you will get a flood. Nature seems to enjoy working against farmers. Wildlife and insect pest can have a negative effect on crops. The Old Traditional Ozarks Hillbilly concept portrays citizens as dumb and lazy. The truth is an Ozarks Hillbilly is one of the smartest and hard working people, you will ever meet because they use their elbow grease and common sense to work a “Miracle” on stubborn pieces of land to earn a living and raise their families. Photo by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
The Miracle Of Life In The Ozarks
When you think of “The Ozarks” in the 1960s; you understand the word, “Miracle” is a reality.
The Ozarks’ lunar style geography of cliffs and bluffs, poor soil, an over abundance of rocks, moody weather, predator wildlife like wolves and coyotes as well as insect pests; it is a “Miracle” that people were able to live, earn a living, and sometimes prosper in this section of the United States.
When you are a child, you open your toys on Christmas Day. Underneath the Christmas Tree, you begin to play with the toys.
As a young man, you can find yourself trying to decide if you want to go “Home For The Holidays.”
As a senior citizen you can sit back with a cup of coffee or a glass of egg nog and remember the toys and the celebrations. When you look back long enough at your childhood, you really begin to understand and appreciate the sacrifices that your parents made for you.
At last, you can understand, the challenges, costs,hard work and the effort that your parents made to make Christmas seem like a “Magickal Holiday” that simply happens.
Sam
The World Is Still Here Doomsday Editorial by Samuel E.Warren Jr.
The Mayans Got It Wrong
The
World
Is
Still
Here !
Ho- Hum !
The Globe Spins On !
Today is December 21, 2012. Alas, the sun will shine December 22, 2012. Grandparents and parents you will still have to “pay off” those Christmas purchases; “Newsflash” – The World Didn’t End ! All the religious brouhaha could have been avoided and global paranoia settled by the realization that the Mayans had a reputation as serious astrologers like the Babylonians. Using their calendar and almanac system they computed “The End Of Their Astrological Age”, which they may have gotten right. But, global society seems to have an “End Of The World Fetish”, so people hunkered down for another silly “Doomsday Prophecy.” Someone tell the groundhogs they can come out of their holes, now.
Photo by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
Today is Friday, December 21, 2012. The time is 4:57 p.m.
Today is suppose to be, “The Last Day Of Planet Earth.”
Today is suppose to be, “The End Of Days.”
The Mayans got the end of the world prediction wrong. Obviously.
The end of the world for the Mayans came a long time ago.
Missing Mayans
Scientists,archaeologists and historians are still trying to figure out the day the Mayans vaporized into mist.
They may have simply stepped into their space ships and punched up the engines to fly away.
They could of activated a talisman or amulet and stepped into a time and space wormhole to travel to another Earth Class planet across the cosmos. They forgot to leave a note saying, “We will be back. Feed the cat.”
They may have gotten a really bad case of “food poisoning” and all dropped dead overnight.
Of course, the Mayans ingrained ecology consciousness kicked in as they died and their biodegradable enzymes activated and they became “dust in the wind.”
The “End Of Days for the Mayans happened a long time before December 21, 2012 – so, “the Mayans got it wrong.”
The world is still here.
It is now, 6:16 pm and the sky hasn’t burst into flames. Huge chunks of rock aren’t flying up into the sky. The earth ain’t opening up into huge cracks. Raging, roaring rivers of water aren’t emerging out to the sides of coconut trees.
“The Dumb, Dumb Doomsday Dudes” got it wrong again !
Earth’s Favorite Con Game
A Doomsday Prophet has to be the best job on the planet:
You tell the fairy tale. People throw tons of money at you. Businesses sprang up overnight to cater to the global paranoia.
Once the date passes, the prophet shrugs it off and says, “Back to the drawing board.”
Smart Old Dudes
The ancient doomsday prophets were smarter than their modern counterparts. The ancient guys and gals picked a date far enough out in the future that they would be dead and gone as dust in the wind before anyone ever realized “You’ve Been Had, Dad.”
The ancient guys knew a date way out in the future would provide them with a livelihood for their lifetime. The modern doomsday prophets are greedy, they want the “fat paycheck now.”
The Dumb Young Dudes
The modern doomsday guys and gals are counting on the e commerce revenue streams, product endorsements, book sales, talk shows, and news coverage to generate the capital that they can sock into the bank and live off of.
Unfortunately, when “Zero Day” arrives, the sun shines and the day naturally wears on – then, the modern, i.e., “young” dumb dudes have to “back pedal” their stories as “End Of An Era” or at the last moment enough people on earth “changed their wicked ways” and global disaster didn’t happen.
Around the mid to late 1980s there was the “fear” that earth’s pole might tip too far back or forward and cataclysmic weather would result. It didn’t happen, of course. Some religious nut job types claimed their all night prayer vigil had “saved the world.”
Of course, none of the “Planet Savers” came forward with any actual proof like real-time satellite imagery showing the earth tipping slightly forward or back with a time code clicking away in the corner, with a picture in picture inset of the planet savers streaking through the night sky to change earth’s rotational axis.
There were no cinema footage of the planet savers on their knees praying while a biological beam of light shoots out of the top of their little heads into the stratosphere to move the clouds and correct glitches in the Van Allen Radiation Belt.
The religious soothsayers didn’t even have any video of their group on their knees praying or dancing around naked out in the moonlight.
Once again, humanity had to imagine the Planet Savers disrobed and hanging their Lycra leotards and their spandex super suits back in the closet to await the next planetary peril.
Earth Heals
Planet Earth is a self-healing, living spaceship rotating through space. It is going to take more than some religious nut job doomsday prophets or a civilization thereof of religious nut job doomsday prophets for Planet Earth to “Cash In Her Chips” for the last time.
Every few years, some nut job comes along and plays on a basic human fear of humanity.
“Death,” is a basic human fear.
“The Big D” causes people to tremble at the thought of it.
Mass Extinction Events
“Mass Extinction” for humanity seems to provide humankind a weird sort of comfort.
People usually “fear” “their own mortal death”.
People seem to take a weird comfort in the fact that some “event” is going to happen and “End Massive Amounts Of Human Lives At One Time.”
People “worry” about the end of the world. It is a “dumb worry.”
If God had stamped an “expiration date on Planet Earth” it would be obvious. Satellites in space would photograph the “Heavenly Bar Code” stamped into a mountain and the world would know.
If Spaceship Earth was coming apart at the seams, people would realize it because the structural cracks wouldn’t be limited to small areas of the planet.
The faults would all open up and spread out the energy around and through the globe and the planet would crumble like a cake.
The Universal Earth Engineer did a great interior design that allows Momma Earth to heal from within as well as from without.
Now, if a sun, asteroid, meteor, comet, or another planet is closing in on planet Earth; let us hope, NASA, the European Space Agency and the others who have “An Eye On The Sky” are watching.
Back Pedal Time
Already in the world news, the “Doomsday Predictors” have started to “back pedal” and come up with a reason, i.e., an “excuse” that the world didn’t “explode”, “crack apart like a dropped egg”, or “shimmy apart like the global stock markets.”
God, Allah, Yahweh, Jehovah, He, She, Goddess, Zeus, Hera, Diana, Isis, The Man Upstairs, The Woman Upstairs, The Big Super Dude, The Big Super Dudette – God, is a better universal engineer than man.
Humankind builds space ships. The Supreme Intellectual Entity Of The Universe builds suns and planets.
Never fear, by tomorrow, the “Doomsday Prophets” will have had time to lick their wounds and sleep off their hangovers.
By end of business tomorrow – Saturday, December 22, 2012 – there will be another “Doomsday Date” for generations of humanity to grow up in “fear” over.
Wait ! Saturday is the weekend !
The world will have to wait until Monday for the next Dumb, Dumb Doomsday Date.
Monday,December 24, 2012, while they do their “last minute Christmas shopping” – “The Dumb, Dumb Doomsday Dudes” will have another “End Of The World” date ready to generate global paranoid for future generations.
The Real World Armageddon Events
Apocalypse, Armageddon and the End Of The World usually happens several times a month and people just don’t notice.
Typhoons, tornadoes, tsunamis are natural apocalypses that occur as Momma Earth heals and changes herself. The large loss of human life is an apocalypse event.
Bomb explosions, large aircraft accidents, where planes “fall out of the sky”, and huge ships that “go down at sea” are all “Acts Of Armageddon.” Whether accidents or terrorism, there is a huge loss of human life, so this is an Armageddon event.
The reason why “The Real World Tragic Events” aren’t recognized for the “Apocalypse” and “Armageddon” events that they are is because the major religions of the world “NEED” their “Mass Extinction Event” to keep people coming back to the churches, synagogues and mosques of the world.
Otherwise the “Holy Men Of The Planet” would have to get “real jobs” to “earn a living.”
History is full of Apocalypse and Armageddon events: World War I, World War II, The San Francisco Earthquake of 1907, ( The New Madrid Earthquake in the 1800s, “when water flowed backwards”) The Bombing Of Pearl Harbor, The Battle Of The Alamo, The World Trade Centers Towers Terrorists Attack. All these events were “Apocalyptic.”
The fact that some religion’s hero didn’t show up to “Save The Day” is irrelevant.
All of these events were events that resulted in “Mass Extinction Of Human Lives.”
Every nation has a history of natural and man made disasters that are “Apocalypse” and “Armageddon” events, since people starting jotting down information for The Maintenance Record Of Planet Earth.
If a street corner holy man or holy woman comes up to you with his or her doomsday prophecy, just smile and give him or her some “small sheckles of silver” out of your pocket. Then, he or she can go get their brown bag of cheap wine.
Earth Built To Last
Earth ain’t going away. It is here to stay.
If the internal mechanics of the planets get seriously out of whack, then, it will be obvious.
If an external threat from space is en route, then, hopefully, the professional stargazers will reveal it to people in time to come up with a Plan A and a Plan B.
Go ahead, put your DVD of “2012” into the DVD player and lean back to watch the movie.
Again, Momma Earth is getting bad publicity from the “Doomsday Soothsayers.”By sunrise, some conman or con woman will have come up with another date for Doomsday.
Humanity’s Favorite
“Doom And Gloom” Story
Without Humanity’s Favorite “Doom and Gloom” Story major sections of the global economy would suffer “The Holy Men And Holy Women Of The World Would Have To Get Real Jobs To Earn A Living.”
After centuries of parasitic storytelling, “Don’t expect them all to jump up at once to go out and get real ‘elbow grease’ and ‘sweat of the brow’ jobs. They can continue to rest comfortable on their backsides because the old ‘End Of The World Story’ is just “too good” to ever go away.
In the “Fear Of The Unknown Column” there is that microscopic fear that one day – “God The Father” – might just of had enough and starts tossing out “The Number 12 Lightning Bolts” right and left.
Zap ! Giant man salt shaker ! Zap ! Giant woman salt shaker !
Zap ! Zap ! Zap ! Giant Dead Salt Sea !
Wait, God has already done those numbers. After 21 Centuries, no doubt, he still has some Nuclear Number 12 Lightning Bolts to wreak out some havoc that has yet to be documented.
Is “The Big Boss Man” or “The Big Boss Woman” going to go “Planetary Postal” ?
Not likely. Pick up a newspaper and look at the headlines.
Another day of terrorism, rape, murder, crime, corruption,war, pain, suffering, hate and general discontent of humanity on planet Earth.
After centuries of controversy, conflict, calamity and catastrophe, God knows what to expect from mankind. Not much.
He isn’t going to waste time cleansing the world, when people simply need to “Grow Up” and act like evolved individuals.
“Why should God destroy one of his best life creations just because the spoiled brats of earth don’t know how to play with their toys in the global living rooms of the planet ?”
Too Good A Story To Let Go Of
Besides, “The End Of The World” is a great story and movie idea. It is too good an idea for citizens of the world to “sluff off.”
End Of The World movies always provides a “Genesis” for a new film maker to make a name for himself or herself as a director.
End Of The World is always an “In the beginning” at the box office for a movie studios box office receipts.
America’s 1970s Cold War End Of The World Nuclear Annihilation movies were like blades of grass because they were everywhere.
While one Nuclear Winter End Of The World movie was on the screen in theaters, others were being shot in Hollywood back lots as soon as scripts could be written, actors could be hired and cameras loaded with film.
The population of the world could not seem to get enough of “The Global Suicide Story”
Four Horsemen Supreme Mythology
The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse is a timeless classic.
All a modern writer or storyteller has to do is change something like use four horse women, put the four heroes or heroines on camels,caribou, motorcycles or use four super human people or four angels.
Since some places in the Orient have a hangup on the number “Four” you change the number to 3, 5, 6, 10, 12 or some non-four number.
The writer or storyteller puts his or her “spin” on the basic story and you have a comedy, a fantasy, a drama or whatever type of script or manuscript that the writer was going for.
Do a really “burn the midnight oil job” on the story and don’t be surprised if the “spinoff” becomes a religion.
Fear Of The Unknown
The End Of The World is too good a story for Citizens Of The World to ever let go of. The story helps people to face their “Fear Of The Unknown.”
You take the basic human “Fear” of “Death” and you put it up on “The Big Screen” in Panavision, Technicolor, surround sound and watch “Poor Old Planet Earth Come Apart For The Umpteenth Time.”
A big box of buttered popcorn and a huge soda, in hand, you get to watch the world disappear in your lifetime. You do not have to run and scream into the night as burning chunks of meteors blaze down out of the sky on top of your head.
Of course, the “Hercules hero” or the “Athena heroine” is usually suppose to show up in the nick of time to scratch Atlas’ shoulder blade and keep the earth in place in space.
No need to fear your death. Death comes when Death comes.
We all live; we all die. Life is a natural process.
The End Of The World comes for us all.
Enjoy your life !
Sam
I Envy United States Army General Douglas MacArthur Editorial
I Envy
United States
Army
General
Douglas MacArthur
United States Army
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
Promoted to "Five-Star" rank , December 18, 1944. Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific Area. U. S. Army Signal Corps Photograph.
by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
World War I , in the 20th Century, taught the Citizens Of The World that War is Hell On Earth and no nation or person is “neutral.” World War I proved that War had evolved from nations with disagreements to a force that engulfs the world in a matter of days or hours.
World War II, in the 20th Century, taught the Citizens Of The World, Hell On Earth is always just a
heartbeat away.
The DVD cover shows Actor Gregory Peck in the role of General Douglas
MacArthur in the 1977 movie, “Mac Arthur.”
World War II divided the nations of the world into Us versus Them. World War II confirmed that any War, like fire, can quickly spread and engulf nations in a global holocaust that consumes everything in it’s path.
World War II’s Gift: The A Bomb is the constant reminder that when nations do not deal with issues, then, a violent force will always wait in the wings to settle those issues.
The A Bomb and nuclear weapons are not the threat – they are the reminder that when War becomes a global inferno, then, an Armageddon event is needed to end the War.
Every generation forgets or fails to learn : “The Eternal Lesson Of War is Hell On Earth demands you to find the courage to survive the death and destruction around you to survive and live your life.”
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The U.S. Army’s Philippine Scouts
“These were General Douglas MacArthur’s soldiers—the guys who fought America’s first battle of World War II. The Philippine Division. Probably the best trained and possibly the best prepared U.S. Army division at the outset of the war.”
– Quote is the lead paragraph for the story on
The U.S. Army website
Shoulder sleeve insignia of the United States Army’s Philippine Division, 12th Infantry Division. The head of the water buffalo symbolizes the Philippines. The colors red and gold represent the island’s Spanish colonial roots.
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In my lifetime, there has hardly been a day, when I did not pick up a newspaper, turn on the radio or TV or log on to the Internet to read about, yet, another – War.
War is eternal.
War is inevitable.
War is a major event of Human Life.
When The Citizens Of The World forget or ignore The Lessons Of War, then, the next War is only mere seconds away.
The Korean War happened too quickly after World War II for people to understand that World War II was the global event that should of taught The Citizens Of The World that War can be “The Extinction Event For Human Life.”
I admire the American Generals And Admirals of World War II because they knew there had to be a way to quickly end the global pain and suffering. Those military leaders and their troops fought to find a way.
I salute General Eisenhower, General Patton, General MacArthur, all the Allies military commanders and troops for the courage it took for them to wage the battles and campaigns needed to end World War II.
October 20, 2012 was the 68th Anniversary of the Leyte Landing. October 20, 1944, United States General of The Army Douglas MacArthur and Filipino leaders waded ashore at Palo, Leyte, near Tacloban City, Republic of the Philippines to begin the Liberation Of The Philippines.
Meanwhile, the Allies forces were gearing up in the waters of the Pacific for The Battle Of Leyte Gulf, which would become, “The Greatest Naval Battle In The History Of Global Naval Warfare,” in terms of the men, munitions, planes, bombs and ships available to be used to fight a battle at sea.
To date, “The Battle Of Leyte Gulf Is The Largest Naval Battle In The History Of The World.” The battle raged in the waters off the Philippine islands of Leyte and Samar from October 23 through October 26, 1944.
I have always envied General MacArthur because he kept his promise and set free a Pacific nation from the grip of a sadistic tyrant – Emperor Hirohito.
Sam
MONUMENT
TO THE
FILIPINO SOLDIER
Nikon D 100 Photos by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
World War II Battle Of Leyte Gulf Links
Leyte Samar Daily Express
http://leytesamardaily.net/2012/10/simple-memorable-celebrations-mark-68th-leyte-gulf-landings/
The 68th Leyte Gulf Landing Anniversary:
A Celebration of Victory
Tourism office calls on Leyteños to set up wartime museum
Battle Of Leyte Gulf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf
US Army Center Of Military History Battle Of Leyte Gulf
http://www.history.army.mil/brochures/leyte/leyte.htm
The U.S. Army’s Philippine Scouts
http://www.army.mil/asianpacificsoldiers/history/phillipineScouts.html
Philippine Scouts Heritage Society
http://www.philippine-scouts.org/
‘Forgotten Soldiers’ – The Philippine Scouts
http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forgotten-soldiers-the-philippine-scouts.htm
US Navy – Naval History And Heritage Command
US Marine Corps History Division
http://edm-sepublic.documentservices.dla.mil/USMC_Oral_History/
US Coast Guard Historian’s Office Battle Of Leyte Gulf
http://www.uscg.mil/global/search/default.asp
U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II
US Navy Ship – USS Leyte Gulf (CG-55)
http://www.public.navy.mil/surflant/cg55/Pages/default.aspx
World War 2 Facts
Information and Facts on the Great War
Battle of Leyte Gulf
http://www.worldwar2facts.org/battle-of-leyte-gulf.html
Ahoy – Mac’s Web Log
Naval, Maritime, Australian History and more
Mackenzie J Gregory
http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/macslog/BattleofLeyteGulf.23-26Oc.html
Military History Online.Com
The Battle for Leyte Gulf Revisited
by Irwin J. Kappes
http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/articles/leytegulfrevisited.aspx
Mabuhay Tacloban City
Monument To The Filipino Soldier
“The Exorcist” October Creature Feature
OCTOBER CREATURE FEATURE
THE EXORCIST
The film that transformed an obscure Church ritual into a sought after global profession
by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
In my lifetime from October 1955 through mid-December 1973,in the United States, if you needed an “Exorcist”, you would have few real options.
You could buy a plane ticket to go to the Vatican and try to convince a priest or the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy.
You could try and find someone who knew a root worker or conjurer in New Orleans, Louisiana, who might be willing to help you.
You could try and contact someone who had a friend, who lived out in San Francisco, California and was into “The New Age Movement.”
If you seriously needed an “Exorcist” before 1973, in the United States, you really had to look under every stone to find one and hope you could find someone who had an understanding priest in the Roman Catholic Church, who would take you seriously enough to actually look for an “exorcist.”
The Real Deal Exorcists
William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel, “The Exorcist,” had aspects that were inspired by the actual Exorcism of Roland Doe in Maryland in 1949. Jesuit Priest, Father William S. Bowdern and Father Walter Halloran were the real exorcists.
There have been television shows that talked about the original exorcism and one fact all seemed to agree on is the family basically had to beg the church for an exorcism. The practice of exorcisms had become essentially a ritual that had been left in the past.
The “resurrected” ritual of exorcism did much not only for The Church, but for all churches. William Friedkin’s film, “The Exorcist” based on Blatty’s novel put God back up on the marquee that got people going back to all kinds of churches, temples, synagogues and mosque because Satan was real again.
“Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Omen” were child demonic films of the late 1960s and early 1970s that also got people’s attention.
What always got me about “The Exorcist” was how such a “normal” little girl could be possessed ?
Effective Evil Effects
There were no Hollywood Computer Generated Images for movies in the 1970s, production and special effects people had to do create the effects the old fashioned way ‘– “They had to be creative.” Now, people smile at the “pea soup” that gets shot out of Regan’s mouth in the movie, but, it was one of those “Wow” moments in theaters in the 1970s.
The fashion sense, or lack there of, of the 1970s does much to make a film look dated, but, the story, the actors, actresses and effects did such a magnificent job Regan MacNeil, the possessed girl, is one of those Halloween characters in the shadow between vampires, mummies, Frankenstein and zombies that no one wants to think about because she just might be “The Real Deal after all.”
Face it, no one wants to have to tell their father or mother, “We won’t be coming home for Christmas because your granddaughter is possessed by Satan.”
The real fear of The Exorcist movie is that maybe, just maybe, your child could be possessed by Evil. The movie really does turn that parental fear into the worst case scenario by the use of suspense and the creative use of effects. It is little wonder why this movie has become an American Cult Classic.
You factor in the notion that you have a veteran priest, who has dealt with and faced Evil at various times and is ready for the battle. Then, you add the young doubting priest to the mix, who believes he is more “a man of science” than “a man of the cloth.” Basically, he let the Church pay for his education, so he could become a successful psychiatrist. Stepping into the ring, Satan has the upper hand and the odds are all in His favor.
Temptation Of Teenagers ?
Ellen Burstyn, who plays the actress mother, wants the best for her daughter. Linda Blair, who plays Regan Mac Neil, the daughter, is the average All-American Girl for the 1970s.
I grew up on a hog farm in the conservative Midwest of the United States of America, known as the Ozarks, right smack dab in “The Bible Belt.” My family, friends and neighbors went to the Baptists and Pentecostal churches. Some crossed the line into Taney County to go to Branson or into Greene County to go to Catholic churches, Lutheran, Methodists and Presbyterians.
The preachers and pastors of Stone County, Missouri took their “hellfire and damnation” lessons to heart and knew they were the First Line Of Defense against Satan and His Demonic Legions.
Thus, in the Ozarks and the Midwest, you never expected to see Satan walking down the highway or shopping for groceries in the local supermarket. But, in the 1960s or 1970s, if you are writing a story, script or play – how would you get Satan or any of his demons to realistically appear in the literary work ?
Demon Dare
As decadent and liberal minded as New York City was suppose to be in the 1960s and 1970s; there had to be a way to get Evil into the script and the movie. The All-American Fall Guy – the Ouija Board.
In the US, in the 1960s and 1970s, it seemed there were only two real ways for Evil to show up. Teenagers had to figure out some way to do “Satanic Rituals” or go to the store and pretend to be nave enough to buy and use a Ouija Board.
In this film, the Ouija Board is the culprit that is “The Three Mile Island” incident that starts demonic radiation leaking into the MacNeil home and poor Regan glows with it.
Use of the Ouija Board, helps explain how an East African demon gets through US Customs without a passport and visa. Then, again The Department Of Homeland Security is a story that doesn’t happen until the beginning of the 21st Century.
Max von Sydow, who stars in the role of Father Lankester Merrin really does come across as the devout veteran priest, who is ready to stare the demon in the eye and send it back to Hell.
Jason Miller as Father Damien Karras does an excellent job as the young priest, who really believes he is a long lost psychiatrist in his soul. One of the story twist is suppose to have the young priest broken up about his mother’s death. I didn’t get the message in 1973 and I haven’t gotten it since.
On screen the first time you see the aging, invalid mother, the film mom is sort of already a citizen of “The Twilight Zone” looking to move into “The Outer Limits.” Without more details or a back story to show the mother and son relationship, that story line to me wastes film. I’m a Momma’s Boy, so I’m critical.
Actor Titos Vandis, in the role of the young priest’s uncle works with Miller to pull off the story line, but, that is an area where I believe the movie falters and probably gets forgotten about in the overall bouts with the demon. In this movie, the mom character was dead before she was written into the script and she seems just as dead up on the screen.
Exorcist Era Excitement
This is the movie that “Really Did Start It All.” The obscure term, “exorcist” smoldering in the Vatican archives, “purified” the way for an American religious revival in Catholic and Protestant Churches and created battalions of televangelists and legions of lay (and lame) exorcists throughout the globe.
Satanic Seventies ?
The ongoing, relentless, never-ending Vietnam War had made young Americans jaded, cynical and skeptical. Grandparents and parents looked at the grandchildren and children and wondered if maybe “alien astronauts” had abducted” and switched their kids because “The Generation Gap” was the real deal.
Generations of Americans spoke English to one another in their homes and yet the message was like “A Day At The United Nations Without Translators “ – No one understood ‘nuthin’.
America’s politicians in the 1960s were the kind of leaders that people rushed to build statues to. By the 1970s, Americans politicians seemed to be like “used car dealers that you couldn’t get rid of.”
The Godfathers
America had the traditional movie and sports celebrities of their generation in the early 1970s, but, the “Godfather” movies did “the kinder, gentler dance” for Organized Crime. J. Edgar Hoover had gotten long in the tooth and the organized crime bosses of America had their own brash, public style that had to be the envy of America’s “stale bread politicians of the early 1970s.”
While American underworld figures weren’t holding their daily press conferences at their mansions, they were out and about and people couldn’t get enough of their exploits in the streets of America. The irony is the Crime Rate in America was pushing people to believe “Vigilante Justice” might not be such a bad solution as long as you don’t get caught. “Dirty Harry” had become the ideal lawman of America.
Nix on Nixon
Nixon had no use for the American news media and the American news media had no use for Nixon, other than the political cartoonists, who thrived on daily demonizing his facial features.
After Watergate, nothing Nixon said really mattered. The press didn’t seem to believe a word he said and his approval rating with the American public dropped faster than a bad day in the stock market.
Then, of course, Men in America actually got to wear something other than white shirts and black ties. Unfortunately, the Men’s Fashion Scene of the 1970s “overdosed” America’s fashion sense – too much, too soon. Wide ties, wide lapels, bright colors for men’s suits, white belts, white shoes, hounds tooth sport coats thrown into the mix with polyester and wide collars on mien’s shirts. Plus, there was the jogging suits to wear, even if you never intended to go jogging. And denim flared jeans and denim flared bell bottoms were still on the drawing board for the seventies fashion scene.
The early 1970s had America’s scurrying like mice on an exercise wheel – they just weren’t sure where they were suppose to be running to.
Demonic Days
If you look back at 1973, you wonder if someone on Satan’s staff had decided to literally “set the stage” leading up to the release of “The Exorcist.”
January 22, 1973 – US Supreme Court rules on Roe versus Wade and overturns states’ bans on abortion.
The Vietnam War “Officially Ends” January 27, 1973 with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. Nixon tries to take credit for the peace agreement. The American news media and many Americans actually see Dr. Henry Kissinger, America’s First Jewish Secretary Of State as the man who got the deal.
November 5, 1973, the term, “Shuttle Diplomacy” entered the American culture and described the efforts that Secretary of State Kissinger made in the Middle East at the end of the Yom Kippur War to help keep the region stable.
Despite Secretary Kissinger’s hard work to keep the Arab states and Israel living in a somewhat peaceful existence – some religious critics started shouting that Secretary Kissinger could be, “The Anti-Christ.”
March 29, 1973, the last United States soldier leaves Vietnam.
May 17, 1973, I wear the cap and gown and graduate from Galena High School, Galena, Missouri. It should have been a proud moment for God and Satan. It was a proud moment for me. By June, I was in college at the School Of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Missouri.,
The US bombing of Cambodia ends June 1.
July 12, 1973 – The National Archives Fire – The entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis Missouri is destroyed by a fire. Countless US Navy and US Army records are lost, which will affect World War I, World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War military people and their families for generations to come in the area of honorable discharges, military retirement pay and documentation of earned and awarded military decorations.
Egyptian and Syrian military forces attack Israel, September 11, 1973, to start the “Yom Kippur War,” in the Sinai Pennisula and the Golan Heights. I am working at KSOZ-FM, to work my way through college. I look through the large plastic window at the huge gray Associated Press teletype thrusting down the keys to announce the start of the War. I’m excited about the story.
I rip off the yellow sheet of news copy and hand it to someone in the newsroom. They nod and comment, “Another War in the Middle East.”
I understand now, why no one rushed to get it “on air” as breaking news. It was the 1970s, and there was always bad news coming out of the Middle East.
I saw the War as a possible start to “Armageddon.” Everyone else in the newsroom just saw it as more bad news from the Middle East to be read after the day’s latest Watergate story.
The Yom Kippur War ends October 26, 1973.
October 10, 1973, “The Saturday Night Massacre,” Richard Milhouse “Tricky Dick” Nixon fires Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus.
No matter What Nixon did – The Watergate Break-In June 17, 1972 – would not go away and each day’s newspaper brought a new “Watergate” headline in the continuing scandal.
By December 23, 1973, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, had doubled the price of crude oil at the pumps – just in time for “Christmas.”
American theaters flip the switch and Warner Brothers “The Exorcist “ flickers on to movie screens December 26, 1973.
By November 1979, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini labeled “America, The Great Satan: in a speech. Khomeini was the 1970s version of Al Quaeda’s Osama bin Laden.
In the early 1960s, Khomeini used his criticism of the Shah of Iran Pahlavi to rise to power among his Muslim followers. The Shah exiled him and he spent more than 14 years in exile between Paris, Turkey and Iraq. Khomeini did not like that the United States Government had close relations with Iran and that the Shah had moved to modernize Iran.
When you look back at 1973, it seems like God had gotten dropped off for church bingo and Americans weren’t sure if they were going to pick Him up or hand Him His “Pink Slip.”
Satan At The Box Office
The film brought in $66.3 million from theaters in the United States and Canada. It currently stands as “The Top Grossing R Rated Film Of All Time.”
“The Exorcist” movie proved to be the “shakeup” that got God back in His penthouse and kept Him on as the CEO Of Heaven. “The Exorcist” woke up and scared Americans.
Before the movie appeared in theaters, many Americans were like Actor Lee J. Cobb in the role of New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant William F. Kinderman, something is wrong and you just can’t put your finger on it.
The approach worked for Cobb’s detective’s role in the movie and outside the theater in the streets of America, “something was wrong and no one knew how to put a finger on it.”
The Medical Men
Arthur Storch, in the role of the psychiatrist and Barton Haymen as Dr. Samuel Klein are the classic American “Medical Men” of the 1970s, “Of course, Science has an answer for it.” But, when Regan’s condition doesn’t respond to medical treatment, one of the doctors blurts out something about an “exorcist.”
The time devoted to the “Science” and “Medicine”approach in the movie is smart because by the 1970s doctors and scientists had taken to their academic pulpits and “preached” to anyone who would listen that science and medicine would find the cure for all the ills of humanity.
America’s New Prophets
America’s Psychiatrist were on a roll. Sigmund Freud had got them out into the limelight. People seemed hungry for the latest development from the psychiatric world. Hollywood didn’t let the fad pass by; they cranked out movies as fast as they could about doctors and psychiatrist saving the day.
Psychiatrists were America’s New Prophets. It did seem doctors, scientists and psychiatrist had an answer for everything.
“The Supernatural” remained the chink in the psychiatrist’s armor. The responses of : “superstition”, “imagination”, and “all in your mind” worked until something happened before your eyes.
Find An Exorcist In The Yellow Pages
Before the movie, your best bet to find an “exorcist” would be to seek permission to search the Vatican archives for a vague reference to an “exorcist.”
After the movie, “Exorcists In America were thicker than hairs on a dog’s back.” At the current rate of growth in a few years America will probably be turning out as many exorcists as we do lawyers and doctors.
No doubt, none of the televangelists of the 1970s and 1980s will ever give “The Exorcist,” “Rosemary’s Baby,” “The Omen,” or any of the other religious horror TV or movie spin-offs an honorable mention, but without “The Hounding Hell Horror Of The Satanic Silver Screen,” some of those preachers would of stayed on cable TV and still be going through the Ozarks trying to arrange “Brush Arbor Revivals” and church pie suppers.
A 21st Century Exorcist ?
Hollywood is silly if they don’t already have plans to do an updated version to compliment, but not compete with the original movie.
A new version could not compete because Linda Blair’s Regan MacNeil character had her unique unspoken, “I’m not going away. . .ever” look, near the end of the movie.
The silly 1970s wardrobe makes “The Exorcist” dated, but, hey, even in the 1970s, “We had to wear clothes.”
Casting Directors – Stellan Skarsgard has earned the right to be Father Merrin in an updated version. In Dominion: Prequel To The Exorcist,” Mr. Skarsgard became the role. In “Exorcist:The Beginning”, he became Father Lankester Merrin, Roman Catholic Archaeologist Priest.
Now, if the Department of Motor Vehicles could just get Mr. Skarsgard ‘s name on his new license right and the Vatican would quit sending him offers for another exorcism overseas.
“Darling Demonologists”
In another more contemporary version, it would be nice if the screenwriter could write in a way to bring in a senior ranking demon with more established credentials in religious history, which would allow for even more suspense, special effects and (probably) a bigger budget.
And, since the “Name Of The Game Is Horror”, a senior ranking demon could up the on screen body count to stress the possibility that today’s dog walker shouldn’t count on being tomorrow’s “Darling Demonologist.”
Exorcist 2013 Script Session
Quick, get Warner Brothers on the phone. I’ve got it.
Camera Fade In: Regan’s granddaughter graduates from Oxford and returns to the US to visit “granny.” They are doing the girl, “shoot the breeze” conversation routine. Suddenly, Regan’s youngest granddaughter comes up out of the basement with something in her hands.
You guessed it, America!
Sometimes the old literary devices are the best. All together now, “Ouija Board !”
They chuckle. Of course, granny has had a wonderful life and completely forgot about the initial possession (and probably The Exorcist” spin-off movies after the original).
They open the box, take out the board and begin to play.
Too late “Granny” remembers.
The granddaughter is now “possessed.”
Granny whips out her cell phone hoping that she still has an exorcist priest on speed dial.
The granddaughter does her contortions routine, while the youngest granddaughter jumps up and down screaming.
From here on out. . .it is up to the Hollywood screen writers. You guys and gals run with it. But, go for a demon, who usually gets top billing, with “name recognition.”
St. Peter’s Basilica from Castel Sant’Angelo showing the dome rising behind Maderno’s facade. Public Domain Photograph
Exorcists Resurrection
The Vatican is now admitting, “Exorcists exist” and is training them. Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, a group of British school girls seem to be blurring the line between Fact,Faith, Fantasy and Fiction.
Based on the “Darling Demonologists” ages, someone should hand them an old mystic text and point to the section on teenagers,hormones and, “Oh, Look ! Puberty and Poltergeist ?”
Five Star Rating
“The Exorcist” is an American Cult Classic, as it should be. Hands down I give it a Five Star Rating and remind viewers it carries an R rating.
For your Halloween viewing this is definitely a movie to watch on All Hollow’s Eve or the night before.
Incidentally, when you swing by Wal-Mart to pick up your Twizler’s and Junior Mints, you might want to make a quick stop at the church to make sure you have a crucifix and rosary beads handy. May, as well pick up a little Holy Water. . .to be safe.
Sam
Exorcist Information Links
Exorcism of Roland Doe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcism_of_Roland_Doe
Father Walter Halloran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Halloran
The Story of a Modern-Day Exorcist
By Gilbert Cruz Monday, Mar. 16, 2009
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1885372,00.html
British School Girls Exorcists
‘We’re not like normal teenagers’: Meet the exorcist schoolgirls who spend their time casting out DEMONS around the world
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Editor’s Prologue
January 25, 2015 — Philippines National Police Special Actions Force commanders enter the jungle to “Arrest” a suspected Islamic terrorist. The PNP’s SAF commandos end up engaged in a firefight with “The Enemy.”
January 30, 2015 is declared “The National Day Of Mourning” to honor the memories of the brave men who engaged and fought the criminals and terrorists in the jungle.
I am a retired United States Air Force photojournalist and editor. I am a pro-military writer.
Christy, my wife, is a Filipina. My children, Samuel Ranilo Warren and Donna Junea Warren are Filipino-Americans. My father, Samuel E. Warren served in The United States Army Signal Corps in the Philippines in World War II. I was assigned to and served at Clark Air Base in the Republic Of The Philippines in the 1980s.
Needless to say, whenever anything happens in The United States or The Republic Of The Philippines, I and my family feel “Connected.”
I have been fortunate to meet and work with members of the Armed Forces Of The Philippines and The Philippines National Police.
I can understand and related to the grief of the families who lost loved ones in the combat in the jungle.
As a writer, I felt the best way I could express my condolences to the family members was to author a short story to celebrate the devotion, duty and dedication of the Philippines National Police Special Actions Force commandos.
Samuel E. Warren Jr.
One Warren Way
Barangay Baras, Republic Of The Philippines
Warriors Welcome: Faithful 44
by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
Trumpets Of The Universe sound. Planets in space reverberate.
Comets and asteroids brighten for an instant and shimmer as the celestial symphony of sound passes them.
The solar bodies of stars glow with renewed radiation, which causes them to shine light Gold, Ruby and Lapis against The Eternal Charcoal Of The Universe.
For an instant, The Celestial Trumpets Sound and The Universe is a Crystal Of Courage And Compassion, which spreads throughout the infinite canvas of Eternal Night.
Not a single scientific instrument on Earth or adrift in the Infinite Celestial Sea will record the miraculous music.
The Archangels and Angels, in their dress uniforms, stand in their positions, on both sides of The Red Carpet Corridor.
The Souls arrive at the end of the carpet and begin their measured step down the great corridor.
At the end of the red carpet is The Mystical Presence Of The Stranger.
The 44 Souls stroll the carpet past the formation of archangels and angels, who stand in Admiration and Respect.
The 44 Souls stop at about six feet away from The Mystical Presence Of The Stranger, which has the energy form of a human, but not the definition of flesh and form.
Before their eyes, the 44 watch The Transition. The Stranger’s energy takes on a human form in a military dress uniform.
“Welcome To Valhalla !”
The words are spoken and emerge as English, Tagalog, Cebuano, and Waray.
The stranger smiles and nods. “Call me, what you will, ‘ God’, ‘Mars’, ‘Ares’, ‘Thor’, I am your host for this ‘Welcome Reception.”
“You, Gentlemen, are ‘The Fallen 44 of the Philippines National Police Special Action Force’ we are assembled here, this evening. to salute, honor, witness and testify to your courage in battle.”
“You all perished in combat. None of you made the conscious choice ‘To Die.’ All of you fought diligently and courageously to protect yourselves, your comrades-in-arms and to achieve your Mission. No one in The Universe can question your courage and dedication. You died in service to your country, your families and your fellow citizens. There is No Greater Selfless Sacrifice In The Universe.”
“Tonight, this feast is to ‘Welcome You To Our Immortal Ranks.’ Tomorrow, you will witness from your positions here in Valhalla, ‘The National Day Of Mourning’ in the Republic Of The Philippines. It will be a challenge for you.”
“As Souls, you have your celestial bodies. You retain the memories of Love for your families on Earth. Grief, is difficult for humans to understand and express. It will be difficult for you to watch your families grieve and it will be hard for you to accept and acknowledge the intense emotions.”
“Here, I have designed a way that you can welcome and accept the true emotions without you experiencing overwhelming grief for the families you have left behind. Yes, your loved ones remain on Earth.”
“They are angry. They are upset. They are broken. They are confused. In time, they will understand your devotion and dedication to duty demonstrated your undying Love for them. You sought to protect their Lives and an infinite number of lives around the globe by the successful execution of your Mission. There was a definite valid reason for your sacrifice.”
“You, Gentlemen, are representative of what humankind was intended to be. Caring, humane, selfless individuals who lived your lives in appreciation of each sunrise and helped other people on your journey through Life.”
“I salute you. We salute you. The Archangels and Angels Of The Universe salute you. Gentlemen, I welcome you to our ranks.”
“You, now, stand enshrined in eternity as “Heroes.”
You out rank every prophet, saint, pope, ecumenical patriarch, archbishop, grand mufti, rabbi, ayatollah, imam, cleric, priest, preacher, or evangelist who has every lived, who lives or who will ever Live.”
“This is Warrior Heaven. This is Warrior Paradise. You ended your lives on Earth trying to protect and save the lives of others, there is No Greater Love. You perished in a thought for your comrades-in-arms, your families, your country and your world. No God, No Goddess, No Entity In All Of Creation could ‘Ask’ more of any mortal in The Universe.”
“I Welcome You To Valhalla !”
God salutes the assembled 44, who stand at attention proud, but, slightly uncomfortable at the celestial pomp and circumstance.
The Archangels and Angels salute.
God smiles and nods. “Gentelmen, the Valkyries, Amazons and Archangels stand ready to help you settle into your quarters at the conclusion of our formal dinner this evening. Saint Michael and Saint Samuel will show you gentlemen to your seats at the head table.”
God winks. “Tomorrow, will be a challenge for you, gentlemen. Tonight, you dine and rest to witness tomorrow’s activities on Earth.
God smiles and gestures to The Official Reception Line. “Gentlemen, this concludes my official welcome speech. Here in the reception line are The Ancestral Comrades-In-Arms who are anxious to congratulate on your acceptance into our ranks at Valhalla.”
“I believe, many of you, gentlemen are familiar with the combat records and historic valor of your hosts this evening. Allow me to introduce General Emilio Aquinaldo and General Paulino Santos of the Republic Of The Philippines and General Douglas MacArthur and General Mark Clark of the United States Of America.”
God smiles and steps back to allow the 44 Souls in their dress uniforms proceed to the reception line.
God proceeds to His Throne at The Command Table and raises his glass to the assembled heroes, “Gentlemen, I salute, ‘The Fallen 44’ !” God renders a salute.
God raises his glass at the table and looks at all of the honored souls in uniform and into their eyes : “I welcome you into my presence.”
“I welcome you into Valhalla. I hereby confirm your immortal rank, honor and glory and welcome you, as the risen ‘Faithful 44 ! ’”
The End
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Fallen 44 Links
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Editor’s Epilogue
by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
I am not a religious man.
I do believe it is logical that there is an intelligence in The Universe beyond the understanding and comprehension of humans.
Thus, I tend to believe in “A Spiritual Intelligence” in The Universe.
In my mind and heart, I believe, “Heroes”, especially “Military Heroes” are always honored for their selfless dedication to their country and their fellow citizens.
I choose to believe “The Fallen 44“ have an immortal place of honor in the ranks of all the military warriors who have always served their nations and fellow citizens.
I salute “The Fallen 44“ as “The Faithful 44“
Samuel E. Warren Jr.
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