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The Obsolete Man

  • (Burgess Meredith) “There is a God.”
  • (Chancellor) “You are in error, Mr. Wordsworth; there is no God. The state has proven that there is no God.”
  • (Burgess Meredith) “You cannot erase God with an edict.”

 

 

 

 

One of the best of the classic Twilight Zone episodes:

You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.

First broadcast on June 2, 1961 it has lost none of its relevance:

The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshiped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology which fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man…that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under “M” for “Mankind” – in The Twilight Zone.

 

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Art Deco
Art Deco
Sunday, January 24, AD 2021 7:28am

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/062/942/229/original/96694b75b9b24bc6.mp4?_=1

A panorama of the inauguration scene. The narrator’s remarks on the reasons for the National Guard deployment are apt.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Sunday, January 24, AD 2021 9:30am

James 4:4 “Don’t you know that to be the world’s friend means to be God’s enemy? Whoever wants to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.”

Jude verses nine and ten. “The Archangel Michael did not dare condemn the devil with insulting words, but said, ‘The Lord rebuke you!’ But these people attack with insults anything they do not understand and those things that they know by instinct, like wild animals, destroy them.” E.G., LGBT propaganda can be summarized to three words, “Straight Is Hate.” And, 99% of every argument from the left is “You’re a Nazi!”

To wit, Jeff Bezos [the World’s foremost expert on mail and IT] will not allow mail-in voting in the Amazon unionization election.

Chinese Joe Didn’t Win. We Were Robbed. We Know What They Did Last November.

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