posted July 25, 2003 02:59 PM              

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I am not happy with the world that I see.

My fate is decided by people I
have no faith in, by people elected in other countries who I equally have no
faith in and by ideologies and beliefs that do not seek good for all but for
the chosen. There is no great common good anymore, only repackaged remnants
of failed ideologies and financial ambitions.

In the early years of the 20th Century thinkers envisaged a "brave new
world" of the future. There was a fervour for how the world should be
remodelled. Movements such as Futurism and Modernism expressed their notions
of the world to come through art, architecture, music and thought. These
designs would require great change and mass social engineering in order to
be achieved. Somewhere the vision went wrong. Somewhere the execution of
these designs dictated a sanitised, homogenous future with no place for the
natural essences of humanity such as individuality, diversity, free thought
and spirituality. It espoused a time when humanity would be designed for the
world and not the other way around as Futurism had intended.

Here at the advent of the 21st century and the 3rd Millennium we live in an
age without vision, direction or decision. Instead cynicism and nihilism are
rampant among the youth who were once the source of our future visions. I
find no faith, enthusiasm or drive in our world to picture and create any
world to come. We exist in a future that we inherited by force. The plans to
build the future we now occupy came at the tail end of the so called "age of
enlightenment" where science promised all the answers and arrogantly began
to usurp the existence of and need for a God. Now we find ourselves in the
resulting age where faiths are questioned and where we seek a meaning for
our existence more and more with each passing day.

I am a product of the world which came as a result of a democratic clash
between future visions and a desperate desire to hold onto the past. I,
instead, chose to express 'retro futurism'. It is a view from our decaying
present day of a world which could have existed but lives only in the minds
of those who question the progress we were given. It is a world where
modernism had not sought to dehumanise us, where the ancient and mystical
still survive among towering spires of glass and concrete, where wars had
perhaps not been fought without lessons having been learned and a world that
was still a future forged by progress but essentially biological. It is a
world that retains valuable notions we have since thrown away, notions like
selflessness, chivalry, honour, courage and fortitude. It is an alternate
present built by great aspirations, combined human effort and noble causes.
We have always expressed emotion in this spirit of past and future combined.
We express what it means to know you are alive, to truly feel alive, to be
aware of ones surroundings and to contemplate them for every emotion and
every thought is vital to what we are and what we will become.

For all the enthusiasm to design the future that came from the beginning of
the last century I have to ask what mankind has since achieved and how it
came to waste such ambition. It is for our children that we build this
world. Somewhere along the way I feel this notion was lost.

I am not happy with the world that I see but that does not mean that I and
others like me cannot change it.

Ronan Harris,
March 2001

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posted July 25, 2003 04:18 PM            

The last part of his letter however,well,I believe that their's nothing that any of us can do at this present time....

I read the quadrans of Nostradamous,I read the prophocies of the Bible,I keep my eyes on the News all the time and I use my own special gifts(I'm a Scorpio,with a Capricorn rising,you know)it's bad! The "ship" is vearing towards the rocks and the "sails" are down! This can not be stoped, I'm afraid! And if anybody tries to stop it right now,will only get burned in the end!

Their is a quadran from Nostradamous that says(I don't remember the words exactly) that the "children" of the Antichrist from long past,will not learn from they're father's mistakes for all they're ignorance,will only serve the same FATE of they're father's. I feel strongly that this is that time! The Europians know it all too well,I'm sorry!

Maybe this will all come quickly however and we WILL see the day of peace,for it does say in the Bible "if the days were not cut short,no flesh will be saved,but for the elects sake,those days will be cut short!".

I don't know what will come of this,but I do know that "Humanity" is being split down the middle, maybe for evolution as well! Maybe the prophets can see,but could not explain where we can simply can see and understand a little better what is happening to us,but one thing's for sure,it is happening! These are the beginings of the birth pains and with these kind changes,maybe it's nature's way to say that we are ready for the "next" step,but the road has a fork in it and some will decide to take one path,while the others will take the other path,maybe to the point that we will seperate and never see one another ever again! There's only HOPE! That's all we can do!~tears rolling down checks~

posted July 25, 2003 05:32 PM              

My fate is decided by people I
have no faith in, by people elected in other countries who I equally have no
faith in and by ideologies and beliefs that do not seek good for all but for
the chosen. There is no great common good anymore, only repackaged remnants
of failed ideologies and financial ambitions.

Thanks for share

Jakie

posted July 25, 2003 06:55 PM              

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every emotion and
every thought is vital to what we are and what we will become

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So true!!!

ozone - That one line is the answer to the darkness you see ahead. IMHO.

posted July 25, 2003 11:49 PM              

The worst thing to be, is a doom-day fortune teller, Ra doesn't want to hurt anybody and he never will. He only accepts the fate of mankind becuase he sees it as a transition to a new Golden Age of spirituality and not religion.

Religion and spirituality are two completely different forces. They're not together at all. It's the fear of god/dess that sets you apart from your higher self. Fear is only a control mechanism that only feeds hate like fire.

Nobody and I mean nobody should be afraid of this silly antichrist, nor will this pathetic antichrist be thrown to the pits of hell. Becuase I have pity for him and so does God/dess and he will be forgiven just like the devil. We will be forgiven and so will the devil himself.

posted July 26, 2003 01:38 PM              

actually, could it not be argued that the fact you're thinking and feeling at all shows a self-modifying conciousness and memory that is continually changing?

I sympahtise with Ozonefillers' argument - there's a breaking point coming.

posted July 26, 2003 02:04 PM              

If there is no time, then there are Future Selves who believe we're living in Past times. Basically, the antichrist and his world domination has already happened, and were just living in the past still awaiting for that arrival.

Yes there is a breaking point, no denying that, but if you think and image positively, we don't have feel all the pain that goes with it. Some people predict that California will go down in the ocean, but if you image the positive then it doesn't have to occur. Alteast in one dimension it won't happen.

BTW, I didn't coin this myself, I learned that stuff from Linda and a whole bunch of old strings on the site. You just have to read around.

-StarLover

posted July 26, 2003 04:36 PM              

There's a ludicrously brainiac hard sci-fi novel from Steven Baxter called "space" which is where humans get wiped out - whatever they do - except there's an interesting monologue where a set of protagionists are trained to think "backwards" in time.

posted July 26, 2003 08:05 PM              

And you know this because? I've never read anything like that in the bible. We will not become more than them,we are entirely different creatures. We are humans,they are angels;there is absolutely no comparison.

GOD DOESN'T PLAY DICE AND NEITHER DOES HE BARGAIN WITH ANYONE OR ANYTHING!

posted July 26, 2003 10:16 PM              

When I become a mother, and I've got a kid who likes bullying other children around, I'm not going throw him out of the house and never let him in, because he was awfully bad. I'm going to take him by the ear, spank'm in the bum, and put him/her in their lonely room for a respectable amount of time. Then afterward I'll warn them not to do it again, until he's learned his lesson. Then he/she will say sorry, kiss me on the cheek, and play once again with the other children.

I'm speaking only in simple terms but you know what I mean. The devil will not get off without a punishment, none of us do, and he knows that. He's suffered for it enough, but he won't be denied the right to love and be loved again.

I don't really understand the bible, people have confused it for me, especially when it comes to the truth, they make it sound fearful and say feel god's wrath.

posted July 26, 2003 10:38 PM              

"Mr. Devil, where ever you are, don't come knocking at my doorstep, but I forgive you! Right now it's the only thing I can do, without fear. But please don't come knocking at my doorstep. Please respect my wishes, thank you!"

PS. I hope your back with Eve, I'm sure she misses you, as much as you miss her! Okay, goodbye Adam!

posted July 26, 2003 10:44 PM              

Acts 26
18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.